Hello, my name is Corporal Madden and I'm with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. Today is August 10th and it's the first day back to school. So what we're going to be doing today is we're going to be on the west side of the county driving through various school zones just doing traffic enforcement and letting the public know that we're out there. So we stopped a few vehicles for traffic infractions. All in all you guys did do too bad today and we appreciate that. We got a full school year ahead of us so just please be mindful, be aware, be on the lookout. Let's try not to be distracted. Let's be safe out there. Hey Peterson, I'm a school crossing guard at Starkey Ranch 8th through 8th. Today, August 15th, we're going to help students the second week of school. We're going to help them use the crosswalks to cross the street to school. Hi, I'm Daniel, crossing guard here at Starkey Ranch. I joined the team at the beginning of last school year when the school opened. It has been a great joy to work with the kids, work with the parents to get them across the street safely, to install new habits and to see the smile on their face when they come by and they all wave. They all say hello, they all say good day. Working with the children, getting them school safely is just fantastic.


And we're live. We're a little late, but we're live. Sorry I'm late. It's my dad's birthday. Let's get everything all set up here. Hello, Mr. Lopez, how are you doing? Thank you for joining us. Yes, we just started. I'm a little late. It's my dad's birthday, so we did birthday stuff, but I got started as soon as I could. Jasper asks if this is where you get election results. Yes, and Pedro won, so all is well. Hello, Ms. Dub and Isaac and codename flares. Hi, everybody. Hang on one second real quick. Let me drop a link in here. Okay, so hello, Green Yeti. A, in SEO toy reviews. Hey, I got stuff to show you guys from SEO toy reviews. They sent me some stuff. I'm gonna show it to you in just a minute. So for anyone who hasn't been paying attention, Timmer's charity drive on half the battle kicked off today. So please check that out. I am going to drop the link for it right here. And so go to Timmer's video to find out how you can participate in the charity drive. And let's see here. I'm just gonna drop this link right here. Make sure I, hold on. I gotta make sure I got the right one. Hold on here. There we go. There goes. Okay, so hello, Mike Murdoch. How you doing? And this, believe it or not, this does have something to do with Timmer's charity video. I can't tell you what it is yet. It's something I'm working on. Something I'm working on. Hello, George Lopez, how you doing? But in the fullness of time, this will all make sense. Trust me, it makes sense in context. So anyway, so hi everybody. Sorry I was late. There we go. Greetings and arctica from the United States. So yeah, sorry I started late. I got lots of stuff to show you, but I wanna make sure that I mention and that everybody knows that it is charity time. Go to Timmer's video on half the battle. Find out how you can participate in the charity drive. I think it's a great thing. And you know, chances are you were planning on giving a charity anyway. Well, why not have a chance to win stuff as well? I have donated a prize to the charity drive, the 2017 Joe Con exclusive site line figure from Jody Classified, which is a pretty rare figure. So that could be something that could go to one of you. Hey, we got someone from New Zealand. Hello New Zealand from the United States. And yes, also I know this is election night here in the USA. So I will have to wait until after this is over to find out the election results. I'm actually really interested in seeing the election results for some of our local judges because some of our judges are up for re-election and I'm interested in seeing who wins. So let's get started here.  I got a crazy wig, but the crazy wig is not, that's not what we're here for, right? That's not what we're here for. Green yet he says he's in Paris and don't got no elections tonight. Well, I'm sure Paris has elections eventually. Rat faces on the moon. It's just incredible, but how many people from far and wide, even perhaps even outside of Earth's atmosphere are joining us tonight. That's pretty impressive. So, all right, and like I said, like I said, I got a box here from SEO Twitter views. So thank you, Kevin. I actually won this on Kevin's live stream. So I got it here.  It's a bunch of pop vinyls for a franchise that I don't really know very much about. So I thought it might be fun to look at them. So I'm gonna show them to you. And yes, thank you, Kevin, thank you for this. It's kind of fun to win something. I always get a little bit of a thrill out of it. Hello, Rob, and hello, everyone who's joined. So, okay, so let's start out right off the bat. First by thanking Kevin from SEO Toy Review. SEO Toy Review, a really great toy review channel.  So do check out SEO Toy Reviews. Sorry, it's earthquake. Check out SEO Toy Reviews channel. We've got a lot of great videos there. And he did a live stream a couple weeks ago, and he did random drawing for who would win these pop vinyls. And guess who won?  Somebody guess, guess who won, guess who won. Well, it was me, it was me. I was the one that won. So, I'm gonna show you guys these. And we'll check these out and see what they are. These seem to be characters from something called Dota 2. And my understanding is that is a game. What kind of game? I'm not sure, perhaps something like Checkers. Or Go Fish, I don't know from Dota 2. But these are really interesting guys. So I thought I'd look at them and see what we can make from them, make out of them. So let's start with, and this, let's start with this one right here. This is clearly Sully from Monsters, Inc. You know, this is when he was going through his biker phase. But let's see, let's pop it away. Let's see here, I wanna get a better look at him. Oh, somebody asked where Byron is. I think he was busy tonight. But we all like Byron, Byron's a friend of the channel and we love to have him here. So I hope he comes back soon. I hope he rejoins us soon. Okay, here we go, here we go. So yeah, I think this might be a preview figure for the next Monsters, Inc. Sully Goes Evil. But yeah, hey, check this out. It's got like a blue translucent pieces. That's kinda cool. So there's that guy, which I'm gonna go ahead and call him Sully. So yeah, that's cool. And then, let's see, what's next? What's next? Oh, it's Groot. Hold on here. Okay, all right, yeah. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, that's definitely Groot. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's got horns though, so it's horny Groot. It's horny Groot. There we go.   So yeah, so there's horny Groot with a sword. It's a pretty cool sword. Yeah, samurai sword there. Okay, now let's behave ourselves in the chat please. I don't have a moderator right now and I don't wanna start kicking people out. So please address the court and not other folks, please. Thank you very much. All right, so this one's really interesting. This guy looks like, hold on, let me get him out of here. All right, this guy is really interesting because I believe this is a human representation of really messy flatulence. So I'm gonna, I think this guy is, I'm gonna call this guy Fartholomew. This guy's name is Fartholomew. There you go. So it's got a question mark. So anyway, sorry, I almost put him in the wrong box. Okay, so I would like to remind everyone to not pick on anyone in the chat. I will be booting people and that'll be very disappointing for me. And we might even cut it short this evening. So this is the one and only warning. Gentlemen, grow up and behave yourselves. And finally, this one of those avatar people, check this out. Hey, it's an avatar. It's like an armored avatar, hold on, I dropped something. Oh, okay, it was, oh, it's a little stand. Check it out, it's an avatar. It's a long hair avatar. I'm just gonna call this one James Cameron. There we go. Okay, so thank you SCO Toy Reviews. These are very fascinating. I enjoy all of them and I love them. So thank you. And also just to remind everybody, please check out SCO Toy Review. They have done a really great job and they've been very nice to me with their participation in my stuff, Cobra Convergence and whatnot. So thank you for that. And that's about all I have to show you. I guess I could show you, I did get something. I did get something for myself.  I got this game. It's the Lives the Adventure game. It was sealed, but I have to confess I opened it. And I opened it and I played it because I wanted to find out if, in fact, I could live the adventure by playing this game. And so let's see. This game, yeah, it's a fairly common one. It's not exactly rare. It has a game board which is, you know, it's got pictures of various guys on here. Looks like the recent character, yeah. It looks like up to 1987 characters on here. So, and then we got the instructions on the inside and I have to say the instructions a little bit complicated, a little bit convoluted. It took me a minute to figure it out. So it comes with that and then it has a bunch, it has, this is actually the only player piece. So each player actually uses the same piece. I thought that was a little odd. And then we got some battle ribbons and some energy circles. And oh yeah, and some of these cards that you're supposed to pull like hit the dirt or jump up. So, yeah, so I played this game with myself. I played both players because nobody else would play with me. And I have to be honest, I did not feel like I was living the adventure while playing the game. It was something less than the adventure that I was living. But yeah, there it is. And it has some nice artwork. I gotta give it that. It has some nice artwork on the front. But yeah, that's something I got recently. Oh, hang on a second here, hang on a second here. There was a card. I'm sorry, this was in the box and it fell out and I didn't see it. This is a card from SEO Toy Reviews. I apologize that I didn't see this. I guess as I was pulling things out, it fell out. So sorry about that. But here it is, action figure adventures. And we can see some familiar faces there. That's nice. And there's something written on here. It says, HCC788, thanks for watching our live stream and congrats on winning the giveaway. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. It says, enjoy your Funko Pops. I am enjoying them. It says, Kevin and Erica. Erica with a little heart. She put a little heart on it. So that's very nice SEO Toy Review. So thank you again, Kevin. It's really cool to win something. I love winning things. I won't turn down anything that I won. So yeah, thank you, thank you. So, and I apologize guys. I haven't kept up with the chat for the last couple of minutes, but yeah. So thanks everyone for joining. Looks like we got a pretty good crowd, especially for starting late. It has been a really crazy, busy week. It's been a long day already. So I'm kind of tired, but I'm gonna stick through this live stream for the full hour. We're gonna get a full hour. So yeah, we're doing all right here. Oh hey, and I think was I mistaken or did I see that Joefan82 was gonna do a live stream starting probably around about the time this one ends. So when we're done here, everybody can just go and see Joefan82 live. So you guys can keep the party going. Yeah, no ice cream soldier. I don't know. So yes, this is election night and I get some messages on my phone here. Some election results, but I'll look at them later. You know, if you think about it, what's really more important? Democracy or a live stream? I think the answer is obvious. Yes, Green Yeti, what would you like while I go over here and do this thing? Yeah, yeah, I feel that the live stream really takes precedent. We got some freedom of speech going on here. My freedom of speech, I get to say anything I want here is pretty awesome. Live stream's about democracy. Yes, so technically, since I mentioned democracy, this live stream is about democracy. So yes, yeah, there we go. Essentially, we are the pillar that's holding up democracy right now. So you're welcome world. Okay, Green Yeti's gonna make a globulous board game. I'd try that, I'd try that. A question for anyone who has night force vehicles just recently got a box back from grandparents placed night force killer whale, missing a lot of pieces, no figures. That night force killer whale is a pretty sweet vehicle. I was very close to buying one at Jocon, but unfortunately the one that I had my eye on, somebody got before I did. But man, that's a pretty sweet vehicle. What's it called then? What is it called? It's like the night stalker? Man, I'm blanking on the name of the night force killer whale. Hey JJ's Toy Room, how you doing? I'm sorry if I missed you guys when you first got here. I missed a little bit