Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 97 - Action Figure Guys with Jeremy Kaplowitz

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

Well, here we are, an episode where I can't really goof because I collect legos. I did it anway. Should scalpers be considered humans? How do you play with your figures? We found the most insufferable redditor on the planet and end with some great Trustpilot reviews! Jeremy Kaplowitz is host of the show Quorators which so check them out! 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 The Sunday Night Stream is every Sunday at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/murderxbryan and  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 Brian with me as my scumbag scalper co-host, Chris James. Hi, Chris. Scumbag scalper co-host Chris James. Hi, Chris scumbag scalper. Okay. Cause I happen, but I know, I know that from sports. I'm a sports guy and I go to sporting events and I know scalpers from that. I'm not real pieces of shit. Those guys know I agree, but what does it have to do with the subject this, uh, this

week? I guess you'll find out, But I want you to know action figure guys is this episode, which are released in limited edition sets all the fucking time. Now I like I found a website. Let's get the guest on here from corridors. We got Jeremy Kaplowitz. Hi Jeremy. Hey, thanks for having me. So what I found out about we had we had your co-host on. Yes, that's right. And Brian has been in our show Yeah, that's cool. And I have not been on now. You're welcome to come. I don't want to Listen the truth is I think you guys because we talked about it. That's why I recognize the name

You guys do sort of you know, we go to Cora sometimes so there is a slight amount of overlap So probably people who enjoy guys a lot of them will probably enjoy your podcast. You get yours a lot when people say like, when people accuse us of ripping someone off, it's either you guys or the McElroy brothers. It's the matter. Well, we're all we're all kind of we're all kind of ripping off the McElroy brothers. They're they're kind of the I think they're the day one guys, but what, uh, and I think you started before us as well, but who knows it. Yeah. It doesn't matter.

We're all just brothers. Aren't we? Yeah. Well, I mean, and we didn't like steal it from you. We, I guess we, like I, we saw your podcast and we thought that's a really good idea. And we thought maybe we'll use that idea in a way that's feeling that. I don't know, man. Let me explain what I like about Quora is that I like

confidence, stupid fucking idiots, like guys that are so stupid. They're like, you know, that they barely get through their day every day. And but they're willing to go online and answer questions. Yes. And they do it with their full names and their photos and like the town that they live in sometimes. So we'll find people who are like, hey, I'm trying to figure out how to get my wife to let me eat my cum in front of her. And then you can see their legal name. They're like, I live in this small town in Minnesota that has like 500 people. And you're like,

Wow. And Jeremy, I have a question for you. Do you read their full name out in their town? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. guess you do. Yeah, because I don't I don't I mean, you're making a joke right now, right? You don't actually write. Do you? Sometimes we do. I don't know. Sometimes. Okay. We do. Actually, all podcasts. I have an issue. Brian has been doing that lately, and I'm trying to dissuade him from doing that. I try to explain to him that's like there's enough people listening that it's maybe not a good idea to say their name and where they live. There's not that many people, but it is very funny. It is funny.

And there's not that many people listening. I agree. Like, I don't think there's tons, but I think that, you know, it still is a little bit irresponsible, but it's not the most irresponsible thing that Brian does. I don't do anything irresponsible. So I went to Reddit. I went to our slash action figures and I got to share my screen with you guys because that's that's something I like to do sometimes. But while we're looking at a picture thing, this guy is a car full of action figures.

You can see this is a can you zoom in on it at all? Because it is kind of hard for us to see how I always forget how to zoom. Let me zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom out. There it is. Okay. Here. There it is. Oh, it's sort of wiggled when he zoomed. That was kind of, yeah. So did you see that wiggles? It's called a wiggle zoom. Yeah. Um, so this is a guy's car that is so full of transformers and Voltron. Yeah. And it's not in like an organized, like it's really sort of tossed in the back of it. Like, did he just buy these? Yes, we're going to learn about where he got these right now. He says he was getting rid of them before his ex-wife could get them is the subject line. He says answered an app for some transformers.

And when I got there, the guy went on about how he wasn't going to let his ex wife have his collection. All he asked for was $200 or for them to do a, or for them to go to a good home. To be honest, I saw the Voltron defender set in the boxes and some transformers G one. I had no idea that I'd be walking away with so much. Most are knockoffs, but definitely a great score. So he was getting a divorce and it wasn't, I was going to say like, well, she's, she could get the money that you get for them, but that's not what this is about at all. She, he just didn't want her to physically have ownership over them. He didn't want his prized

possessions to be stuck in a home with this horrible woman. Does he want them? Do you think she would take them? I don't think so. I think it's in his mind. I think in his mind he thinks they're so important and great. She might take them and then throw them away. I don't think she would want them around though. She takes half and then does hostage videos with them where she's getting them with a hammer or something.

It's funny to imagine her with them. That would actually fuck with them. Yeah. It's funny to imagine him going to pick up his kids at her house and his transformers being displayed prominently. Yeah. That is that that's a pretty, yeah. Like just like right when you walk in, you know

Endless excuses says for shame. What kind of demon goes after a man's toys a Revolutionary link 163 replies and goes my worst fear currently So this person is married and Really thinking about like, what the fuck? What happens if she tries to take my fucking toys? That sounds like a loving. Just imagine him just like sort of, you know, pretending he's sleeping, but he's kind of got one eye open watching her like this sounds like

a horrifying relationship to be in. But who knows? Maybe he's also getting a divorce already. And and this is his big fear is that he's gonna lose his toys. He's like praying. It doesn't bother him. Yeah, no, he's praying that she cheats so that it can be her fault and he can get the toys. Razor says, damn, $200 for that collection is fucking insane.

I'd probably be like, dude, I'll pay you and then once the divorce is finalized, pay me back. I'll give them back to you or something. Hmm. Oh, aren't you the fucking nicest guy in the world? That's a trick, right? That's like a, that's like a, I'm sure that's legal and works out really well. Well, you would want to consult the lawyer on it. You know, you do want to get in a toy law, a toy lawyer involved, of course, somebody who does toy law and have them sort of look over the ritz and everything. I'm sure that's all totally above board to just take all of your possessions

and sell them to your friend for five dollars right before you get divorced and then buy it back after. Yeah. What do you mean? What it's called? Yeah, it's enterprise. It's it's the way things work in America. Capitalism. It's called capitalism. I let him. Yes, I got a good deal. Yes. Granted, I got a good deal.

Yeah, I let him keep one Megatron. That's for him. Yeah. Yeah. This guy goes seriously at that point. I'd feel bad and just storm for him somehow. So these guys are like, well, they're real angels. They're actually angels is what I would call them. And it kind of makes sense though. It is.

I think they're kind of like, hey, this is a forum for toy lovers. And it's kind of like, fuck man. Like I can only imagine if I was in his position, I would want someone to look out for me. But yeah, you're right. They are. There's some niceness in the community. So far, this guy, Agent Hellion says, this is so sad to get rid of your collection due to divorce issues,

but you did get a great deal for these. The third party Predaking and Bruticus are worth $200 alone. Oh yeah, you're selling the Bruticus for 150 and then you're laughing all the way to the bank as you sell the Dishonor Vaderarm a Vader. And the Predaking, I got my, I sold the Predaking for a hundred and the Bruticus for a hundred. There was a guy who actually needed the Bruticus to fill out his fucking collection. Guy gave me two 50 flat for it. You know, this is a no brainer when you see it, when a guy is getting divorced and he just needs to, you know, keep his toy assets away from his ex-wives grimy paws. That's when you're going to sort of

get your best deal on something like that. Who goes after a person's hobby and a divorce. That's super fucked up. Sweet diamond 70 20 says a narcissist. My mom is that way. Wow. way. Wow My dad's transformer toys and it ruined my childhood. I'm really sorry to hear about your mother What this is like now again as we said we don't even know we're just taking his word for it That she wants these things It might be something that he's making up in his mind and they're all kind of just going along with it kind of saying like What a fucking piece of shit. But yeah, I don't I don't know. I think it might just be like an assets thing

too when you have a divorce. I don't I don't know how divorce works. I mean, if they're not off to I mean, yeah, come on, man. I mean, if they're knockoffs, are they really worth any anything in the end? You know what I mean? Like he said they were most of them are knockoff What does that mean? I don't know brudicus and predicking were real but some of the other ones were knockoffs But the brute but the brudicus is fucking 175 easy of it depending on the how you know what the condition it's in So it's like yeah, then it's like even 25 dollars. You just need to recoup in the rest of them But what I don't know what knockoffs are.

I don't know how much they're worth. I don't know what the deal with any of this is. Here's the thing though. The post just says, I didn't want my ex-wife to have them. We don't know. It could just be the ex-wife's collection of toys. And this is a guy who doesn't even know what she has and he's dumped it on some loser for $200.

