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what? Stop. Stop what? Five, four, three, two,
one, zero. Welcome to the show people. Welcome
to the show. Eat my shorts. So here is to conversation.
Welcome to the Cash Exchange. Ahoy, ahoy. I used
that today. Oh yeah? How'd it go over? It was
a discussion. We're gonna workshop it. I don't
know that it works, but you know, we'll get there.
I gotta be honest, I forgot about it completely
until just now. So, I'll work on it though. It
feels very unnatural. So I think with a little
bit of practice, it'll feel less weird. I'll
feel a little less like Monty Burns. There you
go. Or maybe it stays weird and I just get to
spread the weird. That's also fine. Everything
is weird the first time you try it. You gotta
get accustomed to it. That is fair. I used to
thought it was so lame to say lol in a text that
I would actively avoid it. I would say like ha
ha or ha or but How does one spell huh? Uh, huh.
I mean, it's like the equivalent of like laughing
through your nose. It's a huh. Interesting. Yeah,
and then emojis emojis came into the game and
hasn't really been that big of a problem, but
I do use LOL now and it is mostly when I have
nothing else of note to say about something.
That's fair. I am a strong proponent for LOL
or the crying laughing emoji. I don't understand
any of the variations and I think I personally,
it throws me off every time it's used in a conversation.
If you're like an LMAO person, I don't think
there are still ROFL people, but You say ROFL
in a conversation? The only real options that
you get are LOL and haha. I use the side eye
face with the smirk. In fact, that was my pumpkin
this year, was that emoji. Really? Yeah. Do you
have a picture of it? I do. I use the melty face
emoji, I think, more than anything else. Yeah,
when Nate's just being so cute. In what context?
think I've ever used it in a like, aww kind of
context. I only use the melting emoji and like
exasperation. Like yesterday I sent a picture
to Nate because I was trying to draw and my cat
was sitting on my sketchbook and so I sent him
a picture and I just, the melting emoji. That's
the context. Huh. Okay. I just sent it to you.
Now you have to imagine it like being, I don't
know, five days fresher. because I didn't think
to take a picture when I was done with it, but
I think it turned out pretty well. Okay. I wasn't
expecting him to have the sharpied in facial
features. That's not a Sharpie. No? That's cut.
What do you mean that's cut? I carved that. You
don't Sharpie on a pumpkin, you carve it like
a man. This picture is like 144p. Here, let me
change the... It's a live picture, so I can change
the picture that it actually sends out to you.
Here we go. This is a better representation from
this picture. It looks like you carved the face
but not the facial features Okay. Well, I took
a chisel to it and everything. Okay to get the
face there there you can tell the Carvingness
of that one. This is green bubble syndrome. I
hate when people with iPhone send me pictures
because I have no idea what's happening Yeah,
okay. That one looks more reasonable. Do I need
to send it like on Instagram? I don't have an
Instagram It's gone again? I haven't had Instagram
for a long time. Or maybe I'm thinking TikTok?
I do still have TikTok. One of these days, I'll
be strong enough to get rid of it for realsies,
like I did with my Instagram. Maybe. I delete
my Facebook, but it's tied to too many accounts.
Yeah, yeah. It is liberating when you finally
rid yourself of that scum. So, highly suggest
it. I don't even get tricked in with the, with
the, attach your Facebook so that you can get
whatever. Nope, I can do without. That's what
gets me. Yep. It's the one step log in. Yeah.
Anyway, you want to know what your three things
are for today? I would very much appreciate that,
yes. Labooboos. Kidneys. Pokemon cards. Things
that are hot on the black market. Yeah. Things
that are sought after. That's basically hitting
the nail on the head. Oh yeah? Nice. Things that
have a very robust resale market. I never get
these things on the first try. I was trying to
find one that wasn't, like, used in a previous
episode because we've used a couple of them.
The things that I have on my list for today in
our three things. My alternatives were Beanie
Babies, Funko Pops, and I think I had one more.
Maybe not. How do you feel about Labooboos? They're
demonic. And not just because of the South Park
episode. Why do you think they're demonic? Uh,
any time... a bunch of celebrities, especially
like certain celebrities, really latch on to
something and artificially inflate the popularity
or the value of something. I always step back
and wonder, who is gaining what out of this?
That's fair. I worked in a place with a lot of
people my own age, which is kind of a rarity
in my industry. But they were They talked pretty
frequently about buying very specific Labooboos.
And I just, I don't understand the hype because
one of them was able to buy a Coca -Cola Labooboo,
I believe, but it came with the bottle and they
wanted the can or it came with the can and they
wanted the bottle. And so they were going to
go back to Pop Mart and try again. But these
things are too expensive to do blind boxes in
my opinion. I hate the blind box culture of the
world. I was big into Pokemon cards. My son's
big into Pokemon cards now. They're essentially
the original blind box. It's very transparently
like a marketing ploy and like you can skyrocket
your numbers to the moon if you say, oh, but
there's this one, it could be in this box or
it could be in that box. We don't know. It's
the same issue I have with the McDonald's Monopoly
because it recently ended and I travel a lot
so I have to eat at places a lot and I'm driving
a lot so I just need to pull in somewhere, get
something, get on my way. I usually don't stop
at McDonald's, but I was like, why not? They
got this promotion going on. Maybe I'll win a
TV or a Jeep Cherokee or an all -expenses trip
to Hawaii. Who knows? So I fell for it this year
and I ended up all together through like the
month of whatever it was, ended up with like
probably 40 of the little game pieces. Okay,
and you find out real quick that It's just the
same pieces. Yeah, and that they can say oh,
well you could get this if you have all these
The two are gonna be in circulation everywhere
and that one is gonna be nowhere to be found
the There was a thing on a couple on tik -tok.