of the chat and then a whole bunch of people are here and I didn't get to say hi. So hello everyone who showed up. Nice to see you. Oh, thank you Eric. I'm really glad you're liking the show. So I much appreciated. Hi Jenna, how you doing? Hey, did Joe Motion videos come in? Somebody mentioned them. Is Joe Motion videos here? Byron, are you here? Oh, hey David Fletcher, how you doing? Really nice artwork you did for that video in Cobra Convergence, much appreciated. Yeah, a night stalker. I knew it was something like that. I knew it was something like that. Yeah, night force, I tell ya. Night force is something that I'm gonna have to get a piece at a time. They tend to run really expensive but I mean they are somewhat rare. They were choice RS exclusives but they're also in high demand because people love night force as what's not to love about night force. So I'm gonna be probably getting night force a little bit at a time as I go. So why was Snake Eyes never in night force? Snake Eyes was his own night force. Nice force, yeah. See, it should've been nice force. Nice force is for peacetime and then when a war time, then it's night force. They just changed the name and it's all black, they just wear white. Light bright colors, rainbow colors. It's nice, nice force. Yeah, see, why does everybody have to fight all the time? Just because is G.I. Joe and it's a bunch of military stuff and lots of weapons against things blowing up. Why does that mean everybody's gotta fight? Hey, Byron is here. Hi Byron, how you doing? Nice. So yeah, now that we got a few more people in here, I want to remind everyone because it's important that Timmer's charity drive has kicked off. I am donating something to it that you can win. And I put the link for Timmer's video in the chat right there, so do check it out when you have a chance. So yeah, that's a really cool thing. It's a very exciting thing for me. I really, it makes me happy when the G.I. Joe community actually comes together to do something important and something worthwhile, something outside of just plastic and cartoons and comic books, something that impacts the wider world. And I think that's good for us and that's good for everyone that we can help out. So consider donating to a charity that benefits children. Timmer's video has instructions on how to enter the contest and you might win something. I wish I had something to drink because my throat is drying out now. Chris asks if I'm donating Lobotomax. If I donated Lobotomax, people might give less. So what I'm donating is the 2017 JoeCon Exclusive Sightline figure that Joe to Classified put out. If you don't know about that, I have a video about it. So, well, I don't have a pulled up. I have a video about it. So you can check out the video to learn more about it. It's a pretty cool figure and the story behind it is pretty cool too. So that's my donation. And so it should be fun this year. It should be pretty big deal. Oh, Eric asks how much of my knowledge of firearms should it acquire as a kid compared to research you do now, such as for videos? That's a good question. And in a lot, it's actually probably about even because when I was a kid, I would get books on military weapons because I was always looking through them, trying to figure out what the G.I. Joe weapons were based on. So I did a lot of like actual book reading as a kid. Of course, now you can Google everything and it's much easier. So, you know, a little of each. Yeah, Sergeant Slaughter did go through that Iraqi sympathizer phase, yeah. So, yeah, book reading is persistent. Yeah, I mean, who reads, I can't say who reads, but I read books still sometimes. But for like reference material like that, it's hard to deny that being able to Google something and have everything instantly is nice. It's pretty nice. See, Yeti reads books. Byron doesn't know what a book is, you know. Yeah, as a kid, I would get, I had some books on military weapons. I also had books on like vehicles and aircraft. And yeah, I was always trying to figure out what the G.I. Joe stuff was based on. Of course, lots of G.I. Joe stuff was not really based on anything, but some of it still had inspiration from real world stuff. So I used to enjoy looking all that stuff up when I was a kid. Yeah, technically comic books are books, yeah. Yeah, it even has books in the name. Yeah, so thanks everyone for showing up. I'm actually able to keep up with the chat a little bit for the moment. So since I'm not like throwing things around and showing stuff at the camera, I've got, okay, once again, I have so much clutter. I've just got stuff all around me. Like here, I put a picture of this up today. I finally got a gung-ho. He's got pretty nice stickers because this version of gung-ho came with stickers, sword and file card. So I got some help completing that guy. He's done. Finally, I always liked that figure. I know some folks, I know some folks aren't as keen on this figure because I mean, in truth, it's not a combat figure. He's a dress uniform. He's not supposed to be sent out to battle and you might find that somewhat boring, but I was a big fan of the Marine Corps as a kid and I knew what the dress blues looked like and when I saw this figure, I had to have it. It was pretty amazing. Plus I like gung-ho, so yeah. So I finally got that one done. Oh, here's another thing I have over here. This is the Grand Slam figure that was sent to me by Byron, who is in the chat right now. So I needed this for a photograph, so I had this out. What else I got around here? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah, okay, okay. The patron's choice options were the poll that is going on right now and if you are a patron on the Patreon, don't forget to vote. It is election day after all.  So the choices, the options for the patron's choice poll, I tried to pick three figures that were really cool. Dave says, have I ever watched action figure therapy? I have, it's been a long time. I watched it a long time ago, but I have seen it with like the Rikondo. Yeah. Option one is Rampart, a really cool figure. I mean, that guy, I mean, I got the other accessories here, but ah, that guy, that is, this is a cool figure. I like this figure a lot, but that's option one is Rampart. Joe Motion Video says he wrote in General Hawker. I don't know if write-ins are allowed. I don't know how that works. Option two is Big Ben. And again, another figure I really like. I think it is fantastic. Plus, you know, this is a Joe that is not from the United States. So we could talk a little bit about his country of origin. So option two, Big Ben, another figure I really love. And the next, yeah, Big Ben is in like the bell in the clock tower in London. And the last option, the last option is Heavy Duty. And of course, he's got his big, you know, I love the figure. The accessories are kind of funny. And if he won, I'd have to address something about the accessories, but the figure itself, I really like this figure. It's really cool. So that's option three. So I had them out so that I could put them in the video and they're still here because I never put anything away. Me put things away, why would I put things away? Look, look, I still have Tripwire out here. It's still got Tripwire out here because I haven't put them away. I finished that video a long time ago. He's still here. This is, this, this is terribly, this is, look at this. Look at all this clutter. So yeah, I really should tidy up my workstation a little bit. So, yeah, so anyway, a lot of you guys said happy birthday to my dad because today was my dad's birthday. We went out to dinner with the family, had a nice time. And I did convey the birthday wishes to him from all of you. So if you said happy birthday to my dad, he, he did, you know, I did pass that along. So yeah, and if you want to see my father, he was in, he's at the very end of my review of action force. So if you look at my action force review and you wait till the end, he's actually in that video. He plays an older version of me. So we had a lot of fun with that. It's, it's, my dad can be kind of a ham.  That's, so he, it was fun to have him, have him for an episode. Oh, he was also, he was also in an episode in one of the battle force 2000 reviews. And I can't remember which one. So he's been in a couple of my videos. So, yeah, Neil Ross. Yes, Seymour, I do need to clean my room. And now not only do I have like all my clutter, I also have, you know, avatars and monster zinks in here. So I really, I really got to clean this up. That's not even a joke. I really do. Yeah, the nut doesn't fall too far from the tree. Yes, Eric, you get it. You get it. Yeah, it's, it's, Green Yeti is right. It is a little late for Halloween. Actually, this would have been really cool for Halloween. It is, it's no lie. This is a mess. And I have to clean it up because I actually got to do stuff in here. I have a very busy shooting schedule for the next week. It's gonna be, it's gonna be busy. I've got some special things that I need to do for Timmer. And that's why I have the wig, you know, the wig thing. And plus I have my own video to do and something else, there's more that I have to do and I can't even remember everything. But I've got a very busy schedule. I had last weekend off, but I should have probably done more work than I did. So now I gotta actually, actually catch up. Odellus asked about my daughter's costume. It turned out really well. It's really cool. It's very, I didn't really have anything to do with it. I just kind of saw the process as it was going through. But yeah, my daughter actually her own Halloween costume and had a fun time doing it. It turned out pretty cool. Since I'm doing a green screen, can I actually have a background during life? You know what, that's an interesting idea. I don't know if I can do that on my phone, but if I can hook up a better camera maybe to the laptop, maybe is the answer to that. That's an interesting question. I just have the green screen up here right now because I haven't taken it down since I used it last. And now since I've got to do the thing for Timmer, I got to use it again. So I just use it. All right, I just leave it up. I leave it up even when I'm not using it because it's kind of a hassle to take down. The table that I'm shooting on is usually over there, but that is up against the window. And during the daytime, I am back lit. And that doesn't look too well on camera. Of course now, since it's getting dark earlier, it doesn't really matter. But anyway, I'm sure none of you really wanted to know that. Somebody said put the wig back on. So I'm gonna put the wig back on. There we go. There we go. I think this is a good look for me. Hello, Big Easy. Thank you, Seymour. Yeah, I could play the G.I. Joe movie in the background. I could do anything in the background. Speaking of the G.I. Joe movie, somebody has suggested that I do like a live riff of the movie, which I am gonna do. In fact, I'm gonna see if Mrs. HCC can join me so we can kind of riff on the movie together. All right, this hair is getting on. Okay, I can't leave the wig on. The hair is getting all over the place. Anyway, so we might do that together, but I don't know exactly when I'm gonna do it. It's not gonna be next week. It may be the week after, but I will at some point in the near-ish future do a live riff of the 87 movies.  I look like 2D from Gorillaz. Yeah, 80s hair metal bands. I tell you, I got a whole bunch of costume pieces just from stuff that I've used over the course of the few years that I've been doing this. So I actually have a costume box.  I got my USMC for Sergeant Really Mean and his t-shirt and his hat. All that stuff that I've used as costumes, I have it all in a box, except for those rinky-dink costumes I made for ugly-ass figures month with basically the poster board. I didn't keep any of that stuff. Yeah, I got my wife's bra on there. Wait a minute, no. I only borrowed that. I only borrowed it. I was gonna give it back. I was gonna give it back. Like a new dreadnought, yeah. I don't know if the tie, again, I'm wearing a shirt and tie because I haven't had a chance to change since I got home from work. So, yeah. Okay. Let's see. Dave asks, good question. What 80s action hero would make an awesome GI Joe? Jack Burton, Snake, Pilskin, the Frog Brothers. Now I'd have to give some thought to that. Let's see. An awesome GI Joe. I think a lot of people, as far as 80s action heroes, a lot of people bring up Rambo, but Timmer did point out that Rambo, as he appeared in these, might've been a little too unstable to be a GI Joe. Mr. T. Delvis says Mr. T. You know what? I'm gonna go with Mr. T. Mr. T can, yeah, yeah, Mr. T. It's Mr. T. That's the only answer. Mr. T. So, yeah. Mr. T. is unbeatable. I did, honestly, I did unironically like Mr. T. back in the 80s when he was a popular. I did. I was a huge fan of the A-Team. Oh, I loved the A-Team. I had the A-Team action figures. I had the little van. What actors would I like to portray GI Joe? Good question. I don't know. Ray Parkus, Nick Eyes, anybody else, you know? So, Mr. T versus Mr. C, yeah. Yeah, I was a big fan of the, you know, all those action TV shows that were made really more for kids like the A-Team and like Night Rider, Airwolf, I loved those shows. I just ate those up. I had so much fun watching those and then, you know, playing that was, yeah, I just love them. Now, when I look back at them now, a lot of them don't hold up very well. And in fact, when the budget constructions are kind of evident in some of the episodes. So, yeah, but at the time, I thought they were great, you know? Hey, there's Joefan82. Joefan82, am I mistaken or not in believing that you have a live stream that's coming up later? Am I correct about that? I've seen Auto Man. Auto Man is kind of an obscure show now. Not very many people remember Auto Man. Yeah, Night Rider, oh man, I wanted that car. I wasn't even old enough to drive, but I wanted that car. I think Joefan82 has a live stream.  