Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 136 - Funko Pop Guys with Jane Ost

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

 This week on Guys we talked with our friend Jane Ost from Batting Around on the show to talk about a new group collectors, Funko Pop Guys. We have a Funko rant guy who is very mad. How would the Funko collector advise the CEO of Funko? Why do people hate them? How has Funko hit a new low? There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashowand I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys. I am your host, Brian, and with me is my co-host. wait you're not even going to say my name that's your name i you asked me which i thought was odd and i should have known you said hey how would you like me to introduce you uh chris and i said just nicely just in a nice way and uh that was that's what you're like this chris think about it like this you know how much people love the reverb fart yeah yeah i guess i guess i guess like one of the most popular farts i mean and there are a lot of people that don't like farts at all no i could have you could have used a worst fart definitely you could have used an indian blaster

you could have used a nasty indian blaster you could have used one of the farttologists bath farts uh the really nasty long bath farts and so yeah you did you gave me a respectable fart and i guess i appreciate that and our host this week our host been on here before Fuck me Are you What was that That wasn't Okay

Jane Looks like You're running the show This week All right We're doing Warhammer guys too What the fuck

Did that What happened There and our guest this week Jane Aust Hi Jane Hi Brian And

Echooy fart I'm happy to be here Yeah reverb fart Happy to be here Yeah reverb fart happy to be here um so uh you're a perfect choice for this and and okay you're one of the reasons i picked this episode was because we're having you because you do warhammer you're a warm hammer person a warm hammer i said okay this is getting under and and i listen i say used to

collect legos that's how i'm going to say uh so i wanted to collect it's like the Mitch you know the Mitch Hedberg joke that's he means it in that way he's like yeah I used to collect Legos I still do but I used to as well yeah well I only have two sets so cut it out but anyway I collect Legos and Chris as far as I know doesn't collect anything right you don't collect anything well I don't I guess baseball like

sports cards I still kind of do collect but no I used to collect sports cards heavy duty and i used to collect candles in a weird way not it like there was just a brand of candle that i really liked and you could you could only like they were at winners which is marshals kind of place and so they would just pop up when they popped up so like you could i couldn't yeah and i just mean no i would be searching for certain i'd be like holy fuck there's that scent like shit that's a nice ass scent you know and i would get really excited about it because they just kind of came as they came and it felt like a collecting kind of thing and that was the last time i was younger i would do that with

like Bick lighters, I'd be like, oh, they have pink ones in the gas station. Yeah, totally. It's just being a collector. I realize, like some people just have that and some people don't. And so every now and then I'll notice where it's just kind of seeping out of me a little bit, that collector thing. But yeah, I don't do it the way that you do it actively still, Brian. Well, the funny thing about me is now I am so used to the way of life before.

I did what I did Yeah That like when a new Lego set gets announced I got my It's like you know how when somebody's like Oh I took too much drugs I'm going to dial 9 1 on my phone And then if I feel like I'm dying

I'll just press 1 and the ambulance will get here Mm-hmm You ever do that? No I know the concept But I haven't done it myself But I do that with my credit card number I'm like

It goes to The CVV code, the three digits, and it's like, what? Like, I'll type the first two numbers and be like, no. And I'll close the window out, not buy it. And I'm trying to understand here. Do you think that you, but you're saying because you're, you, you had little money and you weren't able to do it and you're still in that mindset or you're like, I'm trying to figure out if you think this is good or bad that you're not.

No, I don't want to have a bunch of Lego. My, my point is has, this has nothing to do with money for me. I don't want a bunch of LEGOs. And I've read that a lot with these Funko guys, too, where they're kind of like, they take up a lot of room. And you don't realize how much room something like this takes up until you have too much. You know what I mean? Yeah, funcos are big. They're like, it's not a small doll and they have them in the box or whatever.

And it's like, yeah, once you get more than sort of 25, 30 of them, you're looking at a storage issue for sure. You need special shelves at that point. Yeah. Yeah. And you don't even notice until you're there. Because that's what it was with the Legos. Like, I look at, because, you know, I can go back through, I had to go back through and delete a bunch of our old videos on Streamyard because we're running out of room.

And some of them, I think, were from the old apartment. The Lego era. And I look at that. Where you were building a Lego town behind you. And that was not a long time ago. That was very recent. Yeah. But it was so, it looks like a lot.

when you see it now i remember you used to always be like i know you'll notice there's a lot i'm like it's not really that much but it really was like three quarters of the room was it was a lot i'm glad that you're willing to admit that i was right when i would tell the guests that there's i noticed there's a you're going to notice there's a lot of lego behind yeah it was i mean it was you were putting together a town but also even without the town the town took up an incredible amount of space but then i also had the shelf behind me that was full of them and then you're like oh well I guess that's his office he loves legos but the there was a titanic at my bedroom there were like legos all over my living room

and it was just like there was so much of them and I didn't know it was coming until like till it was there and so when I got rid of all of them which was hard to do I realized like you cannot let this happen again you know what I mean you have to not do this anymore so what What I was saying is the sets come out and every month I look at the set I would have bought six months ago. You know what I mean? No questions asked. And I'm like, don't fucking do it.

Do not do it. They're not going to run out of them because that's what my big worry was that they were going to run out of sets. Well, that's what all these companies do is they have this FOMO that they try to impart on you. And like, you know, you said I'm here because of like Warhammer and Games Workshop who makes that like they absolutely do that with all of their stuff too where they have like a limited run of it will come out and the scalpers will buy it all up and so everybody freaks out about everything

and every new release people will just jump on no matter what like i mean i've fallen prey to it for sure where i'm like i don't like i get like by the time it gets to me i'm like i don't even fucking want this like i'm never going to build this i'm never going to use this i do have to correct you jane it's games woke shop they are games woke shop yeah Yeah. I didn't know that they, I didn't know that they changed their name. Well, it's not official, but that's what we're all called me and the Warhammer community. Me and the conservative Warhammer community are saying like, oh, it's games workshop.

And they did just do a cracker barrel-esque change of their logo to a simpler logo. Is what is what does Cavill have to say about it? I have no idea. I'll tell you what. On the bonus episode, we'll look into Cavill. Okay, we'll find out what Cavill's feeling. Yeah, I want to know what he's saying, because I haven't heard him talk recently about Warham. You know he's still playing.

Yeah, and I challenged him recently to a charity game. Yeah. I recently very publicly challenged Henry Cavill to a charity game of Warhammer. I invited him to my wedding, you know. It's like to show up. It'll be chill. Yeah, I like Warhammer. Why wouldn't you come to my wedding?

You also like Warhammer. We'll play Warhammer at the wedding. My wife said I could if you come. I went to Quora and here's a question that Kyle answered. What's the point of Funko Pops? Good question. Great question to ask right at being a show. There's really no point to them other than being toys.

If you're young or just a fun collectible, they've been around for a year. So it's not exactly a fad any longer. But. I mean, it was. Well, it's kind of a fad, right? Yes, I don't think they're as popular as they were. But I'll also say that a fad, because the things he names, right, he is like, but just like Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Barbie Star Wars figures, there's something for all ages

to enjoy and collect. So some of those, like Barbie, like, I don't think Beanie Babies, Cabbage, Patch Kids, Barbie and Star Wars are the same thing. I think two of those are the same and then two of the other ones are the same. And I think everyone knows what they are. but you can't really put them together. Yeah, two of them are like two of the most successful franchises and then two of them are sort of obsolete fad type things, right?

And I think, I personally think Funko Pops falls into the Cabbage Patch Kids Beanie Babies. But you can't really say yet. Time will tell them. They've been around a pretty long time. Yeah, they've been around. I feel like I don't know what the numbers are, but just for me personally, I feel like that they've stuck around longer. than maybe like, although, wait,

Beanie babies are still around as well, by the way. They still do sell them, yeah. Yeah, Beanie babies are huge. Any gift shop you go to is going to have a beanie baby. They've had resurgence too. Yeah, yeah. So I feel like maybe that's not, and I don't know about cabbage patch dolls.

I don't know. I think they maybe are like, like, uh, kind of. I don't think they still make those. But if they do make them, there's probably some special edition. Yeah. Like Mattel will do these like special edition for adults. toys that are like times 10 cost you know what I mean I think it's Mattel they make they'll

they'll make like a he man figure oh my god I got to get some of those yeah because yeah it's they don't have to mass produce them for kids it's specifically aimed at like you know elder millennials younger gen X people that have some disposable income that that are chasing that nostalgia hit like it's fucking heroin they call them 10 times price they call them 10 times price I got to get my hands on some of those 10 times price ones like people Just don't even. I need a $290 cabbage patch, yeah. Chris,

they fucking crowd fund them. Mattel. Yeah. Crowdfunds action figures for grownups, like Kickstarter, basically. So they'll be like, if, you know, here's our goal. If we meet that goal, we'll send you this custom Skeletor. And they generally always meet the goal, you know, because it's easy to meet the goal if you're Mattel. Yeah.

