So I got this question from somebody left a comment on my YouTube video saying what do I do with lucid dreaming, me personally. So I'm just going to try and answer this and explain how I use it, why I use lucid dreaming and how you can use it to improve your life as well. So hopefully this won't be a very long video, it's just going to explain a bit about more what you can do with it and you know, at the end of the day, you know, I have this YouTube channel, I have my website but it still feels like I'm just scratching the surface of what you can actually do with this, with lucid dreaming. So you know, I'll probably be making videos, I'll probably be making videos until I'm like 50, 60 you know, there's so much to learn and I feel like it's going to be good if I can take you through the journey and like ideally help you along the way so that we can all learn at the same time and you know, share ideas, that sort of thing. So anyway, let's go right into it. So the reason, the things I use it for personally is a mixture of improving my confidence, exploring my subconscious mind, exploring my aspects of my personality, the true feelings inside me and also to do things like to practice skills. So for example, if I wanted to improve my public speaking skill, I could practice that on a lucid dream or if I wanted to learn a martial art, I could practice the skills that you learn in your waking life, you can practice these things on a lucid dream and actually get results, you can actually improve. To be honest, that's an entire video on its own, okay, practicing skills in a dream. But you know, my opinion is it's one of those things where, you know, in 10 years time, everyone's going to be lucid dreaming, okay, it's just going to be like such a common thing because it's just a better way of dreaming. It's a better way of using the time we're already going to be spending sleeping, you know, we're asleep for a third of our lives, right? So if you can actually use that time productively, you'd have to be silly to not want to because you're going to use the time is going to go by anyway, right? So if you can use it to improve your public speaking skills, your martial arts, your, if you play an instrument, you can practice, you know, writing songs or whatever the case may be, you can practice things that you're going to do in waking life anyway in a dream, okay? And this is especially also useful for people like, say if you do parkour, okay, I used to do a lot of free running before I damaged my knee doing, doing some free running actually. But you know, you can practice these things in a safe dream environment where you can get a feel for how things would be like to experience without actually having the danger and the risk of doing them in real life.  And then even if you do it in waking life as well, you would have had that experience of the more dangerous stuff in a dream so that you can, you know, you know how it feels. You don't need to then risk more of yourself in the waking world. You can just practice it in a dream.  If you want to see what it feels like to fight some massive dragon or whatever, Phoenix, you can play out these situations in a dream with no real consequences. You know, you're not going to get hurt. You're not going to feel any pain. Well, you might in a dream, but when you wake up, it's, you know, it's fine. So there are so many different things you can do with this. And it really just comes down to what you want to do with it.  We're all going to sleep for a third of our lives. OK, it's just a case of what do you want to do with that time?  If you're a writer, for example, you can use you can use the inspiration of the dream to get ideas for new stories to write new ways to be creative with your art. If you're interested in maths, for example, you can there's records of people that have gone into a lucid dream and actually asked the dream itself to help them solve some sort of problem that they've not been able to solve before. And the dream, you know, your subconscious mind at the end of the day has given them answers has actually helped them with problems that they couldn't solve in waking life for whatever reason. They couldn't focus on them. You know, they were difficult. They couldn't really pinpoint the answers. And the dream itself has actually helped them to get these answers. So, yeah, I think I'll wrap things up there. You know, I think you get the idea. You can you can really use it for anything. You can use it for the more productive things, practicing skills, exploring your subconscious, removing fears, improving your confidence.  And, you know, I think this is also where virtual reality is going. In the next few years, you're going to see many more video game companies, entertainment companies, media companies. They're going to be jumping on this virtual reality bandwagon.  I don't know if you've seen the film Total Recall, but, you know, you can just go into a memory of something and feel exactly what it feels like to do that thing. And lucid dreaming is a free and very easy way of doing that without the technology. So, you know, it's kind of ahead of its time, but that's near the hill there. So, if you've enjoyed this video, please go ahead and subscribe and I'll see you in the next one.


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Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny, welcome back to yet another FNAF news video and why yes that is a brand new shelf, thank you so much for asking. Ever since I got rid of my gigantic corner desk that I've had for the longest time I now have a whole bunch more wall space to add more actual shelves. And also this one fills out the side of the camera pretty nicely so yeah what do you think? Tell me in the comments down below. But without delaying the news any longer we got a whole bunch of stuff to talk about in today's video. Some unfortunate book delays though we do get some pretty cool new merchandise reveals as well as a brand new poster for the upcoming FNAF movie. So if you're excited don't forget to scroll down and tickle that sub button to stay up to date with everything FNAF. And now let's talk about some of those book delays. First up we've got the seventh entry in the Tales from the Pizza Plex series Tiger Rock being delayed by two weeks. Originally it was supposed to come out on the 4th of July though unfortunately it has now been delayed to the 18th. A lot of people are curious exactly why it's been delayed because some people actually have already spotted it in some stores. You got most people thinking it's probably something simple like some typos or maybe some publishing issues though there are some people going a bit more conspiracy theory with it assuming it is something to do with July's release of Ruin. But I guess we're just gonna have to wait and see the second book we have a delay for it is