and we're live hello everyone it has been a while nice to see everyone who we got hello Chris from comic tropes it's always nice to see you and nice to talk to you hello another Chris Christian Bricks from Denmark greetings Denmark from the United States hello jump in general and the figure six pack and Cyclonus and Chromius and Andrew Andrew the guy so nice they named him twice hello Tony Jackson Bader Ray Bob hello big gay Dave and Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse Sergeant Slaughterhouse has a go fund me to get to Joe Fest next year so make sure check out Sergeant Slaughterhouse's channel for the link to that hello Matt Rubin hello Beach 76 comic tropes says hi hoodie Coco I got to think of a quick hi there comic Tro Tro that that's my new nickname I made up for you hello Evgen and the photo viper nice to see you hello Matt Edwards just to remind everybody that everybody in here is named either Chris or Matt we've got a lot of Chris's or Matt's so hello all the Chris's or Matt's hi there anything Joe's and J.K. Siege there is so much there is so much hello draws and exploration nice to see you I'm really glad you like Cobra Convergence the figure six pack I hope we can make next year even bigger that's my goal hello Joe Rikondo how do you do and sparkster nice to see you hello Jeffrey ball okay I you might notice that I am partially wearing my Timmer cosplay because I just recorded a clip for Timmer's 10th anniversary video ten years Timmer has doing has been doing half the battle and I recorded a little something special that I will send him for that video and today today he posted his favorite memories from those ten years and oh thank you comic tropes do you still have any costumes you've made I like Super Trooper one you made I do I have a box of costumes in a closet it's like costumes and props like the wigs the the stuff the the overalls that I got for what was it the flak viper yeah I have a box of all that stuff I should I should dig that box out hello Woodman hello Dale St. Santeford hello draws thank you thank you draws so I know I've been slow I have so much to address Timmer make sure you check out Timmer's video his favorite moments from the last ten years I was a part of some of those moments and that was really awesome I'm really thrilled and proud to be part of them so make sure you check out Timmer's video and his 10th anniversary video is coming up very soon and and I I I hope he's I hope I'm in it you know if my clip makes the cut we'll see knock on wood hello Josiah how do you do so obviously I'm a little behind on doing review videos there's a reason for that it's not bad hello Rob how do you do actually it's not bad at all it's good you know I started a new job I like it very much hello KB and Gray Fox and they gone I like it but yeah it's it's new right recently kind of started I kind of restarted my career that's something I wasn't sure I even wanted to do until recently but I'm in a good situation with nice people and I want to do a really good job for them so I'm doing extra I'm trying to do extra work I want to do well at this at this new job but I also recognize that even though things are like pretty good right now things are looking up my my brain has a hard time catching up with that so I have to I've had to live with this brain for quite some time now so I kind of know how it works and I recognize when I have to carefully monitor my my mood in my mental state and I am in that position now so I've had that I've had to pump the brakes on a few things including videos but that's not the only thing but I've just had to slow down on a few things and make sure that I'm staying in a reasonably good state of mind because this is the kind of situation where it could easily go the other way but it's not going to go the other way I'm gonna be fine it's not gonna go the other way because I'm gonna be very careful and cautious with you know with with just how I handle things but that does mean that I've had to slow down on a number of things including doing videos but I'm working on that that should that should all even out at some point we should I should like get into a more established routine at the new job and and get back into kind of fold the video making routine into that and we should get back to normal but for the time being I'm just I'm just I'm being cautious I'm being hello Nyquist how do you do I'm being cautious us to you know just not overdo things and believe me I know when I'm close to overdoing things and we're real close to that there's another thing hey peg warmers how do you do very nice to see you here always happy to see peg warmers Mike Layton how do you do I didn't see you come in but glad you're here I'm not sure I said hello to Woodman but if not hello Woodman the other thing thank you Joe thank you Joe the other thing hey there mcdj acdc hey the gang's all here the other thing that I've been running behind on is unboxing the stuff from the PO box so I'm going to do it now I would normally I would do that as a separate video and I kind of regret doing that but I am I mean I'm struggling to find the time to just sit down and do it you know it's it's it it it's it actually takes kind of a lot of time to do that particular video not so much in the editing but in the actually just sitting down and doing it and I and people have been very kind to to send stuff to me people have been very kind to send things to the PO box and I don't want to ignore that I want to show my appreciation for that so I thought I would do it live it's been a long time since I've done it live or doing it live we're doing it live we'll do it live so that's what we're gonna do that's that's what we're gonna do hey Robbie Rosario hello hello how do you do and so I'm gonna open some stuff and and then we'll we'll just see I have the boxes here I have the boxes and one envelope I have cut the boxes open but I haven't looked inside if just in case there is stuff wrapped inside that I need to cut open I had my my sharp thing hello Michael Mitchell I don't think I said hello to you but hello how do you do hello Primal Savage thank you for joining so yeah so we're gonna open that here in just a minute we got a we got a few things we got a few things now so thank you for that hello Robert Guthime Robert you know I should I shouldn't try to pronounce people's full names I'm from Oklahoma I can't speak me no talk English good Robert how do you do hello clever Mello how do you do thank you for being here so what was I doing oh yeah I'm so I like I got like a letter here I also blacked out the addresses on here so I should not be showing people's home addresses on the screen hopefully not hello Joe bro and KB nice to see you here I run it said don't open with sharp objects yeah it did see that didn't yeah it did so well too late to look like I don't I'm a rebel I don't follow the rules man you know this this is just what the this is what they they want you this is how they they keep you under control right this is this is how the man keeps you down I am I've apparently already lost my mind hi everybody hello happy happy Tuesday so before we get started I did want to make sure that everybody understood that I know that I'm slowing down a bit on producing review videos I apologize for that there's a lot going on it's really all good it's all good stuff going on there's nothing bad it's all in fact really good it's just that I'm monitoring my mental state and I'm trying not to push myself too much right now for you know just for out of caution I I do I do really like my idea for the next video I do really like it I know what the next review is gonna be and I think it's gonna be a fun one will it be a popular one I have no idea but I think it'll be fun I it's