November 4, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Karin, where are you calling me from Columbia?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Excellent? And you are I got you?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And you're a big uh you're a big fan of Legos,
huge fans.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Excellent, excellent? And do you have uh? Do you do
you have?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Do you have a lot of what are they called
kits or like builds?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm sorry, yet.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I had a ton of builds. I got a ton
of them. I've got so many that are not displayed
because I don't have a space. I've got my drawers
where everything is sorted and separated sets that haven't even
built yet. Yeah, it's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And when you said no, listen, you found something you enjoy, right,
knock yourself out. Yeah. I have a question though, when
you said that you don't have space, do you have?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Do you have as many displayed as you can?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Because like I just feel like it'll just it'll take over.
If I had everything built and set out and displayed
on and whatnot, there would be very little space for
anything else. So I have my basement area now and
that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Can I ask you this, Have you ever at least
had the thought, not that you went through with it,
or not even that you got really like that deep
into the wormhole. But have you ever had the thought of,
I think I'm going to do some remodeling in the
house so I have more room for displaying my legos.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh my god, it would be amazing if I could
afford to do that. Knock down a wall, open up
the space.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, By the way, you're not alone.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you know how many people I had no idea
how many people have remodeled like parts of their house
and like you said, to take down walls or open
up areas because they need more display space.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, And I mean there's displays space, and then there's
also space to build. Like if you do mocks, which
are like my own creations, you need, you know, your
table space. You need to have your space where you
have your stock of like your inventory of loose pieces
so that you can kind of easily pull as you build.
I mean, it's a lot more than just buying a box,
(02:18):
opening it up, building it and then setting on a shelf.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And those that you do have about are they enclosed, No.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So they get dusty?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, Like the only ones that really have out are
like a Ninjago couple of Ninjago sets, and monkey kids.
So those are out, and then I have like the
Diagonale set out.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Those are all huge.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So yeah, like I said, there's a lot of stuff
that's still gotcha.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, listen, be proud, be proud. There's nothing I mean, listen,
is it my thing? No, but you may not like
hockey as much as I do. All right, very good,
very good. I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I laughed.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Because the dust is killer. Like people can tell their
fake Lego flowers because of the dust.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I bet also they could just tell why don't you
clean them?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
It's just tough to clean. There's some really tight spaces.
It's not an easy go by with the duster. Now
I did read a cleaning hack. So anyway, are you
ready for this, Diane?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
They were talking about how like like Lego and they listen,
Legos have been around forever, but they really credit the
pandemic with like really having Lego takeoff for adults. And
I know that there were adults into it before that
I don't need all the hate, but that in the
years since the pandemic, that it just keeps getting bigger
(03:45):
and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. They were
talking to this woman, Christine North. She's renovated her house
twice in order to in order to fit lego stuff.
Here comes jedgie Diane the well you already heard it
in the tone.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Why should I judge?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, but you are, you are judging.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
What are your thoughts on tennis?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And they also said because sets and builds are getting
bigger and bigger, it takes up more room, and so
you don't want to like you may not have room
on a countertop, or you may not have room on
here's something that Diane can relate with you on tone
on a mantle w T Oh my god, Diane, is
(04:34):
this her?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, that's Christy North.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
She she has had two renovations on her house to
have room for And the other thing they said that
like some real estate agents have houses they know that
are for sale, that if they have room like houses
that were redone in talking to their clients, if somebody says, oh,
you know, I'm really big in the lego or whatever,
(04:57):
they'll go, I have the perfect house for you and
they'll show them those houses.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
So on the other side of that glass, is that
where all her loose bricks are?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, all those cubbies.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's the design center.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Oh who's judging now?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh I am Diane.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Is that what she calls it? A design center?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think so that's what she built, or her build center,
her build center.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Gotta be careful, as we know from the show Lego Masters,
when you carry it over to a table, that could
be disastrous.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh sure, it could fall. Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Look at all those.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Look at all those right by the peloton.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now all you know, every one of those that's out.
What is that getting covered with.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Light?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah? Oh these are all lit up.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Yeah, she's got up created a city.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, you can't have a city if they're all separate pieces.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
They all got to be together.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And that's why I had to take down this wall
and create space for it.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
But you couldn't get the sense they.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Brought in an architecture to build, to build cabinets in
there so that there was a place to set them.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Oh that's what these are stacked up on top of.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yes, man, that is awesome.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
And there is stuff. It looks like it's displayed behind glass.
