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Dave: [00:00:00] This is Dave.

Reese: This is Reese,

Dave: and this is Manic Joy, a podcast about

Reese: life,

Dave: love,

Dave & Reese: and UNC uncertainty.

Intro Music: Like we do it, like we do it.

Dave: Reese, you heard our theme song. At the Auto Body. Auto Auto Body Shop.

Reese: At the

Auto bon. At the auto bon. Yeah. So this is like the,

Dave: what was that commercial for?

Reese: Third time? I've heard our, our, it's our song

Dave: ah song. Yeah.

Reese: I'm kind of mad on some commercial. This was for.

I don't remember I sent you the video. Wait, I'm gonna look at the video.

Dave: Oh, boy.

Reese: Look at this. All right. Let's see.

Dave: We go into the, the video tape.

Reese: Damn. Take it down to the video tape.

Dave: All right, you get the video tape. I gotta drink this drink 'cause

I'm dying for this drink. Hope's good.

Reese: You wanna know what?

I don't even [00:01:00] know. Food. It's something with food.

Dave: Mm. That's pretty tasty.

Reese: It's something with food.

Dave: All right, have a little drink.

Reese: Okay. What is this? It looks like adult chocolate milk.

Dave: It is adult chocolate milk. I made it a chocolate martini.

Reese: Oh, sh and shit.

Dave: And I, I, I sprinkled a little chocolate powder on top.

Reese: Chocolate.

Dave: Chocolate powder.

Reese: Chocolate powder.

Dave: Chocolate powder.

Reese: This is, we, it's five 40 on a Friday.

Dave: It is. Look at us.

Reese: I know. Look at us.

Dave: We'll be in bed by seven. I love it.

Reese: Fine by me. Fine by me.

Dave: Actually. I feel like we have some nice things to watch tonight. We got some next level chef. I think we can watch that at least.

We'll probably just watch one thing if I'm being honest, by the time we're done. 'cause we'll do some dinner after this. Watch a show.

Reese: We got lots of plans.

Dave: We gotta wake up early.

Reese: Yeah, like right now, I feel pretty good. I came home, I wasn't even feeling like, oh, I gotta have a little nap time.

Dave: You had a, you had a grand, this [00:02:00] was, it was like Baby's day out.

Reese: It was Baby's day out. I was gone for a long time.

Dave: You really were. At a certain point I was like. Are you ever coming home?

Reese: Did you wondered

that I was missing,

Dave: I wondered

Reese: missing.

Dave: I wondered, wondered, wondered. Wonder who, who wrote the book of Love?

Reese: Oh God. Yeah. I got up early this morning because I had to get the oil changed, which I was way past due on that. And uh,

Dave: that sounds right.

Reese: Correct.

I am taking full responsibility for that. And then I was like the last person, there was like a bunch of people before me. I, I'm like a weirdo when it comes to bringing the car in.

Like I, the place opens at eight. I need to get there at eight.

Dave: Yeah.

Reese: Like I try to be like one of the first people in there and

Dave: You gotta, you gotta, you gotta jockey your position with the old ladies that are there. Usually at that time,

Reese: no, with my look, its,

Dave: how'd you do this time?

Reese: It's usually the older men.

Dave: Okay.

Reese: I get all the older men in there

and I,

Dave: when I go, it's usually an older woman.

Reese: That's funny. There it is. No,

it's usually. The older guys. So there were, there was actually like two people ahead of me. I was like, how damn, like

Dave: hot damn. [00:03:00]

Reese: I, I walked through those doors exactly. Eight o'clock. Mm-hmm. I was like, okay, whatever.

So I think I was there for like a half an hour. And then the gentleman who runs the business, his name is we, we finally did introductions like I, do you know his name?

Nope.

Dave: It's something bigger. Something with an nest though, isn't it?

Reese: Mm. His, that's his son. I think his son's name is Sam. Son. Is Sam.

Hold it.

So. What'd you,

would you write it down?

I did write it down.

Dave: Good. What is it then?

Reese: Hamid.

Dave: Hamid. Okay.

Reese: Hamid. He came to me and he is like, I want you to come back.

We, I. I wanna, yeah, we gotta do some here.

Dave: I love those guys. That whole family is awesome.

Reese: They're great.

Dave: It's great when you get a place you can trust them. They're, and they do the, the job and they take care of you.

Reese: Right. They're not trying to flimm flam you.

Dave: Yeah. Flim flam.

Reese: Do the flimflam scam. So Hamid was like I come back in soon, we gotta do some stuff for the car, blah, blah, blah.[00:04:00]

I said, okay. I said, what should I, he's like, you just call, ask for me. I said. I don't, I don't know your name. He's like, you don't know my name. I'm like, I dunno your name. I'm like, I'm so sorry. I've been here forever and I don't know your name. So I took out my phone. I was like, what is it, Hamid? I said, I'm Reese.

We did a shaking hands. It was funny. And so he is like, yeah, you just call, you ask for me, I'll know what to do. I said, okay, so I'm going to, I stand up the second I stand up, the power goes out.

Dave: You broke it.

Reese: I'm like, oh, guess I was

Dave: fucking, witch.

Reese: I wasn't meant to know Hamid's name, and I was like, Ooh, people

Dave: I put a spell on you.

Reese: That's, but the crazy thing is, so they obviously,

Dave: it's crazier.

Reese: Obviously couldn't, I couldn't use my credit card to pay and I didn't have cash. They had to like, take my information and I was like, oh boy. And then he's oh boy. He's it's a good thing that. You were done and we had your car out front.

'cause it would've been stuck on the lift,

would've up on the,

Dave: I know. Up on the lift.

Reese: I was like, that's crazy. So I left there and as I'm driving down in Salem, New Hampshire, there were like cop cars, fire Oh, [00:05:00] trucks. So there was something going on going on. And all the, the most of the businesses were

Imagine it was like that

Dave: like, your fucking, everything got wiped out.

I know you're messaging me and I knew that was gonna happen when you messaged me. So you messaged me. Did you lose power? So I did a thumbs down, right? Like, No, we did not lose power.

Reese: That's not how I interpreted it.

Dave: And then you went, wait, no. Is thumbs down like,

Reese: yes, that happened, boo. Or was it like No. Yes. Yeah. So I was like, whatever.

Dave: And that's that right there is a microcosm into

Reese: our marriage.

Dave: Yeah. How we miscommunicate all the time.

Reese: But then I drove down further 'cause I had to go do a couple things and then it was fine down there. It was just that one section.

Mm-hmm. Over there. That must have been like a power line or something went out. But it was fine. But I had to go do like a bunch of things like last minute, little Easter stuff and, whatever. And

Dave: when is Easter?

