We're going to be driving through some snow today. Hooray! A little bit of snow fell overnight. We got our load protected under the tarp here, and we're about to get going. Looks like everyone else is sort of getting ready to get rolling here too. Excuse me. Go around, check out all the tires and everything, make sure everything works, and we'll be on our way. We're in Minnesota. We're right now in Fort Francis, Ontario. This is not going to be too much fun, but we've got to get it done because I want to get home tonight. I have to get home tonight. Tomorrow is Britt's egg retrieval surgery, and I've got to be home for that. So we've got to get this load off my trailer, and judging by the weather, we'll be just pointing our nose straight home and getting home as soon as we can. Probably won't even worry about a reload. At first I was kind of thinking maybe we'll grab something on the way home, but if the weather's going to be this bad, I'm already going to be delayed. It's six hours down to Brainerd where I've got to deliver this. And then it's about four hours, no sorry not six hours, it's three hours down to Brainerd where I've got to deliver this, and then six hours back home. So I have some extra wiggle room in there with my log hours, but not too much. I don't want to risk it, go and try to pick something up and then get stuck somewhere overnight and then I miss the appointment tomorrow. So it is what it is. Hopefully the snow doesn't get too bad. There is a snowfall warning in effect. That doesn't usually mean too much, it just means that there's going to be snow. Watch out. But as we get back onto the planes, I might go up Highway 59 to go back then in Minnesota because that's through the bush rather than going up Interstate 29 in North Dakota. Interstate 29 is on the open plains.  But if you go through the bush, you've got the trees sheltering you and it stops the wind and then you've just got a little bit of snow falling. It's not as bad. You can see better. But it is a two-lane highway instead of four-lane divided. We will assess the situation as we go. We've got to get out there though. This snow is supposed to stop by the time we get to Deer River. It's not supposed to be snowing today in Brainerd. So it won't be all day that we're driving in snow. That's good. As I said, they're expecting a couple of inches. In some places, four to seven inches. So it's going to be a little bit of a snowfall in areas. But I think we're going to miss the majority of it. The majority of it is supposed to start falling here in about two hours. And as we get further south, it's supposed to clear up. Then on our way home, it's not supposed to be as bad out that way. But it's a little west of here. We'll see weather changes all the time. But sure, we're in International Falls, Minnesota now. Just crossed over. The heaviest part is supposed to fall at around 9 o'clock. The heaviest spot is going to be here. It's going to be nearby. But if all of my predictions and calculations are right, I've done all my weather research this morning. We shouldn't miss it. Catch the tail end of it, who knows. We've got to keep rolling. Well, we also got to make our own personal judgment. You know that. We've seen in the past where the roads were open, but I've made the call that to me, the roads are closed. But I don't think it's going to get to that, especially with this snow, I'm going to avoid the open plains. I'm definitely not going to go up by 29. I'm going to stay on the Minnesota side in the bush. Hopefully that'll keep the snow from blowing around too much, you know? We'll see if that plan works. But then again, we'll assess the plan as we execute the plan. Plan for the plan to change. You don't want to get too far out of ourselves. We don't know what's going to happen. Snowing back at home this morning, we'll keep our eye on the weather. Take it easy and be careful.  All upset at me here in a minute, because I'm not going to listen to her. She wants to go left. 300 meters, turn left on Main Avenue, US 2. And I'm going to go right. She's going to turn right back here behind the building. This is the stop right here on the left. Grab coffee, stretch our legs. I don't want to stay too long, though, because I want to rush down to Brainerd. I don't want a whole big line up there when I get there. I want to beat the rush, hopefully. I might be just in time for the rush. Who knows, but I want to at least try to get there as soon as possible. I want to go home. But 15 minutes. Had to clear off the taillights on my trailer. They were all covered in snow. Turn left. These things get covered up so quick. It'd be nice to have heated lenses back there, but those are pretty expensive. You can replace all of them, make all the lights, for the cost of one heated light. So if I own the trailer and I own the whole thing, maybe I'd look into it. At least for the taillights, you know? Turn my nose this way so I can see who's coming. And I'm way too nice. I could have cut in there, but I won't. What is this guy going? UPS is coming this way. Okay, so I'll wait for UPS and I'll wait for this pickup truck here. That wasn't too bad. That wasn't too bad. See, we didn't have to cut anybody off from our delivery now. That's how many speeds I have in this transmission. It's an 18 speed. So I can split all the lower gears and higher gears. I usually split all the higher gears when I'm hauling a load anyway, just to make it a little easier on the truck. That all depends though. Sometimes you skip gears, sometimes you don't. It's nice having all those gears available though, even if you don't use them. All the flags are still at half mass. It's been all week. What happened? That was not at half mass. Easy, easy driving. Having some fun tonight.  No, I'm just going home empty. If I'm driving into that, I just wanna get home. I don't wanna waste any time tonight to have to be home tonight. I'm not sure I was even gonna get this load done. So this load's sort of like a bonus one for me. I was just gonna go home this morning, but they got me loaded last night. So I was really thankful for that. Really nice of them to do that. Because of that, I got an extra load in this week, which is gonna help out a lot on payday. Just down the road from Brainerd. Usually this time of day are pretty good. There's sometimes a lineup in the morning like we saw yesterday. But by this time, that lineup is gone. It's throughout the day trucks sort of come and go. I've never seen a huge lineup in the middle of the day. It's quarter after 11 right now. So I'll get there at about 1130-ish. Untarped, all my equipment put away in this trailer to the yard. Especially if it's snowing. I want this trailer in the yard where it'll be out of the way. The storm up north is calmed down by the time we get up there. We might actually benefit by slowing down a little bit, you know? More lifts on that side. Diesel. As soon as we're done here, I'm gonna stop in Pillager, Minnesota for fuel though. And a coffee. Here's the blizzarding up there right now. Got all my paperwork done. Oh, it's kind of windy out here. Shoot, I didn't realize that. I didn't feel it inside the cab. There might be a bit of wind noise on the camera. Just excuse that. Let you know in advance. Oh boy, I gotta clean this truck out. What is this doing here? Oh, this is my wipe anything rag. I always have a rag or a microfiber towel laying around somewhere that I use just to wipe the headlights or something that I can easily quickly grab. I saw this here. I need to get that snow off my trailer. And I saw this and I figured I could use that, but it's not loose. Shoot, I thought it was loose. Ha, ha, ha, ha. This is loose though, this'll work. Oh, windy. Fricker George, you should have a shovel with you. Ah, no, I know. Man, when did that wind get here? Yikes. This off so that it doesn't fly through one of your windshields. That would ruin your day. We're all visible. License plate's visible. I mean, it's soft snow. It's not gonna hurt any vehicles. It'll just disintegrate on your windshield, but it might scare the driver, make them do something crazy and then end up in the ditch or in a tall and coming traffic or something. I'm just gonna put this where I found it. Oh, it's windy and it's coming from the north, which is great because that means that, oh, what's, what's going on here? Wait, what's going on here? Hey, no, don't mess around with me. Don't mess around with me. Oh, man. Looks like I've got a project this weekend. That's great. Always something, it's always something. Let's put our forewars on, see if, oops, see if the signal works in there. Okay, so the signal works in there. Oh, what in the hunt? Oh, sorry, I'm trying to keep you guys out of the wind. That's why I'm keeping my back to the wind. Oh, come on. You can see it's sort of on, right? The wires aren't quite connected. Why? Okay, well, that's something we're gonna work on inside the warm shot, not out in the cold wind. Seriously, there's always something. I like lots of lights. I like chicken lights, but tell you what, there are a lot of maintenance. It's always something. That's fine. That's why, maybe going down the road, the