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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[00:33] Welcome to another episode of Hobby Nonsense. It's your boy, Jesse, Jesse Gibson. And it is Ray Solorio.

Speaker 3:
[00:42] You are Jesse Gibson.

Speaker 2:
[00:44] I am, thank you for noticing that, I appreciate that.

Speaker 3:
[00:47] I got feedback. Did you ever have like another nickname growing up?

Speaker 2:
[00:50] I was gonna say, I got feedback recently that-

Speaker 3:
[00:52] Because your middle name is Rhodes, right?

Speaker 2:
[00:53] It is, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[00:55] Are you a part of, are you Ken Folk to The American Nightmare, Cody Rhodes?

Speaker 2:
[01:01] You know, a lot of people don't ask me that, and surprisingly to say, no, I'm not. I did get called Rody. My cousin would call me Rody. I had a couple of people call me that. Rody, I don't know, from Rhodes.

Speaker 3:
[01:13] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[01:14] I had a couple other names, like one summer between eighth and ninth grade, I went to my uncle's place in Texas.

Speaker 3:
[01:20] Oh, the middle to high school switch.

Speaker 2:
[01:22] Yes, and I was like, I was in that, you know, redefining myself going into high school, and I went off and spent the summer, a few weeks of the summer in Texas, and my uncle, you know, he started calling me jeezy. I don't, jeezy, jeezy. Like, instead of Jesse, it was jeezy. Do you know Michael Sluder, right? From school, remember? In science class, ninth grade, I meet this guy, and I always thought I was really funny. Like, I was the funny guy in most classes. I tried to be. That was my goal.

Speaker 3:
[01:56] Humble might be a different thing.

Speaker 2:
[01:58] No, no, I never said humble, but I did try to be the funny kid. And I remember this kid, like this guy blew me away. I laughed at everything he said. And he just, he started calling me a different nickname that sounds like jeezy.

Speaker 3:
[02:16] What was it? Is it inappropriate to say?

Speaker 2:
[02:19] It's kind of inappropriate to say, considering the family audience that we portray around here. I'd say it started with a J and it sounded like Lizzie McGuire. So not the McGuire part.

Speaker 3:
[02:33] Jeezy.

Speaker 2:
[02:34] Why did you? You know what it is?

Speaker 3:
[02:37] I could have said no.

Speaker 2:
[02:40] Anyways, so he started calling me, and then that would started to be my nickname. And I was just like, this is not how high school was supposed to go for me.

Speaker 3:
[02:46] So did you come into that year telling your friends, call me Jeezy? Jeezy.

Speaker 2:
[02:53] I did. I told a few people that.

Speaker 3:
[02:54] And then that was the mistake.

Speaker 2:
[02:55] That was the mistake I've made, yeah. But fortunately, it was very short-lived.

Speaker 3:
[02:59] You can't pick your nickname.

Speaker 2:
[03:00] Exactly.

Speaker 3:
[03:00] Especially if you come in, hey guys, call me Jeezy.

Speaker 2:
[03:04] Well, and that's kind of goes back to-

Speaker 3:
[03:06] No, we're going to call you-

Speaker 2:
[03:07] That goes back to what I was going to say, was I got some feedback. Maybe Sports Boy is more of my SCN nickname, and Hobby Nonsense should be a different, I should have a different nickname.

Speaker 3:
[03:18] I don't know.

Speaker 2:
[03:20] I think Sports Boy is funny in the sense of like how I'm not a sports guy.

Speaker 3:
[03:24] I think that's the-

Speaker 2:
[03:26] That's the joke, right? Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 3:
[03:29] I mean-

Speaker 2:
[03:30] I'm open to feedback.

Speaker 3:
[03:30] Is that why, like who gave you that nickname to begin with?

Speaker 2:
[03:33] The Sports Boy nickname?

Speaker 3:
[03:34] The Sports Boy nickname, or did you just give it to yourself?

Speaker 2:
[03:37] So I brought it up on SCN, and but it was-

Speaker 3:
[03:41] You brought it up, I want everyone to be calling me Sports Boy.

Speaker 2:
[03:44] No, no, no. I just said like, this is what my wife has been calling me, and or I had like my wife and some friends started calling me that after we were doing the Sports Cards Nonsense podcast, because they know I wasn't a big sports guy, and they were just like, Sports Boy over here.

Speaker 3:
[03:57] Sports Boy over here.

Speaker 2:
[03:57] Yeah, so that's kind of where it came from, but-

Speaker 3:
[04:01] What's your favorite sport?

Speaker 2:
[04:05] Like it depends, like to watch, to play, to talk about, like there's different ones.

Speaker 3:
[04:10] Give me all three. Which one do you like to watch?

Speaker 2:
[04:13] I prefer to watch football.

Speaker 3:
[04:15] Which one do you like to play?

Speaker 2:
[04:16] I like to play a little-

Speaker 3:
[04:19] Basketball?

Speaker 2:
[04:20] Basketball slash, I like to throw the pigskin around a little bit.

Speaker 3:
[04:23] And which one do you like to talk about?

Speaker 2:
[04:26] Like I think talking about is baseball, just because I feel like there's so much to talk about that I want to see changed.

Speaker 3:
[04:33] Baseball?

Speaker 2:
[04:34] Yeah, it's like, I don't, actually I don't even know if it's baseball. I think it's probably football. I think baseball only falls in, the category baseball falls into is the one I like to watch in person. I think it's like kind of like, it's not too crazy.

Speaker 3:
[04:45] It's all in America's favorite pastime.

Speaker 2:
[04:47] It's relaxing.

Speaker 3:
[04:48] Throw it on the TV and just do stuff around the house.

Speaker 2:
[04:51] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[04:51] Just kind of check back on it.

Speaker 2:
[04:52] And that's the thing, like I can go to a game and it's like, oh, it's just kind of chill. Have a beer, have a dog, watch, enjoy.

Speaker 3:
[04:59] We like to call them glizzies around here.

Speaker 2:
[05:01] I know that. And I apologize for making that mistake. Guys, welcome to the show. We are-

Speaker 3:
[05:05] Have you ever been down to the Brave Stadium and just-

Speaker 2:
[05:09] No, I've only been to Wrigley Field.

Speaker 3:
[05:12] This summer you need to go down to Atlanta. It's not in Atlanta, can't remember where it's at. But do that whole situation, stay at the Omni next door. It's a whole thing, man.

Speaker 2:
[05:24] I would love to.

Speaker 3:
[05:24] Everything's right there. You don't only have to leave. Everything's right there.

Speaker 2:
[05:27] I will say-

Speaker 3:
[05:28] Shopping, restaurants. The restaurants aren't that great.

Speaker 2:
[05:30] It's got big shoes to fill. Going to Wrigley is iconic. And I've been there like two or three times now. And that's really the only game. I've been to actually a few different stadiums. Actually, that's not true. I went to a Mets game last year. I was going to say, that's the only professional game I went to. But no, I've been to the Mets game. But Wrigley feels amazing. So yeah, I'd go check out Braves.

Speaker 3:
[05:52] Have you seen any Savannah Banana games?

Speaker 2:
[05:54] That is my ultimate.

Speaker 3:
[05:55] That's the next goal. This is how we-

Speaker 2:
[05:57] Yeah, now we're transitioning.

Speaker 3:
[05:59] I watched them on YouTube. They were playing the Clowns.

Speaker 2:
[06:02] Oh, there's a team called the Clowns?

Speaker 3:
[06:04] Yeah, it's a whole league, dude.

Speaker 2:
[06:05] Well, that's the thing, they keep building out new teams. They keep adding more. That's why I think Savannah Banana is like, when and or if MLB goes on strike, which they are saying it may very well, I think that is what will fill the stadiums, because those stadiums are still going to need to be rented out and people making money. I think that's what you see grow exponentially faster if that happens. But we'll see. That'll be a much more nonsense driven conversation of baseball. On today's episode, we do have a guest joining us in just a few minutes. Mike from Warehouse Collectibles, which I only found him from the feed. Like on Instagram, you scroll through and just happen to stumble upon people with similar interests.

Speaker 3:
[06:50] The algorithm is working.

Speaker 2:
[06:51] This thing is crazy. It's literally a warehouse just filled with collectibles. I honestly wanted to talk to him, just find out personally, I had a big interest of what's in there. How did this come to be? What all kinds of cards, comics, action figures, what's in here other than these things?

Speaker 3:
[07:12] We don't know exactly what's all in there. I know we've seen comic, I've seen comic books.

Speaker 2:
[07:17] I think that is the biggest thing in action figures. I don't think cards are all that big, but they did have a large amount of cards from Magic, like the TCG, but I think those may have gotten sold off. Anyways, we're gonna talk to Mike about a lot of this stuff. It'll just be a really fun conversation. I also want to do a little bit of a circle back thoughts on last week's Neon and Fantastic Four Finest, because I like...

Speaker 3:
[07:46] Let's talk about it. Shout out to Trick Williams. You pulled three...

Speaker 2:
[07:53] Well, I pulled three one-of-ones last week.

Speaker 3:
[07:55] One-of-one last week. Is that a record?

Speaker 2:
[07:58] In a week? Probably. Honestly. That's intense. I think what's more crazy is that I pulled two one-of-ones out of six cases of Finest, and I pulled one one-of-one out of four cases of Neon, which I think just... I don't know. The odds seemed like that was not gonna be the case.

Speaker 3:
[08:19] Odds are forever in your favor.

Speaker 2:
[08:21] You know what? I just started watching that last night with my daughter, Charlie. Do you even know what it's from?

Speaker 3:
[08:27] It's from Hunger Games.

Speaker 2:
[08:28] Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3:
[08:30] I only saw the first one. I never saw the...

Speaker 2:
[08:32] Really?

Speaker 3:
[08:32] There's like five of them.

Speaker 2:
[08:33] Well, there's like new ones. They turned the first... There was gonna be three, and then they turned the third one into two movies, so there was like four originally, but now they've got two more. They've made one, and there's another one coming out, like a prequel edition.

Speaker 3:
[08:45] Have you been reading any of the Dungeon Carl books?

Speaker 2:
[08:50] Dungeon Carl?

Speaker 3:
[08:51] Dungeon Carl?

Speaker 2:
[08:52] What's Dungeon Carl?

Speaker 3:
[08:53] You've never heard of these books?

Speaker 2:
[08:55] Wait, wait, wait. Is this what my niece was just...

Speaker 3:
[08:57] Dungeon Crawler Carl?

Speaker 2:
[08:59] Hang on. I gotta check a text message from my niece. My niece, I'm finding out is in the sci-fi.

Speaker 3:
[09:04] Shout out to the Gibson niece.

Speaker 2:
[09:08] This is actually a... She's from the Hovies side of my mother.

Speaker 3:
[09:13] Oh, the other, the Hovies.

Speaker 2:
[09:14] My wife's side of the family. Let me see. She had said... Yeah, Dungeon Crawler. That's what it was. Dungeon Crawler Carl. She said she was... She tried to get into that. What was her... She said, the concept was very interesting. It's like you're reading a video game, but in practice, the author chose some really emotionally wrecking things to add in there. I just couldn't take it. Okay, there you go. He said... Honestly, I think the author is deranged. So, it sounds pretty good.

Speaker 3:
[09:42] Well, I think there's nine books. And the tenth book is going to be broken up into two books.

Speaker 2:
[09:49] I love how nerd culture keeps overlapping. We're seeing books, movies, cards coming out for all these things.

Speaker 3:
[09:54] Is it Seth MacFarlane, the family guy, Ted? He just bought the rights to it and is turning into a TV show. Dungeon Carl.

Speaker 2:
[10:03] Really?

Speaker 3:
[10:04] Dungeon Carl. Okay. But anyways, yeah, I just purchased the book the other day at Walmart. I saw it in there and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to read this book.

Speaker 2:
[10:12] Well, yeah, I heard a lot about it. How did we even get onto the topic of books?

Speaker 3:
[10:19] I think I just randomly brought it up.

Speaker 2:
[10:20] I think what we were talking about was the Hunger Games, the Hunger Games site, and that's only because you said a thing. So going back, may the odds be ever in your favor. The odds of me pulling these cards, I don't think it's that astronomical, honestly. Like one super out of four cases. Here's the thing about that. It wasn't even, well, I guess technically the neon wasn't a super. They're foil fractures in that one, but it was a one-of-one. What was really a tease in Neon, Disney Neon is a cool set. I will say this, so Disney Neon is cool. It needs another hit per box. It needs at least one more hit, or at least throw in four numbered cards or something like that, because two numbered cards per box just was not quite enough. Like, and-

Speaker 3:
[11:07] It needs four, it needs a little something.

