Hi, everyone. Thank you for coming. My name is Shlomi Noach. I'm with the Database Infrastructure team at GitHub. We're here to talk about Orchestrator on Raft, internal benefits and considerations, and if time allows best places in Brussels to eat croquette. So I work at GitHub. I author a bunch of open source projects, Orchestrator, Ghost, Fresno, C-SQL, and others. We're going to talk about Orchestrator and our choice to use Raft as the underlying consensus or high availability solution. So I'm going to give a brief overview of what Raft is, what Orchestrator is, why we chose to run Orchestrator on Raft, and what are the good things, the benefits that we got as a result. I'll illustrate a couple of interesting flows. Then as time allows considerations to anyone who's thinking to use Raft to implement their own application. So what is Raft? Raft is a distributed consensus algorithm. Multiple distributed services, hopefully different boxes, are trying to collaborate. How do they collaborate, first and foremost, by electing a leader? So with a Raft group, there is always one single leader. That's the premise of Raft. There can never be two leaders. Maybe there's no leader because there's a network problem, but at most one. And Raft is quorum-based. The leader is guaranteed to see a quorum or the majority of the servers. So if you have three servers, the leader must be in a group of at least two. If we have five servers, the leader is part of a group of at least three, etc. And in a Raft group, all nodes communicate to each other. They're all saying, hi, what's up? I am in this position. I'm in that position. They all advertise themselves to each other. And they each keep a replication log. So this is the MySQL in Dev Room, so I'll use some MySQL terminology. You can just think of it like the binary log. The biggest difference is that it is guaranteed to be in order without missing GDIDs, for example, or something. It's an increasing index. The events that are being sent on top of Raft are indexed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It can jump to 10. It's just increasing. And the leader is always guaranteed to have the top index. Maybe others have that index, but it certainly can't have a lower index than anyone else. That's actually how the nodes choose a leader. If someone has a higher index, then I cannot be the leader, because I'm not as up-to-date as that server. I don't know if the eventual consistent is the right term here, because it's a bit overloaded. Raft basically guarantees delivery of event. It doesn't necessarily require us to apply those events. So if the leader advertises, hey, this is a new event. I want to do that. I'm doing that. What it gets is an acknowledgement from a quorum of the group. Maybe just the majority. Maybe everyone is alive and happy. But all the leader knows is that everyone received the message. And you can hook into it, but the basic is just the delivery. It doesn't guarantee that this and this and this and these servers are happy to apply the message. That's a different concern. Last is that replication law grows forever. The nodes are assumed to be stateless, right? The application can go down. It is assumed to be stateless. When it comes back up, it reads this verification law, which is persisted. And then it reapplies all those events to come up as an up-to-date server. And the problem is that this law grows forever, infinitely. We don't like infinite things. So we get periodic snapshots or full backups. Periodically, the node will run a full backup. And when a node starts up, it checks to see, do I have some backup? Yes? Oh, okay. I'll do a full load. And then do I have any replication log continuing that backup? So it will do an incremental restore. If it doesn't have a snapshot or log, it can get them from other nodes in the group. So it will try locally, but others can give it the snapshot and the replication log that it requires. I'm using HashiCorp Rraft. That's the engine behind console. When I started using it, it was before what is now the 1.0. There's been a major design change to the HashiCorp Rraft library. I'm not using that. So I'm using an earlier version. It's an open-source library available on GitHub. What's Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a high availability and replication topology management solution. So it helps us observe and discover our MySQL topologies, replication topologies. It allows us to refactor stuff, like move replicas around. And most importantly for this discussion is that it supports failovers. So it maintains the high availability of our servers. If a master dies or an intermediate master dies, Orchestrator will failover and fix the topology and get us back live. And Orchestrator is open-source. I started developing Orchestrator like four years ago at a company called Outbrain and then at Booking.com and now at GitHub. It's been open-source Apache 2. And we continuously develop Orchestrator. And I guess the premise to this discussion is that Orchestrator manages the high availability of our MySQL topologies. So we also want Orchestrator itself to be highly available because if it's down, it can't failover our topologies. And until recently, the high availability of Orchestrator was based in itself on MySQL servers. How do I name it? Orchestrator is an app that uses a relational backend store. So it used to use MySQL as its own backend server. And multiple Orchestrator services would coordinate between themselves to be highly available based on the high availability of the underlying MySQL setup. So for example, you would set up a Galera cluster, Matthias did so. And you would have an Orchestrator node for each MySQL node in the Galera cluster. And high availability would be maintained by Galera. But we got two interesting incentives not to do that. So one incentive is here. Durkan is over here to blame. We have a use case where using a MySQL backend is undesired because of the overhead, because of the memory, because of some reasons that it's just too heavy weight for us to set up a MySQL as a backend for each Orchestrator node or to even have two or three MySQL beckons just for Orchestrator. That was the first thing. The second was a challenge. I had a discussion with our friend Kenny who challenged Orchestrator and asked me, how does Orchestrator mitigate data center fencing? That is, a specific single DC goes dark, the network is down. How does Orchestrator know that this DC is down and not the other one, the one that it cannot see? How does it mitigate fencing? These two incentives drove us to develop Orchestrator graph. And a lot of other good things happened. I'll illustrate shortly how we deploy Orchestrator, how we run it in GitHub, but we get much better cross DC availability and we get two words, it's work in progress, but two words being Kubernetes friendly, which is also something that we're keen on. And Orchestrator on rough setup looks like this. So say we have three nodes of Orchestrator. Each still runs its own dedicated database, but that database doesn't necessarily have to be MySQL, it can be, but it can also be SQLite. So I was looking into various potential solutions to an alternative to MySQL and SQLite just made a lot of sense because it's stable, it's embeddable, it's lightweight, it's small, it really fit our needs. But of course, the SQLites can communicate with each other. There's no replication mechanism to them, so Orchestrator is providing the communication layer and each Orchestrator node has its own dedicated private completely isolated relational backend. Each of these Orchestrator nodes is independently monitoring our entire topology. So they're probing the MySQL service, how are you, what's your status, who is your master, who are your replicas, et cetera. And any one of them is able to diagnose a problem, but only one of them, which is obviously the rough leader, is running failovers. So only one is taking active action upon failure. And I'll illustrate shortly a failover flow. How do we deploy Orchestrator to GitHub? So we have Orchestrator deployed on three different DCs. Right now we have a single Orchestrator node in each DC. We have like two major DCs and one in the cloud, so that makes three, it could change. It's not specifically important. We have one Orchestrator in each DC. We still use MySQL as a backend just because it's still running and we're good at MySQL, so we're happy to do that on GitHub.com. We implemented two interesting features. We patched the HashiCorp rough library to include two interesting features. So the HashiCorp rough library, I spoke earlier about rough in general, but different implementations support different feature sets. The HashiCorp rough library is really, it doesn't care about the identity of the nodes, right? So all nodes are created equal. Anyone can become a leader. You don't necessarily want to control who the leader is and our case is a little bit different. I don't want to be able to control the identity of the leader. For example, we have the notion of the active data center, right? At this very moment, most of our MySQL servers are all located in the same data center, right? And I would really like to have locality such that if DC2 is active, I want this Orchestrator to be the active because