Welcome to this CUBE conversation that is a part of the AWS startup showcase. I'm Lisa Martin. I've got with me now the CEO of Aizon, John Vitale. John, welcome to the CUBE. Lisa, it's a pleasure to be here. Nice to see you. Likewise, so give your audience an overview of Aizon and what it is that you guys are specifically in pharma and life sciences. Well, you can find that in the name of the company, Aizon, we think of us as leading customers to the horizon of AI in pharmaceutical and biological manufacturing. And we're all about helping our customers take the step into pharma 4.0 and really realize the value of leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence in the manufacturing process so they can get higher yields and predictability and ultimately better outcomes for their patients. Is your technology built on AWS? Absolutely, from the ground up. Talking about that. Yeah, we leverage as much as we can from AWS's innovation and a few years ago when our founders envisioned the future of manufacturing in this industry and where it needs to go, first thought was go with a leader to build the solutions. And of course, AWS is by far the largest provider of this type of technology. And we're happy to say that we're helping and partnering with AWS to advance the science of artificial intelligence in life sciences. And it's just a natural fit for us to continue to leverage the platform on behalf of our customers. I like that, the AI horizon, excellent. So talk to me a little bit about, the last year has been presented many challenges and also opportunities for people in every industry. I'm just wondering what are some of the changes that we've seen pharma and life sciences companies have become household names, for example, but talk to me about some of the key initiatives in smart manufacturing and what pharma companies require. We're sure, pharma companies and biotech companies alike are looking to the lessons from other industries where AI has been widely adopted. If you look at manufacturing and other industries, it's been widely adopted for a number of years. Tesla is a great example of how to use AI and robotics and data science to advance the efficiency of manufacturing globally. That's exactly what we're trying to achieve here in life sciences. So a lot of the leading innovators in this space have been working in their labs with data science teams to find new ways to collect data, to cleanse that data, make it data that's useful across the enterprise. But they haven't really tackled continuous processing in manufacturing yet. There are a number of leaders that are mapping out strategies and they've begun to go down this path. But most are really looking at how first to bring the data together in a way that it could be democratized and anonymized in some cases and used across the enterprise. There's a model that we've adopted in terms of our product strategy and how we engage customers. And that's the pharmaceutical maturity model which was developed by the bio forum. This maturity models is a great way for companies and vendors alike and innovators to look at how to help advance their capabilities from one level to the next. And so we help customers understand where they are in that journey. And we look for the areas where they can get traction more quickly, they can see value sooner and therefore the adoption would be accelerating across their sites and in different ways of use. Is that maturity model, that pharma maturity model, is it built on or based on digital transformation? Absolutely, it's all about digital transformation. And so the model really begins with pre-digital and you'd be amazed to find, I think, the amount of Excel spreadsheets they're still used in manufacturing today. And that would be what we would consider to be pretty much pre-digital because that data is not accessible. It's only used by the operator or the user. So it's really about getting from that level to breaking down data silos and bringing that data together and harmonizing the data and making it useful. The next level would be about the connected plant, actually connecting machines and data lakes to begin to get more value and find more ways to improve the processes. And then you move up to using advanced analytics and AI and then ultimately have an enterprise-wide adaptive manufacturing capabilities which is really the ultimate vision and ultimate goal every manufacturer has. One of the things John that we've been talking about for the last 14 plus months or so is really the acceleration in cloud adoption, digital transformation as really a survival mechanism that many industries undertook. And we saw all of us go remote or many of us and be dependent on cloud-based collaboration tools. For example, I'm curious in the pharmaceuticals industry, again, as I said, we know that the big three and four household names that many of us have been following for the last 14 months or so. What have you seen in terms of acceleration in pharma companies going, all right, we need to figure out where we are in this maturity model. We need to be able to accelerate drug discovery, be able to get access to data. Has that accelerated in the COVID era? COVID has been the great catalyst of