2025.07.10: Fufu-ing Your Bubu

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Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is Twilight Subway

for July 10th, 2025.

My name is Bertie Bird. She is not asking for your financial support.
It's Becca coming back once again. Say it, Becca, everybody.
Hi, everybody. Yeah.

So I do want to ask, though, you'd follow up on your fundraiser because you came here twice during your fundraiser? I think just once. Just once? Okay, okay.

How'd it go? How did it all end up?

So we ended up raising over $86,500. Wow.
Which is, yeah, bonkers. I mean, my initial goal was $25,000.

Was that it really? So it was $30,000. And so they talked me into 50.
They're like, we think you can do 50.

And then... After I did that podcast, there was a huge wave of support and they were like, let's try for 75.

And I said, Y'all are out of your minds, but sure, I'll try. I'll raise as much as I can, you know, whatever goal you put out there.
I'll try my hardest.

How long did you work at Reduce Your Teeth Official, like in under the roof in the offices? Uh, three years.

Get out of here. It was only three years.

It was a very pivotal three years. Yeah.

You had a birthday this week, too. Happy birthday.

I can't find my birthday drop. I would use that with Jeff Goebel and singing happy birthday.
But we were talking about how soon the younger generation will start turning 40.

And that's going to be, it's interesting for all of us because I'll feel that as well.

It won't be just them feeling it. I'll be like, oh my God.
But we've definitely hit that plateau where it's like, we're all adults and we're basically peers now.

And it's funny to think back when we met, especially like Barbara and Gavin. They were teenagers.
Yes. I know, I know.
And now they are not teenagers anymore.

But the Rooster Teeth, you were there three years,

but a long time working with the Rooster Teeth audience in general. It's always been impressively consistent how they show up for

charity events and things like that. So, after I did the podcast and the donations started coming in,

the director of the Central Texas region actually reached out and they were like, What did you do?

We are getting so many donations from all over the world.

How what's happening? You know, that was honestly, that was our first indication

that

the internet is different than other forms of media. Was the exact reaction you're talking about? Because we used to go to conventions back in the day.

We played a really horrible prank on you at one convention where we told you that the newest person had to sleep in the booth overnight.

But that was what, Florida?

Was that in Florida? I guess it, what, wait.

That was a super weird convention because it was you and me. and Jeff and Nathan.
Nathan, Nathan Zellner. Like he never went to convention.
No. And And he was in the booth.
And Nathan, it was like,

he, we, we ruined his credibility with you because

you can't go to that well too often, kind of like with talking about charity stuff. Was we went to Nathan and goes, hey, we're going to play this joke on that guy.
So just like, can you go off?

He goes, mm-hmm.

And then he just, when you, when it came to him, he just kind of went, yeah, it's a tough thing.

Gentle giant Nathan Zellner.

You know, I, he kind of lives in my neighborhood. I like run into him sometimes.
That's all right. And like with kids' stuff, like our kids are kind of in the same circles.

And so we'll run into each other at like completely unexpected contexts.

Did he talk to you at all about the new project he's working on, him and David? No, but I did see something in Variety about it, I believe. Yeah.

Because every major star in the world is apparently going to be in this project. It was insane, the cast list for that thing.
I can't wait to see it. Yeah.
Can't wait to see it.

I keep wanting to have them on the podcast, but it's interesting you say he's in your neighborhood because sometimes I'm trying to get him and David.

out in LA and sometimes in Austin. It's just we're never in the same place at the same time.
Yeah. Might have something to do with the fact that that I'm in Scotland a lot, too.
That doesn't help.

But I have always appreciated the audience and their ability to support charitable endeavors. It's been a very consistent thing, and it's always awesome.
Yeah, just really incredible.

Well, congrats to you, man. I know you worked really hard on that campaign.
Thank you. Put in a ton of effort and you got 3x your goal.
Plus.

