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Ska, Comics, and Action Figures w/ Max Beckman of Half Past Two
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Ska isn't dead! On the heels of their new album and tour announcement, Half Past Two's guitarist/vocalist Max Beckman joins us to talk about his toy collection, comics, and the art of Ska!
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Adventures in Collecting'
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Speaker
Are you ready, kids? Get your parents' permission, check your mailbox, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I'm Eric. And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture, and halls, along with our journeys as collectors. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting.
00:00:33
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Hi. That was a, I just realized I was a squeaky hello everybody. I have a little bit of a, little bit of a cold. So I apologize. That was a bit of a nasally high from my, I don't know what I have. It's a little bit beyond the cold. Yeah. I don't have what you have, but mine is like right here. I'm pointing to my, I'm gesturing to my chest. It's like right in my
Introducing Max Beckman
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chest. It's really great. Um,
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So I'm sorry in advance if I sound like I'm a little ill, but we are back and Dave, we have a guest with us again this week. We do, Eric. Put on your finest lad and don't bury the lead.
00:01:24
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I might even throw some suspenders on too while we're at it. Maybe a checkered tie. I'm going to go full out. So whether you consider yourself to be a mainstream no doubt fan, you really like that one cover of Take On Me.
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or you find yourself toe-tapping to the intro of America's Funniest Home Videos, guess what? You like Ska too. Dave and I are no strangers to the genre, and I was even a drummer in a Ska band for about a year or so. And today's guest calls a wonderfully appropriate crossroads for this show home.
Max's Collection Interests
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Max Beckman is a collector, comic book enthusiast, and store owner, and as guitarist and vocalist of Orange County's half-past two,
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He's gigged with ska and punk royalties, such as Real Big Fish, Less Than Jake, The Aquabats, and The English Beat. Max, welcome to Adventures in Collecting. Hey, Eric. Hey, Dave. Thanks for having me. Pleasure is all ours. Thanks for coming aboard. I think you have now the honor of being the first musician
00:02:35
Speaker
on the show. We've had pro wrestler. We've had, of course, toy marketers. We've had toy designers, but I don't think we've ever had. I think we've had people who've dabbled, but not like calling musician like. Yeah. You are definitely the first like professional musician that we've had on the show. So this is the new milestone for us. This is a new milestone for us. So we're really excited to have you. And as this is a show about, you know, toy collecting,
00:03:04
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First question that we ask all of our guests, what are you currently collecting and what are some of your recent pickups? All right, so I will keep it to current, just current, so we don't, this doesn't take two hours or more. So currently, I would say my main thing is always Marvel Legends. Although I have many main things, so that's not really fair. Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black series, Power Rangers, Lightning Collection, such as it
00:03:34
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If that can be called the current line, since it's in hiatus, but also, yeah, but also other Power Rangers, like I collect all the super seven ultimates and other various super Sentai things. So Power Rangers in general, TMNT in general.
Focus on Transformers and Godzilla
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I, you know, I do not all the cartoon neccas, but a lot of them, I'm not a completionist on
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really many of the sub lines, but I clicked a lot of the NECA turtles and the turtles, ultimates, um, and various other turtle stuff. And, um, my other transformers masterpiece, uh, but masterpiece scale. I don't have a ton of official masterpiece. My, I mainly get third party stuff because, um, it's a lot better.
00:04:28
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And they make a lot of things that has Sakara and Asparaisan even gotten to do So I can I collect all the Beast Wars there's a little ton of third-party like Beast Wars masterpiece scale stuff too and my newest thing is Japanese Sufubi Godzilla other other Sufubi to to an extent just you know like one-off original characters, but mainly
00:04:58
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mainly Godzilla and other Toho monsters. Hidora is my favorite Godzilla monster, villain, enemy, whatever you want, however you want to say it. So I started, I was just getting like a lot of Hidora, but now I've kind of expanded and have a lot of Hidora and a lot of Godzilla and try to get all the different characters represented, represented at least a little bit. I think that's what I'm getting currently. I think that is all my current
00:05:27
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like main collections. And that's
Nostalgia vs. Artistic Collectibles
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awesome. Yeah. I mean, I, we were talking about it before we, before we started recording, but the, those Safubi, um, kajus, they're gorgeous. Like all those different colorways and like, yeah, the, you know, the metallic like glitter variants and stuff. There's so many cool colorways of those. That's what really kind of drew me into it because I've always been like a collector of realistic looking things or on model looking things. And this.
00:05:57
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going getting, you know, these creature characters Kaiju and just crazy colors was just really appealing. And these things that don't fit in with the you know, one 12th scale collection that I vaguely stick to was appealing after so many years. Because my main my previous main collection was three every quarter inch Star Wars that I did from
00:06:24
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Power of the Forest 2, and I fell off about 2010. I just got totally burnt out. I still have most of them. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing with them. And I'll still buy some of the, like I've done the Has Labs for Black Series because I like to have the big chips. But mainly I've been one twelfth scale since I got really back into actual figure collecting in 2016. And I've been
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pretty much one twelfth scale since then. I was pretty hardcore mythic legions until, I don't know, five or six months ago, and I still love them, but it was kind of one of those things where something had to give. So I've started to sell that collection off. I probably had one of the biggest mythic legions collections, honestly, in the world, but they're going away, unfortunately. Well, if there was one to part with, that one was
00:07:21
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financially, probably the best one to play with because some of those figures I know work, you know, you probably made your money back and some. Mythic legions. It's almost impossible to lose money on mythic legions if you bought them, you know, when they were first available as a preorder direct from Four Horsemen. So yeah, I'm that was one of the one of the reasons I decided to let go of that collection. But ultimately, what it came down to was I had to something had to give somewhere.
00:07:51
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And the nostalgia won out over just loving those figures, you know? And so me just having my Marvel characters, my Star Wars, my Turtles, my Power Rangers, Super Sentai, like that just has more of a place in my heart, even though I love the Mythic Legions and they're so cool and they're amazing figures and they're like works of art. They're awesome and I love them, but I had to draw a line somewhere.
