Latest / Bearded And Crunchy / Episode 9: Adult Money, Kids Toys
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- 0:20SPEAKER_00: From Goodyear Heights to Toy Collectors everywhere.
- 0:24SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to Bearded and Crunchy, Episode Nine.
- 0:31SPEAKER_02: Adult Money Kids Toys.
- 0:34SPEAKER_02: Uh, so if you noticed this morning, Bob, I was a little quieter than I normally am, huh?
- 0:40SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
- 0:41SPEAKER_02: I got something for you.
- 0:43SPEAKER_02: Uh oh.
- 0:43SPEAKER_02: Uh I wanted to wait.
- 0:45SPEAKER_02: I was gonna kind of tell you, hey, I got a surprise, but I didn't want to tell you that.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 0:48SPEAKER_02: Uh obviously we know this is a big episode, we alluded to it.
- 0:51SPEAKER_02: To the episode that's actually technically not dropping until tomorrow, but you'll hear about it.
- 0:56SPEAKER_02: Um I was going through some of my collectibles to bring for this, and I found a couple that I I I feel like would have better homes with you.
- 1:05SPEAKER_01: Oh so uh first uh we're gonna go with and we'll show it to the to the TV.
- 1:16SPEAKER_02: But I guess I got that for you.
- 1:19SPEAKER_02: I thought that was a good one.
- 1:20SPEAKER_02: I'm not across it.
- 1:22SPEAKER_02: Now this next one, it's a little beat up, but I can hear the glass breaking in the in my head.
- 1:29SPEAKER_02: This one's a little beat up, but I feel like it will have a better home with you, and you'll know why I asked the question yesterday.
- 1:37SPEAKER_02: So just so you guys can see, I had to bring these for you because I needed uh nice, yeah.
- 1:44SPEAKER_02: I mean, like I said, that one's a little beat up, but it's still on box, and it's it's uh it's Carlos by Ergon.
- 1:51SPEAKER_02: Carlos by Erganis.
- 1:52SPEAKER_02: And it's starting lineups, and very few are gonna understand what that means except for our generation, right?
- 1:58SPEAKER_00: Man, that's awesome.
- 1:59SPEAKER_02: Thank you, bro.
- 1:59SPEAKER_02: Yeah, thought I'd do that before we hopped into the opening question, but that's why I was quiet because I was I was antsy, I was anxious.
- 2:07SPEAKER_02: But yes, guys, this is the collectibles.
- 2:09SPEAKER_02: Um, this is that's killer.
- 2:11SPEAKER_02: This is um again, we've we talked about it a little bit.
- 2:16SPEAKER_02: Uh, we did a little preview for you guys at the end of our last episode.
- 2:20SPEAKER_02: Um this is near and dear to my heart because again, once I got adult money, I got a lot of the toys that I had and lost or broke, and didn't have when I was a kid because you know, I I have said multiple times we were poor growing up.
- 2:35SPEAKER_02: I did have some things.
- 2:36SPEAKER_02: I don't want people to think that like I was living in a fucking box.
- 2:39SPEAKER_02: I had a roof over my head and for the most part had food, and and when when my dad and mom could, they they provided me with things, but uh I I decided to be a collector.
- 2:49SPEAKER_02: Um both you know, Vonnie and Jermaine are collectors, and and you are to a certain extent, you just don't dive into it like like I I did.
- 2:58SPEAKER_02: Uh I don't as much now because space.
- 3:01SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, I started getting so much shit, I was like, well fuck, I can't put any of this stuff out.
- 3:06SPEAKER_02: So but uh as you can see, my little for you visuals out there and for you listeners, if you go to YouTube, you can get a go in and see what what I have displayed.
- 3:16SPEAKER_02: This is just some of the stuff, and maybe towards the end I'll just kind of call it out where it's from and that kind of stuff.
- 3:23SPEAKER_02: But so, on that note, uh a little bit of banter.
- 3:28SPEAKER_02: How was your week, Bob?
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: Man, let me tell you, it was pretty trash.
- 3:35SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, if you see me over here wiggling in my seat like I got, you know, itchy ass crack or something.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: Um I deal with sciatica, unfortunately, and it's so it it it's caused me to to miss two days of work this past week because I can't sit upright in a truck.
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: I can't bend over and pick up tires, so it's been pretty miserable.
- 4:00SPEAKER_02: So yeah, unfortunately, between the two of us, we should have called it bearded crunchy and sick.
- 4:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 4:07SPEAKER_02: Um but yeah, like we said, guys, episode nine.
- 4:11SPEAKER_02: Again, uh bearded and crunchy on all socials.
- 4:15SPEAKER_02: Uh obviously, if you're watching this, like, comment, subscribe, follow, all that good stuff.
- 4:20SPEAKER_02: Uh it helps us out tremendously.
- 4:23SPEAKER_02: Uh so, Bob, we know what time it is.
- 4:26SPEAKER_02: What's the opening question?
- 4:27SPEAKER_00: Ooh, the opening question.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: And actually, it was kind of based off of a little bit of your suggestion when we were talking about it this past week because I was kind of stumped.
- 4:38SPEAKER_00: And I actually kind of liked it.
- 4:40SPEAKER_00: Um didn't think I really tweaked it too much.
- 4:44SPEAKER_00: But here we go.
- 4:46SPEAKER_00: So, what was uh the one toy that you wanted and somehow magically you got it around Christmas time because Santa loved you.
- 4:57SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so you know, I was thinking about this and it it's really crazy because we're we're gonna go this is gonna uh uh bleed off of last week's uh episode because you brought it up, but I had to think about this, but I remember the morning of the Christmas that I got my Sega Genesis.
- 5:20SPEAKER_02: Nice.
- 5:21SPEAKER_02: Um like I said, I got systems from time to time, but uh up until this point I just had a Nintendo and the Genesis came out in the early to mid 90s.
- 5:31SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, so I went with just the Nintendo for a lot of years.
- 5:34SPEAKER_02: That's all we had for years, yeah.
- 5:36SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 5:36SPEAKER_02: Uh the good thing was back then though, you know, systems didn't pop up every two, three, four, five years.
- 5:42SPEAKER_02: It would take them a decade to make a new system.
- 5:44SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
- 5:45SPEAKER_02: It was that, and I can still remember it was the Sonic 2 edition and my dad got me Madden of that year.
- 5:54SPEAKER_02: And I got Strider.
- 5:56SPEAKER_02: Those were the three games that I got that I got.
- 5:58SPEAKER_02: Well, two games plus what it came with it, but that was that was the big one that I could remember um because I was stoked.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 6:10SPEAKER_00: I was like, holy shit, that it it came through.
- 6:13SPEAKER_00: Nice.
- 6:13SPEAKER_00: Santa Claus came to town and dropped off his shirt.
- 6:18SPEAKER_00: So what about you?
- 6:21SPEAKER_00: I'm actually gonna defer from being a kid.
- 6:23SPEAKER_00: This actually happened when I was an adult.
- 6:25SPEAKER_00: Oh shit.
- 6:26SPEAKER_00: And believe it or not, i if my wife listens to this, she will probably crack up laughing.
- 6:32SPEAKER_00: She actually surprised me the last, was it 2019?
- 6:37SPEAKER_00: Christmas of 2019, so right before COVID, we were still staying here basically.
- 6:43SPEAKER_00: And we did Christmas morning with the kids and my dad downstairs, and we were kind of getting at the end of it, and my wife's like, hang on, I got something else that showed up for you.
- 6:54SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Oh, Santa Cam, you know, like alright.
- 6:58SPEAKER_00: And she actually it was actually kind of genius in what she did to me.
- 7:01SPEAKER_00: It was uh, you know, one of the big boxes inside of the little box inside of the box.
- 7:05SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 7:06SPEAKER_00: Which I laughed at the end.
- 7:07SPEAKER_00: She's actually got video posted of it somewhere on Facebook.
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: And I still come across it from time to time.
- 7:13SPEAKER_00: But that was the Christmas morning I opened up my PlayStation 4 and was like, whoa, what?
- 7:18SPEAKER_00: Like, how did we No.
- 7:20SPEAKER_00: Like this isn't No.
- 7:21SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
- 7:22SPEAKER_00: But I had wanted one for a very long time because I had a three and I didn't upgrade at that point, and it was only a c you know, it had only been out for a few years at that point.
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: I was like, man, I'd really like a PlayStation 4.
- 7:35SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and somehow she managed to I believe the story was she won it in a raffle at work.
