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Mallrats and a Zebra?!
Welcome to hey Real. Quick, hello, happy summer. Quick, hello, happy summer.
Speaker 2:Summer yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, speaking of summer, we're leaving in two days, which is Friday. Oh, we're going to Dollywood. Oh, I didn't know this yeah. So Okay, think it's going to rain a little bit.
Speaker 2:Oh so.
Speaker 1:Take a poncho, fingers crossed.
Speaker 2:Does this ride still go in the rain?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think they do.
Speaker 2:I don't think they do.
Speaker 1:But we'll see, maybe we get lucky. Yeah, maybe they miss it.
Speaker 2:Go see a show.
Speaker 1:I'm not big on shows. If Dolly's there, I would go see it All day I do not want to see the C-team come out.
Speaker 2:I mean I'm sure they're all very talented if they're at Dollywood Right.
Speaker 1:But I would rather eat my funnel cake in peace and quiet, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sorry. Or with really loud rain under a pavilion and just take a break.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm just going to look at butterflies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they're everywhere. They're everywhere. Dollywood is so clean.
Speaker 1:It is yeah.
Speaker 2:It's an easy park. It's like the bathroom at Bucky's.
Speaker 1:It's spotless.
Speaker 2:You are so right. It is the bathroom at Bucky's of amusement parks. Is the bathroom?
Speaker 1:at Bucky's of amusement parks, the whole park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she got it going on man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody's so nice.
Speaker 2:They're so nice. Well, have fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's a nice little vacation. I didn't know y'all taking that vacay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'll be fun. And then, well, of course, because we're about to go out of town, mm-hmm the dog, go out of town. Um the dog. Oh yeah, cue the pet emergency. Yeah, I won't deep dive into it, but I might, um, so ray was licking her foot a little bit. That front right paw, it's always the front right paw, uh anyway, so yeah, so if we're about to go out of town or something, sorry, yeah, so if we're about to go out of town, I'm like what is?
Speaker 2:what is?
Speaker 1:it and then I look and it's like of course it's inflamed and it's like all black from oh she just goes full yeast mode I should name her marsh on um, but she goes. It got to the point she wouldn't even put in weight on it. So she was like eating her food with a right ball like pulled up. Oh no, so I take her to the vet. I called him. I know the drill.
Speaker 1:I was like hey it's her front right paw. Again, it's probably a yeast infection. If I could just get a, I was like you can't just give me antibiotics, can you? They're like no, sorry. So that was like. I guess it started on the weekend, of course.
Speaker 2:So you have to wait until Monday morning. Yeah, let's wait till it's a little bit worse, yeah.
Speaker 1:This is bad. Let's let it fester for 48 hours. So then we take her in, they look at it and we're like, oh yeah, she's got a real inflamed paw yeast infection.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Super nice about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here's a bucket and some apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 1:Right. So yeah, they give us the antibiotics all that stuff which I was two days old or not two days old, two days younger, when I found out that pill pockets have you seen those, oh yeah, where you shove the pill in for dogs yeah, I mean, I know it's just a treat the hole in it yeah and I'm like that's a ripoff, I'm getting that. That's genius yeah, and it works, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So we've got her on meds. Oh, seems to be a little better, sorry. So when we take her to the boarding place I guess she can run around and have fun, but then I guess I'm just going to have to take the cone and be like Put it in the cone, put her in the crate yeah. Her hotel room or whatever it is. Yeah, Put her in the cone.
Speaker 2:I crate yeah Her hotel room or whatever it is. Yeah, put her in the cone, I guess.
Speaker 1:But I thought this was funny. When I was leaving the vet I was like, well, we're taking her to the boarding place. I was like I can't really tell them to dry her paws off every time, can I? And the lady's like I mean you can, you're paying for their service.
Speaker 2:It's probably an extra charge.