and it's not that difficult I just got to do it but anyway I just want to make sure that everybody was aware of that I I know I missed some time but I'm I'm working on it I'm working on it the other thing I wanted to know and I mentioned it before but for anybody who just got here Timmer from half the battle 10 years 10 stinking years on the YouTube hey now don't see see Michael Mitchell that is exactly the thing that could just get the let that throws off my whole week you know one person says you know it's Wednesday not Tuesday and then for the rest of the week I'm a day off that's just it gets in the brain and then you know everything else falls out they thank you Matt thank you Matt I very much appreciate it my white Vegeta nice to see you white Vegeta and thank you for being here Joe runs with scissors yeah you're the rebel that you rebel without a cause running with scissors so I'm gonna crack these in just a second I just wanted to make sure that it reminded everybody you'll see that I think I've reminded everybody of everything I think 10 years half the battle Timmer new video today talking about his favorite events of the last 10 years I was a part of some of those events I'm honored to be a part of it that was really awesome thank you Timmer if you ever see this for including me I just recorded a clip for his 10th anniversary video so make sure you check that out when you have time hello Sean Beckett how do you do I help him celebrate by watching his back cattle that's a great way to celebrate that's a great way to celebrate a sparkster says he'll still have fun with it after all look at the fun in my video yeah see yeah I agree sparkster I agree with that I agree so we are where I'm I will make sure that everybody is informed as I have new information so as I'm able to get back into the routine I will let you guys know what's coming let's see there is a strong smell of a flex seal over here if I say anything silly I blame the oh okay so I guess peg warmers picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue Josiah hello Josiah and thank you for the super chat Josiah says hit the like button it's shaped like this hit just hit that button but thank you thank you very much everybody's been really kind this is this this is still my favorite part of the week this is still my favorite part of the week I know I had to skip a Tuesday live stream and that that's just a necessity sometime but I always regret I always regret skipping it I always wish that I could just do it anyway because I feel better I feel better after I do it I feel better after spending some time with you guys Michael runs around with a bayonet on a 1903 a3 a combat rifle you know if the safety's on you know no worries I wouldn't worry too about too much about it you'll be fine you'll be fine you'll be fine anyway I'm about to open I'm about to open these things I just wanted to give everybody an opportunity to come in get comfortable hello Dave hello Chew and bubble gum nice to see you shout out to Joe Rekondo who is a legitimate legend absolutely the legend that is Joe Rekondo growl gray Fox sat here in a silence for an hour that's I am so sorry I oh no it does look my like I'm buffering here my signal still says that it's good my my internet signal here is still good but I did notice that YouTube buffered a little bit so hopefully that's not gonna be a problem I don't think that's on my end I think that's on their end my end looks great my end looks great my signal is good so hopefully they we don't have too many pauses who don't win in a fight between doc and lifeline doc doc would win lifeline well see lifeline does the Aikido thing right so he he'll like try to Aikido or water or whatever but I just feel like doc is the tougher guy you know if doc can get one punch in then that's out that's it doc gets one punch in and that's it yeah exactly see lifeline actually did fight sort of he did fight sort of using magical Aikido powers so that that's a good question I think that's the question that's been on everybody's mind I think every ever since the snake eyes GI Joe origins movie came out there's been a clamor for a doc versus lifeline movie major Hollywood movie resolving forever it'd be kind of like that Batman versus Superman but except it would be doc versus lifeline but probably much more exciting because because you'd get some hospital scenes because you know a medic medical doctor rescue it'd be like you remember that show ER it would be like that show ER but with a lot more fighting that's how I see it Hollywood give me a call I can work on this script I can work on this script I think doc would shoot him that's but that could be it's it could be like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where where Indy just kind of pulls out a pistol and shoots the guy it could but that would be a very short movie you gotta drag it out you got it Hollywood give me a call I can I can work on this script just anyone from Hollywood wants to get this done give me a call we'll get it we'll get it going GI Joe medic division doc versus lifeline see that's a great title that's a great title so alright I think I think hey it's what's on Joe mind also check out what's on Joe mind on Fridays and Joe Colton was at Dragon Con and we've seen a lot of Dragon Con photos cosplay come out of there so that looks like a lot of fun I've never been to Dragon Con I've never really had the time to go to Dragon Con when Dragon Con was was going on it just I know I've known a lot of people who have gone a lot of people who have gone I just haven't done it I should like some year if the timing works out I should go I should check it out it's a big thing you know they got dragons I hear otherwise why would they name it that if there's not dragons so who would win between Tomax and Xamot I that's that would be it would be difficult to not make that one a tie because if one knocks the other one out and that guy gets knocked out right so like that would be that would be very difficult to not make it a tie that's that's the real question that's that's the real question Tomax versus Xamot how on earth do you not make that a tie I have to think about that I don't have a solution to that this is a great pondering we got here okay so I'm going to we are getting caught up with the real important questions hello Sean Beckett thanks for being here we are getting caught up with the real important questions but but I do I do want to open these things that nice people have sent in oh yeah no there there is yes that's a good point Xamot got the the scar oh thank you Josiah Hacksaw Ridge was a secret stretcher movie that's interesting that's a that's an interesting thought that I've never thought about that thank you Josiah that's like you mean something to think about really yeah anyway okay sorry I like okay I'm trying not to get lost in thought here because I want to open these boxes there was one other thing I wanted to say first of all thank you to everyone who sent stuff to the PO box which is like I will say however if you're thinking of sending something the PO box hold off just a little bit just hold off for a little bit I I will still check the PO box oh lobotomax or is they muttaball that's really funny all right what's on Joe mind wins what's on Joe mind is the victor the PO box I still will check it as much as I can however it's becoming more difficult to check because the location of the PO box was very convenient for where I used to live it's less convenient for where I am now but I could still it's I could still do it I can still make it out there not a problem but from where my office is now it's actually super inconvenient so I'm finding it more difficult to make it to the post office to check the PO box so it's another