All right, three two one testing testing the audio. I think it works. Oh, I think I figured it out. Okay Hello, everyone. I apologize. Happy Valentine's Day The computer isn't showing me any love today. I'll have to say Okay, so here's here's what happened I had I updated to a new version of my streaming software that I use and It screwed up all the settings So then I had to figure out how to Make the settings work again, but I did it. I'm here. I'm here. I am lagging a lot. I can see Live in this screen And I can see what you're seeing in that screen and there's quite a bit of lag. Sorry about that Hello to the you know what we're gonna call the live chat in this Particular live stream the friend zone because I feel like we're all friends here, right? So live chat today is the friend zone. Happy Valentine's Day to the friend zone Hello to Eric and Stonegate creations and draws and WW JD 85 and Hans nice to see Hans here. It was nice chatting with you Hello big a Dave and Sean and Reno and Nyquist and Cyclonus and space cobra HR Or JR Howard. Okay. The cat is about to knock over my my water. Hang on one second here. All right, buddy Okay, all right. You want to be on screen? You're so desperate To be seen by the audience Hello Chad and Terrence and rat face in Cobra Island and sparkster and yo Joe and Jake and Joshua So hi. Hello everybody. All right. Okay. You had your moment in the spotlight now go away Hello everybody Hello, the blue Libra. Hello Jake. Hello Garcia. Hello Sean. Hello Jason. Yeah, this is cool The gang's all here. This is awesome. Hello Andrew Andrew the guy so nice. They named him twice Lovely to see you here. Hello Sean And hello to hopefully I didn't miss anybody. Hey there photo viper nice to see you. Hello Park Bully Boylan. How do you do? Hello Joe fan 84? So Hello guys. Um now you may have heard of this the special day that is today. Hello Jeffrey. Hello Ray Today is the day That we celebrate Love that we celebrate Togetherness with that special someone which is exactly why I'm here with you And not my girlfriend look we didn't break up or anything actually everything's going really well, but She's not here In the building. She's also not Sorry, the cat is She's also not watching right now She she had some other things to do so Cat you're gonna knock that over hey time out time out. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it Um Anyway, so She had things to do I had things to do So what we've decided to do is to do our Valentine's plans this coming weekend on Saturday So we have some special stuff that we're gonna do this weekend, you know for for Valentine's We couldn't really do it last weekend because we were planning a Super Bowl party And then we had a Super Bowl party and it was a it was a really really good weekend. It was a crampact enjoyable weekend Lots of awesome stuff over the weekend But but today just it doesn't the timing didn't work out for us to do things today It's Tuesday, you know, it's the middle of the week so So so yes Lest anybody think that some disaster happened. No, no, no, we're gonna do something special on the weekend And there are a couple reasons why It's best that she not be watching Because there are some spoilers and I will say this I will say this to my friend Manda Who who doesn't believe in Valentine's Day? Happy Valentine's Day. Anyway, I hope you still have a good day to all of those Of you out there who don't think that Valentine's Day is a real holiday Now you think it's just a corporate invention to sell chocolate and cards and flowers Yeah, basically, yes, yeah, okay. Yeah, I get that. Yeah Yeah Yes, there's a lot of promotion of buying things To show your your affection for someone, but you don't have to do that You don't have to do that. You do it. You do the thing that your significant other Would appreciate the most, you know, that's what you do and and also I will say That I know I know That we have a holiday for things that we should be doing all the time So we should always be expressing to our significant other that, you know, all of our Squishy feelings and whatnot and yes, that is all so true. That is also true, but You could say that about a lot of holidays. You can say that about Christmas, you know You could say that about Thanksgiving. You could say that about birthdays You can say that about St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick's Day, maybe not quite as much, but but the the reality is We get busy, right? We have life that goes on we have things that happen. We have to work We have things to do and sometimes we need Those special designated days where we we're gonna let ourselves be distracted by all the other things And we're going to have a day to do something special for that someone special In our life. So having said that Today life got in the way and we were not able to Set aside the time to do the things for somebody special, which is why I'm here with you because you're all special in your own Special way hello JLS comics. Oh, I see Bart's in here, too Hello Bart and draws and the killer weezer. Nice to see everybody. Nice to see everybody. I also know I also know that People get really sick of hearing about all the love stuff If you if you don't have someone if you're a single Maybe maybe you maybe want to be single. Maybe you don't maybe it's not your your bag to like Have be in a relationship, you know, or maybe you do want to and you're just Unlucky, you know, you just can't find that that that's certain someone I understand that too Which is why I'm getting this all out of the way at the beginning We're not gonna mention that except for one other thing one other thing, okay I've got one other thing to mention and it is it is gi Joe related. Okay, so here like Here we have it. This is this is where it comes back around to gi Joe, okay because I got something for my significant other That What when I was searching Shopping for it. I ran across something That I didn't know existed and I'm gonna show it to you I'm gonna show you to you in just a minute before that before that Before that I do have some announcements that I that I need to make First of all today is Tuesday. That means there's a new half the battle video from Timmer Hello Jake. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. I don't know if I said hello to Payne's toy reviews But if not, hello Payne's toy reviews. Hello Travis. Hello Nolan So new half the battle from Timmer today. Also, if you were watching the big game Yesterday Timmer and I continued our tradition of live tweeting the the game on On the Twitter and we had a bet going right we had a bet going and our bet Was that you know if if his team won I would appear on his show and if my team won He would appear on my show and my team won in fact I almost I almost got the the the the point spread exactly right. I was close. I was off by one point, but my team won So now I need to I need to plan I need to come up with Something to review something special, you know since I'm gonna have Timmer as a guest on my show It's got to be something Something memorable so and you know what's you know, what's memorable? bright colors, especially like something bright orange, so I'm gonna go through the the GI Joe catalog especially the 90s and See what's there That is orange, you know, so a really bright orange That that I can review with Timmer bring him on and and and Review like the the most hideous possible thing I can think of so stay tuned for that stay tuned for that working on it working on it so That was yesterday also yesterday Oh, that is true JLS says today is Drew Bledsoe's birthday absolutely Drew Bledsoe's birthday Everybody loves Drew Bledsoe. He's He's seen Drew Bledsoe seems to have been just a really classy guy and If you're a Pats fan on the one hand, of course, you're really happy about what happened after You know Tom took over but Drew Bledsoe was the hero in that region for a long time and There's still nothing but love for the guy and even though everybody's happy with how things went you still have to kind of Feel bad for how he lost that starting position He's he's not he didn't do anything wrong. The guy almost died. The guy almost died But anyway, it's a happy birthday Drew Bledsoe Jake says who's Drew Bledsoe? I'll let you Google that you can Google that Google that so Well, as I said, okay, also yesterday I did a cameo appearance on the YouTube show of a friend of this channel Comic tropes Chris is often in the live chat here. Now. I've known Chris for Number of years. We've known each other for a few years now. We've become pretty good friends and He asked me to do a quick cameo on his episode of comic tropes So that went up yesterday as well. It's very brief But it was it was fun. It was a fun little gag that he thought up and I had fun doing it So so check out the latest episode of comic tropes the latest episode of comic tropes is it covers a Golden age comic book and I love the golden age comic book comic books because they are insane They are nuts.  