Oh yeah, so you don't get the dust so on
the other side, because you couldn't see it from the
angle where we saw the build Center Design Center on
the other wall is so is this entire floor just
dedicated to Lego? Well, it's her Lego rooms, but yes,
(06:34):
what are the ones she's protecting? Like I can see
the Avenger's Tower and the Daily Bugle.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But what is that behind glass? Are those Disney castles?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Are you just asking into the wind because I'm not
gonna have an answer.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You read about her, Yeah, but I don't know what
she has. You know what they said she has? Well,
number one a problem, number two.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Legos income.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Seattle architect Jeff Pelletierer, is that his house?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Who's that said?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
He has helped design plans for more than twenty five
houses that have included Lego rooms. So like when they're building,
like somebody tears down a house and they're building it,
they design rooms for legos.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I know you a solicitor for adult fans, but this
is the extreme.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay that woman fantasizes about wan Yeah, well, not everybody
has the money to be able to remodel their.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
House and space.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
It's not just you have to be willing to give
up like a decent chunk of your home.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Trust me, that woman that we just talked to doesn't
need a kitchen. Now, she doesn't need a living room,
she doesn't need a dining room, bedroom and space for legos.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Line one.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh, I'm sorry, hold on one second. I hit the
wrong line.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Hi, Elliet the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Hey, Chris, are you a big lego dude?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I am, I'm sorry, I miss the beginning of your segment.
I get a text from somebody saying, Hey, you should
call Elliott right now.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh oh, so they know? Hey, can I ask you this?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
The so you you're.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You're a big You're a big lego dude. You have
a lot of sets and builds and stuff like that. Yeah,
do you display? Do you display?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
We do?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Who's we?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Me and my wife?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Is she also a fan or is she a fan
by because of you?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I would say it's definitely more me when I get
into a hobby. I kind of died in real hard.
But we found the doing legos together when during COVID
we both work in the hospital, so nobody wanted to
hang out with us, and we had to find something
to do together that was not watching TV all the time,
and uh yeah, kind of kind of spiral it out from.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
There by the way common refrain right like they did.
Even Lego will tell you they saw a massive growth
explosion during the during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Do you guys display your builds?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yes? Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Have you and your.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Wife talked about doing any kind of remodeling to the
house so that you have more room for displaying and building?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Not remodeling so much. I've built furniture for it, and
I've you know, bought shelving to put in our basement
to put sets up down there.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, No, no, and that's good. That's good.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
I like the upper shelf for the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The okay, Dane, look the no, I see it, I
see it. The Titanic is a very massive build.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
I guess this picture is another guy, not the original
room with the woman Katie.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You said her name was, Yeah, Katie North, Christy North. Sorry,
but yeah, this is a different guy.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
But this guy has him in a room because his
wife has a drawn the line at the bedroom like,
you cannot be displaying or putting them in our boudoir sir.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Do you have an on display in your bedroom?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Uh? No, no, we don't. That's off limits, right, there's
no explicit rule, it just hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yeah, that's the key, that is honest.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
What do you do about dust?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I have a you know, like those old cans of
air you used to like clean computers with. I have
like an electric version of that with a brush attachment.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Nobody has said this, by the way, this so this,
this whole thing I was reading is about how real
estate is changing because people are so obsessed with lego.
And one of it was just it was literally a
throwaway line, and I was like, this is so smart.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Put it in the shower.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What just put it in the shower, put water on it,
wash it, rinse it, and then let it dry.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's gone.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You got to be careful about what kind of chemicals
you used to clean. I've seen.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There's god, dang god, there's enammel.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I got hard water. Is that what you're talking about, sir?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
No, I mean like people spraying it with four O
nine and then or something like that. In the blastyic
will melt.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Just use water.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I didn't tell you anything about four O nine or
or a bleach or anything.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
So I gotta have my whole bathtub.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I get a pan.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Loaded with legos, and then I gotta wait till that dries.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You make it sound like you've never like put it
in there. Turn the water on, let it rinse set.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The people will buy like lego set. They'll buy legos
from like yard sales and stuff like people just want
to buy loose pieces and they'll take these bends of
loose legos and they'll do that. They'll like rinse them
in the bathtub clean, not.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
With four O nine, not with.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't use blind call all right, very good, very good,
Thank you sir, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Do you want people to keep calling?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
No, I like that guy. I like that guy.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Now for me, it'd be funny because it was like
I'm watering my plants. But sometimes with water and dust
it creates like a little sludge. Talking about so let
it rint doesn't come off cleanly, spray it with an
air canister.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You can get one of those.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
That's a good idea I have. I never thought to
steal one from here. Diane. Come on, where do you
where do you get your paper?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The Oh, we need paper for the office. Will you
go steal some from somewhere?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
There's in the closet there you go. Do they have
air canisters? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can check that during Yeah, I can check that
during the commercials, pointing at the pit they have it
out here.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Oh, you just want me to take it from someone's desk.