Yeah, that's true. That's also true. It could be, how we could be misreading the entire thing. Yeah, that's true. It could be how we could be misreading the entire thing. Yeah. He's the villain. Witchy boy says 99% of woman LOL. This is like woman 101. I know so many women that I've been petty like this. And yes, I'm 100% saying it's a girl thing. Men just don't do this shit. Men aren't petty. I've never met a man who's petty. I really haven't. They've never done anything petty. I've never acted in a petty's petty. I really haven't. They've never done anything

petty. I've never acted in a petty way ever before all the time. Yeah. Totally. Yeah, it's a, it's a girl thing. This is why Trump won is the Democrats kept insisting that the women don't want to steal your transformer toys. Solomon. Come quad says, take care of every single one of those duty. That's just outrageous. Both the day you got in the ex wife. I don't know how the law works. I'm not American, but how can the ex wife actually do that? How can she claim something that are not hers? And what about him? Can he claim something from the ex wife too? I feel bad for him. Marriage sucks big time for collectors.

Just in general, for collectors, the marriage is terrible for you. Yeah, it's a bad idea. If you're a collector, it's best to stay as a single guy. The people I feel really bad for are the collectors who are also in the lifestyle because it's like, what do you do? You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Yeah, you're a single guy. You don't want to, you don't want to be a single guy and a married collector. You could lose it all. You know, uh, this guy goes, uh, she threatened to take them because she claimed she helped pay for them, which is probably true. Um, have a Quilo

says fuck that. If I see my fellow collector in need, if I have the space and your crazy ex partner is coming after you, I will hold it for you until you can house it again. I don't wanna come up on that kind of sadness. I like saying house it like it's a dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just gonna, and this guy, when I was a team,

my dad and I were contracted to come over to a family friend's home and document their collection. Unfortunately it was the wife and she was getting a valuation for the divorce. That guy had an amazing collection, never seen anything like it in person. He had a life size lies, like lies size. He had a life size, the Darth mall, a den just for his boxes of comics, endless toys, multiple rooms in their house. just full of incredible stuff. I only saw in magazines or vaguely knew somebody out there could afford.

If you're a collector, it's something to be aware of. It may be your collection in the context of the relationship, but you're married. Then legally it's only 50% your collection. It doesn't matter how long you've been doing it or what the circumstances were over the years as you bought them all. So don't get married guys. I like the idea of a judge being like King Solomon and being like, I'm going to cut the life-size Darth Maul and half.

No, let her have it. Yeah. We're going to see who plays with it better. That's actually the best. That's the most fair way to do it. Who does the voices best? Here we go. Chris, this big one burning bun says goes both ways, right? You can get half of their Barbie collections and Louis Vuitton bags too. Wow. Oh yeah. Let me tell you the secondary market on hair straighteners. Forget about it. I mean, that's true in most circumstances. I mean, listen, I mean, Brian,

before we started recording, you were talking about, you were saying women be shopping. I think it was like a standup thing that you're working on or whatever, but it's like yeah If you're if your wife is out there shopping She's buying all her handbags our shoes and her hair straighteners then at the end of the day you're gonna come out good, you know, I mean you're gonna get all of those and She's gonna get a couple of Darth Maul fucking limited edition. Whatever my wife got my Ninja Turtles, but I got her Louis Vuitton bags. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it all comes down to the truth of it is,

somebody pointed out, she probably paid for half. It all depends on, I guess, how was it all structured? And I'm not a legal mom, but it's like, yeah, when you're in a marriage, then you split things. It's understood that things are just kind of split. And then if you're divorced afterwards and one of the I don't know It just it doesn't seem that Complicated I guess it's complicated by the fact that

These people have become obsessed with these collections that they have and they become more than just a monetary thing to them And so they're looking at all these crazy things. Yeah, like thinking about them like human beings, you know, like I'll house them over here I'll keep them like safe and away. Like I got a thing like underneath like in that, in the basement where I can sort of, if, if somebody does come by looking for them, I could sort of put them down there. Yeah. Um, it's not really a normal way to look at the type of stuff. I don't know. It's like the, it's like the bourbon guys sneaking bourbon into their basement, but you're like, I mean, you get drunk off the bourbon. It's like the bourbon guys sneaking bourbon into their basement, but you're like, I mean, you get drunk off the bourbon. It's actually, you can resell that bourbon and make a fuck

ton of money. Like if you buy a good stuff, you have to buy the Pappy. You can sell that for so much money. And if you buy the other stuff, if you don't buy the, if you buy the other whiskey, that's not Pappy kindly, please turn the podcast off now. We're not interested in you listening. Thanks. This is a Pappy only podcast where we're going to be the first podcast to get the Pappy endorsement. Oh, we got the fucking Pappy endorsement. Holy neither of us drink alcohol really. It would still be so good.

Telling people like if you're too poor to drink this whiskey that we paid fifteen hundred dollars for. Yeah, just in case, Jeremy, it's like, you know, prohibitively expensive for most everybody. It's not. Yeah, but it's worth it. And finally, a bottle of it for two hundred dollars from this guy who is getting a divorce. So, oh, am I what? I wouldn't have the heart.

How fucking buttery was that shit? Good. Well, I'm going to give it back once it's settled, but I did take a sip. You took a sip of it. I put some on my toast because that shit's so buttery. Finally, Stang Ace 20 says, like, we don't get paraded by women enough because of our hobbies. They have to try and shaft us like this too.

Yeah. Well, yeah, you shouldn't be getting berated about your hobbies. I agree. If that's a situation and I get berated about my hobbies all the time by who? By me? That's different. James and yeah, but that's the podcast. I mean, your hobbies are our friends that are into the part that like like the our guests Jesse Farrar maybe heck Just talking to them actually setting up our our wonderful 100th episode spectacular I was just talking to some of all of our great friends I I was looking to put together a list of all the people who feel the most comfortable making fun of Brian Good list so far wrestling guys is going to be crazy

wrestling guys episode 100 just a little bit of a We're gonna do it. Well, of course because it's wrestling guys. We will be doing it Royal Rumble style I call it casino battle royal style. We will be doing it Royal Rumble style We're you know battle royal where we will be adding it Royal Rumble style where we know Battle Royal where we will be adding a new guest every 10 to 15 minutes. And yeah, it will I think probably turn into one of the yeah, one of the most difficult things to listen to in the history of podcasting. But for some of that time, I think it's going to it's going to hit a moment in the middle where it's going to be really good for about five to ten minutes. How many people on this sub only collect action figures

for display and never take them out to play with them? What are thoughts on playing with figures as adults versus collecting them? I started collecting figures for several reasons recently as a 40 year old, but I have zero desire to remove them from the box to play with them. I just like the artwork and display side of it. So that's I think normal to me. I assume that everyone who's an adult and is collecting, I picture them keeping them in the box. I just don't know what as a 40 year old, I don't know what type of playing you would be doing with an action figure. I think you should take them out. I mean, if you want to, if you have them just to look at them,

you can take them out of the box at least, but you don't have to play with them. No, but Jeremy, then they, the resale value, right? Yeah. So that's, I think the whole idea when you're collecting, cause I do, I'm into collecting, like not, not in a serious way. I used to collect cards, like baseball cards and stuff. So I sort of understand the idea behind it and the excitement behind it. And yeah, it's kind of the idea. You probably won't ever resell them.

But there's this kind of feeling like, hey, I'm not just wasting all my money sinking it into this. This is a potentially an investment that I have. And you can sort of lie to yourself a little bit that way. But yeah, I just think it to me, the only benefit to taking them out of the package is to play with them. And I don't think as an adult, I don't think you have any need to play with them. So I'm going to surprise you guys a little bit. I think it feels great to just pick them up, look them over, repose them. That's kind of playing, but that's yeah. So I feel like if you're saying you want to look at them, you should take them out. But if you keep them in the box, that means somewhere in your head to you,

it's a little bit like a Bitcoin or something where you're trying to like, make money off of it. Yeah. If you're like, I just like the way Batman looks, then. But also, yeah, it depends on how you want to display them, I guess. Some people take them out of the like, this sounds like this person, they'll they'll repose them, you know, like, cause maybe they're posed in a certain way, but it's, it's not a bad-ass pose.

It's not a very cool pose. It's not the type of pose that you sort of picture them in. And so you change them. And then I've seen that as well, I guess, where people have them all laid out, like on a display, but out of the package. And I think that, yeah, that can, that can look kind of cool, I guess. And that's like sort of a different, different thing, but it's, I think that's a thing. Yeah, that can that can look kind of cool I guess and that's like sort of a different different thing But it's I guess that's a reason to not or to take them out and not play with them

Cool is a weird word to use to describe it But this guy goes while everyone has their grails that they like to keep in box Or they may just be in box collector the figures are meant to be posed and played with There's nothing wrong with any style of collecting unless it reaches a point of hoarding per se. In box are out and everyone's perspective and view on hoarding may be different too. Also posing action figures as an adult should never bring shame or anything like that. For example, there is grown adults dancing and making TikTok videos. Well, that's not my... I don't know that you want to use that as like your justification for it. I think you can just it stands on its own. It's perfectly

fine if you want it like you want to oppose them and just set them up and display them in a way that you like the way it looks. I mean, that's a similar to putting up art on your wall or whatever. You know, it's not the exact same, but it's sort of a similar thing. You know, also, he goes, that's not my cup of tea. They have fun doing it. And I have fun posing action figures being a nerd slash geek. Isn't really what it used to be. What percentage of the subreddit is people like explaining that they're not ashamed?

