Mercari Reuse Report 2022: Family Edition!!

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into geekdom is... And joining us for the first

time in quite some time is... Pecan Court Michael.

Yep. I believe it's the first time on this show

ever. It might have been once, like, way back

when. I don't remember that. I've been around,

like, what, 10, 12 years? Yes, you have. At any

point in time, I may have been on this show.

I think you may have at one point. I guess. We

don't know. Nobody looked it up. Let's just say

this is my first time. Yeah. Be gentle. So are

we going to alter your geek tonight? No. No,

no, no. That requires more adulting than any

of us has anything to do with at this point in

time in the evening. That's right. I was moved

exactly six inches. To the left. It's horrible.

Old jokes die hard. Exactly. Are you ready to

start over? No, they don't. This is usually how

we have it. I know. It's like old friends getting

together. 10 -year -old jokes come back. What's

sad is my kids are 9 and 7. He'll be 10 in another

month. Happy birthday. I've taught them some

of the annoying songs of the internet. Badger,

badger, badger. He's taught them narwhals. I've

taught them narwhals because it's a little off

-color in spots. But I've got... What? Yeah,

I don't need them running around. Yeah, I'm just

going to kick you in your balls, you know. And

you know that's the line they'd latch on to because

that's the line he latched on to. Yeah, so there's

another channel that they do raining tacos and

some other songs. And so my kids find them. Oh,

raining tacos. It's funny. We'll be in the car

and we'll be listening to my son's soundtrack

and it will vary. wildly like from we'll have

some alice cooper we'll have some ozzy osbourne

and then raining tacos like what the hell am

i listening to they were such a hit that the

guy came up with he he changed it from like a

three -part thing it's now a nine -part thing

and there's six already recorded in the raining

taco saga it's called the raining taco saga now

and uh he's got three more he's got to put together

for that i don't even know what he's got left

Yeah, you don't want that stuck in your head.

It won't go away. The kid was trying to pull

up on Google Home one day. What is it? It's like

Baby Shark, but Baby Monkey. And anyways, so

we set it to the thing and then it pulls up by

the same person who does the reigning tacos.

It's Baby Monkey riding backwards on a pig. And

so my kids just laughed and fell to the floor

over it because it's so stupid. You might have

to sing this a little. Please do not. The purpose

of this show is not goofy videos. Not for us

to reminisce about old times with badgers. It's

about how... With inflation and the cost of everything

going up, I saw this report from Mercari, which

is basically like a marketplace, kind of like

eBay and Facebook Marketplace, kind of a combination

of things. But it's a secondhand market, very

much like eBay. And they published this report

saying... The reuse report, family edition of

how there's going to be this huge market for

secondhand sales, especially kids and baby and

the 83 % growth by 2030 with $12 .8 billion.

Billion with a B. Yeah, and I was like, oh, that's...

crazy because that's pretty much what i do with

my kids because i mean isn't that what all of

our parents did with us yeah my parents really

worked for general motors and i pretty much got

whatever i wanted for christmas i had the entire

ninja turtle lineup when i was a kid i had the

entire like batman batman returns like set up

like there wasn't something I had the entire

Star Trek set up. I mean, anything I wanted within

two years, I had everything. Um, okay. But like

for clothing specifically, yeah. Clothing. I

mean, my kids brought his stuff. So strictly

Oshkosh, my gosh. Yeah. I mean, unless you're

getting new underwear and socks in the eighties,

normally my mom would have found sweaters or

sweatshirts or whatever at either. A resold,

you know, like a secondhand store type of place

versus going to. And yes, several times she did

go to JCPenney and Sears and that kind of stuff.

But like I'm reading this. So there's going to

be two links to these things because I pulled

up the second part of this where it actually

shows you all the graphs. And my brain just went

like. straggling down the street from all these

numbers i'm like what in the sam like 27 billion

electronics 27 .5 billion dollars in like used

electronics i'm like what and so but yeah i mean

i'm reading this thing where it says america's

perception of shopping reuse is evolving the

nation of recommend of re -commerce is becoming

more appealing than commerce thanks to the public's

increasing consciousness around sustainably and

desire to spend responsibly. Okay. Yes. In the

eighties, our parents probably didn't spend responsibly

all of the time, but this whole secondhand thing

isn't new just because the internet's been around

since the nineties. And now this is picking up

on it. Kind of like, yeah, but go ahead. Sorry.