So so that was also yesterday Last week I Was on an episode of peg warmers So that went up. I I missed the live stream last week. I apologize for that. I hate missing the live stream What I would have done if I had done the live stream is I would have Done a little bit of a lead-in to that peg warmers episode in that peg warmers episode We talked about the GI Joe find-your-fate books that we read on this channel often and Since I failed to hey, that's kind of matches the shirt, doesn't it since I failed to do it before peg warmers I will we're gonna do story time At the last half of this show and I went through I know we've done all of the find-your-fate books that I have already But I was looking through them and I'm pretty sure we haven't done this one very much Now we I think we've done all of them some of them we've done multiple times But we haven't done this one too much. So this one could be a fresh adventure for us So we'll do that story times coming later Another thing I was on I Was on toy connections. I was on a live episode of toy connections So go check out toy connections and it's toy 10 KEN Nections and I was there with Hans and Hans is in here. Hi Hans. Nice to see you. Nice to talk to you again Yes, the press guardian a totally bonkers golden age superhero. It's hilarious But yeah, so check out toy connections I was on that show Another announcement it looks like if if plans go as they should I should be on What's on Joe mind on this coming Friday? So check that out on this coming Friday. So So I should be on and I'll try to remind everybody but so I've been on several shows over the last, you know, a couple weeks and I've got another one upcoming. So I always enjoy, you know interacting with Friends and you know doing things for other people's shows. I wish I could do it more sometimes I just I get I get busy and I just don't have the time to do it But as much as I can if the timing works out Then Then I really do like to do it I do it as much as I can. Yes, the toy connections show was great It was a really fun stream. There were some I didn't have the stomach issues. It wasn't me But but we plowed three we pushed through speaking of a show that I've been on sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse happy Valentine's Day You you handsome fellow you. Thank you. I should have a blue headband because I've got Where'd it go anyway, so yeah, also comic tropes Chris from comic tropes sent me this This tiger force outback shirt so that I can in fact Cosplay as tiger force outback so Joe fest at Joe fest. I will do my first ever public cosplay where I cosplay as Tiger force outback look for that and thanks to comic tropes for that But but yes, it's been it's been a busy week I also finished a review I and It I was down kind of down to the wire for The review that went up on Sunday, and it's my fault. It's my fault I had a couple of rough days where it was difficult to get any work done Oh, thank you the killer weasel for the super chat make Timmer review the septic tank and he will see that's a good idea However, we've already done the septic tank. We've already done the septic tank. I've made I made him do that I made him do that before so But there are other options though and that septic tank review is That was a lot of fun. That was That was that was a lot of fun. It was one of my favorite crossovers But the septic tank that's it. See you're you're on the right track You're on the right track the set that's exactly the kind of thing that we're gonna be thinking about right? I'm gonna think about exactly that kind of thing something hideous Jella says I like the Joe's Valentine's Day card on the screen. That's nice. Yeah, so I I knew somewhere if I went back far enough That they would have published some GI Joe Valentine's cards and I found some I found some And going back to Rise of Cobra. There were some vintage there were some vintage Valentine card or Valentine stickers But I didn't think they were Valentine enough so this is what I went with and I this is this is I think a great message Right, you know, this is my message to you Your mission is to have a great Valentine's Day And you know what even if you don't have anybody to celebrate Valentine's Day with you can still have a great Tuesday, you know, it can still be a good Tuesday Which just happens to be Valentine's Day So Hello, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da nice to see you a new diamond select bareness is really good. Check it out Yeah, I haven't I'll I'll take a look at it. Thank you for the recommendation very much appreciated. Hello. Chromius ice cream soldier. Yes, the ice cream soldier is Rather famous The ice cream soldier that one special now I I I'm gonna I'm gonna dig I think Deeper into the the GI Joe catalogue and fine. I'll find something but don't worry. Don't worry. I'll find something special Special so I Did put up a video on on Sunday it The time that I had to finish it was not as much as I wanted to I had to rush it a little bit And I don't like to do that. I did the best I could so hopefully it's acceptable to everyone but I Wanted to do like a John Madden bursting through a wall kind of opening But I also had a gag that I want to do like a Telestrator gag that I want and I just didn't have time for it. I ran myself out of time and I just I had to Work with what I had. There was also in that video There was also a shot that I wanted to include But I couldn't because it turned out to be out of focus and like the whole thing was out of focus There wasn't sometimes if a shot is out of focus, I can at least find a little bit of it That's in focus. Oh, thank you, Rob Vegas Kora parasite and paralyzer Got a lot of orange. That's right I have done the paralyzer, but I haven't done the parasite That's a see this is you guys are thinking right you guys are thinking I I can a while rant the Nyquist says rant on the sky striker engines I have my thoughts about that. In fact, I I did some show prep I have stuff written down and that's it's on here. It's on here We have some stuff to talk about we have some stuff to talk about but I Totally lost track of what I was saying so let's so let's just go let's go in another total different direction total different direction because I wanted to go through the shows that I was on the episode that went up most recently, which was Tiger Force bazooka and Stuff that I will be working on soon But let's talk about a couple of things a couple issues That have happened from Hasbro that have come from Hasbro that I mean we can speculate about them, but we don't know it then we don't really know exactly what's happening And we probably won't Your Kool-Aid man see yeah, you could you can interpret that as Kool-Aid man, but see I'm John John Madden really did the the bursting through the wall thing and and I'll have to say you know I'll respect of the Kool-Aid man. I think John Madden did it better in my opinion But I'd say devil fish see devil fish is a classic too. That's a classic a classic bright orange vehicle So some things have happened First we got the news of some layoffs at Hasbro Okay, including apparently one of the toy sculptors that has worked on the GI Joe classified series and that is Unfortunate I hate to hear stuff like that happen Hello Reno McDowellus, I don't think I said hello to you. Hello and welcome so yeah, so there were some layoffs at Hasbro, which is unfortunate apparently Emily and Lenny are still there But some other people including some people who had worked on the GI Joe products are not We can only speculate as to why that is especially since the products seem to have been doing pretty well I mean they had two successful has labs. Well two successfully funded has labs one of the we'll talk about that in a second, but then The speculation and I think it's fair fair speculation is that Hasbro Hasbro did a lot of rolling up of Other types of entertainment companies. They did this big big purchase of Of the entertainment companies they wanted to be in the entertainment business not just in the toy business They wanted to be an entertainment company and you know what? I don't think that in itself is a bad idea I do think that a lot of children's entertainment in In the future will be more, you know video games movies shows Things like that and not so much plastic the plastic will always be around like plastic toys Kids do still play with them not as much as they used to but they do still play with them so Yeah, it It's not a terrible idea to say that you know, we've got all of these profitable Properties and we want to market them and all these sort of ways make movies and make video games and such That's not a terrible idea, but Running a toy company focused on toys versus running an entertainment network, that's it's those are two different things And the enter the the larger entertainment side of it doesn't seem to have gone so well and unfortunate unfortunately the the Employees who had no say in any of that decision-making have to be the ones that suffer the consequences Even though like I said GI Joe seems to have been doing pretty well Especially considering that not that long ago. We didn't have any we didn't have any GI Joe for for quite a while And now we do now we have a lot of it so my condolences first of all to Anyone at Hasbro who who lost their job? I I know what that's like. That's very stressful And and I hate that that happened and I sincerely hope that everybody is able to land on their feet and Find their next thing and move on I am glad that That Emily and Lenny are still there at least they seem to be and I do like Most of what they've done Most of what they've done with GI Joe not everything but here's but the thing about it is Right now. There's so much GI Joe product that I don't have to like everything, right? There's so much GI Joe product that That there's still stuff that I do like even if there's also a lot of stuff that I don't like I'm feeling pretty Pretty spoiled for GI Joe right now. We've got a wide selection of stuff And that's fantastic. That's great And and I do credit the the the brand team for doing that, you know, they worked really hard to do that They're not on the board of directors, you know, they're not the CEO They have to answer to people hire up from them but Working with in their parameters, I think they've done a pretty good job but but it does worry me that Hasbro is bleeding off some of the creative talent that they have and how will that affect The product going forward. I know They've announced some things right they've announced some new figures there was like the Televiper with the The trouble bubble and and some others and that's great. That's awesome But how how will these changes affect the final product? I'm sure that they still have plenty of creative people left But you can't I mean you can't just cut somebody who who has an influence on the final product And not have it affected in some way So I'll be keeping an eye out to see To see If there's any difference, you know to see how that's affected But yes, I wanted to start with that and talk about the Hasbro layoffs. I hate that.  