Hey everyone, my name is Broogly and today I'm going to be talking about Backrooms Level 931, which is one of the safest and most beautiful and most mesmerizing levels in all of the backrooms. Just whatever you do, do not touch these clouds. Anyways, I think you're really going to enjoy this video. Let's hop into the explanation, shall we? So Backrooms Level 931, or the Leafy Corridors, has a classification of Class Zero. And it's safe and stable and devoid of entities, question mark. So it most likely is devoid of entities, but we don't really know. It's just up for debate. The beginning of the level shows itself as a long and winding concrete hallway that's huge and has really tall ceilings and big glass windows on the left side. These windows are huge rectangles that look over this beautiful sky scene and it's always the sunset time of day when you look outside. The ground of the hallway is made out of grass and flowers and it gives off this eerie but relaxing feeling, almost like you've been there before. The sun that shines through the big windows gives this entire level a bright kind of glow that has a similar healing effect and calming effect that almond water does. So just by walking through the hallways, you'll feel more alive and more comfortable and you'll start healing more. And you'll just feel awesome. I mean, how can you not? This entire level gives off a feeling of comfort and peacefulness. A feeling of liminal heaven, if you will. It almost feels like an art piece in a way because it's so beautiful and eye catching. Or maybe I'm just crazy and I'm looking into it too much. I think it's beautiful. The windows here actually don't have glass on them, so theoretically you could just walk right out into the clouds to the side, but whatever you do, do not do that. You need to avoid the clouds at all costs, and I'll explain why later in the video. Just know that you gotta trust me. And I've never lied to you about anything backroom related so far, so just trust me. So those grassy corridors that I just explained, that's the start of the level. It's kind of the zone where you'll spawn in and you'll be at for a while, but after you walk through it for a long time, you'll actually end up going to the second part of the level, which is just called part two. I know that's a crazy name, but, you know. So part two of the level is a more enclosed space with less windows and less sunlight. This is the only part of the level that's considered really dangerous because it gives wanderers feelings of paranoia and uneasiness. And in some cases, dread. It's unknown exactly why it happens, but it's probably got something to do with there being no light and the hallways being claustrophobic and not open, and I don't know, maybe being stuck inside the backrooms forever, that might also cause you to have dread. Anyways, it doesn't matter what you're feeling in this portion of the level because the odds are you're still safe, which is nice. Around the floor on this section are random jagged rocks that are below the flowers. So don't step on those as well, but other than that, this part looks the same as the first part, minus the windows. Now based on that paranoia and the dread feelings you might have that I just talked about, there's been multiple reports of people going insane while being stuck in this part two area for too long. Specifically, that it somehow depletes and lowers your sanity way faster than the other section. Because if you remember, the other section has that sunlight that gives you a healing property and kind of keeps you sane and calm. Well this section doesn't.  But even if you drink almond water and aren't the type to go crazy, these darker areas will make you paranoid and they probably will make you feel like something is right outside of the light and about to attack you. Who knows if there's something there, I hope there's not, but there might be. Now after this first and then second part, there's a very rare and unexplored third part of the level that can also be dangerous if you don't explore it properly. The third part looks like the first part with the big open windows and the grassy floors and the clouds outside, but this time instead of it just being clouds in the sky, there's just ever so faintly a city inside the clouds, just like a floating city floating in the air outside of the windows on top of the clouds. Now at this point in the level is when your mind will try very hard to get you to jump out of the tunnel and into the clouds below. But you have to not do that if you want to survive and the reason that the cloud area is so dangerous is because it is a direct link to the void level and if you don't know what the void is, it's pretty much just an infinite expanse of black nothingness that you're trapped into for all eternity, which is not very fun. And jumping out of these clouds seems to be like I said a direct link to the void so just don't do that, no matter what your mind says, don't. The last part of the level is the fourth part, of course, and it's also where the exit is. Eventually these grass halls will slowly start to transform into an area that's similar to an old abandoned mall, and when this happens you'll know that you've successfully escaped and made it out to tell the tale. Now this mall area isn't listed as an exit or a different level, so it's unknown if it's an actual level or if it's part of this level, level 931, but you can no clip through a wall to be sent out of this level to another one, so I guess it is an exit, but this mall area just looks like your typical abandoned mall that no one's been to for a while. It's very liminal, it's very cold and damp, you get the feeling. But besides a very small portion of this level, most of it is a beautiful, serene, safe, and just glorious looking level, and it's a real paradise if you're looking for a semi-infinite sunny hallway to lay down in the grass forever on. Now if you're not looking for that, well, there's like a billion other backgrounds levels that you could choose from, but this one's definitely pretty cool. To enter it, you have to find a door on the hub level that's labeled level 931, or you can wander too far into level one. That also seems to take people here. Now that could be very useful to speedrun the back rooms because you could go from level one all the way to level 931, which is skipping 930 levels, so you might want to keep that in mind. To exit, you can walk far enough into that fourth part, which is the mall, and you can no clip out, or you can find a door on the right side of the hallway and go through it to be sent to level 184. If you remember, the windows are on the left side of the hallway, so the right side is where the concrete is, you can find a door there, or you could just bring a huge store of almond water and stay here forever. It's pretty much up to you. That's it for the video. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed my explanation of this level. Let me know in the comments if you did, and what other levels that you would like to see me explain. I remember seeing this level in a video by Into the Hyperverse, which you saw some of the footage in this video. Go check out that dude's channel. His stuff is literally insane. I mean, it's literally like up on 10 pixels level. But what I've gotten over today is kind of like the expanded version of that lore and the written version. So yeah, go check out that. Go check out the article in the description. I love this level. It is really beautiful. Like I said, it's really just gorgeous to look at. Anyways, thank you for your insane support. We are literally on the road to one million subscribers, which is absurd. I literally never thought I'd be able to say that, but here we are at pretty much 800K. And I just cannot thank you all enough. If you want to help me get there, I would appreciate a sub and just like the video, get my videos out there. YouTube's advertised in a lot more shorts recently, so my main videos aren't getting as much traction. But for those of you that are sticking around and seeing the videos, I really appreciate you watching. Thank you so much for everything, and I will see you in the next video. Peace.