Wait, okay, so yours was before. Okay, all right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I thought Joefan was doing one after this one. My mistake, my mistake. Yeah, I also like Magnum PI. I like shows that had nice cars. If it had a nice car in it, you know, it didn't really matter what the rest of the show was about. I just watched the car. The Incredible Hulk, I mean, the series from like the 70s, and then they did like specials with the Incredible Hulk with Lou Ferrigno in the 80s. I used to watch those all the time too. I love it. There was an Incredible Hulk special that had Daredevil in it. And I was a big fan of Daredevil. And even though the character in that show didn't look anything like the comic book, I was still pretty thrilled to see a live actual. I like that a lot. So yeah, you know, TV was pretty cool at the time. There was lots of stuff for, yeah, the trial of the Incredible Hulk. Kevin got it right. That's the one, that's the one. A Galovulus car, Galovulus can't drive a car. He can't fit in a car, first of all. And then like he's got that one tail. It's, there's no room for him to get that whole tail in there and depress the brake or the gas pedal. I don't think he can drive a car. That's just my theory. I don't think Galovulus can drive a car. Scared of the Incredible Hulk. Well, the Incredible Hulk was kind of scary. One thing you notice like from in superhero TV shows at the time like Incredible Hulk and a little bit earlier than that Wonder Woman is the superhero usually wasn't even in the episode all that much. So most of the episode would be like guys wearing suits and talking. And then you might get one halfway decent action scene where the superhero is actually in costume and like pushes somebody over a table or something. It was pretty lame. But at the time, again, at the time, pretty thrilled to see superheroes on TV show. Greatest American hero, greatest American hero. That's still a good show. That show actually does hold up pretty well. At least I think. So now we're just being nostalgic about TV shows, huh? But that's fine because these are great TV shows. In some ways, I'm kind of glad that there wasn't a G.I. Joe live action movie back in the 80s because honestly, they probably would not have had the budget or the technology to give it kind of special effects that actually would have made it look cool. So we got G.I. Joe live action movies a bit more recently when I think visually they look pretty good. There was a lot wrong with them. Rise of Cobra was not a very good movie in my opinion. But at least they had the budget to make it, the visuals look all right. Hey, hold on a second here. Oh yeah, JJ's Toyota mentioned Buck Rogers. Yeah, I remember Buck Rogers. I never understood that little robot. The little robot guy kind of annoyed me a little bit. But I liked the spaceships in Buck Rogers. Yeah, Rise of Cobra had many problems. But at the very least, they put some effort into making it look nice. Hey, John, how you doing? Yeah, that guy, draw me crazy. Even as a kid, I thought it was super annoying.  Not Snarl mentions V, V, very good show. Like Snarf from Thundercats, Orco from He-Man-A-Lo. Orco, I don't think was quite as annoying as Snarf. Yeah, I don't know why they kept throwing in those little sidekick guys.  Oh, Mike Murdoch has a question for me. Yeah, you're right. Technically Orco wasn't exactly a sidekick. But I don't think Orco is quite as annoying, although sometimes he was a little bit annoying. T-Bob, oh yeah, T-Bob. Oh, hold on, I'm sorry. I'm reading your chat here on my screen here. And sometimes it goes by really fast. Yeah, the kid character had to be tossed in. Yeah, the thing is though, I don't think kids, I don't think kids related to the kid characters. I think kids related to the adult characters who are doing like all the really fun, cool stuff. You know, I never once did I want to be, you know, the kid character in those shows. Yeah, the live action, somebody mentioned the live action. I'm hopeful about the live action G.I. Joe movies they have coming up. I'm hopeful. I'm cautiously optimistic. I'll put it that way. Yeah, Scott, Scott was the son of Matt Tracker in Mask. And he had the little robot guy, T-Bob. And that's a perfect example. When I was watching the Mask cartoon, I never wanted to be Scott. I wanted to be Matt Tracker or one of the other guys. Kids don't relate to those kid characters. They want to pretend to be the grownup characters and doing awesome stuff and, you know, flying around in cool vehicles and stuff. That's what the kids want. You gotta give the kids what they want. Yeah, yeah, G.I. Joe wasn't too big on sidekicks, exactly, so yeah. Who should play Stalker in the new Snake Eyes movie? Good question. I don't know. I have to think about this to give you an adequate answer. But yeah, if there's going to be a Snake Eyes movie and if the Snake Eyes movie actually delves into his history, then Stalker should be in it in some respect. He should have some role in it. Samuel L. Jackson would be an interesting Stalker. I think he'd be too old to play a young Stalker, though. And I think you're going to have to have a young Stalker if you go into Snake Eyes's past. But however and but however, if they have Stalker in the movie, I kind of doubt that they're going to call him Stalker just because the word Stalker has taken on kind of a different meaning. So I don't think that if Stalker's in the movie, I think they're going to call him somebody else or something else. They're going to give him some other codename, which I think is fine, you know, but I would still just be happy to see a Stalker that I would recognize in the movie. That would be really nice. Yeah, some things will have to be updated for the modern audience. And one of the thing is that you can't really have a character called Stalker. You just can't. A Wesley Snipes for Stalker. No, that would be interesting. That could be interesting. It could be. Yeah. Oh, the guy who played Falcon in the Avengers movie. Yeah, something like that, that would be pretty good. I don't know the name of the guy, but in the cosplay group, The Finest, there is a dude that cosplays Stalker and he's fantastic. One of my favorite cosplayers, he is a spot on Stalker. Looks great. They should just have him do it. Just hire that guy. I'm sure he can act. He looks the part. You have the name Stalker, begin as a joke and a stick, something like that. Although that is not a nickname you want to stick. If anybody starts to give you the nickname Stalker, you know, try to not let that one stick. That's not, yeah, you don't want that one. You don't want that one tagging along. That's not a good one. So yeah, now I wanted to go for an hour. We're getting close to an hour. We still got about eight minutes left and I'm really thrilled that you guys showed up. I do want to remind everybody of the charity drives that Timmer started. I want to make sure nobody misses that. I put the link in the chat a couple of times. Excuse me. And so this is a good opportunity for us to really do something good and something worthwhile. So I hope everybody will check that out. And everyone who is on Patreon, the poll is going. There is a front runner. He'd be tough to beat, tough to beat. I'm not gonna tell you who that front runner is right now but he'd be tough to beat. But it's not impossible if everybody votes, you know. Anyone of them could win. So yeah, a transformer called wide load. I'm just tired enough for that to be really funny. Yeah, so we'll keep this going for a few more minutes but guys, honestly, it has been a really long day. And I am tired. And so I will probably crash when we're done here. But I also want to say thank you again to Kevin from SEO Toy Review and Erica for the very nice pop vinyls that they sent to me with like, with horny Groot. I will cherish these always. So thank you guys. Yeah, the hour goes by quickly. I am, I swear, I am gonna do one of these that'll go longer than an hour. But if I'm gonna do that, I've gotta not start late because I'm pretty worn out by this time of the evening. It's been a very busy week at work. That's where a lot of my energy has gone. Things will settle down a little bit as we get closer to the holidays but for the time being, who it is, it's been real busy. But thanks for everybody for joining. When we're not done yet, we got a few more minutes. We got a few more minutes. But thanks everyone for joining. It's still a thrill to me to be able to do this. I wish that I had done live streaming a lot earlier than now because this is fun. It's really fun to be able to talk with you guys. Team Golobulus, yes, we, Team Golobulus. Let's get that in there one more time. Team Golobulus. And then when I get done with here, I actually get to find out what happened with the elections. I get to find out if any of the judges that I know will still be judges. So that'll be interesting. Thanks, guys. Hey, nice to see you here, guys. And I'm sorry if there's anybody that I didn't say hello to. If you snuck in and I wasn't looking. So sorry about that. But yeah, this is really cool. Eric asks if I do super chats. Yeah, yes, you can do a super chat in here. And a few people have. I don't encourage it. You don't have to do that, but it certainly is welcome and it's appreciated if you do. Yeah, Byron says he made some friends in the live stream. I hope folks are making some friends in the live stream. This has been fun. It's actually one of the highlights of my week is to be able to do this on Tuesdays and get to talk with you guys. Because I mean, Lord knows, honestly, I haven't been able to keep up with comments on YouTube like I used to. I've been really behind on replying to like private messages and emails and stuff. I feel terrible about that. But this is an opportunity for me to actually talk with you guys in real time and actually be able to communicate with you. So it's really nice to be able to do that. So thank you all for showing up. That's really cool. And I'm gonna keep doing these live streams every week. You know, this is great. And now I'm just sort of stuttering because I'm out of things to say. So, yeah. And everybody understands, you know, that not everybody's gonna like the same thing that you like, right? So if your favorite character is, you know, stalker or globulous, there will be other people who don't like those characters. And that's okay. That's fine. You know, you gotta be tolerant of other people's opinions. Unless their opinion is really nasty, and in which case, I don't have to be tolerant at all. And then I'll get really mad. But no, we try to keep things civil here. So, but we also encourage, actually I encourage people to express their opinions, especially if they're different from mine, express their disagreement. I actually really like seeing comments from folks who, you know, watch my videos and they say, you know, I may not have liked a figure, but they saw something in that figure that they liked and now they wanna have that figure. That's great. I love that. That's somebody who, you know, they listen to my opinion. They don't agree with it. But it, you know, they may have discovered something that they didn't know they would like. And now they've got something that they will enjoy. And that's fantastic. Xandar. Yeah, I remember when Xandar was the best selling figure of that year. That was, so anyway, so thanks to everyone. It is getting close to the time to wrap up. So I think I will wrap it up. Thanks everyone for showing up. Thanks for listening to me ramble on. Thank you to everyone who sent stuff to me and we will do it again next week. And I have got to do actually a lot of work on the next video review. I got a lot of video work to do. So good night everybody. Thanks for showing up. I will see you all next week. And now that this is over, I will push this to turn this off.


