Yeah, so I would like to share how I learned to automate my home ceiling fan to control it using HomeKit and Google Home. So first, a bit of introduction about myself. I'm not a hardware engineer. My background is in biology, but I'm an iOS developer. So the final year of my studies, I founded the first two companies. The first one, it tells us about the arrival time. The second one is a company that makes mobile apps for clients. Then few years back, I started another company with my friend. It makes productivity apps in the app store. So this is my first home automation project, not the hardware one. So there's no sound, right? Sorry. Yeah, there's no sound, but... But this project uses Google Home, and you ask Google Home for the bus arrival time. No sound? OK, it's fine. So this is my first home automation project, so it's just purely software. Then about the current project that I'm going to talk about is my first hardware project. So I've always wanted to try something with home automation and hardware. So the best way to learn is to find a project to do it. So why automate my home fan? So I have two ceiling fans. One in the living room and one in the bedroom. They are identical models, and they are two separate remotes. But the wall switch is quite annoying. You can only turn off from the wall. And when I turn on on the wall, I have to go to the remote and turn it on again. So I have to rely on the remote. Also I've been using Apple HomeKit to control my likes and door locks. And there are limited options for RF remotes that work with HomeKit. So that's why I thought this is the perfect project to start with. So I needed to choose the right platform and hardware. Since I'm already using Apple HomeKit to control hue lights and August lock, so it's a natural choice for me. So HomeKit is a framework to control devices at home. So you can control from iPhone, Apple Watch, or Apple TV. Then Homebridge is an open source Node.js server that emulates the HomeKit API. So you can add plugins to add support for devices that don't support HomeKit. And then Raspberry Pi because it can run Homebridge. Also I met Sian a few months ago and she said I should start with Raspberry Pi first because I'm familiar with the UNIX environment. Since my remote is RF remote, so I bought some receiver and transmitter. I wasn't sure what frequency to get, but 433 mega seems to be the common one. So I just took a guess and I kind of got it right. So since I'm new to this, so I just bought a starter kit because I wasn't sure what I need for the project. So this is how I plan the project. First I need to set up the Raspberry Pi. Then for some basics, I googled out how to do some LED tutorial. And then I need to learn the signal from the RF remote and broadcast it to test if we can control the fan. After that I can do the HomeKit integration. So I spent my weekend on the project from stepping out to completion of the HomeKit integration. So the starter kit comes with a lot of parts that I didn't know that I need. For example the GPIO to breadboard, breadboard jumper wires. I didn't know all this so it's great that I bought the starter kit. And I googled out how to connect them. So the way I do things is I hack first and I understand later. So I don't really know why the pins are connected that way. So first thing, learning the RF signal. So I installed a program called P-Lite. It's an open source home automation solution that runs on small factor computers. It has a lot of functions but I'm just using the RF function. So to configure that, my transmitter is connected to pin 17 and the receiver to 27. So if I refer to this table, I can set where the sender and receiver location is. Then I need to... Yeah, that's what I did. I run P-Lite Debug to read signal from the remote. So when I run this, there are a lot of noise signals so I need to manually filter them. So the signal that comes from it is a series of numbers that measures the time difference between high-low and low-high transition. For some reason, there are just a lot of signals even when I'm not pressing my remote. So I had to go through each manually. Then I broadcast the signal to test whether they work using P-Lite send. So you see that that's what I copied from P-Lite Debug. Yeah, so this is the fan and then I run from command line. Yeah, it turns on the fan. So I repeat it for both remotes and all the buttons on the remote to turn it off and high, low and medium. So now that I can control the fan with the command line, I need to... I can start working on HomeKit integration. So in iOS, there's an app called Home. And it controls all accessories that are HomeKit compatible. And Homebridge emulates a HomeKit compatible hub. And a hub can have multiple accessories. So once I add Homebridge hub to HomeKit, anything I add to Homebridge will be automatically added to HomeKit. And to add a new accessory, I just need to create a Homebridge plugin. So for HomeKit integration, first I need to create an API to broadcast the signal. So this API is just writing a REST API that executes P-Lite send in the command line. Then so, yeah, so I have two fans. So one is the living room fan and one is the bedroom fan. And I set the signal, so zero is turning off, then one, two, three is low, medium, high. So I have to learn it for individual remotes. They can't be reused for other remotes. And then I took an existing plugin. So this plugin, it controls a three-speed fan, which is the same as my fan. It also has a temperature sensor, but mine doesn't have. So I remove the temperature sensor and I modify it to call my own API. Then configure Homebridge to add the fan. So this is Homebridge config file. So I set it, so the accessory RF remote fan is the accessory type. So I added two RF remote fans, one in the bedroom on the living room with the device ID. So the device ID is what I used to call the API so I can identify the fan. Then just restart Homebridge for changes to take effect. So once I've added Homebridge to HomeKit, then I can see all the accessories. So the living room fan and this is just a living room fan. Yeah, Homebridge you can use to add a lot of other things. So you can see that I even have an outlet for controlling mosquito repellent here. So integration is quite easy. So you can see that it already appeared in my phone. I can control the living room fan, set the speed here. And yeah, that's a very easy project to start with. And after that, I thought since I'm using Google Home, why not support that as well? So I use the same API that I wrote for Homebridge and then I use IFTTT. So IFTTT is a web service where you can have a trigger that trigger an action. So my trigger is Google Assistant, so it runs on Google Home. And then the action is Backhook. So Backhook I can run REST API. So I set up phrases that I can use to turn off the fan, set the fan speed. So I have a lot of these applets. These are called applets. They're all workflow, so yeah. So just different command to do different things with the fan. And yeah, that's all. Yeah, that's the end of the project. Yeah. Thank you, Homechain.