Speaker 1:Probably. It's probably $5 a day to drive Paul's Per Paul and then, but anyway, I was like yeah, I just feel weird telling them crazy things. And the vet told me that she had another customer and they take their dog to a boarding place and that person found out that their dog wasn't drinking the water. They brought Fiji water. They took their dog to a boarding place like a little terrier, shih tzu or something, and dropped off Fiji water for the dog.
Speaker 2:Which is too expensive for me to drink.
Speaker 1:My face I was like what Feet For the dog. Wow, so I guess trying paws ain't that crazy.
Speaker 2:No, because think about some of the instructions some people come in there with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:We left her diamond collar at home. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 1:But anyway. So I guess they're going to have to do the pawing.
Speaker 2:It's fine, she's on antibiotics. What are you going to do?
Speaker 1:For 14 days.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, how old is that dog again.
Speaker 1:Ray.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think she was two when we got her Okay and that was COVID. Covid-ish time 21?
Speaker 2:22, maybe Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, gotcha.
Speaker 1:She got about 10 more years. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry yeah.
Speaker 1:So that'll be fun.
Speaker 2:When they see y'all packing do they get? Nervous.
Speaker 1:No, they get excited.
Speaker 2:Oh, because they know we're also packing and we're going to the doggy place. Yeah, because they like that place, right?
Speaker 1:They used to shake and not want to get out of the car.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And now they almost break the glass to get out of the car.
Speaker 2:Well, at least they like where they're going.
Speaker 1:It's expensive, but they love it, so I'm like you can't change places.
Speaker 2:No, you don't want to.
Speaker 1:I mean, if they like it, whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you try paws at your place? Yeah, our dog used to be like see one rolly bag, and she'd be like Lose her mind no. Yeah, she would almost make herself sick. She'd be so sad and nervous.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's what Ray's doing it's like perfect.
Speaker 2:She heard you say Dollywood or something. Yeah. I guess, let's irritate this paw. Well, that'll be fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we've been before. We're going to try to do the water park.
Speaker 2:Oh, we did that. We've never done the water park. It was nice yeah.
Speaker 1:Which they might both be water parks, because it might just be raining the whole time. Oh right, yeah, which wait a minute, If it's not thunder and lightning. I can still go down a water slide.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think so if it's pouring down rain, we'll just do the water park.
Speaker 2:If they don't like, call it for lightning like lifeguards. Yeah, for lightning like lifeguards. Yeah, because, um, I can't remember how many years ago that was, but we did that water park and then the regular park one day yeah, but maybe if we're driving, have you seen the animal on the loose and is it rutherford county? Yeah, murfreesboro murder so alabama had the kangaroo and now we got a zebra and it's apparently somebody.
Speaker 1:I only read a headline.
Speaker 2:And it was only yesterday, because I haven't been really on social media and reading the news the local news for sure and I was like a pet zebra. What is with all the exotic pets?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:These things should not be in your backyard. They should be in a zoo or in pets. Yeah, these things should not be in your backyard. They should be in a zoo or in Africa.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What are we doing?
Speaker 1:But his name's Ed.
Speaker 2:Oh, mr, or just Ed.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but his name's Ed, and why can't you catch it? It's not like he's camo, it's like a referee just running around the woods and they're just like oh, I can't see it. He's on. Have you seen the videos? He's just prancing around.
Speaker 2:He doesn't blend in. Well, apparently people are putting him in like downtown, like he's a tourist and stuff. Apparently people are putting him in like downtown like he's a tourist and stuff like pictures you know like making pictures making memes and stuff but do we not have? Do we not have like animal?
Speaker 1:control animal. Y'all got guns with like yeah, tranquilizer, tranquilizer. Just knock him out for a minute you can video him for 20 minutes, but you can't pop him in the butt. With a couple of tranquilizers, it's like the you know wanted son.
