Ahoy, ahoy, and welcome to the video, I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor. And today we're going to go over dank memes from the dank memes from Site-19 subreddit. Let's get right into it, with fanboyx27, DJ Cactus, Procedure 110 Montauk is a bedtime story. Nice argument, DJ. Why don't you back it up with a source? My source is I made it the f**k up. Actually, I'm probably gonna have to bleep that out, cause you're not supposed to use curse words in the first 30 seconds of a video. But yes, making things the f**k up are part of how it's kind of how fiction works. Procedure 110 Montauk, as a bedtime story, or not a bedtime story, is made the f**k up.  I made it up. Yeah, just like 110 Montauk was made up. 110 Montauk exists, I'd like to see a source. My source is I made it the f**k up, it's the same thing. Next meme is by Gregori Karpin. One hour on Earth is seven years here, thank god, now I have time to finish all those drafts for the wiki. You know, Gregori Karpin is an actual author on the SCP wiki that I know of. Some of these other people might be, and I just don't know, but I recognize the name. And I mean, everyone's got a different process, but there's a reason why I only work on one draft at a time. I do a draft and I finish it or throw it out. I very rarely throw it out, but I do sometimes throw them out. And yeah, yeah, no, a lot of people don't do that. A lot of people will work on one draft and then they'll switch and then they'll work on something else and then they'll work on something else. I've always been of the minor. I gotta power through one thing or else I'll never get anything finished, which is exactly what a lot of these people who do multiple drafts always complain about. Never been able to finish things. The offsite fandom. Anything after series three. I'll ignore that. I actually don't mind this so much since the majority of my SCPs are in series. So I've done an SCP in every series at this point from one to two to three to four to five, six and probably seven when seven comes out. But this was like, fine, be that way. I don't actually think anything after series three is accurate. It's more like anything after series two. And for some people, anything after series one. But to be fair, old series three stuff is starting to become more mainstream in the offsite community. Oh, this is by handsome Gengar. I should remember I'm going to get this right. I'm not going to get at the beginning of the means necessary, but I'll remember to remember before we get through with them. Offsite fandom does tend to skew towards the earlier stuff, but there's nothing wrong with that. Most authors, I can't really believe. I can't believe I really made it. They love my story. Plus two hundred and seventy discussion, thirty two and me plus forty nine. Discuss one thirty one. This one's by Othello, the sequel. I'm going to assume has had some experience with writing on the SCP wiki or else they would know this feeling. I think all of us has been there at one point or another where you're like, aha, highly controversial, SCP, that makes me happy. It's funny because every time it happens, the someone will be like, is this the most controversial SCP? There's ever been no. See, the problem is that controversial SCPs tend to swing. So plus plus forty nine is probably be probably beyond not necessarily, but probably beyond the scope of a swing that would make it get deleted. But with very controversial articles, they tend to go up and down by high margins, depending on the day. Right. If they drop below negative ten on a particular day, now they can get deleted off the site because of the site policy on how voting works. Now, there's a strong, it should say it's it's it's worse as it gets lower for variety reasons, but there's a chance that the next day, if it had lasted another 24 hours, it could go up to plus plus 20 plus 10 plus anything. But it doesn't get to that point. It doesn't get to last that long. So controversial articles tend to disappear. I had an article that lasted for about a month at zero. And I think it probably had about a hundred comments on it. Definitely had over 200 people voting on it, which I thought was an interesting balance. Normally, I would have deleted it for just just for the sake that it wasn't very highly rated and it was good, you know, it could trend either way. But what I ended up doing was I left it up because so many people complained at me about it. The more that people would complain, the more I was like, I'm definitely keeping up. But after about a month, month and a half, people kind of forgot about it because that's what happens.  This one is a shoulder meme. I believe the next through this one in the next two are also shoulder memes. SCP personnel panicking with a ton of anomalies appears suddenly because there was an SCP wiki contest. There is thought on that with the especially with the pathophysics way of looking at the SCP wiki as like some sort of out of, out of not in, I should say in character power, you know, but the idea that a wiki contest creates the anomalies is actually kind of an interesting thought. Welcome back. I see you made an email without numbers. You're now welcomed into the SCP way. Is that a hotmail address? Apologies. I can't let you enter this time either. Yeah, as wiki dots messed up, they're gonna get it right or we're gonna switch off, especially with the way the wiki died the last time around, which brings us back to this. There were a lot of memes about this. I tried to pick one.  There was a little bit of that. There was also, there was a meme that I didn't include here, but it was pretty, because again, it was covering the same topic, but it was about how you never realized how often you check the SCP wiki until it's not there. And it's sort of true. First day for sure. And after the first day, it wasn't as bad, but for the first day, it was like, you would click, you'd get the error page, and then you'd click back to open up a new tab, and then you'd click it again. Maybe not you, but I was definitely doing this. And you'd be like, what did I expect in the last 16 seconds? Was something seriously different going to change? Oh, yeah, I know. It's an experience. People build their social lives sort of around the SCP wiki in a sense. A lot of people aren't really comfortable. I'm not saying I'm definitely not one of them, but a lot of people, I've met plenty of people like this. A lot of people aren't very comfortable socializing outside of internet spaces. So the SCP wiki has given them a community with which to socialize, but I honestly don't think the wiki is necessary for that. Wiki.or the SCP wiki is sort of like the focus point. And if it were gone long term, like over a few months, I think the community would probably die down around it. But there's discourse, there's IRCs, there's Twitter, there's everything surrounding it that I think would keep going for, keep going like a zombie for a little while and then it would just disappear. But yeah, I mean, we know it's coming back. We know if it doesn't come back, there's gonna be a replacement very shortly, probably might take a month or two, but you never know. So it's not even really a big worry. It's just a matter of waiting to see exactly which solution happens, because it's gonna get solved. Anyway, that's it. I know I said I was gonna do a video, by the way, about the details of what exactly happened with the SCP wiki being down for about four or five days, but I have absolutely no more information now than I did before. So I guess if I do make a video, it's just gonna have to be a bunch of speculation, which is my least favorite way of doing things, but you can't get rid of the questions just because you don't answer any of them. Anyway, that's it. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And hopefully this Thursday, if I can get around to it, I'm gonna do the video that I was gonna do when the wiki went down, which is explaining stuff about how SCP 173 is a good example of how a short article can get away with being much worse than a long article. Yeah, we'll talk about that on Thursday. 