Hey everybody, I'm super excited to see you all here. My name is Vlad and I'm a former eBay product manager And today I'm going to talk about how to find your first product management job It doesn't matter if you're trying to get your first PM job break into product from other roles But I'm about to show you applies across the board and A little bit about myself. So I started off as a software engineer and then became a product manager I worked for many different companies early stage grow stage and big tech companies like eBay I'm very passionate about helping new PMs grow and Helping mid-level PMs to get to the senior and principal level and a few facts about me I'm originally from Ukraine and I really love calisthenics So we have a lot of ground to cover today First of all, I want to start off with explaining what product management is and why a lot of people actually want to become PMs, then I'm gonna tell you a little personal story about myself Covering how I became a product manager and why this choice changed my life also gonna also gonna talk about some common ways to get a job and product and How to fix a no experience no job problem because a lot of people think that if you have no experience You can't get the job, which is totally not true and I'm gonna tell about I'm gonna talk about how to fix that Also, I think it's very important to cover essential PM skills and also some what I call street skills of great PMs Some some of these skills Are more important for senior PMs, but I think More junior and new BPMs can develop them as well early on in their careers and For the dessert we have product management job search tactics I'm going to cover a few methods that will help you get PM jobs So first of all, let's start with Discussing what product management is and why people become PMs So there is a lot of ambiguity around This role and a lot of people confuse product managers with project managers and program managers so in a nutshell a product manager is the person who identifies the customer need and the larger business objectives that a product or a feature will fulfill and then product manager articulates what success looks like for a product and Leads a team to turn that vision into reality. I know it might sound ambiguous, but Product management is one of those jobs that has a lot of ambiguity, which is fine And this is I think this is one of those things that makes this job quite fun So why do people want to become product managers in the first place a Lot of product managers I met actually feel like they don't belong anywhere else They can't be designers. They can't be engineers or customer support or sales or marketers but they know a little bit of everything and most of them also have great leadership skills and A combination of these qualities makes them great product managers Also, a lot of people want to be like this guy Steve Jobs is actually regarded as one of the greatest product managers This world has ever known even before product management was a thing and as you know He wasn't an engineer. He wasn't a designer, but he really understood what his users actually want and He knew how to deliver it to them. So let me tell you a personal story. Here is how I became a product manager Early on when I was a kid I had a lot of interest in computers and in high school I hacked emails and video games with my friends and it was a lot of fun You know, we didn't do anything crazy, but you know, we were just having fun And it didn't cause a lot of damage so after that I started studying computer science in University in Ukraine and eventually I became a software engineer but over time I realized that I like building but I don't really like coding and Sitting and writing code debugging and testing stuff It's just not something I saw myself doing for the rest of my life And you know, it worked out well for a lot of people But I just realized that it's not for me. It's not something I want to do And at the same time I had a lot of interest in business and Design and a lot of other things and I was thinking Okay, what should be my next step? What what should I do? And back then I didn't even know what product management is So what I did I started talking to my CTO Back at the time and I told him hey, you know what I don't I don't I don't see myself You know being a developer forever So I want to try something else and he said okay, you know, we have a lot of customers and it seems like you Understand how the business works. So maybe you want to try yourself as a first product manager So basically what happened? I talked my CTO into promoting me to a p.m. And the rest is pretty much history now. Let's talk about some common ways to get a job in product First of all, a lot of people now have an opportunity to get the job straight out of college So if you go to college, if you study technical discipline of some sort You have a chance to learn the job as a p.m. If you know how to network and if you really really Know why you want to become a product manager. So Another option you have is to get promoted at your company like I did So you can start working for a company as a software engineer designer customer support Marketer or someone else and then when you start exhibiting product management skills And there is a business need in your company to Have a great product manager. You can start talking to your peers to your managers and managers from other departments and If it all goes well, you'll get promoted to a product manager and I've seen a lot of people going that route because it's just easier and Because you know when you're applying to other companies the process is a lot longer But once you're in the company making the transition is a lot easier, but again, as I said Your third option is to find a job in another company. So even if you don't have Experience you can work on side projects. You can build something with your friends or you can just Present your experience in a way that will position you better for p.m. Rolls And I think actually one of the best ways to become a product manager is to build something Like build a startup build a product get some users Understand how it works Work on your customer acquisition skills develop a strategy Vision and then when you start applying for jobs Demonstrate sound judgment and the skills you've built. This is probably one of the best ways to position yourself for product management roles Yeah, let's talk about one of the biggest problems that junior p.m.'s experience You can't get a job because you have no experience and you can't get any experience because You never had a job as a p.m. Right. So how do we fix that? so first of all probably one of the Easiest way to solve this problem is just to get personal coaching just work with someone who will Handhold you and Explain what you need to do in order to get the job as a product manager This process can be time-consuming sometimes it can be Expensive, but it's well worth it because as you know most most athletes and you know most great CEOs and VPs a lot of them actually have coaches and there is a reason for it because coaching is very effective So if you have a chance if you have you know If you have money if you know someone great you can work with you know try to get them to become your coach and That will that will make it a lot easier for you to get your first job in product management. You can also buy a course but the problem I see with a lot of courses that the knowledge is very surface level and In most cases very limited so you can just pick some bits and pieces, but it's not enough to Get you the job you want also, you can enroll into a quality product management program again, this is somewhat like a mix between coaching and buying a course because you get a lot more quality content a lot more attention But in most cases it still leaves Certain gaps, but again, it's it's definitely better than buying a course and also It can be pricey You can also get an MBA. This is probably one of the most expensive options on the table and in my experience It's not worth in most cases because like why would you pay? 80 or $100,000 to get an MBA get yourself into that just to get a job in product and you know I don't have an MBA. I got a job in product. So It's not another big deal if you don't have an MBA, right? and the best way to Fix the no experience problem is to work in a site project as a PM as I described build something yourself or create a startup with friends Create a vision strategy build a few prototypes test them with real users work in customer acquisition and just Demonstrate sound judgment after you do this. You can't present this experience as As a real product management Experience on your resume and this will position you well for PM roles So now let's talk about these skills. You need to become a great product manager and In many companies and I'll probably say in most companies PMs are doing something Like like you see here in this picture. You're juggling a lot of things at the same time working on conflicting priorities So It's really important to understand how to manage the chaos you're getting yourself into And first of all, you need What I call hard product skills. So execution strategy Sense, you need to know how to lead and most importantly you need to understand how to prioritize features and initiatives Project management skills are also important. But again as a product manager You will be doing some project management work, although you're not a project manager But again, it's still important to know how to communicate how to track things how to manage priorities and you know manage people up and down and You know, just just make sure that things don't fall apart and get delivered Also, it wouldn't hurt to understand technology things like API is difference between back and front and system design architecture and just general technical lingo I would say for most roles, it's not really required But again, since you'll be working with engineers quite a lot When they say something I think it would be much better for you to understand what they're talking about because you know You can't manage something. You don't know and you don't need to be an expert engineer or architect you just need to know enough to be dangerous and number four in the list is design skills and again, you don't need to be a Great designer. No one expects you to crank out per pixel perfect designs But what you need to have is an understanding of What good design is and the differences between good and bad design again? A lot of that comes with experience You know and once you become a PM you will learn a lot about the users what they like what they don't like and how to Make their life easier and that's When you will develop an intuition for good design You also need to know how to make prototypes and wireframes again This is just one of the ways to communicate your ideas to a larger audience. So learning tools like Figma and Belzamic would benefit you a lot Also knowing how to analyze data measure success Measure feature adoption and just doing quick estimation is really important for all the pms Because again your goal is to launch a product and if you don't know how to measure success of the product you're launching You're gonna be in big trouble later also for For many Industries, it's really important to understand the specifics. So for example, if you're working for a company that builds I know CRM systems CRM system for sales people, right? You need to know Enough about the sales process about how these people Work with the CRM system you're building about their challenges Problems and you need to have a general understanding of the market like who are your competitors. Are they better or worse? What's the market