operations would be much faster. If it needs to fail over, it can fail over local to the DC. So that's number one. And number two is, so we implemented rough yield. Rough yield is like assuming the cluster is healthy, assuming rough is happy and up and running. Hey, everyone, would you please all yield to this server such that this Orchestrator node could become the leader? It's possible. And if not, okay, keep the current leader, but I would really like that one to be pretty pleased. The other thing is the ability for a leader to step down. That's not supported in the HashiCorp library and I'll illustrate the use case for that shortly. Another thing is that the HashiCorp library comes with one of two options, either LMDB or BoldDB as the persistent backup storage store for the replication log. And Orchestrator already comes with SQLite embedded, so it's a pity to use yet another storage or database. So I re-implemented the replication log on top of relational SQLite. So whether Orchestrator uses SQLite or masculine as a backend, there's an additional use of SQLite for persisting the replication log. Okay, so far. I'd like to illustrate a high-availability scenario. This is a real high-availability scenario that, well, in testing while developing Orchestrator on rough. So we have this single replication tree. We have this master, and locality-wise, it turns out we have three orchestrator nodes, O1, O2, O3, and O2 happens to be the leader, the rough leader, because I have this cron job that periodically says, yeah, pretty please, if possible, I want the leader to be local to the masters. And the first thing I do is kill-9 the master. Now, Orchestrator is expected to run a failover. It knows how to do that. That's what it does. And all the nodes are probing over the service. They all know that there's a failure scenario, but only O2 is the leader and only O2 is about to take action because only the leader runs failovers. It's about to run the failover. It really wants to run the failover, but then I do a nasty thing and I go to the backend database for this orchestrator node. I just drop the schema. I drop database orchestrator. It's a bit nasty, right? I just killed its own ability to communicate to its own backend store. What happens? So Orchestrator immediately recognizes that something is going bad. It's unable to run self-health checks. Its own self-health checks attempt to write, like, a heartbeat to its own backend database. It recognizes that it's unhealthy. Now, the raft setup is completely healthy. There's nothing wrong with raft, and that's where the step down is so important. It's the ability of the application to tell raft, hey, I don't want to be the leader anymore, even though raft itself is up and running, but I'm feeling unwell. I want to step down. So it takes five seconds for Orchestrator to step down, meanwhile the master is dead. We need to fail over that. Within five seconds, O2 freaks out, steps down, and the raft mechanism takes care of the rest and promotes one of the other orchestrator nodes to be the leader. Let's say it's O1. O1 grabs leadership. It already knows the MySQL master is dead. It knew so for a few seconds ago, but it couldn't take action because it wasn't the leader. It is the leader now. It's running the failover. The failover takes place. Production is happy. At this time, we're basically happy. But let's pursue this further. Failover took place. What happens to that node? 60 seconds later, it completely freaks out. It says, yeah, I'm not just unhealthy. I don't know what to do with myself. It bails out, it panics, the process dies. A few minutes later, Puppet takes in. His job on this box is to make sure the orchestrator service is up and running. It kicks the service up. The service begins. It says, oh, I don't have a backend database. Let's create new database. Let's create the tables. All right, now I'm up. Oh, hey, I'm configured to be a member in a raft group. Do I have a snapshot? Yes, I do. Let's apply it. Do I have some replication log? Yes, I do. Let's apply that. What should we speak into? Hi, everyone. Could you please send me the rest of the replication log because I'm at index one, two, three, and I don't know what's next. And those two servers, let's O2, they give it the rest of the replication log. And then it joins the raft group. But a few minutes later, something else happens. My cron job kicks in. Oh, the master is here. You know, I would really love this orchestrator now to be the leader. Are you healthy? Is everyone happy? Yes, we're all happy. Great. Please become the leader. So we injected two errors, and we got a very nice automation which fixes the MySQL, fixes the orchestrator, and everything is up and running again. I'd like to illustrate another flow. We have three DCs, DC1, DC2, DC3. Let's agree that the master is in DC2 and the active orchestrator node is in DC2. I'm going to network partition the data center. I didn't actually do that in production yet, maybe. Next time, next year. So DC2 is the active data center where the orchestrator leader is. What happens if we network isolate the entire data center? Let's see how it looks like to this orchestrator node. In this orchestrator node's view, in this orchestrator node's view, the master is alive. There's a few replicas that are running and a bunch of other replicas in other data centers who are dead. But there's no need to fail over. The master is alive. Thankfully, this orchestrator node is similarly isolated from the rest of its own nodes just as MySQL is isolated from the rest of the replicas. It used to be the leader. It's no longer the leader. It's not part of the quorum. The raft protocol will demote this server. Orchestrator will see that raft says, you're not the leader anymore? Oh, I'm not the leader. Then I'm not calling the shots. I'm not going to decide whether we do failovers or not. We're just going to sit by and do nothing.  These are still alive. Orchestrator 2 is gone, but we are 2 out of 3. We have quorum. We are up and running. We are able to provide either DC1 or DC3 grab leadership. Let's say it's DC1. It fixes the topology. It finds the failover because we have concluded that DC2 was the one to have been network isolated as opposed to any of the other DCs. Whatever happens later when DC2 comes back live is a different matter. Production is happy at this time. Thank you. Another nice thing. Part of this is work in progress. Our use case is a bit special. We have console running on different DCs. Those console setups, they don't talk to each other. Every console is local to its own DC. Work in progress is that we're working on Orchestrator console proxy-based failovers or based high availability, such that upon failover, Orchestrator tells console, hey, this is the new master for this cluster. And console through console template will update our proxies and provide the service discovery for the clients. Now, the consoles in the different DCs, they don't talk to each other. But the fact that Orchestrator is deployed in each DC enables us to locally update each console in its own DC through the raft mechanism. So that's nice. How am I with time? All right. I'll just leave you with a few considerations and we can take this offline outside if anyone wants to know. Just consider a few weird crazy scenarios. What happens? So, eventual consistency is not your best friend, really. What happens if we have a failover from master A to master B? And then master B also fails and we failover to master C. Now, Orchestrator is up and running and everyone is happy. Sometime later, one of the Orchestrator nodes goes down just because and bootstrap is a new empty one and it rereads the snapshot. But the snapshot was taken long before A died. So, anyone sees where I'm getting it? It starts reapplying the logs and he says, oh, you know what? We just failover to B. But wait, the actual situation is that everyone knows that C is the master and here comes Orchestrator who knows we should failover to B. Let's update console. Let's tell everyone B is the master. So, there are a few considerations to look into. There's a few ways to mitigate that. Orchestrator, heuristically, requests a snapshot shortly after failover which is a life-weight operation, so why not? There could be other solutions to that. If anyone else is further interested in understanding some of considerations to use in RAF, please talk to me outside. On the roadmap is using Kubernetes. One of the really nice things right now with Orchestrator is that you can run on SQLite. And I know some people are running Orchestrator on SQLite with the memory engine for SQLite, so SQLite doesn't even possess the data such that on a Kubernetes setup, one of the Orchestrator nodes can go down. Kubernetes will figure this out. Bootstrap a new pod that kicks in a new Orchestrator node that is completely empty because it's out of the blue and that Orchestrator node is able to talk to the other nodes in the group, get a snapshot, get a replication node, and kick in, so that's very nice. And I'm happy to take questions. Thank you. I have time for questions, French? Yes. Orchestrator guarantees the promotion of the best available replica out of the set of replicas. Replication guarantees the consistency if you use either Semi-Sync