I'm not going to do that, Christal.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Why who's using it out there? What's Dustin doing.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Other than sending Diane his his ways of what time?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He's sharing his ETA.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
He's letting us know he's going to be a little
late today.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, every day. Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Hey there is this me?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hi, who's this?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
This is Brent down in GOOSELM.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hey, what's going on, dude?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Just calling in. So I probably don't have anywhere near
the number of sets a lot of these guys too,
But I have cheated by putting all of my sets
in the front office of my shop so that I
don't have to have them around at home.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh see, that's very smart.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, no, no, that's very very smart, very small at work.
You know. The other thing that they said is really
is really help is really helpful. Hey, sir, if you
could have a house, like, do you wish you could
have them at home?
Speaker 8 (13:37):
There's some stuff I would like to have at home
because everything I put in the shop is usually like
sort of automotive related, Like it's all car technic sets
and all that. I'm not going to put Star Wars
stuff up really in the shop other than the the
one kit which I sent a picture to.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Tyler, So you have to put some.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I is it email or social media?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Email?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Okay, here we go. Let's see hold on nice.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh you know what, dude, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Okay, it's just something to do while hockey's on. Actually
I haven't built it in a while, but the season
just started, so I'll get through a few more.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No, actually watching hockey is what you should. You can't
watch hockey and build at the same time.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Is the Christmas themes?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Eli, I hear you?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Is the Christmas theme Star Wars build on your desk
as of this week?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Or is that an old photo?
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I put it in there this morning?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Started?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, very good, very good, Thank you sir. That's
cool though, Like at at an automotive shop, it's cars
and motorcycles.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Ghostbusters and yes, that's still a car.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's still a car. That's pretty cool. Line one. Hi
Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Hello, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 9 (15:04):
This just court me?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yes, because my husband has a huge Lego room.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Does he really?
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Yeah, and they're and they still out everywhere. They're in
our bedroom looks like a Toys r Us. I cried
when Toys r Us went out of business, and he
kind of wooed me. Being the romancer he is, he
puts out they sell Lego bouquets. He started decorating the
house with these lego flowers.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, that's hey, are you are you? That's okay?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Are you good with the with the builds being decorative
in the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I think they're really pretty.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
I think it's a sweet gesture because he knows he's.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
In the door.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So have you guys, have you guys done any or
considered doing any remodels to the.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Just he was just showing off his amazing floor to
play that he built. It lights up from underneath the
showcase of build Oh no kidding?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Is that in my email or is that social media?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
He's so into this room.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
I wanted this house so bad and I was all
I could think of. I was like, you know what,
this room here, this could be here room, and he
was like, you know what, You're right, Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean a lot of people have that. Does he
have anything hanging from fishing wire.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
No, he actually has the toy displays from toy stores,
like it looks like a toy store.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Ow, I got you, I got you all right? Very good,
very good. Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What is that?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I didn't realize that people upload the videos of themselves
washing the bricks in bathtubs, and people sit and watch that,
and there's something oddly soothing about it. But which into
a nightmare that drain opened, you'd lose all the small pieces.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Oh my god, Look how much they got at this
yard sale.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
You see it's almost like you've you're diving into it,
like like a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Where am I going here? Hi?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Elliott? In the morning, not even a huge fan of your.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Whole house is covered in Lego flowers?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Hello, Hi, yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Hey Elliott? It's your favorite Lego Master? Andrew letters Andrew?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
How are you hold on? I feel like I should stand?
How are you, Andrew? How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Edie's ed you work?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm doing great? You know what I should have I
should have reached out. I was reading the story about
like they were talking to how it's really taken over.