I feel like these. these are like a full on just collect they're one of these things that are just a collector thing um funcops nothing to do with them there's nothing there's nothing else it is it is strictly the collecting thing that they're keying in on that the people like me who are like hey i want to get a bunch of different versions of this one thing or whatever and like cool ones or that's all that it is and you're just you're not there's no other purpose to it at all right when you like with your Legos, Brian, like, you at least had the pleasure of sitting down and building with them. You, you know, you theoretically could do your own builds. They have a whole lot of,

like, potential there. With my, like, Warhammer stuff, like, I don't even really see them as, like, a collectible thing at all. I like the hobby of, yeah, I see them as game pieces. Yeah. And then a hobby to, like, you know, do the painting, do all of that stuff. Like, that's where I drive my pleasure from them. Like, I have a couple of models. that are sitting out like on the shelf behind me and stuff but that's mostly just like the storage issue sort of thing like I keep my like armies and stuff in boxes ready to either be stored or transported to games like punko pops it's it's nothing but like I'm putting this on the fucking wall and it's dead little beady shark eyes are going to just stare at me and watch

me do everything it's about getting it that's it yeah it's about getting it I mean and not to say like I'm I'm that much better than the I'm going to pop people because I definitely get that dopamine hit when I hit order on something or when it shows up but like I don't know at least it fucking does something for me right you're doing something with it and that was

one of the reasons I got rid of all the Legos was like you put them together and you look at them and you're like okay like yeah what am I supposed to do with that you like building it you're a builder we've talked about you're a builder you're a well-known builder and you know a well-known leftist but but

I'm a prominent leftist for sure Jane, I said when we did the Warhammer episode, that's what I said. The painting of them would interest me, you know? Like you could make cool-ass fucking things. Like that's something artistic that you're doing and fun and enjoyable. And yeah, I just do wonder, I guess maybe it's for people they don't have time to do the other side of it. Because I just wonder, like, if you are wanting to be a collector, what would be the allure of something like a Funko Pop? When you could collect something else that you could get that same pleasure from, but also have like another thing where

They're, like, good for something else. I mean, but then also with Warhammer, like, it comes in a box and it's on these little, you know, plastic sprues like this. So you have to cut it all off. It doesn't look cool immediately when you get it. It takes a lot of work for it to actually look cool. And so, like, there's some delayed gratification there. And, like, Funko Pop is just like, yep, there's your Deadpool. Something that's what Brian would get.

Something that I found interesting. and this conversation happens every few days on R slash Funko pops and it is Funko lost $41 million in a brutal second quarter and it's an article about Funko losing money. So what then they start doing is this is how Funko can get back on top. So they're helping the Funko business? Like they spend a lot of time with this okay. Like every few days

it's like oh the stock's down what are we going to do here about this they love this thing so much that they are concerned about it going away and so they're like willing to take business classes and things like that to help out i guess i'm just i'm surprised that it's its own company that it's not like a subsidiary of some like huge toy manufacturer or something well this person goes one thing people are missing is that they made a hundred ninety four million in sales in the second quarter demand is there people want funcos They don't do $194 million in sales if people don't like them. Mind you, $194 million in sales is from April to June 3 months of sales.

Their expenses are high, way too high. And that's what's killing them. They get a... Why do they know their expenses just out of curiosity? Like, I don't know the expenses. There's some businesses where I really like their products or whatever, but I've never looked into their... I'm going to check out their earnings reports. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, how do they... Every quarter I'm there. why do you know this information i don't think they do by the way yeah i don't actually think they know the information i think it's a guess where they're like well how could they lose money if they made 194 million and so and by the way how fuck do you know they made a hundred ninety four million in sales in three months yeah that's what i mean how do they know any of it is it all like the numbers must be coming from somewhere there was like some sort of yeah it's a publicly

traded company you can look up their earnings reports and stuff like it's like these people have looked up there's some of these people have gone to the earnings reports and looked up uh and crunch some numbers they'll buy they'll buy shares so they can sit in on the the meetings and stuff yeah he goes they did 194 million and spent 235 million they need to figure out how to lower cost tariffs is a big one now i want you to know that tariffs is not a popular subject in the funco pop they want they want the funcop company to put tariffs on another or they they don't they okay so when somebody brings up tariffs it's it's very obviously an anti-trump thing like yeah pro-trump people don't bring up the tariffs you know what i mean they're just like position for

them currently so they don't like to bring it like with normal people who are you know feeling the effects of it or whatever yeah right so when somebody brings up tariffs it then turns the thread political immediately because the conservative funco pop collectors which is a crazy thing to say oh republican funco pop collectors actually i mean did they have conservative like do they like i don't know do they have politics like is there a trump one trump funk oh Pop or whatever. I don't know if there's a Trump one, but somebody did, and we'll get to it. They did that thing, Chris, that Tom and Bunny did on their post that you got, have my family.

They said, I bought my favorite political candidate one, but didn't name who it was. And it's like, well, that's Trump. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, okay. I just found this on eBay. Signed by Trump, Funko Pop vinyl, Public Domain, Donald Trump, number two. currently you buy it now for $6,500 or best offer. So, you know, maybe you can talk them down a little bit on that $6,500.

I'll give you $5,500 for the Trump Funko right now. For this public domain, Trump Funko, yeah. Here's a strange one for you, too, this person's idea. Imagine if all the money charged on a secondary market actually went to Funco. the only way the only way for me to buy some of the NFT pops by the way still doing NFTs

Funko is still doing NFTs It's a large part of their business I thought those were going to go away So I appreciate some people are still keeping that alive You know some people like it You might not like it But some people like it and why shouldn't they get to buy them That's culture. That's what's going in the Smithsonian these days

You know You will love this The Funco NFT thing is the NFTs go on sale and a certain number of those NFTs are tokens that you can turn in to get a real product. Okay. So a real pop. So a thousand people might buy an NFT and a hundred of those people might get a real actual pop. the rest of them just have the NFT they're just set

man we're inventing such like horrible new forms of gambling all the time most stuff is gambling now most stuff does feel like gambling now it's to the crux the economy at this point it's awesome what is like I really didn't know

that NFTs were still around I thought that I thought NFTs were run out of town like fully that was 2022 like we're still going this post is from 21 days ago so they are still doing they do it on a website called drop

D-R-O-P-P-P-P-P you can get your Funko NFTs on drop When were Funko's really big What was the like mid-2010? Yeah 2015 or something like that I remember I was in Los Angeles Trump 1 era I would say

Yeah The Funko's really big. I remember being in, I used to go to Los Angeles quite a bit, a lot more than, you know, highest representation on the podcast of time there, whatever, it doesn't matter. But I was walking down like Hollywood Boulevard or something, you know, like a really, and there was this huge like premiere going on with like a red carpet and all these like cameras and media and stuff. And I was like, we were like, oh, holy shit. like what's going on as a movie it was a fucking opening of the funco pop store we're going to read reviews

of the funco pop store a little later on Hollywood Boulevard most disappointing fucking premiere like you're in Hollywood I'm like ooh who are you going to see there it's a fucking funco pop store this person goes

I got the Deadpool Cthuloo it was only 2,000 points to get early access that's another genius thing that these companies do because i did that with lego chris has heard me talk about it i was like well i used a lot of points yeah you have to spend money to get the points the points aren't oh we know bry i know well people he goes also it was fifty dollars i didn't want to spend that much

but it's going the dark deadpool cathulu and that was my birthday month so i said a happy early birthday to me birthday month oh i didn't even know it was your birthday month i'm a cute little birthday boy it's my birthday, but honestly, it really makes me, like, it's like, oh, I actually didn't want to spend this money on it. Like, I recognized it was too expensive for what it was, but it's this, like, it was, you could feel the whole thing of, like, being, like, addicted to collecting these things, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, hey, you have one opportunity to get it right now. And if you, and if you don't do this, you'll be on your deathbed going, I wish I got that glow in the dark, Kthuloo, Deadpool, Funko Pop. I mean, it's glow in the dark. It's glow in the dark.

So a lot of the other ones, when you turn the lights off, you don't see them anymore versus with this one, you can still see it when it's dark. And that's nice because you want to be able to see your funco pop. He makes sure the other pops don't get scared at night. Of course. Thank you, Jane. Think about the other pops who might be afraid of the dark.