00:08:17
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Yeah, totally get it. Um, um, this is, this is kind of the year for me where I'm, I'm trying to determine some more strict guardrails because things have gotten a little out of hand. Um, so, um, I know the feeling. Yeah. I mean, I got really, really out of hand, like during pandemic, cause I was just like working all the time and, um, and just at home, well, not home in my warehouse too.
Journey of Half Past Two
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And just, you know, we weren't going anywhere. And so I just was like,
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there's more money because we're not doing anything. And now I'm like, Oh boy. Hmm. Cause I was even, I was doing like G.I. Joe classified and I was doing all kinds of like, just, Oh, that looks cool. Um, like I was doing thundercats, ultimates, even though I never watched thundercats as a kid, I was like, Oh, ultimate, I'll just get all the ultimates. But then it's like, what am I doing? So, um, like these are cool. I should have this because it will fit in this collection of one 12 figures, but
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There's too much stuff, so. It is a line we all think for sure. Yeah, yeah. So getting into the band, Half Past Two was formed in 2006. That's correct. Nearly 20 years ago. I would say at the height of kind of that era of kind of pop punk and ska being a big thing. How did the band initially come together?
00:09:42
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Well, I mean, Scott was not popular when we started this band and it's still not popular, but it's been getting it's been like making inroads lately. I went to high school at Los Alamitos High School, which is kind of a epicenter for Orange County Scott in the 90s. That's where Real Big Fish was formed. That's where Monique Powell from St. Faris went to school. Our expandants came from that school.
00:10:11
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So it was kind of always round when I was kid, my best friend's older sister, I had a boyfriend who was one of the original saxophone players for the RX bandits who were known as the pharmaceutical bandits at the time. So I went, I saw them in the gym at Los Albedo high school when I was still in elementary school or middle school. And that was really cool. Um, then I kind of forgot about it and then not forgot about it, but I never really got super into Scott until
00:10:41
Speaker
I was in marching band in high school and one of the, someone formed a ska band. I was like, oh yeah, ska, I've heard of this. And then I just was like super, that was it. It was over from that point. I learned guitar so I could play ska. I never wanted to do anything else. When I was a senior in high school, I formed a cover band called King Art Pop and the Slush Tones. And we played a talent show. We did that for a few years because
00:11:08
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because we were marching, all the members were from marching bands. So we had like younger members. So we were able to do it for a few years in a row. And then in the summer of 2006, everyone had graduated and we kind of were just like, why don't we try being a band for real? And then we made the transition to half past two. And it hasn't, you know, there's, we were really active from 2006 to 2009. And then,
00:11:37
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You know, you know how bands go. There's a lot of drama. So there was a break where I was not in the band for five years, even though I was the one that started it, but we don't need to get into that. And then the last 10 years have been like super, like we've been super, super active and just kind of going with it since then. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's one of those things where I laughed when you said Scott, you know, Scott wasn't popular when you formed the band and, and, and, you know, it's, it's like,
00:12:05
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you know, finding those inroads now. And I know like there, uh, you know, there's a lot of YouTube creators out there like, uh, Scott to network, um, you know, that, that have kind of popular repopularize the like Scott cover scene, right. Or helped repopularize it. But like, it's one of those things where at least here in, you know, in New Jersey, um, you know, being in and out of, in and out of band since I was 15, there was always like every town had like their Scott band.
Ska Music and Cover Bands
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There was that like one ska band and they were like so popular. They were always like the most musically talented. Cause of course like, you know, all the horn players and everybody, like they're the professionally trained musicians that like, you know, have their stuff together.
00:12:52
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Yeah. It's just, it's, it's funny cause like I always, and, and, you know, Dave too, I mean, we, we always loved the genre, you know, so it, you know, whether it was, there was the boss tones, whether it was like, honestly, one of my fondest memories of going to like a concert when I was younger was the skank across America tour where it was, um, it was real big fish and less than Jake co-headlining like a big out, man. Yeah. And, uh, Starland. Yeah. It was, it was the best.
00:13:21
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Streetlight was on that too. Yeah, it was it was it was like it was so much suburban legends and ending. That's right Yes, Starland ballroom is always one of those those venues I've always seen like flyers for forever, but I've never been there anything I've never been in Jersey before so Well, you're you're coming to New York soon, right? Well, I am and we're staying in New Jersey. So I will finally be going to New Jersey
00:13:48
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There you go. Um, yeah. So you mentioned, you know, that you, you kind of got your, you know, cut your teeth on, you know, the doing covers and that's, you know, the cover scene has always been something that's been very closely associated with Scott. Um, you know, and, and you guys have done some really interesting, uh, covers past couple of years, uh, from Ludo's criminally underrated, uh, love me dead, uh, dance magic dance from labyrinth, which we are both tremendously fond of.
00:14:14
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And most recently, actually the first song I ever heard from you guys was your cover of Three Small Words from Josie and the Pussycats. How do you go about picking these songs and what's the process to put kind of the half past two spin on them? Well, it usually just starts with something like, wouldn't it be funny if we did this? And, you know, there are
00:14:42
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There is a strategy to it as well because, you know, we don't want to be known as a cover band. Um, but we have done a lot of covers and part of that part of it is to, it's just really fun. Another part is strategically you're able to potentially find a new audience. Not all those people are going to come over and listen to our originals, but at least there's some conversion. If some, if, you know, someone hears our cover, cause like three small words, uh, we actually released that in 20.
00:15:12
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18, I think. And that is for a long time, that was our most popular song on streaming by far. And so it's done a lot for us. And I really like doing covers because it's easier than not because but it is easier than writing a song from scratch. And it's a fun challenge to take someone else's song and put it in our style. It's it's really enjoyable. I
00:15:43
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I like, I like rearranging songs and I like taking all the different parts and trying to figure out how to like translate that using the instruments that we have. Um, like we did this in the same, uh, same time we released three small words. We also did, it wasn't released the same day, but it was the same session. We did somebody that I used to know, I go TA.
