 Okay, according to this we are live it appears we are live and it appears we have volume and all of that wow I have had a crappy day it has just been a day from the crapper but we are gonna try to make it better so what do I do to make my day better I come on here and talk to you guys hello everyone who we got here we've got the big gay Dave and the mcdj acdc and sergeant slaughter's slaughterhouse and Lester and jump in general and Peter hello everyone thank you for being here I'm so grateful that you're here I need you guys here there is there's something that I discovered I could do I could know hold on hold on let's yeah there we go there I can I can give myself an annihilator head except as you might expect that my head does not fit in the helmet it's yeah yeah it doesn't quite work hello out back and Mike Layton and LJ and ex-priso how do you do hello New Jersey from the United States thank you very much for being here hello Matt Rubin hello sparkster how do you do hold on me okay all right I'll move it I'll move it I'll move it down here anyway yeah so I I can almost wear a an annihilator helmet hello JG peak and I do have some stuff planned for this evening I have some activities and things so we'll have a little bit to talk about a hello Bob's dungeon hello Jeffrey I guess the the GI Joe team for Hasbro is going to do a live stream tomorrow so of course that's too late for me to report on it I I'll just what I'll do is I'll jump in my time machine hey super chat from comic tropes hi comic tropes presumably you've been you're still paying for all the gas you use there yes I am so thank you comic tropes and thanks for being here thanks glad you're here of course you know I think everybody here is fully aware of comic tropes it's a much bigger channel than mine but make sure you check out to comic tropes on the YouTube hello Bart and Chad and Evan what's up yeah I had it I took a trip I went out West for a little while it was a road trip gasoline is incredibly expensive did have a nice time did have a good time took my daughter with me we had a great time I now I will just you know I have to save some money by eating ramen noodles for the rest of my life but you know but we made it there and we made it back hey there Matt Edwards thanks for being here so I do have I have I have stuff I have stuff I have stuff to do I have stuff to show you and and I have activities hello I think I said hello Chad but I'll hello again yeah there will be more latest about GI Joe in the near future oh there is some there were some announcements that I guess we're made apparently we are getting a shipwreck classified figure and a rock and roll classified figure I'm wondering how much of the rock and roll figure will use the breaker body but I think the breaker body you know uses a lot from other figures so it is kind of like 1982 GI Joe isn't it hello Thane Woods how do you do thank you Bart I appreciate that I I do I do yo Joe says greetings from Texas greetings Texas from the United States I was just in Texas just a few days ago it's where I got this shirt so yes yeah Jen Conn and on August will be demonstrating the GI Joe games okay as well as preview the upcoming Transformers and pony RPGs that is cool as you may have seen in a previous episode comic tropes sent me the the book for the GI Joe RPG and I would like to put like put it to some youth but life has been complicated what do I think shipwreck will look like I think shipwreck will look like Tom I think shipwreck will look like John Waters and a Navy uniform that's it that's it shipwreck is gonna look like John Waters cosplaying Donald Duck so we'll have the hat and I'll have the shirt he'll have like the the blue shirt no pants and and just that that little pencil mustache that that's my prediction that's what classified shipwreck will look at it just mark it down I know that's gonna happen hello James clap clap clap clap deep in the the heart of Texas I I had some deep in the heartburn of Texas that's a that's a different story hello hey Rob Vegas how do you do hello Kelden not nice to see you there it will look exactly like surely he'll bear a striking resemblance to stinky diver yeah well you know the classified series gonna take it's gonna take a surprising left turn it's gonna suddenly be a an adult toy line because because one of those designers at Hasbro decided to stand his ground he wanted a literal interpretation of a Donald Duck cosplay so and Donald Duck does not wear pants so you know way to stick to your guns Hasbro guy hey there Chad and hey it's Bader Ray Bob how do you do Bob I hopefully you got the thing the the magnet that I sent if not I'll work on it I'll work on it hello Andrew Andrew hello Steve oh woodman I you snuck by me own rod draws to I almost didn't see draws how do you do guys the gang's all here it's nice to see everybody well I I I needed the opportunity to hang out with some friends and that that's it's it's important this evening it's it's been a crappy day but not anymore this is what turns it around this live stream is what will make this a better day everything that's happened previous today it's all done it's all gone we we we move forward and we're moving forward to a nice conversation about the G and the job the G on the I and the Joe that's good bar thanks yeah so no I I I'm guessing based on the classified figures that we've gotten recently that both shipwreck and rock and roll will be pretty close to their vintage interpretations and I'm assuming that it'll be like a version 1 rock and roll I haven't seen any pictures I don't know if there any pictures out but but if they do a version 1 rock and roll they can use most of the breaker parts just like the real version 1 rock and roll did hello Eric how do you do nice to see you yeah with a bottle of GI Joe cologne I really think that they'll give you a shipwreck that looks like version 1 shipwreck I think it's gonna be close to like a one-for-one interpretation that that's my that's my guess yeah mega marines clutch review I do I think I do have mega marines clutch and speaking of mega marines a couple months ago I was I was thinking of doing another mega marines review doing a review of a figure I had something that I had planned for some time but when I started writing it and getting it ready I felt like it was too soon after the monster blaster review because I was just repeating I was repeating stuff when you're doing a review of like a sub team like that you there are certain things that you have