Okie dokie, well I think let's go ahead and get started. So hi everyone, I'm Rosalie, I work at Goldman Sachs and today I am super excited to share with you how we started an OSPO. So I'll talk you through sort of how we planned it, how we structured it, what our goals are and sort of where we are today. So a little bit about the agenda, so I'll explain to you who is Goldman Sachs. If you're not familiar, I'll talk about some of the projects that we've open sourced. I'll talk about why after 150 years did we decide now is the time to create an OSPO at Goldman Sachs, what motivated us. I'll talk about how we went about planning, what our goals are, how we structured it, what our learnings are and then what is the progress that we've made so far and then I'm mostly excited about the Q and A portion because that's when I get to hear from you awesome people and you get to ask me really cool questions. So let's get started. So Goldman Sachs, so we have been around since 1869 which means that we have been around for more than 150 years. I will say that that is before my time, I am not that old. So we are headquartered in New York. So we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. We have a wide range of financial services. We work with corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. So let's talk a little bit about open source. So at Goldman Sachs, we love open source. Our engineers love using open source, we love contributing to it. A couple of the projects that we've actually open sourced, I'll go through them here, but if you haven't explored our GitHub before, we're at GitHub at Goldman Sachs and a couple of the projects that you'll see there are things like GSQuant which is a Python tool kit for quantitative finance. We also have given a project to the Eclipse Foundation called GS Collections which is a collections framework for Java and something that you won't see there that we're super excited about is a project that we actually gave to the FinTech open source foundation. Anybody familiar with FinNOS? There we go, yep, great, great folks. So we actually worked with them and we gave them Legend which is a data management and data governance platform. As you're probably aware, data management and data governance in finance is quite complex. So this is a platform that we would love to have folks in the financial industry take a look at. So those are some of our projects. So now let's talk about motivation. So as already mentioned, we've open sourced projects before, our engineers love open source, they love using it, they love contributing to it. So what are some of the reasons that we now decided to start an OSPO? So as mentioned, really strong open source usage. We really sort of wanted to improve the developer experience. So we wanted to make it really simple for folks to use and contribute to open source. We also wanna give back to the developer community. So we're using a lot of open source, we are open sourcing projects. We also think that we have a lot of learnings and best practices that we've sort of accumulated in our sort of 150 year history that we wanna share with the financial community as well. And we also know that if your company is open source friendly, then developers who love open source will be more likely to wanna come and join your team. And so another thing for us is we really would love to continue attracting incredible talent. So again, some of the reasons are strong usage, wanna improve the developer experience, wanna make it easy to use and contribute to open source, wanna share, wanna be involved in the community. So after today's talk, really wanna encourage you if you think there are ways that we can work together. Definitely come chat with me because we definitely wanna collaborate. And then as mentioned, really wanna attract, continue to attract incredible talent. So with every big initiative, there's a lot of planning. So I wanna talk a little bit now about how did we actually go about planning and creating this OSPO? So the information that I'm gonna share with you now, I wanted to do a little bit of context setting. The timeline is actually quite short. So last year in November, we started gathering feedback from folks. We spoke to like more than 100 plus engineers, engineering leaders, anybody in the company that is using or contributing to open source. So we gathered a lot of feedback and then we created a plan in the form of a memo. And then in April of this year, we presented it to our leadership. Our leadership is really incredible. We have folks, really incredible CTO, CIO, folks that are ex-Yahoo, Amazon who are really passionate about open source and wanna see us more involved in the community. So we presented to them and as you can see, they must have really liked the presentation because it was a yes. So May through July of this year, we formed a team. And then in August of this year, we actually announced the OSPO internally at the company and the response was incredible. Folks were like, this is amazing. And then obviously the JIRA ticket started flowing in because folks were like, I wanna do this and that and this. And so we have, I can tell you we have been just slammed with inquiries and folks wanting to collaborate. And we have thousands and thousands of engineers. So it's really cool that now we have a formal program for them to collaborate on open source. So now let's talk about the planning. So we knew that our ultimate goal is we wanna streamline contribution and consumption. So in order to do this, we had to identify who would lead this initiative. So we landed on someone named Rohan Deshpande. He leads all of open source at Goldman Sachs.  So he loves open source, he understands open source. So he was selected to run with this initiative. And I'm not just saying this because he is my boss, but he's also a really great person.  So what we did was we first said what is the current state of open source at Goldman Sachs? What are we currently doing? What's working? Where is there room for improvement? We also figured out who are our stakeholders. So stakeholders throughout the company, and as mentioned, we have thousands and thousands of engineers. And then we figured out what are the use cases that we are trying to solve for? So what's the current state? Who are the stakeholders? What are the use cases to solve for? We then took a couple months and we created a multi-year strategy in the form of a memo. We reviewed it with engineering leadership. And within that memo, there were several pillars, but they all sort of focus on simplifying, contributing on behalf of the firm and personally. We want to connect and collaborate with the external community, you awesome folks. And then we wanna treat our developers as customers. So when we engage with our developers, we really wanna hear from them, you know, what process, what do you like about the process? Where is there room for improvement? So we have frequent communication with our community to get that feedback. So we treat our developers as customers. So the outcome of all of that was we need to create an OSPO. And this OSPO is gonna be responsible for procedures, policies, community engagement and tooling. And we also acknowledged that with each of those pillars that I shared, that we still need to explore a lot of them a lot more and sort of do a deep dive. But the ultimate ask was for us to get started on this, we need to create a founding team. So we asked for really minimal funding to create a founding team. And so on that team, I get to work with really amazing folks. We have a program manager who has a really strong background in open source policies and procedures. We have an engineering lead who is a senior engineer who has many, many years of experience building software within Goldman Sachs. And he's just really passionate about open source and really had seen how we were doing open source before, so familiar with the process. So was able to dive right in. And then they also happened to hire a developer advocate. I may or may not know her, I think she's okay, who has experience in community and content and events for both internal and external. So as you can see here, a pretty small team that is sort of getting started on this initiative, right? And sort of how do we get started? Where do we wanna go from here? So as mentioned, we spoke to a lot of engineers, more than 100 plus engineers. And in doing so, very quickly, we were able to realize who are our open source champions. So folks, one of our open source champions, he's amazing. He said, here's 100 plus different projects that I wanna bring in. So I'm like, you are very passionate about open source. You are awesome. And basically they started giving us feedback on what they're currently doing with open source, where they would like to see us go. So we have frequent check-ins with our open source champions across the company. So we're always asking them, hey, we're trying to do this. What do you think about that? So really important to figure out who are your champions. And then we also established channels to get feedback. So we have like an internal kind of a chat channel. We have email, we have JIRA. And we're also doing sort of these one-hour sort of community meetings where folks will be able to give us feedback as well, learn more about what we're doing. So with all of this, it's always important to figure out like what are your goals, right? Where are you heading? What are you trying to do? What are you aligned on? So our goals have been and very much are focused on meeting developers where they are. So with all of the processes that we're creating or any policies or anything that we wanna launch, we figure out what is the current developer workflow for that and how can we meet folks where they are versus creating something totally brand new or sort of like bespoke. We wanna eliminate ambiguity. So anything where folks are like, hey, I wanna do this, but I'm not sure sort of how to do that. Can you give me more guidance on that? We actively work with developers on that as well. We want to grow a code and project contributions. So not just like open sourcing projects, bug reports, patches, anything that we can help these projects that we're using internally with, we definitely wanna do that. We wanna give back to the community. So we wanna open source projects. We wanna share learnings on our blog. We really wanna be involved. We wanna engage with the community. We wanna learn from you, right? What are your best practices? How can we start using those? And then we really wanna share our learnings and our experiences. So a little bit about our structure. So we've got our founding team, which is quite small and we are actually hiring. So we've got a program manager, a lead engineer and myself and then Rohan who leads the open source program office. So we've documented and endorsed our strategy and we've converted that into OKRs. So like everything we do is being tracked against these OKRs and we're reporting weekly on those making sure that we're in a good spot. We use JIRA for all of our tracking our progress. We do weekly updates to engineering. And then we also have, which is really