Reese: I. I, what's so crazy,

Dave: I never know. One of these holidays are,

Reese: I [00:06:00] don't know either, but I think it's coming up.

I think it's like in two weeks. I don't know. But I'm so overly prepared. The two 20 year olds are gonna get the most ridiculous Easter baskets, and we were joking around about it, the girls and I, and I was like, yeah, you're gonna be getting Easter baskets till as long as I'm alive. You're gonna get one. So it's all good. So I had to go do all that and then all of a sudden. Like I st. I was like, Ooh, I'm a little hungry. I forgot to get Ginger. I gotta make my ginger shots again.

Dave: Did you get 'em?

Reese: So I went to

Dave: Did you get it? You got it?

Reese: I did. Okay. Yeah, I went to Shaw's. Shaws is really weird to me. And Haws,

Dave: I don't like. Shaws. Shaw's weird.

Reese: In Haverhill is even weirder.

Dave: Oh, you were in Haverhill?

Reese: I was in Haverhill. Oh yeah. I went to, I had to go to Savers because Savers is great as a thrift store because you can return the items, but for store credit. Other places you can't return it at all. You're just screwed. Yeah.

But savers let you you can't really try things on. So they let you, when you return it, you get a store credit. So I had to go return something. I had to go [00:07:00] return some videotapes. What's that from? I gotta go return some videotapes.

Dave: I don't know.

Reese: One of my favorite movies

Dave: Cool.

Reese: American Psycho.

Dave: I don't really know that movie as much as you do.

That's

Reese: so good. Do you like Huwi Lewis in the news? Anyway, so I'll watch that anytime.

Dave: I know that's a line.

Reese: Yes. I'll watch that anytime with you. So anyway, so I'm like. Doing all this stuff. So I go return thing. The second I walk in though, it was like magic. They had a cage, the elephant sweatshirt.

Dave: Oh yeah, that's a good find.

Reese: Immediately took a picture, sent it to Emily. That's Emily, that's her favorite band. She's oh my God,

Dave: are you gonna give it to her? Are you gonna keep it? Are you gonna wear it and taunt her with her?

Reese: I should do that.

Dave: How about you give it to me and I'll wear it tomorrow when I pick her up. It'll not fit.

Reese: It's a medium. It'll be like a belly shirt. It'll be adorable.

Dave: I'll be like, what's up? Ready to go look at cars

Reese: with the belly shirt. Yeah. I was like, and I had said to her, I was like, make sure when you go look at cars, you go with your father because he like knows what he's doing. You should definitely go with the belly shirt.

Yeah. That'll make a real splash. Yep. [00:08:00] So I got, I, I actually got a lot of stuff done before it got too peopley. Mm-hmm. The only thing that I cannot find, it's so elusive 'cause the girls are snobby when it comes to candy. And so Jonnie's been like her and I have been talking up the Dubai chocolate.

Dave: Correct.

Reese: So I found that for her. Then they were both talking, we were talking about the Swedish candy. That's the new thing. I already bought that two summers ago.

Dave: Oh, you're so ahead of the game.

Reese: I'm so ahead. I am so like with the times, and so the Swedish candy is the best, but you have to order it and it takes forever to get here. But I found it at the paper store. So I bought that, but it was super expensive. But what any, nothing's too good for the girls. So I got that. And then the only thing that Emily really asked for were Cadbury mini eggs. Mm-hmm. Elusive cannot find it.

Dave: Really. Those are usually like,

Reese: not in Target,

Dave: really?

Reese: Not [00:09:00] in like, they

Dave: just get bought up

Reese: Marshalls, not not Marshalls.

Market Basket or I looked in Shaw's, I looked in where else? I went to three different targets and then where else did I get? I went to a bunch of different places. Someone said Walmart, so I guess I'll have to check there. But then I text Emily and I was like. Why would you tell me Cadbury mini eggs?

Because I can't find it. And

Dave: that's wild. Those are the best too.

Reese: And she goes,

she's like, GIA and I can't find it. Either her and her friend went looking for it and they couldn't find it.

Dave: Fucking tariffs.

Reese: Freaking tariffs. They tariffed the CAD berry mini eggs. That's it. I'm gonna revolt. So anyway, but it was, it was a good, it was a good shopping day. I got a lot of stuff. Done. I got a lot of, I did a little thrifting. I was proud of myself with some of my finds. I found some good things and I don't know. Then I came home and I'm like, oh my God. It's like super late. I've been out. For many hours.

Dave: I don't even know when you really came in. You came in around I had a meeting at,

Reese: I have no idea what time I came home.

Dave: It must have [00:10:00] been after. It was after one for sure.

Reese: Yeah,

Dave: because I was, I think when I heard you come in, I think I was in between meetings and I had something from one to two. I had something at one and then I had a break, and then I had something at two. So actually no, that's a lie. I had something at one 30.

I'm lying to you. I'm sorry.

Reese: That's it. Divorce,

Dave: forgive me. But yeah, so I think it was somewhere in there though.

Reese: Yeah. Who knows? Whatever came home spent some quality time with magic. Who then promptly got so excited he threw up and I was like, you know what I'm doing with you? Then I went in the bedroom

Dave: fucking asshole

Reese: and took out my big old bag of, found my big old bag of Garbage Pail Kids cards.

Dave: Oh, okay.

Reese: So, so we're gonna get into that.

Dave: We're gonna get into that.

Reese: And I was sitting on the bed, literally got lost and I hadn't looked at them fully. Yeah. In I don't know how many years. And it's definitely one of the prize possessions that I remembered. I was able to find and remember to bring back

Dave: over 30 years.

Reese: Yeah.

Dave: You haven't looked at these things probably.

Reese: Yeah. No. It's the, the, the year [00:11:00] of the cards are 1985.

Dave: Right. So over 30 years.

Reese: I had those. Like when they first came out, I we'll get into it. So anyway, so I sat, I sat looking through those and then Peppa came and sat with me and then she sat on me and on the cards and I'm trying to move her and then she hit me and I'm like, bitch.

Dave: And then she hit me.

Reese: Yeah. It's the fricking worst. And yeah, so that was my afternoon and I just, I cannot believe now, it's like almost six o'clock and we're having these drinks.

Dave: I know.

Reese: And the day just got by. I didn't do, I was supposed to spend the day. Grading papers.

Dave: You fucking blew it.

Reese: That didn't happen.

Dave: Nope. You fucking, we are, you fucking blew it.

Reese: I will say though.

Dave: Oh,

Reese: so I, and one more thing, lemme tell you one other thing. So I, the big, the, the, I guess like the theme of clothing right now for spring and summer is the what's her name? Victoria. Is it Victoria? [00:12:00] Ratcliffe Ratcliffe

Dave: Secret, I dunno.

