What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping mega dual case NFL 22 impeccable first off the line in a hobby Dual case break to your random team style Here's a look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link That's in chat. So good luck here everybody. Let's do it Yeah, no problem that again. Sorry. I can't get to it tonight. I obviously I would but it's gonna take too long That's the only thing I got to work tomorrow, too. So but like I said, it's gonna be like What maybe less than 12 hours until your box goes so you don't have to wait super long So I get to wait another day, which is good Let's do a Impact will hobby first card will save till We'll do the bar card before we go into the impeccable case of the the first off the line case as well We'll do the entire hobby case That will go into the next one Probably a redemption. Maybe one of those like thin autos to like the Chris long another plate in here, dude. Wow To 75 Justin Fields and Sean Watson at 25. I think we pull the plate in every single case so far There's Nicoby Dean 9 out of 49 for the Eagles. I just won there congrats Philly just one for that easily Nice one here. Go into the Vikings. How about one of one printing play Adam feeling nice hit there? Congrats, Minnesota. Let's go to Marvin M. There you go Marvin That's on card feeling as well so sick One of one only one out there followed by a a Chris long Super Bowl auto another one for the Eagles Eagles doing well to to hit so far. Yeah True followed by a Justin Jefferson two of ten canvass creations nice one there bite Eagles and Vikings box right here I guess nice one again Marvin Eagles also was Rob Rob H and Hassan Haskins 65 out of 75 two-color patch and helmet Titans Also guys, we're pretty much gonna get right into personals After this case is over after this breaks over One as much time I can have with Donnie here That's Dalvin cook to 75 Say quant Barclay to 25 and I'm Mari Cooper to 75 You don't want to leave the top of the cards Devante Wyatt 41 out of 75 for the Packers nice one there green bag on a Regina Got a nice one here going to the Buccaneers Mike Alstott 65 out of 75 Super Bowl auto Tampa is Braden K and we got a redemption of JJ watt impeccable star signatures gonna double check make sure he is a Cardinal which I believe he is Star signatures going to the Cardinals nice one there. That's one's so sick Congrats on that right next one is going to mark M. How about impeccable? illustrious ink Lawrence Taylor nice hit there four out of 75 LT on card as well so cool man Lawrence Taylor and Finish it off. We've got Drake London. We got London on the track 44 out of 75 For the Falcons. Yeah, he was a scary dude. He was a scary dude Lawrence Taylor I'm glad I don't have to play against him. I know he's used to kill Ron Jaworski Let's see the Eagles quarterback and like when it went was he was before cutting him. Yes. Yes, I believe so Yeah, well, yeah, no for sure. I've just seen highlight for my time too. I've seen highlights He used to just destroy poor Ron Jaworski, right? See what we got here. It's gonna be Tyler Lockett to 50 David Montgomery to 75 I'm betting not so much though. Oh god Kat's Antonio Gibson that is 36 out of 75 for the commanders Nice one there. Yeah, it's a three-color patch right there. Very nice See we got a thick one here. It's gonna be Clinton Portis five of 15 going to the commanders. There you go, Bernie Another bad man who went to the U nice Clinton Portis Not very good friends with Shannon chart That is Kway Walker 99 of 99 for the Packers they just had like beef back in when they were both playing I think it was I think it was no it wasn't Clinton Portis. Never mind I don't think it was Clinton Portis somebody else Shannon sharp had beef with somebody and there was like this interview and he was like he was like Do I like him? No, is he my friend? No like blah blah blah He goes if I were driving in the blitz and a blizzard and my truck was working I came up and his truck was not working when I help him. No Forget who that was. It was Shannon sharp and somebody she's We've got sky more 17 out of 99 for the jeeps Nice one there for KC that is it's got the chiefs Braden Kaye Very nice one here going to Bernie. How about a Kenny pick it six out of 49? Boom heck. Yeah, congrats Bernie. We'll get that mag for you, buddy. Nice. Kenny pick it Kenny small hands and Erica Zucan ma elegance rookie in nameplate patch auto It's going to the dolphins That's what I'm saying Victor. That's how much this that's how crazy these I forget who it was man. I can't remember I Cannot remember who it was. All right, let's see what we got here do our bar card. That's cool Go to the Raiders Devonte Adams eight out of 25 one Troy ounce of fine silver Raiders is Bernie s congrats Bernie on the tier two hit. All right, let's do some photo 22 photo Yeah, I don't have a bar card I Remember if they all have them I Don't think so, but they might I don't remember what it was in basketball. We had some photo in basketball, but Yeah, 25 minus 8 is 17 jersey number easy boom one of one there we go Nick less That's that's where we're thinking with our head right there Surprise that's the first time Yeah, true usually like a Every break thing extra bar sometimes two extra. Yeah, so there's like either what there's could be one there could be two And then we'll just by trial and error see what the first off the line Exclusive is yeah, so it's a dual case break. Yes, Matt Ryan to 75 and CD lamb to 25 we've got Matt Corral numbered 48 out of 99 for the Panthers drew in followed by a Nick Bosa 65 out of 75 that's going to the Niners impeccable stars San Fran James H We've got TJ Watts 22 out of 25 immense Jersey or patch auto going to Bernie congrats Bernie buy-in for this was It's cheered random team style so you get two teams 695 695 a spot. We've got Aidan Hutchinson Nice one there. That is gonna be 58 out of 99 for the Lions and First off the line exclusive three of eight is juju smith Schuster nice one there for the Chiefs Braden K again first off the line. Yep. There's another bar You're good on that One of eight first off the line exclusive Nick Chubb for the Browns followed by an etn to 75 and JJ Watt to 50 on the base Yes, yeah, you got one for box. I'm pretty sure Jake Ferguson 73 out of 75 red Going to the Cowboys on the rookie order. I don't think in every single one champ I think it depends on the case you usually get you're guaranteed to get one extra but not guaranteed two extra There's quay Walker 15 out of 35 going to Regina with the Packers There's Sam how 38 out of 49 this next one's so nasty. This is gonna be so freaking cool. I can already tell Probably best in history of that team We've got going to Eric are in the Lions. How about a Barry Sanders six out of 25 boom Let's go nice Barry Oh, that's so sick, dude. I need to get a Barry Sanders auto at some point. Yeah, I need one so cool, man One of if not the best to ever do it big time hit right there congrats on the Barry On card Barry. All right last box of photos. See if you got another bar. It feels like we do Yep, three bars. Let's go Nice So on your Lions fan, I'm assuming I think we talked about this I would love to get an auto of Barry Jerry and Randy I'd be cool That they should make that exist We've got first off the line exclusive Hollywood Brown Numbered seven of eight for the Cardinals kind of a color match there I would say I think it's an argument John But I think there's a very strong argument to be made for uh for sanders We hit one last night. I wasn't me breaking here It was our one of our other breakers. He had the Kyler one of one uh gold bar That's gonna be Aaron Jones to 50 Redemption off rip. You're strong junior elegance rookie silver autos. That's going to um The Patriots congrats in new england drew n Got first up is of van jepperson 14 out of 35 Two color