 And we're long and I believe we are on time for once. Awesome. Okie dokie. Let me just drop a link in one place. I'll be ready to rock. Hey Byron, how you doing? Good to see you and Chad. Hello everybody. There's Green Yeti again. Max Reavos ghost music. The letters are very tiny. I have to read. Hey Lance and Delvis. Wow, the game's all here. Johann and Benny, Brian. Hey, guys, I just got to post something real quick. Hi, Isaac and Corry. Hey Brandon. How's everybody doing? Alright, just real quicky quick here. Hi Kevin, and Brandon Knight, how are you doing? Matt, Chad, hey, lots of people are showing up. Good to see you. As you might have determined from the headline, I had some thoughts about the possibility of G.I. Joe in Transformers. So, we'll talk about that. I just need to grab this link really quick, and off we go. Okay, you now have my undivided attention. Hello everybody. It's great to see lots of regulars in here. It's nice to see everyone. A lot of you guys show up every week, and that's really awesome, so thank you for that. Once again, like last week, I'm surrounded by clutter from reviews that I did. Like, here's Wetsuit. I'm not reviewing Wetsuit. I just have him out because he was in a review. Hey guys. Oh, and Isaac mentions Toys R Us returning. Yeah, that's a possibility. I just saw that headline today. So there's a possibility of a return of Toys R Us in the U.S. Yeah, the Transformers, the Bumblebee movie looks good. I'm really excited about seeing it. I think it has the potential to be one of the best Transformers movies yet made. Hey Chili Swerve, how you doing? And, you know, dig those G1 Transformers designs. That's really awesome. That's something that I think we've always wanted to see. One of the things that Michael Bay did other than just put his stamp, his style on the movies that he made, but he also drastically changed the look of the Transformers. Hey Wayne, everything's going pretty good. Thank you. Hi Chris. And that was, I mean, you can do that in movies sometimes. You know, as long as you keep a few visual cues that makes the character still recognizable. But some of the changes in Michael Bay's Transformers movies were so drastic that you really couldn't tell who the character was. But in this Bumblebee movie, I mean, you've got basically updated G1 designs. Yeah, Soundwave actually looks like Soundwave. That is, I mean, that's significant. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm not the biggest Transformers fan even, but I'm still excited about seeing that movie. It's potentially Transformers done right. And it's the kind of Transformers I think that a lot of us wanted to see in the first place. I think a lot of us kind of felt like, you know, those G1 designs could work on the big screen. Hey Michael Paz, how you doing? Yo, yo, yo. Yeah, Optimus Prime with the mouse. I mean, if there's just one thing that you could say or I don't do, don't give Optimus Prime a mouse. And yet that's the thing. That's the thing that they did. But yeah, but there's a, there's a rumor, and that's really all it is right now, is a rumor that John Cena's character in the Bumblebee movie is somehow linked to G.I. Joe, or like he might be the original G.I. Joe. The pictures that I see in, like on this Screen Rants article, that he has a scar on the side of his head basically. And that would line up with like 1964 G.I. Joe with the scar on the face. So it would kind of make sense. Yeah, sort of. I'm just, I'm just not convinced that that's, you know, that's actually what they've done. Maybe, maybe. But I'm also, you know, always have been a little nervous about G.I. Joe and Transformers crossovers. Green Yeti, people don't hate you. I don't hate you, Green Yeti. You love Galobulus, but you don't own Galobulus. Well, you know what? Maybe there'd be someone who'd be willing to donate a Galobulus to you. I mean, I'll bet there are a few people with an extra Galobulus. In fact, you know, I don't, I don't have an extra one. I only have the one, and it just happens to be right here. Here's Galobulus, but I can't give this, I can't give it away. It's my only one, and I do need it for reference, even though I don't really like the figure. But there's your Galob, there's a Galobulus there. If I have one, I'll bet others have one. So, you know, you just ask around. Hey, Kenneth, how you doing? Yeah, so the, this news, I was actually going to save this for later in the video, but why not? We'll just jump right in and talk about it right here at the top. Yeah, Johann, Timmer is doing a Cobra Law this month. I supplied a couple photos for his reviews. So look for me in the credits. So yeah, let's start by asking this. Leaving aside whether or not it's a good idea. Who thinks that this John Cena character in Transformers is related to G.I. Joe? Do you think that he is, or do you think that he isn't? What do you think? Just based on what you've read, based on the evidence, what's your opinion about that? Do you think that they've done that, or do you think it's just a coincidence? Oh yeah, Mike Lopez, you found a 1.5 stalker for under 50 bucks. Yeah, well that's awesome. That is a tough one to get your hands on, especially intact. I was pretty thrilled that