00:16:08
Speaker
Cool. And that was that was one that was like, wouldn't it be funny if we did this because that song is like such an earworm and like people's head. And so that one was actually that one sticks out as one of my most fun taking because there's like a lot of different percussion instruments in there and like and melodies and like taking that and translating giving it to the horns then putting this other part in the guitars and
00:16:33
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So yeah, it's fun. It's really fun. Um, we're just not doing as much lately cause we're trying to release more originals, but, um, we did just do a cover of capsule by suicide machines, but that was pretty much a straight cover. And, but that was also like started out as our booking agent was cause we're doing some shows with the suicide machines. And our agent who's also been just a friend for like 20 years, almost, uh, was like, I think he was joking and he said, you should, you guys should cover this since you guys are playing together. And we're like, okay.
00:17:03
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Like that's kind of our joke is all someone has to say to us would be like, it would be funny if you did this and we'll do it.
00:17:10
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Well i mean it's it's it absolutely got me like hook line and sinker i mean i you know obviously wanted to do a little research you know prior to having you on the show but listening to that cover i literally just went down the rabbit hole and ended up listening to pretty much your entire discography on on uh apple music so yeah i i um i you've converted me oh your cover song converted yeah i mean
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Awesome. We're both on board. Thank you.
Touring and Collecting
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So speaking of the road, you're headed back out on the road with some dates booked already. So as a collector, how does touring impact your collecting habits? I would say now it doesn't much because, you know, I don't have to tell you guys like so much is just online. Like I don't I don't do toy hunting in person unless it's like a convention.
00:18:05
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I do look for like Safooby and stuff, but there's not a lot of stores like that. So if I was touring in like the old days and like the late 2000s, I think I would be trying to go to targets and Walmart's all the time. Like, cause that's what we had to do back then. I always, I always tell, I always tell people when it comes up, like I went to college in Irvine UCI and
00:18:35
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I would have like space between classes. So I would have roots that I knew how long it would take me. So it's like, okay, I have an hour and a half so I can hit these three targets on this one Walmart, or I have two and a half hours. Should I write this essay or should I go hit five targets?
00:18:55
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So if it was the old days, I'd probably be wanting to stop at Target's all the time. But I mean, I, I do still always look at the aisle when I go to Target, but there's really not much to worry about finding in stores as far as. So yeah, not so much, but I am trying to find, I am trying to find some unique, like, um, Safooby toy stores or some that might have that kind of stuff where we're going now.
00:19:24
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So that's, that's, I'm hopeful for that. You got to keep an eye out for those little, like the little mom and pop places. And I mean, yeah, the little, yeah, for sure. As opposed to the big, big bucks. Yeah. And you're headed in, you know, headed to New York. So there's, there's a lot, I mean, even just a trip to midtown comics, you know, it's just kind of like a fun experience if you've never been there. My, I haven't, but my number one, my, my excitement about going to New York is that we're going to stay
00:19:52
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in New Jersey and that I'm gonna go to Quick Stop because that's like. There you go. That's like gonna be a religious experience for me. Done it and it is, yes. Yeah. It is. I'm very excited for that.
00:20:06
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Yeah, we're also big. I think it's part of being of our generation. If you're not from New Jersey and a Kevin Smith fan, you're suspicious. It's not a... Certainly, it's always like, oh, really? OK, cool. Yeah. But it sure is. My one friend and I took the picture out front, like, all right, who's going to be Jay? Who's going to be so? Well, we'll take two. All right.
00:20:40
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Speaking of being on tour, does collecting ever come up with any of the other bands that you guys gig with? Do you ever find any kind of bonding happening over collecting? I've only met one person ever. His name is Joseph and he's from a band called Take Today. He's the only person I've ever really met in another band that is also a collector.
00:21:04
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I met him when I went to Fest in Gainesville. We weren't playing that year, but we've never played Fest. But I met him, he was there, and that's the only person I've met through music, really, that's also a toy collector. So not that much, honestly. We're always looking for that weird in route with somebody that is kind of unexpectedly a collector.
00:21:33
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And, you know, always looking to see who's out there, who's ready to like, you know, be the new face of making it even cooler to be a collector these days. Like, we just learned the other day, Batista, why can't think of his... Dave? Dave Batista, thank you, is apparently, he's a massive lunchbox collector.
00:22:00
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. And I mean, like he posted, he posted a video of his lunchbox collection and it's like, it's funny cause it's, it's like, you know, an Ikea detail for eight and it's, it's a video of him putting in like one lunchbox and he pans out and you're like, Oh, the whole detox filled with lunchboxes.
00:22:15
Speaker
That's really cool. And then he keeps like moving further and further back and you're like, Oh, he's got like three or four to toss full of lunch boxes. Wow. That's a lot. And then he keeps going and you're like, Oh my God, the entire room is walled with the toss and they're all filled like hundred, like hundred. I need to see this. It's unbelievable. Yeah. He talked about it like in brief and one of those old WWE documentaries about him. But like, yeah, that's,
00:22:41
Speaker
a huge thing for him is lunch boxes. So I found the source of it. The source was he was doing the Dune 2 press tour, press junket thing. And they asked, somebody asked him, like, what do you nerd out about? And he got, like, really, like, cagey for a minute and, like, was kind of just like didn't want to say it. And they're like, well, no, no, it's OK. And he was like, I really like lunch boxes and action figures. And they're like, what? And then, you know, then it cuts to the video of him with
00:23:11
Speaker
just an insane lunch and they're awesome. It's like all like, they're all like the vintage, like those nice colors, the like full print on the front. Really cool. Very, very cool. Yeah. I think like the newest one was one he was on, like, yeah, like a guardians one or something. Or it might've even been a wrestling one. Like, but there was one that it was new with him on it. But, uh, the, another thing that, uh, that Dave and I both collect that is, uh, that is a hot topic right now for you,
00:23:38
Speaker
You guys are putting out a new record and, uh, and end on vinyl at that.
Upcoming Album 'Talk is Killing Me'
00:23:43
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So tell us, tell us a little bit about the, uh, the new record. Yes. We have a new record coming out on April 19th. It's called talk is killing me. And it's going to come out on bad time records. Bad time records is kind of like the epicenter of the, it's like the, uh, where, where Scott is happening. There's other labels and stuff like Scott book international doing some cool things, but.