all time for this industry. And I think it was a wake-up call for a lot of people in the industry to recognize that just because we have the highest quality standards and we have a highest level of compliance requirements and we ultimately all think about efficacy and patient safety as our goal to achieve the highest levels of quality, everyone agrees with that. What the realization was is that we do not have the capacity in any geography or with any company to meet the demands that we're seeing today. Demands to get product to market, the demand to get the supply chain right and make it work for manufacturing. An opportunity to partner to get there. You could see that by the way companies came together to partner for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing production. And so it was a wake-up call. That is time to get over the kind of cultural barriers, risk inversion and really come together to coalesce around a smart manufacturing strategy. That has to be combined with a GXP or good manufacturing compliance standards. And that has to be designed in to the technology and manufacturing processes. Together that's farmer 4.0. Got it, thank you. Let's dig in more to that GXP compliance. I know you guys, we talk about that in different industries, the X for X type of industry. Talk to me about the compliance regulations and your GXP AI platform and how you guys built on top of Amazon help customers evolve their maturity and facilitate compliance. Absolutely. So as I alluded to earlier, one of the biggest challenges is just getting the data together in a place that you can actually manage it. And because there's so many legacy systems and predominantly on-prem technologies in use today. Cloud is starting to gain a lot more traction, but it's been limited to kind of tier two and tier three data. So now we're seeing, you know, the recognition that just having a data lake isn't enough. And so we have to overcome, you know, the biggest barrier is really a version to change. And change management is really a huge part of any customer being successful. And I think with AWS and us, we're working together to help customers understand the type of change management that's required. And it's not enough to say, well, we're going to apply the old techniques and processes and use new technology. It just doesn't work that way. If you're adding people and scaling up people just to do validation work on a brand new platform like AWS offers and like we offer on top of AWS, you just won't get the return on investment. You won't get the outcomes and results you're targeting. You have to really have a full strategy in place. But you can start in small ways. You could start to get traction with use cases that, you know, might not have the huge impact that you're looking for, but it's a way to get started. And the AWS platform is, you know, a great way to look at a strategy to scale manufacturing not just in one site, but across multiple sites because it's really a data management strategy. For us, using AWS components to build our data collection technology was the starting point. So how do you bring this data together and make it easy and with low overhead and begin to use AI at the point of collection? So we built our technology with AWS components to do that. It's called, we call them B data feeders.  We also, because of the way AWS innovated around data management, we can use a multitude of components to continue to build capabilities on top of what we have today. So we're excited to partner to follow the AWS roadmap, but also continue to add value to what AWS does today for customers. Right, seems very symbiotic, but also it gives you, the platform gives you the agility and the flexibility that you need to turn things on a dime. I like how you said COVID was a catalyst. I've been saying that for a year now. There are things that it has catalyzed for the good. And one of those that we've seen repeatedly is that the need for real-time data access in many industries like life sciences and pharma is no longer a nice to have, but it's incredibly challenging to get real-time access to high-quality data, be able to run analytics on that, identify where the supply chain or the manufacturing process, for example, things can be optimized. Give me an example or some examples of some of the use cases that you guys are working with customers on. I imagine things like batch process optimization, anomaly detection, but what are some of those key use cases in which you really excel? Well, it all starts with what we can do around predictions. There's a lot of data science work being done today to understand variability and how to reduce deviations and how to get more of predictions to know what is expected to happen. But a lot of that doesn't get applied to the processes. It's not applied as a change to the process because that requires revalidation of that entire process. Our platform brings huge value to customers and partners because we do the qualification and validation on the platform in real-time. And so that eliminates the needs to go back out and deploy people and track and re-document and re-validate what's going on in the process. So that just takes a huge responsibility in some