fun, our lead engineer, when she first started on the team, she actually created a community newsletter that now has grown significantly where she was just sharing sort of what we were doing in the company with open source, what was coming up. So myself from a community perspective, I thought that I said to her, you're doing an incredible job on this newsletter. Like you should be doing what I'm doing because it was just really, really great. So very much encourage folks. If you don't have an internal newsletter for your community, definitely create one, sort of recap all of these great highlights. So some of our learnings, what have we learned in the past couple months? Always, always focus on the end-to-end developer experience. As mentioned, developers are our customers. We want to give them a really great experience. Also live the experience. So if you put together something like a process or some idea, instead of just rolling it out based on feedback, personally experience that process and see how would you think about that? So live the experience. And whenever you're starting something brand new, there's a lot of moving pieces, right? And like for us, we have an enormous amount of interest from folks within the company. But ultimately you have to identify sort of what is your North Star, right? Where are we today and where do we wanna go? And I'll believe also that relationships are almost basically everything. So build relationships. As you're building out your program office, meet with folks. So collaborate with folks in marketing and sales and training. If someone says to you, hey, like I heard you guys are doing this open source thing, right, what is that? Connect with people, answer their questions because they might not be as familiar with open source right now, but as they learn more, they are always really amazed. Their feedback to me is always, this is incredible. This open source thing is really, really cool. So encourage you to share about your OSPO outside of just the engineering community as well. And then be transparent and visible. So if something is working great, share that. If there's room for improvement, share that. But keep folks updated on sort of the journey, right? Bring folks along. Keep them posted on what you're doing and where you're hoping to go. Communicate, communicate, communicate. Very, very important. So some of the progress that we have made so far. So we have, now we have an inventory of all of these contributors and contributions that we're making. We have a process for folks want to contribute to projects or they wanna be, if they wanna be able to do that, we are able to get them, get that logged. And so we've got an inventory as mentioned. Bring your own device, really cool. So folks are able to contribute to open source on behalf of Goldman Sachs. I'm actually using one of their, like their personal devices, like a personal laptop, which is really cool. But we now also have a blog. So as mentioned, we very much wanna share with folks. So on our blog, we're now sharing, everything that we've learned from sort of building products, scaling them, launching and scaling them. So very much encourage you, if your OSPO is doing really interesting things that could be helpful for others, think about doing a blog. Definitely do social media. We now have a Twitter account as well. If folks wanna pull out their phone and follow, I'll take a second here, no problem, which is GS Developer. And we've also started joining foundations as well. So super excited to announce that we've joined OpenSSF and we've also joined the to-do group. Any folks in here part of those groups? Yeah, there we go, awesome, cool. So in only a couple months, we've made quite a lot of progress. And I'm personally excited about the fact that just we have so many inquiries from folks now wanting to work together, wanting to do things. The enthusiasm is just really, really high. So I'm excited that it's not only internal interest, but now we're able to start doing external things with the community as well. So I think it's just a very, very exciting experience. And at this time, I would love to see if folks have any questions that I can answer and if there's a question that I can't answer, connect with me afterwards and I'll connect you with the right person. Okay, yes. Yes, yes. Yeah, so we have a really... Oh yes, so the question was asked is that this sounds like this is very much, the Ospo is very much driven by developers. So the question is, what is our relationship with legal? How do we work with legal on this? How do we do that? So I'm super excited. So I only joined a couple months ago and I instantly was put in touch with the person who is responsible for legal for the Ospo. And what I said to him was like, this is amazing. You remind me so much of someone that I worked with at a former company because this person and the legal team in general is super excited about what we're trying to do. They understand the value and so it's super collaborative. Like we meet frequently, we'll explain a process that we're trying to drive, we'll answer any questions they have. So that I think goes back to the relationships aspect where it's build relationships with folks, answer any questions they have and then folks see the value of open source and so they're happy to work together. So I would say we're really fortunate in that respect because we do work closely with them but they've been super collaborative. I have to give a quick shout out at my former company. Ashley will actually know this. My former company, one of our legal contacts, there was actually a developer as well. So on the weekends, he would just be coding for fun. So I thought that was quite fun. Yeah, any other questions? That's a great one. Thank you so much, sir, thank you. Okay. All right. Well, no other questions then. Well, thank you very much, folks. And just as a quick note here, we are hiring, that is my link tree. So if you know any great folks that are looking for really great developer roles in finance, we also have an opening on our open source team. Definitely visit that link. And just really wanna thank you all for coming out today. So thank you so much. I wanna clap for you. Thank you.


Friends and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to start by thanking the International Organization for Migration for inviting me to be part of the high-level panel of Human Ability and Climate Advocates. I would also like to thank the IOM for integrating environmental and climate issues into all areas of work, policy, research, international migration law, advocacy, communication, capacity, and your own operations. It is exceedingly important that every organization working towards multilateral solutions to international issues take a holistic and integrated approach because, as we all know, climate change is an issue that cuts across borders and economic and industrial, and truly touches everyone. Climate change multiplies and amplifies on every face and it left unchecked because it will increase its instability and contribute to involuntary migration and chaotic displacement. We know this because, right now, we have more clarity on the issue of climate change than ever before. The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report details the vulnerability of those without resource to migrate away from climate change impacts and the vulnerability of migrants. The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report also shows with clarity that we can avoid high fuel costs of climate disruption through immediate transformation to low carbon and a large amount of climate neutrality in the second half of the century. And right now, we're seeing momentum build towards this transformation. People are marching in the states in support of action. Business and investors are turning to renewables for lower cost and capital-steady returns. Local and national policy is increasing the local and national toward climate change growth. In the UNFCCC process, governments are working on a new universal climate change agreement with great potential to bend emissions curve this decade and put us on a course to a long-term climate neutral work. In this moment, as we approach the UN climate change conference in Lima in December, where a draft agreement will emerge and towards Paris in 2015, where that agreement will be adopted, governments need resources and resources to take ever-boulder action. Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to give governments those reasons and those resources. Governments are waking up to the fact that climate change is a threat to a chronic and post-security change of health and COVID and what? When the draft agreement is discussed by ministers across companies, they must understand that there are also migrations in the act. Disentantly, the climate signal from the rising tide of natural disasters can sometimes be tough, but the analysis is improving. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center has looked at data for 2,000 years. It suggests that at least 36 million people were displaced by a sudden onset of natural disaster with more than 20 million displaced due to the sudden onset of weather-related disasters about 6.5 million people because of floods. Research from other sources suggests that many millions of people are also displaced annually as a result of slow onset of climate-related disasters such as traffic. The military is also concerned. This year, the U.S. Department of Defense has released a new report on climate change looking at future security services. The loss of glaciers will strain water supplies in several areas of our hemisphere, said Secretary-General Chakhegel at a conference in Peru alongside the publication of the report. The further stated, destructions and devastation can sow the seeds for instability. Trouts and crop failures can leave millions of people without any life-form and trigger waves of mass migration. The IOM understands the meaningful resources that create actionable policy choices and has taken sizable strides towards creating these resources. I ask you to continue what is in value of it. I'm willing to ensure that migration is considered in a varied and growing suite of resources that enable action. Resources are there. We're coming online, but governments must be connected with them to reap the benefits of a global transition to climate change. Through this conference and your own influence, you can help make that connection and increase political will for ambitious mitigation and policy and a commitment to adaptation in your role. Doing so minimizes the need to manage migration and maximizes our ability to stabilize the climate and promote low-carbon social and economic growth. Right now, we have the opportunity to preserve our national and autonomous levels, keep populations secured in their communities, and minimize climate-related migration for generations to come. We must serve this opportunity now, and we must do it together. Thank you, and I look forward to seeing the outcasts, with interest and to be able to take your knowledge on the results of this meeting. Okay. Well, let me then move...


