Simran Chani Kaglani and first up I just want to say how excited I am to be here today. Amazing conversation about AI and AI is one of these new topics that all of us are interested about. Unfortunately or fortunately I am going to be talking about a topic which is now 16 years old. I am going to be talking about the IPL but the new piece about the IPL that I would like to talk to you about today is IPL on Geo Cinema. So without further ado I am just going to get into it. At any point in time if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask me. I think when it comes to the IPL or rather when you look at this statement a lot of us will relate to this statement hard right especially when it comes to the context of technology. I am sure all of you remember when BlackBerry was the thing that all of us used and then the iPhone came in and BlackBerry became absolutely old news right or for example when all of us were on Orkut and then within I think about a year or two Orkut was old news and all of us shifted to Facebook and then our social media journey started developing from there. I think when it comes to technology this statement holds very very true with technology what is happening is that after a certain inflection point the rate of change is very very fast and look at us right I mean before FIFA 2022 you know Geo Cinema was not really known as a sports platform and within the span of the last 18 months Geo Cinema now has become the largest sports platform right so I think what happens is that a lot of times change takes some time to build up and then it starts happening very very rapidly and while this is something that's happened in our lives I think another thing that all of us in this room probably will relate very much is you know how the emergence of digital India has happened in the country in such a strong way right and a few things have contributed to this of course the first one being Geo Telecom really taking mobile connectivity to the last mile starting 2017 you know today the mobile penetration in the country is very very deep my favorite sort of anecdote to talk about UPI is that every year I actually go for a trek in Maharashtra in the rains because it's just so beautiful in the rains right and I have this one Vada Pao guy that I like to have Vada Pao at every year after my trek and this is super remote you have to drive three hours outside of Bombay to do it and for the last couple of years I've been able to pay this guy 7 rupees for my Vada Pao on UPI right so that sort of tells you the story of how deeply penetrated UPI has become and of course all of us have gone through the process of registering ourselves and having a unique ID with Aadhar all of these pieces have actually contributed to the emergence of India as a digital first nation and the Geo Cinema story is actually just another chapter in that story coming back to why we are all here today and what why not why we are all here today but why I am here today and what I want to talk to you about just first I want to share what our ambition for the upcoming season of IPL is because I know a lot of the conversation around IPL is about how big it is from a viewer lens as well this year for IPL Geo Cinema as a platform is confident of achieving a 650 million reach across devices so this is across mobile and connected television devices and a couple of other innovations that we have in store that I will touch upon so this is ambition for this year and when you look about when you look at this number in context of I don't know what's happening outside but I'm just going to continue okay so when you look at this number the context of what we did last year this number actually does not seem that improbable so last season which was our first season of you know having IPL on the platform we achieved the reach of about 449 million users across devices and when you compare this to the previous season on IPL on the previous streaming platform this is a huge jump you know it's about almost like a 38% jump from the previous season the reason why we were able to achieve this kind of a number of course I think one of the big things that was very very talked about I think all of you will have memories of this is that you know we decided to make IPL viewing free for all consumers in the country no matter what device you are on you could consume IPL for free which is why we say that was a barrier free experience and that of course led to a large sort of population tuning into our platform to consume their favorite tournament and not just from a pricing standpoint there were a couple of other sort of you know big innovations or other large steps that we took to make IPL more attractive to folks one big one for us was of course introducing IPL in 12 languages to users some of you probably would have you know experimented with the Bhujapuri feed for example which went very viral a lot of people on Twitter were talking about just how fun the Bhujapuri feed was or the Punjabi feed right so for the first time ever in the 15 years that IPL had been happening a consumer from these markets which are otherwise underserved could actually consume IPL commentary in a language of their choice and of course all of this was across all 74 matches and all screens right so no sort of I think no kind of you know preferential treatment for one screen versus the other all content was available across all screens and not just that I think for the early adopters in all of us right what we tried to do last year was try and you know sort of blur the lines between what you do while you're consuming IPL and what you do around IPL right so one big habit I think that all of us who are cricket fans and I'm assuming most of us in this room are cricket fans is that you know while you're watching the game you also want to say for example go to another platform and check out stats right so we introduce live stats on the platform multi cameras on our feed was the first time so you know if you are say for example my favorite example for this is that if you are a Dhoni fan and you're watching a CSK match especially if you put the stump mic the stump cam on there are chances that you may actually be able to hear Dhoni give instructions to the bowler at the other end right which all of us of course is cricket lovers love and a 360 degree VR experience was also introduced on our platform and one would think I think instinctively that not a lot of people will use these features because it seems so high-tech but pleasantly for us what we realized was about 100 million users on the platform were actually engaging with these features on a daily basis I mean 100 million is a massive number and that should tell you that the early adopter user base is not a niche user base anymore I think usage of technology is becoming so much more native to the Indian audience that I don't think as advertisers and planners we're even being able to imagine how quickly people sort of adapt to the new features that you have to introduce and while all of this is you know the story on mobile another big story for us was a sort of engagement that we were able to drive whether it was with our game Jito Dhandanadan where you notice a play a long game people could answer questions while watching the match every day one person one or car you know I mean huge thing that we did from a consumer engagement standpoint all of these things sort of led to people actually spending more time consuming IPL on our platform I think in the past what would happen is that you know IPL on your phone would remain more of a on-the-go phenomenon but an average watch time of 70 minutes I mean I don't think any of us are traveling 70 minutes to you know I mean unless of course I live in Hawaii and I work in lower paris so I do travel a long long time but other than that on average users are not really traveling for that long across the country right so 70 minutes is a very high sort of average time spent on a tournament for it to really for the platform to really just remain an on-the-go medium and not just on the mobile I think one big commitment that we made was how do we take IPL you know to all of your screens in a very meaningful way our distribution team you know did the hard work of working with a Google TV working with a you know with the Samsung's of the world to ensure that GeoCinema was available you know on all of these platforms and one big innovation that we brought into the market on the connected TV devices was the Asli 4k stream right and this was the first time ever anywhere in the world that a tournament was actually streamed in 4k it actually meant having to do investments in getting those type of cameras into the field to have that kind of an output and we were very very pleasantly surprised with the results and I'll touch upon the 4k results in a bit but before that want to leave you with some highlight numbers on what we were able to achieve on connected television we were able to achieve a device level reach of 29 million devices through the tournament and an individual level reach of about a 126 million users and just connected TV and of course this in our minds is one big growth story and indicator of a complete consumer shift that is happening you know in the country this number was a 126 million during IPL last year and as we have gone on month on month of course we've got a lot of other tournaments happening on the platform we are actually seeing this number change dramatically month on month in fact if you read you know any of the data that's coming out of OEM manufacturers you will get to know that about 98% of the devices that are sold in India today are actually connected TV devices you know the old form of television is almost nearly obsolete whoever is looking in the market to buy a new TV is actually buying a connected TV so obviously one big sort of consumer shift you know the example that I gave of Blackberry to iPhone I think that's our of a consumer shift that's happening in the television space as well so what does this mean for IPL 2024 right at least our