Oh my god, and we got Baldy here And I also read that you guys love the intro cuz I did bring her back So yeah shout out to the old intro and you guys loving it. Oh, oh man feels like old times All right, so we are here with flat Baldy. Oh, no, I fell oh and Baldy just got us Guys and also before we get more into this video make sure to check out my social media links are on my Description or my about on my YouTube page. Hey, what's up, Charlie chubb? We got SpongeBob here. Oh pizza Who sent me? Oh my god is that granny? This is the old Krusty granny. No, dude. You almost got me bamboozled there.  This guy. Oh my god.  I'll kick you like a football. I'll punt you across the school He's trying to get an axle pizza man. He's the pizza man. Look at him He is the god of pizza All right, so let's go over here. This should be a third killer. Oh, oh my god. He's running at it. No Dude, what in the world was that? Oh my god, all right He just ran out of the school. There he is. If you're crazy, you know what raise your hands. Yeah We ever know that buddy. You ain't got to raise your hands.  It should be called a crazy school not scary I find it more crazy than scary. Oh my god granny. Just wanna get us What if they made a school like this in real life for other kids that didn't behave well? Send them to the scary school and they should learn their lesson Wow, I would be terrified of all the child Man Pete dogs a long it's a long time subscriber, man, I can't believe he's still around And we got a lot of the yeet squad here with this. Let's see who we got who we got here with her My god, it's Tom. Oh, yeah, I did remember about the flamethrower. I think he took it off So I got ripped off. All right So we got Axel sat up laser Leo Kappa knack well Charlie V Y Well, we got Brian yeet squad our GP dog me stick Oh my god. What's up guys? We got gave master ice wolf and Reggie room Look at this dude. That boy needs some milk. Oh Oh, it's slender man No Slender buddy. Hello. Oh my god. He's really trying to get in here. Hey Hey Dude, he's reversing.  No, he keeps freezing me He's torturing me. Why are you bullying me? Oh my god, all right? Um, Hello, if I let him in oh Oh, and that did not work out as we planned dude. Come on slender man. I thought we were friends Actually, he might be mad at me because I always be breaking his ankles I do be breaking his ankles back on the scary elevator all the time So they might just be payback So to chase lender man Okay, let's get back out here. Oh my god. I hear him. He sounds like a static ETV You know when you change the channel and you don't get in a reception That's just slender man sounds like Freddy's bass bear and slender man. Hey Hey Well, there's a hoverboard. Why is there a hoverboard just randomly out there? Oh my god. Hey, come over here I'm paying attention to us Am I a joke to you slender man. I think we were just nothing to them We got reverse sonic. Oh Man, let's see if we can survive on the ground actually. No, we can't because no My god, these guys keep freezing me. Why is Sonic so slow? Oh We got slow post sonic He froze me in midair and he got me killed. Thanks a lot, man. I appreciate it I thought you were my I thought you were my subscriber, man. You're supposed to protect me Okay, let's go. We got a cave of some sort. Okay, we can run fast and jump fast So this might work because I'm tired of being in the sky I'm just gonna run around on the ground Who's in here? Let's just crazy Roblox is all right, whatever I thought I was a killer in there.   Hey, Spongebob. Hey, no This dude's trying to shoot me, isn't he? Oh my god They really do be sounding like Call of Duty zombies though.  Hey, what's up blazer? We got my boy blazer here Man, he's looking fancy.  You'll never be able to bite through my dominance because it's expensive, right? It's supposed to protect me from my head at least. Oh My god, what is wrong with this? pa chik pa ka chika That's supposed to be like Pikachu but from some other country. Oh my god Kind of sounds like an urban legend from somewhere else like an evil Pikachu has done wrong pa ka chika And the result of that is this What in the world? Oh pizza. Okay. Okay. I like you now because you're rocking a pizza shirt Who doesn't love pizza, man That is one strange avatar. Can you please stop shooting me SpongeBob? Please? Please man. Thank you so much. I appreciate it All right, so let's go back over here. Oh the round has not begun Now it has begun Oh, it's the baby shark one. Well, they're now told baby shark. They're more like jaw sharks Oh, oh my god. Okay. We got one Two we got two sharks. I remember once we got the shark to go on the roof of the building It's pretty funny. Let's see if we can do it. Hey If you can get them to jump up here, I think it'll work Come over here, baby shark Yes, get closer No, they froze me Okay, guys, we're getting close. Oh, there you go. That's what he has to do He has to jump on the bus then from the bus he jumps onto the ceiling No, but he got me that was not supposed to happen That was not supposed to happen according to our plan, but we almost succeeded our plan We were about 25 percent there My god, come on. Why don't make the shark go on the ceiling? My god, this thing is so fast Oh, no, they messed it up. Okay. Nope. Now it's just the shark's trying to eat the bus I guess because the bus looks like a twinkie So that's why they might be attacking the bus Hey, he looks like a level character I think that's exactly what he's trying to go for Penny epic Oh my god, brian has been shooting me the entire time this whole video You're hurting my feelings brian I am taking that very personal, man You better make me cry on camera, man. Come on. Chill out By real. See you later game It's real wreck. Yes Yes, I'm wreck charlie chubb as you can see i'm right in front of you Okay, so I kind of missed the old update. I mean how they used to have a shop before Actually, not really because it was kind of of unorganized. You had to climb up on each level Like it was just too much. It was kind of weird. Cool man brand 30 Hey, they got my merch on for my old merch. What's up, man? It's always cool when you see people rocking your merch It's like the next level of happiness. Oh, not the zombies again. Let me go clap them Oh, this is not gonna work out. All right. It seems like we're gonna get clapped My god, right.  No without me No, I'm almost dead All right. Well, this was the scary school guys If you guys enjoyed the video make sure to slap the like button If you're new to the channel make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on That was pretty awkward because I was gonna smack my my microphone. 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Hi guys, it's MJ and in this video, we're going to be looking at asset liability modeling And what I'm going to do in this video is I want to try explain this as simply as possible for you guys It's one of the the techniques that I think actuarial science has was one of the most practical Actuarial techniques and it's really helped people when it comes to investment strategy so when you think asset liability modeling you need to be thinking of investment strategy Okay, how does it help? investment strategy Well, when you talk to people and you say what do you want to invest in? What do you want to get out of it and all these type of things you'll often hear people say? Oh, I want a 10% return and That's that's a fair enough objective. You want a 10% return that that sounds great but Yeah, that's not enough. That's you know, that's looking at investing too simplistically I mean you're only considering the one dimension What asset liability modeling does and we'll get to a little example or an illustration of it But one of its advantages is that it encourages investors to formulate explicit objectives. So Just how you have got that 10% return you want that measurable performance target So we want a measurable performance target which That guy had it. So nothing wrong about that. It's just incomplete Because what the also needed to to put forward is a performance horizon Another way of thinking about this is the duration how long, you know Does he want 10% return annually monthly of the next three years of the next 10 years? You know because and is that real return is it nominal return all these type of things Finally, you also want to have a confidence level Another way of thinking of confidence level is risk. So, I mean we can basically put this in simple English which is return duration and risk Okay, so now how do the actress You know, what was the big breakthrough in investment strategy? What did they do that nobody else or none of the other professions was thinking about and that is that they looked at the liabilities So before someone would come forward and they'd say I've got 10 million rand worth of cash I'm seeking a 10% return I want to minimize my risk invest it go and the investment All the asset manager, you know, we're trying to create a little portfolio Try and diversify it You know, we'll take his fees and so forth like that The actual approach to investment strategy says well, let's consider your assets and your liabilities so we want to look at your assets and Your liabilities and now what we want to do is we want to create a model That models both the assets and the liabilities at the same time So instead of just modeling the assets so before we would just focus on assets now We're going to be focusing on assets and liabilities So when we build our model, we can have it as stochastic or deterministic. Let's go stochastic for this example It's a little bit more fun You're gonna have certain parameters that influence both your assets and your liabilities These are known as your dynamic links. So something such as maybe inflation interest rates Currency currency rates as well could be another one. There's quite a few and what we're gonna assume is that each of these things is a random variable that follows a certain statistical distribution Okay What we also gonna take into consideration is that you have your assets your assets might have some Parameters that only affect them. Let's say if you're buying shares the the value of that share All the price of the property or something like that that will also be a a random variable and Then also with say liabilities, let's say you have a liability that's linked to I don't know You have to pay your Grandmothers or mother-in-laws hospital bill If something happens to her and that's again a random variable because you don't have medical aid or something like that Sorry, I'm just making I'm making this up So but the idea is that when in business you'll have liabilities that will be Influenced by certain parameters assets that will be influenced by certain parameters and then a bunch of parameters that will influence both of them then what you do is You simulate All of these variables.  