Guys: Episode 97 - Action Figure Guys with Jeremy Kaplowitz

Welcome to Guys, a podcast about guys.

I'm Brian.

With me is my scumbag scalper co-host, Chris James.

Hi, Chris.

Scumbag Scalper.

Okay, because I'm scalping.

But 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.

No, I agree, but what does it have to do with the subject 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 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 your

co-hosts on.

Yes, that's right.

And Brian has been on our show.

Yeah, that's cool.

And I have not been on our show.

No, 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.

Some of them 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 is the McElroy.

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 um, what uh and I think you started before us as well, but who knows?

It doesn't matter.

We're all just brothers, aren't we?

Yeah, well, I mean, we did, 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 it's that's feeling then i don't know man let me explain what i like about quora is that i like

confident stupid idiots like guys that are so stupid that 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 that we'll find people who are like hey i'm trying to figure out how to get my my wife to let me eat my cum in front of her.

And then you like 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, we could find

Jeremy.

I have a question for you.

Do you read their full name out in their town on your podcast?

People do.

Sometimes people do that.

They think I don't.

I don't.

I mean, you're making a joke right now, right?

You don't actually, right?

Or do you?

Sometimes we do.

I don't know.

Sometimes okay,

it's a pretty small podcast.

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 it'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.

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 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 R/slash Action Figures.

And I got to share my screen with you guys because

that's something I like to do sometimes while we're looking at a picture thing.

This guy has a car full of action figures.

You can see this.

It is a.

Can you zoom in on it at all?

Because it is kind of hard for us to see.

I always forget how to zoom.

Let me zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.

Oh, there it is.

Okay, here.

There it is.

Oh, it sort of wiggled when he zoomed.

That was kind of yeah.

So, Jeremy, did you see that wiggle zoom?

Yeah, there's a sexy little zoom.

It's called a wiggle zoom, yeah.

So, this is a guy's car that is so full of Transformers and Voltrons.

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.

And 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

for them to go to a good home.

To be honest, I saw the Voltron Defender set in the boxes and some Transformers G1.

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 could get the money that you get for them, but that's not what this is about at all.

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.

Is that what he should do?

Is she want them?

Do you think she would?

I don't think so.

I think.

No, I think it's in his mind.

I think it's in his mind.

He thinks they're so important.

She might take them

and then throw them away.

I don't think she would want them around, though.

She takes them in half and then does like hostage videos with them where she's hitting them with a hammer or something.

It's funny to imagine her.

That would fuck with him.

That would actually fuck with him.

Yeah.

It's funny to imagine him going to pick up his kids at her house and his transformers being displayed prominently in his home.

Yeah, that is, 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?

And Revolutionary Link 163 replies and goes, my worst fear currently.

Okay, so this person is married and you're constantly 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 this is his big fear is that he's going to lose his toys.

Yeah.

yeah no not the 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 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

oh aren't you the nicest guy in the world congratulations

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 a lawyer on it.

You know, you want to get a toy lawyer involved, of course, somebody who does toy law and have them sort of look over the writs 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 $5 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.

It's called capitalism.

Yes, I got a good deal.

Yes, granted, I got a good deal.

I let him keep one megatron.

That's for him.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

This guy goes, seriously, at that point, I'd feel bad and just store him 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.

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, 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 Preda King 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

Disornovador.

The Preda King.

I got my, I sold the Preda King for $100 and the Bruticus for $100.

There was a guy who actually needed the Bruticus to fill out his fucking collection.

Guy gave me $250 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-wife's 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 at a divorce?

That's super fucked up.

Sweet Diamond 70-20 says, a narcissist my mom is that way wow my mom used my dad's transformer toys and it ruined my childhood i'm really sorry to hear about your mother um what

this is like uh now again as we said we don't even 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 um 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 knockoffs too 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 bruticus and predicting were real but some of the other ones were knockoffs but the brute but the bruticus is 175 easy if it's depending on the how you know what the condition it's in so it's like yeah then it's like even $25, 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.

You know, 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.

That's true.

It could be, yeah, we could be misreading the entire thing.

Yeah, he's the villain.

Witchy Boy says, 99% of women, lol.