Reese: Yeah. The White Lotus, my favorite Piper nooo tsunami, like I can't stop screaming it.

Dave: Parker Posey,

Reese: everything looks like her character's clothing from the White Lotus. Like everything. It was killing me not to like, make 15 tiktoks with like, all of the clothing. So it gives me hope because I am in my mumu season.

Dave: Now you're in your mumu

Reese: now I'm in the mumu season. Anyway,

Dave: so I was gonna ask before we get into our topic here today, but did you watch Jia s Ted Talk?

Reese: I watched it while it was happening.

Dave: Oh, that's right. I was the one who missed it. Yeah. So I watched it today. So good.

Reese: Amazing.

Dave: So good way to go, JIA.

Reese: Seriously.

Dave & Reese: Jia. Jia. Jia Jia, JIA.

Reese: Emily sent us the link for the video and I said, can I show this to my class? 'cause my class was like, super excited when it was happening. So I, so she's like, yeah. [00:13:00] Jia said yes and make her famous. I was like, I will. Mm. So I'll have something to do with my students yeah.

This week, and my students are like MIA, there's usually a point in the semester where everybody's absent. And I'm like cracking up. It's like crickets. In the classroom, there's like a class of 20, there's 25 students to start. We got down to 20 and about 15 of them showed up this week. I'm like, where?

Where? And then I have my directed study, which is usually like eight and under for this class. We have six. Three of them have been showing up the last couple of classes. Three. Three of them?

Dave: Yeah. Well listen. Fuck 'em. They get, they get the grade, they get. It's their fault.

Reese: I know, I know. But, but it's been great because everybody that is showing up is like fully,

Dave: of course. Well, I hope so. Yeah.

Reese: There, we've been having like good quality learning [00:14:00] time, so it is fine. But I think I have two more, two more, three more weeks of this semester. But then I have my online classes where I have, I got through. 10 videos, presentations that I, I watch. There is over 20 now that are still waiting for me to, and they, they are constantly emailing me, asking me did I get it, did it work?

How did I do? I'm like, oh my God,

Dave: you say back the fuck off.

Reese: I know I want to So back

Dave: show up for class,

Reese: but then I don't, no. These are online, like

Dave: Yeah. Show up for class.

Reese: They're a different breed. They're different. Like they, I either have the online student that never shows up at all, or I have the ones that are. Doing everything. Yeah, they're doing too much. Yeah. So I don't know, whatever.

Dave: And I don't know nothing about nothing.

Reese: I'm very happy to have this drink right now though,

Dave: so the other day I was driving into work and on the commute I listened to our latest episode.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: And in that episode, if you remember, [00:15:00] we talked a little bit about the Garbage Pail Kids.

Reese: Yes.

Dave: And I was like, Ooh, that could be fun to take a deep dive into,

Reese: now. It's time for Dave. Deep Dive Splash.

Dave: We have not made an official sound button for that yet.

Reese: That was a sound button. All right.

Dave: Yeah, that was a sound button. All right, ton. Alright. All right. Okay. All right. So,

Reese: So what do you got?

Dave: So then I was like, okay, let's do a, a, a Garbage Pail Kid thing. I was like, that would be fun to take a look at. And so I ran some deep research through Cathy.

Mm-hmm. Cathy gave me a good report back. I just reviewed that and they asked Cathy, I'm like, Hey, gimme a, a one pager for some of the highlights here. So we have some things that we can talk about. But then last night we also watched. The 30 year anniversary documentary about the Garbage Pail Kids. [00:16:00] Now, the one thing I'm very upset about is that we could not find, and we'll talk a bit about this as well, but there was also a movie that is nowhere to be found on the internet because it is one of the worst movies apparently.

But it's become one of those,

Reese: like a cult favorite

Dave: classic thing,

Reese: cult favorite. Everybody loves a really terrible movie.

Dave: Apparent. Apparently there was an animated version of the cards too, that. It was supposed to air on television, and we'll get into this a little bit, but, but because of the hoopla all around the hoop.

The garbage. Yeah. Garbage ba kids. It, it never aired. So they actually made a full season of it

Reese: and it never aired.

Dave: Never aired

Reese: crazy,

Dave: but eventually at one point came out on home video.

Reese: Oh.

Dave: So that's probably

Reese: a, VCR.

Dave: It's probably out there somewhere, but I just didn't, I didn't get into that.

Reese: Oh, I'm sure we will. We'll figure it out one day.

Dave: But I will tell you this.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: There's a possibility as recently as I think, I think 2021 or [00:17:00] 2020 something possible animated series in discussions with Danny McBride as a producer.

Reese: Really?

Dave: Yeah. Look at that.

Reese: I am a fan of the Danny McBride

Dave: I like the Danny McBride too..

Dave & Reese: I like his, I like his brand humor.

I humor don't really, I've never watched that

show down and, but when I see him, I like him. Yeah. Down in

east, out at eastbound,

Reese: whatever the thing is. Yeah, it's fun. I always think my favorite of him is, it's literally like three lines. He is, he's funny throughout the whole thing, but he's got three lines in Tropic Thunder.

Do you remember what it is?

Dave: No.

Reese: He's the guy on the movie set that's in charge of the explosives.

Dave: Yes.

Reese: Or whatever.

Dave: Yes.

Reese: And he presses the buttons and he goes, big ass titties. And I laugh at it every time.

Dave: Three words.

Reese: It's amazing. Yeah.

Dave: Three words.

Reese: What'd I say?

Dave: Lines,

Reese: whatever. You know what I'm saying?

Dave: Words

Reese: this. Drink kicked in.

Dave: Good. So the reason I brought this up is because we both, we had both talked about garbage pail kids. 'cause we were talking about stickers, of course. Mm-hmm. Which. Oh God. Garbage [00:18:00] kids are stickers.

Reese: Oh my God. And, and the best part about finding that bag of garbage pail kids, and, and I hadn't looked in it, I found five or six

Dave: all the gum.

Reese: No, the gum is gone. I don't care. And, and all the packages were open. There's not, I don't have a sealed one, but which would be more money, but doesn't matter. But I found. Like five of my old stickers, that must have fell out from my sticker album.

Dave: Oh, you can put them in your new sticker album.

Reese: It's in my, I put them in my sticker album.

Dave: Thank God,

Reese: so amazing.

Dave: Yay.

Reese: It was a big day.

Dave: And so I had mentioned also that I had Garbage Pail Kids stickers were one of the things that I had also put all over my desk.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: Along with my Star Wars stickers.

Reese: Yep.