Dan O'Sullivan sent me this video. It's a rant by a funco pop guy. This guy is wearing so for anyone, he's got, he's wearing one of my favorite things you can wear, which is a button. down sports logo shirt as if you are, yeah, like a polo, New York Yankees

shirt, it's as if he's sort of like maybe in the front office or he works with the team. This is, there's, the most I've ever been made fun of. I may have mentioned this on the, by my friends, was wearing a Vancouver Canucks shirt like this, watching a hockey game

like at a bar or whatever. And God damn it did my friends ever give it to me after that for a month afterwards? You know, like, hey, look, it's the, it's the fucking it's the executive assistant here they would not let me hear the end of it all right here we go

I have a rant here I want to get off my chest and I want to apologize in advance for the language that you're going to hear I'm not bleeping this out either this is going to be unedited because I am fucking fed up with something and I'm trying to get up are we going to have to believe it Brian

we will it's not that it's we're not going to have to bleep this okay because jane sometimes we have we have a series of rant guys that we play uh chris's rant of the week i went and found all the best ranters on youtube unfortunately a lot of them we we have to actually believe this show like this show on patreon

they say stuff that is so incredibly over the top that we have to actually bring out the beeps for it which is yeah pretty wild the um occasionally when i'm listen to the show. The old classic rock guys, I think, are my favorite, like, recurring characters. Oh, Nolan, baby. It might have been a while. Yeah, I think that's, that's the one I'm thinking of him. Yeah, he's the guy. He has, he has a whole, like, gaggle of, he kind of has, like, a whole group around him or whatever. He has, he has his Rogan mothership of, yeah, he has, he has, he basically has a, the Rogan sphere of classic rock guys. There's Brit, what, what's the, what's

Novos Nick, there's Royce, there's, uh, Canadian Hitler. Canadian Hitler. Uh, awesome. That's not his real name to have. That's not his real name. We gave him that name. Storm cop. Storm cop 555 is part of the group. His real name, Canadian Hitler's real name is Chris Elliott, like the actor. Wow. So we had to do something to separate. Yeah, yeah. And he had to add the mustache. That's why he had shaved it. I got the kid messed up his mustache one week, and he gave too much on either side. Awesome. I see what you guys thought.

If you agreed with me or if I'm just totally out of line, let me know. But I want to say, fuck you, Funko. Go fuck yourself. I cannot stand that I am addicted to buying Funko Pops, because I think the company Funko is one of the worst companies out there. okay well that's rough man it's a lot of waste it's a lot of waste but i don't think funco is one of the worst companies like you know volunteer or whatever like you know do they have uh child slaves or anything like yeah that's possible but still there could be funco pop that squad

somewhere i mean there might be yeah i mean who knows how they're being made but yeah i mean there's just some companies who are i think there's got to be companies worse than the a funicle for sure i would guess that his reasoning for somebody being an evil company is way different from my idea of what an evil company is you know what i mean uh like morals in this well they didn't make enough g-i joes is not like really something i'm going to get mad about but you think you might have a different view of the world than this guy who has a new york yankees a headrest on his uh car as well and a car seat back there a car seat point out, yeah.

New York Yankees headrest on his parzee. How did this guy reproduce? Like, he's got the, he's got the Yankees polo. He's got, I imagine, a wall full of Funko Pops. I mean, that's just. And every, and Yankees stuff. You know, like, you know, it's just like, being a, I'm a sports fan and I feel for Ariel sometimes, you know, because I'm really obsessed with watching Manchester United

and the white cats. But they play once, maybe twice a week. Yeah. Same as football, right? If you're a fucking baseball fan and you live with a hardcore baseball fan like this, they are playing every single day, 162 games in a season. It goes on forever. It must be fucking brutal unless you don't want to spend any time with your partner.

Which this guy here. They continue to have these exclusive items that they know that their collectors want to find and they make deals with these stupid ass companies that don't even know what a funco pop is. first we had Walgreens that never seemed I love the idea of like this company they don't even understand

like the concept of a funco pop yeah I like I love that he's pissed off about them making a Walgreens funkop it's like do you have to buy that

did they make you buy that that's part of what he's saying is yes he does I'm addicted to buying funcos to the degree that I need to have the Walgreens promotional funco

Won't you understand that my addiction is so severe? McDonald's and get the like, like, uh, like, Eternal's toy out of it or some shit. Like, come on,

man. He wants him to like, he wants them to, because he knows he's going to have to buy everyone, Jane. So he's trying to say that like, can you at least stop making such shit ones? Because I got,

I'm going to buy him no matter what. Let's give me some good ones that I like. I'm sick of being so rare. You've got the needle in my arm. Like, please stop just up in it. Yeah. And it's funny to think that in his mind, Walgreens does a deal with Funko and the president of Walgreens is like, now I need everybody to learn everything they can learn about Funko pops from the top to the bottom of this chain.

We got to open up a Funko division, obviously. We need to start hiring some people. We'll get some people from the Funko. We'll get a couple of people that come in and consult. Yeah, that's what this guy wants to. understands nothing about the corporate values of Funko. What is there to understand about Funko pops exactly? Hey, there's more.

To carry any of the awesome exclusives they get from Funko. Not only do they never carry them, but I went to every Walgreens on Long Island and about half of them on Staten Island. And not one, I'm sorry, one person out of all those stores. Okay. Okay, wait, so it's not a wall. So he's, he's, there's, not Walgreens. It's about buying them there. It's about buying them at Walgreens.

So he says that they sell some of them, just like most stores do, right? Like we talk about, let me, Funko does a deal with Walgreens. Yes, you're right about it. Funko does a deal with Walgreens to sell Funko pops there. And then so in your mind, you're like, well, this new, you know, whatever, this new Captain America, Sasquatch pop came out. only at Walgreens is that what he's mad about either that I can't really figure out it's either that or it's that Walgreens just doesn't have any pops on the on the shell but I'm not stocking the

pops like he's not he's he's really yeah he's not really made it that clear unless we missed something but yeah it seems like he's mad at Walgreen about because Walgreens because he can't get his funco pops at Walgreens you can't even get fucking deodorant at Walgreens why are you trying to get your fucking toys there man like yeah that is fair One person knew what the fuck I was talking about. Oh, Oh, no, no, no, no, sorry. This guy's going around to stores like,

you understand Funkal Pups are exclusive and all these like fucking, you know, these like retail workers are just like, I'm not sure what you're talking about, man. Just menacing. I am in the fishing, you know, I work in the meats, you know. I take pictures. I take passport pictures. So, you don't know about the Funker.

menacing these minimum wage retail workers because they don't know enough about his toys fuck oh my god let's uh we'll come back to this in a little bit like we do uh i want to i want to close this and show you guys some graffiti that was posted on r slash funco pop uh so uh there is a it says funco pops and it has a circle with the line

then no funco pops I mean, it is kind of one of those classic things to hate, or it was at one point, right? Because it was such a big fad and then they were so stupid and everyone was like, what are these stupid things? And so it became kind of cool to hate on, like, make fun of them, right? It's a lot of waste, man. You know what I mean? Reddit and stuff, though, like. Yeah.

I just think it's a lot of waste. It's so much plastic, you know? I mean, you collect Lego, man. I know. Believe me. But Lego, again, and they're, I'm building something. No, I know, but you're not, I mean, listen, you're doing something,

but you're, let's not, you're not, you're not building something. You know what I'm saying? You're doing a little goof around too and making a toy or whatever. So it's all, yeah, I'm not trying to, it is a different hobby, but it's all just a waste of a bunch of plastic that's getting dumped into it. It is, it is a lot of unnecessary waste, but I don't know, we're pretty famous for that, just human beings in general, you know. This guy goes, I wonder why.

those people hate fun cop so much which is a cute oh person replies it goes some people ramble on and on about consumerism which who cares if they want to live minimally go for it not everyone

wants to live some utilitarian bland recycled life I think there's a middle crowd yeah like I don't think you have to be out there collecting all the funco pops and you can still live a non like what you know I don't think you have to be doing you either have to be

Yankees polo guy or you have to be a monk living your life of asceticism, yeah. You're either Yankees polo guy or you're a fregan. Yeah. That, like, you lives in a house made out of like cow shit or something.

I do think, I will say this too. To act like this is some fucking form of like great art, it just they all look the fucking same. It's just as utilitarian. Yeah, it's bored.

As anything else. Again, it's like, to me, it's, I don't know. Do people really like the way they look? Is there, is there like a, did you find people who are like talking about how they like them in any way other than you did? Okay. So because others are creeped out by the black eyes. I guess they find them soulless. I think they're cute.

Who knows? People just like to hate something. Okay. So they are saying they think that they're cute or whatever. But they can't think that they're the cutest thing, right? That you can collect. not and this guy goes whatever city it is must be a fucking dumped shithole full of asshole cock suckers i love funco pops hell yeah it's cool it's cool that to see that funkal bob like they have some people

in their ranks that are just like fucking just pieces of shit turns you into al swearing gin like yeah yeah it's you so mad i love anger in that way but i picture them as being kind of like a you know the kind of like the people collecting funco pops being like hey man don't be so mean it's nice to know that some of them are like hey fuck you you fuck a piece of shit motherfucker and then this last guy this is one of the things that I read a lot and I might not have very many more ooh very many more posts but this guy goes they spelled la boo boo boo wrong see I was gonna I was gonna bring up LeBubu, like, because I, I've only, like, really found out what those are through osmosis. Like, I have put in no effort on my own to learn what they are, but, like, I've seen them now.