That was like we have Everything we have all
the pieces except for one from every set So they
found a McDonald's where they could just buy
the cups that had the pieces on them. It was
something like a hundred, two, a hundred and
fifty cups or something like that. And not a
single one had the pieces they need. What a waste.
No joke. But that's the same kind of marketing
that they use for Labooboos. That's the same
kind of marketing they use for Pokemon. And the
whole industry that has evolved around Pokemon
to where grown people are getting into fist fights
over these boxes of Pokemon cards is insane to
me. It was insane to me whenever we were kids
and women were fighting over razor scooters for
their kids. But it's even more insane to me now
that these little pieces of cardboard are worth
all this trouble. Yeah. I live next door to a
GameStop. Every time I pass by that GameStop
in the morning without fail. there is a line
of lawn chairs outside of it. I was so confused
for the longest time because I was like, there's
no way that there is a video game dropping every
day. There's not a stand in line or break out
the lawn chair kind of event every day at GameStop.
I found out, or at least my reigning theory now
is that it's just either Magic the Gathering
or Pokemon Card releases. That people are sitting
outside of this GameStop before they open. Every
single day. It's bananas like these are jobless
adults They very much are I'm not gonna say get
a hobby because I assume this one is yours But
a hobby doesn't take over your life. Well, it
can Shouldn't but it can but I think when it
crosses that threshold It becomes an addiction
more than a hobby Fair enough. I don't mind the
blind boxes. I think that it's cool in small
doses Like I'm not the kind of person who is
going to buy 15 of the things because maybe my
15th one is going to be the one that I want.
I'm just going to get one and whatever I ended
up with is whatever I end up with. To be fair
though, I haven't found a thing that I care enough
about necessarily to want to purchase them in
bulk, hoping that I get the one I'm actually
dying or waiting for. But it's just the collectible
culture confuses me, which is our topic for the
day. Collectibles. That kidney is collectible?
No, that was just things that have a big resale
market. Another thing that has a big resale market
is collectibles. Do you think that one friend
of Selena Gomez wishes she could reclaim hers?
I mean, she didn't get an invite to the wedding,
so maybe. Selena, what are you doing? I mean,
that's not Selena. Has she been replaced? Yes.
Has she been body snatched? I believe so. Is
she a skinwalker now? I was inundated on TikTok
with videos of the wedding and people reacting
to the wedding. The internet is a just cesspool
universally. But I was inundated with a lot of
the stuff about her wedding to Benny Blanco.
And she just looks off. All of the interviews
that she does. And I don't know what Lupus does
to a person. Everyone in the comments was a 50
-50 of, they were either staunchly in one camp
of like, yeah, she did way too much filler and
it just kind of like broke her ability to speak.
Or, hey guys, don't be mean to her. This is Lupus.
I don't know. I don't know what Lupus does to
the face. Me either. It is wild. The changes
in her appearance and delivery of just about
everything. in the last five -ish years? Yeah.
Not too long ago, the kids went into a Wizards
of Waverly Place phase. And it's just, it's mind
-boggling seeing the difference. Yeah. Did they
watch the reboot Wizards Beyond? I think they
watched a couple episodes of it. Beyond Waverly
Place and like that. I don't know. Yeah, I didn't
catch her in any of those episodes, but yeah,
it's something. It's quite the transition, I
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main side effects of Lupus are. Knowing is half
the battle. Collectibles. Collectibles. Do you
collect anything? Still? When I was... in...
middle school and high school, I collected a
bunch of Simpson stuff. I had a pretty decent
collection. A lot of it's in boxes now, and I'm
sure most of it is just lost somewhere. But if
I see something that catches my eye every now
and then, I will procure it. But for the most
part, I don't seek it out. I don't try to track
down every piece of Simpson's everything that
I can find. What else? What about collecting
tools? Sure. Because I do do that. I will decide
I'm going to do something, but I need a really
specific tool for it. And really, I'm just deciding
to do that thing so that I can get that really
specific tool that I'll probably use maybe twice.
I do the same thing with art supplies. Like I
have a, I have a routing table in my garage.
What? A routing table. What is a routing table?
Routing table? A router. It takes a circular
bit that you can carve like patterns into. So
like, uh, like the trim up on a ceiling, like
around the edges, how it's like curved and it's
got those intricate like patterns in them. Yeah,
that's what a routing router is for. And then
a routing table is just a flat surface that you
can run it along so that you can do that design
in a longer piece of material. Okay. Interesting.
So I do have that. I have not used it for the
purpose that I got it for, but that's because
I just had all kinds of other stuff. Getting
in the way eating up my time Because I'm an adult
and I know when a hobby needs to take a back
burner to doing adult things Sure I mean the
people Sitting outside the GameStop where they're
pretty early. It's not like they Didn't have
jobs to go to afterwards. We don't know if this
is a generalization and I realize that but If
on a random Tuesday you are so motivated to get
up at four, five o 'clock in the morning to set
up a lawn chair, to sit outside of a GameStop
for hours on end, it's probably safe to say that
maybe your priorities are misaligned. That is
a possibility. I'm not saying everyone in line.
