Ep. 103: Dreams and Drama at Toylanta 2025

Hey, y'all. It's me, Tara Strong, aka Miss Minutes for Bama Geeks. I hope you're ready to watch, and if you don't, I will have to prune you. Stay on your sacred timeline. And good Sunday evening. How are you? Hello. We are the Bama Geeks. I'm Brock. That's my wife, Jess. And of course, Kevin Gardner and Beau Bearden, as always. That's my name. I will wear it out, sir. Oh, spicy geeks, man. You better calm it down. Well, we're not celebrating that Auburn loss. The Hoover Buffalo wild wings fight broke out. If you haven't seen it, some mad Auburn and Florida people. Yeah. After the game. Hey, real quick. Skylar Davis. Of course you had to be here tonight. He says, y'all know I had to be in the chat tonight. Yeah, we're discussing Toylanta tonight for part of the live stream. And Skylar was instrumental in a fun story that we're going to talk about. We had a good time at Toylano with you. Good to hang out with you. Absolutely. 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Understandable. that's right so um a few episodes ago maybe two or three uh I I told you guys about this slang-o-matic Not Sledge-o-matic. We're not smashing fruit. We're not going to smash fruit. We're not Gallagher. Or like Dan Aykroyd on the old Saturday Night Live. We're not Bass-o-matic. Bass-o-matic, yeah. So anyway, there's a website called Dissent Pins. D-I-S-S-E-N-T-P-I-N-S dot com. They have a lot of things on there. They are certainly supporters and anti-supporters of certain things. But one of the cool things I found on there that really piqued my interest, it was on a social media ad, and it was for this slang-o-matic. It's a generational translator. And so what it does, it gives you a little emoji. It gives you the emoji here. then it it tells you what different words are throughout the ages you've got boomer the boomer word right there you've got gen x And then you've got millennials and Gen Z. So it just threw out certain words that mean different things to different generations. So right now, if a boomer says right on, that means for the Gen X folks means word. It's one hundred for you emoji users. Yeah. Millennials means for real. And Gen Z, FR. Mm hmm. Yeah. So that's how this thing works. I'm going to test you. What about the squash? Squash. You mean the eggplant? Eggplant, yes. Oh, it's not. It's not. Squash. It's not listed in here. That's the Southern slang for it. I like to cook it up. So no eggplant on this thing? No eggplant on this. Gourd. The birdhouse. So play along in the chat. I'm going to read you the boomer words. And then you guess what. what the other ones are. You've got Boomer, Gen Z, Gen X, Millennial. The Boomer word for fishy. What did we say in Gen X if something was fishy? Did we say sketch? I know the new one is sus. Gen Z is sus. Absolutely. Millennials call it Hey, y'all are more the millennials than we are. I'm an elder millennial, but I'm a zennial is what I say. Right. Yeah, we're zennials. uh I was gonna say sketch is where I where I go my mind so I can't think of sketchiest gen x yeah and I've gotten to where I say sus all the time I don't know yeah it's me kevin is a brand new gen z uh millennials is shady shady I don't think and the and of course the emoji with the raised eyebrow I don't know how well you can see that There you go, Bo. The only shady I know is Slim Shady. And he's the real shady. All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating. That's right. It's something about standing up. Please, please stand up. Which is really hard to do for us these days. Oh, he became a grandfather this week. I know, yeah. He's a granddaddy now. She's over there doing the lyrics. She's reaching the copyright strike on us. Everybody will come after you, baby. All right, so the next boomer word is far out. Radical. Nope. Cool. Nope, not cool. So what's the original boomer word? It's far out. The boomer word is far out. If you say something that's far out, what does that mean? Awesome is Gen X. I'm going to say Gen Z might be bustin'. I have a gen alpha kid, so that's why I know some of the newer and newer stuff. All right. Far out. So you got far out for boomers. Gen X says awesome. Millennial would be. How are you doing, you fellow kids? I'm blanking. Alright, millennials say it's lit. Lit, okay, that makes sense. Lit, yeah. Gen Z says I don't know. Fire. Fire. With, of course, the fire emoji. Gotcha. Alright. Would you have liked I don't know if I would have ever associated awesome with a fire emoji, but I guess okay. Alright, so this is one I didn't get. Boomer says, nailed it. Nailed it. Gen X? Nailed it. No. Okay. You can tell I haven't shown these to Jess. Yeah, he's kept this little gem for me. Completed it with great effect. You're going to have to help. Gen X, we say crushed it. Crushed it, okay. That's what I thought, but I thought that was going to be two more. You've got to speak up. Don't drop your Gen X card. I thought that was going to be it. Millennials? Nailed it, crushed it. Nailed it. Bopped it. Zonked it. Twist it. Pull it. Pull it. Yeah. Millennial say killed it. Killed it. Okay. Gen Z, none of us will get it. Slay? No. No. Okay. I tried. Eight. Eight. eight eight like you ate it oh okay yeah and the uh the emoji is flex okay the flexing emoji I apparently don't identify with with with xennials or anything at this point I say the boomer word still I don't think I've ever said killed it yeah yeah all right so boomers say no bull No cap is Gen Z. No cap is Gen Z. Nailed it. Okay. See, boomer word. Yeah, you got it. No way. No way. So you still got Gen X and Millennials. So No Way's not one of them? Mm-mm. And there's no emoji for this one, by the way. Yeah, I was going to say. Kind of wouldn't be one, would there? No bull. Let's see. No bull, no cap. No cap. We need to do the Southern. You know what I was thinking? No, this isn't it, but I was thinking no scrubs. Go chasing waterfalls. Get real. Get real or yeah. It says get real. No, it's not. Get real. All right. Gen X is no joke. No joke. Okay. I have said, I can't believe that. I have said that one. Millennials. No lie. No lie. Yeah. And no emoji. No emoji. Alright. Boomer says gross. Gross. Gnarly? Did we say gnarly? I say gross too. I must be a boomer. At heart, man. Gen X. Gross. Sick? No, but the emoji is the puking emoji. Yeah. Ugh. Far out. No, I said gnarly, didn't you? You said no. Yeah, it's not gnarly. Bossa Nova. All right. Chevy Nova. Gen X is grody. Grody. To the max. Yeah. Millennial is nasty. Gen Z is vile. Vile, okay. Man, Gen Z's going all proper with it. Yeah, I was about to say Gen Z for no cap or no bull, but then we go vile, yeah. Get my monocle out and put it on. Totally vile. Bussin'. Now, my Gen Z daughter did tell me that bussin' means that it's really good as far as eating and food and stuff like that. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, when I associate bussing with food, my first job was a bus boy at Pizza Hut when I was fourteen. So that's bussing to me. Yeah. All right. So boomers say the scoop. What's the scoop? What's the scoop? What's the scoop? And I would tell you what the emoji is, but it'll give away what Gen Z's answer. What's up. What's up. What's the deal. What are we saying? Just what's up. What's the deal. Nope. You're close. You're close for millennial millennials. The deets. Okay. I mean, I always say, I always said, what's up. I mean, what was it? What was it called? What were we doing? The deets. The deets is for millennial. The scoop is for boomers. Scoop. Oh. What's the word? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. All right. Gen X is, what's the four one one? Oh, yeah. So Gen Z would be. Oh, you're waiting for us to answer. I'm sorry. Yes. So Gen Z would be the T. Got it. The T. With the T emoji. Okay. There you go. Gotcha. Spill the tea. Oh, sure. All right, here we go. Now, this is how I describe Jess. All four of these words. Oh, Lord. All right. Yeah. What? The Boomer word is fox. Babe? Babe is Gen X. Yeah. She's a babe. Hottie is millennial. And Gen Z, probably baddie. Nope. While you're thinking, the emoji is the smiley face with the hard eyes. Fox? No, that's Boomer. Oh, I'm sorry. Ice Knight says fly? No, it's not fly. That would be more Gen X, yeah. All right, Gen Z, ready? It's snack. Snack. Oh, yeah, looking like a snack. Thanks, honey, that you used me. I think of you as a snack because you're fun size, like the little Snickers. Oh, thanks. If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln. Baberham Lincoln, yeah. That's right. If you're a dinosaur, she'd be Baberham Lincoln. live in the now exactly he does this every sunday every sunday all right boomers man they're just ticked off p.o gen x is pissed yeah yeah I'm pissed yeah So what would millennial and Gen Z say? And it's the angry face emoji. What? Turned. Turned. Turned. That's what you do when you talk something over and you turn it back over. Nice fly says I have no intergenerational communication skills. This reminds me of, uh, what was it when, when the, in the movie airplane, when they bring somebody back to translate jive. Oh, that's, that's Mrs. Beaver. Yeah. June Cleaver. Yeah. And I'm like, what's going on, my homies. Uh-huh. I can't get on this again. Sorry. I apologize. That was really loud. Yes, stewardess. I speak giant. Just leave it to me. It's the show. It's Bucky's mom. Is that Bucky's origin story? Thanks, babe. Yeah, boomers ticked off. Gen X is pissed. Raging? Rage? Hulking. Hulking. You might have to help us out. Gen Z should be obvious. Millennial is salty. Gen Z, big mad. Big mad. We go from vile to big mad. They're all over the map. A boomer will say it's super. Awesome. Radical. Cool. Okay, I'm sorry. Boomer word again was what now? I'm sorry. Super. Super. Gen X. Stupendous. Bussing. Oh, Lord. What did we say? Gen X will say totally. Totally. Crack-a-lackin'. Yeah, Ice Knight, that's a good one. Bodacious is good, yeah. Absolutely. And the emoji is one hundred. So Millennial and Gen Z, if we're super and totally, or if Boomer's super, we're totally. Millennials... Crack-a-lackin'. Come on, man. A little bit shorter. AF. Okay, gotcha. Millennials AF and Gen Z is... I wouldn't know this one either. Yeah. You might as well just go ahead and mad, mad. So we've gone from big mad to mad. Okay. All right. Boomer says, yeah, right. As if Gen X is as if, sorry, emoji is the eye roll. I knew that one got, if you watch the book, you don't get Gen Z. I'm figuring that I don't identify with my own generation, apparently. So yeah. Right. For Boomer. Is it the one that Bo says a lot? No, but he's got a, he's got a young son. Uh, see, just my kids say this to me all the time. Yeah. Let's see. So millennia, uh, she want to keep going. Yeah, just keep going. Yeah, I'm blanking. Okay, millennials, I can't even. God, makes sense. Gen Z? Bruh. Bruh, yeah. Bruh. Oh, yeah. Yep, yep. Okay. I'm disappointed. I didn't think about that. All right, no emojis for this one. Boomer says, been there. Done that? Done that. Yeah, been there. Gen X? I don't want to say same fam. It's somewhere in there. You're so close. Millennials, samesies. Samesies, okay. You're going to have to give me that Gen X one. I'm blanking right now. I hear you. I hear you. I hear you. Okay. So Gen Z, do we want to keep guessing on that one? Mood. Mood. Mood. All right. Boomer says, whoop-dee-doo. Bloody freaking dog. Whatever. Whatever. Gen X is whatever. Whatever, yeah. That's whatever, yeah. So that means millennial? I won't say whatevs, but I mean. Whatevs, Gen X, yeah. I didn't know if it would be like the different generation would be the same word but just shortened down like whatevs. So millennial would be I feel as if would also be Gen X. That was on the other one. Yeah. So millennial is meh. Gen Z is what Maxwell Jacob Friedman likes to call everybody. Pores? The pores? Plebes. Mid. And the emoji is the line of the mouth. We can't see that. Yeah. Oh, and that's it. Yeah. We started with, we started with right on, right? We've made it around the wheel. We've made it around the wheel. Oh, so that's your slingometer generational translator from descent pins.com. D I S S E N T. I think it was like fourteen, fifteen bucks. It says on the back, do you worry that your nephews are throwing shade? Not sure what throwing shade means. Now you can use the slang-o-matic to navigate your cross-generational chat and look cool in front of your grandchildren. And it's got an asterisk. And down at the bottom, the asterisk says, do not use the slang-o-matic to try to look cool. We'll keep that in mind. Or you shall be bussing. Noted. Okay. Noted. Yeah. So the directions turn the wheel to translate between slang terms popularized by boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z. Translations to emojis are included for some slang terms. Notice cross-generational disputes that result from the use of this product should be adjudicated by whichever Gen Alpha big brain is pulling up first. so all right there you go so descentpens.com fun stuff there yeah I I I thought it was no that's that's that's good we we like so we brag about being old but then also we gotta we gotta be hip yes You just sent me into a generational crisis because I don't know half of the words of my generation. And me and Bo both share two of them. We should have all the knowledge at this point. And Bo calls Barbara Billingsley Mrs. Paper. Okay, I'll get off that. Of course, it is wrestling. There was the gimmick there, remember? Yes, there was. That might be where my brain went. Maybe so. I like how on the airplane when they're talking, Jive and And, uh, when he says, golly says, or in a way he, he says, shucks says golly. Well, he doesn't say shucks. He says another word, but it says golly. Oh, you're good. Oh yeah. Okay. There you go. Speaking of this, we're talking about airplane. I don't want to take us off too much, but please tell me all y'all watched the naked gun trailer. Oh my goodness. Like you said is going to break into a new genre. It's going to be like, I w I was cautious, but like, I know they cut the trailers where they make it, but I'm just the humor in that little trailer. I'm all very excited for it. This is the best part was the OJ. I love you. I miss you, dad. I love you, dad. And then no, no way knowing now. Cause I was thinking, ah, He, when, when, uh, Liam Neeson says, uh, Frank Drebin police squad. And I'm like, are you really that that sacred territory to me because of Leslie Nielsen, how much I love that man. But then tying it in to he's Frank Drebin Jr., I'm like, okay, I can now accept this. And the thing is, if you kind of look at him, I mean, obviously they're two very different people, but I could kind of see him being his son a little bit. Yeah, I could see it. I'm cautiously optimistic because it's Seth MacFarlane. who I cannot stand. Oh, I love Seth, man. He's great. I think his humor will work well for just the absurd thing. I think we'll be alright. Yeah, knowing what the Zucker brothers did. He can do slapstick. It's just whether or not... What scares me a little bit about it is there are certain things... a lot of certain things that we don't talk about in movies anymore that you can't get away with. So they got to find really good, fresh stuff. And then it's just a matter of like an, like an airplane, for example, just some of the delivery where it's like, they'd hit you with like one joke, another, another, you don't really get it until afterwards. And your brain is processed. You're like, that was freaking awesome. And if they can pull that off of this, I think we'll be good. But yeah, just, and plus seeing, um, I never in my life would have ever thought that I would see Liam Neeson in a skirt. With hard underwear on. Wow. Okay. Yeah, that's the part. Didn't mean to derail that, but I was like, I had to get everybody's thought on that. I was literally about to bring it up because we were talking. I'm on everybody's wavelength tonight, I guess. I don't know. I guess you are. Yeah, we are. I'll admit, I have watched that trailer like ten times now. I have too, man. I'm so excited. It gets better every time. Yes. If the movie's going to be anything like the trailer, then it'll be one of those ones where repeat viewings just makes it better and better and better and better. Yeah, Naked Gun and all those movies and Airplane. You've got to watch those a couple of times to get some of the references. Yeah. They are so good. Is it Rico Palazzo? I have to wonder, is Weird Al going to be in it? I'm about to say yes. I hope so. Maybe we can ask him. I hope so. I hope he's in it. Is he in the other three? I know he's in two of the three. Is he in all three? Yeah. I don't know if he's in the original one but I know he's like which is it two where he's at the oscars yeah or is that yeah no three is the one at the oscars yeah two is the one where they he's he's being arrested yeah so so he's in the interrogation room or something or yeah behind the door or something yeah If you guys ask him, I hope he doesn't tell. Cause I'd love her to just be just like a surprise. He used to surprise dates. He used to, I think a story was, is like, he would take a date, go see then the first naked gun movie. And then he would, he wouldn't tell him he was on the screen until he showed up. So, Oh yeah. That story. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Yes. He's in the first getting off the plane. Appreciate that. Yeah. I've got to go back and watch. I bought the first Naked Gun in four K the other day. Nice. That movie deserves it. And Priscilla Presley is going to be in Huntsville. Oh, yes, she is. Yes, she is. Yes, she is. Yeah, man. Yeah, that's funny. Take that. I don't wonder if she's going to show up in this somewhere. Wouldn't it be great if she did? I would hope so. Yeah. Something somewhere that she's a part of this in some way. Yeah. Not getting off the phone. He said getting off the plane. Yeah, getting off the plane. I said getting off the phone. You have a tiny monitor you're looking at. Yeah, but just do it the way or whatever. Yeah, that's right. All these people are here for Weird Al. Right. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. Yes. Because he thought that all those people were there for him, but it was those there for Weird Al. And he comes out doing the queenly wave, you know. Yeah. All right. Nice. So I, I should take that, that four K of naked gun. I got, then I have both Priscilla and Al sign it. Oh, I'm not going to add any more to our costs. Well, yeah, that's, that's what it's like looking at the call. So I'm like, I really would like to meet Priscilla Presley. So we're just going to kind of see where we're at at that point. Yeah, absolutely. absolutely so uh movie news sad movie news if you see over jess's shoulder uh we've got the soundtrack to batman forever in honor of and she's also uh in honor of al I'm drinking out of the the finest china you can have that's right the mcdonald's batman forever The Batman glass, correct? He will be Batman forever. I am drinking out of the Batman glass tonight for Val. Yes. Yeah. We do have the whole set. He was a good Batman. I mean, he was better as a villain in Top Gun, I think. But, you know. Oh, man. And in Maverick? Oh, that was the best when he showed up in Maverick. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Real Genius is my top, my number one. See, I had not seen that movie until me and my wife started dating. I don't know how I missed that on that essential eighties like viewing, but that movie, cause like on top of you got Val being great, you got William Atherton being his traditional genuine eighties butthole. Yeah. His stereotypic character in the eighties. Yes. Yes. Yes. um real genius tombstones number two oh kiss kiss bang bangs great with robert downey jr yeah uh batman's number three top guns number four so oh of course yeah ice knight brings up a good one of course yes my first time seeing him as I said on instagram was in willow as mad martigan yeah And we have it somewhat of a tie because Robin Shelby was in Willow. So there you go. We kind of have that little degrees of separation there. I can't believe you guys are forgetting his appearance in the cinematic masterpiece, MacGruber. I've never seen MacGruber. That's one of the few SNL movies I have not watched. MacGruber? That was great. So Shane says, Shane says, was he really a villain in Top Gun or was he just a rival to Maverick? He was just a rival. Just a rival. Yeah. He was just a rival. On that list. Okay. I will amend that. He wasn't the villain. He was the, I don't know if I would say primary antagonist, but he was the antagonist in the movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah. No villain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for that. Yeah. And actually while I was out of town, uh, for work, I did, uh, one night there, uh, I watched, I ended up watching the documentary on prime, uh, that he put out. Um, Oh yeah. I still need to watch that. So if you haven't watched story or what was it? Yeah. He's basically what he did was he's sharing, um, uh, He's had basically a camcorder his whole life. It's just telling a story through videos that he's done, home movies, even some audition tapes that he would do. His son narrates it because, of course, the condition of his voice. There's moments that he does talk and talk in it, but his son narrates it. It's just kind of telling his life where he grew up. And growing up, going up through Juilliard and into the theater, into movies. So it's very good. Yeah. I decided to watch that one night. I need to watch that. Yeah, it's really good. If you haven't watched it, go check that out for sure. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, we could just... Could just go on and on and on. Was it Heat with Pacino in He and Them? Yes. Is it Ghost in the Darkness, the lion hunting movie? Yeah. That's him too. I've realized how much stuff he's been in until I started doing the math. Right. A lot, yeah. Of course, The Doors. Oh, yes, Doors. He has Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison. For sure. So he, he talks about that too, in the documentary, how much time he spent, um, studying Jim Morrison, of course. And he did all the singing in the movie. Um, they didn't use any of Jim's voice, uh, singing in the movie. It was all vowel. So yeah. Amazing actor. Yeah. Yeah. I was not expecting, uh, that one to, no, I was not expecting to wake up and see that one. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But do we ever really expect, well, you know what I mean? Yeah. No, but still it's, you know, you're right you don't ever expect it it's just you know surprising so yeah that's true pacino is more the reason why you watch yeah yeah yeah yeah you're right on that one shane yeah shane said heating ghosts in the darkness are a good one but uh he's more to see pacino just eat the scenery yeah so yeah so um man yeah And he does, he has, he has a small, the only tie that he has to Alabama is being in tombstone, sharing the screen with, uh, Michael being, uh, of course you got doc holiday and the Johnny Ringo. That's awesome. Yeah. Them two on screen together in that movie is just as their scenes are so wonderful. They are. Yeah. They are. Tombstone's a classic. Yes. Oh yeah. One hundred percent. So quotable. So quotable. Yeah. And I won't get off on that tangent, but yeah. Yeah. So you mentioned Val's connection to Michael being in Alabama. one of our favorite Star Trek actors. Yes. Had a very nice thing. Let's see if I can pull this up. Whoa, that's bright. Mr. Hanson. Hanson. What would you call it? Handsome Hanson. Handsome Hanson. Yes. I say, you know, I'm, you know, I'm secure my masculine. He is a very good looking man. I'm telling you this. I love, I envy exactly. I envy that man's hair. Like that's, that's goals there. Yeah. So, uh, courtesy of, uh, What happened to it? Did I not pull it up in the screen? You pulled it up. There it is. There you go. You're struggling. I'm new to this. Article by Amber Sutton from ale.com. This is blindingly bright, at least for me. I can tell. Star Trek reader. Hang on a second. You're right, Kev. Turn on dark reader and say, there we go. Yeah. Magic saved. Yes. Star Trek actor gives Alabama city a big shout out. It's a cool town. So Anson mountain, who of course is a captain Christopher Pike on star Trek, strange new worlds. We only have a couple of actors left at what was that? A Pampers commercial. Don't look at it. Don't look at it. All I saw was a bouncing baby booty. You were the target audience for this article, apparently. What's that ad? What is that thing? Well, AL.com, you have to turn your ad blocker off. Otherwise, you can't see anything. You don't have an ad blocker. Sorry. I always have to turn it off on this website so I can read it. Star Trek Strange New Worlds actor Anson Mount recently gave a shout-out to an Alabama city during a Q&A session on social media, calling it a cool town and suggesting more films should be made there. We agree. Yeah, you're right. So Anson, like I said, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Captain Christopher Pike was shooting... While the question was a chance to promote the film, let's see, hang on. Okay, Anson mentioned his upcoming flick, Kill Him Till He's Dead. That's how that works, usually. Accurate title. Yes. I want him dead. I'm sorry. Kill him till he's dead. I'm sorry, YouTube. Unalive him until he is unalived. He said that one way too many times. Yes. It's the name of the movie title. Right. It's the movie title. Which is a sci-fi action movie filmed in Birmingham late last year that also stars Byron Mann and Milo vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin vitamin I hadn't seen them. Remember Team Edward. Team Anson. So while the question was a chance to promote the film, Mount also took time to sing the praises of Birmingham and advised other filmmakers with smaller budgets looking for a quality location to check it out. He said, we had a lot of fun shooting that in, of all places, Birmingham, which I never really spent time in, much less shot in, but I'm sold, man. Come back Anson. Please come back. I want to know when you're back in town, please. He said, it's a cool town. And that city did such great things for us on that shoot. It was amazing how far money went. That, He went to Jim and Nick's, I bet. He said if you're looking for a low-budget filmmaking location with a friendly city, Birmingham, check it