So, I mean, For instance, for me, my mom never

bought secondhand when I was a kid. I don't know

if it was just didn't want to or just didn't

care to or I don't know. I didn't really get

into the secondhand stuff until I was, I think,

hanging out. I think it was my stepdad got me

into secondhand stuff with there was this comic

shop that had old. beat up transformers so we

called it the transformer shop ah and we had

to dig through bins of crap to put together the

robots and within our price range of course i

think i parted out like a g2 optimus prime a

g1 optimus prime a sound wave various other characters

over the years and So I had some exposure there.

I had some exposure going to a flea market in

Florida with my dad and my aunt, and I picked

up a G2 Megatron tank for $2 because the guy

didn't know what he had. It was still in vehicle

mode, and I looked at it, and I'm like, I know

what that is. Don't tell anybody. It's a green

tank with tiger stripes. I was so ecstatic over

it, too. And then I bought used Game Boys, used

console games with my dad. So I was kind of used

to some of that. And then I kind of got more

into the other stuff as just being married and

broke. You're just like, what can I get? And

then having kids, of course. You're like, all

my furniture. Other than the fabric furniture

or my computer chairs, stuff like that. Desks,

tables, dining room chairs. Those are all secondhand.

Because they're so much cheaper. Furniture is

expensive. Yes, it is. I've had the same desk

for the past decade and a half. I'm not kidding.

I remember that desk. You put it together. Well,

yes, absolutely. No, I was going to say, um,

uh, for instance, like my, uh, my desk, it's,

I, I got it, I think for like 200 bucks or something.

And that, I mean, I got a nice desk too. Uh,

very modular, especially the second one. The

first one was just a pain, uh, but you can't

barely sell furniture out here. In Colorado,

nobody wants it. You have to put it almost borderline

for free on Marketplace just to get rid of it.

Now, collectibles, on the other hand, if people

know what they're worth, they skyrocket the price.

Once in a while, you'll find a gem. That's crazy.

Well, I mean, if we're circling back toward...

kids and baby items. When my kids were little,

right, we never bought anything from the store.

We bought everything in a garage sales because

everybody has kids that are growing out of their

clothes. And it's really, you know, it's really

easy to buy the, you know, and like you said,

occasionally it's like, Oh, Hey, wait, this is

all Carter's and Oshkosh. So it's worth five

bucks each, but. You find the right place, and

you're going to pick up the Carters and Oshkosh

for $0 .50. So our kids were little. Both of

them were babies in the summertime. So toward

the end of the summer, you have all these end

-of -season garage sales, and we would just scoop

up everything, all the stuff we needed for the

kids. We'd buy it all for pennies on the dollar.

older, you know, Oh, all this baby stuff has

to go. And we carted back out to the driveway

and sell it to someone else for a quarter. Yeah.

And that's the same way my mom was. Cause out

of the three of us, I'm the only one without

kids. Thank God. I don't, I don't, I don't need

any versions of myself. God. Yeah. I don't need

many versions of myself. I'm, I'm more than enough.

Thank you. Uh, no breeding for you. Exactly.

When I was, uh, When I was a kid in the 80s,

it was the same thing. The only time I got name

brands, like I said a second ago, JCPenney, Sears,

that kind of stuff, because back in the 80s,

that was the old navy of whatever kind of thing.

But that was like Christmas, birthdays, yada,

Easter. Oh, God, Easter outfits. Don't even get

me started. You know, those were the times like

Christmas and my birthday were the times that

I got new clothes from the store. Every other

time is exactly what you're talking. And I'm

not just talking about as I'm talking about five,

six, seven, eight, nine, 10 year old, those ages.

My mom was always buying from garage. We went

around to like a million different garage sales

in Massachusetts as a kid. So, yeah, I mean,

it's always been this way, except now the industry

of this is now grown to the point where apparently

by 2030, it's going to be over like 50 billion,

fajillion, Dr. Evil numbers of value or whatever.