Hi friends welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and today it is Friday, so it is weigh-in day. We're gonna chat about my week I had a pretty exciting week. We're gonna talk about this week's Weight Watchers workshop topic and set some goals for next week So if you're excited give this video a big thumbs up again Subscribe if you're not turn your bell on because we do a weigh-in every Friday and I actually upload five videos every single week You're not gonna want to miss them. Also, make sure you check out the description box down below where you will find nutrition coaching I offer personalized macros and calories This is how I've lost a hundred and forty pounds and kept the weight off long term As well as one-on-one coaching for accountability or if you just want to ask questions or talk with me directly Links discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group. It's free. It's supportive come over and join us We would love to have you is also linked down in that description box So let's talk about my week my weigh-in and the workshop topic I hope you had an amazing week. Like I said, I had a really good week I actually had a soul fulfilling Exciting week, which is something that I haven't had since plastic surgery. I am officially just over six weeks post-op Although six weeks is a long time. It definitely feels longer I mean more like six months nine months a year It definitely feels longer than six weeks, but I've turned a corner in my recovery I would say that I'm feeling about 95% back to normal. I'm in the healing stage now So all of the incisions are itchy and scabby and a little bit uncomfortable I am still having to wear my support garment for my breasts for about another two weeks She recommended about eight weeks, which is fine by me because it's pretty uncomfortable without it And I definitely need that added support to help fluff those implants and drop them into place One thing that I've noticed since my surgery is that I'm having a little bit harder time sleeping Organically I can often fall asleep, but again I'm having a hard time staying asleep and then I'm waking up in the morning not as refreshed and normal So I've really heavily been relying on this delays now a lot of you guys have reached out to me this week Alone I've gotten several DMs comments on my YouTube channel in my Facebook group asking if I still utilize delay sleep supplement And the answer is yes. This little guy right here is my baby This is how I not only fall asleep But I stay asleep and I wake up refreshed because I need to be refreshed because I am Extremely busy and I need the best sleep possible not to mention inadequate sleep doesn't benefit our weight loss journey A little bit about the lace night capsules. They help you drift to sleep Stay asleep and wake up in your natural flow They contain bio active Aptogens new tropics and botanics to engage every part of sleep health made for a sustainable sleep cycle. They're vegan There's no artificial colors or flavors. They contain valerian root and hops and Melatonin you simply take two capsules about 45 minutes before you go to sleep and I sleep like a baby I actually forgot to take these when I traveled to Mexico for surgery and regretted that decision and since I've gotten home I've really been relying on these for good quality peaceful sleep I do have a discount code for Stelix. I'll link it down below for you You can purchase a month supply what I do is just get on their auto ship Where I just get a bottle delivered every single month because this has absolutely changed my life and changed my sleep game Which like I said sleep actually plays a huge part in weight loss Definitely check this out if you're someone that struggles to go to sleep stay asleep Or you just wake up feeling like you didn't sleep you definitely need Stelix in your life Stelix has really come in handy this week for me because like I said, I have had a really exciting Week I am not cleared to work out or go back to normal life really until tomorrow July 1st However, I'm not quite sure that I'm ready now. I'm ready to go back to the gym and lift weights I'm going to obviously have to modify my workouts a little bit I am actually able to lift my arms over my head a little bit more on that here in just a second And then I think I'm ready to go back to boot camp, but again, I'm just going to have to make several modifications I don't see myself doing burpees. I don't see myself doing a lot of over-the-head movements with weights yet We'll just kind of have to see I'm going to be listening to my body and making any adjustments or modifications that I need to make But I have been able to really get out and move my body I've been walking at least six days a week sometimes seven days a week and this week I've had quite a big nsb or quite a big milestone in my recovery So on Monday, I got up bright and early and headed to Tucson to hike to Mamak Hill Which is basically a mountain I climbed to the top of to Mamak Hill on Monday and it was glorious It was absolutely beautiful. It was just under 80 degrees, but there was a little slight breeze She was warm, but it was absolutely stunning and the views made it worth it entirely I climbed all the way to the top enjoyed the views and then walked back down at the top of to Mamak You actually touch the gate, which is a sign a rite of passage basically that you made it to the top And then I was able to take this photo here where I raised my arms over my head for the first time Sent surgery and it was a huge huge milestone. It was a huge nsv for me I haven't been comfortable putting my arms over my head until just this week Which is kind of in line with what the surgeon said for recovery But it was just amazing to be able to go and be extra active to be sweaty to get my heart rate elevated And to really feel like myself again and to be honest with you that little trip to to Mamak that hike up That mountain really filled my soul and made me excited and motivated to see what I can do with my body post-op I also got to see some friends this week. I feel like the only friend I've seen is my husband really since I had my surgery I went next door to visit my neighbor. I got to hold her baby Ireland for the first time Ireland is about six weeks old. She actually had her baby two days before I had surgery So me and Ireland were on the same schedule. She's about six weeks old So I spent some time over there visiting with her and then Tuesday of this week I got to go to taco Tuesday with all of my friends my neighbor I've become friends with my neighbor and my neighbor's friends. They're now my little friend group So we all went out for taco Tuesday and then tomorrow I'm actually going to coffee in the morning with my mother-in-law And then tomorrow night is girls night with boot camp and I haven't seen my boot camp friends for about two months So I am so excited. We're going to an outdoor market in Tucson Kind of shopping food trucks just enjoying outdoors in this outdoor market now side note It's hot here. We're actually under an extreme heat warning. It's been anywhere from about 110 to about 115 I'm hoping that it's at round 80 when we go to this outdoor market rather than in the hundreds But it's going to be amazing and I can't wait to see them And really between hiking to mama kill and seeing my friends and just being out of my house Really truly has made my heart so happy and that's really led me to feeling like I'm 95 back to my normal self Which is so exciting before I talk about my weigh-in for the week Though let's talk about this week's workshop topic because this is a good one And that is a surprising way to be a little bit more active having trouble staying active when your usual routine is thrown off Let's be honest.  This is totally normal We as human beings naturally take the path of leech resistance And when our routine is thrown off, especially when it comes to activity Sometimes we just throw in the towel and we don't remain active and we don't do our normal Activities, but there's some things that you can do even when your routine is thrown off to stay active Consider an activity You do instead of being active Maybe instead of taking a walk in the morning you sleep in or your evening walk gets filled with watching tv or scrolling TikTok think about how your environment makes it easier to do that thing I quickly press news and fall back asleep in a dark room Or the couch the pillows and the soft blanket always looks so cozy My phone is practically glued to me and I open tiktok whenever I crave a break Brainstorm ways to make the behavior harder to do then pick one to try this week I'll sleep with the curtains open to let in morning light and plug my phone in across the room Right next to my fitness clothes walking shoes and Headphones sometimes when our regular routine is thrown off We find a new routine that isn't always Healthiest and isn't always best for us and I'll tell you that once you stop doing your regular fitness routine Whether it's just taking a walk or going to the gym or attending a class It's really easy to fall out of that quickly and stay out of that and really really hard to get back into that routine And we find ourselves having these excuses like oh, I overslept or oh I was too busy on my phone or there's this tv show that I have to watch And none of these are going to help us with our weight loss journey Moving your body not necessarily exercise because you can lose weight without exercising But moving your body and staying active is really important for weight loss and overall health Remember a body in motion stays in motion a body at rest stays at rest You need to make these sedentary or these unhealthy behaviors harder Kind of like the example if you find yourself not being able to go to sleep because you're scrolling on your phone Plug your phone in across the room I'll tell you when I was sleeping on the couch for about five weeks before we purchased our adjustable bed My phone actually had to be plugged in in the kitchen because there was not a plug in near my couch That was really the best thing that really could have happened because when I went to bed I went to bed I wasn't scrolling my phone because it was literally in another room All of these little hacks that you can do to keep your routine healthy and beneficial for your weight loss Do them think about something that you struggle with Some excuse that you have