patch auto for the Rams Bernie Tier two hit Followed by Arnold have a kit a 61 out of 75 color mat well not color match, but Uh red auto for the Falcons Next up we got going to the Raiders. How about a tim brown? That is 36 out of 99 Hall of Fame on card auto Raiders is Where are the Raiders at? Bernie congrats Bernie mjd I'm gonna I'm gonna throw in a name. I'm gonna throw uh Justin four sets hat into the ring On the best running back ever argument We've got a Trayvon Walker 64 out of 99 To the Jags nice one there Jacksonville. That's Regina on the tier two grads Regina And Garrett Wilson five of ten going to the Jets nice one there greg n Gorgeous one there man Lawrence Maroney I don't know how we're gonna have a best running back of all time conversation and leave out alex collins I think that's kind of uh, we're doing a disservice To everybody by leaving out alex collins All right, good luck here everybody Well, let's pull a gold man Nice one here going to the patriots bailey zappy Seven of 19 nice one there On the bar auto patriots is drew m. There you go drew chai God, I just realized that that waltz was a gary waltz not zack waltz and i thought it was zack waltz You were like you're like, I was like, I don't want to act that. I was like, why are we making those zack waltz? Yeah, brownberry walter peterson lt m it. Yeah, I think that's I think that's a good list For next bar Nolan ryan football ryan wesbrook there you go. There's a name Nice one here. We've got king henry one out of 20 one trance of fine silver that is going to Is going to the titans Congrats titans Dickerson's a good one too frank gore. I love frank gore too. He's solid Second tier second tier greatness Marshall falx another good one. Yeah All right All right last one here ap we've got hasan haskins three out of 19 On the silver bar auto going to drew m and the titans. Congrats drew You got two bars. Yeah. Yes. Drew got two bars. Very nice. All right. Let's do a quick recap everybody. Thanks again You've got autos Trayvon walker tim brown Uh pierre strong jr. Arnold abakite van jefferson sam howell quay walker jake ferguson aiden hutchinson tj watt nick bosa matt chorale eric azucanma sky more quay walker clinton portis Antonio gibson, uh, that is drake london lorence taylor jj watt mike alstop Uh tomate Wyatt hasan haskins justin jefferson chris long nicole b dean A couple of bar cards. We had uh derrick henry Number two 20 for the titans Bailey zappy seven of 19 going to the patriots And hasan haskins three of 19 going to the, uh, titans So two two, uh, titan bars, which is good, too Then we had magd cards garret wilson Number five of 10 going to the jets Nasty barry sanders six out of 25 for the lions We had landscape Six to 49 kenny picket for the steelers bar card davante adams going to the raiders And adam felon One-of-one printing plate auto for the vikings That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill next up personals


So this is my first time doing presenting in a not in my own company or organization, so Bear with me. I'm gonna make mistakes. We'll live No could be problem and if we have a live demo with which includes the internet Which has been spotty so we can see what happens. I can talk about around it So hi, I'm Tom. I am contribute to and Contractor with Mozilla for some time and I'm talking I'm gonna talk to you about global consent manager. It's a tool a project and prototype for exploring how to better work with GDPR compliant compliance dialogues across websites on the internet so it's a project between Mozilla University of Nebraska University of Ohio and a Journalist Institute Which are all interested in moving beyond the current status, which is as we all know not great, so We are in Europe, so I'm gonna guess everyone is familiar with GDPR, right? and the thing that That concerns us more most on this talk is about the consent dialogues across websites that have to ask before tracking or Actually keeping any any personal info in any info about their visitors which includes Spam protection anything so they all feel obligated to do it right up front and right When you first visit the website and it's important for For them to stay compliant with the GDPR. It's a one complicated Legislation but With by the end of the talk, we'll see that it doesn't have to be like a loose loose situation for everyone. We are all familiar with this and who has clicking I Accept or I don't accept or something Third that doesn't they don't even understand what they are clicking Every time so everyone is Everyone is compliant all on the world companies even not in Europe are finding it easier to comply than to Segregate their websites some of some of them some are some are not segregated their website for European Consumers and non-European so basically if you live on Planet Earth GDPR applies to you and you're affected in a some way So what what's the issue with GDPR? It says that you have to Get meaningful consent from a person before tracking or keeping any kind of personal information about them if that means that if you Sorry, how how does the consumer decide to Give trust to them to the website a right up front when they first see the dialogue They don't have enough information to know do they trust this website to to give it consent to track them or to Personals they add or whatever so Even the industry the Interactive add at Bureau is a Industry organization that deals with online advertising. They're working. They have a proposal for standardized GDPR compliance and They're working they're working on a common consent die a consent Cookie beat and cookie string that has the that that would be transferable from website to website that would be Common that would be common way to interpret what does what does consent mean one when you click? I agree or I don't I don't give consent. What does that mean in what each site and they are Doing this to actually help Help smaller businesses be in compliance with GDPR so that you don't have to You don't have to hire lawyers for each and every Business each and every business have to hire lawyers to interpret what does complying with a GDPR mean it's a first good step forward but it Has flaws it has downsides. It's mostly concerned when we're protecting the industry and not with Protecting the users and informing the users and giving them a way to give meaningful consent so We are we are working we are proposing We are going to work with the industry to propose better solutions and that would be What GDP what global consent manager comes in this is a Tool for now, which is a prototype for research purposes and also useful useful for regular users in Europe and across the world that has That has that is able now to give you a glimpse of what potential future for Consent the other consent dialogues and and GDPR compliance might be in the future It's like a regular add-on on the add-ons on the Firefox add-on store. You can just go or just search for it install it. It's like Fairly simple. The idea is the bigger issue the implementation I'm gonna talk about the implementation later, but this is mostly built for a prototype for research purposes for now and To be useful for users at the same time and hope to bring something Meaningful to the industry as a standard for later. So How is it good for you if you ever click without? Just when you get a Then you get a link to a website. That's a new story. It's the first time you visit the website You don't really care to interact with it on a meaningful level. You just want to read The article that you got linked, right? So you mostly as most users if you're privacy conscious you try to find the Small they're usually hidden option to not I don't consent but still give me a way to view the website if you're as a most users you're gonna hit the most bright green or whatever button and Click except you don't have to mean it