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Since the government has ignored all our representations and since the conciliation also failed and government took a decision to slice the ordinance practice into seven non-viable corporations we have decided to revive our strike. We took a decision that on the 4th of this month, July we will issue the strike notice and from 36th of July we will go ahead with the strike. The entire workforce of the 41 ordinance factories across the country have declared an indefinite strike from July 26th, 2021. The employees of the ordinance factories, nearly 80,000 employees and the 4 lakh different civilian employees associated with the three recognized federations, All India Defense Employees' Federation, AIDEF, Indian National Defense Workers' Federation, INDWF and the RSS-affiliated Bharat Jaya Pradiraksha Masdursam BPMS, had released a joint statement and rejected the Modi government's decision to corporatize the 246-year-old ordinance factory board OFB and umbrella body that oversees the 41 ordinance factories. As per the cabinet decision, the board will now be converted into seven new defense public sector undertakings DPS. News leak reached out to the employees union to understand the role of the employees behind the legacy of these factories and why they are protesting against the corporatization. C. Sree Kumar, the general secretary of All India Defense Employees' Federation, AIDEF, speaks in this regard. In Tamil Nadu, the chief minister Kamraj who readily gave land for constructing the ordinance factories when the then defense minister V. K. Krishnamayanan, he wanted to establish ordinance factories in Tamil Nadu, especially in Avadi which is near to Chennai. Today three factories are there in Avadi, the suburban of Chennai city, Chennai metropolitan city. The first factory which came was the ordinance clothing factory Avadi. The experience which the Indian army was faced during the Chinese aggression. One of the reason why our army was forced to come back from the China border, acute shortage of winter clothing, winter uniforms were not available to protect our jawans in such a minus temperature. Therefore, it was in the vision of V. K. Krishnamayanan that we require clothing factories which can manufacture all types of battlefields, dresses and uniforms to protect our soldiers, to keep the soldiers in comfort so that we can fight the war. And that is how in 1961 the ordinance clothing factory Avadi was established. It is going to celebrate its diamond duty this year, then followed by the heavy vehicle factory Avadi. A country with a long border of land to fight any battle, tank is the major equipment, tank is the major fighting weapon for that. And that factory came up initially with the Britain technology Vijay in that tank and thereafter with the Soviet Union Russian technology we started manufacturing T-72 tanks and now the advanced version of T-90 tanks. Then our own indigenously developed Bishma tanks, all these tanks are being manufactured in Avadi. Then the youngest factory is the engine factory Avadi which is manufacturing the engines required for the tanks and the infantry compact vehicle which is manufactured at ordinance factory Medak in Killingana state. Similarly, in Tamil Nadu the first ordinance factory was established in 120 years before by the British near Utti Urban Kado, the cottage factory Urban Kado. And then in Tiruchirapalli we have got two important factories, the ordinance factory Trichy which manufacture rifles and the guns. And then the heavy energy factory, heavy alloy penetrator factory that was originally called now it is called the heavy energy projectile factory. So all these modern factories have come up because of the vision of our great national leaders and these factories have played a very vital important role to achieve self reliance and defense to achieve indigenization and defense protection. In OCF Avadi ordinance clothing factory Avadi itself more than 400 workers were working night and day and the lacks of personal protective equipments were manufactured by these factories and they have supplied it to the health ministry of our country which they have distributed all over the country. The government has not learned the lesson even from that. Again in the COVID-19 virus when all the private hospitals have closed down their functioning when they ran away it was the government hospital, it was the government doctor, it was the government nurses, it was the government employees, the railway employees, it is the postal employees, it is the sanitary workers. They all were in the field and they only rescued the country. They only came for the protection of our country. But unfortunately the government because of its policy that public sector should be demolished, government sector should be demolished and when we were all working day and night in the Cargill crisis period 41 factories will be corporatized. They will be listed in the share market that means it will be sold out. 65,000 precious land, 65,000 acres of land in post-area like Kavadi, Javelpur, Pune, Tiruchirapalli, Dehradun, Kardpur, Javelpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, 65,000 acres of land given by whom, given by the poor farmers, given by the state governments and 2 lakh crore worth of assets and property, plant and machinery. On the one side, the defense preparedness is under threat. The national security is under threat by taking this decision to convert the ordinance factories into seven corporations. And on the other side, 76,000 employees, what will happen to their future? Basically, their central government employees recruited under Article 309 of the Indian Constitution. Already government has taken away the pension of the government employees. Out of 76,000 employees today working in the ordinance factories, more than 60,000 is governed by the new pension scheme where there is no guarantee for any pension. As union, as employees, as I have mentioned, I was working in the public sector. I went to serve the nation. So, I applied for a job in the ordinance factory. A very big competition was held all over the country. I applied for that and I was selected on a marriage. I resend from a public sector and joined the government. Now you are converting me to public sector. And in my appointment order, what is an appointment order? Appointment order is a contract between me as an employee and the president of India being the employer. Nowhere it is written in the appointment order that after 20 years, 15 years, I will convert you into a corporation employee. So, it is a violation of the contract of employment and today as a central government employee, I have got a protection under the constitution of the country. My salary is paid from the consolidated fund of India. My pension is paid from the consolidated fund of India. But once I become a corporation, my entire liability goes to the corporation. And the corporation will say, I am not having any load. I am not having work. I don't have any money to pay for you.  So, where is my job protection? Where is my salary? What will happen to my pension? What will happen to my future? And that's why I told out of today's 76,000 employees, almost 60,000 are at the age group of 40 and 45. They have all taken loan for different purposes, for purchasing a flat, for purchasing a two-wheeler or four-wheeler, for their children education. Now what will happen to them? Where they will go? So, that is why there are two perceptions as I want to explain. One is, it is going to be a very big challenge and threat to the national security of our country, defense preparedness of our country, self-reliance of our country, indigenization of defense production of our country. On the other side, the 76,000 technically sound, devoted, committed workforce, their future is in state. So, and that is why we are in the struggle. We have taken a decision to go for an indefinite strike during last year, from 12th October 2020. By the time the China border issue came, and the 1 9th October when the conciliation officer, the chief labor commissioner called us, we appeared before him. International interest has patriotic citizens. We took a decision to defer the strike. And government also agreed in that settlement that once we defer the strike, they will also not proceed with the corporatization. But unfortunately, this government is famous for violating all agreements and assurances. We maintained it as a law abiding citizen. We deferred our strike. But then the government went on proceeding with their decision and they have made all the groundwork for converting the factories into corporations. We complained against that to the chief labor commissioner. It's a violation of the agreement. But after all, he's also a bureaucrat. What action he will take against the government? No action has been taken. And second wave of COVID has come again, taking advantage of that situation. Again, on the 11th of June, one conciliation was held. And 15th in our absence, in our absence, another conciliation was held, failure report was given. How the game plan has been planned, you can understand. On 15th of June, the chief labor commissioner is recording a failure report. My conciliation efforts have failed. And within 24 hours, on the 16th, the next day, the cabinet is declaring that the ordinance practice is splintered into seven corporations.