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The third Democratic Party primary debate is upon us and I wanted to do a video kind of giving you What I think we should expect my impressions about the candidates and what I hope to see So the individuals who will be participating is Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang and let me just say that Tulsi Gabbard absolutely should be included in this debate The fact that she's not is a disgrace But with this crop of candidates, you know, we will nonetheless see I think a really interesting debate This is going to be three hours long Incredibly long. This is gonna be a marathon But nonetheless This is interesting because we have everyone on one stage all the front runners and some of these individuals who have been polling Consistently at one or two percent if they're lucky. So when you have Bernie Warren and Biden as the front runners, what can we possibly expect to see because you see You know moderates and progressives towards the top So are we going to see everyone dog pile on Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren or will we see everyone try to take down Joe Biden? So my answer to that is I think we're probably going to see a little bit of both I think that they're still going to be a strong emphasis on Biden because he is the front runner still That's changing quickly. But nonetheless, he is the front runner So I think you're going to see a lot of people potentially Pete Buddha judge Kamala Harris and Cory Booker kind of focused their attention on Joe Biden and you may see Pete Buddha judge Beto O'Rourke and Possibly Cory Booker focused their attention on Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren because if you are in this race If you're at this debate, you know, you have an interest in taking down the front runners in hopes that you can take their Spot, I mean think about this when Kamala Harris destroyed Joe Biden She jumped in the polls. So you're going to see people want to replicate that success Whether they focus their fire on Biden or Bernie and Warren, that's going to be the ultimate question I think we're gonna see a mixture of both. But predominantly Biden will be the main target now Here's what I would like to see. I want Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to replicate their strategy in that last debate I think they both shined and it was Absolutely useful for them to team up to take on the centrists and they absolutely Dominated that debate Bernie Sanders. I think probably outperformed Warren slightly But she still did a phenomenal job So if we see them replicate that strategy and go in as a united front, this could really bode well for them Now I understand at one point Bernie and Warren if they remain at the top They're going to have to initially turn the barrels towards one another and that's fine But that can come later. There's still too many people in this race and you've got to take out the big dog Joe Biden once he tanks then we can start talking about Bernie and Warren going at each other But for now Strategically it makes more sense for them to team up and take on Joe Biden when it comes to Andrew Yang and better Or work these two individuals I don't know how Confrontational they'll be but I think that Andrew Yang will probably be the least Confrontational but there is a chance that he could potentially direct his fire at Bernie Sanders He has been kind of taking a few shots at Bernie Sanders He retweeted an anti Bernie Sanders tweet So it is possible that he does target Bernie Sanders and strategically this actually does make sense for Andrew Yang Because at this point you are in that mid tier So if you want to move up it does behoove you to focus your fire on one of the front runners So you can kind of get your name out there. That's how you get out the big headline So this is a possibility although Andrew Yang he does seem to be not Confrontational at all at debates although, you know that debate performance from the first one to the second one was a drastic improvement So, you know, I expect him to improve in this one as well So, I mean, that's why I say it could go either way He could be non-confrontational or he could go after Bernie Sanders. It's really up in the air I think and Beto O'Rourke will he may call out Bernie or Biden But I'm not necessarily banking on that if I had to guess who would call out Bernie and Elizabeth Warren I would probably say it's gonna be split between Cory Booker and Maybe Pete Buttigieg possibly Julian Castro I really can't visualize a situation where Kamala Harris goes after Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Because she has been trying to convince us that she is in that same camp now. That's laughable. She's absolutely not progressive She's a neoliberal Centrist Democrat who has tried to walk a fine line but failed miserably, but I don't see her going after Bernie and Warren, but I do see her potentially going after Joe Biden when it comes to Amy Klobuchar aside from Yang I think that she will also not be very Confrontational, but if she doesn't pick it up and start attacking Joe Biden I don't know why she's even here because she really is trying to be that centrist, you know, she's Competing in that centrist space and she hasn't been confrontational Biden is still dominating. She can say look Biden It's clearly out of touch. Biden is not competent. He is clearly Deteriorating mentally. I'm a woman. I'm younger. Why would you vote for Biden over me? She can make that case and potentially get a jump I mean, you and I think the argument, you know, it comes off as pandering and it's disingenuous But there are plenty enough Democratic Party loyalists who support Biden that might rethink their support, you know Just based on that but ultimately the goal here is to continue to drive down Biden's support But the thing about that is these other candidates like Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris Who seem like they have the most to gain theoretically by Biden going down? You see if they attack Joe Biden There's polls that indicate that a lot of Joe Biden supporters have Bernie Sanders as their second choice So it's not going to be a guarantee that they flip to whoever attacks Biden. It could go to Bernie So if they take down Biden then they're inadvertently helping Bernie in a sense if that does hold true if that one pole from Harris X I believe was correct. So this is going to be certainly an interesting debate to watch. I will be watching for Bernie and Warren to form another temporary alliance and Take down the centrists and I am expecting Joe Biden to have another poor performance Um, if he doesn't come prepared, I don't even know what to say. I mean, it's evident that He hasn't been performing very well at these debates and he's got to pull something off if he wants to maintain that lead I don't think he's gonna do it Kamala Harris She went down substantially after that last debate until say Gabbard absolutely exposed her horrible criminal justice record So she I am expecting To come prepared. She's gonna go after Biden possibly maybe Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren Uh, I don't really see her again going after Bernie or Warren, but it's possible She's got a basically she's got to shine. She's got to have some fireworks Pete Buttigieg She really does need to have a standout moment because while I Previously thought it was fine if he just maintained if he really wants to move away from, you know Fourth and fifth and really cracking to the top. He's got to make something happen Same with Cory Booker, but overall this will be interesting and I will give you my analysis After the debate happens. Um, obviously I'm gonna be rooting for Bernie Sanders And um, we'll see how it goes


