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I'm very happy about that. Hello, LJ. Nice to see you. I'm doing well. Thanks for asking We've got another Alabama I'm just gonna send all the greetings to Alabama from the good old us of a hello there chewing bubblegum and cyclonus So I have I have an idea and I have to credit Chris from the comic tropes for giving me the idea of doing alternate code names alternate code names Dale Santaford is hailing from Illinois. Hello, Illinois from the United States. Nice to see you there. Hello, Brent And and another Matt. How do you know? How do you do? Um, most people are not happy when the Patriots win. So that's fine with me. That's that's that's typical Hello Dom and sparkster always nice to see sparkster Good evening draws Yes, so Just by coincidence hello Bob's dungeon by coincidence Dan and Cleansmith who did the or has been doing the creating GI Joe Volumes launched a Kickstarter with the next two volumes So that that launched today. So by coincidence that it's the perfect time To look into these hello the Trek reviewer. Nice to see you. Hello, Tony Jackson Hello, James Clark. You know what I did not do I Didn't get I didn't get water if I don't get water my my throat will dry out Before the end of the show so time out for say hello to each other for a moment and I'll be right back Right back hang on. Everybody shows up to see the empty chair, right? Thank you comic tropes for the super chat Here's something to reward you for all the For entertaining all of us. Thanks for the show. Thank you very much comic tropes. I appreciate that very much That's very very kind of you I'm actually I was gonna to try the the one chip challenge But I I don't have any chips, you know, I don't know. I don't really see what the big deal is I've eaten lots of chips So I you know, I don't know. I don't know from the the one chip challenge But but you are the man for for eating that chip and Not following up with another chip because that is the one chip challenge. Hello, Gussie And anybody else who snuck in When I was away getting what besides it's just now 7 o'clock or 7 o 1 by my clock, so we're not late We're not late Joe Finn just got off work. I missed the last two for working late. Well That I'm afraid you that will be reflected in your paycheck, you know, you're your weekly kickback. We'll have to be You know roll back a little bit. We'll have to Doc you a little bit on your weekly kickback for for missing a couple shows, but I'm glad you're here now Hello, Paul Kobe. Nice to see you. Hello, San Diego from the United States. You know The the Chargers really should have stated San Diego. That's just that's all I have to say about that San Diego lovely city I do like it as nice place. Hello, Rob Vegas. Nice to see you Yeah, everyone likes a good chair stream Yeah, let's see. That's what I'm saying You think this is this is the mistake that many who do the YouTube and and are the content creators make is they think people want entertainment, but what people actually want is to stare at a screen With an empty chair and then and then just talk about it. That's the key to success. That's the key to success Hello, Michael Pytel. Nice to see you there. Thanks for being here. Hello Ivan and Zim man Thanks guys. So thanks for being here. Shout out to Omar and blue Shout out to you from the from the good old US of a nice to see you and thank you Thanks for being here everyone So I mentioned that Dan Klingensmith. I didn't get the link because I I Don't do show prep but There's a Kickstarter for Dan Klingensmith's new Two new volumes of creating GI Joe. So if you have any interest in GI Joe pre-production stuff These are great sources But what I'm gonna do as we go through the show here. Hello James. Nice to see you what I'm gonna do Curtis says hello From Detroit. Hello Detroit from the United States. Thanks for being here What I'm gonna do is Periodically throughout the evening here I will I'll open this up and I will I will find a really good unused code name because like check this out The the GI Joe characters that we know and love Often had alternate code names pre-production code names possible code names that they could have used Rather than going with the code names that they had so like for instance this is this is blowtorch and His alternate code names here were pyro or hot foot So, yeah, I just thought it would be a fun idea Actually, I didn't think of it. It was Chris's idea, but I thought it was a good idea to to look at some of these alternate code names and And and just see see what we like see what we don't like and here's what I here's the idea I had Hello Dave. Yeah, no no show prep. We do it live. We do it live What I was thinking was like it's been a long time since I've done a super chat like Incentive things so I thought it was For every super chat we get I will pick a an alternate code name for one of these books and That'll be your codename forever. That'll be your codename like it or not and because I I don't necessarily want to pressure people into Into sending super chats. I will also just read code names for