out. Thanks for the endorsement. Thank you, Anson. The synopsis for this movie on IMDb is a hitman switches between bodies while attempting to rescue the love of his life from a dangerous tech mogul and his lethal allies. Okay. Kill him till he's dead. Yeah, Ice Knight. I don't know if it's a vampire movie. I don't know. It could be. He's switching bodies, right? So, I mean, I don't know. Maybe he was referring to Ashley Green when we were talking about who she was. Ashley Graham. She's a Sports Illustrated model. I got a hot take for you guys, though. I kind of thought that Anson Mount would have made a really good Mr. Fantastic. Yes. Yeah. I mean, I love Pedro Pascal and I know he'll do a good job, but like Anson Mount just looks like him, especially when you look at it from, we're doing like a fifties era, fifties era, like alternate universe. He just looks like he would be the Mr. Fantastic. So that's, yeah. When they first announced it, I was like, maybe they'll get Anson Mal to do it. Then they did Pedro Pascal. I'm like, they're just keeping it in the family. He's already got an employee number at this point. His W-Nine is on point. We already got it. Shane says Milo plays Rocky's son. Like as in Stallone Rocky? I'm assuming. And then Ice Knight said, it sounds like a DS nine episode. You're not wrong. This is pretty much everything at DS nine episode though. I mean, true. If you've not given Star Trek, deep space nine, a chance that that's a series. Yeah. Amazing writers on that show. Oh my gosh. Shane said, yeah, he played Rocky's son in Creed II. Yeah, I haven't seen any of the Creed movies, no. Been meaning to. Whoa! What? Man. I'm still trying to get in big trouble in China. This is true. Look, Brock has a lot of movies that in the eighties Brock hasn't seen yet. Brock still hasn't sat down to watch Labyrinth at this point. So we're pacing them out. We're spreading them out. And we have a, we have a reason why we're holding off on Labyrinth. We're going to try to tie some stuff together with yes. Hoggle and a cutting baggage and nevermind. Anyway, there's a reason why. There's a whole thing with Labyrinth that we're, we're working together. And Shane said, and I believe in Rocky Balboa. I believe in Joe Hendry. Exactly. Say his name. He will appear. I believe in butter bean. Okay. We got to go eat at his restaurants at some point. Jasper, right? It should be, yeah. I would say yeah if you haven't hoped so. Did they open it in the old location for the trap? I didn't say the whole thing. We don't know what is going in the trap. Somebody has bought it. Wesley's Butterbean Trap. Sure. Wesley's Barbecue Trap. I want to know what's going in the trap. But anyway, somebody's bought it. We know it was for sale and somebody got it. I looked in the trap, Ray. Somebody needs to find an old picture of that and superimpose him on the front of it. We got to be careful. We're going to go on a tangent here. That's what we do. Oh my goodness. That's right, Shane. I believe in Joe Henry. Clap, clap. Hmm. Look, I'm going to be honest with you about Rocky. Most of them, I don't remember what they were about. I just, it's just like a blur. Like, it's just like, cause you don't, you'll be, I don't watch Rocky movies for anything in particular. I don't, I don't watch them for anything in particular. It's just like, I just want to be inspired. Cause you know, it's like the, you know, that's what Rocky's in. That's the reason I was like, what with, with, with you Jess on Creed, because it's the same thing. If not like more supercharged, it's amazing. It's all the Creed movies are great. Yeah. I will break him. Even with Jonathan Majors in the last one. Yeah. Okay. Three is still the best in my opinion, but that's just me. What was the one with Mr. T? That's three. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Hey, you guys want to hear a short story about that one? Sure. Yeah. Okay. So when I was a kid and Bo may be able to relate to this, like you guys all may be able to relate to this. I was a huge A-Team fan. I love the A-Team. My God, I love the A-Team. And, you know, Mr. T was in that, right? So I had never seen any of the Rocky movies. And I will never forget the first time I sat down and I watched Rocky III. And then, of course, you know, Mr. T, he's a character, right? You know, he's a character in any place. Clever Lang. And Clever Lang is a major... he's a he's a jerk right and right but that's just his character I I'm a kid it's mr t right you know he's he's from eighteen right that's that's him right it gets to the end of the movie and he gets beat I started crying just crying like crazy and my dad's like what are you He said some choice words that I'm definitely not going to say on here about Mr. T. But he was very confused as to why I would be cheering for the villain. So I was like, but it's the A-team. He's a good guy. It's like, no, he's playing a different character in this. He don't be a Baracus in that. He's clever. Right. And I like to think that I... that that was the time when I learned that actors could play good and bad. Yeah. And, you know, cause I could only see him as bad, which is kind of shows you just how good he was in his role in a team. So, yeah. Yeah. So did you, uh, did your dad say you have pity fool? No, he said some much worse. Yeah. We're not going to do go there. Yeah. so uh sorry while we've been sitting here uh wait what does shane say shane says rocky one through four then rocky balboa then just then creed just skip five okay there you go I was I'm sorry every time somebody says creed I'm like can you take me higher there's also a creed cologne out there I keep getting ads for on facebook it's not by the band though no but if you ever see this ad it's it's it's called creed it's cologne but of course all the comments have to do with song lyrics and stuff with creed that people have mentioned yeah I don't know I don't know just facebook ad I guess because about six feet away yeah yeah anyway moving on What are you studying over there in your tiny little teleprompter? It's telling me to restart my Google Chrome. There is a mariachi band that plays Creed. Okay. Yeah, I was hoping to share images from Toylana, and it's not going to let me unless I restart Chrome, which is going to knock me off of here. Well, do you want me to just share from? Are you talking about the ones like you took? I can share from. Yeah, just open a Firefox or. You should be using Firefox now anyway, because Chrome is evil. Here we go. Bama geek squad over here. Tell you what. I take support. What? I take support here. You guys talk for a second while I, I'm going to upload these to our private Facebook. How are you still using Chrome and you have an ad blocker on it still? I just love the face. These are questions that don't have any answers. I just want to say that I pulled up AL.com and found that article on Firefox, and it pulled up with no ads, and it was fine. Easy to not use an ad. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. All right, I'm going to try to pull up. Can we go off tangent for a sec? Go ahead. We do that. We're very good at that. Is there a tangent that we, that we need to stay on target as well as we have? I mean, um, you know, the, the leader of, of, you know, uh, X-Wing squadron would be super impressed with us. Dude. Oh, over at, at hooligans arcade yesterday. Oh yeah. I played and beat that, uh, star Wars, uh, attack pod is that what it was called I know you're talking about yeah yeah uh where you where you sit down and you fly do they have the pod racer No, they didn't have that. Ice Knight says, with Jess' shirt, the Charlotte Stratton chat. Yeah, we were talking about that before we got on. Happy WrestleMania season, by the way, to those who celebrate. This is... You're keeping up with wrestling and you're up with Charlotte and Tiffany. Boy, was that a hot mess Friday night. Anyway, I don't know. I have a bad feeling that Charlotte's going to get the belt. I hope not because the Android is I've had enough of the Android. Explain that to people. Okay. This is me going off on a tangent and people are going, what are you talking about? Charlotte Flair is an Android. Okay. She's a robot. She is a robot. Does she walk like a robot? Does she do the robot? look she's she's so plastic I mean of course both of them are anyway you've got plastic and plastic in the ring and they were both dressed the same Friday night which I can't they were trying to channel their inner Madonna I guess so anyway yeah you load all these okay all right y'all go ahead I'm loading the pictures into into she does have a yes ice night she does Charlotte is Charlotte and Tiffany are both nothing but plastic faces yeah Charlotte needs to stop because she's not making herself look any better. Charlotte is ten years younger than me and looks older