Dave: Okay. You ready? Garbage Pail Kids. They started in 1985 as a parody to

Dave & Reese: Cabbage Patch Kids. Patch Kids,

Dave: which a phenomenon I'll ne I'll, I'll honestly, I'll, I never understand any of these things that,

Reese: you know, My [00:19:00] story with the.

Dave: Yeah. Your dad went down into a back alley, or

Reese: both of them? Both. Both of them did basement, both

Dave: like into like the, the bulkhead basement to get you Yeah.

Reese: Yeah. Morris Discount. They knew a guy and he said, meet me at 12 o'clock at night.

Dave: They knew a guy on the

Reese: Avenue U and Morris Discount White, and they opened up those metal things where they, put the, I don't know, whatever, and they go down into the basement and got a black market. Cabbage patch kid.

Dave: I'll never understand. Like I, I get it. It was a cool thing. I will say one of the cool things about the ca cabbage patch kids of course. 'cause you can't really talk about the garbage pail kids without talking about the garbage cabbage patch kids. This is very difficult. This is a, this is a vocal exercise right here. A tongue twister if, if you will.

Reese: Yeah, yeah.

Dave: Was I, I did like that they s smelled like baby powder.

Reese: They really did.

Dave: So that was fun.

Reese: And you know, you know what's a little bit racist is that

Dave: what Reese?

Reese: The first one I got

Dave: you.

Reese: The first one I got. I absolutely not, [00:20:00] but no. The first one I, I got, I had gotten a, a, a boy, then a redhead girl. And then the third one I was like, oh man, I got, I was like, I love her. I want her. And it was a, it was a black cabbage patch doll.

Dave: Yeah.

Reese: I named it cocoa because,

Dave: and we're drinking cocoa martinis.

Reese: It smelled like chocolate. They made it smell like chocolate. I still have it. I still have cocoa. Oh no. And I have Mycusa. 'cause then they did

Dave: Mycusa,

Reese: the cusa. They did.

Dave: What's about these twins? I saw you had birth certificates for twins.

Reese: I had twins. I also had little babies. They were little babies and they were twins. I,

Dave: I was like, you was signaling back in the eighties that you have twins. I

don't know.

Reese: I know. Who knew? Right?

Dave: Yeah. Well,

Reese: um,

Dave: Cabbage Patch,

Reese: but I also had twins, but I, I don't know where those were, but I still have cocoa. I have, I think the other one was named Tommy. And then I forgot when I named the redheaded one. And I think I have all three of them somewhere in the house. And [00:21:00] I have Mycusa, which I.

Dave: Well, there you go.

Reese: I know.

Dave: So here's the deal. Yeah. So the Garbage pail kids were started by Topps. Mm-hmm. A trading card company

Reese: that was, that was fascinating. In the yeah, the documentary

Dave: and so Topps, they actually were trying to license like official Cabbage Patch kids cards, trading cards. But they failed to do that. There was like a whole thing, and so what had happened, what had happened was,

Reese: what had happened was

Dave: it became like a let's just do a parody. And do like a fuck you series of

Reese: so great.

Dave: And so basically it turned into let's, while, while then you're not gonna license to us, fuck you. Yep.

And we're gonna make these, which are gonna be a parody.

Reese: And the guys who were in charge of it were the biggest goobers. And I just, I loved it. I loved it.

Dave: So what's funny though, what I thought was interesting is that, so it seems like like the obvious idea would be to [00:22:00] parody. The Cabbage Patch kids.

And so the look of the things that you make would be, would look like that. But that's actually it. It took a while for them to even get there. Which is strange. So they, so they actually, I. Just started making these like random odd characters.

Reese: I think they were really trying not to get sued.

And then just after a while they were like,

Dave: eventually they ended up getting to this place where they had this other thing. There was, so there was a couple of things going on, like wacky products. And then there was another thing called

Reese: wacky packages.

Dave: Wacky packages. There you go. Mm-hmm. That's what it was, right?

Mm-hmm. And then there was, but

Reese: I also had those, I wish I still did.

Dave: And there was another, so it would be like, I don't know. Mac and cheese. Mm-hmm. Like it would look like crap, mac and cheese, but it would be something

Dave & Reese: like Crap. Crap and cheese. Crap. Mac and cheese. Yeah. Max crap and cheese.

Reese: Yeah. Ew.

Dave: Yeah. Ugh.

Reese: TMI.

Dave: I've got a little bit of a flavor in my mouth.

Reese: Ew.

Dave: But, so then, then they landed on, they had this other thing called ugly stickers.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: Which were these like grotesque like [00:23:00] looking things. And so. what ended up being Garbage pail kids was a cross between these ugly stickers and then the Cabbage Patch kids.

And so they ended up doing 15 like runs, like series of the, the original cards I. Instantly popular.

Reese: Yep.

Dave: Kids loved it. It was controversial.

Reese: It is wild to me though.

Dave: It became a cultural phenomenon

Reese: that they got away with these cards and

Dave: They did for a little bit. We'll talk about that in a minute.

Yeah. So we will build to that. But what's crazy though, and the thing that really stood out to me. Is that the peak time? So think about this, the peak time was the first year that they were released. So 1985 to 1986, this is when it was huge. They sold over 800 million cards. I, I forget what the exact, I think gross.

That was like $70 million or something like that. So they were like printing money with this stuff. Controversial because of the different things. And we can look at, because you have [00:24:00] them still miss collector.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: We'll take a look at some of these, but. They got banned in schools.

Reese: Yeah.

Dave: Parents protested. Remember back in the eighties when everybody was like mad about everything? Yeah. And like rock and roll, like people would be like, oh, they're satanic. And listen to records back. Everybody was protesting everything. Yeah. Back then, like in the newspapers, it was crazy and it was usually parents and kids, that whole thing.

But what's crazy to me is that these things. Went viral in the true sense of the word. Meaning like they didn't do any advertising. I know the garbage pail kids. I know.

Reese: It was just all word of mouth

Dave: and literally like from school, yard to school, yard, town to town. These things took over the country. I. Eventually when global, they made them in different languages, in different, countries as well. For a while there were some places that they were completely banned, like from a country perspective, like they can't even make them anymore or something like that. 'cause they're like officially like [00:25:00] within some legislation or something like that. So absolutely wild. But the, but that's like when you think about how quickly things can travel today. It, it really blows my mind that that was a thing that, again, no advertising.

Reese: I know

Dave: wild over 800 million cards

Reese: and there, I don't remember there being like a commercial on TV about Garbage Pail kids.

Dave: No.

Reese: The way there was with no Cabbage Patch kids.

Dave: No, those were right. But then, then it was the newspapers, it was people you talking to

do

Reese: was

ban something to get people

so

Excited to get it.