I will feel sorry for the employees I Empathize even with the employees that are still there who now have to do the job with fewer people But Hasbro is a corporation Run by people who make probably way too much money So I can't feel sorry for for the corporation or the people who run it and make better decisions, you know people depend on the choices that you make with With that company. So yeah, not no no tears shed for Hasbro But for the people absolutely Best of luck to them and Along those lines. I also wanted to talk about a little other Hasbro news there was supposed to be a G.I. Joe Livestream a G.I. Joe Hasbro fan stream today today And that was canceled They moved it out to I think that it was March 8th that they moved it out to Hello, Jose. Nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here. So they canceled the live stream They canceled the live stream moved it out to March. I don't know why no idea why but it's a little concerning Isn't it it's a little worrying That we it's been a while since we've had A live Presentation from the brand team, you know, it's been a while since since we've heard From the official sources, you know, what's coming up? What's going on? What are we what are we supposed to be looking forward to? It has been a while and that's why Today felt kind of important because You know, we needed to we needed an update. Yeah, we wanted to update. What's going on? Are we getting new product or what? And to have that canceled or moved out for you know, or to to next month It's worrying Also, apparently there were going to be some pre-orders that we're going to go up today But those have also been moved out. So no new pre-orders anything like that So it's it's concerning It's it's concerning Yeah, Raymond the it's an unfortunate Thing um, I'm sorry. I apologize. I know I'm missing a lot of the A lot of live chat I'm trying to keep up, but when I start speechifying right when I start soliloquizing Uh, then I my my eyes shut off and I like I completely lose the ability to read But I'm trying to peek in at the live chat as much as I can so Yeah, canceled live stream Maybe it's nothing to worry about But we don't know and since we don't know it's we don't know if there is nothing to worry about All we know is it's been a while since we've had one and we finally got one and they didn't do it. So Uh, I hope everything is okay Um, we'll see How that goes The other thing I wanted to address is the quality control for instance this thing right here um For those of you who tuned into the last Livestream not last week but the one before that I opened this I finally got this thing Finally got this thing The the has lab sky striker. I opened it up The the unboxing so it went okay for a time until I was discovered that It was missing two Very important parts did not have the the engines Engines totally not there Um, I went through everything to make sure I didn't accidentally drop them out No, no, but I didn't in fact I went back I watched the video again Where you know, I pulled that part of the box out and they're just not there. They are not there did not receive um, and I'm not the only one That's had this problem. There are other people who have had missing parts the wrong parts um Damaged damaged figures damaged cards. There have been some issues with this um, and The has lab sky striker is a premium product That we we paid a significant amount for and we waited for a long time to get it and when we get it it's not Right, you know, it's it's it's there are some very Basic very important quality control issues that we're having with it now not all of them have had problems There have been plenty of people who have opened their boxes and they've been absolutely fine And that's great, you know, that's that's great, but there are enough that are not fine that somebody in Pawtucket, Rhode Island needs to get on the horn with the factory and find out what's up because This is not something that People will just let go Right. This is not one to just brush aside. It's just too it's too expensive That thing's too expensive to just Let it go to and forget about it And and for me the parts that are missing the engine It would look ridiculous as a display With no engines on it. It's so I can't I can't ignore that Uh, I uh rob says premium product should have premium quality control. That's what you would want That's what you would want so I went through the box to see if there was anything else missing as far as I know Those are the only parts that are missing. Uh, I did contact Hasbro customer care Uh, I uh It took it took a little bit to get the and to their credit They did route me to the right department and I got They opened a ticket for me. I got an email Um, I got responses from them I am pretty sure it's not an actual human That is responding to me The the responses are very canned You know, they seemed like Very, you know, uh automated but, um They asked me for some information, right? They asked me for some information about the product and and the the defect So I sent them the information that I had And I explained the defect. They also wanted a A photo or video or of the damage or defect and that was you know, what's really fortunate Is that I I just happened to open the thing live.  So Uh, yeah, do you know what? No, I don't do that. I don't do that. It's no special treatment. Obviously no special treatment here um I was a little bit concerned Because after sending them this information, I got a reply that says We're gonna send you A return shipping label so you can package up the seven action figures and return them to us And we will send you replacements And I said no, no, that's not it The action figures are fine. No problem with the action. That's fine. I don't need to send the action figure back I'm missing the engines for the sky striker Then they sent a follow-up Email and they seem to have got it. They seem to have understood Hello, uh, steve. Thanks for being here. I'm ranting right now. I mean I mid rant Uh, so they seem to have understood the the the bot that they have employed to automatically respond to these emails seems to have understood Uh, and um The reply that I got was that they're supposed to get replacement parts in in about three weeks Uh, at which point they should be able to send the replacement parts to me so If if it goes as planned If it goes the way that it's supposed to in well that was last week. So in maybe about two ish weeks They should start sending out a replacement parts, hopefully And then we get to find out If they send me the right parts So this adventure is not over This this adventure is not over we there could be all kinds of tune in for the drama tune in for the drama um But uh, yeah, I um No, I can't be angry at the at the gi joe brand team. They didn't do this Uh, it doesn't and it says nothing to do with any creative decision Uh, but it is a technical problem Between the company and the factory that Man, this can't happen So we've had another gi joe Uh has lab project a very successful has lab project in the classified his tank and Um, I I have to admit that I'm a little worried a lot of people are a little worried that we really got to Nail that his tank And I feel like we really need to nail that his tank before we take off with the new has lab project Let's get one right. Okay. Let's get one right so that people can actually have faith that They're gonna get what they ordered um But we we we got to nail that his tank and if we can't nail the his tank then I've got to rethink What I'm do with these hasbro Has lab projects because I I don't I don't have a whole bunch of extra cash to just blow on these things And then get incomplete stuff back. I'm not going to resell it. That's not my purpose But my purpose is To review it To get it on camera To compare and contrast with the vintage toy and I can't really do that if what is sent to me is not complete So That is that's the quality control issue and that's where it stands right now So tune in In a couple weeks or so and we will see if the missing parts thing gets resolved I will I will keep you updated. I will keep you updated, but that's where it stands now. That's where it stands now now I have two things to do Okay, I have two things to show you I've got to show you something that I I got for myself And then I'm gonna show I did get a box In the p.o. Box. So I'm gonna open this. This is from branded night. Thank you, Brandon Brandon a long time supportive of the show That was in the p.o. Box. I was gonna open it last week, but then I didn't do the show last week. Sorry about that um Prison labor in china's hasbro factory. Yeah, I see it Um, it obviously it's it's the fault of the the little uh, Chinese slave kids that didn't assemble the No hasbro is you got to fix this um, anyway um Yeah, uh rob says there was a better QC back in the days when the plane was only 24 99 right and if if it were if this were like a 24 99 plane That I got at at toys r.us. You know a toys r.us exclusive Then I'm like, okay.  