cases, liabilities off of the operators and the folks analyzing the data. So that's really to get to real-time, you have to think carefully about how to apply AI because AI was developed in a scientific way but you also have to apply it in a scientific way to these critical processes in manufacturing. And so that's only done on a platform. You can't do it on a kind of standalone basis. You have to leverage a platform because you're analyzing changes to the data and to the code being used to collect and analyze the data. That all has to be documented. And that's done by our capabilities that we're using to audit or create audit trails to any changes that are happening in the process. And so that's a critical process of monitoring capability that is almost impossible to do manually. And some would say it's impossible to do manually. So the ability to qualify algorithms to validate in real-time enables real-time manufacturing. And there's a FDA, I wouldn't say mandate but guidance called Continuous Process Verification, CPV, that they will be coming out with additional guidance on that this year. That's really there to tell manufacturers that they should be getting to real-time capabilities. They should be driving their investments and types of deployments to get to real-time manufacturing. That's the only way you can predict deviations and predict anomalies and deal with them in the process and track it. So give me a snapshot of a customer or two that you worked with in the last year as they were rapidly evolving and adjusting to the changes going on. How did you help some of these customers extract more value from their pharma manufacturing processes, understand what it is that they need to do to embrace AI and get to that real-time? Absolutely, so most of our customers are facing the challenge and dilemma that just adding more people and more resources and even upgrading existing technologies or adding more data scientists has a limit. They've reached the limit of improvement that they can make to these processes in the output in manufacturing. So the next natural step would be to say, okay, what science can I apply here and what technology is available to really get to that next one or 2% improvement in the processes? And it's really critical to look at, not just one use case, but how can I address multiple problems using the same technology? So bringing multivariable, excuse me, analysis capabilities is something that's done in every other industry, but it has not been applied here in terms of changing how manufacturing works. Today we can do that. We can do multivariable analysis in real-time. We can predict what will happen. We can actually alert the operator to make changes to the process based on a number of predictions of what will happen in a batch or a series of batches in manufacturing. We've also bring unstructured data into those calculations that wasn't possible before cloud technology came along and before AI was deployed. So now we can look at environmental inputs. We can look at upstream data that can be used for improving the yield on batches. So the main focus today is, how do I reduce my risk around asset management? How can I improve visibility into the supply chain? How can I reduce deviations in these processes? How can I get more yield? How can I optimize the yield in any given batch to improve the entire process but also reduce costs in each step of the way? So the good news is that when you apply our technology and our know-how, there's an immediate positive impact. There's a customer we're working with, a very large customer where we walked in and they said, we have this problem. We've reached a certain level of optimization in yield, we can't seem to get it to go any higher. And within six weeks, we had a solution in place and we were saving them tens of millions of dollars in material loss just in that one step in the process. That's worth hundreds of millions of dollars in terms of finished product. And if you apply that across multiple lines and across multiple manufacturing sites for that customer, we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars of savings. So- Significant impact, significant business impact that your customers, I saw on the website, ROI and what was it, six, I want to get this right. I had it here somewhere quite quickly. But the key thing there is that these organizations actually are really moving their business forward. You just gave some great examples of how you can do that in just kind of a phase one of the project. Let me ask you this, in a post COVID world, assuming we'll get there hopefully soon, where is in your opinion AI and ML for pharma companies, is it going to be something that is for those that adopt it and adopt all the change management needed to do that? Is it going to be kind of the factor in deciding the winners and the losers of tomorrow? Well, I don't want to lay down predictions like that, but what I would say is all of thought leaders out there have openly shared and privately shared that this is exactly where the industry has to go to meet the demands, not just of wrapping up COVID-19 vaccine production on a global basis, which we have to do. It's also dealing with how do we scale