Okay, we should be live Happy 4th of July everyone How is everybody doing? Hopefully everybody is staying safe and having a good time who we got in here We got let me put my glasses on so I can even read it So yeah, let's see we got okay. Well, it doesn't work too well with my There there we go Hello Lester and mcdj acdc and Jeffrey and James and big gay Dave How is everyone how you doing? We are we have found ourselves once again Doing a an extra long ridiculously long live stream For the 4th of July here we go Oh, hello Jake. How do you do? Hello draws a nice to see you. Oh Yes, good morning or afternoon. Hello Matt Yeah, so apparently my my glasses don't work very well with the with my with my headgear But I felt festive damn it. I felt festive. Hello counterclaws. How do you do? Hello Joe Rikondo? So yeah, 12 hours Honestly like Hello Jake and hello Mike and hello turd Ferguson Like I I really don't mind hanging out with you guys for 12 hours I would hang out with you guys for like infinity if I could so like that's not at all The the problem with doing a 12 hour live stream. The problem with doing a 12 hour live stream is my voice doesn't hold out and like The chair gets uncomfortable and you know, I need to get up and move around I get tired but like I Like being on I like talking with everybody Hello to who to miss? Hello Matt. Hello Terrence. Hello Kelden and I said hello to Mike, but hello again. Hello other Matt. How do you do? So hi, all how you how you how you doing? How you doing? So, yeah, we we are live for half of a 24-hour time period on the the birthday of my country and In the middle of Cobra Convergence and you know what I forgot. I forgot my list of activities What am I? I started the show like and I didn't even have the list of activities, but I can still remember some of them I can still remember some of them from the first hour. So we're fine. We're fine Hello to I said hello draws again, but hello again. Hello other Matt lots of Matt's in here. Hello, Joe fan 84 How do you do? Hello, Sean Beckett? So yeah, hello, Robert So obviously I don't expect anyone to stick around for the full 12 hours my goodness But I know that you know some folks will just be you know come in and out You know people will come and go but I'm for if you can if you can even stop by for a minute and say hi I'm really happy to see you So yes, and thank you for the the happy 4th of July. Happy 4th of July to you as well Thank you very much So yeah, so I'm sure like we'll have people coming and going you know through out the the extra long live stream and like I gotta tell you like by By the 11th hour, I'm gonna be gassed. I'm gonna be They're gonna there's not gonna be much left to me. I did Like a three-hour live stream at one point and I realized that after about two and a half hours I was totally out of stuff to say I Had I had no More words. I I had nothing left So filling 12 hours. I did I do have a plan actually have sort of an agenda that I don't have with me like I Was supposed to set it right here on the table when I started, but it's it's not there It's like over there. I'll get it later. I'll get it later But the first hour I wanted to talk about covert convergence and the first thing I want to do Is to start by thanking Timmer from half the battle for his cobra month last year which kind of kept the the spirit alive and Peg warmers and code name new to very to and everybody else who who was in that what I was absent, you know I was not around The guys kind of keeping that that the tradition going that was really special that means a lot to me So thank you to all of those people but also a special thanks to Timmer Timmer has been a really good guy over a lot of years and And and I appreciate everything that he does he's a really behind the scenes honestly He's a really nice guy. He really is one of my favorite people. So so thank you Timmer Hey, there are comic tropes. How do you do? Nice to see you there. Hey comic tropes. Um, I did open the I did the PO boxing the PO box unboxing and I did get a copy of Of GI Joe Saturday morning adventures That but it wasn't labeled and I thought you said you were gonna send one so I that may be from you If so, thank you And the reason I'm mentioning it I'm not gonna give away any spoilers about anything else. I got but a later in the show. I wanted to do a dramatic reading of Saturday morning adventures number three. I have water. I have water who I missed. Hello, Matthew another Matt Hello to all the mats out there and all the Chris's Um, let's see, uh, it's James Shawn chewing bubblegum More Shawn more draws. Hello stone gate creations. Hello, Samuel Russell. Hello, Jake. Hello, David Sharp Yeah, thank you. Thank you Chris. Thank you very much I really appreciate it and and later at some point that I don't know because I I don't have my Agenda here right now I will do a dramatic reading of GI Joe Saturday morning adventures issue number three So, yeah, well, so look for that look for that. So like I am prepared. I'm dressed comfortably You know, but but still formally I'm I'm I'm still formal but I'm comfortable And I have I have water to hydrate Um, I have Yo, Joe Jock it's it's the choice of a new generation And I'm gonna drink it out of my out of my GI Joe Cup here and and I Got some peanuts for my Jock itch Drink so, uh, yeah, so we're we're stat. We're ready. We've got we've got lots to do. I Wanted to start the first hour first of all by thanking everyone who? participated in in the Cobra month last year when I Wasn't around to do anything let alone, you know organize Cobra Convergence and Yeah, that that was really nice that It was really nice that everybody did that. Yes. That's yeah, I got I got peanuts I got I We're returning to the old traditions Yes, I And thanks and thanks also to comic tropes Chris who has been very kind to me but Chris has been very nice and I Like I don't feel like I I do enough for Chris, but like What what can I do? I mean, he's got the much much more popular channel So like doing a signal boost may not may not be much of a signal boost But but I do really appreciate everything that he said hello photo viper and thank you photo viper for your contribution to To Cobra Convergence in fact the weekly promo video Went live and then but I was preparing for The show so I didn't share it so I'm gonna share it on the social medias right now.  Well, we'll we'll do it like we're it's gonna be like inception It's gonna be like through the looking glass It's probably the first time in history everybody anybody has ever done that So, hello me. Well, that didn't work Let me share this Done and then let me share it on the Twitter's on the Twitter's and I'll do more proper sharing and promoting of this stuff soon I just Got caught up in the show prep and Didn't get caught up in the show prep enough because again my show notes are not here But that's okay. I can still remember what we're doing for the first hour so yes, hello firefly and hello Yes, I sign you cast exactly exactly. Hello DC 4l. How do you do nice to see you? Thanks for being here So, yeah, we're gonna You know, this chair is reasonably comfortable, but after 12 hours, you know I think the comfort level is gonna wear off a little bit The best 90s Cobra vehicle. That's a good question. I'm hold on I'm thinking of specifically a vehicle, but I need to make sure what year it was done Oh Wow, I can't spell can I oh wow man Yeah, okay. No, I've out got it Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. Wow. See, okay. Um the first like really good Maybe favorite 90s Cobra. Oh, thank you Josiah for the super chat. Is there any possibility of rift tracks of Review I'm thinking of doing in fact Chris from comic tropes requested a Viewing a watch along of the the Deak era episode where they play football with tanks So I do have I have all the deep Episodes somewhere that like oh yes over there But like I have all the Deak episodes episodes on DVD So I thought I would pop that in and we'll do like a little we'll riff on the On GI Joe and Cobra playing football with tanks. I thought that would be fun. That was a good idea The her okay Joe Ricondo. That's the vehicle. I was about to mention Yeah, the the hurricane is the like the 90s Cobra vehicle that pops into my head when you talk about really cool 90s Cobra vehicles That's it. That is a Cobra fighter jet that Cobra really needed over the years. I mean think about it Cobra had the rattler. That's a ground attack jet Cobra had the night Raven, which I mean it had weapons But really it's based on a like a reconnaissance jet Cobra needed some fighter jets and that's what the the hurricane was so yeah, that's I really liked that one I really liked that one So I'm gonna try to not stutter like all the time I am I am aware that I stutter and I say ohm a lot and Believe me being conscious of it and trying not to do it Doesn't help. I'm really trying though. I'm really trying to do better. It's it's a bad habit But it's also a really really hard one to break. So oh, thank you comic tropes. This is very ambitious of you I hope you can also earn some money today for all the entertainment you're providing. Thank you very much I appreciate that And and thanks comic tropes for the very kind words. I I hope that it's entertaining. Oh, thank you Josiah I'm at your reviews Preferably with comic tropes. Oh, yeah, okay, so you want a riff track a riff Riff tracks on On comic tropes. Yeah, I think you know, maybe we'll do that. We'll we'll do a little MST 3k on on comic tropes Live, I think that that could be fun. I have to comment anyway, right? I can't not comment You know, it's you know, I gotta I gotta keep something going. So yeah I haven't I think what I'll probably do is like pull up his live on the on the phone And have that going and then we'll we'll talk about it We will judge we will judge very harshly. I'm just kidding. I wouldn't judge harshly. It's fairly I Will judge fairly oh Yeah, I mean riff on each other live. Yeah, we could see it see this is That it's brilliant. Isn't it? It's like It's it's all inter interweaved intertwined It that we can There are layers, you know, there are layers to this show just like they're just like ogres have layers This show has layers What was the cheapest slash most breakable vehicle? I Don't know about the most breakable I don't know if you consider the action packs to be vehicles the little wind-up toys I guess you should right Those were pretty cheap at least, you know at retail Oh The comic tropes has not learned so somebody was asking about Larry's oh, yeah, Larry's comic ending soon. So Yeah, he doesn't Apparently is not aware of anything that's happening Beyond issue number three hundred and three hundred is a great milestone. That's like a a huge milestone But there's no word I guess on who Maybe getting the license after IDW loses it So Diana Davis has said, you know, don't count anything out, right? Don't count anything out But right now they're being very tight-lipped on What's gonna happen preferably comic tropes and the eco guy review? Oh, yeah, so Um Comic tropes for those of you who don't remember comic tropes was on my review of clean sweep and Actually did a clean sweep Costume which I think was great and I'll see what like I think a little ways Sometime after that I did drawing for comic tropes of clean sweep And it was like it was supposed to be like Clean sweep, but but comic tropes as clean sweep was was my drawing. I enjoyed that. I had fun with that I had fun with that So what I want to do for this first hour is Is answer this text One moment, please. Thank you. It's it's gonna be a long day I Just a talk amongst yourselves for me. Yeah, clean sweep. Thank you Josiah. Yeah, I I still enjoy the clean sweep review I just I had so much fun with that Okay, so yeah, I I had a lot of fun with the clean sweep review And comic tropes has just been really really nice to me over over the years. So It's been it's been you know, he's a good guy So Yes, what was I doing? Okay, so I okay, let's talk about Let's talk about Um Cobra convergence, so I'm going to see if I can use movie magic here to bring up on Your screen the website The colander Let's see. Let's see if I can do this. Will this work? I Don't know Okay, well it's there But if I yeah, okay. All right. Check this out. All right. Let me let me resize it So Cobra convergence is going on right now and if you go to yonder website here All right, so yeah, if I do this that should scroll so there is a Brief description of what Cobra convergence is and then if you would like to participate in Cobra convergence You click on this here clean sweep with comma tropes rift tracks later. Please. Thank you Josiah I I think I can do that I need to see if I can do the technical stuff to set that up and show it on the screen at the same time Or maybe we can do it in another way But Josiah has his request in for a rift tracks of clean sweep So I'll I if it if it's technically possible. I will try to fit that in because good lord I have to fill 12 hours so Here is the calendar and you've already seen sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse If you haven't watched the sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. Oh, thank you Josiah or alley viper with the other guy Yeah, my invite my very good friend Byron Who loves the alley viper? If you haven't watched sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse Their contribution to Cobra convergence six, please consider watching that because there's something really special at least special to me The the actual real sergeant slaughter recorded a little a clip for it and That was such a trip But like the actual real sergeant slaughter Said the words Cobra convergence. He knows what Cobra convergence is That is that's wild man. That that is wild. Hello. They gone. Thanks for being here. Yeah cameo from sergeant slaughter himself and Kelly Kelly Remus the slaughter daughter. His daughter was also a guest on that show. So Absolutely check out sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse if you haven't already. I was thrilled. I just had a blast and I thought it was really fun the full force Chris and Patrick not Picard They had a really nice really long Episode talking about a wide variety of things and they did that live I was able to be in the live chat when they're doing it live The full force has been really good at keeping up with GI Joe news I'm not great at keeping up with GI Joe news, but they are much better at it. So if you want like The latest news that it's a really good source for that Plus Chris is a nice guy a diagnostic 80 really cool guy I have been able to meet and hang out with him in person and it's just he's just really nice I like him. He's a person that I like and on the day three I did my video of of Scrap iron and I got some man on the street interviews at Joe Fest About scrap iron. So if you were at Joe Fest and I did not get a man on the street Interview from you. It's because I kept forgetting to do it and That's on me because I got so caught up with talking with people and chatting and hanging out That I legitimately forgot to to ask people to record things for For the scrap iron review. Hello Ernesto. Hello, Florida from the United States. Hey, Ryan Sweeney. Thank you Ryan Sweeney Hello, HTC from Burton, Michigan Happy CC six months happy. Thank you very much and hello Burton from the United States Thank you Ryan and thank you for your long support. You've been here for a really long time. Thank you very much And then Jill my ocean videos 82 Also posted the video on the third that is Byron Byron has been a very good friend of mine for a long time now and Cobra Island was today and so that is up and that's a review of the retro Cobra his three the blue his tank and Following up tomorrow You will get Timmer and Timmer of course is a founding member of Cobra Convergence way