obviously. They don't know that you they have legal protection that you clicked it and Everyone's happy except that you gave consent within when you didn't mean to or you spent like five minutes looking for the option to Not give them consent. What's worse? Some websites. I'm not gonna. I'm gonna name names like the verge or some other websites Don't you have an option to not give them consent and still watch it's still read the articles They're gonna keep bugging you. They're gonna kick us keep asking you For consent on every single web page until you say yes. So basically every Every page that you read stick constant it has the bar underneath and you're annoyed and you're not productive and Even worse things happen. So I'm gonna attempt a live demo Now the idea beside behind the basic idea is to only present a consent dialogue once User has a meaningful relationship with the website. What does that mean? If you are visiting a website for the first time, you don't know if you trust them You don't know if you want to give them consent to to keep a cookie on you or whatever You don't know who they are and you don't you can't actually decide the only thing you can decide is to click No, or if you don't care, you can smash that button and get to the content So if you visit a website regularly, it makes sense that after you After you have a relationship, you know who they are you have the you know the brand You are able to meaning meaningfully understand when they ask you we will use these cookies to personal ads personalized ads for you or Remember your preferred language or topics or whatever they are using cookies that they need to send for They're gonna Be able you're gonna be able to understand what they're asking and you're gonna be able to meaningfully give that consent How does that work? I'm gonna try a live demo. Hopefully it works Since we are in Belgium. This is one of the websites that we support from I'm not even sure what what the website is. I don't speak the language This is how it work how it looks without In the normal way and you go to the I don't serve for global concept manager at Firefox in or in my case enable it and on the next visit of The website Voila you get regular normal website. You then get bothered you haven't given consent This is the important part. You haven't given consent. They are not tracking you right now. They don't know anything about you yet they're not You don't you don't have information and What does it do? It says right here or for on the status? This is the status page. This is a managed site. This means that we know about these sites and First visitors today not trusted. This means that we don't know this We haven't seen you visit this site. The extension keeps track of the sites to visit it's not gonna start trusting website just by Refreshing the page, but if you visit a site on five different days that seems like something that you might be interested in the future and Until then it's gonna block the consent dialogue from showing up that works for we have like a hundred website that we support for most popular news and similar websites across Europe and the world and They're gonna we are adding Any new popular website that user are requesting in this Prototype stage. How does it actually work? It works in two ways. It either sets a cookie for you Automatically to indicate to the website. I'm not consenting to tracking So if you visit a website one some of the website supports something like this that they are well-behaving websites You can set a cookie instead of you navigating and finding the button to to click I don't consent we do it for you when you visit the website right away until you have a Meaningful interaction with the website you get prompted after fair after five visits on five after five days of visits It could be over a month. It could be every single day for a week. You get actually presented from From the we allow the extension allows the website to ask you for consent right there Before there you can manually allow the website to ask you for consent or you can after it After we have the extension allows it to ask you you can manually deny it. So basically always in control you can Keep the dialogue showing Prevent them so we're showing you can give the trust you can answer the question. You can I'm gonna guess the green button does the thing that they want me to do and That's Basically, it's fairly simple. So that's the the well-behaving websites not all websites In fact most websites are not well behaving. They don't have a simple a cookie based way to indicate that you're you do not consent So in that case we use simple CSS to hide the consent dialogues. It's a little hockey, but Well, it works That's that's what how the extension for now works. This is so as I said, let me go back This is the you can see Probably more clear what it looks like when you first visit the website first visited today not trusted And you have always an option to manually Allow them to ask you for consent and you can give it you can deny it But you can do whatever after that. Those are the three Meaningful states. It's first visited previously visited. So that's when you you've been there We know that you've been there but not yet in fully trusted trusted state and after Currently it said that that this is a prototype. We have other ideas For example, if you write a comment on our website, we could use that as indicator that you want to interact with the website That so that can be that could trigger a trust there other ideas Some that we might implement later But the general idea is that the browser or in this case extension But the end goal is for the browser to do this for you if we can agree on the standard with Publishes for browser to manage That for the users and for the websites it can create a better environment for everyone Why do why do am I so confident in saying that? because Because we did a user study with extension for regular users browsing news websites He I think it was done in Ohio. So US residents and this is the right one It's obviously the one with the web users are more likely to stay in the website longer to visit more web pages We're not bombarded with the consent dialogue right away They are likely to after have a meaningful relationship with the website if they do and later you can date at the site can ask them for consent and The extension currently and in our proposal for the future of the browser Managers that's that for you. It keeps track of trust sites. You trust they let them let them let them ask you for consent and So We have This is it We're gonna learn more about the on the global that we have a website with lots of how-to's it Indeed goes in details how it works how it how you can map how you can set set it up the way you like It has some background info on GDPR basics and it has the user study that I just cited it's listed on the website and That's it. I have I'll take question. This is I have this is all dry information This is not a fun thing to talk about like marionette or like HTTP 3 from from Daniel and it's hard to follow, but I've run to it I'll take questions and if you don't Manage to find me later. I'll I'm happy to talk. Thank you so much Anyone have any questions? Okay, perfect So, how do you care not to get like any ad blockers? Website will inform you with this ad blockers if you want to with our website Yes, that's it. That's one of the Possible venues we strictly try to keep it separated Showing ads is still important for the website to maintain their Financial situation and to be able to so we've kept this talk This issue separate from blocking out, but that's one of the possibilities for later for well-behaving web tool for browser to do that for you to let the let The well-behaving websites show you ads and those the one that don't obey any rules They don't obey don't do not track them on the