vibrations will fix it, you know, if we're lucky. Oh, wait, what am I doing getting? I gotta change first, look at me, I'm filthy. I'm a dirty man. I gotta get new pants on at least. New shirt, I sweat through these. One second, I'll be right back. All right, I'm all cleaned up, ready to go. I'm just waiting for two cars to come from our left here. Nice, not Alexis Lincoln, Lincoln. Oh, the other guy turned, okay, let's go with that. Another flag at half mass here on the right. I guess I could just Google why. I haven't decided yet, yeah. Turn right on Washington Street, LF 210. And I don't really watch the news. I definitely don't watch cable news, none of that. I get my news off of online sources, podcasts, and YouTube a lot. Very rarely do I watch cable news, like in Canada, that would be cable. Cable news would be CBC, Global, CTV. I don't watch any of those. I can't, they're like nails on a chalkboard for me. And get going on my next trip on Thursday. I haven't hit this snowstorm that way through here yet. I'm really hoping that we're not gonna hit it. We're staying here on the Minnesota side of the line as we head north, like we had planned. We're on Highway 59. We're doing this because there's more shelter. As soon as you get into North Dakota, it's just open plains. And on windy days like today, it's just nuts. Especially after a recent snowfall. All that snow on the ground is gonna blown all over the place. You saw last time I was in a blizzard, right? That video went, it got quite a few views. I think we're at over 400,000 views on that video, maybe 500,000. I don't wanna overstate that though, dude. Few 100,000 views anyway. That was a popular one. I don't wanna get caught in a situation like that. So we're staying here in the bush. Feels like it's a little bit open here, but get more treat in a little bit. On commercial crosses, I can't cross there with free. I thought he said it's very windy over there and visibility is pretty low. Stopping most of the wind. There's some blowing across the road here a little bit, but not nearly like there would be. We don't have that wind and we have full visibility. Like this here. Obviously snowed like crazy earlier today, but it's all gone now. Where's he just plowing? Ah, he's just plowing, okay. That makes it even more slippery. Road didn't need plowing, it needed something. What is 15 Celsius in Fahrenheit? 15 degrees Celsius is equal to 59 degrees Fahrenheit. What is minus 15 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 15 degrees Celsius is equivalent to five degrees Fahrenheit. There you go, that sounds better. I'm like 50, wait a minute, isn't 50 warm? I mean, I don't speak in Fahrenheit, but that sounds a little warm. Yeah, five Fahrenheit, that's what it is right now. It's gonna go down, down, down. Didn't even have to drive through too much snow today. The old blue would beg to disagree. I had some problems with lights again today. First of all, this is working again. I told you, there's a little bit of rattling down the road and it'll fix it. I'm a mechanic. And then, can you see it from here? I might have to jump up on the step. In the center three, the one on the left, LED on top, stop working. I'm kind of disappointed in these parts and parts. Parts-M, that's what they're called, Parts-M. It's the brand I've been going with for all these lights. They don't last. Seriously, that's the third one I've had to replace within a year since I've replaced those. I've had to replace these strips underneath here, twice, both sides, twice already. I went with a different brand than Parts-M this time for these, so far they've been lasting longer. The lights as well are Parts-M. And I think, actually, this one's not lit up as bright as it should be. I know the camera doesn't really show it, but that one's brighter than this one. Oh yeah, see, there's a bit of a short on that one there. Or not a short, but a loose wire somewhere. So the wiring, that's my fault, okay? That's, can't blame them for the wiring. These lights are awesome. But remember, my signals I had to replace, those were Parts-M. These were Parts-M too, I went with them again, because they're some of the easiest to get. But I don't know what's going on with these LED lights, man. It's just, it's always, always something. But I'm gonna keep adding lights to the truck because I like chicken lights.  It's just, the more lights you put on, the more you gotta replace them and redo the wiring. Especially in wintertime here in Canada, it's just that road grime gets in there. Ruins everything, everything.  Okay, so, let's see if I can show you from up here. Can you see it there? Nah, yep. To top it off, my taillights. Wire got disconnected in the snow. So the taillights up there work, right? Nobody home. So, look at this, where the wires are coming in. This is why I said old blue disagrees. We went through some snow today. It's all filled up here. I can't even work on this until the ice melts off. So, somewhere in here, the wires go down here, into there, behind there, through the snow. Somewhere in there, a wire got disconnected. So, I gotta get going home. By the time I come back here, on Thursday, the snow will all be melt. Did I catch it on film? Oh, now they're off again. There's ghosts. What in the world? So, there's obviously a wire that's just not connecting properly. Same thing as that front one. Are you gonna do it again? Well, not all blue. What did I touch here before? What did I? Okay, well, so we know the lights work. That's a Thursday problem. I'll fix it before I hit the road. The good thing is, even if these aren't on, I have those taillights up there. So, and signals, and brake lights. So, I have those if these just wanna be stubborn, but I have a feeling, especially since they popped on a second ago there, I have a feeling it's gonna be pretty easy to fix. I just have to find out where the loose connection is and just exactly like that and we'll fix it. It's always something. It's always something. All right, I gotta go home. So, I'm gonna end this vlog here. Theo's already sleeping at home and Brith's probably gonna be in bed already.  It's her second egg retrieval. It's our last one. We're only doing this one more time. So, tomorrow is, oh, it went back on again.  You watch it in the background there while I wrap this vlog up. See if it goes off again. So yeah, I gotta go and do my part tomorrow and then they will take her eggs and take my guys and they will begin the fertilization process. And then we wait five days for them to mature. We see how many of them are fertilized and how many of them last and after five days we'll know how many embryos we have. I believe it's five days. It's been a little while since we did this last time. We'll talk more about this tomorrow. Why don't we leave this for tomorrow? Cause I gotta talk about something tomorrow. If I explain it all today then we got nothing to talk about tomorrow. So tune in then. I won't be in the truck. Just a heads up, but we will be at home here. It's a big day for us. I'd really appreciate it if you tune in and join us. It's a big life event. And we're very excited about it. So I'll see you then. Don't forget to subscribe down below for daily videos. Hit that bell so you don't miss one. And if you wanna support us one step further you can click that join now button and become a member of the channel. Premium members get early access to all the videos. At this moment when I'm filming this I'm behind about six videos and I don't have anything up online. But I'm gonna catch up tomorrow and the members will have all six videos to watch as soon as they're on the internet and I make them go public for everybody at one per day after that button. That's that. Click the join now button, it'll explain it all for you there. If you're not interested, the best thing you can do to support me is leave a comment down below and hit the like button. I'll see you tomorrow everybody. I gotta go home and go to bed. Need my rest. Well, it's not really about me now is it? But see you then. The day after tomorrow we'll be leaving on a trip again and we'll have some time in the shop here to work on all this wiring and we'll see if we have time to replace that one up there. That's not a priority because the majority of it's still working. Decide that then. Have a great night everybody. Take care, be safe.


Income tax 2022-2023, small business, how to pay income tax. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Most of this information comes from the tax guide for small business, for individuals who use Schedule C, Publication 334, tax year 2022, you can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused online, one that being income. Remember, in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence an income statement, although it's just the outline, the scaffolding, other forms and schedules feeding into it. When we think about line one, we're focused primarily on the Schedule C, another schedule which is in essence an income statement for a business having income minus expenses, which we can think of as business deductions getting to the net income that flows into this top line of...