unfortunately the hyped up FNAF cookbook. It's been delayed by about a month and a half originally supposed to come out on the 5th of September it's now going to be coming out on October 24th. The cookbook includes over 40 recipes inspired by the series and now that it's releasing a few days before the FNAF movie maybe making some FNAF themed goodies will get us in the mood. Now let's move over to some small merchandise announcements. First up we've got a brand new Spencer's Pastel tie-dye FNAF backpack as well as a brand new lunch tote being released by Bioworld themed around Security Breach. We've got the characters on there of course the title the logo and for our third Security Breach inspired backpack for today's video we have this plushie backpack based off the Glamrock Freddy plush as seen in Security Breach. I would have much preferred this as just a traditional plushie not entirely sure why it had to be a backpack but alright I guess. If you remember that Springtrap shirt that got leaked to us not too long ago by Art from Turntail while now it is officially out on Hot Topics website definitely one of the coolest FNAF shirts we've had in a long time especially coming from Hot Topic and actually we're getting blessed today because we got another Springtrap shirt with Art from Turntail being released from Hot Topic. This new shirt actually features the artwork shown off on the Spencer's mug not too too long ago. Moving on now to hex the limited edition Golden Bonnie plushie bag and card are now available. They're only going to be released for two weeks only so if you want to pick up limited edition Golden Spring Bonnie I highly recommend doing it sooner rather than later you got until the end of June and like I said because this is a special launch of a limited edition plushie it comes with a limited edition golden cord and bag. Moving on now to U2's they teased a flocked version of their Freddy Fazbear figure and if you don't know what flocked means well luckily I've got my flocked Freddy Funko right here to show it off this guy's not in the best of conditions but as you can see flocked basically means they're fuzzy they've got a whole bunch of fur on them and I guess U2's is going long they're doing their own version of this flocked Freddy figure I wouldn't be surprised if this is going to be a limited edition figure just like their previous Goldcrum Freddy but in other U2's news they revealed their sitting version of their Glamrock Chica plushie over on their TikTok I know not many people were a fan of their previous standing Glamrock Chica plushie but what we can see from this plushie it looks absolutely fantastic and adorable lastly for U2's they showed off another teaser for their upcoming FNAF themed sour candies we got a teaser for these guys not too too long ago it showed off Vanny as well as Glamrock Freddy certainly an interesting item I guess this is gonna be released under their twosies brand which makes some food products so yeah interesting product we're gonna have to stay in the lookout for these moving on now to Funko people have already started to get their hands on the brand new Sun and Moon action figures this is what they look like in person as you can see absolutely fantastic characters I do think these are some of their best products yet especially in terms of FNAF I mean you look at the back of the boxes for these guys you can see them alongside the original Glamrock figures which definitely don't look the best compared to these brand new figures and speaking of the Sun and Moon you may remember we're also getting plushies based off these characters and as it turns out we're actually getting jumbo plushies based off them as well this is what they look like compared to the traditional sizes for the Sun and Moon plushies as you can see they're fricking gigantic and believe it or not that's not all the Sun and Moon products we have coming out from Funko thanks to Skorlet Joker we now know they're also getting a metallic version of Funko Pops so hopefully because of this news we can get some traditional versions of them as Funko Pops maybe a whole Funko Pop wave based off security breach I've been wanting that for a long time I know you guys have been as well we also got our first look at the upcoming Toy Freddy and Toy Bonnie Hot Topic exclusive hand puppets from Funko these guys certainly look a little goofy but honestly I don't think they look that bad definitely would have made more sense if we got Bon Bon and Bonnet hand puppets because those characters are actually hand puppets but they're probably not as popular as Toy Freddy and Toy Bonnie and at some point in the near future we will also be getting commons of Freddy and Bonnie hand puppets so yeah certainly an interesting wave I'm curious to see what they're gonna look like and lastly for new Funko products we got our first look at the upcoming reversible head tie-dye plushies as you can see in the pictures we've got a look at Freddy we've also got a look at Chica Freddy and Foxy an up close shot of Bonnie as well as an up close shot of Nightmare Foxy and if you don't know what these guys do pretty simple we got regular Freddy we push them in just like so and we've got Nightmare Freddy lastly for this FNAF news video we of course got to talk about all the FNAF movie news we've been getting recently first up you may remember not too long ago we were supposed to get a AMA a Q&A an interview whatever you want to call it with Matthew Lidlard who plays William Afton aka the purple guy in the FNAF movie over on game Jill well unfortunately he made an announcement that it will be delayed about a month so it looks like now we're gonna be getting that in July unfortunately it had to do with some scheduling conflict so again we're just gonna have to wait a bit longer for that interview but I'll be sure to let you know if anything comes from it next up over the past couple of days the official teaser trailer for the movie has been getting translated and dubbed into other languages so far we've got Spanish dubs Italian dubs I've heard reports that there are also French and German dubs on the way if not already out now interestingly in the Italian dub it does state that the trailer is rated six plus this is the MIC rating for just the teaser trailer keep in mind in this does roughly translate to a PG rating here in the States again keep in mind this is just for the trailer the film isn't even done editing just yet so of course they're not gonna have a finalized rating for the actual full film though speaking of full versions of things that the licensing expo in Los Angeles at Striker Entertainment's booth we did see a full version of the official FNAF movie poster giving us a better shot of that right side of Freddy's face he looks absolutely terrifying and speaking of FNAF movie posters couple days ago Blumhouse put out this