Speaker 2:
[11:09] For a hobby product. I guess if I thought of it more like a Disney Wonder, which I think is the crowd that they were going for, the younger audience, it wouldn't affect, it wouldn't be as, you know, needing, it wouldn't have a must hit card in there, because kids don't have to have must hits in everyone. Most kids would probably be fine with a lot of the refractors, the Chrome cards, the two numbered cards in there. But since there are a lot of adults pulling, ripping these products, I think that would probably put a lot of other people at ease knowing like, oh, well, at least I had one hit in every box. Because it's like $200 a box. Granted, from retail, it was like $109. So it is on the Hobby, the Public and the big box stores for those prices going up so much. If it were, call it like $150 and it only had the two numbered, I think you're probably fine. I don't think there's any issue with that. But that being said, it was still really fun. Two autos, a case, again, you can't have every product can only have two autos. We didn't pull any sketches from it. The sketches I saw were really cool, but we just didn't pull any. It was the Scrooge McDuck coins. That's cool. You have a piece of his treasure type of thing. That was pretty cool. It's not guaranteed you'll get one every case, but we got one three out of four cases. The real stinger was in the very first case we opened, the very first box. We're going through it and I'm like, no way we have a foil fractor. Like very, very first box. And it was like within the first few cards we're going through. And I'm like, I see this shiny foil and I'm like, oh my goodness, this is happening. So I set it aside till we're done with the rest of the cards in that one box. And then at the end of it, we go back to it. And I'm realizing, I'm like, you know what? As I saw that card, I saw the edges. I never saw anything else. And we started talking, what are the odds? One, we found a foil fragment in the very first one. That's crazy. And come to find out it wasn't a foil fracture, it was a blank. There was nothing on it except for the pattern. There was nothing on the, it was a blank backside of it. And we weren't missing any autos in that box or the rest of the case. That's what everyone's hope was, was like, please tell us we're missing something, because then I can reach out to TOPS and be like, hey, we were missing autos. Can we get like a replacement boxes? So I can throw something in for this break or something. But we didn't. Everything was there. It was just a blank foil fracture card. And you know what's crazy is one of the guys who was in that break, he was opening a separate box for himself.

Speaker 3:
[14:01] That's the same thing?

Speaker 2:
[14:02] He got one of those blanks in there. So I'm really curious what the deal is there.

Speaker 3:
[14:06] Yeah, but you just didn't pull one. You did two.

Speaker 2:
[14:09] Well, so blank card. Well, that was the other thing. So in that same box, that's why we started wondering if there was something fishy because before we were done with that box, we found another blank. It was honestly, I don't even know what that that pattern.

Speaker 3:
[14:24] It was different from the other pattern. I think it's like a Cosmo like pattern.

Speaker 2:
[14:28] Yeah, there was literally like a little galaxy swirl in there that looked like the Pokémon swirl. And you said it wasn't.

Speaker 3:
[14:35] It wasn't. It's not.

Speaker 2:
[14:36] I still question if it is.

Speaker 3:
[14:37] The swirl isn't the same swirl.

Speaker 2:
[14:38] I question. But there was no other parallel in there that matched that. So I don't know what that one was. It was very strange.

Speaker 3:
[14:47] Here's the thing. And I'm going to bring it up. You might not like this, but something is going on with Tops' quality control with their cards right now. I don't know what it is, but something is up. Maybe they're pumping out cards way too fast between those two blanks, the other blank that that dude found, and then the day before, what was it, the day before? Or where you found the Deadpool card in the...

Speaker 2:
[15:17] Stuck to the back of a base card, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[15:19] Of a base card of what?

Speaker 2:
[15:20] It was, we were ripping Star War, I don't know, was it...

Speaker 3:
[15:24] No.

Speaker 2:
[15:25] Was it Fantastic Four?

Speaker 3:
[15:27] Fantastic Four.

Speaker 2:
[15:28] Yeah, I think we were ripping Fantastic Four and there was...

Speaker 3:
[15:30] So in the Fantastic Four, the Finest...

Speaker 2:
[15:33] Yeah, we had a dogpool sketch, or a dogpool auto.

Speaker 3:
[15:36] Auto, which should be in the Deadpool product. Yes. And then I've keep seeing WWE product in the Tops Football Chrome product.

Speaker 2:
[15:46] Oh really? Yeah. You've seen multiple times?

Speaker 3:
[15:48] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[15:49] Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3:
[15:50] So something is going on, the quality control issues need to be addressed, especially when you have a dogpool, something that's super sought after in the Deadpool product, not even being, randomly being in another product. Could you imagine if you didn't know what that was?

Speaker 2:
[16:06] Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, that would be, that would be kind of crazy. If it's like one instance, it's okay, but multiple things, it seems like maybe we could do a little work here. Like we should, we should find what is the issue? Why does this keep happening? And I don't know if it's like an individual, a machinery part, whatever is spitting out, you know.

Speaker 3:
[16:27] I don't think it's an individual, I think, but.

Speaker 2:
[16:30] Well, I mean, there's obviously some kind of mistake.

Speaker 3:
[16:32] There must be some eyes on it. Exactly. So if you're listening to this and you've noticed other instances of this happening when you're opening any kind of TOPS product, put it down in the comments, let us know, is this just a one-off, is this random? Or is it a reoccurring thing? Because maybe this is something that we need to address.

Speaker 2:
[16:51] Just so everybody knows, the super that we hit was Linguini in Disney Neon. In the Fantastic Four, we pulled one of the, I would call it probably the fifth biggest super-fractor in that product. We pulled the Galactus Auto one-of-one, which was huge. Like that's just an amazing card.

Speaker 3:
[17:15] Who's doing the voice of Galactus in the...

Speaker 2:
[17:18] Ralph... Oh, no. Macchio? Yeah, Ralph Macchio. That's it. Ralph Innocent is his name. So we pulled that one. And then we also pulled another more, I would call it more minor character. But it is the first time he appeared in a TOPS product, Immortus.

Speaker 3:
[17:35] Did you know that Dune 3 and Adventures Doomsday are releasing in the same day?

Speaker 2:
[17:41] No way.

Speaker 3:
[17:42] Yeah, why?

Speaker 2:
[17:43] No, one of them guaranteed one of them will change.

Speaker 3:
[17:45] They're calling it Doomsday.

Speaker 2:
[17:46] One of them's gotta change.

Speaker 3:
[17:47] Well, one of them's, they're trying to get someone to budge, but they're both not budging. And Dune has like the rights to all the IMAX screens.

Speaker 2:
[17:59] Oh, Doomsday will change, I bet.

Speaker 3:
[18:02] We'll see what happens.

Speaker 2:
[18:03] All right, let's get our guest Mike from Warehouse Collectibles here.

Speaker 3:
[18:06] Mike Warehouse.

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Speaker 2:
[19:14] All right. So we've got Mike from Warehouse Collectibles who has joined us. Now, Mike, thank you so much first of all for coming on the show. How's everything going today?

Speaker 6:
[19:23] Everything's fabulous. Just trying to get some stuff ready for selling. We got a lot to move here. So every day is just shipping things out. So yeah, things are great.

Speaker 2:
[19:34] Well, I can imagine that you've got a pretty big operation on your hands to be shipping out. For those who are listening, you can't fully appreciate quite right now what we are seeing. It is, I think the best description is raised at a Costco. It looks like just pallets of boxes stacked, I don't know, at least 20, 30 feet up into the, this where the roof of this warehouse. What is this? Like how did this warehouse come to be?

Speaker 6:
[20:04] Yeah, for sure. So I'm a buyer and reseller, always been buyer, always been a seller. It was a side hustle and it kind of became a full thing. Well, I have a, someone I kind of knew that wanted to retire and they said, well, I've got these warehouses full of stuff and I don't know how to just get rid of one shop. Would you help me get rid of it one shot? Would you help me find a buyer? And I thought, well, okay, yeah, show me what you've got. And so she took me to these warehouses and they were just full of comic books. There were some cards, there were action figures and toys and a lot of stuff from 1990s and before. And just the short version is her and I talked, we came up with a price that we thought would be a reasonable one for the buyer and seller. I shopped around to the big folks that I knew, got a lot of low ball offers, a lot of people that wanted to pay half price and whatnot. And then after shopping around for a bit, my buddy who owns a brewery, he owns Jack Rabbit Brewing. He said, well, why aren't, he was helping me, he actually had someone that was interested, didn't want to pay full price either. He said, well, why aren't you and I do this? We come up with capital, we'll buy it out. Seems like it'd be a good time. And so we paid the full asking price and here we are about eight, nine months later, just cranking through stuff. So that's the real abbreviated version with a whole lot that happened in between. But that's how it kind of originated.

Speaker 2:
[21:35] So this all came from one person or one company that owned all of this. Is that correct? Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 6:
[21:43] So this person, so there's a, it was a man and a woman and they went to shows. They sold on eBay. They've been doing this for probably, well, since the 80s sometime. In the 90s, they started bringing in stuff from distributors and bringing in kind of really getting their inventory up. So about, see, it was about seven months before we bought it. The man passed away. The woman wanted to retire. She didn't want to do it all by herself. And, you know, they had, they had built so much, like a ridiculous amount of inventory. If you guys seen the videos, you know, the amount of inventory, she's like, I don't know how to deal with this. You know, she's selling two items on eBay a day. She's like, yes, she's got a million items in these three warehouses. She's like, I want to be done. So that's what they did. They built up this inventory, had a great business going. They kind of raised their prices during the COVID years when people were paying crazy money for everything. And then after COVID was done, the sales just completely dropped down and they're like, oh, you know, we don't care. Let's just, you know, they were kind of over at that point. They had built this and done it for so long that then they had these just massive, this massive inventory that they needed to deal with. And they found the right guy to help them out.

Speaker 2:
[23:02] I'd say so. Yeah, exactly. Well, in this warehouse that you're in right now, you had mentioned that they had multiple warehouses. Is it all consolidated into one now? Or is there still another warehouse outside of this?

Speaker 6:
[23:15] No, so this, so this warehouse here, it's all in this one warehouse that we combine them all, but this was all just a sea of pallets. I always described it like that. The end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, when they're walking in the warehouse, and there's just a mile long of boxes and stuff. It was all, there was no pallet racking or anything like that. So we just started organizing this one, got the racking up, and then started combining the other two warehouses into this one location. So this is everything, and this is plenty. More than I need.

Speaker 3:
[23:49] Mike, I'm just really curious, did you have any kind of prior experience in selling online or any of the stuff that they had in all their warehouses of old 80s, 90s, comic books and action figures and nostalgia? Like, did you have prior?

Speaker 6:
[24:08] Sure. Yeah, no, I've been selling, I mean, Cheetah goes all the way back to selling candy out of my locker in junior high school. I've always been buying and selling. I've bought and sold some of the stuff on a, I know cards fairly well-ish and then comics, I didn't know a whole lot about toys, action figures. I could probably pick a good one out of a lineup before this, but I have always had, you can give me any product and I'll figure it out. And this just happened to be a lot of one type of product. I've bought closed businesses for years. I buy storage lockers, I buy estates, I do all that stuff. I do less of it now that we've got this project, but I've been doing that for the majority of my life. So not nothing on this scale with this type of an item, but I've dealt with a little bit of all this kind of stuff. And I've dealt with a whole lot of everything else in addition.

Speaker 2:
[25:04] Well, I'm very curious when we talk about a lot of this stuff, what specifically, what is like the most of it? Cause I know you've got a lot of different things, but what would you say the majority of the Warehouse is?

Speaker 6:
[25:17] I would say, you know, well, we always estimated the number of comic books at about a million. We started off with about, we think about a hundred thousand toys and action figures. I would say we've chiseled that down, God, maybe by 20,000, but yeah. So it's going to be mostly that we, we did have a Magic the Gathering. I know you guys mentioned cards. We did have an amazing Magic of the Gathering collection that came along with this. We sold that immediately. That was, you know, too much value to be sitting in a warehouse. We wanted to get that out of our hands. So we did that first thing.

Speaker 2:
[25:57] What kind of value do you mind me asking? Like an estimate? Sorry, do you mind me asking, like an estimate of like what the Magic the Gathering cards were? Because, you know, those can really range. You've got some really rare early ones. It could be, you know, up into the millions. But then it's like other ones might not be as valuable.

