Episode 6 Exclusives, Ghosts, Cookies & YOUR FIRED!

On this weeks episode store exclusives is the focus of a deeper dive as the business hat goes on.  We try a new cookie and talk a double dose of Ghost in Figure and Album of the week. We finish it up with a somber tales from retail.  Also make sure to enter the giveaway!
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:23):
From the passenger seat of the DJC Collectible Studio. I'm
Midwest professional wrestling legend Gauge Octang and now here's a
guy who would punch Duke in his stupid face if
Duke was a real human being and not a cartoon.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kyle Peterson, Welcome every one. Kyle here, of course, Angie
is here. Angie, say hello, hello, Angie, and we're back
episode number six, six weeks of the Kyle Peterson Show,
and we're gonna think about changing the name of it
to the Angie Peterson Show. We'll see if that happens
along the way, we'll see. But it is the Kyle
Peterson Show, Episode six. Thanks for everybody checking it out,

(01:00):
Thanks for everybody sticking with the channel, of course, and
extra special thanks to DJC Collectibles Discount code eight off
DJC to save a percent off your entire order for
sponsoring the podcast. Salt of the Earth over there at
DJC Collectibles and Angie, how are you doing today? Good?
We got all kinds of stuff to dive into in
this episode of the podcast. Here can't believe it's week

(01:21):
number six. Once again, We're gonna have tails from retail.
We're gonna try some new foods, and Ange's got something
extra special for us, got an album of the week,
got the figure of the week. At the very end,
we're gonna close with the question of the Week, Angie.
Some riveting questions coming into this week. And we're also
gonna read one of the reviews of this very podcastje
I should get this out of the way right now.
How about a little giveaway action with the podcast right here, Angie,

(01:43):
We're gonna do a little giveaway. All you've got to
do is rate and review and of course five stars, right,
five star, five stars. Oh, go over to Apple Podcasts.
That seems to be the easiest one. But you can
find the podcast wherever, obviously, but go over there, and
I'm gonna give away two copies of my new book,
also available on Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, also via me.

(02:04):
If you want a free sticker of The Kyle Peterson
Show as well as a bookmark to go with the book,
I will have those, so hit me up, of course
at the Kyle Peterson Show at gmail dot com. But
if you want to win one of these books, we're
gonna give two of these away next week. Angie. You
just got to go and you got to rate and
review the podcast. Make sure you do that, and then
email the Kyle Peterson Show and put your review in

(02:27):
there too, and I will pick two winners, two winners
for softcover edition of the book, and I will send
that out and we'll announce the winners next week. But
I guess, Angie, if nobody rates and reviews the podcast,
guess what, there's zero winners, and then maybe we'll just
don'tate a copy to the local library. I think the
local library would love a copy of this book. I mean,
just riveting reading. It probably be one of those books

(02:48):
that has like the long line for years, like, oh
I hope I can get my turn at this book,
Oh my gosh, or maybe not, maybe not. But it
is the cleet guy to the w original San Francisco
toy Makers. So if you want to be a part
of this book, you know what to do. You know
what to do. But besides that, Angie, what's up with you?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Angie's getting ready to go dress shopping today, She's looking
for a spicy outfit. We got a hot date this weekend?
Or wait, oh no, no, never mind.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
It's for Elle's ELL's first dance.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Elle's first dance, and I don't know who she's going with.
She's not going anybody. She's going with friends and they're
all going to stand in the corner and just look
at exactly.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I don't see l.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Getting down there and cutting a rug, if you know. El,
she's a little quieter, a little shyer. But hopefully she
can find an outfit. We'll see what happens there. So
that should be riveting entertainment for you, going to the
dress shopping and all that kind of stuff. You know,
I think I'll stay home. I think I'll stay home. Yeah,
there you got Okay. Well, but besides that, we got
a lot going on this week. We're filming this. For

(03:47):
those that don't know, this isn't a live podcast. It
drops every single Tuesday. You guys know that we're filming
it on Thursdays where we're filming it right here. I'm
on PTO, kinda kind of on PTO today. I've been
working all morning. I got a couple of conference calls
later today. It almost reminds me of there's an article
going around Angie. There's no way you ever saw this.
But Nick Khan, of course, one of the heads of WWE,
said if you put an out of office message on

(04:10):
your email. That's not the kind of people they want
working for them. And I just that really struck a
chord with me. And it's funny. It's not the right
way to be, but that's how I am. I'm twenty
four to seven for work all hours of the day.
It doesn't matter. I'm gonna work, and I just feel
like that's what I have to do. It's a mess
in my head. Of course. Is I should be able
to take time off. I just can't. It's just impossible

(04:31):
to get away. And if I'm away, nobody can do
the thing. So it's weird. So I saw that, and
a lot of people saw that article are like, how
dare they? You know, people need their time off and stuff.
But at the same time, hopefully you're passionate about your job.
And I guess that means I'm more passionate about my
job than others. A lot of people obviously, just like
I'm off, I don't care the place could burn down.
I'm not quite that way. And I think a lot

(04:53):
of that has to do though that I pick up
the pieces on the back end anyways, And the other
thing is I gotta do the work, and that's the
worst thing about vacationing. Take five days off, well, guess what,
you got ten days the next week to basically cram in.
So it's weird. That article really hit me. Weird where
I'm like, I understand this, but I think ninety nine
percent of the world think you should be able to
have an out of office reply. So work life balance

(05:15):
it's never a thing for me. How about you? Do
you put your apply? I'm balance, You're really balanced, You're
really balanced. I'm this way and she's totally this way.
So it's the yin and yang. That's why we're so
good together, so good together. Oh but this week though,
and we're going to SmackDown. We're going to smack down.
That's what it is. On Friday now, usually we hit

(05:36):
up good brother, good friend of the channel, Cody Road,
and say, hey, Cody, you know town tickets. I feel
like such a mooch doing that, and I don't like that.
I hate using that and I hate message like, I
just feel weird. I feel grimy doing it. And Cody's
not even gonna be there, He's on a little bit
of a sabbatical time off. So I didn't want to
do it. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
And I'm sure he would. Cody's like the nicest guy ever,

(05:58):
but I was like, I just feel bad off. I
don't want to make a special call for me or anything.
So we're gonna pay the money for the tickets. That's
what we're gonna do. It sounds like the wife and kids,
you know, my other wife, that one's gonna come, But
we're gonna go to the show. I'm playing a little
bit of a ticket roulette with stub Hub right now
because these tickets, as everybody's seen, are just absolutely astronomical

(06:20):
for wrestling shows right now, absolutely crazy. But I'm playing
the roulette game here, especially now that we're bringing four
people instead of two people. It's a little bit more expensive.
But we're gonna see what kind of tickets and I
think I'm gonna wait almost till showtime. And obviously you
get the terrible tickets, it is what it is. But
you might really score some really good tickets really cheap,
because at the end of the day, these people aren't
going anyways. They're gonna want to get some money better

(06:42):
than no money. So might play a little ticket roulette
on that one there, so we'll see what happens. We'll
see what happens at Friday Night SmackDown. We'll see if
I can entertain the kids at it as well. But
it's right down the streets, so it should be a
good time. And then Saturday looks like as of right now,
Angie and I are going to bacon Fest. Yes, Midwest tradition, Baconfest.
Cowboy Kyle always goes to Baconfest in full regalia. Of course,

(07:04):
Angie's never been to Baconfest. And they got all kinds
of stuff. There's like hundreds of different bacon samples or
sample and all kinds of bacon, crazy bacon, chocolate, bacon sandwiches,
you name it. There's entertainment, there's all kinds of stuff
going on. It's truly a bacon fest. Angie. Maybe we
should do a live version of the podcast from Baconfest. Oh,
I don't know. We could. We can vlog a bit,

(07:25):
and I guess having in a toy Hunt video, we
can't even do a separate Baconfest vlog. Baby, maybe we
can do that orbe baby Baby, maybe we could do that.
So we'll see Baconfest. If you like bacon it's a
great place to be. I think most people like bacon.
I like crispy bacon.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, so you like a little go a long way
my arteries.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, that's the thing. At the end of the day
of Baconfest, you just never want another piece of bacon ever.
Get They give you samples left and right all over
the place. So I'm gonna go to bacon Fest. And
then Sunday, Angie, I got a long day of film
and I just feel like I'm constantly behind on my
videos and I'm trying to get ahead, trying to get
a stockpile, a long day of filming ahead of me.
On Sunday, and then Angie, Monday, I have to go
to Nebraska. Omaha, Nebraska. Oh, one of the most beautiful

(08:07):
places in the United States. Would you say is that?
I don't know, But I am going to Omaha, Nebraska
for work and lo and behold, guess what's in Omaha
on Monday, Monday night? Raw? How about that? And I'm
actually gonna go with a little wining and dining with
a little work associate there. So it's gonna be a
work meeting with one of my customers. So that's interesting.

