#15 - We've been let loose in a retro toy shop!

Is Tom really the Easter Bunny? How do we sleep? What happens when we're let loose in a toy shop? - All these questions will be answered on this episode of Manhood!

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Episode Transcript

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That Mike looks precariously balanced. Ishe going to be all right? It's
resting on my belly. Why we'venot got a table that looks really?
I mean, I'm laying in bed. These mics as well, do look
very phallic. They do well,I'm mate, Hello, Hello, you're
right, I'm laying in bed.I decided it was time to bring these

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podcast to the bedroom. There wego. No, I'm in bed because
you've left it very late to saythat you can do this podcast recording,
because you've been rendering a pizza ovenI have. Do you know he's got
to a point now where my Ican't unlock my phone with my thumb print
because I've done that much graft frommy hands is your hand like claw?

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My hands are getting really musty,like I'm getting gardener's hands, are getting
hands like your dad. Basically,how much bigger could your hands possibly get?
Well, exactly, they're not gettingit bigger, but they're getting more
sausage. Like, well, that'sa nice way to start this podcast,
speaking of sausages. You're welcome.I don't know why they're speaking of sausages,
but I bought Tom a gift today. We've mentioned it on the podcast

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before that, we've seen that Seabrooksmade and am besses Yorkshire pudding and roast
beef dinner flavored crisp. And Ifound them and I bought Tom a bag.
Have you chased them? Yeah?They just taste like roast beef crisps.
It's just roast beef crisp. Where'sthe Yorkshire pudding? It's like a
not point three percent hint of Yorkshirepudding. Yeah, but you won't You

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won't say that if you didn't knowthat we're Yorkshire pudding flavored. No,
there's no way you'd be tasting theYorkshire pudding. You're so desperate to chase
the Yorkshire pudding that you trick yourselfinto thinking maybe it does but done.
But you are really nice. Youdo buy, You do buy things.
You're quite good at that. That'smy impulsive purchasing. But did you not

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want to eat them? So yougive them to me? About two bags?
Obviously I'm not dead? What wereyou thinking? I'm going to get
one for Tom? Yeah? ForTom will never forgive me if I don't
get him a bag of them,even though you'd never know if I didn't
tell him. I can't live withthat. Have you? Have you ever
bought me anything? That's what I'msaying. We would never cross my mind
if I'm in a shop and I'mlooking at something, I am not thinking,

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don't like that, don't wand likethat pen? I want to get
myself a new pen. You knowwhat? I don't want to pen.
That's a bit different, like whenI'm buying clothes that I don't think I'll
buy two of them, one indouble xcel and one in large. But
is it because there's a lack ofanother human being in your life? It's
because you like junk food and Isaw what else have I ever bought you?

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You say it like I'm constantly buyingnew affectionate gifts. There was that
butt plug. I didn't buy that. Why do we always resort smut?
We don't need because we're filthy andit's been a while for you. We
don't need to do that. Okay, yeah, no we don't. But
yeah, I don't know. Ijust I saw junk food and I thought,
what else have I ever bought you? Anyway, I could just say

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thank you, I don't. Idon't think he said thank you in the
shop gave me him. I justgrabbed him off. You went, oh,
they look good. Then I threwthem on the floor randomly because because
we we'll explain it, it'll bemore detail. We went to a retro
toy shop today and they want alot of space. I kind of realized,
and don't give me these crisps.And I was like, do I
eat them? Thank you? Thankyou for the gift. I mean,

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can you buy me an Action figureinstead? Anyway? And I don't say
thank you. I just threw themon the floor for some reason. Well,
we're earning a bit of a kerfufflework. You get like that,
you can only focus on one thingat a time. I've noticed, Yeah,
you're like a hyper focuser, butthen quite easily. Well, no,
it's not that you're distracted, it'sthat you've got too much on.

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I mean, I've been off fora fortnight and I've had something on every
day. I've been busier on thistwo weeks off then i'd been if I
was working. This Easter has beenmental and going back to the pizza oven,
I've been adamant on building it forGreek Easter, Greek Eastories this Sunday.
It's not the same as English Easter, and Greek Eastery is bigger than
English Easter. It's massive. It'sthe biggest celebration in Greece, a bigger

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than Christmas. It's there are spitroast lands, it's a lot. Every
family has come together from all lovelyisland, and I like to do it
over here for Jiannis and for myselfbecause I like eating meat and potatoes.
Food again comes back down to food, and I though I'm gonna build this
pizza oven and give myself a deadline, but I left it. I didn't
realize how quickly Greek Easter came around. So I've just been doing that constantly.

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I feel like a tradesman. Ifeel like a builder. And to
a point where I totally forgot aboutmy Nabbey's anniversary pretty much. Oh that
I couldn't believe it. When youturned up at football and you said it's
mining Abbey's anniversary today, I forgot. I don't think the modern couple like
me an Abbey. I don't thinkwe celebrate wedding anniverse as much as the

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old school folk like I think it'sI think it's the other way around.
No, I think that it's theolder older. Fuck don't they're more hardened.
And no, my mom and dadwill send it to a cards.
I didn't get to be a card. She didn't get me a card.
The worst thing was because I'm buildingthis oven all hours, good sends.

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I came down in the morning absolutelyknackered. I just looked at her like
tired, and she looked at me, and she and she like smiled,
and I'm like what she's smiling at. I don't know what she's smiling at.
And I didn't know. Than theanniversary, I went happy, an
do you know what I see?And your other your other friends will say

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this as well. We all seefirsthand how much Abbey does for you.
I do a lot for her aswell. And and the fact that Christmas
you've got her a vase of abum. I think you've got to do
better. It wasn't her own bum, it was a listen. I know
you've You've got a good, solidmarriage, a great relationship. She loves
the buns. Don't My advice toyou would be don't take Abby for granted.

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I don't. I don't think melook behind closed doors. I like
to give this illusion on the podcast. I'm a right chauvinistic. How many
of those are those? The motorvehicles on your drive? How many of
those did Abby choose? None?How much she's not bothered about cars,
will drive anything. So there's gota wheel in each corner. It gets

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from A to b. He getsaround school, run or too little,
that's all just bothered about. That'sI think. I think you've been very
dismissive there. I think you shouldlet her choose the next car. And
if I know Abby, it willbe a Renauld clear from nineteen ninety eight.
Yeah, probably a ledger into gettinga vintage car. So theod Abbey
mosday carn and she drew the thingsthat she like likes and does you know

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what I mean? So for meyou drop baby food, football, I
don't know, Bradford City. Youknow you're passionate. You a camper van,
and for Abbit it was it waslike some flowers, Um, it's
flowers something else, a bit likethat, and then the little logo,
Oh you've got I know that Abby. Abby is not unhappy about it in

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the slightest, but I feel likeyou've got to be doing more than it.
What do you mean, what canI do? I don't know.
No, you know, we wewe're pretty solid. We've got a very
good relationship. But you know,I love her to pieces and she loves
me clearly, but she's not boughtof anniversaries. And I'm not like we
didn't do a card. Look,we cut with a nice meal at night

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with a glass of wine, andwe played our wedding playlist over dinner with
the boys who asked us ask usa million questions about each song, so
we couldn't listen to the songs anyway. And then they continue to argue over
the food, and then they walkedoff and we're like, well that were
nice anniversary. Um, so yeah, that's that. Could I just before
we do the intro, and I'msure you've got some stuff to saying.