Yeah. Yeah.
And I also won the award for the research pillar, like best representing that and, you know, speaking to the efforts of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Thank you for saying the organization. I don't think we had set it up until this point.

And so, yeah, that was, I am confident that I wouldn't have received that award if it weren't for this audience. That's awesome.
Awesome. Well, guys, take us a shot in the arm.

Thank you for your support.

Thanks for supporting Becca's incredible fundraising efforts. Truly humbling.

Listen, listen, I watched you do this. I had never heard of this before.
You had done it. And I learned about this appointment, essentially, that you had via your announcement.

And then you were all in. Is that the the same way you purchase like your design projects? Yeah, it's basically how I do my whole life.
I just don't like sucking or falling short at anything.

It's not that I'm necessarily competitive, I just

like to do a good job. Yeah, yeah.
You know, I'm kind of facing something similar myself because, as you know,

with the Rushiath brand, there's an opportunity to do a lot of stuff.

And like, and I can feel the edges starting to, you know, get spread a little bit thin, you know, and it's like, I really would like to get into a place where the library itself, people always have access to it via, you know, the tools that exist today that didn't exist in 2003.

And they get to a point where I'm doing like one project a year, maybe like two projects a year.

Or somebody said, actually, when I said go to two projects a year, I'm like, maybe three projects every two years. Maybe that's a better, a better way.
Yeah, there you go.

It's nice to concentrate, isn't it? It is. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, that's a good idea.
That being said, you still had your business while you were doing this fundraising. Yeah.
Yeah. Which, you know, it,

I was definitely like spending like two or three hours every evening working on the fundraiser after working a full day. And initially when I signed on, I was expecting to commit that time each week.

So I, you know, I was hitting my weekly allocation every day. But it was one of those deals where I was like, I can just put in a little time.

while I like doom scroll, send out some emails, do what I can. Yeah.
And my mom was incredible too. She was on my team and she raised, she won the award for the top earning team member.

She raised, I think, like $25,000

just on her own. Oh, mom.
Yeah.

Well, that brings me to something else I want to talk to you about, too, because if you've listened to the podcast with Becca on them before, you know that she grew up in South Texas.

And Becca, you grew up on essentially an onion farm. Is it fair? I think I've had to qualify this before.
Are you okay with me describing where you grew up as kind of a desert climate? Yes. Okay.

So that's a fair thing to say. I'm not being insulting or anything that's like that.
I was just in Tucson. It's crazy.

It's like, it would almost be like you could do an apocalyptic shot of Scotland because it looks so similar with the mountains and the kind of rolling hills and everything.

But then snap your fingers and all the greenery is gone. And it's like a completely different environment.
Like cactuses with, I didn't know this, 100-year-old arms and things like that. Oh, wow.

Yeah. But

this, while we were, you know, while I was in Tucson, the flooding happened.

And that's nowhere near where you grew up. It's closer here to Austin.
Correct. But I would imagine that you guys, A, you're in agriculture and B, you're in a desert climate.

The weather must have been so important to you. Do you remember like lots of flooding or flash flooding as a kid or that being a danger? Not really, but I do remember one time I was in third grade.

So let me think. That probably would have been.
like 90, 91. I need to like Google this later.

There was a big flood in my hometown and people had to be like rescued off their roof.

And one kid was like playing in a ravine and got washed away, but he survived, but he had to like, you know, hold on to a tree. Yeah.

But that was the only time in my life I ever really heard about flooding there.

There are rivers. The Nueces River goes through my hometown and then there are like, you know, dry creeks.
I was going to say dry creek beds, which are a huge danger for that stuff.

Like that's such the Texas flooding. trope, right? The creek beds just get you out of nowhere.
Well, it starts to build up and then suddenly it's like it sounds. It's such a flash flood.

It just comes pouring down the dry creekbed or something like that. But the rainfall down there is very minimal.
Right. Like perpetual state of extreme drought.
Until it's not. Yeah.
Right.

