The Return of ToyCast and Chicago Toy Show 2021 Haul

Hi, this is Dan Gilbazan, and you're listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Jazz here, and

I am so digging the Geekcast Radio Network. Cliffjumper,

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and welcome to an all -new generation of Toycast.

I am TF2 and Mike and folks it has been a while

hasn't it? This is episode 99 .5 of Toycast only

on the GeekCast radio network. For those of you

who may be new to this podcast we have been around

since June 9th 2011, I think the last episode

we did was December 9th 2014 So it's been seven

years since the last episode I already have episode

100 in the can kind of I've gotten several people

together that had been on the show Pia the goddamn

proto man, I think even off to bottomless and

a bunch of other people to talk about how they

like having their collections like how do they

like to collect their toys and Toycast is going

to be seeing a resurgence and the show will be

returning because It's been a while and the reason

why I stopped the show in the first place was

because one of our original co -hosts passed

away Most people will remember him. I don't know

if my current co -host at this time will know

who he is but I'll introduce that person in a

moment, but yes, we are doing, I am now doing

this because I'm pretty sure Gary, AKA Optimus

Scourge from the TFW 2005 boards, uh, Gary Clark,

he would want me to have this go on and enough

time has passed where I feel like I can continue

on with this podcast and we will be continuing

on with it and we will tease how we're going

to do that at the end of the show for now though.

I would like to. Mop the floor with this burger.

I don't know. Why are you called floor burger?

Floor burger, you know it How long of the story

do you want as long as you need to get a decent

answer out of you, okay So the origin of the

floor burger name Actually, I give that credit

to David Draper He came up with it as we were

kind of bantering back and forth in a group Long

story short, long story long, long story annotated,

I stopped at a really small flea market on the

way down to central Illinois. I want to say Gilman,

Illinois used to have a little flea market run

out of a warehouse right off the interstate.

And I was driving down with a buddy of mine.

He was in town. He literally flew back up from

Florida to go down back to where he lived in

in normal Illinois because he has some stuff

in a storage locker he wanted to clear out. So

we're on our way down and we stop and I buy this.

I'm looking through a bin that this guy has of

really sticky and really dirty toys and. I'm

looking through it and I'm starting to spot some

stuff in there that I know is a value and really

cool because he was like, hey, everything in

here is five bucks a piece. And I'm looking through

it and I look at him after I see he's got a couple

of very valuable accessories and a couple of

very valuable figures. He thinks it's just a

box of toys. I know what it really is. So I say,

would you do $50 on the entire box? He got it

out of somebody's storage locker that, you know,

he just bought up a storage locker that had gotten

abandoned. So for him 50 bucks like that probably

was the amount he spent on the whole store soccer

so he was more than happy to sell me this box

of toys and inside the box what kind of caught

my attention was a a Obviously older toy in the

style of Kenner Star Wars, but it was somewhere

between the five and six inch scale It At first

I didn't recognize it, but I look at the belt

buckle and it was sort of a symbol between like

a K and an R or something like that. And I recognized

it as David Hasselhoff's character from Knight

Rider. And I thought it not, I did not know that

toy existed at that point. Ready to receive data.

Commence transmission. And I thought it was the

coolest thing. So I continued down. I was staying

by my brother who lives in normal. I wash it

up and. We can talk about sticky toys another

day because all these I don't This was this was

bad And I just had stupid fun with them and I

started posting pictures of him traveling with

me because I was just like David house off goofy

person had a very tragic video of him being extremely

drunk eating a burger on the floor That's right.

Yeah, and so I would post a lot of stuff with

them And I don't remember what spurred it but

I like I said Draper and I were just kind of

bantering back and forth and he was like okay

whatever floor burger or something along those

lines Because he wasn't sure if I actually really

truly liked David Hasselhoff or I if I Ironically

liked him and I still don't know to to this day

what my stance on that is but that's I I just

kind of embraced it and I liked it because it

it does kind of roll off the tongue a little

bit and It did give me a little bit of an incognito

Identity if I ever wanted to do anything in the

toy world so I just ran with it and I took what

you know, maybe it was a you know, just a friendly

jab you know just a friendly goofy nickname and

I enjoyed it immensely so that's that's kind

of the origin of that you know it's so funny

because you are talking to a die -hard Knight

Rider fan I met the man as Michael would say

thanks pal and I've never seen an episode kid

yes shut up in that really Uh, I met the man

in 1986. There are pictures of me online as a

six year old with him holding my CP hand and

we're doing the thumbs up. And right after that,

and I wish I still had this picture. I don't

think it still exists because my mom has been

gone for a number of years now, but right after

that, he took a picture with my mom. He picked

her up. Like she wasn't nothing and held her

like rescue style. In his arms. Wow. And I'm

like, Oh God, I wish I still had that picture.

But yes, David Hasselhoff. Amazing. I wish I

could interview the man at some point. Never

have had the opportunity to do so. However, we

are here to talk about toys. So this is Josh.

Hello. He is the floor burger. Welcome to Good

Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your

order? And he is going to be, he's actually the

reason why Toycast is coming back besides the

fact that I kind of wanted to bring it back anyway.

And like I said earlier, we'll tell you why that

is later, but we are going to do a recap of the

Chicago Toy Show 2021. April 25th, 2021 was the

Chicago Toy Show, also known as to most Illinoisians

or however you people call yourself. In the plural,

uh, Kane County Toy Fair, toy show. Whatever

it is, basically Kane County. How many years

have you been going to this thing? So, truth

be told, I think I first heard about it randomly

on the internet in 2008, which really puts me

as a newbie compared to some people I've met

there. Um, I don't know how long, uh, guys like,

um, David Duvall, who really are like the genesis

of my knowledge of the show, I just remember

2008. It was about 10 o 'clock in the morning.

I found the ad. I'm like, I'm going to drive

out there. But where I lived, it was about an

hour. And I was kind of in between toy collecting.