This is like woman 101.

I know so many women that have been petty like this.

And yes, I'm 100% saying it's a girl thing.

Men just don't do this shit.

Yeah, 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 way ever before all the time.

Totally.

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 Kumquad says, Take care of every single one of those.

It is your duty.

That's just outrageous, both the deal you got and 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, if you're a collector,

if you're a collector, it's best to stay as a single guy.

The people are 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, you're damned if you don't, you know?

Yeah, you're a single guy.

You don't want to, you, you don't want to be a single guy and a married collector.

You could lose it all, you know?

This guy goes, she threatened to take them because she claimed she helped pay for them, which is probably true.

Cavaquilo 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 want to come up on that kind of sadness.

I like saying house it like it's a dog.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm just going to, and this guy, when I was a teen, 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, life,

he had a life-sized Darth Maul, 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.

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 in half.

No, let her have it.

Yeah, we're going to see who plays with it better.

Like, we need to get out of court and make the wife play.

That's actually the best.

That's the most fair way to do it.

Who does the voices best?

Here we go.

Chris, it's a big one.

Burning Bun says, goes both ways, right?

You can get half of their Barbie collections in Louis Vuitton bags, too.

Wow.

Oh, yeah.

Let me tell you, the secondary market on hair straighteners

and about it.

I mean, that's true in most circumstances.

I mean, listen, I mean, Brian, before we started recording, you were working, you were talking about, you were saying women be shopping.

You kept, you were, I think it was like a stand-up 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 and her shoes and her hair straighteners, then at the end of the day, you're going to come out good.

You know what I mean?

You're going to get all of those and

she's going to 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, like somebody pointed out, she probably paid for half.

Like, it all depends on, I guess, how, how is it all structured?

And I don't, I'm not a legal mom, but it's like, yeah, when you're in a marriage, then you split, you split things, you know, you just, 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've 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 i got a thing like underneath like in the in the basement where i can sort of if if somebody does come by looking for them i can 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 actually, you can resell that bourbon and make a fuck ton of money.

If you buy the good stuff.

Yeah, if you 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.

We're going to be the first podcast to get the pappy endorsement.

Oh, if we got the fucking Pappy endorsement, holy, neither of us drink alcohol, really.

Like that.

It would still be so good.

Telling people, like, if you're too poor to drink this whiskey that we didn't pay $1,500 for.

Yeah, just in case, Jeremy, it's like, well, you know, prohibitively expensive for most everybody.

It's not, yeah, but it's worth it.

And finally, auto love it for $200 from this guy who was getting a divorce.

So

I wouldn't have had the heart.

How fucking buttery was that shit?

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, honestly.

Finally, Stang Ace 20 says, like, we don't get berated 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.

That's a situation.

I get berated about my hobbies all the time.

By who?

By me?

That's different.

By Chris James and

the podcast.

you're i mean your hobbies are our friends that are into the pod that like like the that our guest jesse farrar maybe

uh i was just talking i'm just talking to them actually get 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 and i think i have a pretty good list so far wrestling guys is going to be crazy Wrestling Guys, episode 100.

Just a little bit of a,

we're going to do it, 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.

Casino 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 for some of that time i think it's gonna it's gonna hit a moment in the middle where it's gonna be really good for about five to 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 who's 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.

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.

Because I do, I'm into collecting, like, not in a serious way.

Like, I used to collect cards, like baseball cards and stuff so i 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 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'm and you can sort of lie to yourself a little bit that way um but yeah i just think it to me the only benefit to taking them out of the pack is just to play with them and i don't as an adult i don't think you have any need to play with them so why take i'm gonna surprise you guys a little bit i don't know please

replay with your voice

uh feels great to just pick them up look them over and repose them that's kind of playing but that's fine so i just feel like if you're saying you want to look at them you should take them out but 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 you know so 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 badass 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 out of the package.

And I think doing a thing.

Yeah, that can, that can look kind of cool, I guess.

And that's like sort of a different, different thing.

But so 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 inbox 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.

Inbox 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 cup of tea.

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 to pose them and just set them up and display them in a way that you like the way it looks, I mean, that's 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 right the 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 that oh my god 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.