You know, this is not a 30 dollar thing That I can just tote back to the store and and uh and uh Turn it in or exchange it This is it's a different thing. So this this kind of thing that we've really got to stick the landing on the his tank We'll see we'll see Sparks says have you seen my lego built awe striker and polar battle bear on my channel? I'd love to get your thoughts on I haven't seen it because I haven't watched a lot of videos Lately but thank you sparkster. First of all sparkster does have a channel Does a transformer stuff does lego stuff does some gi jo stuff as well um But sparkster you have provided The perfect segue Into the next segment. So thank you. Thank you sparkster Okay, so Valentinians day Uh Valpatine's day, you know the the um Love day Life day, whatever you want to call it this day. That's the day that we're supposed to to buy expensive Crap for our loved one.  There was a movie a tv show stargate.  I don't I don't really know anything about stargates. It's never been my thing But but gi jo isn't really her thing either. You know, we have separate interests and that's cool. That's fine um And like she doesn't she doesn't have to get into the stuff that I like I don't necessarily have to get into the stuff that she likes But I like to pay attention to what she likes because I like to to purchase things if I'm gonna give a gift If I'm gonna get a gift. I want it to be something she would enjoy Something that she would like so anyway, I I did find it. I did find what I was looking for but While I was searching I found something else I found something else That I did not know existed and I had to get it. I had to I It's it was uh too much of a surprise and I'm gonna show it to you now. This is what I found I found this This is a stargate It's an awestriker.  You're like Duh, we knew about that like decades ago. Well, I didn't I didn't follow that stuff Um, and so I didn't know I I I do know that gi jo vehicles have been Repurposed for other brands other lines. That's happened plenty of time plenty of times, but um, It's it. This is a stargate awestriker. So and it's supposed to be It's supposed to be sealed contents. There's There's a lot of rattling around in there A lot of rattling around in there, but it's supposed to be sealed contents So this should be the subject of a future Uh Assembly video. I want to take this thing out. I want to assemble it And I want to put it side by side with the gi jo awestriker and see what they did with it Um, I just had no idea that this was a thing until I was looking for a different thing Related to this thing and then here it is So, uh, marion as if you missed the early part of the show, she's not here right now We're not doing the valentine's day stuff yet. We got valentine's day stuff We're doing the weekend and she's also not watching right now But and we agreed on this because I didn't want to spoil The thing that I got her by by I this could spoil it a little bit But I did want to show you guys this this is um, this is really interesting Um, it's got yeah, it's got a whole ride up here on the back um and look look it's got some some hieroglyphs So how about that? You know, this is that's different That's different. Um, so yeah, we're gonna we're gonna open this in the future future video Open this put this thing together and and check that out. Uh, so yeah, that's that's what I found and and thanks again sparkster for the segue Now Who more things to do before I wrap it up? I know that it's uh, it's like four minutes to late o'clock But I started late. I due to technical issues. I started late So I'm just gonna keep going for a little bit longer. I'm gonna keep going Yes, I can bring the stargate movie to life Um, I like I know I've seen the stargate movie, but it's been so long ago. I don't remember Like any of it And I know there was a the tv show, but I have not seen a single episode of it I know I know nothing. I know nothing about stargate, but apparently they had an awestriker I know that now so Um, so I've got two more things to do and I'm just gonna keep going. We're gonna have an extra long show today I I did start late, but I want to I want to open this box That was sent to me uh from brandon that I got at the po box and I want to do story time um with special thanks to Peg warmers who had me on their show So we'll do story time, but first Let's open this. Let's let's open this box. I'm gonna scooch this back a little bit Give myself a little bit more room here And I have I have my knife. I I have already cut the box open, but I haven't I have my knife because I don't know what's in there and I don't know if there's like anything in there Like some packaging inside that I have to cut open. So, uh, let's open this. Um, let's see what See what brandon said so, uh, thank you brandon and thank you for this and also thank you for your longtime support It's very much appreciated. Uh, brandon's been a show a friend of the show for a long time So let's open this up and what I what I see immediately is What looks like a letter. Oh, it's in an envelope. It's in an envelope. Let's check this out It's a card. It's an actual card and it's got an adorable puppy on it. How about that? That's cool Um, yeah, I like dogs. I have a cat I have a cat, but I like dogs So let me let's see Yes, he has a message. Let me let me read through this You know, I always read through this make sure there's not anything too personal Before I read it aloud. So one second. It's not too long. Hold on Okay Okay, awesome awesome, uh, I can read this it doesn't it, um Um Based on what it says in here. I can surmise what's in the box Um, but uh, but it doesn't exactly give it away. So I'll go ahead and read it. It says Oh, first of all, the the card says just checking in. Um, I heard you aren't feeling well Hope you feel better soon and that is true. I was not feeling well, especially last week. So so thank you brandon Thank you. Uh, it says dear hcc 788. Uh, hello, that's me. Hello It says, how are you doing much better? Thank you for asking Um, hope you and your family are doing well doing pretty good. Thank you Um, how uh, what's in the box another fun time for you and audrey audrey is my daughter Um, I even put in spare parts. So you have fun custom Make fun making custom items. Hope these bring a fun and creative challenge Ideas for many days. It should I if I it is what I think it is it should I keep up the good work. Hope to see more gijo toys and comics reviews your pal brandon knight. Thank you brandon Thank you very much for this card. Uh, for those of you who don't know, I keep all correspondences I don't throw any of these away I have a special place where I keep every single letter card And anything like that that is sent to me. So thank you brandon for this Uh, and based on what, uh, you mentioned in the card I think I have an idea of what this is. Uh, it's got packing material on the top here. But if I remove this The cat will enjoy playing with the With the packing. Hey cat. Oh, he's up there. Uh, yeah, he's already looking at it. Oh, uh, Thank you comic tropes. Uh, love the shirt and the show. Thank you comic tropes For the super chat also. Thank you for the shirt. I didn't mention that before. I also mentioned, um My appearance on your show. So, uh, I thank you for that and it's nice to see you. Thank you for being here and thank you for your support You've been a good friend for a long time. So and and I really enjoyed that episode. You know, I like the the golden age stuff It's nutty It's it's like totally off the wall. Love it. Love it So let's dig into this box real quick. See what brandon sent and it is exactly what I thought it was Um, we have We have some more Gundams and here's the thing Um, I'm not I'm no expert on Gundams, but audrey absolutely loves these Okay, and like when when I got the box in she's like, what's in the box? Is it more Gundams? I said, I can't I can't I can't look yet. I gotta open it on the show. You gotta wait But um, she will be absolutely thrilled. She loves these so we've got We've got these these Gundams. Let me Dig them all out. She has been having a blast putting these together she put like She's been here like She's been putting these together and um She gets so eager to do them that she just like Blah just plow through one until it's done. Uh, she can't put it down until it's finished. She loves doing these So here's here's this one Um, I I don't know their names. Um But uh, but no these are these are awesome. Uh, here here are the the extra parts He said he sent some extra parts for customizing. She will love that. She's now starting to get into um Into toy customizing She meant I mentioned that she likes Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Well, I got her like the the rise of the TMNT Donatello action figure and she likes it. She likes it But um, she's she thinks they skimped a little bit on it and she liked to update it a bit Uh to make it look, you know better. So uh, she's um She's looking at customizing and this this gives her an opportunity to customize now. This is cool I've got some tools We have some tools for the building of the things. Hey, these are nice Yeah apax plastic modeling set. That's cool. That's awesome Um, I I can tell you Brandon that that Audrey will absolutely be thrilled and there are more there are more Let me show you each of these I will put these back in the box for now because I don't want to lose them Um And I don't want to damage them But and they're very well packed. Thank you Brandon And then there is now that's the last one Uh, so that is awesome. Um, I'll in fact when we're done with the show here I'll I'll shoot Audrey a text and let her know that Uh, um, Brandon sent more more Gundams. She'll be thrilled. She will be absolutely thrilled So thank you very much Brandon Let me carefully carefully set these Down and the cat will leave them alone. Please There Okay Okay Uh, so thank you for that. Thank you, uh for Sitting with me through the unboxing. I do have, um Hooked on Bandai Star Wars kits. Good good idea Good idea, uh, Michael Mitchell. I think that she would like that. She does like Star Wars. Um, I Lately she's been more into ninja turtles But I know that she also likes Star Wars So, you know, that's something that uh that she's she's expanding. She's broadening her Horizons a little bit and that's good. That's a good. That's a good healthy thing. That's good.  