Funko Fat Guy on Origins in Toy Collecting

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ever need Welcome to an all -new generation of

toy cast as we get the origins of any and all

toy fans that we can I'm of course TfU and Mike

and today's featured guest is well, he's a people

oven Otsage finger heaven Unbelievable. Funko

Fanatic, that is so unbelievable. He is the Funko

Fat Guy, aka Jay. Hello, everybody. Hello. Hello.

I'm Funko Fat Guy. I actually do not like peeps.

I think they're the worst. But I want to get

that out of the way, first of all. What's going

on, man? Oh, not much. Just, you know, podcast.

And as always, we are on our way to the top 100

toys countdown. Ooh. We've done seven countdowns

here on the GeekCast Radio Network since 2011.

And the next one that we're going to do, I spent

a hundred hours of audio editing a couple of

years ago on transformers. So hopefully toys

does not take me a hundred hours to edit seven

podcasts. So, so yeah, we're working on that.

That's going to be episodes 181 to 187. We're

getting that going and all that good stuff and

more details on that and how people can contribute

and whatever else will be coming soon. But you

are here to talk about your origins in toy collecting.

and how i found the funko fat guy folks is that

uh... he along with myself and a bunch of other

awesome people are a part of the slapshot pops

and the pop force one Community of Funko and

toy collectors and then and whatever else. Yes,

sir Yeah, I've been I've been supporting them

I mean the reason I got even into YouTube or

whatever is because of vids which is poppin duo

from pop force one The reason I even got into

that is because of him and Gabby when they were

when they were back doing their thing But I've

been part of the the slap shot thing for man

since there was only one chat I think there's

like four now or three or four now so And there

used to be like six. Yeah. There was six. There

was like yellow, red, blue, teal, purple, orange.

I don't even know. Cause I wasn't even up. Like

I didn't join the, the stuff until after they

condensed the teams into three teams, yellow,

red, and the best team, the blue team blue. Of

course. Yes. Of course. Of course. Yeah. So I've

been around since there was one chat. So I am,

I have been around quite some time. Um, as far

as YouTube goes, uh, it's, it's been, I've only

been around doing that for a little over two

years now. Yeah. But as far as Funko goes, I

mean, I know we'll get into it, but I've been

around that for a lot longer. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. We will definitely get into it. So what?

Oh wait, I have to scroll past the Slapshot Pops

special intro. I eventually have them on the

show. Actually, I'm going to give people a preview.

I haven't changed it. I need to update this because

of my and everyone else's help of getting them

to where they are now as far as subscriber numbers,

but 25K by Monday, folks. I mean, it's possible.

By the time. By the time people hear this, that

hopefully will be over 50k for them, but this

when John and Joanna eventually do come on Toycast

and basically go through the questions, this

is the intro that I wrote up. Hello and welcome

to the same thing, new generation of Toycast

as we get to the origin of many adult toy fans.

Feature guests never screw that up. Today's featured

guests never stop shooting until they score.

They are a husband and wife team. Wow. I can't

see. You know, team. Oh, you can practice in

now. So exactly. Yeah. You got to be doing this.

I've been doing this for so long. You think,

you know, husband and wife team of funko Lego

and toy collectors in general. Also, no one should

be sleeping on these awesome creators. It's John

and Joanna Darling from Slapshot Pops. Let's

freaking go. Hi guys, how are you, et cetera,

et cetera. Um, but I have to, I have to rewrite

that whole thing now because of, you know, the

20 K and the 23. How ridiculous it's been. Yeah.

It's been crazy. I can't believe the growth.

I mean, good for them. Uh, like I said, I've

been following them from not the start, but like

pretty close. Um, so like it's been, it's been

interesting to see how crazy that's gotten. Yep.

And I know they probably just want to, you know,

celebrate the, you know, 16, 17, like every thousand,

you know, but like, seriously, like, but I'm

just sitting here like, okay, we've hit this,

we've hit this, we've hit this, we hit the 20,

let's go for like, I'm telling you right now.

Yeah, time to start celebrating. I'm just going

to start celebrating in the fives and not the

ones. Yeah, yeah, I'm telling you my goal is

to get them to a million by December 31st of

this year and you're a crazy person Hey, you

know what? Like they said don't stop shooting.

Please go all right a lot Well, yeah, that's

the point but it's great. I ain't good for them.

I I guess I'm the old Old Fulton fat guy here

cuz Fulton Reed wasn't exactly fat, but he sure

could shoot So, you know The mighty that's what

I need to get. I never got the mighty duck spot.

Oh, yeah Did they ever actually release those

at mass retail like I don't ever remember seeing

them I know at least one of them signed because

of course I do we'll get into that I'm sure you

and your yeah, we will get into that. Yeah I

signed and it's taken basically all of my might

not to get the rest of the set signed Um, but

I have Amelia, so I gotta have Amelia. Oh, you

got Bombay. Gotta have Amelia. Well, that's the,

that's probably the hardest. I mean, I could

be wrong. Well, that's probably the hardest one

to get. As far as the people who sign, yeah,

I guess so. He does, he does a fair amount of

signing. Um, but they've sort of, well, they're

not kids anymore, but sort of the quote unquote

kids. Um, they, they do a fair amount of signing

too, but, uh, pretty much I've seen. Most of

them that are out have signed but I just I need

to not buy everything that I see So I don't have

any and yet you do. Okay true. Yeah But yeah

That's that's what we're all about calling people

out here on building me accountable Exactly,

and I was so I love it, but I was so shocked

when I first started watching Marvel's Daredevil

And I'm like, wait a minute. I know that face.

I know that voice. His hair color is different.

Holy shit. That's Fulton Reed as Foggy Nelson

in fucking Daredevil. I'm like, what the fuck

universe am I living in? It's always funny when,

uh, when like child stars and stuff like that

show up in random stuff and they haven't in a

while. Like, like, like the kid, like. data from

the Goonies. He's in that new, that will not

new anymore, but the Oscar winner, uh, with,

with the, with the hotdog fingers, actually everything

everywhere all at once. Um, so I mean, he's,

uh, he's, he's in that and he was kind of gone

for a while, you know? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

All right. Let's get into the toys because we

will be here all day talking about stuff, folks.

What is, or was the first toy you remember having

as a kid? Man. That was so long ago. Whole 29

years ago. Yeah. Whippersnapper. Yeah, just a

wee lad. I know for sure that when I was young,

like really young, I used to have a lot of beanie

babies in the house. Obviously, as a Funko collector,

they're often... Compared i don't see the the

compare but i don't see the person i mean i don't

see the compare i think it's more of a volume

saying like there were so many babies release

so many pops release but whatever. So be babies

i know i had a lot when i got a little bit older

i remember having a lot of lego and i probably

had the bigger lego blocks like when i was a

kid. And for whatever reason when because I remember

you kind of giving me example questions or whatever

and this was one of them and For whatever reason

the one thing that popped in my head was do you

remember elephant the elephant? Like the like

the elephant that kind of blew like little butterflies

up in the air and you had to catch them with

a net or whatever No, but I remember Ella Rue.

Okay, maybe it was more my time But yeah, it

was just like a little elephant with a fan in

it that blew little butterflies up and you caught

him with a little net and whatever I don't know.

That's that's what reminded what it's what I

thought of immediately So that was probably one

of the earliest ones along with like the Beanie

Babies and stuff like that No action figures.

Nothing. They came a little bit later. The action

figures came a little bit. Okay. All right. All

right I gotta remember, folks, some of the people

that I have on the show are wee little lads and

lasses and don't have the mileage on their tires

like I do. Ah, God. Was there a particular adult

who was supportive of you playing with toys as

a kid? Was there anyone who was unsupportive?

No, I feel like most of my family or whatever

was... Into it. I mean I remember with the beanie

baby specifically me and my dad We all he would

always used to play with me with them We would

it was kind of like this is silly as shit But

like what isn't when you're a kid, right? You

would always used to like put them all around

in a circle Like on on there on my parents bed

and like do like a survivor type show where?

Like voted off the island or whatever and this

is way before survivor like even existed So I'm

convinced that I created survivor in my own head

So we always used to like have them compete in

like different things or whatever and I was super

young so it's crazy that I even remember this

but we would always call it beanie baby island

and they they were voted off the island and whichever

was the last one standing and We would do this

all the time, whichever one was the last one

standing would be the new champion and they would

have to compete against new people next time

around. That's amazing. Yeah. So, so when you

vote them off the island, do you basically just

pump them off the bed? I literally would throw

them off the bed. Yeah. I would be like, bye,

get out of here. You're off. Your tribe is smoking.

You're done. Yep. Absolutely. But yeah, it's

crazy because Survivor didn't end up coming around

until like, I don't know, six, seven years later

or something. So I was like, what? I did this.

Yeah, Survivor and Big Brother both premiered

in 2000. Oh man, Big Brother. We're not talking

about reality shows, but if we could, I would

be talking about Big Brother. I've been watching

that since almost 2000. I don't know why, but

I have. I have an idea for another one of our

episodes. Reality cast, let's go. Oh yeah. Well,

I don't know what we call it reality cast, but

we can definitely, there's plenty of things because

our flagship, because you may or may not know

the audience knows. So people listen inside of

my voice. I'm sorry. I repeat myself a lot. Get

that geek cast radio is our flagship show where

we talk about anything geeky from Batman to wrestling

to Whatever so the reality tv stuff would fit

there or it could fit on our other show called

studio 2009 Where that show is basically we talk

about anything in the audio or visual medium

So it could be any literally anything as long

as you can watch it or hear it it could be on

that show So yeah, definitely you'll jake will

be back folks on a different episode, but I think

I will yeah, absolutely So you mentioned Beanie

Babies, but what other types of toys were your

favorites to play with as a kid? Well, I mean,

I can't I feel like I can't not bring up and

I know this is this is about toys. This isn't

about video games, but I feel like I was molded

by video games as a kid. Like, yeah, absolutely.

That was that was my toy more than anything.

Obviously, I did have toys. And then, like I

said, the action figures did come a little bit

when I was a little bit older, but. But video

games, one of my earliest memories when I was

like three, I think, when it came out was playing

Pokemon Yellow with my dad. Obviously, I couldn't

really do anything, but like I would watch my

dad play it on the Game Boy Color. And it was

like that's one of my earliest like video game

memories. And I would always play Super Mario

three years or no Super Mario World, the one

where you could ride Yoshi and he ate the apples

or whatever. That one is the one I remember the

most But that was all the way what that was super

NES I think so that was yeah, it was a little

while ago But I that was that's what I remember

the most so like I guess I guess it's kind of

a cop -out But as far as that that's just the

reality of it is I was more of a video game person

and still am today Obviously, I collect the Funko's

but like I collect video games too, which is

something that a lot of people don't know Because

I don't talk about it within, like, the Funko

space, like, really? Um, because who cares? Like,

I am trying to get into it. As soon as they,

as soon as, like, Funko got Contra. We have Contra

Pops, that's fine. I have no, I have no disrespect

towards Contra. We have Spyro, we have Crash,

we have many other, we have all the Halo characters.

