Guys: Episode 136 - Funko Pop Guys with Jane Ost

Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys.

I am your host, Brian, and with me is my co-host.

wait you're not even gonna say my name that's your name i

you asked me which i thought was odd and i should have known you said hey how would you like me to introduce you uh chris

and i said just nicely just in a nice way and uh that was

that's think about it like this chris think about it like this you know how much people love the reverb fart

yeah yeah i guess i guess This is like one of the most popular farts.

I mean, and there are a lot of people that don't like farts at all.

No, I could have on here, you could have used a worse fart, definitely.

You could have used it.

I could have used an Indian blaster, you could have used a nasty Indian blaster, you could have used one of the fartologists' bath farts, uh, the really nasty long bath farts.

And so, yeah, you did, you gave me a respectable fart, and I guess I appreciate that.

And our host this week

on here before,

fuck me.

Did you guess this?

Wait, was that That wasn't time.

Okay, Jane.

Looks like you're running the show this week.

All right, we're doing Warhammer Guys 2.

What the fuck?

Did that, what happened there?

And our guest this week, Jane Aust.

Hi, Jane.

Hi, Brian, and

Echoey Fart.

Yeah, we're happy to be here.

Yeah, Reverb Fart.

Happy to be here.

So you're a perfect choice for this and and okay you're one of the reasons i picked this episode was because we're having you because you do warhammer you're a warmhammer person a warm hammer i said okay this is getting under

you

and and i

i listen i say used to collect legos that's how i'm gonna say uh so i one i collect it's like the mitch you know the mitch hedberg joke that's he means it in that way he's like yeah i used to to collect Legos.

I still do, but I used to as well.

I used to.

Well, I only have two sets, so cut it out.

But anyway, I collect Legos, and Chris, as far as I know, doesn't collect anything, right?

You don't collect anything.

Well, I don't.

I guess base, like, sports cards, I still kind of do collect, but no, I used to collect sports cards, heavy duty, and I used to collect candles in a weird way.

Not in, like, there was just a brand of candle that I really liked.

And you could, you could only, like, they were at Winners, which is Marshall's kind of place.

And so they would just pop up when they popped up.

So, like,

I couldn't.

Yeah, and I just mean, no, I would be searching for certain, I'd be like, holy fuck, there's that scent.

Like, shit, that's a nice ass scent, you know, and I would get really excited about it because they just kind of came as they came, and it felt like a collecting kind of thing.

And that's what I feel like when I was younger, I would do that with like Bic lighters.

I'd be like, oh, they have pink ones at the gas station.

Yeah, totally.

It's just, it's just being a collector.

I realize like some people just have that and some people don't.

And so every now and then I'll notice where it's just kind of seeping out of me a little bit, that collector thing.

But yeah, I don't do it the way that you do it actively still, Brian.

Well, the funny thing about me is now

I am

so used to the way of life before.

I did what I did.

Yeah.

That like when a new Lego set gets announced, i got my it's like you know how when somebody's like oh i took too much drugs i'm gonna dial 9-1 on my phone and then if i feel like i'm dying i'll just press one and the ambulance will get here

you ever you ever do that no

i know the concept but uh i haven't done it myself but i do that with my credit card number i'm like

It goes to the CVV go the three digits and it's like, what?

Like I'll type the first two numbers and be like, no.

and i'll close the window out not buy it and i'm trying to understand here do you think that you but you're saying because you're you're you you had you had little money and you weren't able to do it and you're still in that mindset or you're like i'm trying to figure out if you think this is good or bad that you're not no i don't want to have a bunch of lego my my point is has this has nothing to do with money for me i don't want a bunch of legos and i've read that a lot with these funko guys too where they're kind of like they take up a lot of room and you don't realize how much room something like this takes up until you have too much.

You know what I mean?

Lungos are big.

They're like, it's not a small doll, and they have them in the box or whatever.

And it's like, yeah, once you get more than sort of 25, 30 of them, you're looking at a storage issue for sure.

You need special shelves at that point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you don't even notice until you're there.

Because that's what it was with the Legos.

Like,

I look at, because, you know, I can go back through.

I had to go back through and delete a bunch of our old videos on StreamYard because we were running out of room and some of them I think were from the Lego era.

The Lego area

where you were building a Lego town behind you.

And that was not a long time ago.

That was very recent.

Yeah.

But it was so, it looks like a lot.

when you see it now i remember you used to always be like i know you'll notice there's a lot i'm like it's not really that much but it really was like three quarters of the room was Lego is a lot.

I'm glad that you're willing to admit that I was right when I would tell the guests that there's a, I noticed there's a, you're going to notice there's a lot of Lego behind me.

Yeah, it was, I mean, it was, you were putting together a town, but also, even without the town, the town took up an incredible amount of space.

But then I also had the shelf behind me that was full of them.

And then you're like, oh, well, I guess that's his office.

He loves Legos.

But

there was a Titanic in my bedroom, there were like Legos all over my living room, and it was just like there was so much of them, and I didn't know it was coming until

it was there.

And so, when I got rid of all of them, which was hard to do, I realized like you cannot let this happen again, you know what I mean?

You have to not do this anymore.

So, what I was saying is

the sets come out,

and every month I look at the set I would have bought six months ago.

You know what I mean?

No questions asked.

And I'm like, don't fucking do it.

Do not do it.

They're not going to run out of them.

Because that's my big worry was that they were going to run out of sets.

Well, that's what all these companies do is they have this FOMO that they try to impart on you.

And like, you know, you said I'm here because of like Warhammer and Games Workshop who makes that.

Like they absolutely do that with all of their stuff too, where they have like a limited run of it will come out and the scalpers will buy it all up.

And so everybody freaks out about everything and every new release people will just jump on no matter what like i mean i've fallen prey to it for sure where i'm like i don't even like i get like by the time it gets to me i'm like i don't even fucking want this like i'm never gonna build this i'm never gonna use this like yeah i do have to correct you jane it's games woke shop they are games woke shop yeah yeah i didn't know that they i didn't know that they changed their name

Well, it's not official, but that's what we're all calling.

Me and the Warhammer community and me and and the conservative Warhammer community are saying, like, oh, it's Games Workshop.

And they did just do a cracker barrel-esque

change of their logo

to a simpler logo.

What does Cavill have to say about it?

I haven't heard from Cavill.

I'll tell you what.

On the bonus episode, we'll look into Cavill.

Okay, we'll find out what Cavill's feeling.

Yeah, I want to know what he's saying because I haven't heard him talk recently about Warhammer.

You know, he's still playing.

Yeah, and I challenged him recently to a charity game.

Yeah.

Me, I recently very publicly challenged Henry Cavill to a charity game of Warhammer.

I invited him to my wedding, you know?

I was like, just show up.

It'll be chill.

Yeah,

I like Warhammer.

Why wouldn't you come to my wedding?

You also like Warhammer.

We'll play Warhammer at the wedding.

My wife said I could if you come.

I went to Quora, and here's a question that Kyle answered.

What's What's the point of Funko Pops?

Good to see

a great question to ask, right, being in the show.

There's really no point to them other than being toys.

If you're young or just a fun collectible, they've been around for years, so it's not exactly a fad any longer.

But

I mean, it was kind of a fad, right?

Yes, I don't think they're as popular as they were.

But I'll also say that a fad, because the things he names, right, he is like, but just like Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Barbie, Star Wars figures, there's something for all ages to enjoy and collect.

So some of those, like Barbie,

like, I don't think Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Barbie, and Star Wars are the same thing.

No, I think two of those are the same, and then two of the other ones are the same.

And I think everyone knows what they are, but you can't really put them together.

Yeah, two of them are like two of the most successful franchises, and then two of them are sort of obsolete fad type things, right?

And I think, I personally think Funko Pops falls into the Cabbage Patch kids, beanie babies.

But you can't really say yet.

Time will be around, but they've been around a pretty long time.

Yeah, they've been around.

I feel like I don't know what the numbers are, but just for me personally, I feel like that they've stuck around longer than maybe, like, although, wait, beanie babies are still around as well, by the way.

They still do sell them, yeah.

Yeah, beanie babies are still.

Any gift shop you go to is going to have a beanie baby.

They've had resurgences too.

Yeah, I believe.

So I feel like maybe that's not.

And I don't know about Cabbage Patch dolls.

I don't know.

I think

they maybe are like

kind of still make those.

But if they do make them, there's probably some special edition.

Yeah.

Like Mattel will do these like special edition for adults toys that are like times 10 cost.

You know what I mean?

I think it's Mattel.

They'll make like a He-Man figure.

Oh, my God.

I guess it's a good idea.

But it's for adults.

Yeah, because, yeah, they don't have to to mass-produce them for kids.

It's specifically aimed at, you know, elder millennials, younger Gen X people that have some disposable incomes that are chasing that nostalgia hit like it's fucking harrowing.

They call them 10 times price.

They call them 10 times price.

I got to get my hands on some of those 10 times price ones.

Like, people just don't even.

I need a $200.

Chris $90 cabbage patch.

Chris, they fucking crowdfund them.

Mattel

crowdfunds action figures for grown-ups, like Kickstarter, basically.

So they'll be like,

if, you know, here's our goal.

If we meet that goal, we'll send you this custom skeletor.

And they generally always meet the goal, you know, because it's easy to meet the goal if you're Mattel.

Yeah, I feel like these

are like a full-on just collector.

They're one of these things that are just a collector thing, Funko Pops.

There's nothing to do with them.

There's nothing else.

It is strictly the collecting thing that they're keying in on.

People like me who are like, hey, I want to get a bunch of different versions of this one thing or whatever.