I'm just saying that generally, that is what
you're going to find. The chronically online,
the chronically in front of the screen. Fair
enough. I don't know. I mean, if you don't have
anything to do on your Tuesday mornings, you
really like Pokemon cards? More power to you.
I guess, yeah. I mean, you're going to do what
you're going to do. I don't care. It's a lot
of people's social activity. That is valid. If
that is how you connect with other human beings
with similar interests, then more power to you.
Just don't let it take up your whole life. Yeah,
chat with the other people in lawn chairs. I
mean, that's a good rule of thumb for anything.
Don't let it be your whole personality. Yeah,
but most people don't... They let that fall by
the wayside. They, uh, are all for, I get it.
It's easy to just dive head first into something
that you have an easy connection to with people.
That's, I get it, but I don't think it's very
healthy. Yeah. And Disney adults, uh, anyone
who has a parasocial relationship with a celebrity?
Yeah. Yeah. Who was it? Miranda Cosgrove. I was
recently reminded of the story of her stalker
that announced his affection for her on her front
yard, front lawn. And when it was not reciprocated,
decided to end himself there. And she still lives
in that house, which I think is odd. She genuinely
scares the hell out of me. Why? Because she was
a nit kid. She was a big nit kid. And so one
could imagine that she has either been subjected
to or has at least seen or heard about some things
that have happened to her peers. She handles
the... If you've ever heard her talk directly
about the stalker that off themselves on her
front lawn, she's like laughing about it. She
is like fully disconnected. And that is both
impressive and terrifying. Yeah. Yeah. I don't
think I'd be as cavalier about it. Right. But
I don't know. But it was just like telling the
story about the lady trying to buy adult things
at the Walmart. Who's that level of cavalier?
Oh Yeah, I mean maybe Maybe Nickelodeon and good
old Dan Schneider Had another victim that we
just never took into account What about you what
do you collect what do you hoard so I'm not a
big collections person I have a habit of just
like Marie condoing my home every six months
or so. It doesn't spark joy. With that said,
I collected DVDs when I was younger and ended
up selling them because they didn't really fit
into my apartment and also was not, I didn't
have really a DVD player at that point. Uh, so
I got rid of most of my DVDs, but because I am
real sick of streaming services and honestly
doom scrolling through streaming apps, I have
started rebuilding my DVD collection. I, I think
there is a parallel universe in which I collect
Funko Pops. I do really like them and their little
beady soulless eyes, but they're also. expensive
for what they are. And I've never like, a lot
of the ones that I would specifically be interested
in, they cost way too much because they're not
in print because they're a lot more obscure.
Yeah. Our father, you could say, is an inconsiderate
gift giver, but also the most considerate gift
giver. Because usually what he'll do if there's
a gift -giving occasion is He'll say what do
you want and then okay, we'll go to the store.
We'll go get it which For the most part is pretty
nice. Yeah It's not so nice whenever he forgets
that there is a gift -giving occasion like most
recently For one of my daughters and just completely
skipped his mind and This this set of birthdays
is the easiest in the world because I got our
mother is one day in November Exactly a week
from that is my youngest Exactly a week from
that is my son's Every year, it's it's like a
like a surprise Whenever November rolls around
But last year with my son's birthday He came
over We're having a party and he just said Max
He just said what do you want for your birthday?
And he's indecisive and so he says I don't know
Okay, you want to go target. Let's just go target
Goes target comes back from target With a huge
box What my son decided to Ask his grandfather
for his birthday was a gigantic Funko pop Pokemon
don't ask me which one I Can give you the general
shape it's But I don't know exactly which one
yeah, and so We take it out of the box at the
house and our father says, what does it do? And
I said, you are looking at it. That's what it
does. And he, he wasn't upset. I think he was
more befuddled. by the fact that he just spent
50 plus dollars on this gigantic plastic action
figure that does nothing. Yep. And the reason
that this action figure was $50 is because of
the type of people who wait outside of GameStop
for new drops of Pokemon cards. I mean, in that
situation, I feel like the price point that it
commands is more because it's a giant Funko Pop.
I've seen that thing. It's massive. It is massive.
It is massive, but it is not $50 worth of plastic.
I bought a Funko Pop for a Christmas present.
I bought a Funko Pop for a Christmas present
today, and it is real little. I just think he's
neat. He is neat. And I have a Hamilton Funko
Pop. I have a George Washington Funko Pop. And
that's it. We went back for Jefferson, but they
didn't have it. And then we have a Jamie Ben.