to cover to put it into context and I had just covered that a few weeks before so I put that off I'll hopefully get to it soon because it's something that I would like to do hello John how do you do yeah lots and lots of people like the annihilator John in fact let me look look I've become the annihilator how about that who all right how big do I have to make this to actually make it fit on me look my head the top of my head is sticking out there and my chin is sticking out there so to make this actually fit on my head it's got to be okay so this is the what the actual size of the annihilator helmet would be in order to fit on a human head that there's there's your frame of reference oh let me put this back and to make it that large it's gonna be like it's gonna stick out like that far anyway but that's not the orange figure that I am going to talk about tonight that's not the orange figure that I'm gonna talk about tonight I have a different orange figure orange figure to talk about because last week I opened a Cobra bat classified figure and this week I wanted to open another classified figure that I haven't opened yet and I decided to open the alley viper so oh hello Christian bricks how do you do greetings Denmark feeling from the United States always not happy to have you here so in honor of our friend Byron Joe motion videos 82 who who loves the alley viper I'm gonna open this and of course I have I have the I have the the vintage alley viper here as well so we'll take a look at these take a look at these side-by-side well what's tomorrow okay some things tomorrow yeah so we'll look at those we'll look at those in a minute and then after we're done with that after what done with that if I didn't say hello to you guys hello you I think I may have said hello but if I did hello again hello photo viper nice to see you there thank you for being here I think I said hello to Nyquist but if not hello how do you do and John and Bob's dungeon hello hi nice to see you and I think I said hello to Woodman but but hello again anyway so alright the the other thing that I'm gonna do after we open this because I have not opened this and I don't I have not taken it out yet I did cut the tape so I can open it for this livestream hello Gray Fox oh thank you thank you yes I I did I did the 72 ounce steak talent challenge at the big Texan in Amarillo Texas I did not succeed I failed as I do at most at most things in life I failed at the 72 ounce steak challenge that's a lot of steak it's basically a whole cow and I just couldn't do it but okay so we're gonna open this and in fact I'm gonna name this alley viper in honor of Byron this this alley viper's name is Byron now so we're gonna open Byron here hello David and hello James and wjde85 how do you do the other thing that I'm gonna do after we do that to finish out the hour of live streaming we're going to do story time but we're gonna do it a little differently somebody suggested this and I apologize I don't remember who suggested it but what we're gonna do is we're gonna do the find your fate book we'll start with number one here the way we're gonna do this okay hello Dave how do you do nice to see you thanks for being here yes you're right Andrew there was a guy who started the challenge the 72 ounce steak challenge before I did and it didn't go well for him he got a lot further along than I did but it was not pleasant anyway yes I have seen the great outdoors and it's it's likely and by the way you have to beat the challenge you have to not only eat the steak but also all the stuff that comes with it they give you a potato and a salad and some shrimp and stuff like that you have to eat the whole thing and somehow people have actually done it without dying not me not me anyway so here's what we're gonna do as you know with these find your fate books with you find with these find your fate books when we get to one of the pages hello Ivan thanks for being here when you get when we get to the one of the pages where there's a choice to be made like a turn to page 54 or turn to page 62 you will you the audience will decide which page we turn to okay so whatever page wins at on that on that decision we will go to that page but we will go to that page in the next book and we will read from that page in this book until we get to a choice and then we will make the decision on that and in whatever decision is made on that choice we will go to that page in the next book and we will just keep doing this until we win or until we die I just I just thought it was a crazy idea and I'm a crazy person so oh is Kujo in here hello Kujo hey Kujo I almost missed you hello Kujo hello Steve yes we are going to we're gonna we're gonna go crazy we're gonna go nuts you know that this is some this is some high level entertainment right here this I should have my own Vegas show basically or Branson put me in Branson I should have my own show but but but that's later that so we're gonna we're gonna create our own story that's never been told before using these books it's not gonna make any sense which means it will be more true to life because life makes no sense so there we go so we're gonna we're gonna find your fate in all of these books okay oh hello JLS comics I almost didn't see you come in there how do you do hello Dio Soth nice to see you so let's hello Dr. no good how do you do yeah see that's what that's what I'm saying Rob I don't know if I quite make it to in Vegas but put me in Branson Missouri and then we got something essentially it'll be a one-man show but it'll be interactive with the audience the audience will shout out the page to turn to and I'll just read through this and I feel it like this will sell out for five years you know that this is the future of my career right here so we'll do that but first but first but first let's open Byron looked up the average adult stomach size is 2.5 ounces and it can stretch but 72 ounces is dangerous yeah yeah yeah I you can't quite appreciate how large a 72 ounce steak is until you actually see it and you actually try to eat it so like they serve it on a big plate like a big plate and it it it hangs off over the big plate it is larger than the big plate I they make you actually sign a sign a waiver before you start and in case your your stomach explodes oh thank you Andrew Andrew for the super chat clever idea thank you I'm a clever guy let's let's open Byron so let's I've been curious about this now this is another classified figure that is very sorry very very close very