And like cool ones or that's all that it is.

And you're just, you're not, there's no other purpose to it at all.

Right.

Like when you like with your Legos, Brian, like you at least had the pleasure of sitting down and building with them.

You theoretically could do your own builds.

They have a whole lot of potential there.

With my like Warhammer stuff, like I don't even really see them as like a collectible thing at all I like the degree of yeah, I see them as game pieces Yeah, and then a hobby to like you know do the painting do all of that stuff Yeah, like that's where I drive my pleasure from them like I have a couple of models that are sitting out like on the shelf behind me and stuff, but that's mostly just like a storage issue sort of thing like I keep my like armies and stuff in boxes ready to either be stored or transported to games.

Like Funko Pops, it's nothing but like, I'm putting this on the fucking wall, and it's dead little beady shark eyes are going to just stare at me and watch me do everything.

It's about getting it.

That's it.

Yeah, it's about getting it.

I mean, not to say, like, I'm, I'm that much better than the Funko Pop people, because I definitely get that dopamine hit when I hit order on something or when it shows up.

But, like, I don't know, at least it fucking does something for me.

Right, you're doing something with it.

And that was one of the reasons I got rid of all the the Legos.

Was like,

you put them together and you look at them and you're like, okay.

Yeah.

What am I supposed to do?

You like building it.

You're a builder.

We've talked about it.

You're a builder.

You're a well-known builder and a well-known leftist.

I'm a prominent leftist for sure.

Jane, I said when we did the Warhammer episode, that's what I said.

The painting of them would interest me.

You could make cool ass fucking things.

That's something artistic that you're doing and fun and enjoyable.

And yeah, I just do wonder.

I guess maybe it's for people they don't have time to do the other side of it because I just wonder, like, if you are wanting to be a collector, what would be the allure of something like a Funko Pop when you could collect something else that you could get that same pleasure from, but also have like another thing where they're like good for something else?

I mean, but then also with Warhammer, like,

it comes in a box and it's on these little, you know, plastic sprues like this so you have to cut it all off.

It doesn't look cool immediately when you get it.

It It takes a lot of work for it to actually look cool.

And so, like, there's some delayed gratification there.

And, like, Funko Pop is just like, yep, there's your Deadpool.

Something put it on the wall.

That's what brought me to the bottom.

Something that I found interesting, and this conversation happens every few days on R/slash Funko Pops.

And it is, Funko lost $41 million in a brutal second quarter.

And it's an article about Funko losing money.

so what then they start doing is this is how Funco can get back on top you know helping the Funko business like so we've spend a lot of time with this okay like every every few days

it's like oh the stock's down what are we gonna do here about this

they love this thing so much that they are concerned about it going away and so they're like willing to take business classes and things like that to help out I guess I'm just I'm surprised that it's its own company that it's not like a subsidiary of some like huge toy manufacturer or something.

Well, this person goes: one thing people are missing is that they made $194 million in sales in the second quarter.

Demand is there.

People want Funkos.

They don't do $194 million in sales if people don't like them.

Mind you, $194 million in sales is from April to June 3rd, three months of sales.

Their expenses are high, way too high.

And that's what's killing them.

They get a

why do they know their expenses just out of curiosity like i don't i don't know the expenses i there's some businesses where i really like their products or whatever but i've never looked into i'm going to check out their earnings reports yeah yeah like

recorder i'm there why do you know this information

i don't think they do by the way yeah i don't actually think they know the information i think it's a guess where they're like well how could they lose money if they made 194 million themselves and by the way

how the fuck do you know they made 194 million in sales in three months?

Yeah, that's what I mean.

How do they know any of it?

Is it all like the numbers must be coming from somewhere?

There was like some sort of

it's a publicly traded company.

You can look up their earnings reports and stuff.

Like, it's not a good thing.

These people have looked up.

There's

some of these people have gone to the earnings reports and looked up and crunched some numbers.

Yeah,

they'll buy shares so they can sit in on the

meetings and stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah, he goes, they did 194 million in sales but spent 235 million they need to figure out how to lower cost tariffs is a big one now i want you to know that tariffs is not a popular subject in the funko pop they want they want the funko pop company to put tariffs on other or they

they don't they okay so when somebody brings up tariffs it's it's very obviously an anti-trump thing like yeah pro-trump people don't bring up the tariffs you know it's not a nervous position for them currently so they don't like to bring it like with normal people who are you know feeling the effects of it or whatever yeah right so when somebody brings up tariffs it then turns the thread political immediately because the conservative funko pop collectors, which is a crazy thing to say,

Republican Funko Pop collectors, actually.

I mean, do they have conservative, like, do they, like, I don't know.

Do they have politics?

Like, is there a traditional Trump Funko Pop or whatever?

I don't know if there's a Trump one, but somebody did, and we'll get to it.

They did that thing, Chris, that Tom and Bunny did on their post that you

have.

My family.

They said, I bought my favorite political candidate one, but didn't name who it was.

And I was like, well, that's Trump.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, okay.

I just, I just found this on eBay.

Signed by Trump, Funko Pop Vinyl, Public Domain, Donald Trump number two.

Currently, you buy it now for $6,500

or best offer.

So, you know, maybe

you can talk him down a little bit on that $6,500.

I'll give you $5,500 for the Trump Funko right now.

For this public domain,

Trump Funko, yeah.

Here's a strange one for you two.

This person's idea.

Imagine if all the money charged on a secondary market actually went to Funco.

The only way for me to buy some of the NFT pops, by the way, still doing NFTs, Funco is still

doing NFTs.

It's a garden part of their business.

I thought those were going to go away, so I appreciate some people are still keeping that alive.

Some people like it.

You might not like it, but some people like it.

And why shouldn't they get to buy them?

That's culture.

That's what's going on in the Smithsonian these days.

You will love this.

The Funco

NFT thing is

the NFTs go on sale, and a certain number of those NFTs

are tokens that

you can turn in to get a real product.

So a real pop.

So

a

thousand people might buy an NFT, and a hundred of those people might get a real actual pop.

The rest of them just have the NFT.

Man, we're inventing such like horrible new forms of gambling all the time.

Oh,

most stuff is gambling now.

Most stuff does feel like gambling now.

It's to the crux of the economy at this point.

It's awesome.

What is like...

I really didn't know that NFTs were still around.

I thought

NFTs were run out of town.

Yeah, that was 2022.

We're still going.

No, this post is from 21 days ago.

Wow.

So they are still doing it.

They do it on a website called Drop.

D-R-O-P-P-P.

You can get your Funko NFTs on Drop.

When were Funkos really big?

What was the mid-2010s?

Yeah.

Like 2015 or something like that.

That's right.

I remember I was in Los Angeles.

Trump One era, I would say.

Yeah,

Funko's really big.

I remember being in.

I used to go to Los Angeles quite a bit, a lot more than, I'm, you know, I, highest representation on the podcast of time there or whatever, it doesn't matter.

But

I was walking down like Hollywood Boulevard or something, you know, like a really,

and there was this huge like

premiere going on with like a red carpet and all these like cameras and media and stuff.

And I was like, we're like, oh, holy shit.

Like, what's going on?

It's a movie.

It was a fucking opening of the Funko Pop store.

We're going to read reviews of the Funko Pop Stores a little later on on Hollywood Boulevard.

Most disappointing

fucking premiere.

Like, you're in Hollywood.

I'm like, ooh, who are we going to see there?

It's a fucking Funko Pop store.

This person goes,

I got the Deadpool Cthulhu.

It was only 2,000 points to get early access.

That's another genius thing that these companies do because I did that with Lego.

Chris has heard me talk about it.

I was like, well, I used a lot of points.

Yeah.

But you have to spend money to get the points.

The points aren't free.

Oh, we know, Brian.

I know.

Well, people.

Also, it was $50.

I didn't want to spend that much, but it's Glow in the Dark Deadpool Cthulhu.

And that was my birthday month.

So I said happy early birthday to me.

My birthday month.

Oh, I didn't even know it was your birthday month.

I'm a cute little birthday boy.

It's my birthday month.

But honestly, it really makes me like, it's like, oh, I actually didn't want to spend this money on it.

Like, I recognized it was too expensive for what it was, but it's this, like, it was, you could feel the whole thing of, like, being, like, addicted to collecting these things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, hey, you have one opportunity to get it right now.

And if you, and if you don't do this, you'll be on your deathbed going, I wish I got that glow-in-the-dark Cthulhu Deadpool funky.

It's glow-in-the-dark.

It's glow-in-the-dark.

So a lot of the other ones, when you turn the lights off, you don't see them anymore.

Versus with this one, you can still see it when it's done.

And that's nice because you you want to be able to see your Funko Pop.

He makes sure the other pops don't get scared at night.

Of course, thank you, Jane.

Think about the other pops who might be afraid of the dark.

Dan O'Sullivan sent me this video.

It's a rant by a Funko Pop guy.

This guy is wearing, so for anyone, he's got, he's wearing one of my favorite things you can wear, which is

a button-down sports logo shirt as if you are.

Yeah, like a polo New York Yankees shirt.

as if he's sort of like maybe in the front office or he works with the team.

The most I've ever been made fun of, I may have mentioned this

by my friends, was wearing a Vancouver Canucks shirt like this, watching a hockey game, like at a bar or whatever.

And god damn it, did my friends ever give it to me after that for a month afterwards?

You know, like, hey, look, it's the

fucking

executive assistant here.

You know, front.

They would not let me hear the end of it.

All right, here we go.

I have a rant here.

I want to get off my chest, and I want to apologize in advance for the language that you're going to hear.

I'm not bleeping this out either.