you know ambition and our objective for IPL 2024 is three fold you know how do we make IPL 2024 in Geo cinema the largest reach aggregator you know how do we essentially make the viewing experience better for consumers and while all of us are planners managers you know agencies we are also at the end of the day also consumers of the tournament right so how do we make the consumption of the tournament better for all of our users and finally what does this mean for our advertisers right so when you speak about reach the way we are looking at it is how do you make IPL every Indians Premier League right so few things in this in this objective for us of course you know I mean mobile internet penetration is growing rapidly one big story for us on this one is making IPL available on the 4g feature phones that we have called the Geo Bharat phones this phone is actually a 999 rupee device we currently have in the England live on the platform and I'll touch upon a little bit more on it when I'm on the Geo Bharat piece of the deck but one big piece is how do we increase reach for the mobile audience on the app itself we will be introducing a multi-lingual UI so currently if you log on to Geo cinema Geo cinema the UI is in English and of course just the way we've done commentary in multiple languages we just want to take that sort of learning a little bit deeper and make our app also in different languages and finally how can we really sort of achieve the large sort of target that we have in our minds for CDP penetration one big piece you know for this is actually being done for us by one of our group companies which is Geo air fiber really taking last mile connectivity for you know Wi-Fi connection absolutely deep in the country and we have you know reason to believe that we will reach about a 200 million user base for the upcoming season of IPL on connected TV devices and like I was mentioning earlier the big sort of I think story for us for connected TV during IPL was not just the emergence of connected TV but was actually the user base that was watching on 4k right now one has to assume that people who are watching on 4k a have a high-end connected TV device we have a very very stable broadband connection and of course you know a few other sort of you know signals we took was that this audience is over indexed on discretionary spending and for the upcoming season of IPL we will actually be opening up 4k targeting separately for our clients so if you have a brand for example which is obviously looking for an elite audience 4k is actually a great way for you to you know partner with us we are looking at about a unique reach of 40 million users on 4k alone so in terms of driving very very meaningful reach in this elite bracket I don't think anything can get bigger in that very very short period of time you know if you want to scale your reach within a few weeks this is a right product for you and coming to Jio Bharat you know so in fact India England which is the tournament which is ongoing right now is available for streaming live those of you if you can get access and you know my team and I will be happy to actually show you what the live streaming experience on a Jio Bharat phone is like it's actually pretty decent you know and the idea really is to be able to take cricket to as many users as possible and especially more importantly as planners you know we have always all spoken about media dark markets we think the Jio Bharat story could actually help us resolve some of the whole media dark market reach piece and here what we are enabling is of course advertising on Jio Bharat phone so the beauty of cricket is between every over there is a 45 second break which will happen on the Jio Bharat feed as well so advertisers can actually choose to advertise certain products on this feed separately the reach that we are estimating on these devices for IPL is about 35 million devices so this has been you know in terms of what are we doing in terms of reach how do we make you know all of this more meaningful for you so there are a few ideas very high level again I don't want to take more time the one big piece that you know we're looking to launch this year is called Jio Cinema Brand Spotlight I don't know how many of you actually saw the Jennifer Aniston David Schwimmer teaser for Uber Eats which came out yesterday so Uber Eats of course has already started their Super Bowl campaign and all of us I think in this room at least are aware of you know how Super Bowl sort of has become this opportunity for brands to launch new creatives and by virtue of that really drive a lot of buzz in conversation about your new creative we kind of want to replicate that same experience because really no other platform can be bigger than IPL to do that so Jio Cinema Brand Spotlight essentially is that opportunity what we are going to do is in the first five overs of the opening game we will be opening up the breaks to five select brands who have you know a new creative preferably and these ads will run as spots on the platform so no matter which screen you are on at the same time you will see that one ad leading to a lot of buzz for your brand and think of think of this opportunity as you know the way we are thinking about this is you know how can we really present a platform for you to have a massive start to your campaign so the way we are imagining this 45 second opportunity is that you know first there can be a five second bumper which will say that the Jio Cinema Spotlight is now on this brand followed by maybe a 10 second you know spokesperson speak saying that look this is a new campaign that we are unveiling today so really putting it up on a pedestal or to get audiences also talking about it followed with the brand ad and not just you know I mean placing this on a live environment we will also have a lot of nudges built into our life feed itself so before the ad appears we will have some nudges on the platform and also pre buzz campaign to support this and not just on the day of the opening game what we are enabling on the platform is if you have some behind the scenes content you know interviews say for example with the talent which is featuring in your ad campaign we can create shorter snippets of it for video-on-demand consumption and that will have a separate real estate you know dedicated to it on our platform throughout the season so that's you know one one big piece that we are launching the other one that we are launching in the one that we are really really excited about is that really what have we told you that as a brand you could own an IPL stream of your own I think in the old TV context the only way you could do this is it's like saying you know can you start a separate channel for a certain brand you know really not possible right but the beauty of technology is that it allows you to do a lot of this so the way we are imagining this is with the clients or with the brands probably some level of data that you share with us we can create some lookalike audiences for you and then create a custom feed just for your brand obviously the lookalike audience will take in care you know your consumers key decision makers customers etc and obviously build like a lot of nudges on the platform for discoverability of this feed right so if you can see I've actually shown an example of for instance you know we were to do this for oil stack package water it could look something like you are now watching you know the royals tag live at large feed there would be a lot of discoverability levers on the platform for consumers coming to a platform to discover this feed not just that once a user has entered this feed there's again a lot of customization possible in terms of pre-rolls which are customized to the brand the pre-show again you know can be customized to what the brand communication is I think in the past a lot of times what happens is that you only have that 20 second window or that 15 second window to have your brand storytelling what we heard from a lot of brands was that look I don't just want to talk about one feature I want to talk about many other features I want to talk about the emotional benefit of my brand you know I want to sort of move some consideration metrics for this brand right and using our pre-show which is customized to a brand is a great opportunity to do that and we sort of will enable that on this custom feed and also an opportunity to run some contests specifically on this feed so you know the users coming into that funnel are actually just coming in from this feed and finally a big opportunity to work with us to do a you know mass media campaign for you to popularize this feed right so we will be sharing rights with advertisers to say that enjoy a new way you know find a new way to watch this T20 season on this particular feed so imagine you know while I mean I had visualized this for Royal Stack Package Water it could be like a coke happiness feed or Royal Royal Enfield Adventure feed and a lot of technical advancement in terms of creating a custom cohort for this feed is possible and not just this I think even from just regular ad asset point of view one big thing that we are unlocking this year is a hundred plus cohorts for targeting I think a lot of our clients were talking to us about better cohorting possible and we've heard you and we've enabled it on this season so we have certain geoclusters available obviously top six metros available demo available and also a few other interest buckets available so say for instance an e-com audience is what you're going after that that can be a cohort that we can create for you and of course crosstabs I am getting into a little bit of media jargon discussion but a crosstab targeting also on IPL is available and not just this a few upgrades to our ad assets so we for you know if you're looking for impact I think must heads is a great one to go for we are introducing carousels to our midrolls as well so the same 15 seconder actually works harder for you because you're able to show multiple products within that same 15 seconder