 Okay, we are live. Hello everyone. Welcome to Tuesday. Welcome to the live stream Nice to see everyone. Hello Pains toys samples and the figure six packed and Matt Rubin and Terrence and Nyquist and I already said hi to Matt, but hello again. Hi Cyclonus. Nice to see you. Hello you from the hilt Not thank you for being here everybody It's it's great to see everyone we have much We have much to talk about there's Marianne. Hi. I saw Marianne earlier today. In fact, hello Hello Marianne in virtual cyberspace After seeing you an actual for real space nice to see you. Hello Joshua Hey firefly hey nice to see firefly in here. How do you do? Yeah, it's been a minute. I'm glad to see you Okay, so guys we have a lot to talk about We have a lot to talk about and and I've made a list. I've got I made some show notes again We've got to talk about some Cobra Convergence We've got to talk a little bit about San Diego Comic Con stuff that came up. So we've got some news We've got to talk about the most recent video. Oh by the way, I've got a Pineapple behind me So in case anybody's wondering, you know Occasionally, I just like to have a pineapple behind me. Doesn't everyone? By the way Marianne Amanda dropped off the the pool inflatables. We got we got a Yeah with the the we got I got the floaties and she blew them up for me, which was nice So Amanda stopped by and she blew my inflatables So figuratively speaking figuratively and literally also literally So the the the floaties are here. That's what I'm saying So That's that's for the that's for the pool Anyway, what was I talking about? We have a lot to do. We have a lot to talk about. We've got news We've got packages. We've got man. I just knocked my knife over in the book. Hold on. Hold on Hold on. Okay. We've got packages. I did check the PO box. I've got two packages to open and I've got one not to open But that would that's something we've got to talk about There I do need to deal with something. I've got to address something It is not something fun, but it needs to be addressed and I will do that at At the end of the show Let's do the fun stuff first. Hello, big day Dave. Nice to see you. Hello Cobra Island Where are we? It's it's a moving target Exactly a good point beer can full of absolutely valid point It was Rob Vegas in here. I didn't say I didn't say hello to Rob. I'm sorry if I oh and hello Treasures for trigger who had Cobra convergence today and talked about Talked it while I have it on my in my show notes. I talked about Japan's Cobra figures, which was awesome It was very informative and There was a cameo. There was a cameo at the end. I don't know if I'm supposed to be I Don't know if I'm supposed to spoil the surprise, but there's a cameo at the end But thank you for treasures for Tigger. Hey, it's Kujo. Nice to see you Kujo So yeah, we we got some serious Stuff Nyquist is correct. No O-ring news and it doesn't seem like they are gonna be doing much O-ring stuff in the short term at least I know that they're like there are some O-ring figures that are going to be included with like the Transformers crossovers apparently that's gonna be a thing Beyond that. I I don't know of any additional O-ring news, but there is some news. There is some news But yes, I'm putting everybody on notice you're you all you're you're all warned that The the back half of this show will be addressing a more serious topic So we'll be doing that So so get out while you can is what I'm saying get out while you can let's deal with the fun stuff first first of all It is Tuesday. That means it's a new episode of half the battle Timmer he reviews the LCB Lee read. I can't say it the LCV recon sled Which is an odd little vehicle. I have looked at the LCV recon sled before it is an interesting But odd little vehicle. So yeah, there he is. There he is I Missed Rob when he came in but hello Rob and hey look at that By chat hi chat and by Chad. Hello JLS comics. Hey the gang's all here. This is awesome Joe fan 84 nice to see you Yeah, it's really nice to see Chad after a short hiatus. Glad Chad is back so Where was I? new episode of what's of Half the battle RCV recon sled new episode of what's on Joe mine. They will be talking to the producer of The new Kickstarter easy kill nine. That's you want some o-ring news? check the new Kickstarter for for easy kill nine which I Which I did put a link to in the description of this video. So please check the links in the description of the video There's a link to Timmer. There's a link to what's on Joe mine There's a link to easy kill nine and a couple other Important links that you should check The easy kill nine Kickstarter is being run by some folks that we know like this is somebody that is Involved in other Joe stuff. This is someone who is not unknown to the community and as somebody that I would trust to to follow that through in In in an ethical way and that's That's important and that's the theme. That's the theme for the night. That's the theme for that. Hey There's Rob. I did I always plug the show. I always plug the show What's on so what's on Joe mind easy kill nine? That's a special right after this show So right after this show you can roll right