Speaker 6:
[26:17] I tell you, well, you know, think of the very best ones. Okay. And a lot of those were here. So we did have, you know, the best one. We always talk about the Alpha Black Lotus. We had one of those. It was Beckett 9.5. So one of the best ones known. It was signed by Christopher Rush as well. The signature was a 10. It was a 9.5 graded card. So really high, you know, that was a big part of the decision. That was part of what made this all a no-brainer because of that card. So we were willing to put the, you know, the investment out there. But in addition to that, the, you know, Power Nine, I mean, I think we had, gosh, I want to say four or five of the Power Nine high-grade. And then, I mean, thousands and thousands of alpha cards. Graded cards, we probably had, I think we had about 5,000 graded magic cards. So it was vast. It was, there was so much of it and the value was so high. Like I say, we got rid of that first because, you know, who knows when a tornado is going to hit, though we don't get those in California too much. But, you know, we didn't want it in our hands anymore. We got, we got rid of them. Well, we sold them for a great price.

Speaker 2:
[27:35] Well, I'm very happy for you. The, you mentioned graded cards. And then when I've seen some of your Instagram footage, I've seen the rated comic books. It's not like, I think a lot of people assume when there's like just a bunch of these collectibles all together in one place, that it's just all raw stuff, probably tattered, not in good condition. But is that the case here?

Speaker 6:
[28:00] No, so here a lot of the stuff, they were just distributing. So they were making these, I don't know if I have one nearby, probably do. They're making these 10 packs. So they would get a pallet in or get their cases in. They would open up the case on the comics. They would pull out all the ones, usually the ones at the top of the case had wrinkles and other issues. They would send those back. All the ones that were perfect, they would put them in these little dealer packs, so usually 10 packs and then put them back in the boxes. So this stuff is mostly directly from the manufacturer, sometimes packed into those bags or bagged and boarded and then left since, you know, a lot, they did a lot of buying in the 1990s, as a lot of people did a lot of buying because there was a lot of manufacturing in the 1990s. So they bought that stuff and then they just kept it. It didn't get handled, it didn't get read, it didn't get, didn't leave this place and come back. It was, you know, it's kind of one of the, it's an early warehouse for this product that, you know, didn't have a lot of metal men before I got here. So the condition is pretty incredible on the stuff from the 90s. There is earlier stuff and, you know, that varies in condition, but the majority is pretty much perfect, including the toys, cards, action figures, comics. Condition is really high grade on pretty much everything, or a large majority.

Speaker 3:
[29:26] Are the toys on card? Are they loose? Are they still in their cases?

Speaker 6:
[29:30] Yeah, I don't know how's your guys' camera. I could just kind of swing. They're all on card, in box. I don't know. I don't know how much you guys, how big of a screen you guys got there, but.

Speaker 2:
[29:43] Yeah, we can see.

Speaker 6:
[29:44] Yeah. I mean, it's a lot. Just happens to be my starting lineup type stuff here, but there's, yeah, a lot of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2:
[29:54] So a lot of, a lot of on card. All that old, but I'm seeing like boxes of Star Wars. Are those all Star Wars toys?

Speaker 3:
[30:00] Power of the Force, it looks like.

Speaker 6:
[30:02] Yeah, this is all Star Wars. It's going to be a, it's a lot of 90s stuff. So like I say, they were buying, they were heavily stocking up in the 90s. So you're going to see a lot of what you see here is probably 1990s.

Speaker 2:
[30:14] I'm pretty sure one of those I was given from Tory over at DC Sports, the consigner, there was one of those Star Wars you just held up that is a Jeff Horkins. It was the exact same toy. It wasn't that, I think the one you just held up was a different character, but he, it was signed by the actor that played him, but it was from that set. That's crazy.

Speaker 3:
[30:32] The Power of the Force.

Speaker 6:
[30:33] Oh, cool.

Speaker 2:
[30:34] That is so cool. So the toys are ranging in age, but mostly maybe 90s era. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 6:
[30:43] Yeah, pretty much 90s. I mean, the majority is going to be nice. There were some earlier stuff. They didn't have some 70s and 80s, but it was a small percentage or is a small percentage of what's here or there. They did, like I say, a lot of their buying in the 90s. So yeah, that's the main wheelhouse of the collection here.

Speaker 3:
[31:03] Mike, I have, my brain is just spinning with so many questions. And the largest question that I have, what kind of operation are you running there? Like from the couple initially owning this collection, if you will, to it being transferred over to you, I mean, how was the inventory taken? Did they even take inventory? Do they have a set system that they knew what they had? Like, how are you, did you relist everything on eBay? How many people do you have working for you? It's a lot. I'm just trying, cause like, Mike, you're speaking to my heart, cause I'm a buyer reseller on the side as well, so all this stuff is like, like that's my Chuck E. Cheese is where you're sitting in.

Speaker 6:
[31:53] I got you, yeah, no, I feel the question. I know what you're asking. Yeah, when we bought it, some was inventory. The basic inventory was what was already on eBay. So their inventory was on eBay. Now, what percentage of their stuff was on eBay? 5% maybe. That's insane. So the rest was on inventory. Let's say the magic cards were their own thing. I mean, that was obviously we went through that and that got very well inventory in the very beginning. Everything else was just, it's a sea of pallets. I mean, I don't know if I can tilt the camera, but I mean, it is, there's three levels of pallets and that stuff isn't inventory for the most part. There's probably, I'd say about 50 to 60% of the toys we haven't even gone through yet. And I would say probably, I don't know, 75% of the comics we haven't gone through yet. That's the extent of the volume here. But we knew we could see enough and like I've bought and sold enough stuff in my life to see a good deal and I see it and the value was there when we came in. Though we don't have a full inventory and didn't from the beginning. You know, we kind of got the gist of it. You can kind of, it gave the vibe. So we knew there was good stuff in here. And yeah, we haven't really looked back. We just started keep plowing on through.

Speaker 2:
[33:24] The the toys I saw you were doing and I don't know if you were live on what not in showing this off or maybe you were, it was just on Instagram, but it was like the, is it Todd McFarlane or yes. No, no, no, Todd McFarlane is the guy who he's like the creator of Spawn, I believe.

Speaker 6:
[33:42] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[33:42] Oh yes.

Speaker 2:
[33:43] You had like some of these action figures that you were just pulling out of the box and it was like, oh, this is another one who, oh, it's signed by Todd. And then like you had another one that's signed by the actor from Spawn. And I'm just like, what, what, like, how is this even a thing? And it's, you were just kind of, you seemed almost surprised as you were doing it. And that makes sense as to what you just said. You have not inventoried everything in here. It kind of wrecks my brain to like, no, I like, I, that's one of the reasons why I followed you too. Cause it's like, I want to know when you guys find out what the next big thing is that's in there that you had no idea was there.

Speaker 6:
[34:20] Yeah, that's funny. Cause I was actually looking for that box and I've already lost it. But yeah, that was, that was one, the funny thing about finding that, and I always say his name wrong. And that's kind of become the joke that Mike pronounces everything wrong these days. Todd McMc, I always call him McFarlane or Farlane, I think it's Todd McFarlane, right? Is that the actual?

Speaker 2:
[34:40] Yeah, that sounds right. It looks like it's spelled Farlane, but yeah, Farlane.

Speaker 6:
[34:45] Yeah. So yeah, I was actually, I was complaining to Earl. It's what Earl and I are very similar in a lot of ways. And we're, we're doing this together. We're 50-50 partners. I'm like, man, there's all this crap in my way. I'm trying to get to the good stuff. We have these, I've got all these figures. There's a bunch of them behind me. I'm like, man, there's like two cases of Julius Pepper's action figures. Like we can't sell, so I was complaining. So I pulled this palette down and it was a bunch more action figures. I'm like, I want to get this out of here. And right mixed in that palette was this box with this thing. And we filmed it for our Instagram. I opened it because it said, you know, Todd McFarlane signed things on it. And so we filmed it as we opened it. And yeah, we had no idea until that moment that that stuff was in here. And I'm hoping that there's going to be many more boxes like that. I mean, we've flipped through them. And I did another video where I was flipping through a box. I was actually trying to get ready for a whatnot show. And there was just like six or seven or eight signed Stan Lee X-Men comics just in this random box with dollar stuff and $10 stuff. And then these Stan, you know, all these Stan Lee's. I'm like, there's surprises all the time in here when we have a chance to look through stuff. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2:
[36:05] Well, and so you say like when you have time to go through it, it's you and your partner. Do you guys have other people working for you?

Speaker 6:
[36:13] No, we don't really have anybody working. We have some people that help us ship stuff. The shipping is overwhelming. So we do bring in some people to kind of help us with that. But we don't really have any, you know, full-time employees or anything like that. At some point, hopefully we get there where, you know, we can turn a lot of this over to somebody else, but we haven't quite gotten there yet.

Speaker 2:
[36:36] So that actually makes me wonder what is the, like what's the end goal? Are you guys wanting to just move everything in here? And are you, obviously you guys are doing whatnot auctions. Is that the main way you're moving things? Do you have, also have an online store? Could people just come and peruse the shop and buy stuff? Well, yeah. How, how do you, what are you guys doing?

Speaker 6:
[36:57] Yeah. So we, so our biggest thing we're doing is whatnot. We're just, we decided we're just gonna run tons of stuff on whatnot. We've also, so we do whatnot toy shows every Wednesday at, I think we changed the time. I think it's two o'clock now, but you know, every Wednesday afternoon, we do an eBay live every Tuesday afternoon. Tomorrow's is, I think is at 3.15. And then every Thursday, we do a whatnot of comic books, you know, Grated Slabs or Singles or something of that nature. So we're doing mass volume that way. The reason why we're doing it that way is that, like I say, I don't know this inventory super well. I could probably pick a lot of the good stuff out of a lineup if I needed to. But running on whatnot, we have a, you know, or eBay, we have a good enough following where if we put something up good, we're gonna get stuff bid up to close enough for where it's gonna make sense for us to sell it that way. We don't have to look everything up and we don't have to hunt down buyers. The buyers come to us. And so we don't get top top dollar. We resell to people that might be reselling themselves. But like say if a million comic books, a hundred thousand action figures, I mean, that could be a lifetime project for a lot of people. So we're trying to make it a little bit less of a lifetime project. But that is our plan for now. We don't have a storefront. We don't have other ways for people to buy from us at the moment. We do have an eBay store that we've got some of our bigger statues in just because we can't really get those through what not or eBay live very easily. But yeah, that's kind of the gist of what we're doing here as far as selling.

Speaker 3:
[38:38] What's the screen? What's the what not and what's the eBay?

Speaker 6:
[38:42] So we're warehouse underscore collectibles on both platforms. Okay.

Speaker 2:
[38:48] And so has anybody reached out to you and just be like, hey, I'm a big buyer or I'm a big collector. I'd love to buy some of your stuff. I know you don't know what all is in there. Can I come and check it out?

Speaker 6:
[38:59] Yeah. Pretty much every single day. Yeah. It's hard. If it was one person that you knew was a big buyer, the problem is early on, there was a few people that were like that and we let them in. And it takes two hours and then they find two things that they like. It just isn't the kind of volume. I mean, if we really knew we had a big buyer that was willing to pay a decent money, that didn't want everything for 10 cents on the dollar, we might consider something like that. But yeah, we get hit up all the time. So we're kind of, we just kind of shut it down pretty quickly at this point, just because I mean, you know how it is when people are trying to buy and especially when they're buying in bulk, you know, they want super deals.

Speaker 2:
[39:44] Are you guys on the hunt for more or is this like, no, we're good. We're not buying anything else until we move this.

Speaker 6:
[39:51] Yeah. That's funny. You asked that you, you know, we have so much stuff here, but we're already looking down the road. We're, we're always looking for a deal, something that we can buy and resell, whether it's in this genre, you know, whether it's comic books or toys, where, so we definitely have our feeling or feelers out there. We just bought a couple pallets of, right next to me, a couple pallets of picture discs, like records. I got, I don't know if you're heavy metal people at all, but Dio Holy Diver picture disc. I just bought 3000 of those and now we're trying to find a way to sell those. We got Cypress Hill Green Vinyl and we got something else. The door is a whole bunch of the doors. Morrison Hotel picture disc. So-

Speaker 2:
[40:37] My dad will take one. I'll get one. There you go. I'll just put a real dent in that. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[40:42] Hey, eBay Live.

Speaker 2:
[40:44] Well, yeah. So are you a collector of any of this? Or do you have anything that you find that you're like, oh, I want to keep that?

Speaker 6:
[40:54] Earl and I, we made a very conscious decision to not collect this stuff when we first bought it. I love old stuff in general. I have a massive collection of old stuff of across the board. I've got old stuff. If this was just mine, all the old books would be in my personal collection. Luckily, I have a partner, and so that would be more complicated for me to keep the stuff for myself. So no, at this point, Earl and I, we decided together we're going to collect the Hulk. We just picked something that there was a lot of, like we're going to keep one of every Hulk issue, starting with the graded stuff and then we'll fill in with the non-graded stuff. And so we have that collection going here, but honestly at the end, we always say that's probably going to be our last show. You know, the Hulk show is going to be how we cap off this collection. So that's pretty much it. Actually, we did each keep a Spider-Man 300 for ourselves. There was two graded 9.6s, and we decided we should get one of those.