You have a what? Jamie Ben, he's the captain
for the Dallas Stars. Oh, okay. I have Bob Ross
and Buddy the Elf, both of which were gifted
to me. I don't think I've ever sought out a Funko
Pop, but I went to the Grapevine Mills mall the
last time I was in DFW, and there's a bookstore
that has just a wall of Funko Pops. And I did
find a good amount of them that I was like, I
would like to have that. But mentally, I also
can't reason with myself that I could purchase
something for the same reason that our dad was
befuddled by a $50 action figure. I can't reason
paying the amount of money that they want for
them to just be on a shelf staring at me with
their beady little eyes. I can't either. Would
I like to have the Thomas Jefferson to round
it out? Yes. Am I going to track it down and
pay out of print prices for it? No. The things
that I would want Funko Pops for? would be really
obscure. Like I wouldn't want to do, I would
want like custom Funko Pops. I would want ones
that were like handmade. Things that have some
kind of uniqueness to them because I know that
those same beady little eyes that are currently
staring at me from my bookshelf are the same
of hundreds of thousands of others. I think it'd
be cool if I had like a My Name is Earl Funko
Pop, but I know they don't make them. That would
be cool. You've looked it up. Haven't but that
show has been off the air for so long that I
can't possibly imagine They have we have all
kinds of stuff all kinds of stuff. I Don't think
it had a big enough cult following You'd be surprised
Jason Lee still talks about his time with my
name is Earl and how big of a letdown it was
that it got Asked when it did. Yeah, it was a
big letdown. They ended on cliffhanger Earl Hickey
Funko pop Wait, what? Yeah, I'm looking at it
right now. There's even a two -pack with the
Hickey brothers. I told you. How much do they
cost? And are his eyes closed? They are not.
He's got one eyebrow raised. There might be multiple
ones. They did Randy dirty. He doesn't look right.
Oh, right here. Wait. Okay. This is the... You
know what I want? If anyone asks, you tell them
this. I want a 3D printer. I so badly want a
3D printer. I would do so many fun things with
a 3D printer. So this is the files to 3D print
your own Earl Hickey Funko Pop. Pay five bucks
for it. Only five bucks? And then you can even
hand paint it yourself? I want all of them. Earl,
Randy. Joy, Darnell, Catalina. Oh, okay. So yeah,
maybe they don't. Maybe they're not like legit.
No, here's one with Randy holding a box. With
Ethan Supley holding a Randy. That's recent because
he's real skinny. He's been skinny for a little
while now. Has he? I don't know. Maybe they're
not legit. They look real good though. But if
you can find an Earl Sinclair from Dinosaurs,
there's no reason you can't find an Earl Hickey,
so. All right, well. In that case, for one of
the gift -giving holidays, I would like to request
in advance that I want an Earl or Randy Hickey.
Okay. Well, then you put the word out that I
want a 3D printer first. Yeah. Okay. The first
of us to get a 3D printer. Our first project
is going to be the My Name is Earl Funko Pop.
There we go. Tell you what, I'll even bookmark
this website so that I have it at the ready.
$4 for Randy. Anyway. If I could get more of
that kind of obscure Funko Pop, I would absolutely
collect them. At least, okay. So if you are involved
in the creation of it, then I think it's fine
to have a collection like that. Like Legos. Like
Legos, yeah. You have the money for Legos, and
then you have the time and the patience to actually
build the kits and have somewhere to store them,
to display them, then go for it. Because at least
then you are actually pursuing something while
you're doing this collecting hobby. That is fair.
I think in the case of being able to 3D print
your own equivalent of a Funko Pop, you're building
skills, which is cool. Yeah. And 3D printing
can, like, you can get a lot of, there's a lot
of avenues to make money with that. So you could
even turn your hobby into a lucrative side business
or a full -time job. I don't know. I feel like
that one is tough to do these days. The market
is saturated. 3D printers are not that expensive.
I mean, it's almost like getting into podcasting
in 2024. Crazy. Who would do that? Yeah. Psychos,
that's who. Psychos, yeah. We need some, we need
some, create some fake drama. I've been thinking
about this a lot. Do you know how easy it would
be to cash in on just talking politics? It doesn't
matter which side of the aisle you want to be
on. Even if you want to troll that side, it's
so easy to just put a stupid opinion out there,
then people start talking about it. And then
eventually, people are just going to take your
word for it. Sure, yeah. Like the people that
get airtime on shows like Piers Morgan. or even
the people that they bring on to CNN or Fox News
that are just like social media people. It's
ridiculous. I don't think that I want to make
money through podcasting bad enough to be a political
commentator. I don't either. That's one of the
reasons why I haven't. Also, I like my blood
pressure where it is, regardless of what I believe
about politics. I know that discussing it on
a podcast would just That probably would stressful
to all involved and since my curiosity got the
better of me a David Diggs signed Thomas Jefferson
from Hamilton Funko pop is 210 dollars That's
actually not as bad as I would think it would
be Another one on here is for 302 250 apparently
he signs he's a bunch There was always people
hanging out outside of the stage doors Waiting
to get stuff signed. But yeah, I mean all you
have to do is have the most asinine opinion on
anything and You'll get people saying you go
girl. You'll get people saying you're the stupidest
person that's ever been on this earth And that's
all you need and that is a problem with society
that that is all it takes One of the reasons
that I don't partake really in social media never
have is because I don't want to Invite the feedback
of strangers in that particular instance. I'm
honestly a pretty big proponent for the dead
internet theory anyway, but a lot of this is
just the void talking back to us, not actual
human beings. But I'm not going to put myself
in a position where I'm allowing the peanut gallery
to weigh in on ultra private matters. Well, it's
like whenever we first started posting stuff
on Instagram I don't think we got any negative
stuff on Instagram but YouTube and tik -tok as
soon as we started posting stuff these people
came in with these opinions on our appearance
and us as people immediately nothing on the content
of what they just watched or if whether they
liked it or not it was just hey hey guys you
hey you suck okay bye level of audacity increases
exponentially when you don't have an actual name
or an actual picture of you attached to the vitriol
you spew. Yeah, and these people did not have
profile pictures. So who's to say they were actual
people? We don't know. That is correct. I went
into a bit of a light tailspin just because like,
who are you? Who are you? And then I did some
researching into this person. Nothing that wasn't
like just there on their profile or whatever
And then did nothing with it because at the end
of the day it doesn't matter but Yeah, that kind
of stuff is just is just dumb. I've never I've
never partaken in Needing to Get my My sadness
out by just attacking random people on the internet
So I don't know what the motivation for it is,
but I mean, I can see how it can be an outlet
that people choose. Yep. Because there's no culpability
in it. There's no... Consequence. Consequences,
yeah. Don't be that guy, kids. Nobody likes that
guy. That guy doesn't like that guy. Fair enough.
