Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 2002 release May. This one is done by Lucky McKee and that means written and directed by Lucky McKee. Now this is the first time I'm seeing this film. It's one of those films that's just been on my list for a long time. If you would be able to see my list of films I need to watch, it's insanely long. So there are a lot on there that have been there for a while and this is one of them. But I'm very glad I finally got around to it. Like I said written and directed by Lucky McKee, he's also done such films as The Woods, Red, The Woman, All Cheerleaders Die, Blood Money, Kindred Spirits, and most recently Death Sember. Which I haven't heard anything about Death Sember since it, I think it came out. It's the most recent one. Now I have to say this upfront at the top before I really get into the film, Angela Bettis did a wonderful job in this as the character of May. Her performance is great. You believe her performance. You believe that's who she is in this film is exactly who was scripted and it comes off very well. She also ended up showing up in Lucky McKee's film The Woman as well playing a character in that. So very cool that they were then able to work together again. There was initially a long introduction within this film of May as a child which ended up in the end being cut for what's there now because they felt like it kind of took the film a bit too long to actually get going. So things really got cut down. So what you see in the very beginning as the establishing information about who May is really mainly just to show how lonely she is and her relationship with dolls as opposed to human beings in the beginning. That was a lot longer at one point apparently. But I think whatever what they ended up shaving it down to. I mean obviously I didn't see what was there before but what they shaved it down to certainly plays well for me. I think it gives you the necessary information to understand who May is as a person starting everything out. It gives you all that backstory you need without giving you a lengthy amount of backstory to sit through. So I think they did a good job with that. The original scene of her meeting blank that's actually in the name of the character Duvall's character the guy who was also from Donnie Darko who had the Frankenstein tattoo on his arm and the wild hair. Originally May's introduction to him in the film when that happened she wasn't very like kind of cold and withdrawn. What she was is she was like angry and yelling at people as they walk by her in the streets. So I do think that's kind of a big difference change wise for the film because the way she was it made her seem more approachable how it was in the film versus how it was originally written where it would be probably a little bit less believable that blank would end up being interested in actually you know talking to her all that much or you know trying to go to her place. So May's level of being ostracized is very effectively shown in that beginning sequence you know not just because of the her whole eye situation which you know something like that when when it's a child and they have a big difference from all the other children like you immediately assume that there's an ostracization if that's a word. I do I know I do when I watch it in film because you know growing up as a kid that's what you experience whether it's you personally or you seeing it with other kids you know if there's something different like significantly different like the situation with May's eye when she's a kid that gets picked on kids are very mean and they do a good job of setting that up with this one. You can see after her eye appointment that May's mood actually gets very upbeat and hopeful it kind of sets the tone for where she is in a mental state to start with the film you get the backstory on how you know her how traumatic things have been for her and then you get an introduction into the story where she's actually at a high point especially like I was talking about after that eye appointment where it kind of like sets her eye straight so she's starting to feel a little bit more normal she's feeling more self-confidence more self-esteem and she just emits this upbeat attitude obviously from there it's this kind of very gradual deterioration that takes her all the way down to where we end up with where we end up being in the very end of the film. When the guy came into the vet talking about his dog missing a leg I actually thought May was going to end up having something to do with that missing leg now I don't know if that's actually what was going on there wasn't anything specifically that was in there but it was just another one of those hints I feel like at the parts aspect of the film because if you look at it there's a it focuses on parts a lot I mean the film begins with the falling baby doll pieces body pieces which is obviously a very strong indicator of where the film is going in the end but also it's a showing of the mindset of May herself because she thinks in terms of parts one of the things being she does because of you know the introduction of who she was as a child and how basically her friends were dolls in essence and she was making her friends literally making her friends as a child by making these dolls but also when you're seeing her interact with people within the film notice that when it's kind of from her point of view and she's interacting with people it's looking at specific pieces of the people it's not looking at the person as a whole it's like looking at their hand or their elbow or their or their entire head is actually one of them as well but just notice that it's focused on pieces just like she focuses on pieces of the dolls who were her friends so in real life all she knows is the pieces to look at of the human beings but that's also a foreshadowing of where things are going in the end of her taking those pieces that she's observing in these people and admiring of these people and throwing them all together to make a friend make friends yeah so anyway I'll talk more about that in a little bit when May starts rubbing her face on Adam's hand that's a clear sign to the audience that things are off for how withdrawn May is as a person that's an unbelievably odd move and bold move to be making out in public especially with someone you don't actually know yes she's been watching Adam for quite some time but he doesn't know her at that point so for her to just go up and start rubbing her face on his hand while he's kind of sleeping or trying to sleep is a very bold thing and that indicates you've already seen that she's pretty withdrawn she's very apprehensive about kind of approaching people and talking with people and she's awkward so you get that feeling something's not right here for her to take that bold step and start wiping her face on his hand because it's kind of like she isn't there mentally when that happens and then she kind of like snaps to when he catches her doing it the amount of time spent with May and how her personality unfolds really does endear you to her I found myself really rooting for her and wanting things to kind of go well for her in this film even when the weird things are happening even when you get the idea that things are going down the wrong road even when you know she's capable of killing people there's still something about the way her character is built and the things that happen to her and the things that you know you see of her personality that makes you still like her and make you still root for her and I think a lot of that actually has to do with the the roots in the loneliness of her childhood I also think it has a lot to do with the fact that there are a lot of people who have experienced kind of lonely childhoods like this or people who have seen people or know people who have experienced lonely childhoods like this so it is easy to see yourself in May a little bit or someone you know or are very intimate within your life so just saying the story may tells of the old man's dog having its guts but guts burst all over the place is a huge warning at this point it's an awkward scene and Adam seems to be freaked out while may is finding joy in telling this story that is just another one of those little breadcrumbs that's laid out throughout the course of the film of something's wrong but it's also part of the destabilization of of may as a person she's got it pretty well together she's keeping things together she wears this facade when she's interacting with other people but there are these cracks that show up in that facade and that story telling that story is one of those the facade has come down at that point she starts feel a little more comfortable around Adam so she starts being herself more and herself is what doesn't fit into normal society herself is what can't interact normally with other people and will scare those people away and you see that a little bit of a repulsion by Adam in that moment and that's just one of those moments that does that in the film specifically with Adam the overbearing nature of may moves up a level when she tells Adam she's never had a boyfriend then makes him feed her a chip that was dipped in salsa then takes his arm for him and puts it around her that is just another one of those moments I was talking about that kind of moves it up another notch moves it up another notch and is another warning sign that something is off here so honestly the fact that Adam keeps coming back as much as he does might not be all that believable within the context of the story with how many things are going on but that is tempered a little bit in the story was showing with when they show his his film project and kind of the decoration of the apartment he's living in because it shows you that he's a little weird like and maybe he's just attracted to that so that does temper it a little bit but prior to that you're kind of like I don't know if it's believable that this guy keeps wanting to see this girl because there's some very clear signs that she's off very unnerving when Adam uses the fake knife on May and she doesn't react negatively to it in fact it actually excites her and that's when she starts kind of like playfully making the stabbing motion with his hand on her and then doing it back to him as if it's almost a sexual thing in a sense and it actually does seem to be kind of a foreplay thing with her that leads to you know the kissing and then things go wrong because he's like where'd you learn to kiss what's going on so yeah I just found that interesting just another one of those indicators the jack and Jill video that Adam shows which is his project May thinks it's funny and and fun and I love when May says it's far-fetched that Jill got Jack's whole finger