Nice to see you. Sorry. I I didn't see you come in didn't say hello Hello, nester and nolin and anybody else that's not in here. Uh, hello. How do you do? um, so I I do still want to um Uh do story time. I'm gonna do that uh here in just a second. Um, I know we're gonna run a little bit late But I started late so it's okay. Um I will also point out, uh A couple other things that I got for cheap um Again with audrey I went to five below And I got these Five dollar action figures the bareness and um And destro I already had Snake eyes right I had I had the snake eyes Uh now I I believe I have the complete set Uh and these things I haven't obviously I haven't taken the bareness out yet But um one of the kids at the super bowl party wanted a toy to play with so I opened destro here These things have uh three points of articulation. It's got a swivel head and it's got swivel shoulders. They're Extremely cheaply made of it. He has His laser gun it it doesn't come out Uh, it's it's extremely cheaply made but As with the snake eyes I find this actually kind of fun to just kind of play around with it's clunky. It's practically indestructible This is this is safe to get for kids You know, you if you got a classified and these are based loosely based loosely on the classified series Um designs for these characters, but classified figures. They're expensive. They got lots of parts Uh, and it's you'd have a hard time giving that to a kid But these you could give to a kid. They're basically indestructible Um and and they're inexpensive and I don't know. I just kind of like it. Um The sculpting is really not bad for what it is and without without any Joints or articulation on most of it. There's nothing to break up the sculpt. I do like this. Check out this out. He has Cobra knee pads He's got like knee pads with with fangs on him. That's wicked. That's pretty cool Uh, so any yeah, I got those Uh, and I and at target I stopped by target and I came across the I finally found this I'm actually finding more stuff in the wild lately that I had Have for a long time. I have not opened this But this is the target exclusive tiger force duke and ram Um, so I'll I'll I'll get to that. I'll get to it. Um, but I think that's all I think that's all I have to show off Now Who is ready for story time? Who is ready for story time? Um I said thank you to comic tropes and and temer for uh, the live chat of the super bowl And what's on joe mind? I should be on on friday, but peg warmers. This is a thank you to peg warmers for having me on their show and talking about The the gi joe find your fate books now Here's how this works. Okay. Here's how this works The find your fate books We'll read through and at the bottom of some of the pages It'll have some options and you'll have choices to make and the choices will Tell you which page to turn to so when we get to those pages I will tell you what the choices are I will tell you what the page number is for each of those choices and then you in the live chat We'll we'll type in the live chat. I'm sorry. We're calling it the friend zone tonight Uh, special valentine special, uh, the live chat we're referring to as the friend zone So you there in the friend zone Um, you will type your preference for which choice you want to make And then I will very unscientifically decide which Uh choice has the most votes. I would suggest though. I would suggest Not spamming the the live chat Um YouTube does have a a thing where if it looks like somebody's spamming a live chat it might kick you out Um, oh, hello big a day. I didn't I didn't see you come in. Hello big a dave. Thank you very very much for being here um, so Yes, so, uh, just put your um Hello, brandon. I opened your box and I said thank you, but I'll say thank you again now that I see you You're in here. Hello. Thank and thank you brandon. Audrey will be absolutely thrilled about the Gundams. She was actually really hoping That's what it was So she'll be thrilled uh at the Gundams. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, so um It's pronounced pair Eccles um I don't think so I'm kidding. I'm I'm joking. I'm joking. Of course it is uh persilis um I'm sorry persilis Pericles I it looks like dragon ball z to me, but like I don't know french So apparently it is persilis and it's spelled dragon ball z, but it's pronounced Pericles You know, whatever floats your boat. I'm just glad you're here. I'm just glad you're here. Thank you um, so Uh, so yes, we are going to um do the find your fate I will read the book when we come to a choice make your choice. Don't spam Don't spam the the friend zone Don't spam the friend zone because youtube may kick you off I don't have anything to do with that. I don't do it youtube may kick you off So so don't spam but just say what your preference is. Okay. Are we ready? Uh, I know we're going long, but I started late. So that's that's how we're doing. Uh, we are reading operation death ray By Megan stein and h william stein. I was never able to find out if this was A an alias of rl stein or a relative of rl stein. I assume it's a I assume it's a pen name okay All right, here we go. Everybody ready. It's rock and roll um Uh, yes, let's don't fail time. Yes, exactly brandon. Here we go. All right It's 0 800 hours when you hear the briefing room on the second level of the gi joe headquarters when you Near i'm sorry that looked like an h when you near the briefing room On the second level of the gi joe secret headquarters the pit the corridor is filled with low ranking military clerks gi joe personnel and top raking pentagon officials all talking at once Suddenly a voice calls to you loud and clear Break in is that you old buddy gung ho shouts from the other end of the long hall I thought you got stuck in a revolving door somewhere Uh, I see we all got an invitation to attend the intelligence briefing this morning. You say must be important They dragged me 5000 miles to get here. So our codename apparently is break in Our codename for this story is break in And of course break in is short for break in to electric boogaloo Sure, it's important gung ho says you're our number one security system specialist I'll bet they they've called you in to fix the soft drink machine the soft drink machine They blast the blasted things been short changing everyone gung ho pounds you on the back and laughs That's hilarious. That's really funny Uh, wouldn't it be great though? If somehow The malfunctioning soft drink machine Was important to the plot that would be great if it were important to the plot Okay Morning deep six you say seeing this uh sad eyed scuba diver you and he enter the briefing room together He doesn't look up answer you or even smile. He just takes a seat by himself off to the side Deep six recently lost a personality competition with howard cosel gung ho says sitting down next to you Okay, so Yeah, we know that deep six is it's kind of a dour guy very serious doesn't have much of a sense of humor But lost a personality Competition to howard cosel Howard cosel he had personality Howard cosel had personality maybe a little too much of it. Oh, here's we we have an illustration We have an illustration. We don't know what any of it means yet, but we have an illustration there Page two When uh within a few minutes The room is full and the doors have been closed as the briefing is about to start lady j drops herself into the empty chair On your right. Listen up guys. No snoring lady j says under her breath in a perfect imitation hawks voice Listen up guys. No snoring hawk says ha ha ha Hawk otherwise known as colonel clayton m. Abernathy. This is before he got promoted to uh To general hold on a second But look at this. Oh, this is interesting. This is it. Look. He's got he's got his version two This is hawk that he's got his version two uniform in the illustration But according to the story he's not a general yet.  