The success of Donald Trump throughout this process will in part be a function of the opposition up against him, so I want to take a little tour of the kind of people who Donald Trump is, who are opposing Donald Trump. We're going to start with Bernie Sanders during that debate about the stimulus package. As I said earlier, some of the schemes for unemployed people compared to Britain does look fairly generous. This was something that Republicans in the Senate were upset about. They were worried that if you gave people $600 a week, that could end up being more money than they earned when they were in employment. So they saw that as both moral hazard and just unacceptable.  Republican colleagues are very distressed. They're very upset that somebody who's making $10, $12 an hour might end up with a paycheck for four months more than they received last week. Oh my God, the universe is collapsing. Imagine that somebody who's making $12 an hour now like the rest of us faces an unprecedented economic crisis with the $600. It's Bernie very charismatically arguing why the lowest paid getting $20 extra that they might have got in their low paid job should not be one of our concerns when we're going into or as we're entering this crisis as we're getting through it. But obviously in terms of the delegate count, it looks more likely that it's not going to be Bernie, but Biden, who is the candidate to face Donald Trump and his interventions haven't been quite as articulate.   You know, Donald Trump was asking. Sorry. Go ahead. No, no, I probably best I don't. I just I just can't forget the guy. It's like it's I know it's like watching a yo yo. I shouldn't have said it that way. It's like watching that way. I want to ask you. I want to. Oh my God. What's in that video? It's not it's not Biden who you want to be the candidate is it? Well, no, of course not. And I want to say too, I'm somebody who you know I was very annoyed most of the campaign because of this enormous. I mean, the Warren campaign was this horrible role in the race and and people I think actually because we are in our bubbles were very naive about the appeal of Joe Biden. We can, you know, dislike him for all the obvious reasons. We, you know, a rock war and everything else, but he has a popularity and he does have a certain kind of old school sort of political appeal. And and I didn't, you know, up until Iowa, I actually thought it was really a Bernie Biden race. And even when you watch those whole clips, I mean, he really loses the plot. And it's a problem. I think there's other times where he's just used to a different mode of political communication that you know people, you know, certainly online are not going to relate to or understand at all. But the problem is like, he can dominate a Democratic primary with older voters, but in the national election, older voters are going to Donald Trump.  And that's a major strategic problem for us that we have to work institutionally to overcome. And at the same time, it's big enough and powerful enough and significant enough that it needs to come out for the Democratic nominee. And again, I'm just speaking objectively here. I just don't see it. I would be shocked if I'm sure there's conversations going on right now about, you know, a pinch hit with Cuomo. I want Bernie to still run aggressively. I think Bernie would in fact be a very formidable candidate against Donald Trump. But, you know, we'll see.  And they coalesced around Biden and that convinced a lot of voters. You mentioned Cuomo there who many of our audience won't have heard of. He's the governor of New York. But he has come to prominence like in this period because obviously he's the governor of the state that's been hardest hit. And I think you were saying probably before we go live that if the Democratic establishment were to try and replace Biden with someone and it does, you know, it is seeming increasingly just, you know, not plausible to put that guy up to be president. It could be someone like Cuomo, but I want to go to a clip of him in a moment because it's also, you know, a key element of the of the political story in terms of coronavirus in the United States, which is this battle between certain states and the federal government, or in this case between Cuomo, the governor of New York and Donald Trump, the president of the United States, obviously, about ventilators and the access of states to ventilators. Fema says we're sending 400 ventilators. Really? What am I going to, what am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000? You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators. The row there is twofold. So one Cuomo is demanding that Trump send more ventilators from the federal stockpile of ventilators. Trump saying, you know, it doesn't need to send many. And the other is that he wants Trump to call in the Defense Production Act, which means that the presidency gets to, you know, demand that business turns its operations into producing ventilators.  This was in that same phone in with Sean Hannity last night on Fox News. I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they're going to be. I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they'll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they're saying can we order 30,000 ventilators? So look, it's a very bad situation. We haven't seen anything like it. But the end result is we got to get back to work.  I mean, one, obviously there are many people who are going to be vulnerable to coronavirus in New York State who will, you know, find that horrific to listen to.  I mean, if we're going to see some really shocking scenes over the coming weeks and it doesn't seem like Donald Trump, you know, has some grand political master plan when he's calling up to Fox News and saying people won't actually need ventilators. I mean, because people will need ventilators. This isn't something that's up for debate. No, I mean, and it's it is it is a test between how resilient his cocoon is versus this really serious objective reality. Although I do think, you know, there's a lot of bomb distorted bubbles in American politics. Andrew Cuomo, substantively, is awful. And I was talking earlier, I think about the Medicaid cuts and public hospitals. He's worked to close down. There's definitely some other kind of, you know, sort of corruption questions that have floated around his administration. And then on the other hand, and particularly in the scenario Aaron outlined where we're going where it actually there's this some degree of normality in the sense of a president f's up astronomically. The opposition wins. You know, Andrew Cuomo could certainly carry the ball across that field, you know, he knows how to do this. And, you know, just on that sort of objective level from the perspective of the left and from the perspective of policy. This is an atrocious, atrocious candidate. But from the perspective of, you don't care about it, but you actually would like to sort of run a serious campaign. It seems to me just sort of an obvious play in terms of a pinch hitter. Those of us who care about policy and the Democratic forces of this country need to keep fighting hard for Sanders.  And, you know, Cuomo can do that. So I'm sure I would be shocked if it is not being considered. And I'm sure Andrew Cuomo is considering it.


Okay, according to this we are live and It looks like we have audio. It looks like we have video. Hello, everybody Hello to Wilkinson Studios and Joe fan 84 and Terrence and big a Dave and Nyquist and gas Nice to see you guys. It means I'm safe at least as long as gas is here Hello draws and Rob Vegas and Baderie Bob and Thane Woods and Hans nice to see you Hans now Hans apparently we're all on every show together but nice to see you Hans and Dicast Nick and Joe and Gazz and Dave and hello Jenna nice to see you Hello the figure six pack and MC DJ AC DC and Joe fan 84. I already said hello to you like twice but hello Matt and Mike and Other Matt, how do you do and hello? Project DarkCorp and jump a general in gray Fox. Hi everyone. Okay I want to say hello to everyone, but I have a special presentation I have a special presentation this evening Okay, hello Count Stankis and hello a mecha platypus and Hello, Christian Bricks and hello Daniel. How do you do? I have a special presentation? Hello Matthew Hear me out just for a second. Okay, so I was on Sargent slaughter slaughterhouse on Zazel show with Carson from 3d Joes talking about Operation Recall the Kickstarter and it was a lot of fun and Dave Who did the the the luchador wrestler was on there? It was a lot of fun But I I said on there that I did not submit a design to the project because the only one that I could think of Would not have been selected. Hello Ryan Sweeney. Nice to see you Ryan Sweeney. Hello first last and Cyclonus, I see cyclonus there. Hello Jeff Butler and sparkster and Sean so After the show, you know for those of us who were just hanging out, you know after the show had ended I kind of I explained to them what my submission to Operation Recall would have been and and I think everybody can agree that it definitely would not have been selected but What I decided to do in the interim is I did some art. All right I did some artwork for it and I'm going to show you what my submission to Operation Recall would have been and I think after that we will all be able to agree that the choices Made the ones that were selected We're all much better than my idea. Okay, but so I got a presentation coming up. I've got a presentation but first Hello to hey Rob Irizieri. Nice to see you ragtime Rob. Nice to see you there and James Frane and And James Clark so we've got Matt's in here We got James's in here and we've got we've probably got some Chris's in here, too We got we got lots of people sharing names And I like that because it's more efficient. I mean why have extra names if you don't need them if you if you can share names You know, I just think that's a more efficient use of names so I Have a presentation. All right, you know Hello Chad Hello Andrew Andrew the guy is so nice. They named him twice So I will warn you that when I'm doing a presentation It's more difficult for me to read the the live chat, but I'll do my best to keep up I'll do it is not waffle viper. It's not what that's a good choice though. That's a good choice so But yeah, we'll we'll we'll get to that we'll get to that first first though, I want to go over Who has been on? Cobra convergence This week and who is coming next week? Okay? So since the last live stream, we've had forgotten figures Joe on Joe podcast and the Joe on Joe podcast did a special Teleplay as an audio play We got the talking Joe podcast the human mechanism mark to audible interlude my side of the laundry room Jay Bartlett mate mylar the artist shark In action robot punch. That's