I was in like a very big transition point in

my life in 2008 about whether or not I was going

to even continue with it because it sort of became

a difficult area in my life. So I didn't go to

it then. And then I went to it. I don't remember

the first year. I actually went to it I don't

remember if I had already been living with my

wife at that point or still in grad school and

I was living with my mom at the time and I don't

remember the exact year. I want to say to 2011

2012 was probably my first year going so been

about ten years that I've been I would say ten

years would be a safe bet Hmm, very cool. Very

cool And the last one you went to as of now was

april of twenty nineteen because did they not

have a show in twenty twenty. So the last show

they so the last show i actually went to was

the october twenty nineteen show okay. And i

was selling at that one. Okay so that was that

was my last time selling i did not get to go

to the april twenty nineteen show. I actually

had missed the 2017 2018 2019 April shows because

for my other job. I was on like 8 to 10 day road

trips that always. Overlapped that weekend every

single time that sucks, but you went this year

Yeah, and did you go just the one day the Sunday

or did you go to the preview days or anything

like that? So I being a dealer when I did sell

there and I sold there for several years I always

went both days obviously because you dealer setup

day is typically Saturday Sunday if you are a

dealer and you can get in and get your booth

set up in the time you have before people start

walking in You're a better person than I But

I only went for Sunday this time I was really

really busy the Saturday before in the Saturday

if you want to go Saturday It's like $50 to get

in unless you have a connection that can get

you in right and you have to do some Some hacking

of the system, which I won't get into on live

broadcasting So no, I only went Saturday. I did

get help getting in before the general public

I won't say how and I won't say who but I did

get in at about seven in the morning. Which was

a huge help, because why did it get crowded?

Holy cats, did that whole show get crowded? Now

let me ask you this, because this is the first

toy show that you, this is the first toy show

you had been to since COVID hit. Yeah. How were

they dealing with that? Like you say it's crowded,

but were there any kind of thing that the organizers

put together to... make sure it wasn't that crowded.

So one thing they tried to do was widen the aisles.

So that meant they had a cut down on some of

the booths. Okay. So obviously, as they try to

widen the aisles, you get a little bit less space,

you got to start squeezing people out and you

get a little creative. So depending on the year,

there's a couple of buildings that are open and

I'm surprised that You if you can ever look at

a layout map is the best way to explain it there's

three actual buildings that I would call actual

buildings that human beings would want to occupy

and Usually that's referred to as like the main

building the trades building and the doll building

Now the reason it's called the doll building

is that for years in my first couple years there

that is almost strictly Where the antique doll

dealers were if you wanted nightmare fuel you

go into that building? Okay And for my first

few years there, I just heeded everybody's advice

and I did not go into that building ever. I just

refused to. Apparently every so often, dealers

who caught cancellations would often be put in

there. So you would have like a stray action

figure dealer next to a big creepy doll dealer.

Okay. And I've always heard that's where the

best deals could be found. But the Dell building,

despite its ventilation and running water and

plumbing and electricity, the Dell building was

closed this year. So they had the main building,

which is a really nice, you know, maybe 10, 12

year old building. It's about two stories tall.

They actually have the nicest bathrooms and they

typically would serve food out of there if they

were allowed to serve food. COVID they're not.

Then you have the trades building, which is basically

just kind of two kind of warehouse style buildings

put together. North and South, yep. Yeah, North

and South. And they have a really gross bathroom

in there but it is the closest bathroom to the

agriculture buildings that i typically occupied

cuz they were the cheapest buildings but there's

the rabbit poultry and then there's like the

sheep and i can't remember the camera with the

last building was swine probably swine yeah is

this why building i think it was the sheep in

the swine buildings that were. Open air it was

just a rooftop and that was actually where I

felt the most comfortable the whole time I was

there because there's open air you had plenty

of space to move around but the poultry building

and the rabbit building they had people against

the walls on either side and then they had Booths

in the center, which I'm glad dealers got to

get those booths I would actually say it would

been better if they did not have them and just

found other space for them because it still created

bottleneck situations and it Like, this is the

most amount of people I've been around since

COVID. Like, January 2020, my wife and I are

coming back from the Dominican, we're going through

customs, and that was jam -packed, crowded. I

don't do well with crowds, but I could handle

that. Then, literally, a year and four months

later, this is the most amount of people I've

been around in that entire time. And it wasn't

easy to get around. A lot of people were just

kind of stopped. inches away from another person.

I'm used to keeping three feet, six feet, whatever

the man, you know, the mandate is. And it was

not easy to move around. Period. End of story.

There were points where I could not get past

people. If there was a fire, we were all dead.

Sorry, King County Toy Show organizers, but I'm

calling it as I see it. You got to do better

guys and gals because that's ridiculous. Like

just in general, look, we're still living in

this. Yes, we have the vaccines now, whatever

else. The fact that stores are removing like

I'll this way. I'll that way makes me so mad

because you're still letting people bunch up.

And if I need to get to something that two other

like perfect example the other night and the

screws were the grocery stores I go to does not

have the room to spread out like a Walmart does.

But there were, there was a stalker, you know,

not stalker, but a stock person. You know what

I'm saying? A soda dude. All right. It was a

male. He was a soda dude. He was unpacking bottles

and stuff sitting there talking to a female employee

and it was like, they were on a damn date. And

I'm like, I just need to get three bottles of

seven up zero sugar, whatever diet seven ups

called now. And the whole carton thing. Well,

I'm like, you can't do you. Everybody has to

do better. We're not this. And I'm not trying

to make this a COVID cast or anything like that,

but it's like, Since you're talking about the

toy show and you're talking about how much room

there really isn't. Like I would hope that at

the next one that they will make some more room

to a lot. Cause for me, I, I before it's not

even the COVID part for me, it's the claustrophobia

and the stress of being around a bunch of people

at the same level. Like you said, the anxiety

of it, like I can't like. I need 6 to 12 feet

away from each physical person. Like, I don't

want to have somebody right next to me at all.

And that's why Saturday is probably the better

day for me. Now, getting the $50 together to

afford that is not an ideal situation. However,

just for the sake, like, if I had the choice...

Based on my experiences past Sunday versus Saturday

or Sunday, I probably would have gone Saturday.

I think I would have found the same deals. I

think I would have found all the same stuff.

You know, sometimes dealers bring more stuff

Sunday. You know, they might do half of their

setup Saturday and then maybe half is undercutting

it. I would say, you know, they would do the

majority of their setup just enough to get the

bulk of their stuff in. And then maybe they bring

a couple more boxes. Like I would go home and

say, oh, I've got more space than I thought.

And I would go home and grab more. Stock or you

know, I would stop at a thrift store and there

have been times I'd pick up an entire shelfs

worth of stuff at a thrift store on a Miraculous

savers run and be able to bring it to the show

the next day. I think I Luckily most people wearing

masks now There might be people listening to

this that we both know that Aren't big fans of

mass or didn't wear mass and like you said, you

don't want to turn this a big kovat show and

I agree with that but You know I would not have

gone to this show if I was not fully vaccinated,

if my wife was not fully vaccinated, if my parents

were not vaccinated, if my in -laws weren't vaccinated.