and a host of display assets are also being unlocked this season I haven't actually added the whole ad suite here because we have over I think over 24 25 new ad assets that we are introducing this season making it the largest ever ad suite on IPL and just basically put them in three large buckets which is we have solutions for impact we do have solutions for driving reach on video and for maximizing reach on display so that's how you have to look at it and not just that of course our pre show is still up for grabs I think a lot of cold cricket audience log logs into our platform to consume our pre and post show last year I think Chris Gayle, A. B. de Villiers were some of the most talked about experts that we had on our feed we did one big innovation for the backstreet boys tour which also sort of went viral I think what people also don't realize about our pre show is that just a social chatter generated from the presence on this pre show is actually worth you know the partnership lot of branded content opportunities again are possible and this is just a snapshot of brands who work with us and finally I think with a roster of over 140 cricket legends who are working with us across all of our languages whether it is Kannada Telugu Hindi English what we're unlocking this year for brands is an opportunity to work directly with us to do social media campaigns with these faces right otherwise typically you would have to for instance for an extension of a campaign reach out to four different agencies to see how you can leverage cricket and of course in those two months everything is about cricket right what we're unlocking for brands this season is how can you work with us where we become sort of the inlet to you know kind of give you access for all of these names during your campaign period as well and I think I'm five minutes you know beyond schedule but yeah so this is what I had to speak to you about today my whole team is also here so in case we have any more questions please feel free and you know bug us and we'd be more than happy to take your questions thank you thank you thank you so much


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All right We're live. All right. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. All right, so I've started a little early because I felt like it But who we got here We've got a white Vegeta and Lester and big gay Dave and Matt and heavy load and buttface. Hello everyone How's everybody doing this fine? Tuesday is still Tuesday, right? Wow You know, it's the week has just started and I'm already losing track but Hi, everyone Welcome back. I am hopeful that we will not have the same technical issues that we had last time because that was annoying. Hello, Daniel And I have no idea like most of the time it works fine then occasionally it just doesn't work and I don't know why it's the same settings the same Internet connection the same equipment the same software the same everything Just sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't hello, Mike Layton and Cobra Island and James and gas In Beach 76. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining We're gonna have a better Night tonight than we had last time it will be good. It will be better. Hello Cobra Island. I Do have some housekeeping stuff. I've got some stuff I want to Make sure I get out there. Hello, Turtle Dave Gremlins, yes, it has to be Gremlins And I think I said hello to James, but if not hello again Hello figure six pack Happy Chinese New Year New Year of the Tiger Force. Yes, exactly. Hey there Jeffrey and Joe Alright so Last time I wanted to talk more about The 3d Joe's Kickstarter. Hello Peter Ang and Bob's dungeon But with the technical issues I got so flustered I didn't talk about it enough and and the Kickstarter is done So it's kind of late to talk about it now. So I'm sorry if you missed out on it Hello, Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse. I saw that Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse is shooting for a thousand subscribers So that's cool. I hope people jump on that. Hello Nyquist Yeah, so I hope you if you wanted to get in on the 3d Joe's collecting the art of GI Joe Kickstarter I hope that you didn't miss out on it. They they did It was featured on Hello Exploriso it was featured on what's on Joe mine. So hopefully everybody caught that That's another channel that is trying to get to a thousand subscribers. So if you have the opportunity You know stop by what's on Joe mine and give them a subscribe to Hello Matt Rubin It's going until Sunday. I thought it was closing at closing at the end of January, but let me see That helps if I spell it right Who we got here? Hey sparkster. Hello cyclonus. Hello junior kh and woodman. Hello. How's everybody doing? Hello, MC DJ AC DC So, yeah, this is just not gonna make it easy for me is it? That's posters that's no omnibus hardcover that well, that's okay Anyway, well, I did see this is probably something I should I should look up ahead of time But I was pretty sure that it was going to end at At the end of January but at any rate, let's let's move on. Oh, thank you Matt Rubin Rubin it ends in five days Thank you very much and And Cobra Island is going for 200 subscribers Hello Peter Robert Long One others a Kickstarter that is going again if you want to if you want to get in on the Robo Skull Mark 2 That is open again. You can pick that up. So if you are so inclined I did go ahead and back that one Because I missed out on the on at the first time and at that time I really had to choose You know either that or the sky striker and I went with the sky striker, but that that Robo Skull looks amazing Sparkster posted a video with GI Joe vehicles built out of Legos. Hey, that's really interesting One of our friends Magnus does GI Joe vehicles with Lego. So that's That's a cool thing. That's something that You know people have picked up as as kind of a Kind of a their own Contribution left or their own contribution to GI Joe their own sort of take on the hobby, and I think that's fun That's really cool Hey, it's comic tropes. How do you do? Thank you for being here Actually was in the comic tropes Livestream, but I don't think you saw me. I don't think you saw my comments. You're busy though. You're busy Hello Mickey So what else have I got going on? I wanted to make sure I mentioned the Kickstarter's it is Tuesday So Timmer has a new video up on half the battle. So I always try to catch that and I've got my own go fund me which is hopefully gonna get us to Joe Fest in Augusta, Georgia this year and the Joe Fest people were nice enough to Announce my presence my my intention to be there on their website and on their social media accounts So that was nice. That was nice. I was nothing to be sorry about comic tropes. You had a lot going on Which is a good thing Hello Ivan and I think I said hello Chad, but if not, hello, thanks for joining So Yeah, one thing that's comic tropes that Chris pointed out to me is that at least in some stores There's becoming a decent GI Joe section. There's like Multiple types of GI Joe toys and products on the shelves right now, and that's pretty amazing Considering how long we went with really not much at all One thing that I'm intrigued by is the snake eyes model kit. I forget who does the model kit Who did the model kit? See this is show preps. Yeah, I didn't do any show prep this time and you know, that's that's what I get Wow, I can't even read that Okay, anyway, the model kit people who do the the snake eyes model kit. I don't know about the model kid I'm really not sure. Hello JK siege. Hello, Dave. Hello, Sean Beckett. Hello, Beta Ray Bob Gangs all here. Nice to have everybody back. Thank you. Oh, and hello, Leo Thanks everybody for coming back after all the difficulties we had last week that was that was annoying But but thank you. Thank you for returning Um, but at any rate, yeah the the snake eyes model kit that's been showing up in Yeah flame toys the snake eyes model kit that's coming up in or showing up in target That that people have seen on the shelves already. I'm intrigued by it. I have no idea if it's good or not I'm kind of on the fence about it. It's hard to tell from the pictures So that's something that if I run across it, I might pick it up out of curiosity if I did pick it up I would I Would I Definitely assemble it on camera. Hello Albert Glass Hello from Baltimore from the United States. Thank you very much for joining. Yes me for president. I'll I'll go They're gonna be a lot of changes around here when I'm president Hello Connor Wilson. Thank you for joining. I think I said hello Wraith. If not, hello again Yeah, you actually made one live. Hey So, yeah, what else is going on I Wanted there was the news, you know, there were the kick starters. There's the new product Comic trope says the super seven stuff turns over fast. There's a super chat from Chad. Thank you Chad I'll put this towards Joe Fest. How's the go fund me going? Thank you Chad The go fund me is going well. We still need to go. We still need to get a little bit closer To to get there it's we're still not quite there yet, but we're close. We're We're what about Three-quarters of the way there. So yeah, we're really close Hello, Brandon Knight. Thanks for joining And I mean, it's difficult to for me to like promote stuff like that, but I do want to go I I want to see everyone. I think that it'll be a good thing for the channel I think it'll be a good thing for all of us. It'll also give me an opportunity to kind of kick off Cobra conversions in in a big way, so that's another reason I would like to be there But given the time frame I went ahead and I booked the convention hotel And I booked the table at the convention, so I will have a table like last time Baderie Bob McDowne did a review of the snake eyes model kit I think I saw that video go up, but I didn't have it and had a chance to To watch it yet. I would like to I would like to learn more about the model kit. I am I am intrigued. I am intrigued Let's develop a GI Joe stimulus