(08:30):
So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens there,
but could be an action packed couple of days and
then I don't even know where the rest of the
week goes. And I'm one of those guys that have
to take my calendar day by day for the most part. Okay,
what do I have on the docket? What meetings do
I have? And stuff? And it's really a day by
day thing. But that's what's coming up right there. So
that is the housekeeping. Look for some bacon fast, look
for some raw and SmackDown coverage of course on the

(08:51):
YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe to that YouTube channel
as well while you're at it. Don't forget about the
review all that kind of stuff for the book. But Angie,
now we got to get to something actually figure related.
I'm not sure if you're gonna fall asleep on this one. Here.
You're very comfy here, well, feel free to take pants off,
stay awhile if you want.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Really is unfair that you can wear uh sweatpants or I'm.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Not wearing anything. I'm free bawling right now? Should I
stand up show everybody I got I got my major
pod shorts on here today. But usually I'm just freeballing
behind the desk here. Nobody knows what's going on. I
got a little friend down here as well. You just
stay down there, lady. But it's time to die. So

(09:35):
don't fall asleep on me here. But we're gonna do
a deeper We're gonna do a deeper dive, and I'll
deeper dive you later. We're gonna do a deeper dive
into exclusives. All right, it's time for a deeper dive.
And you ready to go deeper? You love it?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
I really don't like it deeper.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
You don't like it deeper. You got to though, But
we're gonna and so don't fall asleep that here. But
we're going deeper in this one here. And this is
the bane of many a collector in the action figure world. Angie,
it is store exclusives. Now, you're very accustomed to store exclusives.
As shout out to Angie. We all got to give
you an a round of applause. As this Sunday, I

(10:19):
was at the Kinge County Toy Show in Chicago, Illinois,
and Angie came through like a real champ. And you
always take it like a champ, Angie, and you definitely
did this day as you found me the chase, Rosie,
remember that.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
I did on an instore pickups at a wild card.
What a wildcard?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh that was a great one. A lot of chase
anxiety done while I was traveling back five hours from
Chicago from the Toy Show. But it's about exclusives today
on the Deeper Dive, So Angie, feel free to chime
in whatever you want to. I don't know if you're
gonna want to, but we're going to talk about it.
And Angie will even have a little bit of a
limited edition exclusive and there is a difference, and we'll
have that in the taste tests this week. Now, let's
talk about exclusives primarily. We're talking action figure exclusives here

(10:58):
today because I guess that's what I'm I'm known for.
I've pigeonholed myself into an action figure guy. I wouldn't
have it any other way, all honesty, But exclusives are
things that collectors hate. You see it on every Facebook group.
You see in the YouTube comments, Oh Walmart, and they're exclusives.
When's Mattel gonna learn? When are they gonna figure it out? Angie?
That's people not taking that step back at the end

(11:19):
of the day, no matter what you do, ANGI, I'm
gonna give you a little piece of advice right here today.
I'm gonna give you some advice the end of the day.
Follow the money, That's what it is. I hate to
say it because life shouldn't be about money, but at
the end of the day, it is. Follow the money.
Jesse Ventura told us is follow the money. Listen to
Wise Ventura, because everything is about the money at the
end of the day. Everything the world goes around by Monday.

(11:40):
Monday money money, just like these tariffs. What oh my gosh,
I heard Todd mc farland all the way downstairs in
the couch. He said, tarif's but it is tariffs. But
follow the money on the tariffs thing. I think it'll
all work itself out. It's going to be ugly for
a while, but at the end of the day, there's
too much money involved and people want their money, their
money hungry. We should have listened the Venturo, we should

(12:00):
have listened to Ted Nbiassi, the million dollar Man. But
we're talking exclusives and it is truly a necessary evil.
And I've been flaming before for saying it's a necessary evil.
It is, and people like it shouldn't be. Everything should
be available to everybody. Blah blah blah blah blah. If
you take that business step back, that's not the way
it is. And I can tell you firsthand from sitting

(12:21):
in the office of customers, be it grocery chains and
of course Target and Walmart, over my career, nothing more
excites a buyer for an organization than an exclusive. Wait,
you're gonna give just for my store? I get this,
let's pick out Walmart, just for my Walmart source. I
get this. Target's not gonna have it, nobody online. It's

(12:43):
just for me. That gets those Walmart buyers up and
ready to go. I mean, they can't even stand up.
They're so excited. It's a wild thing. And I've seen it.
I've seen the look in their eye, and I've done it.
And I've actually had some exclusives over the years that
I helped develop for a retailer, and you thought it
would have been amazing, and it flopped hard, Angie, I
guess I'll tell about it. And I don't know if

(13:03):
you remember this at all, but everybody's probably heard of
little bites, intimates, little bites. You ever heard of those, Well,
once upon a time, you know, there's the big box,
there's the deluxe box that has like multiple flavor, or
it just has one flavor. It's all chocolate chip, it's
all party kick, it's all whatever, fudge browning. The retailer
came to me and they said, hey, what if we
could have half chocolate chip, half blueberry in the same box.

(13:27):
And that seems like a no brainer. Now. The only
unfortunate thing at that time was all that stuff was
hand boxed and done at the factory or whatever. But
you think that would go over well because that's the
number one, number two seller, chocolate chip number one, blueberry
number two. Thought that would be an amazing thing to
sell that together. It flopped hard, and that's where it
was on the retailer. You agreed to buy X amount

(13:47):
of the product. After that it is yours. We're going
to talk more about that here. It didn't go very well,
and I think the lesson learned because constant learning, constant improvement,
you always got to learn a lesson. What the customer
or a customer the customer I'm dealing with learned of
that was people either want their chocolate chip. They want
their blueberry. They're one or the other. They don't necessarily match. Now,
if we brought them here in this house, what would

(14:07):
you eat blueberry or chocolate chip blueberry? I would eat
blueberry as well. I don't like chocolate chip muffins, So
I'm just gonna go buy the regular blueberry and I'm
gonna skip this pack. And I think a lot of
consumers are that way. But that's getting off and on
the side here. But that's one of many exclusives in
my life at retail that I helped put out to
the market. But now here's the deal. All stores have
exclusives in this day and age, and this is where

(14:28):
Angie can come in a little bit here too. We're
talking action figures. Obviously, Walmart you got Monday Night Wars,
you got the Superstars line. Target you got the Legends,
you got the Ultimate exclusives. Ringside has exclusives, may Bat
Toy Store Entertainment, Earth Kmart Toys, r Us back in
the day has store exclusives and talking action figures here.
But Angie, there's probably like a clothing brand that it's

(14:49):
exclusive to a retailer, like Martha Stewart has her own
pots and pans that are only available at Walmart or whatever.
The Pioneer Woman, you know her, she's she's crazy, she's
she's just a wild redhead, wild redhead. But she's got
all this Walmart exclusive stuff. So what is the point
of these exclusives. Well, it's for that Target or Walmart saying, hey,

(15:10):
come to my store because I have the Martha Stewart
living stuff that Walmart does not have. It's a way
to entice people to come to their store. And guess
whatddy INERNGI they're buying the Martha Stewart stuff. What else
are they buying? Oh? I better get some dog food.
I better get some milk. Oh it's Easter, I better
get some Easter candy. They're building that basket ring on
the on the back on the back of Martha Stewart.
They're bringing her in there, and she's bringing things in

(15:33):
no different. How many of you and I've been guilty
of this. We're looking for the brand new WW Superstars line.
It's it's hitting Stars. I'm going out there. Well, I'm
going to all these Walmarts and I strike out at
the first star. Well, guess what happens. I'm pretty thirsty.
I'm gonna get a monster. I'm gonna get a white
Monster on the way out? Monster? What are we doing
when are we get that sponsorship going? I'm gonna I'm
gonna discuss that over in Omah. I'm gonna be with
some Monster guys, so I'm gonna I'm gonna get down

(15:54):
to the bottom of that a little bit more. But
I'm buying a Monster on the way out. Guess what
Walmart won because now Kyle to come back in again tomorrow,
hopefully by the superstars. But maybe you'll get another monster too,
or maybe you'll get a candy bar, or maybe you'll
pick up something for the house or whatever. So exclusives
drive you to a specific retailer, and we listen to
the huge line of retailers there, so a lot of
people are like, well, I wish they were available everywhere. Well,

(16:16):
then the Walmart doesn't have that extra special feeling. They
don't got that warm, fuzzy feeling that they got something exclusive. Now,
as I said, there's tools, clothes, food, everything under the
sun has exclusives. Think about it in your daily life.
Like Oreo is a perfect example. Back when I worked
for Nabisco, there was basically the dividing line. You had Albertsons,
you had Kroger, you had regional players, there would be

(16:37):
a Lemon Oreo exclusive and it would be available to
all those regional players and they would say, oh, you
know you Kroger, you're the only one that has it. Well, yeah,
you're the only one in your geography that has it.
But you go to the Albertson's of the world, they
have it as well. So exclusives get a little bit
fuzzy on that kind of thing, but it drives traffic
to a specific retailer all the time. Now, how can

(16:59):
I get the consumer to come to Target over Walmart?
And that's what happens is an exclusive gets me to
go to Target. I'm not gonna go to Walmart. Targets
the place for me. That's what happens. So one thing
is another thing, a dirty part of this that nobody
really understands. And a lot of people, once again, don't
take that business step back, Angie. You're learning. You're learning
here today and feel it is. I do this as well.