fun So you don't actually have to do anything but but anyway a My alternate codename I think See what I at one point I said my alternate codename should be race judicata, but nobody understood that one So I think Think what I'll go with and and look if I ever have to like check in a Hotel under an assumed name You'll you'll be able to find me because the name I will use will be Rufus T firefly That won't be that hard to find Mr. His yes, um, that is the other thing that I always like to mention on Tuesday. Thank you for the segue Michael Thank you very much Timmer from half the battle has a new episode up and it's it's one that covers a very Popular vehicle his favorite vehicle The Cobra his tank from 1983 actually it's it's very high on my favorites list is to Joe fan Since to chat. Thank you very much. It says the box that said don't open the sharp object was when I said Oh, thank you very much Joe fan. I appreciate it working a part store and was an old box that had a car Computer in it. Glad you could read mine. Oh, yeah Yes, and the bow is great. Thank you very much and I just thought it was it was kind of it was kind of funny that That the box said do not open with sharp objects But I in fact did open it with a sharp object because no box is the boss of me No box is gonna tell me what to do. I'm a rebel. I'm a rebel. I live on the edge You know, I'm pretty pretty much a rebel, you know You know Anyway, so Joe fan, but Joe fan gets a codename Joe fan your codename Is is the first one I turn to it's the alternate codename for ozone from eco warriors, which is Fresh air fresh air Fresh air congrats. Thank you very much fresh air. Wow. That is like, okay I can understand why they didn't go with that one Doesn't quite have the same ring to it. I mean ozone You know at least it has a z in it or a Zed if you're you're from one of them foreign lands But fresh air sounds like febreeze It's it's it's a it's a can of spray you keep in in the bathroom, you know for when you stink it up That that's that that was gonna be his codename genius guys, but they were smart good a great marketing prowess there choosing ozone over fresh air So yes, there we go see we got our first first codename Yes, you're a breath of fresh air Reinhold weeds. Thank you, Josiah Let's let's let's see what Josiah is alternate codename is It's gonna be one of lifelines alternate codenames last chance last chance Last chance. Oh, yeah, that's pretty bad, too. Look, there's a good reason why some of these alternate codenames were not chosen Many of them are are pretty bad. Let's just let's just be real they picked the right ones in most instant instances That's yeah, ah a Twinkie wiener sandwich your favorite By the way, all right sidetracked that there is a new weird Al Yankovic biopic coming out very soon and I am Really excited for it. I'm I'm very happy. I cannot wait Tiger for that I'll back ship in the next few weeks and oh, yes. Yes tiger for sound back You know, I haven't gotten any classified stuff any new classified stuff in a while I kind of like to find some classified Figures in the wild because I would like to you know support the retail outlets and You know, it might help the numbers a little bit if Somebody actually picks them up off of the peg, but locally I have found nothing like nothing at any Any location of anything Still nothing Don't they know that they have a huge YouTube personality in their community It's like free advertising and yet they don't stock the shelves that just so shows how much influence I have But yes after eating the baked beans, yes, you'll need some fresh air Hello, they gone nice to see you. Thanks for being here Do your books have an entry for skidmark, that's a good question. I don't remember let me see Not there See not in that one been a while for a sparkster and transformers. Yeah Maybe too long who there is a skidmark. Yeah, the good good question I just I would really like to to Actually find things at retail It's and skidmark did not have an alternate code name that that's uh, where is it Alternate names and a so you know what that means is They they thought of skidmark and they were like that's it Nothing can be better than that one. Okay, Joe fan 84. Thank you very much for the soup chat and Josiah And he core figs laying around to rename I Not not Immediately in my vicinity, but I do have some co some core figures Maybe I can drag those out for the next show, but I gotta let's see Joe fan his Mr. S mr. S Needs needs his own codename And I think that we will go with not that one that one's stupid Let's let's go with that's a vehicle. No, that's no no no no No, that's stupid as well Let's see anything that these that aren't dumb Hold on. I'm coming up with it Um, this maybe this will work An alternate codename for for mutt was Was dog face So congratulations dog face Enjoy your codename. Really? That's what so dog face and dog DAWG Must be a Cleveland Browns fan or George for junkyard That's that that's Those were the alternatives to mutt and junkyard Dog face Wow Anyway, um, but I oh Josiah. I think I already got one for Josiah, but guess it