- 7:41SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
- 7:42SPEAKER_00: And was like, well, I'm not gonna oh, I'll give it to you, you know.
- 7:46SPEAKER_00: Yeah at the time, not even fiance, just boyfriend at the time.
- 7:50SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
- 7:52SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that was kind of my that's my biggest Christmas thing.
- 7:55SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like and then it counts.
- 7:57SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it was I thought it was a cool story to kind of bring up.
- 7:59SPEAKER_02: I was like, man, that's yeah, absolutely.
- 8:01SPEAKER_00: I thought it was kind of cool.
- 8:02SPEAKER_02: Yeah, hell yeah.
- 8:04SPEAKER_02: But yeah, that's uh, you know, when we were kids, man, there there was, you know, we didn't have the options that I mean we we we had a lot of different stuff, but you know, yeah, it was pretty much everybody, you know, every kid wanted the same toys, and right, you know, there wasn't as much variety.
- 8:26SPEAKER_02: So, you know, outside of you know, me and you saying, you know, video game system, right?
- 8:32SPEAKER_02: You know, girls wanting cabbage badge dolls and my little pony and and care bears, and then you know, with us with G.I.
- 8:41SPEAKER_02: Joe's Transformers and the Ninja Turtles.
- 8:44SPEAKER_00: And I was never a big G.I.
- 8:46SPEAKER_00: Joe guy, surprisingly.
- 8:48SPEAKER_02: Um, I did because I played with my toys outside a lot, and we would like bury them and try to find them.
- 8:57SPEAKER_02: So I can almost guarantee you at my house over there.
- 8:59SPEAKER_00: There's probably some buried G.I.
- 9:01SPEAKER_00: Joe's guarantee that's from little Earth, yes.
- 9:04SPEAKER_02: Little G.
- 9:04SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
- 9:06SPEAKER_00: I I still have surprisingly, in fact, they're sitting in a toy box in the back of my property.
- 9:12SPEAKER_00: I still have my original big huge metal Tonka toys.
- 9:16SPEAKER_02: Oh no shit.
- 9:17SPEAKER_00: So they they actually went through me, and then I handed them down to my nephew, and my nephew played with them when he was a little kid, and I still got them.
- 9:26SPEAKER_00: I still got it.
- 9:27SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's they need some work because they're you know, old as you know.
- 9:31SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's I still um I don't I'm trying to think.
- 9:38SPEAKER_02: I don't I I don't have anything from my actual my childhood.
- 9:44SPEAKER_02: There's things I've bought on like eBay or seen it like like uh Comic Cons like uh back in 2018, me and Vonnie went to Steel City Comic-Con, which was in Pittsburgh.
- 9:54SPEAKER_02: You'll you'll like this one.
- 9:56SPEAKER_02: Um because uh there was uh wrestlers were there for it.
- 10:04SPEAKER_02: Sting Sting was there.
- 10:05SPEAKER_02: Uh Sting's and uh Yeah, it was um it was pretty cool.
- 10:12SPEAKER_02: It was him, and then it was the last appearance.
- 10:14SPEAKER_02: Check this out.
- 10:15SPEAKER_02: This is a uh it was the last appearance of um uh Adam West and Burt Ward together before because shortly after that Burt Ward died, and then shortly after that, Adam.
- 10:29SPEAKER_02: It was the last Batman and Robin that they were at together.
- 10:32SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
- 10:33SPEAKER_02: Um, and I don't know if you're a big Kevin Smith fan.
- 10:36SPEAKER_02: Clerks, uh Brian O'Halloran was there.
- 10:41SPEAKER_02: Okay he was the in Clerks, he was the I'm not even supposed to be here today.
- 10:46SPEAKER_02: Uh I actually got to meet him and talk to him, and I got his autograph.
- 10:50SPEAKER_02: And that's actually when I approached him.
- 10:53SPEAKER_02: Uh that was the first thing I said when I went up to him because they have, you know, at these Comic Cons they'll have different movie, you know, and different characters, whatever.
- 11:01SPEAKER_02: Uh Mira Sorvino was there.
- 11:03SPEAKER_02: Oh um, she's tiny, by the way, but I yeah, most of them are.
- 11:07SPEAKER_02: Dude, I'm talking probably five foot.
- 11:09SPEAKER_02: Um but I bet I walked up to him and I'm like, you're not even supposed to be here today.
- 11:14SPEAKER_02: And dude, he just started laughing.
- 11:16SPEAKER_02: So I broke the ice that way.
- 11:18SPEAKER_02: That was that was pretty cool.
- 11:19SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 11:20SPEAKER_02: Um, but uh yeah, so we're just um, you know, guys, we do normally do like lists and stuff like that, but we we we started figuring out and and thanks to some some some advice from your sister, we're just gonna talk about our favorites, man.
- 11:35SPEAKER_02: Like we're like, I mean, we might do like a list form if it if it if it calls for it, but yeah, we're just gonna kind of bounce off each other, tell us tell you guys what our favorites are.
- 11:43SPEAKER_02: So um so the first the first one we're gonna talk about is uh favorite toys as a kid.
- 11:50SPEAKER_02: Ooh, favorite toys.
- 11:51SPEAKER_02: And if if I'm being honest, like I said earlier, we definitely didn't have the selection that that we have that kids have today.
- 11:59SPEAKER_02: But in the same token, there were a lot of options as well.
- 12:02SPEAKER_00: So there were there this could go a lot of different places, but we also took care of our stuff a lot better than kids nowadays do.
- 12:09SPEAKER_02: Well, and and if we're being honest, uh they were taken or they were built a lot better today.
- 12:15SPEAKER_02: Better, oh yeah.
- 12:16SPEAKER_02: Like the Transformers were die cast, like it was um, they were just built a lot better.
- 12:23SPEAKER_02: But again, you're correct with uh, you know, we did take care of most of them a little bit better than like I said, I just got done talking about burying some of them.
- 12:33SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, we did that too.
- 12:34SPEAKER_02: We did that too.
- 12:35SPEAKER_02: Putting them in uh um trees and just all kinds of shooting them with BB guns.
- 12:43SPEAKER_00: Oh, dude.
- 12:43SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, putting putting bottle rockets on them and stuff like that.
- 12:49SPEAKER_02: Uh so the first one I'm gonna go to, this is one that I I bring up when I talk about collectibles.
- 12:55SPEAKER_02: I actually have haven't bought any since I was a kid, but when I was a kid, I had dozens of these, and I don't see them on many of those.
- 13:01SPEAKER_02: Do you remember these?
- 13:02SPEAKER_02: And did you have these?
- 13:04SPEAKER_02: And I'm gonna see if you remember what they are before I show you.
- 13:06SPEAKER_02: They're called battle beasts.
- 13:09SPEAKER_02: Battle beasts.
- 13:10SPEAKER_02: And they were like maybe two inches tall, and they had hologram stickers on the front of them, and when you would rub them, it would be fire, wood, or water, and they were elemental.
- 13:21SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't think I remember those.
- 13:23SPEAKER_02: And so, uh let me I'm pulling them up here, guys.
- 13:27SPEAKER_02: For the audio listeners, just bear with me.
- 13:30SPEAKER_02: Um because this is kind of bad.
- 13:38SPEAKER_02: No, this is good.
- 13:39SPEAKER_02: But this is what they look like.
- 13:40SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 13:41SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't remember.
- 13:44SPEAKER_02: I'm showing you.
- 13:46SPEAKER_02: Um like I said, there were these little two-ish fingers, and you would get them by twos.
- 13:50SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 13:50SPEAKER_02: Like, you know how now you can buy like single and two, and then oh you here's the the uh battle station pack that has ten of them in it.
- 13:59SPEAKER_02: You bought them by twos, and I had dozens of them, and I loved them.
- 14:03SPEAKER_02: And I and I wish I still had a bunch of them because they were so cool looking.
- 14:07SPEAKER_02: Like there was a rhino that had like a uh an eye patch and a hook hand, and like it was just really cool.
- 14:14SPEAKER_02: So um cool too.
- 14:16SPEAKER_02: And then uh another one I'll bring up, and I'll let you you go to a couple because I I don't know if you I know you'll remember, but you might not have brought up and I thought about them.
- 14:25SPEAKER_02: The pop guns with the little orange singular cap things that you slide in and you'll oh yeah, I had a bunch of those, right?
- 14:33SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh if you remember back in the day, the the cereal aisle at grocery stores would have this little section of toys, and they would have strips of these, and they would have these little, and yes, they sold these in grocery stores.