today Next week. We have anything Joe's they gone a toy kind of mood codename new to vero to GI Joe Berg Star Joe's Uh Okay, do okay. Yeah, all right. Just make it. Okay. Well You did it. Yeah, Star Joe's Cobra Lang Rob Vegas who is in here. Hello Rob And Joe Colton. So that's those are the ones that are coming up next week. Yeah, GI Colombo I Enjoyed it now. I've enjoyed everything like that has gone on in Cobra Convergence this year Everybody's just so creative and this is one thing I really love about this project is that you know, these these These folks are you know, they're creating things You know on their own they have their own channel and their own following Are submissions still possible? Um, yes. Yes, they are. Hello Diana Davis Nice to see you Yes, many things converging so so one thing that I think is a lot of fun is like Inviting people to who creators to come into Cobra Convergence and just watching what they come up with and of course They come up with really cool stuff Because they are creative and talented people and I just enjoy seeing creative and then and talented people Do what they do So, yes, and sparkster 1701 is doing Legos and he has been participating In the weekly promo video. Thank you sparkster so so Okay, I Hope you are following Cobra Convergence every day. I'm sharing everything that goes up on my Social media accounts, so I hope you're following that and you know, give these guys some support because they're really putting a lot of effort into it And I really appreciate it. Hello Bjorn Jacob been noneson and And they gone see there's another Cobra Convergence sir. Thank you Ryan Sweeney just because it was so much fun talking with you Thank you. It was a really nice talking with you as well And I think that was the first time we've ever had that opportunity to Really just hang out. So that was really cool. That was really cool. Thank you very much, Ryan And I and thank you for all you do. I Have a presentation. Okay. I have a presentation. This may be a little too early to start the presentation But I have a presentation on I'm for those who who just showed up. Let me let me explain Okay, let me explain what the presentation is. Okay, so Carson from 3d Joes has a Kickstarter going on Operation Recall It's a really cool idea. They're working on new o-ring figures in the in the GI Joes style They have taken submissions from fans, you know from folks from people On what figures to produce and then they're going to give those submissions to the original People who worked on GI Joe in the 80s. So you got your Mark Pennington's you got your Ron Rudd at and Kirk was again and and all of those guys. Okay, all of those guys are going to take those design concepts and turn them into Full figures using the same process and method that they use back in the 80s to produce GI Joe figures It's a really really cool idea It's a really cool idea. So a while back Carson was taking submissions for You know for four ideas, you know, you could submit a figure design or concept That could maybe be selected to be an operation recall I did not submit something and the only idea that I had Would not have been selected because it's a bad idea. You should look at The ones that they that were selected and it's on the Kickstarter campaign, which I did not grab a link to I apologize But if you go to Kickstarter and look for operation recall, you can find it I should have put the link in I'll try to put the link in the description after the live stream is over So that anybody rewatching it can see it. It's a really fun idea It's a really fun idea and I'm just I'm really thrilled about the project It is funded right now and now we're just looking at At like the stretch goals, you know, you were looking at Adding the the rest of wave one. That's very cool Yes, we owe a lot to pigeons that's correct and and oddly there's a little a little homage to the pigeon in my Concept, okay, so I did not flesh out the the idea, okay at the time but Since I appeared on Sargent Slaughter Slaughterhouse with with Carson and you know And I kind of teased the idea I have fleshed it out a little bit even with some artwork So you're gonna get some artwork. Okay, you're gonna get some art art work I Wonder if down the line we get an operation recall call sign long go cross over that would be nice That would be nice and one thing that's nice about about the resurgence of o-ring figures is that they should all more or less Be compatible, which I think is great So I have a presentation for my proposed character that was not proposed for operation recall and I think the whole point of it is that to demonstrate beyond any Doubt that one I have bad ideas and two the ones that were selected are much much better than my idea Thank You guys Who do you it wasn't a bad idea? It was a great idea. Well, maybe we'll see gas gas got a Little preview of it. I did change it a little bit. I changed his codename I actually changed his codename and I changed his his his real name as well, so So, yeah, we'll we're I've got some artwork worked up, you know, I've got I've got some stuff to show you so I guess I See we got about 70 folks in here. I think I think it's time. I think we'll do it. I think we'll do it, okay so Let me let me pull this up. Let me see if I can get Let's see. Yeah, let me see if I can get the the drawing up here So this is gonna take over your screen a little bit. Maybe not the whole screen, but I'll zoom in as necessary at least I'll try to on this And you'll you'll see what I mean, okay? This where is it? Show prep. Here we go. Okay. This is my character idea right here right Here, okay This is Codename burnout, okay. I changed his codename. I think this works better Okay, so here's the backstory of this guy, okay, he is a special he's a covert ops specialist, okay and His ex-wife took his pension So he can't afford to retire basically ever but Mentally, he's already retired. He's essentially already gone. Okay, he has a lot of experience He has a lot of skill none of which he ever uses, okay, so His codename is burnout His real name is Frederick M. Lewis. So his initials are fml And Yeah, so this is this is the kid the the figure design right here. This is the character design So we've got he needs a haircut and he needs a beard trim That's that's not one of the like these nice luxurious well-kept beards that Men nowadays have no he just hasn't he hasn't trimmed it and he really needs to take care of it He's got a wrinkly tan suit Which he you know just wears most days and he because he doesn't care, okay? He doesn't care. He doesn't also doesn't care if the tie goes with the suit or not But but this this is him this is this is the guy all right And let's try let's get some details. I want to show you some details. I think I've got some great details here So He's get he's he's got you know, he has a cigarette right because that's you know He look he's not really worried about the lung cancer or anything like that. He's you know It don't nothing really matters to him at this point He's got He's got a gun he's got a very old firearm that that he's never actually used He's got his photo ID and that photo was taken that photo was taken when he was You know in 2009 so it's a very old photo and I wish I could zoom in closer But if you can see that old photo on his on his On his on his security badge. It's a much younger Self right and he's actually smiling in the photo You know, he's got a short beard and everything and he doesn't have all the gray in his hair Because that photo was taken in 2009 and he just hasn't he just hasn't updated it. Okay So, so I mean that's the basic idea that that's the basic character right here. It's burnout he He absolutely can help the team right he absolutely could come through You know when when he's needed, but he probably Won't be there and that's just be honest. He's only his goal is to do the absolute bare minimum necessary To get the job done so he can go home. Okay, that that's his whole Purpose and I want to I want you to focus on a couple of things first On on his shirt, he has a mustard stain That's from lunch. He had a hot dog and Then on his left shoulder the left shoulder of his of his suit jacket there's there's a spot there too and that That spot is from The pigeon that comes with rotello The Homer dive bombed him and left a spot on his on his suit jacket You know, I could say that that you know put him in a bad mood, but he's already in a bad mood anyway So it didn't really make his mood any worse Okay, so that that's the basic That's the basic character design for for burnout and He's got some accessories. Okay, let me show you his accessories. Hold on. Let's let's let's get his accessories Here's what he comes with Okay, so accessories, let me let me shrink this down a little bit He he comes with a nine millimeter Beretta that was standard issue Issued, you know by the office to him 20 years ago He's he's never he's not maintained it at all and it may not fire In fact, I would not depend on that firearm to to save the team He's never actually fired it And and he doesn't he doesn't do any target shooting as well So even if he did fire it, he probably couldn't hit anything See he's a he's a covert ops specialist He is into espionage that is his specialty, but rather than using those skills To to defeat the enemy He uses those skills to falsify his his target practice paperwork so that it looks like he's going to the the required Target practice, but but he isn't and that that firearm it it really probably won't work at all He comes with an outdated cell phone It it has a pink case And the reason it has a pink case is because he needed a phone case and he just went to You know the store and picked up the first one that he saw So he doesn't really care that it's pink And it has a cracked screen. He just he won't He won't he won't get that fixed and I don't know if you can get if I can get real close on the on the screen of the cell phone But what he's looking at on the cell phone He's got he's got the the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers score up So he's checking the game scores while at work So yeah, he's not he's not doing He's not doing anything Useful with with his cracked cell phone. He's just checking the game scores And that's really probably what mostly what he does all day He and in case you're wondering. No, he is not in the office fantasy football league because he has no friends You know, he comes with a cigarette. There's nothing really more to say about the cigarette. He also comes with a sack lunch It's not his He stole it from the office refrigerator. So he got Jan's sack lunch So those are his accessories, okay So this is what burnout comes with and there's more there's more because we talked about See this is what this is the kind of stuff we talk about like when you we do a live show with with Guests and like after the show is over and we're just kind of sitting around chatting, you know talking Shooting debris. This is the kind of stuff that we talk about So we were talking about a play set and my first idea for a play set for burnout Was was was a really sad little office like a sad little office in in the basement It's got like a a pillar in the middle of it.  