bit off in one mouthful that was funny I mean and there is a dark comedy that that carries throughout this whole film it's interesting because it's upbeat and fun and interesting and endearing and a very charming film but at the same time it's funny and at the same time it's disturbing and it's just like it's so many things rolled into one that the writing had to be exactly right to get all those feelings to go together and that's why I think it's it's a strong film when May kills the cat with the ashtray which I do not like by the way just because you know I'm a cat lover I have one it's indicating to the audience that she's capable of murder so most likely if a person is not next at some point a person will happen you know when little things like this happen in film that is supposed to be that indicator to the audience this person has just committed murder on some level they are capable of murdering a human being and obviously that's where it ends up going with multiple human beings the part with the kids crawling on the glass and taking the doll apart is pretty disturbing yeah especially with the music that they had of the little kids voice doing like the la la la that type thing that by the way whenever that shows up in the film that music is disturbing it's just disturbing it's one of those universally disturbing things that when there's music with kids voices like that it's always going to hit you that way pretty much I do think that particular scene doesn't feel super right just because it's off in the sense that the kids would not just crawl on the ground knowing that there's broken glass there and even when they start doing that they wouldn't continue so it doesn't feel realistic in that sense but to some degree it does feel like it's all in May's mind which to a degree maybe it is just in her mind at that point although you know the doll is all you know broken apart and she is covered in blood so I initially thought well this has got to be fake because the kids wouldn't react like this but I don't think it is within the events of the film so that doesn't feel super realistic but it's an effective scene nonetheless and like I said quite disturbing so I like it blanks line about it being so hot that he needs ice for his nipples made me laugh and I was watching this by myself so that is a big achievement this goes back to the dark humor thing actually that's not a dark piece of humor excuse me that's not a dark piece of humor it's just humor amongst the film filled with dark humor but that was hilarious she's like oh you got any ice for my nipples so funny it kind of fell out of place for a minute but it was just funny enough that you know I didn't really care May's comment on blanks uh Frankenstein's monster tattoo is a hint for where May is headed like I was saying just another one of those hints that shows you much like the doll parts in the beginning her obsession with sewing and patchwork and putting that together which her clothing is patchwork together as well it's all about taking pieces and putting it together the frankstein's monster tattoo the fact that when she looks at people she just looks at some singular parts of them all that stuff rolling together to indicate to you she will be making her own frankenstein's monster note that once May has decided to collect body parts her personality changes and she makes herself look like the doll that came with it was behind the glass she is now the doll and she's no longer awkward she decides she makes a confident decision at that point and she's back to kind of what she was in the beginning feeling very confident things feeling self-esteem at that point she knows what she has to do she no longer is interested in fitting herself into society she is interested in fitting a friend into her life which for her what makes sense is taking the pieces of people that she likes or pieces that she likes of people and putting them together into one person that she can like the entirety of instead of just a piece of that person because the entire time she's just liking pieces of people in the end she puts them all together to create the whole person that she actually likes granted they're not actually alive but yeah even when may tries to stop fitting into others people's lives and tries to fit them into hers she still is not seen and that's what happens in the very end you know even when she does take the steps to create her own person by taking all those body parts and sewing them together and then even eventually going to the length where she takes her own eyeball out and puts it on that person she put together it still doesn't satisfy what she's looking for because it's not alive because she wants to be recognized and seen by someone and a lot of people I mean a lot of people have been there like how often in your life have you felt like you want someone to recognize something you did or who you are as a person or how hard you worked doing this or doing that in life and no one's saying anything no one's looking at it no one's acknowledging you and this is getting to that in a much exaggerated way obviously but it speaks to something very human and something that a lot of people have experienced to varying degrees so I that's another part of why this film hits the way it does and why it's so important to watch I do think the end is drawn out a bit too long and the hand touching her at the end I think was very unnecessary I don't think you need that because obviously it's not alive I assume that was kind of a in her head type thing but it just wasn't necessary it wasn't needed I actually think the film plays a lot better if you don't move the hand at all in the end I think it's a much more powerful image if she just dies next to that Frankenstein's monster that she she has created after she takes her eyeball out just have her bleed out and die with it I think that's a better ending the film feels very much of the era of something like cruel intentions or clueless not just the feel of you know a person in the world trying to adapt and and being young but also kind of the look of it it looks from that era as well stylistically may is constantly commenting on parts of people like parts of a doll which is seen in scenes in the introductory sequence just another connection there also knows that a lot of shots done from a perspective are focused on just parts of people that's what she seems to be interacting with primarily the doll behind glass seems to be a representation of may trying to keep her darker self confined but as the cracks in the glass start to appear and become larger so do the cracks in her social facade and the cracks in her mental health and holding it together so notice that the the going between of her and the doll in the glass is really a showing of her mental state and her holding things together within society and as that cracks you see the cracks in her life and then once it shatters it all falls apart so I like that that metaphor in there overall the film has this palpable charm to it even when things are often disturbing some of that is probably from the real messed up dark comedy moments and another is due to the consistently upbeat soundtrack yes I was very interested to see to well sorry to see to hear that there was a really pretty consistently upbeat soundtrack especially for such dark material and as someone is devolving and just falling apart you would think it would have gotten darker you think it would have been more serious but it's not but I like that about it it really does work and I feel like it keeps you more engaged and it keeps you more it keeps you from getting too depressed about the film and viewing it in a more fun manner and taking it a little bit with a grain of salt from a young age people are people are told to make friends this is that piece of encouragement taken to a very ridiculous level obviously but it works it's done in a great way and I love that that was the premise for this film make go make friends how often were you told as a kid make friends go go outside make friends well may does that when she figures she can't get friends to be people to be her friends she's like I will make friends or make one friend this speaks greatly to being an outcast and desperately wanting to have others in your life a lot of people I know have probably experienced that at some point not just necessarily with wanting someone to be in your life but one individual person at some point in your life we're like oh it'd be really cool to you know be with that person boyfriend or girlfriend wise or be that person's friend but they don't have interests the the feelings are not reciprocated so this kind of takes that and and goes further with it real good directing in this and a pretty tight script that has really great pacing may slow falling apart is very gradual and it feels real for what the story is because it takes its time I love the pacing in this that is one of the biggest strengths with it and like I said really good directing and very tight script that's something that doesn't happen a whole lot there's so many films I watch and I'm like there's so much extra crap in this that needed to be cut out of the script and that is not the case here they at least if they had extra in the script they at least edited it down after the fact and made it a very tight story that works really well and has great great great great pacing so overall this is a very nice film it's not the best film I've seen I can't give it like a five star or anything like that in the end I was between four and four and a half it feels more appropriate at a four unfortunately but no if I was doing quarters it would be four point two five so four star rating for may really good makes me want to watch more lucky McKee stuff because other than this the only other lucky McKee I've seen was his entry in masters of horror with the well I don't want to ruin it you should go check it out actually just watch all the masters of horror it's awesome his is called sick girl and look into that it's it's a good time so would love to hear what other people have to say about this film may I know there are a lot of strong opinions I haven't heard anything and it said negatively about this film when I've talked to people about it so I'm assuming I'll get a lot of positive comments so go ahead and put those down there do me a quick favor though hit that subscribe button if you're not a subscriber I would really appreciate you just 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I enjoy agriculture because that's where I get most of my food. I have a variety of crops for the diet of my children to keep them healthy. My names are Joannis Matwengan. Clearly at the moment the Zambian food basket is challenged. People only think of the maize, the shima, with whatever they eat it with as the only food. My name is Dora Celia. I'm currently the Minister of Agriculture for Zambia. Food is an important part of an everyday life. It should be enjoyed. My name is Daisy Peary.  