S2E9 - Sweet Thai Chili

In S2E9, we bounce between storm season, tornado watches, flooded buildings, muddy dogs, and the kind of everyday chaos that somehow turns into a full conversation. We also get into work downtime, mower repairs, overgrown grass, Lego side hustles, whatnot selling, and the weird little routines that make up real life. It’s a laid-back episode full of random detours, backyard nonsense, and the usual back-and-forth that keeps us rolling. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

What's up everybody? It's Ian.

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Ian Robbie. And we're two assholes and a Mike.

SPEAKER_03 0:06

And a Mike.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

A mic.

SPEAKER_03 0:09

No, it's like mid 50s, but it's fucking breezy.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Oh, see, that's some bullshit. Like I said, it's we got tornado warnings right now, but it's so it's breezy, obviously. But it's fucking hot and humid still from all the rain that we've had recently, you know. It's just hot. That's messy. It was 97 yesterday, it got up to. Right now it's 85 with a high of 89. Supposed to be thunderstorms around 7. So that's probably when when we'll be having the most likely tornado warnings, but we're already in a tornado watch or warning watch. Whichever one is the the first one, the least. Watch. Yeah, watch.

SPEAKER_03 0:49

Yeah. Tornado watches where the conditions exist for a tornado to form.

unknown 0:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Tornado warning is where one has been sighted or a funnel has been sighted, or there was a touchdown, or some shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Yeah. Yeah, that's the one. It's it's the conditions already.

SPEAKER_03 1:07

So like I said before, dude, I miss I miss that. I miss I mean, I don't miss the fucking death and destruction that tornadoes come, you know, bring with them, but I love the the weather, the lightning, the clouds, the fucking wind, the thunderstorms. Sometimes some yeah, sometimes the crackling of the thunder, and just kind of sitting outside and just watching the shit unfold.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Yeah, that's what I was doing. You know, we're some people were like told to shelter in place and stuff. I'm sitting out here in the garage just watching. Yeah, you know, nothing it it all went around us. The thunderstorms, the the NATOs, everything went around us because not it was breezy, that was it. Yeah, so I just sat out here and watched it because the lightning was so bright that you could see all the clouds and stuff. I thought for sure I was gonna see a NATO in Alito, you know, because they said one was out there, but I didn't I never saw one. Oops, sorry, Roxy. I scared you.

SPEAKER_03 2:03

Yeah, I remember this time last year it was the same thing, but I remember recording recording a lot of it.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

Yeah, all the lightning and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Yeah, I still got all that on my on my photo albums.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

I don't know. It was alright. I didn't have too much to do today. I walked around quite a bit just kind of because I'm still in a phase where I'm just waiting on waiting on answers, just waiting on shit to happen with other projects or waiting for other people to make decisions on shit, and I there's not really too much I can do, so I was just kinda asking other people if they needed help with different things. So I was sitting over in uh in the estate's office today. They had a fucking flood over the weekend where um someone had uh a bucket that they were using to kind of wipe down tables and windows and stuff, and I guess they went to go put it in the utility closet to rinse it out. And wait for the wait for the bucket to rinse out. And the bucket had tipped and the water had stayed on, and I guess that person forgot about it, so all weekend the water was running and totally flooded out like that whole fucking first floor. Do they know who it was? No, they don't know, so they're they're trying to figure it out. Somebody knows. I just fessed up that if it was me. Yeah, I think the the fucked up thing was is that some of the some of the people, the caretakers are supposed to be making sure that their the doors are locked. Like at a certain time when the school closes down, they're supposed to be going around doing their checks, right? To make sure everything's locked up. And um so they were able to see on the CCTV cameras where one of the caretakers had gone and like pushed on one of the doors, but it wasn't even a door that locks, it was just a fucking double swinging door. You have to go through those to check all the other rooms that are down the hall. And so they don't see any other video footage of anyone going in there to do the checks on those rooms. So that means that someone didn't do the checks on the rooms, and I guess the one person that was pushing on the door had his earbuds in, so he couldn't hear that the water was running because the the utility closet's right around the corner from where that door's at. So if he didn't have his earbuds in listening to music while he was doing going around doing his thing, then he would have heard the water running on Friday. Yeah. So I don't know. Like I said, it definitely seems like an accident until they can see on the CCTV camera who who did it and whether or not it was intentional. Because the fucked up thing about it is also is that when you shut the doors to the utility closet, they don't lock automatically. When they went and found it this morning, the door was locked. So someone had to have locked that door with the water running.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