- 14:45SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you'd probably get shot off for that shit now.
- 14:48SPEAKER_02: No way they would get away with that.
- 14:50SPEAKER_02: But but they were and they would they would it was basically just sulfur.
- 14:53SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but it would pop and it would sound like it was we called them cap guns.
- 14:57SPEAKER_02: Yeah, cap guns, yeah.
- 14:57SPEAKER_02: Um and it sounded like the little poppers that you would throw down on the ground and pop, and it would it would make a little smoke and and do you remember they had the strip ones, but they also had the red circular ones that were.
- 15:08SPEAKER_00: The ones I was talking about because it would be like a revolver.
- 15:11SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it would I had I had one like that.
- 15:13SPEAKER_00: In fact, mine was a um mine was like a knockoff transformer cap gun.
- 15:19SPEAKER_00: So transformable man.
- 15:22SPEAKER_00: I I was like going into this episode, I'm like, I don't know what I talk about.
- 15:26SPEAKER_00: Toys, I don't and then we're talking and toys are starting to when I said I collect, dude.
- 15:31SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this is just a this is just a minor like I don't I don't slip on anything, like we'll get into talking.
- 15:38SPEAKER_02: I'll I'll bring up some of the things in my uh you know in my collection, you know, that I didn't have in a list that I just thought were odd, you know, or odd or cool or whatever.
- 15:47SPEAKER_02: But again, uh go ahead, give us a couple of yours.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna start off my things.
- 15:54SPEAKER_00: I love and well, I loved and still love Legos.
- 15:59SPEAKER_00: I'm a Lego guy.
- 16:01SPEAKER_02: I always I have it, I have it marked down, but I I I tried to save because this is more me.
- 16:06SPEAKER_02: I saved the niche ones for me and the big hitters that I think you would say, and I'm gonna let you get those because again, this is more my wheelhouse as opposed to but go ahead.
- 16:16SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I just uh I love I loved Legos as a kid growing up.
- 16:22SPEAKER_00: I started off really young with them.
- 16:24SPEAKER_00: I think I was like four or five years old when I had like a box of them.
- 16:26SPEAKER_02: Well, and that's the thing, like when when we were kids, they didn't really have the the Star Wars set in the Avengers.
- 16:33SPEAKER_02: It would get these bricks, big like containers that look like a big brick itself.
- 16:38SPEAKER_02: It was a big and it would just have different shapes and colors, and you would just build.
- 16:42SPEAKER_00: I had a red uh case, it looked like a briefcase.
- 16:46SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's cool.
- 16:47SPEAKER_00: And you would open them up, and uh the locking pieces on them actually had like the where you could put bricks on them, too.
- 16:53SPEAKER_00: But yeah, man, I I played with Legos up until my nephew was smaller and was able to finally get into them.
- 17:00SPEAKER_00: And then I handed all of them off to him.
- 17:02SPEAKER_02: And as you know, I still build the sets.
- 17:06SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I want to get into now.
- 17:08SPEAKER_02: Fun fact uh I say that a lot, I've noticed that, but get used to it.
- 17:12SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, this morning, you know, as you guys know, well, as you guys don't know, but you'll know now, today is Father's Day.
- 17:18SPEAKER_02: So happy Father's Day to all the Father's Day out there.
- 17:20SPEAKER_02: Uh we deserve our day just as much as Mother's.
- 17:24SPEAKER_02: Um but anyways, um uh, you know, Rihanna and Ty were kind enough to to give us this as an early Father's Day gift.
- 17:33SPEAKER_02: But this morning, uh, I did come home after breakfast with Ty to find out that my power is out.
- 17:38SPEAKER_02: But um they got me two more sets.
- 17:42SPEAKER_02: They got me another uh helmet and then they got me uh a Darth Vader bus.
- 17:46SPEAKER_02: Ooh, yeah, I was I was I'm pretty stoked to get into those, so I'm thankful.
- 17:50SPEAKER_02: So yeah, Legos are still a part of uh me too, and and Ty jumped right into it.
- 17:55SPEAKER_02: Like nice.
- 17:56SPEAKER_02: I I I I always felt that like even though they're a toy, uh it it instills that creative side into you.
- 18:03SPEAKER_02: Um I'll give you a crazy thing.
- 18:05SPEAKER_02: When I was a kid, I had epilepsy when I was in like uh second grade.
- 18:09SPEAKER_02: I actually had a seizure and I had to go to the hospital for a little while.
- 18:12SPEAKER_02: I had to have EKGs for years.
- 18:14SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I eventually grew out of them, so they say, uh, which kind of goes back to the meners.
- 18:18SPEAKER_02: I kind of did uh a deep dive into that, wondering if maybe that was correlated.
- 18:22SPEAKER_02: It's not.
- 18:23SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
- 18:24SPEAKER_02: Um, but uh I actually built, you know, I'm a big Pink Floyd fan.
- 18:27SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
- 18:28SPEAKER_02: Um I actually built a version of the the wall that they do at the at the concerts, okay, where it's just a big wall, and then I had four clear pieces to be like a little window where he would sit on the wall to show you.
- 18:42SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it just you know.
- 18:44SPEAKER_02: Did you get a chance to go to the rock hall when they had that set piece up there?
- 18:48SPEAKER_00: Dude, it was awesome.
- 18:49SPEAKER_02: I have yet to be to the rock hall, man.
- 18:51SPEAKER_02: I want to go.
- 18:52SPEAKER_02: I I know you had gone recently because you got me my run DMC shirt.
- 18:55SPEAKER_02: Uh and uh I still wear that religiously.
- 18:59SPEAKER_00: I think if you go once.
- 19:00SPEAKER_02: No, I definitely want to go.
- 19:02SPEAKER_02: There's there's many things there that I want to see.
- 19:04SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
- 19:04SPEAKER_02: Um, as a music fan, I feel like I mean it's it's a rite of passage.
- 19:08SPEAKER_02: You kind of have to go at least once.
- 19:10SPEAKER_00: It's it's worth doing once.
- 19:11SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
- 19:12SPEAKER_00: After that, though, it's kind of like any other museum unless you're really, really into it.
- 19:16SPEAKER_00: It's like eh.
- 19:17SPEAKER_02: Uh, I'm gonna jump into a couple here now.
- 19:20SPEAKER_02: So these were ones that that I only had a couple of, but they were cool.
- 19:23SPEAKER_02: Do you remember mad balls?
- 19:24SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 19:24SPEAKER_02: Mad balls, guys.
- 19:26SPEAKER_02: Um, I I will uh for the the the visuals when I edit it, I'll throw them up on the screen.
- 19:33SPEAKER_02: But they were these, they were like baseballs.
- 19:36SPEAKER_02: They even made a couple of football-shaped ones, but they were just ugly faced creatures, but they were they were toy balls.
- 19:44SPEAKER_02: You could play baseball, you could play catch, yeah, but they had faces and gross things on them.
- 19:49SPEAKER_02: Um, we had a ton of those.
- 19:51SPEAKER_02: Uh as I mean, like between the kids in the neighborhood.
- 19:53SPEAKER_02: Like I had a few, you know, uh a couple kids down the, you know, down the road had them and stuff.
- 19:58SPEAKER_02: That was a big one.
- 20:00SPEAKER_02: Uh, and then this is one that it may not surprise you, it may.
- 20:05SPEAKER_02: Um I think if my memory serves me right, my grandma bought me this for Christmas when I was a kid, but I had a light bright.
- 20:15SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, we did too.
- 20:16SPEAKER_02: Those were the shit.
- 20:17SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they were cool.
- 20:18SPEAKER_02: Again, another thing for for the audio people, I'll throw that up.
- 20:21SPEAKER_02: Yep.
- 20:22SPEAKER_02: It was like this little like projection TV screen, and it had these pegs that were colored colors, yep, and it had a sheet that would lock into it, and it would have shapes, it was like a like a stencil for it, and you would poke it, and when you poke it, it would light up different colors because it was a specific light and it would make a picture, right?
- 20:43SPEAKER_02: And it it was it was so much fun.
- 20:45SPEAKER_02: It got to the point where um, you know, one thing that I've noticed, you know, this is going a little off topic, but it's gonna tie in.
- 20:53SPEAKER_02: I don't have an addictive personality, I have an excessive personality.
- 20:56SPEAKER_02: So I get something, I do it all right then.
- 20:59SPEAKER_02: So I would get kits that would have like 12, 15 sheets in it, and I would finish that in an afternoon and then be bored with it.
