If Native Americans originally descended from a cave in Yunnan, China, does that mean that the first Americans were Chinese? Let's talk about it. Welcome everybody to the hot pop boys David and Andrew here. What's the scientific breakthrough this week? Current biology magazine released a scientific study that links the DNA of modern-day Native Americans to a group of people who used to live in the caves of Yunnan, China. The red deer caves here is a photo depiction of what they looked like. All right so what is new about this information that is on top of the fact that you know Native Americans cross the Bering Strait? Well basically it just says that there's a third group of people not just Siberians not just Central Asians but people from essentially modern day Southeast Asia because you know the red deer caves at borders Myanmar and Laos Vietnam they're the ones that became Native Americans. Man let's talk about this David I think there's a lot of identity questions that come into play but also it's just kind of like funny information. So let's talk about this right now if you guys are interested by this please hit that like button and turn on your notification bells. David what are like the main reactions that people had on the internet like the different groups? Okay we had to go first to the Native American subreddit.  Right and then now people are like joking about like oh what are they gonna like call us Chinese now? Right or just guess what the Chinese are gonna claim us I don't want to be Chinese I'm Native American and by the way I don't think this study invalidates their identity I totally think they should feel free and they rightfully should identify as Native American. What are like some European like British responses? Some people are like you know I think this is like quite you know normal knowledge to me I think we've known this for like a hundred years if you look at the Chinese and you look at a Native American they look quite similar. And I think it's pretty funny because British people they're more familiar with like Europeans migrating different places than even Americans are. Yeah because Americans are always like centraled around like oh America's like the center of the world but then British are like well you know you guys came from us don't forget. Yeah but then white Americans and obviously I'm sure there's a range of responses but one was like hey man I don't give a damn they could have came straight from Beijing 10 years ago we came over here we won this is our land. Meanies man what about like kind of maybe Chinese people or maybe particularly people from Yunnan they might be feeling like kind of like oh that's kind of cool like hey we got roots to the Native Americans to North America what's up. Yeah I mean I think that Chinese people probably in the scientific community are just glad they made a big discovery but people in Yunnan like you said they're really excited to see this link and I can see why because Andrew a lot of the people who live in the mountains of Yunnan right now that are sort of these like tribal mountain people they still have native customs and a lot of things that visually are similar to the Native Americans. Yeah I mean especially if you count like Taiwan and then like you're talking about indigenous cultures from around the world especially when it comes to kind of like people who are linked to Asia a lot of the culture is still kind of similar yeah at least the old traditional like clothing that they wear. And it's really weird it goes along like latitudes so for example if you look at ancient Siberians and then you look at Alaskans it's really similar and then you go one notch level lower and maybe like First Nations and Central Asians you know what I mean there's more of a linkage and then you kind of just go all the way down because obviously if the migration pattern went all the way down through Mexico all the way down into Peru and South America that's like all one like link of like one or three groups of people. Right so I mean I guess you know should this affect how people feel because we're talking about 14,000 years ago human migration generations upon generations people probably didn't know why they were migrating or I don't know if they knew where they were going because they went through Siberia which was super cold and then they could have just stopped and set up shop in California which would have been great too but they kept going all the way down. I know but everybody just wouldn't want to stop in Santa Barbara or San Diego. Yeah yeah but like what does this stuff matter or who doesn't matter to? Okay in a modern day geopolitical sense it doesn't matter because most people in America don't even study history they look at life between like 50 to 100 years max. Right so as far as like America goes it doesn't matter and not only that like we said unfortunately you know the Native Americans I guess like they were on the losing end of the battle with the Europeans for America by a long shot so I guess even if they did descend like we said you know it's back to that like that white guys I don't care if they came from Indonesia Borneo y'all know nothing we came and we won we won the game. Damn that's messed up right but that's how like sort of some people see it and I would say this for me my major takeaways are a couple things one it made me consider the ancient link between sort of like your you know ancient Austronesian costumes, Zhuang Dai people and Native Americans some of the totem poles look the same really like striking. Okay it's interesting. Number two it made me think about the link between Asians and Latinos not only in an ancient sense like I just said but also a modern sense because even though Latinos nowadays are probably a lot of them are I guess heavily mixed with like Spanish blood from Spain you know especially the indigenous ones I'm like oh man we all like kind of came went through the same situations political identities developed in the 60s 70s 80s 90s so there's a lot of modern day shared history as well and then it kind of made me think about like the collaborations that we have between Native Americans and Asians like oh you mean like the modern day ones yeah the modern day one for example the movie wind talkers about Navajo Indians helping the Americans fight against the Japanese but there's a lot of really good scenes in there one of them you know some of the white soldiers they don't trust the Navajo people because they're like they just look like nips to me they look like Japanese to me and then remember the Navajo guys like I do look just like them yeah well because they did they do location yeah the movie and then obviously that was directed by John Wu who's Chinese um oh Andrew Disney Pocahontas looks like a Filipino abg yeah I mean the way they draw for sure I mean I'm not saying Disney is always the most accurate but Pocahontas look very Asian her eyes were kind of like yeah I yeah I heard that there was uh some debate in Disney of whether which tribe they should make her look like because different Native American tribes look more or less Asian obviously the more further south you go maybe the less well what is the best current collaboration right now oh for sure the casino yeah because the government sort of like I guess I don't know if they really do but they kind of feel bad about taking the indigenous people's land so they give them the casinos but then the main people who pump money into the casinos and work at the casinos are actually Asians yeah man specifically probably vietes or Chinese vietes dude we didn't grow up too far from the spot called the muckershoe reservation and in the reservation one you can buy firecrackers and you can go to the casinos Andrew if Chinese vietes are the main people at the casinos and Yunnan China is sort of in this Chinese viet zone where it's like kind of like tough to say it's 5050 you know what I'm saying man Vietnamese were the first Americans yo I mean that's a new theory that's a new theory right there I will say this Andrew if we put some fur around your head you could look like a little Inuit boy specifically from like Alaska and yo in some of our Southeast Asian friends Andrew if you put like a feather headdress around Richie's head he could look like a Cherokee yeah now for me jokes aside for a second uh for me that was what all do yeah I mean hey these are some funny theories by the way uh with uh taking that aside though I think that ultimately if something from like 14 10 000 years ago uh even affects your identity today then ultimately how far are you going to take it back because we take it back a hundred thousand years ago we're all from East Africa so I'm saying like of course we're all African if you want to go back that far so how far do you want to go back 50 years 500 years 5000 years you name it it's up to you obviously I think this type of information affects different people differently I think a lot of people won't care because and I think that's generally the right answer to um but also most people don't even care what happened 150 years ago let alone 15 000 years ago let alone 150 000 years ago 150 years ago if you have a picture of it I don't know it matters a little bit more your ancestor was a Neanderthal my answer was a denivin the denivins and the Neanderthals they had beef or did were they homies yeah but by the way I I don't think anybody out there it actually thinks Native Americans are Chinese obviously because guys but there was a funny joke when they were like oh so what is China going to go claim America as its ancestral land that was a funny thought I think it does bring up some interesting questions because I remember there was a Sherman Alexi who was a really famous Native American poet from Seattle Seattle's actually a Native American term named after chief Seattle guys not every part of America had as of a contentious relationship with the Native Americans as like other places other places I think they just wanted to like eliminate them in other places they're like trying to find a piece you know that's like more how Seattle is um so I just feel like it's interesting because it does bring up some deeper issues of identity because if a white person who's Anglo looks at a Native American who's been here for 15 000 years and goes hey go back to where you came from isn't that crazy because maybe they think they're Asian or they think they're Mexican yeah in 2022 that would be like insane right because they've been here yeah I mean uh you guys let us