Anyway, so I was walking around with uh the f the facilities manager today, just kind of helping him out, looking at some things, and just trying to find out what I could do to help. Learning more, learning more. Yeah, yeah, just trying to learn more. Nice. Yeah, because I'm a team player, you know, I'll do whatever I need to do to make some shit happen.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yeah not me. I'm like, fuck you guys. That's why I'm going in today. Because I'm not a team player and fuck them. Not my monkeys, not my circus. Nope, no, Hannah asked me to come in today, so I said yes. So I'm going in. Bar backing though, so woo!

SPEAKER_05 5:49

Bar backing, makes making a couple extra bucks.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Yeah, because I'm about to be leaving next Tuesday, so I may as well may as well make some extra cashola for my trip. Yeah. I've tried two shows uh and uh what did I do today? I I did it for 35 minutes, I got bored and just logged off. After like 35 minutes, I was all like, I wanted to go through some of my minifig boxes, but I have like two boxes just full of minifigs, like that are my for my personal collection. And I just got the urge to fucking to to go through one of those bins, and uh so I did. I logged off and just fucking bounced, and uh I didn't end up making any sales because of it or whatever. Because normally I don't make sales to about the half hour mark, seems like, for whatever reason, you know. That's what my metrics say and yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:41

Text people to submit it to get online and do you so do you just set up before you start streaming, or do you stream and then kind of set up while you're streaming? What do you mean? Like, is there anything that you have so when you load all the figs? Do you load them before you stream?

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Just before. Because sometimes I'll add figs throughout the day, so I don't load them until literally I'm about to start the show, then I'll clone them all from my original show. I have like an origin show that I load all my figs into, and then I just clone them from there. But when I sell them, they automatically go out of the origin show, so that's cool. So they ought to I don't have to like go back and delete them out of there if I make a sale. Yeah, they automatically leave, yeah. So or they automatically go out. So I just use the origin show as my cloning thing, I put it out to like December, and then when it gets close to December, I've done this the last two years in a row now. When it gets close to December, I move it to the next December so that I can just continue to use it as my clone show. Yeah, I should just rename it as clone show.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

Really? Don't you mean clown show?

SPEAKER_01 7:56

No, clone show. Other sellers would probably know what that is because I'm sure they do something similar or you know, relatively the same. Because I know some people who have like thousands of items in their bin. There's no way that they're not cloning. They they have to.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

Yeah, you're gonna have to focus on me how to get all that shit set up whenever I get into the house and get all my shit back and still want to start making shirts, because that sounds like it would be a pretty fun idea to just kind of bullshit with people and then make shirts to order. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Right then and there. That's what I'm doing. I put figs in I do it all prior, but I'm just singing out with with people, figs and music, you know? That's it. It's usually only a handful of people at a time.

SPEAKER_03 8:44

How often do you do custom building on while you're streaming? I like if someone says, Could you could you build this and and you have the pieces, would you do that?

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

But I don't have the pieces really anymore. I sold uh basically all of them. Yeah. All my bits and pieces, like my parts pieces, they're almost all gone. I've got some new parts that I'm gonna kind of start over. I'm kind of like starting over. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. So I'm gonna start collecting parts again, and if I find parts, you know, I'll just if I find unique parts, I'll throw them in my little bin and stuff, you know. Kind of just starting fresh with parts and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 9:27

So so no more sets, just I mean, I'm sure you'll buy you you probably would buy some sets, but not as many sets, more so you said just random pieces. Uh it you talk about on whatnot? No, for your for your like all the stuff you're storing.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