Speaker 2:Like why didn't you get the guy when you were taking his picture?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not supposed to say it. Yeah, so kangaroo pet.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's fine, zebra pet Okay that's fine, Eventually it's going to be a tiger or a lion. Oh yeah, eventually it's going to be a tiger or a lion.
Speaker 2:Because you know people have pets.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there's somebody right now with a cougar.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:In Kentucky, that's just like come here Phillip. It's time to eat. He's going to get loose.
Speaker 2:It is bonkers, just get a hamster. They still haven't caught it. I don't think so. They're still running around. Did you hear about that bear in Gallatin? I think, it's gone now by the way sorry, I don't know why that was funny, but there are bears everywhere. Well, it was in Gallatin and now it's not anywhere.
Speaker 1:No, but there was one like crazy close.
Speaker 2:Oh here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in.
Speaker 2:Brentwood. No, I don't think At your house. Let me give out the address real quick. It's in the backyard. Whoa His name's Jose.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know they're like around Do dollywood, so be careful.
Speaker 1:But yeah, yeah, you go out in the wood. I bet you there's one in davidson or williamson county.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the woods somewhere probably. Yeah, did you know? I read this, but I didn't read the article either. I'm the worst about just like that's an interesting headline I don't want to know more um, but that there's gators, yeah, in huntsville there's gators in memphis what is going on with that, something about they brought them up years ago to control something, something yeah and now there's, you know no because gators can, because I remember we would go to the river in Tuscaloosa and you could see where gators were going in the Black Warrior River.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, so there's I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And Huntsville. They found them in Memphis. But have you ever seen the videos? Like gators can survive. I think it's like which it makes sense because they're dinosaurs it's like which it makes sense, because they're dinosaurs, they've been here millions of years and we're like they can't go state to state. Um, that's crazy, uh. But yeah, the pond or swamp or whatever will be frozen solid oh okay, and the gator's nose. Well, the gator is like basically frozen, but like their nose will be like a little bit out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They can kind of like shut down.
Speaker 2:They're like Han Solo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that something was like they can like it can get to like nine degrees and they can like kind of I don't know if they slow their heart rate or just kind of like I'll just chill to this.
Speaker 2:I will literally chill till this melts.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to hang here because I'm frozen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so zebra look out. Murfreesboro Smyrna, just Rutherford County.
Speaker 1:What's Ed the zebra?
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Well, four hours ago, it says the search continues as he's caught running in a cul-de-sac, like he's just running through a neighborhood.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine little kids, like you know, in the summer outside in the little like wade pool?
Speaker 1:or whatever.
Speaker 2:Mom, there's a zebra. That's great deer.
Speaker 1:What was that movie Uh-huh With? Marty the zebra.
Speaker 2:Oh, afro circus, afro circus, afro circus, circus, afro Polka, dot polka, dot Polka dot, polka dot. What movie was that Madagascar, madagascar. There it is. Chris Rock yeah.
Speaker 1:But his name's Ed.
Speaker 2:Man. I hope he sounds like Chris Rock.
Speaker 1:Caused a May 31st traffic jam on the Interstate 24.
Speaker 2:It doesn't take much on 24 to concentrate. That is true. Yeah, Good gracious.
Speaker 1:A zebra. He's still on the run, he's on camera.
Speaker 2:Multiple times when did they have him Like? Was it a farm in Rutherford County?
Speaker 1:I'm hoping so they ain't gonna catch him.
Speaker 2:It's a zebra, shoot it. I mean not kill't, gonna catch him it's a zebra, shoot it.
Speaker 1:I mean not kill it but like shoot it yeah, just knock him out for a minute, yeah get the anesthesiologist with a gun and just um man have they interviewed the owner?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but they should they should, if your zebra is causing this much havoc. They're like attention all shoppers, attention all shoppers. If somebody could come get their zebra, we've got him up front at customer service.
Speaker 1:When you see something on the loose like that.
Speaker 2:I wonder if somebody's like that.
