And we're live Early we're early this time We are three minutes early. I figure you know one week. I'm a little early the next week. I'm a little late Hello, Green Yeti. How are you doing? Hey, everybody? Give me just a minute. I'm still getting set up. I'm a little early And I have some cool stuff to show you some really cool stuff Hey, everybody Hey beach 78 from Portland. Hello from the United States Hey, Green Yeti. I saw that sergeant slaughter responded to you So the sergeant slaughter is really cool and he's he's very responsive on Twitter He just seems to really enjoy interacting with fans. So that is really awesome And that's a that's a lot of fun. That's really cool Okay, now one quickie thing here I have stuff to show you it's great episode, you know, not to toot my own horn here, but it's gonna be great Hey, Green Yeti's going to Joe fest. Cool. I will be there too. Hi Marvel NDC. Hey, it's Joe fan 82 as well Hello, Joe fan. Oh Yeah, oh my goodness All right. Well, just just don't comment while driving. Hi John Okay, Ducky here all I'm doing here real quick is Grabbing the link to toss into Facebook Matt asks if I'm any better. I am I'm doing pretty good. Now. I'm really tired Because it's been a very busy day at work, but overall I'm fine. I Just been really busy speaking of really busy Let me say one thing real quick If I if I'm supposed to get a sketch for anyone If I owe you a sketch, I probably have it done and I'm trying to get them all out Apologize if your sketch is running late. It's been very difficult to To get to the post office these days. It's it's been a very busy time So I apologize, but I am going to get all of the sketches out And yeah, somebody mentions that Joe motion videos Byron isn't here yet. So hopefully Byron will show up soon Hey, McDowen See McDowen is usually driving during the live stream McDowen I did see that you posted a video about iron grenadiers And it is absolutely my intention to watch that and share it, but I haven't got to it yet But I will I will Everybody can have to be real patient with me. I'm having a hard time keeping up with everything like I see like new podcast episodes go up and like new Videos on YouTube like oh, I want to watch that and then I can't watch it right now And then it takes me a long time to get into watching but You know, this is one of those good problems, I think because there's so many cool things going on so many cool Fan created content in the GI Joe community that I think it's a great time to be a fan There's a lot of stuff to watch a lot of stuff to listen to There's you know, really great like toy photography Kind of stuff. It's really a fun time to be a fan. I think hello Brian Clark. How you doing? Yeah, Joe fan the way behind to you it gets that way doesn't it I mean Yeah, try especially trying to create your own content and then keep up with your friends and everything. It's hard Oh Executive Sonda is watching here in the middle of the night in Finland Well, thank you for staying up on a weekday to watch. Thank you and hello from the United States What in tarnation? Hey, oh So I've got stuff to show you okay. I've got stuff to show you I have been since some things Hey, there's Brandon night speaking of Brandon night one of the things I have to show you is this box here and Brandon I did send you an email saying that The US Postal Service look what they did to your box. It was like this when I got it They were not kind, but you can see here even though it's mirrored. It says I mean, it's you know bizarro language. You just have to read it backwards It says do not open until live stream. Well, I'm not opening it Until a live stream, but the US Postal Service decided to open it a little early. So Yeah, so yeah Brandon. Thank you for sending this to me and as I go through that You'll have to tell me if there's anything missing. I don't know if anything like fell out or something But this thing it was it's like that so it's possible that something could have fallen out So let me know if there's anything missing so anyway All right Hey, is it not mirrored? Hey, that's cool. It's working right for once. Okay other stuff to show you I've got other stuff to show you first of all. There's something in here That was sent to me. It's really cool. I did already open this because it needed to be assembled a little bit But this is from Ivan Gonzalez. And so thank you Ivan And I'll show you that here in a second. It's really cool. And then there's this other thing There this other thing it's not somebody that's anybody sent to me, but It's something that I got for myself and it's in this box and I'm going to show that to you here in a few minutes I was hoping that Byron would be here because I wanted to give Byron a shout out Byron Kellogg also known as Joe videos 82 is His father recently passed away And so my condolences to him and his family on the loss of his dad his He started a fundraiser to help out his mom. His mother is Stuck with some funeral and medical expenses So I Was I'm going to drop the link for the gulf on me in In in the chat so There we go If you can, you know Of course don't never do more than you can do But if there is anything that you can do Byron has been a great friend for quite some time now He's stuck around here for quite some time. He's been very kind to me. He's a really good guy I like him a lot and his family is experiencing some some issues right now, so so The best to you Byron whenever you see this or you're not here right now I thought you would be here, but if you know if you see this later the best to you Byron and We'll see what we can do to help. So that's that and and hopefully Byron can join us a little bit later But it's nice to see everybody here Benjamin Alright, so I've got stuff to show you. It's really cool Hi Nyquist Hey Javier Gonzalez. I got your thing. I got your box here Ivan I hope I did open it and assemble it so I could show it to everybody, you know fully assembled so Actually, you know, this is probably a good time to go ahead and get started I got stuff to show you it's amazing It's amazing. All right. Are you ready? All right, everybody here. I think everybody's here. Okay Let me start by showing you what I even sent to me, okay? This is really cool All right, check this out. Yes, I just I Got out of work. I had to get dinner for everybody. I didn't have time to change clothes This is how how busy I've been I don't have don't have time to slow down, but here we go. Here we go All right, this is what he sent me. This is really cool. It's a cobra head cane Isn't that awesome? This is a cool. See this is like This has got to be part of a Of a Cobra commander cosplay, right? I really need to do it. I have the accessories now I just don't have the costume to go with it. Yes, it's a it's a pimp stick also, you know, I Could use it as a cane. I could also use it as a scepter, right? Scepter I could I could I could night people with it, you know if I felt like bestowing night hoods You know I night the The you I give I you know, there you go The Knights of Hoodie you're all now the Knights of Hoodie. I bestow the order of the hoodster on you. There you go This is this is really cool. Thank you very much Ivan. This is just neat It is it's like a play it is plastic So it's light It's got a really nice vicious looking Cobra head on it there. So Thank you all Knights of Hoodie and thank you Ivan for this. I shall use it Wisely, I shall not abuse the power that is bestowed upon me with it I'm well, okay I may abuse the power a little bit but only in fun ways, but thank you. Thank you very much for that That's really cool. So that's the first thing I have to show you. That's That's that's really cool. All right Okay now The second thing that I got to show you is this sent from Brandon Knight, okay? Thank you Brandon Knight for sending this to me And as I showed earlier Yeah, it was like this when I got it, okay, so Be seeing as the box is already open I'm going to just pull things out of here and show you why he sent me. Oh, hey somebody from New Zealand a C more Hello, New Zealand from the United States. Now. Thank you for joining So here we go and thank you Brandon Knight for sending this to me. So let's see what Brian Brandon sent here. We go I See I see feet there are feet in here They are the feet of here is hey, okay here We have action figures. We have we have We have cool action figures in here and one of them is this one. This is Storm Shadow version 2 from 1988. It's a great figure. I love this figure and KV somebody says hello from Greece. Hello from the United States Thank You Brandon.  