Welcome to Yes Have Some Podcast, Craig here with a very special episode. Now, Jason Fitzsimmons from Ghostbusters News is here. I have so many questions for him. The first one is not a question. The first one is going to be a welcome. Thank you, Jason, for joining us here. Joining me at YHS tonight, I appreciate it. Well, it's an honor. I'll just say that, Craig. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to dive in. I don't have any good ideas to what we're going to talk about.
So I'm pretty excited to have no, okay, we're just going on script. We're going on script. I've been doing YHS with the gang for eight years going on nine. When did Ghostbusters News start? We started back in 2009. So it's been 15 years now, 15 years. So why did this take so long for us to sit down in that conversation? You tell me. I don't know. I think it's just the creative space. Sometimes there's two sources of energy and they just can't come together. They just can't make it work.
I don't really know, honestly. I'm glad to get here. I feel like there's always been this weird barrier between us where we could have maybe been in the same place. We've been in the same place at the same time. Several times most recently at the frozen empire premiere. We spirits unleashed launch party for Ghostbusters spirits unleashed. I think it was probably the 2019 the fan fest on the Sony lots. A couple of 10. Yes, fan fest.
Hopefully we have this might be a two part episode of we get to fan fest. Well, you're right, but from now on, we're going to talk every day. You're going to hate it. All right. No, I'm not my mobile number. You can just start text me right after the show. I will. And I will. I told you this before we started magic of podcasting. There's a conversation before the conversation. I, I have so much respect for what you do.
Ghostbusters news is an incredible entity in the Ghostbusters media space, which is not that crowded of a space, which maybe we can start there. Ghostbusters 2024. We're here. We've had all these new movies. There's a new animated series coming. I was under the impression that there would be like this whole new crop of like younger, hungrier podcasters and YouTubers ready to take over the Ghostbusters space. I don't feel like it's happened yet. Are we, are we making a new series?
Are we making it hard for them or are they, are they not there like they need to be? That's, that's worrisome. I feel like then it's all on our shoulders once we go. We can't stop once we're done. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I think that could be it is we, we need the franchise to really hit a home run. I think when it comes to the younger fan base and hopefully we're going to get that with the upcoming Netflix series.
Yeah. I mean, obviously you've got some of the younger talent, McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, that have that really hardcore dedicated fan base, but they're there for Finn Wolfhard. They're there for McKenna Grace, not necessarily for Ghostbusters. So yeah, I never really thought about that, but who knows, maybe next couple of years we'll get kind of edged out a little bit from the young up and comers. I hope so. But you know, I don't. Oh yeah. No, yes, I do. But you know, stay away, stay away.
No, I, I'm completely in agreement with you that like I think the one thing, if we're just going to get into this, to me, where Ghostbusters is right now is in it. It's in a place that I never expected it to be, especially like living through the fandom in the early 2000s into the mid 2000s where it was just like, is this ever going to happen? Is there ever going to be another Ghostbusters movie?
And like, you know, fast forward to now, I rewatched Frozen Empire the other day and I hadn't watched it in, you know, a couple months, like since it hit DVD or whatever. And I'm watching Dan and Ernie and it's just, it strikes me every time like I just can't believe this is a real thing that exists. And it gets me really excited, but I do agree with you that the key going forward is going to be appealing to a younger generation.
And I think they know I don't get the sense that that's something that's lost on them. I think when I say them, I mean, you know, Sony and Ghostcore and Jason and Gill, I think that broadening the audience for Ghostbusters is really important for them. And I won't be surprised if we see a slew of entertainment aimed at younger audiences in the next couple of years for Ghostbusters.
Yeah, and definitely I think finding that balance between appealing to the current fan and obviously bringing in the new, I'm, I mean, your collector, I mean, look behind you. I mean, typically in my videos as well. I'm honestly as always mostly excited for the goodies that's going to follow. I want the return of like the real Ghostbusters shaving kit with no actual blade for children.
The things like that, those kind of all the wall, that's why I always kind of find finding some people are like, you know, products that's been released over the past couple of years, some of the weird tie-ins. They're like, oh man, they totally jumped the shark. This is crazy. It's like, you not remember? Like the whole like bath and body kit for the real Ghostbusters back in the day that came with like toothbrushes and soap? Yeah, I'm staring at my, my soap right now. It's on the other shelf.
My Ghostbusters, Ecto one soap. I'm excited too. I love the tie-ins too. The one thing I, you know, I do wonder though, because I, you know, we, I am a fan of all these franchises and Star Wars and Ninja Turtles and everything. And like, it doesn't seem like the product tie-ins really move or matter the way they did in like the 80s and the 90s. Like, it just feels like stuff hits. It's big for two weeks. And then like I think about, did you see Beetlejuice? The Beetlejuice movie?
Yeah. That movie did really well. And for a lot of reasons, right? Kind of like hit at the right time. The nostalgia was peaking. Jenna. What's her name? Jenna Ortega is, you know, huge following Michael Key. And like, and it's all you see is Beetlejuice for two and a half weeks. And then it's just gone. And it's like, what is the future of the Beetlejuice franchise?