For myself, yeah, because the bits and pieces are for me to create and then eventually sell. Or and then the sets that I will buy are gonna be for the PC. I may buy sets to sell if I get it at 40 to 50% off or more, then I would buy a set or two here or there, and then just immediately put it on eBay, you know, for like 80-90% of its value. So I'm still making a profit, but they're getting a deal, you know. Yeah, because I do that still right now, concurrently. I bought I bought a set like a month ago at like 50% off, and then I I put it up on eBay and sold it, you know. Yeah, you just gotta find the deals, you gotta be patient too, you know. Like, if I was doing it for a living, I'd be a lot more aggressive. But since I'm doing it as a hobby, I'm not out there searching, I'm not going through marketplace all that often. I go through marketplace every like couple of weeks, I'll look for some Lego in marketplace. If it doesn't come up, then it doesn't come up. You know what I mean? I'm not it's not that time to get it that day, you know what I mean? It's just the way I look at it now, you know, instead of being frantic about trying to to get Lego to sell Lego, you know, I'll just sell as I feel like, you know, I can go. I went three or four months without selling, you know. I can do that again if I want. You know what I mean? I'm just enjoying it right now, so I'm doing it almost every day. I'd do them little pop-ups for about an hour or so. I did another one early this morning. I only sold one fig, but you know, somebody got a fig off for a deal and I made four dollars and eighty-seven cents.

SPEAKER_05 11:20

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

You know what I mean? Off that fig. Yeah. That I probably paid two bucks for. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 11:26

Yeah, I'm always fucking, I was always worried about like if I've wanted to a goodwill or if we go into thrift stores here, always just seeing if they have like tubs of Legos just to see like how much they they'd sell it down for. Like I said, the Lego like buying and selling Lego for me isn't as enjoyable as it is for you, but I want to see if there's something in there because you're excited about it. Yeah, because you're my heterosexual life, mate, man. And uh just want to see each other happies. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 11:59

It's like you with your cars. I like seeing the pictures of you fucking working on your cars. Like I don't enjoy working on cars anymore, but you do enjoy it, and I enjoy that you enjoy it. Yeah, but it I enjoy doing it with you, and I enjoy doing it with other friends and stuff, you know what I mean? Like, like when we did the fucking brakes on my fucking Subaru, that shit was fun as fuck. Yeah, but I wasn't by myself, just yeah, you know, like doing the fucking mower uh belt today. I I replaced the mower belt because I fucking shredded the last one. Well, this one, yeah, it took me a little over an hour to replace that motherfucker, man. Really? It took me a bit of figuring out. I had to go to YouTube, man, to figure out the route because once I cut it, I didn't look at the route when I cut it. Uh-huh. I couldn't figure out the route, man. And I so I and you have to take off actually one of the pulleys to actually be able to get it because it has this little bar around it that holds the belt in. Because I didn't put the bar back on on purpose. I was like, man, fuck that bar. I was like, I'm not gonna and I and I went to go hit the grass and it went boo-hoo. And I got out and I looked and the fucking belt slipped off right where I didn't put the bar back on, so I had to take it all back apart and fucking put the belt back on again. So it took me about an hour to do all that. Fucking stubborn ass. It was just dude, the bolt it was a pain in the dick to get that bracket back on, you know, that little bracket, because there's not much room. I've got I I backed the mower up onto my ramps. At least I had that. If I didn't have that, I I don't think I would have been able to replace the belt. I don't know if I could have if I didn't have those ramps. Because I couldn't have got under there to get to it and shit. You'd have made some makeshift ramps for that two by fours you have out there. That's true. Maybe I would have done that because when it comes down to it, like I gotta get shit done. I usually get it done, you know. Like I had to mow today. Like, I had to fucking mow. I had to get that motherfucker fixed today. So the belt was $51 on sale from 7D. That's more expensive than a fucking car belt. Bro, I'm saying, man, and this is why I went electric. This is why I went electric because of all the fucking belts of the fucking gasoline you're always having to fucking buy and shit. This is exactly why. But I I beat the shit out of the electric one, didn't take care of it, and you know, it lasted me like five seasons, and now it's a lump on a log. You know, whereas you can do maintenance on gas engine ones a lot easier. You know, my batteries are dead, you know, it barely fucking drives. You know, I gotta figure out what to do with that thing.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

Do you know if it's just the batteries? Have you tried to buy new batteries?