That's not the play set for burnout that that I think is wasted because in reality If you go to try to find him at the office or in his office, that's not where you'll find him You will never find him in the office.  There is a There is an ash tray There there's an ash can right there Why doesn't he use it? If there's an ash can right there Why doesn't he use it and why do all the butts go on the ground? I think if you if you understand the basic character of agent burnout Then I think you understand why This I feel Would add some realism To operation recall Okay, I Didn't work. Hold on. Oh that didn't work. Okay. Anyway, so this I feel would add some some some Realism to operation recall because I feel like this is a very realistic character Alright, I feel like I Feel like all of us know FML burnout some of us may be agent burnout And yeah, so I feel like this is this is a guy that definitely exists in the real world So yeah, he's He'll cut he I mean If he's out on a mission, right? And he's really got to come through for the team and you know get the team out of danger Yeah, he will do that more out of a sense of self-preservation Reservation Then than any sense of duty. He just he just wants to go home. All right, that that's his main goal He just wants to go home He'd rather not be there and if he has to you know rescue the team in order to to do that You know, that's what he's gonna do So you can kind of depend on him for that now don't depend on him in a firefight because his his weapon Probably doesn't work and even if he did fire it. He probably wouldn't hit anything So so that's that's my idea That that's my idea that that was my idea for Operation Recall. I did not submit that idea And I think I think you can see why you know, I think I think we can all understand now that That burnout here Is as realistic as this guy is and like I said, I feel like we all know this guy Probably I'm sure we've all met this guy like and it probably looks just like that guy, too Would you would you really want this or would you want a Luchador wrestler that can punch a tank See this this would not be so much an action figure as it would be an inaction figure It would be an actionless figure That that's my idea. That's my idea. Um, so I don't know maybe that should be my first kick starter Was it we get we get that going, you know, like everybody's doing kick starters now and and they've been you know, pretty successful pretty pretty Pretty hot stuff and pretty great stuff on the on the kick starters. So maybe this Maybe maybe this should be mine. Maybe maybe I've missed a step here and Let's see. Let's get this Where's the Oops, oops, oops. Hold on. I'm putting the logo back. Wait a second There we go All right, so yeah, so how do we feel about about burnout? Oh, I did does Does operation recall need that level of Realism So, yeah, so that's that that was my idea. Thank you for listening to my presentation I'm sure Carson will be Will be blowing up my phone any any day now to like as on an emergency basis get This guy into operation recall, but I'm not holding my breath I'm not holding my breath Yeah, special no ring construction. I mean think about it. I thought like does this guy even need a ring Construction couldn't he be done with just five points of articulation, but I thought no He needs knees, right? He's got to have He's got to have knees the figure has to have knees because he will spend most of his time sitting down So Yeah, yeah, there we go. There we go. That's that's my idea. That's thank you for listening to the presentation Cobra convergence everyone and And do check out operation recall. I I do really like it. I I I I have backed the the project and I think that it's a lot of fun Christian says if this were an operation recall would honestly be my favorite.  I think it would be a great gift For you know, somebody probably that you work with Because it would be a personalized action figure for for some people. So anyway, thanks. Yeah, that's that's it That's it. That's the idea that I did not submit I Haven't quite figured out how to Make the the firearm make the gun appear as though it doesn't work in the accessory, but I'll work on that. I'll think about that Make him like stretch Armstrong.  I have to say in in the In the weight department, but you know The point is he does not care. He doesn't care Yeah, see Rob Vegas needs a Kickstarter for his figures it's like These are why the hello ww JD 85 This is why the Kickstarter's that have been going up have been doing so well is because they have good ideas You know, this is what's possible when you have good ideas Hello Palpatine 1975. How do you do? So Yeah, I I really I actually didn't have anything else planned. So we'll just hang out I I had a presentation I presented the presentation Yeah, make yeah, I just make the gun look like there's no round the chair I think I think I could do that I think I think I could figure that out or like it just it has no magazine at all We just have we have to like hollow out where the magazine would go and it's just it doesn't I mean, it's not It's not loaded. It's and probably shouldn't be Sparks are says in August we doing two panels at a convention that is really cool. That is really awesome That beats me who is doing no panels at a convention. That's really cool Well, I'd like to know what what convention you're doing a panel at so everybody can find out What young child wouldn't want a burnout figure? Aspirational role model. Yeah. Yeah Anyone at SDCC C? Trying to get down on Sunday. I did ask if anybody was going to San Diego Comic Con And one person did say they were but I don't know if that person wants me to read their name on the on the TV So I won't but I obviously won't be going. I would like to be going I would like to excuse me. I'd like to to go to the The GI Joe classified panel that they're doing. I'd really like to see that It that that is one thing like I've I Actually have been to San Diego Comic Con before in 1996 So it was It was a few years ago. I have not been recently And it was it was pretty crowded in 1996 and I can only imagine that it is That's much more so now Nonetheless if I could make it out there I would brave the crowd because you know, I'd like to stop by you know, the Hasbro booth I would like to go to the panel. I'd like to see the stuff He's firing blanks. Yeah His gun probably doesn't work just ask his ex-wife, you know, why did why do you think she's the ex-wife? That's You know, there are reasons for this and I think some of those reasons may be evident Sparkster says gonna be Matsuricon in Columbus, Ohio. Okay, cool. So anybody in Columbus go to Sparkster's panel and say hello Like you go to the classified panel to colon and I tried to get pro badges, but they weren't issuing new ones. Oh, that stinks I I would yeah, they wouldn't give me one either. I'm sure if I ask Yes, it would be HCC 788 at SDCC for CC 6 and that would be too confusing. Yeah, see that's what I mean And I assume I assume that SDCC stands for South Dakota Cobra commander That that's my guess That's yeah, somebody mentioned that like his vehicle should be a van down by the river Yeah, so But yeah, I had a little bit of fun with it now Obviously, I put a little bit of effort effort effort and to I Put some effort in into doing a little bit of artwork for the presentation Diana Davis is going to like ninja into the San Diego Comic-Con. So good luck and may the stealth be with you But like you may be thinking hey, shouldn't this guy be working on Cobra convergence stuff and not doing these doodles for a presentation look I didn't I guess I did the artwork for it, but I didn't put a lot of effort into it I didn't put a lot of time into it Because if I did put effort and time into it, I feel like that would not in be in the spirit Of codename burnout. Hello comic tropes. Nice to see you. The comic tropes is late comic tropes fell asleep. Sorry, but I'm glad you're here You missed my presentation Hello, thank you Adam Andrew not much but to give Not much to give but sending some love greetings from New Hampshire. Thank you and greetings New Hampshire from the United States. Welcome. Thank you very much Yes, I did a presentation Chris from comic tropes. I I showed off my My non-proposal for operation recall like a character that I created that That most certainly would not have been selected If I had submitted it, but but you get the idea you get the idea he's um Um, you know, it's a very real character very realistic I feel like this this that may be the most realistic Action figure ever made especially I think if you can capture The wrinkles in the tan suit Right. I feel like that's essential. That's the hill. I'm gonna die on if this figure is made. I want to see Uh, I want to see the the wrinkles in the suit. I mean the suit really needs to be dry cleaned It needs to be pressed, but it is has not been in a long time Uh, and so it's gonna you know But I feel like that is That would capture the essence of the character of burnout Uh, yeah custom see joe fan 84s got the idea. Let's see some burnout customs jump on that gi joe community Um, you know problem chris. No problem chris. Um, I'll throw the artwork up there again one one more time a little bit later um So, uh, you know, one of the accessories should be that's not a bad idea I I could throw that in that's that might be Maybe that'll be a stretch goal, right?  I think we can do that. You know Plastic does absorb smell if you've collected Toys for any length of time, you know when you've purchased something from a smoker um Because uh, like everything smells like smoke and it does for quite some time Well, I think you can do that and it's an easy easy custom, right? You just smoke It just breathe Smoke on to the figure, right? Just do that for each and every one I this is this is great, right? Because at the factory at the factory, we need some smokers And it's like smoke breathe smoke on this one next breathe smoke on this one next. This is great This is great. Uh, I I think this is gonna be fantastic Uh burnouts arch enemy is his hr rep. Yeah, exactly But and that's true that would be like hr would really hate this guy But they would also have a difficult time finding him, you know, he's very elusive He's very elusive.  