package. Well, that is that is kind of like my ultimate plan is to to eventually Move to an all GI Joe based economy basically, you know action figures and vehicles are currency and you'd basically only be able to operate You don't only buy things with with action figures and toys and other things like that So yeah, we're working toward that. I think I think we'll get there by around 2024 We're getting closer, you know inch by inch, but we'll get to our all action figure based economy. Hello Victor I'm also curious about the super seven figures The the five point of articulation figures. I haven't gotten any yet Who is the Joe's cook I think informally that was supposed to be roadblock Yes, I thought well, thank you. I they did plug me attending which was nice So, you know at least they they know that I'm coming and they know that I'm gonna be there. That's that's nice You know basically My platform as president will be to solve all of the nation's problems through GI Joe Even if it's a problem that cannot reasonably be solved with GI Joe We're going to throw GI Joe at it anyway Even if that if we just have to grab a handful of action figures and throw them at the problem Look look this is what like this is what we've got This is what we've got these these little spring-loaded missile launchers for What can we not solve by you know if all else fails We'll just shoot we'll just shoot one of these things out like like hold on here like here's what I'm talking about So you we you do this there you go and you like healthcare Solved and that missile went that missile went away over there Anyway anyway Oh, thank you comic tropes the rampart cosplay Yeah, I I'll try to do more cosplay like that as I can I just thought that was a bit of fun I was looking at the at the figure and I thought you know what I think I have like stuff around the house that I could I could just put put that on it would basically be rampart it would work Hey, John Carling. Hello. It's nice to see you. Hey armor Magnus. Thank you for joining Zathras I think I don't know if I oh and John Ulrich. Hello. How do you do Barricade was first show I can remember buying with money I worked for always have a soft spot for barricade Yeah, now barricade that one. That's an interesting guy I think I mean first time I saw the figure I thought captain power that's like the first thing that came to mind But I mean obviously there are some differences. It's not like a direct one to one copy But you know it's it's got some elements but the figure itself I think is I mean it looks special doesn't it with like all the gold paint Kenneth says super seven reaction figures look okay the cards and artwork are really nice But almost the cost of the classified line. Yeah, that is I think that's I think that's a good idea I think a lot of people are sharing that sentiment is that like I mean we might like the the reaction figures We might like the super seven five point of articulation. I think it's an intriguing idea to reimagine these action figures As if they were made by a different company and in a different form it just it's a different angle on the same characters But what's giving a lot of people pause is that it's it is really close to the cost of a six inch classified figure Which has lots of articulation it has lots of they all have lots of accessories very easy to imagine articulation it has lots of they all have lots of accessories very intricate intricately detailed and I think that's where people are are bulking Hello Matt Edwards and photo viper thanks for joining and I think I said hello to Victor but hello again My favorite character of GI Joe is definitely stalker it's always been stalker and just it's not it's not Dr. Meinbender I just happened to have him here I had I had to shoot a missile at him so I just happened to have Dr. Meinbender handy Dicast Nick says hi from the UK hello the UK from the United States thank you very much for joining hello Matt P I told us about vehicles that break foot pegs thumbs brittle gold plastic what's the most notoriously broken GI Joe thing The most notoriously broken GI Joe thing is probably zaps thumbs you will be lucky to ever find a zap with his thumbs intact Thank you Andrew for the super chat greetings once again from New Hampshire greetings New Hampshire from the United States Did you get a full set of cards from last week I'm pretty sure yes and even if there were any missing I've got other loose cards that I'm sure will complete the set so I think we're good on a complete set of cards and I got a message from somebody who would like me to help them complete their card set so I might I might actually send them to someone to to help complete their collection so that'd be fun I try to be helpful when I can so that's something that's that's relatively easy that I can do and hopefully help somebody out but yeah yeah a photo viper really dig the super seven stuff but at $18 might as well buy more vintage figures you know the real stuff yeah that's I mean that that's something you got to think about and I I'm sure that the issue with the price on the super seven figures is the licensing it's got to be it it's got to be the licensing hello JR it's got to be the cost of the license because the figures are not large they are you know relatively simple they're not expensive to produce at least not a comparison with something like a classified figure so the only reason that I can fathom that they would be that expensive is the license Dave C looked at the reaction ones in the stores honestly I think they're trying too hard and they look somewhat corny compared to the 80s o-rings yeah $23 yeah and it's not I mean they're definitely not trying to be the the vintage figures it's it's just kind of a reimagining of of the old characters but kind of imagine what they would have been if they would have been maybe released by Kenner a few years earlier and that's fine but but yeah oh hey it's Peg Warner hello peg warmers thank you for joining yeah that's I think that's that's what it's going to come down to so but you know I don't have any yet I can't comment on them because I don't well obviously I've hey I've been commenting on them but I can't like pass judgment on them without actually handling them thank you Matt Rubin even Super 7s IP figure costs cost that much so that's their standard cost for a three and three quarter inch five point of our articulation figure I think that's just too much I just think that's too much hello JS JLS comics smaller production scale could contribute to increased price I mean that that's also possible but I mean they seem to be showing up in stores they've got to be produced in at least reasonable numbers to to you know to to make it on the shelves I've got like I've got Dr. Meinbender like all over the place here and it says there's a figure with there's an action figure within reach and I just want to I just want to have it in my hand so there we go hello James aka rat face you're late but you're here Daniel Herron bought Quinn now that is intriguing and thank you for the Super Chat Daniel they did make a Quinn which is a little surprising because I think the general designs harken back more toward the animated series and Quinn was a comic book only character so yeah that's interesting as someone who wants realism for dioramas and the like and who enjoyed the comic over the cartoon Super 7 is an easy pass yeah and if that's what you're looking for they're definitely not designed for that I mean that definitely not the household cosplay yes see I just I just put things on that that happened to be around sergeant slaughter for vice president that would be that would be fun I don't know what was oh yeah no I was thinking like if you got some Cobra troopers and you were trying to army build Cobra troopers and you wanted to like have a shelf with a bunch of blue shirts you could like take the Super 7 Cobra troopers and like put them away in the back so that like it looks like you have this line of Cobra troopers on your shelf it looks like you're a master army builder there are all these blue helmets at first glance but if then if you look closer it's like way in the back you know there's there's the stiff the stiff straight arms straight legged guys but you know most people won't notice that you can kind of you can pad your army building numbers the problem is they're kind of expensive to pad your army building numbers now they're not as expensive as a vintage Cobra trooper the vintage figures are going crazy but anyway I still want to at least get a couple of them take a look at them just see what I think about them if class fight ever did comics original characters like Billy or Quinn I camp out at Target now that is as far as I know they don't have any plans to do that but comic tropes says the clean sweep costume literally rotted apart it's long gone oh that's that's sad that's sad I enjoyed the clean sweep bit that was that was a lot of fun on the full the full force podcast something that Justin Bell was mentioning that is kind of missing from classified the killer user sends a super chat thank you killer user hello hoodie it would be nice if they would try to make the vintage string three quarter inch figures as nice as the six inch ones the work they put into the six inch figures would be better on the vintage size that would I think that would be nice it seems like they're not going in that direction though it doesn't it seem like they're kind of going to the opposite of that direction like to get that kind of articulation and detail it would have to be like a modern like 25th anniversary style figure right and they were doing those but they seem to actually be moving away from those they seem to be moving more toward well o-ring guys and the the reaction you know super seven five point of articulation guys Easter mindbender yeah that old egghead there you go yeah so anyway that it I think that would be nice but it seems to be like and maybe they'll do that something like that in the future but they seem to not be moving in that direction oh I lost