I got mine. It's still the only one I have, but I'm happy to have it. The prices are just going crazy. So yeah, what do you think? Do you think they've done this kind of sneaky G.I. Joe crossover in Bumblebee? Or do you think that it's just a coincidence? I still think it could just be a coincidence. For commercial reasons, I could see why they might want to hold it off on introducing G.I. Joe, or putting G.I. Joe into Transformers. Mike Lopez, he has both of his thumbs. Well that's good for him. Chris, coincidence, I'd like to see more evidence before I believe that it is real, that it is a G.I. Joe crossover. In the same story though, let me scroll down a bit. DJ Crusoe said that he came up with an ending to his script for the G.I. Joe 3 movie that tied the Transformers in. So, hey Jenna, how you doing? And sorry, I missed a few folks that came in, so hello everybody who has joined us. And again, that's not conclusive. It doesn't mean that they're actually going to include Transformers in the G.I. Joe movie. All it says is that he's come up with an ending for his script. That's all it says. Doesn't say that the studio has accepted that script. Doesn't say that's what they're going to do. But, hey JJ, welcome. So, the stronger possibility may be that they will sneak in a crossover with Transformers into the G.I. Joe movie in a couple of years. That's a possibility. So, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I've never been big on crossovers between G.I. Joe and Transformers or really G.I. Joe and anything. I really feel like G.I. Joe is an excellent self-contained universe. But I know that a lot of other people like it. I know that a lot of folks are fans of both and like to see them interacting. It's not my thing. It just isn't and never has been. But, ultimately, again, I've said this before. I want to reiterate that the ultimate test of the G.I. Joe movie is not whether I like it, but whether it is accepted and enjoyed by a larger audience. No G.I. Joe in 18 for you. Yeah, G.I. Joe, I think, at least in the comic book series, I feel like has such a strong narrative that it doesn't need crossovers. And, in fact, sometimes crossovers, to me, kind of divert the story a bit. It kind of muddles the narrative a bit. But again, like I say, that my opinion is not the only opinion on that a lot of people do like it. What I am always concerned about with transformers and G.I. Joe crossing over is I feel like G.I. Joe would get, would kind of, would, I think G.I. Joe would sort of be second fiddle. You know, they get, they kind of have to take second stage to transformers. Because, I mean, one reality that I don't think anybody can really deny is that, at least at the moment, transformers has a larger fan base than G.I. Joe does right now. I think the numbers make that clear. But, that being the case, the obvious temptation for the writers is to make a transformers movie with a little bit of G.I. Joe in it. And that's not how I really want to see G.I. Joe on the screen. I feel like G.I. Joe can hold its own. Yeah, and previous crossovers that they've done, you know, even in the vintage era, there was the G.I. Joe and Transformers mini series. And as I recall, that one was okay. I mean, I don't think, I don't recall it being necessarily anything spectacular, but it was all right. But then in the regular G.I. Joe series, they had transformers for a couple issues, like two or three issues or so. Transformers was actually in, you know, G.I. Joe. And so that's a tough one. It's not my preference, is what I'm saying. Who is Cobra Commander's son? That would be Billy. So, I mean, okay, I don't want everybody to be unduly influenced by my opinion. I want you to share honestly and with, you know, no criticism at all. If you want to see G.I. Joe in transformers, in a movie form, what do you think? Is that, do you like the idea? I'm going to go see the movie either way, you know, and I will hope that the movie does well. Regardless of whether or not I like the movie, I really want the movie to do well. Lance, maybe that's certainly an argument that I've seen made is that G.I. Joe doesn't appeal to modern audiences, but I'm just not sure about that. I think we've got a few other examples that suggest that it might be. And one big example for me is the Captain America movies, which I think have been excellent. Big budget movies, you know, great special effects, really interesting stories. Lots of effort went into the stories and the acting and everything. And they have done pretty well, even with international audiences. Even though a large part of those movies have, you know, military or pseudo military themes, and they're very American centric. And yet audiences will go to see those. And if you structured G.I. Joe in the right way, I think it would. I think G.I. Joe has a good chance of appealing to modern audiences. But, you know, the other side of that is it might, well, might not. It definitely would not be exactly like our G.I. Joe. That's true. But, I mean, everything has to evolve. Everything has, I mean, if you're going to make money and, you know, sell tickets, then you have to put out a product that's going to be, it's going to be interesting to your potential audience. So, I