one of those things where I'm gonna have to figure out like the routine so my apologies thank you guys for sending stuff but if you're gonna send something just I would suggest just holding off for for a little bit until I figure out exactly how I'm going to regularly get around there and check it and I don't want to miss anything and I don't want to leave people stuff in the box for a long time but in the meantime thank you to everyone who sent this stuff again this is this stuff so I'm going to I'm going to I'm gonna go ahead to start opening these now I'm gonna start with this envelope and this is a letter and I should have checked on the inside because it has this person address written there and I don't want to put their address on screen so this is from Gary Watson thank you Gary Gary has sent a number of letters before thank you very much Gary is in the UK he's in England hey Bart how do you do and Benny nice to see you and anybody else that I missed I think I think everybody on the screen I've said hello to I'm not sure if I said hello to Thane Woods but hello thank you for being here now I gotta read through this real quick to make sure there's nothing too personally here thank you Matt Rubin can't you just move the P.O. box or is it the only post office nearby I could I mean I could absolutely move the P.O. box but I would it would be a different P.O. box number and address and the one people are using now is what they're used to so if anybody like looks at an old video they would get the current P.O. box and so I don't want that to cause any confusion so that's why I haven't changed it because I just I don't I don't want anybody sending something to the wrong address so I think I'm gonna keep the one that I have for now just keep it where it where it is so that if you if you know the P.O. box address it won't change you know it you don't have to learn a new one or figure out you know which one you should go to it's not on you it's on me I've got to figure out how to make that work and I will do so oh Roberto says regards from Nuevo Laredo Mexico hello Mexico from the United States thank you very much for being here nice to see you let me read this this letter real quick from Gary because I don't want to read it out loud in case there's anything personal in here sometimes people do send me personal information so let me see now that is something I haven't noticed okay so it's not not too personal but I'll give you the the appraisee of it so Gary watched my review of spirit thank you and Hasbro could have better represented Native Americans includes airborne who didn't look as Native American either and he talks a little bit about action force in the UK and Europe but then he has a mystery a mystery from the GI Joe movie he says during the attack during the Cobra attack on the Statue of Liberty the dreadnought torch is seen being attacked by a blackbird near the end of the movie the same blackbird is seen attacking a cobra viper who has the blackbird I don't remember that hello John Ulrich nice to see you thank you for this letter I don't want to show the address I do keep all of these letters thank you Gary I'm gonna have to go back and look at cuz I don't remember that I don't remember that I'll look at that for you Gary I'll get back to you on that that means I'm gonna have to watch the movie again but I'll mind watching the intro that's alright that's alright but thank you Gary thank you for the letter and like I said I keep all of the letters that are sent to me I will keep them forever may I may be buried with them so let's move on so I got a couple of these flat packages and both of these are from a Sanford so these came in a bit earlier so these have been sitting for a while Peg warmer says I think it's freedom but miss painted that's proud that that is probably it that is probably it I'll take it I'll take a look at it I'll take a look at it KB says did you see about Byron no I didn't I talked to Byron not that long ago but then I hadn't heard from him for a little while hold on to that thought I want to I want to get back to that I want to get back to that let me let me let me open these real quick this one has this one has a letter hold on as before let me let me look at this letter oh it's this is Andrew Andrew hello Andrew Andrew thank you for the letter let me read real quick okay okay okay cool okay so I apologize thank you for for being patient no you Andrew you don't have to apologize for anything. This is great. This is great. I'll give I'll give the the short version of it Thanks me for the hard work To create so many videos and anchor the Joe community Perfect evergreen entertainment blending information humor. Thank you very much. That's really really nice Previously been more of a Star Wars guy. That community has is a little too much. I understand. I understand I and So and the joke community seems to be more accepting and pleasant. I agree. I agree Rekindled interest even rescued some old figures. That's really cool all the vehicles that are being in a way But that's cool that you have some of your old ones. That's really cool In addition to our obvious charisma Just call me mr.  I wanted to be a surprise. So here it is. So this is what we got Okay, so that okay, that means that means I know what this one is to hold on So this is also from same person I and Andrew is so nice. He named they named him twice. Okay new another letter. Hold on Okay, oh You apologize for your handwriting in here, too, but you really don't have to I this is totally fine so So, yeah Again, like you give away here what what's in there? So I won't read this aloud But I will say thank you. Thank you Andrew and I will show everybody what this is and see that see this is why See I opened the outer packages, but not the inner ones and this one has tape That hurry up Now oh more tape more tape I got it. I got it. There's nothing to worry about There we go, that's why we have sharp objects. Oh Hey, hey, hey, okay, cool So all right, first of all This is issues three three and four Of the IDW Saturday Morning Adventures series I've really enjoyed this series. This series is just fun, you know, and I have not read these issues yet So I look forward to doing that But it's just it's just a fun series and it's really a series that's geared toward fans of the animated series I'm vibrating Bart I'm a weirdo so this is It but it's a it's a really fun series and it's really exactly in the tone of the animated series So if you like the animated series, you should like these. Thank you very much for these Andrew and Something that I also haven't read at least not in its entirety is the oh this okay. I almost that missed issue number two but also there is the The Dark Horse series the Dark Horse series I'm trying to fan these out Which which I have never read in their entirety. I do know of this series And I've at least looked at the first issue and that that first issue cover is a Frank Miller cover But yeah, no I've never I've never actually read the series and I'm I'm all kinds of curious about it. It's My recollection is this was connected to GI Joe extreme For those of you who remember GI Joe extreme Yeah, weirdo is the new norm exactly yes But this is the whole series This is one through four and and I did not have one through four. This is an era of Really of everything of all of GI Joe comic books cartoons toys that I It's it's a little bit of a blind spot for me. I don't know as much about it So so thank you for this This will give me something to read and I'm curious. I'm very curious about so thank you very much Andrew I will keep your letters. I appreciate them very much. I appreciate you very much And and thanks for the comic books. That's awesome. Thank you very much Wasn't dark