Right. Wow. When I was really little, like when

it was my family buying clothes for me, you know,

we were really poor. So my mom bought everything

from the secondhand store and that included like

back to school clothes. So I'm heading into school

on the first day with a T -shirt that said Disco

Fever. And it had big sparkly – Exactly. It was

like late 70s. There was sparkly disco ball letters

that had all been rubbed off over the years.

So this is already an old shirt. And at the time,

I was so proud of that shirt, and everybody made

fun of me. It was really terrible. So at the

time, it was like, oh, man, I was not terribly

proud of owning all hand -me -down clothes. But

that's what we got. It was like either people

gave us clothes or, worst case scenario, she

went to the Goodwill store and had to pay a quarter

for a T -shirt or something. But, I mean, with

our kids, when Easter rolls around, when Christmas

rolls around, of course we're going to go to

Carter's or Oshkosh and buy them an outfit or

matching outfits. God forbid, in some cases,

we all have matching outfits. It's like, how

all out are we going to go for this Easter photo

with the whole family? It's like, no, we're all

going to wear the same color. It gets out there.

But for the most part, a lot of... A lot of secondhand

stuff. It's just easier to buy. When the kids

are older, suddenly they're starting to play

in the mud and things that toddlers don't do.

Baby clothes, they may get a little spit up on

them, but you can wash that out. Ten -year -olds,

they're going to tear up the knees. They're going

to get ridiculous food stains all over them.

It's harder to get secondhand clothes. Exactly,

yeah. It's harder to get nice clothes at the

secondhand shop for older kids. But for babies,

no, he scooped those up. Really nice stuff for

pennies on the dollar at the garage sales. There

is a place near us, and I may have mentioned

it earlier or maybe before, but it was called

Once Upon a Child. Oh, yeah. Terrible name. Yes.

Terrible name. But occasionally we would take

our stuff in there and say, hey, you want to

buy this stuff? And they would look through it

and tell you, yeah, we like this. We like this.

We're not going to buy this. We're not going

to buy this. And they would give you a dollar

value for what they wanted to keep. And at the

time, it's like it's either going to go on a

garage sale or I'm going to throw it away. So

you take what you want and give me a check. Yeah.

Throw me a couple bucks and I'll be happy. But

we never buy stuff there because – Oh, no. No.

They wanted almost full price for this stuff

that they just bought. me for a buck so which

again is is half a buck more than i would have

gotten at the garage sale that i would have sold

it at right yeah exactly so basically what he's

talking about here is is like you know we we

we can equate this to the geekdom You find this

G1, this Beast Wars, this Beast Machine, and

you go into whatever store you want to see. Let's

just say, for example, Steve comes here to Indiana,

and he and I go to Michael's house, and we start

pilfering through Michael's basement and his

entire collection. We'll take this, this, and

this, and this, and this to the second -hand

store, and they'll give us maybe... $75? They'll

turn around and sell each figure for $1 ,000

a piece. Maybe $100 each. Yes, but I'm saying

that's my whole point. Once upon a child, you

never wanted to buy there. You always wanted

to sit like, I've known people with kids over

the years besides you guys. I've known other

friends over the years that have had kids and

whatever. My friend Ashley from a long, long

time ago. when she first had her first son, she

was always in there. Every time he would grow

out of stuff, he, she would just save a big giant

tote of his clothes that he grew out of. And

she would take it in there. She'd get like 200

bucks for like age four through age eight. And

by age nine, he had the, whatever current clothes

that she had him in, whatever else, but she'd

go in there and hold tire bin, whatever they

were going to, you know, buy off you. It ended

up being like 200 bucks at the same time. But

then again, they turn around and sell it for

basically new prices. And it's like, Oh, once

upon a child is a, is an institution that no

one ever wants to really buy from. So like a

lot of, but like I said, it's good. I mean, it's,

it's great to be able to, you know, dump off

stuff that you're never going to use again just

to try and not only offload it, but get a little

cash. Cause I mean, Back before Marketplace and

some of these online avenues like Mercari and

things like that, we used to have to rely on

things like Craigslist or having a yard sale.

I don't know if you've done a yard sale recently.