This is going to be unedited because I am fucking fed up with something.

Are we going to have to bleep it, brother?

We will

not

have to bleep this.

Okay, because, James, sometimes we have a series of rant guys that we play.

Chris's rant of the week, I went and found all the best ranters on YouTube.

Unfortunately, a lot of them,

we have to actually believe

this show

on Patreon.

They say stuff that is so incredibly over the top that we have to actually bring out the beeps for it, which is

pretty cool.

I love the

occasionally when I'm listening to the show,

the old classic rock guys, I think, are my favorite recurring characters.

Oh, Nolan.

It might have been a while.

Yeah, I think that's the the one I'm saying.

Michael Nolan, yeah, he's the guy.

He has a whole gaggle of, he kind of has like a whole group around him or whatever.

He has

his Rogan mothership of

classic rock guys.

Basically has a Rogan sphere of classic rock guys.

There's Britain.

What's

Nick?

There's Royce.

There's

Canadian Hitler.

Canadian Hitler.

Awesome.

That's a cool nickname to have that.

That's not his real name.

We gave him that name.

Stormcop 555 is part of the group.

His real name, Jade, Canadian Hitler's real name is Chris Elliott, like the actor.

Wow.

So we had to do something to

separate us.

Yeah, yeah.

And he had the mustache.

That's why he had shaved it.

The kid messed up his mustache one week, and he gave too much on either side.

Awesome.

Yeah.

See what you guys thought.

If you agreed with me or if I'm just totally out of line, let me know.

But I want to say, fuck you, Funko.

Go fuck yourself.

I cannot stand that I am addicted to buying Funko Pops because I think the company Funko is one of the worst companies out there.

Okay.

Well, that's rough.

It's a lot of waste.

It's a lot of waste.

But I don't think Funko is one of the worst companies.

Like, do you like volunteer or whatever?

Yeah.

Do they have child slaves or anything?

Yeah.

That's possible.

But still, there could be Funko Pop death squads somewhere.

There might be.

Yeah.

I mean, who knows how they're being made?

But yeah, I mean, there's just some companies who are.

I think there's got to be companies worse than Funko Pop for sure.

I would guess that his reasoning for somebody being an evil company is way different from my

idea of what an evil company is.

You know what I mean?

Like morals in this.

They didn't make enough GI Joe's is not like really something I'm gonna get mad about well you think you might have a different view of the world than this guy who has a New York Yankees a headrest on his car as well and a car seat back there I'll point out yeah New York Yankees headrest on his car how did

how did this guy reproduce like he's got the he's got the Yankees polo he's got I imagine a wall full of Funko Pops I mean that's just and every and Yankee stuff you know I mean the the yeah like, you know, it's just like being a bait.

I'm a sports fan, and I feel for Ariel sometimes, you know, because I'm really obsessed with watching Manchester United and the White Cats, but they play once, maybe twice a week.

Yeah.

Same as football, right?

If you're a fucking baseball fan and you live with a hardcore baseball fan like this, they are playing every single day.

162 games in a season.

It goes on forever.

It must be fucking brutal unless you don't want to spend any time with your partner.

Which this guy here

continue to have these exclusive items that they know that their collectors want to find, and they make deals with these stupid ass companies that don't even know what a Funko Pop is.

First, we had Walgreens.

It never seems like I love the idea of like

this company.

They don't even understand the concept of a Funko Pop.

Yeah, I mean,

I don't like it.

I love that he's pissed off about them making a Walgreens Funko Pop.

It's like, do you have to buy that?

Did they make you buy that?

That's part of what he's saying is yes, he does.

I'm addicted to buying Funkos to the degree that I need to have the Walgreens promotional Funko Pop.

Don't you understand that my addiction is so bad?

McDonald's and get the

Eternals toy out of it or some shit.

Like, come on, man.

He wants them to, like, he wants them to, because he knows he's going to have to buy everyone, Jane.

So he's trying to say that, like can you at least stop making such shit ones because i god i'm i'm gonna buy them no matter what let's give me some good ones that i like i'm speaking

so rare needle in my arm like please stop just fucking it yeah and they're being and it's funny to think that

In his mind, Walgreens does a deal with Funko, and the president of Walgreens is like, now I need everybody to learn everything they can learn about Funko Pops from the top to the bottom of this chain.

We got to open up a Funko division, obviously.

We need to start hiring some people.

We'll get some people from the Funko.

We'll get a couple of people to come in and consult.

Yeah,

that's what this guy is.

Walgreens understands nothing about the corporate values of Funko.

What is there to understand about Funko Pops?

Exactly.

Hey, there's more.

Carry any of the awesome exclusives they get from Funko.

Not only do they never carry them, but I went to every Walgreens on Long Island and about half of them on Staten Island.

And not one, I'm sorry, one person out of all those stores.

Okay.

Okay, wait, so it's not a Walgreens.

So he's, he's, there's not Walgreens.

It's about buying them there.

It's about buying them at Walgreens.

So he says that they sell some of them, just like most stores do, right?

Like we talked about lately.

Let me, Funko does a deal with Walgreens.

Yes, you're right about that.

Funko does a deal with Walgreens to sell Funko pops there.

And then, so in your mind, you're like, well, this new,

you know, whatever, this new Captain America Sasquatch pop came out.

Is it only at Walgreens?

Is that what he's mad about?

Either that, I can't really figure out.

It's either that or it's that Walgreens just doesn't have any pops on the shelves.

I'm not stocking the pops.

He's not really made it that clear unless we missed something.

But yeah, it seems like he's mad at Walgreen about because Walgreens because he can't get his Funko Pops at Walgreens.

You can't even get fucking deodorant at Walgreens.

Why are you trying to get your fucking toys there, man?

Like,

yeah, that is fair.

One person knew what the fuck I was talking about.

Oh, my God.

This guy's going around to stores like, you understand Funko Puffs, the exclusive, and all these, like, the fucking,

you know, these like retail workers are just like, I'm not sure what you're talking about, man.

I'm menacing.

I am in the fishing.

You know,

I work in meats.

I take pictures.

I take passport pictures.

Don't know about the Funkos.

Menacing these minimum wage retail workers because they don't know enough about his toys.

Fuck.

Oh, my God.

We'll come back to this in a little bit.

Like we do.

I want to close this and show you guys some graffiti that was posted on r slash Funko Pop.

So

there is a, it says Funko Pops, and it has a circle with a line, and no Funko Pops.

I mean,

it is kind of one of those classic things to hate, or it was at one point, right?

Because it was such a big fad, and then they were so stupid, and everyone was like, what are these stupid things?

And so it became kind of cool to hate on, like, make fun of them.

It was waste, man.

Do you want to read it and stuff, though?

Like, yeah.

I just think it's a lot of waste.

It's so much plastic, you know?

I mean, you

collect Lego, man.

I know, believe me, but Lego, again,

I'm building something.

No, I know, but you're not.

I mean, listen, you're doing something, but you're let's not,

you're not building something.

You know what I'm saying?

You're doing a little goof around, too, and making a toy or whatever.

So it's all

goof around.

I'm not trying to, it is a different hobby, but it's all just a waste of a bunch of plastic that's getting dumped into it.

It is, it is a lot of unnecessary unnecessary waste but i don't know we're pretty famous for that just human beings in general you know this guy goes i wonder why those people hate funko pops so much which is cute oh

person replies and goes some people ramble on and on about consumerism which who cares

if they want to live minimally go for it not everyone wants to live some utilitarian bland recycled life

i think there's a middle crowd yeah maybe i don't think like i don't think you have to be out there collecting all the Funko Pops and you can still live a non-like what, you know, I don't think you have to be.

You either have to be Yankees polo guy or you have to be a monk

living a life of asceticism.

Yeah.

You're either Yankees polo guy or you're a freegan

that like lives in a house made out of like cow shit or something.

I do think, I will say this too, to act like this is some fucking form of like great art.

It just

they all look the fucking same.

It's just as utilitarian.

Yeah, it's bored.

It's anything else.

Again, it's like to me, it's, I don't know, do people really like the way they look?

Is there, is there like, did you find people who are like talking about how they like them in any way other than

you did?

Okay, so because I guess others are creeped out by the black eyes.

I guess they find them soulless.

I think they're cute.

Who knows?

People just like to hate something.

Okay, so they are saying they think that they're cute or whatever, but they can't think that they're the cutest thing, right?

That you can.

No, they're not.

And this guy goes, whatever city it is, must be a fucking dumped shithole full of asshole cocksuckers.

I love Funko Pops.

Hell yeah.

It's cool.

It's cool to see that Funko Pop, like they have some people in their ranks that are just like fucking just

swearing gin.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It gets you so mad.

I love anger in that way.

But I picture them as being kind of like, you know, the kind of like the people collecting Funko Pops being like, hey, man, don't be so.

I mean, it's nice to know that some of them are like, hey, fuck you, you fucking piece of shit, motherfucker.

Then this last guy.

This is one of the things that I read a lot, and I might not.

have very many more.

Ooh, very many more posts, but this guy goes, they spelled Laboo Boo wrong.

See,

I was gonna bring up laboo boo, like, because I, I've only, like, really found out what those are through osmosis.

Like, I have put in no effort on my own to learn what they are, but, like, I've seen them now, and, like, with Funkos, they have just no expression, the little black eyes, like, I don't know, Laboo Boos at least have, like,

you know, big, cute eyes, and the devilish little look on their face and smile and stuff.

Like, there's at least some personality there.

Well, I'll say this too, and Chris is probably going to give me me grief for this, but I'm just going to say it anyway.