SPEAKER_01 14:45

There's the bark, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

There's there's the bark. Timestamp fucking 15 minutes 31 seconds.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Yeah, he may have barked before that, but this is where it scared me. So I jumped.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

But it's not gonna be the right time, actually, because when I'm in there editing and cutting things out, it's gonna change the time a little bit. So maybe around the 15-minute mark.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ish. Ish.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

So yeah. So that was a pain in the ass, but I got it done and then mowed the yard. So because like I said, Slinky with the sprinklers going off five days a week, three times a day, five days a week, the grass is growing fast as fuck. And so Slinky be hopping and shit through it. Like right now, he can glide, you know, he he can like glide through the grass. Normally he's like hopping through, he can't keep up with Roxy at all. First of all, she's way too fast because she's big and he's tiny as fuck. But he can usually kind of keep up within a couple feet of her, you know, and uh, but not when the grass is it's been it was only a week. I cut the grass once a week, you know.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

Yeah, so just just for just for context, I'm not sure if you've explained to the listeners about the two dogs or not, like what kind of dogs they are. So they might be able to visualize better what you're talking about, how fucking Roxy just takes off and and he has to just kind of hop through the grass.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

So Roxy is a 93-pound Kane Corso, Connie Corso, however you say it. I say both, it just depends on how I feel at the moment. Um, um, she's Brindle. Um, gorgeous, gorgeous Brindle. She's dark Brindle, not like the copper Brindle or Fawn Brindle, Tan Brindle. She's real dark Brindle. You can probably hear her in the background. They're both growling. I wonder if the male person is here. Amazon is here. Yep, it's Amazon. And um, so she's a big girl, you know, she's 93 pounds, and then Slinky is a long-haired miniature Dodson. He's 9.3 or 9.03 pounds, literally, just barely tipped the scale at nine pounds. So his paws are about as long as it is from his paw to his body because his legs are that short. So if I let the grass grow about a week, then he's having to hop through the grass to be able to get around and see and stuff because it's just too tall for him. Like I haven't weed whacked right here yet. He avoids it now because now he can go through the grass over there and he can hop over. You know, the grass that was in between the deck and the and the driveway. Oh, yes, yeah. That little strip of grass. I have I haven't weed whacked that yet today, and I'm not going to now because I already took a younger. I forgot. I basically forgot to weed whack. It wasn't even about not doing it. I got sidetracked because I had to go pick up autumn early today from school. You know, it threw me off. Yeah, dude, you know how it is. You know how I is. Yeah. You hear Roxy?

SPEAKER_05 18:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Yeah, she she gets pissed at the Amazon driver. I don't know why. Maybe it's because the the they're in the electric vans and it doesn't make sound. She's like, Why the fuck? How is it driving without making sound? That's what I think. Yeah. She's like, the fuck. I always imagine her like talking like like Scooby-Doo because she's kind of big and stuff like Scooby-Doo. Yeah. She doesn't have a girl voice.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

She has the over overdrawn jaws, jowls.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Yeah, she's got the jowls. It's so weird. He'll like if she stands still, he'll stand up on her and just sit there licking in her jowls. I'm like, what are you doing? You're so gross, dude. He knows a little bit. Yeah, you tried. He tried. This shit was funny. Oh, there they go. There goes Slinky gliding through the grass. Look at that. Couple of days, he'll be hopping again. That's how fast this shit grows. But I mean, I water the crap out of it because I'm trying to eliminate the stickers. You know what I mean? Stickers don't like water. So I start watering three times a day, Monday through Friday. I give the grass a break on the weekends, you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

Is there is there spray or something you can put down to help prevent those stickers?