Have you ever hosted a yard sale? Before I moved

from Michigan, I hosted many of them. I will

say some of them that I held, I did make close

to a grand. dumping off stuff, but I had a lot

more that still had to go to Goodwill. We would

always sell tables of stuff and make a grand.

And it's weird because you're making $1 ,000

a dollar at a time. So we're throwing a lot of

stuff out. But at the same time, when we get

done, whatever's left, we're throwing in the

trunk and taking it to Goodwill. And then Goodwill

will take it off our hands and hand us a... a

form that we can use as a tax write -off. We

always take the maximum for donated items every

year on our taxes. I've gotten fortunate going

to various... We have flea markets around here,

but they're usually just people's junk. As nicely

as I can say it, because it usually is... totally

garbage. Once in a while, you'll find a decent

item. Like I happened to go to one and they had

actual transformer figures and they were very

low priced. And I was like, Holy crap. I'm like,

I know what these go for on eBay. Can I buy you

out? Uh, the only one that they had, have you

tried to sell something on eBay lately? It sucks

too. It sucks. I know. The funds out of it. The

funds, meaning like 10 %? Yeah, between that

and just it sometimes could take forever to get

it sold. Oh my gosh. I forgot what it was. I

sold something maybe a year ago and when I saw

that it was a 10 % cut that they wanted and that

was like 50 bucks they took out of it. I was

like, oh my god, this is ridiculous. I thought

I was going to... I thought that by going through

eBay, I'd be taking this relatively big ticket

item and opening it up to the biggest audience.

And it did. But at the same time, they wanted

a ridiculous share out of it. And back in the

day, it was what, like 1 .5 % or something? Well,

yeah. I mean, 2006, 2007, 2008 to 2010 compared

to now in 2022. They don't even let you use PayPal

anymore. Oh, really? But they bought PayPal.

No, they split. Yeah, that's like part of the

system. They... Oh, I didn't know. You can pay

with PayPal, but you cannot sell with PayPal.

Now you have to have it connected to a bank account

to get your funds. And they deposit it when they

feel like it. Wow. Oh, that's insane. You can

set dates, but it's... I hate that. Yeah, you

have to have it connected to your bank, which

is... sketchy. I've had some luck with Facebook

Marketplace. I feel weird having people come

to my house to pick stuff up. I had a couple

computer monitors and the guy showed up and said,

here's $200. Take this monitor and he drove off

with it. You can sell stuff. And people will

just come and get it and hand you cash. And it

seems really convenient, but at the same time

kind of scary. See, that's not my experience

with Marketplace. My experience with Marketplace

is, yes, it's easy to sell on there and everything

else. But when you have, like, say you're selling

an Optimal Optimus and I go and I say, hey, I'm

interested in this item. How much do you, you

know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, it's

this much. Here you go. Here's the PayPal. I'll

come pick it up late. You know, I've never used

cash with marketplace. It's always been online

transaction. I've done cash because if you report

it sold on marketplace, you have to pay taxes

on it at the end of the year. Oh, wow. That's

yeah. I've never had to hit sold before. It's

always asked me, did you sell it? And I say,

no. It's like, well, technically I didn't. But

the other thing is if you use PayPal through

Facebook, it's difficult to remove it. Because

with all their data breaches, I just don't trust

them. A lot of people do Venmo. Venmo, Zelle.

Zelle goes through Chase. Venmo is run by PayPal.

personalized version. We have PayPal, we have

Zelle, we have Venmo. I like cash better. I can

see why the market is getting bigger in this

department anyway, just because between clothing,

between household items, just with the cost of

everything going up. I don't know about you.

Inflation. It's ridiculous lately. I mean, the

cost of a loaf of bread has gone up a dollar

in the last six months. It's crazy how much milk

costs. Eggs. Eggs used to cost two bucks for

a grade A dozen. We used to buy five dozen at

Sam's Club for about nine bucks, and it's like

17 now. And when you have little kids like that,

diapers are hard enough to do, but they grow.

Like a lot. Like really fast. And you're constantly

buying them new clothes. And even if you go to

Target, you're still paying $5, $10 for an outfit.

So if you can pick up outfits for 10 % of what

they cost at Target, do it. That's the way to

go. It's a no -brainer. I rarely even buy new

clothes for myself just because... One, I don't

outgrow it. It usually wears out before, which

is when my wife makes me get new clothes. Right.