This is gonna be cool. What else we got in here The contents may have been jostled a little bit but Brandon you you included enough bubble wrap that I don't think anything's damaged So, you know good packing job, but you know very poor care on the part of the postal service I have to say not your fault not your fault. So I'm pulling this one out and this is Cobra commander which version of Cobra commander is this it's like version Four well, I can't I could never remember. Oh, hey some folks from Canada. Hello from your neighbor from the south This is all it. This is a really amusing version of Cobra commander. He comes a little drone thing Form BX 257 reviewed this guy not too long ago, but he's got this He's got this like translucent red Mask, it's very it's very interesting. It's um Yeah, I'll have to get to reviewing this one someday. It's it's something else. Anyway, so that's a that's a Cobra commander Let's see what else we got. Oh wait. Whoa. I forgot something. I have a letter Let's see here I should have read this first.  I have to add a plus for penmanship Dear HCC 788. Thank you for making great and fun videos. You're welcome Also, it's great to see you doing better and never give up. Thank you Keep up the good work. I hope to see you and meet you at the next Joe Khan. Thank you Joe Fest probably next year Joe Fest And there it looks like a PS here inside this package. There are some figures to help with figure reviews. Thank you Also, there are many figures here that can be used as giveaways or prizes for any future GI Joe event Good idea. Good idea. I thought this would be fun and something nice to do for GI Joe community Everyone deserves a gift. So that is very thoughtful of you Brandon Thank you very much. Thank you for this letter. I will keep this letter. I keep all of these letters So that's very special to me. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. So let's let's keep digging in I should be there first. I didn't see it in there at first Okay Pulling out the next one and it's oh, yeah storm shadow This is storm shadow the night force version, which I believe is version three I think we're only like four versions of storm shadow in the vintage era There was the version one from 84 version two from 88 This one from 92 and the last one from 94. I'm pretty sure that's what it was So there you go This is and I don't think I had this Version of storm shadow complete so it's nice to see it complete So hello to everyone who's joined and I apologize that I'm not keeping up with the chat very well I'll try to Kenneth says he's watching from the Philippines Hello from the United States to Philippines on that's really cool So, okay, I'm gonna keep going here Let me keep going Kind of pulling off the top layer. Okay. We have main frame I'm a fan of main frame. I like the figure. I also really like the character of main frame I've always been a big main frame fan You know, he's not you know, no guns to shoot. He comes with like an old-style 80s computer But but still big fan of main frame. I like this guy. So main frame. Let's see. What's next? Here. Oh It's our favorite target. Dr. Meinbender Yes Meinbender version to hold on a second here Hang on There you go. There's my dr. Meinbender version to 1993 All right, we got I gotta get something out of here Hang on a second. Oh I know. Hey. Yeah, I just noticed On some of these he has included the the trading card Yeah, so there's the dr. Meinbender trading card All right Here is his mind scrambling Missile launcher, whatever they call it Let's see here. All right Okay, all right, we got to test this out. See if it works. Hang on a second. Hang on. Hang on Stay there. Here we go Here we go All right All right, let's just take aim. I think like this and Fire There that felt good didn't it does everybody feel better. Is that very satisfying? I'm happy. I'm happy All right, so the dr. Meinbender version to The orange and purple one and again, I do apologize to folks for not keeping up with the chat I'm doing the best I can but I'm I've got to get through this stuff. We all of this stuff to you Okay next Next I don't even know what I'm not I'm just reaching in I'm not even looking Hey, it's It's iceberg, you know I almost didn't do that review of iceberg that one time the cause Even though the figure was fine and it was complete this gun was missing that Little little thing right there on mine. So it's nice to have one that's intact so iceberg Just in time for winter My globe has says 90s was such a dark time for GI Joe I don't know how you can say it was a dark time when there were so many bright colors Oh, Daniel likes my DIY armor. Thank you. It's the cheapest cosplay I could do, you know, I just Thought it would be fun to kind of keep that gag rolling. So I just I just get poster board and cut it And I used the same poster board three times the green one three times I used it and for the last one for dark lawn. I just like Sharpie stripes on it Okay And this one is one of my favorites falcon from 1987 the main protagonist on the in the 1987 GI Joe movie who asked okay, somebody asked if it was a bra on my head In the trip wire review the answer is yes, it was Yeah, I'll do that for you. I will wear underwear on my head Yeah, I'm willing to do that for you Yeah falcon fantastic figure one of the greats I love that camouflage The green beret really cool love falcon Next one is none other than Xandar, here's the one I keep forgetting about Yeah, not only have I worn a brazier on my head. I've worn fishnet stockings on my head I've worn a pillowcase on my head aluminum foil. I Have no shame. I have no shame I So Xandar Xandar they forgettable I'm not and that's not an insult on the figure that that's was his personality trait is that he was forgettable So Xandar he does look complete And actually that's a really Not a bad o-ring Somebody has replaced that o-ring at some time a point which by the way is hard to do with Xandar Zirana and Zartan so Whoever managed to get this thing open to replace the o-ring. Good job So Xandar Hey, we got like 92 people in here. That's awesome. Hey, can we hit a hundred people this week? That would be crazy, huh? Okay, I don't want to miss any I don't miss any Steve liked the tripwire reviews. Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I I had fun doing it I I really enjoyed that one this one is Dippity you Mr. What's his face? I can't all right. There are I think two Of these night force figures that their names always slit my mind every time somebody put the name of this guy in the Comments really quickly because I feel dumb because every time I look at this guy. I forget. I mean that's Now I thought Xandar was the forgettable one and this is the guy. I've actually forgotten so Ninja Force guy He's he's blue Yeah Bushido, yeah, I think you're right. I think that's Bushido kind of a samurai looking guy Yes, Bushido. Thank you everybody Bushido Bushido Okay Okay, and I think okay. Oh, there's more there. I thought we were almost done. We're not done There you go This slicer dice It's um, it's the red one got some ninja force and Oh, here we go And we got a Cobra Commander version 3 Nice-looking Cobra Commander. Hey, this actually might be in slightly better condition than the one I've got already Nice Cobra Commander version 3. Thank you McDonnell slice. That's what I was gonna say and then we have Ah, yes This is eco warriors barbecue. I Got to take this one out. I have a lot of the eco for there are a few that I don't have but this is the one I didn't have Somebody asked what are my thoughts on the alley viper alley viper really nice sculpt really loud colors So, yeah, there's some there's barbecue In eco warriors, he's good. He's wearing red. It's he's somewhat barbecue-like. Yeah, kind of That'll be an interesting one to me. I always it's always amuses me when we get to revisit Eco work. We haven't done eco warriors in a while. We need to get back to eco warriors Okay. Oh, okay. Here we go. We have Another Cobra Commander version Version 3 what I say not version 2 version 2 is the hooded Cobra Commander an excellent Cobra Commander figure Hello fab art The visor oh, where was he? Yeah, he did come with a visor anyway, so I guess he does need a visor. Hey is g.i. Joburg. Hi g.i. Joburg Well, I hate to even think about how late it is in South Africa. Thank you for joining It's got to be like in the middle of the night out there. So thank you for joining g.i. Joburg Very much enjoyed Joburg's most recent podcast. That was a lot of fun Okay, we're getting close to the end here. I think I don't want to miss anything And we have a Destro a classic classic version 1 Destro classic oh Yeah, yeah, I Just I just I just love this figure this figure I remember getting this figure back as a kid and just being fascinated by it. This is It's Destro. You can't go wrong Yeah, Joburg is actually here. Can you believe it? We got real celebrity in the house 2 30 a.m. You know what I'm gonna be doing at 2 30 a.m. Here sleeping So thank you. Thanks for joining. Oh, hey, hey, hey speaking of Joburg Yes, Coupe We got a scoop here. I was gonna take him out, but I don't want to lose all of his bits, but there's There's there's scoop Favorite of one of the GIs over good guys. All right, I think that's it. I'm gonna pull out all the bubble wrap just to make sure No, no, no, I missed I missed a couple things. Oh, yeah, here's a some screws Handy handy screws. Thank you and okay the one The one that was lurking down in there about at the bottom is none other than a hooded Cobra commander in black and silver This doesn't this look good Doesn't this look good? Hey, did somebody say human mechanism was here too? It's a it's a Cobra convergence reunion. It's a Cobra convergence convergence Isn't this I mean he looks great in black.  Thank you very much Brandon. Thank you many many things So that That actually does help me get closer to completing some figures And getting some things more ready for review. So Thanks very much for that And now I Want to try not to lose anything so I'm putting it back Javier Gonzalez says he doubt fit him in black snake armor. That would be something Wasn't there an issue of black snake armor? Not in the vintage era, but didn't they issue the snake armor in black?  I like that That's that's good Johnny cash very nice So thank you very much Brandon. I love that. Thank you for the letter as well It's very kind of you to send that to me. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you now now Barbecue has a great accent. What didn't barbecue have the kind of a rope Vermont our accent. No, that was some Snow job in like the first appearance Way back in in 83 in that mini series. They gave it gave him pretty solid Vermont accent. Yeah. Yeah That's right Barbecue was the Bostonite. That's right Okay, okay. Now I got to show you something Thank you to Ivan. Thank you to Brandon for the stuff that you sent This is not something that anybody sent to me It is something that I got for myself and I want to show this to you. It's pretty special to me Okay, this is something I've been looking for for quite some time. All right And it's kind of a big deal to me and it's also the box is a little bit big So I have to move some stuff out of the way. Hang on Cory says he's from Vermont. Well, hello Vermont Good evening from the United States. Thanks for joining us and Massachusetts I've always been a Patriots fan for all you New Englanders Okay, hey, we have over a hundred Over a hundred people in here, that's awesome green Yeti. What do you need real quick because I'm about to open something. It's important New York, huh? Oh, I didn't know your dad's a firefighter. That's cool Yeah, in that case it makes the total sense for barbecue to be an important figure And I did review barbecue already and as I recall I did like the figure It's not my favorite figure. My dad wasn't a firefighter But if my dad was it was that figure would have that much more importance to me But now, you know, I'll have an opportunity to review What there were two more versions of? Barbecue in the benches line because there was also the slaughter's marauders version, too So there will be opportunities to Revisit barbecue. So all right. Okay. All right. Are we ready? What's my favorite barbecue in Oklahoma? Somebody asks. Well, it used to be this place called naughty pine Here in town. It was just on Charles Page Boulevard. It was one of those old places It was like an old shack and it had been there forever is just great food, but unfortunately they closed down I think the owner might have retired but The business whoever was running the business moved it to a different location And it just hasn't been the same sense. So I'm kind of looking for some really good barbecue Oklahoma is not especially known for barbecue. It's not your Kansas City, you know But we did have that pretty good barbecue place that I really liked that isn't there anymore Okay. All right. I had to show you this to you Like I said folks, this is something I got for myself. Okay, I Didn't plan on getting this But the opportunity arose and I couldn't pass it up so Here it is You want to see it? Hold on Hold on. I got I have to be careful with it. It's a little delicate Hold on. I guess so. I Repack it in here for safety Okay, ready Here's the thing I got who knows what this is Yeah, I Have been looking for this for years. Sorry. Yeah, I have been looking for this for years And before you ask it's not 100% complete but it's it's close and the pieces that are missing I've already got a line on them, okay So I'll be we're completing this thing really soon. Yes Michael has expensive cardboard correct. Yes, I did Confirm at least the best I could that this is authentic and it's not it is authentic is not re repro. It's It's the real deal and this in addition to To that and you know the accompanying pieces that go with it the expensive cardboard um It also came With the figures all right This is a really nice Cobra officer that Cobra emblem is just it's really nice This is better than any of my other Cobra officers. This is really cool Cobra soldier Cobra soldier and The straight arm not the Mickey Mouse Cobra commander. I've already got the Mickey Mouse Cobra commander This this is actually one that I didn't have I didn't have the regular symbol one That's This is extraordinary to me And like I said, I didn't plan to get this I was actually trying to look at getting more pieces for the defiant I You know I'm trying to complete the defiant, but then this thing came up It was a target of opportunity it yeah, it came up I had the means to get it and I got it and I will I Should be completing it pretty soon. I've got I've actually even got Got I've got two of the three file cards read back. I just need the one other one I've got a line on that too. What this means folks what this means. You know what this means I will tell you what this means this means that I will actually Pleat 1982 When I first started collecting my goal was just to complete 1982. That's all I planned to do But obviously my collections Expanded beyond that, but this this is what was missing from 1982 And I wasn't sure if I was gonna be able to finish it, but here it is In the flesh