to not be active remove your body And think what you can do this week to change that up to try to get into a healthier more normal routine I also want to share three fast facts from weight watchers with you Number one fuel is what behavioral scientists call anything that makes a behavior easier to do Friction is anything that makes a behavior more challenging to do Humans tend to do things that require the least amount of friction Again human nature We're going to take the path of least resistance and that's sleeping in sitting on the couch watching tv and scrolling tiktok And these are all habits that we want to get out of to be successful in our weight loss journey And become really truly the healthiest version of ourselves So think about and maybe one of the more unhealthy habits that you do in your routine And how you can change that up to maybe a little bit healthier one this week Let's talk about my weigh-in. I know that's what a lot of you are here for Like I mentioned last week, my weight has steadily decreased since returning from plastic surgery And like I also said last week I feel like I'm losing my lean muscle and that's why my weight is decreasing Because I'm at the stage in my weight loss journey where I really don't have fat to lose So when I see weight drop or when I see the scale drop It's probably an indication that I'm losing something other than fat, which has never ever been my goal So I actually lost over a pound last week and I mentioned in last week's weigh-in that I really wanted to up my calories Up my carbohydrates in hopes of maintaining my weight this week One other thing that I had going for me when it comes to weight maintenance is I am currently on my cycle I'm actually just wrapping up my cycle and that generally inhibits weight loss And typically for me either leads to a little bit of a scale bump up or a maintenance So when I stepped down the scale today, I actually am Exactly the same weight as I was last week. So I didn't gain any weight So that loss last week was a true loss But I'm really relieved that the scale isn't continuing to go down that it's kind of studied itself out And I attribute that to like I said being on my cycle Really upping my calories upping my carbohydrates because I was pretty active this week With taking that big hike and then moving my body and taking a walk Every single day with the exception of Tuesdays, which has really always been my rest day It's my filming day and it's been Lola's chemo day And it came in really handy this week since I took that big hike on Monday. So I'm thrilled Absolutely thrilled with the maintenance and that is my goal moving into this next week maintain maintain maintain Now it'll be interesting to see what happens when I get back to the gymnast next week And when I get back to boot camp, I think I may see that scale number go up a little bit Maybe from soreness or inflammation or just the extra activity I'm going to continue with the higher calories continue with the higher carbohydrates hitting my protein goal every day And let's just kind of see what happens It's all really just trial and error with our bodies and so and like I always say the scale isn't the only indicator of success It's other pieces of our journey that in my opinion are even more important that number on the scale than that number on the scale So now I want to hear from you guys. Let me know how was your week? Did you gain? Did you lose? Was it what you expected? And what is one maybe unhealthy part of your routine that you're going to swap out this week for something a little bit More healthy. Let me know everything down in the comments. I absolutely love hearing from you guys And if you enjoyed another weigh-in, give it a big huge thumbs up Subscribe if you're not turn your bell on because I upload five videos every single week Don't forget to check out the description box for nutrition coaching Links and discounts to my favorite things and of course come join our facebook group We'd love to have you happy friday friends. Have a wonderful friday, and I'll see you in tomorrow's massive massive grocery haul We did our stock up haul from cosco. It's been a hot minute since I've been to cosco So I have a big haul for you tomorrow. See you in the next one. Bye


It's a final spruce for Liam, before his starring role on a sandy stage. And his audience have arrived. His dad and best friend Abby are anxiously awaiting his debut.  Yes. Nervous to see what he looks like. Yeah. It's been a long, long process. And he's put so much effort into it, you would be amazed at the amount of food that this boy has eaten. It cost me a bomb. I've never seen anybody eat so much in my whole life, so today we'll see if it's all worth it. It is a complete lifestyle change. It's given, you know, his credit. It's just not stopped. It's really been determined. The last few days, he's really gone for it and training twice a day. He's very determined. And I hope his results today reflect how hard he's worked. I know that he's got a really clear idea of what he wants. I hope that he gets what he wants and that he's happy when he comes out. Ten weeks ago, Liam was a man trapped in a boy's body. And he was desperate to break out and achieve his James Bond physique. I really want to start becoming a man. He went through pained faces, painful tumbleys and painfully large amounts of food. I'm not ever going to finish this. But with the help of some buff buddies, he conquered his fear of the gym and found his appetite. But will all of the pain have paid off? I'm waiting with such anticipation to see him walk out of that seed. I'm feeling really nervous for Liam, actually. I hope he doesn't back drift over or do anything embarrassing. We're going to find out if Liam's got his Bond moment. Is he going to be shaken, not shredded? Or is he going to be a double O stud? To be honest, I'm feeling a little nervous now. Oh, my God. Short and a license to thrill. Oh, wow. It's my boy. Look at that. Physically and mentally, this is the best I've ever felt. Give me a high five there. That's amazing. I can't believe how good he looks. Right now, I'm the proudest dad in the world. You look amazing. You do look a lot better than I expected. Liam's looking really, like, toned and muscular on his shoulders. Yes, good job. I hate interval, but well done. Yeah, good face. Come on, give me a little bit of a tick to the gun, short. Yes! Oh, my God. You are definitely giving Daniel Craig a run for his money. Ten weeks isn't a long time, but I am blown away. He walked into that seed, the boy, and he's walking out in the spade. And man, tell me what your favourite part of your body are now. Sometimes I love my bias, sometimes I love my tries, and the V-shape. When I walk about now, I'm walking about as a man who believes in himself, don't feel as much as a boy anymore. I've completely got the bug, and I'm going to keep going forever. Am I looking at the future of British action films right now? I'll give it a go, okay? I'll give it a good go if you're out about that. But your love interests? Yeah, one day, maybe, yeah. Work hard enough, you know, go and do some training. Look at that! A couple of abs, and he's full of sass. I am so, so proud of Liam. He's taken charge of his fitness and nutrition, and with that, he's taken charge of his life. He's got an amazing foundation, and I've no doubt this is just the start.


Oh, mate. Some people have a very pessimistic view of life, mate. Like, here I am. I'm getting ready to fly off to Australia for two months. And they don't really have room for fresh underwear, clean underwear. This is what I'm bringing, okay? This is all my worldly goods are going in here. But I got lots of crystal light. And I got lots of beef organ extract. And I also got the crystal light lemonade. And I've got lots of magnesium to take the edge off. And what else have I got? I've got some lemon balm leaf. And when you get to my age, you don't want to forget the beta cisterol plant sterols. It reduces you getting up in the middle of the night to constantly pee. And by the way, I took my PCR DNA test. I am COVID free. COVID free. Freedom! Sydney, Australia. Here I come. I haven't been in Sydney, mate. I have not been in Sydney since 1985. 36 years. I grew up like two hours outside of Sydney. So I got my supplements. I've got my gallbladder formula. Right, so I got all my supplements. And I got my electronics. So I can do some like high quality live streams from down under. But some people just have a very pessimistic perspective on life. Like they want to know, like, what's my Aussie tax ID number? Yeah, I've got an Aussie tax ID number. I've worked in Australia. I'm an upstanding citizen. But like, people want to put me to work in like manual labor. And I said, mate, why would you, why would you want to put the greatest writer of his generation to work in manual labor when he could be making untold riches of YouTube sharing about his feelings? Like, I am looking forward to two months of unpacking my feelings. Like, I'm looking forward to being a good friend to myself. I'm looking forward to having a good listen to myself and to my innermost yearnings and desires. And my innermost yearnings and desires, you know, are not centered around packing mulch into plastic bags. Right, I'm getting my hands dirty. Like, these hands were born for blogging and vlogging and flogging. Like, these are not the hands of someone who does manual labor anymore. Right, I did manual labor in the past and it sucked. I mean, it's all well and good for a certain stage in your life. But hey, Sydney, freedom, eating mangoes, journaling about my feelings, watching the cricket. It's going to be epic.  So, Sydney, here I come. I'm going to leave for the airport shortly. And I might even put on a jacket and a nice shirt and a fancy pair of jeans and go back to Australia for the first time in seven and a half years. Seven and a half years, mate. That's how long it's been since I've been down under. I bought a laptop today. I'm prepared. I didn't just have my gobladder formula. All right. Got my laptop. I got my high-quality cam. I'm packing a journal so I can unpack my feelings. I'm telling my sponsors, hey, you've got to give Forty a break. Forty needs to take the edge off and just put his feet up. And who knows, maybe we'll say hello to the prime minister and maybe we'll hear some good quality abides with me. So, here I come. Sydney, Australia.