SPEAKER_01 19:33

Yeah, I've sprayed a few times actually. I haven't sprayed in the last two seasons just because I've gotten lazy. But um, I'm probably gonna do it because you do it in February and then you do it again in June. So I'm probably gonna do it in May because it seems like we're warming up faster than we normally are. So I'm gonna do it in May instead of June. I'm gonna spray. Probably when I get back from Oregon. You got a big old backpack sprayer, it's called Prowl, and it's um, I guess it works for all kinds of different herb herbs or whatever. It's an herbicide for herbs. But yeah, it it did what it's done, it's made it better, it's made it manageable to where I'm not like getting flat tires on my mower and shit anymore, you know, because I've got giant S fucking stickers, you know, the ones that are are still existing, aren't getting all huge and stuff. And I was going out for a long time, and anytime they were growing, I was just going out and picking them, you know, in the middle of the night. I'd just be bored in the middle of the night, can't fucking sleep, hanging out with Shifu and Roxy, you know, and I'd just be out here just picking stickers of my flashlight, you know, at three, four o'clock in the morning, and then I'd throw it all in the trash, you know. I'd have just handfuls of stickers in the trash, so I'm sure that helped as well. Sure, people love hearing about our gardening and shit.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

They get what they get.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Yeah, that's right. You get what you get. This isn't fucking Burger King.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

Yeah. I did have um Kirsty's cousin asked today. She was talking about our the first episode. I titled it Purgatory just because that was the first thing we talked about. And so I was like, ah fuck it. Because the whole cop the whole episode was just random shit, and that's how most of our conversations are, just random 88 fucking conversations. And so I just named it purgatory. And so she's like, I gotta ask though, what the fuck did all that other stuff have to do with purgatory? Yeah, she's like, what the fuck did all that other stuff have to do with purgatory? No, I got I got nothing for you. Nothing.

SPEAKER_05 21:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

That was the first thing we talked about, so that's what I fucking named it. I didn't want to have to fucking deal sit there and think about what uh what can A good name of this episode be because there were so many different things we talked about.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

I ain't doing that. That's what you should do. Just pick pick one random thing, yeah. And that's the name of the damn episode. That's that's what I've been doing. We talked about fucking uh sweet tie chili, yeah. Sweet Thai chili, you know. That's the name of the episode. Yeah, that's what we should name this episode.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

That's the name of this episode is gonna be sweet chili.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

That's it. We're done talking about it. I don't want to talk about it no more.

SPEAKER_03 22:31

Well, yeah, we're done. What else?

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Yeah, so I sifted through that mini fig box, man. I've already found some figs that I'm alright with selling with getting getting rid of, so that's cool. That's gonna make me more monies. And then I found a bunch that I'm all like, hell no, I ain't ever fucking selling these, you know. It is cool just going through your collection.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Do you think it's because they're so rare is the reason why you want to keep them?

SPEAKER_01 22:55

A lot of them are the customs that I've built. Like I did Futurama, like in I did these Futurama figs. So I did uh Fry, I did what's her name? The Cyclops girl. I made her.

SPEAKER_03 23:12

I'll never win up.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Oh shit. Okay, so I made Fry, I made the Zoidberg, um, I made the Asian girl, I don't know her name, but uh, she's like lieutenant something, and then I made um Bender out of Lego, and I made them all out of Exoforce body, body, and legs, so that they all kind of matched as a theme as well, too. So shit like that. I made the family as Vikings. I made my family all as Vikings.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

Take a picture of that set and uh post that picture in the uh the comments on the on the episode what set picture okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

You want me to just lay it on the couch or fucking display them or something or what? However, you want to do it. I'll just I'll try to display them. I don't have to go pick up autumn now, so I got like an extra hour to fucking do it. So I can I'll let me write this shit down.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

You didn't send me a picture of the fucking uh because I already moved it.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

I sent you the picture of where it is now. I put it in the city already. You're talking about the lovebirds?