up for personalized medicine, which requires small batch manufacturing? How do we turn over lines of manufacturing more efficiently to get more drugs to market, more different types of drugs to market? How do contract manufacturers deal with all these pressures and still serve their customers and innovate? There's also the rise of generics there that's bringing on cost pressures for big pharma, particularly and so these are all moving the industry in the right direction. To respond to these on an individual basis would definitely require the use of AI and ML, but when you bring it all together, there's a huge, huge push for finding breakthroughs to increase capacity and quality at the same time. Yeah, tremendous opportunities. My last question for you, John, is a bit more on the personal side.  What drew you to AISON when you have the opportunity? I can only imagine based on some of the things that you've said, but what was it that you said this is my next great opportunity? That's a great question because I asked myself that question. So having been in the industry for a long time and having been with very innovative companies my whole career, I knew that manufacturing had fallen behind even further in terms of innovating using the latest cloud technologies and AI in particular. I knew that from running another company that focused on the use of predictive analytics. And so given all the vectors coming together and the market pressure that's happening on the technology, absolutely being a maturity level that we could make these things a reality for customers and the size of the challenge and market opportunity was just overwhelming.  So I'm very happy to be leading such a great team and amazing, amazing talent at AISON and super excited about our partnership with AWS and where that's going and solving very complex and very critical challenges that our customers are facing together as partners. Absolutely. Well, John, thank you for joining me today and talking to us about who AISON is, what you're doing, particularly in pharma and life sciences, smart manufacturing and what you're enabling in a COVID catalysis sort of way. We appreciate you joining us here today. This has been a pleasure. Thanks for having me. Likewise, for John Vitale, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE.


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Okay, Spaceman131326 says, besides one rare GI Joe worth $20,000, can you do a top ten video of three-and-three-quarter that are rare and worth the most money? I would like to know the value of the top ten or top twenty GI Joe slash cover figures and vehicles, as well as if you can find out how many were made of that figure line because they do list it some sometimes. And there's a link here. Now this is a cool idea and if I made a video like that a lot of people would probably watch it because people like those top ten type videos. I don't think I will do it mainly because I try not to go too much into pricing on this channel in my videos. I don't want people to use my videos as a price guide mainly because prices change so fast. If I were to put up a video and tell even if I could determine like the average or the mean value of an item, you know, by the time you watch it almost it would be outdated. So I try to stay with that. I will talk about price in relative terms or in general terms, but I try not to talk about price or value of items in specific terms so I probably won't do that. But if anybody were interested in doing that and wanted to take the time to do the research, that would be a very interesting video. It's not a bad idea. Okay, Brian Reese says, do you collect any modern era shows? Not really. Like I said, I do have a few, but I don't consider myself to be a modern era collector. I have the thought that maybe after I got everything from the vintage line, like everything, everything, I would go on to collect modern figures and vehicles. But I don't think I'm gonna do that. I have some, so I know what they're like and I've seen a lot of them, but I'm not making the connection to the modern shows that I have with the vintage shows. So I just don't think I'm gonna go there. Let's see. Tim Roper says, my question is, which non-army builder figure makes a good army builder? So typically a named character isn't usually one you would buy multiples of, other versions notwithstanding, right? But you might get away with having a few wetsuits or charbrals and drinks. Okay, good point. I think though, I'm gonna go with Cobra though, because when I think of army building, I really think I think of Cobra. Cobra is a great army building enemy. Lots of great army building figures. But a figure that is not an army builder that might make a great one, I think maybe Firefly.  So you can have a little squad of Fireflies and that would be pretty awesome. Like some kind of a SWAT team or something or like some, I don't know, some kind of Special Forces infiltration team of Fireflies. I think that would be pretty cool. Okay, RF5, I'm sorry, RF, sorry, five days ago, RF said, C1, what percentage of your collection is from your childhood? 