- 21:07SPEAKER_02: So my dad was smart, and he went out and got me a big stack of just black, because it was black because it had to black out the light, of just black construction paper.
- 21:17SPEAKER_02: And just let you nice, and and so I I got to the point where I started doing that, which goes to what we said um a couple episodes ago, where you know, I wish I would have realized like how much I was reaching for something creative in my life and walked away from it because I was always looking to make or create something.
- 21:34SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, so that light bright was one.
- 21:36SPEAKER_02: What's uh let's let's see what's a couple more that's a couple more of mine, you know, and and I got lucky, you know.
- 21:42SPEAKER_00: I it we've we've talked about this before with our parents.
- 21:49SPEAKER_00: Um the kind of difference of how I even though we grew up in the same neighborhood, it was a different, I don't want to say class, but it a financial background, yeah, yeah, a different financial.
- 22:00SPEAKER_00: Financial thing and where you didn't have I I had a lot, you know, and growing up, I was at around that time, you know, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were awesome.
- 22:13SPEAKER_00: It was all over TV, you know, and I had a ton of action figures.
- 22:17SPEAKER_00: I had uh the blimp, that was one of my favorites.
- 22:21SPEAKER_02: I yeah, for the Ninja Turtles, man, I had a lot of the action figures, but I never had the I didn't have the blimp.
- 22:28SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 22:29SPEAKER_02: Uh there's a there's a a subject we're gonna get to later that I that I throw something on there about.
- 22:35SPEAKER_02: So yeah, uh, yeah, yeah.
- 22:37SPEAKER_02: But and and they were I I feel like that was a big thing, like, you know, and and not to disrespect the girls, but they always made like plushes and stuff for that.
- 22:45SPEAKER_02: We had the coolest shit in the game.
- 22:47SPEAKER_02: We did, you know.
- 22:48SPEAKER_00: I I can say though that I got lucky with my sister because we're I'm only about two and a half years older than her.
- 22:55SPEAKER_00: And when we were growing up, we would, you know, hang out in each other's rooms and we would play with you know our toys together, and you know, she would build stuff with me with Legos, and we would, you know, kick each other's asses with Ninja Turtles and Transformers, and but then in return, you know, I would be expected to go hang out with her and play parties.
- 23:16SPEAKER_00: No, she loved Barbies.
- 23:17SPEAKER_02: I was gonna I thought I was figured better like a tea party.
- 23:19SPEAKER_00: But I was a I was a bastard and I I was probably just a screwed-up kid at the time, but I would have them in the car, Barbie and Ken, and just drive them off the cliff to their doom.
- 23:28SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 23:28SPEAKER_00: So we were boys.
- 23:29SPEAKER_00: That's the right type of shit that we it was like die.
- 23:32SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 23:33SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I'm gonna pop into a couple of the more mainstream ones that I'm sure are on your list and stuff like that.
- 23:39SPEAKER_02: You said you didn't really have G.I.
- 23:40SPEAKER_02: Joe's again.
- 23:41SPEAKER_02: I did because of the articulation in them uh and the fact they were like three and a quarter inch.
- 23:46SPEAKER_02: So like you could have a bunch of them, like you know, some of the other ones, like I'm gonna bring up like the Transformers and the Thundercats and He-Man, they were like six-inch, you know, four to six inch figures.
- 23:57SPEAKER_02: So uh, you know, you didn't get as many of them.
- 24:00SPEAKER_02: Same with the ninja turtles, but onto that vein.
- 24:03SPEAKER_02: I had them too.
- 24:04SPEAKER_02: I even um, you know, I I talked about my brother, like he would put on Ninja Turtles, um, Transformers, Thundercats, and He-Man for me to watch.
- 24:14SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
- 24:14SPEAKER_02: But the one year from my birthday, when he was watching me, he took me to Toys R Us and bought me like three or four Ninja Turtles.
- 24:20SPEAKER_02: And I don't know if you remember this, but they did a line, they started in the early 90s, they really started branching out.
- 24:26SPEAKER_02: And they were given um like, you know, they were given like Carpenter Michelangelo um uh or whatever.
- 24:36SPEAKER_02: But they had a music one where um Michelangelo had turntables and lights around him, and I forget uh I think it was I forget which one of them had a guitar, but I had a couple of those.
- 24:51SPEAKER_02: Sweet.
- 24:51SPEAKER_02: And then I had some of the offshoots, like I had Mondo Gecko, I had Casey Jones, yeah.
- 24:56SPEAKER_02: I never had a Casey Jones, I I had a Casey Jones, I had a Casey Jones.
- 25:01SPEAKER_02: Um, I never had Splinter, yeah, but I did have all the you know, and I mean the original ones that had the like brown belts, the thing with the ninja stars, like all of their uh um weapons were like brown colored, like the nunchucks, the the bow, and and all of that.
- 25:23SPEAKER_02: So um it was also one of my favorite cartoons when you mentioned it uh a couple episodes ago.
- 25:29SPEAKER_02: Yes, yeah, of course.
- 25:30SPEAKER_02: Uh and they even went on to good movies.
- 25:33SPEAKER_02: Uh even the most recent two movies.
- 25:35SPEAKER_02: I never saw them.
- 25:36SPEAKER_02: I'm telling you.
- 25:37SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 25:38SPEAKER_02: No, you're gonna love them.
- 25:40SPEAKER_02: They're the Michael Bay ones, right?
- 25:41SPEAKER_02: Listen, yeah, Ninja Turtles is made for that.
- 25:45SPEAKER_02: And again, it's one of those where I talked about Masters of the Universe.
- 25:48SPEAKER_02: It doesn't, it doesn't take itself too serious.
- 25:50SPEAKER_02: There, there's some I will uh next week I'll bring um because you have a PS4, you can watch them on that.
- 25:58SPEAKER_02: Uh I will look through my DVDs or my Blu-rays and I will let you get them.
- 26:02SPEAKER_02: Trust me, you'll you'll be glad you watched them.
- 26:04SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 26:05SPEAKER_02: They're definitely worth a watch.
- 26:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 26:07SPEAKER_02: Um But what do you say we jump into our next topic?
- 26:13SPEAKER_02: Unless you had something else you wanted to bring up in the in some of the toys that that that you had that you wanted uh you wanted to talk about.
- 26:21SPEAKER_00: As I'm struggling with my fucking mics, Dan.
- 26:23SPEAKER_00: God damn Pisa never mind.
- 26:24SPEAKER_00: You're like me, you're a perfectionist.
- 26:26SPEAKER_00: I I always am, and I'm antsy because I my back hurts.
- 26:30SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 26:30SPEAKER_00: Because life sucks and then you die.
- 26:33SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 26:33SPEAKER_00: And in between you get old and crotchy and crunchy.
- 26:36SPEAKER_00: You know, the only thing I was gonna talk about that I have to remind me of because of my age.
- 26:42SPEAKER_00: Um and we talked a little bit the other day with Thundercats.
- 26:45SPEAKER_00: We both love Thundercats, we love the cartoon, you have your shirt on, you have a tattoo.
- 26:50SPEAKER_00: But I had a Thundercats lair that I just I loved it.
- 26:54SPEAKER_00: I got it for Christmas one year along with uh Mumra's tomb.
- 26:59SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm I'm over here as a jealous kid.
- 27:02SPEAKER_00: Like, I know.
- 27:03SPEAKER_00: Well, I can tell you the story on what happened with it here in a second.
- 27:06SPEAKER_00: But so I had Cat's layer, I had Mummer's Tomb, I had the the uh what was it called?
- 27:10SPEAKER_00: The cutter, the sky cutter thing.
- 27:12SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
- 27:12SPEAKER_00: But it worked with Cat's layer where you could shoot back and forth with each other through like the almost like a uh a Nintendo zapper signal.
- 27:20SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 27:21SPEAKER_00: And my Cat's layer, you would you could hear it click, and when you got down to like low health, basically, uh it would send a warning signal and then it would like pop the doors open, so you could, you know, oh that's kind of cool.
- 27:37SPEAKER_00: But then it was a cool toy.
- 27:38SPEAKER_00: And then I had a lot of the you know, Thundercats action figures as well.
- 27:42SPEAKER_02: I actually had a Lion O that um it had this like red yeah, and it had the middle tip.
- 27:49SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and his eyes would light up.
- 27:50SPEAKER_02: Yep, I had the same one.
- 27:52SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had that, and that was that was one of the cooler ones that I had.
- 27:55SPEAKER_02: I had him, I had Mumra, I had um Panthro, okay, Chitara, Snarf.
