Nina's What's Trending - From Renting People to a $1,000 Lego Set?!

This week’s trending stories take a wild turn — from Japan’s booming “rent a person” industry to Lego’s most expensive Star Wars collector’s set yet. Plus, lightsabers that will blow your mind (and maybe your budget). Tune in to The Jubal Show to hear the hilarious reactions and unexpected twists in today’s trending talk.

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Speaker 2 (00:19):
If you are a non confrontational person, then a business
like this may actually benefit you. And that is the
rent to person business.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm sorry what.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's an industry that's booming in Japan right now and
they're basically marketing themselves towards people that are non confrontational
who may want to rent a.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Person to deal with your conflicts.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh so it's like having a mediator or somebody that's
bigger than you if you're being bullied or something and
you want somebody to intimidate somebody. So I think you
have your choices. You can pick a person that can
speak through the conflict. You can pick an intimidating looking
person to come in and just stand there like they're
gonna just like handle business.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
We want to hire that just all the time before
I enter.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Any room, that would be a hiring, like double, Like
i'd like people like to do all your tattoos is hired.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
To walk into a room, you'd be like, amen, never mind,
never mind. Throw tattoo always throws people. Yeah, it really does.
You wouldn't do anything exactly until you smile and just
you're like, Hi, hey man, how's it going? What is
this going on here? That's so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I do think this is a very interesting thing though,
And it's not the first time that we've heard about
being able to rent a person. But they also allow
you to rent a grandma. You can rent pretend siblings.
Any of the things that you're lacking, you can you
can rent it pretendsiblings. Yeah, I mean it's kind of
an innovative industry, especially in a time when people are

(01:48):
just like lacking and craving any type of connection. Right,
you know, you're alone. You could probably buy a whole
family for a few hours.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, we don't get along, you know, and like you're
freeloading on the house. I'm going to argue eventually I'm
gonna kick you out, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
And then you're gonna feel like you really have like
that sibling relationship. Exactly after you get all worked up
and they leave, you're like, man, that was really worth
it was worth it. The best fight ever. Well, if
you do have siblings, maybe Legos or your jam This
something is very new as well. Lego is now releasing
their most expensive set yet They It will cost one

(02:26):
thousand dollars. It's the ultimate collector series Star Wars Death Star,
so that way people will be able to experience the
very own Death Star. It's twenty eight inches thirty eight
inches wide. It has fifteen rooms, and it even has
easter eggs from Rogue.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
One in the Lego Star Wars video games that are
coming up.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
So it's a death Star of spaceship and it has
like rooms in the spaceship.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I think. So, I'm not familiar with the death Star,
but more.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Then you know that that's so interesting. I know, a
thousand bucks, that's expensive. My nephew loves Legos.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I just I don't know. Oh, that's kind of cool.
I should a picture of it.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
If you are a Star Wars fan, this is a
big collector's item, really, or I guess a Lego fan,
a big collector's item. That's a lot of pieces it is.
Why do you lose one? How annoying frustrating? Can you
imagine you buy a whole new set just to get that.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
One leg I hate that. The force was real. I'd
bring that piece back. Why did you?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm gonna rent a person to go get that piece
and bring it to me.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Stupid piece Star Wars Lego set. That's ridiculous. Well take
a lightsaber to myself. I'm so frustrated right now. I
won't do that. Use the force and be calm. There
you go.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Many jew will just like light trying to find that.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Dang. Do they have Lego lightsabers? That would be cool?
Because probably do? I bet you they do. Like low
in the Dark legos. That would not I would want
to use it, I know.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
But that's what's trending. While we do research. You have
what happens if you drop it? Well it you don't
want to trip over it? Oh gosh, that would be
so annoying. Can you imagine you put it together and
then somebody just walks in it's like drunk and falls
face first in it.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh they have Lego lightsabers? Cool?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Are they?

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can't play with it though, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like are they not just like the mini ones like
human size?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, they're like normal size. They're like normal size. Okay, cool, Yeah,
that's pretty two hundred nineteen bucks. If you want one,
get a real one, then you can play with it.
The lego one has to sit somewhere and you can't
play with it. How much is a real one? Uh? Well,
let's see, let's look at that. Also. How much for
Star Wars a real lightsaber? Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Google?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let's see they you know that Google ai is thinking
about it right now? Standard grade priced a few hundred
dollars to around five hundred high end replicas Heyo several
hundred to several thousand dollars, thousand official Legacy and Galaxies
Edge lightsabers around one sixty to four hundred movie props

(05:12):
in auction. One recently, Oh wow. In twenty seventeen, the
original Obi wan Kenobi lightsaber valued at four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. Whoa dode that better be able to
actually cut through things? That's a real lightcaber. Luke Skywalker
prop was sold for two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Can you imagine have fun of you to play with
those what do they do with it? Okay, we don't
need to keep going. Guy, I don't know what they did,
just didn't look at it. I guess you know. It's
like sweet, finally got this obi wan light Faber. All
those earth, all those earths I spent not being with
a woman and working encoding paid all