Yes, it's a lot. It really is like, so most like a lot of the time it's talking about buying a new ones. But even when you start to get into the thing where it's like, you know, there's a thousand dollar transformer out there that, can you imagine the type of idiot that would spend a thousand dollars on a toy? No, I can't. I don't know anybody that would ever approach that I Know people that might I think it's normal maybe to buy, you know, like a $700 toy sure

Perfectly normal. Wait, are you saying you've never spent a thousand is that is that let's you know, let's pull the veil back here Let's be honest here. You've spent a thousand on a set haven't you? No, I I haven't. I have not. I don't think I can pull the trigger. Was it Titanic? Titanic was only seven. And fifty. Yeah, it's all like seven fifty. Everybody. Did you hear he he first quoted it as seven hundred. Already, it's fifty dollars. I would say six. I would honestly, for real, say six fifty because I use my thousand reward my hundred dollars off reward.

That's not me. No, no, no, no, okay. But those are rewards you got from buying other Legos, spending money on Lego. My VIPs, yeah. I'm a Lego VIP, Jeremy. I would imagine you are. I mean, Jeremy, you can see behind it. I don't think Jeremy's surprised by that.

You have a lot of Lego behind you. Oh, it's not that much. At least you're taking them out. What if you were a Lego guy who's like, I just keep it in the box. I want to sell the Lego pieces one day. Oh my God. I bet you that exists, doesn't it?

It does. Yeah. And let me say this because I was, I, me and my wife have been going to like antique shops, like looking around for like Christmas presents to get people something cool. You know what I mean? Not like gift card or mass produced thing or whatever. Right. And I do really wonder what the impulse is to keep these figures in the box when you bottom in like 1984.

Like I don't think there was a big action figure market in like 1987 where you would think these would be worth anything. So when I'm like at this place and I see like a Bo Jackson starting lineup figure in the box. I'm like Who bought that? I'm well, you just don't they do it that way. Oh man discovers the concept of foresight. Good lord People know I mean that's you don't you think the concept of something being collectible did not exist in the 1980s? I just think I think they were so, I guess I feel like a lot of that stuff was so mass produced and that most of the time, maybe this is like just look, but I don't think adults bought a lot of toys for themselves in the eighties.

I guess it's great. I think, I think it was always happening. Honestly, you might be right. It's more accepted now. And there's maybe like, there's more, um, arrested development, I would say in our modern society now, like, you know, people who are adult age, but are not really living an adult life. You know what I mean? They're not like, I mean, I, that's not a fair way to say it. They're not living like a traditional, like, they don't have a job, but, you know, things like that. So I think maybe that might be the case. But I do think collecting things has been around nature. I've been boy collectors since the Roman era. People with a little, uh, see, box. Whatever the reason. Yeah. Like it's in our nature to want to collect and things and gather things,

you know, like it really is for sure. It's just keeping in boxes. Very strange impulse to me. I let that like, but I breathe, I felt like it's a modern thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. Maybe so, maybe so more, more so also is that people nowadays are just Yeah, maybe so. Maybe so more so also is that people nowadays are just looking for like hustles like the idea of a side hustle or like, you know, that exists more so than it used to. So there's like more people who are just out there like secondary market, putting it online and doing it as like a job kind of, you know, well, Lord Starscream 84 says, I like to pose my figures or transform my transformers. I don't put them on the shelf for display until the second

or third day after I get them because I want to get my money's worth. What is this? What does that mean? Play with them for three days. Okay, I just worked three days of play. I paid $30. It's $10 a day worth of play.

I just hit during him in his in his little jammies, you know, like just on the floor just playing just like in his little jammies, you know, like just on the floor, just playing, just like having two little things. I can't like, yeah, like that. That's what I picture when they're talking about playing. I'm sure it's not bad, but that's what I picture every time. It's funny because right before we recorded, obviously I was, I was, you know, making sure we had enough stuff for the show. And one of the things I clicked on was on a masters

of the universe, uh, forum. And it was a guy at Conan and then what's masters. He man, it's he, he, he man. Sorry. He man. Sorry. Conan. He man. Yeah. It's guys like I took and I don't remember what the thing was. I, I guess I could look it up, but it was like one of the vehicles they sold. Right. He's like, I took it to the park to play and like had it on like the grass moving and like the video was the thing moving and then playing bad to the bone. Bad to the bone. Oh, that is bad ass. I have that. I have the sound alert bad to the like I use that on my screen. Real bad ass happens on hit that riff. This is funny.

Rob, Rob Wiseman. He I do a quack to them. He's been on the show as well. Yeah, he fucking loves the bad to the bone riff when it like gets laid down in a movie or something or a commercial. You just crack every single time. Because this is why these guys are all getting divorced. What gets weird?

I mean, sit around playing with your wife walks in. Seriously, you're watching. And listen, I, I feel bad even saying this, but your wife walks in and sees you playing with toys. She's going to think differently. It just isn't like Brian, come on, man. You can't, it's one of us has to think differently. It just isn't like Brian. Come on, man. You can't. It's one of us has to say this. I mean, honestly, one of us, Jeremy or I has to say this is what your wife

literally walks in regularly, right? I mean, that's why I buy a doll as I play with are the man and woman on our wedding cake and I make them smooth. My wife walks in on us. Oh, that's so nice. Yeah. She's like, that is such a smart way to play with toys and still have the respect of your wife. She has no attending.

It's Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Oh, guy goes, I love this line. I love this line of this post. As much as I love having them and physical representation of what I love, they're still toys, so I'm going to have fun sitting on a couch posing them as I watch YouTube and eat dinner after work. Yeah. Okay. So I guess I'm misunderstanding what it means to pose them then. I thought it was a singular thing where you sort of pose that you like. So there, if you use,

it's like a fluid type thing where he's like it's evolving as like he's changing their poses. Yes, I do Actually, what I turned on a video from this guy named Shardimus Prime. Oh sure Why not? And I was watching it and his background was Crazy like you think mine looks nuts, right? With all the Legos back there. Yeah, I do. His is like 10 times that he's got shelves in the back that are

just completely full of, of toys. And the beginning of his video, he was, he was doing an unboxing, right? And at the beginning of his video, he was like talking about, Oh yeah. And now I'm going to do this and move these here. I'm going to show you guys because I'm really fascinated with this concept of the posing then like, what are they imagining them in a scenario? Like it's a soft motion kind of thing. And they're like creating a story line or something like that. Or like, or like what is what is what causes them to change the pose and what what many Iron Man I know full shelf of Iron Man okay yeah and he's and this is what we discussed he has them out of the

box posed on the shelves and listen it's quite bad it's cluttered and it looks messy. That's one thing about the boxes though is, you know, it does look more organized. I don't think so. No, it looks like a store. It looks like a store. It looks like a store. I agree with writer of wrong who says no offense, but I hate the box display. Look, I wouldn't even call it a display. To me, it's about as appealing as the toy aisle and target. A nice collection display has thought time and extra work put in to get a good display box displays. Don't need that. You do you though. No, you're right. But you can, I mean, that's not totally true. If you have a large enough

area, you can like do a creative box display. Do you know what I mean? But it's like, I suppose it seems kind of silly, but this, this is what I think happens a lot. And you guys aren't seeing this background right now, but it's like, there's just so much so many toys. I think this is what happens. They just get too many toys and they don't have space anymore. And there's just too many here. It needs the, he needs to take about half of them away for it to look good in any way,

you know, maybe give them to a kid here. We'll try it out here. We'll be posting a video tomorrow on my updated shelf situation. I painted this side of the wall over here with the mold resistant paint. I bought a new shelf for it. So I'm making space is a rat tail. My X-Men. Yeah, he does have a right like so it's very confusing.

He appears to have a shaved head, you know, in the beginning, like it's really shaved down on the sides, but then in the back there is a very long, it's a, it's I guess a rat tail. It might be a ponytail. We don't worry. It's kind of, but it does have a rat tail look to it. And I've discussed before I did it. I know. Cause I had a rat tail. I was five years old and I had a rat tail on a hundred percent. I wanted one really bad, but my hair is just shit. You know what I mean? Are you old enough that you could have had a rat tail? I did not have a rat tail though.

But how old are you if you don't mind me asking? You're too young. Way too young for a rat tail. I'm a 40 year old man. Yeah. Rat tail. I turned 40 like about a week ago. Life is a lot different now. My perspective is different on things. And it's like, wow, things are kind of fucked up now. I've noticed that I'm 40.

But yeah, I had like a Bieber haircut when I was in middle school. That's the age difference. That's fucking cool, too, though. Yeah, well, fucking cool. Well, listen to this. I wasn't planning to play this, but I do want you guys to hear this.

Just reviewed some yesterday. I'm gonna review some more. So I still love my Marvel Legends. In fact, I wanted to let you guys know that I will be posting a video tomorrow on my updated shelf situation. I painted this side of the wall over here with the mold resistant paint.

I bought a new shelf for it. So I'm making space. I'm gonna be clearing my X-Men villains out over here switching the shelves and make room for a 24 inch giant man back behind me over there and Moving some figures to that wall over there. I'm very excited about it. So today we're just doing some unboxing So he's very excited about he's actually gonna post a video about Moving his toys, which is yeah, I mean, that's what it's all about though. That's what you're collecting them.

And then it's like you can't be like buying them all the time, right? Because that would cost too much money. So you then you have to be doing other stuff with them. You're posing them or whatever. But so you have to find stuff to do moving the shelves around reorganizing them. Yeah, here's a great subreddit.