understand. I understand Hasbro is a business. They need to, you know, think about the bottom line. They need to put out something that they're confident is going to make money. So, I get it. I get it. And again, I'm not looking for a movie that is my G.I. Joe. I'm just looking for a movie that's going to be good. So, yeah, there's, I'm just not going to, I'm not going to be a point of conflagration for G.I. Joe fans who are going to come into any movie with the intention of hating it. I just, I'm not going to do that. I've seen that happen in too many other fandoms right now. So, I will be expecting and in fact, insisting on having a mature audience here that is capable of reason. So that's, I'm going to hopefully be a voice of reason, even if I don't like the movie. It's got to be at least something that is going to bring G.I. Joe back into the mainstream. And for those of you who want G.I. Joe, you know, on the toy shelves again, you know, you want an animated series and all that. The only chance of that is to have a product that sells and a product that makes money. And I think it can be done. But it's not going to be like the 80s. I don't think it can be. I just don't think it can be. So, you know, hopefully, hopefully they will accomplish that mission. So that's, that's what I want to talk about as far as G.I. Joe and Transformers. I just, I'm not a big crossover fan. Yeah, Mike Lopez, we're waiting on the G.I. Joe movie review. Yes, that is something that is, I'm pretty confident I know when I'm going to do that. It's just getting the time to do it. I'm actually trying to work ahead on some of my regular reviews so I can have the time to do that. Wait, who's that? Hey, Gray Fox, thank you. I'm glad you made it and I'm glad you like the videos. Yeah, so, wow, I lost track of what I was talking about. Sorry, guys, part of my problem is that I'm really tired. This is a problem that I've had for the last couple of months, actually, is just being really fatigued. And oh, hey, this is a good opportunity to apologize to everyone. Okay, I'm going to extend a big HCC apology to everyone. I have been trying to keep up with messages, emails and whatnot. I know that I haven't been able to keep up with all of them and I apologize for that. But I've just been really overwhelmed with regular work, like my job work. Thank you, Barry. I appreciate it. But, I mean, the job right now is not bad. Actually, the job is really good. I love my job. We've fixed the job problems. The jobs are good. But I'm still learning a new position and it's taken a lot of time and energy. So I've not been able to divert a lot of my time and energy to doing some things that I really need to do. I've been trying to make sure I keep up with the video reviews, right? Because I've got to keep doing the show. I don't want to slack and not do the show. But things like getting to messages and stuff like that, I have just not done that as well. I've got a stack of sketches that I need to get out to patrons and I just got to do it. And I just haven't had the time to do it. Oh, and I was, you know, getting some more sketches ready for... Man, losing concentration. I was getting more sketches ready for patrons and trying to get them ready to mail out. And then I realized I'm out of code books. Everybody who gets a sketch also gets a code book and I'm out of code books. I got to print more of them. And so I apologize for that, guys. I know that I've been running behind on a lot of things, but I'm trying to keep up. And as much as I can, I've been diverting my time and energy toward making sure I get the videos done. So there's sometimes when I just don't have the time or the energy to do much else. I had a big influx of new patrons over the last month or so. So I had some perks to fulfill including putting their names in the videos. You know, you see them at the end of the videos. Well, I ended up misspelling people's names and had to fix it. Mainly because I had to do some of that stuff kind of late at night when I'm really tired. And that's when mistakes are made. Anyway, I just want to assure everyone I'm fine. I'm doing okay, but I'm a little struggling to do some of the things that I need to do for the channel. So if any of you guys have a YouTube channel or any other kind of creative endeavor, you kind of know how it is. You know, you could easily work on that stuff all the time. You could spend 24 hours a day just working on that because no matter how much you do, there's still more that you want to do. And I love doing this so much. It's a thrill for me to be able to produce something and put it out there. And some people like it. Hello, Lone Star Viper. Nice to see you. So it's fun. And so I enjoy doing it. But the more you do, the more work you got to do. So that's my issue right now. So I extend my apology to everyone. If you sent me a message and I haven't replied, I'm sorry. If I got to get a sketch to you and I haven't got it yet, I'm sorry. It is coming. I am working on it. But I'm also trying to make sure I get the videos out on time. So there, there, I'm done. I'm done. We can talk about something else. We can talk about something else. So what projects am I working on other than the Defiant