SPEAKER_03 24:24

No, yeah, the lovebirds, I'll I'll post that one. But the uh the picture for Sarita, the the scratch that's on the side of the screen.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

My bad. I actually was thinking about that when I was mowing today because I I went around it.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Alright. Take picture of futurama figs. Okay, take picture of futurama figs.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

Yeah, so I've also done the family as Vikings. You know, I did separate uh figs for each one of us. Like I made me and Aaron like a king and queen, then I made Justin a jester because that's what he wanted to be. Uh uh Emily wanted to be like a uh torturer slash executioner. I was all like, well, torture is kind of a weird thing to have in a Lego city, but you know, whatever, you know, I'll do it. So I made her as like the the executioner slash, you know, torturer of the city. I made autumn like uh princess of the I think the oh I can't remember which faction I I made her of. And then I made Willow one of the green dragon knights because of green, you know, with the liver disease and all that stuff. So I did those, those are ones that I'm like, no, I'll never get rid of these. At some point, I want to extend the city enough to where I could start displaying them, though those figs as well, too, not just leave them in a storage container, you know, wrapped all safely in plastic bags, you know what I mean? Because I I put them each in a plastic baggie. I've gone through thousands of plastic baggies, you know, because I put each fig in a plastic baggie so it's protected, you know, instead of putting them all in a bag, letting them bounce all around together and shit, and get cracked and damage each other. No, they're all individually in bags.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

So all so let me ask you a question. Now, this could be getting fucking way too deep, but I may be thinking way too deep into this. Do you think that at some point you'll start adding like you did the custom, you said you did custom figs like the Futurama customs, the customs of you and and the family. Do you think that you would start doing customs of other people to make that that city 100% custom figs? I've thought about that. I've based on people you know, and I've thought about that.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

Yeah. So I I actually wrote on my phone notes and had friends that I had talked to on whatnot and stuff like that. Like one of my friends wanted to be the weed shop owner, yeah, you know, one of my friends wanted to be he was he was Lord Business. Lord Business sells on whatnot, and he sells on eBay Live and eBay and stuff too, right? So I named him the Lord of Commerce, you know, and I have a fig that is uh like Lord Business, like he he has a fig of himself. I created one for my version of Lord Business slash the Lord of Commerce because he's not Lord Business in Willowford, he's Lord of Commerce, you know what I mean? So that fig sits at my desk, you know. Uh and it's not in the city in any capacity yet, but it is in my desk, in my display, you know what I mean? So because to me, the city is my desktop, it's the shelves, it's the actual city, it's the shelves above the city, it's the other fucking table that's gonna soon be um what I am calling downward falls because Willowford is like the entirety of everything, right? It's the world or whatever, right? So I don't know what the city itself is called, you know, probably just Willoughford City, you know, to like New York, New York, you know, Willowford City. But I've got the the water area I'm calling downward falls. Because when I originally came up with the idea, I was thinking of Gravity Falls. You ever watched Gravity Falls?

SPEAKER_03 28:29

No, I've heard of them.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

Really good fucking cartoon that goes way deep into some awesome lore, fake lore, and and just just it's crazy. I would recommend watching it if you're into some weird cartoons. Emily and Justin got me into it a long time ago. I've watched it a few times now. Very, very funny, very good. Um, but anyways, um, I was thinking of a name that would go with Gravity Falls, so I came with uh came up with Downward Falls, you know, because there was a waterfall there, and that's where it all came from. Plus, gravity is weird as fuck, and weird things happen in this in this town, and I wanted that same vibe. So, like, there's a mashup of ideas for the Lego City in my head. Like, it's not just so it's also like Venice, right? Because I'm gonna have it flooded with water, yeah. So it's also like Venice. So it's like Gravity Falls meets Venice, meets the uh the world of One Piece. That's gonna be on my table, you know, because one I've got the One Piece ship already built. I built it, I don't know, a couple months ago now sitting on the table waiting for me to just start putting water in. But I'd have to buy thousands of trans blue pieces, yeah, you know, studs. So I can buy them on Lego for like five cents a piece, but when you have to buy thousands of them, that shit, you know, there's still five, six hundred bucks worth of damn Lego that I just don't feel like buying right now, you know what I mean? Yeah, you know, but it will. I know once I know once I fill in the city with the other things that I want to fill in with, Downward Falls specifically. Um, I know it's gonna look fucking amazing when I put all the studs in there as water. I just know it's gonna look dope. You saw the video, right? Did you watch the video? Did you show it to anybody?