Hey, this is Brett and this 2015 Ford F-250 SuperCab Short Box Lariat is stock number 13043Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2015 Ford F-250 SuperCab Short Box has the 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood in this video. BlueJeans Metallic is the color. I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, phone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you like the video, that's great news because we do these videos each and every day here at Summit Auto. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel, the lower right hand part of the screen. Click the bell notifications and you'll get updated every time I do the videos. Comes with the 18-inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers and it has continental content track tires. These are LT27565R18s and they have right around half the tread left on them, maybe even a little bit more. For amen underbodies, in very nice condition for a 2015. Front fender is in excellent shape. This is a clean title history out of Illinois. The headlights are nice and clear. It does come with the factory fog lights. Front bumpers in really nice shape and NCD major dents or dings on there. And the only thing I saw on the lower valance is just a little bit of a nick right there. But other than that, not too bad. It comes with the chrome trim grille and the hood is in fantastic condition as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender looks really well or looks really good as well. And the passengers side front rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of this 2015 Ford F250, super cab short box, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here. The truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you are looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very clean on that side. This back rim is in excellent shape as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody back here is in excellent shape. It does come with a B&W gooseneck hitch. And box rails all look really good. What I mean by box rails are these things right here. They attach the box to the frame. You always want to make sure that they're not rusted or anything like that. And they look great. It has all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way. And the underbody all looks really good. Lower rockers and cag corners all look good as well. It does come with the factory chrome step bars. Passenger side box. I didn't see any denser dings. It does come with the chrome package which gives you the chrome tipped exhaust as well as the mirrors and grille. The bumper is in great shape. It does have the backup parking sensors and full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in very nice shape as well. And the only thing I saw is there's two tiny little dings and we could not get those out so unfortunately it does have that. But it is a used vehicle. It does come with the tailgate step assist, spray and bed liner. There's that gooseneck hitch and this is a rhino liner. That tailgate step assist is really handy. Use it on my truck all the time.  I didn't see any rips or tears on there. Coming around the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side. No major denser dings on the box. Didn't see any corrosion or anything like that. Back rims in excellent shape. Down the rest of the side of the truck, doors and cab all are in very nice condition. Does have the driver's side door code entry. We do have the code for this truck and if you ever wanted to find out what your door code is for your 2011 to 2016 Super Duty in the upper right hand part of the screen. I've got a video showing you how to do that as the heat mirrors built in directional signals. These are the power scopes. They power telescope out. They have power fold in and I'll show you how that works in just a minute. Inside the Larry package gives you the black leather interior. Both of these front seats are power. No rips or tears on those seats. Nice condition. Lumbar factory floor mats, power pedals, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. These mirrors do power fold in. Like I said, I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. You do have to have the ignition on for those telescoping, the telescoping function to work so I'll show you that in just a second here. Back seats are just as clean as front seats. No rips or tears. And it does have the power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. You do get a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in back here and a 12 volt power point. This is your factory subwoofer. And the carpeting is very nice and clean back here.  We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. And then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. See that this one has 33,427 miles, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right. Cruise controls and information center controls on the left. Like I said, I'll show you those power scope mirrors. They power scope out and in and the passenger side is working nicely as well. Six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift does have the My Ford Touch radio. You get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You also have your climate controls here as well, including the dual climate controls. Many of your information center and you can connect your cell phone to this truck as well. This is also where your backup camera shows up and you can see that that is working nicely. You can also do a zoom in on the receiver hitch and you can hear those backup sensors are working as well. CD player, stability control, turned out four wheel drive. It does have the factory exhaust brake, factory brake controller for upfit switches and you do get your dual climate controls there. The nice wood grain trim, 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there, smells very clean inside this truck. The headliner is in very nice shape and it does have the side curtain airbags. You do get map lights up there. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to verify the quality condition options and cleanliness of this truck all the way around, inside and out. And under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine and it's very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go.  