into that and in fact this show may be short this show may be short because After I finish up the stuff that I need to talk about I just made Shut it down at that point. I don't want to to overstay my welcome so to speak but Okay, Timmer what's on Joe mind? my most recent video was the Cobra bug and the sector viper and I had some special help from Chris from comic tropes Chris has been very very generous with his time This is a guy who? Who runs a much larger channel, you know, he's got he's a very busy person And not only does he take the time to you know check in on me and chat with me, but he takes the time to do special things For for my show He had to talk to me. He had actually brought me the idea of doing like a Secto viper cosplay So I thought okay that could be really cool, but what what would I do with it? What how can we use this opportunity? Oh, hello sparkster night. Nice to see you here sparkster always nice to see you and Oh, and thank you. I'm glad you liked it Rob so Well while thinking about it Well, I read the file card and that gave me the inspiration because Based on the sector viper's job. I think most other Vipers are just not gonna like him very much. He's the guy who rolls up on people Well, they're just trying to mind their own business on the beach Yeah, so so that's when it occurred to me that we need to do a sector a cops themed sector viper Intro and Chris was a really good sport. It was a lot of fun. I Really enjoyed the clips as he was sending those into me. So thank you Chris Chris who who may not be here right now, but usually he do he does Check in and I will I will you know, I've thanked him several times personally, but I'll thank him here as well Yeah, exactly The narc viper So that was my most recent video and Chris is the one that sent me the Cobra bug in the first place He sent that to me for the purpose of reviewing. So Chris gets credit for for Everything other than what I recorded Chris gets credit for all of that Oh, and not just Chris. We got to give credit to to two other people to Chrissy Chris's wife who was the viper in that video and to Marianne who was my collaborator and camera person When I shot my part. So thank you to everyone this that was a collaborative effort And I could not have happened it without everyone's help. So thank you to everyone who assisted in that and I really appreciate it and thank you Chris. I know that that is It's not easy to take the time to do something like that when you are in fact A very busy person. So so thank you very much. I mean, anyway, I hope everybody likes the The bug review. I enjoyed it. That's one of I think I enjoyed that one Um, that that's one of the videos that I've enjoyed the most Uh that I've worked on this month And uh, and thank you Marianne. Thank you Thank you Marianne Plot twisty was always already wearing that at the beach. Yeah, see that's just you know, that that's his bathing suit That's his normal beach wear So let's talk Very briefly about the uh, san diego comic comic con Announcements very briefly. In fact, I'm only going to hit the highlights because I want to spend more time talking about the presenters in cobra convergence Because they are the ones who are doing most of the work this month So I want to make sure that we highlight them and that You all check them out so As far as the san diego comic con announcements, we got mainly like classified series Reveals, uh, some of them were pretty good. Actually a lot of them were pretty good But the ones that stood out to me and I'll keep it brief. Like I said, I'll keep it brief But the ones that stood out to me um, it were Uh, the vamp and clutch So we're gonna get a vamp at retail if not a haz lab It's it's uh, gonna be released at retail In some form that is a really good sign for the brand Um, it'll probably be really expensive, but that's a really good sign for the brand um, so that's Really cool. Uh, plus I like getting the 82 characters the 1982 characters Uh, are a bit, you know underappreciated sometimes So the fact that they're going back and giving us some, um, I think is great and to get a clutch Fantastic, so that stood out to me another one that stood out to me was the sms with I believe it was The techno viper that it was going to include the sms, which was a series exclusive set it was a recolor of the um, the cobra Uh his tank and the gi joe mms, you know colored recolored red and black Um, it's a really striking set. It's a pretty cool set Um, but it's also a set that maybe a lot of people are not as familiar with and I gotta say this This is something that I that I do appreciate All right, um, is that they are I mean, they are definitely playing the hits right that they're They're giving us the things that you would expect to give us lots of versions of Of snake eyes. They've given us a couple versions of duke already Um, you know that you you expect those things and you get those things um But the sms is that's a deeper cut You know that is something that your casual average fan is not going to be as familiar with you um if uh, I mean If you've been collecting gi joe and if you've been around it for a while you you're all automatically like