know in the comments down below what you think um about all this is this information relevant is it not uh what would you do with it oh one last collaboration now this is maybe not as much Native Americans but more indigenous Central Americans and Asians is uh restaurants yo they'd be working together in the restaurants oh that's a good point yeah yeah they make a lot of good food between those two collaborating together probably not the tallest groups of people either no maybe not the tallest groups yeah I mean what was the thing that motivated them man I want to know what motivated them to make this crazy like bell curve arc well first of all no single person actually saw that travel because they all died along the way but something must have driven them because at any point I would say those ancient mammoths and buffaloes must have been delicious hey man hey you know for me I always knew that growing up in a white black binary America you know especially back in the the 90s I always picked the third option which was Native American like when we're playing with cowboys and Indians I'm not trying to be stereotypical I would always pick the Indians because they looked like me most of the white kids would pick the cowboys because they were like blonde but I did have one friend called Jordan I'll just call him Jordan I don't want to say his last name but he used to um always be on with me on team Indians and he ended up marrying an ethnic girl wow so it kind of goes to show Jordan he was down since kindergarten you were down yeah man I mean I think that I'm looking forward to more collaborations between indigenous Americans of all types and Asians coming up I mean I think there's a lot I think culturally we also do like relate in the sense like you know a very family base and stuff like that so shout out to smoke signals and I always remember this I'll end on this Andrew I always remember we in Seattle we get a lot of like Native American like coaching and I remember this guy we were watching this like Cherokee poet and I always remember their language sounded so cool to me because it was like dude I went on a field trip to Tillicum Village and Tillicum Village you had to take a small little boat ride there and it was for a field trip and I had the best salmon roasted on cedar and that's that was like one of my favorite salmon dishes I ever had of all time and it was at a Native American museum all right guys all right everybody thank you so much for watching again let us know in the comments down below what you think does this information matter to you does it not is it interesting oh shout out to the muckershoot yes and we are the hot pot boys until next time we out peace oh and last but not least I cannot forget both undersized basketball players but with a love for the game


Hello everybody, HoodedCoverCommander788 here and it's G.I. Joe time again. So this time we're going to look at the G.I. Joe firefighter from 1985, Barbecue. And I have to send a special shout out and thank you to Mr. Eric Brink for making this review possible. Thank you very much, sir. This figure is a bit of a departure for us. This week we looked at the guy with the biggest gun and this week we look at a guy with no guns at all. This guy is a firefighter, not so much a soldier, not a special operations troop. This guy puts out fires. It is a pretty cool figure though, so let's go ahead and take a look at Barbecue. This is Barbecue, G.I. Joe's firefighter. He was first introduced in 1985. He was also sold in 1986. He was discontinued in 1987 and in 1987 he did not have a replacement. G.I. Joe did not have another firefighter that came out that year. However, in 1989 we did get version two of Barbecue who was part of the Slaughter's Marauder's subteam, which was led by none other than Sergeant Slaughter. I'm not sure having Barbecue as a Slaughter's Marauder's makes a lot of sense, but we'll just roll with it. Barbecue is a non-combat troop and he had more of a support role within the G.I. Joe team. In 1985 was a year that we got a lot of specialization for both G.I. Joe and Cobra. We got a lot of highly specialized characters that year. Let's take a look at Barbecue's accessories and Barbecue did come with a lot of accessories but he did not come with any weapons unless you consider his axe to be a weapon. So let's go ahead and take a look at the axe first. The contents of the card on which the figure was packaged call this a fire axe and that is what this is. This is the type of axe generally that is used by firefighters. This is also called a pick head axe for the pointed end here on the head. The firefighters axe is generally used to break down doors and windows so they can rescue people in a fire. Even though this is a fairly simple accessory, it does have some detail on it. It looks like a couple rivets here. It has this handguard which would not be on a real fireman's axe. I'm not really sure what that's there for. It does kind of look cool though. And then of course we have a paint application on the blade of the axe. We have a silver paint application and that is something that's very rare. We very rarely got paint applications on the accessories of G.I. Joe action figures. Then we have this nozzle gun here and even though this is a gun, it's not a weapon. This is a nozzle for Barbecue's fire retardant foam in his backpack so this thing shoots foam to put out fires. Even though this is not really a gun, I'm sure kids played with it as a gun. I mean it's easy enough to imagine it as a gun. It looks a little bit like a Star Trek phaser. This length of hose that ran from Barbecue's backpack would plug into the nozzle gun in the back here on this little knob in the back. Just slide it on like that. And then I'm just going to take this off to demonstrate. On this side there's a little notch there and that is to allow the nozzle to holster on Barbecue's leg on this tab here on his left leg. And that's supposed to slide in there. Unfortunately on mine it does not work well. It just will not fit no matter what I do with or without the hose on. I have seen other Barbecue action figures where this does work well. So this is probably just my copy. It's not working well for me. So if you get a Barbecue action figure, yours will probably holster on there just fine but mine does not quite work. Barbecue does come with a length of hose that connects the nozzle to his backpack on this little knob on his backpack there. It's a pretty simple basic black hose. This came with a lot of other G.I. Joe action figures from the era that attach some of their accessories to their backpacks. Then of course Barbecue has his backpack and his backpack is two parts. It has this orange part which contains the firefighting foam. These are foam tanks. They look like air tanks but they're not supposed to be there. Foam tanks for his gun nozzle. And of course then it has the tank rack and that just sort of clips right on in there. These look kind of like air tanks and they could double for air tanks. If you wanted to attach these to a figure and pretend they were scuba tanks that would work pretty well. Firefighting foam is used to cool a fire and to coat the fuel and it's pretty effective. It can be more effective than water in some firefighting situations such as oil fires. I'm not sure of the utility of having this backpack come apart into two parts. The tank piece doesn't really work too well as a standalone piece. Other than just to have it as two separate colored plastics which does make it look very nice. Let's look at the articulation on Barbecue. He had the typical articulation of 1985 G.I. Joe action figures. That means he could turn his head from left to right. He could also look up and down. His head was on a ball joint that was introduced in 1985. His arm he could swing up about so far and he could swivel it all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow so he could move at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep. He could swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside. It allowed the figure to move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpted design and color of Barbecue starting with his head. His head has this non-removable helmet and mask. As you may know, these non-removable helmets and masks have been a problem for me on other action figures. I really do feel like these helmets and masks should be removable. Barbecue has a protective face mask and eye covering and that is silver paint on that face mask. That silver paint does have a tendency to wear off very easily. I'm very fortunate to have a Barbecue action figure that has very little wear on that silver paint. You will often find Barbecue figures with that silver paint worn off quite a bit. So that is something to watch for if you're looking to get a Barbecue action figure.  But there are no obvious hoses running to the face mask. We'd have to assume that any air hoses would be internal. Barbecue's helmet is very plain and it is not the traditional firefighter's helmet. The helmet most of us associate with firefighters with the longer rear brim and the shorter front brim is called the Modern Structural Helmet and it's used really for fighting structural fires. Now that may not be Barbecue's specialty. He may not deal with as many structural fires with the GI Joe team. So that's probably why he doesn't have that particular style of helmet. However, that helmet shape would have better designated him as a firefighter. On his chest piece he has these dark gray shoulder guards or these may even be part of the helmet. It's really hard to say. He's wearing a reddish orange jumpsuit and that's pretty appropriate for a firefighter. On his back he has this gray that comes down over his back. Looks like padding there. Also he has this very interesting stitching work here on his back. Not really sure the purpose of that but it does look really cool and it's a nice detail. Back around the front he has what I have to assume is his air tank. Now this would be an SCBA or self-contained breathing apparatus. Not a SCUBA which is a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Firefighters usually wear a single tank on their back with a full face mask to keep out the smoke. On his right arm Barbecue has this patch, this silver patch and this does not look like any US Army firefighting unit patch that I've been able to find. It does look a little bit like the US Army 41st Infantry patch but I don't think that's what that is. This does look like it's supposed to be flames I think