But it's weird because like, even though it's perpetual drought, it's not as impactful of a drought as it is here in the central Texas region because the entire world down there is set up to exist in drought.

Okay, so now that's a good point because I was wondering about this. You're lifelong in Texas.
You have never never lived anywhere else but Texas.

I've lived in Texas since essentially or lived from 1980 to 2020.

So I basically lived here, moved here when you were born, essentially, in that timeframe. I don't remember Texas being so incapable of dealing with natural disasters.

Do you think we're getting a reputation for being that way now? Definitely.

But you have to ask, is it Texas who's bad at it? Or do we just have more natural disasters to be bad at? I wonder.

I feel like most states are just bad at them. I mean, California is probably, they're pretty good.
They have a pretty swift response to wildfires and stuff. Right.

But when the National Guard isn't being peeled off or anything else, right? Right.

But Texas just has such a wide range of different natural disasters. And kind of recent, right?

We're seeing, I feel like, a lot of change all at once. I think we're on the same page here.
Like,

moving away from Texas, I feel like I'm looking back at Texas all the time, watching a weather app going, okay, the polar vortex that never hits Texas is going to hit Texas again for the third time in five years or whatever.

And now massive floods. What was this like a month ago? We even don't even talk about it anymore.
The downburst that like took out, did you get, you guys were right in the middle of that?

Yeah, we were right in the middle of it. Like,

I'm not really sure how it moved. I think it maybe went west to east over like central Austin.
My neighborhood was slammed.

jason saldania's neighborhood was slammed really yeah and nathan zillner apparently yeah now that we're doxing everybody

but it was uh yeah it was uh what it just all of a sudden the sky opened up yeah it was like you know we we were watching i started getting some alerts like 30 minutes before saying that you know basically like a tornado warning or something um

and i was like what The radar doesn't even show it coming over this. They're being dramatic.
And then immediately, I've never seen it go from zero to 100 with rainfall. The sky just opened up.

And we were like watching it out the windows, like, oh my gosh, it's raining so hard. And then immediately we're like, get the fuck away from the windows.
It was hail for you. It was hail and wind.

And we have like a big, like accordion, like bifold glass door that's 20 feet long. And it was like getting like backdrafted.
You could see it like going

from the wind outside. Yeah.
It was very weird. Becca's daughter, Clem, is here.
I can see you have some of your ad. Do you want to jump on and give the addition? The delivery guy.
Oh, my gosh.

There was a delivery guy? There was a delivery guy. What did he blow through the backyard? This was so bad.
No, so we had placed an Uber Eats order well before this was a real threat. I see how it is.

And then he took his sweet time, which placed him arriving squarely in the middle of the worst of the storm. Did he make it?

No, he passed away. No, he passed it.
Jeez. No, no.
Yes, he made it. That's a bad remark.
And I was like, oh man, dude, like, don't stay in your car.

You don't need to get to my door right now.

But he pulled up. We have like a paved front patio area and he pulled up from the driveway into that.
It's like

11 feet probably, yeah. It's like 11 or 12 feet wide.
I know the area. It was like a European parking job in the front yard, you know, like very limited lot space.

Just squeezed his car in there and basically literally drove up to our front door. Really? And dropped it off.

Can you blame him? No, not that. Didn't mess anything up, did it? No, I felt so bad for him.
We adjusted the tip tip afterward.

Like, it was just, yeah, he was supposed to have arrived like 45 minutes prior. They call that hazard pay clean.
You get overtime in this dangerous situation. Yeah.

So now anytime it's even remotely raining and they want to order delivery, I'm like, no, we're not going to be those guys again.

I always feel the same way too, even like when it's like with the equivalent of surge, like at this end, people are like, well, we're at home for the Super Bowl. Let's do Uber Eats or whatever.

Or on Christmas. I'm like, absolutely not.

I get too. Someone's already made the decision to work, but I just can't support that.
I know. We worked at the call center back in the day.
Yeah. And we had to work sometimes on hospitals.