But when you're talking about DVDs, I still have
a bunch of mine. and I have been responsible
for helping you with your short -sightedness
because I have bestowed upon you some of my collection.
What? Not that long ago. What are you talking
about? My DVDs that I still have, that I held
onto when you got rid of all yours. Huh? You
bestowed upon me, what DVDs would you give me?
The Ringer. Uh, pretty sure there was another
one. All I'm saying is that I have more foresight
than you. That's all I'm saying. That's it. Sure.
I didn't want to have to move with all of the
things. And I stand by that decision. Movies
are heavy. Oh. Don't get me wrong. Don't get
me wrong. It's been a pain in the ass. I've got,
uh, three totes just chilling in the garage.
I'm surprised we're not all melted by now, but...
There have been some times where I really want
to watch something. It's like, I'm pretty sure
I own that at one point. And I go on a little
mini adventure and I go track it down. And usually
by the time I find it, I'm not really that interested
in watching it anymore. So it just sits next
to the PlayStation until I'm ready to actually
sit down and watch it. At that point, you have
to make yourself watch it. You went all of this
way. You would think. Just to sit down at the
finish line. You would think, but I get distracted
easily. Which is the problem with streaming services.
I'm tired of doom scrolling movies that I could
be watching. Well, in the not too distant future,
you won't have to doom scroll because you're
going to have some very specific movies that
you're going to have to watch. This is true.
Hint, hint. There are... a couple of things that
I've been looking for on DVD. I mean, I guess
technically there's one big one that I'm looking
for on DVD right now, and it's Sling Blade. I
am just about done with season one of Land Man.
Great show. And I want to see Billy Bob Thornton.
And he was nominated for an Academy Award, I'm
pretty sure, for Sling Blade. Some part of Sling
Blade was nominated for an Academy Award. Because
he didn't go full? I don't know. I don't know
how much of a... I haven't seen the movie. I
don't know if he goes full... It's been a very
long time since I've seen it, but I do not believe
he goes full retard in it. It won. It won the
Oscar for best screenplay. Do you believe the
rumors that he tried to have every copy of it
buried and he's blocking it from streaming? It
is streamable. Fun fact. I found out a couple
of days ago that it is streamable on a streaming
site that I... Don't know that I trust it's called
like red current universe or something like that
I don't know that I believe that streaming service
is valid necessarily But if you think about the
names of other streaming services Objectively,
we have Pluto and Philo and flex and max and
Hulu like they all kind of sound like nonsense
That's true shutter There's trauma trauma. Yeah
with an o five dollars a month There's lots of
options and they all sound real silly. I think
one month is as much as I would like. You can
catch such classics as Gut Boy. I don't want
to watch Gut Boy. I'm good. And what was the
chicken one? Poultry Geist. Poultry Geist. Classics.
For only five bucks a month studio that churns
out like 20 movies a year. I think one month
is enough. I think you could probably... I think
that's plenty of drama. Get your fill, yeah.
Did you know that there are over 25 ,000 unique
Funko Pops? Feels very bad for the environment.
I did not, no. And those are official Funko Pops?
Yes. I think that that is a ridiculous number
of versions of a thing that you sell. 25 ,000
is objectively too many. Okay. That said, Pokemon
has 200 ,000 different iterations of their cards.
Better or worse for the environment? Pokemon
cards? Yeah. Better than Funko Pops. Better than
Funko Pops. Even with all the ink and everything
used? The paper is still more biodegradable than
the plastic and vinyl that goes into Funko Pop.
The plastic coating? Wall -E will be boxing up
Funko Pops for eternity. I think there is a Wall
-E Funko. Maybe you'll find an Eve too, like
just make him kiss and stuff. Sure. He's big
into the romance movies. Why not? I mean, even
with the plastic coating, I'm sure a Pokemon
card is more able to break down and be recycled
into the earth than a Funko Pop. Although they
might both be better than Beanie Babies. But
they have 250 ,000 iterations of different cards?
200 ,000. 200 ,000. Okay. And then, I mean, what?
There's got to be thousands upon thousands of...