And, like, with Funkos, they have just no expression, the little black eyes. Like, I don't know, the booboos at least have, like, you know, big cute eyes and the devilish little look on their face and smile and stuff. Like, there's at least some personality there. Well, I'll say this, too, and Chris is probably going to give me grief for this, but I'm just going to say it anyway. I get push notifications from stock X every day about Laboubu, and that's how I know that Labubu exists and what it is.

And I got to tell you, it's very expensive. And I don't want to hear why do I have push notifications from stock X? What if something comes out that I want and I want to buy it? Yeah, what if there's like a, yeah, what if there's like a Lincoln Park X, you know fucking limp biscuit leg this guy goes oh god and he posts a picture of the skibbity toilet funco pop okay you want to see the skibbity toilet funco pop yeah i was just about to look it up yeah yeah you can't just say that and i need to see it yeah uh so here's the skibbity toilet funco pop it's kind of i wish it was a better like it's a picture taken you know what i mean so he's like

There's reflection it. You can't really see it that well. It's a funco face coming out of a toilet. Yeah. Hmm. Really all it is. Uh, but I'm going to tell you something. These guys, this guy goes, the fact that this exists over actual half-life funcos upsets me.

What do you mean over them? Yeah, they did skimby any toilet instead of the, uh, instead of half-life ones. But he said instead of some half-life ones, right? So presumably there is some, but just not the ones that he's looking for. Which says actual half-life funco, so I think it's because they haven't done a half-life collection, but they've done skibbitty toilet. Yeah, like, yeah, signs of the apocalypse. Yeah, we've got a skibbity toilet funco before the half-life was. Yeah, me, things were careening into a, foof.

This person goes, and they can't go for good franchises, like American Dad. I agree with that one. I like American Dad. I love American Dad. Thank you, Jania. I've talked about it on here and love American Dad. Love Roger. Roger's one of the best characters. We know, we're not... Clear icon. Yeah, we're not... This is known. This is known, I think. People love American Dad. I think they know it's really funny. Yeah, like, I quit playing Magic the Gathering last year and I'm like, I'm done with this.

Because, like, they're like, all the news, like, half of the new sets are going to be, like, Final Fantasy or Spider-Man or, like, some other thing. And, like, I, and I've said the only way they could get me back is, they're like, all right, there's an American dad set. I'll be like, I'm in. I'm so. This guy says, or Mario, Mario Funkos would easily be a license to print money. Yeah, but I think.

Not understanding licensing. You literally say license in the actual comment and you don't see that. I think the licensing, I'm sure they, I don't think the Funko Corporation has ever looked into the Super Mario Brothers IP. Yeah, somebody reading this being like, holy fuck yeah this is the mario brother luigi right holy fuck i bet they've looked into it you know the movie the movie is based on a video game you're telling me okay the CEO sees this and he calls

everybody into the office and is pounding on a table why don't we have Mario why how did that slip through the fucking cracks people this guy goes i asked the guy in the store what this was supposed to be and he said someone made some stupid video and now some stupid kids say this stupid thing all the time and I said you deserve a race this fucking comic book shop guy from the citizens you know like just this like old fucking yeah like and then he just encountered his like you know his brother in there in that moment where he's just like he's probably said that to a bunch of people and most of them like yeah whatever you old freak and then this guy is like yeah you deserve a raise like that is kind of again

it's nice they sound like people i would hate but it's nice that they found each other in that moment he called the manager later on and said i'd like to uh tell you about this employee you have who is just above and beyond and then he's just like oh that guy oh that oh sorry that's actually my that's my sister that's my brother-in-law and like he's like a really big problem in our family and he he lives in our basement and he's mad about this guy goes uh funco pop hit a new low next guy goes this is why they're failing so they're i mean skimity toilets one of the reasons why they're failing well no i think it's actually the the cost are too high right i think they're spending like 50 billion dollars more than they're bringing in i think that's probably yeah and so

unless they're spending according to the earnings report the quarterly earnings report yeah you got you're going to love this next comment then seeing this should make any investor look into shorting funco the company's going down but hey it may be picked up by Mattel for cheap so this guy's going Jordan Belford on this ass let's short this fucking place I went in the store I saw a skibbitty toilet and I said yeah no more on on the on the phone with your accountant like yeah no it's a skibbitty look up skibbitty toilet yeah how do we can stop this yeah can we kill this company and punish them for what they've done with the honorable funkopop brand yeah no shit it's just like they've gone woke they need to go broke yeah i mean honestly think about some of them

things that they've made with funcumbobs do anything right they're allowed to they don't give a shit man it's like just drawing the line at anything is is really like skibbitty toilet come on funco and and chris i want to say i think one of the things i read is 30 thousand funcos different funco pops that's how many there are there are 30 000 different ones that's that's that fucking so much that feels low to me because i just feel like there's like everything everything you can imagine well good thing somebody came in to defend skibbitty toilet he goes this is the most end-demand funco we've seen in a while people have been calling stores an email on the website daily to find out when we'll get stock everyone's a fan of something edit interestingly this

guy wants to short Funko based on them making a toy for a YouTube channel with 43 million subscribers and more than 65 billion YouTube views, Kaiju number eight has what, 30 million views? I'm going to recommend not using this fella for financial advice. Is that guy from the, is he from Funko Corporation or from Skibbitty Toilet? He's from one of them. He's from Skibbity Toilet LLC. This guy might be the lawyer for Skibbity Toilet LLC. Let's check in with this guy And don't understand Now let's have an exclusive for Coles

You know, one of the big clothing stores Let's have Coles have an exclusive So I just went into my local Coles Oh Feel sorry for these Coles workers And they wouldn't even let me use my calls cash On the Funko Popes. They said that's only for the clothes Immediately feeling bad for the employees

that are Coles on Long Island Yeah It's got to be rough It's got to be rough like any day of the week Like really really I wonder if they like know him At some of the places You know what I mean

And The Funko pie guys here I'm gonna go pop over Take a quick 10 minute break actually Like oh what's up Nothing and then just like Other worker turns around like oh This guy's picture is definitely up

Like behind some counters Oh yeah He seems like Because he's He's angry enough that he's making a video about it where he does it, where he sort of sees himself as a hero still. So you know

he's like, was filled with all kinds like, you know. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't think he looks like a funco guy to me. No. He looks like a sports guy. It might just be the shirt. But he does look like a sports guy. There's overlap there.

I bet this guy started with like sports cards. Or Yankee. Yankees Funko. Yeah. He got Yankees memorabilia. And then his wife got him this Yankees Funkopop. He's like, what the hell is this stupid little thing, you know? And then he's like, oh, look at that. It's kind of, you know what was that, like, that, like, video where you just like slowly started kind of.

He's got like 3,000 of them here. God, I can't get over the, the car seat as a nice little bit of environmental storytelling here. It's so, it's so beautiful. Or let's have Coles have an exclusive. So I just went into my local Coles to find the 75th anniversary, Captain America Funko Pop. And guess what? I asked four four different people

one of them was the manager not one person knew what the fuck I was talking about that's embarrassing sir that's more embarrassing for you I would say that's a really embarrassing story man I'm not sure why I'm assuming there's more to it

that's going to sort of change our perspective on you in some way God they all looked at me like I was odd or something was wrong with me brutal brutal they all looked at me like i'm some kind of a moron here i am being perfectly normal member society just screaming about 75th anniversary captain america funco pops like oh awesome a specific one going into the store for a specific funco pop into a

Coles of all places in the world I know you have it I know you have it Can I say that I think Showing the press release he's got the press release And he's holding it up to the people like You should have it here It almost feels like he kind of wants them not to have it And not to know as well though

Like you know like he kind of feels like there's a little bit of like He just like he wants he's like They're not gonna fucking know none of these fucking idiots Are gonna know anything about this shit watch like Nobody knows like he almost wants that Like this is kind of He's looking for. Yeah.

Right, Chris. He's a ranter. He needs stuff to rant about. You know what I mean? He's in the car with the sunglasses. It's a classic rant situation. Yeah. Yeah.

He wanted that. He wanted that more than he wanted to hold the 75th anniversary, Captain America. Brian, shout out to you for finding this guy, by the way. I didn't find him. Dan O'Sullivan. Oh, shout out to Dan because, as I said, I was looking for great rants on YouTube for days on end, and I did not come across this guy.