Here's a great post from the GI Joe subreddit. And I love this post and it makes me feel like I'm going back to my roots as a podcaster to talk about this. Why should the department of defense invest in GI Joe projects? It's common knowledge that the DOD invests in projects like call of duty, battlefield, the hurt locker, et cetera, to help entice enlistment into the US military. The fact that they don't invest in GI Joe is absolutely ridiculous and stupid. Not only is GI Joe perfect for the department of the defense is glorified

enlistment campaigns and to advertise possible concept vehicles from our loving friends at Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics. And an added bonus is Cobra and their ability to be an army with no national origin so they can be moved around and kept ambiguous. That was my biggest problem with Top Gun Maverick. The enemy nation was clearly a ram, but they couldn't say it. That's not true. They weren't allowed to say it.

Now my biggest questions are when will the DOD slap GI Joe with that sweet, sweet world's largest defense budget money? How good will the stories be? No matter what, Steven Amell should play Duke. So I'm like, I don't know, maybe there's a chance that they already do. They don't. But okay, so they don't. But I would say this is my feeling on it, that the idea of the Department of Defense

and the military funding children's toy was just a bridge too far even for war mongers. And, you know, like, I think that was maybe a bit too not for this guy. This guy is like this seems like a good idea. I'm not sure why they're not doing it. But yeah, I think society in general might not allow I certainly feel like it is something that is kept under their hat because we know Marvel works with Lockheed Martin and stuff like that, but they don't, they don't go out and say, get this collectible Lockheed Martin, they just kind of secretly do it. They like kinda, it's not something

you talk about and GI Joe, as people are going to point out is a child's toy. There's it's weird, right? Because GI Joe, I mean, the army is not like GI Joe, I guess is the way I would know. Yeah. There's not a pirate in a fucking army. You know what I mean? There's the like the GI Joe is exciting because it's not just the army. It's like special weird characters from the army. The guy goes, uh, this guy goes, uh goes I joined the Marines in part because of GI Joe That's unhinged to be playing with your fucking GI Joe seem you like I gotta kill some real people Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it was other things that play as well. Yeah, this guy goes that He maybe had like yeah some sort of psychological stuff

This guy goes the enemy nation and Top Gun Maverick was clearly Russia with a motive that would make sense for like, yeah, some sort of psychological stuff. This guy goes, the enemy nation and Top Gun Maverick was clearly Russia with a motive that would make sense for Iran. It's supposed to be vague and unable to be pinned down to the country. Just like in the first movie, GI Joe's in a weird spot because Hasbro doesn't know what to do with it. Is it a franchise for kids or adult collectors? As long as it's associated with children, it will never have DOD funding and also isn't nearly popular enough to warrant

special attention. Your examples, especially the video games are all popular with late teen early 20s crowd, which makes sense since that's the age group. The military wants to enlist GI Joe does not have that demographic. So what I think I'm hearing is these GI Joe's got to get in the hands of some teenagers. Yeah. You know,

they got to figure out how to get these GI Joe's in the hands of some teenagers. Yeah. Yeah. What are the teenagers? Uh, Brian, I mean, I guess Gwen's not really not a teenager, but she's recently was a teenager. Can you sort of speak to what they're into that, that maybe GI Joe could adopt? It's interesting. You said my daughter is very different in that. And this I don't know if this is like a daughter thing or she didn't really play with toys. I see like she didn't. She never was like somebody.

She had an American girl doll. Right. Yeah. Those are even then it was just kind of standing there. She just she was Impose it didn't even come Those are mostly for the sad movies that come with them the American Girl dolls. Yeah. Yes. Yes This guy goes the GI Joe if GI Joe had a battlefield Call of Duty game with that quality They might turn those teens and 20-something into collectors. So video games straightforward, just like sort of a but why would that such an oversaturated market with already successful games? You know what I mean? I think it would be hard

to like, why would somebody even want to put the GI Joe thing on there? Well, this guy goes Marvel has made some of the biggest movies in the last couple of decades and haven't turned a bunch of people in comic book into comic book fans. Likewise, COD doesn't have a large toy line or collector's item. I know some exists despite being a popular franchise. And then finally, this guy goes, I said might action figures is far less intimidating than diving into Marvel comic. And it's a massive mess of conflicting, ever changing lore. Now, let me, let me agree with that real quick because I tried to get into Marvel comics recently and I hated it and it sucked. It was impossible to figure out how to read the storylines even on

the app where they give you the storylines. And then you find out these storylines are like 90 books. I'm not reading 90 comic books. That's fucking crazy. So I tried that and it was so repetitive and boring. So they didn't turn me into a comics guy. Although now I paid $119 for a year access to DC comics. And that's better.

And I do. I think it's better. I think that I'm looking through the collections and they're shorter and I think I prefer the stories. They're more, I guess they're like more, this sucks to say, I guess they're more adult oriented. They're less kiddy, I guess. Green Lantern understands my plight better. Well, I'm reading Flashpoint and I am enjoying it. So I found out about this Robeson auto-conferting transformer toy. I can show you guys. I think that you need to see it and then we will go ahead and talk about it's $1,000.

So this is the big this is like original price at that not on a secondary market. This is yeah, this is the big, this is like original price at that, not on a secondary market. This is, yeah, this is original price. Wow. We buy, this is the original price of it and it is just a transformer toy from across the gate. Turn the sound off. We don't need to hear the story. Here we go.

Okay. So this removes the ability for you to do the playing though. So now you can't even be like, well, I want to do the transforming myself because it actually you can't do it anymore. Well, Jeremy, I also got to tell you this real quick. In order for it to stand, the power has to be on. So that's so funny. Yeah, it's an app.

So you can control it with an app and it does transform. But if you want it to pose, it has to be powered. You can't turn the power off of it. The battery on what the battery lasts like five hours where I'm like, why would you need that? What? What? In what world would you need five hours of battery to play with your optimist prime? Cause this isn't for kids. If you're filming a video, maybe making a video with them. A lot of these guys are doing stuff like that. You know what I mean?

Make a little video of him, like doing having some adventure, you know, and then they'll, like, edit it together. I don't think you have any. There's toy conventions. You can go to. Yeah, I just feel like this. There's not a single kid with this thing. No, maybe maybe like some real rich kid or something Yeah, well, yeah, it doesn't seem to be geared towards children. No, so this guy asked

What do y'all think about the recent Robeson auto-converting? Transformer toys first guy goes I can see how they'd be cool as an expensive novelty But it seems a bit like paying a thousand dollars for a Rubik's cube that solves itself. There you go. Totally right. This guy's right. Jeremy just said, yeah, it's like taking away the part that would be the playing part. It's just, yeah, you just have this like cool sort of gadget now that sort of maybe cool a couple of times. And also it, they call it like saggy. Like if it's the truck, it can sit there. But if you're the transformer, if it's like optimist prime, he like has to

crouch down because it takes power to move his knees to stand up. So it's not a posable thing. It is honestly a thousand dollars piece of crap. I think sort of just a little bit, but Hey, this neck, this is why I cut this out for the episode. Bishy King goes, these are definitely not worth thousands of dollars. Somebody's probably laundering some money through these things. LMFAO. Yeah. And then think of a bunker. Well, yes, yes. You know, it's funny about that. We're going to do wrestling guys. But when AEW first started, there's funny about that. We're gonna do wrestling guys But when AEW first started there was a theory that the mob was funding the first show they did Tickets but that was like a debunked because when the mob is involved in a business, they usually have some success This guy goes robotics ain't exactly cheap and Bishop King goes, it's literally literally

just some metal pieces with servos attached. If I had the money and time and desire, I could make one of these out of an MG Gundam model for essentially nothing. If he had the time, he could make the toy himself. Fucking delusional. Hell, I got a rose. There was just got a couple of servos. What's a servo? I only know the Brian Jones sound massacre song. I don't know what it is. But I think it has like over a hundred servos in it.

I don't know what a servo. Whatever they are, it's got a lot of them. It's got a lot of them. It's loaded with servos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he goes, uh. How much does it cost? Where do you where can you buy servos? I don't know.

Let's let's get this set to find the market for servos and we could see if we can build one of these ourselves. Buying spell it. Servos, servo, S.E.R. Via is there. So the guy goes, oh, they are micro servos that literally run. There are 10 pieces for $25. Oh, we could make one of these in a second. Go get me a trade.

They they're servo motors. So they're like little motors for me for robotics, like used in making little robots. So we're going to make some robots. We could make some Brian, let's become robot builders and make row. We'll make a guy's robot. We'll make a Tom with a big giant arm and one tiny little arm and a big Dick that you can actually go to the, go to the balls and pump it up. No, you're right. Totally right. You're totally right. Of course. But I just pictured somebody who doesn't really, they just listening to the podcast for the first time And I'm just like yeah big arm and smaller and you're like and a big dick

He does have a big dick though. Yeah, he does fame it Well, it depends when it's pumped up It's big but when it's we could make it we could do that we could use like a mechanism to make it Sort of expand and get larger because he has a pump in there to make a bigger So I'm gonna take you guys to a website called his tank. It's a GI Joe forum. Okay. And this is where we get back to what I called Chris at the beginning of show a scalper. And here's a story from a guy named smoke Ballou.