When my underwear literally stands up on its

own and tries to walk out the door, that's time

to buy new underwear. Okay, Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

I can see daylight through these undies. I guess

I need new ones. I don't know. Like, I don't

know if you tried to buy anything during the

whole lockdown, like appliances wise. It's still

difficult to get appliances. No. Oh my gosh,

we didn't leave the house during lockdown. We

didn't either, for the most part. We sold a house

during COVID and bought a new one because the

area was just terrible and we needed out and

the people that bought our house in the one city.

needed a washer and dryer because they literally

had the only things that they actually owned

were in their car and they were like we want

the washer and dryer i guess because they did

research on it we didn't uh because you couldn't

get one so we went four months without a washer

and dryer and no because you just couldn't get

one and we still didn't get the right color and

actually uh I know a number of people that have

had, whether they bought a boat or whether they

bought household appliances. Somebody's like,

pray that your refrigerator doesn't die because

you ain't getting one. And we did get a washer

and dryer. And then we had a deep freezer go

out. And thankfully, the store that we bought

it from only had four left. And my wife was like

number three in line and got one of them. Because

it was so bad, it had ice chunks coming out the

back. Yeah. It was, it was bad. Um, but yeah,

no, I mean, it's just, it's, it's so difficult

to get things just from not only a quality standpoint

or a, yeah, the supply chain, the supply chain

just completely fell apart over COVID now that

it's, you kind of just have to either hold onto

stuff or find it used to make it worth, you know,

and half the time you're still paying probably

what it would cost five years ago to get something

new. Wow. Yeah, I don't think we had to buy any

big ticket items over that period of time. I

mean, and I was working from home. I still work

from home over COVID, but we never left the house.

It's crazy. Yeah, that's the same thing with

Karen and I. We moved right before everything

hit. It is what it is, but it's one of those

things where, yeah, it's just crazy. Because

in the before times, you could actually get stuff

for a decent price. And while there have always

been supply issues and things like that in the

past, it's never been like it is now. It turned

into a fun expedition looking at Transformers

in the store during COVID. um, when we were coming

out of the lockdowns because, well, really, cause

it was like January of last year. And I was,

I was looking cause I knew the kingdom thing

figures were coming out, you know, like Megatron,

you know, uh, black arachnia, cheetor and, uh,

primal, I think we're out. And, uh, it was funny

because when I'd get, Cause I'm on all sparks

discord and their, their forums and everything.

And I kind of keep up with everything of when

it's coming out. But I ended up getting a few

of them from BBTS. And then some of them, like

I had to call, like I kind of live centrally

to like five targets and three, three Walmarts.

So I was like, do you have this? Do you have

this? And I would call them up and give them

the DCPI number after I figured out what that

was. And yeah, it was like literally hunting.

to see if I could find it before BBTS would actually

get it in, which was usually two to three months

after everybody didn't have it anymore or did

have it at one point. I tend to luck out because

the randomness of these stores locally. But yeah,

just the amount that was not there or the empty

shelves in general on anything was just kind

of insane. Yeah. Yeah, no, the grocery store

shelves were... It started with toilet paper.

I remember trying to find toilet paper. I remember

when the toilet paper came back. People were

freaking out. Toilet paper came back, and then

disinfectant wipes came back. People were just

going nuts over them. We shop at Costco and Sam's

Club, and I forget which one. One of them ended

up getting... disinfectant wipes in stock. They

had an entire aisle full and there was a line

all the way out the door to get them. We sat

in that line to get them. I lucked out before

all the lockdown. We buy our TP in bulk. I actually

was getting it at Sam's Club or Home Depot. It's

the same brand. All right. The 96 roll for like

40 bucks. No. Uh, yeah. Oh, 40 bucks. Oh my God.

No, no, I wasn't overpriced at the one time I

was getting him for like 25 bucks for 96 rolls.

You know, the, uh, but yes, yeah, it was anywhere

between 25 and like 40, just depending on, but

at the time where it's worth its weight in gold,

I know what I got had enough to get us through,

but I didn't want to chance it. Uh, so I ordered

from a, uh, it was like HD supply pro or something.