The truth about the new ocean breaking Africa apart. What would occur if Africa split into two continents? Which continent will it be? Even so, is this possible? Africa is where a new ocean is forming. The splitting in two of the African continent has been proven by geologists as the creation of a new ocean. A 35-mile long rift that developed in the Ethiopian deserts of the remote region in 2005 has been determined to be the beginning of a brand new sea thanks to international research. Seismic data from the rifts creation is combined in the most current study, which was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters to show that it is driven by processes that are comparable to those at the ocean's bottom. Africa's tectonic plates and Arabias have been progressively separating for nearly 30 million years and colliding in the desert. The same ocean has also split the Red Sea, albeit it only does so at a pace of a few thousandths of an inch every year. If you subscribe to Africa Reloaded and enable the notification bell, you can receive updates on the movement of the plates that are going to partition Africa. Before we start, don't forget to comment and like this video. Geologists studying the plate tectonics of Africa believe that the 54 countries are soon to be separated, giving humanity a new motherland. From northern Ethiopia down to Mozambique, the east African rift divides the majority of the population from eastern coastal states like Kenya and Tanzania. The two pieces of land are separating at a rate of 7 millimeters each year, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. In actuality, countries with their own coastlines include Zambia and Uganda. Experts assert that a number of actively active volcanoes along the rift, such as the Old Doinyo-Langai in Tanzania and the Yolu-Dalapilla in Ethiopia, are offering fresh perspectives on the process. For more than 50 years, the Irva-Ail volcano in Ethiopia has been erupting non-stop. For the past two years, the Victoria microplate, the largest of its sore on earth and which is wedged between each side of the gap, has been rotating against the clock. Every other plate on the continent, including the main African plate, rotates in the opposite direction from the Victorian microplate. According to scientists, this peculiarity might hasten the rift's separation. At the peak of a big volcano, Christopher Moore, a doctorate student at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, was standing close to a lava lake when he observed the red glow of lava flows a few kilometers away. Even though it might appear strange, everything continues to be the same in Ethiopia's Irva-Ail. Are these behaviors the first signs of an impending tectonic transition? In Irva-Ail, Moore has been studying this subject. Changes occurring along eastern Africa's whole eastern region could separate the continent and create a new ocean basin. The magnetism at Irva-Ail may be showing evidence of this change over since it resembles a mid-ocean ridge. There is dispute over how close the distant region is to this tectonic change. The lava's pathology during eruption, notwithstanding the geophysical features of the magma storage at Irva-Ail that may suggest this, may show that we have not yet entered the stage of oceanic spreading. In 5 million, 50 million, or 100 million years, the panorama from some at Irva-Ail will seem significantly different. The question is whether the Irva-Ail and the Afar region will combine to produce a new ocean or if continuous tectonic collisions to the north and east of Africa would obstruct this transition. Please share this video and leave a comment if you enjoy it so that we can learn what you think. The complex tectonics of eastern Africa. One of the few regions on earth that most closely resembles the surface of the moon is the Faraway region. This dry, desolate area of eastern Africa, close to the Red Sea, is covered in lava that was formed when a continent rifted. The Afar region is home to a triple junction at the confluence of the Nubian Somali and Arabian tectonic plates. Between Shibubi and Eritrea, they all combine to form a massive eye on the earth's surface, with the Great Rift Valley, the southern entrance, extending more than 6,000 kilometers into the heart of Africa. The Red Sea rift and the Northwest converge on the Sin Peninsula. To the east are the Aden Ridge and the Oceanic spreading ridge. All of these limits are growing at rates of up to 1.5 centimeters each year. Africa is a continent that is rupturing apart because of its intricate tectonic structure. For 30 million years, the Somali Plate, a piece of eastern Africa, has been drifting away from the rest of the continent. As a result, the Great Rift Valley, which starts in Ethiopia and Eritrea and separates around the Kenyadome before merging into the Malawi Rift, was created. You may find the rifting continent on a map by looking at the chain of lakes, which surrounds the base of the Great Rift Valley and includes Tanganyika and Mayasa Malawi. As the Red Sea rift spreads by around a centimeter each year, the Arabian Plate has also been moving away from Africa. The Persian Gulf will eventually close and merge with Eurasia as the Arabian Plate eventually contacts the Eurasian Plate in what is today Iran. The intricate tectonics of the distant region have given rise to some of the biggest volcanoes on Earth. This volcanism's eruptions are bimodal, meaning they fall at opposing extremities of the compositional spectrum. Enormous blasts of more silica, huge basalt lava, flows coexist with rich lava. The Great Rift Valley is bordered by these volcanoes. What causes the splitting of a continent?  One reason is that the distant plume has heated the area from below. This mantle plume caused the African continent to begin to rise and fracture, creating rift valleys. The development of new continental rifts and ultimately the separation of two passive continental margins bites to four spreading at ocean ridges. Similar to how the North Atlantic Ocean opened 80 million years ago, appeared to be closely related to the presence of huge mantle plumes. Geologists have long been able to identify various tectonic settings and plate borders. Extensional, divergent, collisional, and transform boundaries are examples of well-known boundaries. Less is known about how one border transitions into another. How can we tell when an ocean rift in continent changes into a completely new ocean basin? Not all continental rifts succeed in causing true oceanic spreading. Some rifts are ineffective. This was the case when efforts to separate North America at the mid-continent rift failed some 1.1 billion years ago. Just because we can see the continental rifting does not mean that we are inevitably heading toward a new ocean. The Faraway Region, which is situated at the meeting point of tectonic plate boundaries, may be where continental rift transitions to an oceanic spreading ridge. Examining the area's crust is one way to approach the question of this transition. As opposed to the average continental crust thickness of 35 kilometers, the crust beneath a fog may be as thin as 20 kilometers. This contains the millions of years worth of basalt strata left over from volcanic eruptions that have covered the area. How does this affect Africa's future? The direction of tectonics in the distant region is uncertain. Many of these issues are far from established, including when, if ever, the region will develop into an oceanic spreading center, whether or if an ocean basin will form between the Somali and Nubian plates, and how spreading in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden will occur. One model predicts that the Somali and Nubian plates would crash with Arabia 50 million years from now, connecting the three plates that are present now and erasing the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Erna Ale eruption is still going strong today. The East Pacific rise's mid-ocean ridge magnetism and the volcano's magmatic plumbing are both closely associated continental processes, according to Moore's research. If that similarity foretells future occurrences is still up in the air. Researchers believe that the local volcanic activity points to a rift to ridge transition. Since the Erna Ale has been continually erupting for more than 50 years, it is projected that the eruption would result in the formation of a new narrow ocean basin and the related mid-ocean ridge. Scientists predict that the ocean will begin to form at the eye-shaped junction of the African, Somali, and Arabian tectonic plates between Djibouti and Eritrea. Scientists believe they are unaware of what will happen to the two land masses, and whether or not a new ocean will form, even though it will take tens of millions of years to find out. Thank you for sticking with us to the end. For any worry and question, drop them in the comments section below, and if you are new, please like the video and subscribe to our channel. Also remember to enable the notification icon to get alerts of newly released videos.