- 28:03SPEAKER_02: I actually still have the snarf that you gave me as well.
- 28:06SPEAKER_02: Um and I had um Jackal, who was like the Jackalman, yeah.
- 28:12SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Jackman.
- 28:14SPEAKER_02: Um I had him, and that was that was it out of all those.
- 28:18SPEAKER_02: I never I never had Jaga.
- 28:20SPEAKER_02: I never had I never had Tigra.
- 28:22SPEAKER_02: I actually have Tigra now, but it's the re-release that they did like 20 years ago.
- 28:27SPEAKER_00: I I had a I had a Lino, a Tigra, a Panther, Chitara, I had uh Wily Kit and Wildcat, Snarf, and then I had uh Momara, I had Slythe.
- 28:38SPEAKER_00: Slythe.
- 28:38SPEAKER_00: That's the one I was thinking.
- 28:39SPEAKER_02: Not uh I I know who uh Jackalman is, but I had Sly.
- 28:43SPEAKER_02: Well, I had Jackleman I had Vulture Man, I had Monkey and I have Monkey in again in a re-release that I have.
- 28:49SPEAKER_02: I actually have him on my wall.
- 28:51SPEAKER_02: To touch on that, I didn't have that, but the one like castle type thing I did have, and I didn't have Castle Grace Call, but I did have Snake Mountain.
- 28:59SPEAKER_02: Okay, but that one was cool because it came with this little snake head.
- 29:03SPEAKER_02: Remember when we were kids we had the microphones that had the little vibrating thing in it that would it would do that, and you could like talk like skeleton shit.
- 29:12SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was pretty cool.
- 29:13SPEAKER_02: But even that I got from uh a yard sale.
- 29:16SPEAKER_02: But I didn't care because I had it, like as a kid, like I was just glad I had that shit.
- 29:23SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that kind of I guess that kind of brings me into my my next question for you.
- 29:29SPEAKER_00: Which which toys did you have as a kid that you wish you still had now?
- 29:33SPEAKER_02: My Millennium Falcon.
- 29:35SPEAKER_02: Millennium Falcon.
- 29:36SPEAKER_02: I had the original released Millennium Falcon.
- 29:38SPEAKER_02: Oh nice uh that uh uh a buddy of mine, Ethan, who lived up the street from me.
- 29:43SPEAKER_02: If he ever hears this, shout out, Ethan.
- 29:45SPEAKER_02: Um, I traded some of my car, my my sports cards, which we'll get into that in a little bit, for this Millennium Falcon because you know, when I started collecting cards, I was still young enough that toys were still pop, you know, important for me.
- 30:00SPEAKER_02: So um, and it was the original, like it wasn't a complete yeah, you know, there was a couple of pieces missing, but it was the original Millennium Falcon.
- 30:09SPEAKER_02: But that's the that um that in and and all of the uh original Ninja Turtles that I had because that was the one action figure that like was a little bit more like G.I.
- 30:23SPEAKER_02: Joe's were smaller, the Battle Beast.
- 30:25SPEAKER_02: I said I had a dozen of those, but they were only like two or three bucks for two of them.
- 30:28SPEAKER_02: Whereas Ninja Turtles were seven, eight bucks back then.
- 30:30SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 30:31SPEAKER_02: So, you know, you didn't get as many.
- 30:34SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, those are probably two of the ones that popped in my head the most as I you know as I thought about that.
- 30:40SPEAKER_00: It makes you sad thinking about it, doesn't it?
- 30:42SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I got a couple others that I'm gonna bring up that you're not gonna be ready for, but I wanted you to get a couple in before I brought them up.
- 30:49SPEAKER_00: Man, the ones I wish I had back, uh, and I literally just referenced them, but but here's the story on what happened with them.
- 30:56SPEAKER_00: We had a house fire here in 2004, and unfortunately, my dad, my sister, my nephew, they basically lost you know 90% of their stuff.
- 31:06SPEAKER_00: And what I had went into storage, and unfortunately, some of my stuff didn't come back from storage.
- 31:13SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
- 31:14SPEAKER_00: So that was my cat's layer, my Momerose tomb, a couple other things.
- 31:17SPEAKER_00: And you know, if you look that stuff up now, that particular cat's layer I had is worth like four or five hundred bucks, six hundred bucks.
- 31:24SPEAKER_02: If you get it in box, it's worth thousands.
- 31:26SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 31:27SPEAKER_00: Well, I didn't save boxes back then.
- 31:29SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 31:31SPEAKER_02: 95% guys, when I say I collect, I collect.
- 31:35SPEAKER_02: I know inbox, I know roughly use, like I've I've been collecting for years.
- 31:40SPEAKER_02: Um, you can still find certain things that you know right uh well played with that are still worth it.
- 31:47SPEAKER_02: You know, like you said, in the condition you had it, it you could easily get$500 for it.
- 31:52SPEAKER_02: And with the boom that's going right now with the Masters of the Universe and all these other ones, this is when that price really starts to escalate.
- 31:58SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 31:59SPEAKER_00: Now like I said, that those two things, all the action figures I wish I still had back, and then most of my teenage mutant ninja turtle stuff I wish I still had.
- 32:10SPEAKER_00: Because that stuff was cool, man.
- 32:11SPEAKER_00: Oh, it was they don't make that stuff like that anymore.
- 32:13SPEAKER_02: No, no, it's it's definitely it's they don't make toys to be played with anymore.
- 32:18SPEAKER_02: They make them to be collected.
- 32:20SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and when we were kids, they were made to be played with man.
- 32:22SPEAKER_00: We played the shit out of our toys.
- 32:24SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna bring up two real quick.
- 32:27SPEAKER_02: The second one I think is really gonna blow your mind.
- 32:29SPEAKER_02: But the first one is, and I'm gonna tell a funny story about it, and that's I always bring this up when when I talk about these things, but my pet monster.
- 32:36SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 32:37SPEAKER_02: Uh, these were plus dolls that had chains on it, and it could break the chain.
- 32:43SPEAKER_02: And you remember it, right?
- 32:44SPEAKER_02: I do.
- 32:45SPEAKER_02: Uh, I never got one, I got the hand puppet version that didn't come with cuffs.
- 32:50SPEAKER_02: Bummer.
- 32:51SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 32:52SPEAKER_02: Uh that that that was a really cool toy that we had.
- 32:56SPEAKER_02: Um, it was kind of uh a toy company's way of saying fuck you when you were making care bears and and rainbow bright and all that stuff.
- 33:05SPEAKER_02: But the next one was something I'm pretty sure you had, and I I don't see talked about and brought up with nostalgia as much, but I had quite a few, and that's micro machines.
- 33:15SPEAKER_00: Oh, I did have a bunch of micro machines, yes, sir.
- 33:18SPEAKER_02: Uh I I loved micro machines.
- 33:20SPEAKER_02: They they uh you you could get them in big packs, you can get them individually, and then they had these little like squares that you could put together.
- 33:28SPEAKER_02: And it was yeah, that was that was one that I wish I still had.
- 33:32SPEAKER_00: Do you remember the commercials with the guy that was Scat Man?
- 33:36SPEAKER_00: He's still alive, yep, yep, and he could still talk that.
- 33:39SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's in his 70s.
- 33:40SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 33:40SPEAKER_00: I just remember the commercials.
- 33:42SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 33:42SPEAKER_00: Like but I I had the little micro machines that you could put like the pennies in the back of them to wear.
- 33:48SPEAKER_02: Oh, those were called penny racers.
- 33:49SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they were cool, man.
- 33:50SPEAKER_02: Yeah, those were cool too.
- 33:52SPEAKER_00: I enjoyed that.
- 33:54SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 33:54SPEAKER_02: Alright, so I guess now we'll go into a couple of the the toys that that we wanted and and and never really got.
- 34:02SPEAKER_02: I got a I got a couple of these that always escaped me that I didn't get, but I'll let you go ahead and go first.
- 34:11SPEAKER_00: The one thing I always wanted, because I was a huge Thundercats fan, and like I just said, had all that stuff.
- 34:18SPEAKER_00: I never got a goddamn Thunder Tank.
- 34:20SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I never had a Thunder Tank neither.
- 34:22SPEAKER_02: That thing was cool because I remember the arms would open up and it would be back.
- 34:26SPEAKER_02: Well, and then the arms would open up and it would shoot.
- 34:29SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
- 34:29SPEAKER_02: I never I never had to.
- 34:30SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that always that always pissed me off as a kid because I was like, I got all this other cool shit.