landscape? How? The industry like is the industry growing or the growth is declining these types of things and I can go on and on about it But you need to know, you know, at least you need to get the basics, right? So and the last skill probably last but not least one of the very important skills is communication and My personal take on this is I think you can only be great at one of these so written verbal or visual communication I rarely see people that can clearly Communicate verbally and also they're great writers and they can create great presentations. Obviously these people exist, but They are very rare unicorns, but what you can do you can identify What's your bad? What what is the communication style that you're good at? For example for me, it's visual communication, you know I can write specs. I Can explain things verbally, but I'm much much much better when it comes to presentation, you know building prototypes conveying my ideas visually and you know presenting to a large Audience when I have, you know, some visuals in front and that's why that's why you see me Using a lot of memes and images in this presentation because again, it helps me get my point across but again, you need to pick which one you know is better for you personally because every person is different and Yeah, also want to mention a few Street skills of great p.m. Again, some these are some of the skills that people normally don't talk about but I think it's really important to Understand and apply them in your day-to-day work. So first of all As a product manager your output is not code or design your output is decisions So you need to learn how to make Right decisions most of the time and this can be achieved by thinking more than doing I like using snake analogy, you know, like a snake when the snake is trying to catch a mouse or a frog She's patiently waiting and thinking and Planning her move and then she attacks So I think a lot of great product managers have the same approach. They think a lot They spend a lot of time clarifying, you know, making sure that What they're working on can actually benefit the customer and you know, they they polish The presentation they're working on they're just doing a lot of a lot of thinking a lot of work behind the scenes and once They know that the plan they developed is correct and that The feature they envisioned is gonna benefit the users. That's when they start doing Because the last thing you want is to quickly, you know, create something on the napkin Turn it into a plan and hand it off to your designers and engineers. That's a recipe for disaster. So again, spend more time thinking rather than doing and Yeah, you'll be a lot more successful in your PM journey Second skill is empathy and by empathy. I mean empathy for users and their needs and empathy for your Executives your managers and their needs as well Because it's you know as a PM you have two goals first is Build something that your customers will love something that will solve their problems But at the same time you're working for a company you're working for a business and all businesses need to make money, right? And it's really important to understand what drives The behavior of your users and I know people you work at your company with so Yeah, another skill which is which becomes more important if you work for a big company or you become more senior is politics again a lot of people hate politics, but I think You know as the company grows politics are pretty much unavoidable. So you need to know how to navigate your way Through the corporate letter and how to build relationships with your co-workers really important Number four in the list is knowing how to do quick analysis and estimation again. This is linked closely to the Skills to the skill I talked about before which is knowing how to analyze data. So again once you understand How to run quick analysis how to do estimation on the napkin After that you can actually a plot start applying thinking and then thinking turns into doing but a lot of great ideas just start with quick Analysis again, just just to make sure you don't begin working on something that doesn't make any sense Another very important skill is knowing how to summarize and distill your thoughts again. This is very closely tied to thinking and doing So again it when you spend a lot of your time thinking You will get better at understanding how to summarize your thoughts and how to communicate them to the audience you're working with again your goal is to make right decisions most of the time and Another goal you have is to make sure that everyone in the room understands why and how you make these decisions and This can be achieved through clarity and clarity is achieved by saying no to many things first of all and By trimming the fat. So again, you can you can start with a brain dump you know writing a lot of your thoughts thinking about things, but at the end you want to end up with a crystal clear summary and crystal clear bullet points that can help you convey you know help you carry the point across and Yeah, the last sweet scale is knowing how to keep things on track again At the end of the day your goal is to ship the product satisfy your users and you know keep your internal stakeholders happy as well so This will require you to understand how to keep things on track and make sure that things don't fall apart and And For dessert, let's talk about some product management job search tactics, right? And I Can give you a minute to think about what? Three tactics. I'm gonna talk about based on these pictures But okay, I think for now we should skip that so the first tactic is Sprint pray actually this is The last the last image on my list so this is a tactic that Most people using their job search. So what they do they would go to websites like glass door indeed and just you know spam the resume Blast a bunch of companies, you know and hoping at a response and I would say this is probably the least Efficient tactic, but the fastest because you can I know I actually know some people who created bots and hired assistants to do It for them. I know they hire someone for $3 an hour and this person sends resume to a bunch of companies and again in some in some cases it works Because it's fast, but again, it's still It's not very efficient because you're in most cases you're sending out resumes to companies that have no interest in hiring you The second tactic is what they call phishing that so this is when you identify a specific industry or specific types of companies You want to work for so this tactic is Somewhere in the middle.  So again tactic number two is Probably one of the best ones and I would highly recommend a lot of people Use it again. Just identify and decide decide for yourself decide what you want You know, what types of companies you want to work for why and then tailor your resume and fill in the gaps in your skills and Start applying for jobs of these companies And I can almost guarantee you if you use this tactic, you'll have a lot more success And the last tactic is what I call sniper or sniping a lot of people Want to get a job at a specific company in most cases. These are Fortune 500 or fan companies like I know Google Netflix eBay Amazon Square and so on so these companies are Different and what I mean by that they have very specific hiring practices. So as you probably heard Google is notorious for having a lot of interview rounds and you know team-matching a lot of hard technical questions and all that so and Facebook for example really focuses on product execution and leadership. So if you apply the same tactics that you know, you use for startup jobs if you start applying them to These big companies is just not gonna work. So what you need to do is you need to act like it's not Sniper you need to Prepare well, you need to make sure you understand exactly what these companies are looking for how they hire who they hire Why they hire and then just take a shot, right? like a sniper it takes a lot of preparation to You know for a sniper to get into right position, you know, make sure that you know There is no way and or make correction, you know, whatever correction here She needs to make and yeah, then a sniper takes a shot and that's that's the same tactic you Should use when applying to these, you know big big companies and I know some specific roles The last thing I want to leave you with is this quote product manager is a leader and a janitor at the same time and I personally think it's true because You're a leader, right? You're leading the team you make sure that the team delivers team builds the product and the product satisfies the needs of your users and That's your you know, your executives are happy business goals are met, but at the same time you're Also acting as a janitor and whatever your team needs help with whether it's, you know Sometimes writing a spec thinking about some edge cases that you forgot or just helping with testing or Designing, you know in most cases You will be the person that is gonna help them fill in the gaps and achieve success so it's really important to remember that you're a leader and a janitor at the same time and Yeah, guys, I hope you enjoyed this presentation and obviously I can't lay out the whole p.m. Job search strategy and teach you all the skills you need in 30 minutes But I think everything I laid out in this presentation should be good enough to just get you started and point you in the right direction and As always happy to connect with everybody. So if you have any questions, let's connect Reach out to me if you need help you can find me on link it in Twitter and Instagram my user name as VL Gassan or you can just search my name Thank you, and yeah, I hope you have a great day. Bye. Bye


Hello everybody, welcome back to another Photoshop tutorial. This one gonna show you how to replicate that very cool look from the predator. This is a thermal image or a heat map type style and if you go over here you'll see here that I've got this bulldog or actually it's a boxer part of me and this is a standard boxer and then I sort of heat map the pupper and yeah we had a little bit of fun with this one. So I'm gonna show you how to do this in just about two minutes. So let's start from scratch and follow along with me. Alright, so step one load up any image of your choice in this case I've got this beautiful boxer dog and now let's get cracking. The first step is I'm gonna go to the left side here to my selection tool and in particular I'm gonna select the quick selection tool and then I'm gonna go up to the top here and select the subject so I'm gonna click on this down arrow make sure that cloud is selected because it gives you a better result and then just left click select subject. When you do that very quickly here you'll see here that it's done a very good selection of just the dog and not the background. So I want just the dog to be not the background because that would make more sense. So the next step is you want to hold down the command key on a Mac or the control key on a PC and then press the letter J. When you do that this makes a layer via copy. So what we've done essentially is we've made a copy of the dog but not the background layer. So we're now just gonna go ahead and work on the thermal imaging or the heat map of the dog. Alright so with the bottom layer turned off and just the top layer turned on or the layer via copy that we just created now what you want to do is you want to create a gradient map I know gradient map heat map they sound pretty similar well it is. So let me show you how this goes. So what you want to do is you want to go down here to the bottom and then you're going to see here create new fill or adjustment layer click on that