Speaker 1:Looks like Ed. Go see if he's out there. It's the only one yeah right, you know, was it a chocolate lab or was it? Yeah, no, it's a zebra dude, it's yours.
Speaker 2:It's the only loose one for 48 states.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's just like prancing through the neighborhood, having the time middle of his life, I guess he's having the time of his life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of, but like it's kind of becoming I don't know how many days it's been, but obviously enough for people to post memes about him, like you know, going through the whataburger drive-thru or something like that. I mean not really, but silly stuff. Oh yeah, you know like the latest sighting and there's a picture with somebody superimposed him next to the MTSU horseshoe on campus and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I hadn't seen all that stuff so. Anyway, well.
Speaker 2:I hope they get Ed Be on the lookout Maybe we'll see him when we drive to Dollywood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd rather see a zebra than bears. Yeah, that's true. Or an alligator.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just saying Absolutely Now a zebra is fine. It's not going to climb up your porch in the Smokies and try to take your food off the grill or get in your house.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, which I still ain't feeding that thing.
Speaker 2:No you ever fed a horse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not scared. They're gonna bite my hand off. Yeah, I'm gonna try some teeth no, no anyway, I wonder if he's he's probably trying to get uh, something to eat yeah, or maybe get out of tennessee or maybe you know he's got to be like where are the other zebras? Yeah, right just run around the only one dress like this where are my people? Where is the zoo? Why don't they call the zoo?
Speaker 2:I don't know. They deal with zebras every day like, yeah they, they know they're. Yeah, the zebras at the zoo are like have you seen this ed character outside?
Speaker 1:he's living large man yeah, you gotta make a break for it. We could all just like you see dudes in a neighborhood just going wow oh my gosh yeah, he's their hero.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's like the fugitive, oh man.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you something else we did this weekend, I guess we went to the mall. Do people go to the mall anymore?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I try not to which one did you go to? Cool Springs, cool Springs?
Speaker 1:Well, you know how, when it's like summer and it's hot, oh yeah, and you're like Somebody needs a new pair of tennis shoes or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, there you go, and I'm going to go ahead and tell you.
Speaker 1:Tennis shoes. First of all they're pricey, and then we go and of course it's like, well, these are really expensive, of course.
Speaker 2:Carter was like he likes those, so he tries them on.
Speaker 1:Fit like a glove. He don't ever like anything. He's always like it feels weird. He put them on, he's like, ooh, these feel good and I'm like doggone it, of course they do.
Speaker 2:Can we make payments on this?
Speaker 1:Hold on, let your parents Google every other store in the world and see if they're cheaper.
Speaker 2:So we're in the.
Speaker 1:Champs.
Speaker 2:Sports. Oh yeah, which Champ.
Speaker 1:Air. So we're in there Googling everything like Academy Dick's Sporting.
Speaker 2:Goods Amazon. Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 1:Knockoff store on Amazon.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And we're like doggone it. It's all about this price, yeah.
Speaker 2:So you got them.
Speaker 1:We're going to trade in our old ones. Does that give us a dollar? Mm-hmm. So he got them. But when something fits and your kid likes it.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Just, I guess, get it, oh man, but he's almost, yeah, he almost wears my size now, okay. So, yeah, we get the shoes. And then we went upstairs and we're just walking around the mall because it's got a Lego store.
Speaker 2:In Cool.
Speaker 1:Springs, yeah. So we go to the Lego store check it out, go in there for a little bit, and we mainly just look yeah, it's like, oh, that's cool Right, and we mainly just look yeah, it's like, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Right, but they have a new store and I think it's called the Franklin Toy Store. So it's upstairs, okay, or maybe it's Franklin Toy Works. I'm trying to figure it out. So, anyway, we go upstairs, it's got all. It's all mainly retro. So when you walk in, all to the left is like a oh, they also have models. They have like a bunch of Gundam like models to the left Really, yeah, what's up, joe, yeah?