Like, it might be done. Like, that could be it. Like, so I do think, you know, ghost busters in general has done a really good job better than other franchises and keeping, keeping things alive in between movies and in, or at least in my opinion, really good at celebrating anniversaries, lots of merchandise. There's always a new, I mean, you cover Ghostbusters merchandise more than literally anybody in the world. There's always something new and exciting to cover from from Ghostbusters product.
It's kind of strange too, because like, it hits at random times, like unlike, you know, good example is Beetlejuice. There is just so much stuff that came along with the new film. And of course, you'll see Beetlejuice merch release at Hot Topic and Spirit Halloween, like a few new items every year. But Ghostbusters has been that really weird constant where, yeah, for a good four or five years, they'll dip into that same key art of slimer and stay pop and they'll throw that on almost everything.
But there's some gems there. There's those random tie ins. There's the random, you know, line of action figures out of nowhere, the surprises.
So it is surprising to kind of have those kind of hit. And especially right now, like with the 40th anniversary, I know a lot of people were kind of upset that hardly nothing was like marked as 40th anniversary, which I mean, after seeing the 35th and having, you know, seeing 35 anniversary stuff still on store shelves the year after, I understand why they think they opted not to do that. But sure, and it kind of dates it to you, right?
Like, we're talking about moving a franchise into the future that appeals to a younger generation. Like, I wouldn't go around, Brian. It's been around for 40 years, like, one, I don't have kids. I'll probably never have them. But one thing I know about kids, they don't like old stuff. They like old stuff. And the question too, though, I think when it comes to Ghostbusters, Beelogius isn't a weird case because it was that long.
And really all you had in terms of media was the cartoon show after, you know, the original. Right? Right. But with Ghostbusters now, I don't know what kind of damage 2016 gave to the general audience. What have you. But it's a weird one where, you know, you have actual life, you have frozen empire. I enjoyed frozen empire. I know some people didn't. It's kind of that weird thing now.
Like, okay, where do you take it? If you're seeing your box office kind of drop off a little bit, where do you take it from here? Do you continue that story? Do you try something new? Do you go in a different direction? Like what's next? So there is a lot of question marks, I think. And I'm really hoping that this upcoming show will light that spark. And we'll see that that again, that new audience, the new fandom kind of get brought into it.
Yeah, I mean, I think about this in way too much and an unhealthy way. I think about this stuff all day long. One thing that's really striking to me is when I go back and watch afterlife, it's just how good that movie is and how big of a bummer it is that it's, it's roll roll out and release was just so messed up because of the pandemic and the delays and everything else. Obviously, tons and tons of people have found that movie after the fact, right?
And something similar is happening with Frozen Empire. Like if you go to Amazon.com and just read the digital, you know, the streaming version of Frozen Empire. Look at the reviews. I mean, it's, it's a five star movie. People love Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. It's, it offers something different that a lot of main franchises or major franchises don't offer, which is like this really great comedic family experience with some of the great scares.
It's like the same thing that's always made Ghostbusters unique. And, but I don't know. My gut tells me the, the, if I like, listen, if I was a betting human, which I am probably shouldn't admit that, but, you know, long line of gamblers. In my DNA, my gut reaction tells me that like 2027, 2028, we get like the third in the Spangler trilogy. And that seems like it's far away, but it's really not that that's not that far away.
No, I think we're also like in a weird time too when, and I know a lot of people like, no, I don't use this as an excuse because, you know, Deadpool, Verine, did huge of the box office and beat a little juice obviously. When above frozen empire, but I think we are at a weird time when it comes to certain particular films in terms of their box office standing. Whether or not people are going to be going out to see them family films, what have you.
And I think there are some movies out there that are getting affected more by that than others. Sure. And it's fair to be like, okay, because Deadpool, Wolverine, pull in this much. Ghostbusters didn't so it's instantly, you know, it felt. No, I don't think it's fair to look at both films under the same microscope. No, I mean, first of all, something like Deadpool, Wolverine, it's like a cultural event. Yeah, right. It's like it's something people have been looking for.
You need to see it because you know everybody, like even if you don't like it, your friends are going to be talking about it. Right. Right. You got to go see it. What's interesting about something like frozen empire is like they're putting out a movie, they're keeping up, you know, for a blockbuster, a reasonable budget of around $100 million. It doubles that.
And then I don't know if people necessarily think I know movie box office, you know, mental math, gymnastics about budgets and all that nobody, nobody ever really knows, you know, I would think more so on a like a box office level of just if you just take into those considerations, if you just want to use
what people generally say, okay, fine. But again, as you were stating when it comes to digital, they've been cleaning up like they've been doing great, like we did the whole reports weekly, biweekly, monthly in terms of Amazon listings and Blu-ray sales and everything, like it did fantastic upon release.
And then I know I think Sony and Netflix have some overall deal, but it costs Netflix a lot of money to have exclusive streaming rights for a new movie. I mean, maybe I don't know if it's 50 million, I don't know if it's 300 million, but they pay a lot of money to the studio to secure those rights.
Movies tend to make money well after their box office run. And if you look at the landscape of Ghostbusters, it seems like a promising future right now in the sense that we know the animated series is coming.