People are remodeling their houses. People are hiring architects so
when they build a house they have lego rooms. They
are talking about how like they've converted basements and knockdown
walls just just to have more room.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Are you in a windstorm?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Andrew?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Where are you?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I am? Actually?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, walking downtown. Let me let me just next my head, Ben,
real quick?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Better?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Oh yeah, much better.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, but just the just the extent that everybody is
going to in order to display all the stuff that
they've built.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Oh yeah, it's uh, it's kind of unreal what some
people are willing to, you know, put their houses and
the bank accounts through.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, no, I was. I was mentioning.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
There's a there's a developer in Seattle that has done
twenty five thirty houses. I can't remember which one it
is that were designed specifically to have lego rooms in them.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Oh yeah, I don't doubt that one day he's going
to make a boatload of money.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You know, Leger is getting more and more.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Popular every year.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, it really doesn't slow down. I mean, which is
great for you and the family business. Hey do you
do you have a lot of stuff at home or
do you just because you run the Lego Center, Super Center.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Do you do you just keep everything there?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
You know, it's almost sacrilegious to say so, But I
really don't have much at home at all. I have
a handful of sets that picked ups on the job,
but mostly.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I have some of the little Lego people. I've got
a bunch of those on the least.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Okay, that's pretty cool. Do you have flowers around like
Tyler's got.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
A bunch of flowers around that, and succulents.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Flowers and succulents, those are super popular.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Right, I don't have any of those.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
I have the weirdest hodgepodge. I've got like a haunted house,
five star warships.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And then like, was what I just building? Oh like
a little Geman mineral collection.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I got youa not my thing, but that's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
No, good for you, good for you?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What is the And you said like there's no sign
of anything slowing down?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh? Absolutely not.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
I think Lego's total growth last year seventeen percent, which
for company that's been around for almost one hundred years,
that's an insane you know, graph of Bose.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Wow, that's crazy. And how's bis in Springfield?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
You know?
Speaker 10 (20:24):
I couldn't tell you because about a month and a
half ago, I stepped away.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
WHOA hold on one second? Hold on one second?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Will you queue up the breaking news cunder Yeah, hold on, Andrew,
bear with me for a second.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh, I got to find the breaking news. Yeah, I
haven't used it in so long. We haven't broken that
kind in the news.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Ak.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Hold on, No, I gotta spell it again, Andrew k I.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't have it in there anymore. I got it here,
It is there, it is. Wait. You stepped away from
from Lego?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I did.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
When I took the job, I knew it wasn't given
me forever kind of thing. Yeah, I made it almost
three years. They've gone through a bunch of management changes
without throwing them under the bus. It has not been
good for the past year. So I decided to grow
up a little.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Bit and I've stepped away. What are you?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
What that does mean?
Speaker 10 (21:26):
The job has been posted and so they're looking for
a new master model builder.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
If anyone listening wants to apply.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, I mean based on that rousing.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Orment endorsement of how great they are, why wouldn't people
be running to that?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
What are you doing now.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
So I am at the National Children's Museum downtown right
there at Federal Triangle. I'm a museum educator basically come
up with a lot of meaningful stem play experiences.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
So I've I've.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Grown older, but I wouldn't say I've grown up right
by the way, but I would remind me, what were
you doing before Lego?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I was a high school science teacher.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Teachers, Yeah, exactly exactly, So that makes sense, and I
would bet that at some level Lego did help get
into the science the Children's Museum. I would think, oh, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I mean most of what I did.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
You know on paper ec Master Model Builder and you think, oh,
he just sits there and plays the Lego all day. Well,
sometimes I wish it was that simple, but in reality,
it's a lot of logistics, keeping up with what kind
of bricks you've got, what you need to order more
of You're coming up with workshop classes, field trip activities,
social media content.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
You know.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
The actual time I spent actually building, it's probably about
twenty percent of my day.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, no, I would believe that. I would believe that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
All right, Well, now I have to update you in
my contacts. A boy, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
I delete my contact, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, not delete, but now I can't. You're not my
Lego guys.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
I'm still in authority though, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, because I don't want to use those other so obs,
I'll use.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You exactly exactly the weird.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All right, dude, Hey, hold on one secon. Let's make
sure we have a no.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I still have all your info, nothing change, all right,
very I tell your old man, I said, what's up?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, of course, of course, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You got it. We'll talk to you soon, Thank you,
my friend. Of course, have a talk about burying.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
The leave.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Boy that came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh I didn't even ask him, like his recommendations for cleaning.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
He would have just said, quit.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Man, paging mister Brick, paging, mister Brooke. This is your chance.
He's the one that built us the version.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Of exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Gosh, he didn't want to tell us. You could hear
the hesitation in his voice.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah no, because he knew he was going to break hearts.
What do they always say, Diane, don't meet your heroes.
You love Lego and then you go work for him
and you find out they can be dicks like everybody else.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Wow, all right, I gotta digest that is this because
Nick Cannon's the new host? When he said they brought
in new management, Nick Cannon, Elarnet is gone and Nick
Cannon's in.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I was worried about this upcoming season.