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You done? Okay, I wantto get my man out away first because
I'm going to forget he's getting late. Easter Bunny. When did you stop
doing Easter Bunny with Teddy? Andwhat was what did you do? What
was the thing? I think itjust it just one year, just didn't
happen. I don't think I phasedout the Easter Bunny. It's not a
big enough deal. Really, Well, May Abbey, I think we've shot

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ourselves on the foot by kind ofmaking it a deal. So from a
young age, we used to putat the Easter Bunny used to bring eggs
into the garden and hide him aroundthe garden. Okay, okay, so
theo is now eleven. I betyou weren't doing it when Teddy were eleven,
but used yea the eleven. I'mreally busy with a pizza oven.

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I forgot him anniversary. I've likeI've had a more removed. I'm trying
to build a bill. I've gotloads of stuff going on. Everything go
around in my life. And thenI'm like, oh my god, it's
Easter Sunday tomorrow. All my daysare out. The Easter Bunny hasn't been
yet. It's like midnight plumb.The next I'll just Easter Bundy will have
to do it in the morning becauseEaster Buddy is tired. Easter Buddy wants

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to go to bed, so sevenam in the morning and we're like,
right, I'm gonna go from myice bath, guys, and I ran
around in my dressing gown. TheEaster Buddy ran another dress around, lobbing,
and I mean lobbing eggs into busheslike I actually dropped kicked one into
the blubbing rosy dendroms. I werelike just lobbing him everywhere. And then

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I came in and THEO just reallycanny, nice, nice, right sack
your voice. Did you enjoy yourice bath? Dad? Yeah? Good?
Thanks? You come here went giveme a hug? Do you mean
give me a hug? How coldare you? He will checking to see
if I'll wetting calls from the icebath. Oh he knows. Niko is
too switched on the schw No,no, no not. This is the

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thing. Niko came into the roomat six. Oh my god, can
we go outside? Go and gooutside, get the baskets. Heat is
the magic is pouring out of hisskin. And I'm like, I can't
do what you've just done with diddid? Did he let it fizzle out?
Because I've got a younger one wholike, who's like asking, my

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mum, is Heaster Bunny? Really? There's no way THEO believes in the
Easter Bunny. THEO didn't believe inSharley. THEO don't even believe in Center.
I could see it Christmas it We'reall over his face. Yeah,
it's just so sad. It's likea dagger in my heart. As soon
as THEO says something like Easter,Buddy's not real, she kills me.
I've been thinking about this far,far too much recently. So what did

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you do with Easter? Then?With Teddy? Nothing? Okay, nothing?
Not even an egg? Well,we're cutting back Street always. We're
on a bit of a health kickin this house. I buying chocolate was
a bit much, but I've beenI was watching old family videos at my
grandparents the other day and that Teddywas on. Some of him is a
tiny little baby and it is talkingin his little baby boy. He's got

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long air and he's so cute andI and I was like, how did
this happen? How did it gofrom that? And I my hair is
still jet black, and I've stillgot a spring in misstep. You've got
it good to bring it around youand you done it well, and I
just it just makes me want tocry. Like if you're apparently listening listening
to this and you've got a babyand you're thinking, oh, I can't
wait till they can kick a footballwith me. I was that guy.

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I couldn't wait to take him afootball and stuff. But blink and it's
gone. My son it's twenty pastten in school order is my son is
sitting in his bed. I don'tknow, flicking through TikTok oh. It's
depressing, isn't it. It's it'sactually horrible. And as much as we
like complain about them and they're annoying, like you would not change some of

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these years the year for the world. It is the best thing that ever
happened to me having a kid.If having to go through the breakdown of
a relationship is what I had togo through to get the sun that I've
got, do it again in aninstant. We really lucky at it because
like not not everybody can have children, and like there is and I'm not
saying there an as can't be asequal as happy as we are. You're

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just happy in a different way outhere for different things. So I think,
just just in the first and foremost, just having a child, I'm
thankful every day. It does meanthat I'm ultra protective though, so like
I can't let him ride his backto shop or anything like that. I
love that about you. Still,You're still very like baby a bit,
don't you. What a big timespoiling rotten as well. It's an illness

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been hemorrhage, hemorrhaging cash this holidayssurprise buying me crisps and wolverine toy figures.
I thought you were wolverine as well. You owe me a tenor I
do. Don't tell you what,mate, You've been in the hole too
with me for a while. Still, Yeah, it's I do. I
do molly coddle him and his favoritefootballer, Jamie Walker, plays for Bradford,

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used to have these red added assboots. So last year, before
football season started, I got himthese red football boots that his favorite player,
Jimmy Walker war. Last week JimmyWalker turns up in different boots.
So now he's like saying, ohbut Dad, yeah, has boots are
too small. They're too small.Now I can't so I brought him some

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more because I'm an idiot, ori'd refer it. I'm not telling you,
but is somehow size five of hisclasses and adult sized football boots.
It's five five and a half yearsnow, but yeah, I've only got
sized nine feet. Can you imaginemeeting another man of our age of a

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size five? Yeah? Because Iused to work at Bradford City and occasionally
I used to help him hang theboots up in the boot room, and
quite a lot of the football waslike size six and seven. Yeah,
that's because I was always going Icouldn't steal them. I suppose if there
was short, like tiny, tinylittle boots, I couldn't believe it.