(17:21):
So I'm giving you the Superstars line, I'm giving you
the Monday Night Wars line. Walmart. This is exclusive to you.
This is only for you. But guess what, I'm scratching
your back. I need you to scratch my back. I'm Mattel.
I got Barbie, I got Hot Wheels, I got Masters
in the Universe, I got all these different things. I mean,
I can't even imagine all the kids stuff and all
this stuff. The toy isle is a lot bigger than

(17:42):
what I deal with basically one aisle. There's a lot
more to it. Well, I'm giving you these exclusives. I'm
giving you this Barbie Holiday exclusive. I'm giving you this
exclusive a bunch of different exclusives from Mattel. In return,
here's what I need the aisle. I need six six
pegs for my regular elite line. I need Masters of
the Universe to have four pegs. I need this. It's

(18:02):
always the give and take, and those exclusives help that
negotiating power for Mattel to get what they want in
that aisle. It is a huge puzzle piece. It is
give and take, and that's the way it goes, not
just in the action for your isle, but the grocery
aisle as well. Hey, I gave you this exclusive stuff.
I gave you this. I need this in return and
that's how it is. It's a negotiation at the negotiation

(18:22):
table between the buyer at Target Walmart, for example, and
the people like me every single day. So it's always
an interesting one there. But you have to play ball
with these retailers. A lot of people say, take them
from Walmart, take the exclusive away from Walmart. Well, how
good of a business decision is that for Mattel When
how much of Mattel's business is via Walmart. Okay, you're

(18:43):
gonna take the exclusive away and then you're gonna lose Barbie,
You're gonna lose everything else under the sun. It's a
huge pot you gotta play in there. It just doesn't
work that way, So you Mattel has to bow down
to the retail You've heard the saying the customer is
always right. It goes along, it goes Let's say you
work at Walmart. There's a customer buying, you're checking them out.

(19:03):
They're right. Okay, the customer's always right, But it also
goes to Mattel. Who's Mattel's customer. It's Walmart, it's Target.
Guess what, the customer's always right. You got to eat
a lot of crow and I'm picking my words wisely there.
It's a family show, but you got to put up
with a lot. And that's one of the things where
I was talking about the emails earlier. You've got to
be available twenty four to seven to your buyer and

(19:24):
the company you're representing, because you don't want to miss Sally.
You don't want to miss an opportunity. You want to
always be at the forefront, at the top there. And
Mattel's no different, Hasbro's no different. It's always going on there.
And then when you talk to these Walmart buyers, these
Target buyers, and hey, I got the Monday Night war
it's an exclusive line just for Walmart. Here, Well, guess
what series one you got Haul Cogan in that line? There,

(19:44):
You've had the Ultimate Warrior, You've had heavy heavy hitters.
Do you think it would go very well? If you
are me and I'm sitting down and Angie's the Walmart buyer,
Angie probably not a huge wrestling fan. Most likely, What
are the odds when your buyer's buying everything for toys
that they're an expert on everything? They aren't. Just think
of your day job and stuff. You sit down with
that buyer and you say Angie, I got something exclusive

(20:07):
for your stars. It's a Carmelo Hayes Elite. And Angie's
gonna look at me like, what is a Carmelo Hayes.
Is that like the Carmelo chocolate bar? Or what is
that Carmelo Anthony? Didn't he play for the Sixers? That's
what she's thinking. But if I come in there and
I say to Angie, guess what, I got a Hulk
Hogan figure nobody else has. Everybody resonates with hul Cogan.
Everybody knows the Halkster out there for good or for bad.

(20:29):
I know, Halkster controversial. But that's what gets those buyers
that goes bared. Oh my gosh, guess what, I'm getting
a Hulk Hogan figure just for target stars. Nobody else
can have it. That's what gets some excited. So when
you see a lot of these lines, that's what you see.
Every once in a while they'll slip somebody a little
ant Larry in a wave or something like that. But
that's what it is. You got to get that buyer

(20:50):
excited to buy your wares. And Okay, you're excited about
that Halkster, that's great. I'm also gonna give you this line,
this line over this year. But in return, here's the
peg space, here's the retail space. I need two shippers,
one for SummerSlam, one for what uh, WrestleMania. It's all
a give and take. It's all so much more business,
and people take the step back and think about there's
a lot more to it. There's a lot more moving pieces.

(21:10):
And Mattel they're never gonna talk bad about Walmart or Target?
Why would they? You would never talk bad about who
you're representing because guess what, It's gonna affect your sales.
So you're never gonna do that. And I think a
lot of people in Facebook groups, you know, picking on
Steve Ohser good Front of the Channel, Salt of the Earth,
Angie Salt, Steve working for Mattel. He's not gonna throw
Walmart under the bus. That'd be the last thing he

(21:31):
would do. But then one thing a lot of people say,
with like WW Superstars, why doesn't Mattel step in and
say something. Why don't they yell at Walmart about this distribution?
Why don't they get in there. They're not gonna say
anything bad, as I just said, but think about it,
take that business step back, once again, Mattel gets paid
for those Superstars, not by you and me. They get
paid by Walmart. So Walmart says, guess what, I'm gonna

(21:54):
order five thousand I'm just picking a number, five thousand
units of your WW Superstars. Mattel's like, hey, great with that,
I get more product space, I get this, I get sales,
and guess what, I give it to Walmart. It's their
problem now, it's five thousand units to Walmart. We've been paid,
We're counting our money. We're good. It's Walmart's problem now. Now,
Mattel obviously wants to stand by their product. They want

(22:15):
to make sure it's good and all that stuff, and
they would love it because guess what, Angie Mattel has
bro Mondoli's crap, whoever it is in the world. They
want every dollar out of your wallet, They want every
penny out of your pocket. They want every penny you have.
But at the end of the day, Mattel's going to say, hey,
Walmart bought X amount of units. It's their problem. Now
they're moving on. They're counting their cash, and now Walmart's

(22:36):
up to them. Mittel's not gonna step in. They got
paid already. They got other fish to fry, they got
more sales. They're going after. Walmart is up to get
these people out to the customers and whatever. And at
the end of the day, it's Walmart's gig. They bought
the stuff, it's their product. It's an exclusive to them.
They can do what they want to do with it.
If they don't want to sell it, they want to
dump it all in the garbage, they can do that.
And I do sometimes think and I think I think

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a little too deep on this end is I think
they want some of this stuff a little bit more
limited so you'll keep coming into the stores repeatedly. I
think that's maybe a little bit conspiracy theory. But if
you're a hardcore collector, you're coming to all these Walmart's
every single day and you're buying ancillary stuff as you're
working through there. So it's an interesting dynamic if there
ever was one. But at the end of the day,
you got to remember on exclusives, Hasbro, Mattel, whoever, they

(23:20):
already got paid. They're not gonna step in it. They're
not gonna fight it. It's Walmart's issue, and it's up
to Walmart or Target to figure it out. To get
to their consumers at that point. Now, one thing we've
seen a lot more in the last year or so
with exclusives is timed editions thirty sixty ninety days head start.
Usually Walmart gets that a lot of times, but we
do see it with Neka products at Target with the
Halothon for instance, they get a head start on stuff

(23:42):
they're first to market. Now that's a big thing where
let's say you have some amazing item. You don't want
to just limit it to Walmart, you want to go everywhere.
But hey, Walmart, you're a good partner. Here's what we'll do.
If we can get this, we can get that, I'm
going to give you a thirty sixty ninety day head start,
whatever it may be. Just seeing that in the bread
business right now with Sarah Lee Halfloaves, I don't know
if you've ever heard of these things. Walmart got like

(24:04):
a sixty day head start on all of the retailers.
So that goes on not just naxt figures everything across
the board. So that is one thing I think another
tool in the toolbox that's going to be used a
lot more in the future instead of just a dedicated exclusive.
And then a lot of times some of these exclusives,
a year later or whatever, they do another run. Enough
time has passed, they get those back out to the masses.
So it's an interesting dynamic right there. One other thing

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that has happened in the last year or so hasbro
started at first with Hasro Pulse selling exclusives like Target
selling the exclusives at the same time on Hasro Pulse
as Target. Now the rule, the fast rule on that
is Target gets to ship first. Now not always happen
in that way, but Target usually gets to ship it first.
We're now seeing Mattel Creations getting the money Night Wars
doing kind of the same thing over there. So very interesting.

(24:50):
Obviously it's all the negotiation table. Obviously Walmart Target would
be pretty mad if we have this exclusive it was
sold as ours and it goes somewhere else. But I'm
guessing that has been worked out with the retailer. If not,
they're really playing Russian roulette a little bit right there.
But it's an interesting thing, the exclusives world. And I think,
obviously I have too much time on my hands to
think this deep into this kind of stuff. But you

(25:10):
see the comments. You probably if you see Facebook groups,
you see stuff, you see posts on YouTube. People don't
take the whole business step back. They just think I
want to figure, I should get it right now. And
one thing we got to remember about Action Figures too,
is part of the fun, at least it is for me,
is the thrill of the hunt, not knowing what I'm
gonna get. If I could get everything I wanted every
single time I went to the store, I don't know
if it would be as fun. So we always have

(25:31):
to remember that as well. But Angie never puts you
on the spot. Now, any fun exclusive items you ever remembered,
like from any kind of like clothing or anything, anything
ever gets you go to the store because I can
only get it here. I'm sure there's been a beauty brand,
a makeup, a comb, a hair dryer that you said, oh,
I can only go to Alta, and that's why I'm
gonna go here. I don't think you've never been drawn

(25:53):
to an exclusive. She's just totally ruining my whole point,
my whole story right here, that she was never drawn
into an expel. I don't believe that. I don't believe
that for a minute. I bet if we sat down
and we really thought about it. She did about ten
different things. I bet you a million things. I'm not
even kidding a million things. In my life, I've been
going to stars for exclusive between food, clothes, action figures,
primarily things like that. I mean, there's definitely stuff you

(26:15):
can only get at certain stores that you go. I
can only get it here, So.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
I mean I'm drawn in by the new shiny thing.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'll get that, but new shiny thing like.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
When a new product comes out, but both places I
can get it.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, I see, I see. But yeah, I'm sure there's
been some kind of a hair or a makeup stuff
where I can only get this at Sephora. It's a
Sephara exclusive, so I'm only going there to get it.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm not getting in line for anything.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh you're getting in line.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
I play the waiting game.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Huh. I don't know. I don't know. There's totally nullifying
my points right here. Actually, we'll let it that all out.
We'll let it all that out, But there is that's
a little bit of a deeper dive into exclusives. Always
a challenging thing, always something a little bit crazy, just
kind of like the figure of the week all right.