There's probably a bunch of other stuff in the works that we don't know about. We know from merchandise aspect, and I really wanted to get into this with you because I know you're a collector. So maybe we can talk a little bit about what's going to be happening in the world of action figures and toys coming up.
We know Hasbro's got a Haslab coming out another Ghostbusters project. Is that something I it's kind of like everybody knows what it is, but no one can say it like publicly, but are you excited about that as a long time collector. Yeah, I mean, like if we're going to dive into it, I mean, obviously there's been no official announcement, but if you're looking at the teases, if you're following that breadcrumb trail, I guess.
The obvious thing is this is going to be a vehicle of some sort that, you know, hopefully really roles. But yeah, I mean, as a collector, this is something I've wanted back to the old Mattel days, something that would be in scale with my Ghostbusters for display.
I'm hyped. I'm more so hyped to see the stretch goals because I feel like this more than I shouldn't really say that because you can get some pretty cool stuff out of the equipment, but I feel like the audience for the plasma series figures are so starved. You can jam pack this thing full of so much good stuff and so many things that people want in terms of added figures or kind of livery is that you can kind of add on to it and such like that.
And I've been saying it for a while now, you know, if it turns out to be let's say an Ecto one or an Ecto one a or what have you there. The option maybe modifying it and changing it and making that Ecto one and Ecto one or making it an afterlife or making it a frozen empire through swappable pieces.
I mean, you haven't just sold one to somebody you sold two to that same person or you sold three because there are that fan base that hardcore dedicated fan base that's going to buy multiple just because that just because they need that Ecto displayed with those figures on each one of their shells. And that's me.
Yeah, no, me too. And some of the most successful has lab campaigns have been products that that do get the customer to buy multiples like the Marvel Sentinel, like people are buying four or five because you got to army build your sentinels obviously.
And amongst others and yeah, I mean, I, you know, the Maddie Collector Ghostbusters line holds such a special place in my Ghostbusters heart because that was right around the time of the 25th anniversary when I was rediscovering my love of Ghostbusters and
they're, they're, you know, the video game was going to come out and then we were getting these movie accurate figures for the first time. And the fact that there's never been an Ecto in six inch scale is crazy because they've made the Ecto one and every other scale possible, including, you know, one, one six scale, the Blitzway one. So yeah, I'm excited if that's what it turns out to be, then I will be first in line. I agree, though, plasma series. Here's, so this is interesting.
People have to go, Ghostbusters fans should realize I know people, the proton pack did incredibly well and then the trap and the PK meter that has appeal that goes well beyond toy collectors, but for the Ghostbusters action figure collectors, there is a drought right now because they put out so much plasma series for, you know, when it first started in the afterlife and then it was just kind of a halt. So I start, I fantasize about fantasize weird, but I do I fantasize about the strength.
And it's weird too because not only is there a drought, but there is a drought with so many iconic characters missing, you know, the fact that we don't have a Jeanine Melon, you know, the fact that we don't have slimer, I mean, slimer has been a part of everything, multiple even and there's not a slimer like crazy, no,
no mantra when it came to the the afterlife sets. There are core figures here and I know that, you know, Walter Peck action figure, the Mattel one, the dime is like toys, isn't the most exciting thing, but for us collectors, give us a cool pack and let it further flesh out our world will be happy. Well, that's right. It's all about the world building. And I will say this to the the the Maddie Collector figure scale really well with the plasma series figures because they're
they're a little bit under six inches. They're like, you know, five and a half or something like that. Like they're small. I don't know if you have any, uh, if you like Marvel legends and G.I. Joe classified. Those figures are a little bit taller. Um, but the Maddie Collector and the, uh, I'm looking at my
room and the plasma series figures go really well together. So I think if it is an ECHTO, even if somebody hasn't bought the plasma series figures, they might have some of the old Mattel figures and that's a net like I feel like an ECHTO one has appeal to modern collectors, you know, lapsed fans and also general toy collectors and card disease. So you hit a lot of buckets.
And I mean, if you and kind of going with that, like if you search, let's say, like, uh, the one six splits way ECHTO one on YouTube, like there is so many unboxing videos and trial videos of that thing where people are showing it off and they don't have the Ghostbusters figures. That's they're just buying it. Like that I want this cool piece for my collection room for my movie room. What have you there? Um, so you have tons of broad appeal with those things. It's
that show piece. My very much like the proton pack. Right. And I think that's why that, you know, we are getting that ECHTO, uh, probably a pretty good reason is is that mass appeal alongside the hardcore fan base. Um, and why we're not, why we're likely not going to see something like I don't know like I shouldn't say this because we just got like a ghost trap and PK meter. But I saw a lot of people like wanting ECHTO goggles as like a hazel. Yeah. No, that's more of a, like a regular
item to me. Like if you use a new Toronto one, you can sell goggles. Basic. Yeah. I agree. I mean, listen, I would love a, I mean, the Maddie collector goggles aren't great. They're fine for what they are, especially for the time they came out. I'd love a pair of like accurate, like prop ECHTO goggles, but that's not a crowd fund. Oh, no, no. I mean, I was surprised.