And it's like a business supplier. I signed up

for a business account and ordered, I ordered

the same case and I think it cost me like 55

bucks, but I had to wait like three weeks to

get it. And I was like, Oh, I'm good. I'm like,

it'll show up when it shows up. How much do you

have to wipe your butt to run out of 96 rolls?

That's a six -month supply. But it was funny

because people were being sarcastic with it on

Marketplace. You know, we'll trade for this.

And I was like, I stacked ours up in the basement,

took a picture, and I was like, we'll trade for

yacht. That's right. You say that, Michael, but

you've got to think. 96 rolls times four people

in a family. That doesn't last very long. You

know what? It's not gold to them. I have four

people in my family, and my wife mummifies her

hand. You can't just have one slice or one sheet.

Maybe two folded over. No, this is like Tutankhamen

here. You use way too much toilet paper. Calm

that shit down. You know how expensive that is

now? Reminds me. I use one sheet and I use both

sides. That's a joke. I'm just kidding. And there's

people out there trying to imagine it now. Does

he fold it first? Does he just turn it over?

What happens to the first side when he turns

it over? Does that go in his hand? I was seriously

contemplating buying a bidet. Here, would you

like a chocolate -covered pretzel? You know,

I just read this recently. There's an X -Men

character whose name is Soft Serve. And her mutant

power is that she poops ice cream. It is hilarious.

It's funny. I thought it was funny. And it was

supposed to be like... Well, that's some premium

soft serve there. What was that commercial? It

was some type of toilet accessory or something,

but as the mascot, they had a unicorn that pooped

ice cream. It's probably on YouTube somewhere.

You've got to look this up. It's hilarious. Was

it like the Nyan Cat? Was it like the Nyan Cat?

Yeah. No, no, not the Nyan Cat. Oh, man. It was

like a pedestal that sat in front of your toilet

so that you could put your feet on it so that

your knees were hiked up while you pooped. And

as a visual aid, instead of watching a guy poop,

there was a unicorn. And it was like a Muppet

almost. And the Muppet was pooping. ice cream

and the funny thing is the narrator like picks

up this ice cream cone and goes and slurps it

up but he's like that's good poo it's so awful

it's terrible oh kermit where's kermit when we

really need him oh no no i found it i found it

hold on i'm gonna send you the link i know it's

funny this is the squatty potty that's what it

was called Oh, God. You have to see this. How

have you not seen this? Because I don't watch

baby stuff. It's not baby stuff. It's an actual

item. It's an actual thing that you would get.

Who the hell uses Bing as a search engine? I

don't know. I want points. Damn it. I want points.

I almost said I want poops because I'm looking

at the squatty potty, but yeah. I want ice cream

coming out of a unicorn butt. Are you watching

it? It's hilarious. It is the funniest commercial.

He's like, that's good poop. Oh man, is it funny.

The unicorn's adorable. I mean, it looks like

a Muppet. The top bar of suggestions is unicorn

poop versus slime. I said commercial for potty

pedestal unicorn poop, and that popped up first.

I was like, this is awesome. Oh, that's horrible.

It's the most horrible thing. And there's not

just one commercial. There's several. My kids

would be laughing hysterically at this. Oh, dear.

Oh, it's totally PG. I'd be laughing about it,

though. I'm going to have to text this to my

kids right now. They've probably seen it. How

have you not seen this? I think it was all over

YouTube there for a while. So while you guys

are talking about getting down that rat hole,

sorry. I'm over on the Marvel database looking

up soft serve. Okay. And she is not the only

ice cream. Powered mutant, apparently. But the

only one that poops. Okay, yes, but... She has

an internal portal to the plane of fudge. I just...

Dude, you're ruining ice cream. Oh, no. That's

one way I'm going to lose weight in the next

ten years is never eating ice cream ever again

after this. Oh, man. We just envision this unicorn

every time you have a nice ice cream cone. See,

folks, this is why even though Steve wants to

keep his show PG, this is why I use the explicit

tag because of the NUN don't. Sorry. This is

why we can't have nice things. No, no. It's not

gone that far yet. My family motto. This is why

we can't have nice things, kids. So apparently,

like I said, soft serve is not the only mutant

with ice cream related powers. The other being

the assassin. I scream E Y E dash scream who

can turn himself into any flavor of ice cream.