The lights working nicely as well. There is your emissions sticker. And I would highly recommend this truck to make quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter-tons, one-tons, you name it. We got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications. 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Have you been injured in a Cobra Pogo? Have you suffered severe spinal damage due to repeated bouncing? I am RaceJudicata and I invite you to call Cobra Law. Cobra has a history of using vehicles that permanently disable the pilots. If you piloted a ballistic battle ball, you may be entitled to compensation. I was assigned to a Pogo unit. Repeated bouncing turned my spine upside down. I thought I had no recourse. Then I called Cobra Law. They got me this check for $100,000,000. Thank you, Cobra Law. Let Cobra Law fight for you. Of course, if you win, Cobra Commander will insist that you be executed. Another satisfied client. Call Cobra Law. You will get what's coming to you. Cobra... We've got a hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage GI Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. It's a special time of the year. We are in the middle of Cobra Convergence 6. The GI Joe fan community comes together to celebrate GI Joe's enemy, Cobra. And it's my turn again to give you a Cobra video. This time we are looking at a much requested vehicle. It's weird. It bounces. It's a ball. It has legs. It has an antenna. It is not a bug. The Cobra Bug is a totally different vehicle. Since the Cobra Pogo was re-released as the Star Brigade Invader, we will take a look at that too. HCC 788 presents the Cobra Pogo and the Invader. This is the Cobra Pogo Ballistic Battle Ball from 1987. This vehicle was introduced in 1987 and was also available in 1988. It was discontinued for 1989. It was a single boxed vehicle with no action figure. There was one re-release of the Pogo in the vintage era, the Invader from 1993. We will take a closer look at the Invader later in this video. The Pogo gets its name from the Pogo Stick, which is a stick with a spring for jumping. The modern Pogo Stick was invented by Max Pollack and Ernst Gottschall in Germany. And Pogo is probably a combination of the first two letters of their last names. Ballistic in this sense probably refers to the vehicle moving under the force of gravity. The Pogo bounces like a Pogo Stick. In commercials and media, it is explicitly shown bouncing. That's how it's supposed to operate. You can imagine what that kind of repeated impact would do to the human body, even with some springy legs to absorb some of the force. This vehicle would not be safe to operate. That's pretty typical for Cobra. They used a lot of vehicles that could be lethal to the drivers. Let's look at the parts and the features of the Pogo starting at the top with this clamshell canopy. It latches at the top and you split it apart to open. The two pieces are made of clear plastic. It has a Cobra emblem on one side and a crosshair sticker on the other side. It's a nice idea to have this segmented clamshell canopy for this type of vehicle. It gives the Pogo a ball shape, but the execution on this doesn't work. It doesn't actually open up in segments. The panels on each half of the canopy are molded together. When the canopy is closed, there's nothing to hold it centered, so it will slide from one side to the other. Looking at the cockpit, we have a single seat in silver plastic. There are some control sticks. There is a control panel with a sticker. On the box for the Pogo and in the GI Joe comic book, the Pogo is piloted by Cobra Commander in Battle Armor. Let's place Cobra Commander in the cockpit and this is a tight fit. There's not a lot of room in there and you have to get him pretty well pressed down into the seat because there is not much clearance for that clamshell canopy to close over his head. The body of the Pogo is in red plastic. The housing for the cockpit has a serial number on both sides and the lower body has some yellow triangle stickers which add a bit of color variety. Although there isn't a lot of technical detail on the body that does have a lot of angles and protrusions and layers that give it a sense of technical complexity, there's also a ton of attachments on the body. On the side of the body there is a large silver plastic vent pipe. The blueprints call this a control computer cooling unit. Attached to the side of the body there is an antenna in dark gray plastic. The blueprints call this a live wire communications antenna. Adding an antenna to a vehicle is an easy way to add a sense of realism but antenna also often go missing. Next we have the legs in dark gray plastic. There are three of them. It's these legs that give the vehicle an insectoid or crab like look. The blueprints call these real feel ground sensitive landing pods. The leg knee joint is called the servo operated adjustable leg hinge and the molded in springy bit is called the nitrogen compression relief shocks. This is what's supposed to make the pod bounce. The springs are molded into the plastic. The spring legs do not actually operate. Real operating springs may have helped this vehicle. At least it would have been a nice bonus feature. There are these silver plastic wires that connect from the leg to the body of the vehicle. The blueprints call these hydraulic support hoses. There is one on each leg. There's also a wire that partially wraps around the body of the vehicle. This adds more depth to the Pogo and adds a little color contrast against the red. Next we get to the missiles. The Pogo came with two silver plastic missiles. They attached to the legs. They had slots on the missiles that fit into the tabs on the legs. According to the blueprints, these aren't missiles. They are bombs. They are Hobo homing bomb system KM4560 infrared guidance bombs. They look like missiles though and the package art shows them firing up like missiles. The Pogo only came with two missiles, but there are three legs. Meaning one of the legs will have an empty peg for a missile. So I've just placed one missile on the empty peg because I just think it looks better and more balanced. Why only two missiles though? Most vehicles have a missile for each peg. Next we get to the gun and turret. The gun is not named on the blueprints, but the box calls it a positionable machine gun. It is in dark gray plastic. It elevates and it lowers. And the turret, which is the whole bottom section of the vehicle, will turn so the gun and the turret have a very good range of motion. It would be most effective firing at ground targets because you would risk hitting the leg of the Pogo if you traverse while aiming up. At the bottom of the Pogo we have this dark gray cap that serves as the turret and attached to that we have two large rocket nozzles. The blueprints call these short blast 30 meter slash pound control burst rockets. They are large for this size vehicle and they look like they would provide a lot of thrust. The fuel would have to be housed where the pilot sits so the Pogo is a little