Speaker 2:
[41:59] Wow, that's incredible. What's anything big that you've found that you didn't realize, like you just started showing it off online, or you put it up on the Whatnot show, and people are like, what? I can't believe you got that.

Speaker 6:
[42:14] Yeah, I mean, it happened a lot, especially in the early days. The early days, I mean, the people that found us on Whatnot first got killer deal. They got some killer stuff. You know, you always want to find those rooms with the people that are like us, and have a lot of stuff, and just run it all. And if there's like 10 other people, 20 other people in the room, you get great deals. But we sold, I think we did sell a Hulk, I don't know my issue is very, I think a 181. We've had a bunch of books that sold for $500. We sold a bunch of the bulk packs. We started Whatnot selling the 10 packs, because we kind of wanted to get the bulk out of here. And it's 10 of the same issue in a pack. They took them out of the cases back in the 90s. And so we sold a lot of those 10 packs. And every once while one would sell for $600, $700. And we go, okay, I guess that's a good one, because we had no clue.

Speaker 2:
[43:13] Sure.

Speaker 6:
[43:13] I can't think of anything specifically that blew my mind, but there was a lot of those situations.

Speaker 2:
[43:18] I've got a feeling after today, this will drop Wednesday morning when people hear this, I think you're going to see a lot of other customers coming into these shows because of an uptick. Yeah. Well, I mean, like this is an audience that is directly not only interested in what we're talking about, but there's a lot of flipper mentality out there, too, of like, hey, maybe I could find a good deal. And or, you know, if I'm not going to keep it for myself, maybe I could make a buck here or there. And I think you're exactly right. People who go into some of these shows early on, they can find crazy good deals. And to know, you guys are out there listing stuff where you don't have to go out and comp it right away because you've got a big enough community to know, hey, if it's good enough, it'll be bid up and you don't have to worry about it. I think that is a really fun kind of experience for people to come and try out and say, hey, maybe I'll find something that nobody else knows about it and I'll be the only one and I'll get a great deal.

Speaker 6:
[44:12] Yeah, we do run obscure stuff on our show sometimes. And I know there's only one, maybe two people who even know what it is. You know, comic books and that kind of thing, like really off the wall stuff. And so I know that stuff, I was gonna say slips through the crack, but doesn't slip through the crack. It just, people get good deals on it. And so we do have a ton of deals. We have a lot of people that buy books off of us and people that send them in to be graded, just because our inventory is generally, like I say, it was the first and only destination after it left the manufacturer. And so it grades really high. So that's what they do. They buy it from us, grade it and sell it.

Speaker 3:
[44:52] Mike, I'm just curious, because you said a lot of the stuff there that you have in the Warehouse's 90s. Any chances there was any old Pokémon boxes laying around that you saw?

Speaker 6:
[45:03] There was very few. I mean, there was some graded Japanese Pokémon cards. That's about the extent that I know. We actually still have all those. And then pack-wise, not too much. There was some, we found some of these things. As long as I actually, I just found this and I was going through a box of comic books. I don't know if you guys can see that.

Speaker 3:
[45:30] Oh yeah, that's good.

Speaker 6:
[45:32] And then it's got the, I guess people like it for the card that's inside.

Speaker 2:
[45:36] Wait, is that from the movie?

Speaker 3:
[45:38] That's from the movie, but that's the Japanese version. So I think that's the one that the Nintendo is misspelled.

Speaker 2:
[45:45] Oh really?

Speaker 3:
[45:46] And so they had to like get them back and they re-released it.

Speaker 2:
[45:51] Oh wow. Okay, dang.

Speaker 3:
[45:54] It's an ancient Mew for the people that are listening from the magazine, but from Japan. But I'm just, there might be a palette somewhere in there where it's just nothing but Pokémon, Mike.

Speaker 2:
[46:04] Yeah, I was kind of curious about that. Yeah, like do you know at least, like do the palettes say comic books, or they say toys, or like are there just blank palettes where you're just gonna open one day and it could be Pokémon cards or Pokémon wax that you had no idea was there?

Speaker 6:
[46:20] Yeah, there's a little bit of both, but I'd say the chances of there being a palette of Pokémon are really slim. We pretty much know that there's either, like we actually, there are a couple palettes I know have some cards on them that we haven't gone through. So, I guess it is possible, but they kept the stuff that was generally really good in a certain area, and we have already gone through all that. So, I'd be surprised if there was any, like, early Pokémon or something like that, that was worth crazy money, because they were good at what they did. They just have a lot, you know? And the markets change over the years. Some stuff that was not great back then is now really desirable and vice versa. And so, yeah. But yeah, the Pokémon stuff's always been kind of good and they were pretty aware.

Speaker 2:
[47:09] Do they have much in the way of vintage? And when I say that, I mean, like anything, call it seventies and earlier, whether it's comics or cards or anything else.

Speaker 6:
[47:19] The majority are comics. There's a ton of, they were comic collectors, I believe as well, or either they were collectors or they were, they would buy collections. Possibly the guy that passed away is the one that was more into the comic side of things. So we don't have the full story. I knew him as well, but I didn't really know what he did. I just talked to him in passing a bunch of times, but I didn't really know how into the stuff he was. But there is a lot of early comics. You're going back to the, you know, almost 12 cents, there's a ton of 12 centers in here. So, yeah, I would say comic wise I haven't, I couldn't even venture a guess. Well, if I was going to venture a guess, probably 5,000, 10,000, you know, of that era. And comic books.

Speaker 2:
[48:12] Besides comics and cards and toys, what would you say, like, is there, what's a weird thing that you found in there? Or are there any weird things? Is it pretty much collectible and that's it?

Speaker 6:
[48:25] Man, that is a good question. I think, I mean, weird stuff. For me, I have specific, I mean, I have case and things. Like I found, you know, I talked about, we bought the Dio picture. Well, there's an Iron Maiden Eddie, like 18 inch Eddie from Iron Maiden doll. Like that for me, I find, I think that kind of stuff is kind of cool. Yeah. Now, is it worth crazy money? Probably not, but I dig it. You know, the stuff that surprised me is the sign stuff. I just, there's sign stuff. There's so much sign stuff in here that I know that we're, I'm sure we've found half of it. And who knows what else is in here. Like I say, that we've had this place for nine months now, the Todd McFarlane box that I just did the video on. I just found that the day I posted the video, which was just this last week. So I'm hoping there's gonna be more surprises like that in here. But yeah, most of the surprise stuff has been that. There's been some old cards too. The old cards, I don't know if you guys are into the 80, what was it? Joe Montana's Rookie Year, 81 is it? Somewhere in there, there's a box of those. We found a sealed wax box. There's Jerry Rice Rookie Year. There was a couple boxes of those.

Speaker 2:
[49:44] So they've got sports cards in there as well.

Speaker 6:
[49:46] There's some, yeah, not a ton, but enough to keep it interesting. A lot of early wax too, which was kind of fun. I mean, that was more kind of my, what I know better than this other stuff.

Speaker 2:
[49:58] I was gonna say the sports, early sports wax, I mean, if it's early enough, you may be sitting on another gold mine just in one of those pallets. Just, you know, some of those boxes sealed go for crazy amounts of money, especially if it's never been opened. I can only imagine what a whole case of that would go for. Yeah, I wanna fly out there and tour, like film your presented.

Speaker 3:
[50:22] What is that, California? Did you say you were out of California, Mike?

Speaker 6:
[50:25] Yeah, we're in the Sacramento area.

Speaker 2:
[50:27] Oh, man.

Speaker 3:
[50:28] We're gonna have to take a field trip to Sacramento, it sounds like.

Speaker 2:
[50:30] I mean, I was just out in San Jose. It's not that far to Sacramento.

Speaker 6:
[50:34] No. My partner owns a brewery too, so, I mean.

Speaker 3:
[50:38] Oh, come on.

Speaker 2:
[50:39] All right.

Speaker 3:
[50:40] Brewery first. Hobby Nonsense IPA.

Speaker 2:
[50:42] Yeah, brewery first. Then we head up the warehouse and we do some filming and just see how big of a mess it causes when our brains explode.

Speaker 3:
[50:52] We're gonna be just ripping random stuff in the warehouse. Mike, I love the idea that you don't know exactly what's all there. It's kind of like a treasure hunt every day that you're there. What has been like the most expensive thing that you have found to date?

Speaker 2:
[51:08] Other than the cards, I guess.

Speaker 3:
[51:10] Yeah, other than the cards.

Speaker 6:
[51:12] Yeah, the cards by far have kind of exceeded everything else. Some graded slabs. There's been some great graded slabs. The giant size X-Men number one. I forget what it's graded at, but I think it's probably about an $1,800 thing. There's a lot of stuff in the hundreds of dollars. There's not a ton of stuff in the thousands of dollars. Like I said, we cleared that stuff out because we didn't want, I don't know, we don't want the liability of it. Once we get known a little bit, we don't want the liability of having really high-end stuff here. So there's some slabs that we got. I'd say the X-Men is one of those, those Spider-Man 300s or another. There's some graded. They did a private signing with Stan Lee in the 90s, early 90s. And so that's why we've found so many of those signed. But there's some graded and certified JSA authentic Stan Lee signature books in here as well. Those are pretty high-dollar.

Speaker 2:
[52:18] Like a signature, like a book just filled with his signatures?

Speaker 6:
[52:21] What's a signature? It's just a signed book. A Stan Lee signed book. But the ones that are graded and slabbed and authenticated, they're all fairly valuable. But there's a few of those in here which are good.

Speaker 2:
[52:38] Well, and you know, like...

Speaker 6:
[52:39] Try to think of anything else.

Speaker 2:
[52:40] There's like tops that are doing cut autos for cards now for people who have passed. And I can just imagine, like you guys would probably be sitting on a treasure trove of cut autos for different, either creators or celebrities of some kind or athlete where they would probably buy up a big amount of that stuff just to be able to use in cards. I just imagine there's so many things that you guys are able to move on what not. But I would think you could probably move pretty easy to the big companies these days, just because the collectible companies are, I don't know, they seem to be buying up everything, expanding as much as they can, because that area of e-commerce is exploding as we speak.

Speaker 6:
[53:27] Yeah. Do you guys know anybody at Tops that needs some Stan Lee signatures?

Speaker 3:
[53:31] I think we can make it happen.

Speaker 2:
[53:32] I honestly am going to text the Director of Entertainment Cards over there when we get done and see if that's something that they'd be interested in. Yeah.

Speaker 6:
[53:42] Did they buy the Mickey Mantola sticker autos? Was it to Tops get those? Do you know?

Speaker 2:
[53:48] I don't know. Was that a thing?

Speaker 6:
[53:50] They had a sheet of like a hundred of them. The guy was shopping them around.

Speaker 2:
[53:53] I remember. I would not be surprised whatsoever if they did. Yeah. I remember seeing that. There was that one that was like, Pin Sucks or something like that is what it said.

Speaker 6:
[54:02] Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2:
[54:05] Mike, I got to say, I really appreciate you coming on here and showing us around as you talk about all this stuff. We obviously have talked about this a few times, but Warehouse underscore collectibles, that's where people can find you on Whatnot and eBay. Is that right?

Speaker 6:
[54:21] On Whatnot eBay and Instagram. If you want to follow along the story a little bit, see some more videos of what's going on in the warehouse. Whenever we find something, we post it. You can kind of see the expansiveness of the warehouse there as well, and then we link from our Instagram to all of our auctions whenever we do something. We've got a few kind of interesting things coming up that we'll put out on Instagram as well, that it's a good place to keep in contact with what we're up to. And there's just, yeah, it's good non-stop for people that like this kind of stuff. We've got a huge inventory and we're not afraid to sell it. So check it out.

Speaker 2:
[55:00] Yeah, I honestly, I'll be in the chat here. You'll see when you see Hobby Nonsense buying from you, that'll probably be me and or Ray out there.

Speaker 6:
[55:08] So fabulous.

Speaker 2:
[55:09] Yeah, I like to hear it. I appreciate this, Mike, and hopefully we can do something again, if not in person before too long. So thank you for the time.

Speaker 6:
[55:18] Yeah, if you guys find yourself in the area, you know, the beer is on me and the tour is on me as well.

Speaker 2:
[55:24] Awesome. Well, Mike, thank you again. And we look forward to catching up with you soon.