Moving on to the Ogun State Chapter of the New Noir of People's Party, NNPPS, called for no adequate security in the build-up of the Gov. and State Assembly elections. The party's Gov. candidate, Unifamia Jadid, stated this at a press conference, appealing to INEC to look into the lapses that are faced at the just-concluded elections. What is the duty of the INEC before printing out the ballot papers? And that is to tell you that it's intentional, the act is intentional, and we are now going to joke with them, with that at the stand-around. We've written to them, we've submitted a letter to correct that mistake before the election. And I want to advise them to be careful, to not just put our children into danger. As you remember, some years ago, the election was on good land because of INEC incompetence, they lost a lot of coppers into that incident.  Do the right thing. And don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


A lot of Asian foodies and small business owners are turning on David Chang for trying to copyright the word chili crunch, affecting a lot of their businesses. David, let's talk about it. We thought Momofuko was trying to help promote Asian-American, but now we find out you just wanna dominate the rest of Asian-Americans. Let's run the clip. Here's our take. Chili oil, chili crisp, chili crunch has been a thing for quite some time. It's been around even before I was born. So what gives? Why are we repeating the same third culture bakery nonsense? A lot of us started this business during the pandemic and eventually it became our careers. But for some of us, it's still a small business. We don't make an enormous amount of money. We don't have extravagant investors to fund us and we sure as hell don't got the money to fight and pay for legal fees. Amila and Homaia, Homiya have been around the block for a minute. So they're leagues ahead of us. At the same time, there's plenty of pie to go around for all of us. And to be honest, it's only time until David Chang and Momofuku go after us. This season to SIS game only means you're scared of competition.  Why can't we just inspire ourselves and continue making great products and innovate the things we love to make instead of putting each other down? We're not sure what's our plan of action. And there's probably gonna be ways to skirt around it. But for sure we're gonna keep on keeping on.  We put out too much blood, sweat and tears to stop our dream to be business owners. And so we'll see where that goes. Boom and listen, if you follow Asian foodie spaces on the internet, this is going viral right now. Let's just read the title from the Guardian article. Trademark bully Momofuku turns up the heat on other selling chili crunch. Andrew, he gave a cease and desist to Milo which is another big brand. Right, so guys this is for specifically the phrase chili crunch and chili crunch. Now, if you look on the trademark search, which I did, chili crunch with the E is already registered under Momofuku so they successfully have trademarked that. But chili crunch is still pending and I think that's where this comes into play because chili crunch is gonna be a little bit harder to trademark because those are two regular words and it's used by a lot of different businesses. But regardless, this does affect a lot of small businesses that make their own chili crunch because they're gonna have to change their labels and change their name if this goes through. And basically a lot of people are feeling like David Chang, he was already rich and why is his squad and himself trying to squeeze out all these little people and give them cease and desist? So Dave, we're gonna go through the comments section and if, you know, maybe our people right for hating on David Chang and Momofuku right now or is this overblown, is it legal? And we're gonna talk about, so please hit that like button, check out other episodes of the hot pot boys. And of course, check out smallassauce at smallassauce.com you can get it for pre-order right now. The second batch is coming soon back better than ever. I'll tell you this, man, the Asian foodie world has this sense of like wanting to represent Asian culture in the West. But a lot of people that are coming into this space, it's like, they might be just like, well, I introduced the word, this product first to the Western market, let me own the whole thing. Right, and we have to acknowledge Momofuku is the largest brand that uses chili crunch, even larger than Mila, which we know like Simu is involved in and we've tried their products as well. But Momofuku is probably the most successful one that uses particularly chili crunch. By the way, Lao Ga Ma, the auntie one uses chili crisp. Right, and they were around since 97, the ingredients around for a hundred years, all around China, the Chinese diasporic, Southeast Asia places, they were making some version of chili crisp for like a hundred years. And I think the one thing that people don't like is David Chang sometimes on his podcast, he talks about how much he loves different Asian cultures, Pan Asian culture, he cooks, I mean, he named Momofuku a Japanese name, he got famous for doing Momofuku buns, which are really just Chinese or Taiwanese guabaos. But so a lot of people, Eddie Huang was really mad at him back then for not attributing it to Taiwan or China originally. So basically, a lot of people are saying that David Chang built a career, Columbus-ing things from other Asian cultures, not even his own, and then trying to own the trademark for them. Right, so here's my thing about food. I don't know if nobody owns the Taiwanese buns or the Chinese buns, you know. Like it's so- Right, there's some debate of who, from Hunan, Hunan to Taipei. So to me, him serving like Chinese-inspired food is fine because a lot of his food was inspired by Western China as well, right? But the trademarking thing is kind of a weird move. It's kind of a, what a lot of people consider a D-back move. It's not illegal to do, he can do it, he's the big company, they got the money, they have the legal team. He was first to market, first to market in a Western sense. Obviously he didn't invent this product at all, but he was the first guy to use the word crunch. But- And some people are saying it might be people on his private equity team, but at the same time, he's gonna take all the heat for it. Maybe he okayed it. I don't even know if at this point he has any ability to stop it. But it goes in line with like a series of, a pattern of behavior that people have recognized from David Chang and his squad. Right, right, right. I will say this too, it's like, it's really messy when, if you are a self-proclaimed whitewash Korean guy from DC, you name your company Japanese and then you sell a lot of Chinese or Western Chinese or Chinese diasporic products, people are gonna raise an eyebrow. Yeah, I mean, I think it kind of goes along with surprisingly his reputation that he has, which is kind of like, he'll just do whatever he wants with no regard. And I think- But he just doesn't care if you're not rich and famous, basically he doesn't care about your opinion. Yeah, I mean, and now that even us, David, we're kind of entering this space. We don't do chili crunch or chili crisps, but we have chili oil, right? First of all, no one can, I don't think anybody can trademark chili oil because that's just been around for too long. But it's like, I do feel the pain of these small businesses because they're trying to come up and it's true that they're not rich yet. Momofuku's kind of like the big dog in the market. Why not let the little guys do their thing and use chili crunch still? Because why are you trying to almost monopolize the market, it seems like. Yeah, I do think that there's also potentially, from me reading the comments section, there's a feeling like, not obviously not all, but some Koreans don't really care about other Asians and will like possibly, you know, see things from other Asians, take it, rename it because they're just trying to come up for themselves. By the way, guys, this is from the comments section. I'm just saying there's some underlying tone that I read. Right, right, right. Anyway, let's just get into the comments section. Somebody said, what a dork, this guy is so toxic. Obviously some Koreans themselves are coming out against him being like, listen, us Koreans, we don't co-sign this. We understand that chili crisp or chili crunch was Chinese originally. I don't want any part of this. Of course, other people said, you know, him turning into the villain was inevitable. He became too rich, too many rich friends and started hanging out with too many white celebrities. Do you think that there's this sense, Andrew, that Asians, once they make it, they're like, nope, I'm the only cool Asian.  