Christmas was the worst. It was so busy because everyone got a damn computer for Christmas.
Yep. Wanted to set up their internet.

The most passive-aggressive thing I think I've ever said to anyone in my entire life was this old lady from Denton, Texas called in.

And I answered the phone because we were so busy, the managers had to get on the phones as well, which was the thing we did. There was like all these thresholds.
And I was answering calls.

And she said, just like everyone says when they call Christmas, they go, Oh my God, I can't believe there's someone there on Christmas Day. And I said, Well, ma'am, people call.

Afterwards, I was like, Man, that was super passive-aggressive. But it's true, if you don't call, they don't staff people.
You know what I mean?

And people will often say, Oh, you know, we'll go do this like on a holiday, we'll go out to eat, or we'll do whatever. And there, you know, there's people working anyway.

It's like, yeah, but because you go, right? You know, sometimes consumers don't realize how much they drive things.

It's 100%.

100%. Yeah.
But yeah, going back to the disaster thing, it's like Texas is now,

like, just off the top of your head, how many events have taken place in the last two years where you were worried about losing a tree? And that's a specific thing.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it traces back to like February 23.

Several. Right.
It was the ice storm that caused all the trees to fall. Right.

But

two winters prior, both of them had severe, you know, freeze events that led to, I mean, the polar vortex time or whatever the hell it was.

And then there was just like a really hard freeze the next year that I broke, I lost a water heater.

But yeah, two years ago was when the trees turned on us, fell everywhere. That was awful.
Like the damage, like we had like thousands of dollars in tree pruning afterward.

And you never, I never worried about it before. Like if I go back 10 years, I worried 0% about trees.

I can remember when I moved into my house in Buda, I found out about a thing called Oak Wilt in 2000. That was the last time I even thought about the occupation of Arborist.

I never, and then suddenly now I've got one on speed dial, right? You know, it's insane. So something's, you know, something's going on.

It's real easy to point like climate change and stuff like that. But I was with a group of friends.
A lot of them are boaters.

And one of them said,

people who have listened to the Rushi podcast have heard me bitch about this before, the lake lake levels, uh-huh.

He literally said

maybe like 18 hours prior, it was less than 24 hours prior to the rain starting. He said, Lake Travis is never going to fill up again because they were talking about the Fourth of July weekend.

We went to Tucson instead of going to the lake. And he's like, That lake's over.
It's never going to fill up again.

Then, over the course of the weekend, they kept talking about how the lake is filling up. After a while, like the reports coming in, we literally made a decision as a group.

Let's not talk about the lake levels. It's just like when they report on that stuff, it's it's just to me, like, so

just egregious, you know, knowing that there's somebody out there missing a kid and people are like, wow, the lake filled up. It's like, shut the fuck up.

I don't know if you know who Avery Tomasco is or see him in social media. He's a

weather guy on CBS Austin.

Great name, by the way. He's amazing.
He's hilarious. He's like a meme lord.
I mean, he's just wonderful.

Great follow. Highly recommend anyone who's interested in Austin weather.

But, you know, even like 24 hours before all this hit, he was saying, the lake levels are so low.

Truly, the only way out of this is through a catastrophic flooding event akin to what we saw Memorial Day 2018. 2015.
I know the extra.

Climb was a baby, and we were on the Frio River when that happened. We got flooded in, but fortunately, the house was built to anticipate.
a catastrophic flood.

So we were safe, but we were trapped because it was a low water crossing.

Had to get towed out by a big old fire truck eventually. No kidding, really? Yeah.

We had a set amount of diapers.

That was the biggest concern. Like we were landlocked or waterlocked with a baby in diapers.
We're like, we got to ration these out. Yeah, that's a situation you got to resolve.
Yeah. That's okay.

You just dip her in the water. Yeah.

Just let her run around naked and go feral. Go feral.

I learned that's how they do it in Denmark because we're potty training Eevee.