Speaker 6:
[55:28] Fabulous. All right. You guys have a good one.

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Speaker 2:
[56:17] Well, that was Mike from Warehouse Collectibles.

Speaker 3:
[56:20] Dang.

Speaker 2:
[56:21] I mean, right? Like that, I think Dang is the most appropriate response to seeing what we just saw.

Speaker 3:
[56:30] My mind is, I'm just thinking of like the couple that started it. Like, what did they do? How did they get so much money to be able to buy this? And was that like their retirement plan? Was that like the whole thing that they were thinking of? Or like just that story alone? Like, how many people out there are like those two couples?

Speaker 2:
[56:52] Okay, so that question was my biggest question, because I remember back, I don't know, maybe it was two years ago or something like that, getting introduced to a guy named Tim, who owns, at the time it was called ABC Collectibles.

Speaker 3:
[57:09] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[57:09] With a Z at the end, because, you know, they're cool. But he reached out and he started some social media. He had bought a warehouse that was all sports stuff. I mean, there was some non-sports, but it was mainly sports carts in this warehouse. And it was a guy who, I think he worked for the government, I want to say, and just bought and bought and bought and bought. And that's, he just bought carts and he would store them. And then one day, I don't, I think he was still alive. I want to say he could have passed, but either way, they decided to sell and Tim bought it up. And his whole thing was just showing it off. He wasn't even selling. He was just showing it off.

Speaker 3:
[57:51] It's like a museum.

Speaker 2:
[57:53] Yeah, exactly. And so now seeing a warehouse, another warehouse filled with comic books and toys, that's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm like, how many warehouses of collectibles are out there that are owned by one guy or a couple that either collected themselves and or bought it for their side business and just stored massive amounts of things that will come out to the light here in the next year or two years tomorrow. Who knows? Yeah, that's very, very cool to me. And it's very exciting because it does feel like a blast from the past, just like we open a door.

Speaker 3:
[58:31] Time caps.

Speaker 2:
[58:31] Exactly. That's exactly it. You just open a door to, oh, these boxes came from the factory and sat here in our climate controlled warehouse and never were touched and they're in perfect condition as if they just came off the factory yesterday. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[58:45] Insane.

Speaker 2:
[58:46] Yeah. So I'm going in that way. I'm going in that way.

Speaker 3:
[58:50] We have to go.

Speaker 2:
[58:51] I'm going in that way.

Speaker 3:
[58:52] I'm saying we have to go there.

Speaker 2:
[58:53] Oh, dude. I would do it.

Speaker 3:
[58:55] The fact that I don't know if they do this or not, but if they're not making YouTube content out of all this, it's like, man, they're, they're missing out on a whole new stream.

Speaker 2:
[59:05] Right? Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[59:06] Well, they've got like, I want to say documenting every, I know the Instagram is one thing, but yeah, I mean, it's like, that's like a diamond in the rough.

Speaker 2:
[59:15] This is what we found today. This is what we found this week.

Speaker 3:
[59:17] This is what we found today. We don't know.

Speaker 2:
[59:19] Exactly.

Speaker 3:
[59:19] And it doesn't have to be like perfectly edited. It's just like documenting it.

Speaker 2:
[59:24] Here's a three to five minute video that we just made on the fly with just one phone camera and just filming this, and people would watch that like every time.

Speaker 3:
[59:34] I feel like this story needs to be a documentary and unto itself.

Speaker 2:
[59:38] Yeah, a little mini docu-series or something. Yeah, I'd watch.

Speaker 3:
[59:43] I will definitely be watching. Which, you know, we're talking about time capsules. I need to talk to about my elementary school. What happened to all those time capsules that we had back in the day?

Speaker 2:
[59:53] What elementary school did you go to?

Speaker 3:
[59:55] Brown.

Speaker 2:
[59:56] Oh, you went to GW.

Speaker 3:
[59:57] Brown?

Speaker 2:
[59:57] You were a GW. Brown man?

Speaker 3:
[59:58] I was a Bobcat.

Speaker 2:
[59:59] Really? Oh, as a Walton Ferry wizard.

Speaker 3:
[60:03] There were not called the wizards, were there?

Speaker 2:
[60:05] Yes, we were. Yes, we were. We were Walton Ferry wizards, and we had a copyright infringement Mickey Mouse wizard from Fantasia on our shirt. I will tell you, that is no longer their mascot now.

Speaker 3:
[60:18] What is your mascot now?

Speaker 2:
[60:19] I couldn't even tell you. I don't remember. I've got some cousin, niece, nephew type people that go there. I don't know what their mascot is, but I know it's on top.

Speaker 3:
[60:28] I remember in elementary school, when we had an election to pick a mascot.

Speaker 2:
[60:35] Oh, really?

Speaker 3:
[60:35] So everyone voted on what kind of mascot we wanted.

Speaker 2:
[60:39] They said Bobcat?

Speaker 3:
[60:39] And the top three got put up, and then we would vote on the top three. So we could do a write-in, and then the top three that were written in got into the, it was Bobcats, Bulldogs and Bears.

Speaker 2:
[60:56] Boring, that's what I heard. Bobcats, Bulldogs and Bears.

Speaker 3:
[61:01] So we went with the Bobcats, and we voted.

Speaker 2:
[61:03] They, why didn't, oh, Brown, they, it had to be a PA.

Speaker 3:
[61:06] GW. Brown, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[61:08] Yeah, I do think we should just go to old elementary schools and just start digging. How many time capsules are you gonna find out at these schools?

Speaker 3:
[61:14] Where are all the time capsules?

Speaker 2:
[61:15] Yeah, what happened to these, when we were kids, we'd do time capsules, whatever happened to them?

Speaker 3:
[61:19] Where of all, there's somewhere.

Speaker 2:
[61:26] There you go.

Speaker 3:
[61:27] Voice of an Angel.

Speaker 2:
[61:28] That's a little, if you want to go back and watch the replay of Friday's Disney neon break, you can listen to a Voice of an Angel.

Speaker 3:
[61:36] You're putting Z's.

Speaker 2:
[61:38] I know, because I think they're cool.

Speaker 3:
[61:40] GZ, you need to sell down, all right?

Speaker 2:
[61:41] If you replace an S with a Z, or any letter with a Z, you automatically become one level cooler. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 3:
[61:54] All right.

Speaker 2:
[61:58] Ray and I just had an unspoken agreement that neither of us was going to respond to that. And that was the, I don't want that pause cut. I don't want the pause cut.

Speaker 3:
[62:07] I'm gonna break the silence.

Speaker 2:
[62:08] Keep it there. All right.

Speaker 3:
[62:10] Yeah, dude, that was insane. It's insane. So we'll definitely be on eBay Live and whatnot to be checking out Warehouse underscore collectibles.

Speaker 2:
[62:20] All right, so interview is good. Oh, I had a note on here. I talked about this on SCN2, but did you see the whole thing about eBay not allowing requests to cancel? Starting in May.

Speaker 3:
[62:31] Yeah, it's a huge thing in the eBay world. In my world.

Speaker 2:
[62:35] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[62:36] Because it happens all the time.

Speaker 2:
[62:39] You're glad about it though, right?

Speaker 3:
[62:40] Oh, for sure. It's a great thing.

Speaker 2:
[62:41] I'm trying to find out who's not glad about it. The only people that are not glad about this, I feel like are the ones that were trying to game the system and or cheat in some way.

Speaker 3:
[62:49] No, it's a great thing. And now they need to do instant payment automatically.

Speaker 2:
[62:53] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[62:54] That's something else that they need to do.

Speaker 2:
[62:55] 100%.

Speaker 3:
[62:56] And I have a friend, her name is Liz and she is the eBay liaison. She goes to all these eBay events and they ask her to speak about eBay. She just left, they went to Germany to speak on eBay, compared like eBay Germany, compared to like the US. Germany, and just like the different laws and regulations, because she actually petitions to go up to Congress and stuff like that, to not have certain laws change or to the benefits of...

Speaker 2:
[63:29] Oh, she's like a lobbyist or something for eBay?

Speaker 3:
[63:30] Yeah, the lobby, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2:
[63:32] Wow. Well, and so this whole change, actually, it hadn't affected me. I hadn't really thought like, oh, I don't do a lot of buying and selling on eBay, but now that we're doing eBay live shows...

Speaker 3:
[63:45] Dude, it happens all the time. We'll get a DM and they'll say, oh, sorry, I got my kid hit the buy button and they request to cancel or something stupid.

Speaker 2:
[63:55] Well, like last night, we did the eBay live, which those are going great, by the way.

Speaker 3:
[64:00] How did that go last night?

Speaker 2:
[64:01] Continue to come over to eBay live, guys, because so many people have been coming over from this show and they're just like, yeah, love the podcast, like love Hobby Nonsense, and they come over and check out the show. And it is, I don't know if people are just blowing smoke, but they're like, oh, best show I've seen. Best show I've seen on eBay.

Speaker 3:
[64:19] On eBay live?

Speaker 2:
[64:20] Yes. And I'm like, that's a huge compliment. And granted, I'm like kind of already in their wheelhouse of things they like, so I'm sure that that helps. But it's a huge ego boost. But I say all that to say, we get new people every show, numbers continue to go up. But last night was our first canceled item. And they canceled it like almost immediately after they bought it too. The buyer's remorse. Yeah, it was like immediate buyer's remorse. It wasn't like a crazy expensive item. I think it was like a little over a hundred bucks or something.

Speaker 3:
[64:49] But I wonder if they looked up comps after and be like, ah.

Speaker 2:
[64:53] Maybe, but that is exactly one of the things where I'm like, oh, I can't wait till May, like May 13th. I'm excited because that's not a thing anymore. But then it started making me think, well, just because there's not a cancel request, because I asked Matt.

Speaker 3:
[65:07] You can decline the cancellation.

Speaker 2:
[65:08] Yeah, you could. I could have. And before I even did anything, I asked Matt, because Matt is, Funko is much more used to buying on eBay. Yes, much more used to buying on eBay. And so I asked him before I did anything, hey, do you, what do you think? Should I cancel this? He's like, yeah, just go ahead and cancel it.

Speaker 3:
[65:25] Yeah, because you can rerun it anyway.

Speaker 2:
[65:26] Well, because he said too, if you didn't cancel it and send it to him, they're just going to break it and say, oh, it came broken. And that was, that's, I started thinking that's my fear. Once this whole, you can no longer cancel anymore, that people are just going to start breaking stuff and saying, oh, it came, showed up broken. This is on you. I want my money back.

Speaker 3:
[65:47] I mean, they can do that when you can cancel anyways.

Speaker 2:
[65:52] Sure, but.

Speaker 3:
[65:53] They can request a refund, you know, like there's scammers are going to be scamming.

Speaker 2:
[65:57] Scamming, scammers be scamming and I don't care for it. But that was, I still think it's overall a net positive thing for anybody who's trying to sell anything, whether it's like they're flipping for business and or they just have extra of something.

Speaker 3:
[66:10] A little extra on there. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[66:11] Yeah. So I love it.

Speaker 3:
[66:13] I love it. One day I'm going to jump on there and sell some Pokémon cards.

Speaker 2:
[66:16] I really, really want you to do that.

Speaker 3:
[66:19] Which reminds me, May 24th, we will be setting up at the Poke Fest at the Nashville Fairgrounds.

Speaker 2:
[66:29] Yes, baby.

Speaker 3:
[66:30] So if you're in the Nashville area, come over and say hello.

Speaker 2:
[66:33] Please. What did we say? Didn't we have like a code word or like we, oh, we were going to add stickers.

Speaker 3:
[66:39] Yeah. I'm going to do some special.

Speaker 2:
[66:40] We got to get that done. That's a thing that works. Yeah. And if you show up and we don't have those stickers.

Speaker 3:
[66:46] No, we'll have them.

Speaker 2:
[66:47] We'll have them. It's not even a thing. I saw a crazy stat. This is like not even a story. It's just a stat that I thought was really interesting. So Japanese McDonald's Pikachu. You're familiar.

Speaker 3:
[67:03] Japanese McDonald's Pikachu. The Burger Chu?

Speaker 2:
[67:07] I think that's it. Or I wonder if it was the, this one, right? Is that it?

Speaker 3:
[67:11] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[67:12] Yeah. So the Japanese McDonald's Pikachu.

Speaker 3:
[67:14] The Burger Chu. Yeah. The number one graded Pokémon card of all time.

Speaker 2:
[67:18] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[67:19] The most graded Pokémon.

Speaker 2:
[67:20] Do you know how many? I know how many.

Speaker 3:
[67:23] Oh, man.

Speaker 2:
[67:23] I have a rough estimate.