Well, I shouldn't say that. I was delightfully surprised at how well the trap and PK meter did. But the second hand prices like the, the, the aftermarket prices on both of those from a tell have been so high for so long that I think, um, and Ghostbusters is still like a big Halloween cosplay thing. So for, you know, less than, you know, five, six hundred bucks, somebody could go out there with a really accurate pack and trap and PK meter and have a really good costume. So I get it. It's that
dual bundle too. Like the fact that you're not getting one, you're getting two, you're getting the play features. And if you do any type of homework or looking online, you're gonna, again, you're gonna see those Mattel traps. You're gonna see the Mattel PKs. You're gonna see those pricing. Man, I'm getting a good deal here. Might as well jump on it. Yeah. Yeah. No, 100%. And I can't wait. I know people are, there's a lot of people, people ask all the time. One of the questions we get all
the time is, do you think Hasbro's gonna deliver those before Halloween? And I don't know. Probably not, but maybe, I mean, it would be a crazy surprise. But I, if they're going to, we're gonna have to get an announcement very, very soon because like, should have to have that like, hey, be sure your address is 100% accurate in all this. I mean, I would hope if it's a Halloween, we're gonna get that notice in like the next week. It is cool that, you know, with crowdfunding at
first, this first couple of years, there was a lot of education that they had to do. I think for the most part, people kind of understand what it is right now. And really, for the most part, it's a, like they, they, Hasbro is not in the business of launching crowdfunding campaigns that don't work out. So really, it's a pre-order. Having said that, they've had a couple
Haslabs that have not done well, famously, what was it? Well, the first one they ever tried was like Cookie Monster, which was like, what do you guys, I wanted it, but like I didn't, they went from the Star Wars barge to Cookie Monster. I think people were scratching their heads. But, you know, I do that was a thing. Good little. Yeah. Early, early days of Haslab. That was the, the first one that didn't, it was like a really nice Cookie Monster, don't give me your all.
And then the, they had a black series, the, the rank core. I do recall that. I'm fine. But I just have a gut feeling in an, an acto one, disclaimer, if that's what it is, we'll do really well. At least I hope, my self, selfishly, hopes so. Yeah. And I think again here, I'm really hoping that we're going to see some like crazy stretch goals. Like, I mean, if we're talking, acto one, if we're talking, let's say I'm, I get a
Mod kit or something like that. Ghostbusters to dark tan, or dark slight suit ghostbusters, maybe, maybe a slight, I don't know, just things that we haven't seen or things that would just be easy for them to change that makes you want it. Again, dark, dark uniforms. Right. Simple thing. Yeah. Do a couple slime below radons for rain, Winston. There you go. Maybe throw on a slimer, one of the tears. I just hope that we don't see, and I'm over paper.
I'm over paper tears, like in terms of this is a, this is Ray's license or like, yeah, this is the acto one handbook or something. I don't know. Just, yeah. No, and I totally get that. Like, especially if it's an action figure vehicle, you would hope there's action. I give, I give why they exist. I totally understand why they exist and everything. And yeah, like the Spangler book that came with the proton pack was cool, but I don't need sticker sheets anymore. I'm good.
I'm good. Good. There you go. You've said it. You've said it all. No, I agree. I, I'm very excited. So that's going to launch a comic on here in a couple of weeks. So, uh, well, this, this conversation will be rendered useless in, in no time, because it'll all have been revealed. Uh, but hopefully our professional speculation is, is accurate. Um, I'm really excited about it.
And I, I think, um, you know, Hasbro's done, you know, when they first got the license back, I was really, really excited because of the, the canner possibilities and, and they've, they've taken that pretty far. They did a bunch of re-releases of the original figures. They, they did slimer and stay puffed and fright features and all sorts of stuff. Um, I think what's more exciting to me is to see new things that we've never seen before. Um, and, and, and the
Echdo one in that scale would definitely fit that bill. Totally, totally. I would love to also see them maybe go down the avenue of things that were shown, but we never received. Like, I would love to see an actual legit release of, let's say, Egon's lab eventually. Yeah. Um, something like that. Uh, what was the, uh, the backpack heroes were they called the one, the last series. Yeah.
And so the backpack heroes were, were advertised and toy fair, I think 1991. And it was just basically a repaint, uh, of the, you know, the first wave, but they had these weird, basically, portable containment units on their back, uh, with ghosts in them. And, uh, yeah, they never saw the light of day. The, the, just the brazen no-go slow go on the chest. I love with those figures, just the massive guy. Yeah. Pain it over like a pocket snarey thing, crudely done. Love it.