And I learned in Denmark they just all kind of wait to the summer and then they just go out to the garden for a day or two and get them down naked and feral. And then they just figure it out.

They did this approach with my nephew, yeah, and I think it worked, I can't remember.

I mean, he potty turned pretty young, um, but yeah, they did it, you know, indoors, which is very risky, but yeah, that that methodology is catching on here for sure.

It is one of those things, it's like as parents, you fret about it constantly, yet you never meet like a 30-year-old who go, I was never body.

It'll happen

right eventually, humans will figure that out. Eventually, but last thing on the flood, I gotta bring, I have to bring this up.
I have to.

Can you believe this is now this is now becoming a trope because we have so many of these. Ted Cruz was on vacation again.
This guy. Yeah, and he didn't come back.

Like there was all the speculation that he,

according to him, rushed back after he heard about this. But then now there's evidence of him in line for a tourist attraction when apparently already 20 people were reported dead.

And it's just like this fucking guy, dude.

Just learn your own, learn a lesson from your own life at that point. You know, it's just like, we got to get home immediately, no matter what.
Yeah. That just goes to show they don't care.

They don't care, right? They don't even care about the bad press anymore. No.
You know? No, no, no. Forget the repercussions.
They don't even care about the snark or whatever. God damn.
He's getting.

I know. I know.
He's a weird one, too, because he's one of our major representatives for the state of Texas. Right.

You ever met anybody who's a huge Ted Cruz fan? Like, no, no, no. Anyone in your family or like in your neighbor or anything? I love Ted Cruz.
No. And like, I asked him, like, very

conservative people in my orbit from my hometown. Sure.
Never see anyone praising Ted Cruz. Right.
It's just, that's a party line thing, right? It might, he might be,

obviously there's other politicians in other parts of the world that I wouldn't be aware of, but to me, in Texas, he is the best indication of the ultimate endgame of party politics.

I will never, I've never met anybody, zero people who love Ted Cruz and what he does, yet they'll still vote for him because I got to vote for him. Right.

Yeah, he's our Republican incumbent, got to vote for him. God damn.
Insane. Also, it's like, if you want to go on vacation so much, we all agree with you.
Go do that. Yeah.
Right?

Give the rest of us a damn break and go on vacation. Enjoy your life, Mr.
Cruz. So I am

the dumbest thing in my world is politics, like as far as like structure and governmental structure. Oh, I'm about to have another one right here.

I learned that in third grade, and then I promptly forgot it if I even actually learned it.

Is Senate in session?

You're talking about the U.S. Senate as our Senate.
Like, should he be working? Well, he just passed the bill. Right.
So, yeah, so they, and they worked all weekend.

Oh, no, that was the House going back on the weekend. But, yeah, they're there.
They're voting on stuff. He has, you know, his summer break effectively where he could take his vacations.
Yeah. Right.

And it's not right now.

Like, does he even actually work? I feel what you're saying. Like, I could name off the top of my head when stuff is in session.

I was more in tune with the state legislature because they're here in Austin and they made traffic worse

when they were here. When When school was in session for kids and the state legislature was going at the same time, driving around downtown Austin was always a goddamn nightmare.
Yeah.

So I don't know. It's one of the things maybe I should know, but I feel like they're always supposed to be there.
I mean, I'm always supposed to be where my job is. You know what I mean? Yep.

365 days a year, unless I'm on a holiday, you know. But I guess they do get breaks at some point.
Yeah. And I feel like Ted Cruz just like, he can just take the breaks.

He's just like that like tenured professor who just is there. Right.
And whatever.

Also, I think the assumption is, too if you're our main representative or at least one of them in the federal government when we're having a major crisis maybe put a pin you're right in the vacation yeah maybe can coon will be there next week yeah maybe you also know like it's storm season in texas and guess what if you find out that there's all these major weather events that keep interrupting your vacations with your responsibilities, maybe look into that too, because you're one of the few people who can do that, you know, help us with the sudden change in this massive trend of weather events.