It's a true story. Obviously. Okay, good. Last night at a party, I had a conversation with a professional scalper. A friend happened to mention to me that a woman at the Hootenanny sold toys for a living. Thinking that meant she owned a toy store. I asked this gal if she had any POC wolfhounds for sale,

not people of color. What actually is it then? I actually don't know. Well, then how can you say it's not that thing if you don't know what it is? Looking to replace one my son had stolen, turned out she was just a scalper, didn't have any wolfhounds and didn't know what one was. Long boring conversation short, she was fairly knowledgeable about this crap. The most interesting thing was that although her specialty isn't GI Joe, she

knew all about the night viper matter of fact, she's the one that brought the toy up, apparently there's a sort of scalper grapevine and is known as a hot item and one of the things they look for specifically since the value has fallen. A lot of scalpers are sitting on them right now, waiting for supply to dry up. The thing that bothered me the most was her matter of fact statement about creating artificial scarcity. If there's a lot of buzz about something, they'll buy up every single piece they can and hoard them. Mostly though, scalpers like to hit Ross and other clothes out sort. They then hoard some items until demand jumps. Granted, this is all stuff we already knew. It was just weird to hear it straight out

of her filthy mouth. And not all of us knew this to be honest, because I didn't, I mean, it makes sense. Of course there's scalping and other things. I never thought of it. Like, you know, you're just buying something and then, but I wasn't picturing how it makes sense in this, but that does make sense that you're sort of sitting on it

until there's no more left and there's this huge demand for it and then you can sell it on secondary market when people think there's none left, but in fact you have a bunch of them. It's some pretty, pretty dirty business I would say, yeah. I don't think that there is a concerted effort to do that. Oh, I know people used to do that with like PlayStations when they came out, like the PS5, people would just go to GameStop and buy like 20 of them and just hope they would go out. I think that people are doing this type of thing. Definitely. Like I said, I think the modern day sort of like culture behind getting money and stuff is I think a lot of people are doing this type of shit really, you know, it's like,

seen as like, Hey, I can do this. It's very little work, you know, like I have to go there and be first to get it and then I have to wait, but it's not actual amount of work and I can make a bunch of money. I think it's a lot of work. Like I think it's a lot more work than it. Like what I think depends. I think it yes, it's definitely more work than what you or I do. That's no real work. Like, you know, we both have done throughout our lives, real work, obviously, a lot of jobs that are, you know. And I would say that it's not as hard. I mean, look, it's not that hard.

I mean, I take to buy a couple of fucking toys and then, you know, send them to somebody. And the hard part is watching the children cry when they can't get it at the store. Yeah, well, now we'll hear a bit about that. By the way, I looked it up. POC is pursuit of Cobra. Oh, OK. I knew it wasn't people of color. I love the idea of some guy being like, why are all these politicians

talking about Cobra all the time? We're not. Are we at war with Cobra? Which is obviously Iran, by the way. That's true. Jeremy thinly bad. You guys, instead of getting into shit with her, I just said, I was glad she wasn't around when I was a kid. I'd have never found any of the toys I wanted. Some of the other parents there expressed disgust after one lady said something about this being the reason she could never find the toys her kids wanted. I had better things to do and more fun people to talk with. So I left the conversation. So he was, this person was the bigger person and they walk, they could have fucking unloaded

obviously. And it sounds like other people at the party kind of wanted them to, they're like, Oh yeah, yeah. You know, she just kind of like, no, no, no. Like, you know, pushing me by the way, like just really being the bigger person. That's very cool to see. Yeah, they were all like, dude, you're so mature for not going after her. But I would like to see her again. Buddy, I would have fucking punched her and it would have been the funniest thing ever. That episode came out, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That episode came out last. Well, it's OK. OK, good. The Simpsons guys were all the people on the forums were hoping for more violence against the female characters on the show. Yeah, one of the guys specifically was saying how funny it is to see a guy hit a woman. Very weird.

The guys were very weird. They were very strange. Yeah. Traz says, I guys were very weird. They were strange. Yeah. Uh, trash says, I know people here hate scalpers, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have a lot of my collection. If someone hadn't resold on eBay, I actually ran into three separate ones who stock my local TRU. I don't know what that is. One guy buys up all the new hot wheels type stuff. One guy buys all the electrics eclectic stuff, McFarland stuff like that. And the other guy buys the Joe's when the electrics, eclectic stuff, McFarland stuff like that.

And the other guy buys the Joe's when the doors opened, he rushed to the back and picked up all the new five packs. When I got there and saw him, he realized that that was all I came for. And he gave me one. We talked a little bit. He wanted the bad guy. That's just how he made money. He'd been out of work for three years.

I guess my point is they aren't all bad. Some are just regular people. Was he was he getting the was he getting the like the cartoon, the adult cartoon toys or was it the crooning stuff? Probably the crooning stuff. I'm sorry. I apologize. We did Seth MacFarlane, guys. So that was a Seth MacFarlane.

No wrong. MacFarlane, by the horse. I know McFarlane. The wrong McFarlane, by the way. I know McFarlane. McFarlane. It's called a fucking joke, Brian. Look, we'll watch fucking go watch Kill Tony if you want to see what a joke is. That's a shout out to the person who told me and begged me to stop. Please stop mentioning Kill Tony so much on the show. I felt really bad when I saw that comment because I knew we've recorded a lot of

episodes already ahead and I mentioned it on every single one. Oh, no. Resolute bat says my biggest problem with scalpers is the people like me who have to be at work early in the morning. Can't sit there waiting for a shop to open to get a shot at what I want. So I have to spend my money. I earn from getting up at 4 a.m. to buy the toys. They scooped up from the shops. That's not your problem with scalpers. That's everyone's problem with scout. That's the whole problem with them. That's you're just explaining it. Yeah. I just want to get home from my day at the factory and play with my goddamn G.I. Joe.

But I can't pose my fucking cobras when I get home from. Yeah, that's that is getting home from the factory Getting in your jammies and getting on the floor and then playing with you Like the idea that they're all in jammies because yeah, well you're playing with your toys. You gotta get your jammies It's funny to imagine them sleeping on like a twin bed with like GI Joe she That is literally what's in my head when I'm picturing these grownups play the wife, like it's two twin beds put together. Cause the wife wants a regular bed and he wants the GI Joe sheets. This guy goes, Oh, P story sounds made up, which I love when people do that. Cause it does, it does, but it's like,

whatever you kind of, unless it's like really flagrant, you just kind of got to believe people at face value on these forums Of course, everyone could be lying and well Ozzy 92 says why even say this it's a conversation starter that which generates discussion Concerning our hobby don't make baseless speculative comments to stir up much ado about nothing Okay, so that person said the thing that I was saying in, but in a such a fucking annoying way, they have helped me learn to let go. And in this hobby, that's a good thing. That being said, what a crummy way to make a living. They really hate these like in a way that's, but in a way that's like, no Brian, society hates these people. Society hates these people. These people, this is not like, no Brian, society hates these people. Society hates these people.

These people, this is not like think about how hated scalpers are, you know, the secondary market people and concerts and stuff. I love the secondary market. These people are scum of the earth and we all agree on that. I buy them. I buy stuff from secondary market all the time. Try and wait for the tickets to sell out just so you can give a few extra bucks as a tip. I do. Actually, I don't do that, Jared. My brother last night, my brother took his wife and daughter to see Billy Eilish recently. OK. And he came to trivia last night. We did not win. We came in second and third.

He came to the. Sorry, what? Second and third. You had two teams. No, no, no, no. We came in second one game, got into a goddamn, a fucking goddamn battle, sudden death battle. And they ask which one of these Canadian provinces doesn't touch saltwater.

And I'm like, it's Saskatchewan. I'm like, I know it's that I I just know. And my brother's like, no, I think it's Ontario. And I'm like, it's Saskatchewan. And he was like, it's Ontario. And I was like, fine. Hit Ontario, and then boom, we lose the sudden death. That's so sad.

And it's Saskatchewan. Of course it is. It definitely does. It was like BC, Saskatchewan, Toronto, and Newfoundland were the answers. Well, not Toronto, Ontario, you mean? Ontario and Newfoundland were the answers. I you mean Ontario and Newfoundland were the answers I was like come on dude it's Saskatchewan obviously well why don't you why don't you

sort of like step in there and say listen I and I know this well I know how it works because we don't do shaming each other it's not about shaming it's just like why don't you stand up for yourself there and say I'm sure of this one. You are incorrect here I have the right answer. I did that and he was very very much. He he found he had the right answer So I was like fine, but why does he win out? Is he bigger than you? Are you scared of him? No, I'm bigger than him. I could beat him up poor sure Why are you scared of him? What can he do to you? What what does he have over you that you're so afraid of that? Well, we just love each other and I just if you feel strongly about something I'm not you felt strongly as well

I did I felt very so did Katie actually and so what what happens after that by the way, like that's an awkward Awkward scenario. It happens a lot when we do it People happen to happen the other way happens the other way too. Or like sometimes do you I don't really do that I'm good. I'd never miss really Okay, and and if I ask Katie if I talked to Katie about it She would have as very as the same story do you think I'm known as the Michael Jordan of trivia in my crew. They are all like Brian's here we're my woman we might win. Is that because you had that Hitler mustache for a little bit. Yeah I did have a Hitler mustache too. Your eyes are so yellow. No the the the

I think if that's true that's very surprising to me because you don't strike me as somebody who would be good at trivia. I'm great at it. That just means you're dumb. It means he's saying, I think you don't know a lot of stuff. No, no, no. I don't think trivia is for smart people. No, it isn't. No, Brian's smart. He's like educated and smart. Maybe he doesn't always make it seem that way. I always do. But like on purpose, I feel like, but he's smart and educated and I recognize that. But he just doesn't strike me as a trivia guy, like a person with that type of knowledge.