So, 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 haven't.

I have not.

I don't think I can pull the trigger.

Was it Titanic?

Titanic was only $750.

$750, yeah.

$7.50, everybody.

Did you hear?

He first quoted it as $700.

Already, it's $50.

I would say $6.

I would honestly,

for real, say, $6.50 because I use my thousand reward, my $100 off reward.

That's not the thing.

No, no, no.

Okay.

But those are rewards you got from buying other Lego and spending money on Lego.

My VIPs, yeah.

I'm a Lego VIP, Jeremy.

Yeah, I'd imagine you are.

I mean, Jeremy, you can see behind him.

I don't think Jeremy's surprised by that.

You have a lot of Lego behind you.

Oh, that's not 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.

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 a gift card or mass-produced thing or whatever, right?

And I do really wonder what the impulse is to to keep these figures in the box when you bought them in like 1984.

Like, 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?

Well, you just don't know.

Why did they do it that way?

Oh, man discovers the concept of foresight.

Good lord.

I mean, come on.

I mean, this is 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 the idea of something

i 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

And maybe this is like just look, but I don't think adults bought a lot of toys for themselves in the 80s.

I guess.

I disagree.

I think it was always happening, honestly.

You might be right.

It's more accepted now.

And there's there's maybe like there's more 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 know, that's not a fair way to say it.

They're not living like a traditional, like, they don't have a job and, you know, things like that.

So I think maybe that might be the case.

But I do think.

Collecting things has been around.

It's human nature.

I think there have been toy collectors since the Roman era.

People their with a little uh Caesar in a box yeah yeah

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 let that like

breathe I felt like it's a modern thing you know what I mean Yeah, maybe so.

Maybe so more so also as if people nowadays are just looking for like hustles.

Like the idea of a side hustle or like, you know, that exists 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 Starscream84 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?

What does that mean?

Play with them for three days.

It's worth three days of play.

Hey, I paid $30.

It's $10 a day worth of play.

I'm i'm just picturing him in his in his little jammies you know like

just on the floor just playing just like having two little things like

doing like that that's what i picture when they're talking about playing i'm sure it's not that 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

forum and it was a guy that conan and what's masters he man it's he man 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 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.

Oh,

that is badass.

I have that.

I have the sound a little bad to the, like, I use that on my screen.

If something real badass happens, I'll hit that riff.

You know, this is funny.

Rob, Rob Wisman, he, I do hot watch with him.

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, he just cracks it up every single time.

Because that's why these guys are all getting divorced.

Yeah, it's weird.

I mean, sitting around playing with your wife walks in, seriously, your wife.

And listen,

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 say this.

I mean, honestly, one of us, Jeremy, or I has to say this.

This is what I'm saying.

Because your wife literally walks in regularly, right?

I mean, that's

the two toys I play with are the man and woman on our wedding cake, and I make them smooch.

My wife walks in on us.

That's so nice.

Yeah, you're, she's like, that is such a smart way to play with toys and still have the respect of your wife.

She hasn't no pretending it's Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.

Oh,

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'm

Zeke.

I guess I'm misunderstanding what it means to pose them.

Then, I thought it was a singular thing where you

in a pose that you like.

So, there, if you're it's like a fluid type thing where he's like, it's evolving as like he's

changing their poses.

Yes, they do.

They do.

Actually, I turned on a video from this guy named Chardimas Prime.

Oh, okay, 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

toys.

And the beginning of his video,

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, are they imagining them in a scenario?

Like, it's a soft motion kind of thing, and they're like creating a storyline or something like that.

Or like, what is, what is, what causes them to change the pose?

And what, what so many iron men.

I know.

He has a full shelf.

of iron men

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

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 in 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.

He needs to take about half of them away for it to look good in any way, you know?

Maybe give them to a fucking kid here.

We'll try it out here.

He'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

for my X-Men.

Yeah, he does have a rat tail.

So it's very confusing because 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, I, it's a, it's, I guess, a rat tail.

It might be a ponytail, but you know,

it's kind of, but it does have a rat tail look to it.

And I've discussed before, I did, I know, because I had a rat tail.

I was five years old, and I had a rat tail 100%.

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, no.