He's like ferris bueller. They're like He's been absent nine times Eight seven six times You know that this is this is what he does This is like what he expends his effort and his skill on is not so much You know succeeding in the field Um and taking down bad guys But in avoiding any consequences for his complete in in action in in every respect um So, yeah, see this is I feel like this, uh, I feel like this is this is gonna be like a new revolution Um in action figures, you know, this is gonna be the ones that like the kids are gonna start picking up They're gonna like pick up the figure and they're gonna be like dad Yeah, so, yeah, I think this I think this will work. I think it'll work. Yeah uh Could cobra law law help burn out maybe um I he may he may have contacted cobra law, uh in his divorce case That could have something to do with uh his situation right now Um, yeah, see, uh, diana davis has got the point See, there there are a whole cast of Of side characters for this guy Uh comic tropes says we do the selfie series for gi joe hasbro's offering snake eyes are scarlet. Absolutely. Yeah, definitely that that I like It's as soon as the opportunity is available. I absolutely will Um, and I don't care really what the body of the figure is because I'll just put it on a co-work commander body Uh, so why not get scarlet? I can get my head on a scarlet figure You know, this is yeah um Uh leftovers he takes home from office parties and meetings. See that's see the you really got it. I I feel like I feel like Um, everybody knows burnout, right? You've all met him, right? This is the guy that I think Everybody has been inflicted with at some point At some point in their lives So, uh, yeah, yeah, so I would be kind of You know, maybe I Will they let me do that? Maybe I shouldn't because like the the Female figure construction is different. And so if I got my head on a scarlet body Then I'm gonna take it off. It may not fit on a co-work. So I'll have to get my head on a snake eyes I don't really care about the about the figure. I'll put my head on any figure I want But yes, yes, I am absolutely vain enough to do the selfie figure Uh, I mean I that I feel is is something that we all should know about me by now um What about a drunken Aussie, uh footy fan on the way home getting a kebab with uh a With a waiting for the train at midnight play set. Yeah, see this Uh, I mean if if burnout does well, it could be a series. Thank you comic tropes show us What's in the stein? Yes The stein there is nothing in the stein. There's actually Nothing in the stein this stein This stein is a relic of Of old school youtube All right old school youtube. I don't know it doesn't look like it But that's where this stein came from, okay Uh because back in the olden days of youtube before the commercialization of youtube in fact, I believe before They had their ad their revenue sharing program at all Uh, there was a guy, uh Called tommy from the Bronx tommy from the Bronx and tommy from the Bronx had Some medical issues that he needed to raise some funds for to Uh to help take care of and he was selling his beer stein collection And uh and I wanted to help out. I like the guy plus it was not very expensive So that was easy. So yeah, so that's uh, that's what this is. This is a relic Of old old school early youtube from tommy from the Bronx So that's That's what's in here. It's the ashes of tommy from the Bronx Tommy if you see this, I just a joke Just kidding, but you know, I His collection though was kind of important to him So I think if if tommy from the Bronx were watching he would at least be happy that I have taken care of his beer stein So, you know, there you go Uh How's everything how's everybody going? How are you? Hello, uh guard yin, uh, how do you do? Hello Anybody else show up that I haven't said hello to yet Uh lone star viper, how do you do? Uh, does burnout come with the flask? I think he he would come with a flask or he would have what he would definitely have one But I haven't quite figured out how You put the flask on the figure because you know, he's he's made of plastic and his suit Jacket is kind of kind of hanged down Uh over his pockets. So I don't know as soon as I got to figure out how that works. I don't know how that would Be engineered But whether he comes with a flask accessory or not, I think it is fair to assume He has a flask on him Uh The pigeon the pigeon thing. Okay, so, um Hello, yo, joe banjo. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here um so Yeah, the pigeons see the and this is the difference like the pigeon For operation recall Is is a better hero than burnout. Okay Uh, the the pigeon is much more likely to get a a medal than our guy Uh, our guy don't care like he he really is. I mean mentally. He's not there right mentally He's somewhere else totally already and all he really wants to do is go home and be left alone um, so Yeah, so like the the the pigeon stain on his shoulder Uh, it may have been malicious. I mean, I have to imagine Homer the pigeon would just have Nothing but contempt for this guy if pigeons can have contempt For a human being I feel like Homer the pigeon would have contempt For agent burnout um Uh Where have you had burnout from I mean it's uh almost as if you've seen him somewhere Yeah, I I feel like yeah, I feel like all of us have probably met this person in in real life I I feel like this is someone who is really out there You know that this is someone who really exists And this like look at this this really would bring some realism Uh to the line if if that's really what you want Uh, yeah Yeah, so yeah, the the pigeon The the pigeon is more of a hero than than our guy In fact, honestly, mostly he's just not going to be there unless you make him right unless he really has no choice You know, he he he would rather not be on the mission and if he is on the mission You know, you can you can depend on him Uh to have to act Uh in the interest of his own self-preservation Um The flask goes in the gun holster that goes in the jacket pocket. Yeah, so it's got like a The the jacket kind of hangs down on one side because the the the pistols kind of weighing it down Yeah, I like yeah, this see this can work. This can work. I feel like this is the best idea I've ever had Um, oh, well, it's like it's getting like now. I started a few minutes late So I'll try to go a few minutes after eight o'clock my time so that was like I got like 15 minutes, so We'll stay on so, um, I will throw up that artwork again When I say throw up, I don't mean to vomit. I'm not going to vomit the artwork, but I will put the artwork back on For anyone that missed it. Um, maybe I should really lobby for this, you know Maybe I maybe I've missed missed a step here um But um, but yeah, do do check out operation recall for for actual good ideas for action figures um, but Uh, but for a bad idea We have agent burn out here Real name fredrick m lewis.  That is his real specialty He does have experience and skill doing that. He just doesn't really want to do it Um, I I think the most essential accessory is the cigarettes Um, because you're almost always going to see him with that Um, and and unfortunately not always in the designated smoking areas But but you'll mostly see him with the cigarette Um, his hair is and and his beard are a total mess.  He's he's got a mustard stain on the shirt from lunch And he's got a pigeon poop stain on the jacket Uh much deserved by the way, but I mean If if Homer the pigeon did intentionally dive bomb this guy who can blame him who can blame him Uh, and then he's he's got um His photo ID. I haven't quite decided if the photo ID should be a separate accessory Uh, because you know, he probably doesn't take it off the belt You know, he's gonna wear the same belt every day. Anyway, so like he probably just Just keeps it on the belt You know, I that that's that's what I think he just keeps it on the belt and just puts on the same belt every day So why why take it off? Why take it off? Um, so yeah, yeah, so like he he essentially he can never retire Uh, it's he's been doing this a long time too long really Uh, and as much as he'd like to stop doing it. He can't Uh, you can look look at his eyes like you can see how soulless And and checked out he is in the eyes that that is the most expression that you get out of him um, it's um It's it's uh something between boredom Um and irritation You know, that that's that's actually the full range of his emotions his emotions range from from From boredom to irritation Um, who we got hello bobs dungeon My picture. I'm sitting on his desk with his face in his hand saying why do they keep doing this to me? Yes. Uh, see this is You know feeling sorry for himself is is um It's pretty much a perpetual state for this guy Um, so yeah, that that's that's that's my guy. That's my guy. I feel like this is This is, you know, it would not make the cut for For operation recall, but but but could be the start Of a whole new toy line. I think this Is the most genius idea I've ever had Um, anyway, so yeah, that's that's that's that thanks. Thanks for for coming to my TED talk Um, this is the best livestream ever um I I should just do this every time Uh jacket should be removable with shorts short Short sleeve dress shirt underneath. Yeah, that's a really good idea. I hadn't thought of that I had not thought of that but see look look we're we're already You know as a community coming together and rallying behind burnout He'd rather you didn't though. He doesn't want anybody rallying around him. Thank you, raw vegas Burnout needs a fax machine accessory.  So he's just kind of cramped in there behind a tiny desk um, but then I was like not like This guy's gonna spend his little time at his desk as possible because people can find him there People can find him at his desk So that's why That's why I came up with the the play set that I ultimately went with Where you where you would find him most and that's the smoke hole Uh, and I believe this would be the first ever smoke hole accessory Uh in action figure history. I don't think anybody's ever done that before uh, and like In the spirit of burnout, this would be a very low effort accessory, right? The the only real pieces to this accessory would be the the ash Can here the trash can slash ash tray and the bench that's behind him Uh, the the floor would just be a A vinyl mat and the walls are just cardboard and then a door. There's no way that door opens. It's just it's just cardboard It's a very low effort play set. Thank you Matt Rubin Burnett also needs a red stapler That always gets borrowed but never returns.  See yeah, so this is He he is you know a counter espionage or an espionage guy He's a spy guy and he uses his spy skills to just avoid consequences That's that's if there's anything he puts in effort into That's it Uh, be waiting for the classified figure absolutely and he does he does still have security clearance You know, he he does still have that job He just doesn't want to do it Does Burnett live alone? Of course he does um He's living in a band down by the river That that is his only suit, you know, he doesn't have any other options And he and again, he doesn't care. He really doesn't care. He goes in in the morning You know goes to the break room Gets his coffee Uh Drinks it slowly walking down the hallway.  