close indeed to the vintage figure it looks at least from the surface like they upscaled the vintage figure but let's let's find out hello Cyclonus nice to see you so let's see let's see you do realize the average age of Branson Surrey show audience is 65 plus right yeah exactly and I think that's perfect because they can they can nap during my show that'll be a major major selling point napping is allowed to just take a little snooze and you know they're tired you know especially if they've spent a long day and in Branson you know they just want to kick up kick kick their feet up and yeah so I think this is I think this will work you know I actually think this is gonna be a plus all right all right here we go I am opening the the alley viper because I've been curious about this I mean I haven't been quite as curious about this as I was about the cobra bat I'm a bigger fan of the cobra bat than of the alley viper but I'm still curious about the alley viper so here's some of the the artwork on it and it's almost like an animation style kind of looks like like it you could imagine that in a in an animated show right so there there's the artwork there here are the here are the specialties the symbols that represent the specialties so yeah we will make up something appropriate for those when I actually review this thing oh hey JLS comics actually found an alley viper in the wild that's amazing I the so lately the only classified figures I found in the wild have been the snake eyes movie figures and they're just not moving that not only are they not moving the stores have not been putting them on clearance to help move them so and I already have them except for scarlet right so I don't need them and I'm not gonna buy multiples of them so it's time it's time to restock it's time to restock our classified figures so here is here's Byron and I'm gonna take his visor out because that's a little loose it seems and let's I'm gonna try to do this without crinkling the plastic too close to the mic to the microphone so does anybody know how Timmer feels about the alley viper I can guess I can guess how Timmer feels about it oh thank you for mentioning it it is Tuesday which means it is a new episode of half the battle and this week sorry this week Timmer is covering GI Joe figures that shared names with transformers so a bit of a crossover there for you transformers fans I was aware and I've pointed this out a couple times but GI Joe did did cross pollinate a lot of names from GI Joe to transformers you know they they own the trademark so you know why not hat Hasbro is nothing if not frugal waste not want not hello Jay diarumus how do you do thanks for being here and I'm sorry if I missed anybody come in I try to say hello to everybody I am even if I missed you I'm glad you're here thanks for being here trying to take the the shield out the shield and we've got a backpack and some some components he has multiple weapons me the magazine came out let me see if I can get back in there there were you he has a submachine gun I don't know that assault rifle we'll call this an assault rifle because he has this other submachine gun that is more like his his vintage weapon okay now for the figure and I'm really really trying not to I'm holding it over here so that it won't crinkle too close to the microphone hello welcome some studios how do you do there we go there we go okay set this aside so here he is here he is the alley viper the viper of the alley yeah so as you can tell he's quite orange and here he is side-by-side with with the vintage and immediately you can see they copied a lot over there that's a little bit different they added some some color to the knee pads on the classified figure they added some black accessories on the legs that's helpful hello to in bubblegum how do you do 2002 alley viper is better because they actually are in urban Campbell I have seen those I have seen those it makes a difference it does yeah so here's this so let me let me assemble the accessories on this guy and and we'll take a look at it I'll try to I'll try to do this on camera as much as I can oh I guess there was something else I was gonna mention I am working on a review video I'm doing my best to get a video for you guys this week okay it's written the core review is done I just got to do excuse me I've got to do the part of the video where I'm in front of the camera finding the time to do that has been surprisingly challenging because I'm I'm doing a lot of other work during the week at like 50 plus hours so so it's been a challenge to just find the time to sit down and record when I did the the core review like the the part of the review that is actually like camera pointed at the toy and talking about it it took a long time why because even just taking a relatively short break it was like I'm I feel like I'm out of practice it took like extra tries to to like say the words and to get the shots so what what that obviously means is I'm not allowed to take breaks breaks are apparently bad so JLS says Ali Viper would look good in an urban camo some later versions were in more of a realistic urban camouflage it makes a difference it makes a difference and you know this is this guy fits a role that Cobra would probably want as an urban fighter and and crowd control yeah I could see Cobra using a guy like this but but whose choice is it to put him in orange and blue mindbender did you do that I'm blaming mindbender anyway let's so he has he has a wrist sheath for his knife and that is yeah just like like the the vintage one so the went vintage one has this brown knife on the wrist this one has a knife that is removable it's yeah it's removable that is one nice thing about figures at this scale is they can do some accessories that could only be sculpted on the smaller scale they can actually have them removable at this scale so that is nice I do like it when they take advantage of the larger scale I really think if you're gonna do six inch figures and six inch figures is not everybody's bag and that's okay I understand that nobody is required to like or collect anything you know just because you should get what you like get what you like but if you're gonna do a six inch scale figure take advantage of that larger scale you can do some things at this scale that it is difficult or impossible to do at this scale or at the six inch scale for like 30th anniversary figures so yes thank you comic tropes thank you for reminding me of that I have two points while I put together