That's funny you say that because yesterday I was talking. Song by the Beatles written by John Lennon. Yes. I was talking to John Cullen about our idea to do trivia battle between podcasts. And he's like, I'm totally in. And I'm like, I think we can win, but I don't know about Chris. He's probably, well, I, I will buddy, buddy, you will be lucky to be my Scotty Pippen. You, you most likely know who's a Tony Kuh Coach, maybe, might be Kuh Coach. Maybe we'll give you, I mean,

I'm clearly gonna be the Jordan. I am a killer at trivia. Well, then we're gonna win. So this guy goes- I'm not a sports sports, is I'm just, my sports trivia knowledge is very high. I know everything else. So this guy-

We're fucking, we're gonna dominate. So we won't talk too much about it, but yeah, this is an idea Brian has, and I think it's a good one where we do these trivia battles between podcasts. You know, you bring your two people on, you know, YKS or whatever it is, you know? I mean, you got Jeremy. Yeah, we'll bring you guys. You do boarders. I suck at trivia, but we'll do that.

That's good. We love that. We love that. We want to fill out our light though. Yeah. Fill out bracket though. And then of course, and then we'll do a random draw, you know? This guy goes, sorry, scalpers or losers. Go to college, get a degree, get a career, get married, have kids, enjoy time with family and friends. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? Well, this just seems odd. That doesn't, there's a lot of stuff. Like the job thing I get.

Why is he talking about, why is he talking about getting a family, enjoying, like what does that have to do with not seeing? Because it's better than scalping. But some scalpers might have a family. Yeah, I don't have food on my children's table. Hey, none of them do. None of them have a family. It's a loser job. Mom's basement

type stuff. This is how like armies talk about their enemies. So they're like, you can kill them. It's fine. They have nothing. They're dead behind the ice. It says anybody trying to make a living flipping toys hoarding and then making artificial demand, etc. losers get a life, put that time and energy into something more rewarding. Bet most scalpers fit that stereotype of the comic score guy from the Simpson question to all of you lame troll scalpers out there. Have you even touched a woman that you didn't have to pay? Whoa. Wow. Oh, hey, guess what? Scalpers. You ain't ever got your dick sucked. That's Oh, hey, guess what scalpers? You ain't ever got your dick sucked.

That's fucking that's really, that's really harsh. And I agree with it completely. Again, scalpers worse than single guys in my opinion, scalpers might have just taken tarpers and single guys out of the top three. And I think there's a little overlap as well. Like, I think that you will find some people who are tarpers and they're fucking single guys and they're also, you know, uh, whatever the thing is that we're talking about now scalpers. The, I think that a lot of them, it's just, it's just sort of a bad, bad guy.

Like a person with a bad, like it's bad, you know? Yeah, I don't know. I feel like there's gotta be, this guy's probably one day going to run into a scalper who will date like 30 Women at once and then you pay extra to date one of his beautiful girlfriends He goes fucking nerds seriously you people disgust me leave the damn toys on the pegs for the recreational hobbyists and kids Lames, sorry. I'll get off my soapbox now. I Lames. Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now. I mean, he kind of lost me when he's like nerds because he's to me, the scalpers are not nerds. They are bullies who are sort of picking on the nerds. And the nerds are the

ones who want the toys really badly so they can play with them and do poses with them, which is fine. I'm a nerd in a lot of ways, but yeah, I don't think you can be throwing that line around What I don't think you're a nerd in that way Chris and look that's me being nice to you. I appreciate I was I didn't recognize it Thank you. That's weird. It's it's not something I like to do often. But yeah, no, I feel like Yeah, you got to kind of call them for what they are, which is awful people, you know? Yeah, that's the same thing as single eyes. The same thing. This guy goes. And again, I want to, I just want to clarify this because I do feel the need to clarify

this because I think that there don't we're talking about single single guys in the lifestyle in the swing or lifestyle in the swing. Also just in general. No, we're not because I don't want to say that truly. I would have a single at a time and I mean it's not, you know, we don't need to be shaming people and making them feel you guys were never single. You don't need to be shaming them and making them feel bad. Even you know what I mean? I do want to clarify. There's nothing wrong with single carvers. I just, there's nothing wrong with being a single guy, but the pineapple, well, there's nothing wrong with being a single guy but if you're in the pineapple well there's something wrong with being a tarper that's different but unless you're in the pineapple

lifestyle then it's abhorrent and you're disgusting you're a rat you're you know you're dirty little rat. You taste out with a frying pan this guy goes I'm surprised there's a grapevine it seems like a true scalper would be out to hose everyone honor amongst thieves. OK, so we got this. I can't believe the name of this company is called Manipal M.A. and I P.P.L.E. That's still better than Shardimus Prime. I'm still upset about that one. That's that's a guy.

No, but that's a guy's name. You know, here's a picture of this set that I'm really given name. That's a name. It was that's his birth name that is you can given name. That's his name. That's his birth name. That is you can be mad at his parents for giving him the name Shard of it. Joseph and Kelly Prime. They had such normal names that recently came out from Manipal Studio. It's a breaking bad. Might I say it looks really good. It looks really good. They do look there I feel like their skin is like the it's too dark

Yeah, they have made Walter White kind of like a Middle Eastern man or something Yeah, so it's a little bit off in that way, but it does look like they look good Like, you know, otherwise it looks quite realistic and it like bring it up again. What does it have there? Oh, it's got a totes of math. It's got a here. We'll get it back up here. Let's get it back in the it's like totes of math in the back. It's got the barrels. It's got all the stuff to cook and it and it's pretty detailed. I don't know how small this is, you know what I mean? Because there's no real scale for it.

I don't see any scale. Because it looks like life size in the photo. But yeah, so they're really detailed. Like that little masks and stuff. Yeah, I like this. I'll say this. I am a massive fan of that show. I have a Breaking Bad

like piece of art on my wall in my living room of the weight. You know that? No, I did not know. I said it's them cooking. It's like illustrated of the the trailer cooking. It doesn't look like a Breaking Bad thing. I feel really bad for Jeremy right now. You know, he's sitting here. He's just like, oh, I just have to like stare.

I have to like just act like that's like not kind of funny or whatever. Because he's nice enough to, you know, oh, no, I imagine Brian is calling up his friends to be like, you guys want to play Breaking Bad later? And no, I don't. I don't have toys, Brian, but like Breaking Bad art art is like I'm not trying to be rude here or anything But it's it's kind of like a bit like scarface kind of sure I guess but it's not like a poster that they sold it doesn't you can you show it to me? Can I? Errs

Go downstairs take a picture of it. No,, no, I mean later, later, like, like later on. I don't think it looks bad. I have a lot of stuff on my walls. That's the only pop culture thing, but okay. I have a lot of stuff on my walls. I liked it. I got it. I'm not trying to make you feel bad. I'm sorry, Brian. Brian, Brian, I apologize. I have heard that. I'm sure it's a, it's a, it's nice to me. I was picturing like like a movie poster style being framed up like I wouldn't do that or whatever. I wouldn't do something like that's not the kind the only real movie thing I have on my wall is the Corbin Bernsen picture. Yeah, that he signed to Gwen. We thought it was very funny.

So we hung it on. Yeah, that's fucking awesome. Yeah, that's a great piece of art right there Well, I can't make too much fun because I'm underneath a movie poster That is yeah, I have the from when I was a kid My dad got this the spider-man movie poster from before they change they took the World Trade Center out of his eye Oh, that's cool. I have that right very yeah, that's my 9-eleven poster. That's pretty cool I have a piece. Very yeah, that's really 9 11 poster. That's pretty cool.

I have a piece of art in front of me right now. A piece of art, a local thing from here. It's a piece of like indigenous. Well, that's the thing. This Breaking Bad thing is like a painting that somebody did. Like, and it probably doesn't read as Breaking Bad if you've never seen the show.

It's just a, unless you're in the Breaking Bad culture. Yeah. And I'm not, I, by the way, people get mad at me about this. I, I tried to watch it and I, uh, veiled on Breaking Bad because I was too, I got too annoyed by the, um, by the Jesse Pinkman character. Sure. Uh, he was just like so annoying to me and I knew too many people like that growing up. And I just like found it the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show.