00:24:07
Speaker
Like bad time is where, it's where bands want to be frankly, for the most part. And we've been working towards it for a long time. Like all, a lot of our friends are on bad time and we've been friends with the owner. The owner is the, is the lead singer of the band Kill Lincoln. And so this is something we've been working towards. So it's super exciting. We, we started working on the record in August of 2022.
00:24:35
Speaker
And we brought in a new co-writer producer, Reed Wolcott. She is the lead singer of the band We Are The Union, who is another one of my favorite SCA bands. And so that's kind of completely transformed our process. She's like a songwriter. So we'll get in the room and we can just write a song. She pulls it out of us and it's great because writing songs has been pretty tortuous over the years. Like it takes us a long time.
00:25:04
Speaker
I always felt like I have to wait for inspiration to strike, but with her, she's just like, give me the confidence. Just be like, I'll just play something random and we'll turn it into a song. And, um, it's just, it's been very rewarding, very great experience. And yeah, the first single is called Domino's and it came out on February 23rd. So we got a video streaming for that and it's available to stream everywhere.
00:25:32
Speaker
And there will be more singles coming soon with the full album dropping on April 8th. Well, the first single is great. Video is a lot of fun. Uh, yeah, I really, uh, really enjoy it. Enjoyed it. Uh, when you guys dropped it the other day and yeah, that label, like you have some crazy label mates on there. Uh, you know, one of my, one of my all time favorites, mustard plug.
00:25:57
Speaker
Yeah, we toured. We've toured with muster plug multiple times. The last little run we did was in the Midwest with them for it was for their record release. It was their record release shows for their album on bad time. Where did all my friends go? And so we got to do four shows with them, which was really cool. That was in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Detroit and Cleveland, which I'd never been to any of those places before. And we really haven't played. We really didn't do much touring in the old days. So
00:26:28
Speaker
Most of our touring has been more local, like California, Arizona, maybe Nevada a little bit. Now we're starting to fly out. And like you were talking about earlier, in April, so the day, the week that the album comes out, we have four shows, Brooklyn, Washington, DC, Ben Salem, Pennsylvania, and Boston, or Summerville, but basically Boston.
00:26:54
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Yeah. And then by the time this airs, we'll have announced a whole group more shows. We're going to be doing our record release shows in May in Orange County in San Francisco. And then in June, we're doing a whole Southwest tour through Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Utah and Colorado. And we've never done like that's the longest tour we've ever done. Eight shows. The most we've done in a row before is five.
00:27:24
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And then in July, we're doing like the Pacific Northwest and In September we're playing supernova Scott fest in Virginia as well So there's other stuff. There's other stuff too that hasn't that I can't talk about yet and more to come But yeah, we're kind of just doing it this year. We're just you know, the album's out. It's like the biggest thing we've ever done and we're just gonna make it happen and
00:27:50
Speaker
That's awesome. Yeah, that's so cool. Full send. So this is your first time working with a producer in the studio too, right? That you were saying? No, actually, it's not our first time working with a producer. Actually, our first EP and album were produced by Aaron Barrett, the lead singer of Real Big Fish. It kind of co-produced and engineered by David Irish, who we've recorded everything with. He has a studio in Orange called Pot of Gold. And he has recorded all the Real Big Fish stuff
00:28:20
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since 2006. And he worked with a whole bunch of other bands. And he still worked, he co-produced and engineered most of the new album. We wanted to keep him part of the process. He's a very, very important Half Fest 2 team member and a very close friend. So it wasn't like we're replacing, it was just like we're adding, reading. But we had never co-written with someone before outside of the band.
00:28:50
Speaker
When we worked with Erin and with Dave, we had the songs, and we would make changes to them in the studio with them, but we'd never, from the ground up, worked with a co-writer and producer. So it was a whole new experience in that regard. And so is it weird having somebody get into your head and get into the creative space with you like that? No, it's awesome, because it takes so much pressure off. It takes so much pressure off. And I also just trust her.
00:29:20
Speaker
I trust her judgment so much. So if I'm feeling self-conscious about something, wondering if it's like good or not, I know that she's not going to lie. You know, she'll be completely honest. And so it's very freeing and it's just, it's very, it's a very awesome experience. And especially to be that productive. I mean, it took, it took a year to make the album, but that's pretty fast for us from, from nothing to complete.
00:29:49
Speaker
So, and there were big breaks in the middle, but so, you know, whatever it is with, but yeah, it's, it's been awesome. And we're continuing to work with Reed. We're already working on whatever the next project is going to be. We have a lot of, we have some good progress already on the next thing. So, do you normally find that it's like kind of almost like that, like snowball effect or that kind of landslide effect where it's just.
00:30:17
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OK, the creativity has come and it just doesn't stop. Like, yeah, I don't just keep rolling. Yeah, I don't like to stop. I like to keep I just like to keep it going. I want to make as much music as possible while I can, because you never know. You never know what's going to happen. I there's been a lot of things that happened in the band in the past. I I had cancer twice and almost died. So, you know, I just want to do as much as I can while we can.
00:30:46
Speaker
And that's, that's what keeps me going. Well, that's, that's, that's amazing, man. We're well, very, uh, very excited to hear it. I don't want to bring it down. I'm, I'm totally fine. I've been, I've been cured for like six years. So I'm, I'm, I'm all clear from the cancer stuff, but it, but it, yeah, it was rough for a while. And now a word from our sponsors.
00:31:17
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Running CheapGraphicNovels.com
00:33:13
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So outside of the band, you also run a comic shop and an online store. How did that opportunity come into your life? So I actually just own a website, cheapgraphicnovels.com. We used to be part of a store called Pulp Fiction, which is in Long Beach, California. One of my best friends, Ryan, still owns it. I started working there. I started buying my books there in 2006, I think. And in 2007,
00:33:40
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one of the employees was moving. And so I swooped in and took that job. And at the time it was just Wednesday mornings to get the new comics and set it up and that was it. And then my ex boss decided to start the website, cheapgraphicnovels.com. And I kind of built most of it from the ground up. And then as things got busier, I became the first full-time employee of the shop and the website in 2010. And then everything kind of grew from there.