Maybe the first one we pick one there pick one there pick there they're on their distribution they're on the distribution and It generates a run out of space. So let's put it maybe over here It generates an Answer then you do it again Maybe picks these ones randomly on the curve. This is their probability density functions and It starts doing this you keep doing that and what you do is you plot you end up plotting Say a little distribution So your input is distribution and your output is distribution and Let's say this is your target is to get a return above that amount That will indicate your risk and in the model you would have stated what your duration is and The great thing about this is that you can see Or you can stress test it and do some scenario testing and you can see which Variable is the biggest, you know has the biggest influence as the biggest impact Let's say it turns out inflation has the biggest impact Then what we can do is we can rearrange our assets in such a way that they are immunized against inflation Then do it again and compare our results. So we'll have another one that has maybe got inflation taken care of and This one might have you know Might have a better risk but a worse return and What the act tree will do is they will keep playing around with different different types of assets Putting it in the model and seeing what happens and because of the dynamic links is very difficult to do this without using a model When I mean play around with assets, I mean maybe say 30% in property 10% in bonds 60% in shares Or you might find out that actually doesn't work out at what at all Inflation is quite high Tends to be quite high. Let's rather go with 60% in property because we believe property will be an inflation hedge And let's go 30% Bonds that have got an inflation protection and only 10% in shares something like that and you compare each portfolio that you do will with a Monte Carlo simulation Give a certain distribution Once you have that distribution you can do your confidence intervals You can see okay What is the probability that we meet the criteria that we you know managed to reach our objective? and Maybe what you might find out is maybe this 10% return is unachievable You know you can say well look at this There's only 10 we only hit a 10% return 3% of the time And you can more align investors expectations Also by taking liabilities into consideration You can kind of have a better understanding of risk. So someone will be like I want to minimize risk Well, yeah, everybody wants to do that But what risks do you want to minimize because it's easier to minimize some risks than other risks? Or if you've got more exposure to say market risk It's better to do something that tackles market risk rather than something that's trying to tackle market risk and credit risk at the same time And then you Sacrificing unnecessary return for a risk that you don't have exposure to so the great thing about this Or about this technique and why it's so successful in investment strategy is because it is efficient When it comes to risk and we're gonna look later in the course something called risk budgeting But Joe it's really cool how we're gonna be seeing some actuarial principles coming into finance and Actually helping the the entire investment strategy and this is something that quite a lot of non-actuaries now have also started doing because of its benefits But there we go. That's acid liability modeling in a nutshell Probably later down in the course will do some more in-depth videos around what it is and all that type of stuff But I thought it's important that we have a nice quick little introduction to it But yeah, thanks guys so much for watching and hit subscribe new videos coming out every single day around finance Cheers


I'm so happy to finally have you in my collection, Bomb Disposal Unit, oh but I can't review you right now because you're from G.I. Joe, and this is Cobra Month. You wait right there while I go look at something from Cobra. Welcome to Cobra Convergence 4. It ain't here, and it is my privilege to bring you the fourth year of Cobra Convergence, and we are going to be looking at a very special G.I. Joe toy. The 1982 Sears Exclusive Cobra Missile Command Headquarters is a testament to Ron Rudett. If you don't know who Ron is, he is the person most responsible for the look of G.I. Joe in the 1980s. He designed all the early figures. He designed some of the vehicles. He created the iconic Cobra emblem. Ron's fingerprints are all over this play set. He designed all three figures that came with it. He designed the set itself. He even did the artwork on it. This is Ron Rudett's baby. I was honored to meet Ron Rudett at Joe Con a few years ago. I was able to thank him in person for all the work he did on G.I. Joe. Now, for Cobra Convergence, it's my privilege to review the first play set in the G.I. Joe A Real American Hero toy line. HCC788 presents the Sears Exclusive Cobra Missile Command Headquarters. This is the 1982 Sears Exclusive Cobra Missile Command Headquarters. It was sold only at Sears in 1982 and 1983. It was discontinued for 1984. This is the first play set of any kind in the G.I. Joe A Real American Hero toy line. It is made entirely of cardboard with the exception of some plastic fasteners. This play set was exclusive to Sears because it was exclusive to only one retailer and because it was made of cardboard, this is a very rare set. Fewer were produced and many of them did not survive playtime. The set came with three figures. All three Cobra figures that were available at the time. Cobra Commander, the Cobra Officer, and the Cobra Trooper. This set was the only way to get Cobra Commander at retail in 1982. The figure was otherwise only available through mail order. According to former Hasbro employee Kirk Bozigian, who was in charge of Boy's Toys at the time the G.I. Joe toy line was launched in 1982, Sears wanted an exclusive G.I. Joe toy. The presentation for the toy was made in August and needed to be ready by Christmas the same year. A plastic toy would take at least a year to produce. The only solution? Use cardboard instead of plastic. Ron Rudat, the Hasbro designer who created all of the early G.I. Joe action figures did all the illustration on this set. In earlier eras of mass produced toys, cardboard play sets were more common. Thankfully plastic play sets were exceptional. Toy companies used a variety of materials to keep costs down. Some play sets were nothing more than vinyl cases that opened up for play. Some larger sets were made of tin. Occasionally the play set would just be a sheet of printed plastic that pieces were placed on. The petroleum crisis in the late 70s increased the price of plastic, which perpetuated the use of cardboard in play sets. Both the Kenner Star Wars Death Star play set and the Millennium Falcon had cardboard walls. After this, future G.I. Joe play sets would be made of plastic. They would also get bigger. In 1983 there was the G.I. Joe headquarters command center. In 1985 there was the transportable tactical battle platform. Also in 1985 there was the USS flag. In 1986 there was the Cobra Terror Drone. For Cobra this was a big upgrade from the cardboard set. In 1987 there was the defiant shuttle complex. Also in 1987 there was the mobile command center. In 1990 there was the general. In 1992 there was a new G.I. Joe headquarters play set. And also in 1992 there was the Toxolab. You may have noticed some pieces left out. Some vehicles were so large they seemed like play sets. And some play sets had wheels so they moved around like vehicles. However you classify them G.I. Joe had a wealth of large toys to play with. Sears advertised the set in their 1982 wishbook for $11.99. That's roughly the equivalent of the price of the three figures plus a couple extra dollars. Today they are worth at least twice that. Sears was a big supporter of the G.I. Joe toy line and had several exclusive sets. In 1984 they had the vamp and howl two pack. In 1985 they had the cat and the SMS. In 1986 they had the dreadnought aerosolte and the dreadnought ground assault. These sets tend to be rare. Any toy that was produced exclusively for one retailer would not be produced in the same numbers as a general retail release. They were also mostly reissues of earlier toys sometimes with different colors. There was a modern version of this toy released in 2007. It was an exclusive to San Diego Comic Con. I will show you a side by side comparison between the vintage and modern later in this video. I have the instruction sheet for the missile command headquarters and this is a little different from our usual vehicle blueprints in that it has the instructions on how to put the thing together but it does not have an illustration of the toy on a grid background with a numbered list of the features. It does have illustrations of the various parts that go to it and it has this blurb here with a little bit of text that kind of tries to talk up the set. This missile command station is a detailed copy of Cobra command's super secret headquarters. And it's thick steel walls is the world's most sophisticated state of the art missile system engineered to operate under the most extreme conditions. It's made of cardboard folks, although it is cool to have the instruction sheet and it's certainly handy when you're putting the set together, a lot of collectors will consider the set to be complete without it. Let's look at the parts and the features of the Cobra missile command headquarters and it's worth pointing out that everything is on one side of this play set. The back side of it is just plain white cardboard. For starters you have this large background piece which the instruction sheet calls the fully detailed Cobra missile base. It appears to be a domed base with a tunnel that lines up with the elevator rail and a couple guards in the tunnel. On the wall behind the missile is a big Cobra emblem, Cobra has its branding on everything. Then there's this little orange cart drawn on the floor. There is exceptional technical detail on that background piece, all of it drawn by Ron Rudat. This is a two dimensional piece on which all of the three dimensional pieces are attached. Next we have the elevator and the elevator is functional. It will slide along two sideways L shaped slots. You can place an action figure in the elevator and the elevator will slide over and down and then of course back up and back over. It may take a little bit of work but mine actually slides pretty easily. This is a pretty creative way of making a 3D moving part out of two dimensional cardboard. There is some technical detail on that control panel, some switches and buttons and control panels and monitors and a little pac-man there and it looks like there is an illustration of the missile. So this is nice, I do like the elevator. The next layer out from the backboard is what the instruction sheet calls the missile support systems. It's mainly a bunch of technical detail with a couple platforms that connect to the backboard and then of course the additional pieces connect to that piece adding another dimension to the play set. If you move the elevator out of the way you can stand action figures on those platforms. So they did try to give you ways to have the figures interact with the play set other than just standing in front of it. And here is more of that amazing technical detail illustrated by Ron Rudat on that support system piece. As you can see it's just a long piece that connects to that backboard in a couple spots and then other pieces are connected to that. But really exceptional detail on that and that gives us another layer to look at. The next piece is the cruise missile.  