0%. I don't have anything left for my childhood. However, there is a rumor that somewhere in my brother's storage unit, there is a toolbox that has some of our childhood GI shows in it. That's the rumor anyway. I have asked my brother to dig it out. He hasn't done that yet. But if I ever get my hands on that, then I will open it for you. You can see whatever is left of my childhood collection. I don't think it's very much, but it's whatever fit in that little toolbox. Next question is, what made you decide to start collecting as an adult? Well, I tell you, I was actually going through some rough times. I was having a really hard time, I don't know, two, three years ago. I was looking for something that was just fun and distracting. I thought maybe I'd find something from my childhood that just reminds me of good things, good times, fun times. So I started looking. Well, see, I thought transformers or Star Wars, those didn't quite cut it. I didn't have enough really great memories of those. But GI Joe, I still had a lot of fun memories about. I just started looking at Yojo.com. I just started looking at the different figures on Yojo.com and just kind of remembering which ones I had, which ones I didn't have. Looking at some of the stuff that came later after I stopped collecting and see what happened to GI Joe after I left it. That was a lot of fun and that sort of started the ball rolling. Then I started looking at eBay and seeing how much they cost to get them complete and get them again. Then I got Breaker. Breaker was the first one that I got as an adult collector because it was the first year that I got as a kid, straight-on Breaker from 1982. That's kind of what got me started. My life did get better. I had a rough patch there. But GI Joe sort of helped me through that and I enjoyed it and I still do. What compelled you to start a YouTube channel dedicated to GI Joe's toys slash reviews? I sort of answered this earlier. I did have an older YouTube channel that was more about politics and political science and philosophy and law and the economics and stuff like that. But I didn't want to do that anymore but I wanted to do something on YouTube. I had experience in producing content for YouTube and I just really wanted to get back to YouTube. It seemed like a good idea and so I gave it a try. Again, I didn't intend to do toy reviews at first but that's kind of what I ended up doing. Let's see. For what other items, if any, do you collect? I don't really collect anything right now. There are some things that I'd kind of like to get into but I'm refraining because I don't want the collecting to get out of hand. It's got to keep it within reason. But someday, someday there might be a few other things that I get. Okay. Itamirut says, which are your top three favorite 90s GI Joe's and why? I know you're more into 80s ones but I'm curious if you can name three that you really like from the next decade. Okay. Well, I can only really comment on the 90s Joe's that I have. I can't really comment on any 90s Joe's that I don't have so that would make my top three then ambush because I think he comes with great accessories, really cool figure, recoil, great figure, great sculpt. I like the digital camouflage, really cool. And then Jabang because those are the only three 90s Joe's that I have right now. So Jabang makes the list by default. That list will grow. I know that there are some other 90s figures that I will probably really like but I don't have them yet. So things to look forward to in the future. We'll see where that goes. Okay. Magic Rooster Blues says, what is your original inspiration for starting the channel? Passion for the greatest action figure line ever conceived? Yeah, I talked about this a little bit. Wanted to do something on YouTube. Wanted to do little GI Joe movies. I had this whole GI Joe movies script planned out but it just got to be too much. It was more than I could reasonably do and so I ended up doing tour reviews and every once in a while I'll do a little action scene for a minute, minute and a half something like that. And I'm having fun with that but I do have some other ideas, some other things that I like to do. You know, some things that'll maybe make the channel a little bit more fun but you know, that's just kind of how I ended up doing this. Okay, Rick Ice says, I have a few questions for you. Have you got any collecting strategies? No, I don't. I tried. I tried. I tried to like do a year at a time but I completely failed because there are other things come up and I want them and so other things and things that I was going to get they have to you know, go lower on the priority list because other things come into my attention and I have to get them. So now, collecting strategy, now that's straight out the window. I have no collecting strategy. It's whatever. I can come across you know and whatever I think I can get at the time. And this this has created some problems because people request reviews of me. They have things they want me to review. I don't have the item yet so I want to get the item so I can do the request to review. So I look for it and I think okay well the prices on this they're not too good. I think I can get a better price if I'm a little bit more patient and then something else will come along and then it just it's