Sorry, cut. It was a deliberate government policy at that time. Both colonial and post-independence to introduce maize as the number one crop in the country. There was a feeling that everybody should just be eating one type of food in Zambia. Since we have grown up eating those things it is quite difficult to change. It gives you that feeling that you have eaten, you are full. It's quite comforting that feeling. And now we've realized that it's not just a threat to food security, but also to nutrition, which is the most important. In fact, my favorite words are that I don't want to be the Minister of Maize. I want to be the Minister of Agriculture in Zambia. Personally, I grew up in a rural setup where you find a very, very big variety of vegetables. The biggest thing I learned from my old man, he could do most of his business in gardening, which is fresh vegetables and the green maize. And he could manage to take us to school and keep his family well. So when I moved to Lusaka, you find the same kind of vegetables almost every day. We've realized that if the country is going to go forward in terms of agriculture development, but also in terms of nutrition, we have to diversify. My favorite meal is shima and the Chinese wrap with peanut butter. I like that because there is too much nutrition in that. Seconded by sour milk. So according to a particular season, you get plenty of certain vegetables and they become cheaper. So the market is really a challenge because we don't have the stable price. Sometimes you just cannot afford to buy certain things that you need to supplement your diet. We have to give the citizens a choice. We have to give them a choice in terms of access to food and in terms of nutritious food. My favorite meal would consist of beans. I love beans. I like a good cut of red meat. And I also like shima. The priority I want is to see what is on the table for the health of my family. I changed my diet drastically. I got my wake-up call when once I had gestational diabetes and high blood pressure at the same time. And that was quite a scare for me. When you have a variety of crops on the table, it means you are preventing some diseases in your body. It helps bodybuilding. So it will help your family. People need to be more sensitized about the variety of foods that they can take other than just eating shima. What do I eat? I eat potatoes.  I love vegetables. I love beans actually. I think beans could solve a lot of nutrition problems for our country. Personally I first heard the word crop diversification when I was about 13. I remember government always talking about it. But clearly it hasn't happened. The Everture system is helping us a little, not more. The majority are not benefiting. Except now we are having smart subsidies. We are giving the farmer choices. We are going to subsidize other crops. We are looking forward to see the government coming into assisting the farmers. Create markets for us. That's the only way the government can help the farmer. We are taking agriculture as business, but we are scouting for market. It's not talk. Let's have a roadmap. How do we really move this country from maize to cassava to rice to soga? When I look at my farm, the way I've done it, I'm really proud with a few. That's where my home now is. So food to me just means dignity. It means having access to life. It means wanting to provide a choice to somebody to have that access and choice of food for the betterment of their health. The practice of good nutrition begins with me as a mother and as a wife teaching my children how to eat a balanced diet and how to eat healthy. If they grow up with that, then even in the future I see a healthier nation.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2021 Prism Baseball, Celepac Break number 4-0, number 40, with the final 10 flawless baseball spots being given away at the end of the break. So there'll be two different dice rolls, one for the break, one for the giveaway apart. The break first, big thanks to this group for making it happen, I appreciate it. There are the teams right here, let's roll it, randomized names and teams, five and a three, eight times, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Good males here today. No trade windows in the filler packs, as most of you know by now, eight times the teams, one, two, eighth and final time, just as a public service announcement, for some reason the post office, now we had a bunch of shipments ready to go yesterday, but the post office did not pick up yesterday. So if you got tracking numbers from yesterday, probably be a day behind from what you would normally expect. There's the first half of the list, here's the second half of the list, but they're picking up everything yesterdays and todays. And that will be coming up, the flaws will be coming up in a separate video. And here's the final printout, hot off the presses, thanks everyone for getting in here on Tuesday the 12th. Hey, McClanahan, is he having a, a sigh young caliber season? This will go to Josh and the Rays. Here's some red, white and blues, some nice looking parallels there. All right, nothing too crazy there, but of course, the whole point of this is not what's in that pack, but who's going to win those flawless spots? Let's gather everybody's names again, top to bottom, new dice, new list. So it'll be the top 10, top 10 after seven will be in the flawless break, four and a three, seven times, one, two, three, four, five, six, and fingers crossed, seventh and final time after seven. So from 11 on down, sad times, not in the next break, but I appreciate you giving this a shot. Top 10 though, happy times for you, you're in the break. The next video, Ryan is in, Adam is in. And again, Steve Birch, Andy, Josh, Lonnie, Lonnie, Jack and Jack. Congrats to the top 10. We'll see you in the next video for the flawless break, jaskiescasebreaks.com.


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and I'm back with another vintage GI Joe toy review and this time I am getting started on one of the videos that was requested by a viewer. As you know if you watch my older videos I have asked you to let me know which GI Joe toys you would like for me to review and the first request I got was for the Dread Nox. In the GI Joe universe the Dread Nox were a motorcycle gang led by Zartan. There were three original Dread Nox, Buzzer, Ripper and Torch. I'm not going to review all of the Dread Nox in this one video, I'm going to review Ripper and Torch a little bit later so I'm going to set them aside for now so that we can look at my favorite Dread Nox, Buzzer. The introduction of a motorcycle gang in the GI Joe universe may seem a little bit strange. I mean it did take the GI Joe toy line in a non-military direction but I really liked it. I first learned of the Dread Nox through the comic books so when I saw the action figures on the shelves I was really jazzed and I definitely wanted to get them. Often when GI Joe introduced non-military elements it usually leaned towards science fiction and so I liked the Dread Nox as a way of introducing some other non-military aspects to the GI Joe universe without going straight sci-fi. It would be incorrect to say the Dread Nox were not influenced by science fiction because they do appear to be inspired by the movie Mad Max. Oddly enough the Dread Nox were a motorcycle gang that did not come with motorcycles. Later on we did get a toy Dread Nox cycle but it was kind of a three-wheeled vehicle and I'm not a big fan of it. They also did get the Thunder Machine which was a really cool kind of Mad Max style car and I did really like the Thunder Machine but again it's not a motorcycle. Let's take a look at Buzzer's accessories starting with his backpack and his backpack was actually two parts. You can see that mainly it's just a gas can and it fits on this rack by this peg, the hole in the back of the gas can and of course the gas can is hollow. I'm not a big fan of this backpack. Buzzer did not come with a motorcycle so he wouldn't have had a motorcycle to fuel up with this gas can and they may have intended it as fuel for his chainsaw but his chainsaw doesn't appear to have any place to put fuel in so it doesn't really work for that. I just think it's kind of useless. Buzzer came with his chain axe and this is actually made out of a pretty rubbery material and I really like that. I wish more of the accessories were made a little bit softer out of a slightly softer plastic that would have prevented breakage of some of the accessories and it probably would have prevented some breakage of the thumbs of the action figures as well. This chain axe is a crescent blade on a chain and a handle and it's got this chip in it which I think is a nice detail, just something that they added to it so it looks good. I don't think this would be a very practical weapon.  This chain axe looks pretty cool but really who cares? Buzzer is known for one accessory and one accessory only and that of course is his chainsaw. The file card says this is a diamond tooth chainsaw which is used to cut through metal and it doesn't look like any chainsaw I've ever seen. It looks more like a chainsaw that's been placed on the end of a gun. It's got this buttstock here. It doesn't seem to have any kind of fuel tank. It does have this handle on the side so he can use it too handed to cut through things. It does have some really nice detail and I like it. It is a really awesome looking weapon. I think that probably you couldn't really make a chainsaw like this but who cares? It just looks really cool. Let's look at the articulation of Buzzer and Buzzer came out in 1985 but he had the 1984 GI Joe action figure articulation which meant that he could turn his head from side to side. Now most figures that came out in 1985 had a ball joint at the neck so not only could they turn their head side to side they could also look up and down like Bazooka here but Buzzer and the other Dreadnocks did not have that new point of articulation. They still had the 1984 swivel head and that I think to me it means that these figures were designed in 1984 but not released until a year later. Another 1985 figure that still had the 1984 articulation was Tolbooth. As you can see he also has the swivel head but he like the Dreadnocks came out in 1985. Buzzer could move his arm up at the shoulder about so far and he could swing it all the way around. He could move his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees and he had a swivel at the bicep so he could swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside and allowed him to move at the torso a little bit. The O-ring on this action figure is a little bit loose which also makes the legs a little bit loose. He could move his leg up at the hip about 90 degrees. He could bend at the knee about 90 degrees and he can move his legs apart about so far. Let's look at the sculpt and design of Buzzer. First of all on his left arm he has a really cool tattoo that looks kind of like a dagger with a snake coiled around it. Making action figures with tattoos was a fairly courageous thing for Hasbro to do. This is not something that you would typically see in toys designed for children. Also on his left arm is this black band and his right arm is Bear. Yojo.com says that Buzzer used all unique parts but this right arm looks to me a lot like Gung Ho's right arm and they are so close to the same that if they are not identical they are so close to being identical that I cannot tell the difference.  