back in Cobra Convergence one Before they were numbered It was really just me Timmer and form BX 257 now I People often ask me if I've heard from Kevin Lately and several people asked me at Joe Fest. I have not heard anything from Kevin I did reach out to him some time ago But I I never heard back so I do not know what's happening with Form BX 257. I hope he's well. I assume he is well But that in Cobra Convergence numero uno that was me Kevin and Timmer So yeah, make sure you catch Timmer and Like I said, I mean Timmer is just just the nicest guy He's just so cool to work with and he has become a really good and really close friend Peg warmers speaking of really good really close friends Another Kevin different Kevin From Peg warmers has been very supportive And he's got a really cool show now. You may remember the channel SEO toy reviews That is Peg warmers now. They've changed the format, but it's a really nice format and and he's had some other Cobra Convergencers on that show Codename new to new to Vera too was on the show. So I've Had the the great fortune of meeting Kevin from Peg warmers on a number of occasion. I've actually met him more than once So he's really nice. He's great to hang out with After that, we've got plastic battles on July 7th and Plastic battles I have also met in fact I think he was at Joe Fest in 2019 if I if I'm recollecting correctly. So plastic battles is that's another Cobra Convergence veteran, but after plastic battle battles the veteran we have a newcomer A snooves corner cafe snooves corner crack cafe website has been around for a while and I'm really happy to To to have them in and they seem to be really enthusiastic about being in In the event this year. So thank you to snooves corner cafe and then also on July 8th. We have Watson Joe mind and I mean, I can't Overstate the importance of what's on Joe mind that show is One of the most important GI Joe podcast a very long-running GI Joe podcast There is a lot of history of the fandom In that podcast in in their back catalog and the guys that are doing it now. I think they're great. I you know Mike and Rob and Mark and Joe Just really great people and I'm thrilled to have them and they've been in at least a couple years now And it's really nice to have them in toy connections another new one But Ken has Been a guest with me On sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. In fact, he's in that episode of sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse that I mentioned before So make sure you check out toy connections. He's coming up on the 9th JLS comics JLS comics has a pretty hoppin channel Focused mostly on comic books Thus the name But he'll do like a profile of a GI Joe character as well from time to time and JLS comics has been in Cobra Convergence really thrilled to have have him back. So JLS comics on the 10th Special mission force doing some some toy photography Again, I have met a special mission force. You know what? I have actually met a lot of the Cobra Convergence people in person, which is kind of cool. That's really kind of cool I I'm kind of surprised to how many many of these people that I've actually met like in real life That's for that's awesome. I I'm sorry. I'm tooting my own horn here Padding myself on the back, but I'm I am happy about that. I'm happy about meeting a lot of these people in real life forgotten figures has a really fascinating a Blog and like a social media presence on Twitter and Facebook where it goes back and looks at a lot of well Forgotten figures, but a lot of rare stuff a lot of like really focused Blog entries about About figures and about their history That's a really great resource and I've used that resource on a number of occasions So I've gotten figures. That's one. Yeah, make sure you follow forgotten figures Going forward because there's a lot of great information on there the Joe on Joe podcast Has been in Cobra Convergence for I'm sorry before has been in Cobra Convergence before and they did a really amazing episode of behind the music Featuring cold slither. It was genius. It was really funny and Joe has said that he's got something Cool plan for this year too. So I'm really excited about that Joe on Joe podcast. Also, I think right now. I think he's going through the The Marvel run of the comic book issue by issue The talking Joe podcast Is that's a new one and make sure you check out the talking Joe podcast on the 14th We have a couple of podcasts in a row there But you know, these are different focuses. They all like they all bring something special to the table and so like one great thing about podcasts is While you're working while you're driving what anything you want to do you could that's something that you can listen to and And it can like You can have it in your ear all the time and there are enough G I Joe podcasts out there now They can you'd basically basically be listening to G I Joe stuff 24 7 and that's what you should be doing Shouldn't you be doing that? So the human mechanism has a YouTube channel. He was in Cobra convergence Before and he is in again I just had a brief conversation with him a short time ago So he is working on his entry, which will be on July 15th and on July 15th the audible interlude Just a coincidence. I was at the audible interlude panel at Joe Fest and I won their Trivia thing I got prizes. I showed off my prizes and my side of the laundry room another Cobra convergence veteran has a YouTube channel that that guy is just kind of Cool kind of chill kind of lay back and just really easy to watch really easy to listen to Jay Bartlett has a really cool show He is someone who was really enthusiastic about getting involved in Cobra convergence. So That's that's a show to check out. I've been on that show and I'm gonna be working doing something with him no spoilers, but I'm gonna be doing something with Jay Bartlett So I check out Jay Bartlett on the 17th and mate mylar for for toy photography Just really amazing stuff really really amazing stuff. I mean click on the links to see some of this amazing stuff The artist shark is another new one another new participant in Cobra convergence, but I found him Doing like GI Joe news and lots of talk about like the classified series is that's coming up and I mean classified is taking off Whether it's something that you like or prefer or not. It is taking off so The artist shark really keeps up on the classified news and that's a it's a really good resource for just a Kind of evaluating the classified series and and other things, you know other new things that are coming out So the artist shark that's a new one also a action robot punch That is a YouTube channel and that's also a new one and I'm really glad to have them in some of these guys I wasn't sure like if they Knew who I was and would even like answer my emails But they did so thank you to action robot punch for being in as well as anything Joe's so Anything Joe's is on the 20th and they gone who is I mean I'm getting to you they gone I'm trying to rush to get to they gone because they gone is in the live chat. Hello. They gone How are you doing? So they gone is a new one as well as a toy kind of mood. I was on the toy toy kind of mood a short time ago and It's nice to see some fresh faces Taking this on and doing some new stuff and that's one of the reasons I wanted to To get some of these folks into Cobra Convergence is because there are people who have started doing GI Joe's theme content since I took my hiatus and I've been a little bit behind on catching up and saying hi to everyone so So thank you guys for being in codename new to Vera too though. He is not new he has been around And he's got something cool coming up Again, I don't want to spoil it. I'm I'm it'd be too easy to spoil some of this stuff because I am somewhat aware of of some plans that these guys have and Like I want to I'm kind of breezing over some of them because I don't want to spoil them But I but I also don't want you to miss them So codename new to Vera to on the 22nd GI Joe Berg and and star Joe's now you guys know that I'm a big fan of GI Joe Berg I think they have a great show and it's a great bunch of guys. I just really Like those guys. We got the hangout at Joe con in 2018 in Chattanooga the the South African contingent actually flew to the United States To attend Joe con in 2018 and the California Contingent came out too. So I get to got to meet all of GI Joe Berg and star Joe's that is a hold on Pardon me. I have to hydrate star Joe's is another long-running podcast Obviously based on the title they are interested in both Star Wars and GI Joe. So star Joe's But they have a wide variety of of topics and you know another long-running podcast So they have got a great back catalog. So you can check out the star Joe's entry and follow up with With their back catalog and see all the other stuff that they've done Cobra laying it's nice to see Cobra laying in here with the YouTube channel. That is not a typo. I Thought it was Cobra laying as you probably Did or do but it's not. Oh, thank you. Turd Ferguson Regarding classified book series that releases later this month author Kelly's goal scovaron We'll be doing a live AMA tomorrow on reddit and thank you at 12 o'clock Eastern time. Thank you very much Actually, I really appreciate you Posting that because I did not have the date for that. So thank you. Thank you Turd Ferguson You have informed the entire community. I appreciate that Pardon me. Um, where are we now? Uh, McDowen McDowen another Uh Cobra convergence veteran and and another really cool guy another person that I met in person Another Cobra convergence contributor that I met in person at Joe con and speaking of such. I've also met Joe Colton So Joe Colton cosplay Is perhaps the best known GI Joe cosplayer She's been doing it for a long time. She has a ton of great costumes And so she will be again in Cobra convergence. Actually, she's she's in twice technically Because oh, sorry Yeah, thanks Matt, I'll do my best to slow down Podcasts from the pit. Um, I another group of people that I met at Joe Fest Really cool guys podcast from the pit that it's one to check out. I'm really thrilled to have them in So check them out on July 27th fun school Ronnie from India has a Show focused on fun school GI Joe. That's fun school from You know from India. So that is an aspect of GI Joe that a lot of fans Well, I think a lot of us are aware of But it's nice to have somebody who's focused on that So fun school running on the 28th the order of battle podcast That is Jason and I just saw him at Joe Fest Really cool guy, I would count him as a friend. It's really nice to see him in again That is another podcast to take keep track of you know These guys are creating content all the time But on the 29th, they will be in Cobra convergence as will the skull reviews The skull reviews. I've noticed has been focusing a lot on like 12 inch figures and that's really fascinating I don't think there's enough 12 inch Figure reviews out there. So 12 inch stuff The skull reviews and I don't know for a fact that he's gonna do a 12 inch Video for Cobra convergence, but I'm just saying if you like 12 inch stuff The skull reviews is a good place to to to look articulated points. Um, this is A couple of guys who assist with joe declassified and If if you're interested in GI Joe history and like pre-production stuff and just How things get made then Articulated points is Is a great show. It's a great resource and for me, especially that's really helpful because You know, I need that information. It really helps me with my reviews So articulated points on july 30th and then finally there will be a big wrap-up video on july 31st and That is it. That is oh, I've got to I've got to update my latest video. I haven't done that So, uh, so thing that's the that's the roster That's the roster rooster Um, so let me see if I can now Uh, let's see If I can now Uh Switch this off so you can see my face again. Hold on. I can just do this, right? Oh, I'm back. I'm back So thanks for that and thank you to everyone who was in cobra convergence who is joining cobra convergence Everybody who's watching cobra convergence um, it it means a lot to me and I hope that it means something to you too because uh gi joe fans you have a good solid community you have people out there making really Yes, um, uh, including philip donnelly. Yes, absolutely matt articulated points They are the the last actual show of the Month, but don't don't miss that one. Don't miss that one. Don't miss any of them but you guys you guys have your fellow fans out there making really cool stuff And and I don't want you to miss out on that you you have a really good community you do And you have created that community with with your your own creativity with your own work With your own communicating and building friendships and partnerships with other fans you have done that so One of the things I want to do in cobra convergence is to remind every one of that You should be happy about that.  Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna have some of my my yo-jo jock itch in my in my in my My yo-jo cup Uh With my yo-jo peanuts So, yeah, let's uh, let's let's pop this open Let's enjoy and by the way, I I have scheduled breaks I have scheduled breaks in here So I will be take I I mean I couldn't take I couldn't do 12 hours without taking a break here and there Like I ate lunch before I started, but you know, I can't I can't not eat anything until dinner. That's That would be difficult. Uh, so yeah, here's um Here's your it's the choice of a new generation um So anyway, so uh, um, happy fourth everyone happy fourth everyone. Let's uh Let's let's open the the peanuts No more rhyming now. I mean it Uh, let's see here we go. There we go. There. Let's see. That's well I didn't hope it enough Ah, um, let's see also, uh, ryan says also check out the photo viper channel some great photography Yes, absolutely. Check out the photo viper the photo viper was kind enough to send something in for the Cobra convergence Participation promo video. So thank you for that. Hello, bob's dungeon. How do you do bob says? I want to do a video for coberture convergence here, but I'm still waiting on some pictures from my brother I could draw them myself, but I'm no artist. Well, that's okay. We you got the whole month You got the whole month. There's time There's time um, anyway, so yeah for those of you who don't remember Putting peanuts in in pepsi is uh Is something that I used to do You know As a kid growing up and I got that from my dad Uh, and I haven't actually done it in a while So here we are Both sweet and salty delicious um anyway, so Thank you everyone for being here. Um, I uh, I wanted to start out of course by thanking Timmer and thanking everybody who was who kind of Held down the fort last year Uh, and everybody who's in cobra convergence this year and I wanted to go through the whole list Um, and I don't I hope that you will Catch everybody on there and When I do the promo videos every week. Oh, thank you andrew andrew the guy's so nice. They named him twice Happy 4th of july. Thanks for hosting. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here Hello rick. Uh, good afternoon to you. Um, yeah, you know, it's it's um, it's it's uh Pepsi yo-jo cola that that's what it is, you know, like caffeine free pepsi, you know Sugar free pepsi Yo yo-jo pepsi it's cobra free pepsi or something like that um Yeah, and happy 4th of july to you too. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Hello bronze age nerd Um, can anyone participate in convergence as a content creator? Absolutely If you go to hcc788.com, uh, there is a link. It says click here to join That will have instructions on how you can participate and Uh, be in the the weekly promo video that I do and I I hope to get more participants in every Promo video. I'd like to get more in more people in each week So if you have any interest in contributing at all, um, I hope you will I really I really hope so. I really hope so Um, enjoying your classified figures says rick. Absolutely. I am in fact We're gonna do some opening stuff, right? We're gonna I I got 12 hours to fill And I'm gonna be opening some stuff including at least one. Well sort of classified. It's it's the retro one So you we're gonna be doing some show and tell comic trope says would you ever do interviews on the show? I think uh, you could get a lot of writers designers voice actors probably even the rock um, I have thought about that but I don't know if I Would be a very good interviewer. I'll tell you what what I was thinking is Like I could get um, Emily and lemon Lenny on the show probably they've been very generous with their time They've been on other people's show if I asked them to do an interview You know the current gi joe brand team if I asked them to do an interview they they might do it but Like the questions I have to ask them are probably all the questions that they cannot answer Like what I want to know is How like how did your plans change? After the snake eyes movie didn't do as well you know when At the box office. I mean the plans had to change, right? So how did the plans have to change? They probably can't talk about that probably don't want to talk about a movie not doing well, you know that's You know their their bosses probably wouldn't be thrilled about that kind of chatter I'd like to know like uh how much investment like what's the cost per unit for the For the has lab his tank because there have been a lot of uh Complaints about the price tag on that I have my suspicions on how how much that actually costs Um, but they they can't talk about that. That's like corporate financial information. They can't talk about that So like all the questions I would like to ask are questions that they probably can't answer so um So maybe it's just not better to to ask them to come on the show you know, I If if they came on they all they'd have to all they could do is say like no comments, you know But anyway So yeah I've thought about it, but I don't know I don't know that I'm A great interviewer. I there are some other folks doing this who are really good at interviewing But I'm not sure. I'm not. I'm not sure that I would do a great job at it Um, let's see the game was fair and they went to classic style figures and love them now Um, does anybody know if the lady j amazon series is still alive? I have not heard anything about that like there was like the leaked sort of like rumors about it sometime back But I have heard absolutely zero about that since so I have to assume not But who knows who knows? um, anyway Yeah interviews Like I'd like to do it, but I don't know if that I would be good at it like Comic tropes did an interview with larry hamma and got him talking about lots of things That was great. That was That was a really good interview. I don't know that I could have done that. I don't know What I worry is like instead of interviewing. I would I would cross examine the person And that's not comfortable you know Comic tropes says you're a great public speaker, so I think you could do it But only if you'd enjoy it. Well, thank you. I appreciate that I've never thought of myself as a great public speaker But I I have actually done quite a bit of public speaking Uh, which is strange for somebody who you know has always been terrified of public speaking But that is one thing that The practice of law can kind of like shake out of you because there are times when you have to stand up and you have to Say things it's important. You have to do it. So I've I've gotten a little more used to public speaking Um, it would probably be better if I stuttered less And did fewer uhs and ums Working on it trying trying. Um, oh wait. Um, then again says answer to my question Uh, three. What is your question? What is your friend? Yes answer my questions three What is your favorite color? um Hello bronze age nerd. I think I I already said hello bronze age nerd, but hello again. Hello again How much of yo-yo dune, uh, did you get a lot of in uh slash enjoy them? Um Some of you That is something that actually I do want to talk about more at length because I have some pictures Uh from the haz lab and I wanted to talk about some of the figure announcements and kind of discuss them because Like I said, like the full forest The artist shark those guys really keep up on the news. I do not keep on the up on the news Uh quite as much But uh, I did want to talk about it I did I did back the haz lab his tank. I think that was a pretty easy call for me because I really Really like it um But like there are some fair criticisms that I would like to mention um Not criticisms that would make me not want to back it because It looks really good and I want it, but Yeah, I I've got a few things to say about it, but I have some photos. I have some pictures that I'm going to show you probably in the next hour and We'll discuss and we'll also discuss some of the the um stretch Tears as the the stretch goals Um the stretch goals have been kind of underwhelming With with I think one exception, but we'll get to that. We'll get to that. There's like one thing in the in the stretch goals that That i'm actually looking forward to We'll we will talk about that we will talk about it. We will get to it. In fact, I have pictures I have pictures. I will show you pictures So we'll we'll do that within the next hour. We are Almost one hour in almost one hour in Uh, Dale says he could do the same style of Michael Marcy. He talked to voice actors and writers for gio. Yeah, and that's that's great like Those guys who are doing that and like actually talking to Um the creators and the people behind who were behind the scenes. I think that's really awesome And we need that right for posterity for historical purposes. We need those conversations We need those those recorded um, I just um I don't know. I don't have a lot of confidence in my interviewing ability I I really worry that i'm just gonna go right into cross examination and uh That's one way to keep somebody from ever coming back Toy bounty hunter says, uh, happy fourth of july happy fourth of july to you as well There has been a round table with emily and lenny about the process of the haves has live his Haven't gotten to watch it yet, but uh others have tweeted it. Uh, that is pretty good. Yes, um The uh the full force also covered that toy connections. Hello toy connections another cobra convergence person. How do you do? um I don't have a day off up here in canada But wanted to pop in and say hello, uh, stay well htc and hope cc6 is going well It is going well. Thank you toy connections. Looking forward to your Cobra convergence entry. Um, happy monday to canada Um, hello. Hey, it's jenna. Hello jenna. How do you do? Thank you for being here really happy to have you here Hey, davie. How do you do? Um, thank you very much for joining Um as for intervening can always bring on a co-host to help hammer out the interview process that that might be the way to do it like Like somebody to play good cop I can I can be the bad cop and the good cop can kind of like keep me in check like like hold hold me back hold me back That that that might help that might help ah So, um, I still don't have my agenda, right? I I wrote down an agenda, but I haven't gotten up yet. So Um, when I the first time I get up, I will go grab my agenda. So I'll have some idea of what I'm supposed to be doing for these 12 hours Um, but uh, who we got who we got? Hello rogers aquarium. How do you do mega high back? How do you do? Hey, it's gls comics another cobra convergence contributor. How do you do? We've got lots of the cc6 gang in here. Nice to see you Um photo vipers says if all six figures if six figures get in lock, that's a hundred dollar 120 dollar value six different colors don't make a lot of sense though red blue and purple work well though Okay. Yeah, that's another thing I'd like to talk about For the early bird special um We will get to vote On which color scheme we want for the his tactician And the color schemes are based on the color studies that were done by ron rudat When he was originally designing the his driver So I mean the fact like I've said before I'm thrilled That they brought ron rudat uh in to work on uh The has lab hiss the his driver Uh the classified series. I'm thrilled thrilled That he's uh that they did that that they brought him in Ron rudat is Uh a big part Of why gi joe Was so popular at that time and why we still remember that series So I did I I met ron rudat again At joe fest got a picture with him got some of his uh, uh, his artwork Got some stuff signed He's just a really nice guy.  I think is a really great move and honestly I might have backed it just for that if that Just for the fact that I Want to support ron rudat I I would probably would have been in Just for that reason So i'm more than thrilled more than thrilled about that So Uh big gay dave says I expected extra figures for each considering they are getting almost uh five million If all stretch goals are met. Yeah, that is uh, I don't want to jump the gun here But that is also something I wanted to comment on um in There is an extra figure coming in The most recent tier and that is probably I think that may be the the only thing i'm really thrilled about in any of the stretch goals But we'll talk about it. I don't want to jump the gun. Look, I gotta I gotta feel 12 hours here I gotta feel okay. I gotta slow down. I gotta slow down. I can't go through all of it now We'll we'll get to like Hour two and I'll be like I'm out. I got nothing left to talk about. How's the weather there? It's really hot here Yeah, exactly photo viper. He's he's he is a legend. Um, and just a really really nice guy Oh, thank you, uh, dave e met ron at joe fest as well and he is super nice Yes, see and thank you for the super chat dave, uh, and thanks for Thanks for stopping by at joe fest and yeah, um Ron's Ron's wife, uh, is usually there with him and he she's the one who took the pictures For me And she's just she's great. I mean the the whole family is great. His son tristan seems like a really cool guy um, I just I just I just love the whole the whole gang and Um, I'm I'm really happy to see him getting some recognition by hasbro today Uh, you know, I know hasbro is a big corporation and you know, they Their bottom line has to be making money That's just the reality of business, but You know, I still think you got to remember your past I think you got to remember history and I think you need to respect The people who got you there and ron rodat is somebody who helped get them there So yeah, they they need to they need to acknowledge him and they are doing that and I'm I couldn't be happier really really Uh photo wiper says anybody's on a cardboard backdrop as the final stretch. That is like I was joking around about that but that may be it That that may actually be it I will I mean, I'll talk about it more later, but I have not The the the stretch goals have not been blowing my skirt up, but that's okay. I still want to get the actual tank Uh, mr grudge says hi from uk Uh, great. Hello, mr grudge. Hello, uk from the united states. Thank you for being here. Thank you For signing the treaty ensuring my country's independence, which allows me the freedom To wear this ridiculous stuff all the time and like Be wacky and free. Thank you Uh, mr grudge For our independence much appreciated much appreciated Although I'm gonna say I gotta say something that and this is the only thing I'll say about it. Okay You know in that uh That movie in kanto that song we don't talk about bruno You know, that's we don't talk about bruno's song. It's pretty obnoxious. Lots of people like it um We don't talk about the state of the republic right now We just don't talk about it This is this let's keep it positive Keep it positive happy birthday america Yeah, we'll just stick with that. Um, I don't hear any fireworks right now, but I will Uh as it gets later um, so that'll be the um The oaky's blowing their fingers off with explosives You know the the annual The annual finger amputation um Let's not forget one of the best gi jo figures from the original line is named after right. Yeah, that's yes and Are you talking you talked about dusty? And ron rudat's likeness was used for leather neck, which was one of my favorite figures at the time Hey, the fly attractor, uh, thank you for being here the fly attractor You did send in something at the po box. I did open the po box stuff. I did record a video It will be up later. I don't want to spoil it. No spoilers, but thank you and thank you for your, uh Thank you for your support. Oh, it's uh Uh, you've been very nice. Uh biggest reason not to get the new hiss. I only have a one car garage. It is it is big It is big and that that will be some people's reason for not getting it. It takes up some space. Hey, michael johnson, how do you do? Uh, yeah, best not to talk about britain now either. Yeah, let's let's just like Total totally Any politics will just like Just not talk about it right now, you know, just don't look too closely at don't look too closely at any of it Instead be distracted be distracted by the shiny colorful things Let's just be distracted. Yeah, let's yeah. Uh, hello lee gray. How do you do? Um Always been the best vintage viewer on youtube. I thank you. I I don't know if you're talking about me Form bx257 and timmer also also very good um Hello, cornelius Uh, yours was the first review channel that I started watching really. Well, thank you. Thank you. I hope that uh, you have discovered uh others in our fine gi joe fan community That's one of the reasons why we do cobra convergence because You guys have a pretty solid community. You have a lot going on and yeah every once in a while I want to remind everybody of that. You you guys do good stuff uh, letter neck was also still one of my favorites also, uh Always had him going out on missions with beach hat alpine and low light. That's a pretty good squad That's a pretty good squad and I was always a big fan of letter Leatherneck too because I was I was fascinated by the marines because of gung-ho Uh, yes, make the world cobra blue. No more politics. Thank you rex exactly. See rex has it right rex gets it uh, yeah, when they like As soon as you start thinking about anything that that's actually happening in current events just Just think blue. Just think blue Everything all be all better um Lea says whenever i'm bored. I watch all of you. Thank you. Thank you for watching older views. I hope I hope you like them um Some of my older ones I feel like I I could have done better that which is why I'm trying to redo a few of them that are like really really old um but uh I don't know. I I don't watch my own stuff very often. Um, I have a hard time watching my own stuff because Like all I ever see is the mistakes I watch my own stuff and all I can see Is every little mistake that I made throughout the whole thing Is I I can't see anything else And that's a problem. That's not a good way to look at things. It's not a good way to look at yourself Uh, but it's something that I struggle with right so I have for that reason. I have a hard time Um watching my own stuff um But um, but but thank you. Thank you. I'm glad and I hope I hope you enjoy some of it. Why is this? Why is this? Oh, okay, I see There we go. I think I fixed it Sorry, yeah, um Uh, Cornelius, HCC, uh, you know, your best and funniest reviews are the figures that you don't like. Yeah, I see that's something that I I actually do have fun. Uh The weapon axe says hell is joke on uh, joe fest, uh, what you're referring to was a lot of fun Well, a lot of fun really enjoyed reconnecting with people. It was great. Um, and yeah The thing about like reviewing toys that