Guys, well, I made it. So, you know, I'm the only Asian that matters. That's how it sounds like. I'm not saying he doesn't care, but this is a type of move that you make when you think you're better than other people. Now, I do want to be clear, guys, Fly by Jing is another good chili oil, chili crunch brand, and they are also trademarking Sichuan chili crisp. Specifically, Sichuan chili crisp is the phrase that they're trademarking. You can go look it up on the website right now. Is there anything wrong with trying to trademark Sichuan chili crisp? If Fly by Jing, Jing herself is from Sichuan, it's a little bit more specific. You can't trademark chili crisp, but you can do Sichuan chili crisp. Even for me, I'm not from Sichuan, so I'm not gonna tell her what, but if I was from Sichuan, I might feel like, but Jing, I can't make Sichuan chili crisp. You know what I mean? But she was first to market too, so she took the risk. I'm not saying that I can't see any argument from Momofuku's IP department.  Isn't it that, listen, in America and in this capitalistic society where anybody can create a brand, also a lot of people can trademark things. Now, this is completely legal. It is what it is, but the people also have the freedom to speak up about it. Andrew, why not Kim Kardashian try to trademark Kimono when the bronze team tried to trademark? Taco Tuesday. Taco Tuesday, when Disney tried to trademark the day of the dead merchandise for a second because they were coming out with all those movies. Oh, Dio Stos Los Muertos. That was a big deal because you, I'll tell you this, the people who trademarked the things in the Anglo-English dictionary, they don't necessarily care about the motherland culture that it originates from. But the people from the motherland culture that have been living in that culture for hundreds of years, whether that's Los Dias de Muertos or Chili Crunch, Laogama, whatever, you know what I'm saying? Like they don't really necessarily understand the American legal trademark system either. Do you know what I'm saying? So they'll just use it, but they won't trademark it. And then a lot of people were like, oh, you know, if this guy was thinking like David Chang or David Tran could have trademarked Sriracha, even though he's a Chinese via guy who reinvented a Thai sauce and rosemeade, he could have did it because nobody else knew what Sriracha was in America at that time, but he didn't do that. So he lets everybody else call it Sriracha because he has some sort of at least cultural respect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess it's one of those shrewd business moves that's not a good look and it's gonna get you bad press. And I don't blame a lot of people because I think the Asian-American foodie community, especially I would just say the Asian-American community at this point was starting to gel together, kind of felt like at least on the food side. Like we're rooting for each other. Yeah, we were all trying to check each other and be like culturally sensitive, help each other out. And even, you know, me talking to a lot of other, even sauce people, there's always this abundance mindset and we're trying not to be like crabs in a bucket. You mean growth mindset versus scarcity mindset when it comes to the economic pie? Yeah, and we're all nice to each other. Even if you have competing products, I know people who have the Asian hard-sellers who are still friendly with each other, even though they are technically in competition. Now that David Chang kind of feels like he's stepping out of the Asian-American community by doing this. Like he's like, well, you know, you guys aren't my responsibility. I'm just doing what I need to do. Maybe it was his legal team, but he's gonna take the heat for it. Right, right, right. I mean, some people were even in the comments section saying it's like, these guys weren't cool when they were young, like in middle school and high school. So they like, once they got their status, they want to like elevate themselves above the community or the Enclave communities that didn't make them feel cool. Like, you know, this is some psycho behavioral like teenage adolescence sort of thing. Yeah, sure, sure. You know, I mean, I think that he had an opportunity to kind of be a, maybe he didn't want it, but he had the opportunity to be kind of a leader in the Asian American space as far as brands go. And he kind of was, but he's not being like a benevolent leader. He's no longer a respected leader right now. And I know that Eddie Huang went through the same arc too. Like a lot of people saw him as fighting for Asians in the Western spaces, journalistic spaces, New York time spaces, HBO vice spaces that a lot of Asians weren't in, but then a lot of stories started arising that it's like when Eddie Huang's around other Asians, he tries to put himself up here and all other Asians down here, especially Asians, Enclave Asians, Asians who only know other Asians. Yeah, I really see that a lot. I'm not saying all, but I see that a lot from a lot of Asians who gain like mainstream kingship or night ship. Somebody said defending him that he was really just going after Trader Joe's, but here's the thing. He's giving C and D's to all the little guys. So it's not just coming after Trader Joe's. No, he's not just going after Trader Joe's. Their legal team is literally going after the little guys. A lot of people are saying, what is the deal with trying to trademark stuff from other types of Asians that you don't belong to, Andrew? What is the rule around like you're Korean, you name your thing Japanese, you're trying to trademark Chinese names, is that okay or should you stay in your lane or where are the lines drawn? Man, if you start drawing lines, then like certain chefs can't serve different food, right? Or is it more of the trademark thing, right? Because there's a sense that if you trademark it, right? You, no one else can make it. Now, if we trademark Smala, that makes sense because that's such a specific name. I'm not, I'm not trademarking chili oil. Andrew, you're not from Sichuan. But what is Smala? That's a made up word. We made that word up. But you're Cantonese. You cannot even take the Mala flavors. That's true. We should have said it in a Cantonese term. But I think that I don't know if I can draw a line specifically for other Asians appropriating or trademarking other Asian stuff. I just know that there's gonna be backlash and that you deserve backlash if you're gonna pull a move like this. Yeah, I think that here's the thing. I think any Asian can cook any other Asians food, but just call it what it is. Like you show it the respect. Don't rename things. I remember in New York, like Taiwanese Shave Snow got renamed New York Shave Snow because people didn't wanna accredit Taiwanese people. I didn't like that. My old thing is like, you know, cause David Chang has a reputation for this. He called them Mo Mo Fuku Buns, but they're actually just guabaos from Taiwan or Hunan or wherever you wanna attribute it to the original source. He was probably trying to, but like I'm saying that it's like, I just am saying like, I get it. White people, they don't know a lot. The Western world doesn't know a lot about the East, but we shouldn't take that as an opportunity to try to dominate the Asian-American narratives. Like we, we should have a growth mindset. We should share. And I hope that David Chang tells his team to retract this request. Even though I get that they do have some case for it cause technically they use crunch and Lao Gan Ma wasn't using word crunch. You guys let us know what you think about this. Down below, do you feel any type of way he is? They are sending cease and desist letters. Basically those letters mean that telling you to stop using the phrase chili crunch if you have it in your brand and on your product right now threatening legal action. It's like a warning letter pretty much. So let us know how unfair is this? It is legal, technically I think for them to do it, but it's definitely not cool and it's kind of divisive. I'll say this, David Chang, I think he's like in his 40s. I don't know if he's 50 or not. The younger Asians, I feel like they feel like more with the growth mindset and not just like oh, I'm the first people to bring this to the whites. You know what I mean? I think the younger generation is not thinking on that. That's an older generation thing. I will tell you this. Anybody from the Momofuku team that is watching, people are trying to boycott your products right now. So I don't know if it's really gonna affect your bottom line. But we don't care because we only care about what white people think. We don't care. Mainstream market, you guys aren't mainstream. Not part of the voter block. All right everybody, let us know what you think in the comments down below. Foodie controversy, trademark controversy, Momofuku controversy, chili crunch controversy. All right everybody, until next time, we are the hot pop boys and until next time, peace.