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Loads of them as well, rarethat a player I'd like nine or ten
ends, very rare. I thinknone of the days now where you're allowed
to say, oh, he's gota women's woman's size shoe. So it's
just dawn on me. What islike I said, I'm recording this in
bed, but what what is sleep? It's waiting its sleep, But it's
like a hypnotism, like literally yourbody, your body is like shuts off

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for a while. You know,we've had this conversation before. If you
lay in bed and think about thetransition of sleep, it is like Japanese
water torture. You cannot First ofall, you can't sleep, and then
you can't comprehend it, can you? How do I go to slam?
And then it's like playing Netflix showsthat you're in When you're dreaming, do

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you remember all your dreams? No? And I think one or two.
Generally, it'd be quite good tohave dream corner on this podcast. It's
time for Tom and Dam's dream corner, where one of us tells one of
our dreams. And I've got oneto tell if you want to hear on
dream corner, or you can tellyours. Well, no, I don't
really have one, but I wasthinking, how can we not tap into

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the brain like that? Yet wecan do all sorts of other things.
How can we not record our dreams? That's got to be on the horizon.
Surely it means you've got to goin your skull. You've got to
put probes into your head. Well, Elon Musk's doing that neuralink thing.
Surely that's anyway. Tell me aboutyour dream. I can tell you.
We're hinting a desperately bonnet to tellme no, But I'm not a desperate

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I'm more interesting to know what.Let it be the sleep thing. You're
not really sleeping at moment? Yeah, sleep perfectly, well though, what
tonight now? I guarantee it juston the We should all do this right
next time we get in bed.You do it, I'll do it.
Just lay there and just think abouthow do you go to sleep? No,

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it kills you. I've done itbefore. I used to do it
as a kid, like Christmas Eveand I couldn't sleep. I'd be like,
oh, come on, I justswitch off me. There's three things
in't there? In fact, ifyou think of these trilogy, you will
turn yourself clinically insane. The firstone is how do you go to sleep?
The second one is is how ishow does space not just end?
Why does how does that go onforever? Yeah? You got any plate

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in a plane, in a spaceship, and you're set off in that direction,
you don't get into any to anend. I went through a phase
where I read loads of science bookslike Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox, and
that stopped me sleeping. Yep.That's two. And the final one,
this is the real cut killer,the trilogy of not being able to sleep?

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What happens when you die? Thefact that that's it? Nothing?
That that that that don't keep meawork at night? Nothing? What happened
before you were born? What wereyou doing before? You've got that off
me? You got that off me? You got from I genuinely got it
from Richard Dawkins. Would you knowwhere Richard Dakins got it from Alan Watt's
philosopher. Oh yeah, probably Ithought you were going to say from you

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three things. If you're real reallyin bed and you don't want to sleep,
you know what when you're driving andyou fall asleep at the wheel,
to think of the trilogy that'll keepyou away. Oh my god. Yeah,
that's and they're in that order reallybecause like the Death One and we've
we've spoke about it before, greatlength, but like that's it, it's

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over done. Do do do do? Dude, you're a sleeping that's no
chance. No, the Death One. I can help you out here,
No, but nothing happens. You'retelling me you don't comprehend that aspect of
being conscious, and then not withina split second. Absolutely to be conscious,
to be a conscious sentient being,you need a brain, eyeballs,

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everything else. When you're dead,that brain is switched off, rots away,
your eyeballs rot away to eyeballs frombrain. Not like yeah, but
they help you see you, don'tthey you blind? You're blind. It's
a bit different when you die.Yeah. Yeah, it's a really offensive
too, probably being made at themoment about they're putting all the celebrities in

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this dark building. If you see, it's pitch black and it's doing lots
of tasks in the dark, andI'm like, in a minute, that's
just blind people on a daily basis. It scares me that the sight is
the most precious thing and I shouldwear glasses and I don't. I'm totally
chucking it away. But sight isso precious, isn't it. Is that
your top scent, because mine's taste, Well, what I'd rather, I'd

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rather lose my sense of taste thango blind. Yeah, no chance,
not for me. You'd rather goblind and still a bit of taste.
Ye. A lot of food isabout what it looks like. That's that's
why presentations such a big thing infood. Mate, a few weeks ago,
I couldn't taste, and I wouldI might as well just been being
underground for six three months, however, Like it was hot, no matter

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how it looked, the most flamboyantsteak, couldn't taste it was point.
Yeah, that is awful. Somine's taste, smell, feel, these
all come before sight. Yeah,because I've already seen. That's worse that
you've already. If you've never seenanything, you don't know what you're missing
out on. But there are somany wonderful things to look at. Great
views, boobs, I've got comingto great views, so to a smell

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feel. I want to feel things. Oh yeah, hearing probably if you
know bottoms probably site. No.I just couldn't lose my site. I
think that would be a good podcast. Actually, if you've got to live
a day blind again, I can't. I think doing stuff like this in
today's society is very, very closeto the bone. You know, he's
gonna get a blind man. Ilisten. I've got so much respect for

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people that have to deal with anysort of disability, blindness, deafness,
inability to walk. I think thatexperiencing it makes you appreciate what they go
through more. It's not offensive,all right, you know you could we
could do it that way. Imean podcasting blind it's a pointless exercise.
It's just like talking about fun.But yeah, okay, but try and

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live your day to day life.Drive two shops. That's off. We'll
do that one fan. But therethere is a point of this episode before
we get to it. This week, Tom've got a big day with Friday.
We are going to Manchester partying paintthe town red or blue if you
man city fan. We're going towatch rob In and Josh Whitnikom. Basically,

(20:22):
we've bought six tickets to to goand see his gig, to then
have a beer with him afterwards andsay why haven't you been on our podcast?
You southern git? Yeah, it'sa live it's a live podcast they're
doing. Maybe one day we'll doone. What would we even talk about
that? Every week? There isa thing with this, these six tickets.
Well yeah, well because Tom's goingwith his wife and Phil, remember

(20:47):
Phil, Tom sacked him from podcast, but he didn't sack him all.
You can't say that because the onlythings I don't like people and things.
It makes it worse. Phil's takinghis wife and then they put a lot
of pressure on me to find adate to take up the other. The
other thing because we bought these ticketsa year ago. And what did you
say a year ago? What didyou say? I said I might find

(21:08):
someone. Listen, mate, Ihaven't, but I've got a love to
give. It's not that I'm notlooking for someone. I want to settle
down, but I'm not going tosettle for someone. I've been in a
relationship that wasn't entirely successful. SoI'm more careful taking someone to a Robeckett
joshuaydycam gig with some friends. Thatis not a massive commitment, right,

(21:32):
Okay, clearly you've not dated fora while. Sometimes with some dates,
all it takes is a second dateand you're in. It's hard to get
out. What two dates and thenyou practice practically married? Anyway? I
know, I think you're right.I don't think it is a big deal.
And we'll see what happens. Twodays before the event. Surely somebody
lined up, so you're gonna givethem more warning than two days. Yeah,

(21:56):
if someone comes with twenty four notes, that only means one thing.
They're obsessed with you, because there'sno way that they drop everything. Yeah,
that's true. That would be aworrying when it something's going to happen
to me. What are you doingtomorrow night? Nothing? Um? Okay,
Well we are going to like theburning of a live pig in a

(22:18):
ritual. Oh, my mate's wivesare gonna be there. Yeah, but
me and feel are very amenable.Abby and Becky lovely do you know what
I mean? They'll get on anybody. They'll talk to her. They might
to get person out of a brickwall. So it's fine. They're not
gonna be awkar, it's not.I don't think it's gonna be awkward.
Yeah, but my entire existence isawkward, as you well know. So
it is. And you know whatyou want to live once, don't you?