Speaker 3:
[67:24] I don't know. I think the pop, PSA 10 pop is like 20,000.

Speaker 2:
[67:32] That is probably pretty low because the total PSA grades, 293,000.

Speaker 3:
[67:39] Okay. Do you know what the pop report is on the PSA 10?

Speaker 2:
[67:43] I'll see if I can't find it. But anyways, 293,000 of these McDonald's Pikachu cards have been graded. Do you know how many cards, non-sport cards, from the 1980s have been graded?

Speaker 3:
[67:57] I have no clue.

Speaker 2:
[67:59] 304,000.

Speaker 3:
[68:01] Of the 1980s?

Speaker 2:
[68:02] Just any card, non-sport card from the 1980s, 304,000. This one card has 293,000. There's only 11,000 more of just every card from the 1980s. And that's, we were talking about an era that was exploding with non-sport cards. There's only 304,000. When I heard that stat-

Speaker 3:
[68:25] People didn't even grade back then either.

Speaker 2:
[68:26] Well, they didn't break grade back then, but they're definitely starting to grade now. And I bet you just in the last few years, that number is probably doubled. I don't even think we, it may have been more than doubled, but I honestly firmly believe that the 1980s and 90s is going to see a boom in grading of cards because there's so many out there that, and this is one thing I'm experiencing as we're doing these eBay Lives, where there are cards that people love. It's genres, movies, TV shows of things that they grew up with. They absolutely love them. And they're like, oh, I didn't even know they had those cards. Or oh, I've saw those cards. I saw a pack of them maybe, but no one has had any graded. And I know that for a fact because we're selling literally the only ones graded, or maybe the only ones out of five that were graded. And I only see people be like, oh, I got to have it. I want one of these. How do I get one? And it is crazy too, because a lot of them are like highest grade, even if there have been several graded, it's like a nine because they're just so hard to grade. And that's where people don't realize that a lot of the junk wax has real value if you can find the ones that are in good condition. And it's really not that impossible. It's just a numbers game. Get enough packs, a box, a couple boxes, go through and find something that's centering is just right. The edges are fine and the surface is okay. And you can really turn that money around because we were talking about some, I think it was like the Fright Night set from 1988 tops. There is a title card because the title card, I think Funko said when he was on the show, that is a lot of times in these older sets, the big one, because it's like, you know, the one that we're most familiar with, it was on posters and all that stuff. But the title card as a PSA 10 does hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in many cases. And that's what's crazy because there's only one or two out there. And so when people start to see, oh, there's only 304 1980s cards ever graded by PSA, when there's 293,000 of one single McDonald's Pokémon card, I think we start to, we are still entering and I mean, we've only just been talking about this the last few months, but we really will see a lot more from that era.

Speaker 3:
[70:52] So do you think that there is, we've clearly stumbled upon this gap almost in the market, right?

Speaker 2:
[71:00] I believe so, yes, 100%.

Speaker 3:
[71:01] Because when Funko was here and he was talking about all these, to your point, all these IPs of 90s and 80s junk wax that has never been graded in the highest grade could be like seven of some of them, right?

Speaker 2:
[71:15] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[71:16] I went through my Rolodex and I'm thinking, okay, what can I get that it's like a rookie of IPs that I really enjoyed when I was a kid? Yeah. Right? One of the big things, I have a huge Power Ranger collection. So I have several Series 1 Power Ranger boxes coming to me.

Speaker 6:
[71:29] Oh, really?

Speaker 3:
[71:30] I'm currently looking at a binder that someone has of the whole set. Oh, wow. Because I just want like all the Power Rangers in like a sequential.

Speaker 2:
[71:39] Sure, absolutely.

Speaker 3:
[71:41] Like not caring what the what the grade really is, but just something that is true and dear to my heart.

Speaker 2:
[71:47] Dude, today I went out and bought a 1993 Captain Planet card of Duke Nukem because it is a Captain Planet as Duke Nukem. No, no, no, it's a it's Captain Planet. The show, the character Duke Nukem was in the Captain Planet set of cards.

Speaker 3:
[72:07] The video game or the computer game character.

Speaker 2:
[72:10] No, no, no, his the character's name is Duke Nukem.

Speaker 3:
[72:14] Captain Planet's name is Duke Nukem.

Speaker 2:
[72:18] Not Captain Planet, the character on the show. There is a character on the show, not Captain Planet, another character that is called Duke Nukem. I don't I cannot explain that any clearer. You have to now understand what I'm saying. Game character, not the video game character.

Speaker 3:
[72:36] So there's another character in Captain Planet's show named Duke Nukem.

Speaker 2:
[72:40] Hang on, now you've got me questioning because you've said it so many times.

Speaker 3:
[72:43] That can't be right.

Speaker 2:
[72:45] All right, I'm going to check right now my buying history on eBay. Here we go. Summary, I bought it today. It is, hang on, hang on, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 3:
[72:58] I'm just Googling Duke Nukem Captain Planet.

Speaker 2:
[73:01] Oh, I guess that's another option. Yeah. But, um, where's purchases? There it is. All right. So purchases, Duke Nukem. I'm going to put it up on the screen right here. And you know what's funny is I was like, that's insane. I was like, there must be some connection because I know the video game Duke Nukem, but this is not from the video game. This is just the character from Captain Planet. And it says on the card.

Speaker 3:
[73:31] Yeah, that's Duke Nukem. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[73:33] I mean, but so, so.

Speaker 3:
[73:36] What made you want to buy this?

Speaker 2:
[73:38] Well, because it is a, it's a foil card from, oh, I said 1993, 1992, 1992, Captain Planet. It's a foil card that you can't find these. I'm telling you, like in America, you can't find these. I don't, I think they came out. So I was talking to Big Hat Tim because he's.

Speaker 3:
[73:55] Dude, it's even spelled the same.

Speaker 2:
[73:57] I know it's crazy, right? But this is like, he's one of the characters from this set. I obviously want the Captain Planet one. There's a few other ones that this is the first one I've actually been able to buy and I'm buying it from Australia. It costs me, the card cost me like 15 bucks. Shipping cost me 21. But it's worth it because I have not found anything, like any cards from this set where I could actually purchase them before. They've always been like something on in Singapore, where it was on a site that you can't purchase from the United States and or some other reason. So I say all this to say, these are like some of those cards from our childhood that people can't find or they just they know they love the show, the IP in some way and they want to have, but you're not going to find anything great because they just can't even get their hands on a good quality card, let alone the card itself.

Speaker 3:
[74:52] So that's insane.

Speaker 2:
[74:53] All that being said, these foil cards, they actually have like a very similar superfracture pattern, like as the modern day superfracture. So that's another reason why I'm like, oh, these cards I think would do pretty well, but they were licensed TBS, Ted Warner or whatever. What's it?

Speaker 3:
[75:10] Ted Turner.

Speaker 2:
[75:11] Ted Turner Entertainment, you know, so it's all legit cards, but all of this goes back to finding some of these cards and then actually doing some grading and putting them out there.

Speaker 3:
[75:25] Putting in the work.

Speaker 2:
[75:25] You may think like, oh, well, everybody has it. It's a 92 card of a non-sport. There must have been printed to the moon. Sometimes yes, but just because it is, it doesn't mean you have any good grades of it, but sometimes no, and maybe I'll have the only good grade of it. So yeah, I am very excited to have that card and I just encourage other people to go out there and see what you can find because you may stumble across something you had no idea was there. Is that a Garbage Pail Kid Duke Nukem? Yeah. That's so cool. That's, I would love to know, like, did they sell the IP or the name, the copyright name? I don't know. Maybe they just never had it copyrighted. I have no idea how that worked out.

Speaker 3:
[76:09] Who do you think came first? There has to be some sort of correlation there.

Speaker 2:
[76:13] Yeah, when did Duke Nukem get created? I don't know. Captain Planet, underrated, and they are going, I am pretty positive, I heard this, that they're going to make it into either a new series or a movie, modern day. Ever since, like, Leonardo DiCaprio's, like, production company bought it, they just redid, like, comics. Oh, because of the whole, like, environmental. Yeah, exactly. But they just, they redid some Captain Planet comics in the last year for the first time.

Speaker 3:
[76:42] So that's awesome. Yeah, dude, my local convenience store now has comic books in there. I saw this, like, shipper and it had comic books.

Speaker 2:
[76:50] What?

Speaker 3:
[76:50] DC comic books.

Speaker 2:
[76:51] Wait, which one?

Speaker 3:
[76:52] The Bread Box.

Speaker 2:
[76:52] The Bread Box has comic books? Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[76:55] They got the most random crap in there.

Speaker 2:
[76:57] And they also have, like, the most drug-addicted tellers in there, too.

Speaker 3:
[77:01] Leave them alone.

Speaker 2:
[77:02] Leave them alone. They're just trying to... Leave them alone.

Speaker 3:
[77:04] They're just trying to do their job.

Speaker 2:
[77:05] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[77:06] Well, going back to some of the... What would be, besides Duke Nukem, what would be another IP that you're looking to go back and kind of buy and...

Speaker 2:
[77:17] That's a thing.

Speaker 3:
[77:18] Or just you stumble upon, like... I know that I've stumbled upon, like, enough, dude, Star Fox.

Speaker 2:
[77:24] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[77:25] I had to buy the sealed Star Fox cards from Canada.

Speaker 2:
[77:29] Well, that's where I got mine, too. And that's the thing, when I was talking to Tim, like, I had to tell him about these Power Rangers cards, specifically, because they... There were some Power Rangers cards that were produced by... I think they were Dunkin Donuts. They had some that came out, and I actually have...

Speaker 3:
[77:44] From the new movie?

Speaker 2:
[77:45] No, no, no, no, no. This is not a new thing. This is from, like, when the show was on.

Speaker 3:
[77:49] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[77:49] So they had cards from then. But this set, we believe, was, like, somewhere... It was produced overseas somewhere, maybe in Australia, for all we know, which would make sense, kind of, why they were... We were finding them in Singapore, too. But, yeah, that's...

Speaker 3:
[78:04] The Captain Plane. You're talking about the Captain Planet.

Speaker 2:
[78:06] Yes, it's all Captain Planet related. But all that being said, I'm into things that are from my childhood that I would love to be the first to discover. I've never heard other people talk about. Like, do you remember Beetleborgs?

Speaker 3:
[78:20] Oh, do Big Bad Beetleborgs?

Speaker 2:
[78:21] You remember that? Okay.

Speaker 3:
[78:22] Big Bad Beetleborgs. Weirdest show on the planet.

Speaker 2:
[78:27] Very weird.

Speaker 3:
[78:28] It's like, let's, and then they're like, their clubhouse was like a haunted house, and like Jay Leno was like...

Speaker 2:
[78:34] Oh yeah, it looked like Jay Leno. I don't think that was actually...

Speaker 3:
[78:37] Bro, that was...

Speaker 2:
[78:37] That was a ripoff of Jay Leno, for sure.

Speaker 3:
[78:40] Nothing in that show made sense. I had the toys.

Speaker 2:
[78:44] They had the, oh yes, yeah, yeah, the toys were awesome, right? So there was this guy on the show, the actor's real life name is Todd Hurst. So...

Speaker 3:
[78:54] Jay Leno?

Speaker 2:
[78:55] No, no, no, I don't know who it was, but it was on, he was one, I think it was one of the Beatleborgs themselves, or he was just like another kid on that show.

Speaker 3:
[79:03] Gotcha.

Speaker 2:
[79:03] Bottom line is, I worked with that guy when I was in finance, when I was doing like...

Speaker 3:
[79:09] You worked with Todd Hurst, the Beatleborg.

Speaker 2:
[79:12] Again, I cannot remember if he was an actual Beatleborg or if he was just on the show, but the, that actor was somebody I worked with at the Jackson National Financial Company. And then he was also in Wedding Singer. He's like the kid who's like puking in the garbage can. And he's also on like an episode of Malcolm in Middle. And all of these things are like, oh, I remember all of this. Like he didn't even have to tell me when I saw him, I recognized him from those roles. And we started talking for a while. And yeah, I go back and think like, oh yeah, Beatleborgs. I would, I'd get some cards of Beatleborgs, especially if I could find like one with him on it, just to blow his mind, I'd shoot him a picture of it. But yeah, there's, there's all kinds of just fun, nostalgic, weird stuff out there. And some of it is very short print, or some of it may have been massively printed, but just nobody kept it because it just didn't maintain. Like you and I know Beatleborgs, but I bet you there's a ton of listeners out there who don't know about that. So there are, there's going to continue to be things that come up that I'll find that will be either, maybe there was already cards, but there's another set that nobody knew about. Just like the Captain Planet ones in Singapore. So that's all the stuff I like. There's stuff that reminds me of childhood, that may have already been an IP that I really liked, and it's another variation of that.