I get push notifications from StockX every day about Laboo-Boo, and that's how I know

that Laboo Boo exists and what it is.

And I got to tell you, it's very expensive.

And

I don't want to hear

why do I have push notifications from StockX?

What if something comes out that I want and I want to buy it?

Yeah, what if there's like a, yeah, what if there's like a Lincoln Park

X, you know, fucking limp biscuit leg.

This guy goes, oh, God.

And he posts a picture of the skibbity toilet Funko Pop.

Okay.

You want to see the Skibbity Toilet Funko Pop?

Yeah, I'd like to see it.

I was just about to look it up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can't just say that.

I need to see it.

Yeah.

So here's the skibbity toilet Funko Pop.

I wish it was a better, like it's a picture taken, you know what I mean?

So he's like, there's a reflection it you can't really see it that well.

It's a Funko face coming out of a toilet.

Yeah.

Hmm.

It's really all it is.

But I'm going to tell you something.

These guys, this guy goes, the fact that this exists over actual Half-Life Funkos upsets me.

What do you mean over them?

Yeah, they did Skibbity Toilet instead of the

instead of Half-Life ones.

But he said instead of some Half-Life ones, right?

So presumably there is some, but just not the ones that he's looking for.

This is actual half-life funko so i think it's because they haven't done a half-life connect collection and but they've done skibbity toilet yeah like um yeah signs of the apocalypse yeah we've got a skibbity toilet uh funko before the half-life was yeah methinks we're careening into a

this person goes and they can't go for good franchises like american dad

i i agree with that one i like

i love american dad thank you Jania.

I've talked about it on here and love American Dad.

Love Roger.

Roger's one of the best characters.

We're icon.

Yeah, we're not.

This is known.

This is known, I think.

People love American Dad.

I think they know it's really funny.

Yeah, like, I quit playing Magic the Gathering last year, and I'm like, I'm done with this.

Because they were like...

All the new, like, half of the new sets are going to be like Final Fantasy or Spider-Man or like some other thing.

And like, I and I've said the only way they could get me back is if they're like, all right, there's an american dad set i'd be like i'm in i'm so

this guy says or mario mario funkos would easily be a license to print money yeah but i think

not understanding licensing not you literally say license in the actual comment and you don't see that

i think the licensing i'm sure they've no i don't think the funko corporation has ever looked into the super mario brothers ip yeah somebody reading this being like holy fuck yeah this is the mario brothers, Luigi, right?

Holy fuck.

I bet they looked into it.

So the movie,

the movie is based on a video game, you're telling me?

Okay.

The CEO sees this, and he calls everybody into the office and pounding on a table.

Why don't we have Mario?

How did that slip through the fucking cracks, people?

This guy goes, I asked the guy in the store what this was supposed to be, and he said, someone made some stupid video, and now some stupid kids say this stupid thing all the time.

And I said, You deserve a raise.

This fucking comic book shop guy from The Simpsons, you know, like just this, like, old fucking, yeah, like, and then he just encountered his, his, like, you know, his brethren there in that moment where he's just like, he's probably said that to a bunch of people, and most of them are like, yeah, whatever, you old freak.

And then this guy is like, yeah, you deserve a raise.

Like, that is kind of, again, it's nice.

They sound like people I would hate, but it's nice that they found each other in that moment.

He called the manager later on and said, I'd like to tell you about this employee you have who is just above and beyond.

And then he's just like, oh, that guy.

Oh, that.

Oh, sorry.

That's actually my, that's my sister.

That's my brother-in-law.

And, like, he's like a really big problem in our family.

And he lives in our basement.

And he's mad about.

This guy goes, Funko Pop hit a new low.

Next guy goes, This is why they're failing.

So they're, I mean, Skibbity Toilet is one of the reasons why they're failing.

Well, no, I think it's actually

the

costs are too high, right?

Yeah, I think they're spending like $50 billion more than they're bringing in.

I think they're in.

Yeah, their production.

Yeah.

And so unless they're spending time.

According to the earnings report, the quarterly earnings report.

You're going to love this next comment then.

Seeing this should make any investor look into shorting Funko.

The company is going down, but hey, it may be picked up by Mattel for cheap.

So this guy's going Jordan Belford on this ass.

What?

He's just...

Let's short this fucking place.

I went into the store, I saw a skibbity toilet, and I said, no more.

On the phone with your accountant?

Yeah, no, it's a skidbity.

Look up Skibbity Toilet.

Yeah, it's a good thing.

We can't stop this.

Can we kill this company and punish them for what they've done with the honorable Funko Pop brand.

Yeah, no shit.

It's just like...

They need to go broke.

Yeah, I mean,

honestly, think about some of them things that they've made with them.

Funko Pops do anything, right?

They're allowed to.

They don't give a shit, man.

It's like just drawing the line at anything is really like skibbity toilet.

Come on, Funko.

And Chris, I want to say, I think one of the things I read is 30,000 Funkos, different Funko Pops.

That's how many there are.

There are 30,000 different ones.

That's

fucking so much.

That feels low to me.

I just feel like there's like everything, everything you can imagine.

Well, good thing somebody came in to defend Skibbity Toilet.

He goes, this is the most in-demand Funko we've seen in a while.

People have been calling stores and emailing the website daily to find out when we'll get stuck.

Everyone's a fan of something.

Edit.

Interestingly, this guy wants to short Funko based on them making a toy for a YouTube channel with 43 million subscribers and more than 65 billion YouTube views.

Kaiju number eight has what 30 million views.

I'm going to recommend not using this fella for financial advice.

Is that guy from the is he from Funko Corporation or from Skibbity Toilet?

He's from one of them.

He's from Skibbity Toilet LLC.

This guy might be the lawyer for Skibbity Toilet LLC.

Let's check in with this guy.

I don't understand

now.

Let's have an exclusive for Kohl's, you know, one of the big clothing stores.

Let's have Kohl's have an exclusive.

So I just went into my local Kohl's.

Uh-oh.

Feel sorry for these Kohl's workers.

And they wouldn't even let me use my Kohl's cash on the Funko Pops.

They said that's only for the clothes.

Immediately feeling bad for the employees at a Kohl's on Long Island.

Yeah.

It's gotta be rough.

It's gonna be rough like any day of the week.

I wonder if they like know him at some of the places, you know what I mean?

Oh, the Funko Pie guys here.

I'm gonna go pop over, take a quick 10-minute break, actually.

Like, oh, what's up?

Nothing.

And then just like the other worker turns around, like, oh.

This guy's picture is definitely up like behind some counters.

Yeah, he seems like, because he's he's angry enough that he's making a video about it where he does it, where he sort of sees himself as a hero still so you know he's like was filled with all kind like you know

i'm gonna be honest with you i don't think he looks like a funko guy to me no he looks like a sports guy it might just be the shirt no he does look like a sports guy there's overlap there i bet this guy started with like sports cards or yankee yankee yankees funko yeah he he got yankees memorabilia and then his wife got him this yankees funko pop he's like what the hell is this stupid little thing?

You know, and then he's like, Oh, look at that.

It's kind of, you know, it was that like video where you just like slowly started

3,000 of them.

Here he is.

I can't get over the car seat as a nice little bit of environmental storytelling here.

It's so, it's so beautiful.

Or let's have Kohl's have an exclusive.

So I just went into my local Kohl's to find the 75th anniversary Captain America Funko Pop.

And guess what?

I asked four,

four different people.

One of them was the manager.

Not one person knew what the fuck I was talking about.

That's embarrassing, sir.

That's more embarrassing for you, I would say.

That's a really embarrassing story, man.

I'm not sure why.

I'm assuming there's more to it that's going to sort of change our perspective on you in some way.

God.

Oh, here you are.

They all looked at me like I was odd or something was wrong with me.

I looked around the whole store.

Brutal.

Brutal.

They all looked at me like I'm some kind of a moron.

Here I am being

perfectly normal member of society, just screaming about 75th anniversary Captain America Funko Pops.

Like,

awesome.

A specific one.

Going into the store for a specific Funko Pop.

It's you a Kohl's of all places in the world.

I know you have it.

I know you have it.

Can I say that I think it's...

He's showing the press release.

He's got the press release and he's holding it up to the people.

Like, you should have it here.

It almost feels like he kind of wants them not to have it and not to know as well, though.

Like, you know, like, he kind of feels like there's a little bit of like he just like, he wants, he's like, they're not going to fucking know.

None of these fucking idiots are going to know anything about this shit.

Watch.

Like, nobody knows.

Like, he almost wants that.

Like, this is kind of what he's looking for.

Yeah.

Right, Chris.

He's a ranter.

He needs stuff to rant about.

You know what I mean?

He's in the car with the sunglasses.

It's a classic rant situation.

Yeah, he wanted that.

He wanted that more than he wanted to hold the 75th anniversary Captain America for sure.

Brian, shout out to you for finding this guy, by the way.

I didn't find him.

Dan O'Sullivan did not.

Oh, shout out to Dan because, as I said, I was looking for great rants on YouTube for days on end, and I did not come across this guy.

So thank you, Dan.

Great.

Captain America.

Avengers, Marvel, stuff there, but not one pop.

And no one knows what the fuck I'm talking about.

And I blame Funko for this bullshit they continue to make these deals probably for the money because they're getting big deals on us they don't give a shit about their fans

no no no no do not listen you can say a lot of things about the funko corporation do not tell me they're in this for the money

yeah it's about the art man probably you know it's probably just for the money they're probably doing some some of these deals jane Just some of them.

Some of these I feel like are for, you know, it's like one for me, one for them kind of thing with a director.

Like, that's how I feel like they're doing it.