than me. Yeah, looks about as old as I do. That's my tangent right now. Cosmetic changes like that can be addictive. I'm not looking forward to that WrestleMania match at all. There's a reason why this one is not one of the quote-unquote main events. Right. Yeah. I don't mean to talk ill of anybody. I should be ashamed. I'm sitting here uploading pictures. That's what I should be doing. We can still have our hot takes. Yeah, this is hot takes. This doesn't say anything about them personally. It's just a decision they made that we don't agree with. I can say that about a lot of people. But because I am Gen X, whatever. Whatever. That's my motto these days. I really don't give a flip about drama or anything else. This is true. I have so many good fans that I love dearly, but I do disagree with them, but I still love them dearly. That's how it's supposed to be. Oh, really? Ice Knight. There's a hot take from Ice Knight. He will take that over Uso and Gunther match. That's a little bit of a hot take, considering how they dragged Jimmy into it to make it a little bit more personal. Yeah. Do you see, I don't know if I said it to you, one of the things I followed, somebody took that and did the voiceover from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where he's like, you see what he did to your brother just before I underlined him? No! Yeah, I'll have to find that and send that to you. Okay, I'll have to find that somewhere. Yeah, send that to us. I thought I sent that to y'all. Yeah, I know, Kev. I have zero idea what you guys are talking about. This one, me, and that one right there. This is our wheelhouse. Kevin's like... No, I don't know. All right. Let me do some... It was on the book of face, so give me some time. The book of face. And I've got all my images uploaded for Toylanta. So we're ready for Toylanta talk? Now we can talk about Toylanta. Okay. So now for the big show. The big show. Jess and I went to Toylanta last weekend. We didn't tell anybody. That we were going. We just, we wanted to go and see who we could run into and surprise. Yeah. And this turned out to be an excellent, excellent adventure. Isn't it always better when it's a surprise, right? It is. That's what I feel like. Yeah, because our friends, our friends, Abby and Jake and Craig from Yes Have Some podcast, Um, I knew we would run into them at some point and, and they, they found us and which was great. And then we wound up spending the lion share of Saturday with them and loved it. We love hanging and Skylar. And Skylar. Yes. Well, Skylar came a little bit later in the, in the evening. The man came from Disney world and went straight to toy Lana. Yeah. Skylar, if you're still here, please say so in the chat, because you're going to get mentioned. Yeah. Um, so, um, uh, so, and yeah, Shane says you would have seen me had I not gotten my dates mixed up running a table there. Yeah. Shane is the table runner for a lot of things. All right. Skyler's still here. Thanks for hanging in there with us, Skyler. Here we go. So Toylanda was a lot of fun. We had debated. We hadn't been in a couple of years. It used to be at a hotel, and it was a little bit... It was a little bit smaller the last time we went. This time it was held in the Gas South Convention Center. Yeah, Convention Center, yeah. A little bit more space, and they combined PowerCon, which is a Masters of the Universe con. They combined that into Toylanta. The layout was great. The space was great. Toylanta, fantastic job. Really, really great. Um, really enjoy that. And I say, it says that sounds exhausting from Disney to toy land. Yep. Skylar's a trooper though. Um, so we went over there to meet a hero of mine, a childhood hero. This was our sole purpose really for going right here. This man right here was the purpose for us going to toy Atlanta. He's trying to put me in a headlock. That's basically what he's doing. But, you know, he's he's being gentle. He was gentle. He pulled me in a little close there. Sergeant Slaughter is an absolute childhood hero of mine. He is. I mean, I love G.I. Joe as a kid and I love WWF as it was back then as a kid. And Sarge was, of course, part of both of those. And Shane says smaller. It was like a cracker box when it was at the hotel. Absolutely. Skylar said it's worth it. Shane says it's an itty bitty ditty bag, man. All right. I don't question Sarge's ditty, man. Nor do I. But Sarge honestly was one of the inspirations for me going into the military. Yeah. he, he, as a kid really, uh, piqued my interest, you know, GI Joe did, but Sarge being in, in two worlds that I loved. Uh, so I always wanted to get a chance to meet him and tell him that. And so we, Jess and I have been trying, he was at, he was at fan boy expo in twenty nineteen when we went up there in Knoxville. And, uh, We didn't go and meet him. And I have been kicking myself for six years for not going up and meeting him. And so when he was announced for Toylanta, like, that's it. We are absolutely one hundred percent going. Yeah. So we decided to make a weekend out of it, sneak up there and not tell anybody. Um, so we, we got up there and we were the first in line to meet him. Uh, we, we had a VIP badges, so we got in thirty minutes extra or thirty minutes early. He was not there. Our friend John Anderson, friend of the podcast, uh, who, if you don't know John, uh I think he just started up a new podcast called trick talking meat yep um john is an actor has been he's been in stranger things guardians of the galaxy galaxy uh several things john's a good friend of all of ours we've known him for years uh so and we're gonna try to get john on the podcast at some point yeah uh he invited us down to his house and to do like a dual podcast episode with him in a swimming pool and I was like He said he's got a great setup. So we're going to go barbecue. All of us need to get together with John and barbecue at some point. So we hung around talking with John for a bit and then Sarge came in. We hopped in line and Uh, and got to, got to tell Sarge, you know, exactly what he, uh, what he meant to me, not, not in a, not in a mushy gushing way, just, Hey, you're a huge inspiration for me as a kid for joining the military. And he's like, Hey, well, you know, thank you for your service. And he talks really soft too. He's a very soft talker. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so just getting to meet him was awesome, but. told him all that, you know, nice stuff, you know, loved you in wrestling, your inspiration. And then he does this to me. He's like, fine, put you in the Kerber clutch. Like, thanks, Sarge. Appreciate it. No, I actually wanted to be put in the Kerber clutch. I was like, Hey, can't, can we work a deal here? Brock is now a member of the, uh, the club there. I gotta, I gotta show this off. Shane was talking about, uh, the itty bitty, uh, diddy bag. I'm working, I'm working some magic here. Shane said it's from the GI Joe movie. It was the bag that he was going to shove Falcon in because they cannot say body bag. I have not seen the GI Joe movie in forever. Thank you for that reminder. But for Sarge, I'll blow myself up here. Not like that. Here we go. So Sarge handed out, if you, if you, if you become a member of a Cobra clutch club, He gives you a challenge coin, which is really cool. So that's probably not going to focus well, but anyway, it says, it says Sergeant slaughter, WWE hall of fame. And then on the back proud member of the Cobra clutch club with the The Cobra heads. Oh, nice. That's that's nice. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a good coin. It's a really nice coin. It's really nice. And after he put you in the Cobra clutch, he reaches down like at least for me, he reached down to shake my hand. And this was he had it in the palm of his hand. Nice. That's awesome. Yeah, it was really cool. So getting to meet him, that was a childhood dream. uh fulfilled for sure uh how do I go back to are we back in group layout that's what it's like a younger kid you cannot express how much of a grip that man had on entertainment in the eighties like he was he was just right even though it was two properties it seemed like he was everywhere yeah Absolutely everywhere. One of my favorite episodes of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show is when he showed up into the live action. That's right. I remember that, too. I forgot about that. Thank you. Absolutely. Ice Knight says you need to frame that with a coin. I'm going to put the coin in my box with my figure, my O-Ring Sergeant Slaughter figure. It says, at ease, Brock, Sergeant Slaughter. Look out, Cobra. Yo, Joe. Mm-hmm. Nice. So I've got that. And so I'm going to find a way to, you know, maybe put the coin in here somehow safely. Yeah. And definitely have it next to an eight by ten of the Kerber clutch for sure. But yeah, that was such a treat. And that was a bucket list item for me. It really was. There's not many celebrities or anything that I really want to meet anymore. Sarge has been on top of that list for a long time. Mm-hmm. But then we also got to meet Paige Turco, who everybody here on this podcast loves. She was April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, Secret of the Ooze. And three. And three, that's right. Two and three. But we had her sign a photo for us that... I have an ambition of meeting... many aprils as I can I think did you did you ask her is uh is nick ever gonna do a figure of her april No, we didn't ask her. NECA, I believe, has said that they're trying to. At least they were trying to a while back. But we got to design this photo for her. Oh, good choice. Good choice. Yeah. Good choice for that one. And she put a little smiley face on the mug. Yeah, the smiley face on the mug right there. Nice. But she said, Brock and Jessica, great to meet you. Cowabunga. From one reporter to another. Paige Turco, April. The reason why I love April so much is because I'm a former TV reporter. And so... you know, I have to go meet, I have to meet all the April. So now we've got, I've got page, we've got Judith and we've got Renee, the voice actress from the cartoon. So, so all the, Oh, all the, um, April's we grew up with the OG April's, I guess you could say in that sense. Yeah. Ernie Reyes was there as well. Oh, nice. Did not meet him because I could not find my, uh, my little motorcycle from that NECA release and his figure. I couldn't find it and I was going to have him sign it. So he kept like looking at us all weekend when we were over there and I felt bad. I couldn't look him in the eye because every time I glanced over him, he'd be looking at me and I'm like, yeah, he's like, oh, they saw April. So they got to know, you know, are they going to come over here to my table? Are they going to spend some money here? Sorry, we didn't bring it. Sorry. I wanted, I wanted him to sign the figure of him. Yeah. But what else happened at Toylanta? Well, we ran into an old nemesis of mine. We found John Mellencamp. Yeah. The chili dogs are everywhere. They are. Look, it happened in Lowe's today, too, by the way. It happened today at Lowe's. Yeah. Which song was it? Lonely All Night. Oh. I was in Lowe's when I sent you that video where he got me for... Oh, what song was that? I can't remember, but yeah, I was in Lowe's. So apparently Lowe's is a Mellencamp hot zone. Yeah, it apparently is. I was just sitting there dancing, looking at him dancing. He was like, why are you doing this? I'm like, I'm just, I'm enjoying, Hey, I'm just jamming to the music, you know? All right. So that was the fun of the day, you know, getting to, to meet Paige and Sarge and getting to hang around with, uh, with, jake and craig and abby and um there was skylar and and what else there was something else that happened while we were strolling through the vendor hall something we did not expect we got recognized yes we so all right so ice night yes head to los morales All right, so Shane said, cannot say I ever heard a John Mellencamp song outside of that one time we were eating dinner in Huntsville. Be grateful. Shane, you need to hang around me a lot more. You will get John Mellencamp. More than you care to. Yeah, more than you can handle. And it only happens because Brock doesn't like him. I don't like that he stalks me. Yeah. I'm okay with this music. I always have been. It's just, it just happened that one day I just started noticing every time I turn on some music somewhere, there's John Mellencamp and he has been a recurring theme. It's uncanny. It's just something I noticed now. This is something we love to have fun with. But yeah, we were walking through the vendors and a big shout out to Jeremy and Andy. I'm going to pull this up. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I'll get that pulled up. You can finish there. we I'll be honest I mean we're a small podcast we don't ever expect to get recognized but we're we're looking around and looking at all you know the different toys and figures and stuff and then this guy in an auburn uh polo says are you you guys the bama geeks I looked I looked at brock I was like uh yeah we we are well two or four but yeah okay yeah yeah Just the fact that any of us got recognized is funny to me. Yeah. His name is Jeremy. And what do you got pulled out there? This is actually, this is who he was with at Toylanta. Yeah, that's the booth they were at. This is Andy. He was there. Andy is MK Ultra Customs. He does a lot of custom figures and backdrops and stuff. Yeah, and this was the shot, actually, from his Instagram of their little setup there at Toylanta. Yeah. Nice. And they were listed in Toylanta's program as MK Ultra Customs and the Toy Aisle. Yes. The Toy Aisle. Uh-huh. And that was... You know, it was a lot of great booths. A lot of great things to look at there at Toylanta. Both modern, banks of modern and vintage. I really enjoyed looking at all the things in the vintage booths. But there... Their table was the only one that I spent money at. And I took these to work. So bear with me because I'm going to just share the generic picture of what I bought, of what I got from them. But I got one of the Frankenstein frosties that I wanted so bad when they came out and I, and I missed it. And Jeremy had it. Thank you, Jeremy. And then I just got the, uh, the regular, uh, the regular red frosting. So, yeah and they're both at my um they're I took them to work so they're on my desk because I have the um the skeleton one that come out uh in those little fright frosty things there's the that's what the regular one looks like just the red cup with the frosty look on it oh there you go brock's got it We've, we've got, yeah, we got that one, but I, I wanted the Frankenstein one the most when they were coming out with that set and they had it. So I got that. I got those. That's, that's what I came away with from Toylana was the frosty things. Yeah. Um, we really didn't spend money at, at Toylana, which was outside of Sarge and, and Paige. Um, Just because I've really, I've surprised her. I've surprised Jess and I've surprised myself as I have stopped collecting as much. And there are things in there that I was ready to buy that I had been looking for three different ones and walked away from all of them. Yeah. Not because of the price. It was just... You're right. I don't have a space for it, you know? And so, um, plus we've got things that we're trying to, to do, uh, outside of the toy collecting world, you know, trying to be adults. But I mean, overall, I just, like I said, enjoyed all the vintage stuff, looking at the old things. It was, I got a lot of joy out of just doing that. So it was, I enjoyed myself there. Yeah. There's a lot of fun. Um, so yeah, we, we walked around with Skylar and Craig, Abby and Jake. quite a bit. And Jeremy and Andy, it was absolutely wonderful to meet you. Hope you see this. We're going to have them on the podcast at some point because, you know, they are local Birmingham toy dealers, geek, you know, geeks like us. And we, we want to support, we want to support Alabama based people as much as we can. We we've also got recognized by Wolf Den Collectibles. Jonathan Wolf. I've been talking to him. We're going to try to have him on. They're going to have Gladstone. Gladstone. Gladstone. Gadsden Collector Con in July on July twenty sixth on my birthday up in Gadsden. And so we're going to have him on in closer to time to talk about Gadsden Collectors Con. I don't know if we're going to be able to make it up there because it is my birthday and my kids will be here. It'll be their last day here and they'll have to travel back. So we'll see, but we'll definitely try to have him on. Ice Knight says, what toys do they specialize in? Man, they had old vintage Masters of the Universe. I think I saw some G.I. Joe. Yeah, overall with Toy Atlanta, but Ice Knight, are you asking about MK Customs? Ultra Customs? Yeah, yeah. Whatever was in that picture. Yeah. He does. He, he does a lot of customization, customizations with toys and things like that. That's what he had laid out on his table. Hopefully we can get them on here so we can get a little more in depth with, with what they got. Yeah, absolutely. So thanks to all this guys. It was nice walking around with everybody after hours. they had a toy swap you know not only just vendors but everybody could go into this room across the street uh at a hotel and and they opened up a little bit kevin you found that amusing they had this room at the hotel everybody could go into hey everybody could go to this room at the hotel across the street ballroom ballroom yeah so so we were in there with with abby and jake and craig and hal clay and michael kosky who are these are uh