I want fucking Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear Solid

specifically, not Metal Gear from the early days,

not whatever. 1998, Metal Gear Solid, David Hayter

as Snake, you know, Cam Clark as Liquid and Solidus

and Revolver Ocelot and all that. Like, I want

those pops. Even if they did a one -off Solid

Snake, I'd be happy. I mean, it's not a Nintendo

property or anything, so they can probably get

it. Um, but I, I don't know. I feel like it's

kind of being gate kept. I don't know why it's

a bit weird. I don't know why, because like I

said, they have crashed. They have, they have

a specific PlayStation line that they did. Like

it. Come on, Funko. There's always stuff with

Funko that like I look at it and I'm like, I

feel like this license is pretty attainable and

it would sell. So I'm a bit confused on some

of them. That would be one of them because Solid

Snake is a super well -known character Really,

there's nothing for David Hayter to sign as far

as Funko goes as far as I know Yeah, so I would

love a Snake pop because he does a lot of cons.

Absolutely Yeah, he does a lot. I love David

Hayter. I would love to get it and be able to

interview him. That would be amazing Yeah, absolutely.

I just I love the way I just love the way he

plays that character. Cause he, you know, certain

voice actors, they are the characters that they've

like, you know, you look at Rob Paulson and all

the characters he's voiced and whatever else,

but like Yakko and Pinky are obviously the two,

two of the majors. Obviously he was the original

Raphael and the original turtle series and all

that. But yeah, so we can talk about that on

another show. There's another line right there

that I am befuddled that it doesn't exist. Yeah,

Jimmy Neutron, huh? And they've done all their

Nickelodeon. They have Hey Arnold. How do you

have Hey Arnold and not Jimmy Neutron? How do

you have the Rugrats and not Jimmy Neutron that

makes no note? Anyway, we were already jump until

like the 20 second quote. No, no, no, it's fine.

It's my world. So I'm always in the mindset of

it. Yep. Yep. Yep. I broke my pen. Don't break

your pen. What were some of your favorite childhood

toys that really stood out more than the rest?

So, you know, you got Turtles, Transformers,

Batman, out of, you know, pick something that

stands out more than everything else. That's

tough because like I didn't have those. Like

I was never I was never those were kind of past

my time. I mean. If you if you look at the timeline,

they were around, but they definitely I'd say

in the 90s, like the the mid to late 90s weren't

as popular as they were beforehand. So they just

kind of missed me. I don't know why. But I never

had Turtles. I never had Transformers. I never

had what's the other big one like Motu was even

before, but I just never had those. So I don't

have Power Rangers. Power Rangers is another

one that like I just didn't. That started in.

Okay, so I don't know how I missed that one.

I don't know how I missed that one then. All

right, so I'll modify it. Which video games,

like what video games stand out more than the

others for you? Definitely Pokemon. It's always

been Pokemon for me. Like I said, I've started

that from the beginning. And the anime was around

obviously too. So I was kind of playing the games,

watching the anime, hand in hand. So those have

been in my life up until this point. Like I play

every game that comes out still it's definitely

not the same obviously there's not that kind

of magic but there is still something special

about I know I'm turning this into like the games

cast but whatever so this is my toy so hey it's

funny you say that and nobody knows this yet

except one person because the one person is actually

gonna be the first guest I'm working on so this

is 42 questions about toy collecting I'm working

on a 30 -question video game series. Well, I'll

have to be on for that one, too. You can go answer

in them right now. We got you for three episodes,

this and two others. Oh, lucky for everyone else,

yay. Oh, stop it. Knock it off. But yeah, Pokemon

has always been like my number one between whether

it be animated shows or video games or toys.

I mean, I did used to collect little Pokemon

figures, too, from Want to say Bandai I think

made them but but I used to have a ton of those

and now my sister obviously She's a lot older

now, but I passed them down to her and she still

got them somewhere But she's she's in college.

She's the smart one, but she still got them somewhere.

So those are still around So that's pretty cool.

But yeah, I had like these little Pokemon figures

to connect it back to actual toys Wow, very cool

How have they not done team rocket yet? We have

Meowth and we don't have we haven't done any

of the pizza Yeah, and I know and I know that's

you know everyone hates people pops, but we'll

get into that later Okay, so do you prefer the

label of action figures dolls toys or other labels

their action figures? Bobbleheads are appropriate.

I'd say hmm depending on what you're talking

about like when people call Funko dolls I'm like

get out of here nothing about him is a doll except

for the Barbie ones I just bought we'll talk

about that at some point I'm sure Yes, yes. But,

um, well, I will say that I never got into Barbie.

So my grandma, my grandma did have my mom's old

ones. So I probably did play with them with like

GI Joe's and stuff. Um, like old GI Joe's and

stuff like that. So I probably did play with

them when I was super young, but, um, uh, what

were we talking about? I lost track. Labels of

the labels. So yeah, I mean, Call them whatever

you want. Most of them are action figures I'd

say or just figures like that kind of because

action figures I guess implies some kind of articulation

which not everything really has I suppose But

I can turn my head from left Well, that's fine

Well, that's what I'm saying. Those are those

are the furthest thing from action figures or

or in action They're closer to bobbleheads than

anything And some of them are I mean some of

them aren't some of them are But, uh, yeah, exactly.

Like star Wars and, um, random stuff like that.

But it's, it's interesting that people, it's

people who are, I don't want to call them uneducated,

but kind of like it's not, and it's not a detriment

or anything. Like you're into what you're into,

but yeah, I just feel like calling them dolls,

unless it is like a Barbie doll. Like if it,

unless it says doll, I feel like it's kind of

insulting. Yeah. So I, and the listeners, I'm

sorry, but I don't, we don't do pre -show chatter

where I tell the whole story and then retell

it on the show. So, but I tell this every single

time when I get to this question because I am

40. How old am I now? Wait, 2022. Last year I

was the answer to everything this year. I'm not

the answer to everything anymore. Yeah. I'm 43.

So being 43 years old, growing up in the eighties.

you know, sometimes aunts and uncles that didn't

get it, more so my grandparents, my Nana or something

like that. Be like, Oh, Mikey's going to go home

and play with his dolls. They're not dolls, grandma.

Like it's that, it's that kind of, it's not,

you're right. It's not that they're uneducated.

It's not something because our parents and grandparents,

most, most of them did not. Grow because toys

really I mean toys have been around for the longest

right, but they were like rocking horse. They

didn't Yeah, like they didn't like the toys that

we know for the toy industry today in 2023 Started

in like 1980. Yeah, they don't have the cool

toys. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, exactly Rocker a stick.

Yeah Piece of mud or they had outside Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you want to play go play outside go go

go. Yeah Good guys or bad guys? Which toys were

your favorites to play with the most? In general,

I'm a villains man. Just in general, I've always

been a villains guy. When it comes to wrestling,

I like the heels. When it comes to movies, I

like the villains. When it comes to video games,

I like the villains. Like, no matter what, I'm

a villains guy. Obviously, there are heroes I

like too, because I mean, who doesn't like some

heroes at least. But every time I'm like right

towards the villain and I'm like, yeah, this

guy's cool, because the villains are always cooler.

Let's get real. The villains always have better

designs. The villains always have better dialogue

if it's in like a movie or a game or something.

They just always are so much cooler. So I am

100 % a villains man. Very cool, very cool. All

right. Let's see here. I got to skip a couple

of questions because you're too young. That's

fair. Well, you didn't have toy vehicles or play

sets. I mean, I did. I had some Hot Wheels and

like some of the tracks. So like that's kind

of where that ends. Okay. Yeah. But I never like

was an avid like collector, I guess, of Hot Wheels,

but I definitely had some. Just not a lot. Yeah.

When I got older, I can talk about something

when I got older that's kind of in the same vein.

Sure. When I got about like 20, no, uh, man,

even earlier, 2007 ish. Um, which is way later.

Uh, I got into like diecast cars, like, uh, NASCAR

diecast cars. Yep. So I have, I have a ton of

those. My dad used to collect them. So that's

probably where I got that in my head. Uh, but

then a certain driver came into the net into

NASCAR. So I started collecting his stuff. Between

sports cards and the diecast. So I'm actually

looking like up right now and I can see the whole

collection of his cars Complete so who is that?

Pablo Montoya in 2007. He was formerly like an

indie f1 kind of guy Came into NASCAR from Colombia.

He was never great. He was never that good But

it was like one of those guys where I'm gonna

start collecting him when he first comes in Nobody's

really collecting him yet And now I have one

of the biggest if not the biggest collections

at least in the United States between the diecast

and the sports cards, so It took some time and

money, but I don't really do that much anymore

if I see something I'll grab it, but I have most

of his stuff So I can't really get really do

much with it. Yeah What features define a good

toy to you? How true does the item feel in comparison

to the source material likeness? Hmm, that is

interesting. So I used to, I used to play with

like wrestling figures. Um, like I used to, I

had the ring and everything and I would have

them, I would basically be like a dream match

booker. Um, so those have always been the most

not not the most realistic, but they are modeled

after real people, obviously. So if you see the

face and it just doesn't look like the person

that it's supposed to be, you're like, what the

hell is this? What what what have they done here?

It's gotten so much better now with these modern

figures. They have like the face scans and whatever.

But back back in like the early 2000s or whatever,

when I was really like into these, that didn't

exist. Like they didn't have these like super

nice face scans and body scans or whatever. So

like they were just kind of doing what they could

with pictures, I'd imagine. Um, and some of them

were just off. So I'd say, I'd say it's more

important for like people, uh, people figure

than it is for the actual, like, like something

from a cartoon or something. Obviously it's important,

but I feel like you can kind of get away with

a little bit more. Maybe from a cartoon character,

as opposed to a real life person. I could be

wrong about that, but that's, that's kind of

what I think about that. Yeah, absolutely. What

does toy packaging have to have to draw you in?

So again, you go to a Walmart, a Target or, or

a comic shop, cause you know, comic shops have

Funko pops, or you go to a convention or something

or a toy show. Like you see this Funko pop, this

Funko pop, that Funko pop and something else

or whatever. Like what is the packaging of the

toy? Have to have to make you go for it versus

others. I'm a big colors guy. I mean, I'm easily

distracted. So like, I'm like, wow, shiny. Oh,

if there's some shiny on a box, I'll look at

it. Um, like that's why ladies and gentlemen,

he probably has the biggest metallic Funko pop

collection out. I'm looking at a shiny box right

now. So, uh, that's kind of why I like the NFT

pops that they've been coming out with a little

bit. Because each of them like the box art on

those has a metallic outline So they're they're

dark boxes with a metallic outline So if I saw

that on like a shelf or whatever, I'd immediately

be drawn obviously well only at resellers for

these ones But I'd immediately drawn to it because

I'm like, it's eye -catching, you know So anything

that catches my eye bright colors stuff like

that. I'm like I like have ADHD, but don't. It's

like one of those things where I'm easily distracted

by things, but no doctor has ever told me, yeah,

you got this thing. But my brain's all twisted,

so I probably got something going on. But yeah,

it's shiny stuff, bright colors. I'm like, ooh,

that's fancy. But for me, as far as pops go,

I mean, I guess it would be more of the source

material as opposed to what the actual box looks

like. Because if it's something I like, I'm going

to buy it no matter what. I don't care what the

box looks like, even though I'm an inbox collector

primarily. So it does matter to a point. But

I don't know if it only matters to to a point

though because either it's coming out or when

it comes to Funko I care more about what's inside

Yeah Yeah, absolutely, but I mean like, you know,

you see like, okay I'm looking right now just

at I'm looking at and I know this is gonna sound

crazy and silly and stupid and it's not because

I eventually want to have him on the podcast

but I'm looking at The top pops YouTube bar you

twos box. I'm looking at the Tucker buds in the

dog you twos box I'm looking at Transformers

Bumblebee Funko pop and Transformers Grimlock

late like that's the thing like what kind of

packaging is going to draw your eye more and

then you know like that's what you go after the

If it's a character you're interested if it's

character you want that obviously you do but

it's kind of like, you know Ooh, there's a Coco

Pebbles candy bar? I'll take seven of those,

Bleed. You know, it's one of those. Yes, I would.