Anybody who's close to me that I do come in contact

with, like if one of them was not fully vaccinated,

I would not have gone. Just be on the safe side

because there were people in that weren't mass

and you know I I could go on my soapbox and talk

about all that but you know, we'll pass over

that but for the most part, I think the best

thing they could have done is They have many

other buildings. They could have used they could

have spread out Maybe they could have I'm saying

that without knowing why they didn't open the

doll building You know, I think they could have

come up with more options to put dealers outside

bearing bad weather I understand why maybe they

didn't want to plan for that, but I think I would

hope in the future, if this is still bad, I would

hope by July, I heard rumors of a July show,

but I hope by October that this isn't nearly

as bad and things are gonna be a lot easier,

that if they have to be outside, they come up

with a way to do it. I heard a rumor about July,

it may have been the, because they also run antique

show festivals, whatever you wanna call them

there. The King County Antique Show is also pretty

well known, so maybe that's what he was referring

to? Who knows? But we'll find out. We'll find

out. According to their website, the next show

is October 24th, 2021. The next show after that

is April 24th, 2022. So that's according to their

website as of this recording, April 27th, 2021.

And whether that changes or not in the future,

folks, don't blame us. But yeah, I think they

could have at least... Where I thought found

myself to be the most claustrophobic, which was

the rabbit and the the rabbit and the poultry

building Those were the two where I felt the

most trapped and claustrophobic and literally

I literally just like soon as I could get outside

I dove out a side door But anyways, so that's

that. Yeah, so your hall this year at Kane County

or the Chicago toy show as it is known By its

actual name You got a lot of grails this year.

I'm looking at these photos and I'm like the

first thing I notice is Wow, Captain Planet's

legs look really really yellow And there's a

story about that Captain Planet, okay good But

let's start with the first photo you posted on

the toy world order Facebook group It is the

all Batman stuff. This is Kevin Conroy And I

am the goddamn Batman. Gotham City and all that

stuff. So the Tonka RPMs Gotham City stunt set,

something I had years ago that over time, and

if you actually look at the pictures, you ever

see this thing, you ever look it up, there's

a lot of individual pieces. The one thing I remember

about this set as a kid, and I had this as a

kid, I don't remember when I got it, but when

it comes to those sort of pull string, pull rip

cord toys, and there's been dozens of them, from

He -Man, which was Dragstore, and then there

was the Pulse Speed Ahead, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters.

Similar technology here, but I have to say, I

don't know how they designed this, I don't know

what they did with it, but it is one of the best,

the fastest, the most persistent momentum I've

ever seen on a type of toy like this, and as

a kid I remember my brothers and I could set

up the craziest stunt scenes, and we... We would

go to the Six Flags Great America up here, and

they had a Batman stunt show that we were obsessed

with. We loved this stunt show. We saw it every

time we were there. It was the coolest stunt

show, and we felt like we were playing with toys

right out of the stunt show. And when I saw this,

it was sealed in the box. I was talking to the

person running it, a woman about my age I would

say, who just... Decided that she wanted to dedicate

her life to being a toy dealer. That's what she

just did with her life And she had a great variety

and really really cool stuff and it was her first

show at the Cane County Toy Show and we just

were talking up a storm about the booth and I

was telling her about this set and I Saw that

she actually had a NECA She had a couple of NECA

Ninja Turtle two -packs Precariously balanced

and sit up on a top shelf and I told her as soon

as people get in here They're gonna bump that

shelf and those are gonna take a dive. I've done

this enough. I know the type of shelf. I know

the people. And I said, can I just help you stage

your display a little bit more? And so I set

it up and I moved some stuff around. It was still

perfectly visible. Prices could be seen. And

i even shook the table and showed her when fall

over and she knocked like ten or fifteen bucks

off the total price for this thing so yeah so

i got it and it was awesome and that was that

was one of my grail might be an exaggeration

but it definitely was something that i've been

watching for a couple years just to find it somewhere

it's what you said in the post you're talking

about your grails and you counted like four or

five different ones so i'm just going to the

pictures as they you know yeah. that's fine that's

fine i i i don't mean to use the word grail loosely

but yeah yeah no no no we would never i mean

you know after all we don't want to choose poly

yeah no no next picture is A shell, Donnie? What's

Donnie doing with his shell back there? Okay,

so storage shell Donatello. So another side story.

So I don't have a ton of home videos from when

I was a kid, but there's one home video that

survived and my brother digitized it in that

home video. And eventually one of these days

I want to do sort of a live reaction video to

the things we're getting and seeing. But that

Christmas, my brothers and I all got... the Disguised

Turtles, so like Space Cadet Raph, and Samurai

Leo, and Undercover Don, and Surfer Mike, and

that store, Shell Don. And a couple of toy shows

ago, probably about five years ago, I picked

up the, I think it's the Surfer Donatello, no,

Surfer Michelangelo, sorry, for five bucks. And

I will tell you one thing about the King County

Toy Show, years ago, I found a table that had,

um, three full boxes of packaged Ninja Turtle

toys for five bucks a piece. Oh, wow, that's

amazing. Just a couple years ago. So I grabbed

Genghis Frog and that one. And then when I, my

brother digitized that video and I looked and

I saw those were the four that we got. There

was a couple other things that we got packaged

that like I don't really want to get the Ninja

Turtle helicopter the turtlecopter I don't want

to get that package because that's gonna be way

too much money There's a couple other things

that we got the turtle cycle Packaged not really

on my list of things to get packaged. I I felt

like getting the package turtles were good enough

So I've been chasing down that storage shell

Donnie He was the last one I needed and it's

been about a five or six year quest to get all

four of these or five of These rather so I finally

have them. I don't keep a lot of carded stuff,

but what I do is all pretty meaningful so Finally

got it and that was something that ends ends

a very long quest and that was a very I was very

grateful It was yeah, I'm gonna give a shout

out at the end to The store owner and the and

the shop that if you don't mind that helped me

out with the hookup. No, sure. Go ahead. Yeah,

absolutely. And, you know, I literally, I'm not

an emotional dude, but I got very emotional when

he helped hook me up with that because it was

something I've been looking for for so long.