or GDID or whatever bin of service depending on how far ahead the replicas were. That's a little bit out of the control of Orchestrator. It's more about the MySQL replication. Yes, sir? Semi-Sync. Are we running Semi-Sync? We're looking into Semi-Sync right now and I'll publish a blog post that illustrates. Yeah, so ideally, ideally we would promote, the ideal is to promote the replica that is most up to date. There are various considerations to not doing that, but Orchestrator is able to reparent replicas even in two steps to get the most out of the situation. Okay. It's a configuration variable. The question was what happens if the master dies and all of the replicas are really lagging. There's a configuration variable to say whether this is okay and you prefer to promote or you want to not promote and avoid losing data. Last question, sir? No, okay. Who did the clients talk to? No, Orchestrator is in the back end. It's a big question. So either you would use DNS-based discovery and Orchestrator would be the one to tell DNS, oh, hey, this is changed, but we're looking into everyone talking to a proxy and Orchestrator would tell console, hey, the master is changed. Console would update the configuration or whatever the setup for the proxy and the proxy would kill the connections if still existing and redirect new connections to the new master. That's what we're hoping to get to. Thank you so much.


y booked for ages, but, but I don't know, if he wants to get that whole work, he lives in Philly in the off season anyway, if he wants to get that work-life balance going, stay and stay and just go to Philadelphia. Wouldn't miss a single Eagles game. I guess he wouldn't miss an Eagles game now. Right, I don't think they need the driving range after Tiger Woods, that's for sure. Most people struggle with the beginning is with the irons, if they hit down, they have to hit down to hit the ball. Yeah, I mean, how do, right, it's sort of counter-intuitive. I didn't actually have a problem with that because I kind of figured early on that your club loft, you know, I would always put in my, the club loft is gonna, is gonna take care of the up part. I don't need to try to dig up on the ball or anything like that. Or if you don't want to hit down on the ball too much, either it's just kind of sweep it off the ground and then your club loft will do the work. Right, people trying to lift with their arms, yeah. No, you just keep your arms hanging down. They shouldn't be going like this or, you know, you get too, too armsy. Trying to lift, I see a lot of people try to scoop it up, especially with like the wedges. You try to, you're trying to scoop it up. You don't want to scoop. Don't want to scoop, just want to sit there. My favorite, my favorite people watching thing, Danny, is when dudes take girls out to the range and they, almost like you can tell it's like a date situation cause like the girl is in like a golf skirt and the guy's kind of, you know, like, you know, sort of dressed up a little bit nicer. It's got a polo shirt.  You know, but, and what ends up happening is the girl ends up just taking a few swings. He's trying to help, not that I'm a golf instructor, but like it's even better when they're telling them the wrong thing is awesome. And then by the end of the range session, it's basically just her shooting video of the guy's backswing for like 30 minutes. And I'm just like, man, she must be having a blast. Like, I guess it's a test date, but I'd rather take him to a top golf before, you know, maybe that option, I mean, in LA, that's definitely an option. The municipal driving range that I go to should not be, you know, take her to a top golf. That's the test date. And you can eat and drink. I guess you can drink the range too, but, you know, then she's into that, then do that. And I'll never hold a phone and film your backswing. Now, see, you can't do that at the driving. That just looks weird at the driving range. At top golf, you can definitely do the old, hey, no, here's how you hold, do the old, here's how you shoot pool kind of thing. Which sport is the easiest to learn versus the most difficult to learn? Hmm, you got to break the touch barrier. You could do that at a top golf, a couple of alcoholic beverages, here's how you move, here's how you get your hips working.  Easiest to learn versus most, I feel like all sports are hard. Yeah, I suppose soccer is the easiest. Cause you're just, I mean, it's soccer is one of those easy to learn, hard to master kind of sports, right? Because the barrier of entry is super easy. You just need an inflatable ball and two posts where you can mark out a goal, right? I mean, that's why soccer is such a universally beloved sport. Golf, Danny will tell you, especially if his girls aren't asking for clubs, it's expensive. The clothes are expensive, the gear is expensive.  That gets expensive. Courses are expensive. Range fees are expensive. You know, lessons are expensive. And it's hard to learn and hard to master. Stop Oliver, what's going on then? But Oliver, Mike Tower is asking, what sport is the easiest? You have kids too. What sports easiest to learn versus most difficult to learn? I suppose it all depends, but if we had to choose just for the purpose of this exercise. I think we'll probably sign off in about 20 minutes anyway. So we can talk a little sport, golf talk. Parent corner. This will be tonight's parent corner. Hosted by a dude that doesn't have kids. You think basketball? Yeah, baseball's gotta be the hardest, although, I don't know. But easiest to learn Rex. No one's who learning baseball starts with 90 miles per hour, right? I think you can work up that hand-eye coordination. Is basketball the easiest? Basketball, in my head, was the toughest. I could never play basketball. I could stand and shoe, but I can't dribble without staring at the ball. And I think footwork, I always had issue with footwork. And the layup lines, that was terrible because it's like, what foot am I leaping up with if I'm going from my right to my, I still don't know. I could shoot a basketball, but that's not really playing basketball. I could shoot a basketball decently, I guess. But yeah, I'm no fun at, I could play defense, I guess. If I played, if I ever played pick up basketball, it was like, I'm either playing defense and then, I guess I wasn't a good shooter to be like a spot up shooter though. It's not like I can just run to a spot and wait for something to pass me and I'd nail it. No. Maybe at six feet out, I could. But then at six feet out, I'm a little small at six feet out. So yeah, I'm worthless at basketball. Hardest to learn football. Hitting is hard, but teaching the kids a game is not hard. That's true. I guess football is hard in terms of when you actually get to the level of learning plays and stuff like that. I guess that is hard.  Football's pretty easy, right? I think, right? You just run a couple routes and some kid throws it to you. You can probably get an intramural football, little flag football game or a touch football game together fairly easily. But I guess once you get to start learning plays, man, I couldn't wrap my head around a playbook. I never have, couldn't, probably couldn't. Golf is a key. You don't think it's hard, just expensive? It is expensive. Danny's saying his girls are getting into golf. He thinks it's, well, getting into all sports, but he thinks that's the hardest. Stationary ball that doesn't go where you want. He puts stuff in the way to mess you up along the way to a hole. It's a ridiculous sport if you think about it. Unless you're taught by paid manning. Is paid manning a good teacher? That's debatable, right? Are the greatest players ever the greatest coaches? That's not usually the case. Jordon Alvarez has a, I'm watching Jordon Alvarez highlights. He almost starts his, he almost starts his bat extents with the back to the pitcher. He's left handed. I'll, if I'm going left, lefty. He almost starts with the numbers to the mound. I don't know if I ever really noticed that. His gut is back. Man, it just uncoils. Oh, that's a classic commercial. Oh, look at that, Oliver. Shot a, shot a 38 on the back nine on Friday. Nice. I got a, I got to work on that. I was at the range last couple of days. So I've run into another issue where, where now my ball striking is consistent, but longer clubs, I'm, I'm slicing a lot. I'd like to, I'd like to call it a fade, but it's in reality, it's a slice. Like with my seven iron and the four hybrid, I'm just like, it's just like, but like my wedges, my wedge, I only have one wedge. I need it as 58 degree. I had to buy that this weekend. But in terms of the wedge, pitching wedge nine, those three clubs are pretty good. Relatively straight. I'm still working on figuring out aiming them, but I'm kind of in this sort of, in a sort of, if I'm kind of aiming this way, I'm in this sort of nice little range right here. But the seven and eight, or eight I'm doing okay to, but seven in the hybrid, I'm like, I was pulling the ball a lot, hitting it straight, but pulling it, that's happening far less now. And I was thinking about it last night, and I think the thing I'm getting sloppy with my left arm being straight. I think I'm getting sloppy with that. So I don't think my arm is straight going