Hello, you know, that's I know exactly what that is But your average man on the street. It probably isn't going to have that aha moment and I I appreciate those Choices because that's for us right that You know, they can put out like as many versions of snake eyes as they want and somebody will be out there buying snake eyes All right, they could just um, it's like printing money um But there was there's a lot more to gi joe than that and we get these little windows It's kind of like what they did with the profit director. Destro figure even though. I don't really like that figure I think that was an odd choice and That's a whole thing. I don't want to I don't want to open that can of worms But it's still the same idea. This is something that If you've been around gi joe for a while, you know exactly what that is um, if not then It may not make any sense, right? But these occasional little nods to the the people who have been around for a while. I appreciate that I do Having said that Small caveat. It's still got to make money. It's still got to sell. We can't have gi joe failing at retail because that's when the bean counters decide that they're going to reel it back in they're gonna they're going to cut the budgets they're going to um, they're going to Lower the number of units that they introduce every year or every wave Uh, so it's still got to sell. It's nice. It's nice that they're giving us the deep cuts um And please continue to do that, but it's Like the only way we're going to get um more gi joe is if what we have is successful. So um Yeah, like there are fans of o-ring gi joe that they I mean they got some new stuff for a while and that was really cool but That is A group that is underserved right now. There are fans of modern construction Um gi joe that are underserved right now. Um, so I mean we need to I want to see gi joe diversify a little bit and the odd thing is is that it was More diversified and it's kind of becoming less diversified as we go So I think that if that if I could choose something that I would improve that's what I would improve um Is is the diversity of the the types of products even if even if like some of the Like non classified stuff the stuff in the other scales even if it's Licensed even if they licensed to somebody else To produce those if they felt like their profit margin wasn't great enough for it. I could live with that I just want to make sure that these other parts of the fandom um are as appreciated as collectors of um Of classified. Um, and I think I think rob mentioned like a shockwave. That's of Gonna be a great one buzzer who is my favorite dreadnought um Buzzer buzzer my favorite dreadnought. So I'm not I'm not gonna say no to uh to buzzer So I know that's like a very brief Really just giving the surface of um of the san diego comic con announcements and I again, I apologize for that But I I want to keep that to a minimum because we have A lot to talk about okay. Uh, plus I have two boxes to open and one box to not open I'll get to that. All right. Let's let's do this. Oh, it's and some folks have come in. Um Uh jls says diverse. Let's get lobotomax driving a buzzboard, you know Um, I I would appreciate the absurdity of that I I I do appreciate absurdity from time to time Uh, and I could appreciate the absurdity of that But I'll tell you there are some folks who would enjoy that unironically that there are fans um So, uh, here here we go. I wanted to first of all, I want to go through the Uh cobra convergence presenters from last week in case you missed them You can always go to hcc788.com click on their links in the calendar if you did miss them, but um But just to roll back and remind everybody that last week we had the joe on joe podcast Who did frost destro if you've seen frost nixon, which is I mean For historical purposes watch the actual interview of course watch the movie as well the movie Um, was it was pretty good, but you know, you primary sources folks primary sources Um, but I did it was a parody of frost nixon and it was frost destro brilliant Joe on Joe always does something Incredibly creative for cobra convergence. So, um, uh So joe on joe podcast my side of the laundry room did crazy cobra schemes and this is something that um, I mean this Especially in the animated form if you want to get to the essence Of cobra, this is how you I mean you have to like make your hand into a fist while saying the essence of cobra, um I mean you got to look at the absurdity of their plans to take over the world and my side of the laundry room It's been in a cobra convergence for um for years now. So, um, thank you to my side of the laundry room for doing that Rob vegas who um has been I mean who is right there co-winky-dink Rob vegas did the night vulture and that's an under An under appreciated figure a lesser known figure a rather purpley figure um, we always do blue for cobra convergence, but Cobra likes them some purple You know Especially in the later years there was more purple than blue Um, but I thank you again for rob to rob vegas for being in and for doing the cameo um The photo viper did um, uh toy Uh, a toy motion story a diorama story um involving Doc being kidnapped