I mean, you know, that's the thing. Even if you're

not an emotional person, when something hits

you like that, especially something from your

child, like you had this as a child and you're

now being able to get it again as an adult, of

course, you're going to be emotional over it.

I mean, that's just... That's just the way we

are. But it was also the end of a quest. Exactly.

I think once we become adults, there are certain

things like, I finally mowed the lawn, or I finally

got my taxes turned in. Those are the end. But

I feel like sometimes those quests, depending

on you have to create them for yourself, sometimes

those quests are few and far between. I don't

know, man. I don't really think death and taxes

should be a quest. I mean, taxes you have to

pay every year. Anyway. Yeah, we'll see if that

happens this year. No. Sorry. I'm just kidding.

IRS. Let's just forget that I said that. IRS.

Really? They really listen to this. They barely

listen to the people that call them and complain.

All right. Also in this second image is a opened

Quicksilver. Let's see. A yellow legged captain

planet. I mean, it looks like he's been hooking

a little too hard and. Little jaundice. Yeah,

yeah, very very jaundice a Batman 89 Batmobile

batwing and Joker Van I almost said truck, but

it says van in the package. I can see that so

any stories behind these So, you know one one

thing I always explain to people that there's

almost a story behind everything I collect I

can point to just about anything and tell you

some sort of personal background on it. And that

kind of goes the same with all of these. So the

Quicksilver, massive, massive grail for me. One

of the things I've been trying to do in the last

few years of my collection is to try to reclaim

some of the stuff I had as a kid, at least one

version of it. If it's applicable, if it's affordable,

I might try to get the entire line. So Bucky

O 'Hare is a great example of a line that was

small enough that it's really easy, like at the

time when I was collecting it, you could get

the entire series, all the vehicles, very easily

for a very, very cheap amount of money. So sometimes

when I, as a kid, just had Bucky O 'Hare and

the Toad Air Marshal, I will get the entire series.

The same goes with like Toxic Crusaders. I just

had Toxy, but eventually, because it was really

cheap, I got the entire set. Quicksilver was

the only one I had as a kid, and loved it, thought

it was awesome, I loved the soft goods cape,

I loved the gimmick he had, everything was really

cool about it, and the figure just disappeared.

I have a feeling he may have been flown, for

lack of a better term. and he did not survive

his flight so that was just one of the last ones

i've been looking for on my list of like what

are some toys like when we're off air you had

asked me you know what or you had told me some

example questions that you may ask people and

one of them was like what's one of the earliest

toys you remember owning and quicksilver was

one of those and i remember just being fascinated

with it as kid because he had the vac metal um

Paint on him. He was shiny. He had a you don't

often get action features and figures that are

very applicable to what they do and Just throwing

those arms up. So he's got wings. I was like

This is cool. It was and then when I learned

how pricey they become getting that was just

like again I got emotional over it because you

know, it was an amazing hookup that I got and

It you know, it was just one of those last pieces

where it's like Am I almost done with my collection

because this is one of the last pieces I got.

The Captain and Captain Planet. Small story on

that. There's been a dealer at King County. Unfortunately,

I forgot to catch his name because he told me

he was retiring this year. He's always been a

guy who had these blue bins. tons of these blue

bins and he always had exo squad transformers

power rangers usually incomplete a lot of beater

stuff that's just for parts and you know he's

just like you know what you see a bunch of stuff

make a pile we'll make a deal and he always offered

a very affordable very easygoing deal you know

sometimes you walk away with great stuff for

like two bucks a piece and i saw the captain

planet and i've got a very minty clean captain

planet on my shelf right now but it's not this

one that has like the weird like string thing

on his back to make him simulate flight and i

was like all right i'll get this i'll clean him

up and then uh i'm gonna try to just you know

clean him up with some nice paint make him look

a little nicer and then he'll probably sit on

my desk at work so in the third image here we

it's a it's another one of it's the other side

of the second image we have scare glow trap jaw

robo cop So Scare Glow and Trapjaw are from the

new Origins line. Those are just fun little finds.

Like I'm trying to get some key guys from the

Origins. My brothers were more in He -Man than

my oldest brother especially. I inherited a lot

of those as I was a kid. Because I was about

four years younger than my other brother. So

I would get a lot of that stuff. Some of it's

disappeared over time. I've sold off some of

my classics. So I like the Origins line because

I'm just filling in the gaps of the stuff I sold

from... classics and that's about it but the

the robocop again one of those things i loved

as a kid i never got the actual robocop figures

from kenner if you remember they had the cap

gimmick my mom refused to buy those for us yep

because she worried about getting in our eye

or hurting ourselves or whatever yeah so i never

got it you'll shoot your eye out yeah well and

it's funny because uh i think we had a cousin

or a family friend who had one of those gumball

machine dispenser cap guns you could get, the

like little tiny one. And we have a very distinct

memory of him firing it off and something getting

into his eye and being really upset. I think

my mom thought the same thing was going to happen

to us. So it's fine. But this is from the Robocop

TV show from the mid 90s made by Toy Island.

And the Robocop figure from that is apparently

very much in demand. The guy had the entire set

carted. for I think it was like 35 bucks. Wow.

And I only needed. Well, the Robocop by himself

is 35 or 40 bucks. That's a good deal. And I

was like, well, right. The other cops are just

kind of chump change at this point. Apparently

the commander cash green guy is worth a couple

of bucks. I'm like, I only get it just for the

Robocop and then I'll dump off the others at

some point in time. And so I will have a complete

Robocop. set, or at least as far as I view. So,

you know, just like a really, that's one of those

deals that you find at Kane County where people

just are like, I just want to get rid of it.

Here, you can have the entire set for the price

of the one figure in the set, because I'll never

sell the others. Right. It's one of those all

in deals. Like you said earlier, here, I'll give

you $50 for this entire box. But in this case,

you know, RoboCop himself, like you said, $30,

$40. But if you can get the whole box for that,

great. And you're not there, to my knowledge,

you're not there to just buy these and offload

them. Like you've already said, you're there

to recapture moments and stories of your childhood,

most of the time. other episode to this other

toy podcast in the link description for our episode,

because there's no way I could interview Pixel

Dan the way that Deval and Dave did on toy world

orders, David Deval's toys and collectibles.