Dave: I think the, the number one rule in parenting should be. You shouldn't say no. You need to say, you need to do something else. And I think we did. We did pretty good that

Reese: we did that with the girls. Absolutely.

Dave: We were like here's why you shouldn't. Like it never yeah.

Reese: But most of the time we'd be like, okay. Yeah. Because it takes the fun out of them.

Dave: Yeah. Wanting to do it.

Reese: Wanting to do it

Dave: these things because they were so gross.

Reese: My parents had no problem with these. Like in fact, that is how I have so many well, is 'cause my dad and I would go wherever to [00:26:00] the local. Like corner store, the bodega, whatever, and they and Morris discount. And we would go, he would get like his baseball cards. Yeah. And I would, he would let me get the garbage PA kit.

Yeah. They weren't even looking at it. No, they didn't even know.

Dave: And they were just stupid. Stupid things. Fun little things.

Reese: I wasn't allowed, like you really weren't, from what I remember, I don't think we were able to have them at school, but we did.

Dave: Yeah. So here's what they did. They did these stickers and on the back, what was on the back.

Okay. Some of them, some of them were like a puzzle.

Reese: Some of them were like a puzzles. Some of them.

Dave: Some of them were like when they first started, I think the first run of them were just little certificates.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: And here's one that's a short, a short memory award. This could be for you

Reese: what?

Dave: For the shortest memory on earth. You wake up in the morning and forget to get out of bed.

Reese: Wait a minute.

Dave: Here we go.

Reese: That's the first one you pulled outta the deck.

Dave: Yeah. This sounds just like you, you leave for school and forget it's summer vacation.

Reese: Yep.

Dave: You get hit by a truck and forget to [00:27:00] get hurt.

Reese: Correct.

Dave: But the worst of all is when you um, uh, wait.

Yep. It'll come to me. Yep. In the meantime, remember, keep breathing. And then it's signed this certificate. This award is signed by Hazy Recollection, chairman of the Absent Minded Association.

Reese: Oh, I forgot to pay my dues. Oh, you just reminded me.

Dave: See? See.

Reese: I'll do it after.

Dave: So then they had these things like, we'll send some pictures up, but like here's, this is Shrunken Ed.

Reese: So you're holding the deck. That is worth money, by the way.

Dave: Oh, this is the one that's worth money.

Reese: This is the one that's worth money.

Dave: Oh, great. I'm getting my Greek grubby hands all over 'em. Yeah. Fry and Brian. Yep. And that's the, this is a kid on all electric chair. This is why parents were so upset. Yeah. Up. Chuck was like, A baby just puking everywhere.

Reese: So I was like, oh, that's magic. But also. That card is worth a lot of money.

Dave: Yeah. Well, here's the big one.

Reese: You're holding about 3000 or more,

Dave: Adam bomb more. This would be at least $10,000. Adam Bomb as I put my snot on 'em.

Reese: Adam [00:28:00] Bomb, and the other one I fucking wrote on the back one was a checklist.

Dave: Oh, you did?

Reese: They said the ones that have the checklist were the ones that. Actually

Dave: were worth more.

Reese: Were worth more.

Dave: And then you ruined it by checking the list I can wrote on it. So what's funny is, so what they did is for each character that they had, they had two names, right?

So they had , like a, an A and a B card. Yeah. So there's Adam Baum, which is number eight A, and then there's Blasted Billy, which is eight B.

Reese: Yeah.

Dave: Now what's also interesting, I, I love the Evil Eddie. Mm-hmm. There he is the vampire dude. Mm-hmm. Junkie Jeff. Anyway. So now what's interesting is you still have, so you mentioned the lawsuit, so let's talk about that a little bit.

But this, these cards were before the lawsuit.

Reese: Yeah.

Dave: Because these are all the cards that have the rounded garbage pail kids. Yep. Which is an earmark too. The Cabbage Patch Kids, which also had a similar like banner mm-hmm. With their name that was rounded. Mm-hmm. But in 1986 and [00:29:00] 1987 is where the legal trouble started to happen.

The makers of the Cabbage Patch, kids sued Topps. And so in the legal battle, they were forced to make major design changes and they actually had to end up paying royalties, like they played it off as a parody. But the judge was kind of like, eh, you kind of really just, it's really not so much a parody as much as you're stealing their intellectual property.

Because the, because the cards really did look a lot like the Cabbage Patch kids. And then again, stealing their kind of the design elements and intellectual property. So what ended up happening is, which makes sense, right from the Cabbage Patch kids' perspective, is that they settled out of court. Where Topps was gonna pay them royalties for all the cards they had already created. Any future cards they were gonna sell, but they were also going to have to make some design changes. So that means they actually recreated. [00:30:00] The cards and the look of the characters themselves.

Reese: But it wasn't the same.

Dave: It wasn't the this was what a lot of people like the, the, the, the nerds, right? Mm. Would be like, oh, it wasn't the same, but yeah. So they changed the logo of the, garbage pail, kids like banner. So instead of this rounded thing, it's like a straight across type of thing. And they also just change the look of the doll.

So it looks a little bit less like. The Cabbage Patch kids, and they also look less like a plush doll.

Reese: Mm.

Dave: You know how they had like the hard head and the plush?

Reese: Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Dave: So now they made them like moving forward and I actually, we don't, it'd be interesting to see some of those, but you don't have any of those.

But they changed them to look different and to make them look more like a

Reese: that's probably why I stopped buying them because didn't

Dave: you were you were I didn't rebellious.

Reese: I didn't like the way they looked. Yeah. I dunno. Who knows?

Dave: Very interesting that they did that, but again, makes good business sense to the Cabbage Patch folks because they could have just shut it down.

But why not make all that [00:31:00] money too,

Reese: right?

Dave: That's just seems crazy, which is so back in the day it was like just,

Reese: but also, it's so funny because I just remember the cards were like a big thing. Yeah. You had the cards, everybody was like, woo. It was like a, yep. And everybody was excited and you would trade them and do the thing.

But I never had a garbage pail kid. Like blanket or pillowcase or dolls or posters or lunchboxes, like the things that you would get when things became popular, especially the seventies and eighties were really good at monetizing. Like you get a character, then they're gonna make a thing out of it.

Yeah. I never had that yet. I was obsessed with the cards and then that was it. Like I wasn't gonna wear 'em on a t-shirt.

Dave: Let me ask you this, the, do you remember your very first experience with the cards? Was it when you would go like, I don't remember first being exposed to them.

Reese: No. 'cause I, I,

Dave: I remember having

Reese: like 10, nine or 10,

Dave: but I don't remember what was [00:32:00] like I, that would be interesting like, What was it that you were like, Ooh, why?