brand new travel poster for the film this poster simply made for promotional material over on social media so if you go to your theater you're not gonna see this poster up anywhere they released this alongside a few other edits of their film so yeah I definitely do love the aesthetic that this poster is going for gives it a very vintage 80s 90s feel though it looks like whoever edited this poster together did miss out on Freddy's hat which is a little weird but with all this recent FNAF movie news hopefully we can get a brand new official poster or maybe even another teaser trailer coming pretty soon but that's gonna do it for this FNAF news video I'd love to know what your thoughts and everything we talked about here in the comments down below all the movie news all the brand new merchandise products the unfortunate delays of some books thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side 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What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. So I do this every now and then. I do a reaction to something that just popped up in the news and stuff like that. And anyways, this video that we're about to watch from Donald Trump just popped up on my Facebook feed and I watched it already. So you're not gonna see a live reaction, but I do wanna break it down because he's talking about a very, very important subject, which is the drug crisis, okay? A lot of you have heard about the opioid epidemic, but he's talking about drugs as a whole. So I wanted to discuss what he's saying in here and break it down and give my thoughts on it. And I would love to hear from you and let and know what you're thinking in the comments below about what his statements are. So let's get started. The best way to beat the drug crisis is to keep people from getting hooked on drugs to begin with. All right, Trump, you got me. You got me, I'm listening. I'm listening in. How do we prevent people from getting hooked in the first place? That is the question. First, we're taking action to reduce drug demand by... All right, reduce drug demand. Let's see, let's see. Preventing Americans from becoming addicted in the first place, so important. We're thinking about doing really a large scale rollout of commercials that show how bad it is for the kids. Ugh! What? Commercials? All right, okay, tell me more about these commercials, Mr. Trump. Hear them from ending up like the people in the commercials and we'll make them very, very bad commercials. When they... Okay, so this is where we need to bring in science and logic and studies. They already tried this. They already tried this. Those of you watching this who are in your late twenties to early thirties, like I am, you remember dare, you remember the just say no campaigns. They clearly did nothing because our generation is hooked and so is the younger generation. The commercials do nothing. Here's why. Here's why commercials do absolutely nothing to deter kids from doing drugs. It's because they see on a regular basis. Okay, there's just one situation. You see on a regular basis, celebrities and in culture where people are successful that people use drugs and drink and they're very successful and they're rich.  You're trying to understand the world and figure things out and it's very contradictory to what they're saying in the commercials when you see famous rappers or singers or actors or anybody who is successful drinking and using drugs. Now, I am not of the belief that all music influences behavior and things like that. I could do a whole video on that. That involves parenting to a very large degree. But there was a study, okay? There was a study done about smoking, adolescent smoking, check this out. So what they did was, they started doing all these commercials about how smoking's bad, smoking's bad.  They've kind of changed them a little bit. But anyways, they gauged the reaction from kids and they did long-term studies to see if the kids who observed these commercials were less likely to smoke. Absolutely none, none whatsoever. But then they did another experiment where they told these kids the economics behind smoking. They said, these adults want you to smoke and get hooked because it makes them billions of dollars. And when they told the kids this, their chances of smoking dropped dramatically. Here's why. With the way the brain develops, when you're around puberty stage, right? 12 to 14 years old, okay?  So when you say, adults want you to smoke, that gave the biggest decrease. So this is one of the million reasons why scare tactics don't work. All right, all right Donald, go ahead, go ahead buddy. They see those commercials, hopefully they're not going to be, going to drugs of any kind, drugs of any kind. And I will tell you this scourge of drug addiction in America will stop, it will stop. And I told China, don't send it. Ooh, okay, okay. And I told Mexico, don't send it. What? You told Mexico not to send it? Dang. Don't send it. Eventually the Democrat, like the crowd is just eating this up, just eating it up like, yeah, don't send it. That's will agree with us and we'll build the wall to keep the damn drugs out. So this wall, okay, okay, okay.  Let's talk about the wall real quick. How is the wall going to stop China from sending drugs? All right, now don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in denial. I know that a lot of drugs are coming in from Mexico. I know part of the fentanyl issue in the United States is from China. I know this, but a wall's not gonna stop China, okay? But in just a second, we're gonna talk about the real issues. Sanctuary cities that shield dangerous criminals, MS-13 gang members, these are not good people folks. He's been tripping on MS-13. Like, don't get me wrong, MS-13, there's some bad dudes, if you will, MS-13, definitely. But to blame the drug crisis on MS-13 and these other countries is absolutely ridiculous. Okay, these are bad, bad people. They don't use guns. They'd rather use knives because it's more painful. We continue to increase. By the way, from a psychology standpoint, this is trying to influence people with fear to get an agenda, right? And what's interesting is, and it's hard to explain, and maybe I'll do a video on that, is because I was just talking about how scare tactics on kids don't work. But scare tactics, when it comes to politics and society, they do work. That's kinda how propaganda works and things like that. It's competition and drive down drug prices. When I'm talking about prescription drugs, not necessarily the drugs that we're talking about here. That's the problem, Donald. That is the problem. You and a lot of people, like on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans have sold us this idea that the drugs we're talking about are not prescription drugs, okay? Now, I have done a video that I will link up in the info card up here somewhere. I will also put it at the end screen, just for you. We are being sold this lie that the drug problem is these illicit drugs. No, the drug problem is prescription drugs. Listen to me. If you have been ignoring me this entire video, please heed my words.  