How do you do uh broadcasting live from the terror drone? That's right Uh, we are from the terror drone this week. We'll be even more from the terror drone next week Uh, yeah, thank you gussey. Thank you um Hello jamlin parks. How do you do? Um, I hope you get to see your characters and concepts more often Yeah, we'll we'll see what we can do. We'll see what we can do. I don't know if I can come up with anything to top burn out here um Do you mean the dreadnought? No, he like no not not the dreadnought that that's far too much effort like no, he doesn't He doesn't ride a motorcycle. He drives a 2005 toyota corolla you know, that's like Being in a motorcycle gang is far too much effort Uh, so yeah, there there you go. There you go. Uh comic tropes is hungry Um comic tropes is hungry. So here like this is burnout solution to that. Let's let's go back to his accessories and uh So yeah, including included in his accessories is a sack lunch. It's not his sack lunch. He stole it Uh, he stole it from the office refrigerator Uh in the break room So so jan jan would also be hungry I mean she clearly Put her name on it. It's right there So it's not like he doesn't know it belongs to somebody else Um So yeah, so uh, so there you go. That's uh, uh, that that's that's my idea So cobra convergence We are we are in it. We are in it and we are We we've got quite a ways to go too. We've got We're not done We've got plenty of cobra left and thanks to everyone who's been following it There's been a lot of really uh, great stuff and thanks to everyone and who buddy who's been participating Both both the everybody who's on the calendar Who's taking time out of their regular schedules to do some special cobra convergence content We've got something every day so far In july and thanks to everyone who Uh is out there and who's doing their own thing and sending them in uh and participating that way That really does mean a lot to me. Um, I I would like for it to be something that Everyone enjoys I would like for it to be something that Everyone looks forward to Uh and uh, and uh, it it really does mean a lot to me. It it's something that You know, we we started quite some time ago and it wasn't necessarily supposed to be A big thing, but it's it's carried on it's carried on and uh Yeah, any classified news there is some news from uh, san diego comic con, but um Actually the full force and the artist shark. I think both have videos about the Uh about the classified slash sdcc news. So Um, I will let them I will let them be the breaking news source Battle cry is meh. Yeah, see Absolutely, absolutely um Not happy jan is a very specific osse reference.  Yes, there is a big hiss tank Then we did talk about like we have talked about the big his tank. Um before and like I've talked about it on a few other sources. Uh toy connections has a video that we did Um talking about the his tank. So uh, do check that out Also toy connections in cobra convergence and thanks to ken for doing that. That was awesome Um, but yeah, we are we are down to less than three minutes and I will uh, I will stop the live stream At the one hour mark because Immediately after I'm done with this live stream. I have got to go over there I can see it. You can't see it. But I've got to go over there Uh, and I've got to uh record some video For the final review of Okay, let me clarify my final review of cobra convergence Which will go up on sunday and it's almost ready. It's almost ready, but I've got to finish the video for it and that Is what I'm going to do and that's why I really cannot keep the live stream going Any longer because you know, I you know, it's getting kind of late here So I need to get on that I need to get on it before it gets too late And get it done so that I can edit tomorrow tomorrow is the editing And the editing will be tomorrow Uh, cobra convergence. So I convinced me back to his school. Uh, jizaya. Great. Uh, and I hope that you like it Uh, and knock on wood that is not wood knock on wood It's as good as it appears to be We won't know. Uh, no problem. Ken. Thanks for doing it. Thank you very much. Hello, Ivan Um, oh and hello, explorie. So I don't think I think I said hello. Hello to you See jasper bicycle And anybody else who's not in here. Hello, ray serrano. How do you do? Um, what is the address? Oh, uh, ray, um, I The po box if you go to hcc788.com, which I should have mentioned before The cobra convergence calendar is at hcc788.com, but if you go there and click the contact Um option on the menu. The address is there. I'm sorry. I didn't I wasn't prepared. There's a good question Wasn't prepared to answer it, but that's where you can find it. Um But uh, yeah, I it is it's actually time to wrap up. So I will say Good night to everyone. Thanks for being here. This was a lot of fun We'll have a more conventional live stream next week um We'll just we'll we'll no I have no new character ideas. No new creations For next time's live stream. However, you know, maybe we'll Maybe we'll do some story time Maybe we'll do some uh, some mad libs. There is a mad lib That we haven't gotten to yet Uh, so there are some options. There are some options for next week, but for this week I just felt like I I wanted to Present to you some of my creativity.  It could have been Um It it certainly could have been I guess I guess I guess only cobra commander knows Or zartan zartan would probably know too Um, thank you, jan. Thank you jasper. Thank you tarance. Thank you gas. Thank you Dave and joe fan and lester and jump in general and comic tropes. Um, and and matt ruben and all of the mats Uh, thank you guys very much But it is time to sign out and I've got to I've got to do some some video making so I will see you all next week Thank you everyone and have a good night and I will see you next time. Bye everybody. Bye. Bye


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE, covering Accelerate 2017, brought to you by Fortinet. Now, here are your hosts, Lisa Martin and Peter Burris. Hi, welcome back to theCUBE. SiliconANGLE's flagship show where we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. Today, we are in Las Vegas. I'm your host Lisa Martin joined by my co-host, Peter Burris. We are with Fortinet at their Accelerate 2017 event, and we're very excited to be joined by one of the keynotes today, Patrice Perche. You are the Senior Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Support. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. You've got a very interesting background. You've got over 20 years of experience in the IT security industry. You manage Fortinet's global sales and support organizations. As the leader of this, you've talked about this morning in the keynote, where 700 partners are here and users here as well. Fortinet is in 93 countries. The theme of the event, No Limits. What does that mean to you? What does that mean to your partner and your channel community? Well, definitely this event is critical for us and for our partners. You can see on the background there's a lot of people. So we have a strong representation across the world. So the theme of this event is about the new challenge that we're all facing due to the digital economy, the rise of the IoT, the rise of the virtualization, the cloud, whatever is public or private. So all those new promise for the digital economy need to be secure. So security become a big enabler for the future of the digital economy. Which means for our partners and also for customers, security need to be embraced at a very high level to be able to evolve their business. So that's really a critical point. So we see that the overall network security and the cyber security came to an inflection point where during the last 15 years, they've been built by adding, in fact, point solution reacting to threats which led to a very complex environment. And we have also another major challenges which is the skills shortage worldwide. So they cannot just face about this new technical challenge. So they have to find a solution where we can automate the protection and the defense and also with the more collaboration between the community. That's all about the theme of non-limit and also the launch of our security fabric which provide this strong coverage so it's really broad, we can cover all aspects, whether it's IoT, virtualization and of course network security. It's also feed by cyber security intelligence because you need to have those information put back to the device to be able to react on time to new threats. And this information, it's also very valuable for the business because they can be turned on business value. And we know that digital age will be all about data. So I think it's really a very exciting moment for partners and we have seen that they're growing from last year. I think we added about roughly 16,000 partners worldwide. So we have a big, big number now. And I think it's really the time to reduce the complexity, automate, leverage of course the knowledge due to the skill shortage we have that partners has as well and be able to enable the next age of the digital economy. You had a panel on the general session stage this morning of CISOs from AT&T Lazard and Levi's. And one of the things that that panel was talking about was you talked about reducing complexity is really we need to talk about, we need to talk about the complexity, right? This is a really critical to protect these critical infrastructures. So from a complexity perspective, Peter, I'd love to get kind of your thoughts on what you've heard today so far and what Fortinet is doing with the security fabric to address that complexity. Well, there's a couple of things that I think we need to focus on with relative complexity and that is that there are the business is complex but then the individual elements that are intended to make business possible are themselves individually complex. And I think one of the things that Fortinet's trying to do is say, let's reduce the complexity of the security so that that does not become a problem or a barrier to the business. Because today we have data complexity and application complexity and security complexity and organizational complexity and financial complexity and we need to find strategic and targeted ways to reduce the complexity of individual elements of that so that we can focus more on the complexity of servicing the customer. And I think that that's a key message of what Fortinet's trying to bring is what can we do to reduce security complexity or