the accessories for this guy two points number one today is Larry Hamas birthday I don't know that he necessarily wants a lot of birthday greetings he at least he didn't seem to on the Facebook but happy birthday Larry Hamas we would all not be here talking about this stuff without his work that he did point number two is our own comic tropes Chris interviewed Larry Hamas on his channel comic tropes and I did share that and I hope everyone has had a chance to see it if you haven't the link is on my Facebook or just go to the comic tropes channel it's I think it's still the well other yeah it should still be the latest video on on comic tropes but Larry Hamas is obviously we know him from GI Joe but he has worked in the comic book industry for decades he has worked with almost everybody and he has a wealth of knowledge about the comic book industry that we're really lucky that you know that he will share and Chris did I think a great job of tapping into that knowledge sometimes Larry can be sometimes Larry is not the easiest interview sometimes Larry is not the easiest person to talk to he's certainly not the easiest person to to pin down to even do an interview but once he gets talking you know he I think he really likes talking about his industry experience and that is good because historians of the comic book industry will appreciate that knowledge in in the years and decades to come and so the more we get to hear Larry share those stories I think the better we are off hello Burgess Meredith how do you do hello Yojo OC how do you do nice to see you here the so Chris at Chris did talk to him a little bit about GI Joe but Larry has done a whole lot more than GI Joe so that that interview ranges through a large part of his career so so yeah it was it was good and thanks to comic tropes for doing it I appreciate it so so yeah and and happy birthday Larry even though Larry will not watch this of course he's not gonna watch this but but nonetheless happy birthday yeah so for those who who just got here we're we are we're assembling the the six inch classified Ali Viper I decided to open this guy I was really excited last time to open the classified bat I'm not as excited to open this guy but you know I'm still interested hey Diana Davis how do you do yeah I I don't know who said he secretly hates GI Joe but that's that's probably not the most intelligent comment that we've that we've had on here yes and thank you Diana's you are correct and and hi Diana how you do I hope you're doing well nice to see you here yeah so I'm I'm putting together well hold on hold on hold on time out time out time out of time time time time time okay new plan so this I put I I just put in this this assault rifle in his right hand but he has this which is based on the the vintage figures submachine guns so I'm gonna I'm gonna use this one but on the vintage figure this one is awkward this is this is this an awkward one yeah hang on okay so let's let's move on and see if I can get okay so all right so this thing look at look at it hello Eric Hunter how do you do so look at it it's got this magazine that's like behind the the grip oh come on there we go that's behind the grip and then it's got this for grip here and that configuration is really complicated to get in the figures hand it was complicated with the first one it's complicated with this one so let's get okay so one thing okay I know that's a lot of GI Joe fans have wanted the classified series to more faithfully copy the the vintage figures and they are doing that they are doing that but in some cases in some cases it could be updated a bit because this this is this is awkward this this is something that could have been approved improved upon from the the vintage design I anyway oh Diana Davis says I have to tell you number 293 out tomorrow is fantastic issue number four of Saturday morning adventures out next week is just a ton of fun SMA has some cool Easter eggs very cool in fact I had I had the Saturday morning adventures comics over here but I think I know I put them away but I have read the first two issues my local comic shop that I typically go to the one that I used where I used to work I go there because I used to work there and I try to support the place hello Rodimus how do you do but they don't carry the Saturday morning adventures when I'm trying to get them to hopefully I will get them to do it if not I'll just I'll just order one I'll I'll get it get one sent to me but yeah anyway there is that but I don't know is there a place to put this is there a place to put this I don't think so I don't all right so I guess this is this is superfluorous and unless unless I can find some place to put it but I do like this because it has a removable yeah there we go removable magazine so that's nice there we go so we'll just we'll just set that aside now let me put the the vintage figures accessories on there can I will he stand there he'll stand there but he's just he's just under he's just under frame oh well anyway there will be a Saturday morning adventures a gathered edition out in October okay that's good but I'm gonna try not to miss the individual issues and they have been fun they have been fun they I mean they're they're based on the the animated series and there are a lot of GI Joe fans who like the animated series a lot lot I grew up with the comic book series primarily but a lot lot lot of people got on board with the animated series and and if you like that style man they didn't like it is amazingly precise how closely the Saturday morning adventures series matches that style so if that's what you're looking for you will 100% get it with that series okay that is that's sort of it now I have reviewed this the alley alley viper I have a few problems with it besides just the the color oh that's that's awkward yeah the shield okay so there's this there's the vintage alley viper there's that there's that submachine gun and as you can see like the magazine sticks out like on the outside of the forearm which is weird with it sticking out that way like it it would like hinder the the buttstock from from going to the shoulder and that you wouldn't want that that that it's it's a very awkward and unusual weapon design and and and it's repeated here and you know what I dislike it's enough I dislike it enough that I'm I'm giving them I'm giving him the assault rifle it were just we're going a little bigger hope Larry gets more attention Larry was nominated for the Eisner Hall of Fame this year I I I