horse series extreme see it says it says extreme It it says it's gotta be extreme. It's gotta be it's from the 90s Everything in the 90s was extreme Everything even extreme if you had extreme in the 90s, it had to be even more extreme It had it had to be extreme like just just with an X at the beginning Um Need GI Joe extreme characters in classified you keep on dreaming, you know You got to hold on to those dreams. You got to hold on to those hopes and dreams against all odds You know, I'm sure Emily and Lenny are have pen to paper right now Working on those GI Joe extreme classified figures, you know, it's some day some day. It's got to happen So the next box That I will open is this one which which I did open with a sharp object because Nobody's they're not the boss of me. They're not the boss of me This is from not marked on front. It's not marked on the front So it oh But we have a letter. Let me read it real quick I'm trying to do like hold music Got a good artist for each of the four covers. Yeah, and like this is like Frank Miller's pretty legendary All right, so let's see. Oh It says I can read it aloud if I wish okay, then I will So this one should be hello from Joe fan 84. Hello Joe fan 84. I haven't seen Joe fan 84 in here Hello, John Carling though. Nice to see you sir. Nice to see you there Hello, Strakazulu and everybody else who snuck in RTD one and anybody else. Hello stone gate creations Thank you for being here So, okay, here we go, but I haven't seen Joe fan 84 in here, but but hopefully Joe fan 84s, you know Comes by Okay Writing this letter to you just after watching your live stream introducing your character burnout What a great character very relatable as well. Yes. Yes, maybe too relatable I hope you can read my handwriting another look. Don't worry. Don't worry about your handwriting. I can read this is no problem Let's see. Hope you have your glasses on I do have my glasses on enjoy your videos very much Like how you say what you like and dislike about the items you were reviewing my son enjoys watching as well Well, thanks. Thank you for watching. He says we Had good toys back then I agree Yeah, he says I tend to agree after I just also said I agree But I like I just read that part. I like how you review things objectively Sorry, it took so long to send you the bow to replace the oh, okay So like once again spoiling once in the box, but that's okay That's the bow for the storm shadow. I hope you I sure hope those These aren't reproduction. I was at a toy shop and I'd like to get extra loose GI Joe weapons me too. That's a good idea Bought some extras and saw mine isn't broken. I'm a collector of modern joes But there isn't a modern version of the character I get the original mostly the reason why I get loose weapon packs because every now and then one I get is Missing something. Yeah, I understand that I watch reviews to make sure it looks original as possible I include a few extra storm shadow parts as well As I recall As I really don't need them. Maybe you can use them. It would be I would be Careful with the nunchucks. They feel weak. You know, they'll look at at my age You know, sometimes you have to live with weak nunchucks Um, my real name is josh or josh. Well, hi josh I go by either The code code name I gave myself as a kid was long shot. That's not I like I like it. I like it Um, I was a sniper and best friend with low light. So low light non Long shot the best buds Um low light was my favorite character low lights really that's a good one. That's a good Please don't oh, oh, sorry. This is the part I'm not supposed to read Okay Okay, all right. That's fair So like there was a paragraph. See this is why I check in advance. There was a paragraph. He didn't want read aloud So so for that reason shout out to mr s Mr s Shout out to you So the the bottom part says thank you for watching for your hard work and letting me see what a figure is supposed to look like Uh and be complete. I was unsure if I wanted a 1991 tracker with his raft But after watching the review I decided to get with an uncut uh card back Thanks again from joe fan 84 aka long shot aka josh and mr s Um, so thank you for this. So now I know what this is. Yeah, so um I I did a review of storm shadow a long time ago. Let me make sure I haven't lost anything. We're good. We're good and My bow for storm shadow is broken And I've just never replaced it. You know There are a lot like when I was in the early stages of collecting when I was like first starting out I would I wouldn't I didn't pay very much attention to the condition Of the figures and vehicles. I figured, you know, uh, this is inexpensive, right? This is cheap I'll just get this one and then somewhere down the road I'll get a better one or I'll get one that's not broken and then often down the road I never did But this is one of them. This is one of them that I did not Uh, I never did replace. I still have my guy with a broken But that that does not look like a reproduction to me that The reproduction bows often have um Thicker bow strings So that looks at least that first glance To be authentic Um, and The these these accessories are so tiny even with my Glasses, they're hard to see. Uh, so there is the nunchucks The weak nunchucks And um, I'm not going to bend them, but uh, like to put them in the In the backpack they often have to be bent the ones that I have are like Bent to be put in the backpack and the two swords So that is awesome. Thank you, uh, joe fan 84 aka Josh aka long shot and mr. X wink wink Uh, so yeah, that's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Um, I am going to Carefully put these very tiny objects back in the bag And not lose them and then put that back in the plastic thing To not lose them And then when we're when I'm done here, I will put this with My storm shower. That's really nice. Thank you very much. That's very very nice Everybody has just been very generous and I really appreciate it. So The next one is from Joe rickondo, that's right Joe rickondo Who you may recall from the live chat right here. So, thank you joe. Thank you very much. Uh, I did cut out part of the, uh label here, um, but his label has uh, some Uh, some cobra commanders and a cobra emblem on here. That was really cool. I just didn't want to show the world your Home address. So I cut that part out for your safety Uh, but let's see. Let's see what we got We got I have no idea. We have some Bubble wrap that's I can I can never have too much bubble wrap. You never know when you're gonna need that stuff We have a letter We have a letter. I do not want to knock this stuff off the table. That would be a bummer. Um, this says HCC seven eight eight. I think that's me. Let's say hello teddy. Nice to see you there Um, okay, so let me let me read through this as I usually do Okay, um, so Yeah, okay. Um, so like this seems okay I think this is safe and it says here in all caps. I do not care if you use or say my name So I will say your name joe rickondo reddon rondo joe rickondo rondo Thank you very much, sir. Um, this says hello hcc seven eight eight.  