to operate on scrap iron Uh, who had been injured In an explosion. It's very it's it's um, it's very dramatic It's very dramatic. Uh, so that's the photo viper. He does a lot of toy photography. Check out his toy photography gi joe berg I I hardly have to mention gi joe berg. Everybody knows gi joe berg. Everybody does and you should if you don't know gi joe berg Look them up. You will like them. So they did um a a vast storyline vast like universe sprawling storyline shattered realms is what it is and Uh, you just have to see it the creativity level on that is is off the charts So thank you gi joe berg and all of the people they had an army Collaborating on that. Um, I will apologize to gi joe berg because I So i've been doing interviews with cobra convergence participants And I was supposed to do an interview with gi joe berg corresponding with their uh, their cobra convergence presentation I had to cancel it's the first one. I've had to cancel Um, I just I there were so many other things going on. I just I the time got sucked away by other things Um, I uh, but I apologize. I love the joe berg guys Uh, how can you not how can you not love the joe berg guys? um, but I I I Really regret Being unable to do the the interview. I was really looking forward to that. I hope we can make it up sometime So again, my apologies But do check out gi joe berg Then we've got ratface 44 reviews who did, um, the sandio kamicon classified zartan This is the master of the sky's zartan. So it is classified scale. I have looked at The right well, I've looked at two version of zart of classified zartan I looked at the uh, regular retail release classified and the retro Um, and I did a compare and contrast. Well, this is the classified zartan that I don't have This is the classified zartan that comes with all the stuff and Has the the color change feature Like the the temperature sensitive color change feature um, so, uh, that's I mean, I don't have it that is something that You know, I watch to get information Um on something that I don't have so thank you ratface 44 review his first time in cobra conversions really appreciated um speaking of zartan island of misfit toys collectors, um I really think that uh dreadknock ryan who runs that he's great Uh, love the guy and he he talked like on a more personal level about his appreciation for zartan and kind of his personal history with zartan and um, It it kind of gets at why we all started enjoying this kind of thing in the first place. I mean what why We latched onto it In the first place and why it was important to us at a younger age So so thank you ryan. That's island of misfit toys collectors and then today today treasures for trigger First time on the calendar for cobra convergence did cobras Japan's cobra figures. These are the takara cobra figures I know next to nothing about Well about a lot of international releases, but in particular, uh, the takara releases I know I know this much So every part of that was incredibly informative plus I won't go ahead and spoil it. I'll go ahead and spoil it There's a cameo at the end with our friend rob vegas and I've got to say like it really I love seeing people work together That is something that in the youtube space didn't happen Very often before we started cobra convergence and now people are working together on a regular Basis and I love that. I love that. So thank you treasures for trigger um and um So that that's everything from last week up to today next week We have anything joe's toy domination codename new 2 vero 2 articulated points podcast from the pit and agent chuckles So he has both some veteran cobra convergence presenters and some new cobra convergence presenters uh, and So make sure you check them out website hcc seven eight eight dot com um, and uh, there's a calendar there Just go check them out follow subscribe There's also like I still doing the Weekly fan participation video. So if even if you're not on the calendar, you can still get in uh, cobra convergence So also on hcc seven eight eight dot com There's a link that you can follow with instructions for how to participate If you want to a lot of people have done it and I think that's fantastic We have found a lot of the people that we got on the calendar Through that kind of participation So, um, if that's something if you're like interested in Being a presenter on the calendar at some point in the future um, that's a way to like Make everybody aware That you're out there that you're creating that you're doing things And uh, and yeah, that's how we get a lot of folks in that's how we learn about a lot of people who are out there creating things So, so please participate if you can It's a lot of people have and I've really appreciated everybody's effort Um now let's move on to opening these boxes. I have two boxes here Um, I have cut away the return address on this one. I don't want to dox anybody I don't want to give away anybody's address on the tv Uh, this one didn't have an address. So it's um, I didn't have to cut that away I have where's my knife? Um, I have cut the tape on these two boxes Um, I've cut the tape on these two boxes, but I haven't looked inside. I don't know