my train of thought something that Justin Bell was saying is that the classified series seems to be missing a narrative that there's there's not really much of a story that goes along with them they there was a little bit of an attempt to put a story with them with the video game that they did was an operation blackout I think it was called and the video game didn't didn't fly off the shelves so I think they've kind of given up on that but it would be kind of nice to have some kind of a narrative with the classified figures they have their own unique look they have their own unique style well they did some of the new ones that are that they're introducing are like very literal almost one-for-one upscales of the vintage figures like Tomax and Xamot Tomax and Xamot Tomax and Xamot are like basically six inch versions of the of the 1985 figures it's just amazing how close they are keeping with the with the vintage design I'm sorry if I'm rattling here but I was just I was just loading a grabbing a missile out of this bag to load the missile launcher there we go yeah operation blackout games mechanics were horrible I have to agree with that I did get it hey I support the brand I do the best I can hello renegade biker and hello Jay strand thank you for joining so I do support the brand as much as I can I cannot buy everything I just don't have the means to do that but I am support as supportive as I can hello Jamalyn nice to see you thank you for joining any interest in the Valor for Valor versus action force line I did get the sergeant slaughter figure I probably will not be able to get other Valor versus figures and that really this but it's a resources thing I just don't have the resources to do that right now I'm really having to pick and choose you know what I get any like what new stuff I get and there's still occasionally there is still a vintage item that I need to get for a review so I there's been a lot of excitement surrounding the Valor versus figures and I'm glad I was able to get into or get in on the sergeant slaughter but my my resources will probably not allow me to get to get the others has Kujo hey Kujo thank you for joining thank you for joining I just I just felt like firing this missile at my screen there we go hey the action didn't actually fly over the screen this time yes Kujo's here yeah this I didn't have any specific topics other than like the the bit of news and housekeeping I brought up at the beginning of the show but we've actually had quite a bit to talk about here and a lot of really helpful and interesting opinions about some of these some of the new GI Joe products that are out so yeah but again I still need to pick up a couple of things I again because of resources I will not be able to get all or nearly all of the Super 7 figures I really just want to get a couple of them so that I can open them show them to you put them in front of a camera and then we can talk about them and kind of see what they see how they feel in hand you know what I'm saying and and I haven't been able to do that yet but I should and I will eventually I hope comic troops my friend is releasing an RPG soon on table cat games and originally built to be a GI Joe RPG very fun there there is a card and a GI Joe card game that came out man hold on it's the one that Robert Atkins said hey thank you Adam Andrew HCC can't stay up mustache work comes far too early my GI Joe code name is funky space cat rock on and be love space cat out thank you space cat I'm going to fire at the screen for your super chat fire wow that didn't work and Dave see thank you for the super chat says yes definitely a narrative needed for class fight I agree hopefully you start to do more and more o-rings including new characters in o-ring all right and I'm going to fire for that super chat it actually worked that time and it does seem like they are going more in the direction of o-ring I mean they are they're coming out with more of them I mean they kind of tested the waters a bit but then they started introducing more o-ring figures with the sky striker has lab and you know they've announced even more so you know we are looking at maybe an o-ring renaissance you know that that's um that we may be seeing a resurgence of o-ring and and I have to say when they announced the GI Joe retro series the Walmart exclusives we were expecting o-ring figures that's what everybody thought that we were going to be getting in the first place so now they're finally like finally getting the o-ring figures that that we thought we were going to have like what two years ago so yeah they seem they seem to be kind of moving in that direction share the PO box maybe somebody will send you a super seven for you to review where's my the P well I'll put that I'll put that in the description of this video if you want the PO box after the initial live stream is done you can you can check the the description and it will be there but thank you that's a nice idea I you know I haven't been like promoting the PO box very much I probably should but but we did get some stuff I got some stuff in the PO box and I will open it so that'll happen soon okay Armour Magnus says when classified was launched said I might get one or two then I got some and now have been picking up most of them yeah however picked up snake eyes scarlet and storm shadow will not get more the I kind of had the same idea about classified when I got them because I was mainly getting them to support the brand I was not not really interested in six inch figures there's a there's a lot of downside to six inch figures right because because it's like they don't fit in any vehicles if you get any vehicles for the line it's gonna be really limited yeah they're setting up a cabinet for when I run for president that I'll get like it'll be a landslide it will be a landslide I mean I'm probably you know a landslide for for whoever I'm running against but it'll be a landslide yeah so I wasn't too keen on the idea of a six inch line but when I actually got them and had them in hand I ended up liking them a lot more than I thought I would that's another thing where I really can't I really can't be a completionist I can't really afford to but you know I pick them up when I can and some are better than others some are definitely better than others but in general you know they seem to have worked out pretty well so yeah Matt says the exclusive exclusives pretty much frustrated me with classified yes me as well and that's another reason why I am not going to chase the exclusives if I get them then fine but I like the first wave of target exclusives I I worked very hard to get all of them and I did get all of them but it was it was difficult it was really hard it was a lot of running around to a lot of different stores and it was not fun that was not for me at least I did not find that to be very fun so yeah the exclusives if I get them great if not I just let him go if a burglar broke in and your only weapon in reach was your GI Joe collection what would you use as a weapon I would throw the I would throw the the mobile command center at him because it's heavy and if struck with it I think the the assailant would be injured so that that I think would cause some serious bodily injury hello WW JD 85 thank you for joining thanks for being here anyway don't have a lot of confidence in pulse yeah I mean I don't know I the Hasbro pulse I I've ordered a few things from them and it's it's gone all right I don't know I've been enjoying the GI Joe music I haven't had a chance to listen to a lot of it actually I've had to to pick up some additional work lately so I haven't had a lot of time for anything however I will say that I did manage to finish shooting not a video review not the not the next one the next one's already done but the one after that the one after that I it's it's shot it's not I'm not done editing it yet I've gotten this much of the editing done but but I'm working on it I'm working on it so yeah I've been really busy lately and I'm like it's been kind of exhausting but I'm hoping it'll slow down a little bit and I can like catch up on a few things for instance I was not able to listen to all of the the GI Joe Berg podcast there's a new episode up but I just I just I was trying but I just didn't have time to finish it and that's very frustrating to me because you know because I enjoy the show and I and you know I just don't want to miss it I don't want to miss out on a fun episode but but I'll get it I'll get caught up on everything I I'm really intent on getting caught up on everything John Ulrich says I live in a rural area I used to have I have to use eBay to find parts I have had some luck on Facebook my problem is staying focused on one yeah I am not in a rural area but I still if I need parts I often have to turn to eBay that's there are some options in the area for vintage toys but not a lot and I've had some luck I've had some luck with the local toy dealers hey Ben Perntz Perntz Pencerga I mean I'm having a hard time pronouncing your name Ben happy to see your reviews rolling back in thank you very much thanks for the Super Chat you get a missile fired in your face because of the Super Chat and now it's in the floor I got it I got it that's it's fine we got we got we got mindbenders missile launcher here I thank you WWJD it's it's going okay that's another thing that I haven't been able to promote as much as I probably should be and this is you know I this is my own thing and I'm not able to promote it as much as I should but I should be doing more it's just life has gotten in the way I mean I had a funeral for a family member not long ago and just other family things that were important that needed to be taken care of and it's been a little hectic it's not all bad no mind you that doesn't mean it's been bad necessarily but hectic yeah it's been a little bit and it's made me tired I'm not as young as I used to be what can't everything just slow down just a minute why does everything have to move so fast I'm getting old but I'll do my best to check up comic trope