and how is that going? Defiant is coming along fine. The big thing with the Defiant, the thing that I'm going to need to purchase myself and really invest in is the crawler gantry doors, the big blue doors. There's just no way around that. They are expensive. They're not easy to come by. I've seen a few online. So that's the big thing with the Defiant. Other projects, I don't have like any other like big specific projects that I'm like picking away at. I am trying as much as I can to move a little bit more aggressively on some of the rare items because the prices are going crazy right now. Prices are going nuts. And seeing, you know, the prices of the more rare items escalate. Whenever I find a good deal on one that's more like what I want to pay rather than way up here, I've been trying to snag those because those good deals are going to be harder and harder to come by as prices escalate. So that's really what I'm working on right now. It's not really a specific project. I'm just trying to get some of the rare stuff before it gets so expensive that I can't get it. So Gray Fox asks, is my G.I. Joe action figure collection complete? It is not complete. Actually I have quite a few gaps in it. But thanks to some folks that have sent stuff to me donated things to the channel. I have a lot fewer gaps than I used to. And that's helped out tremendously with doing the reviews. So yeah, there are a few gaps. And before you ask, I don't have a list. I used to try to keep a list of what I had and what I didn't have. And it didn't work because I would get stuff so fast that I couldn't keep up with it. So my list is in my head. And that's not a good place for it because I forget stuff all the time. Yeah, Gray Fox, I don't really go off to the modern stuff, but people have sent modern figures to me. And when they do, I go ahead and try to put that on camera because I think it's kind of cool to look at the modern figures next to the vintage ones. All of the action packs, I have some of the action packs and I cannot remember off the top of my head which ones I have and which ones I don't have. But I know that there are some action packs that I don't have yet. And to be truthful, I haven't really been targeting them yet. Not super high on the agenda, but I don't have all of them. I will eventually get them though. Vanilla Gorilla, have I been feeling better? I'm feeling a lot better. Vanilla Gorilla, I appreciate your checking in on me. I'm doing a lot better. We were having a little bit of trouble when some changes happened with my job, but we made some other changes happen and the job is doing better and I'm doing a lot better. But right now I'm really busy right now because I'm actually learning a new position at work. So it's taken a lot of time and energy and most of the time I'm pretty tired. Delvis, when I review them all together or as a quick shot, you mean the action packs? I'm not sure. I think FormBX257 did them like multiple action packs in, you know, a review with multiple action packs in them and that seems like a pretty good way to do it, but then I don't want to copycat FormBX257. I've got to figure out some way to do it and make it my own. But I feel like the action packs probably don't deserve like individual full reviews. I'd have a hard time getting a full review like a big Sunday afternoon review out of the action packs. So I feel like a review might include more than one. That's my thought at the moment at least. Have I accidentally bought any Joe Doubles? Yes, yes. I don't intend to, but sometimes it just happens. I've been trying to get the 1985 Cobra Bats, or 86 Cobra Bats, the yellow paint variant. Most of the Cobra Bats have that yellow-orangey paint on them. They're boots and stuff. Well, they're the variant with a bright yellow paint. That's the only difference. But I am having a heck of a time finding that yellow paint variant. Even though, and I bought some Cobra Bats thinking it was the yellow variant and it was just another one of the orange-yellow ones. So I'm still working on that. Comic Tropes is here. Hello, Comic Tropes. And Comic Tropes wants to know if I vape. Why not vape? I smoke big tobacco cigars. Like a real man. Do I vape? So, and I'm just kidding about that, by the way. I pass no judgment on anyone vaping. Live your own life, really. So there's... Oh yeah, I know. If I flip it, it won't be in mirror mode. But I've kind of gotten used to doing it like this. So I will... I'll think about it in the future, especially if I have to display something on screen. So, hey, I thought I had an idea. I had an idea. Here's my idea. I'm surrounded by stuff, by just like clutter, you know? From earlier reviews that I just haven't put away. I was thinking, what if I show you some of this stuff that was in the reviews that I just shot, and you can try to guess what it is that's being reviewed. I won't show you what's being reviewed. You just got to guess based on the other stuff that's in it that I show you, right? And so, yeah, let's try that. Let's try that. So I'm going to show you some stuff. Now, it's not in this coming review, right? The one that's coming up this Sunday, I already finished that one. It's the one for the following week. The following week