All right ranked down man. So this guy's a lot riding on this Well, I'm not confident enough in this team to take advantage of that though So I think him having that little Alright, we got it. We got him. We got a hit in. Oh prediction Okay, let's play some defense. Oh I dashed I dashed. It's true. The rumors are true. I did that's there.  Oh, I'm dead here Yep, level one super. Okay All right, that was a little extra bit of fancy. I didn't even throw that on but I guess he wanted to get Goku black out of there It makes sense. That's this is the worst thing that could have happened. All right, he messed it up though But genuinely that could have been really bad. Oh Man speaking of really bad Okay crashing down. Yep combo DHE, no DHE. I'm gonna pop it Lightning speed. Just the auto combo kick Let's see. Let's let's actually can't dash through a Vegeta's normal move. I don't know why Okay, we're gonna go for the level the hard knock down here Just because we can really Saw that coming All right. Nice. We're gonna get Vegeta back in here Which is kind of desperately what we need. We need to start taking down his numbers. Oh That was a sweet back dash. I'll give it up Don't test that range against me boy Gonna get roasted for that one. That's a mistake. I usually may I should be a I Don't know why I keep forgetting to throw that heavy out. But yes, I should do that Bad read bad read. I don't know. Yamcha feels so good like he feels like such a well-rounded character Surprised he didn't dash in there Okay, I'm just gonna auto combo our way out of there. Oh Look at the the hitbox on that book. Come on. How many times can one man mess that up? Okay, probably should have went behind the back. Yeah, that one would have been better to just go behind the back with All right. We kind of made a little comeback here mostly due to Yamcha But oh no, he doesn't even have Spartan Tank Kyokin. Oh, yeah, you already know we're going all the way here Let's go. Man. Hit did nothing this man All right, what's the mix-up? What's the mix-up?  Oh my god Feeling good guys feeling good. Oh Ranked down. That's a shame, dude. Yeah, you hate to see that in a close match like that. Oh Didn't hit. Oh, okay adapting to the Vegeta nurse. I like it. Good on you Belmont. Oh, and I jumped Why Belmont? Going down. Oh, okay liking it liking what I'm seeing hit Gotta start doing real combos.  I don't know. I was feeling it Yep, can you blame a guy for just feeling himself sometimes? Oh I was trying to do a little dash forward. Well, at least Vegeta didn't get the full heal off. Oh Man, that was a that was I literally couldn't tell what was going on All right, in case you can't tell what I'm doing. I'm trying to wait for That's a shame. This is a real shame. It's gonna be up to Yoncha here. Let's see messes it up Yeah, I don't know about that We're just getting Yoncha back in. Oh didn't block low in time. Goku's coming back in the thing we didn't want to happen It's happening. It is at this time that I just regret not hitting that sparking button. Oh Wow Hey, it's a shame we couldn't keep him in the corner, but Okay, let's get this hard knock down try to actually take out. Oh, wait, wait. Oh That is beautiful that is way better than I expected way more damage All right, now I'm feeling a little bit better Go behind the back Just gonna pop sparking on this one It's gonna be heavily scaled, but ooh safe jumps. We got those Safe jumps. We got those Oh, oh look at these safe jumps All right, oh that you just hate to see this happen and I missed it. I missed it back dash Okay, we're just we're just gonna play defense. Oh No, I got mixed up. I Got I got confused there. Please let it drop. I got oh Oh Miss timed it, but I'm still living Okay, we're fine. We're absolutely fine here. Oh, yeah, we're doing fine We're doing fine. We're back. We're doing that. Absolutely fine. Wow. I had a really focused on that one I'm not even sure when the last time I talked was That was some intense focus going on. All right, let's finish this video strong. Let's finish it strong Up already dropping conversions. Look at how strong this video No, that was a very risky counter. No level one who into the assist Wow, okay looking kind of sit whoa All right, well Save tagging. Oh the G died and seemed coming. All right, if we hurry I think I want to get black back in here It's pretty minuscule amount, but oh Man getting black in no wait What's I just intense lag intense lag we're right back to your schedule. Oh See this is this is where I start to feel bad because that was all lag right there I don't think you would have dropped that if there hadn't been no lag Also bad reflect by me. Okay.  Oh Wow didn't touch the ground quick enough getting sliding knocked down.  Oh, oh My god more lag my head actually hurts from this Come on. Come on. Oh, wow. This is really bad. Oh, man. This is this is not great This is I am so sorry Belmont Belmont if you're watching this video, I don't blame you just quit Belmont save your points All right, it looks like we got Bardock sell and Vegeta all coming out to play here in the ranked games I don't trust blue squares anymore.  Let's see. Oh, that was a rough start. All right. All right Vegeta's is still pretty strong. Should have kept walking. Okay. All right. Nice. All right We got a cell in the corner here. So oh never mind. I'm in the corner. Oh Bardock still uh All right, let's get this hard knockdown because we still have three bars anyway. So here's a plan We're gonna have this cell hard knockdown in the corner and we're just gonna go for it right here Wow, I really hope I didn't click a button. Oh It oh My god the time assassin himself All right, let's go now. I'm feeling it. I'm expecting him to uppercut. Oh Nice grab. I think you saw me reflect there Probably should have won with the super dash but that is a okay. Oh, never mind. We're getting level three. Yeah, we're sitting in the corner Not pretty by the way, we're not sitting pretty. Oh, let's see That's not gonna hit. Yeah, I Don't know why oh he's sparking didn't get in time. Oh We in there Your sparking doesn't mean anything. Oh We did.  Oh Yikes. Oh The instant transmission nobody ever sees it coming. Oh, by the way, I'm just just here to back us up I'm very bad with it. So I have to have a little, you know substitute for my poor block string That was basically my finger. Oh, okay final flash Go up go go high go high Okay, didn't go high now. I'm just gonna eat this Eat this mix up real quick. Oh never mind.  I agree. Oh, I He did it. I didn't expect him to mistime it. I just let go of my controller Well, seriously, he's Yamcha gonna end up being the one that saves us here. Okay, okay Super dash. All right, this is death. This is death right here. Boom spirit ball. I'm Done. All right, let's head into this second match. Let's let's get some more Goku blue and hit work This is my true power. Yeah, good job. Yamcha. You really did a lot that match All right, so I'm gonna predict he's gonna start it much like last time. Okay. Okay. I did not want Yamcha out here Okay, Yamcha. Oh, let's just get him back into the oh, no. Oh, yes, that feels so good Bosch working together for the first time I Guess not the first time. Oh, you would have thought I wasn't gonna super dash. Oh That is just not what you want to see happen. Oh Wow, Goku's the only one that's gotten touched. Oh, no, that was bad Damn eating the knee Boom mixing the grab there. I'm gonna not want to eat that. Oh Nice dash. I can appreciate that Doesn't mean I'm liking with that. What's that? Oh, yeah, I thought my oh, yikes. Oh This is not gonna be good for you. Are you kidding me? Don't ever find a flash me. Let's go. Are you kidding me? Hit what? All right.  Come on. You got to give me something to work with All right. There you go. Hit. There you go There you go, that's all I needed you to do that's all I needed I don't know why you didn't hit him and during his final flash, but You know you came through in the end. That's all that all of it really matters Okay, if he didn't okay, probably should have just went with a normal combo, but yikes Sometimes you make the wrong read or actually I think that was the right read. I just did it too late. Oh My god, I'm loving that Vegeta nerf. Oh dropping straight down on me Hey, I'll mesh light Oof giving a lot of damage a lot of damage here and Hit is down because I tried to go for the super just to you know DHC him out of there All right top on our priority list is to overhead Yikes, that could have been way worse No, that's not good. I was hoping we wouldn't take another hit until we at least got one of his teammates down We're gonna have to deal with the mix up here Six bars though. So as long as we can get oh I should have one with them. Oh shocking conflict. That's not Okay. Okay, fine. I'll DHC if I have to to get the kill. I'll do it. Oh man Wow Moving in our rapid pacer.  I was really panicking there. All right. Let's get Goku back in here No, but nobody's here to see Yamcha. He's he's had his time in the sun. Boom going up Oh, I was gonna I wanted to finish him off on my level three, but I Guess I'll finish him off with Yamcha. So wow really waiting for that. K.  Hope you guys enjoyed make sure to leave a like and a comment if you did Let me know what teams you want to see hopefully whoever asked for hit is happy with this Hopefully you guys are enjoying the longer videos as well. I'm Dr. Delia. I'll see you in the next video


Today on the show. We're gonna be taking a look at X-Force number eight the first appearance of the wild pack Which would be later known as six pack So stay tuned Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Ed and TV. We're all geek culture Clies if you're new to the channel Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos All right guys as I said today We're taking a look at X-Force number eight first appearance of wild pack which would be later known as six pack This is one of the comics I've got at the old book barn in a in comic book haul number one right here on the channel I just got done reading this and I actually wasn't aware when I got this that it was the first appearance of the wild pack So that was a nice surprise for those of you who don't know the wild pack is a mercenary force formed by cable it's a mix between mutants and Super soldiers for lack of a better term Not official super soldiers, but really really good soldiers. You got Domino you got Kane Kane is the youngest member of the group This is before he became a member of the second Weapon X project This is also before he lost his arms. You got Grizzly here. You got GW bridge And there are a couple others. I believe it could be wrong GW bridge. I don't believe as a mutant same with Kane, I don't believe I could be wrong, but again They're just mainly soldiers. In fact GW bridge went on to become major at shield and Led the cable task force to track down and bring in cable And also took over his space base Kane eventually After he lost his arms and got him replaced with adamantium ones. He be he also Led the team to track down cable and bring him in eventually all three guys Made amends with each other and we actually start off with the ending of the issue You got Sauron here and his brotherhood of evil mutants Attacking and Sauron just absorbed all of cannibal's life force or energy and boom boom boomer I I'm not sure I can't remember if she goes by boom boomer boomer in this issue, but that's besides point She's trying to get Sam to wake up Sauron saying Sam is dead Sam is can cannibal And cable is just ready attack then we go to a flashback Okay, so the deal with Sam and boom boom and Sauron and cable that takes place in the present This part takes place in the past a day earlier or so It's the introduction of the wild pack You got domino you got GW bridge you got cable you got Grizzly and they're attacking a hydro base They were hired by by an organization to steal back something that Hydra had stolen from them and You know they they cause a lot of destruction they they managed to get in while cane and Hammer, which is this guy came in from the other side and then you got there They're almost able to get that piece that they came for when Baron von