Karin, where are you calling me from Columbia?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Excellent? And you are I got you?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
And you're a big uh you're a big fan of Legos,
huge fans.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Excellent, excellent? And do you have uh? Do you do
you have?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Do you have a lot of what are they called
kits or like builds?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm sorry, yet.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I had a ton of builds. I got a ton
of them. I've got so many that are not displayed
because I don't have a space. I've got my drawers
where everything is sorted and separated sets that haven't even
built yet. Yeah, it's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And when you said no, listen, you found something you enjoy, right,
knock yourself out. Yeah. I have a question though, when
you said that you don't have space, do you have?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Do you have as many displayed as you can?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Because like I just feel like it'll just it'll take over.
If I had everything built and set out and displayed
on and whatnot, there would be very little space for
anything else. So I have my basement area now and
that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Can I ask you this, Have you ever at least
had the thought, not that you went through with it,
or not even that you got really like that deep
into the wormhole. But have you ever had the thought of,
I think I'm going to do some remodeling in the
house so I have more room for displaying my legos.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh my god, it would be amazing if I could
afford to do that. Knock down a wall, open up
the space.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, By the way, you're not alone.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you know how many people I had no idea
how many people have remodeled like parts of their house
and like you said, to take down walls or open
up areas because they need more display space.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, And I mean there's displays space, and then there's
also space to build. Like if you do mocks, which
are like my own creations, you need, you know, your
table space. You need to have your space where you
have your stock of like your inventory of loose pieces
so that you can kind of easily pull as you build.
I mean, it's a lot more than just buying a box,
(02:18):
opening it up, building it and then setting on a shelf.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And those that you do have about are they enclosed, No.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So they get dusty?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, Like the only ones that really have out are
like a Ninjago couple of Ninjago sets, and monkey kids.
So those are out, and then I have like the
Diagonale set out.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Those are all huge.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So yeah, like I said, there's a lot of stuff
that's still gotcha.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, listen, be proud, be proud. There's nothing I mean, listen,
is it my thing? No, but you may not like
hockey as much as I do. All right, very good,
very good. I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I laughed.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Because the dust is killer. Like people can tell their
fake Lego flowers because of the dust.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I bet also they could just tell why don't you
clean them?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
It's just tough to clean. There's some really tight spaces.
It's not an easy go by with the duster. Now
I did read a cleaning hack. So anyway, are you
ready for this, Diane?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
They were talking about how like like Lego and they listen,
Legos have been around forever, but they really credit the
pandemic with like really having Lego takeoff for adults. And
I know that there were adults into it before that
I don't need all the hate, but that in the
years since the pandemic, that it just keeps getting bigger
(03:45):
and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. They were
talking to this woman, Christine North. She's renovated her house
twice in order to in order to fit lego stuff.
Here comes jedgie Diane the well you already heard it
in the tone.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Why should I judge?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, but you are, you are judging.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
What are your thoughts on tennis?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And they also said because sets and builds are getting
bigger and bigger, it takes up more room, and so
you don't want to like you may not have room
on a countertop, or you may not have room on
here's something that Diane can relate with you on tone
on a mantle w T Oh my god, Diane, is
(04:34):
this her?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, that's Christy North.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
She she has had two renovations on her house to
have room for And the other thing they said that
like some real estate agents have houses they know that
are for sale, that if they have room like houses
that were redone in talking to their clients, if somebody says, oh,
you know, I'm really big in the lego or whatever,
(04:57):
they'll go, I have the perfect house for you and
they'll show them those houses.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
So on the other side of that glass, is that
where all her loose bricks are?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, all those cubbies.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's the design center.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Oh who's judging now?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh I am Diane.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Is that what she calls it? A design center?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think so that's what she built, or her build center,
her build center.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Gotta be careful, as we know from the show Lego Masters,
when you carry it over to a table, that could
be disastrous.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh sure, it could fall. Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Look at all those.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Look at all those right by the peloton.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now all you know, every one of those that's out.
What is that getting covered with.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Light?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah? Oh these are all lit up.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Yeah, she's got up created a city.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, you can't have a city if they're all separate pieces.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
They all got to be together.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And that's why I had to take down this wall
and create space for it.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
But you couldn't get the sense they.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Brought in an architecture to build, to build cabinets in
there so that there was a place to set them.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Oh that's what these are stacked up on top of.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yes, man, that is awesome.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
And there is stuff. It looks like it's displayed behind glass.