what's in there I have my knife because sometimes there's more packaging inside That I have to cut but I figure if I cut the boxes before we start the live stream it will at least um Reduce the chance that I will cut myself On live television Doesn't eliminate the the chance but at least reduces the chance. Hey, there's comic tropes. I I uh, I think comic tropes profusely um and the uh, the Sector viper parts were a lot of fun. So, uh, thank you again, chris. It's always Okay, if you're late, you know, I I am often late, you know, I'm Uh, but I'm just happy that you're here. Thank you very much. Um Uh, there are always tons of sector viper questions, but we um, we Refer all those questions to the lawyer vipers But now we are going to open this or these I'm going to start with this one on top Just because it's on top These these were at in the p.o. Box. I did I was able to check the p.o. Box this week It's it's harder for me to check it nowadays This has a note that says Please read me first. So so I will um I I got I got to read it to myself. Just make sure there's nothing too personal in here. Let me see Uh Okay, that's nice Okay, um, the I I don't think this is too personal So I'll uh, I will I I will read it aloud. I am reading it aloud Uh, it says dear hoodie. Thank you for hosting this year's annual fan event. Uh, thank you for for Participating it. Um, it's made me rediscover the childhood hobby during times of life difficulties such a fan event motivated me to create an exclusive custom for cobra convergence seven enclosed our two Boxed figures one for the gracious host. That's the cat um The second one to be freely raffled off to the amazing participants of this year's event. Whoa cool The I think these are the first Cobra convergence exclusive figures in conclusion. I hope Cobra conversion continues to be an annual tradition Uh to many hardcore gi joe fans to showcase their creativity, dedication, enthusiasm to this amazing hobby I thank you and many fan participants that continue to keep the hobby alive regards figure six pack Thank you for that. Um And Thank you. I thank you for your support Uh figures expat has supported the channel for for quite some time and and it's much appreciated um the first the first Cobra convergence exclusive figures, let's let's see this is all right. This is in Uh, it's enough box But hey, but check it out. It's got It's got a label. It's got a logo. Uh, let me see if I can safely safely open this This is intriguing Okay There's packing material. Hey cool. Look at this Oh, we got accessories too. I I do not want to lose the accessories. I'm gonna place the accessories here Then I'll show you this is what we got so this is um project delilah c s 01 the name sergeant carol Uh wielder carol wielder. Oh, look at this. It has the it has the classified symbols on it. That's that's very clever That's very clever. Um, so this is sergeant carol Uh wielder Number seven of 30 so all right. I'm sorry. I'm looking at this, but I'm not showing you So check that out Check that that is a sharp uniform That's that's a sharp uniform. I like that. I like that. That looks great. That looks great and I looks like her Her stocking lines are straight. Well done, you know Can be tough getting those lines straight. Well done And Let me see the Oh, hold on Okay, yeah, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't Losing anything. All right. Look before I look at the accessories. Let's look at these symbols and see if we can figure out um What what they mean? Okay, so this one um Obviously as a drive-in movie theater um This one, um looks like a town square with a bunch of roads going in and out of it So that you know, that's going to be a lot of traffic congestion right there Let's see This this one um That's a bike lock because she bikes her way to work. She likes to stay healthy and active So she bikes her way to work. That's that's very nice um, and this Now this is where it's contradictory because this is anti Uh drive-in movie theater So like she's dry. She likes drive-in movie theaters, but she's also anti drive-in movie theaters Explain that So this is fantastic Thank you so much first ever Cobra convergence um Exclusive figure just in time for the barbie movie. Mm-hmm just in time for the barbie movie So that's awesome. I'm going to carefully carefully replace this in the box. Where did I no? Hold on accessory I got them. I got the accessories. So the accessories include um Some they call this a purse um I call it a satchel charge And uh and a pistol looks like, uh Looks like a 9 11, uh 19 11 looks like, uh Old school This is awesome. So thank you. There's there's still another one. There's still another one in there. There's still another one in there um So let me I i'm trying to be really careful with this I would be very upset with myself if somebody goes through all the trouble of sending something and then I Lose or break it. That's always my fear Is that like somebody's going to send something to me and I lose or break it? I Would be devastated figure number two figure number two um, let's see this one Okay, so it's this is it's the same lady same same lady And hold on. Let's see. Let's see