This statistic has been around for years, and this means that it hasn't stopped at all. More people are dying from prescription drugs. Like, if you want to push some kind of agenda on decreasing the drug epidemic, it needs to start with getting these pharmaceutical companies in check, which is very, very hard, because in the video that I've linked in the info card, I go through the list of all of the people, not all of the people, but most of the people who are being paid by the pharmaceutical companies. They're getting so much money from the pharmaceutical companies to push this idea that the drug problem has nothing to do with them. Okay? We, even though people with chronic pain and people with anxiety and people with attention deficit disorders is becoming more difficult for them to get these types of drugs, like it is still a major problem. Like, I am a recovering prescription drug addict. And almost every time, almost every time I see a doctor for pain, even though I tell them I'm a recovering drug addict and I can't take them, they still try to push these pills on me. Like, we need to really look at the pharmaceutical and medical industries if we want to start decreasing the drug crisis. Now, I will save my next point for the second half of this video. Who knows better than the guy running the drug company, Eli Lilly? Whether you are a dealer or doctor or trafficker or a manufacturer, if you break the law and illegally peddle these deadly poisons, we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will hold you accountable. Is it terrible? Okay, so like, he did include doctors there. So thank you, Mr. Trump. All right, I did a video a long time ago. I'll link it if I can find it. Jeff Sessions, one of the things that he's done is they are doing this kind of special task force to really monitor doctors, which is good. It's definitely a good thing to see if they are over-prescribing and stuff like that. It is one of the only things that I agree with Jeff Sessions on. There's some other stuff that we'll talk about in a second. But yeah, doctors really need to be held accountable with the way that they're prescribing these medications, all willy nilly. Oh, people, and we have to get tough on those people. And that toughness includes the death penalty. The ultimate penalty has to be the death penalty. Now, maybe our country's not ready for that. It's possible. Take a look at some of these countries where they don't play games. So I would love to know your thoughts on this. Down in the comments below, I would really, really love to know your thoughts on this. This is actually something one of my friends, she sent me an article about last night. It listed out a bunch of different cases where people gave somebody drugs. They died. And it wasn't like a drug dealer or anything. It was like a husband and wife. And they were both addicted to drugs. And one of them took some bad dope or took too many pills or something. Like, should that person be responsible for their death? And I think there's a lot of gray area in here. I don't think it's a black and white thing. That's one of the issues. The war on drugs is a huge failure. That's where I disagree with Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump. Increasing the war on drugs, it is ridiculous, the mandatory minimums for marijuana, and all that stuff. It is insane, especially with nonviolent offenses. All that stuff needs to get rid of. I just did a video about addiction being a disease and things like that. This is the only disease where we treat people as criminals. And I'm going to do a video dedicated to statistics on how drug courts actually do help people. There's a 50% success rate in most cities and states that have them. The locking people up instead of giving them treatment is brutal. So in my opinion, and I want to hear yours down in the comments, but in my opinion, there needs to be proof. Almost like the difference between murder and manslaughter. I think that's what we need to do. Was it purposeful? Because there are drug dealers who purposely peddle heroin with fentanyl. They're starting to mix fentanyl with Xanax and things like that.  But I've met a lot of people in recovery where part of their biggest regret is that they helped get somebody hooked on drugs or their friend overdosed. Like it's tough and that's a sentence in and of itself is not being able to forgive yourself. So again, leave comments down below. I want to know your thoughts on the death penalty when it comes to that. They don't have a drug problem. We have the death penalty for drug dealers. We don't have a drug problem. Do you know what right to try is? These are for people that are terminally ill and they're not going to be living much longer. And we don't have the right to give them these experimental drugs for whatever reason. But they say because they don't want to harm somebody. You can believe it. Thank you very much. So yeah, I'll have to look into that last part. I'm not sure what he was talking about with right to try and experimental drugs. Maybe it's just the way now this edited. But anyways, the last point I'll make is this. Two points, two points actually. Last one is we need to ramp up mental health care, okay? And everything I've heard about the new health care bill is trying to decrease funding for accessible, affordable mental health care. Mental illness is a leading cause of addiction. So when we're talking about scaring kids out of using drugs, when you are dealing with excessive mental and emotional pain, like you are willing to take that risk. If you are dealing with PTSD, if you're dealing with BPD, if you are dealing with anxiety, depression, that pain is so great that you are willing to disregard these commercials you saw as a kid that may have scared you, right? That's one of the issues. The second thing is that we really need to look at how we're raising our kids. I'm going to dedicate a lot of videos to parenting and things like that. Numerous studies. Numerous studies come to the conclusion that the biggest risk, aside from mental illness, the biggest risk for developing a drug addiction is your environment, your living environment, how you're raised, okay? Like the less your connection is with your own parents or even if you're adopted, the less your connection is with your caregivers, the higher your risk of becoming a drug addict is. It's insane. So part of this, aside from talking about how I disagree with a lot of what Trump's doing, like all of you out there, like I hope you share this video, like parents really need to look at what they're doing. They really