way Don't don't behave. Well, they will It's possible that we could go into blocking their ads automatically or even worse things like track track blocking trackers Which Firefox is doing independently of all this? so I think that And what about The the data you catch it how often I or how regularly I visited the website Do you catch it locally at my browser? Yeah, that's the extension just it just saves like a date and For the first five dates that it because it doesn't want to count five visits on the same date so it just saves the date for each website that you visited it last and When it is and you let it increases the count by one when it reaches five it stops counting It's minimal information needed to implement the fit feature Hopefully if you reach a standard for Among industry we can do the browser could do this you already trust the browser browser has the history for you And it can do even better, but currently it is minimally minimally that data Invasive way for you to actually provide a feature for you. Okay. Thanks We have Hi, hi, I have a question. I believe so if I understand correctly when you need to add a new site It you just need to have the technical way with the cookie to say to that you refuse tracking. There is no Contact with the site itself. So for example, if I want to add one website, which is not currently supported Who would I proceed proceed? We have a GitHub page. You just open an issue and list the website and if you are Interested in the details you can investigate yourself wet when selecting I don't consent and see what what cookie it sets. You don't have to do that We can do it if you If you don't know how to do it, but you report the website We we're gonna if you if you are inclined you can do it yourself and report what it does You can we accept full request as well So it's just a list of websites and the rule to either set CSS or to set the cookie for now It's fairly simple. It's fairly explanatory and that's how we do I think in the for this Yeah, yeah, we are we've been talking about automatically updating but People so that's possible on the future. So, you know Any other question we have in the first. Oh, okay. Sorry So currently I use an ad blocker to block these things What would be the benefit for me to switch to to this extension? Are there like any edge cases or Does the site behave differently when I'm using this extension compared to Normal ad blocker that just hides the notification when you say you use that worker does it hide all the consent dialogues for you? Well, I thought some of them not all of them. Yeah ad blockers are not meant for that Some that do that. It's mostly by accident. It's not their purpose main purpose and Second then so this is better specifically to afford that so it's gonna be work It's gonna work better at this for this you can use it with an ad blocker It doesn't interact with each other in any way So you eat the ad blocker box ads and tracking strips this block these blocks consent dialogues What what's the benefit for you for using this instead of an ad blocker? Depends on if you care about the websites showing you ads and everything this just lets you let you be less annoyed by all the dialogues But still allow showing the odds in case either not targeted or targeted after you accept the after you give consent so If you care about journalism getting financed and reading good journalism and fake news and everything that's a goal I don't have to go into that story, but that's one of the reasons why would you would use this instead of block fully blocking ads For the website. So basically it's more ethical. Is that what you're saying it's more ethical Because I will see ads, but I will not be tracked don't want to get into ethics I want to say it's more practical because this is how we get journalism finance more This is in interest as I show in the research This is in the interest in the industry of the industry as well So we believe it's a win-win situation win-win situation for everyone if you can get to this This is obviously just a project manually doing this. This is not this does not scale We can do a thousand web most popular websites and that's gonna cover a lot, but it doesn't scale So we believe everyone wins if we implement something like this on the browser level as a standard across Pepsi. So that's the Goal okay, any other question, okay, this is the last one This still assumes that the server side is well-behaving So that if you declare you don't want to be tracked and the server says okay, I hear you but I'm going to ignore you Yes, you can't have that. Yes, we have lost for that I mean Nothing you can't go all full for walking for yourself But that has other issues you break things you don't let them find out the cell This is mostly for meant to handle the Me the mainstream use case So a big website that has a brand that wants to interact with users in a meaningful and trusted way to build trust so this is meant for We have Firefox has anti-tracking for the other cases and It's slightly related, but it's not exactly Anti-tracking is not meant for those websites that have brands and want to preserve it and don't want to do shady stuff So this is meant for that part. The anti-tracking doesn't need to touch New York Times and the register Hopefully that's the that's the world in which I would love to like to live So that's what I'm what we are working on just to say I don't think I've said I was I'm not usually the person who present these things. I'm a developer for Mozilla and I was technical support for this website most of the Idea and research and everything was done by this these institutions on glow. So Mozilla was I believe Don Marty at Mozilla was the original idea University of Nebraska, Omaha, and Missouri with Reynolds Reynolds journalism Institute are doing the heavy work on this. I'm like a technical monkey, but I also Like I also believe in the project. So that's why I'm here today Okay, thank you so much. Don't miss laugh. Thank you everyone


I'm a long-term employee of the extension service and I thought maybe I'd talk a little bit about why a person should choose a career with extension. And so number one is it's a good way to help people with the position no matter what it is as a county agent or area specialist or state specialist. That's the main objective is helping people using NDSU data. And although our salaries are not the highest we have a lot of good things to balance that. One is job security and we have very good benefits, vacation time for example, health benefits and others as well. And within our organization I think we're very people friendly. We have a lot of support from no matter what position you're in there's people that'll help you both as professionally as well as as a subject matter. So a person can get into extension into whatever career it is and feel confident that they have a lot of people behind them to be successful. And then also there's a lot of in-service opportunities both as a professional to improve in public speaking or being a better communicator in general as well as a lot of help with subject matter. We have lots of opportunities both within our organization in state as well as at the regional level or national level to receive information to help a person be better in whatever subject matter area they're working in. And then another benefit I really appreciate is flexibility with the job and variability. Every day a person comes to the office you don't have a set schedule of things to do or you'll always be surprised at what you might be doing that wasn't planned at eight o'clock that morning. So essentially you can be your own boss and go down the roads that you're interested in and maybe have the most skills to help people. So this is a half a dozen bullets if you will of reasons that I enjoy being an extension employee and I think you would too.