Hello everybody. Good afternoon. Thank you for your attention. Thank you for being here. I'm Jorge Nizade, the CEO of Iazes Health. We are from Brazil, but what we are doing not intended to be only in Brazil. We are building a healthcare community. The idea is to bring everybody to help in order to get help for everyone, not only the privileged one, but everybody in the whole world. So what we are talking today is about using blockchain on building a sustainable healthcare community. We have did a lot of job in Brazil on the last couple of years. I was in Hyperledger Global Forum in 2020, before pandemics. So since that, all the things changed a lot for everybody, but for us in Brazil, too, in order to use blockchain as a technology to provide interoperability for everybody and the health quality for the patients. When we talk about healthcare, we have a lot of challenges, not only in Brazil, but in the whole world. We have more than 1.4 billion people that will be over 60 in 2030. And the costs for the healthcare will be increasing dramatically. So when we go to the hospital, the increase in average cost over 60 is 131 percent. And the cost is very big with people aging. And with this, we have a lot of disparities. The low-income countries, they spend an average $34 per capita a year. In high-income countries, for example, have spending is an average on $3,313 per capita per year. So this is a very big disparity, a very big gap. And the actual model is not sustainable at the moment. We've seen this with the pandemic that killed more than than 6 million people around the world. And all of this model is spending a lot of waste in the healthcare ecosystem. In the world, the annual waste for spending is around $3.5 trillion a year. We had 10 percent of this spending on healthcare we could afford the healthcare for more than 1 billion people with the same pattern as the high-income countries. And so we get a question for us. In Brazil, this question is very big because the healthcare system there have a lot of disparities. And all of this scenario that we have in Brazil, it's not sustainable. But we think that the whole world will have this exactly same scenario. And how to give access, reduce costs, and enhance the quality of life on all of this. So we are positioned at initiators of a sustainable healthcare ecosystem that is focused on the continuity of patient care and lifelong wellness. For this, we believe that we need to make the citizens, the CEO of his own health, to facilitate the exchange of information between the health providers, between interpretability, that is when it comes to the blockchain, and reduce this waste and focus on prevention and continuity of care. Because at the end of the day, what we need is to enhance the quality of life of people. So we are focused on three points. The first point is of people in the community. This patient must be the agent of his own healthcare. The healthcare industry needs to focus on the optimization and cost reduction and eliminating intermediaries and waste. And healthcare professionals need to be empowered to have the all the information they need to get new treatments, prevention, medicine, and so on. So what we've done, we have done a study, a future study, a scenario based on the future count, and on three waves of inauguration that we deliver a lot of technologies that should be implemented in order to have all of these points of longevity, empowerment, and healthcare cost savings. And the blockchain is on the core. We need to initiate with the blockchain in order to have all the ecosystem being fed by a lot of other technologies that exist. So what we are doing is, and our purpose is to improve people's health by providing more quality of life, well-being, anywhere on a path on longevity. And for this, we need to be focused on a purpose-driven strategy. So we are focused on purpose. We are agnostic, so the blockchain comes on this because the healthcare silos, they all of them help their own interests. So the blockchain comes to be this infrastructure in order to be the exchange of information for all of these players. And these need to redesign a healthcare structure. So with this, we have to focus on the primary care and empower the citizens and reduce the health costs. For this, we have developed a project in Brazil that I'm going to show to you. This project, we had a structure that we built. It's a physical structure on healthcare. So we have a physical healthcare center that combines the better from the technology and from the care for the patients. So we have this health digital center. This one is on a poorer part of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And we have been to them, all the information, the healthcare assessments, all the triage that we need to get from the patients, all the signs from the patients, the healthcare exam with a nurse. And then we bring them on this capsule, the telemedicine. So we have this capsule that delivers doctors to areas that don't have enough doctors to assist them. So this capsule was built for mental health, but we have a surprise, a big surprise, to use it on the telemedicine too. So this project we've done on the January, February in Belo Horizonte. And this is only the initiator of the structure from the digital healthcare ecosystem. So one of the biggest challenges that we have is to have the digital twins representing the health data for our lives in one place. For this, we have used it blockchain on a structure of transversal interoperability, on a lot of players from Brazil. And just to show to you, this is a little bit of the healthcare ecosystem in Brazil. We have private care. We have public healthcare. The public healthcare in Brazil is inspired on the NHS from Britain. By the way, we have clinics, hospitals that are public. We have the same on health insurance plans, and we have the same on private plans. So we have an ecosystem that is very, very big. And what we have done to Ministry of Health is the National Healthcare Data Network. This network, we get it on production on May 2020. I presented this on the HEPA Global Forum in Phoenix on March. And then as we get the pandemic, they are going on production. And we have all of this structure connecting with blockchain, getting trust, distributed placement, and all of this trackable. So what we've got, we got this. A lot of blockchain nodes from the city, from the hospitals, from the clinics, from the labs, from the pharmacies, from the hospitals, and connected with the National Health Data Network. All of this providing the timeline for the patient. So with this, we have our health digital wallet with all the information that comes from any of the nodes from the blockchain. So we have structures that are private, for example, for health insurance plans. They have the private blockchain structure. And this is connected with a big structure that is based on the health digital wallet from the patient. This health digital wallet is enabled with Hyperledger Indie. And all the structure on the blockchain, the timeline, is based on Hyperledger Fabric. So what we've done, we have all of this information from any of the data from the patient that is built on blockchain. And then we connect all of this. And the smart contract is guaranteed by the GDPR stuff, all the private stuff on the data from the patient. So what we have on the end of the day is a timeline for the patient with all of the information from hospitals, from clinics, from laboratories, independent, where I've been, I've been on a hospital here in Dublin. And then when I go to London, for example, all this data is stored on my health digital wallet. And all of these nodes, they connect with each other in blockchain. And our main goal for this is to break the sick care logic. This timeline is to empower the health care professionals, empower the patients to build life long wellness, to construct a path to longevity, in order that we have all the data stored on a timeline and deliver it to the patients. He can send it to the doctors, he can deliver it to the nurse that he is in care with their treatments. So it's better for him to get a path to longevity for him. So for this, we're going to break on this step. The first, to break the sick care logic, we have to have all the personal health records of the patient in one place. For this, this is our health digital wallet. All of the information from the patient are in the same place. And the information that are here are information that came from the players, from the health care ecosystem. And information, for example, from the watch, information from devices, from wearables, all in one point. And all of these protected with DDPR on the smart contact. So we have a protected health digital wallet that delivered to the doctor, for example, when the patient adds it, when the patient has all the control of his data, and he can do whatever he wants with this data. Just to mention here, a photo from March 4, 2020. And what we have done since then from now, we have more than 1.5 billion transactions that we have done on the National Health Data Network, on high-fibre fabric, the health care timeline, 2,000 transactions per sector on this environment. We are now able to connect with decentralized identity on it. The main network and supernetworks can be done. So we have private networks. We have connected with these main networks that have this timeline. And we have interoperability on public and private sector. This is a case that we just launched it on the last month with public hospitals, private hospitals, philanthropic hospitals, clinical and laboratories, all of this timeline on the same place and distributed on blockchain. So what we believe is that we need to get a health care Instagram, your entire timeline in one place, and get all this portability, this breaking the silos, federalization of the distributed data, blockchain security, and GDPR, beauty on design. And all of this information from the timeline, they need to go to the right hands. The right hands when we put it on the health care professionals, what we have is a continual analysis. We have now treatment analysis, quality of life analysis, a health care avatar that empowers the