don't know that he will get it this year but I wish that he would I think more people should appreciate his contributions to the the comic book art form and the industry which is far beyond GI Joe is far beyond Wolverine and the other things that he's most known for I I think I think long time industry people know and are aware more of are aware more of Larry's contributions to comic books maybe that then like some modern readers are so I'm hoping at some point that the industry people the people who know who the people who've been around will recognize those contributions I I'm not Larry I don't know what he wants but I think he would appreciate that I think he would so so there we go there there is the guy all assembled I I've I've I've taken away this the dorky gun the derpy gun and I get on something more substantial so we're good we're good this this I gotta say this is like the biggest problems of course are the colors I mean it's obnoxious in it and it's hideous I that I will die on that hill but that this I get so frustrated with with with the vintage figure that the classified figure just feels better it just feels better it fixes some of the some of the frustrations of the the vintage figure not not not the color it doesn't fix that but but you know hey you it's customizable you can customize this guy hey chill bro I would like to do a firefly as I assume you're talking about a firefly classified review I have done the firefly vintage figure and I do have the classified firefly but I will save that for another time what can I say about this it's substantial but like it very faithfully copies this I mean it there are some changes but I actually I'd say most of the changes are in the legs because the legs you know here they have it has the brown shin guards it has the knee pads with the color but like the vest they got that that strip of pouches in blue on the on the right side you know they got they got like the the tactical vest with the pouches that go around the front it's yes comic tropes I definitely prefer the aesthetic of version 2 alley viper and this could easily be changed to a version 2 you know a few different parts and different colors and you can this could be a version 2 and I you know I'll bet they do that at some point in the future is do a version 2 of this guy so there there he is there there's the guy this you know I feel I'm glad that I did it one thing that's that's that's nice is this this like a crossbow or whatever it is it like on it's on the it's on the vintage backpack but on this one it is it is removable it kind of pegs and come on it pegs and wedges in there you go but it's removable and it can be used by the figure so another nice thing that you can do at this scale nicely done so okay all right let's let's let's set this aside for now because do you know what time it is do you know what time it is it's story time are you ready for this yeah if you don't Diana if you're talking about the classified figures yeah they like it this it's it's a it's a hefty figure it's it feels substantial I've said this before when they first started doing six inch figures hey Robbie was very thanks for being here nice to see you like the pursuit of Cobra color scheme yeah that was a good one that yeah that was better but yeah I wasn't all that keen on six inch figures when they first came out with them until I picked up a few and then I ended up liking them I wasn't expecting to like them but I ended up liking them a lot more than I I thought that I would so this guy will eventually get a full review 3d 3d but net for now for that for now it's Miller time it's story time so so here's it here's what we're gonna do it makes no sense but but life doesn't make sense so here's what we're gonna do find your fate books I don't have all of them here but I have some of them we're gonna do the find your fate books right and as per usual when we get to a page that has a choice to make for instance this page has a choice between turning to page 24 and turning to page 34 right you will make the choice you will make the choice I will do a completely unscientific poll and just see which of the options has the most votes in the live chat now keep in mind it's not a good idea to spam the live chat you know put your your answer in a whole bunch of times YouTube could flag that and kick you out I don't have any control over that but if you that it's probably not a good idea so don't spam the live chat but but you will type your answer you'll type the page that you want to turn to based on the story when we turn to that page when when they turn to that page we will not turn to the page in this book we will turn to that page in the next book all right in the next book and then when we get to the choice in that book when you make that choice we will turn to the page in the following book we are going to blaze a trail creating our own nonsensical story in the find your face books and we will continue until we until we we win or die there we go yeah the comic tropes is right one and I don't remember which one of it is but one of these books starts with Duke pulling the pin on a grenade and throwing it at our character and our character is supposed to defuse the grenade before it goes off so I mean so these are hyper realistic I mean it was probably written by Tom Clancy under under a pen name you know that probably ghost written by Tom Clancy but so here we go but let's let's do this we're gonna are you ready are you ready well here's it here we're gonna why we're gonna do that I can't talk but here's I can't talk but I'm gonna read we're gonna start with page one in book one operation star Raider and it looks like we will go how many pages how many pages we'll go a few pages before we get to a choice let's see looks like maybe about five pages to read this is weird okay it's been a long time since we've done this one all right are we ready let's do it okay GI Joe operation star Raider page one can't you move any faster ripcord what's your problem did jump out of too many airplanes without a parachute blowtorch gives ripcord a playful shove as you follow a group of Joe's through the armored corridor where's the fire blowtorch ripcord replies shoving him back the other GI Joe's laugh because it was very funny I told 600 hours on Sunday morning you can understand why your fellow GI Joe's are a bit edgy why has Duke your Sergeant called a briefing session at this hour it must be important you enter the low ceiling room and take your places around