doesn't matter Josiah gets another one I'm switching books Josiah gets Already did that. Oh, no, this is good We have crystal ball We have crystal ball and crystal balls All right, these these are crystal balls alternate codenames Transmaster Professor Id Mesmer Tron and or the Gaser That's the Gaser makes me think of a joke that I cannot tell on this show Um But but congratulations Josiah. You're a professor id So, you know, you you got you know, you your last name is id and you got a doctorate and then you became you know Employed as an instructor at a university. You're a professor id You know classes on Tuesday Thursdays and Fridays You know you got the morning in the evening classes very busy lots of papers to grade look for for, you know, the The id majors stalker versus Gaser two-pack. Yes, that's beautiful So So one thing that like That came up Around the time that Top Gun Maverick came out Matt Rubin, thank you very much thoughts on Macy's opening more Toys R Us stores in the US. My thoughts are I think it's a great idea Obviously, everybody misses Toys R Us, but they've got to do it better. Hello, uh, Sargent Slaughter Slaughterhouse Don't forget Sargent Slaughter Slaughterhouse has a go fund me to get to Joe Fest Next year make sure you check out his channel. He will have a link for that. Nice to see you Zazel Thank you for being here The the the thing about Toys R Us when it was open is that It was like it was really expensive like it was everything there was was very pricey and especially in the latter days the The selection wasn't that great So it was hard to justify going into a store to pay more With less of a selection. So yeah, I would love for Toys R Us to return to the US, but man, you gotta You got you got to do it better Comic trope says I'd like an official hoodie Coco code name. So I'll wait. Hold on. Let's let's get Matt Rubin and let's let's get comic tropes so Matt Rubin your alternate code name is NA come on. Hold on. Hold on. We got it. No, not now one. Hold on not that one Okay, your your alternate code name is is an alternate code name for spearhead, which is first wave first wave see that I waved once so I'm not gonna wave again. There will be no second wave and And and and Chris you wanted an official hoodie Coco Alternate code name. I'm going with one of the code names for armadillo your alternate code name is sand turtle Sand turtle. Well, how could they not go with that one? Codename sand turtle anyway, one of the thing I was Um One thing that came up around the time Top Gun Maverick came out Was like a lot of Navy pilots were doing interviews and stuff and they were talking about how like if you're If you become a Navy fighter pilot You don't get to like choose a really cool code name You know, you don't get to pick a code name That's like really awesome because there would be like 200 Mavericks and 185 Iceman and all that now you your your call sign would be Probably based on something embarrassing and humiliating That that you did or that happened to you And and it's like a nickname that sticks with you and that got me thinking That got me thinking so Depending on which GI Joe continuity. Hello Diana Davis. Nice to see you there She doesn't even have a first codename Let alone an alternate. We'll work on that. We'll work on that. I want to make sure everybody's codenamed up So what I was thinking depending on which GI Joe continuity you follow There are these green shirts, right these undifferentiated soldiers that appear in the background and like You know, they're just extra guys In the animated series that there were a lot of them They didn't appear so much in the comic book, but in the animated series there were these green shirts And they didn't they never had any codenames But see I I would imagine Like on the battlefield, you know when hawk has to order them around He just has to give them codenames on the fly So like he has hawk knows all the regular shows, right? He knows all their names But then all these guys in the green shirts. He's got a like Pick names for him and it'll be just like whatever is that on the top of his head Like so he's like points these guys in it like you ringworm rim job Dingleberry get get on the APC immediately, you know, and that's how you get your codename and GI Joe That's just how I imagine it Because like there there are only so many tough guy names to go around right So like eventually somebody's gonna be, you know hang nail, you know So somebody's gonna be flat tire or something like that. It's it's uh, you know You get you get down the list and you kind of have to go with whatever you got Yeah, it's I wouldn't mess with Diana Davis. Yes, that's serious person extremely intimidating They look at how terrified I am for serious though Diana has done great things for For GI Joe for the brand for the comic book series and it's really appreciated. I'm It's nice to see that kind of work acknowledged and somebody from the fan community Get get acknowledged for that but also, you know in the first place get brought in To have that kind of influence. It's nice. It's really nice. So Really