- 34:35SPEAKER_00: And I I always, always, always wanted the Thunder Tank.
- 34:39SPEAKER_00: Nope.
- 34:39SPEAKER_00: Sorry, kid.
- 34:40SPEAKER_02: That's the one.
- 34:41SPEAKER_02: I mean, don't get me wrong, guys.
- 34:43SPEAKER_02: We were always thankful, but you were once a kid and didn't get something you wanted because you knew the letdown of that as a kid.
- 34:50SPEAKER_02: Major letdown.
- 34:52SPEAKER_02: Uh I'm gonna go Turtle Van for my I I I out of all the toys of my entire childhood, that's the one that I kept asking for.
- 35:00SPEAKER_02: And especially the one that had the pizza shooter.
- 35:03SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 35:03SPEAKER_02: I wanted that so bad, and I I don't know.
- 35:07SPEAKER_02: I I I mean, I I still to this, I I I don't remember what the reason was.
- 35:13SPEAKER_02: If I got something else that I I don't remember, I just know that you didn't want your turtle for couple I was interested, yeah.
- 35:21SPEAKER_02: And I wanted it too, and I didn't uh and and the only other one I have wrote down is something we were talking about, even though I had Snake Mountain, I wanted Castle Grayscale because we always wanted to be the good guy in most cases.
- 35:32SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's all I I I had uh the Thunder Tank and Turtle Van.
- 35:37SPEAKER_00: I didn't have much else that I could really think of at that point where I'm like, eh.
- 35:41SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, the the Turtle Van pissed me off too, because I had friends that had it, and I'm like I know.
- 35:48SPEAKER_02: It was so cool.
- 35:49SPEAKER_00: I do have one now that now that I'm thinking about it.
- 35:51SPEAKER_00: I always wanted the Ghost Pac the uh the Ghostbuster backpacks.
- 35:54SPEAKER_02: Oh, the uh proton packs.
- 35:56SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Proton.
- 35:56SPEAKER_00: I never got one.
- 35:57SPEAKER_00: I had friends that had them, and I was like, God damn it.
- 35:59SPEAKER_02: Uh we me and Rihanna found one and bought it for Vonnie because he's a big uh Ghostbusters fan.
- 36:06SPEAKER_02: They had them at um uh Spirit Halloween.
- 36:10SPEAKER_02: They had like a it wasn't like part of a costume, it was an actual like prop.
- 36:15SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
- 36:15SPEAKER_02: But it wasn't the original one, you know, like that.
- 36:17SPEAKER_02: Like I know the one you're talking about, because it also had a thing that you could slide and yeah, that was because toys.
- 36:23SPEAKER_02: Speaking of that, I have the Ecto one.
- 36:25SPEAKER_02: I saw that.
- 36:26SPEAKER_02: I have the Ecto one here with uh with um Winston.
- 36:31SPEAKER_02: So uh alright.
- 36:34SPEAKER_02: I guess we'll start, we'll go into the one that that Bob has a little more uh a little more uh I would say probably collected more of, I guess is where we could go with.
- 36:46SPEAKER_02: And that's that's comics and sport cards and and the like.
- 36:49SPEAKER_02: I I guess I could have texted you this.
- 36:51SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you collected them, but we could go like because you know Marvel actually had a big run with cards in the mid-90s and hologram cards.
- 36:58SPEAKER_00: And they were I've seen them, they were cool.
- 37:00SPEAKER_02: I actually own some of them.
- 37:01SPEAKER_02: Uh I looked for them to bring them.
- 37:04SPEAKER_02: Um, I actually have a set, a complete set uh of in 1995.
- 37:09SPEAKER_02: They released a one series set of Mortal Kombat cards, and I actually I think about 10 years ago I found the full set on sale on ED for like 15 bucks and I bought it.
- 37:20SPEAKER_02: Really?
- 37:20SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
- 37:21SPEAKER_02: That's a steal.
- 37:23SPEAKER_00: Well, I have Yeah.
- 37:26SPEAKER_00: I have this is a visual thing, so this is an OG trapper keeper from when I was in high school.
- 37:34SPEAKER_02: Look them up, guys, Google them.
- 37:36SPEAKER_00: It's a mess because it's you know 40 years old.
- 37:39SPEAKER_02: Almost 40 years old.
- 37:40SPEAKER_02: If not 40 years old.
- 37:42SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, probably 30 years old.
- 37:44SPEAKER_00: But I have a lot of my then Cleveland Indians stuff, as my page is falling apart because it's old.
- 37:53SPEAKER_00: But I was I I'm I know they're the guardians now, but when we were kids, they were the Cleveland Indians.
- 38:00SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so obviously we suffered through uh some really shitty baseball teams in the 80s.
- 38:07SPEAKER_00: Early, early 90s.
- 38:08SPEAKER_02: Yep.
- 38:09SPEAKER_02: But yeah, there's I got some of my uh I'll scoot this back so you can see.
- 38:14SPEAKER_02: I have uh my He-Man Thundercats first one DC did it issue, and then I have the killing joke, uh, the graphic novel.
- 38:23SPEAKER_02: Um I used to have, I've told this story a little bit, I used to have a um a pretty decent comic book and card collection.
- 38:33SPEAKER_02: But when I lived in the falls when me and Rihannan started dating, apparently there was black mold in the house, and before I moved in, instead of handling it, I guess they just painted it.
- 38:43SPEAKER_02: Painted over it.
- 38:44SPEAKER_01: Oh, Jesus Christ.
- 38:45SPEAKER_02: And then uh it was probably about four or five months before I was getting ready to move out.
- 38:50SPEAKER_02: I go down and I'm like, man, why is it it's so damp down here?
- 38:54SPEAKER_02: So I got a dehumidifier and it wasn't doing anything.
- 38:58SPEAKER_02: And then eventually one day I go down there and all of my cards got this black shit on it, and I was like, what the fuck?
- 39:06SPEAKER_02: No point.
- 39:06SPEAKER_02: And then yeah, that's when we had to um I had to throw a lot of that shit out, and that that was rough.
- 39:13SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no kidding.
- 39:14SPEAKER_02: But I still have a decent amount of my cards.
- 39:16SPEAKER_02: I still have my Shaquille O'Neals.
- 39:18SPEAKER_02: I have about 40, 50 Shaquille O'Neals.
- 39:20SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
- 39:21SPEAKER_02: Um speaking of Shaquille O'Neal, uh, he's my favorite basketball player.
- 39:25SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, uh and and and and uh I still have a few comic books.
- 39:31SPEAKER_02: Um I actually just about a week ago, um, my buddy Vonnie, uh him and he moved to Arizona.
- 39:38SPEAKER_02: That's where his aunt and his stepmom and his cousins and stuff live.
- 39:42SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
- 39:42SPEAKER_02: His uncle.
- 39:44SPEAKER_02: Uh he's recently.
- 39:45SPEAKER_02: I know you've seen the guys that like uh they they auction off stuff live on streams of something.
- 39:50SPEAKER_02: Yeah, of course.
- 39:51SPEAKER_02: Uh his little cousin and his cousin's friend, they do that and he started to get into it.
- 39:56SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 39:56SPEAKER_02: They did an auction on whatnot, and I bought a couple of comic books off of them.
- 40:01SPEAKER_02: I got a uh uh uh a Superman Man of Steel number one.
- 40:05SPEAKER_02: Oh, nice.
- 40:06SPEAKER_02: Uh I got this special edition Fantastic Four that's completely like matte cream white cover.
- 40:12SPEAKER_02: Like all it is, it's like uh a raised yeah, like um, and I got a couple of comics off of him.
- 40:20SPEAKER_02: Um but yeah, I I actually at one point, man, I had an insane sports card collection that had I mean a lot.
- 40:30SPEAKER_02: Oh man, I had so much, and just from the years of moving, it either got stolen or I left it somewhere or ruined, and unfortunately I I still have a little bit of it, but only a fraction of what you know what I used to have.
- 40:46SPEAKER_00: That's all I have left is in my trapper keeper.
- 40:48SPEAKER_00: It's like nine, ten pages of uh, you know, cards that they they've meant something to me because they're either, you know, ball players I I grew up enjoying, you know, watching play ball, most mostly Indians, Cleveland Indians.
- 41:02SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 41:03SPEAKER_00: Uh there's some other ones like some MVPs like you know, Cal Ripkin Jr.
- 41:07SPEAKER_00: and Barry Bonds and stuff like that.
- 41:09SPEAKER_00: But that's all I have left.