Speaker 1:And then, yeah, but to the right, it's all Star Wars, transformers, gi Joe, they got like Pokemon, they got comics. But a lot of stores like that don't have much. Yeah they have a lot. This store had tons of stuff. They had packs of like baseball cards hockey cards.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, From like 1989.
Speaker 1:Unopened, with a gum still in it.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, Wait, where is it? Is that upstairs?
Speaker 1:It's upstairs. It's close to the Candy Craze. Yeah, I know where that is Down, by Macy's when you want to go get a Ziploc bag, throw about $12 in it. They had and they have all these windows outside the store.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you had display and stuff when you would normally put a mannequin or display stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they had old boxes like the toys would come in.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's neat.
Speaker 1:And in the day they had the USS flag which was the six or seven and a half foot aircraft carrier the. Gi Joe aircraft carrier.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, yeah, which I asked for maybe every Christmas. I don't know.
Speaker 1:And I was like I guess I didn't get it because it was expensive. And then last night I actually thought about it. I was like no, it was seven feet long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where are?
Speaker 1:you going to put that thing?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I'm sure parents were like we're not buying that? What are you going to do?
Speaker 2:Put it on your bed or you'll sleep, but they had the box for sale. Whoa yeah.
Speaker 1:You have to think about something that big Like how many people are going to keep the box.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And also people that collect all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, the box only Yep $500.
Speaker 2:Stop, holy cow. Is it Franklin, like somebody's name, or is it? A local store like the city south of Nashville.
Speaker 1:I'm going to look it up.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, I would check that out.
Speaker 1:I think it's Franklin Toy Works, yeah, but it's got everything.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll just check that out. I have at least two kids. That would be like that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got in there and I was like they had stuff. They had one that was all the Ghostbusters Like the four Ghostbusters. Still in the box.
Speaker 2:Unopened all the action figures and I was like this is only 40 bucks. I know that kind of stuff, the old school stuff makes me like yeah and like unopened.
Speaker 1:But then we went back to the back and they had. Gi Joe's, like each little character, like you know. Oh yeah, but these were opened.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And one guy was just like some green little helmet, just some random dude. But I remember as soon as I saw it I was like I remember I had that dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just that guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah $200.
Speaker 1:That hurts, yeah no that doesn't mean you're getting $200 for it.
Speaker 2:No, but if you'd have kept, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was like, yeah, and then I'd just stand there. I was like oh, wait a minute, I had that, and I had that.
Speaker 2:Oh no, and I had that, and I was just like oh my gosh, Adding it up yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a cool store.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm excited. I'm going to go to the mall. Look at that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's what we did. We went to the Lego store. Mm-hmm Braxton looked for a hat or something which they're like me with hats. They're so picky.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, we went to that store Lids.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, probably tried on. He probably tried on 15, 20 hats Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And he's like I kind of like it, but we didn't find nothing. If he doesn't really like it, he's not going to get it.
Speaker 1:I can go in a hat store and I can try on 100 hats and be like, no, I am crazy picky. So I was like alright, forget it, let's go get candy.
Speaker 2:Did you go to that candy place?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we go to Candy Craze.
Speaker 2:So what do you get when you go in there? I've never A lot of sour stuff. Bought any of that stuff Like the, you know the, just the.
Speaker 1:It kind of looks like tape.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, but it's, you know, there's watermelon flavor. There's strawberry, we get a bunch of those Airhead like rolled up stuff, stuff yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just a lot of candy. We don't get chocolate.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So a couple bags of candy walk around, we'll hit like seven stores and Robin will still be in that first one.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Because we don't stay in stores long. We're guys, we just go in there and be like oh, yeah, yeah that's cool. All right, you're going to the next one. Okay, y'all go do your own thing. Yeah, pretty much so Nice, but we got stuck in that toy story for a while, which I saw. Something I want to say Good. Morning America which I guess I watched. That I don't, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2:Yeah 64.