great. That's a great job. And you know, I hope that hope that continues Diana is rarely serious Oh, let's see who the oh yo, Joe, I'm sorry. I'm trying to read names fast. I can't hello Joe Butler I don't think I said hello to you Um Diana says she likes sprite um Let's see, but hold on. No, this is give me no. I'm this is inspiration is hitting me because Sprites main competitor was seven up, right? So Diana your codename is The uncola Yeah, you can have that one. You can have that one for free Um, who who else came in? Hello paul. Hello rtd one. How do you do? um You get to be called o-ring rtd. That is now your Your codename. Hello game masters hobby. Hello to anyone that I missed. I'm sorry. I'm trying to say hello to everyone Um, I I it's can't read that fast. Hello expo. So how do you do? Thanks for being here? uh, yes, yes, uh Both rob vegas and sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse are here The continent and country of australia is represented this evening Um, and it's it's nice to have you guys here um, so yes, yes uh Yes, see diana is not a cola. So it is in fact an accurate statement. There you go. See It works This is how these things get done Uh, so yes, um Uh, I uh It is the time is 7 23. I seem to have exhausted all my material. So let let's let's find another I'm using uh alternate codename. Shall we? Um, let's see. What um, what um, what um, what um, no, no, no No, that didn't have one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Uh, let's see. No, there's going to be a great one here somewhere Uh, but not there Um See, yeah, no, this I covered in the In the review of firefly one of firefly's alternate codenames was monkey wrench Which they used for a dreadnought Um, and then we have that's a be that's a vehicle uh Okay, now this is interesting. So dusty one of his alternate code names was Hila Gila, but that was on another one. I think that was One of the alternate code names for Armadillo as well So like when Larry was coming up with these alternate code names He was like I want Hila Gila. Let's let's get that one. I'm gonna recommend that one Several times and surely One of them will make make it through Let's see this Sci-fi Whose alternate code names were hot spots And red light That's fine It's fine sci-fi is better But but those those are fine These these various Cobra vipers don't have alternate code names Because their code names are like just their specialty with the word viper at the end of it But the sea slug Could have been called squids or Kraken's Kraken's see that here's the thing about Kraken's It's a very scary creature the Kraken But in my opinion Kraken is is a silly name for it The name Kraken is not as as intimidating as the creature it describes and squids Squids I Mean sea slug is is not The best but squids we could have gone we could have got squids the Cobra squids Yes, the Kraken's in in action force. Yes, that's That could have been the sea slug But anyway you get the idea let's see who No, that's dumb What's well some honestly some of these like are Wow see look at this we got croc master croc master All right, and I've done my share of making fun of his name. I'm not I'm not denying that But croc master one of his alternate names was Crawl with a K K. R. A. W. L That's terrible see it then I So if you're if you're if you're Larry Hama and coming up with this stuff And you come up with a codename that you really like I think you get like Yeah, you're supposed to come come up with Multiple ideas you come up with one really good one and then the other ones are like crawl with a K So that one that way the one that you like gets picked Hello Dave E nice to see you. He's stuck at work. Look Dave Based on my authority as the commander I'm letting you out early letting you out early. I have the authority to do that. Hello renegade biker I don't think I said hello to you. How do you do? Think of all the different vipers that could exist Any job with the word viper after after a taxi viper laundry viper dog walkies viper Message viper. Yeah, see this that's that's how it works That's how it works. You just put viper and like it's it's a prestige thing, right? Because if you're in the the viper core is like I'm a viper What do you do? I'm the sweep the floor viper, but I'm a viper watch out venomous viper Sweep in the floor right now though. I'm sleeping sweep in the floor right at the moment but um, but if if needed if Necessary the fangs come out, you know, so that's vapor viper Yeah, there was there was a vapor he could have been a viper The the window viper see look look here Hello Kevin, Maley nice to see you. Thank you for being here the window viper H-fact viper see martial arts viper Guy sitting in a chair viper YouTube video creator viper. That's a little too long. That's that's it's gotta be shorter than that But you know, you but you get the idea You get the idea Yes, so yeah, now this is this is fun. This is This is something that These thank you Dave E. It worked just clocked out and Dave since you Sent a super chat I'm doing a special gag where I give you an alternate codename from one of these