He's got these silver sunglasses and he's got kind of a rubbery hair with a ponytail on the back and a very prominent widow's peak. Looking at Buzzer's chest he has a khaki shirt with the sleeves ripped off. You can kind of see the rips on the sleeves on the sculpting of the chest. He has a green strap with some green grenades and that does continue all the way around to the back. On this side he has some interesting pieces. It looks like he has US Army Airborne Jump Wings and this to me appears to be a Soviet officer's hat insignia and he also has some silver dog tags. Now these are not items that Buzzer would have acquired normally.  So these items I think tell a story. We don't know exactly where Buzzer got these but he must have gotten them through some kind of nefarious means. As I said the green strap does go around to the back and I really like that if you remember my review of Duke that was one of my knocks against that figure is that the strap kind of just disappeared but this one they actually got the back to match the front. Buzzer has a silver skull and crossbones belt buckle which I think is a very nice detail and a nice paint app. He has what I guess you would call a leather cod piece.  He's wearing blue jeans and on his thighs he has what I guess would be black leather armor and then on his feet he has some very nicely sculpted brown leather riding boots. Overall I think this action figure really looks great. I've always been a fan of the dread knocks. I love their biker gang look to them. He looks like he's something out of a post-apocalyptic movie. He's definitely very non-military which is a departure for G.I. Joe but it's not like he's wearing neon green or something. He still looks fairly realistic and he looks very unique. I love the dread knocks in general and Buzzer is my favorite. The dread knocks despite being a biker gang did not come with motorcycles back in 1985. But what you can do nowadays is you can go to your local toy store and get one of these 118th scale motorcycles and that is about the right scale to fit a dread knock. So you put Buzzer on there. Now I've found that using some sticky tack on the handlebars helps because his old vintage hands don't really like to fit over the handlebars but finally you can give Buzzer a motorcycle. So he looks like a proper motorcycle gang member. That's the way a dread knock should look. Let's take a look at the file card and Buzzer is another figure that has multiple versions of his file card. These file cards were printed on the back of the packaging that the action figure came in. You can see some of the front art of the packaging there and on the back these file cards were there. You're intended to cut these out and keep them. These four file cards represent three different textual variations and two different colors. So even though these are all file cards for the same action figure, they are all different. Let's start with the version of the file card that I believe to be the earliest version and this version says up at the top dread knock codename Buzzer and Buzzer is more of an alias than a codename. It has his portrait here and here down at the bottom it says the enemy and that's a little bit different from Cobra file cards. It would have a cobra symbol on here, but dread knocks are not technically cobra agents. They are independent. They are their own motorcycle gangs. So down here in the faction it just says the enemy. His file name is Dick Blinken in parentheses Richard Blinken Smythe and there's a bit of an inside joke with these dread knock file names. These are the file cards for the other two Ripper and Torch. If you put the file cards in this order and read the first names, the first names read Tom, Dick and Harry. And the last names read Winken, Blinken and Nod. Of course Winken, Blinken and Nod is a famous poem by Eugene Field. Back to Buzzer's file card, it says his place of birth is Cambridge, England, so he is British. This section says Buzzer was an extreme left-wing Cambridge sociology don who went to Australia to research the biker gang phenomenon only to be transformed into the very object of his research. A university don is basically a fellow or a tutor so Buzzer is highly educated in fact he is just short of being a professor. The fact that he went to Australia to research the biker gang phenomenon I think reflects the influence that the Mad Max movies had on the dread knocks. Years of intellectual displeasure caused repressed psychotic anger manifested in an intense desire to chainsaw apart the expensive giegos of technological society. Giegos is another vocabulary word for today and what the word means is basically something that is gaudy or useless. It doesn't say exactly what kind of extreme left-wing ideology Buzzer ascribed to he could have been a left anarchist or a communist but like many extremists in the political spectrum he found himself disillusioned with society and when that happens it can sometimes manifest in destructiveness. This bottom section has his specialty and MO and it says here that MO stands for modus operandi which is Latin for mode of operation. A scavenger of the swamps Buzzer can cut through steel, wrought iron and any metal except armor plate with his diamond tooth chainsaw. After this first version of the card they actually changed the text of this section here and the second version of the card had the changes of the text applied with this sticker and this is really strange it's the only time that I know of where they changed the file card by slapping a sticker on it you can even see the old text here under the sticker. This version still has him going to Australia to research the biker gang phenomenon but instead of repressed psychotic anger it says years of intellectual displeasure and extreme indignation at society's two-faced morality manifested in an intense desire to chainsaw apart the expensive yegaw's of technological society. I'm not certain about the reason for this change but I suspect they wanted to eliminate this reference to repressed psychotic anger and that may have had something to do with Zartan's file card which referred to him as an extreme paranoid schizophrenic and outrage over this line caused them to change the text on Zartan's file card and I think maybe they wanted to remove this psychotic anger essentially it's not a bad idea if gijo file cards stay out of the psycho analysis business changing the file card to avoid pop psychology may explain the first change to the file card but not the second change this one has a new text up here at the top instead of going to Australia to study the biker gang phenomenon this has him going to Australia for a short respite only to find himself one year later transformed into a vexated wanderer the rest of this version of the file card matches the second version and this change is a little bit harder to explain I really don't know what the purpose would be to change him from researching the biker gang phenomenon to just becoming a vexated wanderer it's the text from this third version of the file card that was transferred to the fourth version this is essentially the same file card but it has a gray color instead of the original peach color of the old file card the file card depicts buzzer as being one of the most interesting characters in all of the gijo universe he's definitely one of the most complex and multifaceted characters he is highly educated in fact his education level puts him somewhere between airborne who is a lawyer and doc who of course is a medical doctor that's what makes buzzer my favorite dreadnought he's not just a criminal with an appetite for destruction there is some intellect to him there is a philosophy behind his actions and that I think makes him exceptionally dangerous he's a highly intelligent individual but he is not limited by any moral philosophy that would stop him from destroying property and killing other people that was my review of the dreadnought buzzer I will be looking at the other two original three dreadnoughts ripper and torch and future videos and I hope you'll stick around make sure you subscribe because you don't want to miss those videos if you like this video there are three things that I want you to do first make sure you like this video on youtube second make sure you subscribe to the hooded cobra commander 788 youtube channel and third go to facebook and like the hooded cobra commander 788 facebook page that way you get a lot of updates that you don't get on the youtube channel and one more time if there's a vintage gijo toy you would like for me to review make sure you leave a comment and I will get to it as soon as I can thanks for watching and I'll catch you all later