I don't like Is that even the toys I don't like are still often not too bad, right and It I do have fun doing them. I uh, I may not like the toy, but I often like doing the review It can be even more fun doing it that way so, um Gijo needs more brazil. Yeah. Yeah, we haven't done brazil for a while. We have it. Uh, we had we had a special mission in brazil We got a cassette tape out of it. We got a cassette tape. What do you want? more brazil Uh, but yeah, that's it's very a very specific special mission in brazil. We had one So, um, yeah, uh, let's see. What time is it? It is oh it is it is 105 Um, let's we are in the second hour Uh, hello gm sim 9 w happy birthday. Yes Thank you I am I apologize if I struggle with any of your screen names, but hello. I'm still happy to have you here. Thank you. Thank you um Uh, let's see a cobra eel snow serpents would be fast, uh, uh, um fantastic and classified I agree the eels. That's one of my favorite army builders Uh, looking forward to a second version of wild bill to review as only uh recently got that figure Yeah, the second version of wild bill that is one that I need to get to um it's Like these 90s release of second versions of figures that were vehicle drivers, but We're not vehicle drivers the second time around. That's that's uh Um It's an interesting choice and we need to explore that we do we do um See photo vipers says uh mistakes happen called repeater and marine on a review I just made a correction in the pin comments and let it write see that's yeah That's what you got to do and that's how you should do it. You you make a mistake Yeah, you you own it You correct it as much as you can and you move on It's that moving on thing that I have such a hard time with it's Like I I will deal with it in therapy, but I I recognize this is an issue But I do I do have a hard time watching my old stuff. I really do Um, even even like stuff that I really enjoyed doing I really had fun doing it If there's some mistake in there I just like Uh, but Let's not talk about that right now. Let's talk about The has lab his tank because that is our topic in the second hour of the show Jenna says just watch the latest from gi joeberg the renegades the complete saga yesterday That was pretty awesome show that they put together. Yes This is what I'm saying gi joeberg does some amazing things that you don't want to miss these guys are are really cool So and yes, they did post that. Um, yeah, it was yesterday that they posted it. I did share it Uh, so go check out their whole Uh renegades saga in one video Um, let's talk. Let's turn our attention now to the topic of the hour um Because I haven't talked a lot about the has lab his tank. I don't think I've been live I did talk about it Um on somebody else's show, but I haven't really talked about it on my show uh, so Let's talk about that a little bit um It's a has lab project It is a classified scale his tank. So it's a his tank scaled for six inch action figures Um, it's it's expensive. It's 300 bucks And there have been a lot of folks complaining about the price which I understand. I understand I do um But for me I felt that it was about right for what we're getting now If all they had done was scale up the vintage his tank I don't think I could justify it for 300 bucks, but they did more than that It has electronics. It has lights.  Yeah, uh, thank you the fly attractor I am in oklahoma. A lot of people will not get through today with all their fingers. That's just Uh, oklahoma Look, we're not the smartest. Okay My state does not rank super high on like the national education lists Okay, so one of the reasons we can't count to 10 because we don't have all our fingers You know, that's that's the problem But um But yeah, it's uh, it's it's a hefty price and I and I get that but One of the things that sold me on it that um is that they used The back compartment which would otherwise be just um Just wasted space They turned that into Like a storage unit with a seat and like a weapons rack and they actually used that space Which I think is fantastic We have working treads a couple people have have said that they really wanted it to be motorized And since you have actual working treads, you know, it's conceivable that you could do a motorized version But uh, yes lift ticket ticket is also from oklahoma. Somebody count his Fingers so many count lift takes its fingers. I don't think there's 10 of them The uh In fact, why don't I do let's pull this up. Let's pull this up. I do have pictures Let me see if I can get them. Hold on Bear with me more for one second here Let's find the yeah. Well, here's here's the basic picture of the Uh hiss itself Uh hasbro Did send me some Like a link to some images, but the links that they sent me did not include any of the stretch goal images only like the initial um So there there's that bad boy Let me see Um and There we go. Uh, and it it is quite large. It's it's hefty But like this, um That that back area behind the gun That is not Empty space now that they they've utilized that space Uh, the treads are not just plastic treads anymore um, uh Matt says would you have preferred the weapons rack or a computer station in the back of the haz lab? I'm okay with the the weapons rack because it gives it makes it It can be like a An infantry support vehicle or an infantry transport vehicle Although it only has one seat in the back, but you know, you can have a couple troops on Uh, the back platform and everything. So, um, it gives you something for for your infantry So I think I'm fine with the with the weapons rack. Uh, although the alternatives also would have been Uh, uh, would have been okay, too. My main thing is they they utilize that space They did not just give us a hollow empty shell uh, it has An updated canopy with gullwing doors now the gullwing doors are cool and all but You're not going to fit a figure through there. That won't work But you could look at the gullwing doors as like, um Ventilation or something like that. It's uh, and it just looks cool. I mean, it just looks cool um, you have independent, um Cannons that you know, you can um Have them at different elevations. Uh, it does have a working 360 degree Uh, cannon turret It has like I said the the real Um, the real treads not just plastic treads not fake treads And some people have said they really wanted it to be motorized and since you have the real treads You could potentially Have a motor in there. So it actually runs Um, and while I do understand that and I appreciate that and that's a totally fair point I would never use a motorized feature So I don't need it to be motorized. That's not There we go. That's not something that I need um so Yeah, uh, so it's it's got it's got a lot of stuff. It's got stuff on on the interior It's got stuff in the cockpit. Let me see if I can get some more pictures Uh Like here's the cockpit Like there's the cockpit and the cockpit has like a five point, uh, harness Uh, it's got like a control stick and uh and like light up panels and stuff So there are a lot of electronics a lot of lights in it. It's got headlights got fog lights. It's got interior lights it's got that that like the the the cobra emblem that that Shines on the the ground that was That was nice. It's a nice touch. It's a really nice touch So it's it's an excellent display piece and that's what it would be for me is is a display piece Um, so advanced you can have it insured through Geico. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Uh, hey the killer weasor Thank you for being here and hello beta ray bob. Nice to see you a couple of people snuck in and I didn't say hi Hello to everybody who snuck in and I didn't say hi happy fourth to you too Um So it's it's got some stuff is what i'm saying. It's got some stuff. Um, let me see what else we got Uh, let's see what other photos I have Um, yeah, it also includes the hiss driver So for the early bird special you're gonna get, um For for starters, you're gonna get two figures. You're gonna get the standard hiss driver and then you're gonna get a hiss tactician and his tactician Will be the same mold but different colors and the color options are from the color studies that Ron Rudolph did when he was dry Designing the hiss driver. He would have been designing the hiss driver in 1982 for the 1983 series And the color studies have been printed in Dan clean and smith's book creating gi joe. I thought I had that specific Book that that specific volume, but I don't I need to get that Uh, fen rear fire. How do you do? Uh, thank you for being here. Nice to see you Uh, so I I've always liked the hiss driver You know ever since 83. I've always loved his driver. I just think that the red makes him look really cool I don't know that he needs the I mean, he's got a holster for the pistol. I don't know that he needs the Uh, the submachine gun whatever that is But he those hiss has a weapons rack so you can just stick it back there. So No worries. No worries um, let me get the um Let me get the color options get the early bird Uh, I think it was like if the If the project was funded within the first Uh eight days, I think it was they were going to do the early bird special Um, and it was funded like within the first What eight hours? So so the early bird special is is in so these are the options Um that for the hiss tactician, I'm gonna I'm gonna take this off. There we go. Wow. That was squeezing my brain um, that These are the color studies that Ron Rudat did for the hiss driver before They he's he's settled on the red version that we have now So When when he was designing a figure, you know, he would do the uniform he would do like a line drawing And then he would do several color options He'd like color over a copy of the line drawing of the character With some different color choices just so he you know, he could narrow it down and Decide on what the final color choice is going to be These are some of those earlier choices And um A lot of people would like to see the blue one, uh because it's kind of reminiscent of rip it Which is I think a really silly codename rip it uh My preference would be the one in the top center here, which is It's kind of like reverse of the standard hiss driver. It's got black Uh with red highlights rather than the other way around. I just think that looks Good, it would keep with the the red and black theme But for some folks that maybe just too much red and black There is the purple one down in the bottom corner That has a color scheme very very similar To a techno viper and the techno viper looks pretty good that that purple and silver on the techno viper Looks pretty good. However I would like to see the purple and silver on an eventual classified techno viper You know what I mean? I want to see that on a techno viper Not on a bonus figure like this. That's just my preference I don't know how you feel about this guys, but my preference Goes toward the The top center Ryan says the only thing That I don't like is the seat belt. Yeah, everyone knows cobra commander doesn't care about safety Unless the seat belt is kept Is to keep them In the tank as it burns. That's a good point. Yeah, um The safety is not job one with cobra. It's it's not their top priority In fact, it seems to not be any priority um So yeah, I mean, I here's what I think I think the seat belt is to keep them from from Retreating the seat belt is to keep them from bailing out Because like first of all the driver is not behind any Armor right even with the the new canopy There's no armor there. So he's completely exposed behind glass And he's going into battle. So those guys are going to chicken out and the seat belt is to keep them in That that's what the seat belt is for not for safety. It's for the reverse of safety. That's that's my theory uh, the bottom black and silver with the uh silver leg armor looks Like snake eyes undercover. Um, yeah, so That one is is kind of cool. It sort of looks like a uh a photo negative Um, but like all of these are are cool. I mean, I there are I don't think there are any of them that I dislike And honestly no matter which one we get I'll I'll be pretty happy with it. I'll mostly be happy because Uh, this is coming from from ron from ron rudat. So Uh So like I'm not complaining. This is a bonus figure and A bonus figure is a bonus figure. So that's that's fine um But if I if I could if I could have the one I wanted I would want the the red and black one. I just think that looks like Like like an alternate uniform for the his driver. That's just it's just my opinion But I could see somebody though wanting a bit more color And so the blue one I I know a lot of people have said that they like the blue one. So I think that might be the second choice Cobra prioritizes making cold slither slither CDs over safety. Exactly. Correct Uh shame. There can't be a gi jo has lab. Uh, toy line There could be the thing is this hiss has done so well that Um, I don't know. I hope I don't I hope this isn't a controversial statement, but I believe hasbro likes money And they're gonna make some money off of this and since they're making some money off of this We will see more um I think the next logical choice Um, yeah, uh Finrifier likes the blue one. Oh, yeah, a lot of people agree with you. A lot of people agree with you Um, I think the next logical choice would be a vamp Um, the vamp would be a little smaller than the his tank. So in theory also a little cheaper than the his tank So I but probably too large to release at retail like a retail classified vamp would be Uh, probably too expensive for a lot of people to to pick up at a target or walmart or something So probably a has lab project. I think a lot of people like to see a vamp So I I don't I don't know what they're gonna do But to me that seems like the logical next step And since this one has been so wildly successful We should see more and this is what i'm saying like a lot of people, you know, don't like The new gi joe. They don't like classified. They don't like to know new o-rings. They want to see something different Well, what i'm saying is If you don't if there's anything out here that that you don't fancy you don't fancy it You should not buy it and you should never feel pressured to buy it You should not have to spend a single nickel That you don't want to spend and nobody should pressure you or shame you into doing it however I think it's smart to still hope that those um, those products do well and sell well Because the more gi joe is selling and the better Any gi joe thing does The more we will get and the more different kinds of things we will get You remember when they released the retro series and it wasn't really retro It was like 25th anniversary figures just done up a little different and with some different packaging. Well A lot of people are saying no, I want o-ring like i'm an o-ring gi joe guy and I want some o-rings. Well We got o-rings now, right? So that's what i'm saying success feeds on itself So there have been some joe stuff that have come out that I haven't been interested in at all And and I don't spend money on stuff that I'm not interested in and you shouldn't have to either You shouldn't have to either But I still want those things to do well I I want them to do well because if they do well then hasbro is going to do more And they will do a greater variety of things And within that greater variety There will be more things that I might like and that you might like so Yeah, I'm I I'm hoping that That all gi joe does well Whether I personally like it or not now I will say about the classified series I Was not expecting to like the classified series. I've never been into six six inch action figures I I've picked up some classified figures really just to be supportive But then when I actually got them in hand I ended up liking them A lot Like I liked them a lot lot. I like I was surprised at how much I liked them And then I