00:34:10
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and cut to 2019 or late 2018, my ex boss told me and Ryan that he was going to retire basically or move on to other things. And he wanted to sell the website to me and sell the store to him. And the rest is history. I officially took over as the owner in April of 2019. And that's what I've been doing since just just the website. And I
00:34:38
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glad that worked out because I really didn't want to do anything else. And we didn't really even get into the topic of comic books, but is that something else that you're also, you know, that you collect kind of actively or, or has that been kind of like business now? No, no, no, it's very active. I, I collect hardcover graphic novels for my personal collection. Um, I have a very large, very, very large personal collection in the room next to where I am right now.
00:35:09
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So, uh, yeah, I did collect like regular, you know, just single issue comics for a long time, but I stopped in about 2011 stopped actively buying. I still read. I still kept reading after that, but since I worked at the store, I could read whatever I wanted and without buying them. And so I decided at that point I was switching to just reading comics and then buying hardcovers of what I wanted basically. But yeah, that's.
00:35:39
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That's another huge collection aside from toys. That's like my main thing other than toys. So we've got a question later on that talks about like historic graphic novels, but what are some of like the current things that would still be out there if people wanted to pick up single issues of like current series that become collected that are things that you're actively reading? Um, as far as like,
00:36:05
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reading comics that just come out on a monthly basis. I've really pared it down to just keeping up with X-Men and Spider-Man because those were the things that I started with when I started reading comics in like 24 years ago. So I keep up with those monthly for the most part. Everything else I've kind of switched to enjoying it more. Also for my attention span, just like reading it when it's done. So when they do like the big omnibus collection of a whole
00:36:34
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40 issue series, I'll just sit down and read the entire thing in a weekend or whatever. And I've found that's much more enjoyable now. But, um, yeah, X-Men and Spider-Man are my two main, you know, my favorites as far as Marvel goes. I mean, I, I don't just stick to Marvel and DC. Like I have everything, all, you know, independent stuff, old, old stuff, EC Comics.
00:36:59
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creepy and eerie magazine collections from this. I just love comics, so I have a big library that runs the whole gamut of comics. That's awesome. Yeah, I've kind of gone the same direction where
00:37:18
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Yeah, except for Ghost Rider for me. I've kind of gone the same route too. I actually have totally abandoned the physical books. I read them all on my iPad now. I do like the Marvel Unlimited subscription and I just, you know, I do it that way now because instead of taking up
00:37:39
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you know, space, you know, real estate being important. You mean you don't also want stacks of long boxes like I do in lieu of like toy space as well? Nope. I'm already out of space, Dave, which makes me angry. So yeah, it's nice having them all on an iPad. It's not the same like, you know, experience wise. Yeah. I read digitally too. Like all the single issues I read digitally and sometimes if I like
00:38:08
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I need to read something. I don't have the book on hand. I'll read it digitally, but, um, I, and it's nice cause you can kind of lean back and, or be in bed and read it, but I do prefer overall prefer to read physically for sure. There's nothing like it. I mean, every now and then there'll be something that comes out. Um, that like, I guess I shouldn't say I've completely stopped. I'm just extremely picky. So like the most recent thing I picked up was like the last Ronin.
00:38:34
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Uh, yeah, that, that hardcover is first, first of all, it's gorgeous. The, the forward in it by Robert Rodriguez is amazing. Um, but yeah, it's like, when something like that comes out, you know, that's something that like, that, that definitely needs to be on the shelf.
Imagining an Action Figure - Q&A
00:38:50
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Um, but, uh, so, so switching gears back to toys, uh, I, you know, this is something that's interesting. There's a lot of toy companies out there that are, are making.
00:39:01
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music-related toys, like, you know, you have Super 7 making ultimates and reactions of musicians. So, you know, there are a lot of toy companies out there making really great figures right now. If you could be an action figure in any line, what would it be and what would be your accessories? Okay. I want to say,
00:39:29
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Marvel Legends, but I'm not a Marvel character. So I don't think that really pertains. So I'd have to say Ultimates because Ultimates can be anything. And also, Ultimates come with tons of accessories. Like that's kind of part of the deal with Ultimates. So you have the most options. So obviously, I'd have to come with a guitar. And I think I should come with other action figures of all the things I collect. So like, like in the like in the like for the Megazord Ultimates, there's like
00:39:58
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with the two little, you know, or they've done it throughout the Power Rangers Ultimate. So you get the little, the tiny, the tiny ones. Yeah. To, to go with it. So I would, I would need to have at least, you know, a couple, like a Spider-Man and a Wolverine and like, um, a blue ranger. Cause blue is the best blue rangers, the best, uh, you know, original blue ranger.
00:40:19
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Yeah, yeah. And Leonardo, you know, I don't know what I honestly, it's funny because like my favorite color is blue. I really wonder if it's because of Leonardo or if that's just like not related at all because TMNT was my first love like that was I had everything for a certain point. And I ended up selling it all to pay for Star Wars stuff once that one Star Wars became the be all end all for me.
00:40:49
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I sold all my Power Rangers, all my turtles, which, you know, I don't really say I regret because I wanted more Star Wars, but I really wish I had mostly the turtles, like the Power Rangers stuff. I don't really care about having the original Megazord. I like having the newer fancy ones and that's cool for me, but I wish I had all the original turtles because I don't think there's ever been another toy line, like the vintage turtle line. It's.
00:41:19
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The creativity and just the weirdness. Oh, yeah. Cannot be matched. And I do wish that I had those. Um, and that's, that's why I, the TMNT ultimates are, well, it's kind of changed. And cause I don't, I don't really know why it's changed and they're maybe not doing all based on vintage toys, but at least the first several waves of TMNT ultimates, that was like, this is my favorite line, my favorite turtle's line because they are.