It is connected to the missile support system piece at one point and it will pivot, it will go all the way vertical and it will go horizontal. Since this set were brand new the missile should hold in any position but this is cardboard it does tend to wear so my missile will not stay up and at this age don't we all have that problem. In order to help keep it up I usually use a piece of mounting putty and that will keep it up at a nice angle. Unfortunately the missile will not launch, it will only pivot up and down and this is the center piece of the play set. This is a missile command headquarters that cannot launch its missile. It's a little disappointing that the focus of the set is flat and doesn't really do much. A cruise missile is a guided missile that takes out ground targets. There are cruise missile designs that look similar to this one. Cruise missiles have been around for a long time and would have been pretty well known to the public at the time this set was released. There is a big red Cobra emblem on the tail of the missile and Cobra made sure to register their trademark. Directly in front of the missile is the work platform and as with all the other pieces there is exceptional technical detail all over it. There's a ramp on one side but the primary function is as a platform so you can stand a figure on it and this guy can repair the missile or something. At the other end of the play set is the control panel. It is a U-shaped computer control console with tons of buttons and gauges and monitors all over it. It has three seats that attach to it. Unfortunately I only have two seats. The third seat would go right here but the seats are all identical so you can see what the seats look like. I really like this computer center. The missile may be the show piece of the play set but this is the heart. The figures can use the seats at the control panel by straddling the seat and there are little holes in the cardboard for the figure's feet. It works more or less. It's not perfect but they had to make attached seats out of cardboard pieces somehow and this is what they came up with. That's all the features on the play set but we have one more piece to look at. The file card holder. This file card holder isn't technically part of the play set but it did come with the play set. Some collectors will consider the set to be complete without it. This file card holder is nothing more than a box with a flap on the back. It has a GI Joe logo in front, a Cobra the enemy on each side. It is blank on the bottom. It is blank on the back and on the front of that flap it has the GI Joe figures that were available at the time. At least most of them. Surprisingly it seems to be missing Cobra Commander. He is not on there. At the top of the box says GI Joe combat command file. It has a slot in it and that is for holding the three included file cards. We will be taking a closer look at these file cards a little later in this video. Here is one more look at all the amazing technical detail illustrated by Ron Ruddat on this play set. They did a good job of making a play environment out of cardboard. Some collectors may think this thing is cheesy but I think it's impressive considering the short amount of time they had to make it. There was however an alternative construction they could have gone with. Some other cardboard play sets took a different approach and we will look at one of them later. Let's look at the figures that came with this play set. These figures were packaged in two different ways. In the earliest releases of this play set they were sealed in a plastic bubble on the back of the file card. Later probably in 1983 they came sealed in a plastic bag with the file card. All of these figures like the play set were designed by Ron Ruddat. GI Joe did not have an enemy when they were first presented to Marvel Comics for creative input. Marvel suggested an enemy similar to Marvel's Hydra. The late Marvel editor Archie Goodwin came up with the name Cobra. An anecdote about Archie Goodwin, he was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1937 but he spent his teen years in my hometown Tulsa. He attended Will Rogers High School, the same high school as my parents. He graduated in 1955 and he has been inducted into the Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame. Finally he passed away in 1998. One of my great regrets is that I will never be able to meet him. Depending on when you bought the Missile Command headquarters you could get one of three Cobra Commanders. The earliest releases of the play set in 1982 would have come with the straight arm Mickey Mouse Cobra Commander. So called because of the simplified Cobra emblem on his chest with detached eyes on the top that look a little bit like Mickey Mouse ears. Because Mickey Mouse Cobra Commander figures are somewhat rare, the earliest male away figures also had this Mickey Mouse symbol. We don't know exactly why this odd chest symbol was used on the early figures. My guess is the factory mistakenly used a mock-up instead of the final design. Later in 1982 you would have got a straight arm Cobra Commander figure with the Cobra symbol that we are more familiar with. The later male away figures also corrected the Cobra symbol on the chest. Other than the corrected chest symbol this figure is exactly like the other one. These are not as rare as the Mickey Mouse figures but they are still sought after and can be expensive. And if you picked up the play set in 1983 you would have gotten a swivel arm Cobra Commander figure with the updated articulation on the arms and the regular Cobra chest symbol. This is exactly the same as the 1983 regular retail release. Before 1983 Cobra Commander was primarily available through a mail order offer. This play set was the only way you could buy the figure in a store. In 1983 the figure was broadly available at retail. The retail 1983 version is the most common version but that figure is still in high demand among collectors. Another version of Cobra Commander you got, he came with one accessory, the Venom Laser Pistol. It's in dark gray, it's kind of a clunky thing, looks a bit like a hairdryer. It does have a unique feature though, it will plug into the back. It has a peg, there's a hole in the back of the figure, he has a recharging pack molded on and the laser pistol will peg on there for recharging. And that's not too bad. I kind of like that feature. Thanks to a viewer, Kurt Kessler, I have a full-size Venom Laser Pistol. I haven't tested it to see if it works yet but you guys better watch out. Let's look at the sculpt design and color of Cobra Commander. He's wearing a light blue uniform. He has a light blue helmet with a silver mask. He's wearing a black shirt under a blue uniform jacket with a red Cobra emblem on the front. He has that recharging port on his back for his Venom Laser Pistol. He's got a hole in the port that plugs in the pistol. He's got a couple straps sculpted onto his back and another strap or perhaps some wiring that goes around his midsection. His arms have long light blue sleeves and black gloves. His waist piece has a black belt with a couple pouches. He has a red belt buckle. On his legs he has that light blue color with a red stripe that runs all the way down his right side. On his left side he does not have the red stripe but he has a black dagger on his left thigh. His uniform covers most of his boots but we do see he has black boots. In addition to Cobra Commander, depending on when you got the play set, you would get one of two Cobra officers. If you got the set in 1982, you would have gotten the straight arm Cobra officer. So called because on the lower arms he only had one point of articulation, a hinge at the elbow. In 1983 you would have gotten the swivel arm Cobra officer. So called because he had a new point of articulation, a swivel just above the elbow. From the first time I saw this figure I thought he looked special. He has a silver Cobra emblem on his chest and I assumed that was tied to his rank. He is an officer. Beware that silver paint flakes off very easily. This one has a very nice clear silver Cobra emblem but as you can see, the silver paint on this one has partially worn away. Ron Rudat has said he designed these early Cobra figures to be a faceless enemy. He did not want them to represent any particular country or ethnic group. So they all wear these blue uniforms and helmets with black masks that can seal the face. The Cobra officer came with one accessory, an AK-47 assault rifle and this is a pretty good likeness of that real world weapon. Some fans feel the Cobra trooper should have come with the AK and the Cobra officer should have had the sniper rifle. However, in concept art by Ron Rudat, the Cobra officer is clearly shown with the AK-47 and the Cobra trooper clearly has the dragon of sniper rifle. I've even seen some fans say the details of the Cobra trooper are more fitting of the officer and the officer looks more like a trooper. To add to the confusion, both the officer and trooper were reissued in 1989 as part of Python Patrol, but their roles were reversed. The officer mold became the Python trooper and the trooper mold became the Python officer. If you are of the opinion that the trooper looks like an officer and the officer looks like a trooper, the Python Patrol versions could be validation of that opinion. Let's look at the sculpt design and color of the Cobra officer. The Cobra officer has a dark blue helmet with a chevron molded on.  He has a dark blue uniform that same dark blue color with a silver Cobra emblem on his chest. He has black web gear front and back and he has gray on his shoulders and then a gray explosive device on the left side of his chest. He has long dark blue sleeves with black gloves. On his waist piece he has a black belt with a couple small pouches. He has dark blue legs. On his left leg there is a black dagger and then he has tall black boots. And finally we get to the Cobra trooper. Depending on when you bought the play set, you would get one of two Cobra troopers. In 1982 you would get the straight arm Cobra trooper, again with the single hinge at the elbow. In 1983 you would get the swivel arm Cobra trooper with the swivel above the elbow. This is the backbone of the Cobra Legion, the famous blue shirts. They do the bulk of the frontline fighting. In 1986 they were replaced by the Viper, which filled the same role. The Viper's are the blue shirts, just with updated uniforms. Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, even refers to the blue shirts as Viper's. On the file card they are just called Cobra, but the box for the missile command headquarters calls them troopers. Even though the Cobra officer and the trooper look very similar, they share only one part between them, the waist piece. All the other parts are unique. The Cobra trooper came with one accessory, the Draganov SVD sniper rifle in dark gray. This is another pretty good representation of a real world weapon, those slightly modified. It's no surprise these guys came with Russian weapons. The Soviet Union was the biggest threat to the United States at the time. Looking at the sculpted design and color of the Cobra trooper, he has a dark blue helmet, the same color blue as the Cobra officer. In fact this figure is the same color as the Cobra officer, but he does not have the chevron on the helmet. He does have that same black mask. He has a dark blue uniform shirt with a red Cobra emblem. He has a couple black straps. They continue to the back. He has a molded on grenade launcher on one strap. He has long blue sleeves and blue gloves, unpainted gloves. On his upper right arm, he has a silver wire. On his upper left arm, he has a couple grenades for his grenade launcher. His waist piece is exactly the same as the Cobra officer. He's got that same black belt. His legs are that same dark blue uniform color. He has a pocket on the right leg. He has a black dagger on the left leg. It's a little different from the Cobra officer dagger.  