into, going in there, because I think on the backswing, I'm probably pulling my arm back, which is fine if I bring it back to straight, but my takeaway is good. My backswing is good. Yeah, I think maybe, and I'm a Collin Morakawa, Dustin Johnson, bowed wrist guy. That's just kind of how I got used to it. Also, I think I was, my front leg was doing something weird. I think I was bringing it in in like this weird sort of Jack Nicholas, Scotty Scheffler kind of thing, and I'm not good enough to have my legs wander like that. So I gotta think about my leg too. Something I didn't know with the new rules that I watched in recent John Wood breakdown. Yeah, isn't that a weird rule? It's called you have to engage the pitcher, Rex. Pitcher engagement, and if you're not engaged with the pitcher by like eight seconds or something like that, then the hitter gets called. Getting my hips through, yeah, and getting my longer clubs, get the, because I can, I tagged a seven iron pretty nice the other day. Out of the maybe 20, 30 balls I hit with a seven iron, there was a few that it was straight, and it was like 130, 40 yards or something like that. So I know it's in my body. I just have to get it consistent. And I guess that's really the hard part about golf. I was hitting it consistently every time. Ball striking so much better though. Like there were days where I'd top, I'd be sculling like three quarters of the bucket of balls I was buying for some reason, but I fixed that issue for the most part. So, so that I'm happy about. So I'm making progress. Danny said that I've shot of even a fair few times. I can't fit it under par. It was three through 13 and blew up. Nice and Arizona started 79.  Is your dad on the senior tour now? Is your dad Phil Mickelson? What a round he had today. Right, yeah. Can you imagine having to engage the pitcher in the old days like Nolan Ryan, he'd probably see that as a threat. Or maybe Madison Bumgarner maybe like five or six years ago at the prime of his powers.  He'd look at you and be like, what are you looking at me for? And you probably get some chin music right then and there. Yeah, I was not pleased about the Dodger game today. It's a little sloppy. Oh, he doesn't hit it far enough. Hey, but if you shot a 79 and he beat you by 15, something's working there. The approach shots, the short game. Forgot, I forgot that you golfed, Danny. I know you told me at one point, but I forgot that you did. Oliver, we got an Oliver golf too. We got a pretty Nick Jaspy golf. I'm starting to learn how to golf. I know Michael Jaspy who's been training on the group raking things. He golfs, Chris Jaspy golfs. So there's, yeah, that's what I want to be, Danny. I don't need to hit it far. All right, here we go. Jaspy's golf club. So there's Joe Jaspy, Nick Jaspy, Michael Jaspy, Chris Jaspy, who else? I don't know if Nick's dad plays. I want to see he does, but I don't know. Who else at Jaspy's? Oh, Evan Jaspy, I think golfs. Does Jonah golf, Oliver, do you know? Thomas Jaspy says he's golfing. That's some good chunk of the Jaspy team right here. Other members, Jonah Gamble, that's for sure. Two ends, Danny golfs. Jake golfs, I think he's a pretty good golfer too. I think him and Danny might have similar handicap. Oh, brother Jimmy golfs as well. Is Chad golf, Chad dog? It was Moonlight Grand that got thrown out for winking at the pitcher, where he was warned to watch out for the curve ball or the one in your ear. Oh, Justin, right, Oliver? I'm pretty sure boss man plays a little bit. I gotta ask, I don't know when the last time he swung the sticks though. Greg, what's going on? G-dash in the house. Corbin Carroll threw you a ball, I forgot you were in Arizona, Oliver. We're just getting members together, G-dash, for the Jaspy's golf club. I mean, this is a pretty good, that's 12 names on there already. That's a good golf trip already. I don't know, I'm sure in future years we'll maybe we'll think about trying to get a little golf tournament going or something like that. All right, Dan just picked up two spots in that, well listen, folks, last call for break-a-haul. I think we're gonna call it in about 10 minutes or so. And I think we're kind of, even though Danny bought some spots here, we still have a couple of fillers to go. I think, and that just went into a filler too. I'm sure by the time some East Coasters wake up, I'm sure they'll start buying those spots. I think the thing we can do tonight, I only need six people to get a one box break of an impeccable going right here. We'll give that until the 45 minute mark. We haven't seen a lot of orders. I've enjoyed the conversation, but so we'll call it a night at the 45 minute mark unless that impeccable football ends up selling out. Ooh, Jimmy's gonna, all right. I'll see what I can do. I think, so my sort of training progression I'm hoping in the next couple of months, I'll just do some nine holes, a little pitch and putt, just hit off some mats, but kind of get used to hitting off of lies and grass and stuff like that. Do that a handful of times. And then hopefully I'll have a decent enough seven iron or hybrid to get out on a real, a real course, an 18 hole or kind of slap around, slap around the ball there throughout the summer. Yeah, and by October? Yeah, I feel like I could get a, I feel like I should be doing well enough to get out there. Jimmy plays a power fade. I think that's what I was calling some of my shots at the range yesterday too. They were just like, when they were slicing that way, it's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a fade, it's a fade. It's a fade. I mean, if I just set up and aim this way, it would be in the middle of the fairway, right? Until I accidentally hit it straight and then it's like right into the trees to the left. If you were by the remaining faster, no, no. That's like a two-hour break, Chad. We're a little late for that, I'm afraid. I think each case is a, no, that was my expression right there. Especially because I know that you would do it too. It should be like that Chronicles dual case situation. Although, I think that it's actually a lot faster than that Chronicles dual case break, but. But we got five left here. Greg just picked up the spot in this impeccable football. We did not see the case hit in the first box. If you fade the ball, tee up on the right side of the tee box, aim left to the fairway. If it fades still in the fairway, and if it's straight then it's the fairway. That's true, more first cut, right. It's a good call. The case hit, this is just a Photoshop mockup, but the case hit is that it's usually like a piece of silver. More often than not, it's like that thick piece of silver and these usually fall one per case in these impeccable cases. If we're lucky, we may see this is very, it's not as rare as a one-of-one, but sometimes there's a gold bar in there too. And those are usually one-of-ones, but. Those are difficult to find. That's right, player swing, yeah. Except sometimes, yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess I could. Just play my swing, I could just angle it that way. It's getting there, folks. Working on the swing, getting it there will make it happen. All right, hey, thanks Chad. Yeah, that should be a fun one. One of those, because it's a three box break. That falls one per case, right? So it's a classic case hit and we've got two boxes left. So it's a one and two shot. Now we could get that done tonight, ladies and gentlemen. Greg just bought a spot a few moments ago. So that's about halfway there. I'll give it another, I don't know, we'll give it another five or 10 minutes. Maybe see if there's a late night rally. That's a one box break. Listen, it's a quick little snack. There's like what, seven cards in the break or something like six or seven cards in the break? Nice high-end set, clean little look. So if there's any takers on that, I'm here for you. Otherwise, we're gonna reconvene tomorrow. But I'm gonna start putting some stuff away and I'll check back in before I say our good nights. Be right back. All right, folks, any last minute orders here? I think we're pretty close to the top of the hour. It does not look like it. But hey, good chatting with everybody in the last bit of the night. It's always nice to have a little bit of convo time too. But Chad, have a great night. Oliver, if you're still kind of listening in the background, have a great night. Danny as well, thanks for chatting. Keep us posted on your kids' golf adventures. Greg, good to see ya. Thanks for grabbing the time. We'll get that done tomorrow, I'm sure. Mike Tower, maybe Gilo, maybe Rex. He's working in the background usually. Everyone, thank you for listening. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll be back tomorrow. We had a great Sunday, a great Easter Sunday. I know for those of you who celebrate Easter, thanks for carving out a bit of time with us or just on your weekend, thanks for carving out a bit of time with us. I appreciate that. I'll be back tomorrow through o'clock Pacific, six o'clock Eastern, and we'll do this craziness all over again. I'll be back tomorrow. And we'll do this craziness all over again. Have a great night, everybody.