00:41:48
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recreating the original figures and you know I when I get them I try to like make them in the same pose that the original ones were stuck in you know so uh anyway that was a total tangent I used to come with a Spider-Man Wolverine a Blue Ranger a Leonardo and um a Luke Skywalker from Return of the Jedi um
00:42:13
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But I think of Luke Skywalker like should it be like like power of the force like buff? No, no, no, no, no, no, you have to know You know vintage collection or black series whatever I guess black series And I think that covers all of all the main food groups and what kind of what kind of guitar would be a telecaster No, I don't play it tell anymore. I I
00:42:40
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Uh, my main guitars are Reverend, which is a newer brand and a lot of, a lot of scholars play Reverend. But, um, I also play a Gordon Smith, which is a British company that, uh, I got because Aaron Barrett used the same guitar. And I actually, I use Aaron's Gordon Smith in the studio sometimes. Cause that's where it lives. And then I decided to get my own and it is blue. So probably that one because, you know, to keep the blue theme going. Very on brand.
00:43:10
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Yeah, for sure. I can actually, I know exactly which guitar you're talking about. I can picture it. The, if it's the real big fish one that I'm thinking is his or his is orange and red. Yep. Yep. Yep. That's, that's the one guy. Yeah. Oh, that's a cool guitar. Um, yeah, no, that's a, that's a great, that's a great choice. Super seven's a solid choice because like you said, you get a, you get all, you get all those accessories. That's that's good.
00:43:38
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I feel like we briefly touched upon it, but it's something that we all love. Is there also a record collection to go with the Ska history and influence for you? I have a pretty modest record collection, honestly. I only started collecting them a couple of years ago. I don't really collect them per se because I didn't want to start yet another collection. I just get the ones that I like. I'm not out hunting rare ones or anything like that.
00:44:08
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The ones, my favorite albums or my friends' albums, I just, I have four calyx cubes full and that's, that's, that's the entirety of my record collection. So it's more just a little thing in the closet and a main thing. So, so we kind of mentioned it earlier on in the show, but we have to thank a friend of the pod, Ryan Ting from the Marvel legends team and, and fellow pop punk and Scott enthusiast for connecting us.
00:44:34
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So I think in lieu of our normal Q and a section, um, I think it's only fair that we hit you with a couple of questions from Ryan. Sure. So, so, so Ryan is going to, to lead our, uh, our Q and a Dave, do you want to, uh, do you want to roll with the first question there? Yeah, sure. Um, so number one is what are your top three SCA bands? My top three SCA bands.
00:45:05
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Real big fish. Uh, I'm going to do this part, part historically and part current. So real big fish. Number one. Um, we are the union and, uh, it's so hard. That is so hard. Okay. You know what? I think it's really hard to just say three.
00:45:32
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I think Ryan would expect us, all of us to answer this question, Dave. Yeah, I feel like he would. So, um, do you want to go next or should I go next with your top three? All right. Um, so my number one is, uh, is less than Jake. Uh, my number two, I'm going to have to go. We're going to do street light manifesto. Okay. For number two, three is hard.
00:46:01
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I want to say Real Big Fish because like that was kind of the Real Big Fish and Mighty Mighty Bostonones were kind of like the bands that got me initially like got me into Ska. But I got it. I got to go with. I'm going to I'm going to do Real Big Fish. Yeah, I'm going to do so. So, yeah, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto and Real Big Fish. Those are my my three favorite. OK, so we're going to dip into the same pool a little bit. I'm going Bostonones one.
00:46:31
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mighty mighty boss tones they're kind of my entry point um actually it goes back to the Levi's commercial not even clueless um but uh then i would definitely say streetlight manifesto um and less than jake when streetlight shout out to uh
00:46:52
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I think Pete's still playing bass with them. I went to high school with Pete. You went to high school with him and he was my wife's neighbor growing up. How about that? We're the smallest of small worlds. It's funny you mentioned Clueless with Bostones. I always think of that weird movie
00:47:15
Speaker
with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams. Father's Day? Where they both think they're the kids, the one kids. They both think they're his son. That's the movie, right? Father's Day? I think it's called Father's Day. I think that's what it's called. I've never seen it, but oh. He goes to a, there's a whole scene where they're in the pit at a Boss Tones concert. Oh wow. And Billy Crystal is head-butting children.
00:47:39
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I mean, seven years difference that makes sense for as far as the movies go. And he's teaching Robin Williams how to headbutt the children in the pit in order to get like their, their son out of like a bad situation. But I like when you, when I don't, it just, it's so funny to me. Cause it's like the complete opposite thing that would ever happen in a mighty, mighty ballstones concert happening in that, in that pit. But yeah, that's what I, anytime I think of that band, I'm immediately drawn to that very strange scene from that movie.
00:48:09
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Um, now we have to watch it. It's a, it's a bizarre movie. It's, I haven't seen it in probably, it's gotta be, it's gotta be like 15, 15 years at least since I've seen it. Um, I don't even know if it's like available streaming anywhere, but, uh, yeah, I have an amazing recall for its existence, but I've never seen it. Yeah. It's a, it's a weird one. And the kid is somebody famous too. I want to say it's, um, uh, Nick Papa Giorgio.
00:48:39
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from Vegas Vacation, I think. Oh, Ethan Embry? Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I think he plays the kid. If it's not, it's like, it's a kid that's, it's an actor that looks a lot like him. And my brain is just replaced. All of us are amazing radio. All of us right now are IMDBing the movie. Yeah, I'm lucky because I don't think it's called Father's Day. It's not Ethan Embry.
00:49:09
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uh julia louise is in it yes yes um is it called father's day dave yeah oh it is oh yeah there it is i can't there was another father's day that came up when i first looked it's oh it says the bands in it are sugar ray and the muffs
00:49:31
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Now I'm all twisted. Maybe this whole time, maybe I'm misremembering. I feel like for sure the song that's playing in the background during the head-butting scene is the impression that I get. I have not seen this. Charlie Huffheimer is the actor.
00:49:55
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We're going to, I'm going to have to revisit this movie now and like rewire, rewire my brain. Okay. So tangent aside, weird nineties movie tangent aside, the other question that Ryan has, um, is if you could pick one graphic novel each from the eighties nineties and two thousands, what would they be?