Reese: I remember, remember I was so de so I will say this and I, I, I think Gen Xers can, I think that's why we're so fucked up in the head is that we were exposed.

Dave: I like how you say we,

Reese: dude, come on. Come on. We were exposed to so much fucked up stuff when we were younger, so by the time I was like 10. Or nine or 10 when these came out?

Dave: Yeah.

Reese: I had already seen the Faces of Death. Do you remember that? That

Dave: Oh, that was like banned in like a whole bunch of countries.

Yes. Oh, I remember we had that on Betamax Baby.

Reese: Yes. Yeah. And

Dave: then there was Faces of Death too.

Reese: Yep. So I've seen that. So every horror movie there was, I've, I watched Porkies things, all these movies that I should not have been seeing. All the, the comedies were like sexually explicit. Like they were all messed up.

Yeah. You know what I mean? So this, [00:33:00] this was, it was kind of like, ew. Like we were like, Ew, that's gross. Oh my God. But it wasn't like no one cried, no one was like, it's so scary. I feel like kids get so scared now and we saw faces of death, eyes saw The one with the monkey Brains is the one that sticks out in my head.

And Thor, there was like a Thor movie. Was it Thor, whatever it was. There was so many movies that I watched at Michelle Bey's house. Mm-hmm. And it did, this didn't. I didn't feel a particular way about it like I was, some of them were concerning. I was like, Ew, that's so gross. Especially the most like that had like zits and puss, like that was really gross to me.

But everything else was like me.

Dave: There was one they mentioned, so back in the day, some of the cards, like the characters had guns and the characters had these like knives

Reese: that would never fly today.

Dave: They mentioned the one card that was the girl that had all the acne, like Ashley acne. I'm making [00:34:00] that up.

Yeah. I don't know what it was actually called. But the acne was like a connect the dots.

Reese: Yeah. And it was a, and

Dave: the connect the dots was a gun pointing to her temple. Oh no, just kill

herself. Wow.

Reese: Like it was, it was messed up and everybody was just, it was like a free for all in the,

Dave: oh yeah. The eighties.

In the eighties. Eighties and eighties,

whatever, man.

Reese: The seventies really led the way and the eighties were just wild. Yeah. It was just a wild time of, I literally remember like buying. Cigarettes at the store. Like my parents, your me, a note. Yeah. Parents. They

Dave: would send you with the money and you'd go buy the cigarettes.

Yeah.

Reese: And one time I, they gave my mom wrote a note.

Dave: You walk home with them.

Reese: They knew who I was. Yeah. And it was like, yeah, I'm buying this, this for of Yeah. Maxie. And they were like, okay mom. Yeah. And I was okay. Yeah. I'm like, all right. There was no like, no one really questioned a lot of stuff like you. We got Oh, oh my God. The stuff we would get away with was insane. Yeah. But now I go back and I look at it. I'm like, how am I, I guess it [00:35:00] makes sense that I'm not normal because I'm just like,

Dave: I was gonna say, gonna say you're normal, you're a liar.

Reese: No, I'm not. Yeah,

Dave: you're a liar.

Reese: That is false. But yeah,

Dave: so you mentioned some of the things, right? Of course, these things started to extend into toys, costumes, lunchboxes, candies, key chains, all that kind of stuff. I really liked, one of the things they showed were like the folders, so they were like larger versions of the cards.

Reese: I would've loved the folders. There was a folder. I would've bought a folder.

Dave: Those would've went amazing. In your trapper Keeper,

Reese: listen. I'm gonna say this.

Dave: Go ahead. Say it.

Reese: I've been on a roll. I was always a Garfield gal. Garfield was my guy. I always The comic. Yeah, the cartoon. The new movies were not the best, but the movies, like the cartoons back in the day, Garfield was my, like my favorite.

And lately, so did we talk about my, my, like post birthday celebration with the girls. I'll just say it really quick 'cause it'll go into this nostalgia. The girls had said to [00:36:00] me they were, one was away and one was at school, and they were like, we missed your birthday. We're so sorry we have a day planned.

What are you doing Wednesday? And I'm like, I don't know. What are we doing Wednesday? I was freaking out a little because it was like, I have to go pick up Jonnie all the way on one end and Emily all the way on the other end. And I'm like, oh my God, it's gonna be a lot. But you know what? Worth it.

You never tell your kids No. When they wanna hang out with you. You, especially your,

Dave: the rule is,

Reese: especially your adult children. You never say no, you always say yes because it's such a blessing. So they're like, they're like, we know it's a lot, but we're gonna make the day of it. And so I picked them up and they had, so we get in the car, I pick up Emily and I already had Jonnie, and they're like, okay, first we're gonna go on, we're gonna have an adventure.

So the first thing we're gonna do is they showed me, they showed me two cards and there was nothing written on it. There was something written on the other side. They like pick a card. So I pick a card. One was like, [00:37:00] for we're gonna go get coffee. So it was a choice between one card, which I don't know what it was, and the card that I picked, which was Dunkin Donuts, I'm like, perfect.

We go to Dunkin Donuts, they pay for that. Then they're like, alright, in the Dunking Donuts parking lot, here's the other two cards. What's gonna be the next thing? That was lunch.

Dave: Mm-hmm.

Reese: So I pick it, it was a mac and cheese place in Manchester. Mm-hmm. Near Emily school.

Dave: Mr. Mac's.

Reese: Mr. Mac's in near Emily's school. So we go there. They bought me by mac and cheese. It was amazing. We had the best time. The table number was 44, took it as a sign. 'cause Jonnie and I, when I picked her up, were talking about my dad the whole way. And he was born in 44. There was no one in this restaurant, but we had number 44. I'm like, perfect.

They gimme the next card. The next card was the activity that we were gonna go and do. And I don't know, I didn't wanna know what the other card was that I didn't pick, but the card that I picked was thrift store. I'm like, oh my God. Like best day [00:38:00] ever. So there was a thrift store that is magnificent in Manchester, New Hampshire.

We go there and they were like, you could buy anything you want. In the place. It's on us. I'm like, oh my God, this is the best. I said, I said

Dave: in the place,

Reese: I said, I am looking for, I am in, in need of fine. I used to have all the Smurfs, the little smurf figurines. I used to have a whole collection of them. I have no idea where they were.