(22:41):
You're low? But maybe don't getthe lift with us. Maybe meet
your own separate way. And I'mnot saying I'll happily give you a lift,
but that car journey, we'll see. We've got two days at the
time of recording. Anyway, therewas a point to this show, and
this spent very special second half becauseTom and I quite often we get lost

(23:04):
in nostalgia. We love a bitof all stuff. Normally it revolves around
football shirts, but recently toys,and we were contacted on Instagram by a
listener who has got an eighties andnineties toy shop locally to us. So
on a whim with twenty four hoursnotice, Tom and I decided we'd go
up there and we'll record a bitlooking at all toys. It's called Forever

(23:26):
Retro. Look them up on socialmedia. We'll obviously tag them in stuff.
Once this episode goes out so yoube able to find them. We
had a lovely time and we tookthe kids as well well. Can I
read the message Loving the Podcast fromMike? This is from Mark Loving the
Podcast, listening on my way towork your latest one. You're talking about
eighties and nineties toys. If youeveryonet to step back in time and relive

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your childhood, then we will.You will need to pop along to Bradford's
Finest Tiny It's Finest Time. He'sretro toy shop and yeah, it were
really good to meet him. Andthis is what happened, isn't it done?
Yes, we're in forever retro thetoy shop. We're built up in
the intro to this show and itis dead exciting. I feel like I'm

(24:11):
in my childhood wardrobe. It's unbelievable, like when when ward over that Sorry
I had two coffees on ware here. I feel absolutely off the childhood a
cupboard. Yeah, okay, whenwhen its toys was when he unger My
eyes used to water because I wasso excited and it is literally its tepping
back at the toys was all thatcan unopened. Everything's out of the box.

(24:32):
Time Master, Time Master, rememberTimemaster Yeah, Timemastering Keighley was mine,
my local. They used to havea football table you could play in,
which I thought was the height ofexcitement. Back Time Master was kind
of like the one where you gota lot of good gear. Toysers were
too big almost when it Timemastering notthe only recently shut down, which I
realized, this is a lot oflocal knowledge for our listeners from elsewhere in

(24:53):
the country, but you have it. So we joined by Mark and Dom
another Donum and Don too was we'recalling him on this. You always say
love toys, but I'd argue whenI were younger, I'd probably love toys
as much as you two. Iwas still playing with figures on fourteen minute.
That sounded a little bit insulting.Well, just well, they own

(25:15):
a shot, but I like it'shard. I'm trying to like enthusiasm grown
out of toys. No, whenI'm fourteen, I was still playing raps.
You figures, My mates were likegetting off with girls and I'd come
home and play with Batman. Socan you beat that? When you were
playing with action figs, me withfourteen he is my first question? Still
playing with them now? Basically butproper roles. Dear love it. We
got kids. Yeah, I wasnearly nineteen. Though he's grown out.

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He's not playing. He was playingin the gym and chasing girls. But
there is a there is a realargument now that men aren't the same as
men were thirty years ago. Whatdo you mean, Well, because men
used to be out in garden ina shirt and tie doing garden, didn't
they and stuff like that, andnow we still wear theving Star Wars t
shirts and buy toys. Yeah,my dad kind of growt toys quite quick

(26:03):
as it happed up. Well,there weren't many toys. What's the oldest
toy in here this time? Yeah, we've got some. He's probably about
sixties seven? Kay, okay,Batman car, but man cares about sixties?
Oh is that the really? Isthat good? Yeah? It fires
the things from the back. Yeah, it's weird in it because our generation

(26:25):
got to see that sixties Batman againbecause Channel four was showing it on a
Sunday. I've got two of them, definitely got two of them because my
dad just put match sticks in thereand used to fire out to paint a
picture for you. Then obviously wewere looking around at Toys. There were
surrounded by toys mostly from the eightiesand nineties, but there are some sixties
stuff. There's some more modern stufflike pop figures as well. But if

(26:45):
you've ever watched on YouTube those likepicker videos, we're in that. I've
just seen you open two boxes andyour excitement and like even though you know
what you've bought, and you're like, my god, look at this original
turtle figure or whatever, and itnever really goes that excitement, is it?
And it's like it is, arewe sad? It's not. It's
nostalgia in it. I mean,I think, especially since I got a

(27:06):
divorce, I'm well interred. Ithink I've regressed in that it's not the
style drive like a bit of clothingor you know, it's not really cool.
Think it's it's it's I think it'scool. It's specifically to our generation
of men mostly. I don't thinkthere are many girls. This is a
significantly less girl. Well I wasjust about to say this is very male
dominated. It is a borderline sexistretro toy shop. I think we've got

(27:32):
free probably my little you've got tobe a girl, as you've got to
your audience an't you it's mostly men? Mostly men? Yeah? Yeah?
Why not? Looking around? Then? Tom, what are the toys that
made you mask? Motored armor strikecommand? They spelled command wrong, but

(27:56):
it s dot CA And when youused to it when our youngest play just
playing with masks, people go theguy with the green face, but no,
not in It was a confusing time. I was the same. I
remember I got a mask truck,probably from a second hand shop with my
mom got me and I remember thinkingit, I don't remember this in the
field and the thing of masks,it was like a car that had morph
into a plane or you know.They all they all added dual dual play

(28:21):
aspect. That sounds like an officialterm, don't it. So you could
play it as one thing and thenas the other. But I just obsessed
with him, like absolutely. Iplayed for him all the time. When
ayone noticed sent me to my room, it's get in, so go to
my rooms and I can just playmy toys to hours on end. The
automate test now for both of youis do you remember the theme child to
Master mass Crusaders looking over time fanningcrime. Oh you'll do it one of

(28:48):
the best anyway, that's that's myoverriding memory obviously, these titles Batman,
crash Test, Dummy, Powering,just about you, but your Jurassic Park
though, he said, well,I love Jurassic Park, and that they've
got a new in box, thet Rex that I still have at home.
My guy's got no it's got noarms. I lost those over time
to make a noise. They wereuseless anyway, I think the arms,

(29:11):
Yeah, that don't count. Doesit remolded it slightly changed it slightly?
Yeah, because the tail were weirdcool the tailing or had come out of
the box really creasy into the box. You have to Yeah, my tails
still got a weird, creasing,kinky tail. That's not what she said
after this, After this episode goesout into our obvious, we just go

(29:33):
back to his utube, chal becausedon't think we're giving enough credit. So
you called the or picking sixteen hundredsubscribers two years, been doing it.
It sounds like a hard keep,nearly giving up on it, but passion
about Yeah, I put the likeI put too much effort into it.
If anything, each video averages outlike thirty five hours that I'll put into

(29:55):
Oh wow, that's crazy, andit's like it's like a full time job
pretty much. And you've got onefought in year old. I'm doing a
TikTok about some of the seconds yearsmore than me. You must this is
your business story, so you obviouslyyou're buying sales stuff to to earn a
living, but obviously the YouTube isnot paying at the moment. I suppose
the dream that would be the dreamfor me personally for me that yeah,

(30:15):
but we also broadcast as Forever Attroon Facebook, yeste as well. Well,
we'll put we can put all linksin the description anyway, but I'm
going to subscribe to you. Ithink you've got one thousand and six room
or whatever it is. It's justit's just amazing. I think that we're
living in a day and age whereyou can make money out of your hobby.
Yeah, thanks to YouTubers you can. You can try to at least.