says think this channel will cross 15,000 subscribers this week that would be nice it would be cool to hit that milestone especially considering you know we just hit the 14,000 subscriber milestone to hit a 15,000 subscriber milestone that quickly I mean I think that would be the fastest I've ever added a thousand subscribers and considering the fact that I my thought was the channel would kind of max out about 10,000 subscribers to actually get like 5,000 above that is pretty amazing shout out to D amazing yeah that's a good channel I've seen that channel drip mode elite legend JLS and me of course and JLS is has worked with Cobra convergence before so I've got to say thanks to JLS and thanks to everyone who's worked with has been on Cobra convergence the thing about Cobra convergence this year is we are starting to get it finalized there still is a lot of planning that needs to be done but I think I've sent out all of the invitations and some people apparently have not checked their their messages hello Wilkinson studios thank you I'm glad to be here as well and hello will and thank you I'm glad that you've enjoyed the videos and the nostalgia but my myth my biggest problem with Cobra convergence is always that every year it seems like somebody has left out that probably should be in and I have to take responsibility for that hello Laura what classified figure am I looking forward to seeing stalker absolutely definitely want to see stalker I want to see what they did with that with that figure with that design I want to see how it looks but I see Cobra island doing black history month this month for and a woman's history month theme hey that's cool that's a good idea that's a good idea I'm glad to know that you're doing that that's awesome but yeah I think what we're talking about we're talking about subscribers like I I know that my channel does not have a universal appeal right I know my channel you know it doesn't appeal to everyone and that's okay it's not meant to but the fact that we can get to 15,000 despite that I think is mind-blowing anyway yeah I was talking about Cobra convergence if there's somebody out there that feels that they should have had an invitation they are making content GI Joe focused and you know they are working to build an audience and you know they're they're working and they're trying to produce quality content and they don't get an invitation I'm sorry about that but I'll take that responsibility on myself and every year I try to get I try to get better I try to include more people one problem this year a big problem this year is that I wasn't around for a really long time so there are people doing things that that I'm just not aware of so I'm catching up on like all the new stuff and the new cats out there and so I'm bound to miss something and and I apologize for missing it there will still be the opportunity for everyone to participate in Cobra convergence I will again do the thing that I did last year which is you know you can create your own thing and I will help promote that thing in in a weekly video so there will still be opportunities but as we go forward let me first say I apologize to anyone who feels that they should have got an invitation but didn't my fault but I will do my best hello Dr. Wolfman thank you for joining hello Sal thank you thank you very much but yeah now having said that we're going to be rocking and rolling for Cobra conversions this year we we are about to roll into the big time planning phase you know putting together some of the the more important aspects of it the big the big pieces are about to have to click into place here so the month of February is when a lot of that's going to get done and I hope everybody enjoyed it enjoys it I would really like for it to be an opportunity for the community to just come together and do something that is fun that's enjoyable something that's positive I like it to be something that kind of raises the profile of GI Joe maybe gets it in front of people who might not otherwise think about it and and also kind of display the creativity that we have in the community and there is always going to be more of that creativity than I can possibly put on a calendar there's just too much but that's why it's going to be open to everybody the same as it was last year so I really hope I really hope everybody enjoys it if you have any kind of creative endeavor at all any internet presence you know podcast or you know a YouTube channel or you know whatever you have if you're out there creating something about GI Joe I hope you will participate in the in the event I hope you will you know send me that weekly email and you know let me know that you've got something out there and and be involved Peg Warmer says looking forward to convergence I am looking forward to it as well and and Peg Warmer is also a great channel make sure you check out Peg Warmer's hey it's Occam's razor hello there I don't think I saw you come in hello and Mike Layton if I didn't say if I didn't say hello to Mike Layton hello to you and Andre I read somewhere is National GI Joe Day anybody know about about I think that was the day GI Joe was pitched my understanding is that it's the day in 1964 that GI Joe appeared at Toy Fair is my understanding I had to double check about that but like the the 60s and 70s GI Joe Facebook groups at least that's what they were promoting so you can call that GI Joe Day I don't think it's a literal national holiday but but I think it's important to it's important to acknowledge our roots right oh thank you white Vigetta for the super chat I do I have do you have an Instagram account I see a lot of quality GI Joe toy photographers on it yes there are some quality GI Joe toy photographers I'm going to fire a missile at you for the super chat yeah the I do have an Instagram account I don't use it for some reason I created it and then just never got around to posting anything on it and I know that I really should because a lot of people are on there and that's like there's no reason to not be on there that's like there's it's just not something that it has become part of my routine but I do have one and I'm going it's one of my New Year's resolutions is to get on Instagram and use it more often so I'll work on that yes let's make it HCC day that's what we need this day in 1964 I was not even alive I was not even a thought my parents had not even gotten together at that point had history gone in a slightly different direction I might not even be here we would not even be having this live stream who would you be watching right now you would just simply be watching I'll show you what would happen if I wasn't born here's what you'd be watching you just be watching it'd be that that's all you would be watching just just nothing an empty background and who would turn to who tune in for that who would tune in for that wait a second wait a second I've got I've got that all right think about this new viral campaign right it's a it's a 24 hour live stream of just an empty room just an empty room nothing happens nothing happens I just have an empty room on the live stream 24 hours a day 7 days a week I think it'll be the next big hit hello Jenna thanks for coming hello Cameron how do you feel about the buzz bore probably in the minority but I love it the buzz bore definitely has its supporters I think it's it's I think it is it's a very cobra vehicle isn't it I think it's something that I think it's something that would have fit very well in the animated series if it had come out when the animated series was on the air it's it's a funny little thing and it definitely has its merits but it's it's a funny little thing hello jump in general drop cable TV all we need is HCC that's right see that's that's perfect that's perfect see what you guys need to do here's the plan here's the plan this is how we're going to shift even more to an all GI Joe economy right everybody cancel your cable subscriptions and take the funds that you are going to spend on cable and send them to me hey that sounds like a great idea to me chat sends a super chat thank you chat I'm going to fire a missile at you I start a fire missus I super chats after my super chat so I'm sending another super chat don't okay that's the there you go you're you're you're you're impaled with this yellow missile doesn't that I don't know I'm not sure about the tip of that missile though that's a that shape is kind of well it's interesting not very missile like but anyway yeah so I just I just like I said I've got like I've got a bag of mindbenders here that just happened to be like within reach because I was using using mindbender and so so we were joined we are joined today about my special guest buzzboard used by vipers to mow the lawn outside the base when Serpentor rained this I command that would be awesome so our guest is Dr. Meinbender Dr. Meinbender can't speak his his vocal cords have been damaged as well as he's received some traumatic brain injury from from repeated blows to the head and body so I can't really say anything he's the former genius the former mad scientist Dr. Meinbender he could be doing better he could be doing better anyway so yeah I'm feeling you know somewhere around the year 2024 we will have established the all GI Joe economy I think the worldwide GI Joe economy I think that's going to be great I think because it means I will be rich right because I got I've already got a lot of stuff that means I'll be rich and I can't really think of anything else that's important right that's I think I thought that's that's enough for me that's enough for me I mean I guess you guys can be rich too we'll just we'll just all be rich together you know the people who are in this live stream will be the new elite because we got into the GI Joe before the entire economy switched over to it so there you go thank you comic tropes I love your channel as well thank you a little breaking reality how do you do hey bad ape thank you for joining what was with Dr. Meinbender's original leather btsm look man I don't know that's that's a I