I mean, yeah, to elaborate a little bit, like,

and this is not specifically a me thing, but

like, if I see a Funko Popbox signed, I'll immediately

be drawn to that. That's a whole different, that's

a whole different thing. But if I see ink or

like paint on a pop box, I'll be like, ooh, who's

this signed by? I don't know. But that's a whole

different kind of works. Absolutely, absolutely.

So you just said that you open your toys, but,

you know, so do you open them? Do you leave them

packaged? If you keep toys packaged, do you have

a specific criteria for that? When I was younger,

I would open things like with my wrestling figures.

I opened all those to use them because I wanted

to play with them. But like an older collector,

I mean, well, I suppose like comparatively. I

know what you mean. I just I learned more to

I got more into the collecting side as opposed

to I mean, I grew up so I didn't want to like

play with everything, you know. And don't get

me wrong. If I had some wrestling figures and

a ring right now, I would go ham. You bet I would.

But I don't. They're all gone. But that's another

thing. Like, now that I'm older, I got to start

kind of thinking about like the investing standpoint

of something like these, even if I don't plan

on getting rid of everything or anything, really,

I got to at least think of that. Everything inherently

has resale value, whether it's out of the box

or in the box or whatever. But I need to think

as an older person now, as a collector, what

things are worth, even if I don't plan on getting

rid of them. So so yeah, everything. Almost ever

I can't say everything but almost everything

stays in box Right now mostly because I have

nowhere to put anything So like as soon as I

have a shelf, we'll see what can happen. But

like I have no room for anything right now If

that does happen and I plan on like when I have

my own house or whatever I plan on having a couple

shelves where there will be things on them. So

Right now nothing But I have a couple loose pops

like at work or whatever But other than that,

I mean most things just even my video some of

my video games stay sealed because I'm a psychopath

like I I don't know I I've gotten burned by how

yeah, go ahead How are you supposed to play the

game if it's still sealed in the packet not?

And I don't I mean if I if I'll open it if I

really want to but I just buy everything Yeah,

I just buy every game. So Because I'm a maniac

Those are worth less Some of them are worth decent

money like collectors editions stuff like that

But some of those are not and I have lost money

on a lot of those but I Whatever who cares? The

pops though those if I were to sell I suppose

everything like I would make a profit So I guess

I'm doing something right it helps that I started

on the early side of it Kind of I guess kind

of kind of mid mid till early I guess I started

in I'm sure this will come up But I started in

2015 so they and Funko or the pops side of it

started in 2010 So I was kind of yes kind of

not early super early But like early enough that

I could get some grails like early grails Yeah,

but yeah, there's definitely some stuff that

I missed out on too If as a kid or an adult you

were only allowed to choose one toy franchise

now This is not toy line, but toy franchise to

collect from which one would it be and why? I

Feel like Lego is the right answer period Because

adults like lately is that a proper answer is

that and did I like read that question correctly?

I mean franchise is essentially like Pokemon,

Transformers, blah, blah, blah. But I guess we

can insert the Lego talk here. Well, I mean,

because if you choose Lego, that's kind of a

cop out because they have everything. They have

everything. I guess I guess it would have to

be Pokemon then if I had to go actual like franchise

because I collect the cards as well. So I collect

the pops, I collect the cards, I collect the

games. So I guess that would open me up to the

most things that I'm actually interested in.

So if we're talking just franchises, then it

would be Pokemon. But if we're talking like toys

in general, it'd have to be Lego because of all

the open franchises that I could get into there.

And Legos are fun for literally everybody. I

love Lego so much. Do you prefer vintage toys

or modern toys? Definitely modern, just because,

like I said, a lot of them I didn't grow up with.

So like these vintage like transformers and stuff

like that. It was it was interesting because

my buddy big dog Dave on on Instagram He does

a lot of whatnot and stuff like that, too We

did we do like a swap like a box swap with a

bunch of other creators every few months or so

and One of the box swaps was basically create

a box that you yourself would want as like a

kid or whatever so that was a super cool interesting

thing and he ended up getting me and sending

me that box so he's he's a child of the eighties

i believe. So there was like a lot of motu there

was a lot of transformers there was like. Bunch

of bunch franchises like that so it was interesting

i do have a few vintage things from those franchises

because of that box and seeing them. They're

super cool. Like I mean cuz like I haven't really

I hadn't really been too exposed to them other

than that Like I don't know like toy shops and

stuff like that But getting those in a box not

meant for me But knowing that like one of my

buddies this would have like lit him up He would

have been like this is the best box ever obviously

because he created it it was definitely cool

to see vintage stuff, but Just I I would consider

myself a more modern toy collector Yeah, very

cool very cool What is one toy you always gravitate

to more than the arrest so out of your entire?

27 million funko pop collection What is one the

one thing that you have to have with you at all

times? So it basically if I had to choose one

pop is that what kind of what you're asking essentially?

Yeah, like what's the one that always? you always

go back to. The one that I never shut the hell

up about is Headless Ned Stark from 2013 San

Diego Comic Con, because it's expensive shit.

It's the most I've ever paid for pop all at once.

Well, I guess I paid for it in like payments

to a buddy of mine, but whatever. It's just basically

when I started. collecting Funko, I started with

Game of Thrones. So that basically means this

was my holy grail and I probably should have

bought it back in 2015 when it was not worth

over a thousand dollars. Oh, yeah. But it's definitely

my holy grail now. And if people ask if I had

to grab one pop and a fire, it's not even my

most expensive anymore. But it's the most sentimental,

so I would definitely be grabbing all headless

Ned Stark. Well, then I guess we can skip question

20. No, no, no, it's fine. That's the way these

things go. I like getting ahead of myself. It

was Game of Thrones, right? Was that the answer?

Yeah, yeah. Fallout's the other one. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Headless, headless, headless funko fat

guy, there we go. Oh god, I should make that.

Oh boy. Yeah, you should. Blacklight, headless

funko fat, I want that. That's amazing. I'd have

to buy some fake headless neds for that one.

Just put a headband on them, we're good. Yep,

there you go. Even though there are always toy

lines that people never purchase, are there any

that you specifically and purposefully avoid?

No, I would say no. I'm pretty open to buying,

uh, anything? Everything? I mean, if, man, if

people were to see... The chaos that I mean I

sent a little little taste in the the slap shot

and the blue team that was not even that that's

not even it like there's just so much kids in

the nooks and crannies of this place that like.

I have a little bit of everything at one point

golden girls came out with do you remember little

people like the little like the little plastic

things. Yeah gold they made golden girls once

like a couple years ago. I have those. So like,

I have no qualms about not buying anything. Oh,

I love the Golden Girls. I don't know if I mentioned

that, but I do. Well, which is strange to me.

That's all that that's for podcasts. Now we Golden

Girls podcast. Jake's the new host, folks. See

you later. I would do a breakdown episode by

episode podcast of the Golden Girls. It would

be so much fun. Do not tempt me. I could have

a schedule done in about three hours. I mean,

the problem is I can't get any guests. They're

all dead. Wait. Oh, yeah. Old BW, my gal. She

was the last hold on and she's just gone. Oh,

well. But that's not, you know what I mean? Like

just because we can't get guests doesn't mean

we shouldn't, shouldn't still. She was also 99.

Like, come on, she had a hell of a life. Yeah.

Absolutely. If you lived to 99, it was a tough

way to start my year a couple of years ago though.

Jeez. Yeah. The celebrity deaths always, you

know, get you in the, in the gut. Everyone who

has, if people listening have watched my YouTube

channel, um, if you don't go check out Funko

fat guy. I release things sometimes. It's kind

of random. It's completely random, really. But

I do pop stuff and now food reviews. So every

video for the last two and a half years or whatever,

however long I've been doing this, I've either

ended it with Betty White is immortal when she

was still alive or Betty White is still immortal

after she passed. So I am a big Betty White guy

and I will always be a big Betty White guy. Yeah.

Rose was amazing. Not my favorite girl though.

Dorothy? Yeah. Love me some Dorothy. What? Love

me some Dorothy. So all right. This is kind of

turned into oops. Kind of a mishmash. That's

on me. No, no, no. It's fine. It's fine. It's

fine. I have the same, I have the same, not the

same brain issues as you do, but I have brain

issues. So anyway. So yeah, currently we are

doing, we're hoping to finish it this year, since

this year. It's the chaos cast. Yeah, exactly.

So we've been doing a boy meets world and girl

meets world podcast where my buddy Steve and

I talk about each season in two parts. So we

are up to, I think we're about to record season

five part two, which is episodes 13 to 24, I

think is what it is. Anyway. See how once that's

done, this Golden Girls thing is happening. Oh,

boy. I guess I'll have to rewatch the series.

I got to see if I can find it. It was on Hulu

for the longest time. I don't know where it is

now. I'll have to find it. I'll find it when

we go to an ad break. But are there any toys

in the past or currently that you wish you had

not bought them? Are there any toys that you

may have sold you regret letting them go? Ah,

man. I'm trying to look around to see if there's

anything I regret. The whole thing. The whole

McGillicuddy, folks. I'd say I more regret selling

things than I do buying them, which is why I'm

a hoarder now. uh because uh back again with

the video games i had like uh like a game cube

or whatever and i sold all those and uh sold

all the games for that and i look back at some

of what those what those games are worth now

and it's ridiculous so like i look back at game

cube game uh like what they're worth and i'm

like why i sold them to like a local game store

for nothing like I got just because like I wanted

something new and fun, like new and fancy, stupid

kids. Same with like my old Pokemon cards. Um,

like I couldn't even imagine and I don't want

to even think about what I used to have. Uh,

but I know it was a lot of expensive shit now.

And, uh, I don't even want to, I don't even want

to believe, like start to think of what I had

because. It would just make me angry. Hey, this

is Rose. Rose. Oh my god, it is still on there.

Holy crap. Good. I was not good. All right. Well,

new podcast plan, ladies and gentlemen. The Golden

Girls. Toy collecting. Toy collecting. What's

that? Can't wait. Yeah, exactly. Oh, boy. So

question 17. Oh, boy. I can't say or small because

I know it's not small. How large is your toy

collection? Do your toys take up the whole house

or are they relegated a one room shelf or something

like that? He has twenty seven million Funko

pops. I don't have. Of course they take up the

whole house. Seven million. I do have twenty

seven hundred, which is still a lot because they're

all in box. And that's only the pop collection.