(30:38):
Yeah, right, so we do. We do have the kids with
us, Teddy and THEO, ourboys are in the shop with us.
They're having a good look around.Technically, I've got the wrong one.
What do you mean? That's soNico the younger one players of all male
toys, and he loves them Theo'smore of the old cars. Don't you

(31:00):
got any cars over the battle bills? There's a few over there. It's
picked up. So Nicko's got verywell. Feel stepped into his place and
we're going to get him to dosome stuff. And we done. I
don't know. So first you've you'vehad a good look around. Now some
of the toys that your dad's playedwith when there were kids. What's what's
your favorite all that were made lastweek in China? What about you?

(31:29):
Ted? I quite the I quitelike the Ninja turtles and yeah, oh
man, there's Bucky your hair shipthere. Oh yeah, kept in Bucky
your hair goes. We don't care. Rabbit one day, Massive Masters just

(31:51):
literally look down here, there's Massivethe Universe. I used to have that
tiger that can't remember its name?Cool and do do that thing tune Masters
of the univer Brusmen people, Companion. Do you know what the mad Companion
called? That's what I called mycompanion, Tom. Yeah, I never

(32:12):
used to like it. If they'vedone something that made it not like it
was in the film, you know, if they gave it an extra weapon
go when it were a toy,or like the Jurassic Park toys. They
made them based on the artwork,not based on the actual acts. Oh,
they got most toy line style.Yeah, because it because they want
to get the toilin out right ontime, at the same time as the
film or the cartoon, whichever wayyou look at it. So they do

(32:32):
go from concept art quite so theydon't look like the actual actors. Yeah,
which is quite. There's the realGhostbusters there. They used to annoy
me because if someone got me Ghostbustersfor Christmas, it'd always be the real
Ghostbusters. Like, that's not theguy from the films, look nothing like
it. There was a cartoon onit, Ghostbusters Tower there again from the
second had Shop, so it weren'tquite in as good a condition as that.

(32:54):
What's really wearing on that one thatattracts suit. There'll be a moment
aside and say, well Tom looksfor something else. So you're going people's
attics what Yeah, hopefully you listento it. So you're like going picking
So I'd love to do that.Is it? Is it a bit weird
going around someone's I was saying,I'm going to go in your attical you're
selling and basically but you're value intheir memories. No, they want to

(33:19):
sell them. They're not breaking intotheir houses, I know. But I've
got stuff at home that I youknow, over time, I've probably thought
that's really valuable, that all bluepower Ranger I've got, and then you
look on eBay it's worth four poundfor some guy coming to my house and
tell me everything I always worthless.No, I think that Mike was saying
earlier. They're trying pay respectable pricesbecause the end of day, they're going
if people want to sell the toysand the loft, they kind of know
they've got a valued My one haslost. Honestly, you need to come

(33:43):
round. In fact, it couldbe an episode two that could. I
love to see a rummagey my mum'sloft. Yeah, but what if they
want to buy it. You're notgoing to sell it. You're going to
keep holding those My mum does loft. It is quite big, it is
quite sizeable, and they're all likered tubs. That's what we're looking for.
Yeah, mouse Pool, Yeah,they're not just on floor, Star

(34:06):
Wars, everything you name. CanI come and pick before they do?
Mother thinks I don't. I almostdon't want to get rid of them.
However, there will be a daywhen I do. Oh never, I'd
never get rid of my mum anddad haven't thrown away. My dad was
a dad in the gate, somy mum and dad kept nothing. Like
I told you when I moved outof my house day i'd like a collection
of about it as predators bin Ialways gone now and all my toyes will

(34:29):
just bind as get your adhd fromWell, yeah, maybe your mum get
rid of them toys. My dad'stight as open and throw anything away.
Nothing I wish. But I've stillgot my t Rex. I've still got
one Power Ranger. I've got acouple of James Bond cars that are all
knackered. So you're getting most ofused stuff online, you said eBay lost

(34:51):
Attics, carboot sales, and Ioften we stopped like this. How often
is it turning over? And howyou've got to go and get top up
because you quite tight to be seenit really, Yeah, we're quite lucky
that we can. Usually if weget a load in then we'll go live
on Facebook and sell ye make roomthen for us next coming in and stuff.

(35:12):
So so what's the slowest moving thingin here? Or is it A
lot of this is you know whatI mean, because this is almost like
a museum. Can I just sayso you don't do you really want to
sell it all? A lot ofthis sort of base and backdrop, you
know what I mean? There mustbe a you get some items where you're
like, you say it to yourself, that's getting priced quite high. Ye
don't want you were wanting a rushto sell that, so we priced it

(35:34):
accordingly, I mean fair. It'sgonna be all going after here, So
you know what I mean, you'regonna a You're gonna be all Yeah,
I've got a thousand pound cash back, so yeah, it would be a
shame to get rid of. Didyou get that in one go then,
so that we're all one go?Yeah, that we're all one collection.
There were another chere on this songtold three of the box vehicles. It's
very niche collections. A lot ofpeople see him astounded that there's still those

(35:57):
fines out there. But like you'vejust said, your mum's still full of
stuff, the willingness to let letgo. But do you not think people
know the value of what they've gotmore of these days to some degree,
Yeah, because you've got the Internetand it's very easy to look something up.
But we do find that some peopleare just looking to get rid,
you know, that's the dreaming.Yeah. Or we find that it's a

(36:19):
keep point in life. So parentsmight have passed, yeah, or they
might be moving house, going togoing to a smaller house. So we
find that a lot of the timethey go this loft's got to be clear.
Yeah. Yeah, and that pressuregets powered on or a significant other.
We'll say, you've got to getrid of Yeah. I think when
my mum and dad moved, thatwill be the time then for me to

(36:40):
sort of bait the bullet. Ithink, why don't you keep next week?
Well, I want to keep it, but I want to play with
it one more time about myself.Be well, can you imagine I come
on and get down here and rescuethe build. I'll be watching room.
What are you doing? What youmiss that? I miss having that sort

(37:01):
of imagination. I miss being ableto get lost in my own head.
He said, well, I stillget lost to be on head, but
normally we're in about bills and yeah, yeah, it's not like imagination.
I do toys. Yeah, doI play toys? You? I refused
to believe but now I'm like thecounselor coming to assess their property like that.