Oh yeah, so you don't get the dust so on
the other side, because you couldn't see it from the
angle where we saw the build Center Design Center on
the other wall is so is this entire floor just
dedicated to Lego? Well, it's her Lego rooms, but yes,
(06:34):
what are the ones she's protecting? Like I can see
the Avenger's Tower and the Daily Bugle.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But what is that behind glass? Are those Disney castles?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Are you just asking into the wind because I'm not
gonna have an answer.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You read about her, Yeah, but I don't know what
she has. You know what they said she has? Well,
number one a problem, number two.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Legos income.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Seattle architect Jeff Pelletierer, is that his house?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Who's that said?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
He has helped design plans for more than twenty five
houses that have included Lego rooms. So like when they're building,
like somebody tears down a house and they're building it,
they design rooms for legos.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I know you a solicitor for adult fans, but this
is the extreme.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay that woman fantasizes about wan Yeah, well, not everybody
has the money to be able to remodel their.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
House and space.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
It's not just you have to be willing to give
up like a decent chunk of your home.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Trust me, that woman that we just talked to doesn't
need a kitchen. Now, she doesn't need a living room,
she doesn't need a dining room, bedroom and space for legos.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Line one.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh, I'm sorry, hold on one second. I hit the
wrong line.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Hi, Elliet the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Hey, Chris, are you a big lego dude?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I am, I'm sorry, I miss the beginning of your segment.
I get a text from somebody saying, Hey, you should
call Elliott right now.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh oh, so they know? Hey, can I ask you this?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
The so you you're.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You're a big You're a big lego dude. You have
a lot of sets and builds and stuff like that. Yeah,
do you display? Do you display?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
We do?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Who's we?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Me and my wife?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Is she also a fan or is she a fan
by because of you?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I would say it's definitely more me when I get
into a hobby. I kind of died in real hard.
But we found the doing legos together when during COVID
we both work in the hospital, so nobody wanted to
hang out with us, and we had to find something
to do together that was not watching TV all the time,
and uh yeah, kind of kind of spiral it out from.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
There by the way common refrain right like they did.
Even Lego will tell you they saw a massive growth
explosion during the during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Do you guys display your builds?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yes? Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Have you and your.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Wife talked about doing any kind of remodeling to the
house so that you have more room for displaying and building?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Not remodeling so much. I've built furniture for it, and
I've you know, bought shelving to put in our basement
to put sets up down there.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, No, no, and that's good. That's good.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
I like the upper shelf for the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The okay, Dane, look the no, I see it, I
see it. The Titanic is a very massive build.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
I guess this picture is another guy, not the original
room with the woman Katie.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You said her name was, Yeah, Katie North, Christy North. Sorry,
but yeah, this is a different guy.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
But this guy has him in a room because his
wife has a drawn the line at the bedroom like,
you cannot be displaying or putting them in our boudoir sir.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Do you have an on display in your bedroom?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Uh? No, no, we don't. That's off limits, right, there's
no explicit rule, it just hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yeah, that's the key, that is honest.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
What do you do about dust?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I have a you know, like those old cans of
air you used to like clean computers with. I have
like an electric version of that with a brush attachment.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Nobody has said this, by the way, this so this,
this whole thing I was reading is about how real
estate is changing because people are so obsessed with lego.
And one of it was just it was literally a
throwaway line, and I was like, this is so smart.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Put it in the shower.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What just put it in the shower, put water on it,
wash it, rinse it, and then let it dry.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's gone.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You got to be careful about what kind of chemicals
you used to clean. I've seen.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There's god, dang god, there's enammel.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I got hard water. Is that what you're talking about, sir?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
No, I mean like people spraying it with four O
nine and then or something like that. In the blastyic
will melt.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Just use water.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I didn't tell you anything about four O nine or
or a bleach or anything.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
So I gotta have my whole bathtub.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I get a pan.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Loaded with legos, and then I gotta wait till that dries.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You make it sound like you've never like put it
in there. Turn the water on, let it rinse set.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The people will buy like lego set. They'll buy legos
from like yard sales and stuff like people just want
to buy loose pieces and they'll take these bends of
loose legos and they'll do that. They'll like rinse them
in the bathtub clean, not.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
With four O nine, not with.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't use blind call all right, very good, very good,
Thank you sir, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Do you want people to keep calling?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
No, I like that guy. I like that guy.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Now for me, it'd be funny because it was like
I'm watering my plants. But sometimes with water and dust
it creates like a little sludge. Talking about so let
it rint doesn't come off cleanly, spray it with an
air canister.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You can get one of those.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
That's a good idea I have. I never thought to
steal one from here. Diane. Come on, where do you
where do you get your paper?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The Oh, we need paper for the office. Will you
go steal some from somewhere?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
There's in the closet there you go. Do they have
air canisters? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can check that during Yeah, I can check that
during the commercials, pointing at the pit they have it
out here.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Oh, you just want me to take it from someone's desk.