or rather in the cardboard one second there we go So Yeah That's what I got And again, you know, I don't show you these things to brag Or to you like not at all. I just want to share with you This is a pretty special thing for me So That's all I got to show you Yeah, I'm married to the killer whale. Yeah Getting stuff like this is important to me because it means that I'll be able to share it with you guys soon you know soon and that is Being able to share the stuff with you Really enhances the enjoyment for me. I mean I like collecting it's cool to have this stuff But if if I just collect and just put it on a shelf then You know, it's it I get to look at it every once in a while But this project has really given me the opportunity to To to actually share David says don't let the dog eat it. I know what you're thinking, you know, you're right on track That's why I'm keeping it in the box I'm keeping the box in a high place the cats can't can't get to it. The dog can't get to it. Nobody get to it. I Made by a safe for it Man asks if Susan likes it. I just don't know for her it's like it's it's um, it's cardboard And it is it's just cardboard. It really is. I mean when it you break it down It's it is just cardboard. It's just that this particular cardboard is a little hard to find so But jiv your Ivan Gonzalez, thank you for for the the staff the staff is really cool. I Love it, and I'm gonna find ways to use it Maybe whack people on the head with it when they get out of line So Okay, so that was the the show-and-tell portion of the show We still have almost half the show to go so we're doing pretty good. I started a little early this evening Because sometimes I've had a problem with you know starting a little late, so I thought I'd start early this time So Listened in fun tripwire I had a lot of fun doing that review and The full audio for the cassette tape both sides will be going up Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow four o'clock mice my time Green Yeti claims to have made me a Galabula's fan. Well We'll see about that. We'll see Because I will be reviewing the 87 movie at some point before the end of the year Jeff will I ever cover any modern style Joe's I will sometimes do like a Modern versus vintage comparison, but it's not my intention to like do full reviews of modern figures It's just it's not my thing. It's just not what I'm what I collect Angus says if it no no I wore a bra on my head I would have watched earlier. Well, see this is why you got to keep up on these things Yeah, yeah, you can't miss them.  I made sure I got the one of that tape so badly I didn't have anything to play it on so I had to get a cassette player and I got one that would Record like do a digital recording you plug the you know the thumb drive in it'll actually record the the tape audio as an audio file And that's actually the one that I used in the video at the beginning That's the only thing I had to to actually play the cassette tape But since I was able to Record it digitally. I figured why not just record the entire tape and put it up on the channel So that should be coming tomorrow. I hope you enjoy that the I Think the audio cassette is hilarious I think it's It's I mean it's so bad It's so bad. I mean the stories even I mean Setting aside the the terrible voices and they're really kind of silly Narration the stories themselves aren't even very good stories Zach Yavin likes the videos. Thank you. I'm glad you're liking it So, yeah, John that is correct 82 complete or will be complete because I got to finish completing that Playset, but like I said, I already have a line on On the the pieces that are missing so I should be able to get them soon and You know, I I got to get that thing on front of the camera I may not do a full review of it right away But I'll try to do a quick shot of it as soon as I have it You know finished which should be soon Chris asked when we'll actually get to see Hooded HCC so hooded hooded cover commander. That is a good point. I've worn everything on my head Except for a hood. That's the one thing. I haven't actually worn on my head. So I'll be I'll I'll I'll get right on that I actually I really would like to do a hoodie cover commander costume That is and something that I've thought about a lot. I just haven't quite got around to doing it Especially nowadays. I'm really just barely keeping up with the video schedule Mike Lopez says nobody's ready for another MRE. Well, you know, I get hungry, you know And by the way the Everybody commented about the gum Yes, the gum is a mild laxative But I only chewed it for like 30 seconds to get the flavor of it and then I spit it out And so apparently that wasn't enough to Do its thing so if anybody was worrying about the condition of my bowels after the MRE chewing gum No worries. Everything's all copacetic. So everybody calm yourself. Everything's fine Thank you, Greg. I'm glad you like him The mobile command center at Joe con yeah, I saw that I Saw the mobile command center. I saw a bunch of stuff at Joe con in Chattanooga that I Wanted to get I just didn't have I Just didn't have the time I had I even brought enough money with me to get a bunch of stuff But I spent more time talking with with you guys, you know with lots of people who showed up said hi to me We had great conversation So I spent most of the convention doing that and really very little time Shopping and picking up stuff. So I saw a ton of stuff at Joe con that I didn't I wasn't able to get. Oh, Michael has says the gum thing is an urban myth. There you go.  Okay. Green Yeti lives in Paris. Okay. Well, cool. Hello to Paris from the United States um Joe fest since somebody asked Joe fest is gonna be in Augusta, Georgia Next year in June And I will be there they've invited me to be there They're gonna give me a booth. They're gonna give me a panel. So I'll actually be able to present something to you guys I'm going to talk about GI Joe on YouTube So that I can tell everybody about all the cool stuff that's going on GI Joe related here on YouTube So that I'm looking forward to that that'll be a lot of fun and like I said, I should actually have a table there So I'll set up a table. I'll have stuff to give away. I'll probably give away some secret code books but but the The Not only will I be there You know, it would be good enough if that's all it was if it was just me it would be awesome But not only will I be there a couple other important things important people will be there as well Larry Hama will be there Ron Rudat will be there Kirk Bezigian will be there Sergeant slaughter will be there It's gonna be big. It's it's gonna be a huge GI Joe fan Convergence a lot of your favorite creators of GI Joe people who worked on it for hasbro you know Larry Hama Larry Hama is gonna be there it's gonna be a It's gonna be pretty special Will Owen King be there Representative by the way of GI Joe Berg may possibly be there that would be This is Joe Fest is is getting pretty big So yeah, it's gonna be cool it's gonna be cool so as we get closer to To the event, I'm gonna be talking about it a lot more What's my favorite memory of buying GI Joe in a store? Let me think about that. Let me think about that Let's see a lot of things I got like for as gifts for like birthday Christmas stuff like that but What sticks out as a memory of purchasing one in a store? I remember the Wolverine. I got the Wolverine And I got I think I got the Wolverine at the years See I remember I remember getting breaker my first ever figure my first my straight arm breaker action figure And that was pretty cool And now I'm blanking on other memories of of buying GI Joe in the store We do Because man, I got a lot of stuff at the time We would have an allowance and we would earn some money usually for mowing Mowing lawns and we like once a week, you know me and the other kids from neighborhood we go And like just get as much stuff as we could get with the money