the long table there are seven of you waiting in silence for Duke to enter hey I smell smoke mutt cries jumping up from his seat what's burning here page two smells like burning rubber airtight says with a peculiar grin on his face it's my boot mutt cries he begins stamping his foot trying to put out the fire airtight you idiot there's no time for your stupid practical jokes airtight falls off his chair laughing the other GI Joe's are laughing too man am I not giving this enough gravitas am I am I not am I not I should I should this is a serious story blowtorch doesn't laugh fire is not a joking matter to him mutt angrily leaps at airtight but snake eyes pulls him back with a simple flick of his wrist you shouldn't play jokes on mutt you tell airtight who is still laughing mutt spends so much time with dogs he's likely to bite your leg you're right he gave his own mother rabies airtight shoots back everyone laughs even spirit who usually disapproves of routiness you know how he is but the laughter stops immediately when Duke enters the briefing room time to get serious guys he says rubbing a hand slowly through his short blonde hair I've got a small job for you paint my house page 20 Duke switches on the slide projector and thank you once on Joe mine the singing cats I think are on page 12 and thanks for being here make sure you check out what's on Joe mine he usually does their lives through a live stream on Friday so do check that out I was not able to check out this week's because I was on the road and I did not get to a place with Wi-Fi in time to watch it so but but usually I do try to be there as much as I can so hello what's on Joe mind and thank you for being here okay Duke switches on the slide projector and a face appears on the screen is the face of a man with wavy white hair piercing blue eyes and a short cropped white mustache the man is dressed in a long white lab coat it's barren iron blood no no it's Dr. Newton Fitzsimmons Duke says he is an Australian scientist this is Dr. Fitzsimmons invention he clicks on the next slide it shows a small red metal device it doesn't look like much does it but it's a heavy-duty machine what is it exactly Sarge you ask is called the star raider it's a nuclear anti-missile device a nuclear anti-missile device Duke answers it can be launched from any kind of space satellite you better believe the boys at the Pentagon are real eager to see this little how this little beauty works that's where we come in we're going to borrow it from the scientist airtight says that's too simple Duke says we're not going to steal it we wouldn't need you guys for that we got other guys for that no it seems that this events department has invited Dr. F to Washington he's agreed to fly here and bring his plans for the star raider to show the big boys at the Pentagon page 21 and our job you asked our job is to protect Dr. F during his visit to the US Duke says you see I've left out one detail Cobra say it's an all it's an all caps it's an all caps so he's yelling Cobra it seems knows about the star raider and Cobra also knows about the doctor's visit to Washington my guess is they'll try something anything to get those plans for themselves how did Cobra know I'll tell you how Cobra knew Falcon let them on the base you look around the table at the GI Jotin that will be with you on this mission snake eyes the silent master of the martial arts rip core the paratrooper blowtorch the fire expert spirit the soldier with the special skills of a Native American medicine man airtight whose specialty is chemical warfare and whose hobby is practical jokes and mutt the feisty dog handler Cobra should know should know better than to tangle with this group Duke presents you with two different plans for protecting Dr. Fitzsimmons and his invention a strategy specialist for the strategy specialist for the team you will have to decide which plan to put in operation page four so we read pages four and five and we got to pick a plan okay so so yeah we we got a yes we got to protect Dr. Fabulous so Dr. Fabulous yes another great Aussie invention see this is what comes out of of your great country nuclear anti missile devices you guys build those in your garages right so thank you Australia for your strategic defense initiative contributions page four in in all caps now wise guy for your eyes only operation star rater two strategies plan a in full view object to throw Cobra off the track by doing what they least expect what would Cobra least expect they would least expect us to just give him the guy you know that they that would that would shock him that would surprise him that the red little MacGuffin device how about you just like leave that you know on a table at Wendy's and is you know look around just kind of walk away wink wink that is what they would least expect well what does this say background Fitzsimmons plane will land at Kennedy airport in New York he will then be taken to Washington Fitzsimmons will arrive on parade day in New York City a giant parade in honor of all the other parades that are held in the city is scheduled so it's a parade to honor parades that's what we need and I'm sure the the people of New York City appreciate having their streets clogged up for for another parade just to honor the other parades I'm I'm sure that they have many friendly and nice things to say about that strategy don't try to hide doctor Fitzsimmons have him ride in the parade up Fifth Avenue and with the mayor in full view of everyone maybe put him in a t-shirt with a big target on it you know that says shoot here at the end of the parade route the mayor gets out the car continues on accompanied by the Joe team to the meeting in Washington rationale Cobra will be totally surprised also it would be next to impossible for Cobra to kidnap Fitzsimmons from an official limo in the middle of a crowded parade page five plan B so that was plan A plan A is uh is just parade him out in the open secrecy screwed at who needs secrecy secrecy is for wussies manly man just do do it all out in the open interpret that as you please plan B mountain retreat object to get doctor Fitzsimmons to the most hidden secluded place possible background snake eyes owns a small cabin in the high sierras where he goes to escape from the world with his pet wolf it is secret and secluded as far as as it is known Cobra is unaware of it although in the comic book Cobra attacks it like every other issue but anyway but for for our purposes Cobra has no idea strategy take