(27:12):
Time for figure of the Week, and one of these
weeks you got to do it. But you're gonna just
get a random figure and you're gonna stump me and
put it out here. Make me talk about a figure
of the week. So we'll do that one of these
times here. But once again, got a figure picked out,
and this one is gonna go along a little bit
with Album of the Week this week. Grab this from
the collection. We love Italian, We love Italian. I love
to tie all kinds of things. But we do have

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today from Trick or Treat Studios, a little bit of
a sleeper company out there, which is really on the rise,
as we've seen at Sandy Ocoma Con and things like that.
We're going to the Big Boy. We're going to pop
up Part two of course from Ghosts. Reviewed this on
the channel. Of course, I don't know a year ago,
six months ago, what is time? I'm not exactly sure.
This one I displayed with my Master's Universe Hot Toys

(27:54):
Lando shout out to Lando tim Merritt. I put all
that stuff with those together. I put all my larger
scale figures together. Now I'm an og ghost fan here,
and I guess we'll talk a little bit of that
in the Album of the Week here as well. But
I go way back with ghosts for Good and for Bad,
and like I said, we'll talk about it here. But
this figure blew me away because they were diving into
the larger scale and I wanted to see what all

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the fuss was about. I jumped in and I was
blown away by this one. Now, it does feel a
little bit like a Barbie doll, maybe a little bit
better than a Barbie doll. It does have a little
bit of hot Toys feel to it as well. So
one thing about the hot toys that we know, smooth
as butter in the joints, compared to Mondo, where it's
the roll of the dice. Sometimes these Mondos sometimes they
break on you in the middle of your review and

(28:37):
you melt down, you flip your table over. Didn't have
that problem with this bad boy here. But man, Papa
is pretty cool, definitely scary, definitely spooky, Definitely a conversation
starter if there ever was one. Would be interesting to
see if they make the rest of them in the scale.
Now Super seven has been making papas and I just
recently got one. Stay tuned to that review on the
Channel of the brand new Papa from Super seven, but

(28:58):
a very very cool detailed figure, a guy that's got
some shelf presence right here. And I'm very excited to
see where Trick or Treat Studios goes in the future. Now,
they got a lot of RoboCop line House of a
thousand corpses. The problem is some of the scaling is
different than what I want. I want, you know, the
one twelveth or the one six scale primarily is what
I'd like to deal in. They're a little bit smaller
in some things. So gonna be a very interesting next

(29:21):
couple of years for this company. I'm very excited to
check out their booth at San Diego Cooma Con this
year as well, so we'll see what happens. But this week,
in honor of the new album from Ghost, we're going
with pop up Part two from Ghost from the Trigger
Treat Studios as the figure of the week. But now
it's time for you to Shine Inch, It's time for
you to sign Shine. It's time to try new foods

(29:42):
because it might taste good.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
At an we gotta try a taste good.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Trying to try new foods because it might taste good.
And and she's got an all timer here today, Angie,
don't you got an og and one? I got to say, honestly,
I'm not a huge fan of and I used to
work for this company once upon a time, and I've
never been a huge fan of it. But Angie, roll
it out. What are we dealing with today?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Brand new chips Ahoy limited edition ice cream sandwich.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Ice cream sandwich limited edition chips Ahoy. Now, I think
we've all had a Chips a Hooy one at time
or another in our life, either soft, chewy or regular.
To me, I'm just not a huge fan of the
mass market cookies. For the most part. I do prefer
the chewy over the hard. But Angie, how about you?
You like it hard or you like it chewy? I
don't know. Do you go both ways? You go both ways?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
I knew that this is chewy with a vanilla cream inside.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, So this is this is chewy with a vanilla cream?
Is that playing all the hits for you? That's how
you like it? Okay? I understand, I understand. So we'll
see how this one tastes. But I've never been a
huge chips Ahoy fan. I feel like they lost their way.
But there has been articles in the grocery industry, which
I'm sure a lot of people are checking out food
market News, the supermarket News and things like that, Like

(31:05):
I am just riveted to that kind of stuff, of course.
But they said chips a Hooy has done some reformulation
in the last couple of years and some new products
as well that has risen their sales. So kudos to
chips Ahoy. In the old cookie battles, I've been a
part of those cookie wars for many years and it
was dangerous wars, but I am happy to report, you know,
some grudges never die. We did put the boots to

(31:27):
Keebler back when I was with Nobisco, and Keebler ended
up going having to go through warehouse. They could no
longer be direct story delivery. So Mandal's Craft and Nobisco,
whatever you want to call it at the time, did
one win the war against Keebler. Those elves had to
retreat to their trees, and you know, we won once
and for all. And I should tell the story. It
reminds me I should write it down. Hanging elf. One

(31:50):
time I was at a sales meeting and a guy
hung a Keebler Elf from a noose. Maybe we'll tell
that story. Once upon a time, it was a dangerous day,
so maybe we'll tell that in a future from retail.
Got a good Tale's a somber tales from retail this week,
But we'll talk about that here in a little bit.
But how about back to the ice cream chips Ahoy. Now,
Chips a Hooy has had a lot of exclusives over

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the years, and I'm dating myself here, I'm going to
go back about fourteen fifteen years. They had a whole
line called ice Cream Shop. Do you remember these at all?
When I'd brought samples home. There's mint chocolate chip, a
Dolce de leche, there was a lot of fancy ones,
and unfortunately absolute dogs did not sell at all. Now,

(32:30):
this one is a limited edition. I mentioned this earlier
exclusive limited edition definitely different exclusives only to one retailer
or maybe a couple of retailers. Depending, limited edition available
to everyone, but for a limited time. Now, sometimes you
get a limited edition exclusives, but this is a limited edition,
probably available for about ninety days or so, and that's

(32:50):
what it is. Now we've talked about that. I think
in this segment before a lot of times. These things
maybe don't taste the best, but they know everybody will
try them once and then they move on to a
new flavor, try and once. We see that with oreos
all the time, keep turning and burning, keep bringing people
in because they want them to try it. And everybody,
I'll try something once, you'll try everything once. Right, Angie,
you've never turned anything down one time? I know, I

(33:12):
know for a fact. I can personally attest to that. Me.
On the other hand, I turned down a few things
every once in a while, but not Angie. She's a
trooper for sure. And Angie, we're gonna dive into this.
And Angie, you said there's two ways to eat this one.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, it says chill for a treat. So I opened
them ahead of time and put two in the freezer. Okay,
should I put them in the freezer or just the
fred I.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Don't know either way. So it is a nice cream sandwich,
though it makes sense you would throw it in there,
And a lot of people some people like the cream gooey,
like all over your face, like just back and forth
ripping down. Some people like that you do occasionally, but
also some people do like it really just hard and
right in there. So it's gonna be interesting how this
cream all ends up shaking out. But I think we

(33:50):
need to try the regular addition and then we'll try
the frozen one second. How about that?

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay? Sounds good?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
All right? Now, summer additions so available just for the summer,
probably at your local supermarket. One and forty calories. One
serving equals two cookies, so basically we're gonna eat two
cookies right here. One hundred and forty calories, So I
have to do a half hour on the treadmill to
burn those calories back. Nine point nine ounce vanilla cream
did the heaveny others? Was just the only ones? No

(34:15):
chocolate cream? Okay, one hundred and forty calories. Anything else here?
Beat the heat with a chill summer treat for chips.
Hoy recipes man chewy ice cream sandwich inspired. Now, Angie,
do you like a traditional ice cream sandwich?

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (34:29):
All right, dive in. Okay, Now we're gonna rate this
out of five as usual. Let's give you the old
sniff test. Smells like chemicals, smells like pesticides. A little cheers.
We should do one of those where you put your
arms around there. We go ah, yeah, I can get

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cream in that bite.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
It's like so rich already. It just doesn't need the
cream for me.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
I'm not a huge fan of vanilla cream either. I
know you love it. You love a shot of it,
a little squirt of cream. I like. I like more
of a chocolate cream or a peanut butter cream.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
It like makes your cheeks squeak. It's like very it's
very sweet.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Who I don't know, not good, not bad. I mean
I would never eat one of these, like normally, this
is just not what I crave. I usually crave a
beef jerky or something like that. I like a stick.
I like a stick to meat in my mouth. What
can I say?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
You do your savory?