And why is Funko now responsible for Kohl's employees on Long Island?

And, like, they don't do a deal.

That's why you can't do it.

You can't fearfully vet the whole company from top to the bottom.

I see things to the guy stocking the shelves.

I bet you, I would be willing to bet any amount that he thinks

the day the Funko deal for the 75th anniversary Captain America Kohl's exclusive goes through.

He thinks there was a work meeting where they sat down and they had like a flyer with a picture of it.

It's like, people are going to come in here looking for this and you need to know everything about it.

And like, they're just not doing that.

They don't do like, they don't do that for every product.

Like, they just have a bunch of Kohl's is fucking huge.

Yeah,

people show up, they clock in, and then occasionally the manager will be like, oh, somebody no called, no showed.

Like, they're not they're not like like we need to make sure everyone is is really up to date on everything that's in this kohls on like you know the funko pops and the like like ultra cheap like nfl sherseys and stuff like everything yeah all of our nine dollar jeans we need to make sure everyone knows all about them yeah and the way that the way that kohl's specifically is stocked too it's just like shit is coming in and out it's like you could never possibly try to like have it but but to them because he's a a Funko Pop guy, he's like, this is different.

This isn't like the other stuff that they're selling.

This is unique.

This is a fucking 75th anniversary pop.

Yeah.

It's crazy, too, because they sell Funko Pops everywhere now.

Everywhere.

They sell them at the movies.

You go to the fucking movies, they got Funko Pops.

Big time.

Yeah,

that's the main place I see them is at Cineplex, like the main movie chain in Canada here.

They have so many of them, like with all the food and stuff.

Yeah.

That's like a lot of the physical media places turned into basically Funko Pop stores.

Yep.

That's all GameStop and stuff is too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love this.

I love when a person has a very specific like gripe with a company.

And so they answer a question on Quora.

And this person goes, what makes Funko so expensive?

The person answers and goes, apart from short runs and related artificial scarcity techniques for particular figures, Funko exploits the obsessiveness of fandoms.

For example, this example is very specific.

Not only have they completely stopped making Rocky Horror Picture Show figures,

they know that while not everyone likes the movie, the people who do like it a lot, thus, they accidentally created a secondary market in which people will pay $150 for a figure of Tim Curry's outrageous main character, Dr.

Frank Inferter, and will probably pay even more and pay it gladly when Mr.

Curry leaves the planet, as we all must someday.

I love how you're still scandalized by Rocky Horror Picture Show, like, 50 fucking years later.

I like

this character.

I like that they're like, the real problem with Funko is they didn't make enough Dr.

Frank inferters.

Let's look at a review of a Deadpool pop.

Very exciting.

Do you like Deadpool?

Jane, do you like Deadpool's brand of humor?

Of course.

Ryan's favorite.

He actually likes it.

No,

I'm a fan of Ryan Reynolds' business ventures.

Ah, you're a a wrexom.

A Wrexham supporter, I see.

Okay, very good.

I'm a huge fan of Ryan Reynolds.

I think he's great.

We hate Reynolds around here.

He's Vancouver's most hated son.

We hate him.

Oh, I thought you were saying on guys.

And I was like, don't even speak for guys like that.

We're 75, 25, because my opinion means more.

You think you get 75% on opinions?

Yeah.

Wait a second, though.

Why would you get

less of the opinion percentage than

you do of the pay percentage?

Deadpool, perfection in Funko form, five stars.

The Funko Pop, Marvel, Deadpool figure, is an absolute must-have for any Deadpool fan.

The attention to detail is incredible.

Capturing his quirky.

That's not true.

I'm just going to say, I've seen Funko Pops.

That is absolutely not true.

It's so good.

I love this.

Chris, you're going to like this.

And I'm going to agree with this.

Capturing his quirky, irreverent personality perfectly.

From the iconic red suit to the playful pose, this Funko Pop is as fun as the character himself.

Can we see it?

Yeah,

I can show you a bit of a picture.

It'd be nice to see as they're describing this thing.

Because I do an image search, and there's a lot of different funky.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is a specific.

Yeah.

That is a quirky way of standing.

I don't think that's very playful.

He's just holding two swords and one of them sort of in front of his front.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty playful to me.

Just wearing his

fighting stance.

Yeah.

Yeah, iconic red suit.

So the figure is well made and stands sturdily on its own, making it a perfect for display on a shelf or desk.

It's also a great addition to any Funko Popper Marvel collection.

If you love Deadpool's unique blend of humor and action, this collectible will bring a smile to your face every every time you see it highly recommend I

could never imagine having a thing that I walk in and I look at and it brings a smile to my face like that that's not like my child or something yeah you just walk in and like it reminds you of one of uh Deadpool's quips or whatever like you

This guy gave it three stars.

It's a very unfair review.

He goes, keep it away from little brothers.

Five-year-old loved it.

Mom thought it was a little too violent looking with weapons on them.

Our two-year-old got a hold of it and broke it very quickly.

So if you get it, make sure to keep it away from two-year-olds.

These are not toys.

They are not for children.

Yeah.

Here's an alien one.

A very recent alien one.

It's a xenomorph.

You got to keep everything away from two-year-olds, though.

As someone with a two-year-old,

I can say almost two-year-old that, yeah, you just really, that's just across the board.

Anything that they can break, they will break immediately.

They love Regina stuff, they love it.

Yeah, here's a Xenomorph, Funko Pop.

Wow, the attention to detail on that is crazy.

It looks exactly like a Xenomorph, to tell you the truth.

This guy goes,

This guy goes, in space, no one can hear you smile.

Yeah, because you don't hear smiles, you see smiles.

That's one problem.

Acute alien?

Yep.

Though I was expecting this to be a bobblehead, beware that it is not.

You can turn the head left and right, but that's it.

Still, I'm quite happy with the little bugger.

The paint job is really good as they nailed the slightly metallic gray-green color.

A funny pose, too.

Ready to attack.

Purchased on Amazon from vendor ToyNK, who packaged the item well, and both the alien and the box arrived in mint condition.

That guy, he likes posing it.

Let's check in with this guy.

Here we go.

Or their customers.

They don't give a shit about us.

Who cares if we can't find them?

Go find them on eBay and pay triple, quadruple the price.

Or don't.

Toy store

or a comic store or a toy con.

He spit.

He just spit.

He just spit.

He just spit.

That's called being spitting mad.

He's literally spitting mad right now.

Can he back it up?

You got to.

Hey, and pay triple, quadruple the price.

Or go to a a fucking toy store

or a comic store or

so mad when he says go to a fucking toy store.

Yeah, and he spits.

Spits.

Oh, no, it's gross.

And

you know, double or triple the price.

What do they care?

They're getting their money.

They get to say, we have an exclusive item with Kohl's.

Even though my Coles doesn't have one, and not one person plus the manager, knows what the fuck I'm talking about.

Walgreens gets all these awesome Marvel exclusives.

Not one fucking pop at Walgreens have I ever found but the exclusive Punisher almost a year ago.

Wait, so you did find one.

You found one.

So, and so listen, man, this is how it is for collecting high in-demand stuff.

It's fucking annoying, and the secondary market shit is annoying.

But yeah, this is like, you know, this coming in.

I'm sorry, man.

People got the pops before you got them.

Well, he said, he's like, I went to every fucking Walgreens on Long Island.

Well, how long did that take?

And like, shouldn't you, you should have just paid double for it on eBay, dude?

Yes.

Yes.

Here's an argument we often see when we do these collectors, people.

Teams healed or team unboxed and why?

These are mostly team boxed, right?

I feel like just because they don't really?

Wow.

It's the same as the action figures.

It's like, why would you leave them in a box?

But why would you take them out?

These ones don't really pose, do they?

No.

Yeah, I would have thought that box would have been a way bigger deal.

Like the people with like the Star Wars little like small action figures, like they go ape shit if that thing isn't in the box.

Yeah, you go a guy goes, signed.

He goes, rarity, current price, and signed, and ones I don't want to risk damage stay sealed.

But 90% of my collection comes out.

I do keep the boxes flat in a tub and the inserts marked with painter's tape and sharpie to keep track of them, but also in the tub stacked on one another.

Yeah, I would love to see the size of this tub of flattening.

It's a bathtub.

He's referring to a large bathtub.

This guy goes, boxed, easier to dust and stack.

I keep the box flattened.

Like, that's fucking crazy to me.

Like, you're going to take it out of the box and then you're going to keep the box separately.

Like, it's like, oh, my God.

Do you think flattening the box?

Do you think flattening?

I think people do that sometimes.

Oh, my God.

You think that maybe is like a different and takes it to another level, maybe.

I think that's so besides.

i do i think it's i agree with jane i think flattening the box and

keeping away i wonder what the thought process is behind it that you may want to re-box it that some people might want to re-box it some people might just want to have the box in a closet in a huge pile but it's already been taken out of the box doesn't that like isn't

the value already gone the second you do that maybe yeah because i mean it's not nib anymore it's smart for storage obviously because you don't want to keep all those boxes if they're empty.

You might want to keep all those boxes.

I don't know why you would think people would just go and throw away boxes and not break them down and put them in a closet until they weigh 70 pounds and then take them to a recycling center.

Yeah, I feel

like I guess I can understand it.

I don't think I would ever do it.

I don't have that type of brain

that I would do that.

I did it and I knew I was doing something stupid.

Wait, you did it?

Yeah.

With your your Legos?

I had like a hundred pounds of Lego boxes in my closet, in my bedroom.

I couldn't keep anything on the floor in the closet.

Because my wife would be like, Why don't you put your shoes in the closet?

And I was like, There's not enough room.