- 41:11SPEAKER_00: And I I too used to have a nice comic book collection.
- 41:16SPEAKER_00: I loved X-Men.
- 41:17SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 41:18SPEAKER_00: So I actually had, believe it or not, the complete Phoenix saga.
- 41:23SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
- 41:24SPEAKER_00: Comic book.
- 41:25SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 41:25SPEAKER_00: Comic booksa.
- 41:26SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 41:27SPEAKER_00: Because I think it was uh a three-part comic book.
- 41:30SPEAKER_02: The Phoenix saga was it it's funny you should mention that because you want to know one of the ones I bought was the first uh uh entrance of Bishop.
- 41:40SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 41:40SPEAKER_02: He's my favorite X-Men character.
- 41:42SPEAKER_02: And they had that one up for sale.
- 41:44SPEAKER_02: It was his first ever introduction to X-Men, and I I bought that because I too uh I loved the X-Men comics and and and in the and the uh the Marvel the X-Men cards that they came out with.
- 41:58SPEAKER_00: And well I used to I used to steal my dad's because my dad is you know old as fuck now.
- 42:05SPEAKER_00: But he had a bunch from when he was a kid, but he literally had, and I wish a lot of that stuff wouldn't have got destroyed in the fire.
- 42:13SPEAKER_00: But he literally had like a Spider-Man number one.
- 42:15SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
- 42:16SPEAKER_00: He had a Fantastic Four number one.
- 42:19SPEAKER_00: You know, things like that that I would read and go, oh, this is how it all started.
- 42:23SPEAKER_00: Like this is awesome.
- 42:25SPEAKER_00: But it's all gone.
- 42:27SPEAKER_00: And you know that.
- 42:29SPEAKER_02: I I'm gonna tell a quick story here.
- 42:31SPEAKER_02: I hope he will I don't think he'll mind, but so you know, Vonnie, you worked he worked at Tycom with us, but he's been my friend for a long time.
- 42:40SPEAKER_02: Over 25 years now.
- 42:42SPEAKER_02: Uh when he went to move to Arizona, he was a big collector too.
- 42:49SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 42:49SPEAKER_02: Like he had three or four, like of the like like when they really started like getting into the uh real real life looking lightsabers, the two he had uh he had like three or four of them.
- 43:02SPEAKER_02: I would love to have one of those.
- 43:03SPEAKER_02: Like he had uh a really nice collection.
- 43:07SPEAKER_02: Uh he hired some some movers to help him move when he went down there.
- 43:12SPEAKER_02: And unfortunately, the truck that had his collectibles and a lot of his pictures from his family's past got lost.
- 43:21SPEAKER_02: Of course it did.
- 43:22SPEAKER_02: And he lost a lot of his stuff.
- 43:25SPEAKER_02: So I would kill somebody.
- 43:26SPEAKER_02: He wasn't he was you know, he's the type that would get angry, but I remember talking to him when he told me about it.
- 43:33SPEAKER_02: You could just hear he the the defeat, you know, in it in it in his in his voice.
- 43:39SPEAKER_02: Um I'm gonna bring up uh something real quick that that you know I'm not gonna lie, sometimes when I can't think of something, I'll Google something.
- 43:50SPEAKER_02: Yeah, of course, of course.
- 43:51SPEAKER_02: I Googled like nostalgia 80s and 90s toys, and I did cards, and I know you had 'em, I had them, garbage.
- 44:00SPEAKER_02: Kids.
- 44:00SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 44:01SPEAKER_02: For sure.
- 44:02SPEAKER_02: Which talking about Vonnie, he always makes fun of me because one of my favorite worst movies of all time, if you remember, they made a garbage movie.
- 44:11SPEAKER_02: And it was terrible.
- 44:12SPEAKER_02: And it's awful.
- 44:13SPEAKER_02: And I will still go watch it any chance I get.
- 44:18SPEAKER_02: But yeah, that was something I wanted to bring up.
- 44:24SPEAKER_02: But um yeah, comics.
- 44:26SPEAKER_02: I had they did a series, if you remember, back in '99 called uh it was like Spider-Man and all these.
- 44:32SPEAKER_02: It was 2099.
- 44:33SPEAKER_02: It was gonna be the future.
- 44:34SPEAKER_02: Yep.
- 44:35SPEAKER_02: I had the first Spider-Man one of that.
- 44:37SPEAKER_02: I had the first I still I wish I did.
- 44:40SPEAKER_02: They did a uh a holographic cover for Ghostwriter 2099.
- 44:44SPEAKER_02: I was a big ghostwriter comic.
- 44:45SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I like Ghostwriter.
- 44:47SPEAKER_02: Um so uh, you know, I I had a big collection.
- 44:51SPEAKER_02: Now it's more so uh comic books or uh graphic novels.
- 44:56SPEAKER_02: Yeah and I'm actually I started getting into manga, uh which is just Japanese comic books.
- 45:02SPEAKER_02: Um yesterday I actually went to Lakewood.
- 45:05SPEAKER_02: Sunny wanted me to take me out, and she bought me a decent amount.
- 45:10SPEAKER_02: Uh she got me uh volume one, two, and three of solo leveling.
- 45:14SPEAKER_02: I talked about it's cool, man.
- 45:15SPEAKER_02: And then she got me there's a 11-part series of Legend of Zelda, the Twilight Princess.
- 45:22SPEAKER_02: She got me the first one of that.
- 45:24SPEAKER_02: And then years and years ago, she got me the full Oak Arena of Time mango.
- 45:29SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 45:29SPEAKER_02: And yesterday I got the Four Swords Adventures one.
- 45:32SPEAKER_02: I got all of that.
- 45:32SPEAKER_02: She bought me, yeah, she bought me all of that.
- 45:34SPEAKER_02: So um, I I still collect that stuff.
- 45:37SPEAKER_02: Again, I don't I I collect more vinyls and and and graphic novels because they're a little easier to store nowadays than some of the stuff you guys you guys see here.
- 45:48SPEAKER_00: Um that's the unfortunate part of it all.
- 45:50SPEAKER_00: It's like you just you start running out of space because then you get so much and you're gonna be able to do it.
- 45:53SPEAKER_02: Well, George Carlin made that.
- 45:55SPEAKER_02: He goes, Isn't our homes just a place for our stuff?
- 45:59SPEAKER_02: And when we run out of room for our stuff, we just get a bigger house to put more stuff.
- 46:03SPEAKER_02: More stuff.
- 46:04SPEAKER_02: Uh and and he's right.
- 46:06SPEAKER_00: Um, he's not wrong.
- 46:08SPEAKER_00: No, he's not wrong at all.
- 46:10SPEAKER_00: That's that's a fact.
- 46:12SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, I guess, you know, is there anything you want to talk about?
- 46:16SPEAKER_02: I mean, we'll I'll go over just a few other of these things and talk about my collection a little bit further and then we can wrap it up.
- 46:24SPEAKER_02: Um, but is there anything else?
- 46:26SPEAKER_02: I mean, again, I know the the collectibles is is is kind of more my wheelhouse.
- 46:30SPEAKER_00: That is your sir.
- 46:31SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but actually, I do have a question for you.
- 46:34SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sure, absolutely.
- 46:35SPEAKER_00: I do have a question for you.
- 46:37SPEAKER_00: Is there anything that you've been looking at like from when you were a kid that you'd like to like like maybe that you've been looking at to purchase here recently or have thought about purchasing recently?
- 46:49SPEAKER_02: To add to your actually, yeah, there was.
- 46:55SPEAKER_02: Um a couple weeks ago.
- 46:59SPEAKER_02: Uh you know our phones are always listening.
- 47:01SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
- 47:02SPEAKER_02: So TikTok popped up with this throwback.
- 47:05SPEAKER_02: Uh it must have been because I went to see He-Man.
- 47:07SPEAKER_02: Probably.
- 47:08SPEAKER_02: Um heard the heard the movie.
- 47:10SPEAKER_02: But um send him all the He-Man stuff.
- 47:13SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then I was also, like I said, Vonnie's been doing that that auction stuff, so I've been looking at comics, but there Marvel did a comic book uh series on Thundercats.
- 47:27SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 47:28SPEAKER_02: Um and I went to look up I had the very first one.
- 47:33SPEAKER_02: It was a collector's edition.
- 47:35SPEAKER_02: It was one of the ones that got ruined in the falls.
- 47:38SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 47:39SPEAKER_02: And I was looking it up, but then it led me to finding the Lionel we were talking about.
- 47:46SPEAKER_02: And I started really, I mean, I said, you know what?