SPEAKER_03 30:19

Me and Asher watched it um tomorrow. I'll show them at work. Nice. I was already home at the time. And uh, but Asher sat there and watched the whole thing. He laughed at a lot of the pieces. He I mean he was fucking he was watching the video hard. Nice dude.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Nice, yeah. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. I could probably go for I could probably go for a while and get into details because that was what eight minutes and forty something seconds. Yeah, and that was just a fast, I feel like, overview. And I you know me, I get sprayed. I should I should take down notes on how I should display the city and then and actually follow the notes instead of like how I go all over the fucking place and shit. But yeah, it was fun doing that video because I was all like, I knew I was gonna be showing people that haven't seen it before yet, or whatever, you know. So I was talking like I was talking to people that have no idea what it what it was like or what it's what it is. That's what I was trying to do, anyways.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

Yeah, no, I showed them the pictures and then I headed out, and then as I was heading out, is whenever I think the video came through, or maybe the video came through a little bit later. Um, but yeah, I'm gonna show them the video tomorrow, but they they loved it. Nice. Like I said, we was it was a comp it was a conversation we had just about what everyone was doing, because I was like, all right, I'll see you guys tomorrow, or see you guys, you know, some of them worked certain days of the week, and um one of the ladies was talking about how she was gonna go over to mom's and do some gardening and that she actually enjoyed enjoyed doing it, and that's how the conversation about that came out came up. We were just talking about things that we enjoy doing, and then I was like, man, Robbie fucking uh enjoys enjoys the Lego, like that's fucking his piece on earth is just doing Lego shit. And so that's where that the questions came about if you had any pictures.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Yeah, so I'll show him the video tomorrow. Nice. Did you get the second one too? With the other shelves and all that stuff? Yeah, I had to go through. Yeah, like a minute and a half or something like that, yeah.

unknown 32:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

That was like the quickest I forgot I forgot to go into the office and show that that, you know, corner portion of the city or whatever. I was like, fuck. I was like, ah, I'll just do another quick little video. They'll they'll be they'll be alright with seeing how I've kind of got the portal ideas and stuff. I think I forgot to show some portals in the other areas, but I think I showed I think I showed a portals, didn't I?

SPEAKER_03 32:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:44

Unless I was I know I was talking about the portals.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Yeah. Well, I think I showed the portal in the background behind the Rancor, and then I showed the one portal that's next to uh the Avengers Tower. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I showed both of those. I didn't show any other ones, I don't think. I was thinking about buying that new Marvel set. It's uh endgame battle, and it comes with a bunch of portals on like a little plat that you've already built. So then I was thinking to myself, that could be a fucking highway junction where like one portal goes to one of those other portals, and then they have to hop out of that portal instead of putting portals, you know, all over the place. I could have a junction also, you know what I'm saying? That'd be fucking cool. So then people just like in Lego Dimensions. Do you ever play Lego Dimensions? Yeah, just like that, you know, they portal in, go to that portion of the city, they portal back out, they go back to the hub. And that could be the fucking hub of you know where the city um portal system goes to. But it's a hundred dollars for that set. I'm like, go on sale, bitch. It comes with a shit ton of fucking badass figs, though, too. And it comes with a big fig Thanos, it comes with a couple other figs that you get in a lot of sets, so it's not that big a deal, but it does come with a couple of couple of uh special figs that you you wouldn't normally get or special printing on them or whatever that you haven't got before, but yeah. So I'm gonna wait until it goes on if it goes 20% off because it's for the PC, I'll buy it. But normally, if I plan on like reselling, I can 80% is just not a good enough window to where I can't give somebody a good deal and still make money. You know what I mean? I'd have to sell it at retail plus shipping. At that point, they're just better off buying retail. Yeah, so I have to I have to get it at uh much 40% is kind of my minimum for resale, is 40%. Yeah. Because then I can, you know, sell it for 90, 80% of retail and make make some. It's not making not making a lot. You know, I'm shipping shipping, doing all my own boxes, all that stuff. It's not like I'm making a whole lot, but again, it's just something I like doing, like you said.