that we have Chilpe says first Joe was thunder with the slugger That's a good way to start The slugger is a sweet vehicle that camouflage That's you know, it's hard to beat that camouflage. That's really cool Sergeant slaughter. Yes, somebody mentioned slaughter eyes at sergeant slaughter will be at Joe Fest so You know who should also be at Joe Fest. You should also be at Joe Fest You got plenty of time to plan it, right? You booked your hotel, you know, save up your pennies and you go to Joe Fest and see me there and see Larry and the Sarge Kirk and Ron great stuff I'm really excited about it. I went to I went to five Joe cons And I enjoyed all of them And And You know, they were good. I don't think anything will totally replace Joe con Joe con was a special thing that we did every year but When I say we I mean the people who went we had a special time there every year. I didn't do Joe con But this Joe Fest thing Is shaping up to be something special I'm looking forward to it Delvis's first ever Cobra First Joe was Cobra trooper. That's also a great way to start. I in fact, where's my I just had him right here Where's my Cobra trooper? Anyway, you know, I just showed him to you a really nice Cobra trooper Brandon what about a voice actor hold on a second here I Got to keep up with the chat. I'm terrible at keeping up with the chat Okay, if time travel was real would you go back and buy one of everything which potentially denied child of a toy or bring an Unplayed box slash carted toy to your collection. Good question Well, the thing is if I were to buy something back then I don't think it necessarily would have deprived a child of the toy because the store probably just would have ordered a new one They'd order another one. They'd manufacture more of them and they just keep pumping them out. So I don't think it would necessarily Deprive a child of the toy if I time travel back to the 80s and just got arm loads of everything. I want it So that's my justification Chas first Joe is the version one back bat. That's also a pretty good way to start the bat is an interesting figure All right. Well, while we're talking about it who all remembers their first GI Joe figure. What was everybody's first Joe? Oh, several people got stalker Short fuse snake eyes, man, you know, I think snake eyes was harder to find back then I remember like the like version one the straight arm snake eyes. I don't think I ever got the straight arm snake eyes I don't think I could find them That was That figure was popular that snake eyes figure flew off eggs and people are grabbing it Somebody got the his tank. That was cool. There's no serpent and cold cobra soldier. That's awesome Grunt and flash. Hey lots of old-school guys here A lot of you guys started back in the in the first year So, you know senior citizens represent right very good 82 cobra officer. I always thought the cobra officer just looked special because of the silver symbol I don't know. I mean the cobra officer and the cobra soldier. I mean They look almost the same But you put a silver cobra symbol on them and somehow that makes them special at the time as a kid I just thought this is cool GI Joe bergs First was lifeline You know, I think that says a lot about gi joe berg that Excuse me that the first figure was someone who Saves lives rather than taking lives probably Speaks deeply about the character of our gi joe berg member here Rock and roll version one man, you know, there's some really cool gi joe figures that came out later in the line, but Man that that first year when it was brand new And you didn't know where it was going, you know, you didn't know what was coming next You just had those green guys, but those green guys were They were just so unique and interesting and And there was this whole world That was built around them the file cards the file cards I mean how special was that these guys weren't just generic army men They actually gave you a character and they gave you a history man.  That's a really good birthday. That's a very good birthday Ace the sky striker Information with ro-tec veritec. Yeah A pick from christmas holding an original carded release of cobra commander and the hooded cobra commander showed up Yeah, very nice very nice Uh, I've as I've mentioned before I never got any of the mail away figures Um That's the if I could time travel. That's what I do. I would tell my younger self Get those mail away figures What's your problem exactly? Why aren't you getting them? You got the flag points you got like the gazillion flag points Get the mail aways. I don't know. I didn't get the mail aways back then But I always wanted the hooded cobra commander And I had seen the hooded cobra commander because I'd seen other kids who had the hooded cobra commander But it wasn't until I was an adult collector that I actually had a hooded cobra commander And that's one of the fun things about being a collector now is I I'm able to of course get the stuff that I had back then But I'm also able to get stuff that I never had back then and I love it. It's this is fun and the the the Cobra missile command center Is is the icing on the cake right now? I'm extremely thrilled Um night.  I really do Uh and the vehicles night force vehicles. That's something that I was going to get um at um At jocan I was going to pick up some night force vehicles Um, and I never got around to it and the one I was looking at the one I was really ready to pull the trigger on by the time I got around to it The guy had already sold it. It was gone So That's all right. That's all right The they'll they'll come back around there are plenty of them out there. I'll find one Um, but yeah, uh, so That was our show and tell I am keep these live streams to about an hour and we're about three minutes from there So I'll start wrapping it up. Uh, we've still got over a hundred people in here That's awesome. I will remind everyone. I will remind everyone. I will not Have a new review video on sunday. I'm taking that weekend off I probably will have a video But it will full Review it'll be something smaller. Uh, just to kind of keep you guys interested, right? Um, but I'll be I'll be back The following week with a full review and this time we're not doing anything ugly no ugly figures A full review of something that is kind of a fan favorite something that I think everybody will really like Um, and I'm trying to put some extra work into that one. So hopefully you'll enjoy it. So yeah, uh, so Uh, just a reminder No review this sunday, but Uh, we'll be a review the following week. Uh, and and, um Uh, somebody asked about the live stream next week. Yeah, I should still do the live stream on tuesday I don't see any reason why not. So we'll still live stream Next tuesday Michael says what are you most after at the moment? Um, that is a good question. Um I was I actually was like really is trying to track down some Defiant parts. I was trying to track down the gantry doors Because I know those are going to be pricey and I don't really want anybody to send those to me That's something I should get myself and I was that was like the next thing I was going to go after and then that popped up And I had it derailed my plan. So right now actually my Uh plan is to complete that Get that get the sears missile command center all finished. Um, and then I will Then I will reassess. Um But, um, so yeah, I I My my collecting path is sort of non-linear. Oh, hey, um Um Joberg says their halloween special has been published. Okay, cool. So everybody go check out uh joberg's halloween special And also, uh joberg is going to bed. I don't blame you, but thank you for stopping in So that has been our uh hour. So thank you. Thanks to everyone who stopped in. Hey kevin mayle here just at the Just at the end. He's gonna trick or treat as listening fun tripwire. That's awesome You got to get you got to get pictures of that Very easy to make a listening fun tripwire costume. You need an orange shirt A red or hot pink cardboard chest plates And a brassiere for your head and sunglasses. That's all you need easy So thank you to everyone who sent stuff to me. Thank you Ivan for the really wicked cool staff With the cobra head. Thank you to brandon for the figures. Thank you to everyone for watching So I will uh, I will let you all go for the evening. I've been a very long day I haven't even got my tie off after work. So it's time for me to chill out a little bit. Okay, so I will see you guys Next week We will be back for another live stream, but for the for now. I will say good night And I will press this thing to turn this off