Speaker 1:I don't know who's watching Good, I don't know me 47 year old dudes just watching Good Morning America. But you're doing it, but I'm him and there was this thing on there and I was like it felt a lot like Beanie Babies or Jelly Cat. No, it's a new craze. I didn't know about it. Called La Boo Boo L-A-B-U-B-U.
Speaker 2:Is that when you stomp your toe in French.
Speaker 1:It's like when a little French baby hits a coffee table it's got the little boo-boo. So yeah, so, but anyway, it's a worthless little stuffed animal. It's just a piece of garbage and it's in a bag and you open it up and it's just a stupid-looking looking little thing that's got a hook and all these crazy people are hooking them on their purses oh, how much is it? Fifty dollars I don't think they're that expensive yeah but it's just like celebrities are putting on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tiktok or whatever, and it's just just a big craze yeah, can you get them? So now they're putting them in like arcades, like the claw games? Yes, so you got people going in there. They have stores set up, just I'm guessing. I don't know if it started in Japan or China or wherever, but like they were showing stores at different places, just lo-bo-bo stores and you go in and they'll display them, but like most of them are out, like you can't get them yeah, they're out of stock right.
Speaker 1:So, and it's one of those things you can't see it until you open it. And then you take it out and you're like, oh, I got the blue one with green eyes, whatever Like and is it I'm going to ask, but I think I know the answer Are adults buying them?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I didn't see a kid in the thing. No, I did see one little girl. And she had won one at the arcade or something. Yeah, but everybody's putting them on their. You want one? Bad enough, go get your Princess Diana bear and just trade.
Speaker 2:Remember those.
Speaker 1:The Beanie Baby.
Speaker 2:I don't. Remember Beanie, baby craze, yeah, and everybody got the I was an adult at that point, Like young adult.
Speaker 1:Well, I think a lot of people were, and they were fighting outside stores for them.
Speaker 2:I was working at a hospital, like in an administrative office not in the medical sense, but like and there was a gift shop, because it was a hospital and every time a new beanie baby would drop.
Speaker 1:Drop like a post Malone elf. Yeah, drop the mic.
Speaker 2:All these employees would go get in line. Well, they're for my daughter. She collects them. I'm like, I think she, I think you collect them, but it was white. It makes sense, I'm like I think you collect them, but it was white that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:Those kind of look like a beanie baby. Had a baby with an Ewok a little bit yeah so these things are?
Speaker 1:a Labubu is a small, fluffy and sometimes mischievous-looking monster character created by Hong Kong artist Ka-Sing Leung. They're part of a larger series called the Monsters and are distributed by the Chinese company Pop Mart. So I guess, like the little, the pops. Yeah, it's a viral trend and a sought-after collectible. No, but Robin used to work at Heartstrings so did I in Auburn and they had. I think they had Beanie Babies too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gift shop.
Speaker 1:I mean people would line up, or adults are like sure they want them for their grandbaby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and this is all pre-social media, pre-smartphones Right.
Speaker 1:I have to have it it. My kid got a little boo boo and it'll make him feel better. Um, but there was the princess, diana bear yeah the purple I think that's got anyway so people thought like if I get this? Yeah I'm gonna be able to like sell it in 20 years and pay for my kids college.
Speaker 2:Yes, like, so robin's got one okay, yeah, and they left the tags on all of them. Oh yeah, we still got the tag on it, the heart tag, yeah yeah, we could probably get maybe 29.
Speaker 1:I don't know like it's.
Speaker 2:It's not worth that much no, what was the ones that after beanie babies? It was when my kids were little. My kids and you registered them online. They had like a, not a chip, but not a QR code. We weren't doing that yet, but like.
Speaker 1:Was it like a fluffy thing?
Speaker 2:No, it was so very Beanie Baby-ish and.
Speaker 1:And it was like a well I remember well. It kind of started with Cabbage Patch Kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they had adoption papers, yeah. So if you've ever seen, eight bet christmas highly yeah, underrated, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, there's a cabot.