So, thanks to Dan. This guy's great. Captain America Avengers Marvel stuff there But not one pop And no one knows what the fuck I'm talking about And I blame Funko for this bullshit They continue to make these deals

Probably for the money Because they're getting big deals on it They don't give a shit about their fans Wait wait wait wait whoa no no no no Do not listen You can say a lot of things about the Funko corporation Do not tell me they're in this for the money Yeah

It's about the art man Probably you know it's probably just for the money they're probably doing some of these deals jane just some of them some of these i feel like are you know it's like one for me one for them kind of thing with a director like that's how i feel like they're doing and why is funco now responsible for cole's employees on long island and like you don't do a deal that's why you yeah that's why you can't do a deal that's carefully vet the whole company from the top to the bottom from i just to the guys stock in the shelves i bet you i would be willing to bet any amount that he thinks

the day the funco deal for the 75th anniversary Captain America Cole's exclusive goes through he thinks there was a work meeting where they sat down and they had like a flyer with a picture of it

is like people are going to come in here looking for this and you need to know everything about it and like they're just not doing that they don't do like they don't do that for every product like they just have a bunch of Coles is fucking huge People show up

They clock in and then occasionally The manager will be like Oh somebody no call no showed They're not like We need to make sure everyone is Really up to date on everything that's in this Coles On like you know the Funko Pops And the like

Ultra cheap NFL Shersies and stuff Like everything Yeah all of our $9 jeans We need to make sure everyone knows all about them And the way that Cole specifically is stock, too, it's just like shit is coming in and out. It's like you could never possibly try to like have it. But to them, because he's a funco pop guy, he's like this is different.

This isn't like the other stuff that they're selling. This is unique. This is a fucking 75th anniversary pop. Yeah. It's crazy too because they sell funco pops everywhere now. Everywhere. Like they sell them at the movies. You go to the fucking movies.

They got funco pops there. Big time. Yeah. they got they got they got that's a big that's the main place i see them is at synaplex like the main movie chain in can in canada here that's they have so many of them like uh with all the food and and stuff yeah that's like a lot of the physical media places turned into basically funco pop stores yeah um that's all the game stop and stuff is too yeah yeah i love this i love when a person has a very specific like gripe with a company and so they answer a question on quora and this person

goes, what makes Funko so expensive? The person answers, it goes, apart from short runs related artificial scarcity techniques for particular figures, Funko exploits the obsessiveness of fandoms. For example, this example is very specific. Not only have they completely stopped making Rocky Horror Picture Show figures, they know that while not everyone likes the movie, the people who do like it a lot.

Thus, they accidentally created a secondary market in which people will pay $150 for a figure of Tim Curry's outrageous main character Dr. Frank Inferter and we'll probably pay even more and pay it gladly when Mr. Curry leaves the planet as we all must someday. I love how like you're still scandalized by Rocky Horror Picture Show

like 50 fucking years later it's outrageous character. I like that they're like the real problem with Funko is they didn't make enough Dr. Frank inferters. Let's look at a review of a Deadpool pop. Very good. exciting you like Deadpool jane do you like Deadpool's brand of uh humor of ryan's favorite

he actually likes it no i'm i'm i'm a fan of ryan reynolds uh business ventures uh you're rexum you're a rexum supporter i see okay very no i'm a huge fan of ryan reynolds i think he's great we hate reynolds around here he's vancouver's most hated son we i think you're saying on guys and i was like don't even speak for guys like that we we're where we're 75 25 because my opinion means more you think you get 75% on opinions yeah wait a second though why would you get why would you get less of the less of the opinion percentage than you do of the paper than you do the pay percentage deadpool perfection in funco form five stars the funco pop marvel deadpool figure is an

absolute must have for any deadpool fan the attention to detail incredible capturing his quirky that's not true i'm just going to say i've seen funco pops that is absolutely not true it's so good i love this chris you're going to like this and i'm going to agree with this capturing his quirky irreverent personality perfectly from the iconic red suit to the playful pose this funco pop is as fun as the character himself can we see it yeah i can i can show you It'd be nice to see as they're describing this thing, just to kind of give you. Search, and there's a lot of different phone. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this is a specific. Yeah. Oh. That is a quirky way of standing. I don't think that's very playful. He's just holding two swords. And one of them sort of in front of his like, yeah.

Yeah. And pretty playful to me. He's just wearing a, just wearing the suit. Yeah. The iconic red suit. Hmm. So the figure is. well made and stands sturdily on its own making it a perfect for display on a shelf or desk it's also a

great addition to any funco popper marvel collection if you love debpool's unique blend of humor and action this collectible will bring a smile to your face every time you see it highly recommend i could never imagine having a thing that i walk in and i look at and it brings a smile to my face like that it's not like my child yeah you just walk in and like it reminds you're Minds you of one of Deadpool's quips or whatever? Yeah. This guy gave it three stars. It's a very unfair review.

He goes, keep it away from little brothers. Five-year-old loved it. Mom thought it was a little too violent looking with weapons on them. Our two-year-old got a hold of it and broke it very quickly. So if you get it, make sure to keep it away from two-year-olds. These are not toys.

They are not for children. Yeah. Here's an alien one. a very recent alien one it's a xenomorph you got to keep everything away from two year olds though as someone with a two year old i can say almost two year old that yeah you just really that's just across the board anything that they can break they will break immediately they love breaking stuff they love it yeah here's a xenomorph funco pop wow the attention to detail on that is it's crazy it looks exactly like a xenomorph to tell you the truth uh this guy goes um this guy goes uh in space

no one can hear you smile yeah because you don't hear smiles you see smiles that's one problem a cute alien yep though I was expecting this to be a bobblehead

beware that it is not you can turn the head left and right but that's it still I'm quite happy with the little bugger the paint job is really good as they nailed the slightly metallic gray green color

a funny pose too ready to attack purchased on Amazon from vendor Toyn K, who packaged the item well and both the alien and the box arrived in mint condition. So that guy, he likes posing

it. Let's check in with this guy. Here we go. Or their customers, they don't give a shit about us. Who can't? If we can't find them, go find them on eBay and pay triple, quadruple the price. Or don't.

No fucking toy store or a comic store or a toy con he spit he just spit he just spit he just spit that's not being spitting mad he's literally spitting mad right now can he back it up you got it hey and pay triple quadruple the price or go to a fucking toy store um or a comic store or so mad when he says go to a fucking toy store yeah and he spit spits yeah he spit oh no it's gross yeah he's great you know double triple the price. What do they care? They're getting their money. They get in the same.

We have an exclusive item with Coles. Even though my calls doesn't have one and not one person plus the manager knows what the fuck I'm talking about. Walgreens gets all these awesome Marvel exclusives. Not one fucking pop at Walgreens have I ever found but the exclusive

Punisher almost a year ago. Wait until you didn't find one. You found one. So listen, man, this is how it is for collecting high in demand stuff it's fucking annoying and secondary market shit is annoying but yeah this is like you know this coming in i'm sorry man it's people got got the pops before you got them when he said he's like i went to every fucking walgreens on long island well how long did that take and like couldn't you you should have just paid double for it on eBay dude yes yes

here's an argument we often see when we do these collectors people uh team sealed or team unboxed and why these are mostly team boxed right I feel like just because they don't really it's the same as the action figures it's like why would you leave them in a box but why would you take them out these ones don't really pose do they no

I would have thought yeah I would have been a way bigger deal like the people with like the Star Wars little like small action figures like they go ape shit if that thing isn't in the box yeah he go a guy goes signed he goes Rarity current price and signed and ones I don't want to risk damage stay sealed.

But 90% of my collection comes out. I do keep the boxes flat in a tub and the inserts marked with painters tape and Sharpie to keep track of them, but also in the tub stacked on one another. Yeah, of course. I would love to see the size of this tub of flattened boxes. It's a bathtub.

He's referring to a large bathtub. Yeah. This guy goes, boxed. Easier to dust and stack. I keep the box. flattened like that's fucking crazy to me like you're going to take it out of the box and then you're going to keep the box separately like it's like oh my god you think flattening that some people do that sometimes oh my god you think that's maybe is like a different and makes it to another level maybe

even i think that's so bizarre i do i think it's i agree with jane i think flattening the box and keeping away i wonder what the thought process is behind it that you may want to rebox it that some people might want to rebox it some people might just want to have a box in a closet in a huge pile but it's already been taken out of the box doesn't that like yeah but what if you're going to already gone the second you do that maybe yeah because i mean it's not n ib anymore it's smart for storage obviously because you don't want to keep all those boxes if they're empty but you might want to keep all those boxes i don't know why you would think people would just go and throw away boxes and not break them down and put them in a closet until they weigh seven

pounds and then take them to recycling center yeah i i feel like i guess i can understand it i don't think i would ever do it i don't have that type of brain no that i would do that i did it and i knew i was doing something stupid what you did it yes with your legos did the boxes i had like a hundred pounds of lego boxes in my closet in my bedroom i couldn't keep anything on the floor and the closet. Uh, because one of them were, like, why don't you put your shoes in a closet? I was like, there's not enough room. Okay. Right. How did you, what did you get? When you got rid of your Legos, did you sell them? The sell all the kids. Yeah, but I sold them ball. I didn't actually sell them. I, I, I gave them to an LGBTQ, uh, teenage place in a, two huge boxes. Okay.