According to Bob Quinn, there is no relation

between the two, but soft serve is a big fan

of ice cream. She's a big fan of a villain. That

doesn't make sense. That's not very X manly.

It says he's an assassin. It doesn't say he's

a villain. Oh, well, I mean... Technically, Wolverine's

an assassin, right? Exactly. I don't understand.

I don't understand why they have a character

that's ice cream and he can turn himself into

ice cream. Does he turn his eyes into ice cream?

Is it like eye lasers, except it's creamy, soft

-serve lasers? Not lasers. This doesn't make

any sense. By a villain called Obnoxio, which

is a clown. Oh, God. Nice. Okay. Again, according

to, and again, I will have to throw this. I will

have to throw these Marvel database links in

the show notes, but according to his history.

Oh, turn the unicorn poop link into the show

I don't know. I'm going to text it to everyone

right now. Yes, yes. Ice Cream was a mutant who

felt ridiculous due to the X -Men's fantastic

abilities. He heard of their danger room through

the mutant community and intended to destroy

them. He tried to infiltrate Xavier's school

for the gifted youngsters on the same day as

the birthday party. Professor Xavier was organizing

for Kitty Pryde. So he's not technically... It

doesn't say he's part of the Brotherhood of Mutants

or anything like that. He's a criminal. I love

the photo of him sitting there next to him. Got

his fists up in the air. And his bottom half

is a puddle of ice cream. His bottom half is

a puddle of chocolate ice cream. Oh, man. Yeah.

That sounds like a Sandman ripoff, you know?

Yeah. And I mean, like I said, Gambit was a criminal,

but he's part of the X -Men. So, yeah, I mean,

it does not say anything specific to him being

an actual villain. All right. Fair enough. So.

You can't actually buy ice cream at the Once

Upon a Child. Why would you want to? I don't

know how we got down this rat hole. So the Mercari

report, like what else do we want to say about

this thing? Well, I think it's just interesting

that they're, they're coming out with these figures

for, you know, the fact that they can see people

doing more secondhand purchasing when it's apparently

been prevalent for all mankind in all time. It's

just, it's more of a, now it's not, people can't

afford new stuff. Yeah. But there are actual

stores that do it now. It's not like, oh, it's

a garage sale. It's not like a flea market. It's

a store that sells secondhand children's items.

Yes. And occasionally you hear stories about,

I went to Once Upon a Child and found a mint

in box jet fire. I hate these people. You just

hate them. So which one of these people do you

now hate? I was about to say, it's not you. I

know you do. No, it's not me because I don't

– yeah, no. No, no, no. I've heard this before.

It's like, oh, yeah, I got a Minson box Jetfire

at the Goodwill. Or one of you two, I forget,

found the Minson box Tycho Transformers train.

No, that was Gary. He found it at BotCon or TF

– yeah, that was Optimus Scourge. That was years

ago. He's been gone a long time now. Oh, that's

terrible. I can't hate a dead guy. No, you can't

hate a dead guy. That's terrible. I remember

him now. He found it at, he either had it or

bought it at a TF con and brought it home and

set it up. And there's videos on his, you know,

on his old YouTube channel of it and everything

else. But yeah. Yeah, that was Gary that had

the Tycho. I'm pretty sure I heard a story of

somebody who found one at a Goodwill store, so

I'm going to go with that. It was not the guy

that died. I wouldn't hate him. That's terrible.

Yeah, that's terrible. And I swear to God, anyone

mentions a secondhand store again, I'm going

to throw Raspberry Beret into this podcast because

that's all I can think of. The kind you find

in the secondhand store? Yes. One of those. All

right. Yeah, that's all I can think of. I even

pulled up the damn lyrics to make sure I was

right. That's awesome. I love Prince. He went

before his time. Yes, yes, he did. Did we miss

anything with this, Steve? I don't think so.

Okay. I fear of where we might go if we let this

drag on too long. Well, in this episode, then

there's the next episode with Twitter and fans

and critics and all that other stuff. So, yeah.

Yeah. Close it out, Mike. You guys have fans?

No. Oh, okay. He wants me to close the show out

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