undersized to really function. The whole bottom piece operates as the turret and the rocket system. So the rocket nozzles will rotate with the turret. Besides being a vehicle that bounces, the Pogo Ballistic Battle Ball has some other oddities. It has guided bombs that point upward, although you could put them on the other way around. That's not how it's shown on the instruction sheet. And there's a crosshair sticker on the canopy. It seems to me the Pogo would be most effective if it flipped upside down at the apex of its arch. That would give the pilot the widest view of ground targets through the dome canopy and he could line up those crosshairs. It would also point the bombs downward toward the target. The machine gun could also fire down at ground targets or fire up to protect the Pogo against attacks from above. Regardless of how it's used, if this thing bounces, it's going to break the spine of the pilot. The rockets could be used to slow the descent, but then it's really just landing. It's not bouncing. This looks more like it would work in space. It looks like a lunar lander. It takes some design elements from the Apollo lunar lander. Rather than a bouncing attack vehicle, the legs would be more fitted to cushioning a landing on the moon. That brings us to the other version of the Pogo, the Invader. This is the Star Brigade Cobra Invader. It was introduced in 1993 and it was only available in 1993. It was discontinued for 1994. It was part of the Star Brigade subset, which was a series of space-themed G.I. Joe and Cobra figures and vehicles. It is almost a one-for-one reuse of the Pogo mold in different colors. There are some differences and we will cover them. This specific Invader was opened and assembled by me in a video. So if you'd like to see this Invader assembled, check out that video on my channel. I have the box for the Invader, unlike the Pogo, so we can see how this vehicle was marketed back in 1993. There is a large Star Brigade logo larger than the G.I. Joe logo. I'm not a fan of that. There's the name of the Invader with a hot pink background that was standard for Star Brigade. The artwork is very similar to the Pogo, but the image is flipped. And of course the colors are changed and some additional details are added. This is a 90s vehicle, so it does have a real spring firing launcher that really shoots missiles. The description of the vehicle is not on the front of the box. It's actually on the bottom, the top, and the sides. It says Space Blasting Attack Pod. On the top, we have two flag points in the 90s style. On the back of the box, we have a photo of the Invader. And for this photo, I assume they just painted a production Pogo. As you can see, the colors are updated and it has new missiles and a new missile launcher. The description says it's Cobra's Interplanetary Attack Pod that's hoppin' mad. That does suggest it bounces like the Pogo does, but there's less emphasis on that aspect of the vehicle. Instead, it says it attacks by plummeting from the upper atmosphere and pouncing on unsuspecting victims dwelling on planet surfaces. It even refers to lunar landing legs. So this is more like a moon lander than the Pogo. I also have the instruction sheet and the blueprints for the Invader. And I will use this to describe some of the features on this vehicle. Let's look at the parts and the feature of the Invader starting with the top. It has the same clamshell canopy as the Pogo. This is in a translucent green plastic, which gives a bit of a different feel than the clear plastic. It opens up in the same way. You can pop it open like that to reveal the cockpit. It still has the same design problem as the Pogo, so it will kind of flip back and forth. Looking at that cockpit, we have a single pilot seat in very bright neon green and a control panel. If you don't like neon green, at least it's on the inside so you won't see it too much. The box art for the Invader shows it piloted by 1993 Astro Viper Version 2. It's a bit of a problem though because with the helmet on, he sits just a little too tall. And I can't close the canopy. If you take the helmet off though, that does help and you can close the canopy very easily. The cockpit housing is not the same color as the main body as it was on the Pogo. Here it is in bronze plastic. I don't know if this is a great color choice, but having it a different color than the main body does give it a little bit more color variety and it breaks up the solid black color. Notice the Cobra sticker that says Moon Strike, again indicating this is a lunar vehicle. The body is in black plastic, which is an excellent choice. There's no chance of being camouflaged in space with all that neon, but the black is a nice deep color that helps the other colors stand out and pop. You have the antenna, this time in bronze plastic. I just like the antenna, you can't go wrong with that. We have the vent pipe and the hydraulic hoses, this time in neon green. If you don't like neon, now is the time to look away. As with the Pogo, these wires give the vehicle more depth and dimension. Next we have the legs. There are three of them in bronze plastic matching the cockpit housing. Again, I'm not sure if this is a good color choice, but for a darker vehicle, it's a good idea to have something in between the black and the neon green. On each leg, on the opposite side from the missile peg, they have molded a cylinder for attaching the missile launcher. That brings us to the missile launcher. I have it attached to this leg. You can remove it and attach it to any of the three legs. This is the biggest difference between the Pogo and the Invader. The spring-loaded missile launcher is in very bright neon green, and this is a reuse of the spring-loaded missile launcher from the 1993 Star Brigade Starfighter. That missile launcher and the missiles were in orange. There are four bright neon green missiles for the Invader. One for each of the three pegs on the leg, and a fourth one to fit in the missile launcher itself. The missile launcher for the Invader and the Starfighter are interchangeable, so if you want the Invader to have orange missiles, you can put the Starfighter's missiles on it. Wow, that is ugly. The blueprints call these four air-to-ground exploding missiles. Yes, missiles often do explode. The spring-loaded missile launcher works like any other 90s GI Joe spring-loaded missile launcher. You just place the missile in the launcher, press back until it clicks. There is a trigger on the back to fire. Let's test the missile launcher with our old frenemy Dr. Meinbender. Let's just take aim at Dr. Meinbender and fire. We hit Dr. Meinbender with the first shot, but the Invader gives us three additional shots in case we miss. Next we have the machine gun. This time it is named on the blueprints. The blueprints call this a positionable laser fire machine gun. It is in bronze plastic. It has the same range of motion as on the Pogo. Next we have the turret and the rocket nozzles. These are not named on the blueprints, but they are in bronze plastic and