need to look at neglecting their children, being emotionally unavailable for their children, letting the TV and computers and video games raise their kids. Now I'm not anti-technology in any ways. Me and my son play video games all the time, but there's a large parenting component that we're not addressing. We are busy pointing the fingers at everything and everybody else when a lot of this is the responsibility of the parent. But one would argue that the lack of mental healthcare in this country means that we have mentally ill parents raising children who are then going to become mentally ill, which then doubles their chance of becoming a drug addict. But anyways, I'm actually making another video right after this about borderline personality disorder because I promised you all that, yeah, I'm dedicating a week to things, but I just, you know what? I'm gonna move to make two videos. That's what I do. So make sure you subscribe right over there, all right? So yeah, I will be making another video. I'm uploading this now. Subscribe, check in borderline personality video coming at ya. See ya.


Introducing the new 1991 Heavy Duty. No action figure gives you this extreme power. Featuring triple machine guns, dual missile launchers, bulletproof crotch armor, two-leg drive, official GI Joe head cover. When you need to deliver extreme firepower anywhere at any time, you can rely on Heavy Duty. And now with green Dorito camouflage, limited time offer, offer not good in all states or the District of Columbia, see your local toy store for details. For Commander788 here, it's time for another vintage GI Joe toy review, and this week I am not reviewing Roadblock. I'm reviewing a guy that's a lot like Roadblock, but he isn't. He's a totally different guy. Heavy Duty was like an extreme version of Roadblock. He was released in the 90s, and in the 90s everything had to be extreme. Sports, comic books, even GI Joe was extreme. Heavy Duty was not that extreme, but he came with a weapon system that was mega extreme. Heavy Duty stands behind his extreme machine gun slash missile launcher belt buckle and unleashes extreme firepower on the enemy.  He never ducks. HCC788 presents the guy who is not Roadblock, no ducks, and his anti-cobra times too, and whose name sounds like a truck commercial. Heavy Duty. This is Heavy Duty. GI chose Heavy Ordinance Trooper from 1991. This figure was introduced in 1991, and it was only sold in 1991. It was discontinued for 1992. This is the first version of Heavy Duty. There was one other version in the vintage line in 1993. They made the bizarre choice of putting him in the Star Brigade armor tech series. He had a clunky, poorly articulated body, and a gun arm. That's a terrible thing to do to a fairly grounded and realistic figure from the 1990s. The GI Joe Collectors Book, published by Hasbro in 1993, lists Heavy Duty as an anti-armor trooper, and it erroneously lists Heavy Duty as being part of Cobra. It's impossible to talk about Heavy Duty without talking about Roadblock. Roadblock, version one from 1984, was GI Joe's Heavy Machine Gunner. He was a muscled African-American character with an oversized machine gun. Heavy Duty is also a muscled African-American character with an oversized machine gun, or guns, and missile launcher. He's kind of like an exaggerated, extreme Roadblock for the 90s. I don't mind this as much as you might think. GI Joe did this often, giving us a new character that wasn't exactly a carbon copy of an older character, but borrowed a lot of elements. How often have we heard of the complaint that Duke is too much like Hawk? Stretcher from 1990 is like an updated dock from 1983. There's no reason Metalhead shouldn't be version two of Scrap Iron. In this case, Heavy Duty didn't replace Roadblock. In 1992, we got a new Roadblock figure, and it was a fantastic update. That figure was recalled because of a dangerous accessory, but was re-released the following year with new accessories. Also in 1993, we got a color variation of that figure. You could still get great Roadblock figures, so I don't mind Heavy Duty existing alongside Roadblock. Perhaps as Roadblock's backup. The 90s is well known for brightly colored figures with crazy accessories, but you could track that trend back to the 80s, where they were moving more in a colorful sci-fi direction. In 1990, though, they kind of righted the ship. Although there were some missteps that year, there were several great figures. They hadn't fully plunged into the neon 90s. In 1991, they were moving more in that direction. They had eco-warriors, which looked like they were made by Crayola. They had that inexplicable grunt figure, and Tracker was also pretty bizarre with his sneakers and sweatpants. There were still plenty of good figures that year, though. Big Ben, Low Light, Dusty, and Red Star, just to name a few. It was really from 1992 on that figures started to look like they were made of starburst candy. Heavy Duty hit the scene at the right time. We could still get military-looking figures. We could still recognize a G.I. Joe as a G.I. Joe. But it was still the 90s. Everything had to be extreme, and if they didn't make the figure extreme, they would do it with the accessories. Let's take a look at Heavy Duty's accessories. All the accessories are assembled into one giant piece. It has eight parts, if you include the missiles. All make no secret that I like the Heavy Duty figure. The accessories are harder to judge. I have a feeling some fans like the over-the-top design. Others will think this whole thing is absurd. I lean more toward thinking it's absurd, but let's take a look at it. The file card calls this a Man Portable Heavy Weapon System. It definitely is heavy, and it is a weapon system. I'm not so sure it would be Man Portable, though. Looking at the top, we have the sight. This red translucent piece that is connected to the backpack. I will not remove this for fear of breaking it. It is on there pretty solid, and that is a very thin piece of plastic. I don't want to break either the sight or the backpack. I have to admit this sight is kind of cool. This would work as a heads-up display and targeting system. The sight connects to the backpack, and the backpack is in dark green. It's a good color. The backpack has that arm that connects to the sight. It also has some molded-in details, some dials and gauges and stuff. It also has four tiny molded-on grenades and a pistol. That's an unusual detail, but it's nice. At the bottom of the backpack, there is this clip that connects to this bar on the launcher base. It is not easy to work that bar out of the clip. You have to be very careful not to break the clip or the bar. Because of the way this is designed, it's not easy to get off the figure. They just don't give you a lot of room to work with. Since I'm not taking the sight off, I've got to kind of twist the