The mold for the swivel arm Cobra trooper was used twice in 1983. First of course for the Cobra trooper, then for the 1983 Viper pilot, which came with the Viper glider. The difference was the Viper pilot had the silver Cobra chest emblem instead of red. Other than that, these figures are identical. This caused some confusion for me because I thought the silver emblem meant he was an officer, but the Viper pilot was not an officer. Let's take a look at the file cards that came with these three figures. At first glance, they look exactly like the retail file cards, but there are a couple important things to look for. These cards were not printed on the backs of retail card backs. They were just rectangular cards with a black border and a flag point in the corner. The black borders on my cards have been cut out. Without the black borders, the best way to distinguish these cards from regular retail is to look at the back. In the earliest releases of this play set, the figures were sealed on the back of the file cards in a plastic bubble. So on the back of the card you will have a red back, usually with a tear where the figure was taken off. Later releases of the play set had the figures in a plastic bag with the file card, so those file cards would just have a plain red back and they would not be torn off like this. That's not such a problem with Cobra Commander, but that could cause confusion on the other two file cards. The earliest male away Cobra Commander file cards had exactly the same text as the Sears Exclusive file card, but it was not red on the back, it just had a plain cardboard backing. When the swivel arm figure was finally released at retail in 1983, it had a file card with exactly the same text as the other two, but the back of the file card has some of the front card art on there, so it's obvious that this card was cut out of the back of the retail card. The Cobra Officer file card has the same red backing with the tear where the bubble was removed, and it has exactly the same text as the retail file card, but the retail card has the artwork on the other side, so that's easy to distinguish. One problem with the Cobra Officer and the Cobra Troopers red back file cards is, with the later Sears Exclusive sets, they did not have the tear on the back, they were bagged file cards, and both of these guys got later male away releases that also had red back file cards. The male away file cards had a white border instead of a black border, but when the borders are cut out, it could be very difficult to distinguish the Sears Exclusive file cards from the male away file cards. Let's round out our look at file cards by looking at the Cobra Trooper file card. Again, it just says Cobra, not Cobra Trooper, codenamed the enemy. In fact, the officer also says codenamed the enemy, and the Cobra Commander file card says codenamed enemy leader, but this is the Cobra Trooper. The text is the same as the retail file card, and again, we have the red back with the tear where the bubble was removed. So this would have come from a 1982 Sears Missile Command Headquarters play set. And once again, on the retail card on the other side, we have that artwork so easy to distinguish the retail from the Sears Exclusive. But like the Cobra officer, there was a later male away Cobra Trooper with a red back file card and a white border.  In 2017, Hasbro issued a remake of this play set, and it was an exclusive to San Diego Comic Con. Like the original, it was made of cardboard, and it came with three action figures, the modern equivalent of Cobra Commander, the Cobra Officer, and the Cobra Trooper. Looking at these two side by side, obviously they have very similar construction, and they share a lot of the same details, so it could be very easy to mix them up. Upon closer inspection, though, there are significant differences between these two. In fact, none of the parts are identical. So if you know what to look for, you should always be able to tell the modern from the vintage. Hasbro didn't help matters by making the box very similar to the 1982 box, including some distressing, some wear and tear, some yellowing of the white areas. This is made to look like an old box, even though it's brand new. However, on the 2017 box, the photograph includes modern action figures. So that's, of course, a major difference from the 1982 box. In fact, the 1982 box had photographs of prototype figures, rather than the regular retail production figures. But if you see modern action figures on the front of the box, that's a pretty good way to know that you have the modern box, not the vintage. The back of the box is also very similar to the 1982 box, with the two-color printing on a white background. But if you look at it, there are brown spots all over it as if it's aged cardboard. But this is a brand new box. They just intentionally made it look old. Flipping the play sets around to the back, you can see the similar construction and material. I'd say the cardboard used in the modern release is thinner than the original, but perhaps a bit sturdier. One difference in the construction between modern and vintage is the vintage parts were printed on larger sheets of cardboard that were perforated, so you would have to punch the parts out. So you'll see little nibs of cardboard along the edges where the pieces were connected to the larger sheets of cardboard. On the modern release, all the parts were die cut, so you didn't have to punch them out. They came bagged exactly as you see them. The biggest difference and the easiest difference to spot between the modern and the vintage is the artwork. The artwork on the modern release is entirely done with computer. It doesn't look like any of it is hand drawn. There are some additional details like the additional detail on the floor, the background, and the guards in the tunnel are actually photographs of modern action figures rather than hand drawn. And mostly the details are the same, except they are clearly done on computer rather than hand drawn as the original was. To compare that with the original and all of it is hand drawn and inked and painted and really shows the hand of the artist. The details are a little bit different. There's less detail on that floor and the background, but otherwise a lot of the details are essentially the same as the modern version, but you can see that this was drawn by somebody. This was not done on computer and that's very evident when you have them side by side. They both came with the file card holder. The modern one here is in much better shape because it's brand new, but the construction is pretty much the same and the artwork on them is almost identical. The artwork on the back flap is almost identical to the vintage. The printing is maybe a shade darker, but it does look like they've used the vintage artwork on the modern. Some differences to look for on the vintage file card holder. There is a number here in the bottom corner that is not present on the modern release. Also on the vintage, it has Hasbro's copyright information here on the top and this number 6200 next to the Hasbro logo. On the modern release, it does not have the copyright information on there and it has a different number next to the Hasbro logo. You can see though how it would be easy to mix these two up. You have the Cobra enemy on the sides and a blank back and bottom, exactly as the vintage file card holder. The file cards are also very similar, so it's important to not mix these up. The file cards have the black border but no flag point in the corner and they have the red backing. One thing I noticed on this modern Cobra Commander file card is they fixed an error that was on the original. The original file card had a typo. There was an extra comma in this sentence, his main battle plan for world control and they actually fixed that and removed the errant comma on the modern one. The text is otherwise quite similar. The artwork obviously is pretty much the same. On the modern card, they did add a disclaimer and fine print down at the bottom that does not appear on the original. The file cards with this set use the classic file card shape that we're used to from the 80s. Modern file cards are mostly shaped like this with this longer section up here on top. So they are really trying to make these look like vintage file cards. Let's compare the figures these two sets came with. We've already looked at the vintage figures that came with the 1982 release. The 2017 release came with modern figures with modern articulation and sculpting, but it came with the same three characters, Cobra Commander, the Cobra Officer, and the Cobra Trooper. The modern version paid homage to the vintage, particularly with the Cobra Commander figure. The scale of the modern figures is slightly different from the vintage.  They also came with figure stands that had the name of the character printed on them. This Cobra Commander figure, instead of having the regular Cobra emblem, has the Mickey Mouse Cobra emblem on his chest. So that is a direct homage to the earliest Cobra Commander figures. This modern figure, like the vintage, has the red stripe down the right leg and no stripe on the left leg. That's a direct copy of the vintage. And like the vintage, the modern figure has a recharging pack molded onto the back, on which you can connect his Venom laser pistol. This figure does have all modern articulation. It also has a removable helmet and on his left leg, he has a removable knife. The Cobra Officer figure has a lot of callbacks to the vintage figure. He has that same dark blue uniform. He has an AK-47 rifle, similar to the original, but it's updated. It's not exactly the same. He has that silver Cobra chest emblem. His web gear is removable. It's not just sculpted on. And he has a removable helmet. And finally, the Cobra Trooper with the figure stand that just says Cobra has a lot of callbacks to the vintage figure. On the modern figure, we actually lose some of the silver details that were on the vintage figure. But he still has that dark blue uniform with the red Cobra emblem on the chest. He still has the knee pads, and that's an important detail. He has the Draganov sniper rifle, and that is similar to the vintage, but not exactly the same. It is updated. Like the Cobra Officer, he has removable web gear and a removable helmet. To give you a more thorough look at the San Diego Comic-Con Missile Command headquarters, I recorded an unboxing and assembly video, which you should see on my YouTube channel later this week. I said earlier there was an alternative construction they could have used for this cardboard playset, and I was going to show it to you. For that, we have to go outside of the United States to the British version of G.I. Joe Action Force, produced by the UK company Palatoy. They made cardboard play sets that were dramatically different from this one. Palatoy was the licensee for Star Wars in the UK, and they made a cardboard playset for the Death Star that we did not get in the US. They made a similar cardboard playset for Action Force, and it's my privilege to show that to you now. This is the Action Force headquarters playset by Palatoy. It is made primarily of cardboard with a few minor plastic pieces. This one is missing some of the plastic pieces, but is made of a thicker cardboard than the Missile Command headquarters, so it is sturdier. But as you can see, this is a true 3D playset. Instead of starting with a background and building forward, they started with the ground and built up. It has multiple levels. It has a helipad. It has a wall that unfolds into a runway. It is spectacular. It has so much more play value than the American playset. I have to thank Michael in the UK for sending this to me. So yes, if you're going to do a cardboard playset, this is the way to do it. But in