they work exactly the same as on the Pogo. This makes more sense to me than the Pogo. As a space vehicle, this thing doesn't need to bounce. It uses spring suspension legs to cushion a landing, and the rockets are used to launch and slow the descent. Even the neon colors are better on a space vehicle than they would be on a terrestrial vehicle. Temeflage isn't as important in space. You're not likely to sneak up on anyone. It would be more important to be visible to friendly spacecraft and astronauts drifting off into space while being invisible against the black background is probably not a good idea. I don't need Joe's or Cobra's in space and I don't need neon vehicles, but if you've got to do it, there are worse ways to do it. Looking at how the Pogo and the Invader were used in GI Joe Media, the Pogo was only animated for commercials. There were no animated appearances for the Invader, but it did show up briefly in a commercial for Star Brigade. Looking at the comic book series published by Marvel Comics, the Pogo first appeared in issue number 59. Although this looks like something that would be invented by Dr. Meinbender, it was actually created by a Crimson Guardsman, Fred VII. That same Crimson Guardsman would later impersonate Cobra Commander in the battle armor. The Pogo barely survived the battle against GI Joe and the new Slam Cannon. It made another appearance in issue number 64 when the imposter Cobra Commander landed on Cobra Island. The Pogo was an odd vehicle and didn't get much use in the comic book series. There was another notable appearance of the Pogo in issue number 89, where a squad of Pogos attacked the Joes in the Mean Dog. Yes, they are shown hopping, so that feature was still emphasized in the comic. Man, these things were weird. As far as I can tell, the Invader made no appearances in the comic book series. Looking at the Pogo overall, this is one of the weirdest vehicles Cobra ever produced. It has a bizarre design and function. I could get behind this vehicle if it were some kind of flying attack pod like the Trouble Bubble. The Pogo does fly, to be sure, but it also bounces. The commercials lean in on the bouncing feature. There's no way to safely pilot a vehicle that impacts the ground the way the Pogo does, regardless of what kind of shocks you put on it. The idea is that the Pogo will hop around and change direction too fast for the enemy to hit it. The rockets could slow the descent, but then you lose the benefit of the rapid movement and direction changes. Even if it works as designed, the vehicle itself would injure the pilot, so the enemy doesn't have to hit it. What can I say positive about the Pogo? The colors are excellent. They go really well together and they work for a Cobra vehicle. The details are also good. The wires on the legs and the body add a sense of realism. What can I say negative about the Pogo? Everything else. The legs don't really have a spring feature, so it doesn't really bounce. The canopy is a nice idea, but it doesn't exactly work. Also, the legs can fall off too easily and the small bits are often missing. And why does it only come with two missiles when it has three missile pegs? The invader is slightly better, sort of. The colors are outrageous, as you would expect from a 90s vehicle. The spring-loaded missile launcher will appeal to some fans, not me really. Most importantly, it's now a space vehicle. It resembles a lunar lander and it can now be used for that purpose. The legs are not for bouncing. They are for landing on a surface with lower gravity, assisted by the rockets. Would it be effective in space combat? Who knows. At least it's less likely to crush the spine of the Astro Viper in the pilot seat. Although the invader is maybe slightly better, it still copies over some of the problems of the Pogo. The canopy still doesn't work quite right, the legs don't have any spring or flex, and they can pop off too easily, and the small bits still tend to get lost. Those are my thoughts on the Cobra Pogo ballistic battle ball and the invader. Now let's see what your Cobra Convergence 6 presenters have to say about it. Hey everybody, Kevin from Pegwarmers here. I wanted to start by thanking everybody involved with Cobra Convergence, all the creators that are putting out content this month. It's really awesome, but also a really big thanks to Hoodie Coco for spearheading this event year after year. It's fantastic. My thoughts on the Cobra Pogo. I had it as a kid, and I think I got it for a birthday, but I was never really that impressed with it. It has sculpted on springs on the side of the legs, and if those actually worked, if it actually retracted, it would have been really neat. But instead, when you would push down on it to pretend it was going to jump, the legs would just pop out the sides and fall off. I played with it a fair amount, though, and would get frustrated with it. Eventually I took the legs and the hoses off and just chucked them to the side, and I would pretend that the center pod was Cobra Commander's escape pod. I would put it in my Cobra base, which I didn't have the pterodrome, so it was just like, you know, shoebox or block castle or whatever. And if things got too hot, he could hop in it and shoot off, because it kind of looked like the escape pod from Star Wars. Oh, hello there. It's Mark here from the Talking Joe podcast. He just caught me reading about the Pogo in the pages of the G.I. Joe comic. Now, I'm from Talking Joe, and our reamer is very much talking about G.I. Joe comics. And this issue, issue 59 of A Real American Hero, written by Larry Hammer, with great art by Ron Wagner. Cover there from Mike Zeck, inked by Bob McLeod. That's where we first get to see the Pogo vehicle in the pages of the comic. And what's also super cool about this issue is this, this was back in the days when the comics would be advertised every so often and they would create extra additional animation to advertise the comic. But in reality, guess what? They're advertising the toy. So when the commercial went out for 59, there's some nice little footage advertising the toy as well, which is great. In my Cobra convergence video, I actually talk about that issue a little bit when we talk about the character of Raptor in our theme of crazy Cobras. But we're not doing that now. We are talking about the Pogo. And it first appears in this story, Divergent Paths. You can see it there in the background of Fred's garage or his workshop. So Fred Seven, soon to be Cobra commander, is an inventor and he's the creator of the Pogo. So that's lurking there. You can see it's it's spindly leg poking out from underneath that that top.  