I found you about six years ago Wow, you have been around for a while. That is awesome. Thank you. Thank you very much Um, searching for videos about gi joe toys I was one of those guys who dug out the road old toys and wanted to clean them Up and see what I had left from years of storage after discovering that many of the old toy lines were still alive through youtube channels and facebook group I was totally ready to jump back into collecting seven years later And an awesome wife who let me have a small spare bedroom in the house. That is awesome My collection has grown and grown I always look forward to your live chat on tuesdays and can't make it most of the time But I listen to it every wednesday. We'll drive my garbage truck Hope you I hope to make it to joe con someday and personally shake your hand. That would be awesome I would love to shake your hand. That would be cool Um, let's see. I consider to be one of the top, uh, youtube channels And most definitely one of the most informative keep up all the hard work and stay healthy Many thanks sincerely joe rickondo rondo. Thank you very much joe. That's nice. That was very nice I really appreciate that. I hope you can make it to joe con. That would be really cool That would be really cool. I I hope to shake your hand someday myself Now Without further ado, let's see what this is. This is oh, look at this That's stickers. Oh, these these are great These are great Look at the look at the like I like I don't these are Yeah, this is like classified stuff. So this is Oh, oh, yeah, we got multiple sheets. We got a joe sheet and a cobra sheet Um, and like that's so cool. So I've got these a rush. I I'm gonna peel one off real quick So look, I've got one to match my my my tattoo on my on my forearm and then I pull the cobra one and then like There now I've got one to match the the tattoo on my up. See it's this it works out perfectly I planned it this way Uh, that's cool. I'm gonna sticker everything. These are great. Um, and we've got oh, what's this? Damn good beef jerky teriyaki. That sounds great That sounds great. Normally I would open this and eat it on Your live camera here, but I actually just had dinner and I'm not hungry, but um, I do love me some beef jerky So um, so dig that um I may wait until I need to be as angry as that bull Because I assume, you know, I believe everything that's on packaging. So I assume this makes me angry like bull um, so Uh, let's let's see we got Okay, so these all right this is this is from a toy line that I'm not as familiar with but I have Um, I have seen these before I've been sent some others of these I need to put them all together because um, it's a very very intriguing toy line. This is fd0 mech piloted by churro Churro and it's like a it's like a robot. It's like a large robot dog and it's a small robot dog So the it's all it's obviously the final faction Uh, so look you guys had a chance, you know Uh in the the penultimate faction, but now we're off to the final faction now and this is the very last one You're not getting a faction after this. Hey, it's green yeti. Nice to see you Well, we haven't seen greedy green yeti in quite some time. How do you do? Um, thank you. Thank you green yeti and it's really nice to see you It's really nice to see you this the this isn't sticking to my arm hair very well But i'm sticking it to my my laptop right now Yeah, nice to see you green yeti really legitimately is Here is the the night creeper the night creeper. I still have not Actually handled this figure and it's it's one of the most Intriguing figures from the movie line, you know, well, you know, there were several movie lines Um, yes, thank you. Joe science for the super chat and don't forget what's on Joe's mind Friday nights if you subscribe To what's on Joe mind then you won't miss it if you hit that a little bell thing Then it'll give you a reminder green yeti is 17 now.  It's really it's really nice to see you. That's really cool. That's really cool um, but thank you for for the night creeper and Uh, let's see what have we got here Oh now this is this is another thing that I I have have seen but I didn't have It's it's like a mini this is the jada toys, right? um Not that I can yeah, yeah, it's a it's a jada toys But I I've not seen any of these Like I was aware of them, but none of my local retailers had any of these. That's so cool That is so cool. That's a really a really nice looking mini vamp This one see I that's another one. I really want to open it up and I really want to I really want to Just see it. I want to I want to like have it in hand Uh to uh to see how it like what the quality feels like. Hey, it's diana davis. Well, yes, absolutely There there's there's your Now, I admittedly it's a small duke But uh, but it but a duke nonetheless It's the duke stir Uh, so well, that's not there. Where's my camera? There we go. There we go So in there and and also and why don't I keep saying and also that's redundant Um, yes the joys of aging. I know all about it green yeti. I could write a book um and uh lastly the um construction set of The cobra ferret with storm shadow. This is one that I may assemble Live I did the his tank. Where are they? I did the his tank live. These things are are quite delicate. They're quite delicate But uh, yeah, we'll uh So thank you for this. Thank you joe and thank you for for watching for for such a long time It's that's very very nice. I really appreciate it and thank you for for the care package. That's really awesome Um, so I shall now move to the final box Which I almost dropped on the floor. This is from Thompson Thank you, Thompson Um, all dukes are beautiful. Yes all dukes are beautiful On the inside All right, that's a little it's a letter From uh from james thompson. Yes. I'm james thompson. I know who you are Uh, thank you. Thank you. It says thank you for your uh continued content Hope uh, you enjoy this do a review of this game and I may get you the expansion releasing this fall Yeah, well now I know what it is See this is interesting. Yeah, see this this is why Like there are lots of reasons why I love you guys But like this is something that I may not have gotten for myself. This is the deck building game um, and like this is Um At joe fest Um, um The artist. Oh my god, I'm blanking on the artist's name. Um Anyway It's this was featured in a panel at joe fest. Um, wow.  No work. Um, but this is like There's there's the back. Um, yeah, I I've been extremely curious about this. I I saw that it came out but um But I like it's one of those things that that I'd like to get but I I would have a hard time. Um, You know spending the money on it and getting it myself, but but here we go. Here we go. This is uh This is it's really intriguing. I like that like It makes it makes a little rainbow snake. It's a rainbow cobra That's that's cool. So that's that that's everything. That's everything. So thank you very thank you everyone. Thank you everyone for doing this um, I apologize for Doing this as part of the live stream and instead of you know, a separate video um, but um But I I wanted to make sure that I did it. I wanted to make sure that I got this in front of Robert Atkins Thank you very much I I am very aware of who Robert Atkins is.  Lots of things fall out of my brain. Um, uh Josiah said kb had buy renews. Yes. I wanted now that I've done with that I wanted to come back with to that because um Yeah, kb. What what's up with Byron? I I've I've been kind of out of the loop on everything So I'm not sure what's going on with Byron. I hope he's all right. Um, you know, we we talk fairly frequently But I hadn't heard from him for a little while um, I we had had uh, we had uh, exchanged a couple uh text messages a little while back, but Then I I don't know. I I didn't hear from him for a while. I don't I don't hear from him all the time. So, you know, I assume that he's all right. I hope he's all right Um, he's had some medical issues in the past. So hopefully he's Hopefully he's doing okay Um, hey, it's gas. Uh, hello gas. Nice to see you there um Uh, yeah Byron's been a minute. Yeah green yeti. Yeah, you should remember that Yeah Byron was uh, was the the other um Mod Back then Um video posted a day or two ago. He's in the hospital. Ah, dang. Okay. Now. Thank you for letting me know I'm gonna I'll send him a text as soon as we're done here Uh and make sure he's all right. Um, I I appreciate that. It seems fine, but hopefully