We are starting a little early. Let's see who shows up. It's cutting off the top of my head. It's too short Hello, Green Yeti Hey Chad Andrew JJ Benny. Hey the gang's all here rat face. Yes. We started a little early Well, I just couldn't wait to get started after missing last week Hello, everybody. Roguesh Paladin. Hi. How you doing? Oh, thanks Yeah, this shirt was the one is the one that was in the storm shadow video Which you should check out check out the storm shadow video. Hi Andrew. Hi Rick and Matt Oh, you got a new Joe lot in the mail. That's awesome Hey Max Rigo Rebos ghost music. How you doing? Good to see you sir Wow, the game's all here. This is awesome CK Smith. Hey, this is cool. See I I skipped one week and I really missed it really enjoy Seeing you guys. Yes, Green Yeti got the GI Joe headquarters today. Yes. I got your message. That's really cool Well, it's okay a max for you.  It's fine I'm just happy that you're here Dominic says hi from the UK. Hello UK from the United States. I have a Our box to open And that's about all I just thought we'd just talk about GI Joe meant the gem video. Oh Who was that mentioned that? Who mentioned the gem video? Anyway, somebody mentioned the gem video. Hey, Mike Lopez. How you doing? This blue screen right here is up because of the gem video so Timmer Told me well in advance that he wanted me to get some wigs to wear in this gem video that he was working on and The colors were white blue and green well Well as you might notice, you know a green wig Against a green screen. It doesn't exactly work very well So I had to get myself a blue screen just to do the green wig part. Hey, Mike. How you doing? And Rob hello Was it truly outrageous? Was it really? Yeah, for anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about Just go check out Timmer's video He's doing his charity drive and if you meet certain stretch goals then you get certain, you know Rewards and one of them was the gem theme song and I was in it. Hi Brandon. How you doing and Robert? Howdy? Yeah It also looks like I'm gonna need to do another Video for Timmer and I got an idea. I got an idea what to do. I'm hoping it works out But that stuff's been a lot of fun So, yeah, I was hoping that Byron Would be here because Byron sent this so I wanted to say thanks to Byron for it. Oh I do fat cats from Canada. Hello Canada from the United States. Oh Hey, Crimson Baron Tim. Okay, Todd. Oh, yeah, good. I'm glad that you were happy with it. I'm glad to glad you Glad you liked it. Thanks Todd Hey, there's Byron. How you doing? Hey Byron, I have your box Robbers from Laredo, Texas Okay. Hello Laredo, Texas from the United States Hey Byron, I'm just gonna go right into it and start off by showing everybody this He got a letter in here, of course, I keep all of these letters From Portland, Oregon. Hello Portland, Oregon from the United States See Well, that's very personal. So I don't know but it says discovered had two yellow bats Been great friends supportive through a tough time Can't think you have someone more deserving And I can finally review it. So thank you And I didn't want to thank Byron for this Just wanted to thank Byron for being a really cool guy Byron has been a great friend of me and a friend of the channel for quite some time and And I really appreciate all of his help. So thank you Byron Oh Yeah, Byron green yeti got the the headquarters. Oh fact have liked the big Ben review. Thank you. Thank you very much There's cobra bat And it's it's complete as well It's got I don't want to drop it. I don't there's cobra bat that Byron sent me and And there are the accessories. I'm gonna put it back in the box because I'm dropping everything Hello, Eric Yeah letters. It's totally 20th century. It's very analog, isn't it? So thank you for this but more than that. Thank you for being a good friend and thank you for being a good guy I really appreciate it Tim you're looking working on a muskrat Is that a cosplay you're working on? I don't know if I have any suggestions, but that sounds pretty cool Yeah, Max revils. I gotta be careful about this that That's Microphone for bulletproof went missing forever. So I'm putting it Byron. I'm putting everything back in here. So I don't lose it Hikaru. Hello Yeah, Chad. I agreed Byron is a really cool guy. So thank you Byron Well, I mean there is some stuff to talk about That's going on in and around the GI Joe community I didn't want to say that To apologize, I don't want to apologize for something I've been in kind of a not a great mood lately Doesn't have anything to do with you guys Has to do with other things. It's not important. It's not a bad thing But it's just some things have put me kind of in a foul mood So I've had to be very careful about my interactions with people, especially you guys out there I don't want to have negative interactions with you.  So So if that's affected any of you I apologize for that But I think we're doing pretty good right now Before we get started Let's just look at the clutter that is around here my all my clutter. That's on my table here. I have I Have sergeant Slaughter's renegades out. Oh Mercer's around here somewhere Where's Mercer anyway? I have Mercer around to Somewhere but anyway, what could these be for huh? What else? Oh, yeah Well here I still have big Ben out. I haven't put him away since the review I've got these Well these one it alright you saw the Big Ben version two in the review video But I got the rest of these international action force The big bear and spirit and Yeah, so And and the the funky file card that came with them how many of the guys have seen this on how you doing? These file cards are weird a Couple of the mail away sets in the 90s came with these file cards And it's like not even a proper file card. I mean it's right on the back It's got the shape of a file card, but it's not even about an individual, you know character It's got a photograph of the figures and it's kind of a write-up about it. Oh, these are these are strange These are a little weird But anyway, I got a good deal on that so I decided to pick it up So now I have the bagged figures, but of course I don't have the bag that the bagged figures were in But and I don't I don't review, you know sealed in bagged figures So I'll have to get other figures to actually review because I'm not gonna take these out of the bag Yeah, we haven't seen Delvis yet. I hope he shows up.  Couldn't do it. Couldn't do it Although it seems nowadays. That's not necessarily disqualifier, but you know I got the frag viper out here. I have a couple of frag vipers from From the big Ben review because I had to look at his hand grenades So, yeah So that's the clutter that I have around here. Oh, yeah Somebody you saw this on social media hang on. I'm gonna get it. It's the black pocket patrol pack From the rapid deployment force. This is another one of those kind of weird Mail away sets from the 90s so It's just a straight pocket pocket patrol pack of pocket patrol pack, but it's it's black And it has the rapid deployment force sticker on it This is a really interesting and odd little thing and that set the the the rapid deployment force set came with A fast draw and with night force shockwave and night force repeater So and a file card, which I don't have yet, but I'm piecing it together slowly. I don't I Don't I'm I'm a little bit miserly. I like I try to be careful about how much I spend on this stuff So I won't get it until I get a good a Good deal on it, you know, so but if a good deal comes along, you know I I try to snag it and I've been trying to snag some of this rarer stuff As quickly as I can because the prices do seem to be going up on those and I'd like to Like to get some of that rarer stuff before they get just completely, you know, I get priced out of my range Collierville, yeah So, yeah, that's that's the clutter I have here and a new Cobra bat. Thanks to Byron. Thank you again for that very much appreciated. Oh Hey, I got one more thing. Hey, this is something I haven't shown anywhere yet. You want to see something new? Here's something new. It's GI Joe related. I got this It's a sealed battle gear accessory pack. It's the first one. In fact, it's the very first one before they put, you know accessory pack number one on there So I know that folks have been wanting me to review these and I'm not gonna open it But and I don't normally get like sealed items But in this case, I thought it might be cool to see what it looked like, you know, still sealed on the package So I thought this might work a little bit more toward a review of these So, you know, it wasn't super expensive The card isn't isn't lovely, but you know, all the stuff is still in there including the Visors, that's the big deal in this first accessory pack These visors those things were easy to lose and so getting a few oh, hello, Delvis nice to see you Getting a few extras in the accessory pack was nice since, you know, the originals got lost easily So anyway, so that's new. I haven't shown that to you guys yet. So there's something new anyway, so Yeah, it looks like the game's all here. Thank you guys for showing up and I'm sorry that I'm sorry that I didn't do the live stream last week I kind of I was really tired. I'd had a very long day at work I was exhausted and I just didn't have the energy to do it, but then After I skipped it, I felt like me and you know, I should have done it anyway Because I really missed talking with you guys and having the interaction And yes, I was tired. I might not have had very much energy But you know, I could still sit here and read your your comments and talk to you So I probably should have done it anyway But oh, yeah Max-Rivo's snow cat looked much better with the vehicle accessory missiles Yeah, the vehicle accessory pack the one vehicle accessory pack They did had some green missiles for the snow cat, which did look pretty good What I think is funny about the vehicle accessory packs is apparently they made a lot of them Because you can still find the sealed ones for a song They're very easy to come by they're always a ton of them available So I guess they didn't sell very well I think they would have sold better if it had a more variety of Vehicle accessories a more variety of missiles. I think it would have helped because you know always losing missiles on vehicles John asked did I have any of the Joe puzzles back in the day? Something I don't recall having the puzzles. I didn't do a lot of puzzles back then it wasn't the just wasn't something I did very much. Oh, hey Kevin Haynes sends a super chat. It says very late here in Ireland, but love HCC life Thank you Kevin and thank you for the super chat.  