(37:22):
I remember I came around, camearound, and h and Teddy were
playing cars with the Ico. I'venot seen Teddy play I could. I
nearly started crying, come back,I couldn't join in coming. Did you
ever play with toys when you're younger? Not at all? I always bought
him action figures and still imagination.Why not? Yeah, I'm just killed

(37:44):
by an iPad. Let's get tothe root of it. I just never
enjoyed it, really music and Ihad a batman like cave. But were
you worried about what your friends mightthink? Was he a bit of a
bit of peer pressure because that Tennisgeneration not play with toys? No,

(38:04):
genuinely none of his mates did,did they? Charlie and had wrestlers,
but never really about him, likehundreds of wrestlers. Nothing, So you
will really trying to force you willplay with the toys. Yeah, I
know there is a there is anelement I must admit of. Well,
for you, the pluy with it. I love them. Yeah, that's
fair enough. But I did getrid of all the wrestlers. I did

(38:25):
go through like two month phase ofplaying with all the wrestlers. Yeah,
that was worth the thousand pounds spenton the rings and the wrestlers and feel
why do you like playing with yourcars? And you? Because the orb
I mean no offense to you.He still plays with building blocks with the
cats. But it builds through.No, it builds like it builds out

(38:49):
garages in. But are going tobe an actu with his older it's building
like guarding centers the Google hide.But you will enjoy it, aren't you.
Yeah? Yeah, I've always lovedcars, like I know, like
driving past buildings. Just look atbuildings. How many years you think you
got in you're still playing with toys, lad, not one now. I
honestly think you're trying to maybe crazywhen you're driving the toy car around and

(39:14):
your little structure that you've built,your little sitting or whatever. Are you
down there in the car seeing it, seeing what you've been down position nine?
Mind? But is more of theplaying a playing arm. It feels
very much, very structural and likeyou planet all outdoor build and he loves

(39:37):
to build football standards. This thereit gets my old subutio, which is
worth fortune, by the way,And he builds little stadiums with sputio about
when what do I do a shout? You do get angry? See when
I when I was, when Iwas there and it was about it was
all about squads, football cards forme. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind
of grown out of the toys bytwelve. Everything you've got three years in

(39:58):
you. I weur fourteen. Trustme. My mates are out there playing
football, going bring right, laddie, and i'd i'd be tentive with lading
them coming and go yeah right,she lads, We're gonna go for a
shandy and then go and playing myfigures. Yeah, it's so it's so
sad to think there was a daywhere it was the last time you ever
played before. Well, I thinkwhat happened is when of mits caught me
playing. Yeah, so I didn'tknow the knocked on door. We're gonna

(40:22):
go fire I bb guns at localpension as a summer and I were like,
yeah, yeah, let's do that, let's do it tonight, and
then we were arranged to meet.I forgot in immersed playing my toys.
The knocked on the door. Ididn't hear him. Mum let him in
and I was on my knees.I'll realize and I'm going because we're all
fought in it. We batman,I will pass mask. Come on,

(40:44):
Ridley, you can do it.Rabb and help me. Okay, I'm
here, bad man. And thenas they were doing that, he worked
and I went, Tom, whatare you doing? Fletch actually fletch,
and I went, yeah, itwas what you're doing? Nothing? Nothing,
I'm just tiding. I'm just tidingmy toys. My cousin's been around.
And I blamed it on my littlecousin Ben. Anyone I heard you
doing voices? No, he didn't, dn't a team. I don't don't

(41:06):
know what I said. It wasso embarrassing, and I were like,
right, that's killed it for me. They're going it loft. So I
would have carried on, Yeah,why are you playing that? It's really
I know, but because because Ican put myself in that situation, because
when I was was thirteen, i'dstill play armies with other lads on street.
But they were like a couple ofyears younger than me, and I

(41:27):
know their parents were thinking, isshort little bit old to be playing arms
now? Dumb shooting a bum inten year old? Yeah? But it's
it's It does make me sad tothink that there was a day that there
was the last time you ever didthat. You didn't know the last about
you guys. Do you remember thosefinal days of playing with toys? No,
I don't remember an actual specific daywhen did you both play with toys?

(41:50):
But when I were younger, butthen we moved up the computers.
Yeah, probably eighties right, vividlyremember having the toys when you're younger,
though, you see, Yeah,yeah, I remember getting bullied out of
having toys, did you really?Yeah, similar to in ten eleven kid
at school and he still lives aroundhere as well, and I know,
I know, I know that hismum's got my toys in his in her

(42:14):
lost and he won't let me goget him. He won't let me have
him back. One brother bullied me, and then the younger brother. Then
the younger brother offered to buy mytoys. He like they like they plotted
it. If you, if you'relistening, that is, really won't call
him out, la person if youbought the turtles off me for fifty pence

(42:37):
each, and i'd like, Iremember quite familiar. Forty eight figures twenty
four quid and he got all myturtles. So the plan was bullied dumb
too out of the toys picking him. It won't to play him, I'll
go get him cheap. But theydidn't play with him them. They were
buying him to sell him on something. No, no, he kept him.
He played him. His argument nowlike in terms of ownership, he's

(43:00):
owned them longer, so that hischildhood toys. And I'm like, norally,
I bought them from the shop,but my childhood toys, it's just
let me have them back, andhe takes great pleasure in time. So
kids, kids, right, ifyou put yourself in the minds of your
father's when they were kids, andthey've coming here with the parents, with
our parents, your grandparents, andthey've said you can buy a toy.

(43:21):
What you think me and your dadwould pick? Think of a little me?
I think definitely the Yeah. Butwhich mask come on with you?
You know me? Oh yeah,it's like the Green American? This one
here, I know, I knowit's up there is your priding gyt or

(43:43):
reach of can I bring it down? Is what shell falls down? That's
not that's which. So because I'venever had this chevrol, I don't know
what it does. Okay, right, can you talk me through it?
If you know I can remember,all right, this bit and that can

(44:07):
come up and imagine, Oh wow, Tom, I'm gonna be honest with
me. I don't think you're goingto be getting that one for a fire.
I'm just going to look at theprice that is, so anything good,
Nick? Is that in it?And I'll have the day on the
bottom. So that's in good Nick, and it's normally missing you see the
spare wheel that because that's like it'slike it's like like a minute right again,

(44:31):
it made in a country I'd nevereven heard of, made in Macau,
McCaw never, Macau. That's whata parent Noise apparently makes its Macau.
Dun Yeah, Africa. I'm notsure that's good. I'm gonna say
it's tail right, I think saysnineteen eighty six. So that's what Tom