Speaker 1:It's like kind of the hunt for the cabbage patch kid okay, yeah because they're just like all sold out. It's like chaos trying to get one, but yeah, the the little boo-boo is, but yeah, a lot of it is adults. And then you got celebrities that are on there like unboxing them.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I got you, yeah, and so they're getting super popular that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm blaming it on TikTok.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever they were called.
Speaker 1:I remember all this stuff, remember my Buddy.
Speaker 2:My buddy.
Speaker 1:My buddy and me.
Speaker 2:Wherever I go, he goes, my buddy.
Speaker 1:My buddy.
Speaker 2:My buddy and me, and then they had to do a Kid Sister.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, my buddy was first. Yeah, how much flack did you get? I don't know, because I didn't have a buddy.
Speaker 2:If you had one of them wherever. I go, I get beat up, sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say this no, this is mean.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:But back in midfield, alabama, if my eight-year-old self would have been just rolling around the parking lot or the yard or wherever I was hanging out with my huffy bike yeah if I had a little stuffed, chucky, doll, whatever just riding on the back or in them uh-uh yeah dude, that would have been my only buddy. Yeah, that's what it's for life, I know back then it was like we don't, we don't, we.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it should have been For life, I know. Back then it was like we don't, we don't, we don't care.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it should have been called, only buddy.
Speaker 2:Webkinz.
Speaker 1:Webkinz.
Speaker 2:Was the. Thing.
Speaker 1:Remember Polly Pocket and all that stuff. Like all them tiny little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't have Polly Pocket. Were you into choking hazards.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I love Polly Pocket.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Webkinz Plush. And they had a little code and you registered online and I don't know. It was just something to like get the kids on the computer or something. I guess, yeah, Polly Pockets, you know. I honestly just like the strawberry shortcake dolls, but I only ever had one. I only had the strawberry shortcake dolls, but I only ever had one. I only had the strawberry shortcake one, but like. I had friends that had like the lemon, meringue and blueberry, whatever.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, oh yeah, that's right. And Care Bears.
Speaker 2:Remember Care.
Speaker 1:Bears, care Bears.
Speaker 2:I don't think I had a.
Speaker 1:Care Bear. I remember being like five or six years old, which is weird because I don't the only reason I know where my phone is is because I'm holding it but I remember being like five, six, seven and like kind of liking the show Care Bears.
Speaker 2:Oh, a little bit, and you're already in that dilemma.
Speaker 1:Like I don't watch Care Bears.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that one episode. Yeah, totally, oh my, that's why they had that one.
Speaker 1:They had the one Care Bear. Was it something on their stomach?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like a rainbow Rainbow. Bear heart, bear tender heart. Tender heart was the main one.
Speaker 1:But didn't they have like a dude Care Bear? That was like a muscle. It was like you know what I'm saying Like it was trying to like get, I guess, young boys to watch it.
Speaker 2:I don't remember the show.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like the Smurf. What's the brawny Smurf or whatever his name is the paper towel one.
Speaker 2:I don't remember him, but yeah, there was a lot of personalities with the Smurfs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was a Smurf fan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gargamel, remember he was the evil guy with the long black kind of robe on Balding guy.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, With the cat.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Smurfette Saturday morning man, yeah, streaming. Streaming all the shows oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, yeah no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I forgot what the care was. Maybe it was Grumpy Grumpy Bear. I feel like I still know Grumpy Bears.
Speaker 2:Like a rain cloud with rain coming down, he was always sad yeah.
Speaker 1:That's weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and who's buying that one?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We got you a Care Bear. It's depressed what.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's crying. He didn't get a little boo-boo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Which is always just something.
Speaker 2:It's always something. They're always coming.
Speaker 1:There's always got to be a fad.
Speaker 2:There's a jelly cat right now. And I think those are little like plush things.