That's not all that's at half mass Um, yesterday the united states government received a threat and a new demand from cobra Uh, what do they want this time? Uh, colonel sanders secret recipe colonel sanders Sanders secret recipe. That's a joke from rock and roll rock and roll crack that joke Uh rubbing a hand over his bushy blonde beard you know If they could if cobra could get their hands on colonel sanders secret recipe, you know the 11 herbs and spices You know, they could they can do something with that they can make some money with that I know a certain Kentucky fried chicken corporation that That would pay to get that back Um They want the u.s to open its gold vaults and hand over everything hawk says cobra claims They've got a weapon something like a death ray hooked up to one of our communication satellites If we don't pay up they're going to demolish 10 u.s cities one at a time Colonel this sounds like a crazy sci-fi story foo fo loo says a look of disbelief on his boyish face page three The intelligent there we still haven't run across a choice yet. Oh, hello peg warmers. Hi peg warmers I I I run minded everybody that I was on your show Uh a show about these find your fates books and now we are doing story time It's a story time now, but we haven't we haven't run across an option yet But nice to see you peg warmers. Thank you very much for being here Page three the intelligence boys are piecing it together hawk says, but everything's checking out affirmative What kind of death ray uh gung ho says it goes back to 1979 and a russian scientist named Alexander turkachev Sure hawk says turkachev defected to the united states so he could finish his research without having some someone looking over His shoulder he invented a synthetic glass-like element that he named Leukinium 35 after his grandfather Isn't 35 a strange name for an old man snow job whispers to you? Yes, actually it is But look his grandfather was named 35 and so he named it 35 so come on um Keep your shirts on here comes the death ray hawk says he unrolls a chart and shows uh A chart that shows in sample simple terms. Wow. Okay simple terms. How the leukinium 30 it doesn't say 35, but it should the leukinium 35 lens works You see when you focus the sun's ray through a lens made of leukinium 35 Uh, you get a molecular reaction at the target end It's an explosion with a force of many times That of any known missile or bomb and you're saying there's a leukinium lens attached to one of our communication satellites flints ask so it's a giant magnifying glass And cobra is going to fry the united states like a bunch of ants Like a bunch of ants on a hot porch With this death ray lens page four Still no options at the end of page four bear with me this Maybe this is why we haven't done this one as much It takes a while for us to even get to the to the options to the choices Now how is how are we going to find our fate? If we can't make choices Yes, turkish have secretly installed the lens just before a group of satellites were launched He also built a computer system to control the lens and determine the target We thought he was working for us the russians thought he was secretly working for them The truth is turkish have was working for cobra all the time. You just can't trust those russians This is why the cold war just should never have ended I'm kidding. That's a joke The truth is okay. It was working. I read that part They've got the computer and they've built a fortress around it Uh in one of the smaller hawaiian islands We just found out which one Uh the security for that cobra fortress must be wrapped tighter than a golf ball. Now, you know why you're being Why you've been called to the pit break in. Oh, thank you. What's on your mind?  You just missed them. You just missed the singing cats. It was a real hassle I had to CGI out the cat but holes. It was a Disaster It was a disaster, but you missed the singing cats. We're doing story time Again, thanks to peg warmers and also plugged.   So but I'm glad you made it I'm glad you glad you at least made it for story time I lost track, but it's okay because I got I got the super chat So we're good. I it's okay to lose chat Loose track for a super chat. Where's that trader turkic of gung-ho cries. I'd like to pound him into russian dressing He disappeared hawk says motioning for gung-ho to restrain himself It's possible he went back to russia on his own My guess is the soviet kgb dragged him back And bounced him into a syberian prison if he is in syberia He might be eager to deal with us his freedom In exchange for the information we need to locate and disable the lens Assuming we can get him out of prison, of course But it sounds as if turkic of may might may not Even be in russia. Lady jay says Syberia might be a dead end. Shouldn't the team concentrate on a seek and destroy mission against cobras, hawaiian headquarters page five We do have an option at the end of page five. We have an option at the end Of page five. Oh, hello white vizita. Nice to see you. Um, and I think I said hello to stone grade creations, but Hello again What's under mine says just popping in to say hello. Thanks for filling in on friday I'm happy to do it looking forward to it worked 13 hours today Well, good night and and have pleasant dreams of singing cats. Thank you for stopping in it's very much appreciated um Maybe hawk says but the hawaiian location is secure some say impenetrable That's why we're letting the team decide the operation plan Letting the inmates run the asylum flint and break in you are you two are in You two are in no matter what The rest of the team will be chosen depending on what you decide to do You can go to the hawaiian islands and fight cobras secret headquarters or You can go to syberia and try to find turkic of it's a coin toss and you know um Hawk is just the leader of the gi joe team. You can't expect him to make these difficult decisions It's a coin toss You know, whatever, you know, in fact, why not just toss a coin Um, all we know is that there's a deadly piece of synthetic glass attached to a satellite that keeps circling the earth Once every four hours. We don't know which satellite and we don't know which cities are the primary targets All we know is that cobra won't wait long before giving us a little demonstration of what the lukinium 35 Uh lens can do. All right. Here's we get where we get to make a choice. Are you ready? Prepare your fingers to type your choice. Like I said, I suggest that you don't spam The friend zone don't spam the friend zone, but just type which page you want from these choices Okay, here we go if you think the gi joe team should go to hawaii Turn to page seven if you think the team should go to cyberia Turn to page 13. So if you would like to go to hawaii Turn to page seven If you would like to go to cyberia Page 13. I know that's a tough choice. You know, that's a that is a difficult choice.  It's a tough choice. So In the in the friend zone type seven if you want hawaii 13 if you want cyberia I do see we have some sevens. We also have some 13s. We've got a few more 13. So it's starting to even out a little bit Do both let's see if you add them both and the that that works out. You should be able to do both And lord knows there are enough people on the gi joe team They ought to be able to try both, you know, but what but for our purposes We're just doing one. I think seven is winning but 13 did get a few did get a few Yeah, gi joe hawaiian vacation So he's letting the uh Just a regular guy just the the security guy decide if he wants to go to cyberia or hawaii Uh tough choice. I know. Uh, it looks like hawaii Uh page seven has won, but I'll give it just a few more seconds Just in case anybody's lagging and haven't been able to get their Get their choice in My voice is just holding up. My voice is just Just holding up. Um, so i'm trying to drink some water Soothe my vocal cords a little bit. We will get through this We'll get through this. Okay. I think it looks to me like page seven has won Let's see what happens in hawaii. Here we go Welcome to hawaii gungho says come on. I want to lay you Uh, that's not what it says. I apologize for that. It says Um gungho says as you step into the shark flying submarine He drops a necklace around your neck and says come on. I want to lay you That's not what he says, but it is a hawaiian flower lay. It's made out of hand grenades. It's a hand grenade lay Um Okay, sure now that's regulation equipment for a tourist on a gi joe excursion Uh flint deep six torpedo and trip wire are already on board You are still a little shaky from your supersonic jet ride to the hidden hawaiian port When you hit the deck deep six revs the motor and sends the shark flying over the Over the pacific waters at top speed. How big do they think the the shark is? We got at least gungho deep. We got we got flint deep six torpedo trip wire our character break in Um and gungho and gungho in the shark The shark is a one-person vehicle unless you count putting two guys on the back pegs for the torpedoes underneath Uh, so, um interest. I don't know how big they see this like like Obviously The the rider was told that gi joe has a flying submarine. So try to work that in you know, we're trying to sell this flying submarine submarine But but they have obviously didn't show the toy to the the author because they seem to have no idea. It's a Instead of the shark it should be the TARDIS. It's a TARDIS shark Uh, hey you we've got company flint shouts.  He shouts to deep six at the wheel From out of nowhere a sleek sea plane A dips from the clouds and circles you something tells me it's a cobra plane trip wire says Those guys catch on fast says torpedo scooping water into his scuba mask and dumping it out Just in case he has to make a quick exit into the pacific ocean Watch me blast him out of the ballpark gungho shouts as he sets up his grenade launcher Negative gungho flint says his voice calm as always He's still looking through his binoculars. It's not cobra. It's the coast guard Gungho was ready to blow away a coast guard plane um Whoa, sorry. What page is next page 11 page 11 Thanks for blowing her cover guys gungho shouts and into a megaphone as the coast guard plane dips lower Now go rescue a lobster.  