(44:52):
would have picked. Teddy, Whatwould you think for me? For your
dad? I'm going to put,well, is it what you would have
I told what you would have probablyactually had? Yeah? What I would
have liked? What I didn't havebut would have wanted. Nina Turtles.
Oh yeah, the blimp, theblimp from Ninja turtles definitely. Well,
I remember seeing that in the Argoscatalog and circling it every year and never

(45:14):
getting it. Is that got everythingwith it? That blimp? Yeah?
Yeah? And how much is that? If I was a punt of walking
even from the streets vehicles up,wouldn't twenty five? Hey that's not bad?
Is it? That clue? Havethat? Yeah? We've got well
also that you weren't really be sellingthat, don't Yeah? Yeah, being
a single man, I'm not surespending one hundred and twenty five quid on

(45:36):
a blimp bringing the women in?So what else do you? You look
like you had something else? Yeah, I think that's a modern remake.
I would have turned my nose.But this year you are way off the
got mine on the money? Welldone? The are you in right?
So? Tom, was there atoy before we sign off? Was there
a toy that you were a kidthat you wanted but you didn't get that?

(45:58):
You're like desperate four? But prettymuch everything because mom had InCred have
been tight. So I had fivepounds to spend a week, which back
of the day would get your prettymuch one figure. But that's that's also
had to cover sweets and hobbies.There are a few things for me.
Power Rangers was massive, and Ireally wanted the saber sword that was the
white Ranger sword, and it soldout that Christmas and I didn't get it

(46:22):
or my parents told me it soldout again. It could have been the
old tight Well what you don't know, he's done. Me and make have
been talking and behind the scenes meand arranged for the white Saber that is
your toy. Yeah, I reallywanted, really wanted that. And I
really wanted a blue Ranger helmet.Yeah, you were in Power Rangers,

(46:44):
weren't you. My mum and dadactually but not really probably listening paying much
attention to me as a child,got me the black Ranger helmet. It
was like a cheap plast molded thingignoring him, and I was pretty sure
it was that one shore I wentto a fancy dresser. When I was
at Beavers, they had a Christmasparty. It was a fancy dress and
my mom made me a black arrangeersuit out of a leotard, have a

(47:07):
leotard and stitched on the white diamonds. I thought, like a writing the
seal you put short, no nole at full body leotard black. I've
got more questions for these two beforeI go, because you could ask those
of these these teams questions. Sowhat toys to both of you that you
really really want to have, eitherin stock to sell or just for the

(47:27):
collection, because you've clearly got acollection. Mark which thought it was the
same question of what what did wenot get? When we're oh yeah,
and I forgot his question, whatdo you not get as a kid but
you always wanted? And have yougot it now? I suppose, Yeah,
that's a good question. That's abetter career than mine. Was a
Dino Riders t Rex and my granddad'sargument back in the day was that it
was way too expensive, which itwas in nineteen eighty seven when it came

(47:52):
out it was thirty nine pounds,which had probably been like three yeah yeahs
and yeah, I've never I've nevergot it and you got it now?
Now I've got lords of them here, I've got one sealed. I've got
like you know why, there's somepsychology there aren't there? Yea, I
will buy lords about my tie.Never got one funder the tank thunder Tender

(48:15):
cats, Oh yeah, that mustbe had. We had one of their
men were putting, came in andhe went out. You try to look
here this massive space trip put itup. And then when it's straight away
and we're like, I felt badselling that you would have even oh that's

(48:36):
out of order, and there mustbe summer. What's the most valuable thing
that out there at the moment thatmaybe you haven't got? You know what
I mean? If people people arelistening and they've got something, the loft
is the summer, you could recommendit. Look, you're sitting in a
small fortune, a future classic maybeor summer currictly any of any other tilines
that you've talked about, I've gotvalue to them, right, Okay to
a degree? Yeah, Yeah,Turtle Star Wars like wrestling figures, they're

(49:00):
funny out there wrestling figures can bedecent. So you've got yeah, it's
there stuff. More later ones releasedwill be so like Series nine of you
Hasbro wrestlers a bit more expensive thanyeah, series one. Yeah, everyone
out there, whereas the rarer figures. And that's the same with the retire

(49:22):
as well, because as as theseries go on, interest dies down,
the production numbers died down, right. The last figures that they bring out.
They are always the rarest ones interestsignificantly less of them. There's no
Lego we here are you? Isthat a whole new game altogether for you
guys. We have had leg away, but it's got to coming. It's

(49:44):
better when it's got coming sealed forOtherwise you've got to leg a house at
Christmas and we're going to sell that. But it came built, so we'd
have had to sell it to someonewho walked in the shop. So wise
you can every place you don't wantto know. It's all the Castle Griskal.

(50:05):
Everybody had that. That was no, I didn't have it. What
I did? What got my that? Again? I had that as a
kid. What they were on thetop shelf of his bedroom. My mom
came in as what we're arguing asbrothers were sharing a bedroom and just went

(50:27):
right, if you're don't going toI just want that got the most treasured
thing towards did the break. Yeah, so that's what I wanted back as
a childhood trauma. One more inbissing toy story when I was so,
I've just been bullied by my mateand to get over it, I want
to buy a toy. I thoughtthe best thing Is and I wanted to

(50:50):
buy this Batman airplane and it waslike a ball and the wings went round
it and I've still got it.It's a kenna one can I make it?
And my dad took me to Argos, I know in Halifax, said
right, you can go and getit. I went, you're game for
you. I'm fourteen and a halfyears I hope I can't going got some
better toy and I'm not going on. I'm not paying for parking. I'm
waiting here. So I had towalk into Argos, fourteen half year old

(51:12):
and buy this toy and Argos heis one of those things where you can't
get off the shelf, head down, order it to love, put your
cord them in everything. And Igot to counter and she got it.
And I were quite a big gladat fourteen and a half, probably you
know, not as big as Ican you turn around and you put on
counter and she went, oh isthis few? You're a little bit old
for this, she said, andI said, I don't notice. For
my cousin, it's his birthday.I got it home, mopped it up

(51:36):
and played with it and Cremis hadto sleep on it. Well on that
though, so you should come andcheck it out. It's forever retro,
retro toys, gifts and collectibles.It's in Eccles Hill. So what's this
recal Stony Lane, Stony Lane?But they are online, are you?
I mean you know chance, I'mlooking many people listening from a club.
Yeah that's true. Oh well yeahand yours Yorkshire Picker on YouTube? What's

(51:58):
your YouTube? Oh it's for aretro YouTube as well. And you can
shop from your own armchair by watchingus on Facebook on a Saturday morning or
the last Friday of every monthing brilliantoccacially just watch us mess about. You
pick that selection for that moment lotshugely. It's fresh stuff in if we've
had a job lot and yeah,save that for a Friday. That's auction