a routine procedure Uh, yeah, I I hope so. Um, he he has had a few health issues Um in previous years and Hopefully he's fine. Um I I apologize for for being out of the loop. That's something that I would want. Normally I would have have been on top of Um, but uh, but I'll I will reach out to him. Thank you. KB. I I appreciate that very much. I do Um and and so Byron, even though you probably won't see this right now Um, maybe at some point you will get well soon And I'll I'll be talking to you. I will be talking to you very soon So we we we have done much this evening. We've been this has been a pretty pretty busy evening But pretty good. Well, thank you to everyone who sent stuff to the p.o. Box. Um, I we have a few minutes left By my clock here. We have eight minutes left. Uh, so Um I thank you kb. I'm gonna I'll I'll pull that up actually also as soon as we're done here Um, man, I've I have been out of the loop. I just truly have Um, the killer weasel says sorry for being late. That's it's okay But I just hope I hope you brought ice cream for everyone um So get well soon Byron and but I'll I'm not I'll I'll I'll be talking to him as soon as we're done here Um, I want to make sure before we wrap up that I go back and Uh, remind everybody of all the stuff that I said earlier For anybody who wasn't here. Oh, where's rob vegas? Hello, rob vegas.  Wow, everybody showed up Everybody showed up for the tail end of the show, but you know what that's okay That's okay because I was gonna I'm doing the recap. I'm doing the recap. You can't you you're just in time for the recap um, so Recap number one. Yeah, rob. It's uh, apparently the killer weasel has ice cream for all of us, right? Right, um So, um Reminder number one, I know I've been slow with getting uh video reviews done Lots going on I'm monitoring my my mental state and my mental health very closely So I am slowing some things down because of the new job. I'm really committed to the new job trying to do a good job there um But I just I just have to be careful right now I'm looking forward to in the near future of getting back into the routine of making weekly review videos But it's just something that I have to be careful about Um, but thank you for your patience. So, uh, so hello jls comics. Nice to see you there Thanks for being here for for the uh for the the recap or recapping. I'm recapping. I'm I'm in the midst of recapping Um, so but but I'll I'll do my best to get that to get videos out as soon as possible I do have the next review video Idea, I know what it's going to be. I think it's going to be a fun one Uh, so we'll uh, I'll I'll work on that as much as I can as soon as I can uh reminder number two um Timmer from half the battle celebrating 10 years 10 Years of his show. That's crazy. That's insane. You know what? I've been you know what? I've done for 10 years straight nothing Nothing Not a thing. Have I done for 10 years straight and here it timmer is Uh doing 10 years of his show half the battle So today he posted the video of some of his favorite moments Some of those involved me and that was I was I enjoyed a lot of that. That was uh That was a lot of fun for me as well. I also recorded a clip for him for his 10th anniversary show So hopefully if I make the cut I'll be in there But congratulations to timmer on 10 freaking years, man Um, and uh, yeah, congrats timmer. That's it's that's in it. That's a huge achievement. That's a huge achievement So, uh, yeah Congratulations timmer and make sure you check out his video today and his 10th anniversary video coming up um, and I think those were Uh, most of the reminders wants on joe mind every friday. Don't forget what's on joe mind um and um Byron get well soon. I will reach out to you. I'll shoot you a text as soon as I'm done here I apologize. I've been kind of out of the loop Had been behind on watching videos So I didn't see that you were under the weather, but byron. I will reach out to you. Hope you're all right um, and that's That's all I got That's like the brain is empty now. I got nothing left up there I can't even remember my name I can't even remember how to read I I see symbols On the screen right now. I have no idea what they mean Perhaps they are a language of some kind Uh, perhaps they represent sounds and groups of sounds uh, that uh can be Formed into words that that that will make sense and convey information between you and me, but I don't know It's it's all it's all been flushed all flushed out I know nothing. I got nothing else nothing else um, but But thank you to everyone who who sent stuff to the p.o. Box um, I will say um, if you think of sending something to p.o. Box Hold off for a little bit until I can Also work that into my routine. Thank you the killer easter here a spoonful of ice cream for everyone. Yay See that that's how you do it.  That's that's how you well done sir. Well done um But yeah, um, hold off on sending anything to the p.o. Box for a little while until I can get back into the routine of checking the p.o. Box Um, that shouldn't be a problem. I'll I'll get I'll work on that I'll work ahead of w w jd 85. Nice to see you. How do you do? Um, and thank you lester. Thank you very much I I'm sorry if I if anybody popped into the live chat and I didn't say hello I said hello to everybody that I saw in there But if I but if I missed you hello And goodbye because because we're two minutes till the end of the show Uh, and it's a good thing because my voice is starting to go out It's you know, it if I skip if I skip a live stream. I'm just like it's Uh, I I completely get out of practice Right now my voice can't hardly even take to win an hour of this. I gotta I I gotta stay in practice, man um, and uh And thank you green yeti. Thanks for being here. Thanks for stopping in and say hello I hope you can uh can come by more often um And and bar likes his uh ice cream in a milkshake with whiskey that would be yeah That's spice it up a little bit um Classic uh classified mindbender version two to fire missiles Why don't we have spring firing missiles in the classified series? The figures are big enough the figures are now big enough That the spring firing missiles would not be oversized for the figure You could do it in like normal size in scale So and again, I just like the the gi jo extreme classified figures I'm sure the hasbro brand team is right on that That there's that that burgeoning 90s gi jo market that they they got to get their hands on They got to get they got to get some of that 90s money I say that it's the 90s kids They're now growing up to have disposable income And and getting nostalgic for their toys. So, you know, you got you got to tap that market You got it. You got to fire a spring loaded missile at that market Um, I thank you green yeti and it generally has been really nice to to see you in here. That's really that's really cool Okay, so uh, it is eight o'clock local time By my clock. So I will wrap it up Thank you everybody for being here As far as I know, I should be doing this next week As far as I know, nothing should interfere. So I look forward to Excuse me. I look forward to seeing everybody next week And I will I will get a video review done as soon as I can So thank you everyone. I will say good night and I will see you Next time good night everybody