I'll someday I'll make it out there The GI Joe color forms still this says I I believe I had GI Joe color forms. I seem to remember the GI Joe color forms But I don't think I had the puzzles and I don't think I hadn't necessarily any of the board games either I wasn't a board game kind of person Fat cats that asks if I've ever been to Canada. I have been to Canada. It was as a kid though as a child I my family went to Canada for a vacation. So I have been to Canada one time But it was a very long time ago. I wouldn't mind visiting Canada There are a lot of people in Canada that I'd like to see Canada as it turns out Canada is really big And those people that I like to see are scattered out throughout the whole country. So To see everybody in Canada that you know all my friends there people I would like to visit that would be quite a big trip But but I would love to come go back to Canada Some of my favorite people are from Canada form BX 257 from Canada How mind-blowing would it be if I could take a picture with form BX 257 that would be pretty awesome Canadian mobat Codenamed it. I don't have a Canadian mobat, but I have several Canadian vehicles. I have The Slaughter's Marauders armadillo that I have is Canadian and The Warthog AI FV that I have is also Canadian So same vehicle just with Canadian stickers on it, you know, honestly, there I mean, I love to travel So I would you know someday someday I'm gonna be able to travel as much as I would like to but yeah What's up? Okay. I'm sorry. There we go. Yeah The HCC 788 world tour 2019. Well, hey in 2019 I will be in Augusta, Georgia for Joe Fest and that's a big deal to me Joe Fest looks like it's gonna be awesome Should have I mean Larry Hama sergeant slaughter is gonna be there I believe Ron Rudat is gonna be there all these, you know, really prominent names in GI Joe Lore Are gonna be there. Yes, Green Yeti Hey, Robert. You got new o-rings. You know, it is fun to repair To replace those o-rings. It's kind of a zen experience Green Yeti, it's okay. I didn't really think you lived in Paris. Um, anyway the um, yeah, the Replacing o-rings is kind of a kind of a zen experience, you know, you kind of get into it and you know Taking the screws out and get the o-ring in and you know Getting everything back together and having a nice complete figure once you once you have it all done That's it's really a lot of fun um Kaylee asks or Kayle asks if I've heard of Michael Marcy. Yes, I have Yeah, um this Oh, when you know when I was a kid, um You know those o-rings would give out it would give out And we didn't know where to get replacements So we just what we would do is just use regular rubber bands and just loop them a few times And that's that's what we would do But it's nice to be able to have you know Fresh row of fresh o-rings that that you can actually use to you know to replace the old ones Um, I guess I mean, I know I think some people um I think some people don't like Of having new o-rings and figures Because I mean technically that's not vintage right if you have a fresh o-ring in it But that's something that never bothered me to me Replacing the o-ring is just a normal part of collecting gi Joe Otherwise those things are going to dry out even if you Are you know handle them with care those things are going to dry out And they'll either snap or they'll they'll lose their elasticity um Hey, who has coloring book? Um, uh, 117 lesion says, uh, he has gi Joe coloring book. Is it the big one? Like the oversized coloring book because I had an oversized coloring book and I've seen that thing a few times I haven't Um, I haven't you know gone back to collect it Uh, but uh But back in the day I had they had this like really giant oversized coloring book I wouldn't mind having that again That would be a cool thing What size o-rings do I recommend? I don't know what the size is on the one And of course, I don't have them. I've got all this clutter around me But I don't have my o-rings handy to to pull out and show to you. Um, I'll get back to you on that um Yeah, uh oversized trends the the coloring books were like especially for a kid. It was like half your size um I remember that and was like and I think it was like 1982 it had all the 1982 Uh characters in it. Yeah, um Yeah, I mean it for for kids who like I know that some kids actually didn't know that you could replace the o-rings and the old figures Um, I can't remember exactly when we figured that out, but I think it was fairly early on. Um, because we went down we used to there was um Like a a five and dime store, um, like this old mom and pop store that was in our neighborhood Um, and we take our allowance down there.  Um But we figured that out fairly early on. Um Uh on toy polo. Um, I did watch toy polo's uh video and I I think that is probably The best way to fix Zartan that I can think of um, I've seen several people who have tried other methods of getting the zartan body apart but all of the methods that I've seen Has the potential of damaging the body in some way. So replacing the o-ring with um With a piece of elastic, you know, kind of running that through I think that probably is going to be the most practical way to do it. And so toy polo's video I thought was pretty helpful. Uh, and when the time comes that I got to replace the o-ring on mine I'll probably do something like that. Um I think that's uh That's gonna it's gonna be the way that's least likely to damage the figure and you know For me the point is to have the figure intact if it's not like um A little black o-ring keeping it together. That's not Super important to me as long as the figure is actually intact and together Hey, this is really cool. Thanks everyone and I'm sorry I missed last week.  Uh, so I'm reading all of the chats through on the my phone here Um, and so I I know I'm missing some and I'm sorry about that right now The laptop is busy rendering a video the video that will be going up On sunday is rendering right now Um, and I'm not gonna tell you what it is although although although um I'm thinking of trying out youtube's premiere feature. I've never used it before So I might try it and see if it Uh works. I don't know so you may get you may get some kind of notice about the video before it actually launches If this premiere feature actually works. I thought it'd be worth trying. So I'll give it a shot um, so um Oh, hey chad took tuesday off Nice nice I tell you like right now Out where i'm working since a lot of people are taking time off for the holidays It's actually quieter than I it usually is it's kind of more quiet than what i'm used to so Yeah, it's um, it's it's about that time of year for everyone outside of the united states. It's about Thanksgiving time here Uh, if you're in canada, you've already had yours We haven't had ours yet.  That's awesome. That is cool um You know, I I like it. I love those straight arm figures, you know When they when we got the swivel arm it was better But I have the most nostalgia for those uh straight arm figures because that is where I started I started right there um Who asked oh who do you ask if or um Green Yeti asks if I'm traveling now. We're staying here in town for Thanksgiving. We have lots of family stuff to do um Any thoughts on fixing broken thumbs now that's a little bit tougher. Um, I've seen It I've seen it done. I don't know that it's necessary. Oh, thank you. Somebody likes the shirt. I've seen it done, but um I don't know. Um I don't know is the answer. I haven't actually seen In person a repaired thumb um And I'd really need to see it.  