But i digress let's talk about something that we'll have clem comes and looks at you about the nap over there you want to talk to me about these labuboos and tell me what's going on ever since i started talking about labubus

i've been seeing you guys post about them so i know that you guys have the inside track here yeah and what's fascinating to me about these things is can i see one of those clem what's fascinating i played the munchie chi uh

Theme song from the cartoon and the commercials. Yeah, these remind me of Munchie Chi's.
Those are probably a little bit before your time as well. They are, but they were were still around as a kid.

Here's what's interesting about this is I tried to like look up if there's something similar for labo-boos. They seem to be this huge, like juggernaut consumer product with zero advertising.
Yeah.

I mean, there's no cartoons about them or anything like that, right?

They come from a book. Come from a book.
Okay.

And

what's his name? Kei-Sing Lung? I'm probably botching that. He's an artist.

Is he like Italian Chinese? No, he's like Belgian. Is that what he is? I think he was raised in Belgium, but he's Chinese.
Maybe born in China, grew up in Belgium.

And yeah, he had a book about him called The Monsters. I see.
And it's like based loosely on like Norse mythology or something. I'm not really sure, but one of the characters is named Laboo Boo.

And that's how they came to be known as Laboo Boos.

Clem, do you mind jumping on Mike? Is it okay if she gets on mic? Yeah. You want to share your mom's mic over there? You just have to pontificate on.

You can go around the side there if you want want to. She can sit here.
We can straddle here. Let me move the mic out.
So Clem, I'm curious. I don't know if you'd remember or not.

Do you remember when you first heard about laboobus? Like, how did you hear about them?

I don't know. I guess they were just really popular at my school, I guess.
Your school.

So we call that word of mouth. So somebody told you about them.
Yeah. At first,

one of my friends had one on her backpack, and I asked her what it was.

She told me they were called laboo boos. Yeah.

um and clem how old are you so people can know what grade are you in uh i'm 10.

and what grade uh i'm going into fifth you're going into fifth okay yeah so when was that like was that toward the end of the school year last year actually it was more in the middle yeah it seems like we're hitting the critical mass popularity right now right yeah and

So what is it? So there's lots of different ones. Are they all unique or are they just, there are some that are more rare than others?

They They have secrets for each series.

So they're blind boxes, mostly.

They're a one in 72 chance. They're collections.

It's gambling. Sorry.

It really is. And it's designed to

have maximum repeat purchase potential.

They're collections, right? So the tie-dye looking ones there are big into energy

collection. And then the like fleecy light green one, that's a macaron.

I'm just doing my proper French

hair. Is she getting all this right clay? Is this all correct? Okay.

There's an approval from the colour. And then like Magnolia has like a Coca-Cola collection one.
And then there's like half a seat.

So within each collection, there are like three to six regular characters. So that's two of the six regular big into energies.
And then there's a secret one that's extremely rare.

Are they all the same cost? Like, how much does a laboo boo cost? A laboo boo box retails

for the blind boxes. No, it's $27.99.
$27.99. On the PopMart website or in stores.
That's a cost of a drink in the Philadelphia airport. It used to be $21.99 before tariffs.
Oh, tariffs got them.

Oh, yeah. You got hit by tariffs? These bad boys ship straight from China.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
And so.

How come that hasn't been more of an issue? So I got to ask you too, because tariffs now, the new one today is copper. Has that already started to trickle into your construction projects at all?

Because that's a huge one. I haven't noticed that, but I mean, like, the plumbing fixtures have gotten considerably more expensive.

I'm just, I'm worried now because Teddy going into, you know, he's starting his electrician career, and now there's a copper tariff right now. So there could be a downturn in that.
Anyway,

so these cost about, call it about 30 bucks, just under 30 bucks.

Can you pay more and get like a better shot at one? I guess you can always go ahead and get it. So what people do is if they get the secret, they resell it largely, and it's like $150.