But that's not happening here. So as the story progresses, they've tracked down the Joes and he takes the Pogo with him on the mission. But Cobra commander overrules him, pushes him out the way and launches the Pogo into the air after the Joes. In their APC and they have this great little battle as Cobra commander, the real Cobra commander in the Fred. What becomes the Fred Armour is chasing down the Joes and but they battle through a tunnel and all sorts of goodness. It's a great little action sequence. And that's that done for that issue. But later on we see the Pogo again when Fred has bumped off the original Cobra commander left him for dead and wants to pass himself off as the original Cobra commander. He hitches a ride with Captain Min in his boat and as they get to Cobra Island, they've not got permission to be there. So they are attacked. Tatatatatatatat. Boom. He launches from the boat as it explodes behind him and comes down to a landing on Cobra Island where he is greeted but with an array of Cobras in their his tanks and stingers and so on is confronted by Serpentor with the reveal that he is Cobra Commander. Great issue there with art by Ron Wagner but most significantly Russ Heath who had previously dispensered one issue early on in their run returns to ink the story with some absolutely gorgeous inks which makes this particular issue issue 64 that much more special and that's a pretty much the extent of the Pogo appearing in the original comics but some really great appearances and super stories which make what would otherwise be perhaps just a bit of a silly vehicle look very cool that's all I wanted to say Pogo could be cool in the comics as well as in the toy so I hope you enjoyed that and if you did maybe check out the Talking Joe Cobra Convergence video catch you down the road welcome to half the battle meet the Cobra Pogo Ballistic Battle Ball this vehicle was released in 1987 with all original parts no one knows why I still don't like it thanks to Mike I can appreciate that for some it's not without its charm but it's not for me is it the worst GI Joe vehicle well no not by a long shot that honor will forever belong to the septic tank but to me it's still a stinker oh well at least things can't get any worse right oh son of a bit meet the Cobra Invader this vehicle was released in 1993 with um some original parts kinda yeah this thing is basically the Pogo in different colors with one or two differences it's like they said at Hasbro hmm how can we make the Pogo look worse by using neon green of course welcome to the 90s I guess in some ways like quality control a vast improvement on the Pogo in other ways like the freaking neon green a big step backwards so is it better or worse than the Pogo well they both have different ups and downs so I think they're about the same hey Cobra Hollicks it's Dave codename phantom troublemaker from audible interlude a GI Joe podcast and the needless things youtube channel and I have been invited here to talk about the Cobra Ballistic Battle Ball so let's head into the workshop and take a look at this thing so I have very specific memories of reading this issue of the comic as a kid I loved it we're not here to talk about that I just wanted to mention it because I love this cover and I love the back of the flatbed truck that this thing springs forth from there was a mystery what's under that cover what's under that cover is the Cobra Ballistic Battle Ball or is it is more colloquially referred to the Pogo I just bought this one at Joe Fest I'm happy to have a standard version in my collection I'll assemble this thing later I love this vehicle I love the more outlandish science fictional elements of GI Joe what I wanted to show you guys today is a little project I made the invader which is obviously a repaint from later in the line but you may notice that this invader has much nicer looking stickers on it than what you normally see I didn't want those paper stickers on my invader so I ordered labels from toy hacks I can't say I applied them as well as I this should be a little lower but I love this color design on this vehicle I think it looks really really cool and when you put some nice for real decals on it I think you get a really awesome looking version of the Pogo in the form of the invader I just liked this neon green this sort of bronzy color with the black I think it's an awesome looking vehicle and when you put some good labels on it it looks great so that's all I wanted to share today please check out the Needless Things YouTube channel check out Audible Interlude a GI Joe podcast available every Friday and thank you so much for inviting us to be a part of Cobra Convergence 6 remember that was my review of the Pogo and the invader I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you're enjoying Cobra Convergence 6 we have more presenters coming up this week check the calendar at hcc788.com coming up we have JLS comics special mission force forgotten figures the Joe on Joe podcast the talking Joe podcast the human mechanism mark 2 audible interlude and my side of the laundry room if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up on youtube and subscribe to the youtube channel and share this video with your friends that's what helps this channel grow you can find me on social media on facebook and twitter and I have the aforementioned website hcc788.com if you would like to support the channel patreon is a great way to do it you can get some early access and some other perks and you can even get your name in videos like the names you see scrolling on the screen right now thank you for watching I'll be back soon with more Cobra videos until then remember only Cobra is Cobra


Thank you for that warm welcome master of ceremony Asharani and my attend is today. You are here today to learn about social media. Many of you already might be having a YouTube channel for your club. If so, I hope you learn some few tips today. You might also be wondering, should I have a YouTube channel for my club? If you are in that bracket, I hope I can answer that question to you within the 15 minutes that have been allocated to me. So if you decide that you want to have a YouTube channel or if you already have a YouTube channel that you want to really revive, what is it that you need to do? I have a YouTube video channel called Tech for Toastmasters, but I won't be talking about it because that is mostly focused on training. But I want to today talk about clubs. How can a club leverage the use of YouTube for their PR activities? So YouTube as a PR tool, do any of you here have a YouTube channel for your club? Desert Pioneers. They have a channel, there are 171 subscribers looking at the content. What are they posting? Mostly they are meetings, two hours in length, promo videos. But mostly I see that they are posting their Toastmaster meetings. Anybody else has a channel Bahrain Advanced Toastmasters. Let's check 26 subscribers. So it looks like you have only a few videos. You started just eight months ago and you are also putting a lot of your club meetings on this channel. What you think is the attention span of an average person? How long can I hold your attention before you start looking at your WhatsApp messages or looking at some other things on your phone? According to a research done by Microsoft, our attention span in 2000 used to be 12 seconds. But in 2020, that has gone down to eight seconds. That means more