And, it's, um, you didn't give them the, the boxes they came in then. No, because I had that moment where I had to go to the fucking recycling dumpster thing and they were so heavy and there were so many of them. It was like the stack, I wish I could show other people, but they were flattened boxes and the stack was like, you know, three feet, two, like a couple, like a foot and a half tall or whatever. It was a lot of boxes. I don't know why I kept them. I don't know what I would even do with them. And now I get rid of them immediately. So I don't have them. I still have like maybe one box in my closet that I used for moving so this guy goes um this guy goes you can just go to the store every once and then look at them instead of wasting money so

oh like the funco boxed yeah you leave the funco boxed then what's the point yeah it's go to the store yeah yeah the point is collecting well this guy goes uh i couldn't help but laugh out loud when I read this. I get he's implying, but I wouldn't consider wasting money at all. In the box or out of the box. They're still on display. Nobody is actually playing with their funcos. And this person responds and goes, I don't mean playing, but you can really see the funco. The plastic and the box cover, blur, hide most of it, especially chase funcos. I love mine because they glow in a dark and it looks nice. I just, I think about these people. If you think of them as 13 years old, they're like, ah.

okay sure yeah you know but no i but i i i can't do that because i know that they're this guy in the yankees shirt like yeah yeah and this person goes what a to the person who said uh you know uh nobody is playing with their legos this person goes what an unbelievably ignorant response and you meant funco pops you said legos but yeah what an ignorant response to say that people are not playing with their funcops. So, are you fucking stupid? Can I,

there's no further comment because I'd love to hear any elaboration on what playing with the funco pops would be. You're banging them against each other? What do we do in here? There is more. This person goes,

this is an unreal take to me. And for others, taking it out of the box, mean it loses its value. That's it. I have mine stacked on shelves in my box and I can see them perfectly. So you may just need glasses.

Oh. lose its value you're in this hobby because you care more about the monetary value of your figure than how it looks all the glow chase funcos look cool as fuck out of the box and when they glow and many other normal funcos do too but sure keep your investment in the box so there's a little bit of uh so some people like that that's looked down on a little bit by some people to be like oh you're in this is an investment no i'm in it for the love of the game how I'm in it for how good the Funko Pops look. I'm in for the pleasing shapes of these Funko Phops. That feels like it's a person who just hasn't come to terms with the fact that they're just want to be collecting things and their brain wants to be accumulating things and it's important to them or whatever. And they have to sort of figure out in some way like, why do I keep buying these Funko Pops?

I must. Because it's an investment. Let's take a look at this and then we'll watch some more of the range. guy and and I think we'll be done but I do want to read this interesting thing uh it's time to retire from the pop game this is from R slash Funko Pops these are the saddest post we get we read these ones are a heart break it it's heart break I'm making this post because I want others opinion on my statement the past few months summer now I spent almost $3,000 just from buying pop figures alone now now luckily i was able to afford that to feed my addiction but but i realized something as i was

looking over my bank statement i spent three thousand dollars on toys now i know a lot of you guys will say they aren't toys they're collectibles and if it has value to one then it shouldn't matter how much money is spent because it brings happiness and i can 100% agree but here's what i said to myself how long are i going to keep using that excuse so that i wouldn't feel bad spending so much money on toys. I don't know if the value of the pops are slowly dying on me, or I just came to a realization that these pops won't have much effect on my life if I don't have them. I don't know. All I know is that I'm out $3,000 and have a room filled with pop figures. With that being said, I think it's time for me to call it quits and begin to start selling some of my

pop figures. However, I still want some input on the statement. Do you think it's really a good reason to spend thousands of dollars on toys regardless if it brings you happiness? Look, who hasn't come out of a, of bender and realize he spent $3,000 on polko pop? It's just like not even a cool like bender like you're doing

drugs or drinking or anything. You just went on a funco pop bender. This is what it was like when I figured out I was addicted to opioids. Yeah, yeah. It was the same thing. Yeah, yeah. It was like I'm spending oh my god out of nowhere i'm spending this much and i feel bad if i don't spend this

much right i feel like i'm missing something which is getting fucked up which is much better than owning funcos but i think that the interesting thing is this guy spent three thousand dollars in three months or something you know what i mean like he was like i really like these funco pops i'm going to buy three thousand dollars worth of them like immediately first thing the first was his first that he's saying these are the only ones that he's purchased yeah because he keeps referring to them and he's saying i'm out three thousand dollars and he hasn't mentioned any other money so he just kind of went he might be he might have a little bit of a of uh you know he might be pre-disposed yeah this might be something that he's trying to fill some hole that is extremely large you should talk to somebody about this not just sell them all off yeah not just sell them off you should not be on reddit reddit isn't where you go the actual the funco pops up red It's not where you go to deal with these sorts of things. No, no, no.

You're going to get some of the worst advice ever going to the subreddit of the thing you're trying to quit. You will get so many people telling you so much bullshit. Probably better off going to the AI that tells you to kill yourself than you are. This person goes, I'm with you word for word. I was intrigued by them for a while, but didn't really get into them until around May or so this year. I bought a couple here and there, but as I'm sure it's the same for many people here, I really started to get crazy around San Diego Comic Con. Yeah,

that's when it usually flares up for Mo's bigos around Comic Con. Flares up? Yeah. He goes, it just consumed me looking on here and at PPG every time I had a free minute. Checking store after store, et cetera. I ended up with about 75 pops before I knew it.

The chase was great. The high is you, it's 75. 70, that's so much room in your area. Yeah, again, these are like, they're significant. They're not like a tiny little doll. Most people know the size.

I'll think it's a pop box. It's got to be like six by six by six at least, right? I mean, 75 takes up. You could stack 75 to the ceiling. Jane, are you looking up the size of a pop box? Yeah, they're six and a quarter inches tall, four and a half wide, three and a half deep. Okay. So, like, yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's,

75 of those is so much. That's so much. It's so much. He goes, one day I walked by my collection, just stopped and looked at them and had the same revelation you had. Why am I doing this? Oh. Oh.

That's it. Listen, man, it's a tough moment, but it is an important moment. And it's like, it's good that these people are able to do that. They're able to like, sort of just be like, hey, man, this is actually a big waste of my money. And I could be doing something that's, like, more fulfilling for me. This is me in that guy's basement having. a meltdown trying to fix his cable but having a meltdown about my pill addiction and then

going and sitting by some water and crying that's what this is yeah this is that he goes uh one day oh he goes sure it's not hurting me financially but there has to be something better right oh so i took 90% of them down and just packed them away i'll still check them out from time to time but it would have have to be a very specific pop or line to get me to buy them again it doesn't know yeah right that's that's like an alcoholic being like oh have a drink i'll have a drink every now and then like just at a party if it's like a social function no no this ain't gonna work this guy's gonna fall straight back in oh yeah because this guy this guy says himself as like a guy in like a novel like you know looking back on his life as he goes through his old stuff like oh there's yeah

there's my wolverine deadpool yeah for Deadpool pop like oh they're just i love this one this is a really good one here he goes i'm exactly like you just started in may and went nuts with san diego comic con i'm going through my 75 pop collection and picking out my favorite few lines to drive my collection down to about 40 or so packing some away for later and just selling or trading the rest i'm not financially stable so it sort of hurt me a bit but if i didn't spend it on pops i would have spent it on something stupid like food or clothes ha ha but really though i would have spent me I mean, technically you probably would have spent it on food or clothes. It's not really a joke.

He's kind of, yeah, he is making a joke, but I think that's not the joke. Like, he knows that that's the truth. He's just kind of saying, like, I don't know. He just kind of realizes that it's bad and he's trying to make light of it. He goes, ha, ha, but really, though, I would have spent it on something. So at least I have things that retain and or gain value so I can make some of my finances back someday, hopefully. I look at it like this. Yeah, that's bad.

That's bad. You know, not what I'm saying that about your funco pops. Imagine like my dad just died and imagined. My dad did have a couple of funco pops. But it was because, like, sports, they were sports? No. Are you inheriting them? Were they in his will?