our our stocking straight her stockings are straight Her stockings are straight. That's that's that's excellent important comes with um The accessories and this it says This one is is for raffle. So I will have to find a way I'm gonna have to get creative because I want to I I really like the idea of giving this away um Thank you for sending this And now I will ponder I will ponder the best way Uh to get this in the hands of of a gi joe fan of a cobra convergence fan And just in case you're wondering same symbols on the back Same like same pro and anti drive-in movie theater screen you know So yeah same thing, but uh, thank you and um Projects this is I like the the packaging too and this is This is nice that's That's our number seven. Cool. Uh, so thank you for this I am carefully placing it over there because I do not want anything to happen to it. I am keeping the letter I always keep the letters now this one Which does not have a name on it, but as I open the box. I see A note that says Uh, hootie coco. So let's let's see. Let's see. Uh Dada Okay, so this one also does not have to include too much personal information so um This says hi hootie coco. Um, and and thanks to uh comic tropes for coining the hootie coco name forever linked So I've been watching your channel for some time and greatly enjoy your content. Thank you. Thank you very much Your views are always entertaining and thorough. I always uh, although I do miss the more lengthy skits you use to perform I've been working that in and again again. Thanks to to chris for assisting with that this week Either way, uh, keep up the great work your vids are always a highlight of my week So I saw Oh, it does say what's in there should I um, I shouldn't spoil it. Hold on. I won't spoil it. It does say what's in there Um Okay, well, thank you. I don't I'm I'm only skipping that section because I don't want to spoil what's in there. Um Again, I just want to say how much I appreciate your videos and look forward to many more if there's any chance of seeing this Uh on a class of friday It'd be appreciative. I've got to bring back class of friday The only reason I haven't brought back class of friday yet is because I've been too busy with other stuff Oh, thank you for the super chat um Oh, I didn't share the license. Yeah, I Well, I'll share that negative. Thank you. Thank you for the comic Thank you for the comic tropes super chat. Thank you for the super chat comic tropes I did get a personalized license plate. I'll I forgot to I forgot to get that I I'll I'll show that next time. I will show that next time. Uh, but this is from will thank you will for this And thank you for your support and thank you for watching. It's very Appreciated and now this means I I must I must bring back class of friday I wanted to do class of friday all through Cobra convergence, but the time Just didn't happen. It just didn't happen. So, um Yes from Will we have a classified shipwreck um, so Yeah, I think this is oh ah um, this is uh Uh, I mean, yeah, I I have to do our view of this. I'm been very curious about this Uh about this figure, but I didn't have it. I was like, I don't have the figure. Ah um So, uh, yes, I will in fact, I would open this right now and show it to everyone But I still have to deal with one more thing and we have 20 minutes. We have 20 minutes um so um, I I've got a I've I received one other box. It is not one that I uh can open And I need to explain why and This is something that I've uh I've got to make sure that I say things exactly the way that I intend to so um while I love you guys and I I Um, I like seeing the chat and I'm glad that you're all here. I'm actually going to switch away uh from the Uh from the live chat for right now. So my apologies. I will not see super chats for a minute So, uh, sorry about that, but just so I don't get distracted and I plow through and and deal with the unpleasantness Uh and get it over with like ripping off a band-aid. So my apologies. I cannot see the live chat just now Uh, but I need to I need to address this so last week. Um, I got a box from someone that uh, it was uh pieces from A cobra base, you know, basically out like a 3d printed base Um with with a piece that was similar to the missile command headquarters In that video, um, just just basically because of some things that were, you know in the The letter that was included in with the address that That was included Or that it was shipped from I thought It might be someone in particular that I knew Who sent it? But didn't attach his name to it um So, uh, I got another box from the same person a larger box The person did email me said they were going to send a larger box um One thing that the person didn't do is uh in the email is say what his name was Um, because I I I had said hey if if If you are who I think you are, you know, let me know send me, you know Send me an email, you know, let's um, let me know um That was not included in the email that was sent to me and so far like there's been nothing unfriendly Everybody's been this is somebody who's been very nice and in the past very supportive um, but um If it was who I thought it was um, that's something that uh I can't