completely messed up. No strategy. Any attempts at at a collecting strategy have totally failed. If you're going to start a collection, try to have a strategy and stick with it. This is what happens if you don't. Let's see. What else? What do you think of the figure series after 1994? I don't really consider them vintage after 94 and so I don't really know what I think of them. I don't really know much about them so you know I can't really say. It's something that I may look into in the future but I can't really answer that right now. How do you organize spaces for your collection? Have you set a goal for your collection? Will you review other comics other than your first year's issues? Thank you very much. You're welcome very much. Organizing space for my collection again like my collecting strategy totally out the window. Now I'm just trying to find any space that I can fit new stuff because I'm about out of room and I don't I got more stuff coming in and I don't know where I'm gonna put it so I don't have any good way to plan out my space. I don't really have a lot of space of my own where I can set up my own stuff so something's gonna have to radically change. I'm gonna have to work on that but because it's reaching like a critical level now. I'm having a hard time finding any space for anything new. And then let's see review comics. Okay a goal for your collection. I want to have everything from the vintage line. However long that takes may take forever maybe I'll never attain that goal but that's the goal. I've decided that I need to be a completist. That's just how my personality works. And other comics other than the first year's issue. Yes eventually I'd like to review the entire Marvel run. It's just gonna take a long time and I've kind of stalled on that right now. I hope in the near future I can get that kick started again. Alright Blake Cabrera says if you found a complete create a cobra action figure at a flea market garage sale or eBay would you pay $50 for it? Yes because that would be a bargain for a complete create a cobra figure. You know vintage you know actual real not a repro or anything like that. Yeah I take that deal. The create a cobra figure is another one that I don't really like the action figure and they're really frickin expensive and it's another one I'm really not looking forward to spending a lot of money on a figure that I don't like. So if I ran across one for 50 bucks yeah you could not get the money out of my wallet fast enough. Yes I would take that deal. Tony Jackson favor cobra commander hooded battle or battle armored. I'm gonna go with the battle cobra commander along with the silver face mask. Now I really like hooded cobra commander. It's the name of this channel and it the hooded cobra commander has a special mystique for me because I didn't have one as a kid. I didn't get the mail away but that that classic silver mask there's just something so sinister about it that I I think that's my favorite. I'm gonna see I'll see and then chrome dome destro or iron grenadier goldhead destro. Another good question. I like the uniform for the iron grenadier destro. I think it looks a lot more military. It doesn't have the open disco collar with the medallion on it. So I like the uniform but I like the classic silver head. So if I could if I could have the the iron grenadier uniform with the silver head I think that would be perfect. Okay Troy Smith do you plan to do more action films? Yes. And can you talk about your camera and editing equipment. I talked about that a little bit earlier. I have an HD Samsung camera really inexpensive camera and you know Sony editing software that you know it's the stuff that you pay for it's not the free stuff and you know it works well enough and I've got enough experience using it that I didn't do a few tricks with it so yeah that's my stuff. Okay Bjorn Jacob Benonison and I apologize if I miss pronouncing names. This is the best I can do. I'm from Oklahoma. Give me a break. When you and your friends played with Joe's as kids did you always play as Joe's or did you play as Cobra sometimes? Do you make a scenario before you started playing or did you just jump into battle? Happy New Year from Norway. Happy New Year Norway from the United States. The answer is both. We played both GI Joe and Cobra. When my friends and I played we would often just sort of start out with an idea like this is what they're gonna be after they're gonna be trying to get this secret plan or something and we create a little scenario it wouldn't be all planned out but we'd have a starting point and we just go in all different directions and so everybody would be some Joe and some Cobra and you know you'd have the interactions and sometimes though we would just want to have a big battle and we in somebody's backyard either ours or a friend's you're like set up GI Joe on one side and set up Cobra on the other side and we spent a lot of time running between them because we would want our Joe's to attack specific Cobra guys and so we would kind of play both sides of that and create a whole scenario. Sometimes we'd have like sub plots of our of our main story. We got pretty elaborate. From Twitter Eric Diorio asks when do you think