But how old are you, if you don't mind?

301.

You're too

way too young for the 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.

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.

Cool.

We'll 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 going to 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 going to 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 it.

He's actually going to post a video about moving his toys, which is, yeah, I mean, that's what it's all about, though.

That's what it's about.

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, 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 G.I.

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 U.S.

military.

The fact that they don't invest in G.I.

Joe is absolutely ridiculous and stupid.

Not only is G.I.

Joe perfect for the Department of the Defense's glorified enlistment campaigns and to advertise possible concept vehicles from our loving friends at Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Bowen, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics.

And an added bonus is Cobra and their ability to be an army with no national origin so that 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 G.I.

Joe with that sweet, sweet world's largest defense budget money?

How good will the stories be?

No matter what, Stephen Amel should play Duke.

So,

I don't know.

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, you know,

dichotic warmongers.

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.

Cause 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 comic book of Marvel.

They just kind of secretly do it.

They like kind of,

it's not something you talk about.

And G.I.

Joe, as people are going to point out, is a child's toy.

There's,

it's weird, right?

Because G.I.

Joe,

I mean, the army is not like G.I.

Joe, I guess is the way I would put it.

Yeah, there's not a pirate in a fucking army.

You know what I mean?

There's not

like the G.I.

Joe is exciting because it's not just the army.

It's like special, weird characters from the army.

The guy goes,

this guy goes, I joined the Marines in part because of G.I.

Joe.

That's unhinged.

To be playing with your fucking G.I.

Joe's and you're like, I got to kill some real people.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think it was other things at play as well.

Yeah, this guy goes.

He maybe had like, yeah, some sort of psychological stuff.

This guy goes, the enemy nation in 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.

G.I.

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.

It 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.

G.I.

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 G.I.

Joe's in the hands of some teenagers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What are the teenagers?

Uh, Brian, I mean, I guess Gwen's not really a teenager, but she's

recently was a teenager.

Can you sort of speak to what they're into that maybe G.I.

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 a daughter thing or but 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 never like

she didn't even pose it didn't even pose

Those are mostly for the sad movies that come with them, the American Girl dolls.

Yeah, yes, yes.

This guy goes, the G.I.

Joe, if G.I.

Joe had a Battlefield Call of of Duty game with that quality, they might turn those teens and 20-somethings into collectors.

So a video game, straightforward, just like sort of a, but why would that, that's 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 G.I.

Joe thing on there?

Well, this guy goes, Marvel has made some of the biggest movies in the last couple of decades that haven't turned a bunch of people in comic book into comic book fans.

Likewise, C.O.D.

doesn't have a large toy line or collector's item.

I know some exist, exist despite being a popular franchise and then finally this guy goes i said might and picking up some 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.

Like, 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.

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, this Robeson auto-converting 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.

It's $1,000.

So this is the big, this is, this is like original price at that, not on a secondary market.

This is, yeah, this is original price.

Wow.

We buy,

um, 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 uh in order for it to stand the power has to be on

so

app 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 own well 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 Optimus Prime?

Because this isn't for kids.

If you're filming a video, maybe you're making a video with them.

A lot of these guys are doing stuff like that.

You know what I mean?

They make like a little video of him

having some adventure, you know, and then they'll like edit it together.

I know.

There's conventions.

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, actually.

It doesn't seem to be geared towards children.

No.

No.

So this guy asked, what do y'all think about the recent Robus and 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 $1,000 for a Rubik's cube that solves itself, which is

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, you just have this like cool sort of gadget now that's 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 optimus 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 is why I cut this out for the episode.

Bishop King goes, these are definitely not worth thousands of dollars somebody's probably laundering some money through these things lm fao yeah yeah and then dinkle bonker well yes yes you know what'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 they really sold 10 000 tickets but that was like uh debunked because when the mob is involved in a business they usually have some success oh

so this guy goes, robotics ain't exactly cheap.

And Bishop King goes, it's 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 gun to model for essentially nothing.

I mean, today

if he had the time, he could make the toy himself.

So fucking delusional.

Hell, I got a robot.

I just got a couple of servos.

What's a servo?

I only know

the Brian Jonestown Jonestown 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 is.