books That you have to live with forever and change your birth certificate or change your your name legally to to one of these names Um Which and and aren't you lucky because you get You get one of muskrats Alternate codenames such as moss back Congratulations Dave you are moss back What does that mean I I Did but like but this is my this is what I think happened Larry Hama is like You know, he just listened to that song muskrat love and he's like this is that's it muskrat love This guy's got to be in that muskrat. So I'm gonna give him I'm gonna give him I'm gonna suggest muskrat and if they want alternatives their alternatives will be moss back swamp runner wet Willy Swamp dog Gumbo or bad by you And so your your your marketing guys at the Hasbro are like Yeah, let's go with muskrat Hello, Dr. Skella Stein nice to see you. Thank you for being here. I don't think I said hello to the fly attractor Hello and good evening. Thanks for being here I Holds a little clunky counter thing at concerts as people go in viper See, it's it's a little they got to find some way to shorten it, but it's the same general idea IBS viper see yeah wet Wet Willy so that was one. Yeah, that was one of the suggestions. It's like Larry's like Wet Willy So What what else we got? Now see the astro viper's alternates were Cosmo viper or star viper and they actually did end up using star viper, but those are pretty those are pretty standard Those are pretty standard IRS viper, and that's real. That's real But a Mossback is a really big slow fish Also slang for an entrenched old-fashioned conservative person mossback. That's interesting. Thank you Thank you for for for the education the much appreciated. This is why we do the show This is this is to learn To learn things this is for education Basically, I mean you if you're going to college you can drop out and just watch this show You get all the education you need everything you really need to know I See like Alternate codename for saw viper was claw viper muskrat one of my favorite shows. So yeah, see The kids that's awesome. See that worked out that worked out Dave. You got you got mossback But see like the alternate codename for saw viper was claw viper CLAW an acronym for something we know not what But like the cobra claw was something that already existed. So if they called this guy the This guy this guy the claw viper then people would assume that it is in some way associated with the cobra claw when in fact he is not So Yes, so yeah, just Dave just be just be glad it isn't wet Willy That was one of the other options Yeah, you don't want that one to stick with you But let's see we're all about at the end of this one Yeah, some of these are later versions of earlier characters. So they've just they already had names What the Sam Hill is that so okay, this is an unreleased an unreleased minimal Called spasma that's That's in bad taste The fly-attractor. Thank you. Does the bus book list alts for Cobra Commander? I don't think so. In fact, I know that it doesn't I don't have the original Cobra commander entry in here, but I have like The the 87 Cobra commander except not in this one and one of these it has the 87 Cobra commander And it doesn't have any alternates for that The Cobra commander listing is not in these volumes But I have seen that listing and I don't believe there is an alternate for that There are alternate designs some early designs for Cobra commander did not have the faceplate or whatever. It's that that's a really interesting history Cobra commander could have gone many different ways and I really do like the direction. They took it I like the the silver faceplate that they went with for version one. I just think it's a really a Really clean nice design and Ron did a great job on that Our senior hall viper star of Cobra's late night show woof woof woof woof. You remember in the 90s You remember the 90s when everybody was going woof woof woof woof, you know all the time People will stop doing that and that's probably a good thing Yeah Thanks, I haven't thought about our our senior hall in decades. That's amazing Yeah, so like there was a Yeah Zim Zam. Yes, it had the same name as that TV series animal But they were no relation to that TV series it was Gijo people that transformed into monsters Rich is a Clevelander That's the that's a Cleveland Rocks. I hear the heart of rock and roll is there. That's what I heard I don't know. I could be wrong. That's that's what they say. Anyway What would they say yes man like Manimals did eventually get released but But not until like the year 2000 and they were a KB toys exclusive I did a review on them And they were they were a little bit different from the way they were Israeli designed. They were they were recolored But yes, they that was that was where Gijo was going when You know before it was canceled Somebody at Hasbro headquarters was Snorting an enormous amount of cocaine and Demanded that they have GI Joes that transform into monsters Get it done. He said and the toy designers were like, uh, we shall get it done, sir Here's a here's a Duke action figure that has a snake coming out of his crotch You like that. It's that good sir so Mind bungler What to see and look at this We got we got a tiger trainer And this does like If you watch that Joe exotic Documentary this this actually probably isn't that far off from reality And yet and yet not a member of Tiger Force so yeah, these These these didn't get chosen Heavens knows Heaven knows why not Let's see what else we got. Hold on this one. Oh, hello beta ray bomb. Thank you very much Any alternate codenames for raptor? That's a good question. I believe I do have raptor in one of these But not that one. Hold on Oh, there was yeah, no, I do remember there was hold on. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Not that one There it is. Okay. Hold on. I got it. I got it beta ray Bob you See here that here are Raptors alternate codenames a peregrine Doss and scree so congratulations beta ray Bob your your new name is scree Your new name is scree. It's not even name. It's a it's a noise It's a sound Tiger trainer looks like a luchador. Yeah, it does it a little yeah. Oh, let me go back to it Yeah, yeah, it did a bit didn't it? Yeah, I mean check that out check out that mask that's That is something Designed by Andre Corribanix that is a designer that I am not familiar with that's very interesting But alas, but alas no action figure came from it Thane says some has works ex wanted You walks in gi Joe after you watched return of the Jedi hammock convinced him to go with bikers Yes, that is correct Larry has told that story several times and you think about it for a second Think about like how easily influenced you are if you If you go in to see a movie And and you come out is like I gotta have that in my gi Joe it's a good thing you didn't go see strawberry shortcake You know who knows what we could have gotten But yes, and everybody everybody quiet down Diana's on a phone call Dave, thank you very much tiger trainer looks very similar to the wrestler tiger mask. That's I wonder It's a good point. I wonder if there's some inspiration there possibly. I don't know I'd have to look at the dates I don't know when exactly when that was done And I won't find out from this book because this is the wrong one. What do we got here? Hold on? That's that's the in the sandstorm So a sludge viper one of his alternate code names was Sludge slinger that sounds grotesque And we we did fresh air already I I don't So sky mate His alternate code names were digger jackaroo and dingo. I Think I think they should have gone with jackaroo You know what kid doesn't want jackaroo And Pathfinder, I mean what why couldn't Pathfinder be have been called whacker This like mom Go to the store for my birthday and get me whacker Let's see, but that's that's Yeah, armadillo. He lo was other than sand turtle Chris He lo was one of his alternate code names And I don't know let's let's I think we may have milked all the fun out of this one Wow that one's dumb All right blaster this this would be Battleforce 2000 blaster could have been prop wash prop wash could blaster Alternate code name prop wash because ball wash was already taken And We got Some of these are bad. Okay. Yeah, some of these are like I swear Then this is what I want somebody to ask Larry in a in a hard-hitting journalistic interview is Some of these alternate code names You just making stuff up that they wouldn't pick. That's what I think They're hilarious. I I'm not complaining. I'm getting much enjoyment out of them They're great But like and look I understand that You might catch a Hasbro executive on a day when they've just had too much coke And and one of these wacky ones get gets picked. I mean we ended up with skid mark, right? but like For example For example, I have no examples from that like I said For example By way of example Come on I have the whole audience is waiting for me to find an example squids like nine times out of ten Squids is not gonna why not calamari That's that would at least have been tasty That would have been get like instead of slug viper. We should have called them calamari with dip Delicious So yeah, so Most of the time I think you throw out some alternate code names like that That's probably not gonna be picked Yeah, I it was the 80s Let's let's be real and I am no in no way condoning any any such behavior No condoning any such behavior That look look what happens you come up with names like squid or Fresh air You know these are the hazards of drug use children stay away from Yeah, look you got it think of the children think of somebody Yeah, and one thing about about One thing about coke though is that mr. Carlson Thought of a really great Alternate for it use as foot powder apparently it works great as a foot powder This is where the idea of happy feet originated. I mean you end up with a monkey on your foot, but you know Hello armor Magnus. How do you do you just got here? Wow? You must be confused about what we're talking about we are We are We are talking about alternate code names and I'm I'm Pilfering them from these books by Dan Klien Smith But it's okay because I mentioned that Dan Klien Smith has the next two