two other friends of ours. But yeah, it was a big toy swap. Let's see if I can... This is what the room looked like. Oh, you got a picture? Oh, I got them. Oh, okay. Oh, there we go. Yeah. So this is what the room looked like. Everybody's setting up. If you see there in the blue shirt on the left, that's Skylar Skylar. Yeah. Next to him is, uh, facing us is, uh, is Jake Walsh. And, uh, that's Craig Goldberg next to them. That's that's from YHS. But you see there are, everybody is the, the toy swap was not supposed to start till seven thirty. Okay. Hang on a second. We got a super chat. Wait, hang on. Advisory. Wow. Thank you so much. Wow. I appreciate that. I was wondering what that was. That's amazing. Thanks, man. Yes. Well, thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. We appreciate that. I wish I had a little sound bite. I'd go cha-ching. Or clap for a thank you. Yeah, thank you. Don't exploit the niceness. Man, I could do a dad joke or something if you guys want to. How about that? How about that? Do a dad joke real quick. We're going to do a dad joke. We don't do those anymore. All right. All right. What kind of sickness does a martial artist get? What kind? Kung flu. There you go. I hope that was five dollars well spent. I've never given a super chat again. Hey, Mike. Hey, Mike. Hey, Mike. Appreciate that, buddy. Thanks, Mike. Thank you. He told us one time that that was him and I totally blinked. I'm old. We're getting old. You have to remind us. So before we start heading off back into the story, Shane says, toy swaps are crazy where you get the crazy deals. Well, this one, this one got crazy. It says where I do a lot of my wheeling and dealing when I go to toy cons. Yeah, absolutely. That's what was going on. This was my first time doing it, being involved. I mean, we didn't have toys to trade off or sell, but this was our, this was my first time in this environment that it was just an open toy swap. So, you know, you see everybody setting up. It was supposed to start at seven thirty. And of course, everybody immediately left. Yeah, because it closed at six. It closed at six. Everybody immediately went over and started setting up. So we went over there with with Skylar and the YHS crew. So the whole point of this picture is not only to show you the room, but down at the bottom, you see the equipment on the table. Mm hmm. All right. You see, there's a projector on a little, uh, little table there. Everything is set up. Yeah. We have no idea why it's there. This room is for the toy swap. Yeah. Okay. So we're just sitting there. We're sitting there on the tech. We're sitting in seats behind this table. Did you guys get Tom show presentation? Okay. So yeah, Scarlett says, look at that AV equipment. Look at that right there. Shane says, wait, do they do karaoke? Oh, Shane. It's coming. Hold on. Hold that thought. So then we'll go to the final picture I have for this story. Okay. Sorry. I didn't know you took this, but I see Skylar. See Skylar with his arm propped up there? Skylar's just chilling and relaxing on the speaker there. Next to him. On the table. Huh? Yeah, they're on the table. Yeah. So, well, next to him, facing Craig Goldberg, is Pixel Dan. Okay. Very famous toy YouTuber. Mm-hmm. Pixel Dan, we were hanging with him for a little bit as well. Next to Jake back there is Geek Dad Life, Jake Glatfelter, who's a friend of ours as well. YHS, big toy YouTubers. Pixel Dan, huge toy YouTuber. Mm-hmm. Geek Dad Life, huge toy YouTuber. YHS, huge. Lots of toy YouTubers at Toylanta with cameras. Pixel Dan's holding one in his hand. As you can now see to that table behind Skyler, there's a whole lot of Star Wars figures. Light out there, yeah. Skyler, I love you. He politely took those microphones and those cables that you see and kind of moved them closer to the speaker to make room for this one guy or two guys. It was two guys who had a huge tub of these star Wars figures. So, so Skylar is standing there. Pixel Dan, we're all sitting there just talking, hanging out, hanging out. And I'm not repeating any of the words that were used, but this long haired guy came into the room. And do you remember exactly what he said, Jess? Who moved the stuff on the table? Very loud. The roadie. Skylar, go ahead too, as well. Yeah. If you've got some stuff to throw into the chat, please do so. Who put all this stuff here? You moved all this stuff. We had this set up for, for a DJ. Karaoke. We were doing karaoke and there was going to be a DJ and yeah, we're just, I mean, going off the absolute rails. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah. Everybody, everybody back here. Move now. Shutting it down. Just lit. Yes. Yes. We're all just sitting there looking at him. Yeah, I mean, we were just sitting there, honestly. We were not the ones that laid out the figures on the table. Nope. Did you ask, did his girlfriend dump him or something? Look, there was no sign or anything. Nothing. There was no sign whatsoever that said to move this, you know, don't move this stuff. Right. We just thought it's in a conference room. We thought that, or most of us just thought that it was, Part of the hotel thing. Yeah, part of the hotel thing. Yeah. But no, this guy came in, went off the rails. And so, yeah. So we all... We, Craig started scooping his stuff up like crazy. I mean, we, we were, we did everything we could to get out of this guy's way because he was livid. Who moved this stuff? Everybody move, get out of here, back off now. And so we're all looking and Skylar's like, I moved it. I, sir, am the one who peed in your cornflakes. It was I, sir. But Skylar didn't say that to him. He said it to us. Yeah. He's like, I moved it. I'm like, well, we're not saying a word. We don't want Skylar to get beat up. No, no. We protect our friends. Yeah. I think Skylar could take this guy. Yeah. Thanks. This guy. And why he just talked about this on Tuesday night on their, their, uh, their episode. Um, And Craig explained to this guy a lot better than I could, that he looks like, and I, this is, he, to me, he just, he looks like what you would envision. Yeah. Long hair, well-fed. Because what every toy swap meeting needs is a DJ. That's what you need in a little room where people are trying to talk about swapping and buying toys is a DJ and karaoke. Yeah. Yeah, we knew that was going to be a bad mix. Bravo, Scott. We were saying that. Bravo. Oh, you pulled up? There you go. It was me, Austin. It was me all along. Bravo. So we are setting up a timeshare presentation and you messed it up. Yeah. So we all move on to the hallway. We help everybody. We help Jake and Craig move, pick up all their stuff and move it out into the hallway and everything else. And the Skyler's commentary in real time during this had me cracked up because Skyler just nonchalant, just giving his thoughts on this guy. The whole situation was great. But everybody moved out into the hallway. Well, at least from that table area. Took all the stuff and moved out into the hallway. And, of course, everybody's just kind of talking smack about this guy. And then this guy gets hotel involved and security involved. Yeah. Because apparently he's trying to say some things are missing. And, of course, something's missing. Why would you just leave your stuff out? Look. I don't know. These are questions that I cannot provide answers for. I was just there. Yeah. And so, you know, we moved everything off to the, to the hallway and everybody else set up out there that was in the back. And this guy's just going up and down the hall fuming and well, A few minutes later, he comes just shoving through the crowd again and down the hallway. And he's got one of the big hotel, you know, carts, valet carts, loads up all the stuff and then just carts and go somewhere else in the hotel. We, we rained on his DJ parade. All that drama for that. Just to pack up and leave. And see Skylar, nothing was missing. Pack up your stuff. Nobody wanted you here anyways. The toy swap did not ask for a DJ. I think we'll be fine. Yeah. I kind of want to know what he was going to do. Well, according to Shane, if you go back, let's say... Why do you use a projector for a DJ thing? I don't know. Shane says, hey, at least someone did not set fire to someone's van in the parking lot afterwards. Yeah, that's a good thing. And that's why someone gets their car torched. Yeah. yeah so it it was funny it was funny to us but like I said skyler's running commentary throughout the whole thing had me laughing yeah all night I loved it oh man I could totally imagine someone like sitting there like describing the whole scene like david attenborough we have a really good dj but yeah he he definitely um It was, it made for an interesting end to the day for sure. He looked like he was our age. And I'm like, at this point in your life, you stopped caring about