Hey Green Eddy, how are you doing? I'm just going to get the link and post it where it goes. Hi Isaac, how are you doing? Hey everybody, Eric, everybody can hear me okay? I'm outside again. I just thought it'd be easier to record out here. Hi chat, just trying to get the link to post on Facebook, but of course this thing is not cooperating with me. Yeah, hi Brian and Andrew and Josiah. Hey thanks guys. Sorry I started a couple minutes late. I was trying to get everything set up. Thanks everybody for coming. Hey Benny, well I've got Pepsi. I don't have any peanuts. Hi Kerouac, how you doing? I know, always late. Hey ODC, how's it going? Oh did I type weekly? Oh typo. Hold on, let me see if I can fix that. Wow, well it might be a weekly. Hold on, let me see if it'll let me fix it. I'm not sure if it'll let me fix it, so it might have that typo in there until the thing is done. I think it might have autocorrected me. Hi chat, yeah that's what it was. Let's see, will it let me edit that? I don't know, let me see. Well now I feel just plain silly. I should have looked closer before hitting go. Oh yeah, I think it'll let me fix it. Hey look at that, I think it's going to work. Thanks Ronnie. Hey Pensive Ruin and Jenna Hyde. And yeah, also I will point out I haven't figured out how to fix the mirror thing, so I'm still mirrored. Okay, hymns of babble. Hi, good day to you too. Hi Steve from Seattle. Well there's one place I'd love to be right now. All right, I'm still trying to postal the links. Hey R, R Hyal. Hey dem guts. You're just talking to Strident? Strident's a great guy. I love Strident. You know it's been really nice. Hi JJ, and Javier. Hey Javier Gonzalez, I love your major blood. That's really cool. Okay, okay that should put the links where they're supposed to go. All right and we can focus. How's everybody doing? Super plum. Thank you. I'm glad you like it. Feeling better? Not really, but thank you. I'm glad that you're glad you're thinking of me. Hi Mark. Are you new to the stream? I'm glad you like the videos. Thanks Josiah and Mark. Yeah, thanks Rans, me too. I'm hanging in there. That's all I can say. I can make no other promises. And I don't, you know, I probably said, hey Sir Kowski, that's a pretty nifty backward yo-jo. I like that. See, since I'm mirrored, I can read that right way. Oh that's the last time you can be there Marcel. I'm sorry. Well we will miss you then. I hope you had a good vacation. Okay, okay we're ready to focus now. You missed out on a globulus? Oh man that's too bad. Well Chad, your eyes might not be working, but in fact this mirror, this image is mirrored, so yeah. I'm the mirror universe HCC. I still haven't figured out how to fix that. I've looked around at the settings and I'm not sure, but I'll figure it out. I'm glad you liked the headman review, Rand. Thank you. And Green Yeti, I will bet that globulus loves you too. He's just that kind of guy. He's very giving. Well hey, cool. I didn't have anything specific to talk about here. I wanted to just make sure that I connected with you guys and kept up with you guys. Right now, from my perspective, I'm looking at a dog that is lying on the patio that has not noticed that there are two bunny rabbits right over there just hanging out.  I don't know if you can see it. There's nothing this dog likes more than chasing those bunny rabbits. So I wonder when she will notice that they are there and go try to kill them. Hi, Rob. Hi, Matt. Oh, that those stairs. Yeah, that was for a pool, but we don't have the pool anymore. We just brought that over when we moved because it's actually kind of useful. But we don't you know, I never think about like the stuff that's in the background here. But yeah, that's yeah, that's just right now, it's just hanging there and holding up a couple of garden shears. I was trying to think of a topic, but I couldn't really think of one. Well, there is a topic actually Susan suggested a topic, but I'll wait just a minute until everybody gets here so we can all talk about it. I'm glad that you're enjoying the Tuesday show, Benny. I appreciate that. Oh, thanks. Yeah, we got a little bit of rain. So the lawn is a little bit overgrown at the moment. But yeah, now the dog has just seen the rabbits. And let's see what she does. Oh, the headhunter video, the comic book. Yeah, chase the bunnies. Now that would at least be that'd be entertaining, right? That would at least be a good video. Juan, I'm glad that you liked it. Thank you. What figure am I looking for? Oh my goodness. I got to think about that. Right now I've been looking more at vehicle parts really than figures. But I need to go through and see what I'm missing. Some 90s stuff. But right now I'm thinking about vehicles at the moment. Oh, sorry, Ricky. You can recommend another content creator, but he charges a fee for his services. Well, you know, I'd always be interested in looking. It doesn't cost anything. Check it out and maybe it's worth it. I don't know. Yeah, okay. I actually recorded that Frederick the Eighth thing. I did that first because it was going to take a little bit longer, but I had fun with it. Oh, yeah, Toy Galaxy. Yeah, I need to catch up. I haven't watched a lot of other people's videos lately, but I need to catch up. Sorry, I missed that. Yeah, the Cobra Rage. That's something I got to get to. Victor Franco, you're late, so you get 50 demerits. You'll have to sit in the corner. So I've been talking a lot with Susan, my wife. I do that sometimes. I try to keep that to a minimum, but occasionally we do have to talk to each other. And I mean, we picked up some new patrons and we're looking to try to grow this channel and really kind of maximize it and, you know, make something of it. And I'm going to do my best and put my best effort into it, but she thought that I should put it out there and ask all of you for suggestions to improve the channel, things that you would like to see. I know that we've talked about that before, but maybe we can talk about it again. Hey, Mike. Oh, hey, yeah, Mike. Oh, what was that? Oh, my gosh, I can't remember the codename I gave Mike Murdock. Susan would like me to ask all of you guys what I can do to make the channel better, to make the channel worth your time, and to bring back comic books. Joe of the Month, yes, something like that. Okay, so these are all good suggestions. So you're all really smart people, so I'm going to just kind of take your suggestions and see what you got in mind. I will slaughterize it. I will do my best to slaughterize everything. The comic book reviews, yeah, I think that's probably number one, isn't it? I really enjoy the comic book reviews, and it's just, I hadn't been able to get back to them, but I think vehicle restorations, yeah, there's an idea. I haven't gotten too much into that, but I mean, I do sometimes have to restore vehicles, and so it wouldn't hurt to go through that process. Custom figures, okay, custom figures. Yeah, I was a big fan of the comic book as a kid, and in those earlier issues, the first few years, I'm more familiar with those than the later issues, so they're a little bit easier for me to review, actually, because I actually remember quite a lot about them, and I've gone back and read a lot of them more recently. Live cartoon episodes, you know, that's another thought that we had of, like, live riffing cartoon episodes, or the movie, the animated movie, so that's a thought that we've had. We'd have to be careful about a comedy doing that way. YouTube Transformers Review in Dutch. Oh, that's interesting. Versus episodes, okay. Yeah, I can do that, and it wouldn't be, like, super difficult to do, either. I'd also do, like, top five or top ten lists. I know people watch that, and, you know, those things, I've been reluctant to do them because it's just the way that I am.  But, you know, people seem to think those are fun, and they are fun, and they're not hard to do, and, you know, if you disagree with my top ten or top five, you know, it's fine, but maybe it can get some conversations started. G.I. Joe Transformer crossover, I mean, I could do that. I just need more Transformers. I don't have, like, I have zero Transformers. I really don't have any Transformers. I have some other toy lines. Your toy, my toy is against Joe Berg's. You know, that's one of the things that somebody brought up that we didn't do at Joe Con is do, like, a big, you know, play battle or something like that. I wish we could have done that, but just that weekend was hectic enough. Yes, a wish list. Yes, okay. Wish list is high on the agenda. That's another thing that I still need to do. Episode with commentary on the animated series. That seems to, I mean, that's an idea that really could work as long as I, as long as it doesn't get taken down by Hasbro and Flag for a copyright, doing like a whole episode like that. I mean, technically it probably is fair use, but it's a closer call than a lot of the stuff that I do now. But if I could do it, I would enjoy doing that. Hey, Kurt, glad you made it to another live episode. Joe's that died in the comics. Yeah. Joe's, and there were also some really great non-Joe characters that died in the comics, too. There were some great deaths, great deaths in the comics. And in the cartoon, who died? Who died? Headman died. They did kind of kill him pretty spectacularly, though. Copyright protection, yeah, they're