00:50:19
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Okay. So I'm taking this to mean series because there weren't really graphic novels in the eighties and they're not, not much in the nineties. So these are going to be collections of what I would pick from those decades. So for the eighties, while it's not a hundred percent eighties started late seventies, I'd have to go with the uncanny X-Men omnibus volume one that collects the first however many issues starting with giant size X-Men number one, which.
00:50:47
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introduce the modern X-Men team, Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Banshee, Sunfire, Zuckerberg, maybe forgetting someone. But that will be my pick for the 80s. Like I said, it starts in the late 70s, but close enough. My 90s pick is going to be totally out of left field, but it's for nostalgia reasons. And it ties into something for Ryan, which is,
00:51:16
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I'm going to take X-Men Operation Zero Tolerance because that original trade paperback was one of the first trade paperbacks I ever got. I'm one of the first X-Men stories I read in full, which is not one of the most popular storylines of all time. It was later in the nineties when comics weren't as popular anymore. But because of when I read it and how early I read it, it's always had a very special place in my heart. And the three
00:51:45
Speaker
members of the X-Men that joined in that story that have a special place in my heart because of it, even though most people don't care that much about these characters, are Maggot, Mero, and Dr. Cecilia Reyes. So I was so happy when we got a Maggot Marvel Legends. Now I just need Ryan to get on Mero and Cecilia Reyes.
00:52:08
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See when I think it when I think of zero tolerance I don't know why am I and I might be wrong because my brain is clearly failing me this evening But there's there's a cover of like Wolverine and like a yellow tactical. That's he's like, yeah forward I love that version of Wolverine like just I think that was yeah, I think that was drawn by Linneal Francis you I think super super super cool cover jumps right and I can remember like I
00:52:32
Speaker
The the like circle zero tolerance like logo is like the center in the upper left or upper right but like awesome awesome cover I would love a Marvel Legends version of that Wolverine. Yeah, I was also stoked to get the Bastion with the Sentinel as well. Yep. Yep. Yep Okay, and then the last oh, yeah in the 2000s thousands. Yeah, so ultimate spider-man omnibus volume one because ultimate spider-man was
00:52:59
Speaker
my top favorite book for many, many, many, many, many years. And it was one of the first books I started reading when I started reading comics. Issue number four is when I started buying it off the rack. And I just love that series. I mean, it's almost impossible for me to narrow it down. Like when you're taking the last 24 years, 23 years, like it's almost impossible for me to just pick one
00:53:27
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But that was the first one that came to my mind, so that's why I'm sticking with that. I still have my Ultimate Spider-Man number one in a board bag somewhere. Mine I bought while I was in college. Mine I bought while I was in college, so that isn't in the best shape. So I actually bought it twice, or it was bought for me twice. The one that I read no longer exists.
00:53:54
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I found this one like with like squirreled away with stuff. Like I honestly, I don't think I had the foresight to like put it away. Definitely not at that time. I think I honestly and truly just forgot that I bought it and put it in a pile somewhere and was like, Oh, I want to read this and like went back and got it again at some point. Yeah. I remember that was like the first book that had like that hype. Yeah. In a long time. Yeah. Well, I, I, I got into finally,
00:54:24
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being a comics like hardcore weekly reader after the first X-Men movie. So also like I, that was the era and it, it, ultimate Spider-Man had started just a little bit before that. So I never went back and got it. I mean, I've obviously read the whole series. I never went back and got issues one through three. And I, I later sold my entire run. I did keep, uh,
00:54:50
Speaker
ultimate fallout number four, which is the first appearance of my own palette. So I do still have that. Very cool. Cause I love the character and so I decided to keep that one. Well, before we, before we, uh, we let you go, um, we do have a tradition on this show where we have a final question that we ask all of our guests, uh, Dave, would you like to fulfill your role as this shows James Lipton and ask our final question?
Favorite Collection Piece
00:55:17
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Why? Yes, I would.
00:55:21
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So Max, this is the final question that we ask all of our guests. What is your favorite and or strangest piece in your collection? It can be one of each or it can be both. Okay. Uh, again, almost impossible, but the first thing that came to my mind, so that's what I'm going to stick with is I, uh, bought when I
00:55:50
Speaker
became when I took over my business and I started to have a little bit more disposable income. I found something that I always wanted, never thought I would get. It was expensive, but it was a very good price for this. And more importantly, it was somewhere where I could drive to get it because it's so large that it's not that feasible to ship, which is the Millennium Falcon extraordinaire, which is
00:56:18
Speaker
The ones that were hanging in Toys R Us is in 1999 and every store gave one away. So I do have one of those. It's not in perfect condition. It is complete, but it's, I do, I've had it for a few years already. And I keep saying, I need to find someone to like 3d print them things to fix it. And I'd love to get it like fully tricked out and customized someday, but I do have it. And I love having it. It's, it's pretty darn close. I, I feel to one 12th scale.
00:56:48
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maybe like a tiny bit too small, but like you put a figure next to it, the cockpit and it looks pretty damn good. Yeah. So, um, that's that I'm going to, I'm going to go with that as my favorite toy in my collection. Strangest. I'm not sure. Um, I'm not sure. I guess that was kind of strange because it's like a lot of people don't even know what it is, but I was able to like, I just saw one pop up on Facebook and it was in,
00:57:18
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Fresno, which is like a three or four hour drive. So I contacted it was at some like card shop is and I was like, Hey, can I drive and we give me a better price by paying cash was like, Yeah, so I took a whole day and I went out there and picked it up. And yeah,
00:57:35
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I would say that qualifies as both. Yeah, that definitely qualifies as both. I mean, I've been, I've been collecting Star Wars figures. Like I still collect the three and three quarter inch. I never really got into black series. I'm still like, I have, that's my primary collection. That and my, my Marvel legends are really like the two things that I have more than anything else of. And I've been collecting since that power of the force two line, like still have my original ones from when those were given to me. And I have never.