not address um, because if it is who I thought it was then uh, it's someone who Doesn't have the best reputation in the community and About whom people have Legitimate complaints That are beyond just like Saying mean things or just being like a toxic personality more more along the lines of Not uh Delivering on something that people paid for um Apparently a lot of people Uh, and it was a fairly high ticket item. So, um Uh, this is something that I don't have any firsthand knowledge of I wasn't involved in it um, but it's something that Um after it came to light this person seemed to vanish From everywhere from social media from, you know, any any any other contact any other contact that I had with that person It's just was gone. Um uh personal accounts I couldn't find them So that's not a good sign so So I get this box last week and um And I showed it off and I showed the website the web address and everything on camera But you know the spider sense was tingling But I didn't know for sure right I didn't know for sure And if and if I'm wrong I don't want to like, uh Cause a problem for some other You know website and some other people um But I did notice that when like if you go to the website that's in the letter and it still works. It's very sparse It does not have the name of the person who runs it um also if um If you go to the Facebook group that is on the letter it doesn't exist anymore So it made me have to think about like if I am accepting things through the mail for free um, and I'm putting them on the camera And showing people you know who sent it, you know showing the web address Is that an endorsement by me of the product? I don't know I don't know. Um, but what I do know is that if it is I have to be really careful about What I endorse because the people in this community are very important to me and I want to be cautious about what I encourage them to You know go check out and and possibly spend money on um, look I I grew up in a very blue collar environment. I grew up in an environment where people didn't have a lot of money um, so uh, you know taking people's money is like a sin People have a hard enough time getting by as it is um Taking people's money is um is That's really high on the prior like the the bad scale for me um Having kind of grown up without enough um People taking things that Uh others, you know used to to to get by in life. That's uh, that's that's a bad one That that's one that I have to be really cautious about and I don't want to be responsible For that happening happening to anyone else So I don't know if it's an endorsement and I may have to rethink How I show things on screen that I get Um Through the po box I've got to really rethink that because if it's something that's for sale Uh that you know, you can go and buy somebody could go spend money on it Then it could be interpreted as me endorsing it even though I didn't ask them to send it I didn't pay for it. That's also a problem. I didn't pay for it So if you pay for it, I don't know that your experience will be the same as my experience Since I didn't pay for it. Maybe you know, I get something and it's all great and it's grand. It's it's awesome um But you Spend your money on the thing and it's not what you're expecting to get. I just don't want that Uh, I don't want that to to to happen. So Um So that's where we are so The reason I can't open the other box is because It's not because I don't know who sent it. It's because I do know who sent it This is someone who Tried to cover his tracks. I mean there were there were There was effort made there were there was effort taken to Uh conceal who the person actually was those efforts were mostly pretty good but not good enough from To keep me from finding pretty definitive evidence of exactly who it was um, and I If I don't I assume that person will we'll see this Uh person if you see it first of all, I'm not going to dox you. I'm not going to give your information out to anybody Uh, that won't happen. I'm not saying your name and I'm not saying your company's name here Um, a couple of things that I have to say though. First of all, don't send me anything else. Don't send anything else Um, second of all, um, I don't know what to do with what I have Um, I did open the box because that was sent to me because I wanted to see if there was any Documentation any letter anything in there that actually said the person's name Like if maybe the you know, the person would just come out and say yes, it's me But there wasn't anything that I saw in the box um I could send it back, but that's uh rather expensive. Um For something that I didn't ask to be sent in the first place I'm not really sure what to do and but ultimately I will be the one to decide what to do with it That's now my choice. It's in my possession and I'll I will figure out what to do with it um, the final thing that I would say to that person is for a lot of people it's Too late for you to do the right thing It's too late. There are some folks that will just it's You've burned your bridges and you've burned up all your opportunities to uh, to make amends but That's not an excuse For not doing the right thing You do the right thing