I also collect, like I said, I collect video

games. I collect video game collector's editions.

I collect sports cards. I collect Pokemon cards.

I collect everything. I have a little of everything.

They're mostly contained to one room, but there

are some smattered about in like bins and stuff

in the basement. Yeah, there's a lot. There's

a fair amount. I'm working on it. I'm working

on making it less, but somehow things keep piling

up and not going away. Is this a good time to

plug my Mercari store? Not yet. We'll do that

later. So how do you keep track of your collection

if you do? Various ways. This is a good time

to talk about your, your, your involvement with

a certain, uh, certain website. Yeah. Oh yeah.

I track it on PPG, uh, pop prize guide, hobby

DB, whatever you want to call it. It's all, it's

all those names. Um, so that's basically for

those who don't know and not in the Funko world

or whatever, that's a website where you can basically,

um, put in all your pops or whatever, and they

track it. They track the value. They track whatever

was sold from different websites, eBay, whatnot,

stuff like that. And basically, they just give

you like an overview of your entire collection.

I love it. Mikey over here does not. OK, we get

into this. Fine. We're going to get into this.

All right. So my problem with Hobby DB specifically,

I have two problems. Number one. On the app on

my phone, if I want to go to just looking at

this, put a bad taste in my mouth. So I click

on the menu to see more. It takes me to their

website. It's still in the app. It's not on like

Google Chrome or anything on my phone. I click

my collection or collection or whatever else.

And it's fine. It's whatever I go on the website

and the website is fine too. My problem is, is

that. Instead of showing in the app like it should

like like how the funko app shows it like it's

all in the app it doesn't take you to a directed

website like i'm not directed to funko .com if

i want to look up target flocked pikachu or walmart

flocked vampirion or whatever the fuck You know,

that's my problem with the hobby DB app. Now

my problem with the hobby DB website is. If I

search. All right. We'll just use, if I search

Funko pop Pokemon, Pikachu, it'll pull it up.

It'll say Pikachu. It'll say 27 million variants.

Okay. Fine. I click on the variance thing instead

of. taking me to the variance page on that one

tab, it opens a new tab. That's that. No, that

no, no. Anyway, but so, so you're helping contribute

to this to make sure the, the, the values and

the this and that are all correct and everything.

I was brought on, uh, for autographs mostly,

um, because I have a lot of autographs that were

not in the database. Okay, so they wanted they

wanted me to come in and add them to the database

value them if I can and Pretty much that but

I mean I could do other things on there like

I can add database items I can like do price

points or whatever, but that's specifically what

I was brought on to do Right is the autographs

just because I had like I I reached out to them

To be like because anyone can technically do

it But I reached out to them. I'm like, listen,

I have a bunch of autographs that I don't see

on the database. So if you guys want me to come

on and add these to the database, I can do that.

And immediately almost they were like, yeah,

absolutely. Let's get you on board. And I'm like,

okay, sure. So now I just like being helpful.

Obviously, I add autographs whenever I get new

ones that aren't on there. But if someone reaches

out to me and be like, oh, can you add this to

the Cloud, our buddy Cloud from the blue chat?

He all the time is like, hey, can you add this

an autograph or whatever, autograph fairy or

something like that? I'm like, yeah, I can add

that, whatever. All those AP sodas that he just

posted in the chat, I added all those to the

database. I mean, I love supporting artists,

but I don't understand the point. for people

collecting artist proof stuff. No, me either.

Me either. But I mean, it's no different than

that. I'm not, I'm not. The Hikaris, I don't

know if you ever got into those. The Hikaris

used to do it all the time, too. Oh, jeez. Oh,

boy. All right. Well, you kind of already answered

this, but I guess you can answer it. If you could

only keep one toy from your entire collection,

what would it be and why? So again, the house

is the house is on fire. All the humans are safe.

All the pets are safe. But the toy collection

is burning down. What is your funko fat guy ass

going to run in and say, yeah, headless Ned is

the one. But just to be just to be different.

And that's mostly because I invested the most

in it. That is the most I've personally for a

pop. It was a lot. I'm not going to say how much.

It was a lot. That's a question later. You will

have to answer it. Don't look at the value on

it. You can figure it out. It was less than that,

thank God, but not by much. But my most valuable

one, just to kind of like, unless that is coming

later, is there a valuable question coming later?

So there is a question coming later of what is

the most money you ever spent on? Well, I'll

wait on that then and we can talk about that.

The most valuable one currently is Metallic Ghost

Rider from 2014 San Diego Comic Con, I believe

it is. And that one's I think like almost 1400

PPG. So that's the one you would risk your life

to save? It would be Headless Ned, but just for...

Just for a difference that that would be my number

two. That would be my number two. Just for value

purposes. Yeah. All right, folks, that's going

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right, we're back here on Toycast, and on the

flip side of the previous question, here is the

Toy Box Challenge. You get one, I assume this

is inches, I don't know if it's centimeters,

I don't know what kind of dimensions it is, but

it's 18 by 18 by 18. You get one 18 by 18 by

18 box. The only toys you can keep have to fit

in the box. What can you pack into it? Huh. Man.

Don't even know I'm bad at measuring stuff That

mother I'm gonna stuff that thing I would definitely

Not a toy, but I would definitely grab my Betty

white autograph. I know we talked about Betty

white earlier So I'd grab that for sure and that's

just saw that's flat. So that's easy Put that

at the bottom easy or like on the side or something

I'll take all my ghost riders and headless net

for sure. Those will definitely all fit I'd imagine.

I'm kind of winging it. I'm guessing I can't

even picture what an 18 by 18 box looks like.

And then probably, I'd probably take like two

autographs. I'd probably take, I'd probably take

Jar Jar Binks, my boy, and then Robert Downey

Jr., Iron Man. I'd probably take those two. Ooh,

maybe Johnny Depp. Man, now I'm questioning myself.

And then, so I'll take those two. I'll stick

to that. Then man, I don't even know I don't

even know what I would take for like a video

game thing It wouldn't fit I could have the one

thing I want to take wouldn't fit. So that's

that's it. I guess There you go, there you go,

but I stuff that thing Yeah, yeah, you'd almost

have to oh, yeah, I'm thinking as much as possible

All right, well Here's the big question folks

and as I always say because you know a lot of

toy collectors are not fans of a certain F There

are two f -words folks there's fuck and then

there's funko and a lot of people don't like

that second one, but Are you a funko fan? I'm

a fan of their product. I'm not a fan of their

company Yeah, or so that was so now than than

earlier I mean back in 2015 and like even up

until probably I don't know 2018 ish maybe 2019.

Yeah, it was fine. Things were fine. They were

still a collectibles company, but pandemic on

they've gone Into a toy company They've turned

fully into a toy company and it's just kind of

sad to see because they used to be all about

the collectors And it's just not the case anymore.

There is one thing that I still see as for the

collectors, like actual collectors. And a lot

of people would disagree with me, but it's the

NFTs because all of them are numbered. So I still

see those. They're harder to get. I will admit

that. But that I kind of like that in a way because

it gives me something to chase. Whereas in most

things I can just buy for 12 bucks or whatever

off Amazon now. That's not fun. There's nothing

fun to that The NFTs are a little tough to get

but when I do get one I feel so gratified like

I feel like oh, this is awesome I know I'm not

gonna get it for a year and a half but when I

do it's gonna feel great and So I and I like

that they're all numbered so Hit or miss. I don't

care for the company much anymore, but I'm still

going to support them through their products,

I suppose. Yeah. I mean, you can dislike something

and still like certain actors. You may not like

what they do in their personal lives or how much

of monsters they've become or whatever or how

much of a monster they already were, but you

still remember learning from that television,

whatever. And with Funco, it's like... What do

you know, Larry? You brought the NFT. Yeah, of

course you did. My only problem is I am Batman.

Is that why? Yeah. Sometimes I wish he would.

I fight for justice. Yeah. You know, so my only

problem with the NFTs is they've basically buried

the Hasbro Transformers line behind NFTs. And

it pisses me off because I'm a Transformers collector.

I have out of the characters that I want, I have

all of the transformers that I want except the

gold optimist prime, the devastator and the hot,

they buried hot rod behind the NFT wall. Look,

I don't want digital bullshit. I want fully fit.

I don't mind going to the store and paying whatever

I have to pay. I don't mind going on eBay or

Mercari or whatnot or whatever and paying what,

you know, within a reason sort of kind of, you

know, You know, I don't mind doing that. I don't

want to have to work to for the potential of

maybe getting that. That's that's my biggest

problem with the NFTs is that it's they're basically

teaching people to come. They're teaching younger

people to gamble this. And it's the new form

of gambling. And I knew this was I knew we were

going to get into this. So, you know, it is what

it is. Yeah, I don't necessarily disagree either.

It is a form of gambling. 100%. There's no getting

around that. There's a chance to pull something

you can redeem. 100 % correct. I don't say it's

getting younger people into it, because I feel

like this is more, not an older person's game,

but I don't feel like it's like kids. You know

what I mean? I don't feel like they're... It's

more people probably my age and then up. Probably.

I could be wrong. But... It's just there is the

thrill of a hunt and and the good thing about

it is they introduced the I mean, it's already

it's always been around but the royalty is a

big part of it because you it gives you incentive

to even if you don't pull a redeemable, it gives

you incentive to try and work towards one by

getting that full set. So in a way, you are still

getting one if you can get to that full set.

But yeah, I mean, as far as the Transformers

go that I get what you're saying to a point,

but now they are out physically. So like there

is no digital stuff. You know what I mean? We've

had this conversation. Um, you can just buy them.

Like you can just buy them from anyone on Mercari

or whatever, whatnot, anything. Um, so I get

it to a point, but they are accessible down the

line just for a little more expensive than if

you were to get them through the NFT program.

Yeah. And you know, I mean, like, I don't like.

I was, by the time this episode releases, it'll

be three weeks ago. But as of this recording,

I just went into this first time I've been to,

cause I don't, I don't leave my apartment. I

do all my stuff online. I just like outside world.

Me too. Thank you. You know, kind of thing. So

today was the first day I went to GameStop and

I already have him, thank God, but I went and

I saw it, I'm looking around and whatever else,

and I grabbed the Undertaker Paul Bear two -pack.

Great pop right there. Yep, absolutely. And I

grabbed something else for a friend of mine's

son's birthday. That was the few, whatever. So

as I'm there and I'm talking to the clerk and

having a good conversation with the GameStop

clerk, whatever else. look up and I see this

giant Megatron thing and I'm like, what is the

giant Megatron? He goes, oh, that's a helmet.

I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, I don't need a Megatron

helmet thing. Or do you? He goes, oh, no, I don't.

It would not. My head literally, physically is

too damn big. There's no way. Like my hair wouldn't

even fit in that thing. Have you seen, this is

off topic, but have you seen like those big hats

that some sports like athletes have been wearing?

I have one of those on the way next week. I tripled

dog dare you to do three YouTube videos wearing

that hat and not saying anything like you did

with the sausage. I'm 100 % going to, don't you

worry. Yeah. Do not worry. Yeah. So next to it

was a single Unicron. The big, big ass whatever.