No. I mean, I do inherit them because I have all his baseball cards and stuff like that. So I guess, like, I will get the funco pops. But I just imagine how funny it would have been if my dad had left me a bunch of funco go bobs. You know, he's just like, 75 fungal. Yeah, yeah. He's just like here, like, the, this is like, it was his thought of, like, how he could

help me in the future. He bought his to say. This is for your daughter's college. Yeah. Like, how much, like, by the time your daughter, your son, like, Charlie is at a university, these things are going to be worth, who knows? This glow and the dark Boba Fed is going to be worth a few hundred bucks. Yeah, so you can buy a new car for him with the Bobafed and then you can get,

yeah so at least uh yeah i look at it like this people spend way more on a ton of shoes to just sit on a shelf or t-shirts no no no no no no no no no no no no no they wear the shoes don't try some people might not wear them a lot but they wear them yeah people wear their shoes people wear their shoes that's that's something you can't do with your funco pops that's not a fair comparison. I know people who spend more on smartphone games in a month than I've spent on pops that they have a problem. Again, that's bad, but it is a game that you're playing where you're doing something. So again, not a good comparison. With all the new pops coming out, I look at them and I take a day or two before I buy to reconsider. Is it going to be hard to find or more expensive

down the road? I'm going to be mad. I bought it. Am I going to be mad? I bought it within a week. do I even really want this? So I've cut away back and I pulled the trigger then on what I pulled the trigger on. This is the exact thing I was talking about what I do is Warhammer. So I can't be. Yeah, this is, this is,

I was just going to say this is actually kind of like smart. Like this is a good way to be like. This is the way to be. This is the way to be. Yeah, that like you don't just jump into the thing. That's when you get in trouble where you're just like, okay, as soon as the thing comes out like, oh, I got to get that right away.

And you don't even consider anything else. You have to stop. Think about it. is this an important purchase can i afford this do i need this is it yeah i have that habit of like i'd really like to start a hobby and then be like well i got to buy the best stuff for the hobby and then i buy it i just don't do it you know yeah the famous like skiing thing that we you know buying all the most expensive ski stuff we're talking about a kayak yesterday and i was like we can probably get one you should go rent one first

yeah maybe yeah that's that's jane jane it would be nice to have you around more because just in general just brian like maybe here's a thing you could do where you're not sinking a bunch of money into i think that could help them in a lot of circumstances yeah see if you like the thing and oftentimes there are ways to do that without buying it kayaking and skiing i think is like two of the best examples of that yeah there's a person that rents kayaks off the river over here by my house so i could maybe go get them. But, you know, I, uh, I just, I, I, I think it seems fun. Have you ever been kayaking? No. Not one single time. No. Okay. Come on, Matt. Because I, I've been, expensive. I've been kayaking before, definitely. Like, I went in high school, we like on a, on a trip.

And then in the Bahamas, my mom had a kayak that we would take out in the ocean. I lost, we lost Chris. Oh, he's back. Oh, did it? You guys just lose me? We lost you for a second. I was saying I had a kayak. My mom had a kayak in the Bahamas and we would, yeah, we would go out and take it out in the ocean sometimes. I mean, they're 200 bucks. You know what I mean? Okay. Too bad.

Yeah. That's not that bad. But, okay, but even bit, but more importantly than that $200 is I know you live in an apartment. I do live in an apartment. I'd have to put it on the patio. He lives in the biggest apartment in the world. I do not live in the biggest apartment in a world. What's your square footage looking like here?

Don't even say it. I don't even say it, Brian. Don't even say it. People will revolt against you if you say how many square feet it is. It's like I want to say, what is it like 17,000 or something like that? That would be a mansion. No, like 700 would be a big apartment. No, no, no, no, Jane.

It's definitely between 15,000 and 18,000. It's huge. It's one of the biggest in the whole city. No, it's not. Hold on. I'll see if I can get it. It's a penthouse. like well no the actual i think you're about right jane i think it's about well i mean i think

it's like 1700 i think is it's something so it's big it's big it's not that big it doesn't feel like super i can't get it right now in vancouver it would be huge like i just think it's different like depending on where you live some places have space for bigger places and some yeah more more concerning than the money for me is the amount of time i spend researching and trolling reddit for that new new. Browsing PPG versus Funko swap, et cetera. It's definitely time consuming, and I'm feeling exactly as you are.

I don't want to 100% quit, but I definitely need to not buy as much or research much to force myself to enjoy a prospective purchase. If I hit 30 and I have a room, nay, a wall of pops, I'll probably have a lot of regret personally. I also don't want to step on anyone's toes, but that's just

my own opinion as well. My real question is, how can I ditch my comments L-O-L. eBay might be my best bet. Let's check in with that guy. Listen, it's good to try to recycle them because we mentioned the waste, but this guy, you can throw them out too if, you know, the commons. But, but what is it? Yeah, what is the, I wonder if they can be recycled. Uh, probably, well, but nothing gets recycled in the United States. Yeah. It doesn't put in a recycle bin. It's probably going to really yeah it doesn't really get recycling you guys don't do recycling really we do but they don't

yeah okay yeah i think we do it i think we do it a little bit more maybe but probably not you're probably right it's probably similar but i think maybe you just don't know where it goes once they come and pick it up you know in canada we always like to think of ourselves as being kind of bad but just a little bit better on those kind of things that's how we they're like even if it's an untrue we're like that's just kind of how i always think like oh yeah no we do a bad job of that but just a slightly better jobs in a different way yeah here's here's our guy here's our ranter not one other exclusive i'm not count the star wars because of star war okay wait is why not he's going to tell us why he's not counting the star wars i know but first they don't have any except for one that

i found and now he's like and i'm not even going to count star wars do you remember the famous yeah do you remember the guy for like 10 years ago is like talking about like uh going to toys or us on May 4th and being like the Funko Pops decimated and he was just like super pissed off that all the Star Wars thing I can't help but think of Funko Pops decimated every time this guy says anything here you guys not one other exclusive I'm not count the Star Wars because the Star Wars they bought an overabundance Walgreens and then they have so many there but I don't see any Marvel so you see that's it that you have to be for these people to be happy you have to find that balance you if there's too many then it's like well these are fucking worthless this

is shit i fucking hate this and then if you have too few then they're mad at you for not being able to get it you have to have just enough so they can get it but then there's like they get the last or the second last one i mean this does remind me of our rant guy chris when he like starts yelling about something and then keeps correcting himself yeah that's a big rant thing jane is that these rant guys that we follow is that they'll oftentimes still their own worst enemy and that they'll bring out things that refute their own point. I think this guy's, this guy's like fantasy, the ideal scenario for this guy is that he goes into a Walgreens and he asks for a funco, where the funco pops are.

And an employee's like, I don't know what you're talking about, sir. And he grabs him by the shirt and he's like, I know you got the fucking pops here. And then and then they're like, fine, fine, fine. I was hiding him. So only I would get him. And then he like forces him like at gunpoint to sell. him the pops. Like that's what this guy wants.

That's, that is his, that's his Mark Wahlberg fantasy. Totally. Here's more. Anywhere. On Long Island, on Staten Island,

I'm pretty positive. If I went into other boroughs of New York, I wouldn't find them either. I would never go to those boroughs because you know what, but. Yeah. This fucking guy.

But hey, we have an exclusive at Walgreens. That's cool. Fuck you, Funko. and now they're going to bring in a new player they're going to bring in best spy because best buy is a great place for collectors to go find toys so now best spy is now getting into the exclusive exclusive funkal pop game okay i wish that these guys were this fired up for like insulin you know like like like horrible companies are about like medications if you could yeah if you could if they if you turn it into some sort of collector type situation that you could maybe get special Avengers branded

focus the rage on Long Island into something productive like we could have universal health care in no time. Like Captain American 75th anniversary insulin came in. Yeah, that's all we need to do. Yeah.

Can't wait till they start getting exclusives. If you go in there and they look at you like they don't what the fuck you're talking about. So this is now he's now he's this is not happened yet. He's just saying can wait for it might happen later. Can't wait for the Best Buy to start fucking looking at me like I'm an idiot. God damn how many places you're going to look at me like I'm the dumbest fucking weirdo in the world. And I'm smart.

That's the thing about me is that I'm smart. I'm not a dumb idiot. And I'm not weird. They've sold Funkobobabs at Best Buy for a long time, I feel like. I think so. Yeah. They had an exclusive just be say to stores like Hot Topic, the game stop. To born and they look at you like you don't, they don't what the fuck you're talking about.

Why can't exclusive just be, stay to stores like Hot Topic? The game stop. Buddy. The Barnes and Noble. Toys Toys R Us. This guy is like 45 year old New York Yankees fan going into Hot Topic. It's so funny, man.

Hot Topic is such a funny place to have to go into to buy anything ever as an adult. I have a niece. I have a niece that likes like Olivia Rodriguez and stuff. Yeah. And so when Christmas comes around, you know, we go to Hot Topic to get her something and she's 15 and I always feel weird in there. Oh, it's such a, it's nothing for me there is what I'm saying. There's like nothing there for me.