volumes of these books up on Kickstarter now if you'd like to get them so anyway Out of everything we've heard today what do folks think are was the worst alternate code names I think scree and fresh air are pretty bad. That's a fair question. That's a fair question Yes, I'll armor Magnus. We we we've gone through here for example Already did that example see In the pre-production phase These GI Joe characters such as sci-fi Had some other proposed code names that they did not choose For instance for sci-fi his proposed code names were hotspot or red light That they didn't pick those they picked sci-fi and some of these alternate code names are Are pretty darn silly But pretty pretty darn goofy So we've been we've been going through here for instance croc master alternate code name crawl with a K That's bad. That's pretty bad crawl needs to get at least one vote And so like for super chats, I've been giving people Alternate code names from these books that they have to live with for the rest of their lives and get their names legally changed So yes, that's that's that's what we're doing here because it's entertaining damn it But like some of these For instance doc does not have one That they like he's gonna be called doc You know why come up with other gung-ho did not have one according to this which book was gung-ho in he was in this way so gung-ho must have been chosen pretty early in the process as well because Gung-ho does not have one. Thank you Dave What was steamrollers alternate codename? Let me hold on steamroller was none of this one. Yeah, it wasn't this one 30 yeah, that's not it. No, I Can't count Steamroller that's steamroller He was the driver of the The Yeah, the mobile command center. Wow, I'm brain doesn't work steamroller's alternate names were Tank trap pig iron or Dozer Dozer now I do kind of like I do kind of like Dozer as short for bulldozer. That's not bad. That's not bad But doze also means sleep So that's not too great. It's hey. Oh, hey. Hello. Kujo. I didn't see you sneak in here Nice to see you Kujo always nice to see you. Thank you very much for joining us We are reading alternate code names for your GI Joe characters Some of them are pretty funny Not all of them, but some of them And I think we've read them almost all of them I See I mentioned this in my review of Of the phantom X-19 ghost writers alternate names were ghost wing Blipless no show silent night. That's night with a K slink with an E and Wraith wing Wraith wing is difficult to say There was a Joe named red spot in valor versus venom, which was a laser trooper. They must have used that then I'm not as familiar with value valor versus venom, but they must have reached back They must have reached back to those sci-fi alternate code names Why come on? Hey this if If if it has bro stands for nothing they stand for Reusing things as much as possible If you can Reuse something rather than coming up with something new that's always better That's that's that's why you get like some GI Joe characters have the same names as Transformers characters look then you don't have to come up with the new one You know time is money man So yeah But blip less Blipless So like I get it. Okay. He so he doesn't he doesn't make a blip on the radar So he's blip less But blip blip is a brown spot. Thank you Kevin But blip less is that's not a word first of all and And and if you if you were even to grant that it's a word, it's a dumb sounding word But anyway, yeah, I think I think I've exhausted I do have like I Have marked below is ultimate guide here. Oh, hey, that brings up something. I'm sorry tangent for just a minute I got time. I got time so tangent for just a minute Mark below mo who wrote the ultimate guide to GI Joe three volumes of it two of which I have where to put volume two Oh, I left volume two up there. I have all three volumes or additions not volumes but Anyway mark below mo who wrote these very popular guides He has not been on social media for like a year and Nobody's heard from him for a while So if you know mark below mo, you know in person personally People would like to hear from him Larry. Hama was looking for him was trying to reach him And he apparently is not answering emails Hello peep show menagerie. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here Really hope there isn't a Joe named red wings. Well, they should see this is what I'm saying That's the kind of name that hawk would give to one of these brown shirts when he has to come up with a name You know on the fly because he doesn't remember their actual names. That's too many So he just pointed at a guy Red wings, you know get on to choppa hawks alt code name Tweedy Well, he taught he taught putty tat Him and Kevin disappeared, yeah, we can't have these people disappearing on us Kevin vanished nobody's heard from him and Now mark below mo seems to have vanished and Is I don't know I hope he's all right, you know, it's In the age of the internet, we are more connected with people than ever but if our primary way of communicating with people is Online social media or email and if a person loses one of those