and not a sunburst. So this is some kind of firefighter unit patch but I can't identify a real world equivalent. And this is that same silver paint they use on the face mask and so you'll often find these silver patches worn away. He has a dark grey pouch on his left arm and he has reddish orange gloves to match his jumpsuit and his fire resistant suit is cinched together at the wrists with a couple dark grey buckles. The waist piece is pretty simple. He has that same reddish orange jumpsuit. He has a zipper that continues from the chest piece. He has a dark grey belt with not a lot of detail, no pockets, very simple waist piece. On his right leg he has a sculpted stripe that goes all the way down his leg and then he has this unidentified device thingy which I guess could be a radio maybe. He has this other strap on his left leg and of course he has that tab that his nozzle gun is supposed to holster on, the one that does not work very well for me. Now this could break off pretty easily. That's very thin plastic and it sticks out pretty far so do be careful about that. You may get a BBQ action figure and if you don't know that's supposed to be there, if that's chipped off you may not even realize you have a broken figure. And we finish up with some very plain dark grey boots. Let's take a look at BBQ's file card. This file card was printed on the back of the card on which the action figure was packaged. You can see some of the artwork from the front of the card there. It has this factionist GIcho and it has a portrait of BBQ. His specialty is firefighter and his codename is BBQ. Without the spelling it is not BBQ, he is not a rack of ribs. His file name is Gabriel A. Kelly and this last name of Kelly I think comes from the term Kelly days. Kelly days are special scheduled days off for firefighters. According to legend these Kelly days were named after Chicago Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly who created a time off plan for firefighters in 1936. His primary military specialty is fireman, not firewoman they checked. Secondary military specialty infantry, place of birth Boston, Massachusetts. Now the headquarters for Hasbro is in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. So they kind of like having Joe's from New England. His grade is E4. This section says if Kelly hadn't joined the GIcho team he would have been the seventh Kelly in his direct line in the Boston fire department. His love for the job is not based on family loyalty or even a more general sense of duty. He simply likes riding on the back of the truck with the wind in his face, the sirens wailing, lights flashing and the bells clanging. Being allowed to knock down doors and smash windows with his axe is just frosting on the cake. So BBQ has a long family history of firefighting but really he seems kind of like a big kid. He just loves the excitement of the job. This bottom section has a quote, it says, BBQ is what you call your basic party animal. He can open bottles with his teeth, pick up quarters with his ears and wrap his lips completely around the bottom of a quart coke bottle. You may well ask how this affects his function as a GIcho firefighter. It doesn't. It simply makes him a more interesting fellow to have around. Really? I've been to a lot of parties and I gotta say these are some pretty weird party tricks. Maybe after a lot of beer, the guy wrapping his lips around a coke bottle would actually be amusing. Note, the Coke product placement. In the GIcho comic book, BBQ was introduced in issue number 40 along with Shipwreck. And when Shipwreck meets BBQ, he asks the inevitable question, fireman, this is a combat unit. We don't need a fireman. And you can almost imagine Larry Hammer saying the same thing in the meeting with Hasbro when the 1985 lineup was introduced. He was still given an important role to play in those comic book issues right after he was introduced. He showed up just in time to fight a major fire on the tactical battle platform and he even fought on Cobra Island. Sadly, BBQ has to do all the months in the annual GIcho firefighter calendar. In the GIcho animated series, BBQ was the focus of an episode titled The Viper Is Coming. That episode had a twist ending and I'm not going to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. That episode is kind of quirky and fans tend to either love it or hate it. But I kind of like it, I don't hate that episode. It was goofy and implausible, but it was kind of fun. Taking a look at BBQ overall, he is not a purely military figure, he's a firefighter and in that sense he kind of reminds me of the 1970s adventure team when the old 12 inch GIcho toys took on a less military theme. If you pair BBQ with Lifeline from 1986, they're kind of like Transformers rescue bots in that they are not combatants, they have life saving jobs. You could potentially market these guys toward younger kids, not so much as soldiers but as rescuers. The coloring on BBQ is appropriate for his specialty. It's a very basic color scheme, nothing really fancy going on here. This is really how you work in some brighter colors in a military toy line, not by making the soldiers wear bright orange but by adding these non-combat characters where these colors are appropriate. He does have that non-removable helmet though and that is a problem for me and it keeps this figure despite otherwise being a nice figure from being a top tier figure. I already talked about this with Torpedo, another figure that I liked a lot but I thought his mask ought to be removable. Another figure that came out also in 1985, the same year as BBQ, Airtite had the same problem and really a helmet that large and a mask that large that could have been made removable and I really think it should have been. I can tolerate non-removable helmets and face masks on Cobra characters but I really think the Joes ought to be able to take off these helmets. You might wonder how kids in the 80s would play with a firefighter action figure in a military toy line. I mean wouldn't kids prefer characters that had lots of guns and would go out on combat missions and fight Cobra? Well I'd have to say BBQ would fit very well on the USS Flag aircraft carrier play set where he could put out the fires from plane crashes that would inevitably happen on the deck of that ship. A lot of you watching this video probably had BBQ as a kid so leave me a comment and let me know how you played with this figure. That was my review of the 1985 G.I. Joe firefighter BBQ, I hope you enjoyed it. If you liked it make sure you give it a thumbs up on YouTube and don't forget to subscribe. I've got a lot of great new G.I. Joe toy reviews coming up. If you don't want to miss them and don't forget to like the Facebook page and follow me on Twitter. You get a lot of updates there you don't get anywhere else. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next week with another vintage G.I. Joe toy review. Hey, watch this. That kind of fun can cost a life. BBQ! False alarms are no joke. They keep firefighters away from the real action and in this business a few seconds can mean the difference between life and death. A firefighter's job is to fight fires. Not answer false alarms. Now I know. And no one is half the battle. G.I. Joe!


From Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Covering LiveWorks 18, brought to you by PTC. Welcome back to Boston, everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. And we are here at day one of the PTC LiveWorks conference, IOT, Blockchain, AI all coming together in a confluence of innovation. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host Stu Miniman. Wolfgang Ulaga is here. He's the AT&T professor of services leadership and co-executive director, the Center for Services Leadership at Arizona State University, Wolfgang. Welcome to theCUBE, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. So services leadership, what should we know? Where do we start this conversation around services leadership? Yeah, so the center of services leadership is a center that has been created 30 years ago around a simple idea and that is putting services front and center of everything a company does. So this is all about service science, service business, service operations, people and culture. When you touch service, you immediately see that you have to be 360 in your approach. You have to look at all the aspects. You have to look at structures of people. You have to look at operations with a service-centric mindset. I mean, it sounds so obvious. Anytime we experience as consumers great service, we maybe fall in love with the company, we're loyal, we tell everybody, but so often services fall down. I mean, it seems obvious. Why is it just not implemented in so many organizations? Yeah, one of the problems is that companies tend to look at services as an afterthought. Think about the word after-sales service, which in my mind is already very telling about how it's from a cultural perspective perceived. It's something that you do after the sale has been done. And so that's why oftentimes there is the risk that it falls back, it slips from the priority list and you do it once you have done all the other things, but in reality, businesses are there to serve customers and so service should be the center of what the company does, not at the periphery. Or even an embedded component of what the company, I mean, I think of, well, is Amazon a good example of a company that has embraced that? Or is Netflix maybe even a better example? I don't even know what the service department looks like at Netflix, it's just theirs. Is that how we should envision modern-day service? Yeah, so it excites me at the conference at LifeWorks. We see so many companies talking about technology and changes and you really can sense and see how all of them are thinking about how can they actually grow the business from historic activities into new data-enabled activities. But the interesting challenge for many firms is that this is going to be also a journey of learning how to service customers through data analytics. So data-enabled services is going to be a huge issue in the next coming years. All right, so Wolfgang, you're speaking here at the conference, I believe you also wrote a book about advanced services for those that aren't familiar with the term, maybe walk us through a little bit about what that is. Yeah, so I earlier this morning presented the book Service Strategy in Action, which is a very managerial book that we wrote over 10 years of experience