Oh, hello game masters. Javi. Thank you for joining the friend zone this evening This evening because it's valentine's day, uh, as I mentioned before Um, but and because we're all friends here the the live chat Uh, we're calling that the the friend zone for for the evening Uh flint passes. Wait, where are we? Yes flint. Okay, but um Flint laughs and gives gungho a playful pound on the shoulder the plane passes over the shark again This time dropping a small canister into the water flint quickly scoops it up With a net and opens it. This is what we've been waiting for aerial photography of the islands Take a look at this one guys flint passes one of the photos around And finally it comes to you It's a picture of an unpopulated jungle island complete with an extinct volcano rising from the center It's called spider island. Is this the invasion of spider island? Uh, please don't get nervous break in there are no tarantulas there. Why is it called spider island then? The island got his name because years ago When the volcano erupted hot lava cut eight small streams down to the mountain side. Okay, that's I'll I'll accept that I'll accept that um Sure enough the aerial photo show uh makes the volcano look like an enormous black widow spider With its eight legs spread out through the greenery of the jungle page 22. That's nice. That's a nice visual I actually like that. That's it's not a not a bad bit of writing there. That's a nice visual 22 Oh, we have some options at the bottom of 22. Here we go Uh, just so the volcano is the only spider we have to deal with you say Sheddering the other the others laugh at your phobia. So we're we're uh We're we're phobias. We're spider phobias. What are phobia? That is Yeah, we're phobia of something um We know it's no joke to you Um You you have a long Okay, you have a long look at the photograph and then toss it down and pick up your especially designed scanner binoculars to get a better Look at the real thing. So that's spider island. We've been circling you say cobra is there all right? I can make out landmines booby traps pitfalls everything triggered by electronic sensors I can't tell exactly where their headquarters is but security titans Up the closer you get to the volcano. It's going to be tricky It is a super villain thing to have a volcano headquarters, right? That's a like a very super villain thing to do Okay, it's going to be tricky the beach the beach will take too long Let's hit them underwater torpedo says this shark has enough firepower to blast through Their security and are enough room to hold like six people You can be sure they've got a security system underwater too. You say come on guys Flint says we've got a Loaded we've got a loaded satellite passing over our heads four times a day and the detonator button is somewhere on that island Let's decide. How do we get in?  Okay if you want to invade by land Turn to page 85 if you want to invade by sea Turn to page 33 invade by land 85 Invade by sea 33 well, you're on a boat. So in a way you're still invading by sea but like um No look here, uh Joe fan 84 I am not an arachnophobia. I'm a very modern and progressive kind of guy I I I don't I don't phobia any arachnids. That's not me It's the Very open-minded kind of fellow 33 lots of people are saying 33 33 to invade by sea With the with the TARDIS shark. Wow 33 is The only thing that's winning right now That's that's a that's amazing. I'll give it a few more seconds, but at this point I don't I don't think a land invasion I don't think there are enough people in here for a land invasion to even catch up But I'll give it a very a few a few seconds um Because whatever arachnids do in the privacy of their own bedroom is no business to me that I I don't I'm I'm no arachnophobe um But uh, okay, I I'd say it's fair to say that page 33 has won. So let's change it's turn to page 33 33 33 Here we go. All right page 33. Here we go. That's page 32. Okay 33 um You and tripwire agree that cobra's security system on the island looks awesome But breakable the only problem is that it would take a lot of time to deactivate it And time is the one thing you don't carry an extra supply of on your equipment belt So you well you're in a TARDIS. You're in a TARDIS shark So you you might you might deep six takes the shark below water and then suits up to join the beautiful tropical fish In the clear pacific you and the rest of your teammates huddle around the monitor keeping track of deep six's every move Okay, so deep six is is outside of the shark now and and only the other what five people I think Are are in the shark the one-man vehicle What's he doing gung-ho says adjusting the focus looks like a Crawl stroke tripwire jokes Uh, do you see anything that looks like a way in cobra headquarters? You ask plant Um, not yet. Hey look, he's playing with an octopus deep six gets along with anything That swims and won't talk back to him torpedo says But a hush falls over the team when they see what happens next suddenly deep six turns away from the octopus It starts to swim toward the base of the volcanic mountain When his back is turned someone peers out from behind an underwater coral rock And fires a dart into the octopus's head octopus murder Octopus murder page 12 the Unbelievable the sickening violence in this octopus murdered And I hate to break it to you kids, but this is how sushi is made. That's that is how sushi is made Page 12 Something's going on out there. You say someone just hit the octopus with a laser beam. I think As flint and gung-ho crowd in toward the view screen the picture gets fuzzy and goes black That octopus is spitting so much ink into the water. He can't see it. We can't see a thing Deep six has company guys torpedo says I'm picking up a dozen blips on the sonar eels flint shouts The shrieking eels they always grow louder when they're about to feast on human flesh Cobra's scuba saboteurs the miserable They zapped that octopus to make a smoke screen so deep six wouldn't see them coming Flint suit me up scuba scuba diving is my secondary specialty. You say so break in As our secondary specialty is apparently scuba diving I know that break in flint says but we can't afford to lose you We've got more firepower in the shark than you can carry hand to hand They're closing in on deep six torpedo says looking at the sonar screen quick. What do we do? Okay, you ready?  Get ready to type get ready to type in the friend zone Get ready to type in the friend zone If you want to get into a wetsuit and go into the water to help deep six Turn to page 45 45 if you want to stay inside the shark And fire weapons at the cobra eels turn to page 58 stay in the shark 58 Go out into the water page 45 Make your choice. Let's see which wins This is this is an extra large shark apparently All right, so 58 if you want to stay in the shark and shoot at the cobra eels Um, and then what was the other one 40? That's 58 45 if you want to get out of the shark, you know and swim And help deep six My goodness Once again the vote is awfully one-sided here lots of 58s lots of 58s It does seem more logical right because the shark can move faster than you can swim uh But we have we have learned in the past that just because a choice seems like The obvious correct one Does not mean that it is sometimes the the story will take a turn an unexpected turn But it looks like 58 has won. I'll give everybody a couple A couple more times or a couple more seconds A couple more seconds to see if there's anybody else to Who hasn't had a chance to to type their choice said hello raisiner. How do you do? Um, thank you very much for being here. We're doing story time. Hello iconic blood I didn't see you come in. Hello iconic blood. Nice to see you. Uh, sorry if I missed anybody I think I said hello to garcia game masters hobby Brandon, I think I've said hello to everybody Uh, skyfall. Hello skyfall. I don't think I said hello to you small town machine shop big town machine shop. Nice to see you there Um, okay. Uh, hello there rich dude. Good franzy. Hello franzy. How do you do? Thank you very much for being here. We're doing story time. Uh, and I believe Page 58 is one. So we are going to stay in the shark And we're going to use the fire power on the TARDIS shark Uh, 58. Okay, and see if we can save deep six Okay Silently the shark moves toward the inky black water where the eels are closing in on deep six They don't know it, but the cobra attackers are about to become the attacked gun gun ho says We're in range of the target torpedo says from the uh from the shark controls Turn on the flood the front floodlights Uh flint shouts, that's hard to say turn on the front floodlights flint shouts The ocean lights up like a birthday cake and the cobra eels realize the surprise party is for them They quickly switch on Their propulsion backpacks and zip through the water in the opposite direction Let him go tripwire says falling over a stool in the control room But gun ho disagrees loudly keep after him deep six can find the cobra HQ entrance Free and clear now He won't need us for at least 20 minutes And if we capture those swimming snakes will knock out a whole line of cobra defense Keep on their tails torpedo my boy Flint turns to you and says break in what do you think we should do well? all right so Uh flint is is the leader and he definitely has the the higher rank, but instead of you know Following his orders Uh gung ho is like no i have a better idea And now flint cannot make his up his mind and now flint needs us to make up his mind Here are your options if you want to stay with deep six and let the eels go Turn to page 61 if you want to pursue them Turn to page 65 so 61 If you want to leave deep six and go after the eels That's 61 65 if you want to Pursuit i'm sorry Oh, no, i'm sorry. I got that wrong 61 if you want to stay with deep six and let the eels go all right 61 if you're letting the eels go 65 if you want to go after the eels and leave deep six Okay, so those are your options those are your options 61 uh to stay with deep six 65 To leave and pursue the cobra eels All right, this is starting out a little bit more even starting out a little bit more even we still got some 61's uh 61 is is Is a little bit ahead This one's a little closer. This one's a little closer 61 we still got some more 61 Yeah, uh franzi says follow flint's orders that See that would be um What they should do but but in this case they need you the reader to decide because flint is brain dead apparently um 61 is still reading um 61 is still reading Um or leading