Okay,

how did you, what did you get?

When you got rid of your Legos, did you sell them?

The solid box?

Yeah, but I sold them both.

I didn't actually sell them.

I gave them to an LGBTQ

teenage place in two huge boxes.

Okay, and you didn't give them the boxes that came in then.

No, because I had that moment where I had to go to the fucking recycling dumpster thing.

And they were so heavy and there were so many of them.

It was like the stack, I wish I could show other people, but they were flattened boxes.

And the stack was like, you know, three feet,

like a couple, like a foot and a half tall or whatever.

It was a lot of boxes.

I don't know why I kept them.

I don't know what I would even do with them.

And now I get rid of them immediately.

So I don't have them.

I still have like maybe one box in my closet that I used for moving.

So

this guy goes, um,

this guy goes, you can just go to the store every once and then look at them instead of wasting money.

So,

oh,

like

the Funko boxed.

Yeah, you leave the Funko

boxed, then what's the point?

You just go to the store and look at the box.

Yeah, go to

Yeah.

Yeah.

The point is collecting.

Well, this guy goes, I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I read this.

I get he's implying, but I wouldn't consider wasting money at all.

In the box or out of the box, they're still on display.

Nobody is actually playing with their Funkos.

And this person responds and goes, I don't mean playing, but you can really see the Funko.

The plastic and the box cover blur hide most of it, especially chase Funkos.

I love mine because they glow in the dark and it looks nice.

I just, I think about these people, if you think of them as 13 years old, they're like, ah, okay.

Sure.

Yeah.

You know, but no, I, but I, I can't do that because I know that they're this guy in the Yankees shirt.

Like, I know that they're this guy.

Yeah.

And, and this person goes, what a,

to the person who said, uh,

you know,

nobody is playing with their Legos.

This person goes, what an unbelievably ignorant response.

And you meant Funko Pops.

You said Legos, but yeah.

What an ignorant response to say that people are not playing with their Funko Pops.

So just

are you fucking stupid?

Can I, there's no further comment because I'd love to hear any elaboration on what playing with the Funko Pops would be.

You're banging them against each other.

What are we doing here?

There is more.

This person goes, this is an unreal take to me.

And for others, taking out of the box means it loses its value.

That's it.

I have mine stacked on shelves in my box, and I can see them perfectly.

So you may just need glasses.

Oh,

lose its value.

You're in this hobby because you care more about the monetary value of your figure than how it looks.

All the glow chase Funkos look cool as fuck out of the box and win that glow.

And many other normal Funkos do too.

But sure, keep your investment in the box.

So there's a little bit of a, so some people, like that, that's looked down on a little bit by some people to be like, oh, you're in, this is an investment.

No, I'm in it for the love of the game.

I'm in it for how good the Funko Pops look.

I've been in it

for the pleasing shapes of

Funko Pops.

That feels like it's a person who just hasn't come to terms with the fact that they're just...

just want to be collecting things and their brain wants to be accumulating things and it's important to them or whatever.

And they have to sort of figure out in some way, like, why do I keep buying these Funko Pops?

I must be.

Because it's an investment.

Well,

let's take a look at this, and then we'll watch some more of the rant guy, and I think we'll be done.

But I do want to read this interesting

thing:

it's time to retire from the pop game.

This is from r/slash funko pops.

These are the saddest posts we get to, we read these sometimes.

These ones are heartbreaking.

It's heartbreaking.

I'm making this post because I want others' opinion on my statement.

The past few months, summer now, I've spent almost $3,000 just from buying pop figures alone.

Now, luckily, I was able to afford that to feed my addiction.

But I realized something as I was looking over my bank statement.

I spent $3,000 on toys.

Now, I know a lot of you guys will say they aren't toys.

They're collectibles.

And if it has value to one, then it shouldn't matter how much money is spent because it brings happiness.

And I can 100% agree.

But here's what I said to myself.

How long am I going to keep using that excuse so that I wouldn't feel bad spending so much money on toys?

I don't know if the value of the pops is slowly dying on me, or I just came to a realization that these pops won't have much effect on my life if I don't have them.

I know, I don't know.

All I know is that I'm out $3,000 and have a room filled with pop figures.

With that being said, I think it's time for me to call it quits and begin to start selling some of my pop figures.

However, I still want some input on this statement.

Do you think it's really a good reason to spend thousands of dollars on toys, regardless if it brings you happiness?

Look, who hasn't come out of a bender and realized you spent $3,000 on Funko Pop?

It's just like not even a cool bender, like you're doing drugs or drinking or anything.

You just went on a Funko Pop bender.

This is what it was like when I figured out I was addicted to opioids.

Yeah, yeah.

It was the same thing.

Yeah.

It was like, I'm spending, oh my God, out of nowhere.

I'm spending this much and I feel bad if I don't spend this much.

I feel like I'm missing something, which is getting fucked up, which is much better than owning Funkos.

But I think that the interesting thing is this guy spent $3,000 in three months or something.

You know what I mean?

Like he was like, I really like these Funko pops.

I'm going to buy $3,000 worth of them.

Like immediately.

First thing.

The first one is...

Wait, were those his first?

He's saying these are the only ones that he's purchased.

Yeah, because he keeps referring referring to them and he's saying, I'm out $3,000 and he hasn't mentioned any other money.

So he just kind of went.

He might have a little bit of a,

you know, he might be pretty disgusting.

Yeah, this might be

something that he's trying to fill some hole that is extremely large.

Let's talk to somebody about this, not just sell them all off.

Yeah, not just sell them all off.

Not be on Reddit.

Reddit isn't where you go.

The actual the Funko Pop subreddit is not where you go to deal with these sorts of people.

No, no, no.

You're going to get some of the worst advice ever going to the subreddit of the thing you're trying to quit.

You will get so many people telling you so much bullshit.

Probably better off going to the AI that tells you to kill yourself than you are.

This person goes, I'm with you word for word.

I was intrigued by them for a while, but didn't really get into them until around May or so this year.

I bought a couple here and there, but as I'm sure it's the same for many people here, I really started to get crazy around San Diego Comic-Con.

Yeah, because

that's when it usually flares up for most people,

Flares up?

He goes, it just consumed me.

Looking on here and at PPG every time I had a free minute, checking store after store, etc.

I ended up with about 75 pops before I knew it.

The chase was great.

The high is you

75.

70.

That's so much room in your town.

Yeah, again, these are like, they're significant.

They're not like a tiny little doll.

Most people know the size.

How big is a pop box?

It's got to be like six by six by six at least, right?

I mean, 75 takes up,

you could stack 75 to the ceiling.

Jane, are you looking up the size of a pot box?

Yeah, they're

six and a half quarter inches tall, four and a half wide, three and a half deep.

Okay.

So, like, yeah, that's, that's, that's 75 of those is so much.

That's so much.

It's so much.

He goes, one day I walked by my collection, just stopped and looked at them and had the same revelation you had.

Why am I doing this?

Oh, oh.

Listen, man, it's a tough moment, but it is an important moment.

And it's like, it's good that these people are able to do that.

They're able to like sort of just be like, hey, man, this is actually a big waste of my money.

And I could be doing something that's like more fulfilling for me.

This is me in that guy's basement having a meltdown.

Trying to fix his cable, but having a meltdown about my pill addiction.

Yeah.

And then going and sitting by by some water and crying.

That's what this is.

Yeah.

This is that.

He goes, one day, oh, he goes, sure, it's not hurting me financially, but there has to be something better, right?

So I took 90% of them down and just packed them away.

I'll still check them out from time to time, but it would have to be a very specific popper line to get me to buy them again.

No, it doesn't.

No, yeah, right.

That's like an alcoholic being like, oh, I'll have a drink.

I'll have a drink every now and then, like just at a party if it's like a social function.

No, no, this ain't gonna work.

This guy's gonna fall straight back in.

Oh, yeah, because this guy's gonna be a little bit more.

He thinks of himself as like a guy in like a novel, like, you know, looking back on his life as he goes through his old stuff.

Like, oh, there's, yeah, there's my Wolverine Deadpool.

Yeah, for Deadpool pop.

Like, oh, you're just, I love this one.

This is a really good one here.

He goes, I'm exactly like you.

Just started in May and went nuts with San Diego Comic-Con.

I'm going through my 75 pop collection and picking out my favorite few lines to drive my collection down to about 40 or so, packing some away for later and just selling or trading the rest.

I'm not financially stable, so it sort of hurt me a bit.

But if I didn't spend it on pops, I would have spent it on something stupid like food or clothes.

Ha ha.

But really, though, I wouldn't have spent it.

I mean, technically, you probably would have spent it on food or clothes.

It's not really a joke.

He's kind of, yeah, he is making a joke, but I think that's not the joke.

Like, he knows that that's the truth.

He's just kind of saying, like, I don't know.

He just kind of realizes that it's bad and he's trying to make light of it.

He goes, ha ha, but really, though, I would have spent it on something.

So at least I have things that retain and/or gain value so I can make some of my finances back someday, hopefully.

I look at it like this.

Yeah, that's bad.

You know what I mean?

Like Funko Pops.

Imagine, like, my dad just died.

And imagine my dad did have a couple of Funko Pops, but it was because

they were sports.

No, I'm not sure.

Are you inheriting them?

Were they in his will?

No, I mean, I do inherit them because I have all his baseball cards and stuff like that.

So I guess, like, I will get the Funko Pops.

But I just imagine how funny it would have been if my dad had left me a bunch of Funko Pops.

You know, he's like, I'd like you 75 Funko Pops.

Yeah, he's just like, here, like, this is like, it was his thought of, like, how he could help me in the future.