copyrighted, yeah. But there are exceptions for fair use, for certain purposes, and of course, limited amounts of what you use. So I can use a clip, a panel, a page from the comic book. And that's not really a problem. But if I were to like reprint the whole thing, an entire comic book, obviously that would be a violation. Yeah, the cartoon reviews, because you do clips, he's using clips like smaller pieces rather than like the whole cartoon. You can get away with that. Commentary without showing the video, that might be a possibility. I could maybe swing that. Oh yeah, you know, we need to do something. We gotta do something. Alright, time out. Time out. This is important. This is my first opportunity to really publicly say this. I think we got to give Timmer from Half the Battle congratulations on reaching 1000 subscribers. He did it. I'm very happy for him. He's very happy. He should be happy. Great job Timmer. I'm still a big fan of that show. And I'm a supporter of that show. And I think he does a great job. So congratulations Timmer on hitting 1000. Welcome to the, to the three digit club, or the triple, well welcome to the 1000 club. Wow. I can't, I've forgotten how to talk. Welcome to the three zeros club. So triple digits, that would be, that would be 100. He's gotten past 100. Wow man. At some day, I hope to learn English. Yeah, it's a pretty great milestone and I'm very happy for him. So there you go. Congratulations Timmer, who I hope will watch this later because it's like super late at night in Belgium. And he really should be asleep. I hope he is. Although I was talking to him on Facebook just before I started this. So, so he might still be up. More into depth and with any difference between characters, personalities, between comics and cartoons. I think that's a good idea. I mean, if, yeah, trivialists, yeah, that's, I mean, there's something to that. There's something to that. It wouldn't be as difficult to produce, it wouldn't belong to produce as, as a regular review. But, you know, it, I think that people might like that. Hey, Mazdaf1, how you doing? Glad you made it. Sunbow versus DTI. That, there'd be a lot to talk about there. So these are, these are good ideas and I'm gonna process these and really think about what we can do to make things better. Because I mean, we've, we've gotten more support and I thank everyone for that. But with more support, I feel like I need to do a better job for you and give you more of what you want. So I'm going to try. Although in the short term, it may be more difficult to push out as much content as I have been. But, but I'm gonna do my best. Hey, Dennis, I'm glad you like, I hope you liked that. Thank you, Josiah. Why did change genders of characters? I guess, I mean, you're talking more like vintage versus modern and I don't really know as much about the modern. So, I don't know, I'd have to look into it. I know that some characters, genders were changed in the modern era. But, Ranz, I will try not to over exert myself. Op-ed pieces about various aspects of GI Joe, like Hasbro's handling of the brand, 12 inch. Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean, these are things that I have thoughts about, but they don't really fit necessarily in the regular format format of the regular review. Okay, Green Yeti, what was your idea? If I missed it, I'm sorry. Knockoffs, yeah. Short stories, show and tell Sunday, yeah, okay, okay. None of these are bad ideas. History of Galobulus. Well, at least it would be short, right? So, yeah, I'm not gonna rule that out. Fun School. I do have a little bit of Fun School and I certainly could, I know who to ask. Fun School, Ronnie certainly was a big help in that, in the spearhead review that we did. So, I could talk a little bit about Fun School. Airborne, yeah, I really like Airborne. I always have liked Airborne. When I first got the figure, something about the figure seemed special. Maybe it's because he had colors other than green. In that era, I still mostly associated GI Joe with green. So, that figure always seemed a little bit special to me. Eagle Force. Eagle Force. Now, who is doing, isn't it like Boss Fight Studios doing an update of Eagle Force? Or maybe they've already done it. I'm a little behind on the news. Red Laser Suppliers. Airborne and Duke. Yeah, in that era, you know, I really dug both of those figures. Duke, I got a little bit later because I didn't get him as a mail away offer. But by then, you know, he was, by the time he came out as a carted figure, he was really big. Like, the cartoon made him, you know, a very important character. A Google Hangout. Interesting idea. I hadn't thought of it. I'll think about that. I'll think about that. Yeah, ODC is in the house. We've got some very fine guests here. And now my dog's barking at something. She'll calm down. We have pedestrians and now the dog's got to bark at them. That's great. Yeah, I would think about a Google Hangout. It's just not something I thought of before. There's nothing wrong with that. I just hadn't thought of it. Well, if I would let the dog out of the fence, we wouldn't have a pedestrian problem. She'd take care of all of them. The GI Joe games. You know, I don't know as much about the GI Joe games. I'd have to really learn more about them. I mean, I know a little bit and I have a couple of them. But there's a lot more than what I have. And so, I mean, that might be a rich mine of material. Crazy legs.   My main objection with crazy legs would be the colors. But the night force crazy legs fixed that problem right up. That figure is an excellent, excellent figure. And I'm sorry, I may be missing some of your comments. I'm trying to read as fast as I can. When I showed Mrs. HCC my collection, what did she think of it? Well, okay. Actually, I didn't have this collection when we got together. If you look back at one of my throwback Thursdays, I posted a photograph of us from I think about 2002, when we were both much younger. And we've been together for a long time. And yeah, it wasn't a thing back then. So she's, instead of showing her this giant collection when we first got together, she has watched it grow. And I can tell you how that happened. I'll tell you how that happened. It was going through tough times. It was a really rough period. I found 4MBX257's videos on YouTube. I was talking about GI Joe on YouTube. And I found Kevin. And that really kind of sparked an interest in me, rekindled that passion I had for it. Hadn't, oh, am I glitching? Sorry about that. Rekindled the passion that I had for the line, high Oscar. And so I decided, okay, what I'm going to do, I started out with GI Joe in 1982. I will just get the 1982 figures. That's all. I don't need anything else. But it would be a nice little collection. And Susan was supportive of this. She says, fine, fine. And so I was going to get only the straight arm 1982 run. And that's it. The whole thing would fit on one shelf. No problem. But then what happened was on the eBay, I saw a his tank that was pretty cheap. And then I had to have it. But the thing is the his tank's not from 1982. And it's not a figure either. So I kind of had to redefine the parameters of my collection. So it, you know, then it was just, you know, I just wanted to get everything. But I did, I ran across these videos by collectible spectacle. This 18 part documentary, basically, of Air Devon, who was an amazing super collector. And she had nearly everything, both domestic US release and foreign from 12 inch to modern. And it was an incredible collection. And I still love watching those videos because it's just so immersive. It just puts you right in the middle of GI Joe. And you can just immerse yourself in it. And sometimes I just watch that to relax. But there is there was a point in that documentary where she said that the collection had just gotten too big. It wasn't fun anymore. And it was more fun when the collection was smaller. And that she wished she had limited it in the past before it kind of grew and essentially took over her entire house. Yeah, odc that now she doesn't have that collection anymore. She actually sold off, I think most of it. But I actually, I really took that lesson. And I chose to limit my collection to just vintage 82 to 94 and only the US domestic releases. There's a lot more out there that is really cool. And I'd love to have it. But just for the sake of my sanity, I've decided to limit it to that. And so I'm sticking with that the best I can. I've dipped a toe out of that every once in a while. But I'm really trying to stick with that. And yeah, it's a lesson that I took from that. And I hope that will make sure that collecting remains fun. The toys that made us, yeah, I thought that was a cool documentary. The GI Joe episode that I thought was good, oddly, my favorite episode so far is the Barbie episode. I didn't really know much about Barbie. But I learned so I mean, because I didn't know very much, I learned the most from that episode. That was really cool. But the GI Joe episode, I thought was good. But what's yeah, Marauder's Gun Runners. I know about that. Yeah. Jenna, your goal is 82 to 86. That's a that's a good that's a good range. That really is. And if I weren't going for like, the whole run, my limit would probably be close