i'm sorry 61 is still leading Um, there have been a few 65s. I'll give it a few more seconds Um, that was much closer though. That was much closer Um, they had calamari Um I'm gonna go with 61. It looks like 61 has uh Has uh has taken the day page 61 Another day gung-ho you say to your hotheaded teammate and friend right now I think we better see what deep six is up to I've got him on camera torpedo says he's mounting. I'm sorry not mounting. He's not mounting anything He's motioning that he's found a door. There's a red button in the middle of it He's asking if he should push it to open the door tell him negative. You say you're practically Diving into a wetsuit. I know what the red button will do Uh tell deep six to back off until I get there. That's the staples easy button He knows what that is a few minutes later. You're in the water and checking out the security system Just as you suspected the red button is an alarm of some sort one tap on it would bring a whole squadron of eels You swim closer and work your way around the edges of the metal door examining the rocks very carefully near the top of the door a giant snails attached itself to the rubber seam that fills the space between the door and the rocky underwater side of the island or has it You lift the snail shell gently and find it hollow You've uncovered the hidden open hatch Switch that will let you and deep sex into the cobra airlock cubicle page 39. So We've gone from sushi To escargo now Page 39 Let's let let's escargo to page 39. Yeah tell cat You want to you want to say hi look just don't don't knock over my water. That's that's what I hear.  Um Once the outside door to the airlock is culling What page will we want 61? Uh, yes 39. Okay turn to the right one Um once the outside door to the airlock is closed you're safe Now all you have to do is push a button that drains the water out of the cubicle Then a second button opens the inside back panel of the airlock leading into the cobra headquarters After you peel out of your wetsuits you signal the rest of the team and you To join you and deep sex inside.  So you're you're nude now So everybody's naked. They've peeled out of their wetsuits We're we're in luck the halls are empty good thing because everybody's nude everybody's streaking Um flint says sizing up your position in the cobra layer First choice turn left following a long squeaky clean waxed floor Uh, you come to a large room filled with trees exotic birds sand plants and a pool fed by a small stone waterfall Nobody home. So you double back down the hall to the right There's more action down there you sneak past two open doors and look into the large room The strategy room. It's a busy place filled with cobras Computers and panels of flashing lights one entire wall is taken up by an electronic map of the world Occasionally occasionally streaks of light cross over the globe They're tracking satellite orbits flint says one of them is our baby page six Page six Please don't knock that over then cat Got it. Okay. Hey, we get another option. Hey, we're doing we're doing pretty good We're doing pretty good. We we um, we haven't died yet. We we were We're naked in a g in a cobra headquarters, but we haven't died yet. We haven't died yet page six Um, I want to blow a lot of people's minds It would blow a lot of people's It would blow a lot of people's minds if they knew how many satellites cross the us every day Um, that's a factoid that is really not Pertinent to this situation torpedo.  Then you hear footsteps heading your way. Maybe you should have been a little bit quieter flint You all scramble back from the door as a large figure leaves the strategy room He's a big man and he seems even bigger because of the sense of power He feels in every part of his body Including his pee pee His face is hidden by a blue hood, but you know that it's the face of cobra commander He looks around the corridor Then heads to the left toward the tropical paradise.  I think I'll pay cobra commander a visit gung-ho says well break in what about you So we have another choice to make We have another choice to make So Gung-ho is going to go follow Cobra commander flint is going to go to the strategy room We're going to have to decide where we want to go Okay, so if you want to go with flint to the strategy room, that's page 82 82 If you want to go with gung-ho and face off with cobra commander page 48 so 82 strategy room 48 Cobra commander 82 strategy room 48 cobra commander Let's see what we got. Let's see what I mean It doesn't exactly say that everybody is nude after peeling off their wetsuits, but I didn't say they were wearing anything You know, I didn't say that they they weren't nude So They could have been they could they could I assume they are So we've got we've got some 48s We got some 48s that that's following going with gung-ho to confront cobra commander lots of 48s Cat likes the box cats enjoying the box. We got an 82 We got a couple 82s. Hello chewing bubble. I don't think I said hello to chewing bubble gum. Hello chewing bubble gum 82 based on cobra's past performance the strategy room would be empty That's funny. That's funny We got some 82s. It's it's it's evening out a little bit. It's evening out a little bit 48 was off to a a strong start But it's evening out a little bit Let's see. I'll give it a few more seconds. Get a few more seconds Stonegate creations wants to see gung-ho gung-ho pound cobra commander So I mean that's awfully pornographic, but it I guess There's there's a lot of violence in these books. So they're there might It might have gung-ho pound and cobra commander. I don't know Uh for there's another 48 That's very close. I think 48 barely won barely So if you voted for 82 and we die because of this you can blame all the people who chose 48 All right. Well, let's let's let's start some controversy here. Let's let's let's have some conflict Between the the 48s and the 82s Much of like We'll start an online flame war if we die If we die Then the 82s are just are gonna have Uh an eternal feud With the 48s But we're gonna go we're gonna check out 48 Here we go Cobra commander returns to his private world of birds sand and piped in water pools You and gung-ho are right behind him come in cobra commander says whipping around to face you inside his room I've known you fools were here one more step gung-ho says and I'll have And I'll have taken a good look okay One more step gung-ho says and I'd have taken a good look behind that mask Cobra commander laughs And pushes a button on his wrist Button on his wrist a powerful powerful force field suddenly lifts you and gung-ho and flips you Uh into the pool of water behind you the water is hot and it burns As you struggle you realize that this isn't a peaceful pool of water after all true to his personality Cobra commander keeps a waterfall of acid In his own private domain does flint have better luck in the strategy room To find out you'll have to stick with him next time break in until then and the acid will just have to Uh eat your heart out About the way this adventure has come to The end it's got an illustration that is gruesome That so we're just we just got eaten alive by acid There's co there's coco right there laughing at us. That's a well look at this look at this That's supposed to be cobra commander It looks like a wizard It looks like a druid That this is how they drew cobra commander It it did it did say earlier that he was wearing his hood He was wearing his blue hood, but apparently that's the only description they had Is uh And that's that was his best guess I guess I suppose now gi joe had been around for a little while so like There was plenty of reference material if if the illustrator wanted to know what cobra commander looked like but no this is what he went with That's what he went with this the illustrator in this book was Uh David Henderson David Henderson Uh come on guy So yes, we did die Uh and now um, it's it's gonna be a struggle to keep the peace between um the 48s and the 82s the Uh now we've started a feud that will put the hat fields and the no coys to shame The 48s versus the 82s, but we did in fact die. Hey, I actually I really enjoyed this We haven't read this one for a while and that was a lot of fun. We were not successful But we can do this again We can make other choices and maybe maybe we will survive next time So that's it guys. Um, we did an extra long show My voice is about to give out so I will I will call it uh call it an evening. Thank you everyone for being here It was been a lot of fun. I'm really sorry. I missed last week. I'll try not to do that I really try not to do that if I if I can avoid it But thank you everyone Uh happy valentine's day. Thank you for being in the friend zone Uh much appreciated much appreciated Uh, yeah, uh Henderson was probably an 86 year old in-house illustrator just trying to keep up. That's very likely that's that's quite possible Given like some of these are are amazingly low effort But we'll save that for next time. We'll save that in for next time. But thank you everyone for coming. Thanks for being here Happy valentine's day. Thank you for joining the friend zone. Oh, thank you small town machine shop fun stream Thank you big town machine shop. Uh, I it was a fun stream for me. I hope it was for you as well But good night everybody. I will see you next week. I will try to get a I will try to get a review done as soon as possible Hopefully by next sunday, but I'm not 100% but I'm but I am actively working on reviews again Uh, and I'll get your review if it's as possible. But but either way, I'll see you next tuesday Thank you everyone and have have a great night. Thanks for being here. Bye everyone


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