I was like, I need to add one to my Garfield and Odie and my manchi Chi have a little collection. I was like, I just wanna smurf. We're looking through this whole place. We're, we're cracking up, having the best time. Jonnie found me a smurf. It was a little smurf whip holding flowers. I was like,

Dave: perfect,

Reese: brilliant. Love it. And they also found me a Garfield mug that was a McDonald's clear mug. Remember McDonald's used to give out like in the seventies and eighties, like amazing,

Dave: legit

Reese: things. Yeah. So it was a clear Garfield mug with the cute little. Cartoon on it. [00:39:00] And so that, that was it. And then we got dessert. We went and got dessert after that and I was like, it's like the be, I didn't even wanna leave them. It was like the best day ever. So my nostalgia has been like through the roof lately. Especially like I've been having like good thrift find finds with the Garfield stuff too. But the Garbage pail kids just sent me back because I'm just like, it was, it was just such a crazy. Crazy time. Mm-hmm. And when I look at all the stuff where people like the collectibles that are out now.

They're meaningless as opposed to, I hate to say it like that, but like the pop figures?

Dave: No, it's just, it's just well,

Reese: there's just so much of it. Yeah. And so like it's not gonna be worth anything. Like later on. I.

Dave: Listen, I would argue that none of this stuff is really worth anything.

I, I

Reese: listen, I went and I looked up the cards that go

Dave: No, I know

Reese: because these are in the, the cards that I have are in excellent condition except for the two cards that I fricking wrote on, but it's [00:40:00] not even that bad when I was looking at the prices.

Dave: So you should definitely sell them.

Reese: That's, it's crazy to me. I should have done a total,

Dave: you should see what you can get for,

Reese: I should have done a total

Dave: figure out how to sell 'em and do it because what the fuck? Otherwise we'll just do it when you die.

Reese: Oh.

Dave: And then we'll get the money ourselves and have a good time.

Reese: Great.

Dave: But if you wanna have a good time now.

Reese: No, I don't. I don't. That's the thing. It's yeah, I'll cash in on it now.

Dave: Might as well.

Reese: I was looking at like at each thing, some of them are like two to three grand. Some of them are like $800 for a card, and they're in such pristine. Condition. It's ridiculous.

Dave: Well, one of the things I like, so two things I'll never understand.

One is just the collector market to begin with, right? I don't understand how, I don't know people find value in these things because I just, trash, that's the thing. Trash thing.

Reese: I wanted a smurf, but I wanted a smurf. I, I, I, I was like, oh my God. I would pay up to whatever it would be, it was $2. Yeah. I was very excited about that. Yeah. But I wanted it, like I, when I, and [00:41:00] when I look at it on my shelf with the little other little figurines, I'm like, it's the nostalgia. It just sends you all the way back and it gives you like that burst of serotonin. I don't know how to. Describe that. I know you don't like tchotchkes, so Yeah, no, in that respect, I understand where, you know, yeah.

I'm sure there's, there's other stuff that you get, jacked up about. You're like, ah, but

Dave: Let me go, let me go through this timeline here. Yeah. Because I'm gonna give you just the, the other piece that I, I, I'll, I'll never understand either, but. That's a more modern day. Mm-hmm. Collectible thing, right?

Mm-hmm. But so the decline, as you mentioned, right? Late eighties, the popularity starts to go after the lawsuit changes and all that. And so the original run of these cards, like I said, there were 15 original series total that stopped in 1988.

Reese: Hmm.

Dave: Okay.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: Through comics in books. There was a revival through the comics starting in around 2014 to present day.

They're still [00:42:00] around. Yeah. There have been illustrated novels by RL Stein, who I think is the goosebumps goose bumps. Is that the goosebumps guy? Mm-hmm. Yeah. The art books, cookbooks, there's even a garbage pail. Kids cookbook go,

Reese: I need that.

Dave: And it's gross things. Course

Reese: I need it.

Dave: Yeah, I'm sure you do.

Reese: Okay.

Dave: And then

Reese: I'm immediately gonna,

Dave: I'm gonna make dinner up. Gonna a little bit. So we'll see what we can do. And then, so in the two thousands there was a revival of this stuff. So they made a comeback. There was a bit of that nostalgia. Boom. So Tops restarted the cards in 2003 for a new generation of fans.

And then in 2020, I. NFTs and digital.

Reese: Oh,

Dave: cards launched and they, those sold out again, this is the other area.

Dave & Reese: I don't that NFTs don't understand it, don't it at all. I've,

Reese: I've tried to understand it. I do not get it. No, but okay.

Dave: Doesn't, doesn't, doesn't make any sense to me at all. As I mentioned, there's still kind of new things being released regularly.

Merchandise collaborations along with Funko toys and cereals, like those types of things.

Reese: I'm surprised that funko didn't do a series [00:43:00] of garbage pail.

Dave: No, i, I think they did.

Reese: Oh, did they?

Dave: I think they did. We'll look it up afterwards. That's a Funko is one of the, Cathy put Funko on the list. So I'm thinking that's that's what it means. But

Reese: I haven't seen it. So

Dave: as I mentioned, there's a you see everything

Reese: I do,

Dave: there's a possible animated series with Danny McBride produced by him. All right, so I got two questions for you. Did you ever have a favorite character or card from the garbage pail kids? Was there ever a Reese or Maurice?

Reese: So Ma, so there is a Reese one and I feel like my buddy Greg Barletta, him and I are,

Dave: you know, Where my mi my mind went to. Greasy Re Won't say it. No.

Reese: Oh. Sleazy Recy.

Dave: Nope. Starts with an R.

Reese: Racist Reese.

Dave: Well, that's a good one too. Anyway, anyway, I'll share what he, you'll tell me after. Yeah. We

Reese: but no, my friend Greg Barletta, him and I like drown in nostalgia, and we always have competition with the stuff that we have.

He's, he wins. He has a great TikTok where he go, he just. [00:44:00] Does all tiktoks about all the stuff that he has as far as like the eighties, nineties kid, but, or seventies, eighties, not so much nineties. But do I have a No there, I think there is a Reese one and I feel

Dave: do you have the Dizzy Dave over there?

Reese: I do have a Dizzy Dave.

Dave: I feel like there's gotta be other Dave.

Reese: There's a bunch of Daves. Yeah. There's a bunch of different Daves.

Dave: There's a bunch of Daves.

Reese: I, I took out the ones that like were like aesthetically my favorite. And the names just crack me up. So there's a rocky and roll, which is Elvis.

Shout

Dave: Fat Elvis. Rocky, by the way.

Reese: Yep. Ancient Annie. It just like an old lady with her poodle and the long cigarette cracks me up.

Dave: Yep, that makes sense.

Reese: Hip kip.

Dave: Yeah, Kip.,

Reese: which is like a beatnik guy with his his flops and his bongos and other sundry things in there. Charlotte Webb, it's just. Mm. What is this spider?

It's the black widow Spider. Yep. Yep. Amazing. Joe Blow, which they talk about in the documentary about the Bazooka Joe. Bazooka Joe being,

Dave: yep.