Oh, $150. Okay.
Okay. But that's still the better.
If you do a one in 72 at 30 bucks a pop. Right.
Right. Right.

No, you can tell us, Clem. You can just tell us.
And then don't worry. Clem, we can do a thing called editing.

If you want to say something and then you say later, oh, I don't want you to put that in there. We just go and we cut it out.

Oh.

So yeah, there's this whole market for fake labo-boos because these, they're so hard to get. They're called lafoofus.
Lefufus. Oh, they're kind of call those knockoffs.
Yes.

So they don't try to pretend like they're laboo boos. Oh, they do.
They're close, right? No, they try to pretend. Oh, really? They like copy every detail, but it's just like really,

really poorly done. Yeah.
Yeah. Shabby.
I've been there. On our car ride to

my grandparents' house, we stopped at this gas station.

They were selling Lefufus. Were they? Yeah, and we bought some because

this was our first foray into Laboo Boos. It was the first time we'd ever seen them for sale.
We didn't know. Yeah, at this point, she had no idea what these were.

I mean, I knew what they were, but I didn't know that I was definitely getting fake wins by

making them this readily available. Because there's a history of being able to find really rare things down there because people aren't interested in buying them.

When Xboxes first came out and I wanted an Xbox, you just drive out to the most rural Walmart you can because they get the same allotment as everybody else. That's where we got ours.
Yep. Yeah.
Yeah.

There's a little secret, little Texas secret. Like, I went to the, you know,

Seguin Walmart, and guess what? They had like five Xboxes in stock. Yeah.

I always am like, I don't believe my mom when she tells me certain things are in store there. I'm like, that's impossible.

You can also find stuff because it's low volume, like you'll find a game that's been out of circulation for 10 years, but it's been sitting on the shelf there and nobody bought it.

So we bought some fake ones. Oh, you bought some Lefufus.

As soon as Clem opened them, she was like, these are definitely fake ones. How'd you react if a tough one is so bad? Yeah.

Like their heads are all crooked. Oh, no.

And their feet were spinning around like a fidget spinner. It was really funny, too, because both girls were going to be able to get a little bit.
Poor

blind boxes, but both girls happened to get the same character. Yeah.
And they were different manufacturers of the fake labuboo. So one fake was better than the other.

So like they had like side-by-side, what should be identical products, and one was just like melted. What are you going to do? So what is the holy grail?

What is the labo-bu that you want to get more than any other labuboo?

Do you have one? You have sites on one?

What? Do they have names? Like,

what's what's the name of the pink one over there uh the pink one that one's loyalty and like the greenish one is serenity and then that one is green grape okay it's green grape okay that kind of broke the trend there but i was gonna say they kind of have like it's a different collection oh i see so that's not in the energy collection that's in like the macaroni there's two big into energies and then a macaroni how many how many are there do you think total oh god okay

They're doing calculations over there.

Like

40 of the

pendant pendant style ones. And then they make like giant ones that are like 200 bucks.
Clem, so what were you doing over there? I saw you working on something. What were you doing?

Were you multiplying? Like collections or something? Okay, great, great. That's awesome.
I'd like to see you using your math. I've known Clem since she was a little baby.

We used to go out to brunch, and I was the one who always got to hold Clem when we were at brunch because my kids were teenagers at that point in time. And I was like, give me that baby.

I'm going to sit with Clem at brunch. And mom was like, good, I get to eat finally.
Yeah.

Well, great. Well, thank you for sharing your knowledge of Laboo labooboo with us.
I really appreciate it. I have to keep up with trends, and it's too hard for me.

They don't market laboobus to people like me. So I appreciate your expert advice, Clem.

You're welcome. You're welcome.
All right. All right.
Thanks, Clem. All right.
Well, that does it for us today, July 10th, 2025. I will be back to talk to you tomorrow with another special guest.

I hope you will be here as well. Bye.