Well, that's like with Echdo glow, like they're iconic and we all love them. But like, has anybody ever thought about like, why did, why did they have big blue block letters with their names across, you know, Dunderlager across their chest or whatever? It's just funny. Um, but yeah, the, I like the, the brazen ghost busters logo on the, on the chest. I think the colors are really cool. Like listen, you could, you could repaint those original four or five figures
over and over. And I would buy them every time just because no, I mean, same here. And I mean, obviously like we do have, you know, high-end, rogos busters collectibles coming out soon from Mondo. Yeah. But that being said, I would also really love to see maybe Hasbro Dabble in a kind of
almost like a supreme edition of the rogos busters figures. Like go back, you paint the collars, maybe give them like slightly new head sculpt, just something there to kind of like freshen up a little bit, but still keep you overall static really much, you know, the same to what it was back in
the 80s. I think that'd be kind of fun. Well, they're doing that, um, masters of the universe is kind of doing that with the, the cartoon collection where they're, they're kind of re-releasing some, or kind of like similar to the original figures, but the, the paint applications are closer to the more like the filmation cartoon. Um, and like, listen, I love my kind of figures, but we all know the rogos busters line is pretty different from the animated series, especially with the ghosts
and everything else. So it's kind of its own universe altogether. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they, they, very much like this conversation, you know, they went off the rails a little bit there when it came to, what they're offerings and such like that, but at the same time, I mean, like, as a kid and as an adult, I'm not batting an eye over the fact that we never saw Granny Gross in, you know, season four episode two. I'm okay with that. Sure. Uh, the, the toys just fine. It still holds that.
I'm going to ask a bunch. But that's a cool idea. Like, um, like, uh, an HD upgrade on the original figures. I think that would do really well. Like, uh, either, if you're going to release, I don't like, probably not in store, maybe like a Hasbro pulse exclusive or a San Diego Comic Con exclusive, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe with like new, um, like a more accurate pack. Mm hmm. Would be cool and like more accurate colors and then, um, yeah, if you're, if you're out there,
um, these ideas are free. We're just throwing them out. No lawsuits if it comes to fruition. We'll, we'll, we'll just buy them. Um, so you mentioned the Monde of stuff. What, what do you ask? Ask for a free set. Yes. We'd like a review set, please. Otherwise, we will be publicly, um, destroying these, uh, the threat of bad influencer. We're, we're going to, uh, and then we're going to transition into Monde or, yeah, what do you, so, what were you surprised
by the Monde of stuff? I mean, I wasn't surprised because I obviously with the, the art that was released last year, like the fan art that came out, um, it gave us a pretty good indicator as to what we should probably expect and everything. Um, you know what? Actually, no, I'll take that back. What I was surprised with was how all in they went on the bad guys so far. Yeah. Particularly like boogie man because like the, the size of his head is ginormous. It's huge. Yeah.
The fact that they're like, we're going to give you an alternate one rather than just having it where it's like, maybe you detach the face and attach it on, but it's like the entire head with the hair. Uh, that was highly unexpected. And then you're throwing in like devil horn hands and everything too with it. Uh, so yeah, I mean, I shouldn't be too surprised that they went all in because a lot of their past releases, they went all in on. But just the overall skill of those sets.
Um, yeah, the actual Ghostbusters didn't surprise me, but definitely the, you know, the Ghost did, especially also the, the added pack in of the Ghost trap accessory where you've got like the actual Ghost looking like it's reaching out. Uh, cool little display pieces items like that. Um, um, I don't know, they, they, they, they scratch me worry itch. I'm, I'm there. Those are things that, you know, for years we've seen fans attend or fans do or no 3D print files and things like that.
So anytime we've talked about Ghostbusters toys or we do toy anxiety, I mean, for years, for years, the thing everybody says is, when is Super seven going to do Ghostbusters? When is Nekka going to make real Ghostbusters? We've never had accurate real Ghostbusters figures every other Masters of Universe and Thundercats and GI Joe, everybody else gets this. Why can't we? Um, and I was like, because you're Ghostbusters fans, you need to wait and be punished and be patient.
And eventually you'll, you'll maybe get your way. Um, we, so, um, when those first dropped, like the first fan art images, which was, I was at Halloween of last year. So coming up on a year. Yeah, yeah. Completely like blown away. And like transparently, I'm, we're friends with a lot of the Mundo guys. Like we, we, and like from, from every, and Alex who sculpted those cohosts, a YouTube show of now with Ryan Dull, they do Gotham City tonight. Um, I can say, I've done all the
investigation. I've done all the conspiracy theories. Mundo had no idea he was going to drop those. He just did it and kind of wheeled those into existence. Um, and I'm, I'm really, really, beyond over the moon excited for not only what we've seen, but just like for the potential of where line like that could go. Yeah. I mean, like for me personally, if, whenever like I'm on a stream, everybody, the same question I always get is like, who's your favorite Ghostbusters?
Who's your favorite ghost? Things like this. I'm like, okay, I'll answer it again and find Ray, whatever. Um, but it's, it's always make up a name. Yeah. But Charles, Charles, yeah. Charles. Um, no, but it's, for me, the, the ghost is always the Sandman. Yeah. And the fact that I don't have a decent Sandman figure in my collection, uh, you know, it, it's a void. It's a void. And I know obviously he's not been unveiled, revealed yet from, from Mondo,
but I would think all intense purposes likely he'll be probably in that core for. If not, if it continues afterwards, he seems like one of the core ghosts that you'd have to have. Um, he's just a fact. Yeah. Oh, god. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but the fact that we are going to be getting some of those check marks, finally, of a boogie of a Psalm, hang, you know, someone who's so forth, um, is huge and is so weird right now because like I feel like, uh, just with Blitzway's announcement,
in terms of them bringing back their real actual film figures. Yeah. Back in 2014, we're going to have in like 2025, we're going to have fans are going to have, I should say, uh, us included the option to pick up honestly, probably the best film figures and the best animated figures within the same calendar year, which is pretty crazy. Yeah. I mean,
I've, I've said it. Uh, by the way, the Blitzway, I, you know, I can't wait to see some closer pictures to see if they've updated the face sculpts and what those alternate heads look like. I just got my, my, my dirty little hands on them. And yes, yeah, they did. Um, they, they look pretty incredible. Uh, I mean, again, prototypes, it could change that. But I feel like, like for me, with the first series, when they first came out, I, one of them price wise,
I thought they were a little too crazy. Yeah. And it's so weird because like, back when they came out back in 2017, I was like, man, that much for like a figure. And now I'm like, that much for a figure. Really? Okay. Yeah. I mean, I shouldn't say like, I expect they're going to be like not.