That's a nice pop. And I already, yeah, it's

a great pop. I already have it. He goes, Oh,

do you want the, I'm like, Nope. I already got

it. And he goes, Oh, okay. I said, yeah, I paid

full price for it when it first came out. Now

it's like 16 bucks. You know, whatever it is.

It is what it is. Yeah, absolutely. So what is

it about Funko that you like the most as far

as like the products and stuff? I mean, back

when, back in 2015 or 2014 ish, 2015, when I

started, it was the simplicity of it. Which is

actually originally what I didn't like about

them. Um, which is funny. I probably would have

gotten into them earlier if I wasn't so stubborn.

Um, but like originally I was like, Oh, these

are kind of silly. These are dumb. I don't like

the ice, you know, like everyone else says. Um,

but then like I bought one and I'm like, Oh,

these are actually pretty nice. These, these

are pretty cool. And, uh, then I bought more

and then I bought more and Then I bought more

and now I have 27 million. So, um, so, yeah,

and it's always evolving too, because I didn't

start the autograph collecting till about a few

years ago. Um, so like, and I feel like that's

still kind of a newer thing. Um, obviously it's

been happening for a while, but like the emergence

of like paint pens on signing pops, whatever,

like I feel like that's still fairly new as opposed

to like maybe last like six, seven years or so.

Yeah, but like I feel like that's a new thing

kind of in the general grand scheme of things

here But that has become my bread and butter.

I mean that has become my thing almost It's just

it's so you know, he doesn't have a job folks.

He just you know gets Have a job to support this

horrible habit and sometimes that doesn't even

work yeah, so I got nothing. I forgot what I

was going to say anyway. Yeah. So, you know,

you're talking about the pain pens and whatever

else. And I asked in the, in the group chat,

everybody go to see, go see, uh, uh, youtube

.com, uh, you, whatever, just go search Slapshot

Pops. Go check out one of their videos. They're

awesome. Uh, you can find the link to their Patreon,

whatever else. And as long as you support them

either through a YouTube channel membership or.

a Patreon level, depending on which Patreon level

it is, you get access to the group chats and

hopefully they place you in the blue team because

the blue team is the best team. Blue team rules.

That's right. And so I made a message and I'm

like, okay, so if I wanted to get autograph pops,

what kind, cause you guys were you and I think

it was you and Louis. Is it Louis or Louise?

I don't know. I don't know. Whatever. It doesn't

matter. You've danced together for so many years

and I still don't know. Oh, boy. That's a whole

other podcast. Oh, yeah. I had to have these

both on for that one. That's right, folks. It's

a good thing I marked these explicit. So anyways,

you guys were talking about, you know, you were

talking about the autographs, you're talking

about the, because somebody asked you or asked

him or asked somebody. They probably asked me.

Yeah. Hey, what's the, what's the best pen? Is

this an, like, I think somebody showed you a

pop that was autographed that. They were like,

is this like, is this sure be like the. Oh, no,

that was me. I showed a pop that I thought might

have been Sharpie, but it ended up being black

paint. Luckily, I had to do a little bit of I

had to do a little bit of research. I had to

look a little further, but it was black paint

pen. Luckily, the difference between this is

just for people listening, whether they care

or not, I'm going to tell them the difference

between Sharpie like markers and paint pens.

is basically Sharpie markers will fade over time.

When I was younger and bought some of my first

autographs, I was dumb and I had a few Sharpie

ones. And by the time I ended up finally getting

rid of them, some of them were almost gone. Like

they were almost gone. And that was only after

a few years. So do not get things signed in Sharpie.

Get them signed in oil based paint pen. And it's

way better looking anyway. Yeah. So because of

that whole conversation and you bringing that

up, I went onto Amazon and I bought a whole package.

Oh yeah. I love that noise Sharpie. Yeah, I got

some too. It's like a, it's like, and these are

still in the pack. I haven't even opened these.

It's just like, it's like basically the new tambourine

folks. I mean, every time, so I posted in the

chat, I did that box art on the Cheshire Cat

of Alice. Yep. I use paint pens for that, too.

Same thing, oil based. And they're great for

that, too. I don't know if any there's like artists

or there's a ton of artists that do box art like

that. I'm just getting into it. This is only

my second one, and I'm not great at it. But I

mean, it's still fun to do. But yeah, so I have

I have always paint pens at the ready. Very cool,

very cool. Anything else we need to talk about

Funko before we move on with the questions? I'm

sure they'll come up again. It always comes back

to Funko for me. Just because, like you said,

I have 27 million, so I have a lot to talk about.

Absolutely. So as before, what was the most money

you spent on a toy? All right, here we go. About

to expose myself. Headless Ned. a buddy of mine,

unboxing treasures on YouTube. Doesn't do a lot

of YouTube videos anymore, but sometimes he does

like Jeopardy games or whatever on his channel.

So he also used to be a Slapshot Pops member.

That's where I met him, in the original chat.

So he had it. He pulled it out of a Toy USA mystery

box, if anyone's familiar with that company.

pulled it out of a Toy USA mystery box that was

like incredibly expensive. The box itself was

ridiculously expensive. And Jay is a maniac and

liked opening really expensive things and bought

like seven. So he had a lot of random ass grails

just sitting around. So I was like, so there

were rumblings of Jay because I'm going to I'm

going to chat with him with him and my buddy

Cord because Me, Cord is someone else from Slapshot,

stop. Same Slapshot, yeah. Also Original Chat.

We used to do a show called Poppin' Around the

Clock with myself, Cord, Poppin' Trades, who

doesn't really do videos anymore. And then the

infamous, some people, people in the Funko world

will know, but people not in it will not. The

infamous Gem Pops was also part of that show.

So he scammed people out of a lot of money. We

will not get into that. Uh, but, you know, but,

uh, we used to do a show, so we're in a chat.

Jay, I don't know why Jay was in the chat. He's

just in there. I don't know why. Um, he was never

part of the show or anything. He was just in

the same like group chat. I don't know why, whatever.

So he, there were rumblings of him, like stopping

collecting and like selling off all of his stuff.

So I messaged him. I'm like, Jay, you know, you

know, that headless Ned is my number one grail

all time. Uh, what can we do to make that work?

Uh, so I basically took money out of my, not,

not my 401k, but I have like a, uh, I had like

a thing going with like stocks and stuff. I took

money out of that and put a $500 down payment

on headless Ned and then told Jay I would pay

him off like monthly or weekly or whatever. Like

when I got paid. So the final total at the end

was one thousand and sixty dollars It is worth

a little more than that now but yeah, he gave

me a great price on it and Anything even close

to a thousand is pretty good for that pop. So

I was happy with it I finally got my holy grail

out of the way and now it's just great. I can

just pick up random stuff now There you go Yeah,

1 ,060. That's the most I've ever paid. Number

two is 900, which I paid for Robert Downey Jr.

autograph. Oh, wow. That's cool. He's done one

official signing and it was from that. Oh, nice.

Very cool. Very cool. So on the flip side of

that coin, what is the cheapest toy you bought

or what was the best deal you ever got for a

figure that may have been worth quite a bit more

than you paid? Oh, man. This is kind of chalked

up to time a little bit But back in 20 I want

to say 2016 maybe 2017 I picked up Beavis and

butthead for almost retail So if you look at

PPG on those or anything, they're like three

to four hundred dollars each now So actually

I think I traded Nintendo used to do these big

actually they still do they did these figures

called amiibo? Uh, and I used to be into those.

I actually think I traded Amiibo for those. So,

uh, basically, and Amiibo were hot at the time,

so I think I traded them for those and, uh, paid

no money, basically. Um, and I still have them.

I am actually finally trying to move them, but

for an exorbitant amount of money that no one

will pay. But if someone is dumb enough to, then,

eh, they can have them. It was the same with

a god, what was it? San Diego comic -con bloody

predator I had it up for just a stupid amount

of money and then someone finally paid it and

I'm like, oh, all right Well, I guess I can get

rid of it There you go. That's one way to make

money again. Yeah Yeah, I think I have two now

actually I had a Little sweet cuz even though

I don't drink diet. Dr. Pepper. I don't mind

spending What is it six dollars and 35 cents

after tax for three bottles of diet? Dr. Pepper

to get those to send in for a free pop like and

then most recently I finally got the Gamer verse

white spider, which is from the the Marvel the

Marvel Spider -man games with the white emblem

instead of the black emblem. I paid I think just

under $11 for that. Yeah wrong there Yeah, exactly

and a little sweet pop is underrated as hell

like Absolutely, like it doesn't have really

too much value or anything. But like it's got

a unique sticker, which you know, I'm a slut

for stickers So it's got a unique sticker and

they're never gonna do one again, I'd imagine

so it's a super cool Yeah, that's the only and

really honestly that's because that ad campaign

has been over. Yeah Sometimes they bring them

back. But yeah, they haven't done it in a while.

Yeah Yeah, they haven't done in a while. I just,

I just love that because again, you know, you

talk about reality TV. That first season of American

Idol was Kelly Clarkson. who we all know and

love and Justin Guarini who we all kind of sort

of know. And we love him. He's awesome. He's

a great, every time I've seen him do like, oh,

he doesn't do much online stuff, but like if

he posts on Instagram or whatever, like he's

always, you know, bringing the positivity stuff

and everything else. And it's just the way he

is or whatever else. But like, I remember when

I first saw the little sweet ads, I'm like, wait

a minute. I kind of know that voice. I don't

really remember the face, but I know. Wait a

minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, you can clear,

like, people could, if people could see me, they

could see the realization wash. Like, that's

motherfucking Justin Guarini from season one

of American Idol. That's amazing! Yeah, I didn't

even know that for the longest time and then

someone said it and I'm like, oh yeah. Yeah,

yeah, absolutely. What modern and or vintage

toy lines are you collecting right now? Funko

obviously, but I do have I just kind of random

stuff that I have Handmade by robots. I've been

trying to like buy a couple of here and there

So for those who don't know they're like little

they look like little knit dolls, but they're

made of vinyl It's actually very cool. I like

them a lot. I actually just got my first signed

one by RoboCop. Dr. Peter Weller nice So that's

a pretty cool one. I Don't collect a ton. I only

have like a handful maybe like five or six Yeah,

man, what else amiibo like I just thought like

I talked about actually just now I still collect

those lightly Sometimes when new characters come

up those ones. I do keep out of box I actually

had a full inbox collection at one point and

just went berserk and opened most of them I Had

a moment I'm like I'm done and then I opened

them I kept what I wanted I sold the rest in

the box And that's something I regret selling

because some of those are worth good money now.

Right now, there's only one that I have still

in the box, and it's because I have one loose

as well. So it's Joker from Persona 5. Persona

5 is my favorite video game of all time. This

is not what this is about, but that's that. Yeah,

very cool. I collect figures sometimes, like

anime figures, stuff like that. Also from persona

5 I have a few of those but like there's a ton

man like I don't even know I have on AEW like

wrestling figure. I have one Orange Cassidy one

of the wildest like wrestlers on the planet.

He's weird as shit What else man? I don't know.