don't think Ron Rudette has ever completely explained that that I'm aware of but it's it's a it's a look isn't it bad ape says I haven't won the lottery yet well you know this it'll it'll happen it'll you know just keep playing you know the odds are if you play the lottery a few hundred million times you're bound to win you're bound to win yes yes we are we are the new you know the new the new movers and the shakers in in the new GI Joe based society there hello Rodimus thank you for joining hello Chris managed by extensive enterprises of course of course GI equals good investment see that's going to be the slogan see we're putting it all together we're putting it all together this is we can make this happen we can make this happen I think in order to make it happen we somehow have to destroy all other forms of currency so how do we do that we need it we need a plan we need we need a really insane crazy cobra commander worthy plan to destroy all other forms of currency so people have no choice no choice but to put to trade GI Joe you want you want food you want shelter how many action figures you have that's what we want to know hello Bob's dungeon thanks for joining he was very comfortable let's say yeah yeah so well and this I will you know I will say something for this Dr. Meinbender at least he's wearing clothes I mean I mean he did steal the pants off of a viper and died to them yellow and purple but but but at least he got a shirt on and that's something no cape it nearly worked for the pen was he hello but face thanks for the super chat I like how CC is slowly becoming Cobra Commander I I'm not mad it's the world that's mad I'm getting closer to hitting that now wouldn't that be something wouldn't that be something if if I if I fired a missile at the camera hit the camera and broke it that would be just my luck is is I would fire a camera I would have a it'd be a million to one shot that I would hit that just that that little thing right there and break the damn camera with one of these you know that would be the revenge of the 90s that would be the 90s getting back at me right for all of the all of the the things that I've said about 90s the colors and the gimmicks and all that well I'll bet the 90s if the 1990s was a person the 90s would be about fed up with me and and and that's how the 90s would get back at me is if I fired a missile at the camera and broke the damn camera how about that um bad ape says I wear a cape in my room at night well who doesn't who doesn't grand slam has a geo show yeah that's a good point there was that issue I don't remember which issue it was but it was the issue with the one with the the pogo and there was a it was a g.i. joe card that he got his pay on and it actually had the g.i. joe logo on it it was like really awesome great to have a super secret military team there that has your your logo on everything our leadership is a half snake and half human called Galovulus yeah yeah just to make everything a little less cool I will instead of having the the cobra battle cry I will insist on the cobra law battle cry um and the the moral la la la la laws you do that's that's how much reverence you have so if you want to show a lot of reverence you have to do a lot of cobra la la la la laws like if you really want to disrespect somebody just like cobra law what just one law is that how how low you think I am am I some kind of lawless cobra to you so yeah I think I think this is this is going to replace the handshake you know people won't shake hands people will not say hello anymore they're just going to go cobra la la la la la la and yeah the number of laws that you that you give somebody is proportional to how much respect you have for them so you know you see a guy on the street and he's like man you're like man I don't like that guy you're like cobra law no no extra laws no extra laws I feel this is good I feel like this is a good plan that's been well thought out and cannot fail absolutely perfect no no chance of failure whatsoever we'll just we'll just we'll work on implementation I feel like we can have most of this plan implemented implemented by next week I think I think that's a realistic time frame so what you what what you can all do for me is you know start doing the cobra law thing you know in your everyday lives you know at the office you know at your your family gatherings at your dinner parties just go ahead and start with the cobra laws and it'll catch on I feel it'll catch on yeah this is this is the thing this is going to happen made a ray bob is joining the resistance yeah I think this is brilliant this is the best thing I've ever come up with hello Ryan Sweeney hello Ryan Sweeney hello Michigan from the United States and to Ryan Sweeney I say cobra la la la la la la la la la la la la that was a pretty good number of laws I like Ryan Sweeney so you know I gave you some laws cobra law cobra hey cobra that's it that's it we will also take over the brassiere industry with cobra law that's it look this is coming together so we've got a multifaceted approach we've got we've got a multiple front attack on the world economy which will eventually allow us to take over Matt Rubin thank you for the super chat we'll be standing there giving la la laws for hours for certain folks yeah for somebody here I'm firing this at you for certain people that you love and respect a great deal you can show them that love and respect by by lawing them by law law with the law laws with the cobra law and and and you know also if you need a brassiere the cobra laws will be in your local target right next to that snake eyes model right right next to the super sevens Chris says a super chat thank you very much what happens if hoodie sees a shadow on HCC day if I see my shadow then it means there we go it means 28 more weeks of winter it's it's more weeks of winter if I see my shadow than if than if the the groundhog because I'm taller that's how that works if you the taller you are the more you know I think I don't know but anyway yeah let's yeah let's let's start doing that I think I think we've got a good plan let's let's check back on the progress next week and see how we're doing see if we're any closer on taking over the entire world maybe I shouldn't have said all that publicly hey Ryan Sweeney thank you for the super chat 20 cobra la la la la la la la la la la I'm apparently I'm shooting people now for super chat so fire that's pretty good I'm getting better at this getting better at this it's not very precise though right it's it's like it's it's not I mean you can you could fire it exactly at the same spot you know 10 times and not hit it twice in a row it's it's not a super precise weapon but you know it's it's it serves as purpose it's it's fine it's fine yeah 28 weeks I just I just made that up a disclaimer disclaimer I may have made a couple things up in the live stream this evening there some some claims may have been embellished but that's all I can say I'll check with my lawyer to see you know if I can say anything else but some claims this evening may have been slightly slightly slightly completely false but not all of them not all of them some of them are gospel truth but maybe not maybe not a hundred percent 98% 98% factual 98% truthful you know it if you were to buy a product that's 98% natural you'd say that's pretty natural well you know this time you're getting a live stream that's 98% truthful that's pretty truthful I think you should try I think you should trust me I would trust me look I'm looking at myself I can see myself in the image right there and I see a pretty trustworthy guy I see a guy who should just run everything on the planet if you're going to have somebody run everything on the planet it should be somebody that you trust right and this who who wouldn't trust this face well we have really gotten off the rails this evening thanks everyone for your patience it is oh it's almost almost it's almost 8 o'clock Chris in Super Chat you need to get a giant cobra throne that's that's right I have a giant cobra well I missed that one I have a well I have a regular size cobra throne well no okay technically it's not a cobra throne and technically it's not a throne it technically it's in the bathroom and technically it's a toilet but it's similar GI Gary sends a super chatter where's the missile where's the missile the oh here here's a missile I found a missile thank you GI Gary for the super chat I'm going to I'm going to fire a missile at you this is this is what you get cobra la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la upside down la la la la there um wow I should I should probably get some sleep I should probably lie down um I don't know if this is one I'll watch back I'm completely lost my mind um there wasn't much to lose I've completely gone crazy but that was a short trip um but thank you thanks for going with me thanks for uh joining me on the journey of crazy it's much appreciated um uh wow okay so we've got a couple minutes I will wrap it up um so I will say good night to Rodimus and uh Ocean or Occam's razor wow I really can't read I keep acting like I can read without these but I'm squinting and good night to JKC's and Will and JLS and Bad Ape and Albert Glass and Ivan and John Carling thank you very much for being here thank you Chris thank you Tim uh it's enjoyed I'm glad you enjoyed the ride so did I uh good night Chad uh good night to everyone uh we got about one more minute yet left and this time I actually do have to end on time because with the schedule that I have tomorrow I've got to move all this stuff I've got to set up my review stuff and I've got to uh I've got to be ready to shoot a review of a classified figure in the morning I look I'm not behind right I'm just not as far ahead as I'd like to be I should normally have the classified Friday review done by now but it is not done by now and I got to get it done so I got to set this all up I got to tear this down and set the other stuff up as soon as we're done here so thank you Brandon Knight and good evening and Beta Ray Bob I think I already said good night Chad uh Chris and Chad and JK and hey it's Diana Davis I will say by the way since Diana Davis is here Diana Davis is a very positive force in our community so thank you Diana Davis for all that you do you you've done a lot and it's appreciated thank you very much um but uh anyway I will say good night to everyone it is eight o'clock we will do this again next week let me know how the world domination is going we'll check out progress and I'll see you then so thank you everyone and I will say good night good night everybody