Where's Merlin though? Merlin. Oh my god, what are you doing in the trash? Why?  I like arts and crafts, Merlin. You can't hang out in the garbage. He's like, I'm waiting to get her. Hello my fellow Snippers, flighters and newbies. My name is Merlin McCohen and welcome to my channel. You'll never believe what's about to happen today. We are getting a visitor who is a new member of the family. Not really, already a member of the family. I'm not even going to tell you who it is. A lot is going on here guys. I'm really excited for you guys to see. Megan. Yes. New member of the family. What do you say about this, Sayluka? No. No, you have a lot to say. Can I have a kiss? Fine, don't give me a kiss. Uh, it's happening right now. Mm-hmm. Wait, right, this very second? Yeah. You know, okay. Do you wish you had some morning? I don't know. I, well, you didn't tell me when I first got here, which was like over two hours ago. Failed to make mention. Thank you. You know, I thought I had more time to sweep and I guess I was right because of all things sweep, because Megan, I have to make the house clean for new arrivals. And our birds have been playing. I, Luka, blend in. Just blend into the background, all right? Those siphonies. She's smiling. They are. Are they? They're all there on the website. Are they on sale though? They're not like on sale, they're for sale. Oh yeah? There's a difference. But uh, yeah, yeah, you can get them at ParisStation.com. Yeah, give me that light, girl. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Yeah. You was back lit for a second and you know we don't play that way. No we don't. Oh, that's a nice shirt, Megan, actually. Oh my god, this is also for sale. www.ParisStation.com. Your number one bird choice source. And shirts. I love that. I love your favorite shirt. So bright. Uh-oh. Oh god. Is it happening? I don't know. That looks like a black SUV. It's rolling up slowly. Oh my god.  Do I wait at the door and like pretend I don't know what's happening? What kind of dog is this boogie? It's a Belgian melon one. He used to be in the U.S. Army. And then we got him. He said, do you want to be in the army or do you want to come live with us with cuddles? And he said, I'll come for the cuddles. Guys, just so you know, you never trust animals together. Like you always, always. I have seen situations where, and these guys are very diligent about it. But I've seen situations where people were like, my dog is like 10 years, has always been fine with my bird, and then it hurt the bird. So don't, don't like watch this. And then go, oh yeah, yeah, their dog is fine with the bird. You have to be good with animals. You have to have serious training. And you have to never, never trust. So just so you know. And we, of course, are going to be extremely diligent about the birds here as well. I just feel like you guys need to know the importance of it. Where are you going? Do you even know where you're going? Look at how she listens to me. She's like, oh yeah. That's the way she walks. So cute. She's got this little lady on. Yeah, I know where I'm going. Where are you going? Go ahead. She's going to think you're following her. No, now she wants to go to you. Go on. Where are you going? You don't need, she's telling you where she's going. Show me. Is she there? George, let her go. She might be. Look at how she looked up at you like, is she? I don't know. No. You keep going.  Megan? Where are you going? She's like on a mission. She's like, I know what I'm doing here. Yeah. She always wants to be on this ledge. And I don't know why. She just likes that. Who needs a meal? Okay. Here it is. Okay, let's open it. There's some water over there she can mop up because our dishwasher is broken. You can't hang out in the garbage.  This is naughty. By the way, don't forget if you guys are looking for an amazing bird food brand for your bird that is healthy, organic and not full of food colorings and sugar and peanut smash, check out Marlene's signature blend. I did this along with Top's Parrot Food. We just launched in the UK. Northern Parrots now sells our food. You guys have been asking for it. You got it. Also, thanks for Wings and Canada sells our bird food right now. I'm proud to announce and they will ship it to you. I encourage you guys to check out my Feathered Fun Box. It's a passion project. It's a subscription box that comes with parrot toys for your bird and also special merch. Kind of like my dream box. Honestly, I put so much into it. I love that there's something like this for birds out in the world. That's why I created it www.featheredfunbox.com. I love you guys so, so much. Thank you for listening.


Hello everyone and thanks for joining. My name is Dimitr Nidenov and I'm a freelance Python developer from Sofia, Bulgaria. Today I'm going to talk to you about extracting tabular data from PDFs and the problems I faced and as well the solutions which I found. So let's start by a quick overview of what this talk would be about. So, first we'll have a brief history of the PDF portable document format and its internal structure, specifically how tabular data is represented and why it's hard to actually extract such data. Then on to Camelot and Excalibur, the main focus of this talk. I'll list the features which those libraries make available for use and why it's so easy to use them to extract the tabular data and get control over the extraction process as well. Then there is time for some quick demonstration, which I'll show you how to use the Camelot API and how you can tweak the extraction process to suit your needs. And at the end we'll have some Q&A and also a look at possible improvements that can be done in Camelot and Excalibur as well. So let's get started with the portable document format. So almost 30 years ago, if not more, John Warnock, which is one of the founders of Adobe Systems, started something which was unofficially called the Camelot project. And described the goals in a manifesto sort of document, six pages long. And here you can see a few excerpts from that document. The goal was to create a universal document format, which is easy to exchange between different systems, environments, OSs. And each PDF can contain rich content, annotations, attachments, fonts, and all sorts of different things that are needed to represent this PDF. The same way, regardless on which machine or OS you're looking at that, and most importantly, print it the same way as the author intended. And this here is from an article from Adobe called The Evolution of the Digital Document, celebrating Adobe's Sacrobat 25th anniversary, whatever. So let's see a few quick facts about PDF. So it was created in the early 1990s. It actually predates the World Wide Web and HTML format. It was a proprietary format initially, but later in 2008 it was released as an open standard by the International Standards Organization. It's based on a subset of the Adobe PostScript, which is a page description language, and a subset because PostScript itself is quite broad and it's practically a programming language, although it doesn't look so. And it was designed to be self-contained so that each PDF contains everything you needed to render that on various different systems. And in order to do that, it uses font embedding and attachments and annotations