They are.

It's got a lot of them.

It's got a lot of them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he goes, How much does it cost?

Where can you buy servos?

I don't know.

Let's get to find the market for servos and we can see if we can build one of these ourselves.

Buying spell it.

Servos.

Servo.

S-E-R-V-O.

there so the guy goes uh

oh they are micro servos that literally run they're 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 for uh robotics like uh used in making little robots so oh we're gonna make some robots we could make some brian let's become robot builders and make rope 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 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 small arm.

And he's like, and a big dick.

He does have a big dick, though.

Yeah, he does.

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 mechanic, a mechanism to to make it sort of expand and get larger because he has a pump in there to make it bigger.

So I'm going to 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 the 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 wolf hounds for sale, not people of color.

What actually is it then?

I actually don't know.

I'm trying.

Wow, then how can you say it's not that thing if you don't know what it is?

I just don't know.

Looking to replace one my son had stolen, turned out she was just a scalper, didn't have any wolf hounds 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 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 closeout stores 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 still

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 was i wasn't picturing how it 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.

That's some pretty, pretty dirty business, I would say.

Yeah, I don't think that there is a concerted effort to do that.

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 hopefully,

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 it's, 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 an 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 it depends.

I think it, yes, it's definitely more work than what you or I do.

That's no

do 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.

It's not that hard

to buy a couple of fucking toys and then, you know, send them to somebody.

The hard part is watching the children cry when they can't get it at the store.

Well, now we'll hear a bit of it.

By the way, I looked it up.

POC is Pursuit of Cobra.

cobra oh okay yeah i knew it wasn't people of color it just i love the idea though 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 bowed he goes instead of getting into 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 walked, 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.

Get her ass.

You know what?

She's just kind of like, no, no, no.

Like, you know, pushing people out of 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 don't like that.

I would have,

buddy, I would have punched her, and it would have been the funniest thing ever.

That episode came out, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That episode came out last

the Simpsons guys, where all the people on the forums were hoping for more violence against the female characters on the show.

Yeah, just one of the guys specifically was saying how funny it is to see a guy hit a woman, right?

very weird

the guy knows these guys were very weird they were very 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 stalked 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, McFarlane 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 wasn't a 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 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 McFarlane, guys.

So that was a Seth McFarlane.

The wrong McFarlane, by the way.

Of course, I know McFarlane.

It's called the fucking joke, Brian.

Look it up.

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 scalp.

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 toys.

Fuck, I can't pose my fucking cobras when I get home from, yeah, that's, that is getting home from the factory and getting into your jammies and getting on the floor and then playing with your toys.

I like the idea that they're all in jammies.

Yeah, when you're playing with your toys, you got to get your jammies.

It's funny to imagine them sleeping on like a twin bed with like G.I.

Joe sheets.

That is literally what's in my head when I'm picturing these grown-ups playing.

The wife, like it's two twin beds put together because the wife wants a regular bed and he wants the G.I.

Joe sheets.

This guy goes, OP story sounds made up, which I love when people do that because 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.

Well, Ozzie92 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 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 feel like they hate 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 oh i love the secondary market these people are scum of the earth and we all agree on that i buy that i buy stuff from the 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 jeremy my brother last night my brother took his wife and daughter to see billy eilish recently okay and uh he came to trivia last night we did not win we came in second and third um he came to trivia sorry what second and third you had two teams

no no no no we we came in second one game got into a goddamn a goddamn battle uh sudden death battle and they asked which one of these canadian provinces doesn't touch salt water and i'm like hit saskatchewan i'm like i know it's that i uh 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.

It was Saskatchewan.

It's Saskatchewan.

Of course it is.

Definitely.

It was like BC, Saskatchewan, Toronto, and Newfoundland were the answers.

Well, not Toronto.

Ontario, 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 know this.

Well, by the way, that's not 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 felt he had the right answer so

but why does he win out is he bigger than you are you scared of him no i'm bigger than him you i could beat him up for sure so why are you scared of him 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 then well we just love each other and i just if

he feels feels strongly about something, I'm not sure 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 just like move on.

It's an awkward, awkward scenario.

It happens a lot when we do it.