Speaker 2 (35:34):
We both like sticks and meat, all right, what are
you going out of five on that? And then we'll
try the other one. We'll rank it too. It see
it tastes better.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I mean, it's not bad. I feel about giving it
a low rating, but it's like sickeningly sweet. I would
never like eat it, like I couldn't even finish that.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Couldn't even finish it, and you usually finish the job
all the time.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I don't give it out of five A two point five.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
We're pretty much in the same wheelhouse. I'm gonna go
a low two out of five. That's what it is
worth trying once, I guess, especially if like an ice
cream sandwich doesn't taste like vanilla ice cream at all
to me either.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Just taste like frosting. So it's like too much.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
It just tastes like frosting, but it's too rich. Now
let's try one of these frozen jobs here, one of
these frozen guys. Okay, still smells the same. Oh m, now,
much better frozen.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Way to go.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
It doesn't taste like cake frosting when you freeze it.
It actually tastes like nia is and it tastes more
like an ice cream sandwich. You bite into it because
it's a little bit hard right there, way better chilled
the age old thing. You still like it better hard
than soft.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
There you go. They're going in the fridge at least
like you're just storm in the fridge. Probably. I tell
you what, I don't think you need to freeze it.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Would you give it? Now? You gave it a two
point five? We were you giving the cold ones frozen
three point two. I'm going to go three point five
out of five. That's a huge way better. So if
you do buy these, throw in the freezer, way better,
even fridge. I think it'll be way better. I mean
that cream night night and day better for the cream

(37:16):
nice and hard.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
So it's like when you eat pineapple, you know, day
better for the cream.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
I know exactly, I know exactly.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
It's a little hint for you.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
I'm just so sick of pineapple juice. I just keep
drinking it every single day. It's a lot. But whatever
it takes, whatever it takes, I'll help you out. But
there it is, Angie, not bad, a good find. We
got a few things stockpiled as well. We got some
crazy stuff. We're always going to get to the more
pertinent stuff that just came out, but we do have

(37:45):
a few things up our sleeve for the future. It's
almost like a wizard sleeve. I think I'm mistaken. But
now we're done with the taste test, Angie, you know
what comes up next. It's time for album of the week.
All right, Angie, it's time for album of the week.

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And this is an album you heard in the background
the last week or so. But I'm not exactly sure
if you really picked up on anything enough to give
your assessment of it all. But it is from the
band Ghost. We mentioned it in the Figure of the Week,
but figure we do Album of the Week with the
new Ghost album here it is called Skeleton. Skeleton and
the Ghosts have had a lot of albums, ate a
lot of albums, and it's amazing to see their rise

(38:29):
to success over the last couple of years. Now I
don't even remember what it was. Was it ten years ago,
maybe even longer than that, twelve fifteen years ago I
first heard of Ghosts. Now, I still am big and
heavy metal, but I was even bigger. I had more
time then, of course, but I was even bigger into
heavy metal, and I was reading every heavy metal magazine
from Europe. I was getting, you know, the Metal Hammers,

(38:50):
the classic rock, the rock candies. I was getting all
that stuff imported every single month. And there was a
little blurb in the back of Metal Hammer long ago
with just a picture of Papa in the very first
ever incarnation. It said, Hey, there's this new song out there,
and that's all they had at one time was one song,
and it was a George Harrison cover, which immediately got
my ears hirking. Among other things, as George Harrison is

(39:13):
my absolute all time favorite Beatle, one of my absolute
all time favorite musicians. I absolutely loved George Harrison's solo career,
and just last night, Angie, when we were at Walmart,
they were playing when we was fab I couldn't believe
it off the Cloud nine album at Walmart and I said,
oh my gosh, they're playing George Harrison. They knew I
was coming, but I love George Harrison. So to see
a band that looked like a ghosted look of course

(39:35):
at the time and still kind of to this day
with a Here Comes the Sun cover that was checking
a lot of boxes for me, you knew I was
checking that one out, so I did find it and
I was blown away by the sound of Ghosts. Now
that's been one knock on ghost since the get go.
Is they look like they're absolutely satanic. They look like
they should be playing an absolute like crazy Norwegian black
metal or something, but they're more of a soft rock

(39:58):
than heavy metal. And it all always is wild to
me how many hardcore heavy metal fans that are is
I love heavy metal, heavy metal, but actually like Ghost
where Ghost their music isn't heavy metal to me, it's
more of a classic rock even pop. It's just a weird,
weird dynamic. But kudos to Ghost, and I think a
lot of it has to do with the imagery is
people are liking more than maybe the music sometimes, but

(40:20):
then you got the crossover for people that like it softer,
and once again we found out how Ange likes it harder.
So I'm not sure how you feel about the softer side.
But Ghost just checks a lot of boxes for a
lot of people, young and old, which was amazing. And
I'll be the first to emit. The shine has worn
off almost every single year from me young Ghosts from
the absolute beginnings where oh my gosh, they're playing their

(40:40):
first show ever, I can't believe it, to actually heading
to Chicago to see one of their very first ever
shows on United States soil. They opened up for Mastadon
and Opeth, and oh my gosh, don't get me started
open I hate Opeth, but I love Mastadon, Love Mastadon.
But I did get to see Ghosts, and I went
there for Ghosts and nobody in that audience knew who
Go Ghost was. It was amazing. I remember they had

(41:01):
like two shirts for sale in the back corner on
a little table. Just amazing to see the trajectory of
that band, where they've come and what they've begun to
and now we're here with a brand new album Skeleton,
And I guess a lot of the thing I don't
like about Ghosts right now is a lot of the
magic has worn off. It almost felt like my generation's
version of Kiss, or maybe even Alice Cooper and King Diamond.

(41:23):
Nobody knew what these guys looked like without the face paint,
and there was an error of mystery, and that's something
that is really missing in rock, the danger, the mystery.
That is something that's missing a lot, like seguing back
to action figures, Angel, you always tell me this, so
I'm going to put this out there. But being able
to go to the store and seeing a surprise figure
on the shelf, like I didn't know this line was
coming out. I didn't know they were doing this. There

(41:45):
was something magical about that once upon a time. And
now with music, we kind of know what we got,
we know who the stars are, we know who's behind
the mass, and we know all that with Ghosts now,
so very very unfortunate. I wish they would have kept
the era of mystery, but very hard to do in
this digital age for sure. I mean you get paparazzi
chasing Angie around all over town all the time anyways,
so stuff like that happens. But long story short, we

(42:06):
get to the newest ghost album. It just feels like
these things pop up all the time. So I got
to give them a heads up and say, hey, kudos
to the band Ghosts for being hard workers, keep on
chugging out, coming out with albums all the time, live albums, movies, tours,
you name it. They're just a rocking around the clock
is what they're doing. That's what they're doing. But an
amazing new album in some ways, in some ways kind

(42:28):
of just feel like I've been there before, like a
young Iron Maiden deja vus. What it kind of felt
like to me? Nothing too heavy, and that's kind of
part of the course, a little bit just even keel
soft rock. And it's funny. If anybody ever asked me, Kyle,
what's Ghosts sound like? I always say, you know who,
I'd compare them to Blue Oyster Cult and Blue Oyster Cult.
You've heard of them, right, of course, Godzilla. Everybody knows

(42:49):
that one. Everybody knows, don't fear the Reaper. Of course,
Burning for You another classic. I would say that's the
holy trinity of Blue Oyster Cult. However, Blue Oyster Cult
has a deep catalog, an amazing segment of albums, and
it's wild they were at the top of the house,
top of the charts in the seventies and just kind
of forgotten in this day and age. Outside of those

(43:09):
three classic songs, they still tour around Old Buck Dharma,
never forget seen him in an elevator at a food convention.
Story for another day, but shout out to Buck Dharma,
the littlest rock and roller in rock. But absolutely love
Blue Oyster Called, and Ghost feels a lot like Blue
Oyster Calling. If you don't ever checked out Blue Oister Called,
go deep into it, go to someone chanted evening. There's
so many good stuff, so many good stuff. But the

(43:31):
New Skeleton album just kind of is what it is
for me now. I've listened to it three times so far.
Angie You've Got Bits and Pieces just kind of feels
like it's there. Umbra is probably my favorite song. I
think that might have been the first single, Is that right?

Speaker 3 (43:45):
I always just hear that one.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
What's it called I don't know, Peacefield or something, and
I think.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
That's sounds like Satani.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it might be the first
or second single satan I. So that's an okay song
as well. Lacherma. I don't even know how to pronounce it.
They got some wild words on some of the titles there.
It's definitely worth checking out. I don't know if it
holds up to some of the older Ghost material, but
obviously they're getting new fans every single day. I'm actually
shocked at Elle when she comes home from school. I

(44:11):
always kind of trying to get the buzz from the kids,
find out what the hip stuff is going on with
the kids, and not a lot of kids are talking
about the Ghost. They're too tied up with this K pop.
Especially Elle's got those K pop goggles on right now
and that's all they're hearing. They're not even listening to
anything else besides that stuff. And getting myself way too
deep into this K pop world. I don't like it.
I don't like how much money I've spent on it.
I don't like it. I don't like I'd rather go

(44:33):
to a K pot than a K pop I want
to go to that k pot restaurant grill my little
pieces of meat. I want to try that out, so
maybe I will do that in the future there. But
all in all, skeleton or ghosts definitely worth a listen
if you are a ghost fan. Even if you aren't,
I'd say it's worth a listen. But it does. Whenever
I hear ghosts in this day and age, as I said,
it kind of makes me long for the days when
they were a little bit more mysterious. Yeah, he's a

(44:56):
little bit more mysterious, and I'll never forget Angie. Remember
when we saw I Think You Go Ghost and Concert once?
If I'm not mistaken, they opened up for Iron Maiden.
We went to Lincoln, Nebraska, drove there and drove home
after the show. Unfortunately, Elle fell asleep in Ghost And
how old you think Lle was for that one? Six
years old?