fairness to Hasbro and Ron Rudat, they were on a time crunch and they probably did not have time to construct something like this. But I can still daydream about getting this kind of playset for G.I. Joe. Looking at how this playset and these characters were used in G.I. Joe media, Cobra had many secret bases, but not exactly like this, so I think it's fair to say this playset was not used in G.I. Joe media. Cobra Commander, the Cobra officer, and the Cobra Trooper, however, were used extensively. In the G.I. Joe animated series, Cobra Commander had his origins in Cobra Law, the secretive race of mutants hiding in the Himalayas. Cobra Commander was a Cobra Law scientist whose face was disfigured in an experiment. For some reason, he was chosen to lead Cobra in an attempt to conquer the human world. He was of course totally inept at that task. The animated version of Cobra Commander tended to be more buffoonish. He concocted wild, implausible plans to take over the world and those plans invariably failed. Even so, he was one of the most important characters in the series. At one point, they tried to get rid of him and replace him with Serpentor, but he came back. In the 1987 animated movie, they transformed him into a snake. It looked like that was the end of Cobra Commander, but they brought him back in the Deke animated series. He was a snake man, and he wore his battle armor to cover his nakedness. There were countless officers and troopers in the animated series. They were most famous for having stormtrooper aim. They would fire their lasers all day and never hit anything. Of course, this was an animated series for TV, so the violence had to be toned down. In the G.I. Joe comic book series published by Marvel Comics, Cobra Commander was again one of the most important characters in the series, but he was very different from his animated appearance. Larry Hama, the writer of the comic book series, in a Toy Fair magazine interview said he loved writing Cobra Commander. He modeled Cobra Commander after conservative political personality William F. Buckley. We know a lot about Cobra Commander in the comic book series, more than most Cobra characters. We know his past occupation. We know something about his family. We have met his wife and son. Cobra Commander began his journey to evil after the death of his brother, Dan, in a car accident. That same incident caused the death of Snake Eyes's family. Cobra Commander blamed Snake Eyes for his brother's death. At some point in his past, Cobra Commander was a used car salesman. He became a corrupt businessman, amassing wealth through unscrupulous means, and eventually forming the underground organization Cobra. Cobra completely took over the small American town of Springfield. Cobra Commander contracted the assassination of Snake Eyes when he was still in training with the Arashikage Ninja Clan. The assassin, Zartan, accidentally killed the hard master instead. That incident set in motion a long chain of revenge, deception, and hatred. His son, Billy, became a resistance fighter in Springfield.  He was taken under Storm Shadow's wing and given Ninja training. In a missile attack by Scrap Iron, he lost an eye and a leg. His leg was replaced with a mechanical one. Cobra Commander's ex-wife reappeared in issue number 83. She reunited with Billy. At one point, Cobra Commander was thought dead. He was replaced by a Crimson Guardsman called Fred Seven, who started a civil war with Serpentor. The imposter Cobra Commander prevailed. The real Cobra Commander was not dead, though. He returned to retake command of Cobra. He trapped all his internal enemies in a landlocked freighter and buried it under a volcano. That's his style. Cobra Commander could have been a stand-in for any foreign enemy of the U.S., but in the comic book, that's not what he was. He represented the enemy within. He represented the allure of fascism and power over all else. Cobra was a domestic terrorist group. There were plenty of Cobra officers in the comic book series. Often the officers and troopers were used almost interchangeably. Their uniforms were almost identical. There was one Cobra officer that got special attention, Scarface. He was identifiable by the V-shaped scar that ran across his eyes. He operated as a courier for Cobra during Dr. Venom's plot to develop a lethal plague toxin. Scarface died in issue number 19. Among my friends, Scarface created a rumor of a rare variant of the Cobra officer figure. We thought some Cobra officers would have the scars sculpted onto the face. We looked closely at every Cobra officer figure we could find, but we never saw the scars. Of course, the scarred Cobra officer figure did not exist at the time. There is now a modern scarred Cobra officer figure, though. There were countless Cobra troopers in the comic book series. Even though they were replaced with the upgraded Vipers, they still appeared in the comic book long after the figures were discontinued. Larry Hama refers to these blue shirts as Vipers, even though they weren't called Vipers until they were upgraded in 1986. Looking at the missile command headquarters overall, the figures that came with it are great. They're still among my favorite Cobra figures in the entire line. They were groundbreaking, they were iconic, they are top tier. The playset itself has some rather obvious problems. The cardboard construction is very fragile. The rarity of the set makes it very expensive. The play value is limited. The cruise missile, the centerpiece of the playset, does not launch. You can elevate it to launch position, but GI Joe had better stop it there because it doesn't go anywhere. The elevator does move, but that's not enough to elevate it to a top tier playset. This playset is highly desired by collectors primarily because it is rare. It is one of the most difficult playsets to complete. The 1987 defiant shuttle complex may be more difficult to complete than this one, but that is because of the sheer number of parts. The missile command headquarters has fewer parts, but those parts are very hard to find. I'd say this is more of a diorama than a playset. For that purpose, it works fine. It may not have much play value, but the background and the platforms look nice on display. The best thing about this set is the story behind it. It was the first attempt at a playset in the line. It was an exclusive to Sears, which created challenges to producing it on time. It was conceived and executed by the architect of GI Joe, Ron Rudat. It has a place in the history and legend of GI Joe. Its legend was so great they tried to recapture it in 2017. Were they successful, you'll have to judge. I wouldn't fault any collector for passing on this set. You'll spend a lot of money for a few pieces of cardboard. Even if you have the money to spend, you may not see the value in spending it on this. And I understand that. I am happy to have it because of its history and because I can share it with you. That was my review of the Cobra Missile Command Headquarters. I hope you enjoyed it. We have more Cobra Convergence coming this week. On Monday, July 8th, we have SEO Toy Review on YouTube. On Tuesday, July 9th, we have the Forgotten Figures blog. On Wednesday, July 10th, we have Retro Blasting on YouTube. On Thursday, July 11th, we have McDowen on YouTube. On Friday, July 12th, we have Special Mission Force on Instagram. And on Saturday, July 13th, we have My Side of the Laundry Room on YouTube. 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Monster, do you think? You want me to answer that? I didn't destroy anything. And believe me, Steve, you won't be my only target. I need help here. Form BX257. Form BX257. Kevin! Kevin! Oh, hey buddy. I had a feeling you'd be calling. Timmer has gone mad. He has an Infinity Gauntlet. Oh, I guess that explains why half my collection is missing. Ah, yours too? This is bigger than just the two of us. It's time for a convergence. Right. Hello? Sorry, wrong number. Yeah, maybe not include him in this. Right, sorry, force of habit. It's time for the Convergence Initiative.


Meantime, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs continues to note significant increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases. The Delta variant has been proven to be more contagious and severe than previous strains, and its presence in country means that COVID-19 cases, as well as deaths, will continue to soar. This combined with a low vaccination uptake of approximately 15% of the total population means that the population remains at a very high risk. Dr. Michelle Forswise, the acting national epidemiologist. As we continue with community transmission, we have noted that all sectors of our society are being affected in some form or another. While the need to maintain businesses operational is fully acknowledged, the Ministry of Health remains very concerned over the increasing number of breaches in national protocols. There is a great tendency of business places to ignore the workplace guidelines and test workers at their discretion. This practice is to be discontinued as testing contacts prematurely and instructing them to return to work may be creating an unsafe workplace whereby employees have a false sense of security originating from a false negative test result. The need for testing and quarantine is based on the level of exposure and clinical status of a contact. A decision is then made on whether contact should be isolated, quarantined or made to self-monitor. In the latter two, the period of monitoring for the development of signs and symptoms for COVID-19 is 14 days from the last day of contact with the infected individual. This is the maximum incubation period of the disease. A negative test does not shorten the quarantine period. Dr. Faswa explained that earlier this year, St. Lucia adjusted the discharge from isolation criteria in accordance with guidelines from the World Health Organization, WHO. A negative PCR test result is no longer considered a requirement for discharge from isolation. In addition to a sick leave form, the Ministry of Health also issues a letter of discharge from quarantine and isolation to all persons who have been placed in either quarantine or isolation. I reiterate, a negative PCR result is no longer considered a requirement for discharge from isolation and employees should not be mandated to produce a negative PCR result in order to return to work, especially as a PCR test may remain positive for months after a person has recovered from COVID-19. This new request for PCR results is now creating a strain on staff at the testing sites and laboratory, as well as encouraging COVID-19 cases to leave their homes against protocols in order to get tested. The Ministry of Health reminds persons in the same household as a confirmed case of COVID-19 that they should not leave the home to go to school or work. Instead, they should get tested to determine their COVID-19 status. Once tested, the individual should remain at home until the result of their test is communicated to them and further guidance given by a healthcare worker. If you have not received a call informing you of your results, a call can be made to the testing site to inquire about your results. Persons who have been placed in quarantine are asked to adhere to the quarantine measures, as explained by the healthcare workers. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs asks the public to continue practicing the standard recommendations to prevent the spread of infection as it continues to work with the various sectors to manage the current COVID-19 situation on Ireland.