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Okay, we're back, this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of Dell Storage Forum 2012, I'm here with Stu Miniman, my co-host, we're with Wikibon.org, and we're also here with Randy Kearns, who's a senior strategist at the Evaluator Group, a Colorado-based consultancy, and Randy works very closely with a lot of customers and practitioners. Randy, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks a lot, Dave. Good to be here. Well, first of all, Dell Storage Forum, you were in the keynote this morning.  I was. You were? Okay, so you can compare this year to last year, obviously you're seeing the progression of Dell, right? There's no question this is a step up from last year, wouldn't you say? Even the last year was really good. It is, and I think you mentioned it earlier when you were talking about it, Dell kind of went from zero to 100 miles an hour fairly quickly, and a lot of the companies that they're competing with have taken 20 or 30 years to get there. It's interesting to watch through acquisitions, through hopefully some very intelligent moves. They're putting things together to be very competitive very quickly as a storage vendor. We love that. We've been following storage for a long, long time, and I've always known the strategic importance of storage as the value of information. It's always been surprising to me, Randy, that it's taken so long for some of the leading vendors. Obviously, EMC did its thing and really changed the market, but it's taken a long time for a lot of the traditional server vendors to really come to that realization. When Dell made that decision, it really acted forcefully and has a clear commitment to storage. Right, and they certainly have war-chested money to invest, and they've hired lots of people, and they've grown the staffs both of ecologic and compelling significantly, and they've talked a lot here about their roadmaps and what they're doing, and they're very ambitious, and they're the types of things that you can't do without significant investment. So quite the commitment. More importantly, though, I think the center of the universe is where your information lives and protecting it and being able to process it, and they've done a pretty good job recognizing that, and that's what I think the storage vendors have known for a while. So you got a chance to sit through the keynotes this morning. Carter George laid out the vision, and some of the head technology folks of the various divisions were there to do chalk talks. What was your take on what you heard this morning? Maybe you could help us summarize and squint through Dell's vision. Well, from this morning I've got three really different things came out. The first one I think you and Stu were talking about earlier is the distribution of solid-state technology through the servers to get the information quicker to the servers, feed the beast, so to speak, all the processors, and then using some software to manage coherency of the data. That's a big part of that, and like you pointed out, IBM and EMC have initiatives that are similar in those areas. The second thing was the ability to be able to take coherent snapshots when you may have data both on resident on the storage system, but data also may be in that cache area. Taking a coherent snapshot that is actually recoverable with the application running is much more complicated, and that's what they talked about doing with App Assure now. That was very interesting, and then they also talked about that coherent snapshot could be recovered as a virtual machine or as a physical machine and can be failed back from a virtual machine to a physical machine as a snapshot entity. So that was very interesting. And then the third part of that was this other vector that other vendors have been going down is taking their storage systems embedded software and actually making it an application that runs on a virtual machine. And that's been done by a few vendors and there's several in process of it. And so they're doing the same thing there, maybe a little bit more aggressively with tying it together with some of these other capabilities, whereas some vendors are doing it independent as more isolated. So this is an example where the storage component is actually the VM. Exactly. And I think it's going to take quite a while for end users to embrace that. I think they're going to have some degree of skepticism. They're a very conservative bunch. They're going to have to have other people go out and prove it to them, so to speak. And the value proposition to them is going to be very much explained because they're used to talking about A box, storage as A box, and then you have devices there and they can be disk devices or solid state technology. Now the fact that the application moves into their server, they're going to have to embrace that, understand it, and get the value. And it's going to take a while for customers. So what is the value prop of that? Is it a cloud play where I can easily spin up virtual arrays in the cloud in a more simplified fashion? Or what do you see as the value prop there? Yeah, if you use that definition for cloud, yeah, that works. The idea is that I can scale my storage functionality more dynamically to meet demand. I can rather than wait in order and wait for the next box to show up, which could have a lead time, I can just bring up my storage application and start going there. And I can potentially bring my storage functionality closer to my processing and make it more into even an appliance model, in that case, dynamically. And so now I can limit or reduce my amount of infrastructure required to set things up and get things going like you were saying to make it happen quicker. And the key to that scale is the separation between the storage software and the storage hardware, right? Exactly right. Yeah, well, I mean, conceptually, that makes a lot of sense. But as you say it, end customers aren't prone to knee-jerk reactions. So they're going to have to see that it works and see that it can be recoverable and all the other processes that go with that vision. It takes time. And even if they believed it's the greatest thing in the world, it takes time for them to put into their schedules to do deployments, to bring it into production. So it's never as fast as anybody would like. Well, that brings me to the next topic that I wanted to talk with you. Off-camera, you were talking about the dissonance between the vendor marketing and messaging and where customers and practitioners are in terms of their adoption of some of these technologies. And you were saying that customers are still trying to really fully exploit things like thin provisioning and snapshotting. And I presume data compression would fit in there and even data deduplication. You work with a lot of customers. Maybe you could summarize what you're seeing in that regard. Yeah, it's very interesting. I've been doing several projects on where these customers should go in the next five years in storage deployments and what technologies they should purchase and invest in. And it's very interesting when I go out and talk to them. Their adoption rate for some of these new technologies, like you listed there, very low. I suspect thin provisioning is less than 30% adopted in most customer environments. That is a astounding number. And for most of us in a deal with the storage, that's kind of old news now. It's something we've had for a few years, so we've moved beyond that. But yet, customers are still down at that level. And a lot of it's due to really lack of understanding. They're too busy handling their day job, so to speak, to look beyond and say, hey, this makes a lot of sense. Number one, and number two is, I don't think it's been explained very well to them through their sales channels. Now, some of the vendor marketing materials are very good, but remember, a lot of these people are reached through salesmen or even through reseller channels. And their articulation of what it does for them may not be at the level they need to understand to say, yeah, I gotta do this because. Yeah, Randy, one of the things I've heard many times people say, you know, if you save a few bucks, you get a pat on the back, but if things go wrong, you're out of a job, so. They're very risk-averse is what you're getting at. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely true. They're very risk-averse, and that's a part of it. The bigger part of it, though, is that, and I think this has happened over time, is they've got so much work to do. They just don't have time to do trials or proof of concepts unless there's major, major payback. And so they just look at it and say, where am I gonna invest the limited time I have? And they just don't have the time to do that. And it's like, I get brought into some of these environments with the end users about helping them with their strategy to meet their demands, and I have to look at their businesses and understand where their growth is and what type of data and what they're gonna be doing. That's a job that they normally do and guard preciously. They just don't have the resources to do it today. No, that's a great point. You talk, you know, most customers can't start from a clean sheet of paper. They don't have green field environments. They don't have time to train their workforce. So virtualization is supposed to help this in theory, but I mean, do you have any kind of quick bullets that are helping customers to adopt new technology and take it faster? No, you just got to work through it. Everything's a project. That's the key thing for them. There's no silver bullets. Just deal with everything as a project and put project plans in place around it and that minimizes risk. They're, like you say, very risk averse. They can be career limiting to take a flyer on something. And so to deal with everything as a project. Now virtualization, you're talking about as a storage virtualization. Unfortunately, when you say virtualization, most customers now, the first thing they think about is server virtualization and server virtualization has created a big upheaval in storage. It's forced a lot of off cycle storage purchases because of, you know, the VAI type of capabilities and things. And so that's been a sore point for a lot of customers right now. And very interesting area. So something's going to come to mind when you think about this whole push towards storage efficiency, thin provisioning, space efficient snapshots, compression, deduplication. And your recommendation to customers is take it as a project. Are you recommending, advising, seeing customers, take it as a project in a holistic view or are they taking the piece parts of those so-called features? For instance, are customers saying, okay, we want to initiate a storage optimization or a storage efficiency project and here's the assets that we have and here's the application portfolio and let's figure out where to apply all these different technologies to those assets, what the business impact and the performance impact is going to be? Or are they more exploiting the individual features on specific products? Oh, I can do thin provisioning on, for instance, a three-par array or I can do data deduplication on some kind of Dell array or a NetApp array. What are you seeing there? It's a little bit of both. Unfortunately, a lot of them do it based upon the salesman has sold them this capability for a particular product. Just did one for a city government recently and one particular vendor sold them on a particular feature and so now they're focused on that and they didn't realize that their other environments they had that they could exploit that as well. So they didn't take the big picture and that's unfortunate. I always recommend, hey, look, step back and see where the big value is and look at the economics and like Stewart was talking about the risk, where are the risk here? So those are the things that I always do but you're right, a lot of them are doing it right now because they've been sold something on a particular platform. In reality though, optimization initiatives are our pan platform, if you will and they really are about delivering value to their customers and their customers are these different business groups they serve and normally you don't want to go in and disrupt a happy customer so to speak and so normally it's when you are doing something where there's an unhappy customer or you're doing a new project or a consolidation or even an upgrade and that's where we really talk about the opportunity to introduce an improvement is much easier to do. You know the other thing I know you got to go shortly here, you got some meetings that you got to attend but I want to up level it one more time again and circle it back to the industry and it really is changed, our business has changed a lot but it used to be you'd see a lot of innovations coming out of companies like EMC or Storage Tech or even IBM or whomever, NetApp and now it seems like the vast majority of the innovations are coming from these startups and you have four or five large companies with the big balance sheets and very stable companies, trusted brands and we know what those names are and they snap up these companies and then they bring these innovations to market for wide adoption. I mean we're basically a year or two out of the virtualization, storage virtualization bubble, the three part, the compelling, I guess Isilon is certainly putting in a data domain really not a kind of a virtualization play but so all these innovations that get snapped up with what you're suggesting and I believe it is relatively low adoption and now the whales are bringing those to market. That's a whole different model for the storage business, isn't it? It is, but it isn't. If you take a look at it, what's happened over time is larger companies put lots of their infrastructure in place, there's processes in development and phase reviews and there's just a lot of systemic impedance, if you will, of delivering technology. So it's much easier for a startup to take an idea and run with it with a lot less headwind against them and then they can prove it out. So what's happening then is these high-end vendors or larger vendors like you're talking about, I didn't call them whales, you did. These larger vendors. We got whales, we got tuna, we got minnows. So what they're doing is saying this technology is what we need, it's great, it's the right direction to have and so they acquire it and it ends up being much quicker to deliver than if they'd done it in their current processes. And of course, I spend a lot of time at big companies in development and I saw those things firsthand and I've done three startups and it's just much easier to get accomplished in a startup because you'd have less resistance. That's why I think we're going to continue to see acquisitions like this. So there are going to be technology acquisitions. There are also our product acquisitions where big companies acquire a product and you guys were talking about earlier. Dell acquired a couple of companies and they just didn't continue and milk the product. They invested and they are trying to integrate and do more with it. So there are product acquisitions but there are technology acquisitions which are I think the more interesting things going on. And I think the one exception in my premise is NetApp who's got the waffle file system and they're able to do certain things like what they do with deduplication and compression and whereas some of the other folks really do need to take that buy it versus make it approach. So I know we got to go. Randy, thanks very much, great segment and appreciate you taking the time out. Come on in the queue. Just Stu, always good. All right folks, keep it right there. We'll be right back with more live from the Dell Storage Forum in Boston. Right back.


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