It's I'll have to withhold judgment on that. I'd really have I would really need to see it um Close up to really know how I feel about it. Hey, Mike Murdock. How you doing? And mr. Gonzalez, how you do? Uh, herardo Other countries you'd like to visit. Uh, you know that's soul joes. Well, I mean, I like the uk I want to go back to the uk. I have lots of people to see there. Um And they had joes um I like to go to canada that'd be cool um I'd like to go to texas. That's kind of like another country. They had joes there Uh, I don't know. I've never been able to travel as much as I would like to uh, but someday someday Um A travel is a high priority for me. I'd really like to travel more. I just Just not something I've been able to do as much take dig bend to the uk. That's a good idea That's a good idea. Remember having a show coloring book Had muskrat and shockwave in it. So okay I don't think I've seen that one. I remember a coloring book from earlier, but I don't remember that one Uh, robert has the the orashikagi Tattoo anybody else have any joe tattoos. I'll tell you what I get a tattoo. That's going to be my first one Uh, I just haven't got around to it yet, but it's uh, it's on the agenda. So Um, when it comes to be tattoo time, that's the one that I want Uh, a project. Yeah, the I guess the um Video is not mirrored now, which is awesome. And actually I can't tell on my phone. I can't tell So I'm glad you told me um, normally I would have my laptop up because I want to see um The video as it's actually broadcasting and also to uh, moderate if I need to but I don't have the laptop here It's over there because it's rendering a video So I can't actually see what you're seeing, but it's nice to know that it's not mirrored. So that's that's nice Uh carded figures, uh from asian country. Oh, yeah, um Chris pierce from comic tropes sent me a carded Destro, uh, that was was that chinese or japanese. Anyway, it was it was asian Um But uh, he sent that to me. I still have it. Um, and I'll keep that on the card. It's kind of cool um, I don't I don't collect international Uh figures Uh, but I think they're really cool Uh, so some folks have been nice enough to send some to me, which is Cool, uh, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to to see these things and there's some amazing, uh, international shows They're really cool stuff. Um, sometimes the colors Uh, um on some figures are like a little crazy But then on others the colors are sometimes better than what we got in the u.s. Which is really interesting to see Um, sorry. I'm missing some of your, um Some of your uh chat, but I'm trying to keep up Uh, yeah, so, um Man, I gotta clean up this stuff Oh, yeah. Okay. There was something that I wanted to bring up um, there was a bit of news in the community, uh, recently that, um, larry hama had, um Whatever convention that he was at recently, um, had his supplies stolen, um from his Table, uh, and, um, that's not good Uh, there's There's been some targeting of larry, uh from time to time. Um, he's had I'm grateful that larry still does appearances, but he had, um Some negative experiences, uh from The fans and not just that. I mean he's he's had people, um, you know skip out on, uh sketches and you know make unreasonable demands and, um, lots of complaints and things like that The fans have not always been gracious to larry and that is I hope that we can do a little better than that. Um, as Uh, I know that Since larry does like panels and stuff like that at these conventions He can't be at his table all the time. Uh, so, um, you know, there's You know, there's got to be a little bit of of trust there um But uh, but yeah, apparently while he was away somebody stole all of his stuff. So that's that's really um frustrating, um But I hope that larry knows that you know For the most part the fan community is going to be supportive and not behave that way. So um Yeah, um So anyway, that's a piece of news Um, it's unlikely that that anybody's going to find out who did it, but Um, there's something that to keep in mind, especially if you happen to see larry I know he's got conventions coming up on his schedule. So, you know, it wouldn't be a bad thing to Um Talk to him and you know show some support don't steal his stuff Um But yeah, that kind of thing is disappointing.    I wanted somebody brought up stan lee. Now.  Yes Uh stan lee has passed away, which i'm sure that you know, uh, that was Uh, that was a tough one for me as well. That man Yeah, um I I read gi joe comics before I read any other comics um And so yeah, stan lee presents gi joe on the first page of the comic book is the first time I saw stan lee's name uh, so Yeah, uh Having Uh, such an iconic figure passed away. It really kind of makes you think It also makes you reflect um It makes you reflect on uh your memories and Uh, kind of everything that he did. Um Not just for Marvel comics, but I think he he did a lot to popularize comic books in general um during a time period when comic books were Um, I mean when he started out it was still considered. Um a genre that was for children And then it kind of transitioned Into a genre that was uh, at least could include some adults Um and stan had a lot to do with that. Um He had a lot to do with the maturation of the whole comic book industry Um, so that's you know, that's something that I've thought about Um So anyway, yeah, that's so thanks for bringing that up And we lost roi clark too. Yes. Thank you delvis. Um everybody everybody cool is dying Um, yeah, roi clark. Hey, he was from here, wasn't he? um Wasn't roi clark like oklahoma here? I thought he was I remember watching roi clark on um Uh, what was that show? Was it he ha? Uh Yeah, any anything else for the obituaries anybody else got to mention anything? um Anybody else pass away anybody else we need to mourn since we're on that topic um So yeah, um Yeah, he ha I remember that show when I was a kid and I've never been a country music fan But as a kid though that show was always just kind of fun um Oh, no, we can't lose the last of the golden girls. There aren't that many left um Anyway, so yes, um, it's been an eventful week It's been an eventful week So, um Yeah, I'm kind of running out of steam now. Uh, see this is what I was afraid of Last week that I'd get started and I kind of run out of steam Um, but uh, but it's cool. It's cool. Um Is betty white the last one? I She might be I don't know. I don't keep up with uh with celebrities all that well So I don't know I haven't seen overlord, you know, I haven't seen a lot of movies in general. I went to see bohemian rhapsody I liked that very much But I haven't had an opportunity to actually go and see a lot of movies um I was just thinking about this uh this week that The time that I spend, you know, working on this channel Um Takes away time. I would do a lot of other things like, you know, go see movies. I don't really Have a chance to go see movies a lot and like tv shows Um, it I don't often get an opportunity to sit down and just like Watch a tv show. Sometimes I'll have something on the background, but um Usually while I'm working, you know, get either getting ready to do a video or editing a video Um, so that's just that's life. That's life Um Matt asks if I'm okay. Yeah, I'm doing good matt. Thank you for asking.  You know, it's it's work Um, so some of that stuff has made me a little bit, um moody lately But I'm trying to I'm trying to even all that out, you know, try to keep it even keel But uh really I'm doing good. Um, I'm Feeling pretty good right now. I mean I've been able to Uh To cross a few milestones in my collecting venture. Um, I got the the 82 cobra missile command center and that was um That was awesome. Uh the Missile command center is something that I've been Trying to track down for quite some time and to actually have it Is a thrill so like on the gi joe side of my life things are are Doing well But I have had to put a lot of work into the last few videos and the one that's coming up the one for next week A lot of work into that so It has taken quite a bit of energy I'm sorry. I'm missing some of you guys chat. I'm sorry. I'm not reading fast enough um Um The crossover that transforms or crossover and an optimist prime that transforms into rolling thunder. Oh, that's cool Um, oh john, you got your wife watching videos with you. Oh, well, thanks I hope she likes them or at least I hope she tolerates them My wife tolerates being in the videos. So, hey, um You can send me the coloring book I mean, you're you can if you want to you don't have to send me anything if you don't want to if you if If you want to consider sending something, uh, you know, um, send me an email I don't have my I don't have my laptop so I can type the email address Ask Byron what the email is Because I don't have it in front of me. Um Uh, but oh, uh, see Uh bobby is her name. Hey, john, uh I will say hi to bob. Hello bobby and thanks for watching the videos You should make sure, you know, john has been very good Uh, let him buy lots of gi jose. Okay Uh, yeah, green. Yeti. What's up?  Thank you. I'm glad that uh, glad that you're collecting and glad, uh We had something to do with that. I hope that you enjoy your collecting journey um Next video when I open donated toys. I don't know when I get some I open I just opened the one from from Byron here a minute ago Um lately, I've just been kind of doing it in the live stream But you know, you you raise a good point I used to do like separate unboxing videos for those And I probably should still do it that way. So, um I'll tell you what I'll I'll go back. I you know I'm doing what I should do. I'm gonna go back to doing a monthly unboxing video like I used to do um That's a good point. I anybody that sends me something Uh should get that thing put on camera so everyone can see and I can show my appreciation Um, and I think that's that's a better way to do it. So yes, uh, so the answer is what I'm gonna I'll do one for december since we're getting You know, we're kind of getting through november already Um sneak peek for next video as a matter of fact Um, you should get a sneak peek for the next video. Um, if this youtube premiere feature works So we will find out tomorrow Um Uh geijo animated movie review gonna be a christmas special this year not for christmas not for christmas Got something else in mind Got something else in mind Um Give away of oh, yeah, susan has chocolate. She's she does this cocoa Thing so we're surrounded by chocolate. She likes doing that. So Yeah, I could do something like that um Uh fat cat says will you or did you do a review of the cobra pogo? I have not yet. I haven't yet Um, hey, maybe that should be for christmas. I could do that for christmas I mean if you hold it upside down, it looks a little bit like a An ornament. So maybe that would work for christmas Um Uh sneak peek I don't have I don't have I actually don't have sneak peek complete yet I have a sneak peek