Yeah. So people go listen to that episode. It'll

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that. Now, that's by 10 minutes because 10 minutes

later somebody else bought one from him like

we literally walked on the aisle. Right. Yeah,

so I didn't know he was going to be there. I

was in communication with the ball and Deval

and I were going to meet up because I was gonna

sell him a Metroplex that I had that had a lot

more parts than what he did He actually describes

that in his Cain County totally Hall video that

he just put up. That'll be in the show notes

to folks I know that he like g1 a lot and You

know, that's that's this ideal went to go find

them and he's like, oh, yeah, we're both here,

you know, like oh Thought Draper was going to

be with them. It was actually pixel Dan and so

I'm talking to pixel Dan I was just congratulating

him on the book and he kind of he has a Satchel

on his hip, you know, and he pulls out the book

I think his satchel perfectly fit two books.

It looked like it was custom -made like a custom

-made satchel for these two books and I look

at it and I'm just like in awe because I have

this on my wish list I didn't pre -order it yet.

I was secretly hoping to get it as a gift one

day And I'm looking at it, and it is just not

only a wonderful book, but he's like, yeah, I

have these for sale right now. I'm like, you

mean I could buy this today? And he's like, yeah.

I'm like, when is it coming out? And he said

in about a week. And I'm like, yes, I would love

to. And he's like, great, because, you know.

He has it with them and you know, I can't remember

which store he mentioned. I think it might have

been big bad toy store He's getting the best

percentage of each sale, but he said that he

just buying it directly from him was the best

way and I'm like done I mean I I'm not the biggest

he man fan. I I appreciate he man You know, I

have two castle three castle gray skulls. I have

one classics and two of the original You know,

I have a bunch of the figures. It's not my main

toy line by any means but I will tell you, it

is a phenomenal, well -made book. It sets a very,

very high bar for action figure collection books.

I've had a couple. This one is not only comprehensive,

it impresses everybody I've shown it to. I showed

it to my mom, and she's flipping through the

pages, and she's like, I remember buying that

one, and I remember that one. Ooh, I remember

that one. That one was crazy. And she's just

looking through it. And she looked like a fan

again. I showed to my wife, same thing. She's

like, I've seen that on your shelf and collectors

are going to love this book. But the fact that

non collectors picked it up and they're like,

wow, this is really cool. I actually recognize

or I learned a bunch of stuff about this. This

is such a well rounded book. If anybody's listening

who's debating whether or not they should buy

it, buy it. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal book.

And even if you kind of like he man by the book,

it is extremely well made. Did I promote it enough?

Mm hmm. I think so. Yeah. Okay. And hopefully

I'll get a link from Dan directly, whether it's

the VBTS link or another link that he may want

to use that I'll put in the show notes as well.

Pretty much anything we talk about on this show

that I can put in the show notes or in the post

on the website, geocastradio .com. In case you

don't know, it'll be there. Right. As long as

I remember to do it. Right. Yeah. You know, so

yeah. How did this year, even though it's, you

know, we're living in the midst of COVID, and

there was still a bunch of people and the anxiety

and all of that, how did this year stack up to

previous years that you had been to the Chicago

Toy Show at King County Fairgrounds? So to be

perfectly honest, I think I've only shopped it

once. And that was my first year going maybe

about 10 years ago. Okay, only shopped at once.

And I barely remember my haul. In terms of things

that were available, it's very, very clear to

me that the prices were higher. And I attribute

that to the fact that the collector market is

exploding right now. And I think it's exploding

for a couple of reasons. And this could be an

entirely different show we get into, but I joked

with some people, you're gonna have people walking

into this with fresh stimulus checks. ready to

go, you know, and I know a lot of people who

had those stimulus checks come in, they needed

them, they embraced them, they used them. And

I know some people who got them and they're like,

I don't need this. So I, you know, for bills

or for mortgage or rent or anything, some people

are just like, I'm gonna use this as fun money.

And that's one thing, but I've even heard more

conversations about how collectibles right now,

non toy people. or people who are vaguely interested

in toys are now getting into it not because they

love the hobby but because they're seeing it

as a commodity. So you basically have like stockbroker

types coming in and the rumor going around was

that Saturday there were some big big money sales

going on thousands upon thousands of dollars

were being you know spent like rumors of people

spending in the upwards of fifty thousand dollars

on just Saturday alone. Wow. Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, there was some and the show I want to give

a shout out to or the story I want to give a

shout out to is Times Pass collectibles in Chicago.

Very great place. They specialize in a lot of

very high end, high quality toys. So they have

a lot of graded. They have a lot of carted, a

lot of really rare, obscure stuff that I've never

seen in, you know. On the card and very very

high quality not like a beat -up card like they

look nice And they're very very good at getting

that stuff I don't know how they do it, but they

do they're really great example of the high quality

stuff that is now being sold at these shows there's

always been good stuff, but they're they're sort

of trying to get a corner on that market of really

really nice stuff and Yeah, I mean I I really

have a feeling that there are people coming out

of the woodwork saying this is a possible commodity

market I'm gonna jump in it because Let's be

honest food fighters handful years ago right

around the time that Tor old order frequenter

a das barone Went to Cane County. I had a booth.

I have three boxes full of food fighters. I was

trying to sell and Couldn't get him to move for

five to ten bucks and those have tripled quadrupled

in price now And just in those couple of years,

you know, what was a $5 food fighter that couldn't

move is now 30, 40 bucks if it's beat up and

missing an arm. Mm -hmm. Yeah, that's not good.

And you want to know the funny thing is, is the

good old Adas, not only is he the intro and outro

to Toy World Orders, Dave and Deval's Toys and

Collectibles, he also did all of, I think exception

of one maybe, all of the BC Comics He -Man and

the Master's Universe episodes with me over on

the pull bag. So I have years worth of barren

on a podcast. I'm actually just looking at it

now. We go all the way back to the 2012, 2013

series? Yeah. Very first episode was, yeah, June

5th, 2013, the 12 -issue mini -series or whatever

it was. But yeah, we've covered all that stuff

over on the Pullback, our comic podcast. So,

yeah, once ADAS is where he needs to be, I'm

sure he'll make an appearance with us on the

show at some point. Yeah, it certainly helps

though. We're gonna, you know, he's getting his

stuff figured out, but... I'm trying to I'm actually

looking up on Facebook to see when I'm sure we

have at least one picture tagged with both of

us But yeah, I mean there the prices of things

have shot up so high so ridiculously high I can't

blame people for saying like okay. This is gonna

be a good long -term investment. Let's get into

it. Let's see what happens So I end yeah, what's

funny is there is an equilibrium price that kind

of gets hit at the toy shows because so many

dealers go walk around and they see what other

people are pricing stuff at so that does help

keep prices to a decent level but you know I

I had a hard time finding things at the deals

I thought they were going to be like one dude

had this pizza shooting Ninja Turtle it was Raphael

he was complete but he was asking $30 on it.