Stryker and video of him comes on and Tells them you know normally I would tell you you got five minutes before This place blows up, but actually you got 20 seconds hammer about that time Obtains the piece they came for and cable activates a body slide to get him out of there And this is when we find out they were actually hired by aim advanced idea mechanics to steal back a piece that actually doesn't really function But they wanted they made it just good enough to see knowing that Hydra would steal from them to see how far along Hydra was in their device or whatever So then the wild pack goes on their merry way and cable leaves saying you know Cain asks them how they'll get in touch with me in he says same way that you know You do any other time I'll be in touch with you So he creates a body slide and goes back to his own time where his robots named Scott Jean and Hank are You know taking his arm or body armor off and all that and he talks with a computer program of the professor Professor Xavier and he tracks down someone who's supposed to be a very powerful being in his timeline Sam which is actually cannonball and that's when he goes back in time to track down cannonball Six months to a year before Sam becomes this Super being or whatever this overlord died deal, and I think that's the time I think this Kind of we flash back again to the present day Where we pick up where we left off with cable boom boom cyborg and cannonball But I think this is when he went back right at new mutants number 100 Right before he formed X-Force, but we pick up in present day so with that being said here we have some cable pin-ups which Marvel and image were very notorious for back in the 90s. We got a Cable collection by Rob Liefeld For those of you don't know Rob Liefeld is kind of the joke of the comic book industry He is the one who drew Captain America pretty much with breasts a Super huge body and a tiny head But I have to say there were a lot. There was a lot of really good artwork from Liefeld He's the one who designed a lot of The look we come to associate with several of the characters today like cable for instance He he really created that look for cable that we associate from X-Force Here's another one from Liefeld He is a really great artist, but he tends to Make characters super super muscular and Not very proportionate as you can see here this cable. He's very big and bulky Which if he was shirtless He wouldn't look that great at all. His head isn't very proportionate to the rest of his body And then we got some cable grams So there you have it guys X-Force number eight Turning point cable past present and future the first appearance of the wild pack Which would later be known as the six pack So if you like this video make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos I'm Shannon for come again TV the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. Take care my friends


Welcome to Microterrorz, scary stories for kids where it's always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills, and spine-tingling spooks. Microterrorz are family-friendly frights for those ages 8 and up, and while our stories are for younger years, we are still talking about things that go bump in the night, and some children may not be able to handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended. Now for tonight's Microterrorz. The Hole in the Basement Floor by K. B. Hearst I jumped out of my mom's sedan and ran up the stairs to my grandparents' house. I was going to spend the next three months with them. Summers at my grandparents meant swimming in their pond, hiking, fishing, and sleeping in the tree house my grandparents made for my mom when she was a kid. No parental supervision was going to be awesome. I was eleven that summer, and it would be a memorable one. I smelled fresh country air ready to explore. Only when I got out did I notice my grandfather wasn't there. My grandmother had a grim expression. My mother smiled while hugging my grandmother. Where's dad? Saw my grandmother look down. Your dad took a nasty fall and broke his ankle. I hugged my grandmother and then ran in to see my grandpa. Tyler, sorry, but it looks like we'll have to wait on that big hiking and camping trip we planned, he said, smiling. I was disappointed, but I was glad my grandpa was okay. After my mom left, my grandma and I started cooking. I loved helping her in the kitchen because I got to sample the food. Tyler, I'm making your favorite burger and homemade fries. Can you grab that sack of potatoes for me, she said. I opened the basement door and felt a chill. My grandmother slammed the door. Don't go down there. Don't ever go down there. But that's where you kept the food last summer. I was confused. I'm sorry. The stairs are unstable and that's how your grandpa messed up his ankle. I had to move everything to the pantry up here. She managed to smile. I thought it was a weird reaction. We're getting so angry, but I soon forgot it as we began cooking. Later that night, my grandmother tucked me into my mom's old bed and kissed me on the forehead. Sweet dream is Tyler, she said kindly. I read my comic books till late and I just turned off my bedroom lamp when I heard a cry. Outside the house's walls, I heard loud scratches as if someone or something was crawling up the side of the house. Frightened, I got out of bed only to hear the crying again. It sounded like my grandmother was crying. I shot straight up out of bed and opened my bedroom door. I peeked around the corner, but I didn't see anything except the door to the basement was open. I heard moaning and was worried my grandmother had fallen. I opened the door wider and called out to her. Grandma! There was no sound. I turned on the light to the stairs and crept down into the basement. When I reached the bottom, my eyes went directly to the corner.  It was as if something had dug its way through the concrete. I was scared, but curious. Grandma, are you in there? Suddenly a hand reached out from the hole. I was petrified as I looked on. A second hand appeared and then I saw its head. I had to be dreaming. Slowly, a furry pair of ears appeared and two golden eyes glowed as they met mine. I screamed, but the creature was fast and put a hand over my mouth. I just looked at the strange fur-covered humanoid. Then it spoke. Shhhh, Lilia! It asked in a raspy voice, My name is Nesmith. What's yours? I'm Tyler. I finally managed to say. Great Tyler, I need your help. The creature now looked at me with its golden eyes. I need food. I need to feed Tyler. If I don't feed, I'm afraid I'll have to find a replacement. Trust me, we don't want that. I was afraid I'd be devoured by this creature, so I agreed to feed Nesmith. What do you like to eat? I asked. No one has ever asked me that. Let me think. I love sweets. Do you have any cake or tarts? Grandma made a lemon cake last night. That will do. And if you help me, I will help you. I snuck back into the kitchen and grabbed some food off the counter. The cake was wrapped in a cheese cloth. I cut a slice and put it in a napkin. I took it to Nesmith, who now seemed much more menacing than he was moments before. Thank you, Nesmith hissed. Watching the demon devour the cake was frightening. Nesmith opened his large, salivating mouth to reveal another mouth with more teeth. I could no longer watch as I ran upstairs, shutting the basement door. The following day, I woke up first. I snuck down to the basement, and when I got there, Nesmith was nowhere to be found. However, the hole was smaller. I heard my grandfather wake up. I ran up the stairs just in time to avoid getting caught. My leg isn't in any pain at all today, Tyler, he said. My grandma joined us pouring a cup of coffee.  I secretly wondered if the prowler that got into the barn was Nesmith. Later that evening, lying in bed, I noticed something outside my bedroom window. It looked like a tree branch tapping on my window. I got out of bed to investigate when I saw two yellow eyes and six long legs crawling up my window. I held back a scream, now remembering that I needed to feed Nesmith. It had to be him outside my window. I returned to the basement with more food that I was able to scrounge up in the kitchen. Once again, Nesmith thanked me, showing me his giant teeth. Once again in the morning, the hole was smaller, and once again, my grandfather felt even better than before. This routine continued for a week when I noticed that Nesmith too was becoming smaller. It was as if he was becoming less scary with each gift of kindness. I was puzzled by this as I thought about what could have caused my grandfather to become injured. So I asked him about how he broke his ankle. There was a long pause before he finally spoke. I fell into a hole in the basement floor. Some animal got inside and dug a hole. It was dark and I didn't see it. Nasty culprit emerged from that hole, so that's why your grandma wants you to stay out of the basement. But I'm better. I'll fill it back up. I realized he knew Nesmith was down there, so that's why they didn't want me down there. Why hadn't he just given Nesmith food like I had? I woke up later that evening, noticing a whole house was pitch black, as if something blocked out all the light. I saw two golden eyes appear at me again from outside the window. There, in front of me, was a creature that looked like it was made of tree limbs tapping on my window. I was frightened. The house was so dark I couldn't see. I ran out my bedroom. I remembered Nesmith, so I disobeyed my grandparents' orders and returned to feed Nesmith. This time I watched till he ate all of his food. I noticed he began to get smaller and his frightening face was now more human-like, kinder. This time Nesmith thanked me and disappeared into the hole as it closed. Nesmith and this whole nightmare was over. The very next day my grandfather got his cast off. He danced with glee. He was so happy. I watched him as I realized it was because of my kindness. Nesmith's gift to me was my grandfather's healing. I didn't mention it to my grandparents because I didn't want them to know I had disobeyed them. The following morning I woke up later than usual. The house was quiet and darker than expected and the sky looked gloomy when I looked out my window, as if a storm was coming. I looked for my grandparents who should have been upstairs, but then heard their voices in the basement. I went down to see my grandma watching my grandfather. He was frantically digging one of the largest holes I had ever seen. He's gone! We must get him back! I didn't understand at first. My grandma then gasped when she saw me. I helped you get rid of him so grandpa's life would heal. What are you doing? I begged. Oh, Tyler, you don't understand what you've done. With Nesmith gone, we had no way to protect ourselves against the others. The house began to fall into shadows as we slunk into the new hole in the ground. My grandfather had just dug. Thank you for listening to Microtarrers. Join us each Saturday for another scary story. For more fun visit our website at Microtarrers.com where we will also have spooky games you can print out and play like wicked word searches, mysterious mazes and more. Microtarrers.com is also where you can find us on your favorite social media and even send in your own scary story for us to tell. Plus, you'll learn more about our author Scott Donnelly who has other horrors for both young and old. I hope you'll join me again soon from Microtarrers. Scary stories for kids. The nightmares of Edgar Allen Poe. The terrors of Bram Stoker. The monsters of Mary Shelley. The suspense of Alfred Hitchcock. The thrill of Robert Louis Stevenson. And the horror of the Blancheville monster. It all culminates in the horror of the Blancheville monster. In a sinister, unreal birthday celebration, only the flashes of madness pierce the darkness of the castle in the Blancheville monster. Mysterious cries. Fatal omens. Nefarious vices. Shilling presences. The Blancheville monster. A dark path where the specter of death rides. A woman caught in the snare of a monstrous fatal spell. The spell of the Blancheville monster. Does the coffin contain a creature snatched from life by a curse? Will anyone be able to unravel the mysteries of the Blancheville monster? And the wicked deeds of the children of darkness. The satanic storm of terrors, nightmares, and sadistic violence. The Blancheville monster. Our May Weirdo Watch Party is Saturday May 6th with horror host Lee Turner from After Hours presenting 1963's The Blancheville Monster. Where a beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse. To be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend. Borrowing elements from Edgar Allen Poe's Fall of the House of Usher and some words with a mummy. Originally filmed in the Italian language, it was titled Horror but we'll be watching the well done English dubbed version entitled The Blancheville Monster. The Weirdo Watch Party is always free to watch online with everybody so grab your popcorn, candy and soda and jump into the fun and even get involved in the live chat as we watch the movie. Again the Weirdo Watch Party is Saturday May 6th starting at 10 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Pacific. You can see a trailer for the film on the Weirdo Watch Party page at WeirdDarkness.com and we'll see you Saturday May 6th for The Blancheville Monster. Listen