that I just finished shooting. So I'm going to show you this. You guys guess what you think the review is, okay? I'm not going to tell you if you're right. I won't tell you. You just guess, and then you find out if you're right in a couple weeks, okay? So here's one. This, this is in the review, right? This is in the review, but I am not reviewing this figure nor the vehicle that he came with. I already reviewed that, but that is going to be in the review. Let's see what else. Let's see what else. Let's see what else. This will be in the review, okay? I had to bring this in for reference, but the review has nothing to do with Iron Grenadiers. Nothing. Nothing to do with Iron Grenadiers. I just needed this as a reference. Is there a poop joke Delvis asks? I make no promises, okay? Another thing that was in the review that you haven't seen yet that you will see in a couple weeks is this. But the review is not this. It's not the conquest. It's not slipstream. So that, but I needed this in the review for a reference. So I think that's it. I think that's it. That's all we got. Oh, hold on. Here's something. The review will include an action figure. All right. That'll narrow it down, right? And this is the file card for the action figure that I just finished reviewing. There you go. There you go. All right. All right. So now those are the things that are in the review, but I haven't showed you what will be reviewed. Okay. So now make your best guess and see if you can guess what I reviewed that I needed all these other things for. You'll never guess. You'll never guess. Hold on. Somebody said something and I missed it. On the trail with Kevin and Scott says, hello, hoodie. Well, hello on the trail with Kevin and Scott. So, yeah, so that would be a fun game. So if you figure out what it is, it is not Galobulus human mechanism. It is not Galobulus. Galobulus is here not for that review, but because actually Timmer needed some pictures of Cobra Law, but not Galobulus. He actually, he needed pictures of like Nemesis and Forcer, but I have Cobra Law all stored together. So, yeah. So, yeah. So anyway, let's see if you guys can guess, guess what it is that I reviewed. Right now the cats are knocking things over in the kitchen because that's what cats do. JJ, visit to Dallas. You're right, yeah. I haven't been to Dallas in a while and I'd really like to go to Dallas. I would like to go anywhere, really, but as discussed earlier, I'm having a hard time finding time to do anything. So, yeah, maybe like a weekend trip sometime to Dallas. It's been a long time since I've been to Dallas and I like Dallas. I like Dallas very much. Green Yeti apologizes for how much he talks about Galobulus. Well, you know what? You don't have to apologize. You just, you just, you know, do your best. You just be you and you like what you like and you don't have to apologize for it, not at all. So, yeah. I think it's going to be very interesting to see if anyone guessed correctly what I reviewed that required. I'll show you again. I'll show you again. The review that I did required me to include this action figure, this ironic Grenadiers vehicle, this GI Joe vehicle, and this file card. So, yeah, that'll be fun. So, yeah, I mean, you win nothing. If you get it right, you win nothing at all. And again, I'm not talking about the review that's coming up this Sunday because I already finished that one, but I actually just finished shooting the following review. So that one will go off. When will that go up? Let me pull up this calendar here. The 14th. So, yeah, I just finished shooting the core review for the video that will go up on the 14th. And I got some special stuff coming. Oh, wow. October is going to be fun. October is going to be a lot of fun. We're having guests in October. You know, we've got special things going on October and it doesn't have anything to do with Halloween. Let's see. Mutant Alien Jesus asks if I do customize figures. I don't now. I used to, you know, back when I was a kid, we did a lot of customizations, but I don't really do it now. I pretty much just kind of stick with reviews and try to get them complete for review. I've seen a lot of really cool customizations that a lot of fans have done. And some customizations are really amazing. It's just that I don't particularly do that myself. Gray Fox says no Halloween episode. Well, now I did say that connect there for a second. All right. The stuff coming up in October, not Halloween related, but it still could be scary. I will tell you this. There is a theme month for October. It's a theme month, but it doesn't have anything to do with Halloween. So speaking of speaking of theme months, Timmer just started his monster month. And yes, for October, I'm sorry, for Crenson Law or for Cobra Law Lovers. I can't talk tonight. For Cobra Law Lovers, Timmer will be looking at Cobra Law this month on half the battle. So if you tune in, you can see a photograph of my Royal Guard and my nemesis enforcer. Yeah, RTD-1, I feel like now it should be renamed the Crenson Law. I like that. I like that better. Sorry, guys. I know I'm missing some of your comments. I apologize about that. Oh, wow. Did my face just go all crazy? Okay, my camera, I think, did