figure, but it's not complete. I'm not ready to review sneak peek yet The hody coco has coco. That's right. See Everything everything fits together um but uh Oh, hey, uh alec is celebrating the big four one. Congratulations Uh happy birthday and uh, congratulations for surviving For so long on this earth Um and welcome Uh, hello, jonathan Uh gonzala's uh, hubby gonzala's ready to stumble show. We don't have snow yet. We don't have we have a little bit of snow um like two weeks ago But no snow right now. In fact, it's too warm for snow. We got cold for a little while and it warmed up again We just can't decide what season it is right now um Do I decorate a christmas tree with gi jo figures for the season? I I don't do that um I could do that I might do that I haven't done that before I might do it Or maybe at least one figure um Yeah, um Everybody's talking about the weather. Um, yeah, the weather has been weird here. It's cold and then warm again And uh hair good or hair god says that he would buy me a beer I could go for a beer all against this pepsi in a big gi jo cup I don't have any beer Beer would be a beer would hit the spot right now. I'd have to say Uh, oh a crash dyna kathy sister-in-law. Hello crash dyna kathy asks if I prefer pumpkin pie or pecan pie for Thanksgiving She's asking me this of course because I'm going over to her house for Thanksgiving. Uh, I personally like pecan pie um And a pumpkin pie is okay But I tell you a good pecan pie with a good filling And like the the pecans on top that you know nicely big but not not overdone not dry That's it's hard to beat that hard to beat a good pecan pie Oh rob went to a funeral for a world war two vet today. That's amazing. Well, uh appreciate his service Uh, and that's pretty impressive. There are not a lot of world war two vets still around Uh and green yeti turns 14. So we got a 41 year old and flip it around.  I'm sorry. I'm sorry um Yeah, um, I uh, I think I've already talked about all the topics that I want to talk about and I showed, uh, the fee here that Byron sent to me and I showed all the clutter that is around me right now um When I talked about larry homa we talked about stanley um I didn't really come with like a lot of gi joe topics this time I just wanted to see you guys I will remind everyone that um Timmer is doing his charity drive Uh, I have donated a toy for Uh a prize for that So make sure you check that out Once again, I don't have my laptop. So I can't you know put the url in the chat But it's my it really is my privilege to be a part of uh timmer's charity drive every year I really like when our community does things like that. Um, I think that's good for us that that's I mean it It not like pat yourself on the back good for us. I mean, I think it's a good thing to do um, and That's the kind of thing that a good strong community does come together to do so I really like to see us doing that kind of thing. I think that it um, it's um Collective of what kind of community we are so Please consider that And go check out timmer's stuff uh and help if you can And 117 lesion says he's you're turning 13 in january for real Well, um Happy early birthday Oh, thanks matt. Uh cober convergences Has been a lot of fun and we're going to do it again next year. Um, and I'm hoping to make it even bigger and I'm hoping to Every year I'm trying to expand it because I want it to I want cober convergence to really be a community wide event and And Uh, I mean so far we've only been able to include like youtube people And next year I want to of course include the youtube people, but I also want to um One there are a lot of Creators out there that are doing things other than videos, you know, you've got a lot of really cool toy photography going on Some blogs that are going on You know different things like that And so I'd like to You know spread the net a little wider and bring in more GI joe fan creators. Um, and I think I think we can do it next year. I think I've got a plan to do it but cober convergence is Has turned out to be kind of a thing. Uh, so Tell everybody at joe con. Well, I wish I could tell everybody at joe con, but they're not really doing joe con anymore But they will be doing joe fest Uh next year, so I will go to joe fest and I'll tell everybody to bring back the vintage gi joe. I am sure they will listen to me Um, yeah next year, uh cober convergence the month before joe fest. Um, um, yeah, so um, actually I say joe fest is going to be in june uh and Cobra convergence should be in july so to be the month after joe fest. Uh, and If everything goes as planned At joe fest we should have some special announcements So there's a motivation for you to go to joe fest because you will get you will get some announcements before anybody else You will you will uh, it should hopefully be a big deal. I hope Uh, but yeah, um Uh, it's it's really been my privilege to work with a lot of people. Um, I mean form bx 257 is still my hero Uh, and to be able to work with him has been pretty special Um, alex asks where joe fest will be it is in augusta georgia Next year next june Um Oh, hey, oh, do you see that's me? Hey, yeah, how you doing? Hey, you should think about going to joe fest Uh, it's everybody in the universe is going to be there Um, it's it's shaving up to be pretty good. Um, yes as green yeti points out, uh, sergeant slaughter Also should be there. Uh, they couldn't even get sergeant slaughter for joe con last or this year, so Uh, sergeant slaughter being there is pretty awesome So, yeah, that's uh, that's the thing that's going on Funny thing like when me and timmer and um, and uh, form bx 257 were talking about Cobra convergence, you know when we first the collaboration Um, co I came up with the name cobra convergence. I was just gonna I just threw it out there because I thought it would be You know a placeholder name Um, I thought first of all, I thought the name was maybe a little too long Uh, but We never came up with anything to replace it. So that's the name that stuck um So, uh, yeah, um, I I uh, that was one of My like the The one of the things that I'm most proud of on youtube Uh is being able to work with Um, first of all form bx 257 and then timmer and then to be able to work with uh, a lot of other folks That's it's been uh, a great privilege for me um And green yeti wants to be my bodyguard at joe fest. That's not not a bad idea You know considering that people are stealing from people's tables, you know, I may need somebody to guard the table Um And alex likes or alex liked the big ben review. Thank you. I'm glad you liked the big ben review Um, I liked the bin. I I like the big ben review too. I know that some people like to see like the uh videos with uh, you know The stuff that I really don't like and I you know, they like seeing me rant and go crazy I still really enjoy Uh reviewing things that I like, you know, I I like reviewing good figures Good vehicles That's the most fun for me Matt, uh, yes, I should have a table at joe fest They said they're giving me a table and they're supposed to give me a panel as well So at joe fest, um, I should have a panel at which I uh, I will talk about Um I'll I'm gonna talk about just the stuff that's going on on youtube for gi joe. Um, I'm gonna Try to maybe Uh share with everybody all the cool stuff happening right now on youtube with all the you know The different creators doing different types of things Not everybody in the gi joe community may be aware of that So I'm going to do a panel about that and enlighten people to some of the cool stuff that's going on going on um Matt I am definitely gonna try to get a picture with sergeant slaughter And he can put me in a headlock if he wants to the main thing I want to get out of meeting sergeant slaughter Is I want to get him on camera Saying slaughterize it That's what I want. I want to I want him on camera. Look into the camera slaughterize it. That's what I need That's what I need Uh, so we'll see if we can do that Um, okay. Um, yeah, we're getting close to our hour Um, uh getting close to 60 minutes Uh, so I will stop at 60 minutes Uh, because I do need to um Uh do some video work, uh and do some other things before it gets too late Uh, but this has been great. See I um, I shouldn't have skipped last week Um, I will be back Uh next week for the next one. Um Oh, again, as I asked if I'll do anything with the patreons at joe fest. That's a good question I hadn't thought of that. Hey gas, uh, do me a favor Remind me of that because my first thought was I don't know how many of patrons will actually be at joe fest I mean, I wouldn't know if there would be patrons there to Do something but Um, oh, hey, paul says good night from london. Good night from the united states I love london. It's a really cool city But um That's not a bad idea Um, if there are enough patrons there that we could like do a get together or something like that Uh, I would be all for that. I think that would be a lot of fun. Um, so, uh, yeah Yeah, that that's a good idea if we get enough people. Yeah Um, good night odc, uh, and thanks everyone for showing up. Thank you again byron for the figure and thank you for just being a really good guy. Um And um, yeah, I guess it's about time. Um Uh, I will let you all go. We will do this again next week. Thank you Thank you. Thank you everyone for for showing up. Um, this this is the best part of my week I really shouldn't skip these. This is the best part of my week Um, but anyway, uh, I will say good night to everyone. Um, I will see you On sunday for a new review. Um, and I will stay for another live stream But in the meantime, I'm going to push this little thing which should turn this off


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