I just have random stuff all over the place Uh,

I can't even, I just have random nonsense. If

I see some, I got this problem where like, even

if it's not something I collect, inherently,

like if I see it and I like it, I'm like, no,

I'll buy that. Sure. Why not? And then I went

to a con for the first time last year and that

is a nightmare. You just, I bought a fake foam

sword. Like I don't need that. I have it, but

I don't need it. Now I have it. That's amazing.

It's cool too. Which. Ties into the next question.

Do you visit toy shows or conventions? When you

visit toy shows or conventions, do you have a

typical methodology? Do you bring a certain amount

of money for what you're searching for, et cetera,

et cetera? So since you have just now gone to

your first toy show last year, how was that experience

for you going to your first convention? The super

funny part about this is I didn't know about

these questions. So that's just great timing.

Absolutely. That's just me reading the situation,

I guess. Yep. It was overwhelming. It was definitely

overwhelming. I am not a person who likes other

people. Generally a lot of them. I like people

kind of to a point. I don't like a lot of people

not in Not in person not online fine, but in

person hanging out like I'm not a party guy like

I don't like parties I don't like big crowds.

I'm not a crowds man, and especially a con it

gets stinky people are smelly So like where do

you know exactly? Where's some deodorant? I get

that you're sweaty in that costume, but get it

together I did enjoy my experience. I did get

the VIP package. So like I got to go in an hour

early. So that was nice. I got to kind of do

some things before other people could got to

see the vendors before other people could stuff

like that. So I did enjoy that. I went to Rhode

Island Comic Con. I don't know if I said that,

but I went to Rhode Island Comic Con and it's

like it's a pretty decent sized venue for a state

that's so tiny. Like it's a pretty good size

con for a small tiny state. Um, but I, I enjoyed

it. I'm trying to do it again this year. Uh,

and as far as budgeting goes, no. Um, I didn't

set a budget and I probably should have because

I looked at my credit card bill after and I was

like, Oh, what have I done? Um, and it was, uh,

a lot clearly, uh, bought a sword. Um, and, uh,

yeah, it's, I should probably do that. Yeah,

the good news is you can buy autographs ahead

of time. So like I just bought like one autograph

a week or whatever until like I was wanted what

got what I wanted. So that was good. But the

stuff on the convention floor, you can't really

pay ahead of time. So, you know, and there's

so much cool art and stuff like I'm not an art

collector, like, but some of the stuff I just

saw and I was like, well, I'm going to buy that.

It's so incredible what some of these artists

can do. Um, I can't, I sure can't. So I'm just,

I'm always impressed by art. And, uh, it's, I

like talking to the artist, uh, to hear about

like how they started stuff like that. And, and

there was a lot of that, like, cause like I said,

we went in early, so I got a chance to talk to

a lot of people. And, uh, it was just overall

a good time. My favorite interaction. Is there

more questions? Like, is there another question

about interactions and stuff? No, but you can

put it here. It's fine. My favorite interaction

at the con that I went to was with a voice actor

from a video game called Psychonauts. She was

there, not advertised, like at a booth with her

husband. Like she was selling stuff or whatever,

but she was at a booth with her boyfriend or

her husband or whatever who was an artist. So

there was a print from him of her character from

Psychonauts. And him there so i had them both

sign it i had a nice conversation with her she

was the sweetest lady on the face of the planet

her name is escaping me at the woods. I don't

remember she was lily and in psycho not so. Look

around check her out check her out on imdb you'll

find it there i don't remember her name right

now i feel so bad. But she was literally the

sweetest lady on the face of the planet and her

boyfriend's cool too. But his art was incredible.

Obviously, Psychonauts is like a cult classic.

I loved that game. And then Psychonauts 2 a couple

years ago was fantastic. So I was stunned. Like

that was such a cool interaction for me. There's

pictures on my Instagram of me and her. And it

was just a great time overall. Very cool. Very

cool. I'm actually trying to find it, folks.

So if you want to move on to the next question,

I can probably... Nikki Rapp. Nikki rap was her.

Oh, okay. Done. Boom. For half a second, I thought

it was gonna be Tara Strong. Like, how do you

not remember that? He was very, very advertised.

Well, yeah, I didn't meet her though. It's maybe

maybe next time. Maybe next time. I already have

her autograph twice. And I've never met her.

We've been We've interviewed twice. Yeah, she's

great. We interviewed her the first time and

the second time was when she took over. She didn't

take it over, but she was offered the role and

became Harley in the Arkham games. That second

interview, she did it while she was getting her

hair done at a hair salon. That's hilarious.

I'll send those to you so you can listen to them.

That's funny. What do you think it is about our

generation that causes our childhood toys to

mean so much more to us than say, for instance,

our parents generation? Oh, man. Nostalgia, man.

I mean, nostalgia is a huge thing. It's crazy.

Like whenever I I guess it's a little different

for me because I have less to be nostalgia. I

can't talk nostalgic about. But like any time

I see like. something from like my childhood

or whatever. It's a little different with me

and like Pokemon or whatever, because I still

like am in that world, I guess. Some things I've

just never gotten out of. But like if I see like

a vintage like wrestling figure or whatever,

I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool. I wouldn't

buy it probably just because I don't need other

things to get into. But like, there are some

things that I just see and I'm like, oh, yeah,

that's pretty cool. Nostalgia is a killer. I

mean, again, for me, it's video games. Like a

Nintendo 64 that was one that I sold a long time

ago, but then many years later I was like, oh,

well man, I I really want another one of those

so then I went to a game store and bought one

for way too much money and Never looked back.

So yeah, I loved me some nostalgia. I don't know

why I feel like it's just us trying to capture

our youth like more so than anything because

as we get older we're like Like things start

to set in, I suppose. You're just like, man,

we're getting older. I just want a little bit

of damn joy from something. Everything sucks

in the world. Everything's crazy. Give me some

joy. So we go to stuff that, when simpler times

were a thing, and we go to what makes us happy,

which is things from our childhood. Too dark,

too gloomy? No, because ladies and gentlemen,

right now, if he was here, in my house and this

was a radio studio and he was sitting next to

me, I would be giving him so much side eye because

he's only fucking 29 years old. I admitted that

I have less nostalgia because I'm young. Yeah,

but that's the thing. Like for me, like I'm not

afraid to try certain new things if you know,

whatever, but like normally I'm more so going

to like television shows, for example. I'm more

so going to watch the original Melrose place,

for example, from 1992 than I am whatever reboot

they're trying to do with it kind of thing. Cause

it really isn't the same, you know, whatever,

you know, that kind of thing. I'm more opt to

you to watch the original show that I grew up

with kind of thing than I am. Yeah. So I completely

understand that. And the thing is like, I think

personally, for those of us who were born in

the 70s and 80s and grew up with Toys R Us ads,

it's like, okay, Jeffrey, we won't, we won't

grow up. And we haven't. Like seriously, like

I stopped collecting toys and all that stuff

when I was in like middle school. And then when

we went to high school, I had a little bit of

college by the time 2005, 2006 came around. I

was like, Oh, I have a job where they're paying

me oodles of money to essentially do nothing.

Kind of, it was one of those jobs where we're

going to pay you all this, you know, this, this,

this much money up at the ceiling. And you basically

have to do like seven tasks per day. I'm like,

okay. You know, so I started buying stuff on

eBay when I was somewhere around 25, 26 years

old at the time. Like crap. I'm still a kid.

Jeffrey told me to, you know, you never grow

up. I mean, the way I see it too is. So I did

kind of get out of like, I'm not, I've always

been a collector of things. Like no matter what,

there's always been some kind of collection in

my life. Uh, like I said, with the sports cards

and the NASCAR or whatever, 2007, that lasted

about 2007 to 2014. So I don't know if you can

see the correlation, but, uh, in 2014, your boy

needed a vice. He needed something to do. So

that's when the funk, the Funko stuff came into

play. And that's when a lot of that started happening.

So I just have this urge in me to continue. to

collect things and it's gotten, it's never gotten

this ridiculous, I'll say. I mean, this is definitely,

this is definitely a point of no return. Um,

but I mean, 27 million products that they don't

even have that. Yeah. And then I've just kept

evolving with the autographs and everything.

So, and now I'm getting into custom box art.

So that's a whole different, it's a whole different

game. That's, that's a whole, it's the sports

cards all over again, really. Um, but yeah, I've

always needed. a vice. Like I've always needed

an outlet and I've always been collecting, whether

it's wrestling figures or sports cards. I used

to collect hats at one point. I worked at LIDS

for a little while, but even before then, that's

why I worked there. Before then I used to collect

hats and whatever. I don't even know where half

of those are anymore. I have them somewhere.

They don't fit my big ass head anymore. I grew

out of them. But it just keeps evolving. My life

as a collector keeps evolving. I don't know what's

next because I guess next it's not even next

but the autograph stuff I guess is the latest

innovation in the collecting world for me Because

I I just don't I don't collect like common pops

as much anymore. I mean I will I have no problem

doing that it's just a matter of I I can get

them later on. I'm just not buying them immediately.

I guess it's more, more what I'm saying. I know

I'll be able to get them for five bucks later

on down the line. Like it's sad, but it's true

right now. And ladies and gentlemen, I just want

to make sure everybody knows, listen to the sound

of my voice. I am joking with him when I say

he has 27 million Funko pops because technically

Funko, according to their app only has 28 ,000

zero zero six products. So Well, yeah, I mean,

you know, I mean between all the stuff they've

retired and you know all the stuff they Between

the the the bitty pops now that are coming out

the wacky wobblers back in the day Yep, wacky

wobblers and thank God. I never get into those

some of those are expensive. Yeah Yeah, yeah,

they are very very expensive All right. What

is it? What is your motivation for purchasing

toys to display, play, fiddle? Describe your

collecting style. Are you a completionist? Yes,

he is. A storyteller, a cherry picker, or otherwise?

Man, I'm kind of a mishmash of everything, I'd

say. I'm a bit of an enigma. I like a lot of

things. I have no specifics. I mean, obviously,

there's things I like more than others. But if

people were to see my collection, like, as a

whole, like, if they were to come look at it,

whatever, and be like, do you just collect everything?

I'll be like, yeah, kind of. If they saw it in

2015, they would say the same thing. Because

back in 2015, I was kind of buying everything.

Like, I saw it, I bought it. I was like, cool.

I don't care what this is. I'm buying it. Very

cool. Wish I bought other things that I didn't

buy at the time, like the Simpsons Pops. That

would be nice. But it's just kind of a mishmash.

And like I kind of just said, again, I don't

know these questions ahead of time. But like

I just said, I like having a vice. I like having

an outlet. I like having something to do and

something to look forward to. This is what I

look forward to. I like getting packages in the

mail. I like getting new autographs. I need to

figure it out a little bit like I need to tone

it down a little bit, you know, not spend ridiculous

amounts of money on it. But You need to come

up with a system for yourself. Yeah, maybe someday.

Maybe someday. Do you have any nieces or nephews

or any of that kind of stuff? No, thank God.