GI Joe jumped the shark? Cobra law man. Cobra law. And that's not to say that there was nothing good that came after the 1987 GI Joe animated movie. Sure good stuff from GI Joe came out after that that's not what I'm saying but I mean this whole idea of jump the shark comes from a happy days episode when the fawns jumped a shark and it was just ridiculous and it's that point where you realize they're pretty much out of ideas. Oh there may have been some good happy days episodes after the jump the shark episode I don't know but the point is after they jumped the shark they can't really go back and to me that's what Cobra law is to me. It was just about a hundred steps too far and that just really broke it for me so yeah that's what I would say is that's when I'd say they jumped the shark. Okay next question is from MTN Nut says how about a video tour of your Joe space excuse me as part of your year in special? Well I'm not going to do it as part of the year in special but I do have a plan for to do something like that I have a specific plan not ready to do it yet but it's coming it's in the works it doesn't work but I don't have it ready for the end of the year. CM Brewer asks have you reviewed the Sears Cobra command center? No not yet I don't have it yet I want it that is one of my holy grails someday it will be mine there have been occasions when I've run across one and I mean it was a reasonable price but I didn't have the money at the time to get it and then there are other times when I have the money but I can't find one sometimes can't find one at all and sometimes you can find one but it's not a reasonable price and so I just haven't been able someday those two things the money and the price will come together and I'll get one but it hasn't happened yet but believe me I've got my eyes open that that's what I need to complete 1982 that's what I need get that 1982 done so someday someday probably not soon but someday all right on Facebook Jeff Adams asks what would you consider to be the most underrated vehicle from GI Joe and Cobra the most underrated vehicle I think the old 1982 MOBAT is a little bit underrated and I can understand why it doesn't actually you know roll over objects very well it's battery powered so if you don't have batteries in it it doesn't move it's like a big paperweight it has the driver sticking up you know halfway out of the top of the tank and that's looks a little silly so I can see why it would be not rated very high but I really like the look of the tank not so much necessarily as a toy doesn't play very well but it looks really cool as a display and I love all the detail in that all that detail you know in 1982 the first wave of the line it just shows a lot of effort went into the design so I think it's a little bit underrated and for the Cobra I had a harder time with this one maybe the fang helicopter because it's a small vehicle maybe it doesn't get quite as much respect but I really liked the fang the fang that was my Cobra Air Force for a long time maybe the Cobra stun because it's weird I admit it's a weird vehicle but now that I have one I kind of like it even though it's weird I'm not saying it's not weird it's a strange vehicle but in its own way it's kind of cool so maybe that one I'm not sure about that answer it's harder to pick for Cobra there's so many vehicles that maybe aren't rated so high and so picking one that's underrated that's that's tough but those are the two that come to mind maybe the fang maybe the stun Terrell White says what would you consider your rarest GI Joe figure vehicle well probably version 1a steel brigade maybe the Mickey Mouse Cobra commander although this Mickey Mouse Cobra commander is not in perfect condition I actually had one that was in slightly better shape but I sold it because I needed the money to buy more stuff so maybe those two probably the rarest ones that I have Hezekiah St Raven this is a long one I noticed you in several of your earlier videos you're wearing alternative and more specifically industrial band t-shirts are you mostly a fan of that genre and if so what are your favorite bands I used to be in fact I'm wearing craft work I used to be in my younger days not so much today I don't really listen to a lot of music now but in the old days you know I used to go to a lot of shows I really liked came FDM and thrill kill cult a skinny puppy that was a favorite of mine I mean and we've seen so many some of our kind of obscure there was this German band called Einster Zinde Neubauten which I saw them in concert once and they were pretty cool so many so many it's hard to say which one was my favorite but I've kind of been out of that scene for a while but hey still have the t-shirts let's see oh and to tie this in with GI Joe do you have any particular opinions on the way music from a cultural standpoint was used in GI Joe i.e. the dread knocks being punk characters that were noted as being fans of certain type of music Zartan having face paint in the style of kiss or King Diamond etc that's a good point in the comic book those sitting inside the cartoon I can't comment as much on the cartoon because I don't know it as well but in the comic book in Larry Hama's comic book