What are they? Two 50 or the 200? They're probably going to be around there. But that's like kind of the price point for, for, I think for, well, I think for a lot of us, we're, we're just, we've grown accustomed to it now, you know, and I can totally understand people being like, oh, that's too much. I get that. I totally understand that. But I think for some of us, we have grown accustomed. You know, it's, it's what, what you expect. Um, so two things. First of all, I,
I've had that same thought. I really do believe the next couple of years is going to be possible. It we weirdly enough after these two movies have come out, but coming up on the 40th anniversary of real ghost busters, I think we're going to maybe see like the best run of ghost busters, toys, quality wise. Um, and like the diversity of what's being offered in the next couple of years, it just seems like that's what's kind of being teed up. Um, even though like since like
2010, there has been a steady stream of, of product. I mean, Mattel into diamond select into Hasbro and that doesn't even bring in Funko and, and all that. So, um, but I want, just jumping back to Mondo real quick, there was like sticker shock. Um, yeah, about that. And look, I, anybody who knows how, if you know anything about licensing, you know that Hasbro is the master license holder for ghost busters and for Mondo to make a line of action figures, there had to be
some accommodations that just had, this is the way it works. Um, so getting away from all the boring business stuff that I once again think about all the time, um, were you, what do you think for like for that, for those sets for the, you know, Peter and Sam Hayne with all the accessories was, was too, is that more than you were expecting? Is it, is it in line with what you were expecting? It was in line just because I was already, like I was already looking on the website and seeing
like similar Rick and Morty style bundle packs. I was thinking, okay, well, if, you know, if you're taking the ghost busters and, you know, you get the proton packs and you got the neutrino ones and the streams and the hand and all this stuff, I was expecting around there. Um, so it wasn't sticker price, but it was kind of a thing, it was, for me, I think it was more let down in the respects because I, I wish more people would have a chance to get their hands on them because I know that price
point for a lot of people, it just, no, they, they can't do it. They won't do it. Um, and I, again, I totally get that because these are action figures, you know, they're gonna stand on a shelf in your collection and they're not gonna really do anything outside of that. Um, nobody needs them. I mean, I do. No, nobody needs them. Yeah, nobody needs them whatsoever, but at this, but I'm
gonna try and defend it. Um, but I have accept that. But, but yeah, nobody needs them, but, um, it's, it's just something where I, I think I was just let down by that because I knew, I knew immediately there were a lot of people that they're not gonna be able to grab them, but at the same time, um, it is nice to see that they are gonna be offering up the individual
ghost busters. So, you know, if you do just want to go in there and spend whatever, 400 plus tax a little bit over that and get your egon Peter Ray Winston, you're gonna be able to do that. So that's, that's a yeah. I can't actually forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and I mean, I, yeah, it would have been nicer. I know a lot of people were like, I'd have been better if it was like 50 or 75, but looking at them, I love what people do that quality. It doesn't, it doesn't add up.
It's a bit, yeah. I love what people do that. Like they, they figure out how much they would be willing to spend or they're like, it should be $42. Not a lot. Yeah. Well, I mean, I, I will admit, do I think that they are the prices inflated more than it probably should be? I think that there is definitely, but as you brought up, there is a whole licensing side of this. Yeah. That I think through that price point, especially with the one that's like, oh, one to a one. There's a reason
behind it. Sure. So there definitely isn't like that information will never be public. And it really shouldn't be because at the end of the day, it's like, this is supposed to be fun. And like, I'm very in tune with like the world of toys and collectibles just by the nature of, and I don't buy 90% of the things I want to buy. I'm never one of those people who's, when something's more expensive, than I can afford that I don't get mad. It's just, it's just like one
of the, like, here's a, here's a piece of truth. I want the Jazz Inc 1989 Batmobile, but it's $1,600 and I can't do that right now. I'm so happy that it exists. And for the people who can get it, that is amazing. One thing I'm excited about with the Ghostbuster stuff and what I love that Mondo's doing is it seems like they're going to release like one per quarter and they do have payment plans. So it's like, if, if you're collecting budget is 50 bucks a month and you really want these,
like you could probably make it happen. So I mean, it is, it is something we're again to like, there are some people unfortunately that they don't have that extra bit of money. And I like, it's a really complex sort to talk about it because it's like, I know, it sucks. People get so mad. And I get it. Yeah, it's very easy to get offense because there are people out there that, you know, they're, they would love a fair of monthly, you know, budget.