And I'm thinking, you know, I always think in

my head like, okay, what's worth $30 in the stores

right now when I'm going through these prices?

You know, what's equivalent to that? Like $30

is five days of Starbucks, blah, blah, blah.

So, you know, I don't know if you've ever seen

that animated GIF of the guy from the hangover

where he's got the mathematical equations like

popping up in front of his head. Yeah, I've seen

it. But that's sort of me when I'm seeing a price

like that on a vintage Ninja Turtle and I was

trying to pick it up for a buddy. And it was

complete and had all the pieces and he was firm

at 30 bucks. And I wasn't gonna be the dude to

just pop out the eBay listings and see what it's

selling for. I'm not that guy. And we started

trying to figure out like, okay, well if I bought

more, could I get this? I'm like, you don't have

anything else I want. And that doesn't solve

my problem of not wanting to spend more with

you. So I started asking him like, hey, would

you do 20 whatever, you know, you'll have 20

bucks in your hand, you might not sell this.

And I kept coming back. I went there a couple

times throughout the show and he didn't sell

it and he just wouldn't budge on it. And then

eventually I found it for 10 bucks, three boosts

down, not complete, but you know, my buddy didn't

want it complete. And I was like, okay, cool.

But there was this belief there that I got that

I felt prices were high and people were going

to pay them. And that's why people were not budging

on prices very often. Yeah, it's the toy game

has Has changed a lot and this could be another

future episode of this show at some point But

compared to the time we started this podcast

a decade ago the time that it ended seven years

ago Back then we were in the middle of Maddie

scalper and battle cat and all of that BS and

It's like you said Even non -toy collectors now

are coming up to this stuff. Oh, this is a commodity.

This is this this is that Most people Some people

may or may not want it as you know, like your

buddy may not want it It's okay if it's not complete

others. I want it complete on the card in the

box, whatever So let me ask you this this is

one of the questions on something that's gonna

be coming up in the podcast But are you and I

can I already clearly know the answer from looking

at your haul video Are you a keep it in the box,

don't touch it, or are you open it up and play

with your toys? I am both for different reasons.

So there are certain things that I will want

out of the package. Part of my view, if I have

a very valuable toy that I keep in the package,

it's going to be for the very sheer purpose that

eventually I will be reselling it. So if I know

if it's something that I in the past, I've dropped

a lot on. Okay. Or something that I know is high

in value. If it's staying in the package, it's

because I'm going to resell it. The stuff that

I have on my shelves, if I were to ever actually

take pictures of it and show you, not a lot of

value is in the package. Okay. I've got the entire

set of the Waterworld toys in the package, if

that tells you anything. Wait, wait, wait. You

mean Kevin Costner, Waterworld, they made toys

from that movie? Yes, they did. And they're very

well known for being beyond ridiculous. And it's...

I keep it around for several reasons. But yeah,

they did make Waterworld toys. There's like one,

two... How many different Kevin Costner's? One,

two, three. There's four different versions of

Kevin Costner. They made the Deacon, Dennis Hopper.

They made a couple other side characters, a couple

other bad guys, and they made the boat. It's

one of those mid -90s counter lines that... As

a kid you just embrace those movie toy lines

that maybe you got a series or two they were

ridiculous they had nothing to do with the movie

but they're they're actually relatively well

made toys they have all of your typical Kenner

gimmicks of the time. You can see that they borrowed

stuff from ghost but I want to say Ghostbusters

people might argue that I think the browser from

Ghostbusters. They definitely borrowed stuff

from Batman and Predator. There's a lot of crossover

stuff. They just reused a bunch of stuff. But

yeah, I keep Waterworld in the package because

I have one open and I have one in the package.

And to me, it's just the ultimate expression

of me as a collector because it's just weird.

It's important to me. I don't care. For me, I'm

not apologetic about collecting Waterworld toys,

but I have... some of my favorite all -time toys

like the neon yellow underwater attack batman

from batman returns yep i have that package not

because it's valuable but because it looks good

yeah it looks good in the package i mean yeah

gelatin warriors uh the the aforementioned ninja

turtles i've got um who's up there I've got Just

random like toy biz x -men from the 90s. I've

got the Marvel Legends Captain America the the

Thor Hammer, I am worthy Captain America figure

because I was traveling, it was up in the Northwoods

of Wisconsin, it was the last time I was going

to be up there probably my entire life. And I

was like, this seems appropriate. So no, I mean,

I do keep some stuff in the package, but it's

usually not because I'm like, ooh, I want to

keep it valuable. I love having stuff loose because

I think if you're going to keep it in the package,

you might as well have a picture of it in the

package and just hang that up on your wall. That's

my view. But for other people, like if you want

to have some packaged stuff on your shelf, go

nuts with it. Exactly. I am currently This is

more to update the listeners than you, but you'll

also know this because you'll, you've, I don't

know. I might've shared my, my toy album from

2005 to 2011. I collected a lot of stuff, transformers,

he man, all kinds of stuff that I liked or stuff

that I wanted to get from my childhood. And you

know, things like you've been talking about in

this episode of the show. And then. Somehow,

someway, I don't know, I went down the Funko

rabbit hole because Funko Pop reminds me of Mighty

Mugs and I had a lot of Mighty Mugs back in the

day. People will listen to this show and will

know when I was talking about Mighty Mugs 10

years ago on this podcast and for me most of

the time they stay in the box because I think

they look cool in the box like you said with

your With your Batman now a lot of my Funko pops

currently are in storage back in Indiana And

the ones that I keep getting here out in the

state of Washington where I'm living currently

They just currently sit on the table. I don't

have any shelves. We live in an apartment I'm

not put unless I can do it safely without damaging

the walls. I'm not putting shelves up I know

I can get shelving units that aren't wall mounted

and whatever else and that's fine and I will

eventually but it's one of those things where

right now I think the only ones that I want out

of the box because I think they're gonna look

cooler out of the box is the Rockum Sockum Robots.