non-conformists were generally the bad guys non-conformists your punk rockers your heavy metal guys you know your bikers they're usually the bad guys either they were in cobra like the dread knocks or like if there was like a street scene you'd always see like the punk kids you know mugging somebody or beating somebody up you know that that's kind of the universe that Larry Hama wrote in the GI Joe it kind of has like like a conservative point of view about certain types of music and you know non-conformists in general and I think that's interesting that that is something that I have noticed and maybe when I get back to reviewing the comics that also that's something that I'll cover a little bit Zazzle Logan Phoenix says I'm a huge Sergeant Slaughter fan my question is what version is superior and what do you think his of his character as a GI Joe I think my favorite version at least is the first version the male way version I like that color scheme I like his you know his black trousers and you know his tank top and I think yeah I think that the male way version still my favorite for version one version two was pretty cool too but what do I think of the character I like the character and I've never been a wrestling fan I don't care about Sergeant Slaughter as a wrestler at all but I just thought that he fit with GI Joe I thought that his introduction in the comic book I mean they didn't even mention him as a wrestler but you know they brought him in as a really tough guy and that you know it's kind of guy that GI Joe needs sometimes he was used more extensively in the cartoon but I like kind of like the way he was used there too I really didn't mind I mean he was a little bit over the top but I just felt like it was still fit the character and as long as he didn't go too crazy over the top you know he could still fit in GI Joe so I like the character both in the comic book and the cartoon and I think version one that's still my favorite William J are you considering attending Joe con again yes in fact as much as I can I'd like to attend every year so I hope to see lots of people at Joe con in Colorado this year John Perry says what would you like to see happen in the future of GI Joe this is a good question in an episode of what's on Joe mind the podcast Kirk was again who was the head of marketing of boy toys at Hasbro at the time that they were doing GI Joe he said that he thinks they need to blow it up blow it up and start new and that's probably not a popular answer especially for a lot of people who are collecting modern GI Joe but I agree with that blow it up right now what you're doing is you're creating modern versions of 80s toys of Cold War era toys these are essentially right now GI Joe is a nostalgia act I don't know I mean maybe some kids play with GI Joe now but the toys that I see produced they look like they are being produced for adult collectors not for kids and at this point I think that the next generation deserves its own GI Joe kind of the way we in the 80s got our own GI Joe that was different from the 60s and from the 70s we got our own and it was perfect for the time it was like it just fit the 80s perfectly well the kids nowadays they deserve their own GI Joe that's actually designed and made for them not a copy of the stuff that we liked so I don't know exactly what form GI Joe should take but I think that at some point if you want a next generation of GI Joe fan then you need to give the next generation their GI Joe and it may look very different from the GI Joe that we remember but if you don't do that eventually when the last fan dies out then GI Joe dies out there isn't much of a future and I'd like for GI Joe to go on I think the brand and the history deserves to be carried forward so that those are my thoughts about that Jacob Victor Busco says can you do or make a destro month and make some cobra soldiers from 1988 to 1992 the answer is if I had them I sure could I mean I don't I don't have anywhere near enough destro action figures to make a destro month if I did that would be pretty interesting theme month and I don't have enough cobras from 88 to 92 but like I said my goal is to have everything and to review everything so eventually eventually I'll get to it I'm just not quite ready to do it yet and finally Carlos Augusto La Desma the second says the basics name job family etc my name is Brian my job is attorney I have a family a wife and two kids both daughters and I don't know what etc is but we'll just end on that so that's it we got through all the questions thank you for all the questions I hope that you like the answers I hope I didn't start too much I do that sometimes when I'm kind of going off script but I really enjoyed the questions we may have to do this again sometime this was fun but now we're done with 2015 now we're on to 2016 there's no video review for next week but that's because I'm working on something special for the first review of 2016 so keep an eye out for that it'll be a little while before we see each other but we'll see each other again soon thanks for watching thanks for watching all of my videos thanks for being a part of this channel thanks for the interaction thank you for everything and happy new year