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Seven?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Eight? Maybe? Yeah, she fell asleep. She missed the whole
Maiden show. I mean, she would have loved that, but
she just couldn't stay up. She wasn't a champ like
she is now, I guess. But I remember on the
way back when we hit a deer that was crazy.
You remember that? No, so what happened, Well, yeah, because
everybody was probably sleeping. But what happened is the semi
in front of me hit the deer, and the deer
flipped up over the top of the semi, hit the ground,

(45:33):
and then I was behind the semi and then I
ran over it. And I'll never forget. I had a
grocer's convention. I had to code the two the next week,
and all of a sudden, my uh, I forget what
you call. It's like a protector thing on the underside
of her back. It's like an underbody protector for some
of like transmission and stuff was hanging and dragging. It
finally broke free a couple of days later whenever it

(45:53):
was dragging. So then I was at this convention. There
was an auto shop, and I dropped it off and
they showed it. They pulled it out this to me,
and it was full of like deer hair. It's like
almost like you shaved the deer, like if you shave
a dog. Yeah, it was like that. It was like
all inside there was all deer hair, and that all
broke out there. It was a whole fiasco. But that
was the only time you ever saw ghosts. I don't

(46:14):
foresee them ever seeing Ghost again. With the way concert
ticket prices are and everything else, sudden don't see it happening.
But I'm sure I'll see Ghost again. But I think
I've seen ghosts like twelve times when they were doing
little theater shows, little shows. I saw a ton of
shows throughout the Midwest. Now that they're a lot bigger,
they're in arenas and stuff once again, the magic is
kind of wore off. And that's one of my faults

(46:34):
in life, I think, is I'm like an elitist or
a gatekeeper. Sometimes I try not to be, but I
always say, you like what you like, you don't what
you don't, And I like it when it's just my
little bubble, And I liked it when it was smaller
and you felt closer to it. Now it's huge. Not
their fault. They want to get big. They want to
get bigger, but it just doesn't feel as special anymore.
Now that Joe blow down the street. Oh yeah, I
got a Ghost shirt on. I'm like, oh my gosh,

(46:55):
you're wearing a Ghost shirt now, And that was going
on here. So there it is Elata Album of the
Week from Ghost and Interesting One Iff ever was one
but Angie, now it's time for a heartbreak disappointment interesting story.
We take a somber note in Tails from Retail. All right, Angie,

(47:19):
it's time for your favorite segment. It is Tales from
Retail and a lot of positive feedback after last weeks.
Who knew lemon chicken could be so exciting?

Speaker 3 (47:28):
There was a lot going on from retail.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
There was a lot going on with that lemon chicken story.
There was a lot of people saying, you know, I've
never had lemon chicken before. I'm going to give it
a try. I give it. Yeah, it's hard to find,
but give it a try. And for some reason, I
think that a little bit of soy sauce in the
mix it gives it an amazing taste. But a lot
of times their old friend Luke there a wild ride
if ever was one and a couple of names. I
might have got the Mexican Chinese workers name wrong. I'm

(47:53):
glad I did, because I remember saying it to myself
in these Tales from Retail. I gotta change the name
of some of these people, but who has since passed away,
so I don't. I guess I don't really have to
change it.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Wasn't. Actually it was.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
It was Luke, Yeah, luc though a lot of people
put in l u k E. I should have specified
luc but I'm sure it was. Yeah, I guess you're right.
It wasn't as real name. It was probably Lucisivis or
something like that. Who knows. But now we're taking a
little bit of a somber tone and we'll have a
few of these stories over the time, and the tales
for retail is. You know, it's tough when you're a manager,
when you're a people manager and stuff. Sometimes unfortunately you

(48:27):
have to fire people, and sometimes unfortunately it is your friend.
And I've been on I've never been on the firing side.
I have never been fired from a job in my
entire life. I'm a person that a lot of my
identity is tied up in my job. And it's a
tough thing to talk about too, because one day it's
going to happen. They're gonna come to me. I've seen
it one hundred times in my life in uh the

(48:47):
business where you know what, this guy he's sixty years old,
he's fifty years old. He makes too much money, he's
got too much time off, which he never uses. You
get stuff like that and it's like, hey see you later,
here's your year severance, which, hey, it's nice, I get
paid for a year to go away. But that would
be something that would just really be defeating for me.
So I don't know what I would do. I'd go
into a deep depression and be very strange. And sometimes

(49:09):
they say things happen for a reason. I've always felt
that every time I've been promoted, every time I've switched
a company, it's like the stars aligned. So maybe that's
how it would go on that end, But I'm not
looking forward to that day because it's gonna happen one
of these days, and that's where Angie's gonna step up.
She's gonna have to step up, be the bread winner.
That's what you're gonna have to do, Angie. And I'll
cart these kids around, that'll be my job. But we'll
see what happens. I get those toes up there. Anybody

(49:33):
got your leads, anybody wants some toe videos Angie's playing.
She's got some amazing toe. The things she can do
with those you just unbelievable. But Angie, unfortunately, having to
fire employees is a tough job. When you're a manager,
and you know it's tough hiring people with all these
I nine forms and all this stuff too. And I've
got an all timer of a story coming soon to this. Well,
we got a few crazy ones. I'm gonna try to,

(49:56):
you know, the lemon chicken pretty crazy, this one kind
of crazy. We'll get back. We'll get to all these eventually.
But I was never a big fan of having a
fire anybody. I don't know if anybody really is now.
I've had a few times where I've fired somebody where
I've loved to do it. I'd love to go in
there all guns blazing once again like a young Judas
priest and just cut those people because they really really
deserved it, and I was sick of it. I wanted

(50:17):
them out of my face, wanted them out of my presence,
want of them out of my company. So I had
no problems with some of those people because they actually
deserved it. But sometimes it's borderline where you really feel bad.
And And you were a manager once upon a time
for a cellular company, and did you ever you had
to hire people? Did you ever have to fire?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (50:35):
How many do you think you fired? I think only
two Oh, that's not so bad, And how did you
feel about firing him? Well, one she.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Tried to take down the whole store with her. It
was one of those she like literally filled out pages
and pages of like every single thing anyone had ever done,
tried to just burn the whole place.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I remember it.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
And then one of them I was really close to,
and I like almost cried, Like it was like I
was like welling in my eyes, and she was just
so overpaid and they were really just like doing her dirty.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
That's the one thing that's always tough is if you
get paid too much, there's you want to always I
hate to say it, because you never want to be
in the middle. I always want to be the top performer.
I always want to be at the top of everything.
But sometimes you don't want to be the top performer.
You want to be somewhere in the middle. Sometimes you
don't want to be the top salary person. You want
to be somewhere comfortably in the middle. Because those are
the ones. A lot of times they chop off the

(51:24):
bad ones at the bottom, but also chop up the
high ones at the top. So it's a dangerous, dangerous thing.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
It's more like when you're in a management role and
then you want to step back and you convert from
a salary to an hourly pay, and it's high.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
A lot of and that's a secret of a lot
of managers that will take that step back instead of
getting fired and they keep their pay. So that's always
it a dangerous move. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it
does not. But Angie, I'm going back to when I
was a kid. Now at the time, and I'm sure
it's since changed. I was one. I was the youngest
department manager at my grocery store's chain history. And this
is a powerful grocery store, three hundred plus locations at

(52:01):
this point, and I was a frozen food manager, you know.
I started at sixteen years old being the assistant frozen
food manager. And I took those assistant responsibilities extremely, extremely personal,
and it was amazing how cool I felt like, I'm
the assistant manager and I'm the manager at the end
of the day. You're a manager of a frozen food
and is that really? I mean, I felt like the

(52:24):
ladies were all over me back then. Maybe it was
maybe it was different reasons, I don't know. It was
the Rick Flair bleach blonde hair I had at the
time as well, But I remember just thinking I was
so cool, and I probably was. I mean, you know,
let's call I probably was pretty cool. I probably was.
But one fun thing I had when I became the manager,
and I think a lot of managers do this and

(52:45):
nothing different no matter how high in the company you go.
So when I came to my current job, I took
about fifteen people with me. Maybe that's a good tales
from retail story. One day where I had about eighty
five employees, and I think within two weeks of me
announcing I was leaving the company, sixty of those employees
called it a career and they left so part time,
full time, and a lot of them I carried over

(53:06):
me my new company. So an interesting story. Maybe we'll
write that down, and maybe we won't. I don't know,
we'll take it. But it was an amazing time being
a manager and being able to choose who was working
in your department. So I was the frozen manager, had
an assistant, and then you had a couple of part
timers and maybe one full time with you. And I
was in a nice position where I got to choose

(53:27):
who worked in my department. Unfortunately, fortunately or unfortunate dependent
you look at. I didn't have any old blood carryover
hanging out there. So I went to my crew, my boys.
I brought some in and also a couple of them
were checkers. Usually that's to happen. You start a grocer story.
You start as a bagger can person cleaning up the
parking lot, move yourself to the check lanes where you
got a dollar raise if you became a checker, and

(53:49):
then after that you're hoping to get to the departments.
And that was always my goal, And thankfully I did
get to those departments in this story for another day
once again. But I did get to bring people into
my frozen kingdom, my kingdom, my realm, my frozen realm,
and I love frozen. Frozen pizza is so much fun
in the let me tell you, cold hands, but warm heart,

(54:10):
warm heart, that's for sure, but a lot of good
times in the freezer, let me tell you. But I
got to bring some people in. So I got to
bring a lot of my friends. I got to bring
one of my best buddies from childhood in. I got
to bring a buddy, Knowles, we'll use his real name, Knowles.
Got to bring him in over there, and I brought
him into a few other jobs over the years. And
my buddy Carzoli, we talked about him before, and I