of doing studies, working with companies on this journey from a product-centric company that wants to go into a service and solution-centric world and business. And today we see many of the companies picking up the pace, going into that direction, and I would say that with data analytics, this is going to be an even more important phenomenon for the next years to come. So a lot of companies struggle with service as well because they don't see it as a scale component of their business, harder to scale services than it is the scale software, for example. So in thinking about embedding services into your core business, how do you deal as an organization with the scale problem? Is it a false problem, and how are organizations dealing with that? No, you're absolutely right. Many companies know and learn when they are small and they control operations. It's easy to actually have your eyes on service excellence. And once you scale up, you run into this issue of how do you maintain service quality? How do you make sure that each and every time to replicate into different regions, into different territories, into different operations that you keep that quality up and running? So one way to do it is to create a service culture among the people because one way to control that quality level is to push responsibility as low as possible down so that each and every front-line employee knows what he or she has to do, can't take action if something goes wrong and can maintain that service quality at the level we want. And that's where sometimes you see challenges and issues popping up. What role do you see machines playing? I mean, you're seeing a lot of things like chatbots or voice response, what role will machines play in the services of the future? Yeah, I think it's a fascinating movement that is now put in place where machine, artificial intelligence is the year to actually enhance value being created for customers. So sometimes you hear this as a threat or as a danger, but I would rather see it as an opportunity to raise levels of service qualities, have the symbiosis between human and machine to actually provide better outstanding service for customers. Could you share some examples of successes there or things that you've sort of studied or researched? Yeah, so for example, if I take a consumer marketing example, in Europe I worked with a company which is Nespresso, they do these coffee machines and capsules. And in their boutique, they don't call it a store by the way, they call it a boutique, they have injected a lot of new technology into helping customers to have different touchpoints get served the way they want to at the time they want to, how they want to. So this multi-channel, multi-experience for customers is actually a growing activity. And when you look at from a consumer perspective, I get more opportunities, I get more choices. I can pick and choose when, where and how I want to be served. Similar example is Procter and Gamble here in the United States. P&G has recently rolled out a new service business, taking a brand tight and creating tight dry cleaners here in America. It's a fascinating example. And they use technology like smart phone apps on a smart phone to give the customer a much better experience. I think there's many of these examples we'll see in the future. Yeah, so when we talk about IoT, one of the things that caught our ear in the keynote this morning is it's going to take 20 to 25 partners putting together this solution. Not only is there integration of software, but one of the big challenges there I think is how do you set up services and transform services to be able to live in this multi-vendor environment? I wonder if you could comment on that. I agree, I agree. And you know what I see is, which makes me as a business professor very excited and that is of course there's technology, of course there's hardware and software, but one of the biggest challenges will be the business challenges. How do you implement all of these offers? How do you roll it out? One of my talk topics today where how do you commercialize it? How do you actually make money with it? How do you get paid for it? One of my research areas is what we call free to fee. How do you get the R out of the free and make customers pay for value you create? And what I find, especially in the digital services space, there's so much value being created, but not every company is able to capture the value, getting adequately paid for the value. This is a huge challenge. So in some I would say it's really an issue about the business challenges as much as it's a technological issue or technical challenge. Yeah, I think about IoT. So many of the different transfer protocols, it's open source, that free to fee and any advice you can give to people out there as to how they capture that value and capture revenue? Yeah, so I think you have to be super careful where the commoditization will kick in and if over time, something that was a differentiator yesterday with the open sources and everything will become not so much differentiator tomorrow. So where is your competitive edge? How do you stand out from competition? I know these are very classic questions, but you know what? In the IoT and digital space, they resurface, they come back, and having the right answers on these questions will make the difference between you and competition. Last question we got to go. The transport self-service, is that a good thing, a bad thing, depends thing? Yeah, I think everything that allows customers to have choices. You know, customers today want to be in charge. They want to be in control. They in fact want all of it. They want to have service when they want it, but they want to have a non-self-service option if they feel like. So I think the trick is to know how can I be nimble and give customers all of these choices so that they are in charge and pick and choose. Wolfgang, thanks so much for coming to CUBE. It's a pleasure having you. Appreciate it, thank you very much. Good to see you. All right, keep it right there, everybody. 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Now it should be live Live it live it live Hello, I think we are live, and I think I have volume on this microphone Who we got here? Hi everyone. Hello white Vegeta and Chris. Hey Chris from comic tropes. Nice to see you Hello peg warmers always nice to see peg warmers here Hello rat face and whoever else is here. How hello everyone. How do you do? It's nice to see you. Thank you for being here. I'm glad to be here. I'm a little a Little little exhausted a little exhausted today, but we are gonna plow through and we're gonna have a great show Hello Matt and Garcia and and Matthew and Rob And and Matt how many mats we got in here anyway? Hello, Brian. That's a good name. Good name Brian Hello Ken now and Baderie Bob and Lester and Gray Fox. Wow. The gang's all here. That's fantastic Hello Christopher Hilt nice to see you. Greetings. Greetings. I realized a bit too late We we we didn't get to gung-ho last time. I'm gonna try to get to opening this gung-ho Retro classified figure because you know, I'd really like to take a look at it So we'll try to get to that a little bit later Hello low one bow to and die cast Nick It's nice to see everybody We made it to Tuesday Did not have a video on Sunday, but I posted about that Many things have gone wrong with the this this video and that's why I am sure that That the whole year is cursed a cursed a curse has descended upon me for the entire year Hello Marshall and Matthew And Dan Jammon Yeah, yeah, I I'm gonna do my best because like we got this right here. It's it's sitting right here I I can't miss it. It's very large and it's in my field of view Pegwoman still hasn't found that gung-ho. I was able to find this I found this in the wild I was I was really happy that I was actually able to find one But yeah, hello rich and Jay and hey, it's sparkster. Nice to see you sparkster Recently built an armadillo howl whirlwind and dreadnought tricycle Are you talking about Lego, right? You built them out of Lego. That's really cool. Hello cyclonus so What was I saying? We're gonna have a great show. Hello, JKC's nice to see you. Thank you for being here The call our curse can only be lifted by opening gung-ho. I guess we better get this thing open them this So I was thinking I was thinking Pegwoman says my Walmart has pegs and pegs of Lady J mine too Mine too it still does for some reason they ordered like two dozen Lady J's and I like the Lady J figure I like the Lady J figure, but who's gonna buy two dozen of them and then they had like One of these two dozen Lady J's one of these Chris says he likes good shows me too me too. I'll take good show over a bad show any old day of the week So yes, we are doing Whatever it is. We are doing the the retro cards oversized Yeah, they are a bit oversized with the you know the figures are bigger And you know, of course the figures are recolored and reissued from other figures But they do have slightly different accessories. I mean they has he has a better hat he has the Classic looking grenade launcher and all of that, but I guess like the selling point for the retro Figures is the the art right because I think that's what they're really wanting to focus on They want you to pay attention to the artwork and I mean that's why they have the artwork that goes all the way There's like no border. It it goes all the way to the edge It covers like the the whole card. They want you to they're really selling you with this artwork That's what they're going for As a retro storm shadow classified out if it is I haven't seen it So I don't know I have not seen it cat Sorry, the cat is trying to destroy something. Hello, David Andrews. Nice to see you family J Destro Baroness Then Walmart put them on clearance and still have not got gung-ho. Yeah mine The Walmart near me does not have them on clearance. They just have pegs and pegs of Lady J Hello, Robert is very nice to see you. Thank you Splitting shelf space with Lady J and the Baroness. Yeah, and I do have in fact I have Lady J and the Baroness I think they have them both over on that shelf over there and I like both those figures and don't get me wrong Lady J. That's a really nice figure the retro Lady J. It should not be a peg warmer With respect to peg warmers who was in here It should not be a peg warmer Except that somehow they shipped like they've I don't know who orders them But whoever what they either ordered or they receive like Five times as many Lady J's as anything