- 47:48SPEAKER_02: I said I got a lot of the remakes and stuff like that.
- 47:50SPEAKER_00: You want an original?
- 47:51SPEAKER_02: But I'd really like to go back and find an original on card.
- 47:54SPEAKER_02: Like not loose, because you can find a lot of loose ones, but I I want to get like one that's still, you know, intact.
- 48:01SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 48:02SPEAKER_02: You know.
- 48:02SPEAKER_02: What about you?
- 48:03SPEAKER_02: I figure since you you brought it up, there might be something that was on your mind that you might have been like casually seeing that you might be like, man, if I if I had it, I'd like to swoop that up.
- 48:14SPEAKER_00: Not honestly, not so much like past, yeah, like past stuff, but I would love, and they're like a thousand dollars, but I would love to have the Millennium Falcon from Lego.
- 48:27SPEAKER_00: It's like 30,000 pieces or whatever.
- 48:30SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
- 48:30SPEAKER_02: I would hold myself up in my office and just build the damn thing and everybody could you would be surprised at how fast it does, it goes like I I like I said, if I sat down with all the because I got the helmets, and for you guys watching, they're about this big, yeah, but only the helmet's up to about here, it's on a little stand.
- 48:50SPEAKER_02: I mean, honestly, if I sat there and did it, I could do it in two and a half hours.
- 48:53SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, it doesn't take as long as you think, and that's the problem I have is they're so fucking expensive.
- 48:58SPEAKER_02: I know, but the ones that take the time are gonna be three, four, five of them to a thousand twelve hundred dollars, and it's like I can't justify that.
- 49:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah, unfortunately, you know, uh my helmets are sixty, seventy dollars, and again, they're only like this big.
- 49:12SPEAKER_00: So that's crazy.
- 49:14SPEAKER_00: They didn't used to be that expensive, that's the thing.
- 49:17SPEAKER_00: No, and now they're just it's just fucking plastic, man.
- 49:20SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I it's because they're they're pretty much the only ones that do it.
- 49:25SPEAKER_02: Nobody's ever been able to really reproduce what they make.
- 49:28SPEAKER_00: So it's all the licensing, too, for all the you know stuff that they're doing.
- 49:32SPEAKER_00: I get it.
- 49:32SPEAKER_02: I get it.
- 49:33SPEAKER_02: Um before we we we head out, I'll give a little deep dive into my collection real quick.
- 49:39SPEAKER_02: Um, this is a remake.
- 49:40SPEAKER_02: I actually have it's my Gizmo.
- 49:44SPEAKER_02: Um it this one still does the song when he's playing the piano when he's up in the attic, and and gizmo starts uh nice.
- 49:52SPEAKER_02: He he starts singing along with the tunes of the of the of the keyboard.
- 49:57SPEAKER_02: Um I actually had the original one from when it came out.
- 50:00SPEAKER_02: There is a really cool toy store actually around us, it's out in Canal Fulton.
- 50:04SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 50:05SPEAKER_02: It's called Toys Time Forgot.
- 50:06SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 50:07SPEAKER_02: Uh one day I I'll take you out there, man.
- 50:09SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
- 50:11SPEAKER_02: Um, but I got uh this there, but I had the original.
- 50:16SPEAKER_02: I I don't know what happened to it, but um, and as you guys can also see, um I'm gonna move this for a second, but the child and and this and then the Ecto 1 uh when Pop Vinyls first came out on the scene, I believe it was 2010 or 2012 around there.
- 50:36SPEAKER_02: I really started noticing when we went to uh Myrtle Beach in 2014.
- 50:41SPEAKER_02: Ty wasn't even a year old, he was like 11 months old.
- 50:44SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, and uh we went to Myrtle Beach and uh I got my first couple there and I got the Lion O.
- 50:50SPEAKER_02: Oh nice, and it was from 2014, and uh I'm at I believe 341 pop vinyls, and that's including like these big pop rides.
- 51:04SPEAKER_02: I have some of the ones that came with a comic book and a figure, like I have a bunch of different ones, I have some minis.
- 51:10SPEAKER_02: Um, but I got big into collecting those, and for a time, uh I actually have a couple of the LeBron ones from Cleveland, like red one.
- 51:18SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there was a time when those were worth two, three hundred dollars a piece.
- 51:21SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 51:21SPEAKER_02: Uh because it's gotten so the the market's gotten so watered down and saturated.
- 51:27SPEAKER_02: That stinks.
- 51:27SPEAKER_02: They drop like that line out one time was worth$750.
- 51:30SPEAKER_02: It's only worth like$175.
- 51:32SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 51:32SPEAKER_02: The LeBron's all dipped under$100.
- 51:35SPEAKER_02: So I kind of quit, you know, they're not huge, but you know, if you collect enough of them, they take up a lot of space.
- 51:42SPEAKER_02: So that's a big, big part of my my collection.
- 51:46SPEAKER_02: But uh this was when I brought because um there was this line of these Marvel toys that had these special, they were all like action-based, like they can do something.
- 51:57SPEAKER_02: And there was a Spider-Man one, but I brought these because uh I collected these when these came out, and about four or five years ago, I found this this guy who was selling a bunch of these on this like auction type site for like seven, eight bucks a piece, and they were going for like 15-16 bucks on eBay.
- 52:14SPEAKER_02: So I bought a couple of them.
- 52:15SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
- 52:16SPEAKER_02: But these were ones that I collected when I well and played with.
- 52:19SPEAKER_02: Yeah, those are cool, man.
- 52:20SPEAKER_02: When I was a kid, so that was one.
- 52:22SPEAKER_02: And then I brought this because this was kind of like our our starting lineups.
- 52:27SPEAKER_02: If you see, I know you know this is McFarlane Toys.
- 52:30SPEAKER_02: Todd McFarlane created Spawn, he created um his own comic book, um, like literal production, like produce um, but uh starting lineup started.
- 52:42SPEAKER_02: That's what I gave you earlier, but I wanted to bring these just to show you that like I collect everything, and this is my Jerome Ben.
- 52:49SPEAKER_02: Nice being a Steelers fan that you are, of course.
- 52:53SPEAKER_02: Um but um little shorter episode, guys, but I think I think we can cut it, cut it short on that.
- 53:00SPEAKER_02: Um, again, this was gonna be a little heavier me than Bob, because even though he likes things and he's collected things in the past, um, he definitely definitely didn't dive back into it the way I did.
- 53:10SPEAKER_02: But kudos to him for for letting me letting me get you know my happiness out in this episode.
- 53:18SPEAKER_00: Gotta indulge the uh you know the sweet tooth every once in a while, you know.
- 53:22SPEAKER_02: And I'm I'm appreciative.
- 53:23SPEAKER_02: Uh maybe if if if if I can figure out a way, I have a little video saved in my phone that shows uh uh a brief uh maybe until about a tenth of my collection that I used to have uh uh displayed.
- 53:38SPEAKER_02: Maybe I'll throw it up in the video clip and YouTube it's just to show people kind of see.
- 53:43SPEAKER_02: Because the one thing I couldn't find that I wanted to bring is Rihanna a few years ago, um, real quick before we get to the end of this, uh she got me these 24 karat uh gold plated Star Wars cards.
- 53:56SPEAKER_02: No shit.
- 53:57SPEAKER_02: Bro, when I tell you these are some of the I I've never seen anything like these.
- 54:01SPEAKER_02: Uh I wanted to bring them in to show you, but yeah, I actually I I show them in that video, but um yeah, maybe I'll pop those up in a couple videos of or a couple of videos if I can find or videos, a couple of photos of of some of some of the stuff that I collected, but um that'd that would be cool to see.
- 54:20SPEAKER_00: I've never seen those.
- 54:21SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I've like I said, I've got a big collection.
- 54:23SPEAKER_02: I've got boxes and totes everywhere full of shit.
- 54:26SPEAKER_02: But right.
- 54:27SPEAKER_02: But guys, you know if it's the end of the episode what time it is.
- 54:31SPEAKER_00: It's time for a dead go.
- 54:33SPEAKER_00: That's right.
- 54:35SPEAKER_00: So why did the Lego set go to therapy?
- 54:44SPEAKER_02: I I don't know.
- 54:45SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got you again, didn't I?
- 54:47SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I I thought for a second I had it and then it didn't make sense, and I was like, now don't make yourself look like an idiot.
- 54:52SPEAKER_00: Because it was having trouble fitting the pieces together.
- 55:03SPEAKER_02: And on that note,