because it's the right thing to do not not As exchange for something not for some kind of guaranteed forgiveness or absolution you you You can't guarantee that people will forgive you you can't guarantee that people will Move on and accept, you know that you you're you've made amends or Or changed you can't control that about people you can only control what you do um And a person with integrity Still has to do the right thing even if for a lot of people it's it's too late uh, there are some folks are it won't be too late for um, but um I I keep saying if it's the person it is it's the person that i'm thinking of. Uh, so person um, you know exactly what i'm talking about I am not your enemy. I was your friend. I was someone who Backed you supported you and you backed me and supported me. It's somebody that i've met in person. So somebody that I was friend of this is a friend of mine This is a friend of mine. Um, so I I'm not your enemy. I am someone who wants things to go better for you. Uh, and that is something that can't happen Until first responsibility is taken and second secondly efforts have been made to make amends I will also add I I guess I did have one more thing to say so sending this to me under a pseudonym um After the previous events really puts me in an awkward spot and while I am I have been your friend And I I'm sure that you viewed the sending of things to me as a very generous and friendly thing to do It puts me in a terribly awkward spot and that's not so friendly Um, so please don't send anything else. Please don't send anything else I I'd said a few weeks ago that I was thinking about shutting down the p.o. Box Um, I'm even more strongly considering that the only reason that I'm hesitant to shut down the p.o. Box um is that um If I need to like work some kind of a trade with somebody, you know, I need somebody that I know to send something to me Um, the p.o. Box is the best way to do that. I don't give out my personal email address Except through a very hand of a small handful of very trusted people um And when you do what I do um, I mean you get you get I've had like Emails from weirdos. I've had facebook uh messages from weirdos. I've had I've had stuff sent to the p.o. Box. I've had packages from weirdos. I've had letters from weirdos Um, it's just kind it kind of comes with the territory. I've had people Make like really thinly veiled efforts to get my personal contact information unsuccessfully um, so that's that's why the p.o. Box exists um Because there are occasions when I will need to physically get something from someone And I don't want my personal address to be broadly available So Even so It's puts me in a tough spot. It puts me in an uncomfortable spot Um, so it's not necessary to contact me again It'd be useless to deny who you are that would be useless um And I there's really isn't really anything to say to me. There's a lot to say to a lot of other people But there's nothing really to say to me um I don't as far as i'm concerned the matter is closed um So Honestly contacting me after this would not be of very much use um Contacting me and denying who you are would be insulting don't do that um But that's that's what I have to say about it Now I I hate drama and this is getting awfully close to drama and it may cross that line It may cross that line and I hate that It's one of my rules is that I don't do drama um And really the only reason that I felt like I had to say something is because if I don't say something then I am giving Possibly tacit endorsement to Someone who I shouldn't um And that affects me and it affects everyone who watches it affects every one of you and I'm not gonna I don't want to put myself in that position. I don't want to put you in that position So I had to address it. I had to address it. I I reluctantly Um, this is the last I will say about it. It will never be brought up again In fact, it really doesn't matter even if I do hear from the person It's never being brought up here again. It's done It's over um, but that's the unpleasantness that I wanted to To address And now that I've addressed it. I'm going to wrap up the show again. I apologize. I have clicked away from The live stream because I wanted to focus on and try to say Exactly what I wanted to say and I I hope I've done that um if you Would like to get involved with gi jo adjacent product projects From reputable people there are some great ones out there Take a look at for instance what's on joe mind. They're talking to easy easy kill nine call sign longbow delta 17 operation recall There the list goes on. It is a great time to be a fan of uh of Independent toy makers. There's a lot of people doing o-ring toys. There are a lot of people doing Six inch action figures doing some amazing work and they have a track record of being Honest and ethical Look at those guys. Those are the ones who are doing it right And that's the note. I want to leave you on and I will wrap up. I guess uh about a minute early. Thank you everyone That's the end of that topic. I will see everyone next week. Thank you for being patient And I will talk to you again Later by everyone go go watch go watch what's on joe mind. They are next