It's a funny store just to be for a guy like this to have to go into this like Yankees fan who's like fucking Jeter, man. It's all Jeter, you know? And then he's got to go to top. Yeah, Brian going in there is different because Brian like, Brian does a new metal podcast. podcast. Yeah. It could at least be like, yeah, I used to come into this place, you know, back of the day sort of guy, but this guy is not that at all. No, no. That guy, he goes for the pawns. They've got corn stuff and limp biscuit stuff at hot. Yeah, they have deaf tones. I was

going to say, in fact, remember I used to at Metrotown, there's a hot topic. Uh, and I go to Metro town with, and I used to a lot with Charlie. And I would always take, there was like a mannequin wearing, uh, wearing, uh, deaf tones. And I would post videos of me, pretending to think it was Brian onto the Instagram sores that fucking know at least when you walk in what you are talking about when you say Funko pops they go

oh yeah they're back there oh yeah they're over there oh no we don't have anymore oh no we don't carry those that's all you want I'd have a lot more trust in Best Buy being good about that than Wall of Green's though yeah yeah yeah yeah I used to work at Best Buy and I can say that I was often extremely under the influence of drugs though so I don't know. It's tough to say

I feel like the one thing that you do get at Best Buy that you don't get at those plate and Hot Topic I don't think of but GameStop. The person who works at GameStop is probably going to be somebody who's interested in gaming

and that type of stuff, right? Versus the person at Best Buy it's a corporate kind of like retail job that they're like, you know, I wasn't into that type of stuff. I just wanted a job. I go to the fucking movie theater and I'm like, where the hell is the Galactus pop at?

there's only a little bit more left yeah yeah yeah what what is that a Funko what you know it's like a little vinyl toy you know they're about four inches or so six I never heard of it I don't think we carry it

fuck you Funko I'm so fed up I wish I could get over there's no spit there's a bit a bunch he spit a bunch again and he stuck up his middle finger before he said fuck you that time right to the camera sideways stupid addiction i have to your stupid vinyl toys so i can just fucking sell them all and be done what your dumb ass company and the funniest thing is too is that wait can you back that up what do you say about his addiction there here is a

cell oh i never heard of it i don't think we carry it yeah we get to fuck you funco i'm so fed up i wish i can get over this stupid addiction i have to your stupid vinyl toys so i can just fucking sell them all and be done with your dumb ass company and the funniest thing is heroin dude it is you can stop i promise i i quit doing opioids yeah you can make it you can get on the other side of that yeah i quit smoking cigarettes i quit drinking alcohol it is it's definitely possible to do and i feel like you don't have any chemical thing here so it feels like you could replace it with something else more productive like it would be an easy thing to do is like you have that i get it you want to be doing that but maybe something that doesn't cost you money or fill up space true i don't

know what the when anybody anybody tweets to you guys to ask you questions about your exclusives and why you have deals you don't seem to get back to them but when they question you oh god this guy is brutal yeah yeah he's a loser you this guy's tweeting at the company at Funko or praise you you guys are quick to favor it and retweet it but when someone is checking

through their face he's checking their likes he's looking through their life you're quick to favor and retweet it but when I tell you you're a piece of shit

company that doesn't know what they're doing you don't retweet that yeah think about how the language he's using it's like some it's like listen it's mostly adults

but it's still as a toy company that probably children you know they figure there's children following them. They probably don't... I bet the rest of this guy's timeline that's not Funko stuff is also like him tweeting at porn stars, you know, do it the like

what do you can do another scene? Yes please like just yes please at a picture of a naked. Yeah, yeah yeah. Wait with your fucking tails tucked between your legs. Oh he spat so much there. Jesus man this guy is spitting

so much. This actually upsets me a lot now because I realize now that when he's yelling at these poor employees, he's fucking spitting on the middle. He's a spitter. For sure. He's a spitter. Yeah. I mean, I drool. This guy's, this guy's going full Louis Suarez. That's

an MLS reference. Shout out to Luis Suarez from Brian's favorite team Inter Miami. Columbia. You said that you loved Inter Miami because they... Oh, I like their hats. Their hat, yeah. But he's this horrible player. He bit a couple of guys before he's like a legendary player.

But he's also been like, yeah, been really racist, I think. as well but he spit on some old the Seattle Sounders like equipment guy who's like 78 years old on camera after the game he spit directly into his face it is so fucking horrible

funny low or praise you you guys are quick to favor it and retweet it but when someone has something negative to say you guys run away with your fucking tails tucked between your legs you are one of the worst fucking companies and the fact that you keep continuously coming out with stupid fucking fucking pops over and over again, like Deadpool, like Batman.

And I love all them. Superman, every, I love all these. But the fact that you keep coming out with the same fucking pops over and over again, but this one's a different color. This one's a different variant. Look you again. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Well, the guy realizes that he's been scammed.

He's realizing in person in real time. Why do you, this is all a scam? He's basically saying like, why, yeah, why can't, he's talking, he's making a video for himself in a way almost. Like, why can't I start? buying these fucking things like these are they're you know they're worthless this is a really this is a really interesting video i feel yeah it's great it's one of the better ones be fucking original come up with some other goddamn licenses just spit a lot yeah stop making the same

goddamn thing over and over again because you know that we're addicted and we're gonna buy him you're a piece of shit company and i wish i wasn't addicted to you fuck you funco that's what i think of funco fuck you rant over all right I probably changed the camera angle wait wait wait wait there's still 37 37 yeah yeah it's just like oh it's his outro

okay yeah yeah yeah yeah so that guy is the most one of the most mad guys we've ever seen so funco pops fuck you fuck hey funko you know how good it feels to say fuck you to somebody like that you know what I mean

where you just like you yeah like he got that high here yeah he he I wonder if he got what he's looking for there I wonder if he's from nine years ago yeah so I wonder how if you checked in on him yeah I would love to check it I'll see if I can check in on him and see oh he's not back no he's yeah his last video six years ago but you never know go pop hunting hall video so he spent at least three more years doing it okay so he never he was a WWE guy too He didn't give up.

He didn't give up because I was just going to say to you, Jane, that we know a guy named Drama Rants, who's the top ranter on YouTube. And he took like a seven-year break and then came back, which is an incredible move. And like, he's back better than ever, I feel like. He's great. You know, he's a Trump guy.

He, you can get him on the Patreon. A lot of drama rants. Yeah. Patreon. He is the only ranter I've ever seen that doesn't plan his rant. at all. Yeah, he's a freestyle round turn. This guy on his, uh, his Twitter's gone.

His Facebook hasn't been updated since 2018, but February 2020, here's some more Funko Pops. So he's still, he's got a wall. So he's never, he never gave up on it. He never gave up. That's good. He might have died of COVID, though. I feel like, we, we, we, I think there's a decent shot that this like spitting mad,

long island guy died of COVID. Well, we never know. This guy was wearing masks. No. No. And he's the main guy who should have been honestly the way he talks. Yeah. I'm going to put him in our rotation here. I'll check him with him. I thought you're going to put him in the rest in peace, Doc, along with Tony Kay and who else. Don't bring up Tony Kay and Aaron. Well, we don't know if Tony Kay, none of these people we know, we have, we don't have like verification that they died. There's a guy who used to do cigarette reviews who hasn't made videos. God rest his soul. We'll miss you forever, cigarette review. And then the one guy that we actually know for certain, and we have a clarification, is the only one we know for certain is mini Jean Simmons. Rest in peace. Oh, yeah.

Rest in peace of Minnie Jean Simmons, who's, you know, God, what he would do to. Incredibly horny. What he wouldn't do to have sex with that bikini lady. We love him. We found, yeah, we love Minnie Jean Simmons, rest in peace. And rest in peace to Aaron as well. Well, yeah. I mean, you know, he was an important guy.

second in command um and jane do you have anything you want to plug yeah my podcast batting around it's a baseball podcast i do with my friends lauren and stephen uh it's you know down the stretch in the baseball season it's a good time to listen right now we uh we just had a good episode come out the day we recorded this anyway so i don't know when when this this comes out tuesday this comes out like in a week this comes out and yeah we're we're actually not banking episodes right now listen to it there everybody on that show is funny i mean they came on you guys obviously came on and did an episode all three of you came on guys go find the old episode guys i'll plug the guys episode even yeah the umpire guys and then you can listen to all three of them

but yeah it's a very funny podcast and one of the very few uh good sports podcasts and also jane how do you feel about the my toronto blue jays what do you think they're actual chance obviously you're in vancouver it's canada's team canada's team well okay well both the blue jays and if you're like vancouver if you're one of the vancouver people that goes for the mariners like both those teams is doing pretty good right now so yeah if you're a Vancouver baseball fan like you're eating good yeah it's true yeah we're being I'm a dodgers fan hmm I'm a dodgers fan yeah I see that I see that yep yeah I show hey Oton he's on that team yeah he is he is indeed on that. Look at a guy that knew something.

All right. We'll see you all next week. Bye, everyone. Goodbye.