Hey everybody, it's HCC788. You may remember a few weeks ago I told you about E. Thomas Joseph's book Winter Eternal. It's a book I enjoyed very much And I encouraged you to check it out too. Thanks to everyone who did. Now you may be thinking this is 2018 Can't I get someone to read the book to me? And the answer is yes It is available as an audiobook. Winter Eternal is a fiction story set in the American Revolution It's exciting. It's filled with historical references. It's very smartly written and it's a good read and now It's available as an audiobook. The book does have mature language and themes So it is for adults, but I think it would appeal to viewers of this show There will be a link in the description of this video where you can get the audiobook Thank you E. Thomas Joseph for supporting this show and thank you for checking out his work Hey Joe fans I allowed my supporters on patreon to decide what would be reviewed this week and for the fourth time I offered the 1988 swamp masher as an option to vote for and for the fourth time It was defeated instead the patrons wanted to see a new review of the Cobra fang Helicopter now I've reviewed the fang before but that was a long time ago that video is not very good You should not go back and watch it and you know, I think they're right that review needed to be redone So we're gonna do that this week whenever I review a helicopter. I like to give it a test flight You know, see how it handles. I see nothing that could go wrong their vintage GI Joe toy review and this is a remake of an old review that I did years ago and Yeah, it's time to redo this one before we do that. I have to give another code name to a patron Yep, we're doing that every week until I get every single one of them done and the next patron I need to give a code name to is Todd Humphrey Todd Todd Todd makes me think of Todd McFarlane Todd McFarlane is connected to GI Joe. He drew one issue of the comic book See Todd McFarlane did Spider-Man and spawn and he was from Canada and I like alliteration. So Todd your code name is the snow spawn spider serpent Thank you for your support. Oh, yeah, I also have one special channel announcement coming at the end of the video So please stay for that this week. We are going to look at a cobra vehicle that I have a lot of fond memories of I remember enjoying this toy when playing with it as a child as an adult I think it still looks really good, but I also notice a lot of flaws flaws that I perhaps Overlooked when playing with it as a kid. We're going to take a close and very honest look at an iconic vehicle HCC 788 presents the Cobra Fang This is the 1983 Cobra fang with fang being an acronym for a fully armed negator gyrocopter I have my doubts about whether this is a gyrocopter, but we will discuss that later This vehicle was first available in 1983 and was also available in 1984 and 1985 it was available for an extra year most GI Joe vehicles were available at retail for two years a Few very few were available for longer than that after the fang was discontinued at retail It was available as a mail away offer from 1986 to 1991 this vehicle was available one way or another for most of the vintage line It did not come with an action figure the fang was part of the first wave of Cobra vehicles starting in 1983 which also included the his tank the snake armor and the viper glider and that's it Cobra had no vehicles in 1982. They only had a Sears exclusive play set the Cobra missile command center It was made of cardboard in the meantime GI Joe had a lot of vehicles Cobra lagged behind The reason for this was Hasbro's concern that kids would not want to spend money on bad guys I think they were wrong and later some pretty spectacular Cobra vehicles were released the fangs GI Joe rival in the air at The time was the 1983 dragonfly helicopter GI Joe also had the sky striker But Cobra didn't have any jets at the time to go up against it and even though these were the closest rivals in 1983 I mean just look at them There is a massive difference in both size and firepower in 1986 GI Joe got a replacement for the dragonfly the Tomahawk Helicopter which was even bigger in the meantime Cobra still had no update for the fang The battle in the air was getting pretty unfair even though Cobra didn't have an update in the air in 1986 the dreadlocks had two helicopters They had the swamp fire which was a boat that converted to a helicopter even though it had Cobra symbols on it It wasn't technically a Cobra vehicle. It was a dreadnought vehicle They also had the air assault set which included a recolored fang That's a very rare and expensive piece and I don't have it to show you finally in 1987 Cobra got the Mamba and it was a proper helicopter Much larger than the fang loaded with missiles and guns lots of firepower It was a double rotor design. It had intricate play features It was a huge step up in 1989 Cobra got an update to the fang called the fang too It was a little bigger than the original fang and better armed I mentioned in the review of the Mamba that because of the colors and the style I think the fang too is more an update of the Mamba than the original fang. I love the black It's my favorite color for a Cobra vehicle and in those early years. We got several black Cobra vehicles Including in 1983 the his tank along with the fang and in 1984 we got the stinger and they look beautiful I love to display them all together. What was the gi Joe equivalent to the fang in 1984 gi Joe got the Skyhawk and it was fairly close in size, but the skyhawk was not a helicopter I'm not sure that's a perfect matchup But at the time was probably about as close as you could get the fang is allegedly a gyrocopter Which is sometimes called an auto gyro a gyrocopter has a top Unpowered rotor that provides a lift while forward motion is provided by an engine powered propeller This design allows a gyrocopter to fly in a similar way to a helicopter But it does not require a tail rotor as you will notice the fang has a tail rotor Which would not be needed for a gyrocopter and if it is a gyrocopter what exactly provides the forward thrust? Maybe this engine exhaust that is a possibility In fact the box art seems to show that engine exhaust almost being like a jet engine I don't think so despite what it's called based on this design I think the fang is a helicopter not a gyrocopter and that's what I call it The fang was designed by Ron Rudat Ron Rudat was a character designer for Hasbro and he designed almost all of the early gi Joe action figures He did a few vehicles though and the fang was his first Ron says he was inspired by the James Bond movie You only live twice which included an aerial battle in which James Bond flew a Gyrocopter the fang doesn't look anything like the gyrocopter in that movie But given the size and the mounted missiles I can see that inspiration. I have something a little special with the fang I have the box that it came in it's in pretty bad shape But we can still use it to see how the fang was marketed at the time Starting right here in the front with a big gi Joe logo and of course Cobra the enemy right there and The name of the vehicle the Cobra fang with his acronym and the box art, which is great Usually was in the 80s the box art shows the fang piloted by a Cobra soldier Even though the vehicle did not come with any action figure the top and the bottom and the sides are pretty beat up So let's just flip it around to the back where we can see it was worth two Flag points, which you could redeem for mail away offers Then we have a photograph of the toy here, and this is almost certainly a prototype There are some differences between this photograph and the production toy some differences between this photograph and the production vehicle The gray appears to be darker although you can't be sure about that That kind of depends on the lighting when this photograph was taken if the lighting wasn't very good that gray color Just may appear darker the joystick seems a bit thicker than the production vehicle the backpack is different and The post where the rotors are attached