(54:32):
did have to bring in another employee one time. And
he was a good friend, a good guy. He was
a little bit younger than me. And we'll just call
him Bob. How about that. We'll call him Bob. We'll
protect the innocent on this one. But Bob was a
good guy. He worked nights, so obviously, you know, I
worked all through college. I worked full time. I actually
worked two jobs through college full time, and I did full,

(54:53):
full calendar of school, full semesters, all that kind of stuff.
But I would work during the day and I do
a lot of night classes like Tuesday Thursdays. I had
nights and stuff. So I'd worked during the day as
the manager. And my director at the time was very
very forgiving on me in my schedule, where he had
a lot of department managers or fifty year old guys,
they had to be there from seven to five or
seven to seven every single day. He was a little

(55:15):
bit easier on me because I was going to school
and I said, here's my plan, here's what I can do.
Trust me, it's going to work, and it did. So
I got to thank him, and he has since passed away.
And that's stories for another day as well. There's so
many stories that can go off of this stuff, and
we'll say but anyways, Bob was an okay worker. He
wasn't my best worker in there, but he was a
lovable guy, a lovable, big, jolly guy. He was cool,

(55:37):
He did his thing, he knew what to do. Sometimes
he didn't do it as good as he could have, obviously,
but he was a friend and he did a good
enough job to warrant his position. It wasn't like we
were just going to fire him because of his work
performance and stuff. But you know, we were in high school.
I was in high school. He was in high school.
And what happens to some of these wayward teenagers. They
get involved with the devil's lettus, Yes, devils let us.

(56:00):
He just fell in love with the devil's lettuce. Of course,
what did you guys call.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
It exactly what it is? I don't think we can.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Oh, you didn't call it Ganjo, You didn't try to
roll smoke.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
It wasn't really any cops in this my small town,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
But I've never been a drug guy, never been for me.
I've never even had a cigarette to touch these lips.
Because my dad told me when I was a little kid,
when I was like five, he said, Kyle Ife, you
ever smoke, I'll kill you. And I took that to
heart and I never did. I said, man, I don't
want my dad to kill me. It looks bad for him,
looks bad for me. It's real bad for me, be
even worse for Angie. But I never did so, I

(56:35):
never tried any of that. But man, Old Bob was
deep into the devil's lettuce. He didn't see reefer madness.
I guess. I don't know what happened there.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Called it grass or green who knows?

Speaker 2 (56:43):
And yeah, green, who knows? What he was smoking? I
couldn't have been good stuff at all. But long story sharp,
and this story is just going way long here with
my blabbering. But one night. So he worked nights, and
usually night crew was, of course, you get off school
at like three point fifteen or something like that. It
was usually four nine o'clock, four to ten depending. That
was the night shift. And Old Bob he would do

(57:05):
ice cream, he would do the night stuff, which we
don't need to get into He would do that, and
of course you get breaks. You'd get a twenty minute break,
I think on a four hour shift back then. And
one thing about my store director, this was different times.
Of course at the grocery store where those guys ruled
the roots. They didn't have to answer it to anybody.
They got paid off their store, and it was just
a different time. My store director would be at the
store every morning from about seven to eight am. He

(57:26):
would come in at seven o'clock and he would sit
with the old people in the restaurant and drink coffee
and shoot the breeze with all these old customers. He'd
do a quick zip up and down every single aisle.
He'd go upstairs, and then he would go through his mail,
his truck mail and stuff like that, and then he'd
high tail it out of the store. And he wouldn't
come back to the store until sometime in the evening
and we basically walk the store again, see what's going on.

(57:48):
Sometimes he'd be there for the four o'clock meeting for
wheneverbody came to get us all fired up to beat
up shoplifters. Once again, that story for another day. Cracked
a lot of heads back in the day, and we'll
tell one of those famous stories along the way as well.
But for whatever reason, on this night, he decided to
come to the store about you know, eight forty five,
eight fifty. Now, Bob got off at nine o'clock. Bob

(58:08):
had already had his and she doesn't know this story.
I know already particular, but yeah, Bob had his break already.
But what was Bob doing? So the director would always
pull up behind the store. And what happened behind the
store when a lot of people are on break? No different.
Angie and I went to KFC, one of the greatest
restaurants of all time, and we pull up to the

(58:30):
KFC drive through and literally on the curb, sitting on
the curb, there's two guys. They still got their plastic
gloves on. The plastic gloves. They're sitting there smoking. They're
passing it around back and forth, and I'm just like,
you know, why couldn't they throw those gloves away before
they go break? Because now I look like they're just
gonna come back in from smoking and use these saying gloves.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
They did.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
But what happened back then and nowadays it's funny. At
these grocery stores, you can't smoke anywhere on the on
the premises. You got to like go across the street
to smoke on your break. But back then there was
the everybody sat out there and smoked. Well, Bob decided
to smoke too. Let it be known, he was only
sixteen years old, so he had to be eight to
do cigarettes, obviously the Devil's let us the greens and

(59:11):
Mary Jane I say eight, you had to be eight eighteen,
eighteen eighteen. A good fact check right there, and you
keep me on us once again. But he was sixteen,
so he was not even okay to smoke, let alone
of course marijuana. Back and there he is sitting there
and smoking weed literally five ten minutes before he's off

(59:31):
for his shift. For that age, it is literally off
and he didn't expect the director to roll up. But
at the same time, it's before cameras everything else, but
stupid anyways, but the store director rolled up, walked up.
Oh hi. Bob looked at him, and the director was
no saint either. He knew his stuff, so he knew
what was going on, and he went back upstairs. Nothing

(59:53):
happened anything like that, So Bob, I think thought he
was in the clear and all this kind of stuff. Well,
guess what happened next day when Kyle rolled into work
at eight am, I got called up to my office
or I got called to the director's office. I was like, oh,
what is this about? You know what's going on? Kyle
closed the door and that's never good, never good. And
I'm like, oh boy, what's going on here? And it's
weird that it didn't come to my head that I

(01:00:14):
was in trouble or I was going to be fired,
because I never got in trouble and I was I
was at the top. I was at the top. I
was hustling, hustling, but I probably should have been a
little bit more scared for my life. But anyways, he
called me in there and said, oh, last night I
had an interesting experience and basically explained that he came
into the work, you know, ten minutes before nine o'clock,
and one of my employees was sitting out there smoking

(01:00:36):
marijuana on the clock. Of course, as they validated he
was on the clock and obviously not a good look,
of course, and he sat me down. He said, Kyle,
this is we're gonna be a tough lesson for you
to learn here as a young manager. And I was
seventeen years old or whenever I was, and he said, Kyle,
you know, sometimes things just don't work out the way
you want it to. And you know, sometimes when you

(01:00:58):
have friends and people you're close to and they don't
do what they're supposed to do, you got to give
them hard times, like a young big boss man, and
a big bossman was fresh off his run, so it
really resonated at that time, of course, but he basically said, hey,
you got to fire Bob. We can't have that. He's done,
he's terminated. It's all that thing. And I'm just like,
oh my gosh, you kidd me? Are you kidding me?

(01:01:20):
And I remember, and it just sucked too because I
did have another friend that was a checker that I
knew I could move into the department that wanted to
and he was just kind of waiting for a spot.
So I wasn't too concerned because I've said it a
few times in my life as managing people, especially when
you have an army of people all over the state,
sometimes a body is better than nobody. Wasn't the instance here,
but it felt bad. I never had to fire anybody before.

(01:01:41):
And it's funny as I think about it now, it's
like he was getting fired from a job. He was
making like eight dollars an hour. It wasn't really the
biggest deal in the world. It's not like this guy
had a wife and kids or was making two hundred
thousand dollars a year or something like that. But you
got to put yourself where you were at the time.
It felt like such a big deal. And I knew
he was coming in at four o'clock that day, and
I also knew was, oh, great, I'm going to have

(01:02:01):
to do his work because there's nobody I can't. Yeah,
he's done with his shift. But I think, if I
remember right, I really hustled that day, and like it
wasn't as busy of a day, so I ended up
getting most of his work done and I stayed a
little longer. It wasn't it wasn't the biggest thing. And
I obviously got paid, so that was kind of a
nice thing too. But but I remember him coming in
and I said, Hey, Bob, we gotta go. We gotta talk,

(01:02:22):
And he knew in his heart of hearts what was
going on. He knew where it was going because he
knew what happened last night, the night before, and he
knew he was caught, I mean, and he probably sat
with it for a full day and all that kind
of stuff. And I said, hey, here's here's the thing.
This is who saw you, this is what happened. You know.
He he didn't lie, didn't dance around it. He totally
admitted what had happened. And I said, man, it just sucks,

(01:02:45):
but I got a fire here right now. I got
you're done. And he's cried. You know, it wasn't like
a crocodile like, it wasn't the boohoos. But the tears
started coming, and I'm like, I remember, just uh sorry,
I better go. Man, sorry, I said, I said, I
I'm just really disappointed. I'm like, I just you know,
you're my buddy. It does reflect on me because I

(01:03:06):
brought you into here, and it's just really a shame
how this worked out. And I said, man, Bob, what
are you doing? You had ten minutes till your shift
was done. You couldn't wait ten minutes And he's like,
I know, it's just terrible and stuff. And the bad
thing about that too, was he really spiraled into a
lot of drugs and kind of stuff like that, and
I think really caused a lot of calamity into his life.