and then just basically go down here to the bottom and select gradient map when you do that it's going to default select a gradient for you and don't worry about it you can go ahead and make all the adjustments you want. So what you want to do here is once you've done that I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to click on reverse so I'm going to reverse the coloring on this. This is just something you don't have to do this but it makes it easier in my opinion. So I've clicked on reverse and now I'm going to click on this down arrow and what I want is under basics you'll see here one that says black to white so I'm going to hover over this one here and then it should say black to white but it's not hovering but whatever. So we want the black to white there it is black comma white this is the one we want to work with it's the easiest in my opinion. So we've gone ahead selected that gradient map now what you want to do is you want to just click on the coloring here so anywhere between the white and the black just click anywhere in this basic line or rectangle and this basically loads up the gradient map coloring we've got the black on the left and the white on the right and these are called stops so what I'm going to do now is I'm actually basically just going to click on this double I'm just going to double click on the black and it allows me to swap out whatever color I want so right now it's set to black but in this case I'm going to set it to a dark red just so you guys can see where we're going with this so let's go with something nice and dark yeah let's go with something like that and then click on okay so we're going now and creating our heat map or our thermal imaging effect I'm going to go forward a little bit on the down here on the gradient and then you'll see here if I hover over the rectangle here between the colors I get an eyedropper but if I hover a little bit below it you'll see I get a finger and this is basically allowing me to add a stop so I'm going to click on right about there I'm going to add another color stop going to double click on it and this one will be the blue let's go with a dark blue for example and again we can adjust all of these colors as we see fit I just want to show you the technique and then we'll just keep going from there so there we go we've got a bit of a red in there we've got some blue I'm going to go a little further down here and in this one I'm going to bring in some of that green so I'm going to bring in a green like that maybe oh yeah let's go bright green why not okay and then what other colors that we had there was a little bit of purple in there as well so I'm going to click kind of right beside it I'm going to double click on this and I'm going to add in kind of that purple look to it so we've got some green there we've got some blue we've got some red and again you can just you can just see that I can just pull these apart and adjust these colors as I see fit so you're not locked into anything nothing stuck and then if I wanted to add in another color let's say maybe this one will be a bit more of that I don't know kind of like between a red and a purple somewhere in there yeah let's go with a darker color yeah let's go with something like that there we go this is a good color add that color in and literally I'm just going ahead and adding in the colors adjusting them as I see fit and creating the thermal imaging or the heat map effect just like that so I've actually gone ahead and saved the one that I like so I'm just going to load it just to show you but there we go we've got red and then we got some spaces we got some blue then a darker blue then another red and then a blue and then a green at the end there and this looks pretty convincing to me so these are some colors that I would use but again go nuts try it out do whatever works for you that's the technique thanks for watching


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Well hello there, it's Sandy and I've got a little video introducing inks and paints to each other. I think I've done things with both of these mediums before, but I needed something catchy for this. So I'm using Distress Oxide inks as well as some watercolors from Daniel Smith. And these are some stamps that came out a few months ago from Ellen Hudson and I wanted to recreate a card that I did on Instagram but in watercolor this time. So what I have done is cut my watercolor paper to four and a half by six so it's bigger than a card front and then I trimmed down a piece of scrap paper so that it was going to fit the sentiment plus a little bit so I had some comfortable room around it and then drew a line with pencil so I kind of knew where I was headed on the piece of paper. In my MISTI I put the sentiment down first and then figured out where to put the flowers so that they would be able to spill a little bit over on top of the sentiment but not a whole lot. I didn't want it to become unreadable. And then I stamped the flowers, the Mondo pansies with some Distress inks, Distress Oxide inks shall I say. These are water soluble so you can use them as the paint but I decided to match them up with my Daniel Smith watercolor paints. I cleaned off the stamp, moved everything over so I could set up putting the flower in a different way. I didn't want it to just look like the same branch so I lowered it and kind of torqued the angle a little bit and blocked off a little piece with a sticky note so that I wouldn't stamp over top of something and put one of those flowers in the corner and then I had to turn it the other way so I could get just the corner of something so I'd have not necessarily even left and right side to the card but I wanted a little bit more on one side going up higher so just have a little bit of flowers peeking in from the edge. Knowing of course that I'm going to be trimming all this down so that it makes a regular card size but having extra room is helpful. And then it came down to putting some sticky notes down to mask the flowers so that now I can stamp the sentiment in the middle. You can of course do this with any of your flowers and sentiment stamps but I recommend these because they're fun and who doesn't want to be thanked for being a friend. So there you go. That's the simple stamping part of this. I dried it all really well because I didn't want to mess up any of the ink and then used a kneaded eraser to get rid of the pencil lines that are inside the flowers and then I ran the eraser lightly over everything else so that I wouldn't have a heavy pencil line it would just be lighter and then just started painting. I started by trying to see after heat drying it was like to get enough color like it didn't move enough color like I normally am used to because usually I don't heat set before doing this step before doing the watercolor and so I just used my watercolors instead. And the two colors that I used here were New Gamboge and Aussie Red Gold and using them at different thicknesses of paint versus water. The darker it is the more paint it is and the lighter it is the more water it has in the brush. And this is one of my fancy brushes by the way. I usually try to use my silver black velvet brushes in my videos and I totally spaced it because this one was the one that had been out on my desk for something else that I was painting. So this is one of the fancy schmancy sables that I love so much. So throughout the painting of these flowers I kept going back a little bit here and there and adding tiny touches of darker color. So even while it was wet I would go back in and drop a little bit of thicker Aussie Red Gold into those centers that sort of thing. I do go back at the end and add a little bit more because I'm a fusser and I kept fussing. But when you're painting something like this what I started off with was using water to just move the color around. You can see there is some color that does lift off of those outlines from the Distress Oxide Inks and if you wanted a really soft pastelly card you could certainly just do that. But I wanted more color in it so I dropped it into the wet paint which means that I didn't end up getting brush stroke types of lines. I got this kind of really soft blended mushy look from the watercolors. I also was sure to leave some white spaces. There were just areas I deliberately did not paint on. There wasn't any rhyme or reason to it but I was trying not to be perfect. Because as soon as you start trying to make one thing perfect then the next thing has to be perfect and the next thing has to be perfect and the next thing has to be perfect. And if you're anything like me you might achieve perfection on one flower and then everything else goes to heck in a handbag. So this is just a really easy way to make it look like everything's supposed to be loose and splashy and it's totally fine and no one will care, right? And of course it's yellow so it makes me happy whether it's perfect or not. So I just kept running around the whole card adding color to the flowers. After doing the first couple I felt bolder so I could do several petals at once, flower petals, etc.  I didn't want very much, I wanted this to feel like a yellow card. And notice that I didn't stamp those stems in green. You could do that.  I thought that was way too much work so I just left it in the yellow and added just the tiniest, tiniest drop of greens into each one of those leaves. So I dried everything really well, heat set that so that at least color wasn't going to move on its own before I was trying to get it to go. And then painted the border section of it. And the card that I did that was the inspiration for this had Copic Marker doing this outside part. I just did a bunch of stamping and then used a Copic Marker to color this outside bit. I will post a link to that card over on my blog so you can see what that card looked like. It was a green one. I did that earlier this summer and a couple of people had asked for tutorials and I thought I want to try the same thing in watercolor so that is where this comes from. But the same technique for doing the stamping was used on that card. There just wasn't watercolor in it. It was just plain outlines of the stamps themselves and some very simple color added to the border section. And once all of this part was done, I did my fussing. And that's where you can decide how much more detail you want to add to each of the parts of it. So I mixed up a little bit of Aussie Red Gold and I dropped in a little tiny bit of burnt Sienna just so I'd have a little bit darker color and then made a few brushstrokes into the centers of a few of the flowers so that I'd have a little more zing, a little more impact on each of these flowers. And when you're doing this last step, if you want it to be punchy color, then make sure you don't use a ton of water. Use mostly pigment or I shouldn't say mostly pigment. Not sure what the percentage is, but you want it to be kind of thicker than your normal wash so that you end up with a punch of your color. So I just dropped a little bit into each one of my flowers, which remember all this is dry now so I can make kind of crisp brushstrokes to add, you know, just a little bit of detail into these. And the last step is then to trim it down and put it on a card front. It is a one layer watercolor card that looks like multiple layers. It looks like you've got layers of paper and things, but it's all one layer on the card. Just kind of nice. See how flat that is? Pretty awesome and very beautiful for fall. It's got the yellows and the golds and orange colors, etc. And you can go over to my blog and see the other card. I'll go pull that up and add it to the blog post so you can check it out. And I will see you again very soon. Take care guys. Bye.