Each individual card. Yeah, and then if there's
only 25 ,000 individual Funko pops and then there's
there's bound there's gonna be less Funko pops
especially when Pokemon cards already have a
hundred and seventy five thousand unit increase
I See the Funko pop situation in the same way
that I see the ET video game In the sense that
like so One of the reasons that I was thinking
about this topic for an episode was because there
have been reports coming out recently about how
Funko Pop might not last the year. They're not
financially stable enough to carry things out
the way that they're going right now for the
long haul. Is this a tariff issue? I think they
just oversaturated the market because they have
25 ,000 Funko Pops. And every one of those comes
with its own licensing fee. That Funko Pop has
to pay to whatever entity created the character
that they are making. One not important at all
question. Who is the target market for a succession
Funko Pop? People that are not successful. Who
is that for? I've never seen the show. Maybe
it is good and worth Funko Popping. But why did
they make succession Funko Pops? It's good, I
don't think it's worth Funko Popping. Such a
weird choice. And when you start watering down
a collectible item, so much so that Succession
has five different versions of Funko Pops, I'm
pretty sure they also make Severance Funko Pops
and I'm not confident I can tell you which one
is which. They're just in generic, like professional
looking clothing. Just out of curiosity, I was
looking up the licensing fee, the Funko Pop.
base pokemon for all the funko pops that they
make and i didn't think i'd find a number i just
thought maybe they're being a rough estimate
but uh this says funko profits by creating a
large number of figures using the license the
per figure cost of license becomes small when
divided across the total number of figures sold
such as a 200 000 licensing fee for 200 000 figures
which works out to one dollar per figure cost.
The Pokemon company has a strict no third -party
policy for licensing requests and does not accept
unsolicited pitches. Did you know that? It's
not. That everything that has Pokemon on it,
Pokemon reached out to them and said, hey, you
want to slap our characters on there? Not to
get political, but does that include the ICE
recruitment videos? I don't know. They have been
acting fast and loose with... the rules concerning
what they can, can't do on the internet. Pokemon
has been on a downhill slide with licensing since
they lost to Pal World. Do you know the most
expensive Funko Pops sold for $100 ,000 on the
resale market? Is it a misprint? It is not. Do
they forget to put like a shirt on Laura Croft,
the Tomb Raider? I hope she had the triangles.
You'll poke your eye out It was a set of two
and from what I understand the reason that it
commanded such a high price was because there
were only two Around and also their gold Funko
pops, which means they were painted in gold I
don't know why that's all that surprising. Yeah
hundred thousand dollars I had at Burger King
they used to have The kids meals and that would
come with a toy, right? But then they also used
to do like special things that you could only
get at Burger King But it was like an extra cost.
Yeah, so I remember We got watches Simpsons watches
from there and those weren't happy meal toys
Those are like you have to go and say yeah, I'd
like a cheeseburger kid's meal And then I would
also like this Simpsons watch. Well, they did
the same thing before that with these Pokeballs
that inside of them had a Pokemon card that was
like made out of some amount of gold they were
heavy like you could chuck it across the room
and do some damage with it and I have one I don't
know where it's at but Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
And I don't I don't know what it would I don't
know what it would get on the market these days
I was actually having a conversation about those
specific things recently and the price point
that we were looking at was like 25 bucks. Oh
man, that's lame. Yeah, I'm looking at a set
of six, 23 karat gold plated for 150. Maybe that's
what could get your kid for Christmas. That was
a collectible worth getting, not some plastic
piece of junk. We don't get fun things like that
anymore. We don't. If there was something that
you could go back and collect to have now to
either sell or be a point of pride, what would
it be? I think video games would be really cool.
If I were to keep the things, I think video games
would be really cool. I've been gifted three
GameCubes in my time. One of which stopped working
and one of which was stolen by a former partner.
What a douche. Is it Cooler Cryer? It was indeed,
yes. But yeah, I think it would be really cool
to go back and have like first edition versions
of the Atari ET game. or Super Mario Sunshine
for the GameCube, the Xbox Kinect. Yeah, I don't
think... We never had an Xbox Kinect, I don't
think. Because I bought... Because we had the
Wii. I had the Xbox, and then I got the Xbox
360, and I kept getting the Red Ring of Death.
There was one time I found a guy to fix it, said
that, oh, this is full proof. Like, I know exactly
what to do to quit this error from popping up,
whatever. So I took the... my Xbox 360 to this
guy's trailer in the middle of nowhere. And he
took it to a back room. He was like, oh, you
can just sit down. And I sat on his couch. His
wife walked out in a bra, like a nursing bra,
with like one of the flaps undone. And I guess
he didn't tell her that he was having company.
And I got to sit on the couch awkwardly while
they argued about, about... me being there. And
he finishes up, I guess, and he was like, hey,
man, sorry about that. You know how women are.
I was like, okay. I think this is on you, bud.
I don't think that was her. And took it home,
worked for about three months and then got it
again. And I was like, screw this. And went and
got a PS3 and never looked back. Yeah, I think.
You got it fixed again for me when you gave me
your Xbox 360, and I think it lasted for maybe
like a month. I was like, all right, no console
for me. There used to be a trick where you could
wrap it in a towel and let it purposefully overheat
to reset it, and that would work for a little
bit. But then, yeah, the Xbox 360s were crap.
Great. PCs are where it's at, I'm told. No, no.
Maybe that'll be a discussion for a later episode.
I'm going head -to -head with your fiance about...
Taylor Swift, you can go head to head with my
boyfriend about video games. Bring it. Bring
it on. I'll win. Debate December. Sure. All right.