I've been playing around with my little slayer, my little slayer excited coil and I've always had it running on just one of these tip 35C transistors and so I just wondered what it would be like putting two on and having them in parallel and so that's what I've done. Now what you're going to do really is just double these up in a way your collectors would be. Just join them both up on the coil bases, both of them join them together and the emitters you just have to put a couple of resistors on really low low emitters resistors. I think they're like a naught point I think it's three three something like that on each of the emitters just to make sure that it equally distributes the current usage between the two transistors. So and I've just got the end of the capacitor there just pushing it in there's another capacitor there with these capacitors on it just gives the just a little bit more pump. I mean you know don't expect too much of it all I'm doing really is just sharing the load down here which I thought was quite a good idea so I'll start turning up the voltage. Now I've had to turn off my computer and everything to do this because one thing I've noticed is while my computer just wouldn't start up again when I had it on someone and what it's going to do to my phone there you go it's got a bit of a break out and that's at three amps on 13 volts there 14 volts but I take my hands away you have no idea what's going on that's an old transistor I'm not an old transistor I mean it's an old style transistor but it was one that came through the post but it just didn't work so it's just being used for this so I'll turn that up a little bit some power and of course the absolute maximum for that 635 is five amps there just sat down there doing that I've got a bit of a bit of fan on there there's two 12 volt fans in the series I don't think it performs as well as just one because this is the basic setup still I have changed the color of the LED I've changed the resistor and I also tried with the variable resistor in there that's a 50k resistor but I set it off on around about 4.2 4.6 and it's there it's there that it works any more resistance than that it's not really making a big difference but any less resistance and that and it just shuts the circuit off so you know that's the only difference I could find with that if I try different capacitors I can get a slightly less you know less sort of powerful up here it's not really coming out that long in length it's more it does seem quite powerful but it doesn't it's not like when there was one you know on my other videos where I've got this exact same setup part of my haven't got two transistors parallel and it actually seems like it works but like you get better output now I've used a single loop here as well because I get well I draw more current definitely if I admit I'm gonna probably join about between four four five and just over five the normal one that I put on but I've tried these over there as well oops say goodbye to Ariel I've tried these and the more turns that there are there's two three and four turns and one turn actually around it and the more turns I use the more current the less current I use um which is great but I was just trying to see if I could get these to run above five amps for that plane and of course it does well that's a bit warm I'll say it's just one one bit of white again around the primary coil you can see here really I'm trying to see if there's something else I can put on top um so I'm a little bit better I'm just what have we got here I can use and just start turning it up first that's because the chances are I've nested this I just popped it here for a second it's a little bit temperamental it's just a little bit temperamental because I haven't screwed any of these and you know I've just been pushing them in and just trying them out just that's nearly two amps that little tiny bit there needs my fang a bit man so it's not really you know as good as uh I don't think it is anyway I'm lost the amplitude of the amount of it oh there's my camera's in my own zoom there we go I wasn't oh I don't know if it was me it could be me my thumb's right by wherever yeah the thing would be to do that I did have a bolt earlier I had a bolt on top that was quite good I don't know what I've done with it I didn't know what I've done with it oh I wonder what can happen if I could stand the coin on its side I think that would just probably have all the coins I could try this with if it's probably the wrong coin probably find out it's got roundy edges or something ah here it is I'm just going to hold it up I've got to turn off my computer and disconnect it from the mains and hopefully I'm going to turn it back on again it'll work it's not me doing the zoom it's the I think that's an LED that's stuck to the but it's not really doing a great deal is it it's not really uh extra power 5.5 amps when it goes up to 6 when I go near it I don't know you should just ignore it it's just because I'm connected to it just a bit of a pain I'm going to turn my back up again now it's going to make me want a bit of a scene there we go we got it now of course we've got no break up now I'm going to try and see what it's like to just point itself what I see is this it's sort of snappy the other one and I've seen that I'll follow as well about 5.5 amps and just turn it as high as I can take it something went pop I presume that's something to do with the inside of my power supply but we'll have to figure that out that's quite warm there it did sound like the sort of clunk noise came from over here over that way so it'd be interesting to see how warm we got there yeah it's pretty warm I don't want to keep my hand on it for too long because that's pretty warm oh this is what we do didn't we we're going to push it to find out how these things are going to work or not so let me just see if we've got like that's same we've got no output on here so I'm going to suggest that the trouble that I've got then is inside here somewhere that's all right gives me reason to go in the back and do a failed fix but so yeah okay can have careful how you connect your stuff off but it does you know it does it does work these transistors will be fine and it means you know you can put that a little bit extra power through just don't push your power supplies too far but we'll get that figured out you know see you guys watching bye


Hi there. My name is Ryan Van Duzer. I'm born and raised in Colorado.  And speaking of my bike, here it is. It's a hardtail mountain bike with front suspension. We've got 110 millimeters up here. I actually designed this bicycle with my friends at priority. It is called the 600X and it is a low maintenance adventure machine. What makes it really special is right down here. This is called the Pinion Gearbox. All the gears are enclosed and protected from the elements. Attached to that is the Gates carbon belt drive. It's not a typical chain. This thing never needs to be lubed and it lasts three times longer than a regular chain. That is my baby right there and oh yeah we've got a dropper post for the technical stuff. Okay it's all packed up. The next trick is getting a heavy bike down my stairs. There we go. This is gonna be what it's like on the Colorado Trail. Up and down steep sections hike a bike. Goodbye beautiful boulder.  How do you feel about that mom? I'm used to it. All right there it is the official start. Durango's that way. I love you so much. Love you too. You be really safe. Love love. That'll be the theme of the ride double love. Perfect. It is so hot. This water feels amazing. It was nice to cool off but boy this is tough. There's no doubt about it. Jungle going through the Colorado jungle here.  An hour from my house. All right I stopped because I want to show you something. I've climbed about 2,300 feet. My elevation is about 7,500 feet and I'm getting to the top of the trees and I have some views. Look at this. Look at that beautiful mountain across the way. That is pretty sweet. There's the Platte River. Pretty cool. I've been sucking down water because it's so hot today.  Pedal, pedal, pedal. That's been my mantra ever since I started riding bikes. Even when it's hard just pedal even if you're going super duper slow you're moving forward and then sometimes walking is the best option and that's okay too. But man it's a little easier to pedal when it's so beautiful. Everybody told me how stunning this ride would be and it's already stunning and this isn't even supposed to be the spectacular part. I love my state and there it is. My camp spot for the night. Looks nice and flat.  I think I'm finishing just in time. There's a little bit of thunder happening right now. I went 28 miles. I feel pretty good about that. A little half-day action. It is 7 30 p.m. It's Friday night.  I'm a little bit tired but what a great first day. Day one Colorado Trail in the books. Buenas noches. Thank you beautiful piece of flat ground to sleep on. Time to go that way. All right the Sun is shining. There are no clouds in the sky. It's nice and warm but I think it's gonna be cooler today overall.  Sabado gigante. Sometimes you just gotta stop and admire the flowers and this is a good one. It makes me very happy. It's the Columbine, the Colorado State Flower and it always reminds me of my mom. It's her favorite flower and she has them all over her garden at home and it makes me really happy knowing that I get to ride this beautiful trail for another 10 days or so. That's an overload of beauty. We're gonna see if I can handle it. I think I can but wow I'm feeling very fortunate. So besides having the GPS downloaded to my Wahoo which gives me turn-for-turn directions. I also have it on my phone in an app called Gut Hook and it's really cool because it has all these landmarks on the app and you can just touch something and it says seasonal stream and then hikers can go by and leave comments to say if it's you know still legit or not moderate flow filled water here and it gives the date so that you know that you might have some good water sources coming up. It's pretty cool. I'm impressed with all this technology these days. So I've seen a ton of hikers out here. Way more hikers than bikers and I just ran into this nice guy named Stan who's done the Colorado Trail five times. What inspires you to do this? Well I drive a truck for a living and every two or three years I get like 30 pounds overweight and I come out here for diet and exercise and it works. So I come out here my first year and I met all these nice mountain bikers and they're really great people and I decided I wanted to do that.  I would literally go off the side of the trail. So now I've got a Gary Fisher 29er stored in my upstairs bedroom that's only been rode about 40 miles so I stick to hiking. Well I wish you all the best it was great to meet you. Nice meeting you too. Yeah cheers. So bikes can't ride on all of the Colorado Trail. There are six wilderness areas where you have to go around it and so I'm on the first one the Lost Creek wilderness bypass and it's a nice dirt road. I don't know exactly how long it is but I think it's fairly long so at least it's chill no cars on it yet but I already miss that beautiful single track. So what I'm loving so far about this trail is that there's water all over the place so I don't have to carry a ton which makes my bike load lighter and so usually I get to a little stream fill up the bottle, filter it, chug a bottle and then fill up another one for the road. You know I can't pass this up. Oh that feels so good. Today's stream is a lot colder than yesterday's but it feels so good. It's another hot day it's like my computer says 90 degrees and now it's time for the main event we've got pizza and I am so excited. Thank you so much you're the best. You've been taking good care of me. Yeah so the stage stop is not only full of people eating and drinking. There are a pack of bike packers here and they are unique. Where are you all from and how old are you? So I'm Henry, I'm just turned 18 and I'm from New York City. New York City where else we got? 17, we're all 17. We're all from North Carolina. North Carolina. What inspired you to do this? I was like I kind of got into biking a year ago or so a lot of road biking and during quarantine just wanted to do a big trip and I got these kids to join me so we're having fun. So we all decided since we're going the same way and it's the end of the day we're gonna camp together right? Yeah. I like it. All right we're riding with the crew now. The wolf pack! I don't think we could have asked for a better camp spot. I can't believe it's not taken but what a wonderful end to the day. Yes man it was a tough day. I rode 74 miles with 8,000 feet of elevation gain. That's a lot and I'm gonna have to get used to that because that's probably gonna be my daily average 8 to 10,000 feet of elevation gain. It's gonna be fun to hang out with these guys tonight and just chat. You know it's been a long time since I've hung out with 17-year-olds. All right who can do it the fastest? Oh no! Go! Go! Go! It's a good shot. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. Good morning. It is a lot colder today and now it's time for the frozen Nutella Peanut Butter Tortilla Wrap Breakfast extravaganza. Well it's fun camping with you guys you guys have a good one. Best of luck down the road. Same goes for you. You're gonna have a great time. Bye bye! Adios! Nos vemos! Here we go another day in beautiful Colorado Paradise. Today I will head back on to the Colorado Trail in about seven miles be done with this wilderness detour and I'm excited about that you know as much as you can crank out miles on these detours. I came here for the single track and guess what? It's time for a little bit of no crashes no flatties no whammies. It's gonna be a beautiful Sunday. I can feel it.  That's how I feel right now. That's how I feel most of the time but especially when I'm on a bike trip. The days out here are just so spectacular in every way. This is when I feel most alive when I'm on my bike all day and sleeping under the stars and just loving life to the max. Oh baby! Feels so good to be back. We are cruising! Look what I found. It's my lucky sage. It smells really really fresh. So here I am riding along and I see a cute dog. Henry bring me the stick. Bring me the stick buddy. Yeah! Give me that stick. And yeah! What's it like to hike with a dog? He's such a great companion. I can talk to him the whole time. The thing I say most often is Henry wait. Wait Henry. Henry wait. Because he gets too excited? Because he's so far ahead of me and I don't want him to run into a bear.  Good for the soul to play with a little doggie. Trail dog. Looks like he's coming with me. You coming with me Henry? All I can do is smile. So here I am daydreaming amongst the Aspins and I run into this group and I'm like on your left and I go by they're like Ryan Van Dooser! How you going? Good! Nice to meet you. Tell me your story a little bit. I just discovered you accidentally on YouTube. Next thing you know I was on my bike every day lost the final 40 pounds lost a total of 115 pounds and and we're now vacationing in Colorado doing hiking. Yeah I love it. It used to be on the couch. And what do you love most about this new found life of being outdoors and stuff? It's a mood lifter. Yeah that's exactly what it is. It's like if I'm indoors. Yeah. I'm depressed. I have to get outside. It's a desperate need to get out. I didn't have that before. It was so wonderful to meet you. Nice to meet you. You just made my heart happy. Thanks for being patron supporters. Oh yeah? Yeah I love it. We talked about going to Boulder to actually try to run into you. Yeah. And because we get a cup of coffee. No not coffee a burrito. A burrito. More beautiful Aspins. I am in heaven. Oh God that was sketchy. I don't think I've ever seen so many Columbines in one place in my life. Whoa. Way to go Colorado. Your flowers are awesome. I like to see this trail magic. Hello. How's it going? Very good. You're lucky you're like the number two person for the day. Oh really? We got hot dogs, we got quesadillas. Are you kidding? What's your name? I'm Luke and my friends call me Buss. What's up Buss? Nice to meet you. What's your name? Alina or Abstract. So great to meet you. This is amazing. This is amazing. I love it. Oh man that looks good. I gotta go. Luke thank you so much for this quesadilla. You're the man. Oh it's so nice to have some hot food. Have a good one. Keep on spreading the love. So these cameras never give you a real good idea of how steep things are but let me assure you this is very steep. I'm gonna be going up to 12,000 feet. I think I'm at about just under 10 right now. So I've got a ways to go. Water wasn't so bad. Top of Georgia pass almost 12,000 feet and it is beautiful up here. There's really like not any clouds in the sky. Oh my favorite park. Time to go downhill.  So fun. I'm loving this. Can't go through that. Here I am on a busy highway and my brother is nice enough to come and pick me up. I'm five miles outside of where he lives in Silverthorn and then tomorrow I will start right back there. It is time for special summer tradition making. Sticking. Perfectly smored. Thank you so much man. I love you brother. Good seeing you. Love you too. Have a good day. Have fun. Enjoy your ride. Alright this is where I left off yesterday. So grateful that my brother came and got me and took me to Silverthorn and what a wonderful night we had. Family time is always good for the soul and now it's time for some mountain time which is also good for the soul. It's a beautiful morning. Now that is a serious uphill. I'm gonna try to ride some of this but boy is it steep. I'll be lucky to go 10 miles today. I've been doing this for four hours and I'm getting close to the top. Now I really feel like I'm getting close to the top. It's right up there somewhere. Hopefully soon. I pushed my bike way more than I rode it this morning. I've gone eight miles total in four hours and you know what I was thinking about the whole time? This right here. This is a nutter butter and I got it from my brother and when I was a kid this was one of my favorite treats. My mom used to always buy us little Debbie snacks for our school lunches. Time to go down. This is steep. God. Terrifying. This is why I have a dropper post so I can get way behind my bike to keep my weight backwards so I don't flip over but that doesn't always work. I already flipped over once and did a nice little face plant with my GoPro. Seems to still be working and luckily I didn't get hurt but I need to be careful out here. You know what's great? This is all Copper Mountain Resort and the Colorado Trail is literally right there. So crashing your bike is always scary. Luckily I am okay. Completely okay. What's not okay is the GoPro. Look at that thing and I'm very thankful that I crashed near Copper Mountain because I just went into this Camp Hale Outfitters right here and bought a new GoPro. It's a bit of a bummer. That's a $500 whoops but this is what I do for a living. I want to make sure that I give you high quality video and I mean this one kind of works but I just didn't know if it was gonna last the rest of the trip so I played it safe and I got a whole new GoPro. This is a very nice bit of trail here. I have the soothing sounds of a little creek on my left. Wildflowers everywhere. I don't have to hike my bike. Super super steep stuff. I was a little clumsy. A little bit more hike. Hike a bike. So close to the top. So close. Getting it. That golden sunlight is popping through. It's the magic hour on top of the pass. Not bad. Gotta take advantage of this high altitude snow melt water. It's like the elixir of life. Magic water. That guy right there. You know what that is? It's called a marmot and they only live at high altitude and they just they're pretty friendly. They just kind of cruise around and make funny little squeaky noises. They look kind of like beavers I guess. They're really kind of my favorite little mountain animal. All right we're calling it good. This is the buzzer. Badoom! Coco Mo Pass. What a view. I really need to get out of here. No more camera time. Bye. So this is really special. Where I'm camping tonight where I just magically wanted to stop because I was tired and the sun's going down is a place called Camp Hale. And Camp Hale is where the 10th Mountain Division trained in the Army. And the 10th Mountain Division were the winter warriors. The guys that would ski and they trained them to fight in the Italian mountains. And this is where they did all of their training. And my grandpa was an honorary member and he spent some time here as well. He was too young for the actual for actual World War II. But he spent time here training for the Olympics in the Biathlon. Can you believe that? My grandpa is an Olympian. Isn't that so cool? And this is where they trained. And I feel connected to my poppy. Look who came to say hi. Hey buddy. Thank you Camp Hale for providing a safe place to sleep last night. I felt you poppy. Here we go. I'm about 20 miles from Leadville. Gonna keep on going past Leadville and see where I get. I have no idea. These days are kind of crazy. Alright here we go. Back on the Colorado Trail roller coaster. Up and down and up and down. I cannot tell you how happy I am and grateful for this nice smooth trail today. Oh I needed this after yesterday. And I know it'll change very soon. It'll be hard and I'll be hiking and grunting and all that. But right now so smooth like butter. It was good to sit down. Got my daily greens. Restocked on tortillas, cliff bars. Got some beans too. I love this town. It's an old mining town. It's the highest city in America at ten thousand two hundred feet. And I love the old buildings. Got a lot of charm here. Alright back on the Colorado Trail and back to the up. You know those wilderness detours are great for cranking out miles. But I have to say I like being on the trail a lot more. I feel so good. Little mid-ride happy day. Feeling good today. And I'm eating a sandwich. I didn't expect any tunnels on the Colorado Trail. Short and sweet. Right in time for thunder and lightning. Look at the view. You know what one of the best smells in the world is wet sage. And I'm riding right through a whole field of sage. It smells so fresh. I know you can't smell it out there. But if you ever get the chance do it. I call this biker high. You've heard of runners high. Right now I was biker's high. I'm surrounded by beauty. Not only sage but look at these mountains. That's crazy. This is a real deal rainstorm. I kept thinking nah it's not