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This is a different kind of episode where you will get to meet Nine Bears, a professional comedian. He will show you just how easy it is, freedom family, to create amazing content with collaborations. We met Nine Bears randomly in chat, and let me warm you up to this episode with how it all started. Roll it! As you know, we have been covering how easy it is to collaborate with other players in Albion Online, and today I will show you real content from the latest footage we've accumulated from the professional comedian Nine Bears. As you laugh today with Nine Bears, think of how you can use these techniques to meet people, join random guilds, try new games, and collaborate, use TeamSpeak, use Discord, use anything to do voice chats because this is where you're going to get the gems, this is where you will get content for your channel to entertain your audience. There's an unlimited amount of creativity out there. Have you already captured amazing or funny moments? Send us links to those down there in the comments below. But first, what are you watching? What is the fastest way to grow on YouTube? Collaboration. And HoboGlobin behind me demonstrated level 1 collaboration by leaving that comment with a link to his intro video. Do you want to get featured on the George show just like HoboGlobin? Click that i to learn all about the different levels of collaboration. And today we demonstrate level 5 collaboration which is talking to people on Discord or TeamSpeak, a voice communication. For all of you Freedom Family who've submitted a level 1 collaboration and haven't yet been featured, don't worry, we will feature all of you when we hit 200 million subscribers in the Freedom Family. Currently we're at 194.5. We gain a million subscribers every three days, so we're very close. Don't forget the bloopers at the end of this episode where you'll find even more to laugh about. Now let's see nine bears. Roll it! How many children do I have? Yes. I have none. I don't have any children. Oh okay what about how many parents do you have? I have two parents. Okay how many bears do they own? How many bears did my parents own? What kind of a question is that? That's a very personal question. Okay I don't feel comfortable answering this. How many cubs do they own? Well in Canada you're like legally entitled to three bears right like per person and then depending on how many dependent children you have you're entitled to one half of a bear but they don't actually sell half bears so you have to have two children to get another bear basically. Which is why in Canada it said like oh one child is kind of worthless it's better to have two because then you get a bear. So my parents my parents have right now they have one bear each and then those bears each have their own cub which we're trying to keep on the down low because you're not actually allowed to have your bears have cubs so in our in our attic we keep the cubs. What happens when it grows and just like falls to the floor because it weighs too much? Well yeah well we reinforce the we're not idiots like we're well educated here in Canada. I just can't believe your name is land bears. I can't. How can you believe it? Because it is. Really? Yes. Are you sure? This conversation isn't going anywhere I feel like this is... Why don't you name yourself like 90 bears or something? Ah because then that's like oh man that's too many bears man that's like a way to take care of. Well how do you manage nine like you know they're wilderness? Well like nine is like like think about like a tic-tac-toe board has nine bases right and this is like a completely arbitrary way of me justifying the number nine. That was really random that was really random. Okay all right um okay so what about a soda pop can like what if I was like 10 soda pops? 10 cans. 10 cans. Yeah 10 cans. That could be a rat name. So I know this is this is a really this is a really riveting conversation but I have an actual question. Wait how do we click avatars? Go to your own personal avatars. Oh I can change it? Yeah you didn't know that? I had no idea. Oh and I can put on my epic ring I didn't know that. You didn't know that? So I got some new avatars I'm gonna use those. Hope you enjoyed that show we will have a second show tomorrow where nine bears is asked to repeat the whole story to the next person who hasn't heard it yet and he doesn't even better job the second time around. How do you go from bears to blowjobs? I kind of lost. You know I kind of lost it too I'm just I'm it's a lot of history you know it's hard to it's hard to condense it all down to like a Cole's notes. Does this help you get ideas motivation to do the same for your channel? Tell us down there in the comments below so we can all help each other grow together that is the spirit of freedom we all help each other grow together as a family so click that i and partner with freedom to join this beautiful family so we can all grow together and if you liked this video click the like button down there so i know what kind of content you enjoy and subscribe to freedom central youtube.com slash freedom home of the george show who am i i am george ceo and founder of freedom for freedom and the freedom family and nine bears who's a very funny guy i am george and you've been watching well i think i'm more intimidating than nine bears and you know what you're you're intended to your opinion i'm not going to disagree with it you know like i don't know you personally i think ten salamanders are way better than nine bears yeah i agree salamanders are cool like they're like sneaky they like get around and you might be like covered in salamanders and you didn't even know it yeah very gotta watch out for that and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together so grow with us and partner with freedom that play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started


Hello my beautiful internet friends and welcome back. Today we're going to talk about a subject that does not necessarily paint me in the best light. I've hesitated to film this mostly because I've been like shoving down emotions. You know that thing I always tell us not to do, still working on it myself. But I thought it was kind of important to talk about especially because it's really been affecting my life and my mental health lately. So let's talk about jealousy. How that little green monster has been whispering to me lately. Before we dive in, it would mean a lot to me if you hit subscribe to this channel and like on this video. It helps my video get out to more people and it helps me get closer to 100,000 subscribers. A totally arbitrary number. That seems to mean a lot to me and I think it would be really cool to get to. So if you want to help me out with that, that would mean the world to me. But let's talk about jealousy. The first thing that you should know is that I am not a jealous person. Like at all. I never have been. It's never really been an issue. Even in like long-term relationships or my marriage with Brian, jealousy is not a problem for me in friendships. Jealousy is not an issue. I generally trust the people that I choose to spend my time with. I expect them to trust me and if any issues come up we talk through them. But the little green eyed monster has been paying me a visit the last seven months since my surgery but specifically in like the last couple months. And I hate admitting that because jealousy is not the quality I like. It's a quality that's like affected me a lot from other people. Like people being like jealous over me for different stuff in an unhealthy context. Yeah jealousy is just not something I like and now I'm realizing that it's coming out of me and I don't love that. But let me explain. So when I had my amputation seven months ago, I was given a certain timeline for things, right? So I put my story out on social media and then I was told like after my amputation within six to eight weeks should get fitted for a prosthetic. That happened but then issue after issue after issue arose. Then I had the surgery back in March to fix things then other issues arose and I'm still not able to use it even a little bit. Going back in hopefully this week or next to talk with more doctors get second opinions. But anyways back when I first had my amputation the weeks following that people came to me asking me for questions like for guidance for advice and I was like a source of support for people who had gone through it a couple weeks after I did. You know or like a month after I did or two months after I did as I was like taking the next steps on the journey and so I was able to talk people through it as I was taking that next step and as time has gone on those people have surpassed me. And let me just pause real quick and saying if you're one of those people chances are you probably know who you are zero animosity towards you at all like my happiness for your accomplishments is genuine is real but I'm also struggling hardcore with jealousy. Like for instance I have friends who have had legs amputated after me who are now running races with running legs which is like all I want to do and I have friends who are just even freaking going for a walk like just going for a walk in the evening or going to the gym and hopping on an elliptical or a treadmill to walk just walking at all you know and I'm sitting here using the eye walk which is a great tool but is nowhere literally nowhere near the kind of mobility that you get with a prosthetic a lot of people have asked me about that and I'll do a video on the future but there is no comparison there just is no comparison it's like being on crutches versus having two good legs and walking on them the eye walk is amazing I'd recommend it to anyone but I need a leg I need a leg to walk and I have no idea when that's in sight and I'm seeing these people that were behind me that used to ask me for advice I mean just so far ahead of me and the issues that they're facing are issues that I would love to have like issues that I would just love to be struggling with like not sure if they can you know make the next race or having some issues and then switching to a different fit and suddenly everything's like perfect magical works great and I see the posts on social media right and this is where I get really uncomfortable with myself because I see people's posts on social media and I have always been a really big advocate for it does not matter what anyone else is going through what you're facing is what you're facing so like the whole someone else has a worse argument is total crap because you need to face what you're going through and so I see people struggling with what they're going through with a leg and saying like this is really challenging as they're learning to run or learning to jog or like you know getting back into rowing or whatever it is and being like you know this is really different and difficult and challenging and I'm here like simmering at home being a total jerk in my head for brief moments being like I wish I had those problems like I wish I had those issues and just sinking and jealousy in moments and I hate that like I hate that and I legitimately from the bottom of my heart am so happy for them that is not fake I really want to stress that I really really want to stress that especially if anyone is watching this and knows who they are my joy for them is sincere but then there's this huge chunk of me that is also just like you know I just feel so stuck and left behind but for the first time in my life really like I'm dealing with having jealousy in my life and I've seen it like stop people before like like freeze people and turn them bitter and turn them into people who can't be happy for other people and I don't want that to happen and I'm gonna do my very best never to let that happen because I think we can be jealous and also thrilled like we can hold two emotions at the same time like I can be insanely jealous that someone is taking their first unassisted steps or was able to go a whole day wearing their prosthetic and also insanely happy for them and that's okay like we don't have to let one completely