Did not have the housing that the production vehicle had before we look at the details of the fang I have something special to show you this is the action force SAS Hawk helicopter. This is from 1984 in the United Kingdom's action force line And as you can see it's almost a straight reissue of the Cobra fang with some important differences Some differences I noticed between the Cobra fang and the action force SAS Hawk helicopter The gray appears to be a little bit darker All of the red pieces have been changed to yellow and the stickers are different other than that It appears to be exactly the same as the Cobra fang another major difference This vehicle did come with an action figure seen here codename blades It was a recolored version of the US figure tripwire Repurposed as a helicopter pilot so instead of being a bad guys helicopter This was a good guys helicopter with just some minor color changes Thank you to Paul Keneer for sending this vehicle to me. I am so thrilled to have it now Let's look at the parts and the features of the fang helicopter starting right here in front With this really cool red cannon on a ball turret The blueprints call this a 30 millimeter rapid fire cannon on a remote mounted bubble turret This ball turret gives easy motion in all directions As a kid this was easily my favorite feature on this vehicle That gray ball connects to the black body of the vehicle And here in front on the top there is a red cobra emblem That looks great black red and gray. It's hard to beat that Next we have the cockpit which consists of a gray seat with ridges and a back peg A thin gray joystick some leg room and an instrument panel sticker The detail in this cockpit is admittedly minimal It doesn't have any instruments sculpted on the seat which I think it should have Placing a figure in the fang is easy. I will use a cobra trooper since that's what's on the box art You just bend the figure's legs and sit him in the seat Line his back hole up with the back peg and press him in to secure him in The joystick is thin enough that you should be able to fit the action figure's hand on it Without any threat of breaking the thumb or the joystick He fits in there pretty securely with the back peg Since the fang does have a back peg it would not be compatible with modern figures The fangs black red and gray look pretty good to me And putting the blue figure in it adds even more color while still keeping it somewhat subdued However, there is an alternative pilot for it This is the cobra hiss driver It was the driver of the hiss tank it came with that vehicle in 1983 According to the hiss drivers file card he is a qualified expert with the fang copter So he absolutely could be a pilot for this I think the hiss driver in the fang cockpit looks great That red matches the red on the helicopter You still have the blue for an extra flash of color And you have silver on top of it This looks excellent to me One more alternative pilot for the fang wild weasel The pilot of the 1984 cobra rattler He was a jet pilot but still looks pretty good in the cockpit of the fang But I think the hiss driver looks a little better The hiss drivers red more closely matches the red on the fang I also like that blue chest plate on the hiss driver And wild weasel is a slightly bulkier figure Not quite as good a fit with the fang Now we get to the most problematic feature on this vehicle The missiles it came with four long thin red missiles That mounted to the vertical posts for the landing skids These missiles are awful I hate them I only mounted them on the helicopter for this review And as soon as this review is over they are going back into storage They have several problems including the stickers A flat sticker on a round surface is not going to stick very well And of the four missiles I only have one that still has the sticker To show you the other problems I have to remove the missiles And once they are removed I am not putting them back on Okay let's take one off here If I can get it off there we go Removed one missile and you can see how the missiles are mounted On the posts for the landing skids There are very thin very small pegs or tabs really And those fit into very thin slots on the missiles Those are extremely difficult to line up And if you do manage to line up the missiles and get one of them on The two missiles on one side are very close together So when you're trying to mount the second missile You are very likely to knock the first one off It doesn't really matter if you mount the top one or the bottom one first I've tried it both ways and it's almost impossible either way Another problem with the missiles can be seen on this one So I'm going to carefully take it off This red plastic seems to be somewhat fragile and it can split I don't know if you can see the cracks very well But at both of the slots where it mounts The plastic is split and it will just straight break off right there These are not very well made They're hard to mount and fragile at that The sad thing about these missiles is the red does add color to the fang And without them you lose some color interest But to me they are not worth it and I usually leave them off The blueprints call these heat seeking air to air missiles And the engineering on these is woefully inadequate Later vehicles had better missile mounting than this I think this was just an early experiment It was an early vehicle and I think maybe Hasbro hadn't quite figured out The best way to mount missiles I know some other 1983 vehicles had missile mounts With the traditional dumbbell shaped peg and slot Really the fang should have had something like that These tabs and the slots on the missiles are way too thin And to me they're almost impossible to use Now let's look at those landing skids that the missiles were attached to The skids are also somewhat fragile so have care with those Each skid has a foot peg So you can mount an extra figure on each side Those foot pegs are a little bit thick So I would not use them on any figure that is known to have fragile plastic For fear of breaking off the heels But for most figures it should work fine And it does change the fang from a one person vehicle to a three person vehicle On the underside of the fang we have a bomb It is gray It pegs on with this kind of unusual shaped peg and slot here But this peg and slot work perfectly It pegs on solidly with no problem at all That bomb as I said is gray And on each side it has a red cobra emblem This bomb is pretty big and substantial And I like it a lot The blueprints do not have a name for this bomb But the back of the box does It says it's one removable negator bomb What is a negator bomb? I have no idea Working our way back we have the black body of the fang Which I think looks great I love the black It's my favorite color for a cobra vehicle Then we have the engine area With another red plastic piece This is the engine perimeter frame slash roll bar And full disclosure this one is broken as most of them are It is very rare to find this piece unbroken This red plastic as mentioned before is somewhat fragile And this is another piece that wasn't engineered very well If you mount it correctly It's supposed to have tabs that connect here on this tab here And then also down here at the bottom And connecting it as it's designed puts pressure on those tabs And most of them are broken It's hard to find one that isn't This is a piece that you usually find missing on the fang In fact this is most likely going to be the piece that is missing If you have an incomplete fang And like the missiles it's okay without it But you also lose some of the color Looking at that engine you have some excellent detail on both sides And you have this huge engine exhaust Which as kids of course we used as a jet engine And attached to that gray engine block We have the post that connects to the rotor blades And on that post we have two rotor blades Which extend beyond the body of the helicopter By about an inch both in the front and the back So they're pretty long There's a fair amount of detail on those rotor blades Both on the top and on