All right, we should be live we should be going Hello everybody Welcome to the show. Welcome to Tuesday. We are at that time of the year When about this time of the day the sun is setting in that direction So it you know this side of my face is like Light is just like streaming in Hi, who we got here we got some folks here. Hello Josiah and MC DJ AC DC. Hello Matt Rubin. Hello GL golf Hello, big a Dave and Ivan. Hey Chris from comic tropes. Nice to see you always nice to see you here Hi cyclonus and jump in general and Matt and Rob Vegas and Tony Jackson and Samuel Russell and Matt Edwards and draws Hi everybody nice to see you Yes, the Sun's getting real low Yeah, so like by the time we're done this evening The Sun will have set so it won't be blasting in my face, but you know, it's just It's that time of year. Hello project dark corp. Hello Joe fan 84. Hello Bader Ray Bob. Hello Danny and Jamalyn Hello Lester and Matthew another Matthew. Thank you. Thank you Matthew. I really appreciate it Once again, I think most people in here are named either Chris or Matthew so Hello, Chris's and Matt's nice to see you all So what are we going on? It's Tuesday. I do not have a plan. I do not have an agenda an agenda. I Don't have an agenda for today's For days today's show. Oh, thank you comic tropes. Yes. Thank you He says congratulations on panacing 16,000. Yes, we passed 16,000 and thank you very much. Everyone is here Hello Raymond. Welcome. Feel free to get loaded all you want. Hello Barry Barry Campbell and Keldon Yes, it's always a Matt and Chris night in here So, yeah, it's Tuesday. I have no agenda. I am a genderless It's been a little bit of a hectic week Hello summer Any news on Kevin? No, I still haven't heard anything from Kevin. Yeah, so If I if I ever hear anything I will let everybody know because everybody really would really like to Know how Kevin is doing Thank you, Josiah for the super chat and yes comic tropes beat you to it. It's a Chris versus Josiah battle to the To the to the deaths to see who can be the first but thank you. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it Chris's live soda pros and cons last night. I did not see that last night I I will go back and watch it though. I apologize Chris for not getting to that last night But I did see the The thumbnail But I've got I've got stuff going on and that's partly what I do want to talk about So I guess I I guess I do have a little bit of an agenda Not not a big agenda, but but at least a little bit of agenda at least that I have a couple things to talk about Hello, Peter ang nice to see you And somebody said hello to Lazarus. I don't think I saw Lazarus come in here But hello Lazarus if you're in here Yeah, I Guess so, I mean, I hope that we would find out if anything happened to them like somebody that he knows would post somewhere That you know that he was You know something happened. So since nobody has said anything. I assume he's okay anyway Yeah, so Okay, first of all, hello, Thane. How do you do hello exploring? So I guess the most hello Andrew Andrew I guess the most important thing. Hello, Mike Layton It's Tuesday So there is a new half the battle today Timmer did a video on the top 10 gi Joe aircraft Kind of a counterpart to his top 10 Cobra aircraft. So make sure you check out half the battle Since since somebody will bring it up what's on Joe mind as a live show on Fridays I was on their show last Friday. So check out my appearance. Hello, Sparster. Nice to see you Nice to see you Did panels two weeks ago and they went really that's awesome. That's awesome. Congratulations So, yeah, and and thanks for being here Okay, so that was that was Okay, it's a Timmer. What's on Joe mind? Okay, the other thing that I guess I can sort of announce here is that I have I am working full-time again. I I I took a job offer and It seems to be working out I wanted to wait before announcing it because I wanted to make sure it was gonna work out It does seem to be working out. So I am working full-time again So there you go What does that mean for videos? Hopefully it doesn't mean anything for videos I Just I'm in like a transition, you know period, you know kind of getting up to speed kind of period So that's kind of busy, but I used to I used to work Like a full-time job and take care of family and all that stuff and put out a video every week I used to do that. I used to do that. I don't see why I can't do that again Now having said that thank you draws. Thank you. And thank you Andrew. Thank you. Thank you, MC DJ AC DC That I've said that it shouldn't thank you summer. I said it shouldn't interfere with making videos, but it's like Already interfering with making videos because I got the the snake-eyes video done, right? I got the snake-eyes video all wrapped up that took a long time by the way That media section was just it just went on and on and on, you know It's snake eyes and now even though the media section went on and on and on I still couldn't include everything There's so much when it comes to snake eyes. There is so much. Hello renegade biker. Nice to see you I got all that done And I got the job offer and I took the job offer so I've been Therefore just a little bit like I started right after I finished the snake-eyes video The next video I've already picked out. I already picked out what the next video is gonna be Alright, thank you draws. Thank you very much. I already picked out what the next video is gonna be and I just have to do it I Just have to do it But every time I want I try to sit down and do it. It's like nah, nah Other stuff other stuff must be done Thank you, Raymond. Thank you very much. Hello Chad. Nice to see you. Hello, Raisiner. Nice to see you there So yeah, like I know what it I like I'm looking I'm staring at it right now You can't see it because it's behind the camera, but I'm looking at the item right over there That will be the next review and I am having a heck of a time actually getting to it To get the review started. So I don't know if the next video is going to be late I don't want it to be but it's it's been a challenge The beauty of gaming what's your thoughts on super seven ultimates classified versus classified line? I'm torn. I want to go all in on just classified or get both I worry about the longevity of the ultimates line due to price That's a good question, and I don't think I can adequately answer because I don't have The super seven ultimates I need to get them in hand And then I can make a fair judgment, but I mean the price That the price is a legitimate Issue I think price is an issue with like all of super seven stuff Like the the reaction figures the five point of articulation figures those are all like more expensive than People would like them to be. Hello, great Fox. Nice to see you there You know, yeah Hello troublemaker bricks nice to see you What was I saying, oh, yeah the the video I Know what it's gonna be. It's I'm looking at I'm like it's right there Now it doesn't need to be I need to clean it up a little bit It needs to needs it needs a good cleaning before it can appear on camera, but I'm staring at it And it's staring right back at me But so so I apologize. I apologize if the next video is late. I am doing the best I can Life has intervened Life keeps getting in the way, but not bad things not necessarily bad things kind of good things even I Hello, Dave F nice to see you. Oh YouTube tried to hide me again. Ah YouTube is sneaky that way Anyway, yeah, so So that's like the big thing that's going on and it's it's been an adjustment It's been a good adjustment. It's there's nothing it's not bad about it. It's it's a good thing but but yeah, it at least for this Beginning period when I am like doing extra stuff to kind of you know Get myself Situated and up to speed on things It may and may interfere with Putting out videos a little bit, but I'm really really trying. I really want to get like keep a regular schedule So I will do my best. So anyway, there you go That's that that's I think I think that's all the the news that I have if you want gi Joe news Boy, did you come to the wrong place? Actually like hello Michael Pytel nice to see you there. Hello Sean Beckett Do the hustle Yeah, the There like there are some great channels that that keep up with gi Joe news I I I look to those other channels when I want gi Joe news So I rarely have anything I rarely have breaking news But but but some breaking personal news, but but some pretty good stuff pretty good stuff YouTube is weird Always used to pop up and feed older new and now nothing Thank you for subscribing by the way. I and and that's a that's a fair point The YouTube Albert Alder Wow, I can't talk the YouTube algorithm is just Bonkers I and it changes by the way If you if you