People

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 if I asked Katie, if I talked to Katie about it, she would have that's the same story, do you think?

Listen, I'm known as the Michael Jordan of trivia in my crew.

They are all like, Brian's here.

We might win.

Because you had that Hitler mustache for a little bit.

Yeah, I did have a Hitler mustache, too.

Your eyes are so yellow.

No,

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 he's i don't think trivia is for smart people no it isn't you know brian's smart brian's smart he's like educated and smart yeah maybe some maybe he doesn't like always like he doesn't always like uh 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 i he just doesn't he doesn't uh strike me as a trivia guy like a you know 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 and i will buddy buddy you will be lucky to be my scotty pippin you you most likely no i'm the body

uh who's it tony ku coach maybe might be coach you you maybe will give you i mean i'm clearly going to be the jordan i am a killer well then we're going to win so this guy sports sports is i i'm just my sports trivia knowledge is very high i know everything else so this guy

we're going to 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 um i mean you got jeremy yeah we'll bring you guys you do board that's suck at trivia but we'll just that's good we love that we love that we want to fill our bracket

yeah fill our bracket with someone and then of course whatever and then we'll do a random draw you know

this guy goes sorry scalpers are 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

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 going?

Why is he talking about getting a family and joint?

Like, what does that have to do with Nazi?

Well, it's because it's better than scalping.

But some scalpers might have a family.

Yeah, I don't have food on my children's table.

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.

They're like, you can kill them.

It's fine.

They have nothing.

They're dead behind the eyes.

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 Simpsons.

Question to all of you lame troll scalpers out there: have you even touched a woman that you didn't have to pay?

Whoa, fucking nerds.

Wow.

Oh, hey, guess what, scalpers?

You ain't ever got your dick sucked.

That's fucking, that's really

harsh.

And I agree with 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,

whatever the thing is that we're talking about now.

Scalpers.

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 that's bad, you know?

Yeah, I don't know.

I feel like there's got to be, this guy's probably one day going to run into a scalper who will date like 30 women at once and then make 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 mean, he kind of lost me when he's like, nerds, because

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.

Yeah, 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 it.

I didn't recognize it.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's weird.

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 guys.

The same thing.

This guy goes.

And again, I just want to clarify this because I do feel the need to clarify this.

Because I think that

we're talking about

single guys in the lifestyle.

In the swinger lifestyle.

In the swinger.

And also just in general.

No, we're not.

Because I don't want to say that.

Truly.

I was single at a time.

And I mean, it's not, you know, we don't need to be shaming shaming people 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

tarpers i just there's nothing wrong with being a single guy but if you're 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're no you're dirty little rat faced out with a frying pan this guy goes i'm surprised there's a grapevine it seems like a true scalper would be be out to hose everyone.

Honor amongst thieves.

Okay.

So we got this.

I can't believe the name of this company.

It's called Maniple, M-A-N-I-P-P-L-E.

That's still better than Chardimis Prime.

I'm still upset about that one.

That's a guy,

though, but that's a guy's name.

Here's a picture of this set that I'm really.

His given name.

That's a name he was.

That's his birth name.

You can be mad at his parents for giving him the name Chardimis.

Joseph and Kelly Prime.

Yeah.

They had such normal names.

This is a voice set that recently came out from Maniple Studio.

Oh,

it's a breaking.

Might I say it looks really good.

It looks really good.

They do look they're

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 uh totes of meth it's got uh

here we'll get it back up here yeah let's get it back up and it's like it's got tote totes of meth in the back it's got the barrels uh it's got all the stuff to cook And it and it's pretty detailed.

Like, I don't know how small this is.

You know what I mean?

Cause there's no real scale for it.

I don't see I don't see any scale, so because it looks like life size in the photo, um, but yeah, so but they're really detailed like those masks and stuff.

Yeah, I like this.

And I'll, 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 uh wait, wait, wait.

You didn't know that?

No, I did not know that.

It's the, it's them cooking.

It's like a illustrated of 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 just act like that's like not kind of funny or whatever.

No, I imagine Brian is calling up his friends.

He'd be like, you guys want to play Breaking Bad later?

No, I don't,

I don't have toys.