to the same. I might go over to 87 maybe, but that's a good range. Yeah, I don't tell anybody, but this is just an excuse to buy more toys. But not really. Well, it is an excuse to buy more toys. Let's not deny that. Reviewing these things gives me an excellent reason to buy new toys. But when I started doing the reviews myself, what I felt was that it's more fun for me to share what I have with everyone than to just like put it on a shelf. And I get a lot more enjoyment out of that, especially even though like what I have is less than what a lot of other collectors have. Other collectors have tons more than I have. And especially when I started out, I had my collection was really quite small. And at one point, I was even running out of stuff to review. But it was but it's more fun for me to to put it in front of the camera. And let's all talk about it. And that just like doubles the enjoyment for me. Oh, thank you. All right, this shirt. Okay. Okay. This was a custom shirt that was made for me by our my mental health people from the department I used to work for before they moved me. Well, we we got together and they, you know, they were not thrilled that I was moving. But they gave me this with the HCC 788 because they they know about my channel. And I'm the four star general there. And this this is kind of cool. This is the police 10 code for a mental health pickup. So I was very happy, very humbled by that. It was a very nice gift. I'm sorry. I'm missing some of your your comments. Sorry about that. A whale growing up. I probably did. Okay, I got to explain something else. Okay. My brother and I, of course, we got lots of GI Joes, lots of figures and vehicles. But we had a friend in the neighborhood, his name was Sam. And he also had lots of figures and vehicles. And we would kind of just put everything together and just kind of play with them all together. And so thinking back on it now, it's actually, it's hard for me sometimes to remember exactly what was his and what was ours, because we played with them all the same. So whoever had the killer whale, we all played with it a lot. So I've got a lot of enjoyment out of the killer whale. But I can't specifically remember if it was ours or if it was Sam. But I remember playing with it a lot. More old school to modern. I can try to do that. I might try to do that for some of my, for like mid week.  Just getting stuff you like.  So that's what being a completist does to you. Being a completist means you're going out there, you're hunting down things and spending money on stuff that you technically don't really like. Yeah, I'm sorry. We just got the cicadas started. Can you guys still hear me okay? I'll move you a little bit closer. Yeah, being a completist, I didn't think I was going to be a completist either when I started. But then this, I decided to do this project and it's, it's kind of grown. Collection tour video range viper. I would like to do that. The only issue I would have with doing that is that a lot of my collection right now is in boxes because I just, I don't have a lot of space. It's organized now. I've actually put a lot of effort into organizing things. But I'd have to maybe pull everything out and spread it out and like take you through everything. I might, I might try to do that in the reasonably near future. Born in 1980, so you got it in 87, 88. The first Joe's that you can remember. The Lynx, Wolverine, Havoc, Red His Tank, Wolf. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. Hey, human mechanism, how you doing? Okay, it's getting really loud out here. Sorry about that. You just got a full-time job? All right, USS Flagg. There you go. Thank you, Res Holly. Will you make a video about the vintage core? I would like to, I need to get more of them. They're generally not too expensive. I just haven't gone after them. I'll tell you what I was thinking of doing. I actually thought of doing like a history of the three and three quarter inch action figure. Going back to like Fisher Price, Adventure People, and then Star Wars, and then the O-ring figures, the Mego figures, the three and three quarter inch figures, and then carrying that forward to G.I. Joe, and then some of the G.I. Joe knockoffs with the core figures. Over the years, I've actually picked up a few figures here and there, that I would need for that, but that's actually, the more I look at it, that's a bigger task than I first realized. That will be more work than I originally thought that it would be, because there are actually quite a few lines that were in that scale. If I really wanted to trace it back to its roots, then I believe I'd have to take it back to Japan. I have to consider if I want to actually go and find Japanese figures, or use reference photos, or something like that. Of course, if I use reference photos, I have to be careful about copyright and things like that. Do I see Hawk as a blonde or having brown hair? Yeah, I've always thought of Hawk as blonde. Hoody Cocoa, hey, Delvis 78. That Hoody Cocoa thing, that's going to catch on. Fisher Price Adventure People, your jam prior to 83. Those were out when I was very little, and they were fun for little kids to play with. I mean, they were just the perfect size. They were a bit clunky, but they were good for small hands. A month of small play sets? I've got some. I could probably fill a month with the small play sets. I know Green Yeti wants a complete biography of Golobulus. Hey Byron, how are you doing? Yeah, Jeff, see, it's already caught on. I should just change the name of the channel. Where'd that come from? Chris from Comic Tropes threw that at me in a private message first, and then I used it in a video. Adventure People Van. Yeah, indestructible. Yo, those toys were made to be played with. They weren't messing around. They were sturdy. Come down to Dallas to review the gold head steel brigade. You know, it's been a while since I've been to Dallas. I wouldn't mind going there. Wouldn't mind being there now. I'd love to go tomorrow. But yeah, okay, sorry, I just had to reconnect there, so I don't know how much we missed. An animated episode from your drawings. Now that's, I hadn't thought of that. I'd have to look into how to do that. Yeah, true rugged play. Yeah, did Hasbro ever make figures of the twins and CG uniforms or the Baroness in a color other than black? Well, there was, I don't recall the twins being in Crimson Guard uniforms. And as far as the Baroness, they did do her in a couple of the colors. There was the chameleon figure that was black and red. But then there was a modern Baroness that was in the blue and goldish color that you see in the cartoon series on our first appearance. I think that was a modern era figure. I'd have to look it up to remember what version that is. Our own Joe Customs for review. Jag officer codename Matlock. That'd be cool. Yeah, you know, one thing that I wouldn't mind doing is getting you guys more involved and doing something like that, something that we can do together. And reviewing your custom figures would be, that would be fun. I will, I will consider that. Yeah, 97. Yeah, the 97th year reuse the mold. I'd have to look it up on Yojo to remember specifically what years. I'll stick electric. Thank you, sir. I am, I'm okay. I could be better. And for anybody that's wondering, first of all, it just got really loud out here, it will quiet down a little bit. Everybody still hear me? Okay. Hey, Chris. Okay, good. Good. Okay. For anybody that's wondering, I have made an appointment with the doctor so that I can get a little extra help. So this is a time when I need the extra help. So I'll be, I'll be getting that. So if anybody's wondering, I'm working on it. These are cicadas. It's a summer phenomenon. And I should have thought of that. It's that time of night when they come out and make this racket.  Thank you, Mike. Yeah, thank you. Thanks, Byron. Yeah. Yeah, I'm realizing that. And yeah, I don't want to go too much into it, but it's it's something that I'm addressing. And you guys have been so supportive, and I'm so grateful for that. You wouldn't believe how many messages that I've gotten from people who, you know, relate to the my issues and kind of understand. And it's really encouraging to hear. So thank you, everyone. But I'll, yeah, I will, things will get better. But it's, it's going to be tough for a little while before they get better. It's going to be, it's, it's not going to be easy these next few weeks. There's just no way around that. But it is what it is. Thanks, Elvis. Yeah. Yeah, what a racket. Sorry, these insects are incredibly loud. And now I really wish I had recorded this indoors. Yeah, you guys, David, the offers of help that I've gotten have been, have been really appreciated. And I want, I want to be careful about asking too much or taking too much.  But I want to be careful about taking more that I'm giving. So to be truthful, after I posted the video, the last video on Sunday, I was very concerned that I just, that I'd made a mistake by saying anything about it at all. I don't want people to think that I'm, that I'm just trying to play for sympathy or anything like that. But on the other hand, I was really close to suspending the channel. And what I would not want to do is just disappear on you guys. And so I had to say something.  