health care professional in order to get all this cared on. And this is what we call smart health care. With all this avatar on the same place on the distributed timeline and smart EMR with RPA interoperability, clinical decisions, prognosis, all of this on the same place in order to empower the professionals and to reduce the wasteful spend. When we use all of this information, we can reduce all of the waste of the 3.5 trillion that I mentioned before on the initial of the presentation. And this could be delivered to the hospital with care management. All of this could be delivered to a DRG analysis and empower internet hospitals, for example, with this technology. And have a continuity of care for the patient, too, with the concept of blended health care and connected with ICON, with outcome measurements and personalized treatment plans. All of this enables us to think about lifelong wellness, a really value-based health care that can deliver the monitor from the patients and connect the patient inside his treatment. So the information can now flow between the treatment that the patient is having, for example, with a cancer, with something that he is passing through his life, some chronic disease, and then all the healthcare professionals can monitor this and deliver actions in real time. And this is what we call value-based health care, transforming the fee-for-service from a patient-centric approach in real, connecting the remote monitoring for the patients and with the timeline and getting all of this for the health care professionals. All of this delivers us a pathology of it that we can deliver personalized medicine and maybe meta-medicine, gamified medicine, for example, on a metaverse. And then we can reach the children with the timeline connected to an avatar. So we can deliver this connection between the healthcare, for example, mental health care from patients that are on these metaverses. And with all of this, we created a concept that is life-better to earn. We have a lot of to earns that are built on the Web3. Now we have built a so-bound token that is an NFT, but it's bounded with my healthcare timeline that can deliver to me new forms of care, personalized tips, autonomy of patient information, new engagement models for, for example, pharmaceutical industry, for the healthcare structure itself, for the hospitals, for the insurances, and all of these are structured on the so-bound token. And this so-bound token is from the patient to the patient, and the patient decides what he does with it. With this, we're building a community with new and sustainable financial models on healthcare. And this is Kali. I'm gonna show you just a brief what we are planning to do. Are we ready to the future of healthcare? The world population is aging. Inequality is a problem worldwide, and waste in healthcare is unsustainable. It is necessary to challenge the status quo, change the sick care model, deliver health to all who need it. Anywhere, the patient must be the CEO of his own health, have his health digital wallet, get engaged in care throughout his life. We are a sustainable healthcare ecosystem, eliminating intermediaries, reducing waste, and giving it back to fund healthcare in a sustainable way. We are insurgents, initiators, but only inducers. We need everyone, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical industry, hospitals, health insurance, and mostly you. Our Kali, the world's first decentralized sustainable health community. Let's change the world's health together. Join us. So what we are doing in Kali is getting all the platform for the patient to get what he wants to do with his data and connect this on the web-free model. So with this marketplace, the patient can deliver anonymous data to the pharmaceutical industry, but he receives the tokens. Not only the hospitals, not only the structure, we are delivering power to the patient to do whatever he wants with his data. So he gets all the information and get the offer for him and he can do whatever he wants. But not only this. The sustainable healthcare ecosystem that is what we bring us to here now is a decentralized autonomous organization. It's a DAO that is funding a treasure to deliver new healthcare financing models worldwide. So what we have, we have fundings from a lot of sources. For example, from the nations, for example, from the selling of the tokens with the community, with the enhancement of the healthcare ecosystem that we have built. For example, in blockchain, we deliver this to the DAO and the DAO reinvest this on sustainable healthcare projects. So what we are doing is a DeFi platform that connects with the blockchain private structure and the permissioned structure. And we, all of these, we have tokens that can exchange all the information. So the data from the patient is stored on the private structure and connected with the health digital wallet from the patient. But what the patient monetized is his view of the so-bound token, for example. And for this, we are building a ReFi funding for SDG healthcare projects, a game-fired care based on data, new pharmaceutical R&D-based distributed data so we can deliver for pharmaceutical for example, new models in order to buy all this data. This data can be used in new clinical trials and these clinical trials could be transformed in an NFT and part of the, a fracture of the NFT can be delivered to the patient as a payment, for example, or can deliver it in tokens, for example. And with all of this, we are creating a new sustainable investment model and a personalized marketplace based on the web-free model. And just to show you it in real, we are showing you now a project that we have done in Belo Horizonte on a community on there. And this is a little bit of what we can do. In 2022, they still did not have electricity or access to quality healthcare. And no one to look out for them, forgotten. We believe in a warm welcome and real healthcare. In the right to dignity, a human look is needed, tender and sustainable. We are a colleague. Technology delivering purpose, combining access to health, care for the forgotten, awakening a sense of community. So what we are doing is a humanitarian digital clinical healthcare center. That one that we show to you. Deliver to who needs and delivering primary attention services in remote and difficult areas. We are building this project now in Xingu on Amazonas for the Indians. And delivering to them micro-credit for healthcare in a bank that is called 72 Bank. And to follow up health conditions, physical exam, medication, and get a new model of alternative fund and ecosystem for healthcare. Based on community-based fundraising, based on purpose-based fundraising. And just to explain to you what's purpose-based fundraising. The traditional fundraising is based on exponential expectations that funds. And then on the beautiful day, they got an IPO. And then the things go ahead. And we have a long-tailed performance probably on an S-Curve. Nothing creates, have a exponential forever. So what we are having today is inflated valuations or super-inflated valuations based on an opposite scam.  But some companies, they have a big growth, but they're not ESG. What we are doing is a purpose-based fundraising with investments focused on the S-C-G projects. These projects are based on new valuations, on new metrics. For example, social impact, life savings, quality of life, lifespan increase. And all of this is based on any of these metrics to reduce the weights, token value, reduce the cost, treatment, optimization, fee on transaction. But all of this is monitored based on ecological ceiling and can create new projects based on a sustainable ecosystem. So we don't only grow on a vertical side. We can grow on a horizontal side with new initiatives being invested, which can be spin-offs, even in other SDGs. So we have a project now that is sustainable healthcare ecosystem based on cleaner energy. So we are building farms of solar energy. This solar energy is salad in the market and part of this profit reverse to healthcare. So with this money we can, for example, have humanitarian DCHs on other places. So it's the sun financing healthcare. This could be a new model for the planet and based on new forms of sustainability structure. And all of this is governed by the DAO. And here's a little bit about our timeline. We are on testnet at the moment with the SBT, the DAO, but we have already some projects. But what we are aiming is the longevity scheme. Focus on health maintenance, on prognosis, on prevention, on active patients, on doctors as manager. And we know that we can do it by ourselves. So here's an invite for everybody that wants to join us. We are open to this. I'm gonna open our questions very much for everybody being here. The mic's here if anybody has questions. Here you go. Thank you. Thank you for the information. I have some general questions if it's okay. So the first one is how did you convince hospitals or healthcare providers to join you? Because sometimes they don't even know that they have a problem. And the second one is what can you do in case that the patient or the end user lost their keys to the wallet or their information? Yeah, I had another one. Sorry. Yeah, how do you overcome legal problems? Like did you had in Brazil some legal issues if you wanted to implement those technology? Yeah. Thank you. Let's start with the first question. It's an excellent question because it's difficult in every country. I think to break the silos is one of the biggest problems here for everybody. They don't want to delete their data. What we are doing is a step-by-step strategy. So with some people, they have already the conscience about this is better for everybody. So when we have some projects, for example, in Belo Horizonte, in Porto Alegre, in São Paulo, some of them, they are ready with the right thinking about this. But there are lots that don't. So in Brazil, we have the GDPR law there. It's just like here in Europe. And what we are doing then is enforcing them to deliver the data to the patient, not for me, to the patient. I'm now representing the patient, asking him to deliver it to me. So this is a new model that we don't want the data for ourselves. And