else So were they really banking on Lady J being a hot seller out of that series? I don't know Hey, it's JLS comics. Nice to see JLS comics. Hello. I'm CDJ ACDC. Hello Terrence and hey It's sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse watching from the office. I won't tell anyone. I won't tell anyone Your secret is safe with me So I was started by saying I'm pretty exhausted. I'm pretty pretty tired today I had a very busy day. I've had a very busy week. Although. It's only Tuesday. It's still already been a very busy week Comic trope says ten thousand dollars I think that counts as a super chat. So comic tropes just sent me a super chat for ten thousand dollars. Thanks But that does remind me comic tropes is doing the the special Vampirella cover And I have ordered one and I should have got the link. I'm sorry, but if you do well I think it's on Kickstarter and it's comic trope to Vampirella cover so So grab that Chris from comic tropes needs the support Because he just sent me a super chat of ten thousand dollars. So, you know help him out help him out Indiegogo, I'm sorry Indiegogo not too sure on Indiegogo. Thank you very much. Thank you very much You know help comic tropes support his ten thousand dollar super chats. This is important Hello, Gussie and Yeah, incredibly generous. I you know, I don't know what to say. Thanks Remember the vanking on Lady J having more draw from supposed a Live-action show from Amazon that nobody knows what's happening with at this point The it was been so long since we've heard anything about the the live-action show that I'm considering it dead Until something actually new positive comes out and until something new comes out It's I'm just considering that a dead project. Hello. Dr. No good. What's the weirdest GI Joe vehicle ever? Well, the buzz boar is up there That's got to be up there pretty close to the top as far as weird goes now Hello, McCleary good and bad ape. Nice to see you Bad apes. Hey bad ape wants ten thousand. So since Chris since you're being generous If you just toss bad ape another ten thousand, you know Just just to help out Yo, Joe says greetings, Oklahoma from the state of confusion. Hey, that's here Yes, we are We in the land of Oklahoma We can't seem to figure out what season it is we've had four or five False springs it looked like it was gonna be spring, but it only reel it back in it's like no It's wintertime. It's still wintertime. He's oh, it's getting a little warmer. You think it's spring Oh, no, no wintertime still So, yeah, we're a little bit confused here, but I blame that on our state education system But I Yeah The pogo is yeah, the pogo. That's a that's that's something But anyway, oh, hello Andrew Andrew the guy so nice they named it twice nice to see you there now I was I was thinking That always a dangerous thing. I was thinking Here's what I was thinking You know, I've I've spent a lot of time Lately talking about non GI Joe things Too much time and this is a GI Joe Channel we are focused on GI Joe. So from here on from here until forever I am I'm gonna only talk about GI Joe. Nothing else. No other toy lines. They even exist on this channel I'm only only GI Joe from here on in fact, I got I got this Stargate wing glider right here But I'm not even gonna show it to you I won't even show it to you because it's not GI Joe this stuff Not not even going to appear on this channel not showing it to you. This is GI Joe only Hello the figure the figure six pack and Viola nice to see you North Carolina has a similar weather problem Yes, it's been it's been that kind of season the make up your mind planet Earth Planet Earth make up your mind what season it's supposed to be The pilot is getting a duck in the face. Yeah, see this is here's here's the important thing The important skill for for learning to fly one of these is learning how to breathe in space You have to be able to breathe in outer space In order to fly one of these things very tricky very trick. Most people cannot hold their breath that long Hello, Ivan. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Hello. Will And and yes, that's the other that this is what we are not focusing on GI Joe We're only focusing on GI Joe. We are not we are not focusing on other things hint hint and that's a perfect segue because I Hopefully I am not spoiling anything here But I got a special gift from From Chris from Chris from comic tropes In fact, does Chris even have a last name? I think Chris's last name is from comic tropes I think he legally changed it to to that but so Mr. From comic tropes Send me something is very generous on top of his $10,000 super chat That's it's very nice and he sent me something that I did not have something. I did not have and it's Is right here and I want to be very careful as I Handle this here. It is this monster is The 1988 Cobra bug and as you can see there the sector viper is in well, he's All right, I got easy so he's kind of he's asleep. He's asleep at the wheel But the sector viper is in there And we're gonna take a little bit of a look at this of course I'm gonna do a full review in the future But this is special. This is something that you know the actual full review of it That's me that needs to be a special occasion kind of thing because this is a large vehicle and heavily laden with features And it does indeed have The sector by probably take out the sector the sector viper I this front piece here is Removable, but I am not going to remove that because Now that I have this thing in hand and I'm looking at it I can see stress on the plastic where The way this is designed it makes me nervous it makes me nervous to stress some of the plastic at Certain points, so I'm not going to do that I would feel really bad if I broke this thing Right after getting it so I'm not gonna do I'm not even gonna risk it so I'm gonna open Ah And there I almost threw it on the floor. I'm going to open the the side door And he's gonna stumble out So these these Late 80s vehicles. They did not have the back pegs on the driver's seats like the earlier 80s stuff No, instead they had seat belts.  Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Hello What am I so nice to see you. Thank you for being here as well Will says been watching channel for some time lover. Thank you very much. Thank you for watching I really appreciate that. Hello Kelvin. Hello Robert So here's the sector viper So yes, the the late 80s vehicles had Seat belts. Oh, thank you for the super chat. What's on Joe mind? That reminds me Wait right here. It's just what hold on one second sector viper. In fact, you sit here for a second I I did not do some of the preliminary things that I usually do the number one The singing cats you just missed them. We just had the singing cats number two It is Tuesday that means there's a new episode of half the battle with Timmer this time he did his full Review of revenge of Cobra. He did assembled them all into one video He had some personal stuff go on and I won't go into that. It's it's personal But for that reason instead of doing like a new video. He did a compilation. I understand that I totally get that totally cool number two It is Tuesday. Oh And so immediately after this show Is is what's on Joe mind? So what's on Joe mind? They have moved to Tuesday They occur what's on Joe mind occurs Right after this show. Oh, thank you. Joe fan. Sorry. I'm late working late tonight. Well that that's alright But it's appreciated. I'm glad you're here Joe fan 84 Hope all is well. I understand having to work late. I I certainly do speaking of which It looks like I'm going to I'm gonna need to start another work project possibly tomorrow So that's gonna take, you know, a lot of time and energy But I'm also getting the video done that I use was trying to do To go up on last Sunday. So I am so close. I'm this close I'm this close. I'll tell you what's on Joe. What's what's on HTC's mind JLS This is what's on I was this close to getting the whole thing done But I've got one more segment to shoot and then I've got to edit the whole thing together now This video has taken two weeks to do Is it is it good, I don't know will it be a popular video probably not You know, I'm not reviewing something popular. So it's not likely to be a popular Video, but it but I had to finish it, you know, I got to finish this before I can move on to the next one And you know what I had something planned For the for April fools. I had something in mind for April fools had to scrap that Because this video took twice as long as it normally would oh, hello, Mary Ann. Thank you, Mary Ann I will get that video done tomorrow is the day worker. Absolutely. It's getting done. It has to get done I've out no more excuses. I got the one more segment to shoot and We are going to get it done. I do need help with it. Mary Ann is going to help with it. I have to shoot outdoors So I have to do it during the daylight and when the weather isn't bad and the weather has been somewhat crappy lately So I've got this wide a window to do it And I'm gonna do it. Oh, hello, Brett Reese. Nice to see you. How's everybody? It's fine. How are you doing? How are you doing? Joe fan 84 said got the Viper 3 pack yesterday Excuse me And sparkster, he's looking forward to oh Oh, yes, the sparkster just built the armadillo howl whirlwind and dreadnought tricycle a lot of Legos. Yes Actually as as your rather pretentious Lego fans will tell you the plural of Lego is Lego So instead of saying out of Legos You should say out of Lego except I Say Legos and I will continue to say Legos until Lego fans stopped complaining About people saying Legos So which is never Yes, Mary Ann got my back and my face and in the front and the back Yeah, so Well, you'll see we we did we did a lot of work on it today and Really, there's only just the one segment left but yeah, Mary Ann was able to help today get some important things done and She got to throw things at me. So that was fun. Am I going to review the Cobra bug? I am For the full review on this guy like I said this this is really got to be This is really got to be a for a special occasion, right? This is too significant To to just do like on a regular weekly review This is the kind of thing I do save for a special occasion and I have a Specific idea for it. I thank you bad a for the super chat. Just had a thought why hasn't Hasbro tried selling gi Joe Brand and more easy. Hey, that's an interesting idea. I would get that I That's an interesting idea bad a I would get that I would get that. Yes Lego Lego Lego my