the bottom One of mine is a bit chewed up But it still works just fine That's good enough for me There is no mechanism for spinning these blades Like on the Dragonfly helicopter You just have to spin them manually But one thing I do like about them is They spin really well And will keep spinning for a long time Still going Still going That's all on one spin It's still going It's still going But it's slowing down And it's about to Stop The post that connects the rotor blades And goes inside this housing connected to the engine block Is a frequently broken part And that particular brake is very difficult to fix Continuing our move toward the back We have the tail Which is part of that black body And looks really good We have some rivets really all over the body That I think is supposed to indicate armor We have a couple small horizontal stabilizer fins On each side of the tail Then we have the tail fin With a red Cobra emblem that looks really good And attached to the tail fin We have the rear rotor blade Which is red plastic And it's housed inside this kind of three prong cage It has a knob on each side So you can manually spin it And that is essentially it For a small vehicle It has a fair number of features And I really think aesthetically It's very nice Especially with those colors A lot of Cobra vehicles weren't very safe Cobra didn't seem to care very much About the safety of their personnel But the Fang is alright It's just a helicopter It's kind of small But I don't really see any safety issues here Taking a look at how the Fang was used in Gijo media It got a lot of use As would be expected For a long time it was Cobra's only helicopter In the Gijo cartoon series It was in the opening of the first TV miniseries Titled a real American hero And it was in the first episode The Fang got frequent use in the cartoon series Even after it was no longer on retail shelves Because Cobra didn't have another helicopter The Fang saw use right up into the 1987 animated movie But no appearances after that Cobra had other vehicles to promote In the Gijo comic book series It first appeared in issue number 17 It showed up just in time to get blown up That was the fate of many Cobra vehicles In the comic book series The Fang was a mainstay of the comic for years In issue number 19 During the Cobra attack on the Gijo base Major Blood used a Fang to escape with the Baroness In issue number 27 A mysterious character Which we later learned to be Zartan Used the Fang to flee after killing the Hardmaster In issue number 44 The Baroness, Destro and Dr. Meinbender used it to escape It was often used to escape Maybe it should be considered an escape helicopter Instead of an attack helicopter In fact, I'm going to put a poll on YouTube You should see it in the top right hand corner of your screen Vote to tell me if you think the Fang is better As an escape helicopter or an attack helicopter Looking at the Fang overall It's an iconic but flawed vehicle Obviously I think it looks great The black is perfect And it's well balanced by the gray and the red When you can keep the red pieces on Unfortunately that red plastic is a bit fragile And some design flaws made it even worse If you leave off the red missiles and the roll cage The middle part of the vehicle seems a bit monochromatic It really needs the red And unfortunately it's usually missing the red The red missiles for me are a total loss They're pretty much non-usable I hate to put them on And if I get them on I don't want to touch them I'd rather just leave them off I feel like this is a flaw that should have been noticed Before the vehicle went into production Those tabs for the missiles are too small The slots are too small And this should have been noticed The roll cage that goes around the engine Also made of that red plastic Is too tight so the tabs break Not good I also can't ignore the fact that the Fang is far too small And far too underpowered To go up against anything G.I. Joe had in the air at the time A single Fang versus a single Dragonfly With Wild Bill as the pilot The Dragonfly wins 100% of the time Now we've got the flaws out of the way What's good about the Fang? Well first of all it may not work very well As an attack helicopter But it works great as an escape helicopter And I think it looks great The black is beautiful And it goes perfectly with other Cobra vehicles of the era Now that we've got those flaws out of the way What's good about the Fang? Well it may not work very well as an attack helicopter But it works great as an escape helicopter And I think it looks fantastic That black is beautiful And it goes perfectly with other Cobra vehicles of the era Taking into account its flaws and its virtues The best I can do for the Fang is put it in the middle tier Which is lower than I would normally put such an iconic vehicle But it does have its flaws And the flaws kind of get in the way On a personal subjective level I love the Fang It was one of my favorites as a kid I've got a lot of use out of it And I think it looks great as a display piece And I really enjoy having it in my collection That was my updated review of the Cobra Fang helicopter I hope you enjoyed it I did say I have a special announcement I will get to that in just a minute Before we get to that I want to thank my supporters on Patreon They chose this review And we will be doing more votes To decide what will be reviewed on this channel Periodically throughout the year If you'd like to vote in those polls Make sure you support the channel on Patreon Support at any level gets you the right to vote I also now have a coffee account So if you like this video You can leave me a one time tip You can find me on social media On Facebook and Twitter And I have a website HCC788.com I humbly ask you to give this video a thumbs up On YouTube and subscribe to the YouTube channel Hit the notification button and share this video And apparently a lot of you have done just that Which is why I have to make an announcement This channel has surpassed 6,000 subscribers Holy guacamole We started the year with fewer than 4,000 This year we have hit 4,000 We have hit 5,000 And now we have hit 6,000 And it's only September You guys are great This is all due to you Whoa, whoa, sorry Got a pilot, the helicopter here This is all due to you You guys are fantastic You make this channel work You support the channel You share the videos You enjoy GI Joe And you enjoy the nostalgia of looking at these toys again And you make this a project worth it You do And so thank you Thank you very much You guys make me want to stand up and cheer Crap, crap, crap Stay on


White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain appeared on an episode of the Pod Save America podcast and he was asked about student debt Now what he said here was very interesting and Uncharacteristically reasonable for the Biden administration. Take a look. The president's going to look at what we should do on student debt before The pause expires or he'll extend the pause Joe Biden right now is the only president in history Where no one's paid on their student loans for the entirety of his presidency? And so the question whether or not there's some executive action student debt forgiveness When the payments res resume is a decision we're going to take before the payments resume right now people aren't having to pay on their loans and And so I think dealing with the executive branch question what we should do about that What his powers are how much we should do on that? That's something we're going to deal with later on That sounded very interesting now before we say anything further Temporary expectations because there's a couple of red flags with what he's saying there that lead me to believe that this isn't going to be The full student debt cancellation that we've all been demanding for years now But let's go through what he said here. So he says Possibly before the pause expires. They're looking at extending the pause at a minimum I do think that it's reasonable to deduce that we will see another extension of the Pause on student debt repayment, which that's that's