we don't want to open the data for ourselves. So we have all the privates respected. And with this, they are enforcing to deliver it to the patient. They're not delivering it to me. And this is a breakthrough on the logic. It's not easy, but we are doing this about two years. And with the effort that we've done with Ministry of Health, it helped us to have all of the enforcement goals on the players. But I think it could be done in different ways, depending on the country that it can do. Of course, the law it helps. It helps a lot. But I think this is a consciousness that can be done. And when we anchor this on SDG and anchor this on the purpose, not on the profit, we don't want the profit. We want to help people to get their information and deliver it to have empowerment for them. So with this small movement, I think it's more legitimate that we can convince them in a better way. Thank you. So you must have some advisors. Thank you for the information. Hi, everyone. Thank you very much for the presentation. It was really rich in terms of new information. I have a following question. You said that it's very important to have an ecosystem. Because you, as an individual company, you cannot change the world for better. So the question is, do you feel like you have a responsibility to educate the participants in your ecosystem in relation to blockchain? Or if you feel this responsibility, if yes, if you do that and how? And if you don't feel like that, who do you think it's these responsibilities? Who's responsible for that? Okay. Absolutely. I think we need to educate the patients. But we need to maybe do something like a user experience for them. They not know what's blockchain at all. And maybe they will not want to know what's blockchain. So what we need to deliver to them is information that they are protected, that they can do whatever they want and do it on an easy way. This is very difficult to do. We think it needs to be done and we are part of it in teaching them how this technology, all of this stuff, that is why I just showed you something that is not technology. For example, when we put the patient on the front of a doctor, there is technology involved with that. But the patient don't know if it's blockchain on the infrastructure or not. If they want to know if they are protected or not. And for this, we need to teach them that we are using the best technology that we have in the moment to have all of this that they want. And I think this would be step-by-step strategy too. And if we talk more about government, I don't know, hospitals, these institutions, do you have a special team who reaches out to them, because you need their help and participation in this ecosystem as well? Yes. We have a lot of partners on our structure in order to talk with hospitals, for example. So for example, we have some health insurance companies that want to do all of the continuity of care for the patients. They get a lot of money with this. They had a lot of reduced waste. So we use them as the speakers with the hospitals, as they have the contracts. They have the effort to get the data in order to treat the patients. So with this, with these partners, with these players that we have on the ecosystem, they help us to encourage and to enforce all of the other players that are not very... Thank you. It's clear. And you were right by showing the patient, us in this case, this video presentation with the demo of the app. Well, it makes me want to have this app as well. Great. We can do this. Thank you. Anyone else? Any more questions? Just to make sure, to double check, please. So when you want to start a project that's related to healthcare, and you are using like emerging technology, blockchain. So what is the first... Of course that it depends where you want to operate. But do you think the first step would be to validate the legal issues or to try to get... I mean, to go to talk to customers? What is the first core step to start? In Brazil, we started with the problem itself, how to solve the problem itself, and then the legal issues came in those moments that it should be done. So the first part of the legal issue that we have to address was the DGPR. This is the core of the system. So this part, it came on the very first moment. But the other legal structure, they came on the rest of the project. Thank you. First thanks again for the presentation. And unfortunately, I lost the first five to 10 minutes, but I was amazed by the amount of, let's say, different aspects that you've been focusing on, both within, let's say, within Kali Health. And especially, I was interested in understanding if there might be some issues in balancing, for example, the energy sides of the organization, and understanding to what extent the profits made from one side of the organization might be transferred to another side of the organization, if there are some tensions, some issues, and or in general, how do you deal with it? Okay. Of course, there are some interests that we have. We have a YASIS that is our technological side that builds the health digital wallet, that builds the EMR system, that builds the blockchain from the cooperative side. And we have Kali that has the effort to deliver purpose itself to the the one who needs it. And there is the worry about building it on a DAO. That is because it's not ours structure, it's a structure that we want to deliver to the world. So that is the main, the main structure that building it in a DAO is that it can be controlled and governed by not only us, but by everybody that wants to be on the ecosystem. So there is on the main structure in both of the companies, there is one thing that does not change. We are purpose-based. So what we believe and what we do is to deliver purpose. The profit comes after, the purpose comes before. So this is the main structure that we built. So with this, of course, there is a lot of money in the industry that is waste and can be reverted in order to have profit for YASIS, to have profit to the DAO. But when we deliver this to the DAO, for example, we are delivering to finance new projects, new health care projects in order to give a legacy to the humanity. This is the main division between the two companies and how we deliver the results of them. And do you have any thresholds related to, I don't know, the amount of, for example, profits that might be transferred from the energy side to the to deliver health services? Yes, yes. For example, there is some, for example, it can be 5%, 10%, it depends on the impact that they want to generate. For example, it can do a very small farm from solar energy. And with this structure, I can only deliver 5%, for example, for a community. That could be done only one humanitarian DCH or two or five or 10. It depends on the partners that are involved on the specific project that we have. There is some projects that we have, the cities, the mayors, they are participating with the project delivering, for example, the area, because we are delivering health care for them. So we are helping to reduce the struggle treatments that they have on the city. And what we are delivering is the whole structure or the ESG itself. Any more questions? There. This is the last question. Okay. Can you explain a little bit how you are funding the infrastructure itself? So obviously it costs something to deploy the network, deploy all the components. So how is that being funded by the partners? There is some partners, for example, that they are having a lot of benefits with the system. For example, health insurance plans, they are benefit with all the assistance so they pay. Now, for example, on a structure or a node by themselves, the cities pays by themselves. But there is some structure that we have funded from ourselves in order to have it bigger and to have a lot of the structure. So it's combined. Somebody funds it and maybe it's a big effort to fund all of this stuff. We have not enough time. Thank you very much. If everybody wants to hear my contacts, thank you for being here.


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and I'm back with another vintage GI Joe toy review. Last time we looked at Cobra Commander, the leader of GI Joe's enemy. So this time we're going to take a look at one of the leaders of GI Joe and depending on your point of view he was THE leader of GI Joe. Of course I'm talking about the 1983 and 1984 GI Joe 1st Sergeant Duke. I just had to fit that in, I promise to never use that gag again. Here he is the man of the hour. This is Duke. He was first released in 1983 as a mail away offer, he was not sold in retail stores. He was then released in 1984 as a carded action figure for sale in retail stores. He was also sold in 1985. He was discontinued in 1986 when you might say he was replaced by version 2 of Hawk. We got a second version of Duke in 1988, the Tiger Force Duke, and Tiger Force Duke was the same action figure pretty much except with different coloring, and most conspicuously they changed the hair color from blonde to brown. Duke's leadership role in the GI Joe universe is a little bit muddled. In the cartoon he was introduced as the first leader of GI Joe, but in the comic book of course Colonel Hawk was the first leader of GI Joe. When Duke was introduced in the comic book he became the field commander of GI Joe when Colonel Hawk was essentially booted upstairs. When Colonel Hawk became General Hawk in version 2 he then again became the field commander of GI Joe. Let's take a look at Duke's accessories, and he came with a lot of accessories. First let's look at his firearm. This is essentially a green version of the same gun that came with the 1982 and 1983 stalker. When it came with stalker the card described it as an M32 pulverizer submachine gun, but on Duke's 1984 card it was just called the M32 submachine gun. The closest real world approximation to this M32 submachine gun would be a folding stock variant of the Heckler & Koch MP5 with a straight magazine and an elongated barrel. The gun is very nicely detailed and it has a very interesting looking curved stock. Duke also came with a pair of binoculars that had a strap to fit around his neck, and the binoculars had kind of a curved design here, which I think if they're viewed this way have sort of a periscope effect so you can look over cover at the enemy. These straps are very thin and pretty easily broken. I have another one here with a broken strap. So if you're getting one of these watch out for that, these straps can break. The strap is slightly curved in order to kind of fit around his neck and hang over his chest, but despite that curve it still sticks out pretty far. Duke came with a helmet. It was light green, and the earliest versions of this helmet had no holes in the side, and that was a variation from the standard GI Joe helmet which had holes in the sides. Those holes were for clip on items such as visors like hawks here. Later versions of this helmet actually did have holes like the standard helmet. It was the standard helmet only a lighter green for Duke. Duke was one of two action figures to have this no hole variant in the standard helmet. The other one was the 1984 roadblock.  