figure out how to hit that algorithm sweet spot so that you're the videos get recommended to more people it'll change and So then then you know You have to figure it out. I don't know This is like people hire consultants to do all that. Hey, that's what I should do. I should be a consultant. I Don't know anything but neither did the consultants Yeah, so I thank you. Thank you g l golf. I'm glad to be streaming to thank you very much Gray Fox says heard it if you send HCC superchats YouTube is less weird. It's you know I like this theory. I like this theory. Gray Fox has an excellent theory. That's the good good thinking. Hello James aka rat face Nice to see you. Hello corn viper. How do you do? So, yeah, um Anything happening in the world Well, the has lab his tank that that's finished. That's done the the The the has lab project wrapped up they did really really well We will get that sometime in it definitely definitely sometime in the next five years Count on it. Hello toy connections. Nice to see you Algorithm makes no sense Yeah Dead in the water for a few does a few days suddenly our algorithm finds it and poof it out performs my last night Yeah, see that's what I'm talking about it. None of it makes sense. It's magic computer stuff. You're like, yeah, anyway I thank you cyclonus Consult yeah, see that Sparkster has has perfectly to define console. That's what I need to do. I need to be a consultant Thank you, Gray Fox. Thank you very much Yeah, YouTube is still YouTube will always be weird There is like YouTube is is made YouTube is made for That the like the top 1% of channels that that make them all the money So That's that's that's probably like where YouTube Sort of makes sense like the when you're performing at that level you've got some pull you got some say and And and YouTube cares whether you have pull or say But for the rest of us like mere mortals Using YouTube the way it was originally intended to be used It's it's all voodoo They might as well just be throwing darts, you know throw a darts at a at a wall and whatever it hits That's what it gets. That's what gets Recommended it's algorithms Do you have a comic-trip says do you have any GI Joe stuff at your work office? Not yet? I'm still setting up the office. I've been busy. So I haven't had a chance to set up the office I've moved a few things over there, but I haven't haven't moved any Joe stuff. I say that But I just realized that's not correct. I do have one Joe stuff. Hello. Hello Christian bricks. Hello, Denmark from the United States Thank you for being here I have a GI Joe coaster For my drink, you know a coaster. I do have that But yeah, I haven't moved very much stuff in I just haven't had time to yet. I'll get something over there I want to find and unpack the The custom play buttons and things that people sent to me That I had in my old office It's there here somewhere since I haven't had an office for a while. I I haven't I haven't looked for them for a minute But but yeah, I want to get that all like going again and like have a nice a nice office that looks like me So, yeah See Algorithm based on numbers subscribe to learn more subs you have more videos get put in front of people's feeds That is that is at least partially true. It also takes into account like audience interactions and They've also Varied a bit on like the length of videos that That they tend to recommend like there there was a There was a phase there when they were pushing a lot of like video essay like long-form video essays but now I think the the algorithm is favoring slightly shorter videos now, but the That's all speculation Nobody really I'm not sure. I'm not sure YouTube really knows It's just darts. It's like the computer throws a dart at the wall. That's that's that's what it is Am I back to the law books I am I am back to the law books, but I'm yeah, it's It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work, but but it's okay. It's good work. I'm happy with it I can do it It's just keeping me busy Yeah Consultant but only for other GI Joe focused channels. That could be my niche surely. There's money. Yeah, see that's somehow I've got to monetize that It's a very it's a small niche, but Within that niche, maybe maybe I can maybe I don't know maybe I can do something. Hello radical toys. Nice to see you How am I today? I'm fine. Thank you very much I Radical so toys has been watching a lot lately. Thank you very much for watching. Hello Eric Gallinger I almost called you Eric Gallagher because I can't read because I my eyes aren't any good But hello, Eric. Nice to see you. Hello Jeffrey Ball Jeffrey Ball's chat is working now congratulations. Glad you got that working Anyway the For those who just got in the the Personal news that I would mention before Just so everybody's on the same page. I did I am working again. I have a full-time job again as For how that will affect a video output. Hopefully not very much although it may affect the next video because I'm having a hard time getting to it, but I'm doing the best I can But that's So it's out there. I just wanted to get that out there You know, I don't want to go too much into personal stuff, but but since it could affect The output of content, I think I thought you that you should know I just thought you should know Hello, Teddy. Nice to see you GI Joe blockbuster review. Yeah Now I would like to do I tell you what was on my mind and it wasn't the blockbuster The detonator For some reason the the detonator from what year was that like wasn't that a 93? I gotta look it up. Dang it Funnest GI Joe cartoon episode. Oh, that's a So good the where the aliens throw them and she agrees that is that was that actually that was a pretty good one Hang on what? That is from 1900 and 93 okay as that's the right year. So I don't know it's that's a It says such a an odd little vehicle and It's like nobody talks about it Yeah, 93. Thank you. Thank you comic tropes. Um, it It's like nobody is like the video it's it's the the vehicle that nobody cares about and I'm that that Interests me. Thank you. Josiah. What's your favorite Joe Colton costume?  I'm glad she is going to do the Cobra Trooper the Cobra officer I'm glad I think GI Joe needs to be represented there and I'm for that. Hello, Rob. It was very nice to see you Thank you for being here. Always nice to see you there. Hey there Bart Thank you Chad as you know our office in a large building that says extensive enterprises by God it is I Wish I had noticed that to begin with Thank you Chad Now I'm on the lookout now. I've got my eye out on it. Yeah, the foam missile Teddy. Yeah, that's what I It's a vehicle that it shoots a foam missile So, yeah Yeah, mine better would at least prefer the missiles to be nerfed a little bit But yeah, it's okay. This is why this is why I'll never be like a big-time YouTuber right because the the the review that's most on my mind is A vehicle that nobody cares about I've never heard anybody say hey the detonator. That's my favorite vehicle I'm sure somebody's out there, right? somebody's out there That's like the loved the the Cobra detonator Like went to bed every night, you know as a five-year-old, you know hugging the Cobra detonator I love you Cobra detonator I'm sure there was somebody right, but I've never encountered that person. I've never encountered the person to say Yes, that's a mighty fine Cobra vehicle from 1993 That's what fascinates me about it What what what what is it? You know what what why why is it? Why is it? Yeah, the detonator isn't about to win any patreon poll exactly a great fox nobody's voting for that I Know I think a lot of people don't even know what it is But these little like these little pockets of GI Joe stuff That is kind of forgotten that that stuff Fascinates me I latch on to stuff like that But but who's gonna watch that this is why this is why this is why the algorithms don't like me Right so like YouTube robot computer sees that oh, he's uploaded a video about the The Cobra detonator nobody's nobody's see that nobody need to see that. Yeah, see Rob Irozeri has the right idea has lab detonator You know That's what the has lab his tank was missing is a foam missile That should have been one of the stretch goals Is a foam missile? Yeah Rob Vegas is the Cobra Scorpion the desert car from 94 gets no respect, you know, I liked the scorpion. I actually do It's a it's actually pretty practical vehicle from that era I Have I think I have like I Think I have two or three I think I have three because here's what I did I got There are two color variations, right there's the vehicle is black and tan But there's a variation where the black and tan parts are swapped Right and I got one of each I got one of each But I also got one where that that combines all the tan