I just got those recently. Rockum Sockum Robots

Funko Pops. I have two personal feelings about

Funko Pops. is they are very approachable. They

keep everything in scale in the similar design.

So you can literally put Freddy Krueger and Bert

and Ernie from Sesame Street on the same shelf,

and they're gonna look like they live in the

same universe, which I think is one of the coolest

parts of Funko Pops. So I think if people really

get into it for that reason, they find something

they like, I think that's great. I think collecting

should be for everybody. It should be approachable.

Everybody gets a chance to jump into it. My other

thing with Funko Pops is just probably the same

complaint you've heard from other people, there's

just too many, and everybody's trying to sell

them at toy shows now. Okay, and I understand

where you're coming from, that there is too many.

In total, according to my Funko app, I have 106.

I did sell a few of them a couple years ago.

If I hadn't sold those, I would probably be approaching

over 150. For me, the reason why Besides the

fact they remind me of muddy mugs. Yeah as the

product themselves funko pop Why I like them

is You're never going to get a Nice little representation

of something that you've never gotten before.

Yes, there were the starting lineup figures for

NBA MLB and I, you know, starting lineup was

a whole thing with Kenner and whatever. I had

a bunch of starting lineup figures as a kid,

but I'm never going to get a really good, like

Transformers masterpiece level Larry Bird at

a decent price where I have the Larry Bird Funko

Pop looks just like the guy. from the 80s when

he was playing with the Celtics. That's what

Funko Pops are for me. Oh, and I totally agree

with that. Yeah. Yeah. And yes, I do have a bunch

of them that are just, oh, hey, I like this thing,

whatever. But like I have Comic Book Guy from

The Simpsons. Comic Book Guy is I haven't announced

this yet over on the pull bag, but at some point

he's going to be the new mascot of the pull bag

because hello, it's Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

That's great. As a toy, and I've never actually,

and I'm sure there are, and I'm sure people listening

to this will say, hey, yes, there was an actual

comic book guy figure at some point or another.

That's fine. Great. I like him. He's hard to

get. Probably. I like him in the Funko Pop style

overall. Like John Wick. Like, I'm sure there

are plenty of John Wick action figures that some

toy company made. I don't know which one has

the John Wick lines. But the fact that Funko

did a John Wick 3 version with the little dog

next to it, that's why I like Funko Pop John

Wick kind of thing, you know? Oh, and I totally

agree that when it comes to action figure lines,

the more you can keep things to look like they

all exist together, the better. So. And that's

always been one of my guidelines for collecting,

is that they have to sort of live in harmony,

because even as a kid, I wanted to play with

all of my toys together. I didn't like segregating

them. I didn't like the fact that my Exo Squad,

which are built almost exactly the same as G

.I. Joe's, were about an inch too short to hang

out with G .I. Joe's. So the Exo Squad figures

were usually the children in the G .I. Joe world.

It's a little weird when I look at it now, because...

keep them on very distant shelves but that was

something that always bothered me and now the

way i kind of collect is a lot of the stuff that

lives together on the shelves are things that

look like. They would be in the same universe

so i am very very particular about the things

that i get and. Funko pop is one of those things

that sort of has circumvented the scale issue

in toys That like you said, you can have Larry

Bird and you can have the angry beavers Chilling

together. They're gonna look fine together. They're

gonna be at the same scale together and it's

gonna be fine But you look at a really good example.

I think was the bandai was a bandai who did?

thundercats in like the early aughts early oh

i'm not i remember that ljn did it back in the

day but i don't remember who did it in the early

aughts but they did it in like a wacky scale

that was actually closer to the to the original

vintage figures but didn't fit anything else

anybody ever had and then they changed the scale

and the design of the toys wasn't very good so

i stick to like the six inch scale the gi joe

scale and like the ninja turtle scale that's

sort of where i'm at because Even as an adult.

I just like the visual of them being close So

that's even with the Ninja Turtles why I haven't

gotten the super 7 Ninja Turtles because they're

a little bit bigger Than I would like them to

be so it's just it's weird stuff like that, but

I respect the heck out of Funko Pop, but I just

hate the fact that I've knocked over tables filled

with them trying to get through a toy show, but

that's just me. Like I said, you know, it's one

of those things where, for me, it's like, am

I, okay, so another perfect example, and I'm

so happy for, like, I spent $5. Funko every now

and then will run a promotion. And a promotion

they ran late 2019 was by three bottles of diet,

Dr. Pepper. And you can mail, you know, mail

away the, you know, take a picture of the proof

and send that in and whatever, you know, now

back in the day, it would have been mail it in

whatever. And then four to eight weeks, you'd

have a figure. They had a little sweet Funko

pop contest. And I'm like, I love the little

sweet commercials and what back when the little

sweet. campaign was going on i was like wait

a minute i know that guy holy crap it's justin

guarini from season one of american idol oh my

god Do you work here? No, little sweeties. It's

awesome. He's hot. I'm thirsty too. And I have

the Funko Pop right there, you know. Maybe one

day I'll get him to sign it if I ever get an

interview with him. But yeah, no, I mean, that's

the thing, folks. Toycast is here to basically

be fun. That's what we're here to do. that's

the only thing we're here to do and we will have

interesting discussions we will have other things

coming up One of the things that I'm actually

gonna be doing in the future over on the pullback,

and I keep mentioning the comic book podcast,

not because I want people to go listen to that

as well, because there are over 400 episodes

of that show in eight years. Over there, I started

a thing called Origins, where I have 25 questions

that I ask people of how they got into or out

of reading comic books. I am now applying that

to toys, cartoons, and other things on the GeekCast

Radio Network. So Toycast will have origins episodes

where I have currently it's at 26 questions.

Cause I have to move some stuff around, but I

will have questions that I will do one -on -one

interviews with one -on -one podcasts. You want

to, I will do an episode for this. I'll do another

episode with other people that, you know, that

kind of thing, but basically it's a one -on -one.

So like you and I will do your episode. Me and

Das will do his, me and other friends will do

theirs kind of thing, because I like doing the

origins interview thing because it creates conversation

and I'm sure you have and I'm glad that I'm bringing

the new blood in here, folks. You have all kinds

of ideas for topic discussions like we've already

mentioned in this episode kind of thing. The

other thing Toycast is becoming is we are becoming

a... Toy Police Department. This is your fault.