There are some differences though, mainly the color. The color on Duke's backpack is very slightly darker to match the khaki color on his shirt, whereas Airborne's backpack is very slightly lighter to match the lighter color on his arms. The male away version of Hawk came with an accessory that did not come with the carded action figure, and that was a very tiny American flag sticker which was supposed to be a patch that you would put on his arm. Usually you would put that on his right arm. Now that was a very very tiny sticker, and this one's kind of faded, so you have to look very closely. It's very tiny, you may have a hard time seeing it, so look very very closely. There is no sticker, I'm just kidding, I do not have the American flag sticker for Duke. Some poor schmuck is going to be replaying the video over and over, looking close to see if you can see that sticker. There is no sticker, just a joke. Let's take a look at Duke's articulation. Duke had the typical articulation for the 1983 and 1984 G.I. Joe action figures, which meant that he could turn his head from side to side like that. He could lift his arm up about so far, and he could swing it all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow, so he could move at the elbow about 90 degrees, and he had a swivel at the bicep, so he could swivel his arm all the way around. This was a new feature introduced in 1983, and it allowed the figures to hold their weapons with a two-handed grip. He was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside, which allowed him to move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees, and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpt of Duke, and Duke is made up in almost entirely of reused parts from other action figures. His arms, his back, and his waist piece are all from the 1983 G.I. Joe. Back, waist piece, and arm. There is a variant of Duke where he has long sleeves and a different waist piece, but I do not have examples of those variants. His upper legs are from the 1983 and 1984 Major Blood. You can see the same pistol there, same upper legs. His feet were reused from the 1983 Gung Ho. You can see the same boots and the same knives there. That means Duke had only two unique parts, his head and his chest piece. The earliest versions of Duke's head when he was a mail away offer had a simplified hair. The hair did not have much detail, it was a different sculpt on the hair. Now when he was released carded, he had more detailed hair. You can see lines in the hair there. Now I have three Duke action figures, and one day when I was changing out O-rings, I noticed that my third version, which is the more detailed hair version, actually has different colored hair. I did inquire as to whether or not this is a known variant. I don't have a clear answer though, but these are three different heads, but as far as I know, there are only two known variants of Duke's head. So I don't know exactly where this one comes from. Duke's face is sculpted with kind of a smirky grin, and I think that is to match the art on his card, which shows him kind of with that same smirky grin. And I'm actually not a big fan of when they sculpt expressive faces like this. I actually don't mind when they have the faces kind of neutral, because as a kid, I would just pretend that they were expressing whatever feeling or emotion that I wanted to at the time.  Let's take a closer look at Duke's chest piece, which was his other unique part. He has two colored shirts. He's wearing a green shirt underneath a khaki shirt. He's got some nicely sculpted pockets, some nice detail there. He has this gold badge, which is supposed to be US Army Airborne Jump Wings. You can get a better view on his card art. You can see those are jump wings there. He also has this green strap that he's kind of famous for. There's a buckle and two pouches and a grenade on there. But one thing that bothers me about that is that this green strap does not continue to the back. It disappears on the back, and that's of course because he was reusing Doc's back piece. And maybe this shouldn't bother me, but it does. I've said before that I like it when the sculpting on the action figure matches the accessories, but his strap just kind of ends at the back. And the backpack I guess is just supposed to attach to his shirt. I don't know. But there just should be a strap back there, and it just drives me crazy that it isn't. Despite the disappearing strap, I really do like the sculpting on this chest piece. I think it's detailed, it looks nice. And of course it's iconic, you know, that you can't mistake it. This is Duke. Let's look at the coloring on Duke. I did mention that he has this gold badge on here. And that is the shiny gold paint that Hasbro used, which rubs off very easily. As you can see, this one has a lot of the paint rubbed off. So if you're looking for a Duke action figure and you want it to be in good shape, you know, take a look at that gold paint and see if that is still there. We have a khaki shirt with green pants, and I really don't mind the mismatch. It is reasonably military looking, and of course this is Duke's iconic look. Duke's lower half was molded in this light green plastic, and at the time Hasbro had a lot of trouble with this light green plastic. It was extremely fragile. It would break if you just sneezed in its direction. No, I didn't break it. Duke number three has a busted crotch, but it does illustrate how fragile this green plastic is. You find a lot of Duke's with some part of the green plastic broken, either the crotch like this or one of his heels.  Let's take a look at Duke's file card. Now, when you got Duke as a mail away in 1983, the earliest versions of his file card would have had a plain back like this and kind of a close-up portrait on the front. When you got Duke in 1984 as a carded action figure, his file card was printed on the back of the packaging. You can see the front of the packaging there, and the portrait was not quite so close up. The text on the file card was identical, though. You can tell this was a 1984 file card, because it is still advertising swivel arm battle grip. Later file cards did not advertise that. This one is an advertisement for the triple win game. Up here it says his title is First Sergeant, and First Sergeant is a pretty high-ranking non-commissioned officer. A First Sergeant in the US Army has vital leadership and training roles. It says his code name is Duke, and that is probably intended to evoke John Wayne, who was also called the Duke. His file name is Conrad S. Houser. His primary military specialty is airborne infantrymen, which accounts for his US Army airborne jump wings. His secondary military specialty is artillery and small arms armorer. His birthplace is St. Louis, Missouri, and his grade is E-8 in parentheses, Master Sergeant. Now, Master Sergeant is not the same thing as a First Sergeant, but their rank is equal. It says here Duke was fluent in French, German, and English, of course, English, when he enlisted in 1967. That means that Duke enlisted in the Army and volunteered for service in Vietnam. He graduated top of his class at Airborne School, Fort Benning, that's Fort Benning, Georgia. He opted for US Army's special language school, specialized in Han Chinese and Southeast Asian dialects. Went special forces in 1969, again right in the middle of Vietnam. He worked with tribesmen in the boonies of South Vietnam, ran four different special forces schools, turned down a commission in 1971. Commands by winning respect, current assignment acting First Sergeant GI Joe team. The section down here says, statement after declining commission, and this is a quote from Duke, so I have to do the voice. They tell me that an officer's job is to impel others to take risks, so the officer survives to take the blame in the event of total catastrophe. With all due respect, sir, if that's what an officer does, I don't want any part of it. That was not Duke's voice at all. In the GI Joe cartoon, Duke was romantically linked with Scarlet. But in the comic book, Scarlet was romantically linked with Snake Eyes, and I much prefer the comic book version. I just don't think, based on Scarlet's personality, that Duke would appeal to her a great deal. The reason I say that is because Scarlet would see these macho alpha males 10 times a day every day of the week. But Snake Eyes is mysterious. And I think that that would appeal to Scarlet much more than Mr. Perfect Teeth here. Looking at Duke the character overall, he's just really annoyingly perfect. He's one of those frustrating overachievers. I mean, he's got the good looks, he's got the strength and the skills, and in the GI Joe universe, language skills is kind of a proxy for intelligence. So he's smart too. He's just one of those guys who seems to be perfect in every way. He strikes me as the sort of guy who, if he sees you jogging down the sidewalk, he's gonna join you just so he can show you that he can run faster than you. I mean, it's just unfair to us regular guys that somebody should be this flawless, that he should just look so good and have all the skills as well. It's just so frustrating. God, I hope he has a small penis. That was my review of the 1983 and 1984 Duke. 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