I'm not going to do that, Christal.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Why who's using it out there? What's Dustin doing.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Other than sending Diane his his ways of what time?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He's sharing his ETA.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
He's letting us know he's going to be a little
late today.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, every day. Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Hey there is this me?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hi, who's this?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
This is Brent down in GOOSELM.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hey, what's going on, dude?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Just calling in. So I probably don't have anywhere near
the number of sets a lot of these guys too,
But I have cheated by putting all of my sets
in the front office of my shop so that I
don't have to have them around at home.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh see, that's very smart.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, no, no, that's very very smart, very small at work.
You know. The other thing that they said is really
is really help is really helpful. Hey, sir, if you
could have a house, like, do you wish you could
have them at home?
Speaker 8 (13:37):
There's some stuff I would like to have at home
because everything I put in the shop is usually like
sort of automotive related, Like it's all car technic sets
and all that. I'm not going to put Star Wars
stuff up really in the shop other than the the
one kit which I sent a picture to.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Tyler, So you have to put some.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I is it email or social media?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Email?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Okay, here we go. Let's see hold on nice.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Oh you know what, dude, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Okay, it's just something to do while hockey's on. Actually
I haven't built it in a while, but the season
just started, so I'll get through a few more.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No, actually watching hockey is what you should. You can't
watch hockey and build at the same time.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Is the Christmas themes?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Eli, I hear you?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Is the Christmas theme Star Wars build on your desk
as of this week?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Or is that an old photo?
Speaker 8 (14:37):
I put it in there this morning?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Started?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, very good, very good, Thank you sir. That's
cool though, Like at at an automotive shop, it's cars
and motorcycles.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Ghostbusters and yes, that's still a car.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's still a car. That's pretty cool. Line one. Hi
Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Hello, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 9 (15:04):
This just court me?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yes, because my husband has a huge Lego room.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Does he really?
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Yeah, and they're and they still out everywhere. They're in
our bedroom looks like a Toys r Us. I cried
when Toys r Us went out of business, and he
kind of wooed me. Being the romancer he is, he
puts out they sell Lego bouquets. He started decorating the
house with these lego flowers.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, that's hey, are you are you? That's okay?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Are you good with the with the builds being decorative
in the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I think they're really pretty.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
I think it's a sweet gesture because he knows he's.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
In the door.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So have you guys, have you guys done any or
considered doing any remodels to the.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Just he was just showing off his amazing floor to
play that he built. It lights up from underneath the
showcase of build Oh no kidding?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Is that in my email or is that social media?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
He's so into this room.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
I wanted this house so bad and I was all
I could think of. I was like, you know what,
this room here, this could be here room, and he
was like, you know what, You're right, Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I mean a lot of people have that. Does he
have anything hanging from fishing wire.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
No, he actually has the toy displays from toy stores,
like it looks like a toy store.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Ow, I got you, I got you all right? Very good,
very good. Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What is that?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I didn't realize that people upload the videos of themselves
washing the bricks in bathtubs, and people sit and watch that,
and there's something oddly soothing about it. But which into
a nightmare that drain opened, you'd lose all the small pieces.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Oh my god, Look how much they got at this
yard sale.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
You see it's almost like you've you're diving into it,
like like a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Where am I going here? Hi?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Elliott? In the morning, not even a huge fan of your.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Whole house is covered in Lego flowers?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Hello, Hi, yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Hey Elliott? It's your favorite Lego Master? Andrew letters Andrew?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
How are you hold on? I feel like I should stand?
How are you, Andrew? How are you?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Edie's ed you work?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm doing great? You know what I should have I
should have reached out. I was reading the story about
like they were talking to how it's really taken over.