They could spend 50, but right. Yeah, exactly. Right. So like some people don't have, like some, right now we're in a, in a world where people, they're a lot of people, they're struggling for food. Uh, you know, it's a day on a place, right? So I went to the grocery store the other day and like, I barely got anything. It was like $190. Yes, have some. It is tough because like, first of all, like I'm always cognizant of like,
who are audiences? Like we have an audience of Ghostbusters fans and toy collectors. There's always going to be somebody who says, it's irresponsible to even suggest anybody should buy. Like, you can't win. So I'm just going to, I'm going to buy them. But also like, not I would be at the end of the day though, people are still responsible for their own money, right? Right. Yeah. It's something where I mean, I, I go on my YouTube channel and I,
like, does anybody need a Garaka Halloween costume? I mean, I guess you would be probably, but like, you know, or like slimer, like pumpkin decorations, I advertise, like, right, right. I'm unboxing the stuff. I'm reviewing the stuff and everything. And I guess I'm an online hype man, pitch man for some of it. But I don't really feel like I'm ever jamming it down to someone throat, even if I'm like, hey, this is awesome. You should buy it.
Because at the end of the day, everybody, they're in charge of their own money. You know, they're, they're making the decisions for themselves and hopefully the good decisions for their family and everything. And nobody should make a decision that would ever, if it's, if it's, if, if getting a Peter Venkman action figure in salmhain, I forget the one. It's a Venkman in salmhain.
Yeah. And then bogeyman, bogeyman and bogeyman and bogeyman, that makes sense. So yeah, like, if getting salmhain in Peter Venkman is reason for, you know, your kids to, I don't know, have to have like no name sugar pups, pops. Don't buy Peter Venkman, you know, like that. That's where I stand. But again, that's up to the individual, right? Right. Like that. I don't know. Yeah. No, I know. It's, it's really to, I totally get it. That's kind of a, we have found ourselves in
that situation many times where it's like, we're excited about something. It's very expensive. I mean, that happened to us. Like when we were trying to think like going to Ghostbusters fan fast and like getting the top tier ticket and like, like you, you kind of have that realization, like most, like most people including us really couldn't afford to do something like that. And then the thing, sometimes I know for me the thing that I'll, like, have you ever felt like,
let's get into some real stuff now. Let's have some content creators talk. The, the, oh, people will live vicariously through me, like a really narcissistic thought. And then you're like, I'm going to go stare at the wall like the Blair Witch project for a while and bring myself back down to earth. I'm going to, I'm going to take the, the class year. I'm going to just be like, no, of course not. No, no, no. I mean, it was just released like a seven foot tall garacca yesterday. And I had to,
I had to come up with a mental hurdle. I got to figure out why, why I need this? Why do I need to, oh, a video? That's right. That's exactly why I need this seven foot tall garacca. That thing's awesome. That thing's not going to explain to my wife why we have a, border in our home that's never going to parent. Um, it's so fun. Yeah. Yeah. So kind of going back a little bit though. So let's, so you said,
two, I'm trying to think what the landscape of the Ghostbusters fandom look like in 2009. Like, I, that, that was Mattel and Ghostbusters video game. That was the, and it's funny because you're talking about like, oh, the, the new blood coming up. I mean, there's the chance that maybe they're out there right now because like, it took me years to create waves. Now, not that I want to make now is of good quality. Um, no, it is. Don't say for many a years,
for many years, I would post something that would be like a sentence. It was like, hey, check out this photo news post, right? Yeah. You know, uh, because honestly, and if we're, if we're going into crater talk here, I want to show those out there. Um, honestly, I was very highly intimidated by people like Chris Stewart from, you know, proton charging, right? Because like,
he sets such a high bar and I would read his stuff and I would like, wow, how? Like I, I, I, yeah, I could never put myself out there and little by little, you know, the, the articles went from not even articles like it was just a post. It was more so, uh, an ex post as an article back in 2009. But then little by little, it just became, you know, bigger and bigger and then YouTube video started
doing more so. Um, so yeah, it, it, it, it, it, it's crazy because I do feel like, you know, my content, hopefully my content has changed, evolved, definitely for the better, um, as the franchise is kind of, I guess kind of like gotten at its step to it over the years. Because back in 2009, it was, it was Mattel, it was the video game that was about it. And for me, that's what got me back. Yeah,
that's what got me back into Ghostbusters really big. And I would like going through like the 2000s, I was checking sites, you know, like, like, again, like proton charging and such like that, like all the Ghostbusters fans sites at the time, uh, for all the updates. Like I remember the old proton charging that the layout was like a quarter of the screen, you know, it was just very, very narrow. Uh,
I remember checking that out like, you know, daily and, oh, I was obsessed. I mean, when I, I told, I told the story a million times on the podcast, but like we got our first PC and like, 1996, we got AOL. I immediately was like, is Ghostbusters 3 happening? It's like I was sitting, like waiting to ask the world this question. And then I found a GPHQ with Troy. And I found proton charging, Christopher, I made up a story in my head over the years. I was like, oh, these
are rival websites. They hate each other. And when they launched the CrossRip and whatever, 2015, I was like, I can't believe it. These, these are those guys that I was obsessed with when I was 11 years old. Uh, yeah. And, and, and I, I wasn't aware of anything. I mean, I, I was, Abby and I got together in 2008. Didn't have a toy, didn't own an action figure. When Maddie Collector launched, I couldn't afford anything. I, I think I got slimed Egon. No, the second Egon
with the, with the books. And that was my Ghostbusters collection. Um, but over time as, as the, the, when it started to become really evident in like 2013, 2014, like, oh, they're working, they're trying to get a Ghostbusters movie off the ground. Um, and then obviously with Harold passing, like it was, it just felt like there was momentum and, and, um, but you had already, you were already doing, uh, Jimmy is well, well, well before. Uh, I mean, we were, yeah, it was still,
it was going on. Like, I remember the, uh, uh, it's unfortunate when like I go back through the records. I mean, it's so long now that some records I just no longer have, but, you know, I remember the, um, uh, the, the day that Harold passed away and like, uh, that was, and, you know, it sounds, it's, it's, it's not the best sounding thing, but like, uh, I, I remember seeing such an
influx of the audience, like just following Harold's passing. And I think that was, uh, you know, very telling obviously that, you know, there was still life in the franchise, even though such the surrounding and the, like everything that was happening at the time, that people really, you know, they, they love Ghostbusters. They wanted to see another Ghostbusters.