Brian, but like Breaking Bad art is like, I'm not trying to be rude here or anything, but 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 show it

i'd have to go downstairs take a picture of it and no no i mean later later like like later later on i don't think it looks bad i have a lot of stuff on my walls i'm that's the only pop culture thing but okay i have a lot of stuff on my walls i liked it i got

i'm i'm not trying to make you feel bad i'm sorry brian brian brian i apologize.

I'm sure

it's nice.

To me, I was picturing

a movie poster style thing framed up.

I wouldn't do that.

I wouldn't do something like that.

The only real movie thing I have on my wall is the Corbin Burnson picture.

Yeah, that he signed to Gwen.

We thought it was very funny, so we hung it on the wall.

Yeah, that's fucking awesome.

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,

I have the from when I was a kid, my dad got this, the Spider-Man movie poster from before they changed, they took the World Trade Center out of his eye.

Oh, that's cool.

I have that right there.

Very cool.

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

My 9-11 poster.

That's pretty cool.

I have a piece of art in front of me right now, like a real piece of art, a local thing from here.

It's a piece of like a digital.

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 uh unless you're in the breaking bad culture, yeah, yeah.

And I'm not, I, by the way, people get mad at me about this.

I had, I tried to watch it and I uh bailed on Breaking Bad because I was too, I got too annoyed by the um, by the Jesse Pinkman character, sure, 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 annoying, like, sort of hanging out with him, even though I was sort of enjoying the show I was just too annoyed hanging out with that guy regularly that I just had to stop watching and I never picked it up again so please don't yell at me our first comment on this is a guy going oh good he comes with meth supplies fucking gross what well

I mean it's the that's what the show is 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's 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 um so that could be walter white like getting chemotherapy it should exclude the whole meth aspect it should just be a cancer patient walter white it's walter white working at the car wash or him and just a nice family dinner yeah like the better times or whatever when things are okay um the yeah even maybe before all the stuff happened maybe before the show happened

before the show happened before we even pick up watching them you know what i mean just when things are 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 toys.

Simple.

And he 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, 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.

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 going to sit here and sort of be like, act sort of incredulous.

Like, I'm not, I don't know what, what, 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 uh uh guess only people who agree with you are allowed to have opinions thanks for the clarification oh he's so condescending i know excited to just hate on this show he's just oh god people stopped talking about breaking bad 10 years ago and he's just like bored yeah he's excited he probably searched breaking bad instead of uh

Figures.

You know what I mean?

Like he's in the action figures subreddit because he searched Breaking Bad.

So he's get mad.

His original comment is, oh, they've got meth.

Great.

Listen, like

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.

Yeah.

All right, guess what?

Are you even able to?

I'm going to the score of it.

I'm like, I hope you fucking died.

This guy goes, what exactly would you expect these characters and these outfits to come with?

That's a good question, right?

That's a very valid question.

It's a show that is very much centered around the perfection of meth amphibies.

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 would want to profit off their popularity.

Personally, I kind of find the idea of setting up a meth lab in 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, what 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 camill or something like

this guy is 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 thou 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, buddy.

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.

Because

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 that.

It's just like, oh, well, Superman's actually a hero.

So it's cool to have his, but the meth.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's, I think this guy has been kicked off of the forum.

Sure.

It has to be.

He seems like a real

crappy guy.

It causes problems in your forum.

You know what I mean?

It's like people who are like formerly, they were like, formerly, 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.

No one's even discussing the set anymore, which is what it's supposed to be for.

And this is his whole thing.

This is what he does.

This is what he does.

He absolutely,

everything just evolves into, you know, bickering with this guy.

And at the end, he goes, 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 going to 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 to 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 have 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 LOL?

Very, very, very smart to throw in at the end there that he's on his lunch break.

That's a power movie.

That's a huge power movie.

It's like, yeah, I'm taking a quick 30 minutes before I get back to some of my meetings where I make money.

That's fucking smart when you're arguing online.

So we just have a few things left.

And this is from.

I just realized, 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 could 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 $75 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 drinking a lot.

No, and you're not.

Yeah, you just, it's not a real night out.

But I guess that person would argue that

they prefer to pay for experiences.