parts Kind of kit bashes those so Yeah, you see Yeah, you're right Rob. It's impossible to take it personally when it's completely impersonal. It's totally impersonal Thank you B train. Thank you very much for being here, and I'm glad you like it. Thank you very much I haven't thought about getting a light pad for drawings or any computer drawing pad If you have a light pad drawing tracing probably tomorrow I've thought about it, but It for what I do, I don't think it would help that much just because Because I have a particular process like it It's not true It probably would help because I should probably change my process, right because my process is really impractical but the my process is Is It's streamlined specifically for doing thumbnail pictures Which I don't know My process is kind of silly. I like I oh, thank you comic tropes Did you have a time as a teen buying GI Joe where you thought we're too old to stick with it? Yes, I did Yes, I did and I eventually did like I Did walk away from it but Even though I was kind of distancing myself from it, especially after I saw the movie and Cobra law I was I was still too old to be Okay, they never Too old to buy toys if you want to buy toys if you want to buy toys. There's no such thing as to all but the people around me Felt that I was too old to buy toys at the time My friends generally were not buying toys at the time So, yeah, yeah, I do remember that. I yeah, I remember that pretty well I I did still read the comic book series for a while after I no longer got the toys though because like You know at least at least I can hold on to that at least I can hold on to that But yeah, the the the the whole Cobra law thing really Really kind of kind of hit me They need a GI Joe shark 9,000 review of the shark 9,000. I Believe I have that. Hold on. What was I missing on that? Hold on? Hold on one second. See this is I got no memory So I am looking I'm looking Because I want to refresh my memory on not the vehicle I Want to look at the figure which is cutter Version three. Yeah, okay. Okay. It's since you mentioned the shark 9,000. Hello, w w jd 85 nice to see you The shark 9,000 I have it. I have it. It's missing one thing I think It is missing It's missing Cutter's accessory his gun I Think that's all I'm missing But I have to check on the file card. I might be missing the file card, too The anyway, the point is it's almost complete. It's almost complete. I and that is a really impressive vehicle The the 90s and the 90s was kind of hit and miss but there were some really good vehicles in the 90s and that's one of them That's one of yes with laser beams attached to their heads Tony says last toys I got where that was the for the 89 stuff. Yeah, same here Same here had a smattering of 89 and my my last figure that I recall buying For myself was rock and roll rock and roll version 2 and At the time I bought rock and roll version 2 I was There was more for nostalgic purposes at that time Because I remembered I remembered rock and roll version 1 and I thought hey, that's really cool That came up with a new rock and roll. So So yeah, I picked it up but not really to play with it I think that may have been the first figure that I actually bought for nostalgic purposes back in 1989 a Comic-Trope's trying to remember the last figure you got I might have been the alley-wipe version 2 that was a good one That was a good one had a part-time job at Walgreens and could get a discount. Yeah, that's handy I I did not that's handy handy. I'll say hey, that's a nice question for the chat. That's a nice question for the chat What was the last? Figure you bought during the vintage era not going back as a collector and buying on the secondary market But what was the last vintage era figure that you got? Mine I'm almost a hundred percent certain was rock and roll version 2 See why no long love for o-ring recolors 97 to 2008 Yeah, the I do have some of those Really mainly the the reason I don't get into those is is also the main reason why I don't get into a lot of modern figures It's not really about the figures themselves It's just that I had to choose a cutoff point for my collection because I did not want to have an Open-ended collection and so I chose as the cutoff point the the end of the vintage era in 1994 That's That that felt like a natural breakpoint And yeah, there's lots of stuff lots of really good stuff that came out after that. It's just that I I Don't want the collection to get Out of hand. I don't want the collection to completely take over My living space so for that reason I I wanted to limit the scope of my collection So that's why I limited that John Carling says road pig same to you buddy. Oh That's our you are answering a question. I thought I thought you were calling me.  Yeah, that was yeah road pig another pretty good figure. Hello, John. Oh, look nice to see you Oh Thank you, John. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Thank you very much for your support And you know what John you've been I've seen you around for a long time and I really appreciate you being here So thank you. Thank you very much. I don't know if you were here Earlier for the announcement I I am working again That's the third time I've said it I'm trying not to make this about personal stuff and yet I've made the announcement three times But I just if anybody's Wasn't here earlier. I just want to make sure everybody understands that if if I'm struggling to get this next video out That's why okay. I'm really I'm trying so there you Josiah says topside Keldon got rampart really liked rampart. I like I like that figure Radical toys says alley viper Jake says have Transformers g1 blaster could be a repro. I Don't know enough about transformers to tell you what the difference is. I'm sure there is a difference But I am you know what there are some Transformers experts in here who could tell you how to find out if that's a reissue or not Expertiso got the iron grenadier. That's a good one. You know somebody's for some of you guys the last figure Was a good figure Storm Shadow version 2. Robert says that's a good figure Raymond got 89 stalker 89 stalker comes with that giant kayak it comes with a vehicle Like that's like, you know, it's it's that that's like a two-fer, right? You get you get a bonus vehicle with the figure WW JD 85 said alley viper version 3 that's very interesting alley viper version 3 Where that's where they went back to the orange and blue color, but with the version 2 body really Interesting figure comes there. There's a variant of that. I already did a review of that But yeah, you know, you know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about See The gray fox is one of those transformers experts leader one and Psy kill now I remember I'm old enough to remember when go-bots came out And beating transformers to the market And in my mom thought go-bots because she saw the commercials she she thought Go-bots were so cool. You know, she wanted to get them for us I don't I don't remember if she actually did get them for us, but she wanted to But then transformers came out And it had, you know the cartoon and well go-bots had a cartoon too, but like Transformers just kind of took over the universe, but Go-bots was there just a little bit earlier And I had I had a few go-bots and I had a few Transformers as well See Renegade biker uploaded a few pictures of a vintage and modern line of Cobra and GI Joe and three to quarter inch figures both Instagram and Horder but plan on doing a video. Okay, so check out Renegade vibe. Yeah, Renegade by man I cannot talk Renegade biker Instagram close. Wow, I cannot speak Think mine was lifeline version two A lifeline version to now lifeline version two according to Yo-jo.com was the Tiger Force Right The reason I have a hard time remembering is because No Yeah, okay Yo-jo.com has the Mail okay, man, I can't remember the reason I have a hard time remembering is because Yo-jo.com considers the mail away to be a separate version and I Consider the mail away to just be a variant of version one. Hello jail is comics. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here Hello bubble bubble wrapped memories. Yeah, the Rice Krispies one I Yeah, Yo-jo considers the Rice Krispies Lifeline to be a separate version and that's why I it'll I keep getting a mixed up in my head Because I have like a different numbering system than Then Yo-jo does Although my numbering system doesn't matter it to anybody but me And you know it There is I think there is an interesting debate to be had about what constitutes a variant and what constitutes a version It's not an easy as easy a question as you might think but It's also not that important a question because what's really important. Hello, David Sharp What's really important is that I sell it say hello to David sharp. Hello there. What's really important is that we just Agree on something right it just as long as we're talking the same language That's that's what actually matters as collectors So that there's no confusion, right because so if you're referring to version 3 of a figure and I refer to version 3 we just as long as we're talking about the same version Then then we're communicating But if we have our own different ideas Then it's chaos Dogs and cats living his living together mass hysteria. Hello Dave C. Straight from the pit. How do you do? Thank you for being here. Ah Teddy says the fridge. It's right over there. I keep cold things in it the fridge The fridge I'll tell you what I've been doing. I've been I've been going back and watching I'm a fan of the New England Patriots for everybody who didn't know that already It's I'm not no big secret. I've mentioned it before I've been going back and watching some old Patriots games that a lot of those old games are on YouTube I did a While back go back and watch Super Bowl 20 where the Patriots played the Chicago Bears and the fridge was on that team and and Wow, the the Bears were way better The Bears absolutely destroyed The Pats it was it was a massacre But the fridge, you know the fridge has had tough times in recent years I really wish that he could make it out to the to the convention circuit Because a lot of people would love to I would love to meet the fridge. I would love to get him to sign stuff How cool would it be to actually be able to meet the fridge? Now? Hello Raymond Sheffield. How you doing? He says I'm a cool dude. I have him fooled.  Thanks Rob. Yeah, no those those I don't go back in and watch I remember those well enough. Thanks for bringing them up I will say though that in in those Super Bowls that my team lost on that day the better team won There you go, there you go on that particular day The better team won. Yeah. Anyway, um, Pat Patriot such a cool mascot. Yeah, um, the Pat Patriot a center You know an offensive lineman Actually got his picture on the helmets. How about that? So, uh, yeah, yeah Pat Patriot, uh, I have mixed feelings about cartoon characters being on football Let's not you know what you're gonna be sidetracked The point is we're talking about the fridge. You didn't give me sidetrack. I got myself sidetracked the fridge Um, I would I would love to meet him. I'd love to bring uh a file card and have him sign it I'd love to just talk to him. I'd love to be able to meet him Um, if if he could ever make it to you know a toy convention or a gi Joe related convention People would line up to meet that dude But I just don't know if his health would Would be good enough for him to To to actually do it, which I think is unfortunate because you know by all accounts He was a really nice guy. He was just Very affable and easy to get along with So, yeah, and I'm I'm glad he got An action figure. It's really cool. He he got a Um That that he got a gi Joe figure. Thank you, Rob Vegas I highly recommend australian footy grand final from 2021 go demons go demons Um wwd says like pat patria better the uh Elvis. Uh, yeah the flying Elvis. Yeah, um, I have it's that's a struggle right for me to decide on Between the two because I kind of have Kind of have problems with both of them Um, but but let's you know with gi joe. That's what this show is about gi joe yo joe Yeah, there's steve grogan. Uh, so the Uh, the steve grogan jersey that I wore for my review of bazooka Um, I wore that to foxboro for to uh, july stadium in foxboro and That gets the attention of a lot of people The the locals still remember steve grogan very very well. They recognize that number 14 Um But yeah, that yeah, the steve grogan's number 14.  Um What was I saying the number 14? Oh, yeah, like steve grogan the um the uh Uh The uh the the bazooka jersey so um in it's uh, hey, I can tie this back to the fridge Okay, so in that super bowl super bowl 20 Uh paths versus the bears the fridge was in it scored a touchdown Uh, steve grogan did play in that game. He didn't start that game Right, uh, it was tony eason that started that game and played so poorly That he was pulled out and steve grogan was put in And he also played poorly, but just that much better Yeah, they got they really got killed. That was uh, that was brutal What what what um football is see there's not like a A snake themed Like the the knee why isn't why isn't there a snake themed themed team? Well, I'll I'll we'll we'll we'll talk about that Um bled so see I was just thinking about bled so too. Um Bled so carried that team bled so carried that team for years All right, and bled so made it to a super bowl in his own right He lost that that team lost to the packers Uh, but bled so was a good player Bled so's got the the respect of everybody in that area Um So, yeah, I like I like bled so how can he not like bled so he just he's a A genuinely good guy. He was an excellent player And you know, he put the team first when you know when all that stuff went down. So um Teddy, um Well, yeah, well, I I'm actually like That's my ex spouse. So just just FYI um Teddy wants to know If she if he should dump his girlfriend. Um, so you uss flag by christmas, you know, probably so Um, this has been relationship corner Uh, your source for relationship advice. I'll see everybody next week When I I You know tell you what to do with all of your finances. I'll we'll work on retirement planning, uh, but for this week. It's about, um priorities girlfriend or uss flag. Well, you know what? uss flag will appreciate in value, you know That's think about it Think about it. Uh, yeah, I'm sorry. I I got yes. I know I got I got all off on on the uh this the sport Sorry, did we're skipping that skipping that see somebody just mentioned the fridge and he got me started my apologies anyway Uh, yo, joe Yeah, uh, what is even I don't have like I don't have like stuff to show you because um, the next video, uh, I don't have show and tell I wasn't ready for uh, for a uh, Story time. I don't have a book out Uh, what you know next time we do this. I'm gonna be a lot more organized Andrew needs financial planning advice. Uh, yeah, you should tune in next week tune in next week for investment advice you know, that's That you know that you ever heard of the the hnr block Well, the h stands for hoodie So, yeah Yeah, nfl is like pretty localized to the states. It's not cared about by Very many other people. So yeah, um, oh, that's okay. Teddy. They'll look I've not hurt my feelings I'm fine. I'm I'm a I'm a okay. So that that's absolutely cool. But anyway, yeah, definitely dump your girlfriend, you know That you you can sleep with a uss flag. It'll take up, you know, you need a larger bed because it's gonna take up a lot of space but um But yeah, I I think this is I think this is sound sound relationship advice Time for mad libs. We only have 15 minutes left. Um, hoodie and our block hoodie and roblox see Uh, uh, Kelden figured it out. Kelden figured it out. Um, I need uh, I have been promising mad libs for like A couple of months now Um, and now we only have like 15 minutes I definitely have to stop at the the eight o'clock mark because I'm tired. I'm already barely able to speak here I'm just spitting out words Uh, at least I hope there are words. Let me know if anything that I say is not a word Um, because that's that that could happen. Um, but uh, but well, I'm gonna be way more organized next week Um, it's just been it's been a crazy week. Not a bad week. It's not been a bad week But it's been a crazy week That's right. You can sleep on the flag there.  You don't need it Right the flag is the bed just throw a blanket and a pillow on it. There's there's room Chances are you are not seven and a half feet tall, which means there is enough room for you Uh, yeah, see you can use it as a dining table. You know, you can yeah, there it has many uses Can you use your girlfriend as a dining table? I don't think you can use your girlfriend as a dining table You know, yeah, so look Look, hard choices have to be made Uh, Abiel Trejo says what's my favorite GI Joe vehicle? Uh, it's still the the killer whale I love the killer whale My killer whale has been put away for a while like Stored away and I would really I love to get it back out. I haven't played around with that thing for so long but um but the the um It's got so many features You know as a kid. I just loved like the the gun turrets and the missiles Yeah, I'll The killer whale just I just I just love it. Um Yeah, see Um Uh, can you like well like can you land your sky strikers on your girlfriend? Maybe you know, it depends on how you know How like look is none of my business, but if you're into that kind of thing if she's into that kind of thing you probably could um But but but there has to like, you know, it has to be a willing consenting, you know, uh Participant there um But uh, anyway, yeah, so this is this is a super mature conversation.   