He bought East.

this this is for your daughter's college yeah yeah exactly like how much like by the time your daughter your son like charlie is at a university these things are gonna be worth

this clo in the dark boba fed is gonna be worth a few hundred yeah so so you can buy a new car for him with the boba fed and then you can get

so at least uh yeah i look at it like this people spend way more on a ton of shoes to just sit on a shelf or t-shirts.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

They wear the shoes.

Some people might not wear them a lot, but they wear them.

Yeah, people wear their shoes.

People wear their shoes.

That's something you can't do with your Funko Pops.

That's not a fair comparison.

I know people who spend more on smartphone games in a month than I've spent on pops.

Again, that's bad, but it is a game that you're playing where you're doing something.

So again, not a good comparison, I don't think.

Yeah, with all the new pops coming out, I look at them and I take a day or two before I buy to reconsider.

Is it going to be hard to find or more expensive down the road?

I'm going to be mad I bought it.

Am I going to be mad I bought it within a week?

Do I even really want this?

So I've cut away back and I pulled the trick then on what I pulled the trigger on.

This is the exact thing I was talking about when I do is whatever.

So I can't teach you.

I was just going to say this is actually kind of like smart.

Like, this is a good way to be.

This is the way to be.

This is the way to be.

Yeah, that like you don't just jump into the thing.

That's when you get in trouble where you're just like, okay, as soon as the thing comes out, like, oh, I got to get that right away.

And you don't even consider anything else.

You have to stop.

Think about it.

Is this an important purchase?

Can I afford this?

Do I need this?

Is it?

Yeah.

I have that habit of like, I'd really like to start a hobby and then be like, well, I got to buy the best stuff for the hobby.

And then I buy it and I just don't do it.

You know?

Yeah, the famous like skiing thing that we, you know, like buying all the most expensive ski stuff.

We're talking about a kayak yesterday.

And I was like, we could probably get one.

I think you should go rent one first.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, that's the, that's Jane.

Jane, that would be nice to have you around more.

Because just

in general, just Brian, like, maybe here's a thing you could do where you're not sinking a bunch of money into it.

I think that could help them in a lot of circumstances.

Yeah.

See if you like the thing.

And oftentimes there are ways to do that without buying it.

Kayaking and skiing, I think, is like two of the best examples of that.

Yeah.

There's a person that rents kayaks off the river over here by my house.

So I could maybe go get them.

But, you know, I

just

think it seems fun.

Have you ever been kayaking?

No.

Not one single time?

No.

Okay, come on, Matt.

They're not that expensive.

I've been kayaking before, definitely.

Like, I went in high school

on a trip, and then in the Bahamas, my mom had a kayak that we would take out in the ocean.

We lost Chris.

Oh, he's back.

Oh, did you guys just lose me?

We lost you for a second.

I was saying I had a kayak.

My mom had a kayak in the Bahamas, and we would.

Yeah, we would go out and take it out in the ocean sometime.

I mean, they're 200 bucks.

You know what I mean?

That's not too bad.

Yeah, it's not that bad.

Okay, but even but more importantly than that, $200 is I know you live in an apartment.

I do live in an apartment.

I'd have to put it on the

biggest apartment in the world.

Do not live in the biggest apartment in the world.

It's the biggest biggest square feet.

Don't even say it.

I don't remember.

Don't even say it, Brian.

Don't even say it.

People will revolt against you if you say how many square feet it is.

It's like, I want to say that big.

What is it, like 17,000 or something like that?

That would be a mansion.

No, like 1,700 would be a big apartment.

No, no, no.

No, no, Jane.

It's definitely between 15,000 and 18,000.

It's huge.

It's one of the biggest in the whole city.

No, it's not.

Hold on.

I'll see if I can get a tenth house.

Wow.

No, the actual, I think you're about right, Jane.

I think it's about, well, I mean, I think it's like $1,700, I think, is something.

So it's big.

It's big.

It's not that big.

It doesn't feel like super.

I can't get it right now.

In Vancouver, it would be huge.

Like, I just think it's different.

Like, depending on where you live, some places have space for bigger places and some, yeah.

More concerning than the money for me is the amount of time I spend researching and trolling Reddit for that new new.

Browsing PPG versus FunkoSwap, et cetera, is definitely time-consuming.

And I'm feeling exactly as you are.

I don't want to 100% quit, but I definitely need to not buy as much or research much to force myself to enjoy a prospective purchase.

If I hit 30 and I have a room, nay, a wall of pops, I'll probably have a lot of regret personally.

I also don't want to step on anyone's toes, but that's just my own opinion as well.

My real question is: how can I ditch my commons, LOL?

eBay might be my best bet.

Let's check in with our guy.

Listen,

it's good to try to recycle them because we mentioned the waste, but

this guy he can throw them out too if you know the commons.

But what is the, yeah, what is the, I wonder if they can be recycled.

Uh, probably, well, but nothing gets recycled in the United States.

Even if you put it in a recycle bin, it's probably going through.

Really?

Yeah, it doesn't really get recycled.

You guys don't do recycling, really?

We do, but they don't.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I think we do it.

I think we do it a little bit more, maybe.

But probably not.

You're probably right.

It's probably similar, but I think.

You just don't know where it goes once they come and pick it up.

In Canada, we always like to think of ourselves as being kind of bad, but just a little bit better on those kind of things.

That's how we, like, even if it's an untrue, that's just kind of how I always think.

Like, oh, yeah, no, we do a bad job of that, but just a slightly better job in a different way.

Here's our guy.

Here's our ranter.

Not one other exclusive.

I'm not counting the Star Wars because of Star Wars.

Okay, wait,

why not?

Wait, he's going to tell us why he's not counting the Star Wars.

I know, but first, they don't have any except for one that I found.

And now he's like, and I'm not even going to count Star Wars.

Do you remember the famous?

Yeah.

Do you remember the guy for like 10 years ago is like talking about like going to Toys R Us on May 4th and being like, the Funko Pops decimated.

And he was just like super pissed off that all the Star Wars thing.

I can't help but think of Funko Pops decimated every time this guy says anything.

Here he goes.

Not one other exclusive.

I'm not counting Star Wars because of Star Wars, they bought an overabundance Walgreens and and then they have so many there.

I don't see any Marvel.

You have to be, for these people to be happy, you have to find that balance.

If there's too many, then it's like, well, these are fucking worthless.

This is shit.

I fucking hate this.

And then if you have too few, then they're mad at you for not being able to get it.

You have to have just enough so they can get it, but then there's like they get the last or the second last one.

I mean, this does remind me of our rant guy, Chris, when he like starts yelling about something and then keeps correcting himself yeah that's a big rant thing jane is that these rant guys that we follow is that they'll oftentimes they're their own worst enemy and that they'll bring up things that refute their own point i think this guy's this guy's like fantasy the ideal scenario for this guy is that he goes into a walgreens and he asks for a funko where the funko pops are and an employee's like uh i don't I don't know what you're talking about, sir.

And then he grabs him by the shirt and he's like, I know you got the fucking pops here.

and then they're like fine fine fine i was hiding them so only i would get them and then he like forces them like like at gunpoint to sell them the pops yeah back into the room that's that is his that's his mark wahlberg fantasy

totally totally

here's more anywhere on long island on staten island I'm pretty positive if I went into other boroughs of New York, I wouldn't find them either.

I would never go to those boroughs because you know what?

yeah,

but hey, we have an exclusive with Walgreens.

That's cool.

Fuck you, Funko.

And now they're going to bring in a new player.

They're going to bring in Best Buy because Best Buy is a great place for collectors to go find toys.

So now Best Buy is now getting into the exclusive, exclusive Funko Pop game.

Okay.

I'm also

fired up for like insulin.

Yeah.

You know, like, like, like, how like horrible these companies are about medications.

If you could commit, yeah, if you could, if they, if you turn it into some sort of collector type situation, and you could make a general special

adventure.

Just refocus the rage on Long Island into something productive.

Like, we could have universal health care in no time.

By Captain American 75th anniversary insulin case.

Yeah, that's all we need to do.

Yeah.

Can't wait till they start getting exclusives.

If you go in there and they look at you like you don't, they don't don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

So this is now he's now he's this has not happened yet.

He's just saying

might happen later.

Can't wait for the Best Buy to start fucking looking at me like I'm an idiot.

God damn it.

How many places are going to look at me like I'm the dumbest fucking weirdo in the world?

And I'm smart.

That's the thing about me is that I'm smart.

I'm not a dumb idiot.

And I'm not weird.

They've sold Funko Bobs at Best Buy for a long time, I feel like.

I think so, yeah.

Why can't exclusives just be saved to stores?

Like hot topic, game stop to barn

they look at you like you don't they don't the fuck you're talking about

why can't exclusive just be stay to stores like hot topic the game stop buddy to barnes and noble toys toys are us

this guy's like 45 year old new york yankees fan going into hot topic

It's so funny, man.

Hot topic is such a funny place to have to go into to buy anything ever as an adult.

I have a niece that likes like Olivia Rodrigo and stuff.

And so when Christmas comes around, you know, we go to Hot Topic to get her something.

And she's 15.

And I always feel weird in there.

Oh, it's such a good thing.

There's nothing for me there is what I'm saying.

There's like nothing there for me.

It's a funny store just to be for a guy like this to have to go into this like Yankees fan who's like, fucking Geta, man.

It's all Geta, you know?

and then he's got to go.

Well, Brian going in there is different because Brian, like, Brian does a new metal podcast.

Yeah, and he could at least be like, oh, yeah, I used to come into this place, you know, back in the day, sort of guy, but this guy is not that at all.