gonna do anything. No it's not gonna do anything. Yep it's doing something but luckily I got my waterproof pants and my jacket. I'm cozy. I'm all good. And the sound of the rain is kind of nice. This is pure magic right here. This is what you call hero dirt. The rain comes through dampens things down. The trail becomes tacky and your tires have really good traction. Mountain bikers love this stuff. I've been kind of lost in the trees with my head down just powering up hill and I came around the corner and whoa mama look at this. Man. Woo yeah. I love you mother nature. Yeah into the left. That view is pretty good too. I am now on another beautiful detour. Nice dirt road smooth fast pedaling and I have about 15 miles until the town of Buena Vista or as the locals call it Buena Vista. You just went on a search to look for camping. Yeah pretty wet out there pretty wet out there pretty dry right here so I'm happy that I'm back here but we're pretty much very visible right now to the police that apparently don't want us camping here. And Jeff found a dugout here at the local baseball diamond. Alright here's our home for the night. I'm just gonna do this. Hopefully it's warm enough. So this is not how I thought this night would go but you know it's an adventure and we're cozy and we're dry. It's seriously raining still out there so very grateful to be in this dugout and I hope nobody messes with us tonight. Wait I'm not just good morning from our beautiful hotel called the dugout here in lovely Buena Vista. So the mountains I'm looking at right now are called the collegiate peaks. They are all 14,000 foot mountains and I have to admit I'm a little nervous about these next four days. Everybody has told me that it's very hard and there's no resupply. I don't think I've ever been on a tour with four days of no resupply. It's about 200 miles from here to Silverton. Beautiful in here. Tell you what. So I was focused on not falling into the creek and then I see this woman ahead of me on a bike and it's Liz. What's up? How you doing? So what are you doing out here? I originally started out to do an FKT northbound and it's turned into an FFS northbound. What does FFS mean? Can I say it? Sure. For f**k's sake. Okay gotcha. I've been walking my bike for three days straight. I ran out of food a day ago. I got rained on, spent the night in a pit toilet last night to stay warm. It was actually pretty nice and hopefully get to Buena Vista and get real food. So what am I looking at going up this way? It's just gonna keep getting rockier and rockier and rockier and rockier until there's so many rocks that you'll be walking for a long time. Yeah! I wish you the best of luck my friend. Boom! Meaning rocks. Back to hiking and boy my legs are feeling it. Six days of hard pushing and yeah they're tired. The whole body's tired. Stopping and checking out the flowers always just calms me down a little bit. Just brings the blood pressure down. I think this is the quietest moment I've had in a long time. Not just on the trail but in life. No wind, no airplanes. Thank you Tree for blocking 90% of the rain. I'm gonna hang out here for a little bit. It is raining pretty hard out there. Thank you Tree. I came around the corner here and I could hear something in the distance and there's a pack of dogs going nuts. Maybe it's chupacabra. I have no idea but it sounds kind of haunting. At my legs every day they get a little bit more trashed. This is the gold standard for beans. I have been dreaming about these beans all day. I'm starving. It was a hard day and he's gonna make it so much better. It says here there's about 3.5 servings per container. I don't think so. More like one serving. You know how fast I fall asleep after a day like today? This fast. Buenos noches. I'm put on wet shoes. My favorite. Thank you freezing cold campsite. After big adventures like this I always come home with just a very open heart. These adventures crack me open. Physically, emotionally, everything. And I think about all the beautiful things in my life. Family, friends, my town, my community. I'm so grateful. So incredibly grateful for what I have and that I have the ability to go out and do something like this. The opportunity to take time off because not everybody has that.  But this is just I'm so fortunate. So fortunate. It is a huge learning experience every time I do this. And I really feel like it makes me a better person. A more caring, kind, loving, humble person. It might be hard but you got to stop sometimes and look around and be like damn. This world is beautiful. Oh boy. Oh boy. And then you get to the top of a mountain and all is right in the world. All the hard work pays off. Oh I'm so happy that the sun is out today. Man it makes me feel good. What is this monstrosity in front of me? It looks like they put rocks on the trail just to make it harder. My legs are so tired. So tired. This hill isn't even that bad. Oh my god. My heart doesn't pump this hard in a long time. Good thing I got a strong heart. Strong lungs and I think I have strong legs. Although I'm second-guessing that right now. This is a technical one. And sometimes when it's so rocky you have to walk downhill. Remember I'm alone and I want to eat it and hurt myself and be out here in the middle of nowhere. So we take it the safe way. My mom would be so proud of me. It's a boulder field. Man this is insane. This is crazy. There's something about Aspen trees. They just calm me down a bit which is what I need right now. I'm on edge. I'm like I gotta go. I gotta go. Gotta make miles. This hurts. This is hard. Ah do I have enough food? Do I have enough water? You know. But being here in this grove. It's chilling me out. My goal today is to beat the storm. I don't want to get wet again. All my stuff is still wet from yesterday. So once again I'm struggling along. Just looking at the ground. Pounding out miles and I see a couple of hikers. They're doing the CDT, the Continental Divide Trail which is the real big mama. And this is my new friend OT. How you doing bud? I'm doing good. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. So tell me your story a little bit. You've done a lot of big stuff. Well in 16 I retired and four days later started the Appalachian Trail. And before I did it I hadn't done an overnight backpacking trip. Didn't even own a backpack. What inspires you to do this? And what inspires you about being out here? That the Lord led me to do these trails because there's a lot of veterans on them. A lot of young kids with holes in their heart that are looking for direction. And I just come out to encourage them. Because if I can do this in my old age what can they do as young people? And you're an incredible human.  This is great. It's a pleasure to meet you. It's amazing you guys can ride a bicycle through all these rocks. Well I'm not riding all that much. I've said it many times on this trip so far but when I meet people like that guy OT snaps me out of my pity party pulls me out of my little funk where I'm just like ah it's so hard but then I meet somebody like that hear their story and it just inspires me. There's a lot of wonderful people out here and it's cool to be connected to them all. Is this the last hill? Never the last hill. Especially not on the Colorado Trail. So on most of the Colorado Trail there's water aplenty. Like I haven't even had to think about it until today the section I'm on called Sargent's Mesa is a little light on water filling up at this little little creek right here because I've been out of water for probably two hours. So just like on the Discovery Channel when you see animals flocking to water so do the hikers and I just met this nice Cajun guy from Louisiana. What's your story my friend?  I'm 64 years old from the Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I got about two weeks left and then this is it. No more hikes this is it. Say two. No more. No more. What other hikes have you done? I've done a couple of but done the 18 and done a couple of ones but this is it. This one's doing me in and after this it's about the grandkids. Go Tigers. Go Tigers. Cheers. How about one last super steep downhill to finish the day? It's time. Gotta be careful. This is some steep stuff. Yikes and loose rocks. Lots of loose rocks. Oh yeah this is steep. Oh buddy. Another day on the Colorado Trail. Three quarters of today was really hard for me. I just wasn't in my groove. I think it might have to do with waking up really early and it was super cold. Like the first hour and a half of riding my fingers were numb and I was just uncomfortable. When I'm cold I just I just don't feel right. I like warm weather. I was having a hard time just enjoying it and it kind of makes me sad. It's like I'm out here to enjoy the moment and really love this but it's so hard.  Can you believe I only rode 41 miles today and I started at 6.50 a.m. and ended at 7.50 so 13 hours on the bike and 40 miles. 7,000 feet of elevation. So needless to say I'm very excited to sleep and do it again tomorrow. I got in kind of late last night. Didn't quite notice that I am camping amongst Kapu. This is the cow pasture. Let's see if I still have battery. Okay buddy let's go for another ride. No crashes, no flaties, no whammies. Today in about 10 miles I'm gonna hit La Garita Wilderness detour. This is a good way to warm up in the morning pushing up a steep hill. So I'm cruising down this hill and I see a sign that says trail magic ahead and I'm like I hope they're open early in the morning and they are. Look at this. Hello. What has inspired you to do such a wonderful thing? Well my husband and I hiked the trail last year and we had some trail magic and we just thought you know it would be really nice to pay it forward. And what are you making here?  Hot cocoa. A little Swiss mess. I'm so excited for this doughnut. Cheers everybody. Cheers. Goodbye patches. Thank you so much. You are wonderful. Thank you. Bye everybody. See you later. Oh man. Well I feel really good now. Alright here it is La Garita Wilderness detour. The actual trail goes that way. Bikes are not allowed. So I'm going that way. And it's about 55 miles I think of road riding. Dirt roads at least. So it should be fairly fast. No hike a bike. Yes. Feels good.  Now I'm gonna dry off as I ride uphill for a long time. So this is Colorado. It was hot and sunny 20 minutes ago when I jumped in the river. I found a great place to hide from the rain. Not very roomy and it doesn't smell good but I'm dry which is very nice. I sometimes wish I could read the future. At least the very near future. If that were the case I would not have jumped in freezing cold water 20 minutes ago. So I heard quite a ruckus about half a mile ago. I thought it was chainsaws off in the forest. Nope. Hey guys. How's it going? This is quite the scene. This looks doable. Some nice grass. It's pretty lumpy but built-in air mattress. This is the inside of my tent. Look at that. Built in. It's like a bouncy castle. This might actually be kind of comfortable. And check this out for the main event tonight. Peanut butter, Nutella and Fritos. I really couldn't be happier right now. I'm in my tent. It's raining. It's cozy. I had a great day. I'm gonna eat this masterpiece.  