Actually, I think video games would be cool to
collect, but so would comic books, because comic
books would be really good to resell eventually.
I don't know that I've ever... I don't know that
I would want to have them for personal consumption
because I would be afraid that I would ruin their
condition, but it'd be cool to sell some of that
stuff. First Prince of... or First Edition Superman
and all that. Yeah. Um, hyper, hyper inflated.
I don't, I feel like comic books are kind of
like the, uh, kind of like art. Like whenever
a rich person buys a painting and they say, well,
it was because the value is how much someone
will pay for it. And a streak on a canvas is
not inherently valuable. But if someone attaches
that to it, then whatever. then that is the value
of it from that point on. But I feel like the
same thing happened with comic books, and I think
that a lot of times nowadays they're more of
a money laundering scheme. Anything that is hyperinflated
for not really any good reason is a little suspect.
I mean, the reason in that situation would be
scarcity, wouldn't it? There's so few... iterations
of this comic book that still exist in general,
but especially in a condition that's readable
and then a condition that's meant like it hasn't
actually been touched since it came out in the
50s. So it's been cared for, yeah. Okay, now
that makes a little more sense. But yeah, I don't
know. To sell a 60 -year -old comic book that's
in good condition for... What did that one go
for most recently? The Superman action comic?
Was it number one? from 1938 uh yeah there's
action comments number action comics number one
digital copy auction six million dollars six
million dollars at an auction house in dallas
texas cool there's a garfield showcase selling
for thirteen thousand dollars right now on heritage
auction i went down a rabbit hole fairly recently
uh something called propstore .com and they will
auction off a lot of like TV and movie props
and things and the thing that I was looking at
was the list from My Name is Earl and it sold
for like six grand which is so interesting to
me. It's essentially like although I understand
it was used in the film or in the filming of
the TV show which is very cool. It is a $6 ,000
piece of printer paper. I get it, but I don't
get it. They also had, they were selling the
little riding lawnmower thing that Joy won in
a beauty pageant and Earl's wallet complete with
ID with his eyes closed. Log in to see sold price
and a copy of his list. Propstore .com actually
has been in the news recently. because James
Vanderbeek is having to sell off a bunch of his
memorabilia from Varsity Blues and Dawson's Creek
in order to pay for his cancer treatment. So
it's funny you mention that because it was just
in the news like a couple days ago. Do they have
like chain the chain of custody for this kind
of stuff? Yeah, all of these definitely come
with provenance. Good Lord. The prayer beads
from Bruce Almighty are estimated to go for 2
,000 to 4 ,000 euros, which if you are using
freedom currency, that is $2 ,300 roughly to
$4 ,600 for the beads that were used by both
Jennifer Aniston and Jim Carrey and chewed on
by Jim Carrey, if this is to be believed. And
these are the ones he actually chewed on? They
better be. Someone might try to Jim Carrey. I
heard a crazy thing that Putin, as well as other
world leaders, I couldn't confirm if DJT does
this, but they use special toilets when they're
traveling that collect their waste so that they
can't be bio scanned to search for any sort of
like diseases or abnormalities that they could
use to swing world affairs. Isn't that bananas?
That feels like the most extreme version of Drake
putting hot sauce in condoms. The internet is
a terrible place. It was a bad invention. I don't
want to know that, but now everyone does. If
it didn't exist, then the world would not be
privy to the conversation we're having right
now. So it's got its good. Scott's bad. Would
you like Indiana Jones's whip? Oh, never mind.
It already sold for $485 ,000. I would like a
whip. Why are you saying it that way? Like what?
Why do you say whip that way? You're saying it
like you're supposed to say it. I would like
Indiana Jones's whip. Stop it. Stop what? Stop.
Stop what? I think it would be really cool also
to have like a collection of like props and things
if I had a house with like extra space for displaying
stuff, but I also for the same reason. I don't
want to pay that much for something that's just
going to sit there. Like when John Oliver bought
the Cinderella Man jockstrap from Russell Crowe's
estate sale before sale. I did not know that
was a thing. I mean, I guess it makes sense that
he held onto it, but I would not have guessed
that that was a purchasable item. I would have
taken something from Gladiator. That would be
cool. What is your ideal Prop purchase. Ideal
prop purchase. Anton Shiger's cattle stunner.
Joker costume. Which one? That'd be cool. I like
the purple suit. Okay. So like Nicholson era?
Oh, no. Like Ledger, Dark Knight. What else?
What else? What else? What else? A can of Dapper
Dan from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou. God damn
it, I'm a Dapper Dan man. I'm gonna need you
to watch your language. I can order for you,
but it doesn't take about two weeks. I tried
sitting Max down. It was just me and him. The
girls were out doing their thing. And I told
them, hey man, give it 10 minutes. If you're
not about it, we'll turn it off. 10 minutes in.
How are you feeling? I think maybe I'm just not
old enough yet. I'm not old enough to understand
it. I said, okay, that's fair. That's fair. So
we turned it off and we turned on space balls
and he loved it. I have recruited Nate for my
DVD collecting and the first DVD that he purchased
was Spaceballs. He's adding important things
to our collection. Spaceballs the DVD? Spaceballs
the DVD. Well, whenever y 'all are back stateside,
y 'all can go through my stuff and see what you're
interested in. I'll let you know if I'm willing
to part ways with it. I found a DVD on Facebook
Marketplace of Slingblade, but it's in Azel,
which is 180 miles from me and also very far
from Nate. But one of these days, it's only $4.