good news, right? So some cause for hopeium, but what I really want to know is What's the verdict when it comes to student debt cancellation? None of us are really expecting this from Joe Biden Even if we are demanding it, but it's nice to kind of get a little bit of an update Well, Ron Klain says so the question of whether or not there's some executive action on student debt forgiveness when the repayments When the payments resume is a decision We're going to take before the payments resume And so I think dealing with the executive branch question what we should do about that What his powers are and how much we should do on that. There's something we're gonna deal with later on So what he just gave us was a timeline Before May 1st, which is the date that payments are currently set to resume for student loans They will determine whether or not Biden will take executive action and how much So There's a couple of things working in our favor ultimately I I'll tell you what my expectations are. They're not very high just to kind of be clear But we have a couple of things working in our favor first and foremost You just saw the White House chief of staff brag about how Biden is the only president in history Where nobody has had to make payments on their student loans That's something that they are saying because they know that that's good and popular Therefore they want to give themselves a little bit of ammunition Something to brag about going into the midterms and they presumably want to keep this up, right? So they know at least at the very very minimum That allowing people to have a little bit more room to breathe having this break from student loans is popular So that's important So if it is the case that Biden chooses to sign an executive order Canceling student debt as his chief of staff Ronald Klain hinted that he might possibly do the question is how much? What's the number? I would expect no more than ten thousand dollars. Do not get your hopes up if he cancels fifty thousand That would be very very unlikely But I mean this is what the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer along with a lot of lawmakers are calling in on him to do But on the campaign trail, he said very explicitly. He's not gonna cancel that much. He said ten thousand dollars now He said more vague things about student forgiveness on the campaign trail So you can take from that what you want, but this is Joe Biden So if he's going to cancel anything via executive order Well, I wouldn't expect more than ten thousand I certainly wouldn't expect full cancellation if he proves me wrong I would be more than happy to say that I was wrong and he was right here good on him But I just think that that's unlikely a couple of things that are working against us here And this is very cynical But his approval rating is starting to rebound following the state of the union and following his Approval of the way that he's handling the Russian invasion into Ukraine So with that in mind He may not necessarily feel the pressure to do something with respect to student loan repayments because if his approval ratings going up Then you know why bother? It's a Democrat. So of course, we should always expect less than the bare minimum, but on top of that This administration I mean we need to remind you who they are as insider reminds all of us Biden's Department of Education continues to fight student loan borrowers who are fighting to discharge their student loans in court via bankruptcy for example After a 35 year old Ryan Wolfson successfully proved in court his student loans proved an undue hardship Well the Department of Education stepped in to appeal the case now They subsequently withdrew their appeal following backlash once the story became public But still it kind of gives you a sense of what they're trying to do where their priorities lie They also rejected a 77 year old nurse's attempt to discharge her student debt After she served nearly two decades at a public hospital now Let me remind you that if you've dedicated your life to public service for two decades Your student debt is supposed to be forgiven public service is one avenue to loan forgiveness This is what the Democrats have bragged about but when it comes to what they're doing in court Or when people make these appeals to have their student debt discharged, they're fighting them So this is who the administration is we hear that from ronald clain And it's it's easy to get your hopes up and feel a little bit of hopeium But let's temper our expectations and remember who we're we're dealing with here We're dealing with joe biden the buck stops with him So his chief of staff can say one thing But this is the guy ultimately who made it more difficult for all of us to discharge our student debt in the first place Thanks to his bankruptcy bill. So I would not expect him to do Anything even when it comes to ten thousand dollars. I'm not getting my hopes up with that. Would it be lovely? Yes Would I absolutely sing his praises if he chose to sign an executive order canceling all student debt without question Is he gonna do that though? Not necessarily But here's one thing that we do have going in our favor or working in our favor I should say going into the future the negative economic impact argument is now officially moot Because nobody has made payments on their student loans for quite some time and guess what? There's no evidence that it has negatively impacted the economy So this fear mongering that we heard previously about how canceling student debt would lead to some sort of an economic crisis Is bullshit I mean the evidence is right in front of us, right? So that's one really important thing that we have in the future And I also just want you all to Save that video that we just watched of Ron claim so that way we can throw it in Biden's face in the future Or in the democratic party's face in the future Because they've kind of been dangling student debt forgiveness or some sort of forgiveness Or just easing up our pain in front of our faces for a while now So this is all building up to something right some sort of a solution So if they don't do anything about this then we can throw this in their face and say well You all keep hinting at this and you keep telling us to vote for you and yet nothing is being accomplished Now they might just say Well, look you haven't made payments under us. So that's your relief You're welcome Or they might actually take it a step further and cancel at least some student debt I don't know but what we just just saw right there was significant that is the white house chief of staff explicitly publicly saying that we're looking at a potential executive order To cancel student debt Not saying how much not saying if we're even going to do it We may just extend the pause on repayments But still that's significant and it's something that you all need to keep in mind So when the democrats start to waiver again throw it in their faces I mean, whatever we can do to put pressure on him, but I will say I've been pretty optimistic just because there's been such a sustained amount of pressure on joe biden from other lawmakers Progressives and even senators like chuck shear. I mean, he's the last person that you'd expect to have any Progressive bone in his body whatsoever But he's been relatively consistent here And I previously thought that maybe he was trying to thwart off some sort of a primary challenge from a progressive opponent But he's pretty consistent. So credit where it's due he's exerting pressure And even if you know, he doesn't really mean it and this is all just rhetoric that still is important It still moves the orton window in our direction. So, you know, it's a positive development here to hear a white house chief of staff ron claim say that but don't get your hopes up because You're likely going to be disappointed if you do but still something to keep in mind because that's not a small thing To see that to hear him say yeah, we're looking at executive action. That's pretty substantial. So Take from it what you will but I'm not going to get my hopes up for one