So I hope that it's taken in that spirit. Yeah. So this is, this is loud. But thank you, thank you all. It's not something that I like to talk about. But it's something that I had to. Thanks one. But please don't feel like you have to send anything. You know, I'm always happy for the help.  You know, I would never want you guys to send more or do more than you can. I do feel like, like this is something that we do together. I really do. I feel like this is interactive. Sorry, that this is interactive.  But at the same time, I want to make sure that that I'm giving, that I'm doing my part, and that I'm not taking too much. That it is something I'm always very conscious about. So but but thank you to everyone. See, what'll happen is they'll, they'll, they'll be quiet for a little while, and then they'll wind up again. It's a pattern. Okay, so next week, we're doing this indoors, because this is driving me crazy. Yeah, Javier, this, this fan community has been amazing. I mean, I always, through individual interactions and, and comments and things like that, always knew that we had a lot of really cool people in this fan community. But in the last few days, that's really, it's really opened my eyes to, to what kind of a great community we have. Is it hot here? Not really. We got some rain. So it really cooled everything down. It's been raining actually most of the week. So thanks, Jenna. Oh yeah, California is still burning.  I'm just kidding. I, I do hope that the situation gets a little better. So California is burning and New York is drowning. And here it's just really loud right now, enjoying actual seasons in Oregon. Man, I haven't been to Oregon since I was a kid. I'd like to go. New England. Always been a fan of the Patriots. Ohio is boring. I don't know. What's in Ohio? I can't think of anything. Oh, WKRP. Great show. Chad asks Oklahoma, right. Yes, I'm in Oklahoma. Oh, you have an uncle here. Okay. Hi, Tim. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Next time, indoors next time. I should have thought about this. Hey, it was quiet when I started. But as the sun goes down, those guys get louder. How does Hasbro feel about G.I. Joe? I don't think they necessarily want to kill it off, but I'm not 100% sure they know what to do with it. So I'm hoping, I said this before, I'm hoping that these new movies they have coming up will revitalize the brand and refresh it. So I just I'm I'll believe it when I see it. But my hope is that they will figure out what to do with it because these last few years I just don't think they knew what to do with it. And it is still a valuable brand. It's a brand that could make them a lot of money if they do the right thing with it. Oh, Jeff, you bought a car out here. Oh, well, I hope we gave you a good deal. Thanks, Kurt. Yeah, the retaliation cardbacks that was I'm not I'm no modern expert, but I did get a couple retaliation figures and those cardbacks. Oh, man, I don't know. Yeah, thank you, Cicadas, for for dropping by. Our guests today are the cicadas. I hope they don't she raw or thunder cats it. I don't think they will. The reason that I don't think they will is because it is a military theme and that, you know, they're trying to go younger with a lot of those properties. And I just don't think you can do that with GI Joe. I think there's a bottom limit on how young you can go with your target audience. So I don't think they would go in that direction. But I do think it does need to be refreshed. I do feel like it needs to be revitalized a bit. Well, we've got a few more minutes. I usually try to have this go for an hour.  You've been really helpful with your suggestions. I'm going to consider all of them and to see what we can do. And we'll see what we can do to expand, you know, rather than retreat, we'll figure out how we can move this forward. They will, they always stop after dark. I've noticed about this time of the evening, they're really noisy.  GI Joe resolute. Yeah, I've seen it. I thought it was good. I liked it. Have I been to Illinois or Missouri? Cheese. Okay. Illinois, I have because I went to Joe Conn in Springfield, Illinois. And then Missouri, I've been to a lot of times because I have an aunt that lives in Springfield, Missouri. So I've been to Springfield, Illinois, and I've been to Springfield, Missouri. Oh, and on the way to Springfield, Illinois, we stopped in St. Louis. So, yes, I've been to both of those places. See, we got one person in Illinois. He went to Joe Conn 15 last day and then haven't been to another one. And I'm sorry they're not doing any more Joe Conns. So, but maybe, you know, there's still this Joe Fest thing that I will be talking a lot about. Joe Fest in Augusta, Georgia next year. I will be there. They've invited me there. I'll have a table. I'll have a panel. And so I'm going to be all in on Joe Fest. It's looking really good. The guests that they have is looking really good. Yeah, HasCon is their replacement for the individual convention. It's not just Joe Conn, but it also replaces BotCon. But yeah, HasCon just ain't quite the same. Ricky, because Hasbro wanted to consolidate their conventions into one Hasbro convention, they did not renew the licenses for the individual convention. But there is, yes, Joe Fest in Augusta, Georgia coming up next year. I will be talking more about that as it gets closer. Yeah, I mean, me and the Jobar guys, we were hoping to get a panel at this Joe Conn this year. But we were declined for that. We were hoping to get even like press credentials. But again, the club didn't hook us up with that, which I mean, it's fine. But with Joe Fest, I mean, they are really, they're doing all the things that the Joe Conn organizers didn't do. So we're going to be having some fun, I think, in Augusta, Georgia next year. I am looking forward to that. Hello, Dominican Republic. Hello from the United States. Guys, it's closing in on an hour. So in about five minutes, I will be closing up. Before I started this, I was actually working on the next video, the next review. So I'm going to get back to that. I'm trying to keep up with my schedule. I may ask for a little help. And I may, I may have to take a week off just because I'm not quite prepared to do what I was planning to do for that week. So, you know, heads up, there may be a week without a full review, but I'll try to give you something anyway. So, David, thank you. Yeah, I'll be on here for another three or four minutes. But then I'll say good night to everybody. Oh, ODC, that's me, says, having help, I'll tell a creator any way I can. Keep that smile going, brother. I'm trying. Thanks for this stream. And thank you for showing up. And another great YouTube channel, if you check out ODC, that's me. I think you can just click on his name right there in the comments and go to his channel and check that out. ODC, that's me. You've done some live reviews, and that's really cool. I've been having a hard time keeping up with people's videos, but I'll go back and watch those as soon as I can. And I hope you keep up, keep up the good work too. So, thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, a couple more minutes, and I will wrap it up. And my God, they are loud. Okay, lesson learned, lesson learned. Next one is going to be indoors where it's quiet. I just thought it'd be more comfortable out here, because it's actually kind of cool this evening. Ronald, that's right. That's right. I'll remember. Thanks, thanks, Marcel. And G.I. Spidey, how you doing? I'm Bjorn Jacob Bononison. I hope I said that right. How's the defining going? The defining is coming along. The big thing that I need to look at in the near future is getting those gantry doors, and that's going to be pricey no matter how you do it. But I'm going to start trying to track down those big gantry doors. Once I get those, it will really look a lot more complete. There will be a few other little things that I need to replace, but we're going to be looking pretty good. The Defiant definitely will not be ready by January. It'll be closer, but not quite ready for a January review, but that's okay. January review is already taken care of. I know what it's going to be. I have the thing. It's ready, and it's going to be pretty cool. J.J., I will remember Dallas. Thank you. Hey, Zarkhan. Sorry you're late for the stream, and I was just about to wrap up, but I'm glad you showed up. Thank you for coming. FormBX said the crawler is pretty fragile. It is. I'm going to... There are some rollers that I can get to set it on that will keep it up off its wheels. So I'm going to be looking into that. Right now, I don't have the wheels on it at all, because that would definitely break. So I'm being careful not to break the thing, but I do know what I'm going to do. It'll be fine. It'll be taken care of. Okay, guys. That's an hour, and thank you. I really wish I could go longer, actually. This has been the best part of my week so far, talking to you guys. But I do need to finish the other review. I do have that review started. I need to finish recording that, so I'm going to get back to that. But sincere thanks to all of you for everything that you've done and all of your support, and we'll just keep pressing forward. So I'll see you all soon. And for now, good night.