People are remodeling their houses. People are hiring architects so
when they build a house they have lego rooms. They
are talking about how like they've converted basements and knockdown
walls just just to have more room.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Are you in a windstorm?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Andrew?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Where are you?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I am? Actually?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, walking downtown. Let me let me just next my head, Ben,
real quick?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Better?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Oh yeah, much better.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, but just the just the extent that everybody is
going to in order to display all the stuff that
they've built.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Oh yeah, it's uh, it's kind of unreal what some
people are willing to, you know, put their houses and
the bank accounts through.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, no, I was. I was mentioning.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
There's a there's a developer in Seattle that has done
twenty five thirty houses. I can't remember which one it
is that were designed specifically to have lego rooms in them.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Oh yeah, I don't doubt that one day he's going
to make a boatload of money.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You know, Leger is getting more and more.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Popular every year.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, it really doesn't slow down. I mean, which is
great for you and the family business. Hey do you
do you have a lot of stuff at home or
do you just because you run the Lego Center, Super Center.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Do you do you just keep everything there?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
You know, it's almost sacrilegious to say so, But I
really don't have much at home at all. I have
a handful of sets that picked ups on the job,
but mostly.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I have some of the little Lego people. I've got
a bunch of those on the least.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Okay, that's pretty cool. Do you have flowers around like
Tyler's got.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
A bunch of flowers around that, and succulents.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Flowers and succulents, those are super popular.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Right, I don't have any of those.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
I have the weirdest hodgepodge. I've got like a haunted house,
five star warships.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
And then like, was what I just building? Oh like
a little Geman mineral collection.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I got youa not my thing, but that's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
No, good for you, good for you?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What is the And you said like there's no sign
of anything slowing down?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh? Absolutely not.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
I think Lego's total growth last year seventeen percent, which
for company that's been around for almost one hundred years,
that's an insane you know, graph of Bose.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Wow, that's crazy. And how's bis in Springfield?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
You know?
Speaker 10 (20:24):
I couldn't tell you because about a month and a
half ago, I stepped away.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
WHOA hold on one second? Hold on one second?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Will you queue up the breaking news cunder Yeah, hold on, Andrew,
bear with me for a second.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh, I got to find the breaking news. Yeah, I
haven't used it in so long. We haven't broken that
kind in the news.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Ak.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Hold on, No, I gotta spell it again, Andrew k I.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't have it in there anymore. I got it here,
It is there, it is. Wait. You stepped away from
from Lego?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I did.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
When I took the job, I knew it wasn't given
me forever kind of thing. Yeah, I made it almost
three years. They've gone through a bunch of management changes
without throwing them under the bus. It has not been
good for the past year. So I decided to grow
up a little.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Bit and I've stepped away. What are you?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
What that does mean?
Speaker 10 (21:26):
The job has been posted and so they're looking for
a new master model builder.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
If anyone listening wants to apply.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, I mean based on that rousing.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Orment endorsement of how great they are, why wouldn't people
be running to that?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
What are you doing now.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
So I am at the National Children's Museum downtown right
there at Federal Triangle. I'm a museum educator basically come
up with a lot of meaningful stem play experiences.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
So I've I've.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Grown older, but I wouldn't say I've grown up right
by the way, but I would remind me, what were
you doing before Lego?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I was a high school science teacher.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Teachers, Yeah, exactly exactly, So that makes sense, and I
would bet that at some level Lego did help get
into the science the Children's Museum. I would think, oh, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I mean most of what I did.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
You know on paper ec Master Model Builder and you think, oh,
he just sits there and plays the Lego all day. Well,
sometimes I wish it was that simple, but in reality,
it's a lot of logistics, keeping up with what kind
of bricks you've got, what you need to order more
of You're coming up with workshop classes, field trip activities,
social media content.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
You know.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
The actual time I spent actually building, it's probably about
twenty percent of my day.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, no, I would believe that. I would believe that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
All right, Well, now I have to update you in
my contacts. A boy, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
I delete my contact, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, not delete, but now I can't. You're not my
Lego guys.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
I'm still in authority though, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, because I don't want to use those other so obs,
I'll use.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You exactly exactly the weird.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All right, dude, Hey, hold on one secon. Let's make
sure we have a no.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I still have all your info, nothing change, all right,
very I tell your old man, I said, what's up?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, of course, of course, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You got it. We'll talk to you soon, Thank you,
my friend. Of course, have a talk about burying.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
The leave.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Boy that came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh I didn't even ask him, like his recommendations for cleaning.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
He would have just said, quit.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Man, paging mister Brick, paging, mister Brooke. This is your chance.
He's the one that built us the version.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Of exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Gosh, he didn't want to tell us. You could hear
the hesitation in his voice.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah no, because he knew he was going to break hearts.
What do they always say, Diane, don't meet your heroes.
You love Lego and then you go work for him
and you find out they can be dicks like everybody else.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Wow, all right, I gotta digest that is this because
Nick Cannon's the new host? When he said they brought
in new management, Nick Cannon, Elarnet is gone and Nick
Cannon's in.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I was worried about this upcoming season.
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