For over a century, fasting has been espoused as a treatment of supposed great utility in the preservation of health, especially rejuvenating the body, but above all, the mind. But fast people, even just 18 hours, and they get all hungry and irritable. After one or two days, positive mood goes down, negative mood goes up, and by 72 hours people can feel sad, self-blaming, and suffer a loss of libido. But then something strange starts to happen. After a few days, people experience a fasting-induced mood enhancement, decreased anxiety, depression, fatigue, and improved vigor. And that's what studies tend to show across the board. Once you get over the hump, fasters frequently experience an increased level of vigilance and mood improvement, a subjective feeling of well-being, and sometimes even euphoria. And no wonder, as by then your endorphin levels may shoot up nearly 50%. This enhancement of mood, alertness, and calm makes a certain amount of evolutionary sense, yet your body wants you to feel crappy initially so you continue eating day-to-day when food is available. But if you go a couple of days without food, your body realizes it can't have you moping back in the cave. You've got to get motivated to get out there and find some calories. So can fasting be used for mood disorders like depression? Yeah, it's great that you can get people to feel better after a few days of fasting, but the critical question revolves around the persistence of mood improvement over time once you start eating again. You don't know until you put it to the test. Interestingly, the little published evidence we have comes out of Japan and the former Soviet Union, and some of it is just ridiculous. Like this study, which included women with a variety of symptoms, which the researchers blame mostly on marital conflict. Oh, husband not treating you right? How about a little electroshock therapy? That didn't seem to help much, though, so what about hunger therapy? Of course, starving those women made them hungry, but that's what Thorazine is for. If you keep injecting them with an antipsychotic to calm them down, they can sail right through. So what happened? Who cares what happened? We even do with those results, right? But this other study skipped the Thorazine. Ten days of fasting, but they also kept them in bed all day, completely isolated with no contact with the outside world. So yeah, if people got better or worse, it'd be impossible to tease out the effects of just the fasting component, but they did apparently get better. With efficacy supposedly demonstrated in 31 out of 36 patients suffering from depression. They conclude that fasting therapy may provide an alternative to the use of antidepressant drugs, considering it a kind of shock therapy. People are so relieved to just be eating again to get out of solitary confinement, to even just get out of bed, they report feeling better. Yeah, but that was at the time of discharge. How did they feel the next day, the next week, the next month? Fasting is by definition unsustainable, so ideally what we want to see is some kind of longer lasting effects. What the researchers did was follow up with a few hundred patients, not just a few months later, but a few years later. Of the 69 who were evidently suffering from depression, 90% reported feeling good or excellent results at the end of the 10-day fast. And remarkably, years later, 87% of the 62 that replied claimed that they were still doing good. Now, there was no control group, so we don't know if they would have done just as well or better without the fast. It was just self-report, so maybe there was response bias, where you try to please the researcher, or maybe they were afraid otherwise they'd get sent back to the hole, and we have no idea, but we do have good evidence for the short-term mood benefits. The question is why? In addition to the endorphins when you fast, the surgeon serotonin-circlet happiness hormone, there is a bump in BDNF, brain-derived neurotropic factor considered to play a crucial role in mood disorders, and it's not just because you perk up rodents with humans with major depression, have lower level circulating in their bloodstream, autopsy studies of suicide victims show only about half the BDNF in certain key brain regions compared to controls, suggesting they play an important role in suicidal behavior. You can boost BDNF with antidepressant drugs and electroshock, or with calorie restriction, a 70% boost in levels after three months cutting 25% of calories out of their daily diet. But is there anything we can add to our diets to boost BDNF levels so we can get the benefits without the hunger? We'll find out next.


Doorbell Kim captures moment woman fires contractor over flag. When a white contractor pulled into a black couple's driveway, the homeowners couldn't miss the flag flying from his truck. In an instant, the woman of the house made a decision.  Allison and Zeke Brown, a black couple living in Atlanta, Georgia, hired a man they found on Facebook Marketplace to fix the brakes on their golf cart. He had agreed to come to the couple's home to work on the recreational vehicle, but shortly after he pulled into their driveway, the Browns realized there was a problem. And, for Allison, it was huge. As the Georgia contractor, who's been identified only as Michael, pulled up to their Atlanta home on a Saturday, no one could miss the enormous Confederate flag he had flying from the back of his truck. Initially, Allison was unaware of Michael's arrival. But, as she was cleaning out her closet, Zeke walked into their bedroom. God is testing me, the 48-year-old manager at a healthcare tech company told his wife. After chatting with the contractor over the course of three days about the logistics of the job via Facebook Messenger, Zeke thought all seemed well, so the flag caught him off guard. He hadn't been disrespectful prior, so seeing the flag did not fit my preconceptions, Zeke said. The flag was absurd, I had to walk back into the house to calm myself down. When Zeke told Allison about the flag, it didn't sit well with her, either. Feeling both shocked and very offended, she turned to her husband and said, Let me handle this, before quickly heading outside to address the issue with the contractor. Anticipating his mother's reaction, the Browns' college-aged son fled the house, the couple said. Allison was so taken aback by the flag, she didn't think twice about what to do.  Hi, you know what, I do apologize, I know you've come from a very long way, but we're going to use someone else, Allison told the man. She's upset with the flag, Zeke chimed in, but Allison, a 40-year-old radiation therapist, abruptly corrected him, saying, No, I'm beyond upset with the flag. Michael, the contractor, quickly offered to remove the flag to appease the upset couple, but that simply wasn't good enough for the Browns. No, you don't need to take it down, Allison replied after Michael offered to remove the flag. You can continue to believe what you need to believe, sir. But no, I cannot pay you for your services. Thank you, have a good day. The exchange has since garnered a lot of attention online. We can control where we spend our money, Allison said, explaining her decision to fire Michael. This is easy, she added, describing how she and her husband didn't think twice when it came to deciding how to spend their family's money. It will not go to someone promoting such hate, she told Inside Edition. I was just a little surprised that a gentleman this young was riding around with a symbol of hate, Zeke added. Of course, not everyone feels the same way about the Confederate flag, but the ordeal has demonstrated at least one thing everyone seems to agree on, namely, both parties handled their difference of opinion appropriately and serve as an example to others. Allison was praised for her decorum, keeping calm and being incredibly polite while also standing firm. Displaying such a collected demeanor was important to Allison. What I did not want to do is promote this angry black female narrative, that's out there, she admitted. I didn't want to be the angry black woman, but I wanted him to learn and feel that bottom line loss, she furthered. You don't go to Germany and wave the Nazi flag. It's the same thing. According to the couple, Michael later reached out to Zeke. I didn't know the flag offended y'all, he wrote in a text to which Zeke responded, yes, it is extremely offensive to anyone of color. I understand it is part of American history, but that flag stood for a time in history where people such as myself had a very bad way of life. Zeke continued, Michael, I hope the small interaction causes you to do a little research on how several Americans feel about the Confederacy. I know it's part of history, so is Nazi Germany. Speaking with Yahoo Lifestyle, Zeke said he hopes the firing will be educational for the young contractor. I thought, maybe there is hope for someone like him or an opportunity to save him from this way of thinking, Zeke said. And I wanted that flag off my property, as one of the few black families in our subdivision, what would the neighbors think of a Confederate symbol in our driveway? Unsurprisingly, Michael feels differently about the flag than the Browns. Calling himself a redneck, Michael explained that the flag was a gift and only meant to be a patriotic display. My little siblings bought it from a flea market, he said. I don't support slavery and neither do my siblings. But, I am not going to take it down when my siblings asked me to fly it. If the family wants to take offense, they can. Regardless of whether you side with Allison and Zeke Browns or Michael, both parties involved handled the situation very well. Michael can believe what he wants and the Browns can decide where to spend their money. Rather than debating over hate or heritage, both respected the other's beliefs. This is what true tolerance and coexistence look like. You don't have to agree, but you should be respectful, and both did that when they decided to live and let live, rather than try to bend the other to their will.


Hi, I'm Mark Hope, I'm a partner and digital director of an agency called Access. We're based in Manchester, we service clients across the UK and globally. The Drupal Camp London is fairly unique in that it's, you know, the sort of size and scale and sort of prominence is kind of somewhere between other really credible Drupal camps and a Drupal Con. So it's kind of got that slightly more international feel in terms of the sort of diversity of the audience and the sort of scale of the event really. I think it was two years ago, there was a really interesting talk by Vessa Palmu who we kind of got into a conversation with. So we kind of continued that conversation outside of Drupal camps that went on to kind of be a quite valuable sort of connection. But then just, you know, meeting other pairs in terms of business owners or technical contacts, it's really good, really good networking opportunity. Accessible, friendly and inspiring.