What a deal. They don't know what they have.
They don't know what they were selling. Yeah.
Have you ever fell into the trap of ordering
a DVD or a video game off of the internet, like
off eBay or something like that, and you get
it and it is region locked? I don't. I think
I've ever run into that problem. I am very picky
about what I'll purchase off of eBay because
I don't trust most people on eBay. That happened
to me. This was a long time ago. And are you
aware of the game Leisure Suit Larry? Yes. Well...
In the United States, you could only get on the
Xbox the mature version of Leisure Suit Larry
on the Xbox. On the computer, you could get the
AO version, which I heard was just balls to the
wall. And for those that don't know, it is a
step above mature, and it's adult only. And I
was not an adult, but... Luckily eBay didn't
have very good verification at the time But if
you I found a copy of it that I on eBay that
was Xbox 360 but it was the AO version and I
didn't realize that that version was banned in
the US So I ordered it it arrives put it in my
Xbox. Oh your region locked can't use it I'd
have a British Xbox 360 in order to play this
game that was perfectly readable by the Xbox
360 But the only way you could use it is if it
was a British 360 Feels a little silly real silly,
but that's the only time I've really run into
that I don't think I ran into that on any DVD
things But region locking is stupid. I think
I've only ever purchased one movie off of eBay
for myself And that was Idiocracy. It was my
favorite movie at the time. And honestly, it's
still up there, but now it has a different tone
behind it. Every day we get a little bit closer
to President Herbert Mountain Dew Comancho. Who
knew that Mike Judge was a fortune teller. He
also nailed it with the Crocs. He did. There's
a lot of stuff from that movie that is Real,
uh, prophesizing. It's pretty crazy. I still,
I think that is one of the movies that is the
most like referenced in my household, or it's
the one that I like, I find connections to the
most often. I don't know the last time I went
to a Costco, but every time I hear about how
a retail store has a rule that you have to be,
you have to smile at a guest when they're within
a certain distance from you. And if they get
within a closer distance, you have to say hello.
It's the 10 -4 rule. How are you today? I always
think, welcome to Costco. I love you. I love
you. We were just recently at a Fuddruckers.
There's not many left in the country, but there
is one right down the street from me right now.
Yeah. And we went to Fuddruckers and the whole
time I was thinking about the fact that they
are going to slowly transition into something
that does not say Fuddruckers. And when it does
make that transition, I don't think that I would
want to eat there any longer. That is probably
a good idea. They were still having kids birthday
parties so it'll be worth checking out. Have
you ever heard of this some folks call it sling
blade? I have. Call it a sling blade? That is
only because I looked it up on Half Price Books
thinking I was gonna cheat the system and find
a copy of the DVD. The only thing that popped
up was they call it sling blade. Some people
call it a sling blade. It has Molly Ringwald
in it and it is a short. that was the inspiration
for the movie. Is Molly Ringwald in the movie?
I don't know. I don't have access to this movie.
Does not look like it, but does have Dwight Yoakam.
Did you know that he wrote it and directed it?
I did. Huh. I've been deep down the rabbit hole
on the lore of Slingblade for as long as I've
been looking for this DVD. Maybe we'll have a
live watch party whenever you track it down.
I would love that. Oh, and John Ritter. Nice.
All right. Well, you got anything else for this
episode? One other... Fun little fact the most
expensive Pokemon card that's been sold as far
as we know to date was a Pikachu I think it said
it was like an illustrator 10 I don't know what
that means that was sold for five point two million
dollars wanna guess to who to whom Jeff Bezos
no Mark Zuckerberg is a YouTuber influencer PewDiePie
suicide glamorizer Logan Paul Logan Paul And
the last little bit of information that I had
was that when you think of Beanie Babies and
you think of their value these days, what do
you think is the most valuable Beanie Baby? I
mean, the most obvious one would be the Princess
Diana one. That bear is worth almost nothing
these days. I believe it. There are some that
are being sold for upwards of a half million
dollars. But whenever I looked it up earlier,
I found some that were being sold for like 20
or 30 with the tag. Tag still intact? Tag intact.
They still looked like a decent, they were in
good quality. Emily had one. There's a million
dollar Diana Bear. Good Lord. Emily had one and
the first thing she did was rip the tag off,
but I guess it worked out. That was her retirement.
I know. Well, should have told her when she was...
Five four when was the one was the Diana stuff?
Yeah, 97 so probably like 98 99 so she would
have been like older than that but not by much
so I don't know My suggestion is if you like
it you can afford it. You don't let it take over
your life Do what you want to do. We're not here
to yuck people's yums We're not wanna go camping
outside the GameStop every Tuesday. Do you do
you? We're allowed to have our opinions though.
Remember that. We are. And I support those people
hanging out outside the GameStop. And I think
that their time could probably be better used
somewhere else like curing cancer or solving
world hunger. But hey, you get your holographic
Mew first edition. I want a holographic first
edition Mew. Well. Alright, looks like I'm whipping
out the lawn chair. There you go. Alright, and
with that. Remember kids, do good things and
good things happen. Peace out Girl Scouts. See
ya.