ended up continuing to get them and buy them and be pretty happy with them Like everything else it's hit and miss like there are some that are way better than others And I've tried to point those out when I find them But um, you know, I I'm allow myself to change my mind I I'm persuadable You know, I I'm not so rigid that I won't reconsider But the classified series that is one that got me because I really was not expecting to like it Um, and then and then I ended up liking it a lot more than than I thought I would let's look at some of the the tiers because Uh, the stretch goals stretch goal number one Well, do I not have Number I don't have the third one. Sorry. I don't have an image for the third one. But we'll get to that the first unlock Where these side mounted rocket launchers? And those are nice, but I don't need those They're not vital You know, it's an it's an extra Add-on and that's okay I will probably honestly display my his tank As it, you know, with its basic features. I this is not something I need It's nice. It's it'll be nice to get it. It'll be nice to get it. But this is not something that I need Hello, uh, channel in parks. I don't think I said hello to how do you do? How do you? Uh, thanks for being here Yeah, uh, I did start relatively early in the day. I felt like I had to it's 12 hours So if I start at noon Then I end at midnight And I don't know if I will survive much after midnight At midnight, I will shut this down and I will go and I will die I'll just fall over dead now. I'll be okay. I'll I'll get better You know, I'll be better by morning, but at least for the night. I'm just gonna fall over dead um Hello, Ivan Hello, Ivan. How do you do? so this is Unlock number one. It's an these extra uh Missile launchers rocket launchers, whatever they're calling them that mount onto the side of the his tank and It's nice, but I don't care It's it'll be nice to have them, but it's just an extra bit um Yeah See matt says hazard star wars and marvel and transformers that they focus on all the new gi joe items are great Uh, they've pretty much dunked power rangers though. Uh, there has been no new Uh, no new news for a bit. Sorry power rangers fans. Sorry power rangers fans But yeah, I remember not that long ago When There was no gi joe at retail And there was no planned gi joe at retail Um, I I thank you Ivan if nominated for president, I will accept the nomination um Yeah, so Um What was I saying? Yeah, the uh Not long ago. There was no gi joe of any kind Right and we're actually getting stuff now The gi joe was essentially dead for years And not only are we getting stuff we're getting a lot of stuff and one Consequence of getting a lot of stuff is you're probably not gonna like all of it Is they are trying to reach multiple different audiences with it and so inevitably Some stuff you're not gonna care for it's not gonna be for you and some of this stuff is not for me But some of it is And I'm pretty happy. I'm pretty thrilled about it. I honestly really truly am um Let me see what else we got apparently I did not grab an image for the unlock number three I can't believe I did that but here's unlock number two and that is the You've got some side Armor panels and you've got a clear canopy So if you want to display your his tank A bit more closer to the vintage with the clear canopy you can pop this canopy on Again, it's nice, but I kind of like the new canopy and so I probably won't use this So this is another unlock that It's nice, but I don't care and What I obviously failed to do is get some images of the third Um The third unlock which Um Excuse me It's some weapons and some guns, but the most important thing is it's a his tank gunner And it's a female hit a female cobra figure Oh, hello. Hi Hi, Diana Davis. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here and thank you for all you do for gi joe It is appreciated. It truly is later in the show Now where is it? I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a dramatic reading Of of the third issue of this it's gonna be I'm gonna do all the voices myself A dramatic reading of gi joe saturday morning adventures Issue number three. Thank you again to chris from comic tropes for for sending this to me very kind Thank you much appreciated Yeah, so Superman So, yeah, this this is like none of the stretch goals really are turning me on but Getting another figure getting a very very rare female cobra troop builder That almost never happens I'm for that That is the one thing in these unlocks that I'm actually thrilled about give me more figures. That's cool That I you I'll take all those I'll take all of those So that of all of the unlocks that is the one thing at least for me That truly adds value and that I would actually use Now one thing I wanted to mention is this his tank has a tow hitch It would be super awesome to get a towable weapon and if they did the SMS the the missile system They could recolor it For a gi joe release they could recolor it in joe colors But that it seems to be like that's just it's too large an extra piece for one of the stretch goals It doesn't look like they're gonna do that But I would have taken that over all the rest of this stuff I'd all the rest of it Like you could keep it. Well, okay. I do want the the his gunner. I'll take the his gunner And I'll take all the figures. Give me all the figures. Give me all the figures But I mean you could keep the missile launcher and all that jazz I just would really love to have something to put on that on that tow hitch Hopefully since it has a tow hitch Somewhere down the road. We will get something to hitch on to it. But But yeah, so that that is your Has lab his tank. Um, and I think those are all of the uh pictures that I Actually grabbed that are useful. Yeah, I totally I thought I thought I got the Third unlock, but I I sure didn't get a picture of it. I thought I did Um, but here is just for reference Here is that uh Cobra spotlight I All right, because like okay guys for me I'm looking at display value And this adds to the display value. I mean you can like Light it up and and shine a cobra emblem like the bat signal um On uh on on your display shelf. That's that's cool. Uh, thank you raman. Happy fourth um So he wishes he was in America not uh, canada. Hey be you know, canada is a great country All everyone from canada should be proud to be from canada excellent excellent country You know, you got your own accents. They're really cute adorable accents Really? Every in fact, I think everybody likes canada not everybody likes america, but I think everybody likes canada So, you know, just just take that for for for what it's worth, you know So here's it. Here's to canada greetings canada from the united states Yeah, um I'm sorry. I wasn't I wasn't festive enough. We got it. We got a we got america things up here I got a there there Now I feel more festive So, yeah, so I wanted to talk about um I wanted to talk about uh Celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it. Happy fourth. Thank you uber hulk and thank you for being here um Uh, yes, uh, see diana likes likes canada too. I like I'm I've said this before but i'm sure there are some right bastards in canada, you know Just law of averages. There got to be some really crummy canadians But like every canadian person that I know Is just a really nice person and a really good person to know I don't think I know one single crummy canadian.  That's that's that's nice That's nice. So so thank you canada. Pardon me. I am celebrating my own Nation's birthday right now. So, you know, I got a I got to celebrate with it. This is our day at the moment But hey canada day wasn't that long ago So happy belated canada day Hey, it's peg warmers. How you doing peg warmers? Uh, nice to see you there another cobra convergence dude Uh, it says happy fourth happy fourth to you too. Thank you for being here Thank you for stopping by we are doing amazingly well Uh, there by my count there's 87 people in here watching this For a holiday That's surprising. That's surprising Hello Byron law Byron attorney at law jd s choir. Nice to see you Hello everybody from england. Hello england from the united states I have a grade fourth uh, july fourth. I'm not a classified collector, but look, uh, this looks nice My favorite canadian is the wrestlers but let's see. See even he has a favorite canadian Um, and jake says i've seen a few chromium canadians. See that's what i'm saying Like the law of averages, they're gonna be some bad apples in the bunch, right? There's got to be a few bad canadians. I'm not saying that every canadian is a great nice person I'm just saying that every single one of them that i've met has been a great nice person You know, it's it's it's not it's that's not a random sample. That's a small sample size admittedly, but you know I credit where it's due. Hey there christian bricks. Nice to see you Mary usa from dinner mary usa and greetings from the us of a nice to see you Uh, and thank you for your support christian bricks. Uh, you you supported the channel for a long time and I greatly appreciated South park labeled canadians wrong south park did did have a little A little fun at the expense of canadians, but I think most canadians are pretty good natured about it um So yeah, I I just wanted to show this one last picture of the has lab hiss and You know, like I said for me, it's about display value and the electronics and the light up features just Uh Offer some amazing display value. Hello ken rogers Uh, love your music Um, I I wish I could have you on to sing lady You know, um, I I could I could do a duet of uh Islands in the stream with you. I don't mind being the dolly part in that duo Um, he says hi hcc from columbus ohio. Hello columbus ohio from the united states Thank you for being here What am I doing? Okay? We are we are like, uh 40 minutes into hour two um and in hour two Mainly I wanted to talk about um the classified stuff that's coming up and I was going to pull up um I was going to pull up like A list of the classified uh series figures that have been announced But I don't have a good list of it um I was going to make a list of it, but then I ran out of time Show prep. That's what I need to do show prep Um, so but there are there is a list of some of the confirmed ones um No, no, no, no, no that's old Uh, okay. Well, okay, so Oh, go away All right. Well, okay. No, here are some here are some that have been announced. Okay Uh, so let's talk a little bit about these and how we feel about them I promise this this whole isn't like a whole show about classified series But I got 12 hours to fill so cut me some slack here. So for at least for this hour We're going to talk about About classified. This is the classified hour um Thank you. Jake. Thank you Thank you for not judging. That's that's very kind. It's a and thank you for being here. Um Uh, yeah, so, uh, yeah, we've got uh, we've got a little bit a mini list here I don't think this is a complete list, but uh, yes copperhead was announced Uh copperhead was announced And torpedo was announced Uh, yes, there's going to be a standard Uh issue standard color deco outback Uh falcon A slaughter's marauders barbecue Cover girl which was mentioned There's going to be a crimson bat There's going to be a sergeant slaughter. I think everybody is aware of the sergeant slaughter I am extremely super looking forward to the sergeant slaughter um In the fact like you're getting a sergeant slaughter and you're getting a barbecue in sergeant slaughter deco So the slaughter's marauders fans out there Are going to be hopefully be able to Build a slaughter's marauders classified set and I know There are some big slaughter's marauders fans out there that are just going to be Melting down over that that's that's a big one I am not a huge sergeant slaughter or a large marauders fan So it's not that big a deal to me, but I know it's a big deal to some fans um Yojo says happy fourth, uh, united states from, uh, texas Texas texas us. I'm sorry. There was an explanation Exclamation point there that I almost misread. Hello, texas from the united states. Nice to see you. Thank you. Yo, joe um Yes, they have the spirit mold so they have another, uh, marauder that they could redeco in slaughter's marauders colors They're a see the that's kind of the list I have right now. I know there were others Scrap iron. I know scrap iron is a figure that was very briefly announced And that was Fortuitous because I just reviewed scrap iron Um We have some o-ring figures. There's an o-ring duke and cobra commander Uh, I am interested in those. I would really like to nail those down I would like to see What they did with the cobra commander mold Because my understanding is that the the old cobra commander mold was lost um Diana says look, we're getting a slaughter falcon tunnel rat. We're already we've already got duke and Mindbenders on the way time to re-enact scenes from the movie. See there you go see You 1987 movies fans It's your dream come true You got the 35th anniversary fathom events release In movie theaters, which I did go see in in august of georgia. I went to see that a lot of gi joe fans there Really fun. What's a fun?  Hello profit director. How do you do? Nice to see you scrap iron one of his favorites I also do like scrap iron Uh, there is the Excuse me There is the um the awestriker that transforms into bumblebee. So it's a gi joe Transformers crossover Um that comes with us an o-ring stalker figure and I am very much interested in the o-ring stalker um So But i'm not really interested in a transformers crossovers. I'm not a trans-transformers guy. I'm just I'm just not Uh puss in boots says grant shipwreck rock and roll internal. Thank you very much Um, I was trying to get through my list, but you guys have gotten through my list faster than I did Excuse me, I've gotta I've gotta be careful about my voice. We're in hour two. We only have like Ten hours to go. Uh, what are your thoughts on classified shipwreck design? Would you prefer more classic or updated? They seem to be doing the classic designs now. They're really sticking very closely with Uh, the vintage like version one designs and I think that's fine Um, especially for shipwreck because that is such a classic Look for him and uh had a lot of appearances in the animated series. So a lot of people are going to want that Uh, that classic shipwreck look, but Shipwreck is a figure that could be heavily updated. Hopefully in the future Uh, there were later versions of shipwreck. Uh, even in the vintage era, there was a later version of shipwreck So Uh, if since they're doing torpedo, they could potentially look at doing like a Like a uh, uh battle core navy seals, uh shipwreck Using some torpedo parts. Hello cobra island Another cobra convergence guy Oh who has today Today is his cobra convergence entry. So make sure you check out that earlier. I did show you the entire calendar. So Make sure you check everybody on the calendar and thank you to everyone who participated this year I'm super thrilled about it. So thank you uh Jerry says wouldn't mind the early 2000s look he had. So yeah, this is what I'm saying. There there are some other options for Shipwreck for the future. I think they will probably do like the version one Shipwreck for at least for this first time out Yeah stinky diver. Yeah, they need a stinky diver Shipwreck. Let's let's make that happen Make the stinky diver shipwreck happen. In fact, I'm gonna start a an online campaign. I'm gonna Um, I'm gonna do a petition. I'm gonna do an online petition for a stinky diver shipwreck And by the way, um, we are closing in at the end of our second hour and I do have a break planned Uh for that time. So in about 15 minutes, I'm gonna take a break. Um, I was gonna make a sign to put up that uh That says, you know taking a break be right back But I did not make said sign. So I should I should make the sign now That's what I should do. But first let me do this Let me switch my Image back to This one Okay, there we go And jerk that down There we go That's the ticket Okay So anyway, um, yeah, so I've got a break coming up in 15 minutes. I'm gonna try to take a break every couple hours Uh, yes, cobra island did the retro his tank mark three, which is something I have like I can see it on my shelf It's like right there on my shelf right over there Um, so yeah, I'm gonna try to take a break every couple hours.  