than eight seconds, if I want to grab your attention and keep you fixated on what I'm saying, I have to be really, really creative. What about if I was to bring the best person, the most inspirational person in the world? Let's say Elon Musk and I put him in an auditorium and you are sitting there. How long do you think he should speak before you get bored? I mean, we are talking about top notch here. Research indicates that if you really want to give a professional level speech, then the ideal period is 18 minutes. That's why if you were to look at any TEDx or TED talks, you will find that it never exceeds 18 minutes. That's the maximum limit that TED allows you to speak. It's usually lesser 9 minutes, 12, 15, but 18 is considered the maximum that we can really keep an audience engaged. So these two variables, like eight seconds and 18 minutes, this is really how long you can engage based on your content before people get bored and move on to something else. And this applies to YouTube. Also, if you don't have something that can grab your attention, the moment you start watching it, you will move on to something else because there are billions of YouTube videos for you to watch. I started a YouTube channel three years ago. I simply knew what a YouTube channel should be. And I created for my club, Quit Challenges, a YouTube channel. But what I did and what you should do if you really want to leverage YouTube as a channel for your club is, if I can show you some of the examples of the videos that I have, I would go to the meetings and I would place my camera in front of the podium and record the whole meeting, but never upload that entire meeting to the channel. I would go through that whole video and find segments that I thought were interesting. Usually those segments would be the speeches, the prepared speeches, because members have really spent time to prepare, craft five to seven minutes. And I felt that that would be the ideal time for a YouTube video. Five minutes, six minutes. Beyond that, I don't think audience will actually watch that video. But then also I started extracting certain things. Like, for example, a Grammarian role. I would just take out that Grammarian role and post that two minutes or three minutes. And those are the videos that really have the views. So that is the way if you want to start building your YouTube channel. And now it's very easy, you know, now you don't have to record. You don't have to take a camera. You don't have to worry about audio. When your meeting starts, hit the record button in Zoom. And then go through that meeting, find segments that are interesting. For example, from this meeting, I found this table topics interesting. It's only two minutes. And then upload that or maybe a speech, upload that. So that way people can find what your club is doing without having to go through a two hour video. And what has that resulted in? If you look at the analytics, we are talking about almost 26, 27,000 views in 28 days, 1,700 hours of watch time. So it's not just that we have uploaded stuff and you have only a few but people are actually watching that content. And we are not talking about long videos, right? We are talking about short videos. So people are actually watching it. Subscribers have grown by 100 in the last one month. So that is the power of YouTube. What it does is, first of all, it gives you the ability to engage people who are not Toastmasters to understand what a Toastmaster Club does and perhaps find your club. And more importantly, as I said, it shows you the growth of your members. So if you start posting their speeches, of course, with their consent, they themselves will see the growth that they have done from the time they gave Icebreaker to the time that they have given their 10th speech or 11th speech. So if you want to do something like this, I have a few recommendations for you. First of all, when you create this YouTube channel, make sure you use a dedicated club ID. Don't create a YouTube channel from a member because when that member lives, your YouTube channel goes along with him. Create a team so that two or three people are part of this team because YouTube creation is not so easy. You know, it requires skills in editing and skills in technology. So create a team that will help you to build your club. Make sure that everyone is aware of this ID so that when the new team comes on board, you don't lose the ID. You don't lose your YouTube channel. The first thing you have to do is once you create your YouTube channel, immediately go and verify your account. There is an option in the YouTube. It says verify your account where you have to give your phone number. And once you verify, then you're able to upload longer videos or use it for streaming. So these are the four things that you should do. Once you create the channel, what is the content that you should be posting? First of all, it can be a mixture of long and short videos. Mostly your videos should be short. But of course, once in a while, you can upload an entire workshop, maybe entire meeting for some reference purpose. But for the content that needs to be engaging, find interesting aspects in your video, edit it out, give some title to it and then upload it to the channel. And that brings me to the title itself. Whenever you upload something, come up with a creative title. Just don't say meeting number two and 103 or meeting number four, whatever or speech number so and so. Come up with a title that is attractive and a thumbnail that reflects what is inside that video. Because these are the two elements that people see when they search videos and that makes them click to find what is this interesting thing we are talking about. Title and thumbnail are the most critical aspects of your YouTube video. Tags are very important. When you create a video, give as many tags that reflect what is inside it. Public speaking, confidence, leadership, you know, supportive. These are the tags. Once you put them, anybody who's searching for public speaking tips, boom, your video will be there for them to view. And this is very important. It's very difficult for us to stay consistent. We create a YouTube channel, we put few videos, then we forget about it. We don't have that enthusiasm. So have a plan with your team once a week or two videos a week and stick to that plan. Just keep uploading. It's a numbers game when it comes to YouTube. The more videos you upload, the better your engagement. And finally, the new thing that has come up and which reflects what I was talking about, attention span. YouTube has now come up with a new option called YouTube Shorts, which is equivalent to TikTok. And those are usually done with your mobile phone. The ideal length for a YouTube short is 15 seconds. Maximum is two minutes. There is a separate platform for watching YouTube Shorts and people just have become so obsessed with YouTube Shorts. This is something you can use to, let's say, promote your club or give some messages about your upcoming meetings. Use YouTube Shorts. My time is over.