something weird to the picture. Sorry about that. Anyway, so, yeah. So we've talked about maybe G.I. Joe in Transformers. We've talked about Transformers maybe in G.I. Joe. We've talked about, we have had a guessing game about, you know, what my next review will be. And now Chad just sent me $1.99. Thank you very much, Chad, for the super chat. It's much appreciated. You are a scholar and a gentleman. I will give you a free no prize. In fact, just reach out through the screen. Thanks to modern-day internet technology, I can hand the no prize to you directly through the Internet. There it goes. There it goes. But thank you. Thank you very much. Joe Motion Video's buyer-in says, I can send you $1.28 to $98. So how are you going to do a decimal of a penny? How are you going to do that? How much money are you supposed to donate each live stream? You don't have to donate anything. But if you're going to donate anything, it's great to have it in denominations of hundreds. 100, 200, something like that. A modest amount. Inflation. But no, you don't have to give anything. I do appreciate it when people do. But you don't have to. I'm just happy to have everyone here. Look at this. We have 81 people here. That's fantastic. You know how crazy it is that 81 people actually show up and mug and listen to me talk? That's nuts. That's nuts. I can't complain at all if nobody sends the super chat. I'm just grateful to have all of you here. $1 million. What's my favorite non-toy-related YouTube channel? I believe... That's a trick question. The answer obviously is comic tropes. Comic tropes my favorite non-toy-related YouTube channel. Duh! So there you go. I got the right answer. You can send me a no prize now. Oh, not you. Not counting Present Company Accepted. The channel that actually jumps into my mind at this moment is what's his name? Steve1999 MRE Info It's the guy who does video reviews of MREs and, you know, military rations. Man, that channel is crazy. It's kind of mesmerizing. But it's a lot of fun. It doesn't have anything to do with toys. It's just this guy who opens up old military rations and sometimes eats it. But I have countless hours of fun watching that guy Steve1989 Have countless hours of fun watching that guy eat rotten food. Eating spoiled food. Mike Lopez says the spaghetti MRE was his favorite. Well, there you go. See? He probably has reviewed that one. You can watch the review and relive all those good memories. Have I played the Commando Attack game? I haven't played the Commando Attack game. I have what's it called the Cobra Battle Game. The one with the foam darts that you shoot at each other. I have that one, but I don't have the Commando Attack game. I was thinking about getting it though because I think Kevin reviewed it and it looked fun. It looked like it would be fun to play. So that's something I might get. Even though it's a little bit outside the scope of what I would normally get, it just looks fun. So I give it a try. The Ham and Lime... Yes. Okay. SnakeBitGoat asks if Steve1989 has eaten the Ham and Lime and Lime and Lime being rationed. The answer is he has. There is a video on the Ham and Lime and Lime being C rationed. The most hated of all the C rations. And the one that kept popping up in the G.I. Joe comic book. Yes. There is a video on that. If you want to see 40 plus year old Ham and Lime being C rationed, you can see that. I can tell you though, it's pretty gross. Oh, wow. Kevin Haynes, 10 Euro. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. You didn't even ask a question. If you want to ask a question, if you send a super chat, I will be glad to answer any question you have to ask, but thank you. Thank you very much. Codename... Oh, yeah. You've been new to Vero, too. You've been doing IDW G.I. Joe reviews. Comic Tropes Chris has been encouraging me to read the IDW Larry Hamas series. I know. I know. I've only read bits and pieces, but I will read more of it. I've been told it is really good. So, yeah. Good question. We've got about 15 minutes left to go. I try to keep these videos to about an hour, but we still got plenty of time. Still got plenty of time. How is coffee working, David Fitchner asked? I have gotten a donation through coffee just once so far, but hey, you know, any that I get is better than none, right? Since this whole debacle with my job recently, and since I was really close to not having regular employment and perhaps having to rely on my revenue from this channel to pay my bills, that was pretty scary. I've been much more conscious of my revenue streams, and I try not to focus too much on that. I want to make sure I focus on the important things, which is, you know, putting up the reviews and communication, communicating with people, interacting with you guys, but I was uncomfortably close to having to you know, at least for a short time, make a living off of this right here, and that made me a bit nervous, so yeah, I've just you know, I'm a bit more conscious of that now. It's amazing what, you know, what you start thinking about when your employment becomes a little unsteady, so fortunately, though, that's not something we have to worry about right now. We're okay right now. Actually, we're in really good shape right now, so I'm not worried right now. I'm okay, I'm okay. But oh yeah, great Fox, YouTube revenue sounds complicated to understand. It's not just you. YouTube and revenue, as far as I can tell, is voodoo. I totally don't get how they calculate that, and I tried to look into it to try to figure out, okay, how does this work? It's voodoo. You know, they just they have some chance, you know, around a campfire and then add revenue. That's as far as I can tell, that's how it works. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know. How long did I choke the cobra rat while it was in the bucket of water? Only a few seconds though. It's extremely easy to drown. It's not it doesn't float. The cobra rat review, despite being that being a terrible vehicle, it was a fun it was a fun video to do. I enjoyed it a lot. Sometimes I mean, I love looking at great GI Joe toys. I really do. You know, the really good ones they're just a joy to review, right? You get to point out all these wonderful details, you know, great paint job, great design, interesting backstory, you know, all this stuff is really fun to dig into. But sometimes the ones that are on the opposite end of the spectrum are fun too. So yes, drowning is a great way to kill rats. It works. It works. Steel Brigade applications for patrons. Interesting idea. Thanks, Elvis. I will give that some thought. I will give that some thought. Yeah. Usually, if it looks like I'm having fun in a video, I usually am. You know, the truth is even if I'm reviewing something that's bad, something that just is an eyesore and I can hardly stand to look at, I have so much fun making these videos. It's just ridiculous. I was just thinking about this last week as I was putting together the the video. Actually, I guess as I was putting together the rat video to get it ready to upload, I was just thinking about how much fun this is. It's just, it's so I mean, it's not something I ever thought I would be doing. I mean, you know, who thinks about like this as as a, you know, an avocation? It, you know, YouTube has only really even been around for a few years, but thanks to technology and the internet, this is possible and I'm able to first of all have a great time making these videos. It is fun and also meet all of you fine people and enjoy, you know, talking with you guys. But it is just honestly and I'm seeing I'm out of fun to do these videos. Do I keep this stuff? I don't like Chili Swarps ask. Yes, I do because sometimes I have to use this stuff for reference. So I still have to keep it. For instance, like, well, where's one? Right. I didn't particularly like Xandar but Xandar has shown up in several videos recently. So, you know, that's why I have the figure so that I can reference the figure when I need to. So, yeah, I do keep it, but really just for reference, not for like display purposes. So, okay, and I see new vids Hasbro release G1 Transformers Common Clone in the 80s release. I don't doubt it just because well as anti-war, but I wouldn't be okay. It's amazing to see Joes. Yeah, I haven't seen your video codename new to Vero 2 but I'll try to catch it as soon as I can. That's another thing I'm behind on. I'm behind on watching other people's videos. That's something I usually like to really keep up with. You know, I watch FormBX257 every week. I watch Timer every week, but sometimes videos, I see them come up, but I'm just too busy and I don't have time to watch them. So, I think I make a mental note. I'll get to them later, and I don't get to them later. And so I'm sorry if I'm behind on watching your videos. If you're somebody that I follow, I do try to watch those. I just it's just all I can do right now to just get the reviews done every week. And like I said, I've got a fairly big one coming up soon. I need some extra time to work on it. So I'm trying to work ahead so that I can create a little extra space of time to work on a special video. So right now my time management is tricky. Wouldn't it be nice if Hasbro did this for G.I. Joe like they are for Transformers? I mean, it would be cool. I don't think they will just because we've been told that Hasbro isn't putting out anything for G.I. Joe until the new movie comes out. So they basically have straight out said that they're not doing anything until 2020. So that's too bad, but it would be nice if they reconsider that. Brandon, would I like to borrow your yellow cobra bat for a review? I'll tell you what, I will refrain from that. I don't usually borrow figures or toys for reviews because I get very nervous that something will happen to it when I have it and I won't be able to get back to you in the same condition that I received it. Now, probably wouldn't happen, but borrowing toys makes me very nervous. I feel the responsibility of having it and if anything happened then I would feel very bad about that. A couple of years ago there was a guy that was going to loan me his gold head steel brigade figure to review. I really thought about that because I want to review the gold head steel brigade. But after talking with the guy and after thinking about you know all of the things that could go wrong and that kind of transaction we backed off a bit and changed our mind about