networking security complexity and data security complexity so that we can liberate more talent to focus on the business opportunities. Is that accurate? Yeah, that's definitely the case. We see that as soon as we were able to reduce this complexity, we will add value to the business. So, and if you look from any large organization on the IT, of course, the responsibility of cyber security is becoming very important at sea level. And often they try to go down to the people inside but you cannot blame the people at the level or whatever they click to an email where there's an attachment so because they have to do that anyway. So it's so the complexity and the pressure that I've been putting inside the organization has to be reduced and that's the purpose of building a system with people, knowledge, data that can react on real time. And that's really the value of the security fabric we are building. So it used to be that, you know, as an ex-IT guy, it used to be that the security team was the office of no. Yeah. No, you can't do that. No, we won't let you do that. No, that, and there used to be the strong trade-off between was the initiative going to be secure and how long did it take to actually execute? What I hear you saying, I want to just confirm this, is that now we're working on how we can collapse the time between opportunity and execution by making security go away as a barrier. If I got that right? Yeah, exactly, exactly. I think that the behavior or some of the people in charge of security in the past, during the last 10 years was they have to face a new problem, new threats and then typically they have bought the phone solution and then we learned it with like, almost like a 35 different vendor into the security environment and they are not talking it all together. And in fact, that's just increased the complexity and they learned it to a situation where they recognize it doesn't work anymore and that's in fact increased potentially the risk because there is so much hold on the system. So, and I think the fact that the knowledge that they had in fact is becoming a little more spread across the entire organization is also a big evolution in terms of the mentality. Well, let's build on that, Trees, because today most of the threats are take a long time to develop. They're very sophisticated. So someone will access or will acquire access to a particular system that may not be very valuable but they'll use that to get access to another system and they'll use that to get access to another system and if the business doesn't have a fabric as you say that's cognizant or aware of how all of these different elements play together then you are facilitating someone being able to move through not detect as they try to move and that increases the likelihood that a company has a problem. So it sounds as though it's increasingly important that you think in terms of a fabric that is capable of observing how people are getting in here, trying to get in there and has awareness of how the different security infrastructures actually work together. Yeah, definitely. I think one of the critical points about security is knowing. So you have to know whatever the people, you have to know whatever can devise where they are because we know today that it's just not limited to a country, cyber security is about world attack. So we see a lot of attack coming from front country. And you have to build a system that can collect those information, react on time and I think the different component they are working together because often the threats can come from email attachment and can be different approach or IPS attacks or DDoS attack, but because those threats are always combined in the system so you cannot detect at the email. So potentially they will be going through the system and result with a system that communicate all together and you can don't know that this IP address has been already flagged as potential problems or why the email is going through. So it's all about having the system that are automated and be able to have this global view. I think it's a very important aspect because it's not just US soundtrack attack and be able to quickly provide the value to the addition maker because we have also less people on the security operation center due to the lack of the skill shortage. So the information has to go to these people in a very efficient way and already highlight the importance of the attacks or whatever the. So that's how we can really reduce the time to detect and reduce the time to act. You both mentioned the skill shortage and that was actually mentioned in the keynote at the general session this morning. Is it the expectation that of Fortinet and your partners that it has to be technology that's going to solve for that skill shortage? Yeah, well, I think we participate also to try to resolve part of the skill shortage. We have launched, we call the NSE program which is a certification that we launched and we had about 60,000 right now certified engineer in the world and it has been grown. In fact, just last year we had about 34,000 so it has been growing fast and we see there is a big requirement about acquiring this knowledge which is becoming very complex because every, I would say, months you have a new system in attack so you have to be trained almost ongoing and the level of the expertise is very high so it's not like 20 years ago where a firework just like a blocking a system so easy to understand, easy for engineers to understand like people doing networking, you know, management, security is much more complex. That's required is ongoing training and knowledge transfer to keep the people at the highest level. So one of the things Peter, you and I were talking about is it's the security conversation is a board level, board room conversation from a partner community perspective are you seeing within the partner and the customer base that there is now an expectation that we're already compromised, we've got to now limit damage. Is that kind of a broad expectation that most companies and industries have today? Yeah, definitely. I think the people and company recognize that anyway they have been attacked, there is an issue. They are, and the role of the CISO inside the company is becoming very important. They have to talk to, it's a kind of business enabled. So it's not just like a compliance is answer where before there was, there was there just to check in fact the box on whatever socks, compliances or scatter. So it's not, they have to help the other business unit manager to run the company and to transform the company to the digital age. Yeah, let me build on a couple of points that will be made here very quickly. So the first off going back to the question of this technology crucial, the digital business means that there will be greater demands on the security capabilities of the business. We cannot expect most business people to become smart about security because this is very technical, hard stuff. We have to therefore make that capability more productive and the only way to do it is through technology. And that's, and that has become, the board is now aware of that. That the board recognizes, most boards recognize that security in a digital world is a strategic business capability. It's tied to your brand, it's tied to your products, it's tied to the promises you're making to the marketplace. And that if you, and to your point Lisa, they also recognize that they are constantly under attack, that they are being, that there are intrusions and then the need is to limit those intrusions by taking a system approach to it. And so this notion of a platform is really, really crucial to delivering on what the board needs, a set of realistic, strategic security capabilities that the business can count on. Yeah, definitely. And I think you may have learned this morning one of our customer, big financial bar in the US which he implemented in fact, or the fabric in fact and he has been able to measure the reduction of internal threats, which was one of the auditors to say, wow, what's happened? So your system's not working. In fact, it was the benefit of implementing the fabric. So definitely they recognize there is ongoing problem inside the network because as we also say last year, it's no longer just the, you have to protect the perimeter. The threats come from inside, can be from employees. So we also, with the fabric, we are able to create we call internal segmentation. So try to protect the data where they are as the closest and then also look about who is accessing to the data and then fly to the driven people if there is anomaly and I would say a normal activity around those access of the data because as this evolution, the value is all about the data. So we have to protect the data and that's the challenge of the system. So it's complex. That's also required collaboration. So we do collaborate with third company. So we exchange, we also the Alliance founder for the cyber threats community and we also expand our fabric because we feel that the security fabric will be at the heart of the security strategy and then because security has to talk about application about networks, you go inside all the system. So we build this fabric ready program and on board a lot of other vendors and that's the value for our customers as well because then we can automate the security and potentially the rules that need to be permitted after an attack going to the potentially the network device. So it's just a team effort. I don't think that fortunate by themselves we can resolve problems. It's combination of knowledge, people, other peers in the industry and then we can really try to go against the threat that we know will have always to chase. So here we are, last word giving Patrice to you at Accelerate 2017, great buzzer. You can hear it and see it behind us. 700 partners here, end users. The announcement that came out today, what excites you most about this new year, this 2017 for Fortinet and being able to help customers truly transform to a digital business and trust their data. What's most exciting to you? Well, I think it's definitely we all, there is a lot of feedback where we feel that what we built in the last 16 years in terms of technology came to a very strong valuable position today. And that's moving so fast and there is only few vendor, in fact, on this industry, they can do it. In fact, we feel that we are the only one on the security space. That's the echo I got from all the end user, but as well as the partner, you can see they are growing fast. So yes, good promise for 2017. And as a sales leader, of course, we expect you to do it as well. Excellent. Patrice, thank you so much for joining. Peter, thank you for joining as well. We thank you for watching theCUBE. We are live at Fortinet's Accelerate 2017 and we'll be right back.