Reese: Which [00:45:00] Bazooka Joe was also a thing with me. Yeah. But then

Dave: what's the, so on the back of that card, I can see you holding up. There's a wanted poster.

Reese: Yeah. Wanted for brainwashing

Dave: who,

Reese: They didn't. You have to fill in the name.

Dave: Oh, but it's, it says what? It's is. Who? The principal

Reese: also guilty of the following crimes.

Dave: What does it say? It says, principal

Reese: running a school. Oh,

Dave: Jesus Christ. Big lettering. I can see from here.

Reese: Oh, principal. Principal. Principal. It says principal

Dave: Jesus.

Reese: Fill in your, oh, you have to fill in your principal's name.

Dave: There it is.

Reese: Okay. Also guilty of the following crimes. Running a school like it was a prison, running a school like it was a school.

Dave: It's perfect because the, the, the principles

Reese: impersonating a human.

Dave: The principles are the ones who banned the cards from schools.

Reese: Oh, amazing.

Dave: Yeah. It was funny. They had all these interviews with the kids on the documentary too, and they were like, one of the expected to do.

Now you, you, you,

Reese: it's amazing.

Dave: At lunch,

Reese: it's amazing. Yep. Art Apart, that's messed up. Yeah. Yeah.

Yep.

Stormy Heather. It's just the names sometimes are so [00:46:00] good. Me, Heather

there.

Dave: That's what I'm saying. Yeah. The names are funny.

Reese: Formalde. Heidi.

Dave: Yeah, Heidi.

Reese: Hold on. I'm not ready.

Dave: Oh boy.

Reese: Tv more tv. Stevie is like peak eighties. Yep. Art so then the movie, I gotta go back. I gotta find which character, you know, what made me. During that documentary, where made my heart happy is that the little people that got to play The Garbage Pal Kids? Yes. The one woman. Yes. I wish I can remember her name. She was the sweetest.

She was just like, it was so nice to be recognized. We all know the movie sucked. Yeah. They all knew it, but they got to be a part of it. Mm-hmm. And I just loved that. So I was trying to find the cards of the characters that they had. Oh, whispering Woody was one of them. Marshy, Marshall, or Alligator. Was one of them.

But then my, my all time favorite as I'm going through them and I, I didn't realize it, but I cracked myself up. Mona Loser. Yes. And Phony. Lisa. So would've if, if Donald Trump would've created, I love garbage pail Kits [00:47:00] cards, he would've named Mona Loser. Yeah. And Phony Lisa.

Dave: I love that they had Donald Dump.

Was the, was the Donald Trump version. Okay. You ready? Here, I'm gonna give you the equivalent,

Reese: but you are holding the cards that are worth money.

Dave: Okay. So I'm gonna stop touching them.

Reese: And it's a big stack.

Dave: Yes. So you sell those.

Reese: Okay.

Dave: But that's got the original, the big one. That's a,

Reese: that's like, that's 30 grand in that pile.

Dave: Well, Let's hope

Reese: if what I'm reading is true,

Dave: all we can do is hope.

Reese: We'll see.

Dave: So

Reese: hope grows in a dump.

Dave: That's right. So you ready?

Reese: Yep.

Dave: Garbage Pail Kids Movie Complete Bomb. Yep. Cult Classic,

Reese: which I wanna watch.

Dave: Ready? Here's my equivalent to Modern Day Cats.

Reese: Oh, that's, that's wrong.

Dave: The movie.

Reese: Oh, the movie.

Dave: Yeah.

Reese: Thank you. Thank you for clarifying.

Dave: Jesus Christ

Dave & Reese: Cats musical is be no beautiful. The, the movie Complete, fucking classic. The fuck. What's a mozy?

Yeah. With

Reese: that drink, really? You

you,

Dave: it's time to wrap this up. Woo. Listen, here's my final question for us. You ready? What pop culture fad today might [00:48:00] have a similar weird nostalgia resurgence 30 years from now, do you think?

Reese: That's actually not a question for us. That is a question for Jonnie and Emily because

Dave: you're aware of what's going on here.

Reese: I am, I am. I feel like,

Dave: I think you said it. I think the closest thing that I can think of would be. Something you said earlier,

Reese: what? The pop?

Dave: Yeah, the Funko Pops.

Reese: The Funko Pops. I did. I bought ones that are in the niche, things that I like. Yeah. So I don't think my lost Hurley pop is gonna be worth a lot of money.

Dave: Well, No, I'm just saying that will have a resurgence, right? Not necessarily. None of these things are worth a lot of money.

Reese: What I'm trying to do is save some of the things that the girls.

We're like super hyped up about I and, and save that for them for when they get older as either nostalgia or maybe it might be worth money. But I feel like the way that we churn out, capitalism really just [00:49:00] churns out so much stuff. Wow. That it, it doesn't become like it loses its

Dave: Yeah.

Reese: Whereas back in the day they would make a certain amount and then once they real, think about the Beanie Babies, I liter legitimately.

When we sold the house and everything got thrown out, there was like four huge plastic bags of the Beanie Babies that I had that some of them are kind of worth a little bit of money, but at the time when the Beanie Babies were at the peak, I had a butterfly first edition. It was worth like two grand.

And I was like, no, but it's so sentimental, like a piece of shit. I am. Because some stupid boy bought it for me. It's like it's sentimental. Oh, it was worth, except that stupid idiot wrote his name in the tag, but whatever. But

Dave: fucking Morron.

Reese: I know. Stupid Randy. No. Now I called them out.

Dave: Now hope grows in a dump.

Reese: Hope grows in a dump.

Dave: So here's what I'm gonna say to you listeners. Okay. Whatcha are gonna say? Listeners, make sure you take a [00:50:00] look at the. Cover art for this episode because Thanks.

Reese: It's amazing

Dave: to the joys of Cathy.

Reese: Mm-hmm.

Dave: You'll have

Reese: your own

Dave: Dave and Reese. Yeah. As your very own garbage pail kids.

Reese: Enjoy that.

Dave: Enjoy it.

Reese: Yep.

Dave: Alright, Reese, here's what I'm gonna say to you.

Reese: Here's what I'm gonna say to you. I'm gonna go sell my cards. I'm go to the Caribbean.

Dave: I hope we can hope,

Reese: peace out, we can re out bitch.

Dave: Re report back on the the great. Okay. Wad of cash you got because you sold your garbage pail.

Kids, stop 'em. They're gonna be

Reese: okay. Mona loser.

Dave: Yeah. Mona Loser. All right. Retard Reese. There it is. Wow. No Friends. Life is a group project. Be kind to each other.

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