Oh, yes. This is the whole reason why Toycast

is coming back, folks, besides the fact that

I know Gary, aka Optimus Scourge, would want

me to continue on with the show. It's because

Josh posted something in the Toy World Order

fan group on Facebook that he wanted to start

a Toy Crimes Police Department. And I'm like...

Hey, if we do it as an audio podcast, I've got

everything all set up for you. All you gotta

do is show up and talk. And what's funny is that

it started as a joke between Das and I, because

I love the show Brooklyn Nine -Nine. And I love

that it takes a comedic look at a very difficult

profession and really develops really great characters.

And it just kind of occurred to me that what

do most people complain about on a regular basis?

It's things that are perceived as crimes whether

they're just social crimes against what you consider

to be the norms of society or they actually legitimately

crime so they break some sort of store or legal

statute somewhere and at first it was kind of

like oh well so -and -so hit a toy over in Target

and I couldn't find it and they bought it later

blah blah blah but I think it would be very interesting

to actually have a discussion about a specified

crime and determine, indeed, for once and for

all, is it a actual, can we call it a crime?

Like, can we label it as a crime based on our

criteria? And how do we prosecute that in the

court of law? No, I'm just kidding. We're not

prosecuting anybody, but. Right. Well, I mean,

it's a drama, folks. It's not like it's the real

thing. This is all for pretend. We're going to

come up with fictional. We actually already have,

like, Das Josh and I are the officers, detectives,

whatever you want to call us. I think Dave is

going to be the chief at some point. And I don't

know what Dave is. And I'm hoping all of this

comes together. You know, I really am too, because

we are going to sit down and write all of this

out one night. I've got some things written down,

but like for me, like when, when you posted this,

I'm like, Holy crap. I have all these ideas now

Original ideas that I wrote down were that what

the case types would be so crimes against toys.

Yes. That's right. It's a cat folks Crimes against

dolls. That's right. They are CADs Now the the

rest of these are just they could be anything,

but I was trying to do alliteration So me go

misdemeanors funko fraud transformers trafficking

kind of thing so and the tagline that this thing

is gonna have is fighting toy crimes one toy

at a time so that's the tagline but it will basically

be a fictional radio drama type thing we're having

a bunch of fun with it like i was not like i

was gonna release toy cast episode 100 And just

call it a day on the show. Like I was not, I

did not have any plans. All I wanted to do was

celebrate the fact that Toycast has been around

for 10 years, even though we haven't produced

anything for the last seven, but it has been

around and it is still available for people to

listen to the old episodes. And I was just going

to do this big 100th episode thing, which I am

still doing. And I was just going to call it

a day and okay, it's done. Cause for me, once

a podcast reaches something in the hundreds,

100, 200, 300, 400, you know, it's at any one

point you can call it a day. In come you with

this idea. And it's like, I haven't felt the

juices in my brain sizzle so hard in years. I'm

like, yes, I can write all of this down. We actually

have. Don't remember her last name off the top

of my head. We actually have, uh, one of the

other toy world order fans in the group. Uh,

Alexis, she wrote out an S a lawn order thing

for us in the criminal justice. And I've changed

a little bit of this Alexis. So if you're listening

to this, just let, I'll let you know that I did

change a couple of things in this in the criminal

justice system, toy based defenses are considered

especially heinous all over the internet. The

dedicated detectives who investigate. These vicious

atrocities are members of an elite squad known

as the scalper investigation. These are their

stories. Done. Done. That's great. Yeah. And

I'm hoping if I don't think she saw the comment,

I'll probably have to friend her or message her

or something. I'm hoping like she'll want to

do the voice thing for that. And then I'll just,

even though I know we'll probably get sued if

I use this, but I will grab the law and order

ding ding for it because I just love that. What

if we just auditorily did the ding ding? And

then, you know, did it the cheap style. I think

that would be a good option. No, I'm hoping we

can get get into all this. We've been talking

about a lot of really great ideas. So that's

right. You know, one way or another, we are going

to be talking about toy crimes. Absolutely. That's

to be for certain. So coming up next on the show,

as I've been saying throughout this last hour

long episode that we've been talking about Cane

County and the Chicago Toy Show that's held at

Cane County twice a year. Episode one hundred

episode one hundred is dedicated to the memory

of gary clark aka optimus scourge eight features

as i said at the beginning of the show piya it

features the god damn proto man i'd feature steve

megatron mike the bird man as he likes to be

called it features all the people that i had

on the show originally that were. That actually

responded to my message to want to be on the

show again to basically add the basic question

for that episode is how do you. Like having your

collection, kind of like how I asked you earlier,

do you open it? Do you keep it in package? That

kind of thing. And it's, it's a jumping off point

and it's an anniversary thing. So once that comes

out after that episode 101, 102, 103, 104 will

be either origins or it'll be toy crimes. Yep.

That's the plan. Sounds great. Here's hoping

we can execute the plan. without you know rabid

fan people coming after us so i don't know if

you want to give out any of your social media

stuff and that's fine if you don't but i have

a standard outro that i go through so thank you

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I'll keep that in my pocket until we get going

with this. Okay. But I'm going to give a shout

out to Time's Past Collectibles in Chicago. Great

new toy shop. Reach out to Mike Tommaso over

there. The dude is very reasonable. He's a very

good guy, very knowledgeable. I've done a lot

of good work for him and I'm hoping to continue

working with the shop as time continues as COVID

gets better. So, you know, he's a small local

business in Chicago, you know, check him out.

If you're in the Chicagoland area, it's worth

a stop. Chicago is becoming a bit of a Mecca

for toy shops. So I do recommend it if you're

going to any other shops, but go to that one

first. They have... a wide variety of modern

to vintage. They have beaters to pristine, right

fresh out of a case type of stuff. So really,

really recommend it. And there's a lot of good

restaurants all up and down that area. So you

can have a nice little afternoon. Absolutely.

And as I said at the beginning and throughout

the show, all of the links to the various things

will be in the show notes. I think they only

have a Facebook page for the shop. So the Facebook

page for the toy shop will be in the show notes

as well. technical difficulties let's move on

shall we all right let's try this one more time

for the back folks for now i am tf2 and mike

with the floor burger why you want to eat your

burgers on the floor because tables are way too

complicated and elitist i'm not an elitist we

are saying or i am saying or whatever is saying

because i haven't come up with an end catchphrase

for this show yet because it's been seven flipping

years since I've done one of these episodes.

We will catch you next time. Bye everybody.