Fitzsimmons directly from the plane to his hidden this hidden cabin in the mountains have the defense department officials meet with him there and see his plans then fly him back to australia rationale he can be gotten in and out of the country without Cobra ever knowing where he is also the mountain cabin should be easy to defend against attack if Cobra should happen to locate Fitzsimmons okay all right so now you have plan A and plan B plan A is a parade and plan B is the cabin so you're gonna choose one of these i'll give you the page numbers in a second but remember whichever page you choose we're not going to that page in this book we're going to that page in this book okay so if you'd like plan A which is the parade type 32 if you would like plan B which is the cabin type 62 i'm sorry 54 sorry 54 did i say 52 type 54 for the parade 62 for the cabin 54 or 62 so type your answers i'll give you a minute i'll give you a minute and uh well i mean who knows that's pretty that's pretty far into into this book that could be the last we could die on this first move uh so um 54 or 62 54 or 62 uh let's see we've got some 54 we got some 32s but i'm i'm reading those as 62 so uh i'll count those but we got we've got a few more 54 so it is um 54 or 62 if i said 32 earlier i apologize it's 62 but i'll i'll interpret your your 32s and 62s lots of 54s lots of 54s i'll give it i'll give it a few more seconds to see if the 62s catch up but uh but i it looks like 54 it may win this one um i want that couple 62s couple 62s um five four spelling you're really spelling it out there 42 close close enough um okay uh i think 54 one uh 62 did catch up there a little bit but um i probably did say 32 for plan a but that's that's because i can't read um which so this is the perfect act uh activity for me so but it's okay this way and i've interpreted the 32s as 62s we're fine but i believe that 54 has won so let's turn to page 54 in operation dragon fire operation dragon fire page 54 all right it's about this time okay it's about time this cobra business was brought to an end you say okay let's move out now an excellent decision says destro removing the map from the wall and rolling it up just then one of his men enters and says urgent message from sector seven sir destros eyes light up as he examines the message he says my cobra spy has just informed me that there is a new intelligence is new intelligence on dragon fire a meeting has been set up for 1650 hours at 1650 hours you lady j roadblock barbecue destro and the rest of this his crazy outfit arrive at the designated location sectors sector seven is a barren alley surrounded by low a barren valley a barren valley surrounded by low hill so i've been saying alley all night because of alley viper and i need to say the word valley and i leave the v off lady j pulls out her field glasses and scans the terrain there they are she points to the left page 90 this is going great this is probably the best thing i've ever done i shouldn't put like some kind of like uh no it doesn't matter destros strides out to meet his contact lady j continues to peer through her binoculars i don't like this she says the one standing out uh standing on the right is the bareness she's cobra's top intelligence officer i just don't think she would betray cobra commander and work with someone like destro wow um you're uh you're making me uneasy says barbecue destro moves closer to the bareness suddenly she raises her hand and destros stops in his tracks a battalion of cobras has just moved over the hilltops roadblock groans the uh the whole bunch of us has have been set up and uh and had i think i want to uh to do this over but it's too late cobra commander has won for now unless your gi joe teammates can uncover dragon fire themselves cobra will soon rule the world the end we lost on the first you know i can't wait i can't end it that way i can't end it that way um so no i'm not ending it that way so so this we're calling this an unlucky book and by the way the writer the writer thinks that the bareness wouldn't betray cobra for destro for somebody like destro huh um so yeah it's a nice try william snow but we all know better than that okay we're gonna do this again uh with uh with uh with operation terror trap um and uh let's see what what is it we said 54 i'm just picking it up at 54 um okay deciding to sneak into the meeting is one thing getting in is another but you get a lucky break you spot the bareness in the hall with only a single guard the bareness is uh the bareness is a major player in these books you zip into action quick kick puts the guard away while you and lady j overpower the bareness dragging her quickly into a tiny supply room they've discovered lady j swiftly goes into uh exchanging identities with the evil cobra captive they they're stripping the bareness aren't they that that's what they are implying i i don't think lady j just had a bareness costume you know in her pocket so they've they've captured the bareness and then they are now um they're now stripping her okay i'm following um you knew lady j was good at disguise but you didn't know she was that good uh the set of her jaw her voice her posture she looks so much like the bareness you wouldn't uh you begin to doubt your own eyes leaving quick kick in charge of the two unconscious enemies you in the guards uniform and lady j as the bareness hurry down the hall toward the meeting room page 78 hey we get another choice we get another choice uh you and lady j enter the ballroom uh where the cobra meeting is being held cobra commander looks in your direction no he shouts pointing right at lady j your heart stops i will not tolerate lateness your heart starts again lady j offers her excuses and cobra commander goes on she pulled it off i i think the bareness's um excuses would mostly consist of a middle finger this is an important day one of the most important days in the history of cobra cobra commander goes on by nightfall all the poltron gas will be headed for mount terrapin that happens to me after i have taco bell the u.s government thinks uh we don't know about their secret missile base but they're wrong we know about it and soon we will own it what about the one asks destro he won't live to see tomorrow come my dear bareness cobra commander says to lady j let's go to the docks and watch our precious cargo as it is loaded what a disaster cobra is going to use the poltron to overpower the forces protecting the base at mount terrapin uh the thought of these