There's different people who prefer to spend their money differently.

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 it just feels like I guess these people are addicted though oh yeah the next this next two 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 to me.

He goes, I remember being in college and because because I was an RA, I had a room to myself.

I had a couple shelves 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, 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, um, they 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.

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 and you have a good father yeah yes and you have somebody to play with that should be playing yeah the nine-year-old you know he thinks you're a pervert or whatever yeah this guy's gonna infuriate both of you just letting you know now he goes 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 posable they are my dreams i mean

it's so funny because like i i'm pretty sure i said most of that horrible corny stuff like in earnest earlier on in the episode

pose them and like you know like i like said basically all that stuff yeah i mean this is, it's their imagination.

It's their, 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, is,

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 just piss me off the way 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 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.

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 play toys too.

I don't think you can really compare like

you spending money on toys versus like doing something really nice and buying jerseys for your team.

It's not like this person has spent money to make sure that everyone has these jerseys.

And

as someone who's played beer leagues softball, we did slope it.

We did softball guys.

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.

Just 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?

He's getting 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 and have 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 because 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 on the big screen, you know, personally.

Yeah, I mean, the home theater could also be shared with your family.

Your action 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

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 watched a movie.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And it's, I mean, it's just, it can be enjoyed in 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 then 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, that you can watch on your home theater.

So I just, I don't know.

I don't, I don't know what's going to, yeah, why are they against the movie guy?

I mean, the toys are from the movies.

This is, it's like brother against brother.

That's a good point.

That's a good guess.

It's like, yeah,

you should be actually like.

Actually, kind of like, I guess it's, 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.

You don't have to like imagine a worse person than you because 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 TrustPilot.

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.

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.

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 send it to the completely wrong address.

Yeah, that is.

I mean, I don't even see how something like that can happen.

I've never heard of it.

Never know.

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.

an empty box so far no reply to email so that's kind of i

there's like again like something tells me that this guy

he just was so horrible to all the people that he dealt with that they're just like it let's send him yeah

you know what i mean like let's

yeah let's see 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 haslab 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 isn't self-review.

Yeah.

I love the line, the lack of sculpting and details is also upsetting, especially in comparison to other toy companies such as McFarlane Toys or even Toy Biz 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 them he came to give marvel three stars uh marvel legends figures this guy gave them one review i just went all the way back to the top of five stars i assume three out of five it said three out of five yeah yeah yeah this guy goes uh marvel this guy goes marvel legend figures i bought the marvel legend spider-man tom hall and 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 appear 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 funny to say.

You 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 the 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 a 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.

Are you going to drive it?

I don't.

Well, they explained the $600 Batmobile, I can't use anymore.

You removed 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?

If somebody starts talking about they're going to take further more measurements, that person is probably a lawyer.

Like, 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 on Masters of the Universe Origins figures.

And yesterday I bought a new Hordak figure, opened it up, and it's a mess.

It has 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 they spend a lot of money.

If this issue is not corrected, I will be sticking with just Hasbro.

I got some bad news for you.

Got some bad news about Hasbro.

Did he include a photograph of this?

I kind of do want to.

The eyes being in the wrong places.

Incredibly never have them.

Maybe he's just smooching.

Maybe he's getting kisses from women with lipstick.

That's what I was picturing.

Is he known as a ladies' man?

This

or whatever.

It's Hordak.

Kordak.

Kordak.

Kordak.

Is he, you know, is he

known to...

I'm not going to say that.

I have spent $400 in three weeks on Master of the Universe Origins.

It's a 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's the most recent set you bought, by the way?

X-Men 97 Mansion.

That's right.

And I'm building that Lord of the Rings one, so I've been building it for two months.

And

you got a Simpsons one?

No, that thing's like $650, and it's like less pieces.

I don't think I'm going to buy it

because it's just too expensive for the amount of pieces you get.

I would love it, I think it looks cool, but you know,

Jeremy, tell people where to find you.

Oh, yeah, please check out Quarators.

That's the 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.

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 going to.

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 love freak, I'll put them in my mouth.

And it's the greatest thing.

We'll definitely, because we're going to talk about feet.

We will see you all next week.

Goodbye.

Bye.