a lot of things. That would be one of the things I would stop caring about. I mean, at that point, I probably would have just got my phone out and started following him to find out where he was going to go and set up. Yeah. And that's what I'm thinking. I'm like, you're pitching a fit like a twelve-year-old. Mm-hmm. With all of these toy YouTubers in here with cameras and massive followings, are you out of your mind? They will make you famous. And the best part to this story, yesterday, Skylar sent me the dude's info. Skylar found him on social media. Oh, I did not know this. Wow. Skylar texted me. He's like, here's the dude. Oh. Bravo. Thank you, sir. Was he, did he, did he set all of his stuff public and he started, he was still fuming about it? No, he didn't say anything. He didn't say anything, uh, on his social media about it, but it showed him setting up in a different room with karaoke. And, uh, it was just, uh, him talking about the, about Toylanta itself. Yeah. Yeah, but Skylar sent me a screenshot. But it was a different room, so he was setting up like this would have happened after that. Yeah. Yeah. Bravo Skylar for finding that. Skylar says, yeah, he was, he was a hundred percent older than me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wish y'all could have, I just wish y'all could have been there to experience what we experienced with Skylar in person there. That's awesome. That was so much fun. That was a great ending to that day for sure. And Shane said, uh, me and some friends used to do it as a nature commentary is I also got someone like that got so worked up. I think I gave them a stroke or a heart attack. Shane's out here trying to unalive people. Man. Not on purpose. Some people are just easy like that. This makes me more interested in toy swaps now. I just want to people watch. We'll say, hey, they made you a toy Atlanta next year. Hey, come on down. I may go back to it next year just for the toy swap. Yeah, we need to find some stuff to take. Yeah, it was a great day. And for the people here in Alabama, don't do that at Gaston Collectors Con in July. Behave yourself. There's another, is Rocket City Toys and Collectibles type thing. Oh, that's right. The one they do in Huntsville. Usually around October. I like what Shane says. Or as Kinsley would say, that's vile. That's vile. That's vile. Ice Knight said, I'm with Beau. Hand me the popcorn. And I'm glad you're still here, Ice Knight, because I did find that link. It's from Boccia Mania on their Facebook page. But here, I'll post it here in the comments if they want to watch it. Oh, of course, Boccia Mania. Yeah. Okay. There you go. There you go, Ice Knight. You can watch it there because I don't want to get us any content strikes for having clips. Yeah. Bo knows what that's about. That's right. Yes. Every time Bo is solo, we get a copyright strike. Yeah. Did they really? Do they really do that? Shane said, yes, she has to actually square it up like you did. Really? You know, I mean, we adults already get a bad rap as toy collectors. Sometimes don't, don't, don't fuel the, don't, don't fuel the flame. it's because of folks like that that we get a bad rap you're just reinforcing a really bad stereotype like the stereotype would be I would assume that if I went to this person's social media accounts that there would be at least one avatar or cover photo that would be full of anime or something like that it's all stereotypes and anime is perfectly awesome so yeah Shane said yes made a bunch of friends was like are they serious when they do the bicycles with anyone with one big wheels coming oh man I've always wanted to see somebody do the big wheel bicycles but then do jousting I know that's like totally like you have the jousting poles you're trying to keep the thing up at the same time but You may have a new reality show in your hands. Yeah, I think you've come up with something there. Someone please steal that idea. Shane says he's seen that. Oh, man. But highly recommend Toylanta, especially since they've moved it to a bigger location. Yeah. everybody there was great. That was a fun, we had the weekend pass. We only went on Saturday, but we got up there Friday night and then just kind of moseyed on back home at a leisurely pace on Sunday. But that Saturday was a lot of fun. We loved hanging out with Abby and Craig and Jake and Pixel Dan and Geek Dad Jay and Hal and Michael and Skylar and Uh, that was such a, and John, that was such a fun time. And, um, uh, Sasquatch toys and games from here in Birmingham was there. Yeah. They had a booth set up. Yeah. And, uh, saw a lot of that. Of course we had gone the week before to Sasquatch, Jess and I did. And, and he brought a lot of stuff that we had that I had been eyeballing. Yeah. Yeah. But again, I walked away. And hopefully, too, because like I said, they moved it to a bigger venue this year. So I hope that means good things for them. And it just continues to grow. There's continued growth there because, I mean, if they would keep it at the same spot, they've got a lot of room there to do a lot of things with. I'm pulling this comment up here. A good time is had by all. Well, not everyone. Well, not everyone. There's one in every crowd. Just maybe after he had his little thing and he left and he went and set up somewhere else and he did his little video talking about toilet. Maybe he did have a good time. Maybe he had a good time. I hope he did. I hope he did. I hope he recovered. And I hope he realized that, you know what? It's just really that not that important. Yeah. No one stole your stuff. you can go have your timeshare presentation somewhere else that's right maybe he's still got to fulfill his dj duties for the weekend yeah yeah so toyland I definitely highly recommend um I definitely want to go back just to hang out with friends. Just, you know, like I said, I'm trying my best not to buy a lot of stuff right now because I've got a lot of pre-orders that have ended. I've got a lot of pre-orders that are about to roll off and be done. So, I mean, Jess and I were trying to move to a different house in a different neighborhood in a different city. so we're trying to get out we are trying to uproot completely yeah we're trying to hit the road jack yeah so I I'm having to I'm purposely not buying a whole lot right now just so we can get some some things situated and hopefully get out of here within the next couple years at least um so but I I want to go and hang out with friends it's kind of like what dragon con is now just go and hang out and just have fun I mean we walked around that dealer's room Five times, five or six times and looked at the same things five or six times, but also saw, you know, different things each time. Yeah. Because we were with everybody. Didn't get, it wasn't dull at all. Yeah. We kind of did the over kind of did the initial walk around. And then, like I said, we walked around a couple more times and dove deep a little bit more into some of the booths. Cause when I, when I, again, when I say there was, I, I was really, really pleased and impressed by the amount of vintage stuff that, that was there too. So, yeah. If you remember that show, the littles, I was trying to egg, I was trying to egg Jess on. Cause there was like a littles dollhouse. Oh, Well, it's called The Littles, but it's different from the cartoon. So just saying, I know that you, you know, yeah, it's not the same as the cartoon The Littles, although the house is called The Littles. It's different. People do get that confused, but, you know, understandable. You were not a girl child playing with the Littles dollhouse. Yeah, and she had that as a kid. Mm-hmm. there was one there unopened and they want to want to, they wanted to walk for a hundred dollars. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I can let it be a core memory. I wish I had four hundred dollars to say, here you go. Give it to me. I'm a walk away and not shed a tear that I just dropped four hundred dollars, but just couldn't do that. So. And they also had a, a dollhouse from the Waltons. Oh yeah. And Craig, Craig did not know what the Waltons was. Wow. He's like, he's like, I had no idea what the Waltons were. I'm like, good night, John boy. I think the comment was made too, about getting a Walton's God, Walton gone and figures for the Walton's playhouse. So yeah. Yeah. No, I think that would work. Yeah. So it was a good time. And Skylar, we loved hanging with you. I hope we get to see you again really soon. Yeah. Um, Oh, yeah. Somebody hot rodding down the road there. That's why we want to move. But yeah. So next, next thing we've got coming up Huntsville comic and pop culture expo at the end of the month with Shane, Shane will be there. A lot of people will be there. That's going to be a good time. 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