overtake us and I'm honestly not sure what to do with the jealousy I don't like it it's like my least favorite emotion to be honest with you I would like to banish it from my repertoire of human emotions but guess what we don't get to do that we do have to experience the things that are coming up for us so I'll do my best to face it and I'm curious if you guys deal with jealousy I know some people struggle with it more than other people I totally get that it's never been something that I've really had to face because I've always been just sort of more like go with the flow easy going but as I'm seeing so many people surpass me and lap me and like go so much further man I am turning green and I hate it yeah it's not it's not my favorite so let me know what you do to deal with jealousy in the comment section I would really love to hear from you I'd love to hear any tips and tricks that you guys have I know that my time will come I absolutely know that my time will come and I think something that's worth mentioning too is that I know that people probably feel that way about me too like people have probably seen videos that I made and been like oh I wish I could be at that place not knowing the whole story not knowing that like things are really fricking hard behind the scenes in that moment or whatever because what we put on social media is just a fraction of the truth and I know that's true for my friends too I know that sometimes they'll like post a post about something cool that they did with their leg and I'm like oh man I'm so jealous that's so cool and then I'll personally message me and they'll be like no man it was actually really really rough and really hard and really painful and here's what's really going on and so we only ever see fractions of what's really going on especially 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Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 1971 film a Bay of Blood and it's a giallo film Which if you watch enough of my channel know that this is one of my favorite subgenres of horror Just recently got into it though like a year plus ago And I love it. I think it's a great subgenre So let's get into a Bay of Blood which by the way is currently available on shutter streaming service when I'm doing this review and Since this is an older film there will be spoilers for this Directed by Mario Bava who did other films such as black sundae black Sabbath the whip in the body Blood and black lace planted the vampires kill baby kill Five dolls for an August moon hatch it for the honeymoon and the girl who knew too much Oh and shock a bunch of those films. I just named are available on shutter at the moment They dropped like seven Mario Bava films. So go ahead and check that out The only other Bava film other than a Bay of Blood that I've seen is blood and black lace, which I quite like The other thing that you need to know is if you're into giallo and you want to see more reviews of giallo films I have a playlist on my channel for giallo film reviews I will also be creating a playlist for Mario Bava film reviews So at the moment there are only two, but I'm gonna keep working on that. Don't worry This was written by Bava, but also just Giuseppe Vock, sorry Giuseppe Zoccarello Zoccarello who did the laughing woman and tough to kill and Filippo a Tony who did the big black Sour last touch of love and stray days That's just some because a lot of these Italian writers from back then did a lot a lot a lot of scripts and you could see It's very interesting. You can see how the trends Change with the writers because there's like all these war movies and Westerns and pirate movies and then there's the giallo film section and it's it's pretty interesting to look through their IMDb credits for that stuff So the story for this was provided in part by D'Artano Siketti who has a very long resume with Italian horror films specifically giallo and Has worked with all the big names in horror directing and by the way I read an interview with Siketti and he I read it recently in Rue Morgue magazine and he talked crap About a bunch of the directors except Mario Bava who he said he really enjoyed working with everyone else He had a complaint about not Mario Bava Siketti's written scripts or come up with stories for scripts such as the cat and nine tales Shock cannibals in the streets city of the living dead the beyond the house by the cemetery The New York Ripper the scorpion with two tails a blade in the dark Demons demons to demons three the ogre killer crocodile and killer crocodile two once again That's just some he has a huge resume that spans decades many I think five decades Maybe it's crazy and then Gianfranco Barberi also was involved in creating the story for this He's done some films such as emergency squad and shock. So There you go So the little girl in this film by the way, you know There's the boy and the girl who ended up being the murderers in the end Well, some of the murderers because there are a lot of people murdering in this Mainly just one family, but I'll talk about that later But the little girl in that her name is Nicoletta Elme And she actually went on to be in some other big films such as Baron blood, which was also a Mario Bava film Deep Red which was a Dario Argento film at Giala one which I love and I think might still be on shutter at the moment and Demons she's in demons when she's grown up. So she's the redhead. I think the only redhead in demons So it's interesting to kind of see her in all those films This is the film credited with starting slasher films kills from this were actually lifted directly from the film for the Friday the 13th Franchise I think throughout the first two Friday the 13th films there were some kills taken directly from a Bay of Blood and you can see that when you watch the film The most notable one being, you know, the spear through the couple having sex. That's very notable very very very notable The other thing that's interesting to note about the connection between a Bay of Blood and Friday the 13th Is that the note in the beginning of the film, which I wrote down what it says. Okay. Yeah So the countess's suicide note in the beginning of the film says Friday 13th. It is over. I am tired my life no longer has meaning and Friday 13th is in there. So yet another connection They probably took that directly from that film to call the first one Friday the 13th So I think it's just it's interesting to know and for historical purposes to be able to see where all the ideas and style came from for the Friday the 13th films and Slashers beyond that that were influenced by Friday the 13th Then it's just really cool to kind of see that and know where it originated The low budget for this film actually forced more Mario Bava to be his own cinematographer and He even used for the tracking shots a wagon He had the camera put in a wagon and would just pull it around for him That's kind of it's a theme with Mario Bava that he did a lot of low-budget films In fact my neighbor who's into Italian horror old Italian horror was informing me that Mario Bava When he was doing the film kill baby kill He actually ended up running out of money But the cast and crew all stayed on and worked for free because they liked him so much So it's a it's a theme also a theme with people like him No big surprise here. I feel like I say this a lot about the Italian horror films It hit the UK's video nasties list No big surprise there because they were very strict very puritanical Other titles for this film and there are quite a few alternate titles for this film I think this was the one this is a movie that has had the most alternate titles of like any film Ecology of crime chain reaction, which I believe it was released as chain reaction in Italy carnage Sorry twitch of the death nerve and blood bath.  It's a little too vague It's a little too Generic in my opinion The music in the beginning is very grand and romantic and then it ends up cutting to the countess being hanged Which I think is such a really cool abrupt contrast because the music is so like romantic and upbeat and flowery and interesting And and then all of a sudden it stops When she gets hanged and it's this kind of jarring shocking abrupt contrast between How you how you believe things were going based off the music and then what you're seeing in front of you with no music Forcing you to look at it forcing you to just internalize it and take it in and just be like Yeah, that happened because the other thing is you don't see it coming and that I love about the beginning of this Plus it just looks great. Let's talk about the fact that within the Residence of the countess it shot really well, you know The use of where the lighting is and where the shadows are looks amazing it just looks so so good and Bava has a lot of style, you know with all of his films He's very good with the style of things and camera work as well And I'll talk about one of my other favorite camera work moments a little bit later You don't see it coming that the killer would then get killed and especially so soon after killing the countess I think that's cool though because it sets the film up for being Unpredictable for you know being crazy because you assume if this happens so quick What else is gonna end up happening? It really gets sets this tone of everything is Possible with the film and I like that about it The guy chasing insects at the bay and the guy catching octopus have introductions that make them suspicious as they highlight killing things for enjoyment although they act there is a little bit of a differentiation there that is Simon Simone, I think is is the guy who's killing the octopus and Paolo Who is the guy catching insects because he has that insect collection? So I think it's one of those kind of small red herring small hints That's supposed to make you think that they might be killers Because the one guy is you know for the enjoyment of it going after bugs and killing them So maybe he could make the step to humans and then the other guy's killing octopus and then they end up having you know Butting heads over it as well. So There's a lot of those moments though where they have like these little things that would potentially indicate to the audience that This person could be the killer lots of little red herrings and I and that's a great thing about the film Because it really keeps you guessing until the end You I mean show me a person who really Picked up on what was really gonna happen in the end, you know, like it's so wacky It's so out of left field that I don't think anyone could have predicted that The film utilize is a lot of primitive sounding drums notice that and I think it works really well Because it also kind of you know goes to like a heartbeat type noise as well. I Like that about the film music in general is good, which you know a lot of Italian horror music is awesome There's a good job done early establishing the family tension that would lead you to suspect These people could end up going to a murder Length to get what they want They did such a good job of just the interpersonal relationships showing tension there showing some, you know Discussed with each other, but then also developing the story the backstory of you know People wanted to count as his property and then they eventually flesh it out too You know being very intricate where so many people wanted it, you know, it was the Countess that You know was her her suicide was set up Actually, I'm not gonna get into that right now because I think I wrote it down a little bit later And I would like do a little more succinct so my apologies on that The group breaking into the house are set up as thinking they can do anything they want Which is what makes their demise kind of less shocking It is kind of one of those things that obviously gets picked up for the Friday the 13th Franchise where you know these wild I don't know if their teens or they look like early 20s like college-age people Are coming to the property. They're you know breaking into the house. They're you know drinking they're dancing They're getting naked. They're gonna have sex, you know all this stuff so that You as a viewer see them as you know, they're kind of wild They're kind of not great people they're breaking some laws here so that when they end up getting killed You're not as much like oh, no, it's kind of more like well They weren't that innocent and obviously like I said, that's something that definitely moves to Friday the 13th I mean that whole franchise is you know if you do bad things you're gonna die So this is you know where that ended up starting When the women's skinny dipping finds the dead body There's a great shot that follows her out of the water when she eventually gets out at the dock There's a shot where it's like at the water level under the duck showing like Through the bottom of the dock where she is and as she gets up as she pulls herself up on the dock The camera moves up with her great camera movement great shot Just another one of those examples of the style of Baba that I love When that lady gets killed it is pretty gruesome when she gets it she gets her her throat cut and Just blood everywhere. You don't really see the level of gruesomeness If that's where you don't see the level of gruesomeness coming for that from that one But it's pretty gruesome especially if you look back now and you're like in 1971 it was that gruesome kind of shocking in my opinion the bill hook to the face which by the way, that's what that thing is that like curved kind of like Machete looking thing.  