missiles in cobra's hands is too awful for words your you've got to rate uh to radio hq but how can you leave lady j alone with cobra commander quick kick uh quick kick no quick make a decision all right ready okay if you want to follow lady j and cobra turn to page 40 i think i mean cobra commander if you want to follow lady j and cobra commander turn to page 40 40 if you want to slip away and radio the rest of the team turn to page 3535 okay so there's your choices in in your live chat if you want to go with lady j and cobra commander type 40 40 if you'd like to slip away and radio the team type 35 35 uh i have no idea what a poltron is andrew uh that's a good question i will have to google it later we have a 35 we 35 is winning all right cool i should have i should have done like a um like a uh uh uh uh i should have done like a super chat incentive so like if you did a super chat you could i would change to that page immediately but i'm not doing that i'm sticking to the rules i don't want to change the rules in the middle of the um in the middle of the show but we got some 40s we got more 40s and 35s so far well let's give it a few more seconds or give it a minute or so i feel good about this one i feel i feel i feel if we if we do if we finish this one it even if we lose i will have to that i'll cut it off there we get one mole again after that you know we gotta we gotta wrap it up so i think 40 is winning i think 40 is winning i'm i'm declaring that 40 has won uh so okay here we go here we go i'm turning oh but not in this book i'm turning to page 40 in this book uh operation robot assassin all right what what is what is this book gonna do for us you know if we don't die this could be almost infinite here we go there's got to be a time to check one more room after all what are 30 seconds when you're looking for a robot that's going to blow away world leaders you rush to the end of the hall and open a big wooden door slowly it's black and silent sorry that's a contraction it is black and silent inside the room you step in cautiously suddenly the lights come on the room isn't empty it's filled with russian soldiers they're shouting something in russian and then one of them steps forward holding a birthday cake with candles it's a russian birthday party they were expecting someone else and they're as surprised to see you as you to see them but they're they've got more guns than you do so you are their prisoner a few hours later a russian general general uh tarkinov sure uh is speaking to an american general on the phone thank you general tarkinov says i just wanted to check with you before i look i took appropriate actions tarkinov hangs up and smiles at you my friend he tells you general brooker says there is no covert gi joe activity in geneva during the peace talks you will have to tell the truth about who you really are we know you're not a gi joe page 50 so have have we gone rogue and we stumbled on a russian surprise birthday party do russians do that did russians do that in the 80s did they have cake it it would it would be communist cake it would be state approved cake they they would only have red icing the russians hold you prisoner for a week hmm they know as well as you that general brooker is lying through his teeth but you but if you eliminated all the lying from politics it just wouldn't be the same fun game your life as the roost what your life at the rooster mansion follows a calm routine you're well fed and in the afternoon you even get an exercise period outside the guards don't watch you because they're pretty sure you're not going anywhere to get out you have to you'd have to face the electric fence the wolves and the glass wall again unarmed and alone the guards must not watch the sky either they don't see the brown silhouettes sweep down from the blue swiss horizon and hover above your head it's a helicopter they they didn't notice the helicopter huh with flint in the pilot seat flint is a helicopter pilot that is true and snow job uh throwing the ladder down to you while firing rounds with his machine gun i wonder if they've noticed yet uh they perhaps they were on their vodka break page 64 the robot you ask as soon as you're on board the helicopter we pulled its plug snow job says mission accomplished the world is safe from cobra once again for a while regards from general brooker a flint says with a smile he's off my christmas list you say no he came through flint says when he found out that the russians uh what the russians plan to do with you back in russia brooker told me three words get him somehow by the way what held you up in the mansion i stopped for some birthday cake you say with a weary smile flint points the helicopter toward the secret swiss airstrip your job is finished you're all going home the pit is calling you back the end we won we won i have no idea what we did but we were successful we stopped the robot we actually didn't stop our robot we got captured we we we uh crashed a surprise birthday party uh yeah like it's a communist birthday party so like i i think the only presence that they're allowed to give is like rocks and sticks and bottles of vodka but but we we want we we've got captured but but somebody else somebody else defeated the robot and then eventually busted us out so i'm counting that as a win i'm counting that that's a that yeah that's the classic joe mission where we get captured and miss all of the action only to be you know broken out later that and take credit for it uh so great job guys you defeated the robot assassin without even doing anything without we did nothing we we like we sat in a jail cell with an exercise period for months uh so i i i'm counting that as win i think i think you know when they start divvying out the medals i think i think we should get one i think we deserve one so anyway i think that is that's gonna wrap up our hour of live stream today i thank you guys it it really was nice talking to everyone and it it really does help my mood to hang out with you guys and and chat and today like i said today just kind of sucked so um it's it's a little bit better now because i've had a chance to hang out with you guys so thank you i am as i mentioned before i am doing my best to get a video out this week i'm really trying it has been a challenge to find the time to sit down and shoot it but i'm really really trying i'll do my best but no matter what i'll be back here on tuesday and we'll do this again so good night everybody and i will see you next time bye