So today I wanted to talk about art and more specifically what exactly is it within the last year and a half we have had a surge of new faces here exploring art for the first time and as someone who has dedicated their entire channel to helping non-artists learn how to create it fast. It's been a lot of fun watching people with random backgrounds like accounting data scientists doctors engineers programmers chefs and firefighters exploring their imagination and starting to dive deep into the higher level art concepts like color balance contrast design scene placement themes styles genres photography angles lenses there's a whole world of art theory and vocabulary jargon out there that people are encountering for the first time and for many of those people I thought this would be a nice video to just introduce them to the concept of art in general in its most basic and fundamental form so when I say art I am not just referring to images and pictures that is just one tiny fraction of what the traditional art community actually considers art so we're talking about all art as a whole but before we continue I'd like to ask you a question what is art how do you know when you've seen it how much time and effort are required before something qualifies as art to you does it even matter pause the video and leave your answer down below if you write something within 24 hours of releasing this video I promise I'll read it and at the end of this video I want you to go back to your comment and let me know if you change your answer and why this is always a fun question to ask new artists so if you drop a comment I promise I'll read it so I would love to see what you guys have to say about this all right so did you write your answer okay to really explore the answer to this question I would like to share a classical philosophical art piece from Rene Margarite there's a famous painting that you can find in a museum called this is not a pipe now at first this painting seems a little weird because there's clearly a pipe in the picture but the words beneath it say this is not a pipe so what's going on here why isn't it a pipe it looks like a pipe but if you ask the artist who drew it he would tell you the painting is self-explanatory it's an art piece of a pipe but it's not a pipe itself the painting doesn't have any of the characteristics or utilities of a real pipe you can't use the picture in any way that you could use an actual pipe and the sentence at the bottom is meant to explain that the word pipe in reality is also disconnected from the actual tangible object it represents the word could change or it could be translated into any language but the pipe itself would remain the same so if this work is not a pipe what is it well it's kind of just art and that is how the artist was hoping you would interpret this piece in the same line of thought I want you to imagine the scene when John Wick is violently attacked by the Russian mafia they shoot at him in his house and they barely missed and hit the wall now pause would you consider the bullet hole in the wall art this is not a trick question most of us would not consider the bullet hole art but let me ask you another question if after the battle John Wick sectioned off that area of the wall and framed it and donated that piece to a museum and named it violence and the description read created on October 2014 this piece was created during a real firefight when a man was forced to stand his ground and defend his house against hostile intruders the artist is hoping this piece will spread awareness to others about the violent nature of home invasions so I ask you now what is the difference between these two bullet holes they are literally and physically exactly the same but why is it so hard for most people to consider the random hole in the wall art while the version of it that is framed with the statement and purpose fits very naturally into a museum if you wanted to take this a step further let's say somebody empties a hundred shots of machine gun fire into a wall now let's say that same person empties another hundred shots of machine gun fire into a different wall but this time the bullet holes make this pattern same exact process same exact materials medium technique and the person who fired them but why is this one considered art and this one not the questions you have to ask yourself are at what point does motion become a dance at what point does noise become a song at what point do words become a poem at what point do sentences become a story at what point does paint become a painting at what point does mud become a pot at what point does smell become perfume and at what point do pixels become a picture how you decide to answer these questions will very likely reflect how you see art and I'm not saying there is a right answer or that I have the answer everyone has their own definition of art and it means different things to different people but I'll share the conclusion that I've come to after thinking about these questions for many years first art can be made from anything there is no unique vibranium art element that all art is forged from you can use lead ink paint sound smell motion from really anything and turn it into art likewise any non-art material can still become art people make art out of old newspapers cardboard or even literal garbage all the time second there is no time or effort requirement for something to be considered art when Picasso made the famous three line drawing of a woman just because it took him seconds to draw and it was easy for him doesn't make it any less artistic or valuable compared to other random paintings out there that took longer or were maybe more difficult just because a move is short and easy doesn't disqualify it from being a dance there's never been some sort of law that says if your painting didn't take at least five minutes and 30 seconds to create it's not art or if your movement doesn't at least burn 30 calories it's not a dance move when you walk out on a beautiful autumn day and take a picture just because it only took you 10 seconds to pick up your phone and press that button doesn't disqualify your image from being called photography so when you put all this together and you look at all art and really try and find what is the common thread between a song and a painting what's the common thread between a silly dance and an epic story what's the common thread between this is not a pipe and a handcrafted clay pot well i personally believe that the fundamental core that runs through all of these things is they are all an expression of an idea the act of bringing your imagination into reality art can be expressed in any way with any material any sound smell taste motion or visual aid the work of art can be big it can be small long short easy hard or anything in between but the one thing that every work of art has in common is that essentially they are all an attempt to bring an idea into reality how that idea is expressed depends on the artist's preferred tools talents skills medium and intention some of us use art to practice a skill some of us use art to reach our goal some of us use art to decompress and relax and some of us use it to simply share what they feel with the world and that is why i believe art in the simplest term is the result when someone brings their imagination into reality your words become a story when you decide you are writing a story your movements become a dance when you feel like dancing when what you do is a form of expression of how you feel you decide when you bring art into this world and you decide when you become an artist and no one can ever take that decision away from you i hope that helps thanks for watching and as always i hope you have a fantastic day and i'll see you around


August is hot and so are the savings at Appalachian Wireless, where all smartphones are 50% off. Even the 64, 128 and 256 gig models, two-year agreement required, better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless and East Kentucky Network Company. Music students from Pike and Johnson counties attended a music workshop at the Mountain Arts Center this morning with up-and-coming musician Paul Childers. Childers who lived in Pikeville as a child is playing the Mac tomorrow night and wanted to spend some time today talking to high school students with a passion for music. To be able to come and speak to these kids and one feet off their passion, their creativity, their curiosity, any opportunity I can get to quote teach, whether I'm teaching or they're teaching me, I take it. Childers who now lives in Nashville says the more knowledge that he gains about the music industry, the more he wants to share that knowledge with others. It takes a village to not only create a show, but to create records. You have engineers, producers, you have drivers, you have musicians, my drummer, my band, my bass player, my piano player. They're my best friends. It doesn't happen without them. So, yeah, there's work everywhere and you just have to know about it. Among the students in today's workshop were 23 members of the Pike County Central High School Jazz Band who will actually be on stage with Childers at the Mountain Arts Center tomorrow night. We're excited for them to work with their kids and we're opening the show for him and hopefully we'll be able to perform with him on at least a number or two. Tickets are still available for the concert which starts at 7 p.m. Reporting in Prestonsburg for EKB News, I'm Shannon Deskins.