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I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of the show. I comes with meth supplies. Fucking gross. What? Well, I mean, it's the, the, that's what the show's about. Well, somebody says, have you watched the show? And he goes, I have, I found it to be really overrated. And the last season was almost a parody of itself. I understand these aren't popular opinions and I don't really intend to argue them as I have noticed that nobody who is a fan of the show seems in any capacity willing to acknowledge that it might maybe not be perfect lol my point was that this is a pretty unattractive set from an overrated show and I think it's kind of weird to have a miniature meth lab set up in my house you can agree or not it

is subjective so that guy's lost her way way, like getting chemotherapy. It should exclude the whole meth. Ask just be a cancer patient. Walter White. It's Walter White working at the car wash or him. It's a nice family dinner. Yeah, better times or whatever when things are okay. The yeah, even maybe before all the stuff maybe before the show happened before the show happened before we even pick up watching them

You know what I mean? Just when things were fine and good. Yeah, this is so this guy is so funny He goes this guy goes the protagonist dealing crystal meth Illegally is the entire premise of the show if you don't like it don't watch it and don't buy the toy simply replies weird Because I thought posts about content had comment sections to discuss the content in question Oh, this guy is the worst kind of guy. We hate these at least I this is the guy I hate the most But he's also like, you know, he is kind of funny in a way, I guess because oh god he gets so much more funny He's just he's just in there to do exactly this and anyone who will take the bait He's just like he's gonna sit here and sort of be like act sort of incredulous.

Like, I'm not I don't know what what's what's this all you know, and he's going to use the most annoying language and talk down to everybody. And I can't wait. Oh, he goes, guess only people who agree with you are allowed to have opinions. Thanks for the clarification. Oh, he's so condescending. I know I did just hate on this show. He's just, oh god, people stop talking about Breaking Bad 10 years ago and he's just like, Lord. Yeah, he's excited. He probably searched Breaking Bad instead of figures.

You know what I mean? Like he's in the action figures subreddit because he searched Breaking Bad. So his get mad. His original comment is, oh, they've got math. Great. This next comment is actually this exchange started because I expressed distaste in the meth lab accessories to this very set of action figures. What's weird to me is that I have that I've been able to respectfully and cordially express that I don't think this is a good show. I think this is an unattractive and somewhat gross action figure set. But everyone who doesn't agree with me either does personal attacks at me like you just did. Or they try to argue with me pointlessly, sarcastically and rudely. Honest question. Are you able to disagree with someone without being a dick to them?

I hate this guy so much. I really hate the whole like cordial thing. It's so lame. Oh, cool ad hominem attacks on him from Jeremy This guy goes what exactly would you expect these characters and these outfits to come with yeah That's a very valid question. It's a show that is very much centered around the production of meth. And he goes, honestly, I'd just rather they not be made into figures, but I guess I get why people like them, or at least I get why a toy company will want to profit off their popularity. So personally, I kind of find the idea of setting up a meth lab and my favorite meth

dealer action figures kind of gross. Well, so he's like, I would rather they don't make them at all. That's such a good response to that. They're like, Oh, would you have them do these meth characters? If not having the meth, he's like, well, I don't even want them to be made at all. He thinks it's like Joe camel or something. Like, yeah, this guy is like, yeah, he's so maddening. Like he's like he's like very good at what he does and what he does make people mad online.

Oh, well, this guy goes, you're the one who came into a thread about a figure you don't want with a holier than now attitude would have been super easy for you to just keep scrolling. His response is the same can literally be said about you. Ha ha. Oh, that's he's got that one in the chamber always. You know what I mean? Because people are saying like, Oh, you're just sitting here. You could have like said nothing at all. And then he's just like, I think the same could be said for you. You could have downvoted and moved on. Of the two of us, I'd say I'm the one using the site as intended discussing the content of a post.

You're picking a fight with me personally, because I think a meth lab action figure set is kind of gross and you think that's holier than now. Have some self-awareness, buddy. If you go on this guy's profile, can you see what toys he's deleted? He's deleted. So I love it. It's like, oh, well, Superman's actually a hero, so it's cool to have his, but the meth.

Yeah. He's, uh, I think this guy has been kicked off of the forum. I have to be. He seems like a real crappy guy. It causes problems in your forum. You know what I mean? It's like who are like formula. They were like formula.

They were like really nice and kind and always engaged. Now they've just become like completely unhinged at the hands of one interaction with this guy You know one's even discussing this the set anymore, which is what it's supposed to be for and this is his whole thing This is what he does is what he does. He absolutely Everything just evolves into you know Bickering with this guy and at the end he goes somebody says into, you know, bickering with this guy. And at the end he goes, uh, somebody says like, you know, why are you in here after that? And kind of you're the one that's being kind of a dick.

The guy goes, because people who like the show are obviously gonna not like your comment. You're so mad about that you downvoted my comment that just says LOL. Even when I agree with you, you still find something to argue about. Looks like you like the argue and his final post is so they're obviously not going to like my comment. And then you and the other person would argue with me, but you guys are the ones arguing with the user about their opinion. All I did was share that opinion. Like you pointed out, eventually you agreed with the point that I was making. I'm on my lunch break and I'm nothing else going on. So yeah, I'm going to answer the silly argumentative nonsense

coming from people like you and why in the world would I not downvote a comment that simply said, L O L. So very, very, very smart to throw in at the end there that he's on his lunch. Yeah, that's a power move. That's a huge power movies. It's like, yeah, I'm taking a quick 30 minutes before I get back to some of my meetings where I make Smart when you're arguing online, so we just have a few things left and I just yeah because you're arguing in the middle of the day on a Wednesday as well So it's like the insinuation is that you're not working. So you throw that in there, like I'm on my lunch break. Just yeah, yeah, yeah.

I like, I can use that. It's smart. It's a really subtle dig. Here's a good thread of what's the dumbest thing someone tried to tell you about action figures. Okay. First guy goes, you should invest all that money into something useful as a quote.

And then he says Some guy that spends like seventy five dollars per night at clubs It's not very much By the way, if you're like a 70 if you're going to a club $75 is a very low amount to spend not drink a lot. No and you're not. Yeah, just it's not a real night out But I guess that that person would argue that they're they prefer to pay for experiences. Yeah, you know, there's there's different people who prefer to spend their money differently. You know, well, this guy says, I've been told this by someone that smoked between one and two packs of cigarettes a day.

I could have purchased basically a figure a day and spent less than their unhealthy addiction. Well, they're addicted. You just said it at the end. They argue a chemical addiction to nicotine. I guess I would argue that collecting pieces of plastic is probably also unhealthy and bad for the environment if I had to. Yeah, not as bad for you personally, but yeah, for the environment. And also it's just like, I don't know, it just feels like, I guess these people are addicted though. Oh yeah. The next, this next to this next exchange made me laugh out loud. You're never going to find a girlfriend if you keep buying this stuff. I'm happily married now. Guy gets a response of a, he paints a picture that is so funny. I mean, he goes, I remember being in college and because I was an RA, I had a room to myself.

I had a couple of shells of various figures along with movie posters on my wall. Two girls wanted to see how my room was set up because they were signing up to live in a similar space. They saw my room and said, do you bring girls in here with an air of judgment? I've been married for 10 years now. And the only difference is my figures cost more. Wow. I'm still mad at these two girls who were mean as a child.

Those two girls, but yeah, I mean, Hey, good for good for you. I mean, that's the truth of it is we talk about this all the time. I mean, that's what you really have to do. If you are really, really obsessed with something like that, you need to find somebody who's completely accepting of that and doesn't make you like hide it in any way and totally embraces it. And the people who have found that,

there seem to be the happiest, you know, where they're either both into it or the other one person is completely accepting. It's very rare Yeah, I have a kid. That's the real thing right like I I know my dad was like a huge nerd about this kind of stuff And then he had a child so you can just buy it for your kid And then you get to play with the toys too you can you can play father Yeah, yes, and you have somebody to play with that should be playing Yeah, the nine-year-old, you know, you're a pervert or whatever. Yeah, this guy's gonna infuriate both of you

Just letting you know now because it is isn't it dumb to have all these toys and then his next line is They aren't toys. I don't play with them. They are a way for me to physically hold, see, and interact with imagination. They are art. They are statues that are poseable. They are my dreams. I mean, funny because like, I'm pretty sure I said most of that horrible corny stuff, like in earnest earlier out of the episode, pose like said, basically all that stuff. Yeah. I mean, this is, it's their imagination. It's there. So that, that answers that for me that at least some of these people are sort of posing them and, and imagining them in different scenarios and stuff like that. This guy goes, quote, it's an investment.

It'll only grow in value until they make a new, better, and more detailed line for the same franchise and characters. Companies will just piss me off the way they, they don't care about the little guy. I hate it. Why? You ruin the value of it by molding and modding and painting.

So some of these guys do mods and he goes, Oh sure. Because it's mine. mods and goes, Oh, sure. Because it's mine. And he goes, I'm caring for it to pass on to my kids. And he goes, I will be buried with them like a Pharaoh. So now he's kind of being funny. And then at the end, he's like 140 bucks, kind of expensive for a plastic toy with no real value.