Legos Lego my Legos Mary Ann says yeah, yes, she had a good time throwing things at me. It was it was a blast A Sparkster says don't care how it's said or done just enjoy building these I hope to share them with everyone here Absolutely absolutely spark sparkster share your Legos Share share your Legos with the world. We are happy to share in your Legos creation He would buy a case a case of yes by a case by a case of these, you know So but this this I I'm although I've seen the Cobra bug many times. I've never actually owned one So so full credit to Chris for helping me with this And I do like that that it talks here Hello hi chat How you doing? I'm Cobra bug But that's not my real name. Nobody calls me by my real name My real name is Kevin. But does anybody say Kevin? No They say bug So yes, it's got a puppet You know, that's not a feature you see on a lot of GI Joe vehicles where it actually has a puppet So that's very clever very clever indeed Eric says you'd buy the MRE. Yes, I I figured that's that you that's probably a smarter because why would you need a Whole case of of Cobra bugs. Yes. That's wise buy a case of the the MRE's that that's much wiser Hello Lone Squith. Nice to see you there I Hope it talks in the video or it might it might you know Kevin might have something to say But now this thing is this thing is great. It's incredibly intricate There is so much here and I am terrified of breaking any part of it But it's got it's got the bubble turret Then I was got the two additional turrets on top It's got this thing which I am not removing right now. It's got this thing this pod Which is also removable and I'm not removing it right now I'm not gonna I've chosen to not break anything on this right after I received it that would not be cool but it also has The two and these were sent separately but the The ski sleds Carefully set it down. I'm carefully really carefully settle setting it down but it has the The sea sled, you know, it's got the And this I didn't notice this before but it has a backpack on it so they Like a diver can use it as like a jet thing through under underwater It's got the tiny little missiles on it. So this is this is really cool So I wanted to bring this on to thank Chris for it It's really awesome, and it's incredibly impressive here now that it's right in front of me But a review I know I believe I know specifically I Believe I know specifically When I want to review it. I'm gonna I think I know exactly what I want to do Hello, somebody came in here. Hello. Hey Cobra Island. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here Hello stone gate creations and anybody else who snuck in without me saying hi. Hello. Thank you for being here It's always a pleasure to have you on On a Tuesday evening I'm gonna put him. I'm gonna put him. He's gonna do some some He's gonna do some water sports here that's You know it's He likes his water sports No judging no judging some people like their water sports not my thing but you know How much does he like his water sports this diving suit was white But but but it's not now because you know He's into that kind of thing so I Had this is the first time I've been able to play around with this There's a foot peg on one side a foot peg on both sides might help The the handles there are just a little too big to fit in the hand And the thing will will collapse if you If you just rest the hands on him so I think that's the best way to do it he can hold it He can do his water sports Yeah, that's cool, that's cool. He's got missiles on it. That's that's this is incredibly intricate and it's really shows I think the The Opulence of the line in the late 80s it it's really incredible What they were doing in gi Joe at that time these vehicles are just enormous now Yes, this is ridiculously big and full of features But they did end up reusing the wheels in fact, I think the wheels got reused a couple times So, you know that so yes, even though even though they They did all this tooling for all this stuff on here. We still got to reuse the wheels. We got to We got to recycle something But but there's there's this is just cool So so thank you Chris and thank you for your long support Chris has been a great supporter of the show and Chris has an excellent show himself Which you probably already know about you you're more likely to be a viewer of Chris's show than my show So you probably already know that And you can check out his Indiegogo of his Vampirella cover So yeah, this it has like a hatch in the back Like everything opens up on it and that's one thing that I think is cool So ah see I knocked the missile off. So this is what I'm trying to not do I knocked two missiles off All right, so anyway Yeah, it's got a it's got a There we go a hatch in the back It's got a hatch in the back Opens up got a little troop compartment there. It's got these hatches on the sides um, it's got Uh another hatch on this side for the for the driver It had missiles on it, but I but I knocked it off Um, and it has these side things where like a uh Uh figure can man the missile launchers or whatever Um, so but you know what I haven't even mentioned what this is supposed to be this is the cobra bug is a Submarine tank That's that's that's how it's built a submarine tank um So, I mean we had several submarines in gi joe but Few of them. In fact, I can only think of one of them That was just a normal submarine You had the shark in 1984 that was a flying submarine Uh, and then you have this from 88 And this is a submarine tank You know, you gotta in cobra you have to have uh multiple functions. You gotta have multiple purposes um The bug yes the bug is a hatchback. Um Uh comic tropes is uh Appreciate the plug drew a cover for emperilla that Uh dynamite has for sale on indigo go for 15 more days. Yes 15 more days. Let's let let's help comic tropes Uh hit like a ridiculously high goal On his cover. I've already bought one Uh, and I hope that everyone else will buy one too um And again by way of thanks here's uh, I wanted to show off the tech the the sector viper He's uh, you know that that's not some damage, you know it The it was produced as yellow that the the suit was manufactured with yellow plastic. I'm just saying in universe The reason that it's yellow is because of the sector viper's particular, you know proclivities, uh, but it has the The bubble helmet that comes off That's frequently missing. This one does not have the pistol, but uh chris said that he is uh, he's getting the pistol so Then the sector viper will be complete. Yeah, I I know what I want to do with this. I know what I want to do with this guy Uh, and I'm really looking forward to it. This is going to be fun.  So I but I like that preparedness. I I appreciate that. Um Michael Mitchell says need the petition has lab for cobra heavy lift helicopter that was never produced I've always wanted that helicopter I would love to see that helicopter It's probably not possible to do it in classified scale But the the sky striker was in the three and three quarter inch scale so If we could get A transport helicopter like we never had before In the three and three quarter inch scale. I think a lot of people would be pretty jazzed about that Uh, hey, it's codename new two vera two. Uh, hi new two vera two. Um, I believe he was in at toy lanta recently I hope that was fun And uh, I hope hope some other folks were able to make it there too. I was not able to make it out But uh, but I hope everybody had a good time um Will says he wants a classified scale bug So so this This But large enough To accommodate figures this size. I think that's reasonable. Why not? Um, and gaihou is a marine so he would attack this thing, you know, this that could work I think I see no problem with that whatsoever um But yes, um Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just really trying to be careful with The large vehicle that's sitting next to me and I just really don't want to don't do not want to accidentally break it um Codename new two vera two says joe fest next absolutely Speaking of which, uh, marianne is going with me to joe fest. So for those of you who have not been able to Interact with her directly. Um, she should be there. So, you know, come and hang out with us um They're called the aspid in the idw run of real american hero. Yeah, the the aspid Um, the it the thing was I'm not sure exactly what the first issue was that it appeared in But the design was more or less consistent throughout the whole Run, I mean that there was modifications, you know, it but for the most part the overall design was consistent Oh, thank you comic troke. I heard larry hama got added to joe fest. Yes larry hama is is Going to joe fest larry hama will be at joe fest. So also will sergeant slaughter sergeant slaughter is confirmed But you know who's not confirmed uh ron rudat To my knowledge ron rudat has not been invited this year and I think that's a shame I've gotten to really enjoy Seeing and and talking with ron rudat when he is there. He's a very nice guy. Just a really sweet person um, so I don't I'm not getting a table I'm not getting a table this year, but if I were getting a table I would I would see about getting ron Out there and putting him at my table. I would I would do that. It's too late now because I didn't know that that was I didn't know that that was going to be necessary But I would really love to see ron out there Somebody bring ron bring ron. He loves coming and people love seeing them um, uh, georgia comic trope says did somebody ask where it was? Yes, uh comic uh Oh, uh, ismail says hi from argentina. Hello, argentina from the united states. Uh, love to see new benjamin. Thank you very much I'm working on it. I'm working on the the video that's taken two weeks Is almost done so yes, uh joe fest is in august of georgia. It is in june. Let me refresh my memory on uh It is uh, june 9th through the 11th june 9th through the 11th august of georgia. I will be there I was there last year. I will be there this year um Eric says htc got engine from I do I did get engines for the plane in fact I showed off the sky striker a couple um Well, maybe three live streams ago I do still have it and I do do still want to get um get it in front of a an hd camera, but that That segues to one thing that I that I need to Express it's a personal thing. I don't like to do too much personal stuff here, but it is it's a reality And it's affecting, you know the channel and that is like I'm really struggling with my energy levels right now like I I have have been