connections like How do you reach people? How do you find people? Was the name Jody used in yeah one of the the trainees in whatever that issue was I can't remember the issue number but where they did the like the the training and oh the Of the training course of course the the the proving course for new Joe's And I think Jody was one of the guys who washed out pretty earlier pretty early. Yeah, below mo MIA Yeah, so if if anyone out there knows how to get a hold of mark below mo through any means other than email and social media People would like to know that he's all right People would like to hear from him if he's not All right, people would like to know that too So, yeah, please please reach out if you know how to reach him and let him know that you know people people are trying to People are trying to get a hold of him so Same if you know Kevin, however, if you know Kevin personally, we've probably already talked and so There probably isn't much point in asking anybody out there who knows Kevin personally to reach out to him because You probably already have but Kevin If you see this for me x257 we miss you a guy Hope to hear from you sometime But yeah, yeah That's To end this on a somber note, we had it such a good time didn't we we had such a good time until I decided To bring the mood down by talking about people who are missing People like Missing persons people You know, they're gonna like end up in one of those unsolved mystery shows That's the only way to find people now is to put them on an unsolved mystery show I did see it like a while back. I watched one of these shows where They were doing stories about people who are missing for a really long time But then they turned up and they were alive and they were living somewhere else and I'm like, hold on a minute hold on a minute That person wasn't actually missing That person didn't you know change their name or go into hiding that person just moved and Didn't and didn't tell anybody that's not the same thing as missing All right, that's not like vanished without a trace That's somebody who just moved to a different state And didn't leave their forwarding address That is not that's not an interesting story. That's it. That is not an amazing thing that they're found Alive years later. They didn't know they were missing They just they just moved Robert Stack is missing except he's dead. That's why he's not here. So I guess he's not really missing everybody knows exactly where it is The old Fiper names. Yeah, see though. That was fun. We had a good time. We're always laughing all of us Yes, so It's I got two minutes. I got two minutes guys I I have been pretty tired pretty exhausted, but I still look forward to doing this every week. This is this is the best Best time of the week. I always feel better, but but I am tired. I am I'm always tired now That's just a constant state of being right now but good Not bad. It's it's good But but but it's a good tired, but it's still a tired L Ron Viper. That's Hilarious Yeah We have a nice group here and everybody's got a really good sense of humor and I do appreciate it a lot I really do. This is why this is fun. This is why I enjoy this so much The caffeine viper. Oh, yeah that's gonna That's gonna be my alternate code name is the caffeine viper because that's all that's keeping me going Kevin pledge volume 9 and 10 Kickstarter So that is awesome. I am glad Thank you for reminding me again once again since I mentioned it earlier I'll mention one more time these books by Dan Klingon Smith Creating GI Joe who by the way, he's not sponsoring this He's not sponsoring this and also he's also not a guest on the show tonight because to have him as a guest on the show I would have had to come up with this idea More than five minutes before we started and as we established I don't do show prep So I'm not getting anything for this. I'm just saying these books These creating GI Joe volumes. This is volume eight Has a lot of pre-production material from the creation of figures and vehicles lots of concept designs Other things like alternate code names and stuff like that. It's a real treasure trove of information from the production side of The toys so I like them and There are two new volumes up on Kickstarter Which of course I didn't get the the link for because that would require a show prep Diana is back. Thank you for being back but Diana welcome back And now that you're back I have to leave because it is eight o'clock and I Cannot keep going because my voice will go out my voice will go out and I need it So I am going to say good evening, but thank you everyone. This has been a lot of fun Thank you Chris for the idea of the alternate code names really enjoyed it So what Davis Diana's mom says hi? Hello Diana's mom from the United States Thanks for for saying hello But I will say good night everyone. We will do this again next week and yeah until the next time Catch phrase that I don't think of right now So catch phrase before I leave and catch phrase when I come back So I'll I'll catch you guys on the catch phrase Next time so thanks everyone and I will say good night