Speaker 3:
[80:33] They did have Beatleborgs trading cards.

Speaker 2:
[80:35] No way. They really?

Speaker 3:
[80:37] They did.

Speaker 2:
[80:37] Shut up.

Speaker 3:
[80:38] Guys, if you're listening to this, put down in the comments, let me know what your IP that you would want to go back and collect.

Speaker 2:
[80:45] Please. I'm thinking also, let me know if you know about Beatleborgs.

Speaker 3:
[80:49] Big bag Beatleborgs.

Speaker 2:
[80:50] Is that anything else that people knew?

Speaker 3:
[80:52] Oh man.

Speaker 2:
[80:52] Do you remember? Oh yeah. Vintage 1996 Bandai Beatleborgs. Collector cards.

Speaker 3:
[80:57] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[80:58] No way. Is there one of him? Now I got to figure out what his character was so I can find it for sure.

Speaker 3:
[81:04] Remember Reboot?

Speaker 2:
[81:06] Dude, yes, I loved Reboot on Cartoon Network or what did they call it after school? Toonami. Toonami, baby, yes. Oh, I remember Reboot. That was such a good show. And I feel like I went back and tried to like watch it. And it's like, this is not a good show. Yeah. It was at the time though, it was like when computers were new or newer, right? It was like early 2000s. And I felt like, Oh, I'm a cool kid. Cause I know about, Oh, it's in the CPU. I know what that is. Oh, it's a virus. What? That's what viruses look like.

Speaker 3:
[81:44] How old were you when you first got your first computer?

Speaker 2:
[81:48] Oh, my mom had a computer for work. And so, Oh, like I remember playing Solitaire and stuff on there. Like I remember having a computer before we had internet.

Speaker 3:
[81:58] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[81:58] You know, and I remember then getting internet and you know, we had like the 14, four K modem and then we got bumped up to the 28 K. And then before we got to the 56 was a whole new world. I was, I downloaded some songs and maybe like some very short videos. That was a big deal back in the day before we ever got the cable internet going. So yeah, there was a lot of, there's a lot of nerd culture nerd stuff that I can relate to because of my, my time and the space of time that I grew up. And I feel like that's a lot of you and we're all the millennials.

Speaker 3:
[82:34] We learn, we remember specifically life before the internet.

Speaker 2:
[82:39] We're the only generation after the internet. Yeah, we're the only generation who has both. We had both times in our live. And that's kind of cool. It makes us special guys. If you're a millennial out there, feel special because you are. All right.

Speaker 3:
[82:52] If you're not a millennial, you're still special.

Speaker 2:
[82:54] You're still special, but you got some work to do to get up to a millennial special. By the way, I just want to point out Ray is wearing a Selena shirt. That's all. I love Selena, the movie.

Speaker 3:
[83:07] What's your favorite Selena song?

Speaker 2:
[83:08] Bitty, bitty, bum, bum.

Speaker 3:
[83:09] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[83:10] Bitty, bitty, bum, bum. Yeah, baby. I know about Selenas. All right. First partner Pokémon. You wanted to talk about this.

Speaker 3:
[83:20] Yeah. I just wanted to bring this up. So series one, first partner Pokémon. If you don't know what that is, because we're in the Pokémon 30th anniversary, the 30th anniversary still hasn't come out, which is coming out September 16th, my birthday. September 16th is the 30th anniversary set that is going to come out. We still don't know what they're going to put in there, Pokémon, but it's going to be insane. But regardless of that, they are putting out first partner boxes and those are, there's one pack in them and in the pack, you're able to get in series one, one of three different starters.

Speaker 2:
[83:59] Oh, really?

Speaker 3:
[84:00] And the first series one, you have the original Canto starters.

Speaker 2:
[84:04] Yes, okay.

Speaker 3:
[84:05] Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle.

Speaker 2:
[84:07] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[84:07] The reason why I'm bringing this up is because the box is around $20, but it's currently reselling for around $50 on market, but the Canto cards individually, they're going crazy. So if you're listening to this, because they're going to start releasing all the first partner boxes, Series 2 has already been announced, but the ones that you're going to want are those Canto starters. So if you think $50 is expensive, I would advise that you go ahead and pick them up, because I don't think these will be reprinted, because they're going to go ahead and do Series 2 and Series 3.

Speaker 2:
[84:45] You think they're going up in value. So $50 is a good deal.

Speaker 3:
[84:49] Correct. $50 I think is a great deal. Just think of this. If you pull, in each pack, there's three cards, okay? So according to what region it is, those are going to be the three cards that are in there. So the Canto ones, the Squirtle is going for around $30. The Bulbasaur is going for around $27, but the Charmander is going for around $46 of raw pricing.

Speaker 2:
[85:14] Wow, raw pricing, okay.

Speaker 3:
[85:15] And initially, when they first came out, the graded cards first started coming out. They were going for a crazy amount of money. The first one, on April 15th, a Charmander PSA 10 sold for $910,000. It's currently selling for around $700. So it's gone down a little bit, but I just want to just beat. And then if you get them all in a sequential set, it's around $2,500, which I think is a, I don't know if it's going to go up anymore or go down, but I think it'll stay around the same.

Speaker 2:
[85:50] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[85:50] But I don't know. If you are listening to this and you want those full art Canto starters, $50 a box, but you're still not guaranteed that you're going to get those cards.

Speaker 2:
[86:01] So if you're not listening to this, you got to ask yourself, how do you know what we're saying?

Speaker 3:
[86:07] That's right. So the people that are listening to this, you're in the know.

Speaker 2:
[86:10] You're in the know for sure. By the way, I was 100% listening to what you were saying. I do think that is very cool and good value. Now that I've said that, I've found a Tripp aka Tonhurst Beetle Boar Trading Card.

Speaker 3:
[86:28] Put it up on the screen. Let's see what this looks like.

Speaker 2:
[86:30] I kid you not.

Speaker 3:
[86:30] First of all, I want to see what this guy looks like. Well, he's probably a kid.

Speaker 2:
[86:33] Well, I mean, you can just go to a lot of things. So this is, well, that's the back of the card. Let's see.

Speaker 3:
[86:39] Which one is, is he the kid in the blue?

Speaker 2:
[86:41] He's this one in the middle. He's Tripp, apparently.

Speaker 3:
[86:45] Tripp.

Speaker 2:
[86:46] Tripp is the character that he played, I guess. Thaddeus Tripp Vanderhoff. Do you still talk to this guy? So this guy is selling, I haven't talked to him since, I don't know, maybe a little after I left the finance world.

Speaker 3:
[87:01] You got his number?

Speaker 2:
[87:02] I do still have his number, though.

Speaker 3:
[87:03] You get him to autograph it.

Speaker 2:
[87:04] Oh, baby, you better believe I am. But they're trying to sell this whole set, or it's not even, it's a set of 14 cards. It's not even the whole set. It's just random cards, and they're trying to sell it for $150.

Speaker 3:
[87:16] We're listening to the show. Maybe you just buy that one card.

Speaker 2:
[87:19] Well, that's the thing. I found another guy selling cards, and they've got where you can buy the single card. I'm trying to find right now if it's still available.

Speaker 3:
[87:28] Clearly, Jeezy didn't listen to anything that I said about the first partner of Panic!

Speaker 2:
[87:32] I did, too. I heard everything you said, and what I heard was I need to go out and buy some if I can find it at $50.

Speaker 3:
[87:38] Yeah, because you can't find them on the shelves.

Speaker 2:
[87:40] I'm pretty sure you can go to. I saw it at GameStop when I went to pick up my NFL Chrome that I pre-ordered there last week. I saw some.

Speaker 3:
[87:48] What'd you get, hangers?

Speaker 2:
[87:49] I got some hangers, blasters, and then the megas don't come out till May 1st. But I did order two of those. By the way, our GameStop locally, We don't have a GameStop. Get it together.

Speaker 3:
[88:00] We don't have a GameStop.

Speaker 2:
[88:00] Well, locally to where this office is. It's in Gallatin.

Speaker 3:
[88:05] Listen.

Speaker 2:
[88:05] The one in Gallatin.

Speaker 3:
[88:06] Do we want to talk about GameStop again?

Speaker 2:
[88:07] Get it together, because I are fighting for their lives. I am tired of this. Like I went down there and supposedly everybody can go to there in order to, unless you're a pro member, and then you can order double, you can order four. I go to mine and they're like, yeah, you can get two. I'm like, okay, well, I'm a pro member. Yeah, you can get two. I'm like, no, no, everybody's doing four. Like, yeah, we haven't seen anything in writing. The company's provided us nothing in writing about this. We would rather be safe than sorry. I'm like, can you call someone, see what other people are doing? They call two people and they're like, we don't know. And one of them was like, yeah, let's just do two. And I'm like, are you kidding me? Everyone's getting four. So it really annoyed me. And that's just a personal issue I have now. So that's all. That's all I can stop at you.

Speaker 3:
[89:01] Now you're in my...

Speaker 2:
[89:02] I'm entering more into your world, except you're experiencing just prices in general being absolutely insane.

Speaker 3:
[89:07] Dude, I gotta bring this up because I had a little run in with... It's getting weird out there in these streets. If you are a Pokémon collector or any kind of trading card collectors.

Speaker 2:
[89:19] The streets are bad.

Speaker 3:
[89:21] It's getting hard. It's getting harder and harder to find, even for someone like myself, to wear these boots on the ground. I'm out there waiting in line, but the workers, God bless them, because there's people that may just ruin it for everybody.

Speaker 2:
[89:37] They're doing their best.

Speaker 3:
[89:38] They're doing their best. So just if you see somebody that works for MJ Holdings or Excel or whatever, just they're just doing their best.

Speaker 2:
[89:47] They're not the decision maker.

Speaker 3:
[89:49] They're just trying to do their job.

Speaker 2:
[89:51] So don't assault them physically.

Speaker 3:
[89:53] It's getting rough. Like our Walmart, now all the Pokémon are in the electronic section. So you have to wait in line, and someone has to open the cage and get all the Pokémon out. And they keep changing the way... It used to be five items. Now it's like one item per skew, or it's getting rough out there.

Speaker 2:
[90:13] All right. So what you're telling me is don't assault them.

Speaker 3:
[90:17] Is that the bottom line? I have never assaulted any. I'm not going to either. Over Pokémon.

Speaker 2:
[90:23] I thought you were going to say anybody over the age of.

Speaker 3:
[90:24] I think didn't someone just get killed over Pokémon cards at a Tar, at a Kroger?

Speaker 2:
[90:30] Well, they did in Japan. I don't know.

Speaker 3:
[90:32] No, like recently, I think.

Speaker 2:
[90:33] Local?

Speaker 3:
[90:34] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[90:34] Really? I didn't hear about that one.

Speaker 3:
[90:36] Outside of a Kroger, I believe.

Speaker 2:
[90:37] Dear Lord. People are insane.

Speaker 3:
[90:39] What do you think about that? Are we in 2020, 2021 territory right now?

Speaker 2:
[90:45] Let me just, if you have to ask, let me go ahead and say, I'm against murdering for Pokémon cards. That way, no one has to ask me that question ever again.

Speaker 3:
[90:55] Let me rephrase that question. What do you think about the state of the hobby, trading card hobby, as it is right now? Because everything is going crazy.

Speaker 2:
[91:04] That's actually a good question.

Speaker 3:
[91:06] Because NFL, the NFL Chrome is crazy. Like, everything that I've seen, people are spending so much money on trading cards that it's like, what are we doing? Like, it almost doesn't feel right. To your point, like, you always try, in your breaks, you always try to give people value.

Speaker 2:
[91:25] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[91:26] You never, even in your whatnots, or your eBay streams, you're like, I'm not trying to, like, cheat anybody. I'm not trying to, like.

Speaker 2:
[91:34] Yeah, I'm trying to make money, but I'm not trying to gouge anybody.

Speaker 3:
[91:37] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[91:38] Yeah. I-

Speaker 3:
[91:39] So what do you think about the state of the hobby currently?

Speaker 2:
[91:41] The problem is, it goes back to the conversation we had, what, a week or two weeks ago? It was like, whose fault is it for break prices being what they are? I think for a large part of that discussion, we kind of established it's the people who are spending the money, who are willing to pay these crazy prices.

Speaker 3:
[91:56] But what about outside of the, like the overall, the breaking, the people lining up, the, you know, the pre-orders, like all the, everything around trading cards right now, it just seems so, I don't know, it's like almost like we're at the tippy top and somehow we're going to come down. We're in the future.