And he goes, how much did you pay for your newly redesigned shirt for your team that hasn't won a game in five seasons? 600 bucks, mind you. But, but that's a different thing because it's not about winning when you're playing like beer league or whatever. It sounds like that person is like going out, getting physical activity, interacting with other people, like, you know, having some camaraderie and community. So that is a bit different. You think that maybe these guys have all their friends over and they bring some ofaderie and community. So that is a bit different. Do you think that maybe these guys have

all their friends over and they bring some of their toys and then- I mean, maybe some of them do, but I don't think you can really compare you spending money on toys versus doing something really nice and buying jerseys for your team. It sounds like this person has spent money to make sure that everyone has these jerseys and as someone who's played beer leagues, Sapa, we did slope it. We did softball guys. Um, but yeah, like it's really nice, man. It's like a really nice thing. When you're

an adult, you don't get out and do that type of shit very often. It's nice. You're like playing a game. There's a little bit of like, you know, you could win or lose. You get to hang out, drink a bit, maybe. Yeah. As much as buying a fucking toy. Well, this guy goes, don't get me started on that last point. Some dork at work spent several thousands of dollars

on a quote home theater unquote and gave me guff for collecting figures. Like what's the difference? Well, there's again, I think there's a difference, right? I mean, I don't know. His own version of the like, okay, yeah, you can watch Avengers, but I can just get all the guys and I can make them have any Avengers I want. All their little adventures. I forgot that it's your dreams. And that's the thing you have to remember is it's your dreams. And I mean, Hey, if your imagination is that good that you can really do that all the power to you, cause it's going to, you

know, but for me, I don't have a good enough one. So I am going to go with the home theater to watch some of my favorite flicks in the bit on the big screen, you know, personally. Yeah. I mean, the home theater could also be shared with your family. Your figures are kind of just sitting there. It is kind of universal. There aren't too many people who are like uninterested in utilizing a home theater. You know, most people do like to watch something on a big screen in a comfortable setting. Yeah. I've never met a toy collector, obviously, except for me, I guess with the Lego, I kind of don't know. I don't even know how I would kind of react to sit. Would I, I would probably think I would be interested

in the collection because I do have, you know, there is that nostalgic tinge, but I'm not going to enjoy it the same way I would if we like sat down in a nice home theater and watch the movie. But I'm not gonna enjoy it the same way I would if we like sat down in a nice home theater and watched a movie You know what? Yeah, and it's I mean, it's just it can be enjoyed on such a different way like to me It's just like oh, it's good to look at one time, you know and say like wow This is an impressive collection and that's it, you know, whereas they're coming out with these hit films You know every single year they're coming out with new hit films, you know, every single year, they're coming out with new hit films, you know, that you can watch on your home theater. So I just I don't know.

I don't I don't know what's gonna. Yeah. Against the movie guy. I mean, the toys are from the movies. It's like brother against brother with a good point. That's a good guess. Yeah. Yeah, you should be you should be actually like, actually kind of like, I guess they're just trying to defend themselves. They're just trying to say, hey, we spend our money on this, you spend your money on that. And that's absolutely true. If you have enough money and it's not like affecting

your life or your family or other people, then you get to spend your money on what you want and what makes you happy. That's right. And there is no difference. And I totally agree. You don't have to like imagine a worse person than you. Cause all these guys are just like,

oh, you think it's bad that I collect toys well look up son of Sam yeah yeah he killed a number of people all right so the final comment on that thread is donate them or move out that's from their dad so somebody either his wife or his parents, I don't know. You're 45. It's time to move out. And finally, in the end, I went to Trustpilot, a website that we love on this show. I don't know if you've ever been there, Jeremy.

It's the only one that we use for reviews, really. Like we read other reviews, but when Brian and I are off the podcast and we need to actually see if something's good we only go to trust. So Trustpilot is an insane website where people only go to it if they're pissed. There's not good reviews on Trustpilot and it's a way to review any company that you want to review. Cool.

So I looked up Hasbro on there, big company, not a small company at all. Huge company. Randall gave it one star and he said, received a defective figure. Receive and then he goes, paint on helmet was completely off center, making the figures look comical. Reach out to customer service. Hey wait, is comical, were they comic book characters? Maybe that's not bad. Maybe I don't know.

He goes, reach out to customer service and they agreed to send a replacement. And amazingly, they sent it to the completely wrong address. That's how I know. Yeah, that is. I mean, I don't even see how something like that can happen. I've never heard of it. Never. He goes, have no idea how they messed that up.

Complained again and they assure me they will correct it Well surprise surprise they messed up again again I received an empty box and empty box far no reply to email. So that's kind of I There's like I can like something tells me that this guy He just was so horrible All the people that he dealt with that they're just like, fuck it. Let's see how fucking how pissed we can get this guy, you know? This guy gave him three stars. He says Marvel legends and others. He goes, I will give Hasbro

three stars for the attempt. Their recent has lab Galactus action figure has been phenomenal, as well as a few other amazing pieces. Unfortunately, the basic figures like Marvel Legends are disappointing to say the least. The quality of plastic is almost rubbery and still feels hollow inside. The lack of sculpting and details is also upsetting. He's talking about himself. This is a self review. Yeah.

How low inside. I love the line. The lack of sculpting and details is also upsetting, especially in comparison to other toy companies such as McFarland toys or even toy bins from over a decade ago. Still three stars is more than reasonable. There's a lot of room for improvement. So this guy came. he's only got two reviews And he gave him he came to give Marvel three stars

Marvel Legends figures this guy gave him fuck one review I just went all the way back to the top of the five stars. I assume three out of five except three out of five Yeah, yeah, this guy goes mar goes mar this guy goes Marvel legend figures I bought the Marvel legend spider-man Tom Holland no way home figure for my son for a Christmas gift and it broke within a day Extremely disappointing to say the least especially to see my son so upset Santa also brought my son the Marvel legend Andrew Garfield spider-man, which again has broken, which again resulted in tears from my son. My son has been collecting these figures for many years. However, the Marvel legend range appeared to have been made very cheaply in comparison to previous figures, which my son still has many years later. I really hope this range is recalled and these issues fixed

as I'm sure there's been a lot of disappointment and tears with this range I won't be buying from the Hasbro brand in the future. Yeah you will. What are you talking about? There's like three companies. Made my son cry. I mean that's- That's funny to say. He made my son cry and guess what? Fucking bought another thing and he's crying again. Kids will not stop fucking crying. And then he even says later on, he's like, I'm sure a lot of other people are crying as a result of this. So many people of all ages are crying. Yeah. And it's like the kids are crying and it's

like to see your kid cry. It's like, I couldn't fucking hold it in anymore. I started fucking crying, you know, thinking, am I doing a good enough job? And my fucking wife comes in and she's like, what's wrong, honey? And I said, I don't know what's going on with this Hasbro stuff. And now she's crying. Finally, for Hasbro, this guy, I can't believe that what this is just purely I cut this based on wording, degenerate approach to everything they touch, anti-consumer approach to everything they involve themselves with. Their products are commonly known as overpriced and underperforming regarding their legacy and reputation. It didn't age well either.

If you consider investment into company that is commonly hated, even amongst the few that tolerate and purchase their products, good luck. And then I went to Mattel. I got two reviews from Mattel and then we got out of here. This person says the $600 Justice League Batmobile. I can't use anymore. We're going to drive it. I don't. Well, they explained the $600 Batmobile. I can't use anymore. You remove the app. So it's a paperweight now. Fix this scam or I will have to take further more measurements.

I'm sick of your toy screw ups. What the fuck is somebody starts talking about? They're going to take further more measurements. That person is probably a lawyer. Honestly, be afraid. This is great, Chris. This is our final one. This is Kirk Fletcher, one star horrible company. Very, very poor. I've spent $400 in three weeks. I'm masters of the universe origins figures. And yesterday I bought a new Hordak figure, open it up and it's a mess as glue all over the head. Eyes are not painted in spots and it has two sets of red lips painted on it above the red teeth. I've reached out to Mattel on Twitter, but they will not respond back horrible company

and they do not appreciate their customers. It seems that spend a lot of money. If this issue is not corrected, I will be sticking with the just has bro. I got some bad news for you. Got some bad news about Hasbro. Did he include a photograph of this? I kind of do what the eyes being in the right places. They never have them. Maybe he's just smooching. I don't know. Maybe he's getting kisses from women with lipstick. That's what I was picturing. Is he known as a ladies man? This or back or whatever is that? It's for Dak. Core Dak. Core Dak. Is he, you know, is he known to, I'm not going to say that. I have spent $400 in three weeks on masters of the universal origin. Very funny line to

buy something you're mad about. I spend a lot of money on Legos. I'm never mad at them. What was the most recent set you bought by the way? X-Men 97 mansion. That's right. I'm building that Lord of the Rings one. So I've been building it for two months. So, and you got that, you got a Bart, you got a Simpson's one. No, that thing's like six 50 and it's like less pieces. I don't think I'm going to buy it. Uh, cause it's just too expensive for the amount of pieces you get. I would love it. I think it looks cool, but you know, uh, Jeremy tell people where to find you. Oh yeah. Please check out coreators. It's the way we just read Quora. It's this, but it's Quora. So check that out.

You might want to try trust pilot Raiders sometime because you can find some real wild freaks on there. I'll tell you that, uh, uh, we will be back next week with... God damn, what are we recording next, Chris? We're recording a few. We're recording a few. We're recording with DB. Feet Guys, next week I believe is Feet Guys with DB.

We're gonna... Can I, we just listened to this on one of our episodes, but you guys should look into, there's like this True Life guy who had like a feet addiction and he became a death metal singer and he like wrote a song about loving feet where he's just like, Oh, I want free put them in my mouth. And it's the great, well, definitely. Cause we're going to talk about feet. We will see you all next week. Goodbye. Bye.