(52:20):
in it, which is quite goodSaturday mornings free roaming. We'll literally carrying
a camera on the shop and thensomebody will say, oh that's really good,
that's good. That a good ideaas well. That is a good
idea really yeah, because it's there'scan't many retro toy auctions going on online
obviously ebit, but this is different. You're doing it live listeners. Thanks

(52:42):
very much. You can't go online find them relive your memories. We
know it was a bit of aniche episode this week, but this is
this is what our general apologized forthe middle age oftgia. Yeah, we
do have quite a large audience ofmiddle aged women and shall we say a
few girl things retro well not notretro. Right, that's for cleaning your
car, that's that's for cleaning yourNintendo when it's gone. You know what

(53:04):
you should email if you were ifyou were a young girl, you loved
like dolls. There's quite a few, actually, I kind of I remember
those being valuable when I was mylittle ponies, Barbies, barbies so strong.
Yeah, get in touch. Whatdo you collect? What was the
boy version of Polypocket Max? MightyMax Max? You got any Mighty maxing

(53:28):
it's stolen it? Well? Awesome, thank you very much for listening.
One thing, God, micro machines. Oh yeah, have you got any?
That was one of my rickon They'reworth quite a bit. That was
one of my favorite Sega games.There you would love micro machines. That
looks even smaller and you're massive handslooks like a grain of rice on all.

(53:51):
That's thirty ulus. I could Icould eat that now, I could
swallow it the hundreds. No way. We got these lofters, the mom
and dad, so we're not buyingthem right, Thank you guys? How
cool was that? What is it? What is it about seeing toys and

(54:14):
stuff and triggering memories from your childhoodthat makes you so happy? What is
it? It's unbelievable, like itwas one of the best sort of moments
in the last couple of years forme. That sounds really weird, but
like seeing I don't I was reallycurbing my enthusiasm. I don't know if
you noticed that. No, wellyou didn't know. You didn't do a

(54:35):
very good job of it. Assoon as we walked into the shop,
you dropped your bags on the floor, including the crisps I bought you,
and started looking around mask Oh myyeah, oh Wolverine, Oh my god,
it's honestly size of the post.You heard those stories I toys were.
This might sound really sad, buttoys were like my family. I
know I did feel I did.I'm talking like an orphan then, I'm

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definitely not an orphan and a lovedwoman dad and had a great upbringing,
very lucky upbringing. But it wasit was my little thing was toys,
like it was. I got lostin that world of play and to a
very awkward old age. But yeah, it looked the guys were really good.
I felt a bit sorry for Domtoo. Paula. Why well,
he's like, oh his YouTube meantme when you're domb one. His YouTube

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cut it's really good, Like it'sbetter than that froggy guy ay where he's
going on his caboot sale. He'sdefinitely got a bit of personality to him
and that he has been doing ittwo years on YouTube and I got six
hundred subscribers, which he's still adecent amount. Book. It just takes.
It just takes one video. Ididn't feel sorry for him. That's
that's what it takes. We didas a banner for a couple of years

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before we got lucky and a bitof success. That's what you need.
And he's really lucky. He worksin his hobby. Yeah he does yet
exactly, but then how he's literallytrading toys for a living insane? Oh
my god, he was, andwhen every day is like Christmas. When
he got those packages and he wereopened like his face and my face like,
oh my God, these toys inthere. Mate. Do you know,

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do you remember the film Big withTom hankson and he gets that job
at a toy Factor And when youwatch that, you're like, oh my
god, that is their dream job. That's pretty much what that guy's doing.
That's twice in two episodes we've mentionedthe film Big. I love that
film, speaking of films, andalso someone mentioned that I'm not I was
supposed to be watching that man calledOtto. Yeah, me, you said

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I should watch it, but thensomeone and then on a couple of episodes,
I said I'd watch it and i'dreview it on the next episode,
but I didn't, and someone's pointedit out. But and I've still not
watched it because Tom failed to tonot tell me that it's on a dodge
box and I can't watch it.I mean, I haven't got a dodgy
box. But you borrowed it froma friend. I borrowed it from a

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friend who people name names, butwho who if I named him? My
friends? Now all ten of thosefriends have got dodgy boxes. I might,
but you know, I get tomy lovely job. I gets TV
and that for free, so Idon't catch everything. And when I burrowed

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my friends dodge box. When Iburied my friends dodge box, I realized
you got everything from You can watchPortuguese TV, I can watch Greek TV.
You can watch Adult three. Everythingis This is not an advert.
This is not an advert for dodgeboxes, obviously, because I haven't got
one. At some point I will. But before we started recording this podcast,

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I started watching Everywhere? What isit? Everything everywhere, all at
once. The hype is real.It is so good that it is so
good, the thing that one loadsof oscars recently. It's got the guy
and I forget his name, whichis awful, the guy who played short
round in Indiana, Jones a SouthKorean. Everything everywhere, all at once,

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I was Chinese. I will watchit. Did you school? Did
you when you when you say thesame, did you say jinks and then
the name three times? And thenyou did and then you weren't allowed to
talk, and then yeah, andyou totally believe it and you didn't talk,
and then god, how did youget out of the jinks? Did
you wanted to see in name again? Three? Someone? I'd say name

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three times here and I used tojust totally be a pressed in playground,
just walking around silent thinking please aboutit. Like I said, if I
was bird burdened with some horrible disease, mining to people was don't all right,
what's wrong? He's been jinks stupidanyway, Anyway, that was good

(58:37):
one. It was a very Itwas a really good episode. I really
love going at the shop. Itwas a bit on the whim. We
never planned it. He messages theday before though, let's do it,
and I think that's how the podcastis gonna go. I think surprise people.
We don't plan these episodes. Wedon't, but I quite like it
working on the flyers how I've livedmy life all my life. We have
got guests lined up, so hopefullya little bit structured in going forward.

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Um, we've got sent a videoof the oil rig worker on Twitter today.
We're still trapping this guy up hisnerves on shore, any nervous his
mate might do it instead. Ireally want pedro yea. We've we've got
so many plans to make for theweekend as well. We've got you've got
a big party at Greek Easter.Looking forward to that. Leg a lamb

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oh, yeah, it's a fairtime. You've been invited you've you've made
the cut. Although I'm just sayingI'm not taking anything away from your invitation.
But we've gone forty people this yearminimum because we had so much lamb
left over last year, like thirdtwelve people came and I did half a
lamb. We're eating lamb like intoChristmas. It was in the matter of
lamb was and we gave loads away. So for me, you've got to

(59:45):
get as many people as you canthere. But these all family. To
be fair, I think you mightbe the only maybe a couple of friends.
We don't always put it out tofriends because we've got so many.
It's a family affair in it,right, Let's go, let's go,
okay, may have a nice nightby My heart is b