Uh, this It was really fun the last time I did it. It's been pretty fun so far Uh, and I really appreciate everybody who's stopped in.  That's pretty cool That's pretty cool So, yes, I in fact like time out I'm gonna go grab, um my sharpie and And a piece of cardboard and I'm gonna make that sign I want to make the sign right now time out wait. Hold on. I'm not taking the break yet. I'm just going right over there To get my arts and crafts materials to make a sign talk amongst yourselves Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic The holy roman empire was neither holy nor roman nor an empire discuss I'll be right back I'm still here. I'm still here and I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. Anything happen Anything happen Didn't lose anybody good. Thanks for sticking around. All right, gotta Gotta do this here Uh, let's see. I'm gonna write on here. I guess I use the blue one This is the same sharpies I used for joe fest for my My card that everybody signed and thank you Of to everyone who signed the card. I don't know if I said hello to puss in boots But if not, hello, hello, uh, thank you for being here. Hello, ryan daily. Nice to see you Uh ryan says torpedo is my favorite joe I hope he has flippers uh can snap together and dangle over the barrel of his weapon. That would be cool Um, I mean, he's got to have removable flippers, right? That's that's essential. That's essential Um, hello, uh, triple E in 1976 Um Uh, but they did like swiss cheese. Yes. Yes, um, and kurtis says hello from detroit Hello detroit from the united states. Thank you for joining for our nation's birthday. Nice to see you All right, hang on one second. Let me hold on. I'm gonna see, um Uh taking A break be Right Back Explanate excla exclamation point Wow, I cannot talk I probably shouldn't be like doing live streams and junk like that if I can't talk me me no speak english good Uh, see so i'm gonna what i think i'm gonna do is like Bend the top half and it should it should like Like hang like right here. See yeah, how's this look? How's that look? Yeah, you know like if I scoot it up. Can you can you read it? You can't really read it. Can you well bugger? Well, I mean that I'll do what I gotta do, okay These are these are the supplies and materials that I have and I work was what I got Um I'll just I'll just try to make it bigger, you know Um, but except I need another one of those hang on You guys have been very tolerant. Thanks for being here. Hang on one second. I'll be right back again Right back again. All right, and like I said earlier like I'm not expecting anybody to like be here for the entire 12 hours except for me, but I'm I assumed that people will be popping in and out, which is totally fine Um But for all those who do pop in thank you. Thank you for being here. It's just really nice I I'm sure you like a lot of you have your your barbecues and your fireworks to do and All that and I hope everybody has a good time try to keep all your fingers You know try to try to try not to to to lose too many Appendages today that would be that would be a bonus. Yeah, go on fishing Uh, let me let me try this again. I'll just try to write it better so it shows up right here Uh, I gotta I gotta use larger letters Uh, how's everybody doing everybody doing all right? Uh Let's see, uh, I'll be in and out. Who do you working to? I understood corporate island Thank you for stopping by and thanks to everyone who stopped by even if you can only stop by for a little while It's Bart. Hi Bart. How you doing? Have a cold water. I got I got one. Thank you This one's on you much much appreciate it. I gotta stay hydrated. It's gonna be a long day Uh, let's see. I'm making a sign Let's see I'm making a sign. This is this is riveting stuff here. You are seeing the show prep That I should have done before I started Uh, let's see here Thank you for your patience Hold please All right now big letters big letters Let's see think big Mm-hmm So, um, oh some things I have planned for today I'm going to open some stuff Um, I'm gonna open These o-ring Cobras I'm gonna open This retro baroness and I'm going to compare it with uh compare and contrast with the earlier classified baroness I'm going to do these Uh, these, um Gijo lego sets things. I'm gonna try to put a couple of those together So there's stuff I want to do a uh A watch along of the Um The deke episode where gi jo and cobra play football with tanks That was a special request um, and uh Oh, yeah, I was gonna do a drawing. I was gonna draw.  That's That's always a good day and and and you know great job taking care of chores you know the this this this uh This yo-jo jockeys treatment is for you This one's for you Yeah, um It's the choice of a new generation Okay, uh, all right, um I may not have spaced these letters out right very well, but I don't care. I'll make it work See, this is the problem is that like I end up like having to squeeze the last word in because I didn't plan this out This is why I've got to do this before the show starts I'll tell you why I'll tell you with uh, hello toad array nice to see you htc Have you ever done a stream slash discussion where you heard stories of how slash why people don't have their collections anymore Might be some interesting content, uh to demonstrate with each other and you yeah that I haven't but that's a nice idea I do like that idea. I do like that idea. Now. I'll tell you why this stuff wasn't done Uh before I started the show. Okay, so last night my friend, uh manda Said hey, I'm doing a 5k in the morning. You should come I'm like, okay. Sure. When is it? She like it starts at 7 30. I'm like, all right. My alarm goes off at 6 30 I'll um I'll I'll be there moral support. I'll be there on the sidelines and hey. Yeah, you go Uh, so this morning I get up and uh, and I say hey, I'm on my way I've got to find a parking space. It's downtown. Uh, so I've got to hunt for a parking space And so apparently she Or she she has her kid with her. So she's gonna have to push the stroller In in the 5k race Uh, so she's gonna be walking rather than than running So I get there and I say hey, um, I'm here. I send a text. Hey, I'm here and um And then the race starts so like I barely got there and she's like, hey, you should walk with me I'm like, okay. I could I could walk with you. I'm I just got up. I'm not in any way prepared to run of 5k Uh, so she's like, yeah, come walk with me. I'm we're going by the williams center now So I'm like, okay I look up and the william centers like I don't know half a mile down the road or so maybe a little not quite that far I'm like, okay, you've got a considerable head start on me But I'll head that way and I'll catch up and I did catch up I did catch up And once I caught up we we've we walk and we finished the 5k now I wasn't not in any condition or in any way prepared to run A 5k but walking a 5k That's fine. I I could do that. I I could survive that but so that that was that was this morning so instead of uh Finishing my my show prep. This is this is the sign Uh instead of finishing my show prep I was walking a 5k which which I did I finished I did just fine. All right. I did okay No, no pro actually I did I did pretty good I did pretty good. So, uh, yeah, that was this morning um Yeah, even yeah, even walking 5k is like it's a fair walk It's it's a fair walk at a brisk pace at a brisk pace also was pretty warm Like at 7 30. It was like nearly 90 degrees It's it's summer in oklahoma there was some shade In some around some of the buildings downtown, but like when you get a little farther out where it's mostly parking lots There's no shade There are hills and all that stuff, but it was fine. It was good. I wasn't an official runner, right? I didn't enter in the race. I was just there for moral support So like I didn't get a recorded time or anything like that. I didn't get a t-shirt and a medal None of that because I wasn't planning on doing it I was just I was just gonna stand on the sidewalk and like wave That was my plan But it was all right. It's fine. It's fine. I just I did an unplanned 5k this morning So that yeah that happened. It was good. It was actually all right I haven't done anything that like that for quite a while and that's good. That's good I think Peg warm is going to cook out. That's totally fine. Thank you for being here And thank you for doing a great show. Thank you for being in Cobra Convergence. And thank you. I mentioned earlier. Thank you for Helping can Keep the tradition alive keep the spirit alive when I was not around Uh, I thank you. Thank you. Thanks timmer and thanks everyone who who kind of kept the spirit Of Cobra Convergence alive. Thank you for for all you do and thank you for being a good friend and enjoy Enjoy your cookout I will be enjoying a break Because we are at the end Of our second hour. So I'm going to put up my sign here I'm going to take a break Bart says dude I lived in the south for 10 years and knew some amazing barbecures award-winning dudes I developed my own way to do it in half the time and taste just as good. Well, that's You haven't invited me to a barbecue What am I a chopped liver? I I like barbecue I'm not having any barbecue today exactly Um Instead I'm spending my fourth of july with you. So Uh, I'm going to take my first break. I'm going to try to take a break every couple hours We are finishing hour two. So I'm going to take break Um I'm going to rest for a little bit. I'll I'll take care of any other business I got to take care of I'm going to get my show notes So I actually have those here and do any additional prep that I've got to do so everybody hang out hang loose I'll be back You know, I've got I've got a sign you can talk to the sign But I I know won't take a long break. I will be back. I'll be back And I will see you all in a few minutes Time out We'll return Ah, oh no the signs down the signs down Signs back up There like I'll scoot it closer. See There that's there you go. There you go. That's the stuff. I'll be right back. Hang on Hello, everybody. I'm almost back. I'm almost back. Just just a couple more things to do All right. All right. All right. I think I'm I think I'm ready.  So I'm gonna draw something.  I changed hats, but it's still red white and blue This is the audible interlude a gi joe podcast hat that I got that I won at the joe fest So anyway, hello, uh curtis and uh demon 888 and jake and ryan and demon 888 again And so I know I've said hello to a lot of you guys, but hello How do you do and and welcome back? Um, thanks for your patience. We're back Uh, so yeah, I changed hats Try to get it straight there. I changed hats um, and so this hour I'm going to Draw and I'm going to draw the the techno viper. I've got to do a techno viper um Uh, yeah, see I've got I've got wardrobe changes, you know I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep it keep it snappy, you know keep it I keep keep everybody interested keep everybody engaged Who knows what hat I may put on next I I'm that wild and crazy Uh, so yeah, so we're gonna I'm gonna do some art um, and There is one that I need to finish That somebody has already paid me for so I should do that but I can't do it right now So I'm put over here um So the techno viper won the oh hello shaco. Hello. How do you do or shaco? I don't know how to pronounce your name, but hello. Thank you for being here um The techno viper won the patreon poll to be the final review of mine for Cobra convergence. So I've got to draw a thumbnail for that Um, so I've got the techno viper And there was a dude at joe fest who Wanted a techno viper sketch So I told him I've got to do a techno viper anyway So if he wants the one that I'm gonna use for the thumbnail You can have dibs on it And I do have that guy's card so You know when I'm done with this I'll reach out to the guy and see if he Wants this techno viper sketch now um Yes, I do some artwork and I have tried uh to Since I've started doing art again I've tried to keep the art at the fun level right. I don't consider myself to be a professional artist I am you know just drawing for fun And keeping it at the fun level Um, oh, hey ryan daily a new patron. I don't often catch you guys who add your Support on patreon when you do it. So thank you ryan for that. Thank you very much um and uh like um Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted to say thanks So i'm gonna do i'm gonna do a techno viper So i've got the techno viper here figure here for reference So I I draw I keep it at the fun level I keep it at the fun level um But I've been thinking lately like Am I ready to maybe take it up a notch uh and to add some more lighting and and shadow effects to my drawings I don't really do that and I don't think that's necessarily a good idea For something that's going to be a thumbnail image for a video because a lot of that detail is lost Right because like when you're when you see the thumbnail Uh when you see the thumbnail on your computer or on your your tv screen or on your your phone device It's much smaller. Usually it's usually much smaller So like a lot of like the fine details you're not going to see anyway So when drawing for that purpose it doesn't really make a lot of sense to do like lighting and shadow effects But But I feel like I'm I want to I want to get a little bit deeper and I feel like I want to do a little bit more With the artwork. Uh, so I'm I may I may try to I may try to do that. I I haven't done that in so long. I would need to Kind of relearn some of the techniques but I think I think I'm about ready to and that's that's not an easy thing for me to say because Um, I really do want to keep enjoying the art and keep having fun doing it and I don't want to Make it so much work that I'm not enjoying Um, and I've said before like if if I were doing a professional art job like that I'm getting paid for Like for for like a an illustration for a book or a comic book or Uh packaging like some of these really talented artists do I would have a totally different approach to it, right? I would be trying to please that art director, you know And to hit that deadline Right now. I don't have to do that. I can I can do it, uh Just purely for for anyone out there who wants a piece and for myself just to have fun So I don't have to worry about deadlines or any of that. Um I can I can just I can just enjoy myself But you know, I am I am capable though of of doing some of that more detailed and professional work, you know, I I have done in the past So, you know, it's something I've I've thought about I've thought about but for today we're going to do A techno viper in in my style Uh for the purpose of a thumbnail and for that dude who wanted a techno viper So let's let's see what you and since I'm not doing the two camera setup I will I will stop and I'll I'll show you my progress from time to time. Sorry about that Um, but the the two camera setup is not that great. Anyway, the the other camera I have is Really old and kind of crap So to do the two camera setup, I really just got to get us a better camera That that's what it comes down to. I mean this camera not that great Um, but the other camera is even worse So, yeah Most artists I know um start out with day jobs and eventually transition to full-time artwork. Yeah, that's that's the way to do it And it is not easy to make a living doing art. So for to those who have You know, I I