So What do you expect? What do you expect? um Anyway, uh, what else? Like I I feel like there's more That i'm supposed to be saying like more i'm supposed to be announcing like there's something going on That i'm forgetting about that's very much a possibility Um, but honestly, I have not been like focused on joe stuff for the last week because i've had Other things that i've had to do um good things Good things not like sometimes Uh life gives you lemons You know and and sometimes life gives you Orange, I don't know. There's a saying in there.  Uh, you were our friend. Um Um My brother and I always used to play with our friend sam Um, and he had a pretty big collection I would say as far as size goes, uh, our collections were probably close to the same But he had the large Vehicles and play sats. He had the uss flag Right, he he actually had the flag.  Let remember remember When life gives you poop Make poop juice Uh, but anyway, my point is Even though I've been busy. It's not with bad stuff You know for once You know is no disasters happening at the moment Um, it's just that my my attention has been drawn Elsewhere so I'm hoping to to get back into a routine and rhythm. I don't know how long that'll take. Hopefully not very long But at least in in this in this phase like this transitional phase. I've just got to I gotta be I gotta take care of stuff I gotta I gotta I got a tcb Um, but we'll we'll we'll do it. We'll we'll we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out Um, but uh, but in the meantime, I want to say thanks. Um, John Olrick mentioned that he was supporting on patreon. Um, so thank you for that um, but for everyone, uh, who Who supports on patreon or even those who don't just everybody that's here The support that i've gotten over the last, um, uh, almost a year Right because it's august and I started picking up videos again in like november of last year So it's been it's getting close to a year. Uh, the amount of uh, of Support that I've gotten has just been overwhelming and uh, it means so much to me. I I can't I really don't have the words to fully express How much that means to me and how much I appreciate Uh, every single one of you. I mean, I see I see you guys in here Um, a lot of the same folks that show up every week and it's just so cool You know to see friends and talk with you guys and share things that we enjoy and and That that's just so awesome It's just so awesome. I I feel very lucky and very fortunate and I don't know I Thank you is what I want to say, but I feel like I wish I had bigger words Because it has meant a lot to me. Thank you. Thank you very much Thank you very much. I'm gonna go to sleep now. Not yet Not yet In about nine minutes by my clock Uh, thank you comic tropes comic tropes makes a good show comic tropes makes a great show A comic tropes makes a great show. That's that's a show that you should watch um But uh, yeah, I I will wrap up. I will wrap up At at the eight o'clock When my clock clock says eight o'clock Uh, because I I'm tired Uh, hello rex for louis cobra Uh, we had a whole month of cobra a whole month of cobra in july And you know what that actually makes um picking videos For august and the rest of the year kind of tricky because like we do we do um Cobra for an entire month right a whole month of cobra So The following month I want to I want to do some gi just so I want to I want to have a little bit of Variety, I don't want to overload cobra, but how long Is it how long should it be before I get back to another cobra review because I do cobra toys You know in regular weekly reviews um, so um So, uh, like but but how long do I wait to do the next cobra review? I don't know. I I think it's got to be at least like three four weeks, right? It's to just to To differentiate it from um Thank you very much sparkster. Thank you. I I really appreciate that I just uh, you know to differentiate the regular reviews from the cobra convergence reviews I think there just needs to be some more gi joe stuff to kind of balance it out um So so we did the snake eyes and the snake eyes one I really I really needed to do right in the snake eyes one um what like I did a snake eyes review as one of the one of the earliest videos on the channel And it wasn't very good. And then I followed up with an update and that wasn't very good I think like I had the aspect ratio of the video off. So it's like Warped That's no good I can't have a warped video Uh like as a as a as a main review of an important character. I can't have it warped So it's something that I needed to do. I really had to I had to I had to do a better snake eyes review. So I I really tried to I hope that turned out okay Um now that it's done. I'm ready to put that's that's another rule by the way It's like there are certain characters that are really popular and I could do I could do a bunch of reviews because there have been a bunch of snake eyes And there have been a bunch of cobra commanders and there have been a few duke action figures But I purposely limit Um duke snake eyes And cobra commander to one review a year max One snake eyes review per year one cobra commander review per year one duke review per year To spread it out, you know to spread it out Uh, so so yeah, so so I've done my snake eyes. I've done my snake eyes and I've done my cobra commander I didn't do a duke though. Did I did I do a duke? I'm asking the crowd if I did a dukey um october october see um Vintage vintage october guard um Thank you very much matt ruben. I really do appreciate that. I I do thank you And thank you all like you you've all been very kind. Uh, you really you really have been um YouTube can be a harsh place YouTube is where you go to get attacked for every a bit.  I I feel very very fortunate Uh Oh, that's awesome. Uh, james, uh, I didn't know that you started your own youtube channel, but that's really cool Uh, and thank you. Thank you very much duke tambour I could do I could do an entire month of duke. I haven't done the space duke I haven't done the the the astronaut duke Yeah, I'll think about I'll think about it. I'll think about it. I probably got it I probably should get a duke in there somewhere Um, but yeah, I um And really it's it's all you guys, right? You're you're the ones who are here. You're the ones who are watching You're the ones who are making the comments um, and So you're the ones that are making this um such a nice place to be And that that's really inspiring There are a lot of youtube channels even really big ones That just wish they had the kind of audience that we have here um, so That were two space dukes my goodness. Yeah, uh, well We'll we'll we'll see we'll say like I I'll work on it. I'll work on it. Oh geez. There are so many dukes So many dukes, but I think if I well, no, I don't want I don't want to speculate I don't want to speculate because I'm I don't want to do spoilers. You know, I I did I did two polls, right? I did two polls Asking people if they wanted me to announce What the next video was going to be about? Right do a preview of the next video And in both of those polls people overwhelmingly said no We do not want spoilers surprise us So, okay, okay, okay It's like I I would have no problem telling you what I'm gonna review I have no problem doing that but but the audience has spoken The audience has spoken anyway It is it is about time I have there's never enough duke um That we can dismiss deke and Channing Tatum. Well, I I I think that would hurt Channing Tatum's feelings And we all do care about Channing Tatum's feelings, right? Channing Tatum is still alive, isn't he? I don't know I I don't keep up with celebrity news. Anyway Um, it is about time. It is uh, 759 by my clock Um So I am gonna wrap it up. I am really tired. It has been a long day and a long week And it's gonna be like that for a little while But uh, but that's okay Good stuff happening good stuff happening Uh, and I'm really glad that you are here for it. So, um, I guess I guess I'll say good night So good night everybody I'll see you next week. Sorry I missed last week um Uh, Diana Davis says I like Channing Tatum, but neither he nor I liked him as Duke. Yeah, that's fair He just he didn't have he wasn't duke-ish enough Um, but yeah, anyway, I'll say good night guys. Thank you for being here. We will see you next week Sorry about missing last week, but I'll see you next week and uh, just uh Uh, keep on keeping on and I'll see you next time. Good night everybody. Bye. Bye. Bye Bye, I'm trying to hit the button while waving bye