unable to work at the The volume and the pace that I once did that I once did with ease right So I am putting out the maximum Content that I am able to right now um, but my batteries just have been wearing out way Uh quicker than they used to so I don't know what's up with that, but uh, but I do apologize for Uh, not having some content that I that I intend to have I I'm gonna get to everything I will get to everything, but my goodness. I just I I Uh, no matter what I try. I just cannot put out the same volume that I used to so Like, uh, I've been working on this Review for a couple weeks now. It's almost done But it's a review that should have just taken one week Um, I can still finish a regular review in in a week Right. I can still do that Um, but I also used to do classified reviews on fridays in addition to this live stream on tuesdays Sometimes I toss something up on a wednesday Um, you know, I I used to produce a lot more And man, I just I I just don't have the energy that I once did it's something that I'm trying to work on But just fyi fyi seasonable. I don't know if it's seasonable lose. I'm not really sure But uh, but it's frustrating Because the will is still there You know, I still greatly desire to get this stuff out and to make videos and to get things done and I just I can't I I wear down So anyway, it's It's a thing. It's a thing So, uh, so I guess what I would ask is everybody's patience Um, because I truly am Producing 100 of the content that I'm able to right now But I would really like to get back to the stuff like and that's not it's not just about content Um cobra convergence cobra convergence needs work. It's it's gotta get some work done You know, I need I need to work on that. I really need to work on that I'm but I'm gassed. I'm just gassed out and uh Uh, oh, I posted a while back that I was going to open up sketch commissions So that you could buy a sketch and I could use that for joe fest money I I haven't done that yet either. Man. I'm I'm just really Um, thank you draws. I really do appreciate it. Um, Don't I will I promise not the main line energy drinks Um, uh Yes, we are all yes, that that's the thing See, this is what I think if I go to a doctor and explain the problem and he'll diagnose me and say well You're you're old that that's your problem.  Have you have you seen your date of birth? That's the that's what gave gave it away. I looked at your date of birth I knew exactly what your issue was old man Sorry, there's no cure for it oldy um, but uh, yeah, it's um Comic trope says have you ever brought a Hama sketch. Yes, I have I have Do I have one or two? I think I have one Hama sketch. I don't think I got a second one I got a stalker and I still have it Obviously, I'm not getting rid of it. Um, but I um, I wanted to also get the the hooded version of cobra commander Obviously because of the name of the channel But I have not got around to that but I did get a stalker. It was really good. It was a really good one um I wonder if hasbro pulse will be at joe fest I don't think they usually go to joe fest because it's unofficial and I think they don't want to officially endorse the the convention because You know, they're nobody's paying a license fee for that and that might might Be seen as an official endorsement. So I don't think they will be there at least not officially at least not officially but But there will be lots of panels from lots of people Um, and since I won't have a table, I'll be able to go to all of the stuff I'll be more free To wander around go to the panels go hang out with people Something that it's not so easy for me to do when I'm when I've got a table and I'm supposed to be there um So I assume that that karson from three joes will have a panel Uh, that's one to not miss Um, I assume that joe declassified will have a panel. That's definitely one to not miss You know, uh This stuff is great and and I love going to it. I love seeing those things. So um Maybe it's your t levels. Uh, what is your t level? I think my my t level is um I my t level is about at time out. That's this. That's what this is time out time Time that's what my t levels are doing. My t levels are like time uh By it's something about viagra Uh, uh, michael and eric are talking about viagra. Um, yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe I just need viagra That's what it does, right? Just it it peps you up in a way Yeah Um, anyway, anyway, but anyway, that's that's the thing that I just wanted to share that I I'm I'm getting to things As quickly as I can I don't want to dive too much into anything personal because this that's not what this is about This is a gi joe channel We only talk about gi joe here. We don't we do not talk about any personal issues Uh, including my hemorrhoids.  That's that's it We we don't even believe anything else Has anybody ever actually even confirmed that other toy lines exist empirically I mean has anybody even actually seen a he-man? huh I'm not so sure I demand proof But you know what we can confirm beyond any doubt is that gi joe toys exist in plastic because i'm holding one right now Look, i'm holding a gi joe action figure. Therefore it exists. Am I holding a he-man action figure? No Therefore, I think he-man does not exist It's the only toy line that ever existed. Nobody's ever played with anything else Um, uh one. Yeah, what exactly what other toy lines? We only talk about gi joe here. That's it. Nothing. Um, is the glider 118 scale. Um, yeah, it's well the um The uh the figures for stargate for this line Are um are pretty close to 118 scale, but they're wider. They're wider than gi joe figures So this should fit the stargate line of figures But we've already established that these vehicles don't fit gi joe very well At least not without some you need to Keep it in so you didn't need some way to to hold it in But it's roughly roughly gi joe scale Uh, not exactly so, um Yeah, he's got like a He's got like a a turkey head See is this how is this how the ancient egyptians the space egyptians celebrate Thanksgiving? They put turkeys on their heads Anyway, and also a really great job breathing in space Um, and I he doesn't like he doesn't he's not wearing a spacesuit. He's he's got he's got no shirt on As far as I know there aren't any space spacesuits Where you go shirtless? Uh, but but still they're really impressive. Um, actually, you know, they're Even in toy lines that are in generally in general not very good There's usually At least one item that is really cool and you know is desired by collectors This is definitely that for the stargate line Absolutely. Um, oh and by the way, this hasbro stargate line Um, it included the the gi joe vehicle that did not appear in the movie You know what it did not include A stargate It did not the stargate line No stargate geniuses great job hasbro of the mid 90s. Great job. You nailed it You you managed to create the toy line With absolute minimal effort great job Um Why am I playing with marianne's toy marianne has different toys for different purposes? That's not that's not hers She's got a wharf. She's got two wharves. She she has toys She has action figures, I should say, but um, that's that's not it. It's it's not that's it's she's she likes She likes wharf. She likes wharf so much. She got two wharves Share same shame hasbro didn't release a new mask line that fits the jovers. I think that um Yeah, Seinfeld in trouble the the the mask line I Hasbro does does have they own that now and they They released a matte tracker some years ago But I think the feeling is that A mask toy line would Compete with gi joe rather than compliment it So For that reason, I think it's hard to get a mask a mask re Um Rebirth a mask resurgence a a return of mask a return of the mask if you if you will Uh, worth. Yes, worth son of mode um Because I think because of gi joe and I I'm no market scientist I can't say if they're right about that or not, but I I think the thinking is That it It would compete with existing brands Um I don't know. I really I don't know Would it I I have no idea But I mean There's no legal barrier. They could do it. They could do it. Maybe for some special occasion. They will do it um Zim Zams asks if we're talking mask. No, we're not talking mask We don't we only talk about one toy line here and that is gi joe No other toy lines exist All the only things that exists are are things like like this this cobra bug. That's from gi joe And and this cobra secto viper That's from gi joe and it's and it's uh this gung ho retro That's from gi. Look it even says gi joe on it. That's the only thing we talk about I don't even know about any other toy lines In fact, I don't know anything about toys, you know in general It's the only toy I know about I'm pretty sure it's the only toy that existed Like look look I'm holding a gung ho it is solid it exists in three dimensions. It is tangible And I ask you Where are the transformers, huh? I'm not touching a transformer transformers don't appear to exist in three dimensions Therefore gi joe is the only toy line that exists. Thank you cobra island for the super chat My battle of the sub team starts next tuesday hcc. All right. Check out Uh cobra island's battle of the sub teams It is kind of apropos because the the thing that i'm working on Is from a sub team. It's uh It's a whole thing um Uh reyman no need to apologize No need to apologize. Just glad you're here. Glad you're here Um, I used to attach the submarine part of the bug as a kid. I mean, um, I take it into the bathtub. Yeah, I know that a lot of Now think about this This may be a little bit disturbing a lot of these water-based toys Uh, a lot of these water-based toys would have uh, would have been played with in the bathtub um with children who were Taking a bath at the time um It's a little bit just i hopefully they've been cleaned Hopefully they've been sanitized That's all i'm saying Um, but yes that the water-based toys. That's that's a thing that you do um Kevin do you have anything to say about that? No Okay. Yeah, kevin doesn't want to talk. Anyway, so um Rob is looking forward to the uh the sub team showdown um Battle force 2000 was a great set had all of them, but the jet um With the orb turret. Yeah the um Oh, man, why am I blanking on that? Yeah, I did I reviewed all of the battle force 2000 figures and vehicles um That was a while ago and now i'm blanking The vector the vector jet. Thank you. Good grief. You cannot rely on my memory for anything um Water probably screws the stickers stickers um possibly so but these are vinyl stickers so in theory they should be fairly robust with water now in For vehicles from the 90s Um, they switched from the vinyl stickers to the paper stickers um That bug was floating in in a tepid pool of someone else's filth Yeah, you know this and as a collector I'm thrilled to get it now. Um What was I saying so, um Uh, I don't know what whatever. Oh, yeah stickers stickers. Um in the 90s. They switched to paper stickers um Not only did they switch to paper stickers. They also had Vehicles and figures with water shooting gimmicks And that seems like it's not going to be a good combination with paper stickers The vinyl stickers I think were fairly robust. Um, I think a lot of the the paper stickers have held up But I think they've mainly held up because they're not as old Um, how well will they hold up after you know another decade or so? Uh of wear But uh, but it does seem strange to me that We're switching to paper stickers even on water vehicles even on vehicles where you're supposed to spray water on them um An unusual choice unusual, uh nyquist says smell it. Um No I'll I'll save that I'll save that. Hey, I'll save that for the review Yeah, that's that that's why you need to tune in for the review to see how it how it smells Yeah, but think think about where your your your, uh, gi joes shark submarines And your barracudas think about where they may have been Oh, we were all kids, right?  