They say it's this section is the most hike a bikes of the entire Colorado Trail. I have about 40 miles until Silverton. But it's probably gonna take me all day to get there. And high altitude ridge traversing. And here we go. Looks like something out of Lord of the Rings. Look at that. You got it buddy. Forward forward forward. Look at those mountains. Whoa. This is pretty beautiful. So today is the day when I need to employ the gratitude march. And that's when with every step I take, every painstaking step I take, I think of somebody I love. And it helps helps me move forward. And it fills my heart with a little bit of joy at a time of intense physical pain. Time for a beauty break. Look at that. And that is where I'm going. This is as much an arm workout as it is in leg workout. This sure is beautiful. Look at that. Oh my god. And switch back. Come on buddy. You got this. Up, up, up. You got this. Okay. Looks like we have some ridable terrain here. Let's cruise. 13,271 feet. There's my beautiful priority, 600X. And there's the storm clouds. Yeah, look at those views. My other GoPro battery died right when the hail started, but you can see this is what happened. And it got pretty hairy there for a second. And now I'm just pushing on a super slick trail. It's like snow. Boy, this Colorado trail is testing me in every way. Like no traction. It really does look like it snowed. Oh, it's kind of beautiful, the post-storm world. Although I don't think I'm completely out of it because I'm surrounded by dark clouds.  I've been so excited to see this all day. This is the wilderness bypass. This means that it's just a dirt road downhill into Silverton. I cannot tell you how excited I am to be in Silverton. I never thought this moment would happen, but we made it. Ah! Ah, it's my first time here too. Pretty exciting. Goodbye, beautiful Silverton. Onward. Wow, those are some good views. And I like them with the blue sky. There are some clouds building up. We'll see what happens later. But right now, it is beautiful. I have to say that today has been much more enjoyable so far than yesterday. Much more rideable terrain. I actually get to ride my mountain bike. What it was meant for. A little squirrely. It smells so good. It's like walking into a greenhouse. Love it. Mother nature is quite the florist. She really knows how to put the color combinations together. Yeah, tunnel of flowers. Don't fall to the left, don't fall to the left, don't fall to the left. Back to the old hike a bike. I'm pretty used to this by now. I am so motivated right now to get this done. I want to be done. That's steep. A little bit of hike a bike. Love these flower tunnels. So beautiful. What I don't love is dark clouds in front of me. Go away. Get out of here. That's where I'm headed. Right where the rain is falling right there. Yippee. Okay, that's right. Or at least try to ride. Don't fall to the right, don't fall to the right. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can. And look at this mushroom over here. This thing is crazy. It's huge. Look at that thing. It is now time for a blueberry crisp cliff bar. Looks kind of gross, but it's not. But most importantly, I want to show you this view. Look at that. Look at that. Not bad, huh? So this is what I'm working on right here, this trail. Up, I think, over the ridge. Beautiful evening. Little rocky here. Okay, I've been riding and riding and riding. Looking for the perfect camp spot. It's not perfectly flat, but it does have a perfect view. Look at that. Yeah, this will do just. Although that rain is coming this way. So, good thing I got the tent up. The rain showed up just like I thought. I'm glad I stopped when I did. I'm very cozy in here, eating my junk food. Boy, that was no chess. I'm gonna sleep well. One more day at a Durango, yeah! Last night, and I'm glad it's not raining anymore. Gotta look smooth for my final day. Here comes the sun, noot, noot, doot. I'm so glad to see you, sun. And my final bean burrito of the trip. Mmm, thank you. Beautiful piece of ground. This was my favorite camp spot of the entire trip. Let's do this. The trail is super wet and muddy from all the rain last night. So it's a little slow going, but that's okay. And that's where I'm headed way over there. Seems so far away. See that squiggly line up there to the top? Oh, I keep on going up and down, up and down. I'm thinking I'm getting closer, but it's still a long way away. Got my arms, everything burns. Why do I do this to myself? Oh, I know, that's why. I think I can, I think I can. I am the little engine right now. Come on, buddy. I'm sorry for all the grunting noises, but there's no other way to do this. Oh, man. It's taking every bit of me. Let's do this, come on. Okay, the good news is I made it to the top of that hill. The bad news is that is the actual summit way over there. Oh, no. Keep trucking, buddy, keep trucking, you got this. Again, though. Beauty is off the charts. We're getting there, we're getting there. You got this? Come on. I did it. I did it. God, it feels good. The Colorado Trail has all these triumphs throughout the day, ups and downs and ups and downs. This is a good feeling right here. And lucky for me, I think a lot of the way down to Durango is downhill of about 26 more miles, a marathon left of the Colorado Trail. And I'm gonna enjoy it, take it all in. Oh, the flowers. I freaking did it. I feel so good. And I don't really have a whole lot to say that I haven't said this whole week. I feel kind of numb. But I'm very thankful that I got here in one piece and grateful for the experience, even as hard as it was. This is gonna be with me for a long time. I'm gonna be thinking about the Colorado Trail for the rest of my life and the lessons learned. And I always feel like these types of adventures make me a better person, more compassionate, more tender-hearted, more loving, more in tune with nature, more in tune with my body, more in tune with other people. I really loved meeting all the other hikers and bikers on the trail. That was definitely one of the highlights, absolutely, 100%. The flowers, the flowers were so amazing. I loved them. I probably could have gone three days faster if I didn't stop and look at all the flowers. And I'm really proud of myself. I mean, it's been a long time since I've had to push this hard to accomplish something. And it feels really good. It feels really good that I did it. And that helps build confidence going forward in life, knowing that I can do these really hard things. I can do it. And I'd just like to say thanks to Priority Bicycles for designing such an awesome bike, the 600X. The Ren Fork was amazing. The pinion, the Gates Belt Drive.   And we're both here standing, strong. I need to call my mom now. Let her know that I'm safe. That's what I do. Thank you all for watching. I really appreciate it for watching all my videos, for sticking with me, for supporting me, for being part of Team Dooser. I love the ability to do this. You know, it's a dream job. It really is. And I couldn't do it without you. Sorry if I'm getting emotional, but these adventures always crack me open. And I feel very cracked emotionally and physically in every other way. But thank you all so much. And yeah, that's all I gotta say. You can tell that I need to take a nap. Colorado Trail. Hello my friends. First of all, thank you so much for watching this video. It was a long one. If you made it this far, you deserve a medal. It is now March 2022. It's been about six months since I finished the Colorado Trail. And going through all this footage the past week and making this long cut of the adventure was good for my soul. Because man, that trail was absolutely incredible. And it's been nice to have some time apart from it to really reminisce about how special it was out there. So this is my channel. If you're new to my channel, welcome. 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Hello, JVs! A few days ago, someone asked me on comments How is being a Muslim in Korea? I'm curious too So I asked my Muslim friend I thought it's not easy to stay here Cause it's too different But she told me It's good to live here She said in Korea there is no Islamophobia They are very kind and nice to Muslims I'm so proud I'm Korean But of course they will look at you When you work down the street But don't worry They are just curious It's not hatred They look at other foreigners too Just enjoy it Like I'm unicorn industry I'm so pretty I'm so beautiful I'm so precious I'm sorry So there is no hatred against Muslims in Korea But there are still uncomfortable things So I will tell you this today What would make Muslims hard to live in Korea? Let's go First, obviously food I think it's 90% uncomfortable thing You know Eating is the most important thing in your life Right? Isn't it? Only for me But it's really hard to eat something in Korea Pork feet, pork feet, pork ribs, kimchi soup, kimchi stew, spicy pork plates, fried tofu stew Koreans love pork But there are reasons 170s Japan's economy developed so fast And they want meat So they bought a lot of meats from Korea But how to deal with the rest of the pork?  Oh my god You should explain them I need female hairdresser And if you want to take picture for ID card Some of them will ask you Can you take off your skull? Oh my god It's rude But in Korea There are rules To show eyebrows and ears When you take ID photo So that's why But many people don't know this fact Korean government allow the hijab on the ID card The law was changed Look at this Hijab and turban is okay But bruka, jador, kimar, nikap is not allowed But some photographers can still ask you To take off hijab Then tell them Can you take off your pants right now? You are so rude No no no I'm kidding Just explain him Okay If you still don't understand Then just come to me I will take photo for you Kimchi Third Praying It's important I know Muslims have to pray five times a day But Korean people don't know about this well So maybe it's a little bit uncomfortable To explain every time when you pray But don't worry too much If you explain They will understand you Korean I talked about uncomfortable things for Muslims in Korea I hope it can be helpful to you If there's a wrong thing Please tell me Okay, I'm done So I want to say this Don't afraid to come to Korea I will wait for you