uh have a great respect and admiration. That's that's a pretty hard hustle Then if you can actually make a career out of that that is significant So hats off hats off To anyone who has actually managed to do that. So let's um Let's let's figure this out here. Let's do a techno viper and I'm just going to do like, um uh like From the belt up because I want to kind of get More of the details in the thumbnail and When I do them like the full body, you know far away shot I feel like I have to skimp on some of those details and I'd like to get some more of them in because the techno viper The 87 techno viper has a lot of really interesting Bits and bobs on Uh, so let's let's see what we can do. Let's first of all, let's um Let's kind of lay it out here. So we've got a head. It's got kind of a Big helmet. It's probably a little too big there. Let's do that All right Once I get Let's get it laid out. It'll it'll like come together But I gotta figure out where it's gonna be on the page How this is all gonna work out And we're gonna I'm gonna have him holding one of the tools which tool The claw tool So let's do that Uh, this is mainly for reference on the details Uh That's great. That is great, uh Uh jaymel in parts that is awesome Like if you can do that You you have accomplished something I am like I'm not a professional artist, but I am somewhat aware of of the challenge of working in that field And like I really do have an aberration for people who are actually able to do it That that is I'm that's very genuine Uh, and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to go to the uh, Robert Atkins panel at joe fest Uh, because that's someone who has has been able to do it And I am having a heck of a time getting this piece off of the backpack. There we go Why it has to be so difficult? All right, so I'm gonna have that in this hand If I can get it in the hand without stretching some so it's gonna stretch the thumbs even a little bit I'm not gonna put it in the hand. No, I'm not gonna put in the hand So I'm I'm trying not to break my action figures. Thank you um So, okay, so here's him. I'm gonna put him on like there's a There's the guy Um And oh and oh by the way Some of you guys are having a barbecue. This is my barbecue right here This this is my barber. This is closest. I'm getting to a barbecue um, so let's Let's uh, let's finish kind of hammering this out I'll have him like Do using his oversized welding tool or whatever Uh kind of that way uh-huh I just want to dummy out like Where this is gonna fit on the page right now. I'm not Worrying at all about The specifics just I want this generally to fit on the page in a certain way And I I know that I'm going to like crop this differently when I digitally ink it and color it but I still kind of Like to position it on the page Not exactly where it's going to be but kind of like so So like the the figure will be here and then like in the thumbnail There'll be like text and stuff over here. Obviously, there's not going to be text on the pencil artwork but um But I'm just trying to imagine where it's going to be And this is why doing like thumbnail um Images for videos is different From doing just doing a standalone sketch It serves a different purpose so I kind of End up doing it differently Then I would do just a regular sketch And like especially if I'm doing A thumbnail for a vehicle like you'll the for in thumbnails nails for vehicles, especially vehicles that include drivers the the The driver the figure It tends to be over scaled In in the thumbnail drawing so that you can see it better Uh, see all right, so I don't want to cover up his See I've already I'm already having the correct stuff because I don't want to cover up that cobra sigil on his chest So I want him holding the tool right about there So there is Is so that's in that hands oversize, but that's okay No problem can fix uh, let's see, um Byron says they call lays walkers over here. They seem the same otherwise. So yes, I actually am aware of that. Um Uh, that is something that I noticed when I was in the uk last Well, jeez. What's it been like eight years ago crap? It's been a while But when I was there, yeah, I didn't notice you guys called them walkers But I do think they're basically the same you may have some flavors that we don't have But like the basic The this is same idea Your your crisps I should say um Who is uh drawing him using his rod exactly exactly The there this is this is his tool. It's the tool, you know I sure do like drawing tools Let's see man. It's it's it's actually been like eight years Since I was in in the uk Eight years since I've visited my friends there I've I've I need to do something about that I I need to get back there. I need to get back there. That's uh, I I know people there I miss people that I know they're I cannot believe it's been that long. That's crazy So that's going to be sort of like that and that that'll it'll still kind of cover cover up the cobra on the chest, but that's okay I can live with that. So there's going to be a little hose there Let me hammer out the proportions a little better. That means his head's going to need to be a little bit larger Uh, let's see.  I'll I'll I'll clean this up in a minute. I'm just trying to Trying to work at work it out. I'm working it out right now. I'm just working it out. So there Okay And the backpack is like really huge and it'll be like that And like you'll have like bits coming off of it And then uh, I'll see that has a a wire that comes around and this thing Has a wire that comes around Lots of wires everywhere There we go Let's see Techno viper I don't think I spoiled anything by by mentioning the techno viper won the patreon poll um so, you know Sorry if that is spoiling it for someone who uh Who didn't want to know that that wire actually doesn't come in there Does it it goes into the bottom? So this is gotta go like that. Okay, never mind But let's see Yeah, no, no, let's do it right. Let's do it right. Do it right Uh, let's see so Just one. I don't I don't want to get all the details right now. I just want to get the general shape of it Let's got this little thing up there And a little sort of got a stock to it Rip rip rip. Okay, duh. I don't have to get all the details I just want to sort out where everything is going to be On the page okay, all right, so this is This is the basic layout and it is pretty basic, you know, but it's going to be a Um a thumbnail Ryan daily says barbecue was my first gijo sort of well like, um I'll do my a quick review of barbecue Uh My quick review of barbecue delicious Yeah, um I don't want to cover the camera. I gotta see it The moray and the lamprey and zap were my first joes. Okay, cool. Um, yeah, that's um The moray is is a really nice vehicle. That's that's a that's a good one to start with that's a good The hat still isn't straight. What's in the hat? Why can't I put on hat on straight? All right, so Now if I can Not drip on the page Let's uh, let's start fleshing this out. So this is our start starting point Um, I'm gonna try to clean this up just a little bit Um, okay Okay, and I need let me grab another page Just to Do that. Okay, so let's let's try to get this let's start with the head And let's try to get the shape of this helmet right He's got a very unusual helmet We're doing we're doing the The techno viper That's that's an unusual helmet. So let's let's work on that and I'll I'll do my best to Keep an eye on the live chat and I but I often get distracted when I'm doing this, but I'll try to keep an eye on you guys make sure you're behaving I got a joe in uh with the 87 uk relaunch Uh got back into joe. Thanks to this fantastic channel. And so thanks. Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you very much Oh, hello, katie. Nice to see you. How do you do? Thanks for being here? I'm drawing In case anybody missed it. I'm I'm doing a drawing of the techno viper and And this is how far I've gotten I've just basically sort of laid it out how it's going to appear on the page Uh, so let's do this and for the techno viper like I'm doing the belt up Right, but really there there aren't a ton of great details on the lower half His wire is disconnected again But there's not a lot of great details on the lower half. So I think it's better to just focus on the Top half of the figure where he has a lot more going on. So yeah Measure twice cut once that's the rule. That's correct Okay, so let's let's figure out this dude's weird shaped helmet. So I've got like basically the size that I want the helmet to be But let's get the shape now Man, that's weird. That is a weird helmet. Okay. Uh, so but it kind of cuts in half Around there and all right, there's my center point right here All right, so I'm going to it's gonna go like up and Around man, this is a weird helmet. Who thought of this? Probably Ron, right? Ron probably thought of this It's it's it's definitely unusual. Maybe that's why it's memorable because it's definitely unusual You got a little doodaw here and this is like a a brow ridge all right, and That comes down and then he's got like these little two sort of triangular eye slits That is a really unusual design Like for a guy who's doing technical work. He doesn't or or is this is the silver supposed to be The the eye part But the silver doesn't look like it. It looks like it goes under the eyes. Doesn't it? I'm not crazy, right? Taking a break from painting heading back to home depot Okay, well, thanks for popping in. Thanks for popping in you you're painting and I'm drawing So we're both doing something artistic. Hello, um Arthur Fisher. I don't think I saw you come in. Hello How do you do the only cobra figures I had multiples of or techno Viper I love their weapons. Yeah, I um Very very interesting accessories Which I look forward to talking about during the review that will be coming up later this month Let's see. All right That is complicated that this this helmet is complicated, man Is you don't necessarily appreciate how Unusual it is until you try to Represent it in two dimensions Okay, so now see that doesn't work Hold on. I'll get it. I'll get it I need I need to get this I need to get this like mouth event piece Okay Hey, we still got 61 people in here Which is I think pretty darn impressive Considering that for part of the time I wasn't even here You guys actually stuck around during the break. So thank you. Thank you very much All right, so this is gonna come. Okay, so all right. No, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. I'm gonna kind of create another Layer there because then I think that Will work better Okay, so it's gonna be kind of like that That is a weird helmet, man Can I can I make that look cool? I'm not sure Okay, so this is like how the helmet actually is laid out okay So like That's a strange helmet. I'm rolling with it though. I'm rolling with it I'm gonna try to get it as close as I can to the to the figure So Yeah Yay for creativity. Yeah, exactly. And hello and welcome back cobra island Make sure you check out cobra island for cobra convergence today And check the calendar at htc788.com for the whole list of presenters Okay That is so unusual that is just A very strange helmet. I don't I don't know that I fully appreciated how strange that helmet is until just now Okay, all right, so there and then The helmet is gonna Make his head seem a little oversized, but it's not oversized. That's the thing It's a big helmet All rise for purple helmets Okay, so that's gonna be like there's a ring around his neck Ring around the collar you might say sometimes I watch like vintage commercials There's something soothing about it but the the commercials for the detergent That was supposed to fight ring around the collar Use the phrase ring around the collar about 50 times in a 30 second commercial By the end of it.  I'm just sick of hearing about it Okay Okay, it's taking shape. It's taking shape All right, that actually needs to come in a bit like that There we go. There we go. There we go and then this Gotta do the same Get the basics down here and then I'll get the fine details In a second it's coming together Don't you wish you could see it, huh? Uh, oh somebody was from Memphis. Hello Jeff from Memphis. Hello Memphis from the United States And thank you Bart for uh for issuing the standard greeting much appreciated I was just in Memphis a long time ago, but I didn't stay long all I could do is just I was just stopping on the way back from joe fest. So I was there briefly I love the orange and blue viper Not a great camel. Yeah, not the best camouflage scheme We're waiting for the cobra dancing girls to come in for the halftime show. Yeah, see Yeah, stay tuned for that actually Uh, there there may be dancing girls later in the show So absolutely don't turn away And tell your friends to tune in because you never know when the dancing girls are going to show up um Yes, thank you. Uh, uh Ivan. I am a goat Baha, I did have a goatee one time Uh, uh, let's see. Uh case says didn't know you're able to draw. Yeah. Oh, thank you It is it is a thing I do. I did go to art school About a million years ago So so here's the progress. I am The uniform is starting to take shape Let me get a couple of the things that need to be on here Because there are lots of bits and bobs on On the techno viper uniform Uh, so yeah at joe fest one of the things that I do is I bring some of my my scribbles Uh to sell at my table And honestly, uh, I I do pretty well like people lots of people do show up and pick them up. So that's it's nice It's nice um And thank you. Thank you to everyone who actually picks one up. It's very nice. I really appreciate it but yeah, like I've said like Like am I ready to like step my My art up a little bit and get a bit more into Like the shading and the the lighting effects and the things that I don't really do right now I probably should All right, we're getting there. We're getting there um Yes, yes, I uh I I do I knew I do know what you mean by by by that goat. Yeah greatest of all time g o at and like I saw something that I saw something on like a a football facebook group was like somebody posted. Hey since tom um Well, i'm tom brady like retired and then like unretired, right Then like somebody posted since tom brady's retired You know patrick mahomes the new goat Like hold on a minute Goat doesn't mean like you're great right now goat is greatest of all time, right? So you have to kind of have a bit of longevity to be the goat Uh Yeah, and it's yeah, that's a player. Um patrick mahones Absolutely great player right now But for the goat you got to stick around for a little bit It's not greatest of right now that doesn't even make a good acronym That's uh Gorn that would be then you're the gorn greatest of right now is the gorn Which is a totally different thing Um, let's see, um Do you ever watch those divan rodriguez art videos? I didn't I didn't maybe I should maybe I should look those up Um, okay uniform is coming together. It's coming together. He's got uh like a these hose attachments That i'm trying to get in here. So that goes like Okay, I got it. I got it. It goes like this and this goes like almost all the way across his midsection with some ridges there All right, let me let me dummy out this um This thing And then I'll I'll show you guys the progress real quick. But let me let me sort this out. So this kind of goes like This has let me okay. Let me get this.  We'll do like that and then Curve that around and this and then it has some like like like teeth on it Like that and then here it's got some It's got some like half moon shaped divots Along there and we'll try to capture That in three dimensions, but I just want to hold their place right now and then the lower Claw Comes down like this And it is much smaller like so All right, okay, so that's that's sort of how I want that and that's going to be like It's going to come out this way Uh, I this is like something I would absolutely be using a straight edge for if I were doing this um For an art director or something but Since I'm not I'm using the The tried and true art technique of eyeballing it So, uh, oh, hello, uh, white white vegeida. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. There's the progress Got it kind of worked out a little bit there And you will be able to see it much better when it's uh darkened in hey comic tropes is back Uh, thank you. He says yo coco yo right back at you Um, uh jtr the serial killer. I just got here. Uh, was that part of techno viper? Yes. I'm I'm working on A drawing of Of the techno viper. This is going to be for a thumbnail image So what I've been doing lately. I used to Um, did I mean to say that? Okay, um Yeah, I used to do the thumbnail images images entirely digitally But doing them in pencil Gives me an original That I can give away or sell to somebody if they want it Uh, so yeah, I've been trying to Trying to uh To do these in pencil now Okay, so uh, that is fine. Um, okay, so and then that's gonna have a A A wire that comes around I think I've told this story before but like in art school It wasn't me but somebody else was struggling trying to draw Curves Arches and stuff like without a tool It's for on this occasion And it it is easier to draw if you're drawing an arch. It's easier to draw this way than it is to draw this way, right? So ideally for comfort and for ease of drawing an arch you're going to want to draw it over, right?  And I I I overheard this and I don't think I thought of that I was like, okay Why am I not just turning the page? And making this a little easier on myself. All right, so slide progress slide progress um, and uh, I guess Uh, if you guys stick around, hey, we still got 63 people in here Techno viper says cool art. Uh, I think techno viper was one of the first gi jo figures I bought with my own money Hey, that's cool. That's a really cool story. And I do like hearing those kinds of stories because I do like I do like hearing like personal history of uh of joes and what people like And and uh Byron law would like a gorn o-ring figure. That's has anybody ever done a gorn o-ring I think there was a gorn mego figure, uh eight inch figure, but I don't know that anybody's ever done a gorn o-ring figure So, yeah So to be the goat You have to be around long enough for people to say yes, that is that person is the greatest of all time Uh, so you may be great right now And so you're the g o r n you're the gorn but to be the goat You know, you got to stick around and show your greatness over time Um, so patrick mohones excellent player We'll see we'll see if he shows his greatness over a long period of time Maybe he in someday in the future he will be the goat But for that now he's the gorn i'm not actually sure he's the gorn either, but he's he's very good He's very good An argument can be made You can's the city fans Okay, so let's uh, let's now dummy out the The arms Okay, so all right, so actually the the the chest is going to be like here Let's give them let's give them some some a little bit of musk muskle here just kind of To round out that uniform and then the shoulder The shoulder is interesting Because it has a little like design on the On the arm And my army technivipers were the medics for my bat squad. Hey that kind of makes sense, right?  I sent you a techniviper and uh and fast bra fast draw many years ago Thank you very much. They were the last of my collection and wanted to give them to a new home I made the right choice. Thank you very much jtr I don't know if if this specific bat is that or i'm sorry if this specific techniviper is that techniviper but I do keep all of those and like this is my My baggo technivipers and I only have two of them in it So it is either that one or this one So it's one of these I don't know which one but thank you for that and um it is always much appreciated um Although i'm not an army builder having multiple of certain figures is a huge help There have been many times in the past where I've only had one of a particular figure and something's happened to it Or I like I sold it or gave it away and then later discovered that no I actually needed that again So, yeah, I I tend to hang on to things now more than More than I used to now that is interesting. So his arm Has a silver hose that connects like There ish And it goes Europe and kind of wraps around the arm, but not exactly At the elbow. It's like Just a little past the elbow. So I've got the elbow here Lots of lots of technical detail and gadgetry on this guy So that that's kind of what makes him fun to draw. So we're going to do like that's going to be like this And then he's yeah, the glove is really interesting too Lots of really interesting details on this guy. I really I really really like it I do like the techno viper and hopefully that's not a spoiler It's it's not my favorites By any stretch, but it's a really good one And it's it's it's kind of a feast for the eyes There's just a lot lot to it. So this is going to be a little thing like that around his Around his wrist All right, let me see if I can get the the hand And I I will I will show you the progress here. Thank you to the 69 people who are still here. Oh, thank you Josiah I'm back turkey meat loaf is cooking. That sounds like a delicious independence day meal Uh, probably better than anything I will have today I did stop on the way home and pick up something to make for dinner because I will have to eat While I'm doing this I will have to eat at some point during those 12 hours um Let's see a comic trope says I think if the techno viper's purple were a shade or too darker It would be a little bit cooler. Yeah, that's probably cool. Uh rocky all the way. What's that? Rambo would have been a perfect celebrity joe. Yeah Rambo would have been a good choice and uh, Chris is correct. Rocky almost was Now the the purple in the center of his chest. I think is about right I like that darker purple But yeah, then he has a lighter purple So if like the lighter purple were the same shade as that darker purple and the dark purple was just a little bit darker I think that would have worked really well as it is. I still think it's it's fine. I still think it looks great Okay, so one thing that I think is kind of funny and interesting is that his belt His belt is kind of decorative It's not a utility belt. It doesn't have a lot of pouches or anything So for somebody who's just like adorned with technical stuff His belts isn't Uh drawing it actually also helps me notice certain details That I want to point out in in the review Which is a reason why I really should draw all of the thumbnails before doing the review But I often don't because I don't think of it until after it's done And I start sorting that out Oh my quick text message One second. All right, there we go. Okay, so um, all right. What we got here. Um, let's see Ryan. Okay Uh gussie neon purple rules Oh Doyle rules Ryan daily hasbro.  Yeah, that's right. See you take it. See obviously I have to do a techno music Gag or joke for the techno viper. I mean, I just can't pass that one up Stallone. Did you watch first blood? Yeah. Good point. Good point Uh after first blood like the Rambo series went in a much different direction John matrix and john Rambo. Yeah, there we go. Um, uh white figure did the weapon crates make it home Yes, the weapon crates make it made it home. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for pointing that out. Um Everything made it home And like when I was showing off some of the stuff that I got Um at joe fest in the live stream. I didn't want anyone to worry that Stuff that they that they gave to me didn't make it back Um, it all made it back, but some of it had to be creatively packed To to fit in our stuff and to be safe um But everything made it back and um I I have not since then revisited and gone back to uh pull out the other stuff from my uh From my luggage and stuff, but I'm going to so that I can show that off So yeah, I got I got crates, uh some right like really nice Like weapons crates that would be actually they'd be great for both classified scale and for um for like three and three quarter inch scale Uh, and I got some other stuff too that I haven't been able to show off yet Uh, but I would like to And I will as soon as I can But yes, don't worry just because I haven't had a chance to show it off yet Everything made at home and I was really thrilled and honored to get All of the stuff that I was given So sincere. Thank you for that um and uh Yeah, I'm I'm going to uh I'm gonna break all that stuff out, but yeah, some of the stuff had to be packed in in different Like not in the the big tote and Not everything could fit in the backpack either the backpack was super loaded up Uh, and then there was some stuff in the suitcase Um, and yeah, it was it was a challenge to get it all to get it all home, but We got it all and and I checked and double checked to make sure nothing got left behind There's nothing nothing got left at the hotel in the room at the table. None of that everything made at home Everything made at home Okay, so this glove is going to go like that and then And then he's got the like the hose like the other side that runs like This so let's do that Okay Uh, okay. Here's the progress gijo having an mp figure implies someone on base got in trouble at some point Uh, which go joe got in trouble. It's got to be uh, uh shipwreck, right? It's like shipwreck is the he keeps the the mp's Um Busy just all by himself All right. Sorry checking checking checking text messages Um, I I do have to keep up with some personal stuff as we do this Because it's 12 hours, man Okay, so let's see Like that try to get this arm correct or as close as I can get Remember what old sandy used to say Is good enough for the girls I go out with And if there are any girls watching that I go out with that's not it's it's good, right? It's it's it's yeah Any any girls watching that I go out with high Sandy's paying you a compliment that's that's what he meant But anyway good enough for the girls I go out with That's what sandy used to say Um, oh, hello. Um, thank you draws. Thank you Um, and uh mainframe fraternizing with the yes the mainframe got in a little and falcon falcon had some issues, right falcon falcon got in a little bit of trouble Falcon had some issues man. He's that dude had an attitude problem He needed an attitude adjustment. You know who's who who you can who's just the right person to do that Is sergeant slaughter sergeant slaughter has the attitude adjuster He can adjust your attitude So if you need that The serge is only too willing to help uh Quick a quick kick. I think I mean was probably popular with the mps as well trying to sneak in Uh girls and stuff. Yeah Yeah, he did that and also being like chronically out of uniform Uh, yeah, like and yeah, I know gi joe's special forces unit and they they have like some different uniform standards um Yeah, I know I get that But there's going to be some limit, right? You've got to at least wear shoes right like So if if you have a mission to 7 11 you got to stand outside Because because you're not wearing shoes Yeah, and like Yes, gussey a stuntman a stuntman who like gi joe first found him Uh in the snow, right? He was in the snow and uh Um, and not just a little bit of snow and lots of snow Not wearing a shirt and what not wearing shoes Uh gi joe yo joe everybody um Yeah, a quick kick was all hollywood. That's that that's that's quick kick Um, let's see. All right. Let me okay. Let me dummy out the The cobra sigil on the chest So there's a there's a thing like That I have a problem with when when i'm drawing like and that is running my hand across The sketch and smudging the pencil I have always had a problem with that right and I did ask An art teacher in art school what You know how to stop doing that and his instruction was Well, just don't do it Thank you Thank you. I hadn't thought of that very helpful Sure, I'm sure glad you're getting paid to tell me that but yeah like It's a thing and it's something that I try to be more conscious of and I'm doing better about it But one of the reasons I'm doing better about it is because I Have a sheet to cover Uh where I'm placing my hand So that I don't run to like so I don't do the smudgies as much Okay, so it's going to be like that That is not precise is it but we are going to make it work anyway All right, I'm definitely going to need to clean that up but That's fine. Good enough for the girls. I go out with Is what sandy said I I do not endorse that attitude all right Actually, I think my my voice is holding up. Okay I was having a little bit of trouble with it earlier, but It's doing all right for right now It's doing all right Okay So it's not gonna be like perfect But it'll be okay So all right, here's the progress. Oh, thank you, uh, Josiah Says i'm from tampa our shirt and shoes a must and okay Um, first of all, hello tampa from the united states.  It's coming together a little bit. It's it's coming in. It's getting a little bit more solid I need to work on I need to work on this Kind of whatever this is like is a laser welding tool or something um Hey, what's that? Let's see Okay Uh, okay, so i'm gonna work on that next Since that needs a little bit more detail and once I get the The basics sort of hammered out here then I can really start Uh drawing it in and Uh darkening it So really interesting shape on this It's like a It's like a y-wing fighter On the tip a little bit challenging to to get that shape Especially not using tools as I am not But we'll dummy it out here So yeah, I did go to art school, uh in dallas texas When I was 18 years old Absolutely not ready to live on my own when I was 18. I was very sheltered as a young child Um not ready to live in a different city Not prepared to do the kind of work I needed to do in art school did not finish Um, but yeah, I like I wanted to be a comic book artist like so many other people Like that that's nothing new Uh thousands of people want to be comic artists, but I wanted to actually get a formal education to do it but Like the focus was more on like commercial art like, uh like advertising design and Uh, there there was some illustration and some fine art but like This wasn't at all what I was what I was hoping it would be And there are specific schools for comic book art like the cubert school But like I I wasn't Um I was less prepared than Then I thought I was And I didn't think I was that prepared for it So yeah, it didn't it wasn't what I was hoping it would be and I ended up coming back home and not finishing that um And it was is Not entirely a waste of time. I shouldn't say that It was perhaps a waste of money Because I ended up not working in that profession at all Uh, but but I I took I took some lessons from it You know, I I took I I did take some instruction and I did learn some things, right? I learned some things about layout. I learned some things about, you know, graphic design That's and that's not at all to say that I'm I'm good at any of those things But I I did take a few tricks with me that I that I still use Now if I were to try to do that like professionally, I I would adhere more to some of those graphic design rules Then I do now But I but I am appreciative of some of the lessons that I learned in our school Some of it did turn out to be Useful after all So, yeah, that that's good That's all right, let's see And I'm sorry. I'm not keeping a close eye on the On the live chat. I will try um, uh, what what I've been missing. Hello James Uh, bros or bochi, however you broach, however you pronounce your name, but hello. Thank you for being here Um, uh, somebody mentioned cubert. That was a good game. I did I have I think I have cubert on the atari 2600 right now Um, let's see. Uh comic tropes. I've drawn thumbnai