My sister's too young. And if she ever had a

kid, I would kill her boyfriend. Oh boy. Eventually,

maybe eventually. No plans right now. Hopefully

it stays that way. In general, folks, normally

with people who are my age, I will ask question

29 and 30, which are, have you ever purchased

a toy for a child with the ulterior motive of

playing with it yourself? And have you ever purchased

a vintage toy for a child because you thought

it would be great for them based on your own

preferences? So we're going to skip those. Those

are great questions, though. Yes, and and just

quickly like I haven't but I 100 % will like

Whenever there's like a child in my life. I 100

% will Whoever it is, like my buddies are starting

to have kids or whatever. So like I'll be like,

hey, here you go. Check this out Hey, there you

go And maybe not for me but to like ruin my buddy's

life like to like try and get their kid into

stuff Uh, and just ruin that one. Oh, by the

way, here's Mark Hamill's autograph on this purple

joker. I am not doing that. That's coming to

me. And if I'm spending that, that would, that

would blow Headless Ned's value out of the water.

If I spent that kind of money. Jesus. Well, he

wasn't that expensive. Mark Hamill is expensive.

Okay. His autograph. Oh yeah. That's what I'm

talking about. Yeah. Yeah, his autograph is probably

very expensive. Oh, yeah, like that easily 17

to 2000. Yeah. Yeah. That that purple joker,

though, I think is under 300 bucks. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, definitely. I have the regular one, which

I prefer. I mean, it's just because it looks

like more, I guess. But I have that one somewhere.

Yeah, I like I like all. Yeah, absolutely. Do

you do any toy modifications or customs painting,

building, building dioramas, et cetera, et cetera?

So you've mentioned that you've done some, some

stuff. So what do you do? Not a lot. Um, I, like

I said, I only just started getting into like

box art and stuff like that. Just lightly, just

kind of four people or whatever. Uh, I did one

for a charity auction that is actually running

right now. So it's kind of useless for me to

talk about it. Um, but a big dog, David, he did

a charity auction now a few weeks ago. that I

had a box art custom in, and then I just did

one Alice in Wonderland for the box swap that

we have coming up. Again, already done, so it

doesn't matter, I can talk about it. There you

go. I've done a few head swaps for pops. I have

a Freddy White, I like to call it, which is Freddy

Funko's head on Rosen Island's body, so it's

a Freddy White. That's I don't really do anything

crazy. I don't customize. I don't paint like

I'm not a painter So I got nothing holding my

head in my hand folks a Freddy boy Are you fucking

kidding? They're not free to Funko. So I needed

to make something happen myself. I Don't know

why they haven't but what are you gonna do? At

least they finally did a baby Freddy Funko You

know what that baby is the devil. I love it.

He's holding the devil too. Oh God this stupid

thing on it. It's great. So an egg. I can't wait

for egg Yes, I have a complete by the way I'm

sure You know really seriously with those April

Fool's pops that they did this year That egg

should have come with a chicken, because that

way you could do the chicken or the egg. So funny.

It's so ridiculous. And like, I love that it

was like billed as an April Fool's joke, but

then it actually came out and everyone was like,

Oh my God. It was incredible. Yeah. And I'm sure

by the time this releases folks, hopefully we

will have future news of these actually happening.

But I think this is a Mr. Well, this is Mr. Slapshot

Pops' delusional dream of Star Wars bitty pops

or NFTs. No, it's the Star Wars NFTs. That's

what it is. Star Wars bitty pops are a thing

or that they will be soon. But yeah, Star Wars

NFTs like, yeah, sorry. No, they're not doing

that yet. Yeah. I take that with a grain of salt

because the account, even if they've been right

about things before, they were not an affiliated

Funko account that that came from. So I take

that with a grain of salt. It would surprise

me just because of how Disney is with their licenses.

And I've said this in the chat a couple of times

before. I never expect to see Marvel, Disney,

Star Wars. But if this does happen, that opens

the floodgates for so much more. And I will be

scared. I don't care about the Star Wars ones.

But once they start doing Marvel and like Disney,

some of those could get me into it. So I've already

been nominated by the people of Blue Chat to

have some kind of seminar on NFTs if Star Wars

were to be a thing. Hi, my name is Funko Fat

Guy and I'm an NFT collector. It's true. And

I'm so deep in it now that like, it's just, I

don't know. It's the thing I enjoy the most other

than autographs. So I don't know. There's a satisfaction

to it that I can't, I cannot describe until you

just figure it out yourself. There you go. Absolutely.

Do you think toy companies should specifically

have adult collector toys, child toys, or find

a way to mix both? Funko has kind of found a

way. I know I know I'm talking about Funko. It's

just in my world. Okay Funko has kind of found

a way to do that already. I'd say They have things

they kind of appeal it They have one product

being the pops that appeal to everybody in my

opinion I feel like you could be a kid and see

a pop and be like, oh, yeah, I want that This

character I like cool, but you could also be

an adult and be like, oh, yeah, that's character.

I like cool I'll buy that But the difference

is your mom's buying one and you're buying one

for the other one because you have money because

you are adult with a job I feel like they've

already figured that out and I've already talked

before about them being a toy company now and

how I don't care or for it But they have it's

not that it's not smart. I feel like they still

make more money than we think so I feel like

they're doing just fine despite there being landfills

full of nonsense That was... That whole situation

was just way too weird. Well, I just hope they

learn from it. I don't think they will, but I

hope they learn from it. The reason it was done...

I don't know, this is more for people listening,

I suppose. The reason it was done is because

it was cheaper for them to destroy them, basically,

than keep them in their warehouse, and that was

that. Yeah, it's a tax write -off. Yeah, that's

all it is. All right, do you and I already know

the answer to this question but boy Do you feel

you are coming to an end of your active toy collecting?

If so, what has signified this phase for you?

Was there ever a moment when you were completely

done with toys all together and have you ever

considered? Stopping as a collector or even selling

your whole collection all 27 million No There

have definitely been I've che I've definitely

shifted on how I feel about things But there's

zero percent chance. I sell everything there's

not okay I guess I can't say zero if something

crazy happened or whatever maybe but like right

now There's zero percent chance that I would

ever sell everything I have too much sentimental

value in a lot of these things Once I do move

there is going to be a big purge Um, but there's

always going to be something in my collection.

Um, but maybe it just won't be 27 million down

the line. Uh, but no, I don't know. Yeah, exactly.

I don't ever see myself getting out completely.

I just couldn't like, like I said before, I just

love collecting anything. Really? Uh, I have

more thought about getting less into video games

as far as collecting goes, just because. There

is some money in it, but there's not a ton as

opposed to these stupid little plastic assholes

There's for whatever reason video games some

some have great value some really do and and

it's surprising to me even But only if they're

sealed, you know what I mean? And like you said,

I can't play a game sealed. So like why was even

the point, you know, I Probably have I don't

even know I wouldn't even know where to start

on how many video games I have But I just have

like in my head, I have the idea of like in the

future, having like a nice shelf with all of

them on it and it'll look nice. But like, I'm

not doing that right now. That's for sure. So

if anything, those will be the first to go probably

other than like the random shit, because like

I've definitely been selling off just some random

like one off stuff that I bought of vinyl toys

that I don't collect or whatever. Uh, like chomps

and stuff like that. Those are the first to go.

And I've already seen, like I've already gotten

rid of some of those. So there's always an out,

like there's always going to be something you're

getting out of. Um, but I'm always going to be

in on something else. Very cool. Very cool. What

is something that does not have a toy of it you'd

love to have in toy form So let's say you end

up taking a trip out to Everett, Washington and

Funko gives you the keys to the kingdom What

would you want to make? Ah, this is gonna be

a real niche answer So I talked about persona

5 earlier But I've been playing a lot of Persona

4, which is obviously the game beforehand. I

would love pops of that. Just some of the characters.

We already have Persona 5 pops, so I don't need

that. But there are more characters they could

make. I'll be waiting for those someday, hopefully.

But Persona 4 has none. And I would love for

Persona 4 to have more. As far as more broad,

more of a broad answer. Definitely Jimmy Neutron.

Jimmy Neutron and Fairly Oddparents would be

probably two of my big ones that don't have it

that I would really love to have. There's no

Timmy Turner. There's no Jimmy Neutron. That's

so bizarre to me that I just, I don't, I don't

know how they can't get those licenses. With

all the Nickelodeon licenses they do have, I

can't understand why those don't exist yet. I

don't know how licensing works. That's not my,

that's not my biz. But like, I feel like it shouldn't

be that difficult. But what do I know? But those

those would be the two more broad answers that

that I would want. For me, there is. One, yeah,

there is one that I could be fine, like I could

be fine sitting here just looking at it and admiring

Street Sharks. You know what? Well, hell no.

Hell no. Street Sharks. Never. No, no, no, no.

No, no, no. I don't even think I've ever seen

that show when I'm old enough to have lived through

that era. Like a Street Sharks reference. Yeah,

exactly. They've done all these 80s pops. They've

done A -Team. They've done Golden Girls. They've

done Knight Rider. They've done MacGyver. They've

done all this 80s television stuff. Why? For

the love of God and everything on melmac. Have

they not done an elf pop yet? I actually agree

100 % Or more than me Or more commitment I both

or or perfect strangers or family tops or whatever

like insert family that family matters Yeah,

family matter is coming pretty soon. I believe

oh, it's funny again you by the time people hear

this they won't you know, whatever but I literally

just shared today, uh, from the pod meets world,

which is Daniel official, will Friedle and writer

strong doing a rewatch of their own show that

they were on for, you know, 30 years ago. So

they're doing a rewatch podcast, a boy meets

world. So they shared the, the infamous, uh,

they want you to take the roles where Corey and

Sean are dressed up like old men. I shared that

photo with the group. I'm like, okay, we have

Corey and Topanga as pops currently, and I have

them now. Why aren't there more boy meets world

pops? And why haven't we got old Cory and old

Sean? Like if we got old Cory and old Sean, that

would be like hit right out of the park. I'm

just bummed there's not a Mr. Feeny because he

does cons all the time. Like he does cons all

the time. And I mean, this is dark, but he's

an older man. So like, it's not going to happen

forever. He's 96 years old. It's just a missed

opportunity. Yeah, the only pop he has is one

that's not actually of him. Oh, it's Knight Rider.

It's the kid Yeah, that's right. It's Michael.

Yeah, that would actually be a very cool one

to get signed by both of them if possible Absolutely,

if possible that but it'd be hard to get on the

Hoff is not easy to get I can never too old for

video games So I've been trying to get an interview

with the Hoff For 15 years. So that's going to

be a tough one. Yeah. He's a shockingly busy

man. I'd say still still working. I don't know

how. Keep working on it, yeah. Why not? I mean,

if you can get them, it'd be cool. Yep, yep,

yep. Let's see here. What is a toy you'd love

to have scaled up and functional for the real

world? See, now that's where Transformers would

come into play. I never collected them. I never

had them. But like, if they could be real, I

would want them so fast. I would want those things

so fast. Give me a Transformer. That would be

dope. And not scaled up or, well, I guess scaled

up, but I would love real life Pokemon. I want

a scientist. To figure it out that we can make

real life a Pokemon that I can catch in a ball

and fight my friends with. That would be dope.

Never gonna happen. We'd have some weird genetic

splicing shit going on there. And PETA would

hate it. They already do. Yeah. But I want it.

Give me real Pokemon. Come on, science. Yeah,

you know, you change, you change the E to an

I and that organization is nothing but a pain

in the ass. Like, they have good intentions,

but they're all buttholes about it. Exactly.