00:58:05
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I am today years old. I've never heard of this Millennium Falcon and I'm, I'm trying to wrap my head around it. I'm trying to not go on eBay right now and start looking for it. Um, I vaguely remember one hanging up in the store. Yeah, they were, they were in, it was in pretty much every Toys R Us in 1999. And then they gave it, it was a raffle to like, to, uh, to give them away when the promotion was over. That's fascinating. I'm looking it up right now. This is fascinating. I have to, we, so we have a, uh,
00:58:35
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a friend, very good friend of the pod, shouts to Craig, who used to work at our local Toys R Us. So I am definitely going to be bugging him about this when we get off with you because I need to know more. This thing looks incredible. And just a side note to what you're saying too, there's just a funny like collecting thing that I'm sure like you guys can relate to is I frequently have, well, somewhat frequently have like a crisis of conscious and think like,
00:59:03
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Did I make a mistake by getting into Black Series and not sticking with three and three-quarter inch? Because there's just part of me that feels like Star Wars is three and three-quarter inch. Yeah. But I had stopped in 2010. Yeah, I honestly think about it more than I should. About if I should just dump all the Black Series and try to go back and fill in the three and three-quarter inch. And I'm like, am I making a mistake? Do I continue to make this mistake? I don't know.
00:59:32
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I love the Black series, too, though. I love the Black series. It was like what Eric was telling me, and it's kind of adjacent to like, well, should I be doing this was when I started my Oops All Ghost Riders, Marvel Legends. And it's like, there's only seven, like. Yeah, so far. No, I mean, I tell this to everybody. I was almost in on the Has lab, but I was in on the Has lab. I'm very disappointed in that.
01:00:01
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Yeah. And the rank or didn't get funded either. I wanted that. I, and I was also bummed because the, I'm a, I'm a kind of, I've toned it back, but I'm a pretty crazy. Like I was a pretty crazy army builder. So like I have seven of the sentinels. Um, although two, two I've never opened. So I've thought maybe I'll just sell those because five is still a lot.
01:00:25
Speaker
Um, it is my one master mold and then exactly next the two flank. That's, that's why it has to be an odd number. Cause you need the one master mold exactly. But I already had like a bunch of the previous one they'd released the days of future past one and whatever, like the smaller one. And my Marvel legends completionism is based on character, not on every figure. So, and I used to get like every costume of characters, but I've cut back on that a lot.
01:00:54
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and I don't do any MCU except for Spider-Man stuff, but I'm a completionist as far as characters. So any unique version that I consider to be a unique, different version of that character, I get. So even with the Galactus, because they put that Dr. Doom Galactus head in, and that is a completely unique character from a different universe,
01:01:20
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I did have to buy two Galactuses so I could have both of those. In that vein, I was pretty bummed that Giant Man didn't get to the next tier because I would have 100% gotten three so I could have regular zombie and scroll, but it is what it is. Also, the Legends team doesn't get mad. It's nine Ghost Riders.
01:01:44
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it up. No, I was counting in my head. So the one thing I always say to people who are on the fence about the the vintage collection of Black Series are like they're trying to like they're having that kind of like internal dialogue. I mean, the way that I see it is there are just things that I can get with the vintage collection.
01:02:04
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And in the three and three quarter inch scale. And I mean, some of those older, like, you know, older Hasbro figures, even with the limited articulation still hold up really well. Like, you know, yeah, I think one of my favorite, well, it was always my favorite in the old days was a pretty early figure. I think it was a pretty, yeah, it was, it was green card POTF two, which was the, um,
01:02:28
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The removable, the return of the Jedi Vader with the removable top helmet and the removable hand. I figured it was like perfect. And that came out in like 1997. Yeah. Rules. Um, I mean the yak face that I'm, I'm staring at my, I have my, my long story short, like there are things you can do with vintage collection that you can't do with like, yes, I'm looking at Java's throne room set up on my, my display right now with all like completely filled in with all of the characters and everything. And like.
01:02:55
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It like they, they can never do a set like that. They can never, they're never going to make a millennium Falcon. That's even close to being on scale with one. Well, definitely. Like I said, I still have all my three and three quarter inch from back in the day. So I will, one thing I decided like I will, well, I did sell some stuff, but, um, I vehicles for sure. Keep like, I won't get rid of my BMF, you know, um,
01:03:20
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and I did get the Razor Crest and I am getting the Ghost and I bought and I pre-ordered the Sabine and whatever the ones that they just put up so I could have the whole Ghost crew in that scale in the Ghost.
01:03:36
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Yeah. But, you know, to your point on the job as palace though, I did get a third party throne from eBay. So I do have my own little black seat, my own black series job as set up as well. Nice. Yeah. Shouts to land speeder. Luke makes some really, really cool stuff for one 12 for, for black series. For sure.
01:03:58
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Um, well, listen, uh, Max, this has been an absolute blast. Um, before we say goodbye, please let our audience know where can they find out, um, all the news about half past two, where can they follow you? Um, where can they pre-order their, uh, their, their vinyl edition of your new album? Yeah. So as far as, um, the band goes, we are at half past two Scott everywhere. So half past two SKA.
01:04:28
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Um, the new album is available at, um, through bad time records, which I'm double checking right now. I think it's just bad time records.com. Yep. Yes, it is. So if you go to bad time records.com, our album is the thing that pops up right now. Your campaign is going the first variant, the cosmic swirl, which is absolutely gorgeous. And I can't wait to see it in person. That is half sold out. Um, so get on that. And then as far as work goes.
01:04:56
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cheapgraphicnovels.com is my website at cheapGN on Instagram and Yeah, that's my my life is toys comics and music. That's pretty much it All the time awesome, and I am at King Otter I'm at King Otter pop on Instagram if anyone wants to follow me for some reason
01:05:18
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Well, we'll make sure to put all of the links to all of those things in the show notes. So that way you guys can tap and end or click to follow and support half past two. And hey, maybe when you're out here later in April, maybe we'll try to get out to Brooklyn to see you guys play. Yeah, let me know. Let me know. So with that, Dave, why don't you send us home?
01:05:47
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Everybody put on your favorite record and dance. Just getting a little circle and dance. Thank you, dear listener, for hanging out with us today. Subscribe, rate, and review us wherever you listen, and then tell your friends to do it. Thanks also to Joe Azari, the golden voice behind our intro. Our music is Game Boy Horror by the Zombie Dandies. Find more about them both on our show notes.
01:06:13
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