Speaker 2:
[92:18] Yeah, yeah. I think there is a...

Speaker 3:
[92:21] That could be completely wrong.

Speaker 2:
[92:22] Do you, I mean, like if you listen, and I think if you probably stopped and thought about all the comments I've made over the last number of months.

Speaker 3:
[92:28] I do listen to you.

Speaker 2:
[92:29] No, no, I know, and that's what I'm saying. Like, I have been on this train.

Speaker 3:
[92:34] It's a different question.

Speaker 2:
[92:36] I do listen to you. Listen to what I'm saying right now. I think we are at that point. I, well, and I've been warning that be, be aware, be aware of where we are. Because I don't think every part of the hobby will collapse. I don't think the hobby is going to collapse, period. Let me just say that as well. I do think that we are going to have a correction. I'm just hoping it's not a major correction. I want to see prices come down quite a bit in some areas because some things don't seem right to me. They just don't compute where wax is what it is. And then you go and try and sell the singles. And almost nobody is making any actual profit if you are trying to sell. But it's also a bigger problem in the sense that there's so many people just trying to buy cards to sell them. And they're not actually collecting them.

Speaker 3:
[93:29] They're just buying, selling. They're just being sold.

Speaker 2:
[93:33] It's a cycle.

Speaker 3:
[93:34] It's like an MLM.

Speaker 2:
[93:37] I don't know what that is.

Speaker 3:
[93:39] Multi-level market.

Speaker 2:
[93:40] Oh, yeah. OK. That's fair. I could see that.

Speaker 3:
[93:42] Ponzi scheme.

Speaker 2:
[93:43] It feels like that in some sense, because there's so many people who will buy. Here's the thing. I don't think it's all cards, though. And this is where I'm going to probably irritate some people. I think it's sports cards. I think a big part of it is sports cards. And I do think this is happening in Pokémon. I think it's happening in non-sport, too. But I think the majority of people that are just doing your, you know, I'll buy that card, and then they'll try and flip it, and someone else will buy it, and they may lose their money, and they have to sell it for less, and then someone's going to buy it for a good deal, and they're going to try and flip it. And I do think that's happening more on the sports card side of thing. I do think that we will still continue to see that forever. That's just how collectors go. Some are trying to make some money, and some are trying to collect. But the biggest issue is when there's a way outnumbering of people trying to flip versus collect. That is where I think you will see prices do exactly what they're doing, which is skyrocket, and then they'll find out, oh, nobody wants to buy this at this new high price, and then it'll come down. And when people are like, oh, well, no one wants to buy it at that price, it'll come down, and then it'll just drop, and we'll either see a return to some kind of normalcy, maybe something that we saw in 2025, or maybe it's even 2024 pricing. But then hopefully it bounces out, and we can start working our way back up, just how we saw in 2021, where we saw a huge spike, and then it crashed down, but then it didn't drop below pre-COVID pricing, it just dropped down a little bit higher than where we were at pre-COVID pricing, and then we slowly moved our way back up to where we are now. I think this is not an insane thing for collectors to experience. I think this is something that many collectors have seen in one way or another. It's all, in my mind, I don't know if it's necessarily you could call it a healthy experience, but I do think it is something that we all experience, and now it's like, where do you fall in that? Do you fall in the part of, oh, I'm going to be the guy who's holding the bag, or are you going to be the one who's like, oh, I'm going to sell out everything and then be left with nothing, and you're just like, oh, I wish I had kept a few things because the market didn't crash. I don't know. I don't know how to say for everyone this is exactly what you should do, other than be aware. Don't put all your eggs in one basket and be a collector first, and then decide if you want to flip something. Don't do like, oh, I'm going to take my savings, my entire savings account, go buy all of this kind of card, and then see if I can't just flip it for 20, 30, 100% profit, whatever it is. And then in the meantime, you're left holding the bag because the market fell. So that's all a big way of saying, I don't know, but be careful.

Speaker 3:
[96:44] It's just weird. It's so weird out there. And I know we're going to bring this up. And to this point, the Ascended Heroes Pikachu is now selling at a raw prices for around $2,000. There is no reason why that card should be $2,000. In my opinion, the set is still being printed. It is an anniversary set. So that set can still be printed three to four years from now. And I don't know why people are buying it for $2,000. To a point to where that was one of the cards that came across our table when we set up at the National was that Pikachu. And I bought it for $300. And I was almost not going to buy it for $300, because that set just came out that day or that weekend. And I knew it was going to go down, because they're going to print more. And that's a card that I turned around and sold for $390. I thought I was doing good by making $90 on it. Looking back, shoot, I should have kept it. But you just never know. But in my logical thinking, I'm thinking that this set is going to be printed to the ground. This card is not going to hold a $300 value for very much longer. But man, I was completely wrong. And now the card is $2,000. And in the PSA 10, it's around $5,000. And some of the things just doesn't make sense. To your point, the Burger Chew, what was the other Pikachu card that used to held the title of the most graded Pokémon card, which was the great Phil Half Pikachu, has now exceeded over $3,000.

Speaker 2:
[98:26] Which that's so... It's upsetting because I sold my SGC 10 for like $1,000 and some change. But it's also upsetting because... Is it even real? Because we talked about before how there's that company that's openly buying up the entire market trying to purposely create a lower volume of these cards out there. So it's like... It's not like illegal. And by me saying, is that fair? I know I sound like a child. But it also just seems like, oh, is that real scarcity or is that just manufactured scarcity? But again, this is where I go down a rabbit hole. Because then what is the hobby if not manufactured scarcity? It's just companies purposely making a limited amount of this.

Speaker 3:
[99:12] Let's put a serial number. One of one, one of 25.

Speaker 2:
[99:16] All I know is I've now purchased multiple Todd Hurst Beetle Board cards.

Speaker 3:
[99:23] This guy is a maniac.

Speaker 2:
[99:24] That's all I need to care about in this moment. Because you know what? I don't care about the fact that the market is what it is. Because these cards are costing me for three of them. I found a site that would sell me singles for $4 each. I'm going to spend less than $20 on a few of these cards. And it's going to be really funny when I show them to him and I send one off to him, where I send two off, one he can keep, and one that I want him to sign and send back to me. I think that's funny, and I think it's fun, and I think it would be a good talking point. And I don't care about the rest.

Speaker 3:
[99:55] The pop one.

Speaker 2:
[99:56] And I think that's a lot of people, though. I think they don't care about the drama. I think the people who listen to this, they probably might be interested. Maybe they're not. Maybe they fast forward this section. But maybe it's just a thing of, hey, keep yourself informed, and from there, have fun. That's what I ultimately hope it is. Because I do think there's so many things we get scared of. There's so many things in this world, not even the hobby. We can make ourselves worried to death. But ultimately, can we be safe and enjoy something without totally experiencing all the negative parts of it? I think so. I don't think we have to be out there in the lines trying to, losing our job because we had to leave early to go get Pokémon at Target.

Speaker 3:
[100:41] Don't lose your job on Pokémon cards.

Speaker 2:
[100:44] So yeah, that's it. Just be aware, play it smart, and enjoy yourself. It's the end.

Speaker 3:
[100:52] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[100:52] The end.

Speaker 3:
[100:53] The end. What else?

Speaker 2:
[100:55] I think that was it. I think that's it. You know what? Let's just call it at that anyways. We've been recording for an hour and 43 minutes. Granted, I think this episode won't be that long. We'll cut down some spaces.

Speaker 3:
[101:06] Correct. Correct. Correct.

Speaker 2:
[101:08] But man, it's going to be really close to that.

Speaker 3:
[101:09] No releases? You breaking anything?

Speaker 2:
[101:11] No, that's a thing. That's what's so irritating was last week when NFL Chrome came out and we had two non-sport releases in the same week and we had nothing the following week. I don't, it's fine. I'm not upset. But you know what? There will be some fun stuff coming up the following week. We've got Toy Story 30th anniversary, which is going to be very limited.

Speaker 3:
[101:32] Two cases.

Speaker 2:
[101:32] I have two cases. If you've seen the cases, the cases themselves, they show pictures or the box. I don't know if it's actually the case or it's just the box. The boxes look, the hobby box. They look like a toy box. Like it looks awesome.

Speaker 3:
[101:44] The toy chest from Andy.

Speaker 2:
[101:45] Yes. They're so cool. I'm very excited. I think I'm just going to keep them and never, never let them see.

Speaker 3:
[101:51] That's not true. I'll bring that we can bring up and just real quick.

Speaker 2:
[101:55] We need to hurry. Yeah. This, I just said how long this episode is. Let's finish.

Speaker 3:
[101:58] WrestleMania was this weekend.

Speaker 2:
[102:00] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:
[102:01] A lot of the wrestlers are wearing patches on their boots. There you go.

Speaker 2:
[102:05] Like, I mean, it's new wrestlers, right? Isn't that the thing?

Speaker 3:
[102:09] The majority of them were in patches on their boots.

Speaker 2:
[102:11] Even if they've been. So everybody has a patch now.

Speaker 3:
[102:14] So I'm thinking it's going to be WrestleMania 42 patch.

Speaker 2:
[102:19] OK. All right.

Speaker 3:
[102:20] On some of the training cards.

Speaker 2:
[102:21] All right.

Speaker 3:
[102:22] One of one, whoever. Oh, and then Liv Morgan and Roman Reigns, if you have those from Topps Chrome, they are doing a buyback.

Speaker 2:
[102:29] Those are the buybacks of the buyback. OK, cool. That is actually pretty cool. Yeah. By the way, if you don't know what the buyback is, it's basically where if you take the base cards, you get cash at a local card shop. So as long as they have like a tops allocation trade, credit, yeah, trade credit. Yeah, you get to buy you their cash. Basically, you get money.

Speaker 3:
[102:49] Trade credit and cash are a little different.

Speaker 2:
[102:51] But their cash, if you want to spend them in a card shop, otherwise they are not cash. They are trade credit and you have to spend them in a card shop there. Does that help? Are we happy now?

Speaker 3:
[103:00] Trade credit. Liv Morgan, Roman Reigns.

Speaker 2:
[103:03] $28.98 is what I spent for all of my Beatleborg's cards, because I also bought a few other ones.

Speaker 3:
[103:09] Come on, Jeezy.

Speaker 2:
[103:10] So I'm very happy. This show has been great. I've had a great time with you, Ray, and I've also got to buy cards. Also, I do want to just mention this. If you've gotten to this point, I kind of wanted to say at the beginning, we did not have the SCN podcast today. We did not record that one. Mike's stepdad, he's going to pass very soon. So I was down there with him. He's been there with his mom and the rest of the family throughout the last number of days. We thought it was going to take a little bit longer, but it's going very quickly. So he's probably going to pass sometime this week is more than likely. So if you guys think about him, if you want to drop him a nice message or whatever, just thinking about you, buddy, whatever, I'm sure you would appreciate it. But if anyone's curious why we're just doing this part and not the other one, that's why. So that being said, we'll be back next Monday. More fun content on our social medias. Guys, a special request. I know we've just say like, hey, like, follow, subscribe, all that stuff. And we want you to do that. Please continue to. But specifically, if you have an Apple or an Apple account, can you leave a review?

Speaker 3:
[104:18] What's your favorite kind of Apple?

Speaker 2:
[104:20] Shut. Let me finish it. And then you can ask your. Fiji?

Speaker 3:
[104:25] Honeycrisp?

Speaker 2:
[104:26] I swear to God, Ray. Go to Hobby Nonsense Podcast, Apple. If you just type in to Google Hobby Nonsense Podcast, Google, or Apple, you'll find the podcast on Apple. If you will leave a review, hopefully it's a five star review. Hopefully it's a five star review. But if you will leave a review, it would mean a lot. It would, for whatever reason, it means something to people and it would be very helpful. So that's all. Other than that, just have fun. Come back, listen, watch our socials. We'll have more fun content. The video you did of me, like why your man's not calling you back. That was so funny. My wife, Sam loved that. She thought it was hilarious. Yeah. It was very, very funny.

Speaker 3:
[105:09] I was watching you doing it. I was like, oh, this is perfect.

Speaker 2:
[105:13] It's me singing songs in the Powerline costume.

Speaker 3:
[105:16] It just happened to...

Speaker 2:
[105:17] Yeah. It was just perfect timing. I'm wearing the Powerline costume. You know what? Just watch it. Go to Instagram, watch it. It'll be the only video where you see a female as a thumbnail, cause it'll be very much throwing you off. But anyways, that's the show. We will see you guys on the next one. Thank you so much.

Speaker 3:
[105:33] See y'all.

Speaker 2:
[105:34] Bye.