and various other things. There are 13 versions released so far. Since 2008, as I said, version 1.7, it's an open standard. And it's structured as a hierarchy of objects. So there is the page catalog, sorry, the document catalog, which contains each page and within each page, then you have different types of content which are also hierarchically structured. And those objects can be words, paragraphs, fonts, and so on. So, oops, sorry. There is another view of the PDF structure, which is more kind of close to the physical layout of it. So it has a header, a trailer, and also a paragraph across references tables, which also contain references to other objects within the PDF. It can also contain revisions because PDF was originally designed to be reviseable and you could save multiple revisions within the same PDF. And, yeah, and what else? No tables. What so ever? There are really no concept of tables in PDF. Tables are actually defined as absolutely positioned text boxes on the page and they are laid out in the reading order or although they don't have to be. So basically they just look like tables, but there is no information internally about whether this is a column or a row or what relationships there are between those. So if you ever try to do copy pasting from PDF, you might have found that it's not so easy to do. Basically, you might be lucky sometimes and depending on the way that PDF was rendered, you might get, you know, one or two rows or maybe one or two columns, easy to select. But basically, you just need to do one by one select copy and paste somewhere into probably first not path then Excel and so on. So there has to be a better way than this, right? And indeed there are, there are multiple ways to do it. One of the first things I found, first tools which I found that works well is called Tabula. It's a veritable, you know, open source project quite long, you know, in terms of history and so on. Unfortunately Java based, but open source. There is also PDF Plumber which is Python open source PDF tables which originally was open source but now is proprietary. There is also a PDF table extract which was basically no longer maintained unfortunately and various other proprietary free or paid online services among which once which I tried is called OCR space. So, and then we come to Camelot and Excalibur. I've come across Camelot in search of something better which is open source Python based and gives me more control over the process because most of those tools have their drawbacks and advantages but basically none of them works as well as I found Camelot works. So, Camelot, we have a lot of different ways to do it. Camelot was started in 2016 in a place called Social Cops in Bangalore, India by a guy called Denaak Mehta, a great guy. I've had some chats with him. He actually was facing a problem where a lot of the open data which was available and published by the Indian government or administration was in the form of exported PDFs with tables in there and, you know, just take it from there. So, yeah, basically he needed something which is configurable and also developer friendly in a way because he was learning on one hand how to do it and also using what was available but couldn't find something which is exactly fitting what he wanted. So, there are some features of Camelot which I found and one of the best one is the excellent documentation. It's really lots of, there are lots of examples in there, lots of, sorry, lots of examples, lots of different, you know, ways to overcome certain problems that you might have, you know, how to use parameters of the API to fix issues that you might be facing and also it's Python based, open source, MIT licensed and it has two main extraction algorithms built in. One is called Lattice and the other is called Stream. Lattice is for grid like tables where you have dividing lines and rows and so on. Whereas the Stream one is where you don't have those. So, basically it's detecting text stages based on alignment left or right, central and takes into account white space in between. Works well out of the box. Pretty much for most simple cases it cannot detect where the table is on the page without you having to do anything. And then again it's very configurable because you could define basically all the parameters of the extraction. You could say, for example, no, that's not a single column. You've recognized here there are actually five columns and they're defined at those offsets and you could say like strip those characters from the text because there might be some garbage or like numeric formats with spaces and commas where you want actually to get floats out of that eventually. And it also exports to various useful formats, CSV, CSV, Excel, JSON, HTML and pandas data frames directly. So you could use it directly into your ETL workflow. And what I really liked about it is that it supports visual debugging and plotting using matplotlib. So you could actually see what it recognized where and why, for example, certain things were not recognized. You could graph it and see there are various types of plots that it supports. And last but not least it's very actively maintained and has quite a welcoming community of two people that mostly contribute but lots of people who are actually using it. And you could judge that by seeing how many issues there are and, you know, there are lots of people who are trying and finding something and then usually finding a solution for their specific problem. So let's see how you can install it. It's actually quite easy. I'm not really using Condom myself, but if you are, probably you should be, there is this one liner that you could use to install it. If you are using PIP, there are a couple of prerequisites that you need to install first, which are the TK and Go script. And then you can install it with PIP, simply like PIP install minus, minus a great PIP for various reasons, Camelot Dash Pi and Square Bracket CV. That's because there are various different sub-packages and the one you want is the one that includes OpenCV in it. And for Excalibur, which is I don't know if I mentioned, but Excalibur is the web front-end of Camelot. So if you ever use Tabula, it's kind of the equivalent of Tabula's front-end and it's flask-based UI and has an API and it uses Camelot underneath. So let's do a quick demo, hopefully, to work. So I have this, so just a little notebook here. We can install it. I already did it, actually. And then how you can use it. You just import Camelot and then you say in Camelot.readpdf you specify the path to the PDF and then various other parameters. So by default, the flavor it's using, it's called Lattice, the one with the grid. You can also specify, you know, stream and this specific table looks like this, the one that you saw earlier in the video. So it's a typical table. It's maybe more complicated than your usual table because it has spanning cells, spanning cones, spanning rows. But basically, if you try to do this by hand, it's a nightmare, whereas with Camelot, it just takes, you know, this call and the thing it returns, it's called the table list. It's an object that just a container of tables and it has how many tables, you know, it recognized. The good thing about it is that it also has a parsing report for each of the tables. So you can say, okay, so which page this table is on, in which order it was found on the page, top, left to right, top to bottom. And also the accuracy of the recognition and the ratio of white space within the table. And then you can access each of the tables by indexing. You'll get a table object which is basically a thin wrapper around Pandas data frame, which you can access directly by doing .df and there it is. So this is the whole table. And as you see, I haven't specified anything specifically like parameters and yet Camelot managed to recognize where that table is and everything. So then you could do export and it supports, as I said, various formats. It usually just by specifying the file name, it can detect the format that you want. Otherwise, you could specify it there is a F equals, oops, sorry, like for example, CSV, yeah, online life coding, never a good idea. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. It's not my usual keyboard. So, yeah, I haven't run the whole frame. But yeah, so basically this is what it outputs. So it uses the page and the order to define the file name because you could have multiple pages, multiple tables on one page. And the rest is plain old CSV, you know, as you can then import and reuse whatever, however you want. It can also do JSON exports. There is the .df argument I showed you. It's not necessary here, but yeah, which is, yeah, as you see, just plain JSON. Then again, you could, of course, then load this back as JSON and process it, yes, stop doing things, sorry. And so on. But this is the kind of the best part of it, which is the plotting. So probably have to rerun that whole thing because it's a bit messed up. But basically you can tell it to plots and there are several different kinds of plots. So one of the plots is the grid plot. Maybe there is no internet. Yeah, sorry about that. But I can, I don't know, I don't know probably show you. Yeah, so basically if you, no, yeah. It's, the documentation is really excellent. There is every parameter in there is well documented, how it affects everything. And this is, for example, Excalibur, yeah, which is the web frontend. So it basically goes, yeah, sorry, zooming issues. But yeah, basically it looks very much like tabular. If you haven't seen it, it's basically something that you run locally. So there is no data privacy issues or, you know, GDPR and so on. Everything stays on your machine. You can just upload it. And then it's, you can specify what pages you want. And so on. And then it shows you up, shows you the table, for example, like this. And then you could just use auto detect, which usually works and it immediately finds the tables you want. Or if you want like just a subset, sorry, a subset of that, you could just like, oops, sorry, it's really the scale is, basically you can resize it, move it around and like place it where you want it. And then go and, yeah. So there is this refreshing because it's supposedly, so it's architecture so that you can run it on salary as well. So you could, you know, parallelize multiple extraction jobs and it's a synchronous by design. But yeah, I guess some issues with the Docker container I'm using here. But yeah, so that's Excalibur itself has some things that can be done better.  There is also the, you can choose the flavor here, in this case stream. You could also add columns to say, okay, so I just want, for example, only those two columns here, whether it to work is another, okay, there it is. So, and it shows you what it got extracted. You can then export it to various formats. It's actually zips it up and download, gives you a downloadable version. And there are also the rules, which basically adjacent the files, which basically are the same parameters that you can pass to read PDF more or less. So you could define table areas, which you're interested in on the page. You could have multiple table areas. You could define the columns. You could say, for example, whether it should process backgrounds, because, for example, there are some tables which are not sure if I have such. Yeah, for example, this is a typical gridless table, which can be processed. And let me see if I have it here. Probably, or maybe not. Anyway, so it's basically trying to make the usage of kind of a lot easier for, you know, non-technical people. But it's really easy to use otherwise. Okay, so it actually worked. So this is one of the graphs, which is the text graph. It detects all the text boxes on the page and graphs them. And there is that one from before. Yeah, so you could say, like, strip certain characters, which I don't care about. And yeah, so the other angled brackets are gone. There is comma here, which is gone as well. And yeah, basically, that's it. So it has a lot of things which you could try. And it's, with Excalibur, especially, it's good because it's kind of a iterative process.  And all those rules actually are then saved. You could then change it and upload new ones. And then use those tools with Excalibur as a CLI to automate, like, batch extraction of multiple, you know, similar structured documents with it. And yeah, so it shows all the jobs, each file is a job. And yeah, okay. So that was hopefully useful. And then I just have one more thing, which is future improvements and questions. So there are currently some known issues. One of the issue is performance when it comes to multi-page PDFs and by multi-page, I mean over 100 pages. They're like issues with memory footprint sometimes, but they're being worked on. Go script seems to be an issue for a lot of people because different voices, different sorts of libraries and things, it can be tricky to install, even though it's, it, Go script itself is a prerequisite for multiple clip, but anyway, there could be more tests. Currently, there is like 89% test coverage, although it could be improved. And yeah, as I said, better memory footprint. And of course, anything you might else, you might think of as well. So that was it. I hope you find it useful. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Do we have any questions? Thanks for the talk. Is there any OCR component or does the library integrate with any OCR? Not yet. It's planned in the roadmap. Initially there was a Tesseract integration, but it turned out to be problematic in terms of performance. I personally used OCR my PDF as a step within the extraction process. It works well. It's still kind of experimental, but yeah, yeah, actually I didn't say this, but it works on PDFs with text layers because of that. And the OCR support is planned as well. Thank you. Yeah. I had a question where, what exactly do we make with the precision accuracies, right? So there is an accuracy which gives the percentage. I mean, I understand that it says, it is recognizing it as a table of 100%, but with white spaces, how exactly do I see that? That's actually, there is an issue on the repo about this, whether it's actually useful, but what it tries to do is to give you some kind of estimate of whether there was too much or too little white space. It depends on the table. Like if it's too tensely packed and you get like a wall value for that, then probably something is misrecognized. Whereas the accuracy is, if I'm not mistaken, more about correctly recognizing text boxes within the area of the table and how they overlap and that gives you some confidence with high rates of accuracy. It actually recognizes almost all of it. Whereas with lower value, it's kind of, you know, part of the table might be just not recognized or something. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was trying to recognize tables using this. And one problem which I came across was I was using lattice all the time. And I think, yeah, when we have, when we're using stream, we are supposed to give the boundary, the bounding, I think we need supposed to give the coordinates or so we're supposed to say, okay, this is the area where you, where it has to look for a table right now. Yeah. So you could actually see this with, so with, with lattice that treats three or four different types of plots you could use. One of them is a joint plot where it plots basically every intersection of the lines. So you can see where the rows are, where the spanning columns are and there is the line plot which also shows you, you know, where the, so it's using open CV underneath. So basically it uses some various filtering and thresholding and so on. So this kind of, those metrics come out of them, out of there. Okay, fantastic. Thank you so much. Let's give Dimitar now another round of applause. Thank you.