Alright, I will edit this part out, but question

37 in a row. How have your spouse's significant

others, mates, partners dealt with your collection?

You're single, right? I'm sad and alone. Don't

edit it out. Ladies? Nerdy ladies? Hey, how you

doing? You looking for a fat guy with a bunch

of toys? How you doing? Wink? There you go There's

your promo I'm using that as your oh god, that's

that's amazing All right, well Toy collecting

can have its struggles. What is one aspect you

tend to struggle with the most? Spending too

much money. I don't have Never have a credit

card folks. It's a dangerous slippery slope You

go so deep in that shit. It is not good Working

on it working on that have one frozen right now.

So where everything's great On my yeah on my

end I did it I froze it. I'm like you got a chill

out buddy Yep, so yeah Basically, the advice

I would give is stay within your lane, don't

spend money you don't have, and try to enjoy

yourself without doing so. There you go. Absolutely.

What is one positive and or one negative memory

you have with buying toys? Hmm. Hmm. Interesting

question, and I honestly am not sure how to answer

it. I mean, I always remember like with my mom

and my dad going to like Toys R Us or whatever

as a kid. That was always a positive experience

just because of how everything was laid out.

The video game section was always nice and neat

and like looked like you could see like Game

Boy Color games and like little cases or whatever.

And I'm like, oh man, yeah, this is cool. If

I can go back right now, know what I know now,

man, I would clean up. I'd get me some sealed

Pokemon yellows. Hell yeah, I'd do that so fast.

Um, I don't, I'm sure there are negative experiences,

but like, I don't really associate, like, I don't

really know, like, I can't think of anything.

So I'm sure they exist. But I, which is a good

thing that I guess I was never really traumatized

by a toy experience. I accidentally stole a jawbreaker

from Toys R Us once that traumatized me a little.

I was only like, I was super young and I had

it in my pocket. Like not even thinking that

it does that count. It was in a toy store. Yeah,

absolutely. It counts. I just stole a job. I'm

a criminal. I am a hardened criminal. Just like

that jawbreaker. I'm hardened. Wait a minute.

Nope. Nope. Can't say that. um leave it in well

yeah but still like moving on sticking to it

all right colin ray he actually laughed at that

i can't but you actually got that joke wow maybe

it was a pity lord yeah well maybe All right,

where are we? What is the one piece of advice

you would give the toy collecting fandom in general?

It's kind of kind of along the lines of what

I said earlier, just like stay within your means

of financial area. Don't overspend. Kind of do

your research, especially if you're dealing with

with Funko and autograph pops specifically to.

Just do your any any toy really like any older

toy that you're maybe not sure about things can

be faked all the time No matter what it is Funko

is just one of those toy brands that is faked

a ton so do your research know what you're doing

be educated and don't feel like Don't feel like

it's a childish thing to do because I know a

lot of people don't collect because they're like

They feel like it's something only kids do or

something like that. Don't have that feeling.

Do what you want to do. And I feel like I did

feel that way for a little while, too. I was

like, no, no, there's kids or whatever. I'm like,

I'm a kid. Like, I'm still a kid. Like you said,

I mean, Toys R Us told us never grow up. We never

did. We just didn't know it. And now now these

come around and I mean, I got right back into

it. So that's what I'd have to say is just just

do what you want to do with toy collecting and

don't let anyone tell you that it's wrong. Yeah,

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all are welcome. Alright folks, we are back here

on Toycast with the Funko Fat Guy aka Jake and

it has been an awesome pleasure sir to talk to

you about all these toy things and autograph

things and... Whatever else and funko and all

that good stuff and where can the people find

your content sir? Oh, yeah I wish I had more

broad answers, but like I'm so like focused on

my one thing that I that's what I got to talk

about most but If you're into Funko and you want

to see the autograph King at work go to Funko

fat guy on YouTube I release videos sporadically.

I used to have a schedule I don't anymore. Whenever

I have something, I release it. And now I've

started to get into food reviews to kind of add

a little spice to the channel, you know, give

my own unique perspective on some of the random

ass foods that people have coming out. I don't

even know what's going to be out by the time

that this is out, but I know a couple of weeks

ago, it's coming out. For us right now Sunday

tomorrow But it's the wag lays wag you beef potato

chips. So go watch that video. You can see me

not enjoy things I'll tell you that much is real

gross But it's gonna be fun. The gross ones are

the fun ones And you can follow me on Instagram

Funko fat guy. I try to post pretty often, but

I've slowed down a little bit there, but I'm

super interactive on both my YouTube channel

and my Instagram. Very cool, very cool. Yeah,

at this point I've been on YouTube for about

the same time and length that I've been podcasting

15 years or so. And I have always said, I am

not a YouTuber. I'm a podcaster. So I own, like

I have a video from three months ago. I have

about seven videos from a month ago. Kind of

like I don't, I like YouTube, but I was never

like, I don't do. No one kind of like a fat John

Cena. Nobody needs to see this. I like kind of

like, you know, no, no, no, no, no. No, thank

you. You don't need to see me. You only just

hear the sound of my voice, which probably everybody

hates anyway. The thing with I can kind of relate.

I've always been kind of like. I'm not saying

this is the same with you, but like I've always

been kind of like a self -conscious guy because

like, I mean, bigger, we're bigger guys. Like

some people, whatever. Some people say things,

whatever. I've just learned to kind of not care.

You know, like I've just kind of built my own

personality and like, I do hand it up a little

bit on the channel, but it's not like. It's not

too different from how I really am. I just have

sunglasses on. Like that's really, that's really

it. Um, but like, and, and maybe that is kind

of a way of me to kind of hide myself a little

bit behind it. Um, but I've all people love it.

I mean, people, people love it and that's kind

of what you need to break out. I feel like in

the YouTube space and I'm not saying I've broken

out. I've not even come close to breaking out.

But I feel like that's kind of what you need

in the YouTube space. You need to be noticeable.

You need to be noticed by just casual people.

And I feel like having a look is important. And

I never wanted to do it. I really never wanted

to do it. But I just figured, you know what,

why not? I'm getting all these packages in the

mail. I'm getting all this stuff. Why not show

my collection to the world the best way that

I can? And even still, like, I haven't been doing

it well lately. Um, but at the beginning, I mean,

I was pumping out stuff weekly and bi -weekly

even, or like, or multiple times a week, I guess

I should say. Um, I was pumping stuff out all

the time. I've just, I buy significantly less

now or pay more money and get less, you know

what I mean? Um, but so I'm just getting less

packages in the mail now. So I don't do it as

much, but when I do, I mean, I try to make it

at least funny. Like I try to be a, I'm a comedian.

Like I try to be a comedian more so than like

a content creator or whatever. I don't consider

myself a YouTuber, but what else am I? I suppose

I'm on YouTube. I say things on YouTube. So close

enough, I guess. I guess I just don't associate

myself as a YouTuber. Yeah. And the thing is,

like you said, you have to find a niche. You

have to find a thing that's yours, a thing that

nobody else is doing. You have to make sure it's

this, that, the other thing. And you have a unique

logo. You obviously have, I mean, it's a... Unique

ish name, but I mean, you know any anybody can

hell I could be a fucking iteration uncle fat

guy to illiterate. Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely

And that's always been what it's been. I've always

picked bright colors and like I picked the name

first, the name came first, the logo came second,

but I've always been bright colors because like

if I'm chatting in like a whatnot chat or whatever,

or like any kind of chat, I want that logo to

stand out. Like no matter what, even if you can

barely tell what it is, I want the colors to

stand out. My original colors were neon pink

and green. Like they're gonna stand out no matter

what. And I feel like branding is just as important.

as how you present yourself on camera, that it's

like, it's so crazy. I'm not even, like I said,

I'm not even, I'm barely in this world and I

just... Would I love to have more like followers

or whatever subscribers sure but like I'm not

doing it for that I'm doing it because I want

to show off my collection and there are dedicated

people that will watch weekly and I Appreciate

them just as much as I appreciate the people

who don't comment or whatever weekly But it is

what it is. I if something happens great if there's

an explosion great, but I'm not doing it for

that Yeah Yeah, no, you're doing it for yourself

and you're doing it, you know to yeah, it's an

outlet for me This is for me to do and there

are times where I don't want to there have been

times on my channel There there's a void of months

and that's just I mean Not to get like too super

deep and sentimental, but like I deal with depression.

I deal with anxiety. Like I deal with that kind

of stuff. I feel like that's just kind of like

a every millennial thing now. Nowadays, but but

I do deal with stuff. So this is just an outlet.

I love talking to people. I love interacting

with not even fans, but just people are part

of the community. I don't, I don't like calling

people fans of mine. I don't. It's just, I, I,

I, they're my friends. Like these people are

my friends. Um, I've grown relationships with

them like cord. I mean, you cords in our group

chat. I've known cord now. Like three years pro

or almost three years, I'd say. And from the

beginning, basically. So like, he's a buddy,

like he's a friend, you know, it's just, it's.

That's how I like to see things. I don't see

them as fans. I see the people that watch my

videos as like my friends as corny as that is.

I do it for them and for myself. But but yeah,

it's just it's a nice outlet that I when I when

I like doing it, I love doing it. Absolutely,

absolutely. All right, folks, that's going to

do it for us. I wanted to make episode 177 because

77 is a Star Wars number because of 1977 when

Star Wars first came out. I wanted to make that

the Slapshot Pops episode, but sadly I don't

think that's going to happen. They are busy.

However, yes, yes, I know they are busy. I understand.

I can bend over backwards. Don't make me put

up a billboard in Boston. I will. I know you

will. Uh -huh. One million by December 31st,

2023, 1159 PM Eastern Time. All right, that's

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probably going to be some sort of Star Wars like

display case. So we'll have you back on for one

of these at some point, but usually, so I've

been running this show. I've been doing the show

since 2009 when we launched. Yeah. And one of

the things like I didn't want to just be the

everyday toy podcast that every episode is let's

talk about the news. Let's this, I don't want

to do that. So basically I took what is essentially

a YouTube review and made it an audio version

and it's called display case and basically we

break open the display case I actually use glass

shatters. I use the disturbed version of glass

shatters and I have 2002 you'll like this I have

2002 Skeletor Brian whatever his name is. I have

him where as Skeletor in one of the episodes

of the 2002 He -Man cartoon, he says, don't touch.

So the glass shatters and then he says, don't

touch. And then it comes back to us. And we just

like, like I picked up a Funko Pop Lights and

Sounds Batman earlier. Oh, is that what we were

hearing earlier? Yeah. Yeah, talk about licensing

Jason the licensing director over at funko is

the voice of oh, that's funko pop likes license

sounds Batman, so Basically you pick up a toy

in box out of box Whatever you want to do and

we sit here and we talk about it and we go around

the table, you know It's kind of late. It's not

like duck duck goose but it's kind of like we

just sit here and have a fun conversation for

like 20 or 30 minutes and Display case and boom.

There you go. There's like seven recordings we

can do and you know seven episodes of a 20 -minute

toy discussion There you go. That's that's almost

two months worth of content. There you go. Perfect

Absolutely. So next time on Toycast like I said

probably gonna be a display case for now I am

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next time and we'll be talking more toys here

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