Speaker 1:Jelly cat. That's like smelly cat.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:Like Friends episode. Yeah, wasn't that the name of the cat?
Speaker 2:Jelly cat. Look, this is it. Wasn't that their song yeah, smelly Cat. But like, these are the little I'm showing you right now on the. They're little bitty stuffed things, but they're just like some of them are what in the world? Yeah, look at that. Born in London, loved worldwide, meet the Amusables.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it's I don't know, I guess mine was like baseball cards.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Micro Machines.
Speaker 2:Micro Machines. They were tiny and they were cool.
Speaker 1:I guess yeah.
Speaker 2:I remember you using those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I was being a Hot Wheels and all that stuff like micro machines.
Speaker 2:Micro machines and just action figures.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was deep in action figures. Star Wars GI. Joe and shout out to old Mask. What is that Mask was? It was kind of like these people and their cars would kind of He'd have a car and then the doors would pop open and it'd be like turn into a plane. Or then there'd be like a truck and it could turn into something else and they'd put a mask on. It was like a cheesy.
Speaker 2:Transformers.
Speaker 1:Not Transformers, like the people were driving the vehicles oh right. But it was just a very niche like toy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I got super into it and people would come over and be like the toys were cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But everybody like what's this? It's a mask, dude. They had a cartoon.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:Everything which. Speaking of mask, I wasn't trying to do that, but so Robin's got this thing. Have you seen Red Light Therapy?
Speaker 2:Yes, did she get the mask?
Speaker 1:So she got a mask. It's more niche than the 80s. Tv show. It scares the bejesus out of me Every night. I forget I'm sitting in my recliner because I'm 90.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Wheel of Fortune's over.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Whatever, it's about 8 o'clock, we're about to watch a show, or? One of our stories on Netflix.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And she'll come around the corner and it's just like.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like Iron man, jason had.
Speaker 2:Like it's like Iron.
Speaker 1:Man had a baby with a jack-o'-lantern.
Speaker 2:It's just and it's glowing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just red face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and she just walks around with it.
Speaker 1:She just comes around the corner. First time she did it I was just like, oh my God.
Speaker 2:So like is it for just skin?
Speaker 1:Something with collagen or breaking down.
Speaker 2:Inflammation, or just smooth Peptides. I don't know what it is, but yeah. I got you. I've seen it.
Speaker 1:To be magic. I don't know what it does. I asked her the other day I was like what does that do again? She was like well, it's just, she told me.
Speaker 2:Yeah right. I mean I don't believe it, but it's convincing because people buy them yeah I guess yeah, yeah but I mean, I buy a wrinkle cream you can wear for halloween.
Speaker 1:If you want to. You can scare the mess out of folks, but every I can't get used to it yeah, it's something about somebody just walking around the corner with a glowing face, you know, yeah, it was like a bad 80s horror movie.
Speaker 2:Oh man, no, but I've seen women like she watches tv with it on yeah that are multitasking. They're doing that. They're on the treadmill and I'm like that is some self-care on steroids, though, and people are like I'm listening to a book or a podcast, I got got my face mask on, I'm doing a little cell overturning.
Speaker 1:Regenerative therapy.
Speaker 2:And then I'm getting some cardio in.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile I'm like I popped a bucket of popcorn.
Speaker 1:I mean like ruffles, there's not much on, but oh gosh, oh man anyway. Well, if you want to scare somebody get one of those get one of those masks did they sell them at Costco? I'm just kidding no she got it something I think there was a sale, mm-hmm it was on sale yeah, it was for sale and on sale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I know I say that I've been guilty of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was on sale and then remember our dad would always say it's all on sale. It's all on sale. Which is truer. Words were never spoken.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, that's right. Anyway, all right, let me go see if I can stuff on sale, but not le boo boo, I don't need that, get one of those masks. I'm good without the le boo boo.
Speaker 1:Alright.
Speaker 2:Y'all have a good one.