(01:03:26):
And actually one late night, there's a late night pizza place,
Big Tomato, you know what. I take the kids there
a lot at night. Loved me a big Tomato pizza
and actually ran into him and you know, gave each
other big hug and no hard feelings. He knew like
I was nice about it was it was what it was.
Still I would say he's a friend. I still like
the guy, but I could tell he'd been on a
hard road and he would just got out of the

(01:03:47):
hospital and his mom was with him, so he does
He's had a tough road, unfortunately. But that's the thing,
that's what happens. That's why you don't start that stuff
when you're young, and it carries over. And I don't
even know if you graduated high school. I think he
might have went to like the uh, like the Troubled
School or something. That's there's so many cliffhanger stories I
go through because I came from the mean streets in
the West Side. You've seen the junction, You've seen where

(01:04:08):
I've crawled up out of but you know, all my
friends from elementary and junior high there was only like
I couldn't even count on one hand how many actually
graduated high school. All my buddies, they dropped out, they
called it quits. My dad would have killed me if
I dropped out of high school. Oh my god, I
can't have met my Graham. Oh my god. It sucked that.
You know, like a lot of my friends, you came

(01:04:30):
at that crossroads in your life where do I go
with the trouble or do I go the right, the
straight and narrow. And you go the straight and narrow, thankfully.
But yeah, that's a story for another day. But but yeah,
I felt bad for Bob having fire and that was
my first ever experience of having to fire. Some I've
had way crazier stories, and we'll get into those in
the future. But you'll never forget your first. Like Angie

(01:04:51):
said last week, you always remember your first. And that
was a tough, tough day at the old office, the
old Salt mines, and it was a shocking day for
the rest of the team as well. But then we
got a little young up and comer to take his place,
and all was right in the world. So they're a
little bit of a somber Tales from retail. But you know,
if you've ever been a manager, you've probably been through it.
Maybe not as weird as that, but you've been through

(01:05:12):
it somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Along the line.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
Older you get, the harder it gets too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
I don't know. Now I've got a heart of nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Well, if the people you're firing are old, there's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Nothing worse when you got to fire an old man
to Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Yeah, it's like where are they going to go?

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Where are you start? Yeah, there's a lot. So there
it is tales from retails. I'm depressed, So there it is.
That's tales from retail. Now we got to get down
to review and question of the week. All right, Agie,
time to round out episode number six. But before we go,

(01:05:46):
we got to read the questions of the week plus
the review of the week, which reminds me you want
to be the review of the week, and you want
a chance to win two different copies of this book.
We're gonna have way two of these. As we said
at the top, send the Kyle Peterson Show at GM,
send a copy of the review you left on Apple,
et cetera, and we will pick out two two reviews

(01:06:07):
to see who wins the book, and of course book
available via me with an autograph copy Kyle Peterson show sticker,
Bookmark you name it, or Amazon, Barnes, Noble hardcover softcover available.
But let's read the review of the week, Angie. You ready, Yes,
she's ready. Get your reading goggles on.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
It's a long one. Vig o BTBW. I was pretty
much day one subscriber to Kyle's YouTube five years ago,
so the podcast was a sure thing for me to
add to my weekly listening to fun listening with Kyle
and Angie every week and each episode is something different.
The food tasting experiment is the best easy five stars,
definitely six and three quarters if it was in the

(01:06:44):
Tokyo do oh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
There you go. So that's an interesting one. Obviously that's
a wrestling reference from old Dave Meltzer. Of course, shout
out to Dave Meltzer. But that is a review of
the week, so shout out, of course. And if you
want to be in the review of the week, you
want to get read, make sure you leave a review.
So there it is. Now Angie, it's time for the
question of the week and a bit of a two
parter from the same person, Angie, take it away all right?

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Michael Scarborough five seven six, still wondering what your favorite
Kiss album? Also, did you listen to Ghosts new album?

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Well not, we got the answer to the Ghost one
in this very episode here. But favorite Kiss album? And Angie,
you can't name a Kiss album.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
I don't think Crazy Nights, No crazy Nights.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
I guess there you go, crazy crazy crazy nights. But
of course Kiss. A lot of people think I like
early Kiss, maybe later Kiss. I like right in the
middle Kiss. That's where I like my kisses, right in
the middle. Angie, you just remember that for Later. My
favorite Kiss album of all time, I want to say
it's a deep cut. I don't know if it really is,
but it is Creatures of the Night of course, early

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eighties masterpiece from Kiss, their heaviest album as well. Eric
Carr on the drums love me some Creatures of the Night.
But I like some of the earlier stuff, obviously, as
where a lot of the hits were. I think the
first Kiss album is a sleeper. That's one of my
favorites as well. But I also like the Hot and
the Shit Aid, some of that kind of stuff. And
my first ever kiss album I got was in fifth

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or sixth grade and it was Kiss Alive three. That's
where I started my kiss journey. So that's a strange
point to start, but you gotta start somewhere. I guess
who knows, but that was my first kiss album. But yeah,
Creatures in the Night is the one I go back
to the most. I love that album. Wrestling fans, of course,
know the song war Machine, the theme song for Taz

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in a lot of ways, so a lot of fun,
but Creatures in the Night all day long twice on Sunday.
There you Go Part two, Angie.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
Okay, great podcast, Kyl and Angie Big Question Crux, Big
Yes or big No. Also, do you think Super seven
will give us a shipwreck?

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Do you think they will? What's a shipwreck? I don't
know what. I don't know what's going on with Super seven.
Of their Gi Joe line, one of the lines I
was the most excited for in the last decade. Probably,
I've always dreamed of having a Gi Joe line that
looks like the cartoons. That's what that ultimate was. Some
amazing figure. There's some terrible figures and all points in between.

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But we haven't really heard anything in like a year,
So my guess is that line is probably done. I
don't know for a fact, but it feels like that's
probably the way it is. So I'm just gonna say no.
But I would love love a little Hector, a little
little shipwrecked along the way, so shot to Hector delegato,
of course. But but now, Angie, the big part of
this question right here, though, is what do you feel

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about crocs? I think I know your answer, but should
I go first?

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
I feel like it's a yes and and no for everybody?

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
It's a hard note for you, maybe hardest of no's ever.
I would never be in a pair of cross I
have a pair, but I only wear them in the
yard or if like I'm washing the dogs or something.
They're just They're not a shoe I wear in public.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
I would never be caught dead. That would ruin my
reputation at work, on YouTube everything. Let's wear them, now,
That's what I was gonna say. The kids love crocs,
and it's funny, as Ellen, Emma. They wear the same shoes.
They're either wearing their Chucks or their Crocs. They're wearing
the same thing. They always coordinate those two. But they
love Crocs. But my gosh, I would never remember the
first I saw crocs. I said, Oh, my gosh, this

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is the world has come to. Is this what the
world has come to? I don't know, but I would
never be caught down. But of course you own a
pair of Crocs. Now, if you had to guess how
many pairs of shoes, do you think? You own?

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
One hundred?

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
One hundred, more than that, way more than that. I
bet you have one hundred at least in this closet
right here.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
In our studio, in our studio of course that we built.
Of course, they used to be a dining room. I
did it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
I don't think so. But but I bet you, Angie
has five hundred pairs of shoes. When you take shoes, cycles, sandals,
dress shoes, your croc collection, oh, please, police, and you
have one. I don't think i've ever seen you wear crocs.
What color are they?

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Hot? Pink?

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Hot pink? Oh you should wear those of the supermarket.
It'd be amazing. But yeah, a hard pass for me.
I would never be caught dead in crocs. I usually
wear my chuck Taylors, my vans, my checkered vans, repping
the cheap trick. And then I also have some red Nikes.
I love a red pair of shoes. Even though people
call you a child molest from time to time, I
do love red pair of shoes. And I have a

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few other pairs as well, but that's my primarily go
tos and you'll never see a crock in that rotation,
for good or for bad.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
You don't wear sand like you don't keep those.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
I hate sandals and I am one. You'll never catch
me outside in bare feet either. I'm never My feet
are too delicate. I'm too delicate. I'm like a nice
little flower. I don't want to get that. I don't
like I don't like grass in my toes. I always
wear socks. I don't ever really go barefoot around the house.
I like for it. I don't know, I just don't
like it. It's not for me. But some people love

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to be barefoot. You like being barefoot? Yeah? I hate it.
I hate it. No barefoot for me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
And that is episode six.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Once again. You want to be the question of the week,
leave it in the YouTube comments or email it to
the Kyle Peterson Show at gmail dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:11:48):
Check out my book, check out Angie's book that she's
working on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Maybe in the future we'll see. But check out the
Patreon and YouTube channel memberships for early access to these videos.
Of course, the podcasts all my review is online and
your best way to support Angie and ized channel right here,
because yours.

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
I guess if I die, it's your channel, so that's
the way it goes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
It'll die with me. You probably will, but I you
just gotta know how to turn these videos on because
I got hundreds of videos over there early for everybody,
so you want to be able to see those and
get those out of the world. Of course, I'll it's
like I'll die, and you'll have about a year's left
of videos on the back end, so it'd be great
for everybody, of course. But check out the patriot, check
out the YouTube channel memberships, check out the book, and
of course this podcast every single Tuesday, make sure you

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just subscribe, make sure you do review and Angie episode six.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
How about we do it again next week with episode seven.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
Yeah, I'll see you next week.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Okay, until next time, see you guys all real soon.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
We gonna dance, so are we're gonna play going to
the end of the night.