Let's talk about something else. Yeah, it smells like teen spirit Let's talk about something else. Um, what the heck else can we talk about anything anything? So, um This This is the the item from the stargate line that I think even like if you're not interested in the line itself You probably still want to get a hold of if you if you're just a general toy collector Um, this thing is not a copy of a gi joe anything Um, this seems to be totally tooled new like total new tooling Um, at least as far as I can tell I haven't opened it yet. Um But every toy line seems to have at least one thing for instance Uh, sergeant savage the sergeant savage toy line somewhat maligned Since it came out, but The p40 warhawk the the airplane from that line I think is most people think is still really cool And if you're not if you're gonna get anything from that line, it's it's the warhawk that you probably want to Uh want to get Rub it up bug Hgc 788 with his toys and stuff. You know what that is I I cannot include that in the video because I will definitely get demonetized So I cannot play With the toys in the bathtub. I cannot recreate those moments from childhood Um, because because youtube will not let me So yeah, you know, anyway, uh Uh Yes, uh Yes, uh, uh future fortress maxima says uh the battle force 2000 drivers did not come with their vehicles, but why the my only guess Is so that has broken milk a few extra bucks Um out of the kids, they probably made a few pennies more By selling the figures separate from the vehicles rather than including them with the vehicles I have to assume um It may have had something to do with item count Because if you recall like the first wave of battle force 2000 figures were on two packs They they were it was there were two packs two figures per card and not with a vehicle um, so Uh, I don't know. They may there may have been something it may have had something to do with them trying to Hit a certain number of items For the year I'm not really sure But uh, but it's something i'm not a fan of I that's something that star wars did If you remember star wars the the kenner star wars is that the the pilots were always sold separately from the vehicles Uh, and what inevitably happened at least for me Is you'd have the pilot But not the spaceship So you get you have like a Uh twin pod cloud car pilot That doesn't has nothing to fly so he can just stand there He gets to stand in the background Because he doesn't have a spaceship because as a kid I didn't you know, I didn't have every spaceship So so what do you do when you get a pilot?  I think most of the figures are really well designed Really well sculpted. Uh, they have a lot of color a lot of detail It looks like its own toy line Right, it looks it looks like it doesn't need to be associated with gi joe at all it looks like its own toy line and uh when we were kids at least me and my brother and sam Uh, we did have some battle force 2000, but we kind of play play with them separately We didn't really mingle them with gi joe that much because they didn't seem to fit You know, they didn't fit well with gi joe, but they did fit well together You know, if they they did make kind of a cohesive unit Uh, it's and that that worked that worked um, but um Anyway, yeah, I I'm not a fan of the practice of selling vehicle drivers Um separate from the vehicles Uh, if if the vehicle has a driver then then stick the driver with him if he if he doesn't then then don't Um, oh wait, they did this also with With a few other like 90s um Figures, I believe mega marines clutch Was supposed to be the driver of the Of the monster blaster and he and he was sold separately Um, so yeah, no not a not. I'm not a fan of the practice I'm not a fan of the practice And I think it's okay. If a vehicle does not come with a driver That's all right, you know, you can you can put any action figure you want in it Anybody drives it. Okay fine fine fine fine But if you're going to specifically have a specific driver for that specific vehicle then He needs to come with the vehicle Don't make me go out and find it And have to buy it separately to have the driver um, but anyway, um Uh, it's uh Raymond says feeling down can I get your encouragement to uh, film my replacement sky striker unboxing Raymond Film your replacement sky striker unboxing. This is important, especially if you can do it like um You know like an actual video rather than Like what i'm doing On on a live stream because I I did unbox mine on the live stream, but People would like to see what's in the box Um, so I think you need to give the people what they want I haven't been able to do like a full review Of the sky striker so you will jump the gun on me. You will be ahead of the game So this is my encouragement Go go for it get the camera out Crank it up. This is what you do with cameras, right? The that's how you work a camera Something like that crank it up And shoot that sky striker Uh forgo gimmicks and include the driver instead. I I agree victor. Um, the gimmicks 90s became a lot about the gimmicks and gimmicks aren't always bad But when they limit play rather than expand play then um Then I'd rather just not have them uh Lobotomax needed his own vehicle. Well, he was from space um And what did they have like cobra had the the invader Um, which he would not fit in there's no way he would fit in the invader So how does he get how does he get from outer space? To earth without a spaceship Um, I this is how He swims he has to swim really really far And thank you Raymond. Thank you Um, what about the detonator? Uh, necro asked something about the detonator um Something about the detonator, um, I don't have the detonator. I do want to get the detonator my My recollection off the top of my head is that the driver for the detonator Um, is the only vintage figured that did not include a file card There was a later file card that was issued Or I think it was fan made and that was kind of just adopted as a semi official file card. Um Could you use the bug in space? um Yeah, obviously I mean it had look it has Bubbles it has clear bubbles therefore it is probably mainly a spacecraft And that's probably its main purpose Is to go to space I mean look at that Would you drive that around on earth? I wouldn't but would you drive this around in space? Then you'd be pretty stylish Come up on the millennium falcon. We like hey, hon. Take this And then like blow up the millennium falcon and Chewbacca is in a bunch of Chewbitties you make Chewbitties out of Chewbacca Um, I apologize Star Wars fans for saying that about the Star Wars except I don't really apologize Star Wars fans Chewbacca boom um, yeah, so um Rob says he's got to run. Okay, Rob. Get your exercise. Thank you for being here Uh, but Rob's gonna go run now. Good. Have a great afternoon. Get get your running in get your steps in Uh, looks like Homer Simpson designed it. Yeah, um, it is it is interesting, isn't it? It's it's very asymmetrical And um, I've I've got to like I've got to talk a lot about the design because wow um because they're like We're gonna put a bubble on this side I I I'm sorry. I kind of groped that bubble. I apologize I'm sorry. Um, I kind of put a bubble on this side where the bubble goes on this side. What are we gonna put on the other side? Two bubbles. Yes Uh on the top on the top we need another bubble Um, so yeah that this is it's an eclectic design Now it is it is First of all, it's huge. It's very large um, and second of all it is Loaded with features. There is a ton Of features all over this thing. It is a great value and it has tons of play value for kids. It's incredible Um, the the design is wacky though. I mean, but that that's cobra for you. That's cobra for you Cobra had some wacky designs Somebody was asking earlier about the the weirdest vehicles Uh cobra is gonna have most of those if you were to make a top 10 Of weirdest vehicles cobra would have most of them um So, uh, yeah a trouble bubble You know what it would have been cool. So if you could if if you could dock a trouble bubble on this But a trouble bubble is for the air. This is a submarine tank.  You can pick it up. You could make it fly. So now it's a flying tank And if it's a flying tank, you know, you could you could dock a trouble bubble on here and have yet another bubble Yet another bubble on this thing Um, so oh my goodness. Oh, I just realized it's eight o'clock. It's time for what's on your mind. I didn't realize I went over Forgot to get this and we'll get to this next week. Uh, thank you everybody for showing up I'm gonna let everybody, uh, skip over to what's on your mind. I also got to take care of a few things Uh, I got to knock a few things out, uh, tonight before I go to bed Thank you everybody for being here. It's been Uh, a lot of fun And we're gonna keep going. Thank you comic tropes. Thank you for thank you for everything comic tropes So comic tropes has been a very good friend, uh, and a really great guy So, uh, thank you. I will see all of you Next week and I'm going to get that video done. I'm working on it right now So good night everyone and I will see you next time.