SPEAKER_03 35:04

Yeah. And sometimes it's about volume too. You might, you know, might be you're only getting 10 10 bucks profit on it, but if you're doing that 10 times a day, there you go, quick, quick hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's why I try to stream every day when I'm if I'm bored or whatever, I got nothing going on, then just hop on to whatnot and try to sell some Lego, you know. Yeah. If I sell, I do I do. If I if I don't sell, then I don't. I chilled out with some music, you know, got to think if nobody was in there, like hanging out. You know, because sometimes I'm just chilling in there by myself half the damn time. You know what I mean? I look at it as like a little underground, uh virtual underground store, like the underground. Remember the underground back in the day? That store of the underground?

SPEAKER_02 35:54

No.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

It's like a vape store, like, anyways. I always think of it like an underground or or like a speakeasy, like a Lego speakeasy. Like, not a whole lot of people know about it, but the people that do know about it come in and get good deals and stuff, you know what I mean? That's the way I look at it. Because there's people, hundreds of people in their streams, and they're selling shit at exorbitant fucking prices. They're not selling it at exorbitant prices, people are taking it that high because they start things off at a dollar. I can't fucking do that because then I'm losing out big time. You know, these guys can start off at a dollar because they got a hundred people in there, and 15 of them are fighting for the same fig each time, you know what I mean? So, anyways, I can't do that shit. I gotta run it. I run it at usually 20% of retail uh for my figs on whatnot because that gives me a profit margin. A small profit margin, but it still gives me a profit margin because I still have 18 to 13 to 18 percent in fees that I gotta pay to whatnot on top of whatnot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

They want their money, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

They want their money, and they take it from they take it from both ends, I'm pretty sure. As a I I know for sure they take it from the seller's end big time. Greedy, greedy, but whatever. What you gonna do? Because I sell I gotta sell. Yeah I gotta sell. And it's the easiest way to sell figs in in a in a relatively fast manner, you know.

SPEAKER_03 37:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

I don't feel like going to the free market, feel like going to yard sales or having a yard sale and selling that way. That's just too much work. I do it from the comfort of my own home while listening to music, petting the dogs, you know, building figs if I want to, you know, it's all it's all the same thing. Yeah. You know, I don't have to go out in the heat. You know, I'm not searching. You know, I find deals online mostly or Walmart or Target, you know, because I go to the Walmart in Target's, I go to both Walmarts and the Target quite often. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

They're probably doing you by by your face. Oh, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 38:03

The one lady was all, hey, how are you doing today? Blah blah blah. It's nice to see you again. I'm all thank you. You know, it's nice to see you as well. I gotta get to the Lego section now. Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

Normally it's a regular at a bar or something. You're the a regular at Walmart and Target.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

I see the same lady with pink hair. She's an old lady. I think she had purple hair last time I saw her. Now she got pink hair. I see her all the time. Yeah, I see the same people at Target all the time. Same at Walmart. I don't go to the Walmart as often because it's now out of the way and I don't have anybody else to go with me most of the time. So it's just the doggies. And I don't like leaving them in the car that off that long because literally every single time we get out, they both get out and take a shit. So I'm all like one of these days, they're gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna stretch it too far, I'm gonna go do too many chores, and there's gonna be too there's gonna be a big pile of fucking shit, and there's gonna be a tiny pile of shit because I waited too long. So I don't know why when I let them out in the mornings, they don't go, or they go twice, they go twice in the morning. I don't understand because they always wait until after we get back from dropping autumn off at school. So I'm always worried about them shooting in the car. Yeah, fuckers, and Broxy be getting gassy in there sometimes too. So I gotta roll all four windows down because you can hear it's all I'll be like, Broxy again, and she knows that she she knows that I hate it, dude. Cause when she farts, she'll look back. She'll like look away. She knows that I hate it.

SPEAKER_03 39:39

What's that? In your enderness on a banger. Sounds good. All right, guys, thanks for listening.