backpack over to the side before removing it. Here's one more look at the backpack and the sight without the launcher base attached, so you can see it a little bit better. It's a good color. It's a small backpack, but this is part of a larger integrated system, so the size is less important than the function. Here is the launcher base with the two missile launchers and the machine guns attached. I am not going to take these pieces apart just because it would be too much of a pain to put it back together. You can clearly identify the separate pieces, though. This is the launcher assembly. That is the bar that connects to the backpack. There are two missile launchers, and they attach by sliding onto these arms that extend from the launcher base. And then the black machine gun piece pegs on top. On the launcher base under the machine gun is this extension that I believe is supposed to be ammunition boxes, but it looks more like armor plate. There are even bullet holes in it. And there's a paint tampo in light green. It says, just try it. It also has a green arrow that's pointing down to the area that would be Heavy Duty's crotch. So I guess that's what he's wanting you to just try. There's a bullet hole right in the center. Someone has definitely tried to shoot Heavy Duty in the crotch. Up on top on these extensions on the side it has a pair of grips, and those grips are small enough you can fit them in the action figure's hand. On top of the launcher base we have the machine guns, three machine guns on one black plastic piece. There are two larger guns, one on each side, and one smaller multi-barrel mini gun in the center. That's a lot of firepower concentrated in one area. I guess you could use it for anti-aircraft? To me it looks like overkill. No, not that overkill. That brings us to the two side-mounted missile launchers. They are in dark green plastic. They attach to the sides of the launcher base. They are spring-loaded launchers. They each have their own trigger in the back, and each has a neon green missile. You knew there'd be something neon green. It is the 90s. There is a variation of these missiles. These missile tips are short. There is a variation where the missile tips are slightly longer. The missiles are identical. They are a very bright neon green, and they're keyed in such a way that the flat rail on the sides will go in the launcher in the horizontal position. Just place the missile in the launcher and push all the way back until it clicks into place, and it's ready to fire. Don't forget we have two missile launchers, so we have two shots with this thing. I want to bring out our favorite target, Dr. Mindbender, to test fire these missiles. And since we have two missiles, let's bring out two Dr. Mindbenders.  You just press down to fire. So let's take aim and take out our first Dr. Mindbender. Let's take aim and fire. That was pretty good. Let's see if we can go two for two. There's a lot of firepower in those springs, as Dr. Mindbenders will suggest. Two out of two Dr. Mindbenders recommend this launcher. With all these accessories, Heavy Duty did not come with a figure stand, which is too bad. A lot of 90s figures did come with figure stands, and they were great. This whole assembly is impractical from a real-world perspective. Heavy Duty can only operate it while standing. He can't duck behind cover. He can't hit the ground when the bullets start flying. It doesn't have a stand or a tripod for stability. It would be impossibly heavy. It would be more than one person could carry, let alone be effective in combat. Of course, Heavy Duty should come with extreme firepower. But this is over the top. With the accessories out of the way, let's take a look at the articulation on Heavy Duty. He had the articulation that was standard for GI Joe figures well before 1991. So he could turn his head from left to right and look up and down. He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow that allowed him to bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep that allowed him to swivel his arm all the way around. This was an O-ring figure, meaning he was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside. That allowed him to move at the torso a bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's take a look at the sculpt, design, and color of Heavy Duty starting with his head. And on his head, he has a backward turned cap. It is neon green. It's a very light green, I have to say, a bit too bright. The cap itself looks good. I just don't prefer the color. Since it is backward turned, it does not interfere with the sight on his weapon system, so that's good. On the back of the cap is sculpted Joe. That's really good sculpting. I really like it. Heavy Duty is African American. He has black hair. He has a black mustache. And he has the whites of his eyes painted in. That's a nice bonus paint application on the eyes. That's a nice touch. We did not get that in the 80s. In fact, we didn't even get it in most of the 90s. Some 1991 figures had that treatment, but I'm not surprised they cut it in later series. That would be an extra expense. But having the eyes painted with the whites, that just adds a bit more realism to the face. Heavy Duty does have some elements of Roadblock. He's not an exact copy. But you know, a lot of 90s updates of 80s figures had changes to their facial features. Dusty looked different, grunt looked different, low light looked very different. One big difference between Roadblock and Heavy Duty is the hair. Roadblock was always bald. But if they made the Heavy Duty figure without hair and called it Roadblock, we wouldn't necessarily have been surprised. When they gave us an updated Roadblock, they changed his face quite a bit, but he doesn't look like Heavy Duty, and it's a pretty good reinterpretation of Roadblock. On his chest, he has a khaki shirt with ripped sleeves. Nice detail on the ripped sleeves. He has an unpainted pocket on the right side. He has a black bandolier that goes over his left shoulder and connects to his belt on the right side. Similar to Duke, but unlike Duke, that detail continues to his back. That strap has a sculpted-on buckle and a couple of pineapple grenades, all in black. I think that looks pretty good. But he should have more load-bearing equipment to carry that weapon system. He should have a harness. Instead, he has one strap, so I guess the weight of that weapon system hangs on a belt loop. His arms are totally bare with the same skin color as his face, except his lower arms seem to have a slightly lighter brown color as if they used a different type of plastic for the lower arms. His arms do have extra sculpted-on muscles and veins, nice sculpting on the arms. On his left bicep, he has a couple tattoos, a couple anti-cobra tattoos, and that's nice, but are these kill marks? With all that firepower, I hope he's killed