I wasn't expecting them to go that far with it, but I'm glad that they did The spear through the couple obviously a good scene obviously like I said grabbed for Friday the 13th but the thing you need to know is that Well, what I thought about it having already seen this film prior to watching it the most recent time it would take a lot of force to put that spear through the two people and I'm assuming that it's the kids killing Those people at that point because the way the film plays out is that they show you if it's not the kids killing Who's killing? But they don't show you if it's the kids killing so I'm assuming that it was the kids who killed that couple having sex With the spear which they would not be able to do because they wouldn't be strong enough to get that spear through two people I don't even think they'd have the strength to get it through one person. Honestly Notice how Palo's wife Anna can't find him right after you see the deaths of the the people partying That's misdirection then when he resurfaces he has some blood on his hand So once again more of these red herrings to get the audience going down that path to think well I think maybe it's Palo Palo did this he killed these people But they do that a bunch of times with different people which I love I love that keep us guessing keep leading Us down these paths Another red herring comes in the form of a illegitimate son that the Countess had who ends up being talked about Who said to have been kept feral?  I don't think they ever even meet the Or was Simon or Simone supposed to be the that illegitimate child, maybe I don't know Let me know in the comments All the talk of inheritance plans the seed plants the seed as the motive of the murders That is one of those things that they like to do a lot in giallo films where they focus so much on Something that they want you to think is the motive that it's you you start thinking well They're talking about it so much and they're hitting it so hard that this has got to be it Like it's got to be tied in to this motive somehow and in the end I mean it is to a degree because some of the people being killed it had to do with that and everything got Started because of that but ultimately the biggest mystery is who's killing the other people which was the little kids Which you know doesn't really have much of a reason to it and is very wacky for an ending The octopus on the face scene of the dead guy in the boat is a Outstanding visual. I love that when the like the tarp gets pulled back and it's just like writhing on the dead face Very good visual looks great So when we're not a stabs ventura She makes some comments about Albert about taking makes comments to Albert about taking care of things And he then goes and kills Palo This then moves the suspicion from the murders on to them once again another one of these now They're already killing like you see them killing But it moves the suspicion of the murders that you didn't see them Committing on to them saying I will maybe they they did those as well But obviously there's a reason that they don't show Who's doing it in certain instances and show it when they're doing it? And I don't know how many people when they're watching this film the first time have that thought we're like Well, why are they showing them killing some people but not showing them killing other people if that's who it is I Don't remember if I picked up on that or not the first time I watch it probably not but The shot of Anna kneeling near Ventura's body when she finds them with a slow camera rotation looks outstanding I love that. It's kind of like the shot from she's kneeling down It's like a shot from above to the side and then it like rotates around and then that's when it cuts to Anna getting her head locked off, which a you don't see coming and be looks great So that transition is so good And then the transition right after that after she gets her head locked off of the kids Dropping a doll head and it's shattering now. I think that's kind of a subtle clue like a subtle Wink from the filmmakers to say It's the kids who are doing this killing because a head just got locked off. They just dropped a head that broke But a lot of people probably just see it as oh, they're just going to the kids but When you really pay attention it also makes sense as that kind of wink of it's actually the kids because It then doesn't go anywhere with the kids like there's no real reason for them at that point to be showing what the kids are doing especially because The kids are barely shown in the film at all and obviously that's intentional Because I think they want people to forget about them for the most part But just kind of sprinkle them in enough that people will remember at the end. Oh, yeah, these kids actually exist Okay, it was them. So just saying Simon holds the bill hook when he ends up accusing Laura of her and Ventura offing the Countess Yet that ends up becoming another misdirection because someone was killed with the bill hook early on You know the bill hook to the face. I think it was also the bill hook that was used to slice the throat of that first girl So at that point, there's another red herring of well, why does Simon or Simone have the bill hook? Might maybe he's the killer. So it's yet another one of those misdirections So did Naughty Killed the Countess to inherit the property and then sell it to Ventura. That was the plan So you finally get that payoff towards the end of the film of knowing about the events in the beginning of the film with the Countess being you know her her suicide being set up And yeah, did Naughty wanted the property and then he was gonna sell to Ventura and it's this whole Conspiracy of these people who just want the property and Then that makes you think even more up until that point. Okay. Well, this is all Because of this property. It's a Bay of Blood. I Like the shot of some of Simone hanging on the wall with the spear through him not just because it looks good and But because of the way they kind of frame the shot the way they light it with the shadows and the light at play and how far back they have the shot especially with He's like kind of rigid for a little bit and then he slumps on it. I like the little slump It's a nice little touch Because I think that's supposed to indicate the moment that he actually dies because prior to that he you know was skewered onto the wall and It looks like maybe he's dead, but you know for sure like when the actual slump ends up happening Great use of silence in this film when Albert's in the dark And he has that lit match that he's walking around with and he's hearing things because someone's there I love that moment It really heightens that that sense of Tension that sense of dread that's going on and you know if you watch enough of my review videos You know that I'm big with a good use of silence in films The end is pretty wacky when the kids end up shooting their parents Especially after they run to the bay to play and there's this crazy weird upbeat music playing It's kind of like this ending of yay and now everything's great but I think that was supposed to kind of reflect the Mental state of these children because they do make comments to each other about playing a game basically Saying that I think the girl says the boy see I told you mom and dad are good at playing dead So that indicates to you not only were they the ones killing and that's why they weren't actually showing who was killing Some of those people but they also thought it was a game and maybe that had something to do with their parents Because that's who that was, you know the two people who were trying to off other people or Renata and What's the name to naughty? Oh Albert? Sorry Renata and Albert were trying to off family members so that they could inherit the property and That those kids were their kids. So it's kind of this thing of Killing in the family. The other thing to note is to naughty the man who Killed the Countess and made it look like she committed a suicide Was Renata's father. So it's an entire family lineage of murderers Ending with the kids so I don't know if that that's kind of a comment of you know a murdering gene being in the family Which is also used in another giallo film I think by her was it cat and I tails and may have been cat and I tails by Dario Argento One of Dario Argento's giallo films So it was a thought back then in Italy that I guess Jeans could dictate who kills potentially So maybe that's where they were going with this or maybe it was a situation where it's kind of like a the kids Knew that their parents were doing this because they heard them talk about it or they saw them Killing people or whatever so that they decided to get in on it and to them it was some sort of game Because the kids pretty much everything's a game so but it's a wacky ending It's really weird. Like I said most people should not see it coming. I don't think anyone should really see it coming, but you know So once again the way all the kills are shot They focus just on the weapons and work to make it hard for people to tell what angle it's coming from That's another thing and that ends up Helping in hiding the identity of who the killers are which is the kids Because if you showed if you you know intentionally show like the actual angle of people getting killed from It could give away that it's someone much shorter that it would be these kids So notice when you're watching it that they they really crop it So it's mainly just on the weapon and then it shows, you know, the person getting killed the aftermath of it So they had to be very careful about that to not give it away and Yeah, I believe that's that's kind of all I have to say about a Bay of Blood. I do enjoy this film I don't think it's a phenomenal film. I think what I read is that it actually did not do well in Italy But in other countries it actually did do pretty well You know, I think the United States was where it probably did the best per my reading So yeah, but when you look at it from the standpoint of like In the pantheon of film like yeah, it's got some problems for sure and that ending is just like what? But it's fun. I quite like it. So out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm gonna give this one a Can't quite go four stars. I think it's so fun though. Like the kills are so good I'm between three and a half and four if you can't tell I'm going for I'm gonna go for I was thinking about three and a half But no the kills are so interesting. It's a fun film. I'm going four stars on this one So let me let me know your thoughts on this go ahead and put some comments down there Do you love it? Do you hate it? Are you in between? Have you not seen it in which case? 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