No, no, that guy,

they've got corn stuff and limp bass.

Yeah, they have deft shirts there, too.

Yeah, they have deft tones.

I was going to say, in fact, remember, I used to at Metro Town, there's a hot topic.

And I go to Metro Town with and walk around with, I used to a lot with Charlie, and I would always take, there was like a mannequin

wearing deft toads, and I would post videos of me pretending to think it was Brian onto the Instagram.

Swords that fucking know, at least when you walk in, what you are talking about.

When you say Funko Pops, they go, oh, yeah, they're back there.

Oh, yeah, they're over there.

Oh, no, we don't have anymore.

Oh, no, we don't carry those.

That's a good idea.

I'd have a lot more trust in Best Buy being good about that than Walt Greens, though.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I used to work at Best Buy, and I can say that I was often extremely under the influence of drugs, though.

So I don't know.

It's tough to say.

I feel like the one thing that you do get at Best Buy that you don't get at those plates, and Hot Topic, I don't think of, but GameStop.

The person who works at GameStop is probably going to be somebody who's interested in gaming and that type of stuff, right?

Versus the person at Best Buy, it's a corporate kind of like retail job that they're like, you know, I wasn't into that type of stuff.

I just like to do that.

I go to the fucking movie theater and I'm like, where the hell is the galactus pop at?

There's only a little bit more left.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A what?

What is that?

A Funko what?

You know, it's like a little vinyl toy.

You know, they're about four inches or so.

Same.

Oh, I never heard of it.

I don't think we carry it.

Fuck you, Funko.

I'm so fed up.

I wish I could.

There's another spin.

He's gonna spit a bunch.

He spit a bunch again.

And he stuck up his middle finger before he said, fuck you that time right to the camera sideways.

Stupid addiction I have to your stupid vinyl toys.

So I can just fucking sell them all and be done with your dumbass company.

And the funniest thing is, too, is that...

Wait, can you back that up?

What did he say about his addiction there?

Here.

Here's a sell.

Oh, I never heard of it.

I don't think we carry it.

Fuck you, Funko.

I'm so fed up.

I wish I can get over this stupid addiction I have to your stupid vinyl toys so I can just fucking sell them all and be done with your dumbass company.

And the funniest thing is.

It is heroin, dude.

It is.

You can stop.

I promise.

I quit doing

opioids.

Yeah, you can.

You must make it.

You can get on the other side of that.

Yeah, I quit smoking cigarettes.

I quit drinking alcohol.

It's definitely possible to do.

And I feel like, yeah, you don't have any chemical thing here.

So it feels like you could replace it with something else more productive.

Like, it would be an easy thing to do.

It's like you have that.

I get it, you want to be doing that, but maybe something that doesn't cost you money or fill up space.

True,

I don't know what the when anybody anybody tweets to you guys to ask you questions about your exclusives and why you have deals, you don't seem to get back to them.

But when they question you,

this guy is brutal.

Yeah, yeah, he's a loser.

This guy's tweeting at the company at Funko.

Or praise you.

You guys are quick to favorite it and retweet it.

But when someone's like, oh, he's checking through their favorite.

He's checking their likes.

He's looking through their likes.

You're quick to favor and retweet it.

But when I tell you you're a piece of shit company that doesn't know what they're doing, you don't retweet that.

Yeah, think about how the language he's using.

It's like some, it's like, listen, it's mostly adults, but it still is a toy company that probably children.

You know, they figure there's children following them.

What if that the rest of this guy's timeline that's not Funko stuff is also like him tweeting at porn stars, you know, doing the like, oh, yeah,

when are you gonna do another scene?

Yes, please, like, just yes, please at a picture of a nation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wait, with the fucking tails tucked between your legs.

Oh, he spat so much.

Jesus, man, this guy is spitting so much.

This actually upsets me a lot now because I realize now that when he's yelling at these poor employees, he's fucking spitting on them.

He's a spitter.

For sure.

He's a spitter.

He's a spitter.

Yeah.

I mean, I drool.

This guy's going full Luis Suarez.

That's an MLS reference.

Shout out to Luis Suarez from Brian's favorite team, Inter Miami.

Columbus.

You said that you loved Inter Miami because they...

Oh, I like their hats.

Their hat, yeah.

But he's a horrible player.

He bit a couple of guys before.

He's like a legendary player.

But he's also been like, yeah, been really racist, I think, as well.

But he spit on some old, the Seattle Sounders, like equipment guy who's like 78 years old on camera after the game.

He spit directly into his face.

It was so fucking horrible.

Funny, Lao.

Or praise you.

You guys are quick to favorite it and retweet it.

But when someone has something negative to say, you guys run away with your fucking tails tucked between your legs.

You are one of the worst fucking companies.

And the fact that you keep continuously coming out with stupid fucking pops over and over again like Deadpool like Batman and I love all them Superman everything I love all these but the fact that you keep coming out with the same fucking pops over and over again But this one's a different color.

This one's a different variant thank you again

He's realizing in person

in real time Why do you this is all a scam?

He's basically saying like why yeah, why can't he's talking he's making a video for himself in a way almost Like, why can't I stop buying these fucking things?

Like, these are, they're, you know, they're worthless.

This is a really, this is a really interesting video, I feel like.

Yeah, it's great.

It's one of the better ones.

Be fucking original.

Come up with some other goddamn licenses.

You spit a lot.

Stop making the same goddamn thing over and over again because you know that we're addicted and we're going to buy them.

You're a piece of shit company, and I wish I wasn't addicted to you.

Fuck you, Funko.

That's what I think of Funko.

Fuck you.

Brant over.

All right.

Everybody changed the way, Randall.

Wait, there's still 37s.

Yeah, it's just

like...

Oh, it's his outro.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So

that guy is the most, one of the most mad guys we've ever seen.

So

Funko pops.

Fuck you.

Hey, Funko.

You know how good it feels to say fuck you to somebody like that?

You know what I mean?

Where you're just like, fuck you.

yeah

like he got that high here yeah he he i wonder if he got what he's looking for there i wonder if if he

was from nine years ago yeah so i wonder how if you checked in on him yeah i would love to check it i'll see if i can check in on him and see okay oh he's not back No, he's, yeah, his last video is six years ago.

But you never know.

Funko Pop Hunt and Hall video.

So he spent at least three more years doing it.

Okay, so he gave up.

Oh, he's a WWE guy, too.

He didn't give up.

He didn't give up.

But I was just going to say to you, Jane, that we know a guy named Drama Rants, who's the top ranter on YouTube.

And he took like a seven-year break and then came back, which is an incredible move.

And like, he's back better than ever, I feel like.

He's great.

You know, he's a Trump guy.

You can get him on the Patreon.

A lot of drama rants on Patreon.

He is the only ranter I've ever seen that doesn't plan his rant at all.

He's a freestyle ranter.

This guy on his

Twitter's gone.

His Facebook hasn't been updated since 2018, but February 2022, here's some more Funko Pops.

So

he's got a wall of Funko Pop.

So

he never gave up on it.

He might have died of COVID, though.

I think there's a decent shot that this spitting mad Long Island guy died of COVID.

This guy was wearing masks.

No.

No.

No.

And he's the main guy who should have been, honestly, the way he talks.

Yeah.

I'm going to put him in our rotation here.

I'll check in with him.

I thought you were going to put him in the rest in peace talk along with Tony Kay.

Don't bring up Tony Kay in that.

Well, we don't know if Tony Kay, none of these people we know,

we don't have verification that he died.

There's a guy who used to do cigarette reviews who hasn't made videos of it.

God rest his soul.

We'll miss you forever, cigarette cigarette review guy.

And then the one guy that we actually know for certain, and we have a clarify, is the only one we know for certain is Minnie Gene Simmons.

Rest in peace.

Minnie Gene Simmons is rest in peace to Minnie Gene Simmons, who's, you know, God, what he would do to incredibly horny.

What he wouldn't do to have sex with that bikini lady.

We love him.

Yeah, we love Minnie Gene Simmons.

Rest in peace.

And rest in peace to Aaron as well.

Well, yeah.

I mean, you know, he was an important guy, second in command.

And Jane, do you got anything you want to plug?

Yeah, my podcast, Batting Around, it's a baseball podcast I do with my friends Lauren and Stephen.

It's, you know, down the stretch in the baseball season.

It's a good time to listen right now.

We just had a good episode come out on the day we recorded this anyway, so I don't know when this comes out.

This comes out Tuesday.

This comes out like in a week.

This comes out and, yeah, we're actually not banking episodes right now.

Listen to it.

Everybody on that show is funny.

I mean, they came on.

You guys obviously came on and did an episode.

All three of you came on and got it.

Go find the old episode.

Go back and listen to the picture.

I'll plug the guys' episode even.

Yeah, the umpire guys, and then you can listen to all three of them.

But yeah, it's a very funny podcast and one of the very few good sports podcasts.

And also, Jaden, how do you feel about my

Toronto Blue Jays?

What do you think their actual trans audience is?

It's in Vancouver.

It's Canada's team.

Canada's team.

Well, okay, well, both the Blue Jays and if you're like Vancouver, if you're one of the Vancouver people that goes for the Mariners, like both those teams are doing pretty good right now.

So if you're a Vancouver baseball fan, like you're eating good.

Yep, it's true.

I'm a Dodgers fan.

I'm a Dodgers fan.

Yeah, I see that.

I see that.

Yep.

Yeah.

Johe Otani's on that team.

He is.

He is indeed on that team.

Look at a guy that knew something.

All right.

We'll see you all next time.

All right.

Bye, everyone.

Goodbye.