that. So yeah, borrowing toys to review it makes me very nervous. Oh hey, Transformers and video games are a channel that our old friend CyberTiger used to talk about all the time. So hello thank you for joining. Speaking of CyberTiger speaking of CyberTiger I indulged a little bit over the weekend and watched a little bit of my of my own reviews. I watched a few of my own videos over the weekend. Some of them aren't terrible but I watched the one that I did with CyberTiger the review of of Action Force and you know not to toot my own horn but I thought it was alright. I actually enjoyed watching one of my own videos which is which doesn't happen very often. And I do very much miss CyberTiger since he decided to leave to leave YouTube and not make videos anymore but that guy was a really good friend to him. A next night force figure review hey good question. Michael Lopez asks when the next night force figure review is good question. I do have one that that I have ready to review but but you know I have this rule on the channel that I want to review the first version of a figure before I review any but I just did. But excuse me the night force figure that I have ready to review is Crazy Legs which is a figure that I love Night Force Crazy Legs what a great figure but I haven't reviewed the first version of Crazy Legs yet so I really need to review version one of Crazy Legs before I get to the night force version so it's on the agenda it's on the radar I don't know exactly when I'll do it but I'd kind of like to do it sooner rather than later because I would really like to review Night Force Crazy Legs I want to look at that figure what an awesome figure spoiler I think it's a good figure Yes Green Yeti I haven't reviewed the fantastic and wonderful Crazy Legs figure yet but I'll get to it am I going to review Kevin Mealy Hello Kevin Mealy another guy that I did a video collaboration with the bridge layer and Tollbooth and I had the privilege of meeting Kevin at Jocon in Orlando Florida Hello Kevin Kevin asks about the battle gear accessory packs I've been thinking about that there's one thing I haven't decided yet about reviewing the battle gear accessory packs and that is do I want to review them all loose or do I want to have the loose pieces and a carded example of them and I have not decided yet so part of me says yeah get a carded example of the accessory packs for the review otherwise it's just a review of pieces and for the most part they're pretty common pieces so I feel like I might need to do that in order to review the battle gear accessory packs but you know what I really should I should review the accessory packs because I mean they're an important part of the series right they're very important as a kid and we talk about them a lot don't we we talk about them as collectors because you know as a collector you're trying to find accessories and you have to figure out if it's is it original or is it battle gear accessory pack hey rat face how you doing everything's gone good thanks for asking so that's my dilemma as far as the battle gear accessory packs go I have some decisions to make I dive into that but it is important you know the more I think about it the more important I think it is because yeah I mean it's one of those things that it's like it's so baked into the GI Joe collecting experience you know maybe people don't think about it all that much just because it's sort of the accessory pack accessories are just always there right so yeah I'll think about that I will think about it and Avarna 2B says you got a snow serpent without equipment but I'm just going to give a light blue dragon off to from accessory pack yeah and those those blue weapons that came with the accessory packs actually look great with some of the figures some of them look better than the original to be honest if you're collecting and you want original accessories you know the battle gear accessory packs don't quite do it for you George Lopez says greetings from Guatemala hello and greetings from the United States nice to see you hey guys it is getting close to an hour and and I admit I'm really tired so I am going to stop at an hour I do try to keep these live streams limited to about an hour but hey really great discussion this time guys I really appreciate it thank you all for showing up really interesting conversation I very much enjoyed it thank you for giving your perspective on you know the GI Joe Transformers thing I did want to express my opinion but I wanted to get some other opinions as well so thank you for that thank you for those who sent to Super Chat very kind of you but yeah I'm pretty gassed right now it's been a long day and tomorrow is going to be another long day so having said that I will say good night to you guys we will do this again next week don't forget to check out Timur's theme month his monster month doing cobra law this month over on half the battle that'll be a lot of fun and I will I've got a video going up on Sunday it's kind of special I don't mean to brag but it's pretty much great I hope you like it and we'll do this again next week on Tuesday so thanks everyone for showing up and thanks for talking and I will shut this off and I will see you next week