more than two cobras. On his waist piece, he has a black belt with a belt buckle that I believe says U-S, but it looks like it has an O in it, like it says U-O-S, but I think that circle is really just part of the belt buckle. It's not supposed to be an O. At least I think so. His legs are dark green with a camouflage pattern that looks like neon green Doritos. He has unpainted pockets on each thigh. He has a pair of boots. The color on these boots I think looks like a grayish brown. The boots each have straps that wrap around. That's a nice detail. He has a black knife in a brown sheath on his left boot. Most of this figure is great. It has a lot of character. The sculpting is excellent. The camouflage pattern is a little weird, but for the 90s it was good. I like the details of the ripped sleeves and the tattoos and the hat. This figure doesn't look like it goes with its accessories. You would expect a guy carrying that much weight to have a harness, not one shoulder strap and a belt. Yeah, I got myself a new belt buckle. It's pretty big. How you like it? Duh. Take a look at Fast Draw from 1987. He had a harness for his missile system, and that was smaller than Heavy Duty's weapon system. There is one thing that ties the figure with the accessories. The colors. They match very well. It's really the colors that link the figure with the accessories. Let's take a look at Heavy Duty's file card, and this is a traditional file card. They hadn't quite transitioned to the 90s style cards yet. It has its factionist GI Joe and a portrait of Heavy Duty here. The shirt color looks darker than on the figure, but it still looks good. Codename is Heavy Duty Heavy Ordinance Trooper. His final name is Lamont A. Morris. His primary military specialty is Laser Weapon Systems Operator in parentheses 11H. This 11H is a real US Army MOS, but it isn't Laser Weapon System Operator. It's a heavy anti-armor weapons crewman. Secondary military specialty, Indirect Fire Infantryman in parentheses 11C. 11C is the real US Army MOS for Indirect Fire Infantryman. It means he's part of a mortar squad. Birthplace is Chicago, Illinois. Grade is E5. The top line in this middle section says, Licensed to Operate Mobile Battle Bunker Hammer General. These are GI Joe vehicles. The Mobile Battle Bunker and the Hammer were introduced in 1990 and were off the shelves by the time this figure was available. The general was still for sale, though. The rest of this paragraph reads, A classical guitarist in his spare time, Heavy Duty sees little difference between playing Bach's two-part invention in D Minor and operating his man-portable heavy weapon system. They both require right and left-hand independence, exceptional hand-eye coordination, and the ability to concentrate simultaneously on two or more complex operations. To him, playing Bach correctly and hitting a distant fast-moving target are two sides of the same coin. It also represents his cultural refinement. Oh yes, playing Bach and shooting missiles and guns at people are exactly the same thing. In fact, one time I went to a local orchestra's performance of Bach and they were using machine guns and missile launchers instead of instruments. It didn't go too well for the audience if you know what I mean. Let's say you zap a laser-guided missile at a tank. You try to keep your laser-guided designator dot on the tank for the entire round of the missile while that tank commander is popping caps at you. If you move, the laser-dot disappears from the tank and your missile wanders away. Heavy Duty carries enough extra firepower to shut down the enemy while his missiles are running and Heavy Duty doesn't duck for anybody. Let's be real. He doesn't duck because he can't duck. Looking at how Heavy Duty was used in G.I. Joe Media, he had a few appearances in the Deke animated series. He first appeared in the episode Injustice and the Cobra Way. It was a good appearance for him. He had plenty to do. He was also in the episode Messenger from the Deep. That was a water-based mission. Why would you want your ground pounder for that one? I guess it was just his turn to be in an episode so it didn't matter that his specialty didn't fit the mission. In the comic book series published by Marvel Comics, he had minimal use. He appeared in only two issues. Number 130 and 131. In those issues, Cobra attacked G.I. Joe's base, the pit, in Utah. Heavy Duty helped defend it. And that's it. He made no other appearances. It's a little surprising since Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, preferred more realistic military characters. Heavy Duty was one of several military characters that were overlooked in the comics. Looking at Heavy Duty overall, I like the figure, but I don't like the accessories. That's not to say the accessories are all bad. A lot of effort went into them. It's an integrated system with a lot of pieces. And when assembled, it is very large. It's almost like a bonus vehicle. It's about the size of the wind-up action packs. It has a cool factor. But for me, the impracticality outweighs the coolness. A lot of fans will feel differently. I understand. But my preference is for more realistic weapons. The figure, on the other hand, is great. I like the sculpt. I like most of the colors. I like the details. The ripped sleeves give it a very 80s look, even though it came out in the 90s. The whole design has a lot of character. The green Doritos camouflage is maybe a little silly, but if it had used a slightly darker shade of green, it would have been perfect. The file card is a mixed bag. There are some real military references, but there are also a lot of callbacks to Roadblock. Roadblock was a chef. Heavy Duty is a musician. They just gave Heavy Duty a different artistic interest, but the idea is the same. This could easily have just been an updated version of Roadblock. But I'm glad it wasn't, because we got a new Roadblock figure later, and it was pretty good. How do all these factors shake out? I think, considering everything, Heavy Duty is a middle-tier figure. He could easily have been a top-tier figure with a few minor changes. This is an extreme figure from an extreme decade. That was my review of Heavy Duty. I hope you enjoyed it. 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Do you want to be in a circuit? Sure. I'll be... I'll be your envy here. Oh! Hey, welcome back to our Steve & Derek episode of Corbin. I'm Shahrukh Khan. But he would do that just out of respect. Of course. For Shahrukh Khan. Absolutely. He just feels he needs to do that. To respect Shahrukh Khan. Of course. Who wouldn't? Of course. That's what I was going to say. Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't? Today. We got a village cooking channel because... I'm excited. And this is 1000 Idli with mutton. Kulambu. Kulambu. All you have to say is mutton. I know. You had me at mutton. I know Idlis. We had Idlis. Yes. I made Idlis actually. You did make Idlis. They're good. Obviously they require a good chutney. But we did have Idlis, which is the delicious South Indian breakfast in Delhi. Because that's where, of course, you should have it. You should. It's like getting Domino's pizza in Italy. Granted. Granted. It's probably better than getting Idlis in Los Angeles. Yeah. It's still India. It's in India. At least it's close enough. It's probably made by South India. Yeah. I would think so. I had... I got ridiculed twice. Because my first exposure to South Indian food was in Kolamkatha.  Yup. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. You have to soak stuff for so long. It's so time consuming. Yeah. How long does rice... How long is that going to have to soak? Uh... 5 to 10 hours. Good grief. That's how long we... I had to soak the whatever it was for the Idlis. I forget what they're called.   You're weird, man. You like them? Yeah. Something wrong with roosters? You had to soak this, too. You've never lived around a rooster, then. Have you lived around a rooster? And you like it.  Oh, I love that. I want to go in wherever they were standing outside of. Oh, nice stone. It's a toilet. No. It's going to grind it out. That was satisfying. Kind of looks like grits, almost. By hand, man. Holy cow. I put ours in a blender. To make a paste? That's going to take hours. That's unbelievable. What a cutie. She's looking like, What's going on? Oh, no. Oh. So cute. She is gorgeous. Look at that. Must have taken them hours. Well, the sun's gone down. I think it needs to ferment. If I recall correctly. Unreal. And this must have taken them a long time. Yeah, I would have loved to have seen the time lapse on that. It took us a long time. Well, it's night now. It's going to be a long time. I'm going to do it daily. I'm going to do it daily. I'm going to do it daily. It's going to be a long time. First time we've ever seen this in a video where they've been cooking by the fire light at night. We could have made it in the atti, because we had to make it in the atti. We could have made it in the atti. So we had to make it in the grinder. After that, we grinded it and it's gone. It's been a long time. It's been a while. I agree with you. Unbelievable. Look how much that is, man. They're going to have to let it sit for, like, overnight. That is so freaking satisfying. I want to know what that feels like. Yep. Let it sit overnight. That's a... The amount of crickets there was amazing. Oh, that's a big idli maker. Yeah, that's a big idli maker. Yeah, that's a big idli maker. That's a big idli maker. Oh, that's a big idli maker. Goat. Is that the mutton? Wow, this video. I want to know how long it took to... Yeah, this whole process. Probably a few days, I bet. Oh, the crackle of the fire. We have 33 bowls of idli in our own factory. We have 35 bowls of idli in our big factory. We can make 4 bowls of idli in 2 sets. 140 idli. We have up to 17-18 idlis. We can make up to 1000 idlis in 10 days. Sing Idli, only we had in South India, not in Delhi. The baffle? The amount of work that went into that. It might have been. It wouldn't surprise me if it was. It might have been that goat. Oh What a cutie Love the guitar this is this Some Thanksgiving dinners don't require this much time and effort Right on top of the Italy, huh? We didn't eat it like that. No It was alone. That's because we were in Delhi. Yeah Delhi am I right guys sounds like it's raining out there. I Wish we would get that kind of rain here, man. Yeah, I love their videos so much I do too I would love to know how long it actually took them because I feel like this one took days at least two full days because With the soaking yeah, and the fermenting and then just obviously the preparing and that that's gotta take So long yeah, I remember when we did it. I was just exhausted with the video. It's like I'm done I'm so done. It was delicious And I was glad we made it, but it meant it would took so long. Yeah I'm really sad like there's no way I could do my cooking channel right now I just I know One I can't control Leland long enough because he's a toddler and so when he was doing the video He was at a certain age where he's just like happy to a mom and dad right now He's that they're everywhere, and I don't want to be here And then obviously we have two twins who need our attention every five seconds You could just get two dangly swings for the twins that are just going like this and then you could harness your son Onto the table just like Strap him down cook on him Just strap them there and makes his tummy be the place where you actually prepare the dishes. Yeah, you'd love it I want Indian food. Yeah What's the last time you had Indian food Last night for dinner.  Yeah, it's one of our favorite go-tos that and okra and Then just doll we didn't had doll last night We just had this okra mean this egg plant that she she she cooks over an open fire with garlic Cloves stuck in them and then peels the skin off and mashes it up with onion and cilantro and and tomato and Homemade Indian food just being made for you. Yes. It really is it really is and then and then we used because she doesn't make it We just use tortillas to it's so close She doesn't do the rotis of the rotis but do something close to that and then she she claims that I she's ready to show you what she thinks about my Chai or Cha in Bengal She's like I can't wait for us to go back and you make Cha for my family There's a lot of pressure. Yeah, she's like they're gonna be so impressed that a white American guy makes Chai that good. Thank you Vicki. It's gonna be a There's a lot of pressure. I'm gonna be standing in there her mom and brother and sister. Are you kidding me them judging how you're doing it?  We had enough to have a gun tonight And it's gonna be nice to just have homemade Indian you should you should see that you talk about I remember One night she had I always give her more rice than me even though. She's only five feet tall She eats more rice than I do so she had this huge plate of rice and doll and I took a phone call two minutes hung up Started to eat and looked her plate was clean. I Said you realize I looked at my call I said you ate all of that rice and doll in two minutes Mm-hmm, you can go to the Indian store and they have already made rotis that you can buy Either fresh or they also have frozen ones as well. Now our problem is where we live now There really isn't is it we have to time it is there not like when I come to film Is there not an Indian grocery around you? No not close enough. I feel like there's one on Ventura town by you Not that I've seen The closest one is the are the two that are over on this this part of town Bombay and India sweets and Anyways, let us know what other videos we can react to and what Rick should have for dinner. Let him know