Uh, but at the same time, you know, they're paying respect to Harold. Um, and then what's weird is I remember back in like 2015, uh, maybe it was 24, 24, 24, 20, 2015, whenever they, the news started to spread about the, the reboot. And I remember like the first time I heard, like, it was, I think it was my wife. And now again, I'm running Ghostbusters and news at the time of
Jesus. Like, so I heard they were doing a Ghostbusters with all women. And, but this is before, fate, like this is just like, this was months, like this is just like that very first, like, first little room or yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, huh, that's, that seems that's not going to happen. That's not real. That's not real. You're like, I run Ghostbusters. I would know. You don't know.
I remember, well, I remember Shurgen and I think it was just all those years of like, Dan. I was like, Oh, Dan's on Canadian television again, talking, you know, he's just out there being like, oh, we're making a new movie. We're writing it right now. I know. I've always wanted to put together a super cut of every time he said that. Because I've watched all those interviews so many
times, just countless times. He was so excited. He was so just giddy. But yeah, no, it was something that like I didn't even like it didn't feel real when it was when it was taking place when was that one actually happened. And then, you know, the fault from that and then going into afterlife and out for an empire and everything. Yeah, again, though, going back to the creation aspect. It's been such a weird growth in terms of going from and very much Ghostbusters news is very
much a fan site. You know, no endorsement from Sony Pictures or anything. But hey, Eric, you know, got my number. But do you know the story real? I mean, this is a tangent. But do you know about the Mission Impossible podcast that was a fan podcast? And what's the director of those movies, Christopher McCuary, is that his name? He sure. Sure. We'll go with that. He found there was this fan Mission Impossible movie podcast. I just have a fan. I like like YHS or Crossword
of this. And Christopher McCuary found it. He liked it and got Paramount to buy it and make it the official Mission Impossible podcast. And that was like, that's how you do it. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. But then somebody was like, we don't have budget for things like podcasts. And you know, but at the same time though, like I mean, I know with like, and this is obviously things I think would never happen. But you know, I know you obviously like you guys did the
Firehouse Fridays. Yeah. Yeah. Earlier this year. Yeah. You know, you've worked with the you've worked with the beast directly, you know, they're safe. But you work directly with them. And I have as well, and I know sometimes when it comes to the approval process, like, it's it's it's long as Strenuous. So I would imagine if, you know, Ghostbusters news, YHS, what have you, we ever inked some deals out there. You would expect episodes and updates to come
through a little probably a little slower. They're going to have to go through some extra channels. Well, the first thing that would happen is everything you've ever done would be wiped. We're starting over. Here's also the we put out a video yesterday for International Podcast Day that we did with Logan Kim. And that video has been edited since April, May of 2023. It was supposed to come out a last podcast day. So yeah, things take time when when the the red tape is is, you know, in existence.
But it is fun though. I always feel privileged to be able to work, do something kind of like in a semi-affincial capacity because it for me, it's like, it's like a little bit of like that stamp of approval, like some like we created this thing out of nowhere and it has become a thing enough that we could do something like this. And like I know for you, like you've you've you've been doing it for so long. I think the thing that's interesting for me is how much is YouTube is
evolved just in general. Like the YouTube beast and trying to navigate that. Like I'll never forget like we started we started to have some in 2016. And like shortly after we're like we're not just a podcast. We're going to be YouTube channel. And we did like a video of Abby reviewing some of the the answer to the call toys. Our first YouTube video we ever did got like 26,000 views and like a week. And I was like, got this figured out. And like it's like we've been struggling since to get
back to it. Like we we we somehow accidentally found the algorithm our first try and it's really hard. Like it is. Oh, it's possibly hard. There there is no I don't know like you can you can think that you've got the sexiest looking thumbnail in the world. You can think that title is just right. You can make sure your video goes over eight minutes. So you can do that little nice little mid roll ad. Yep. And all of it means crap in the end. For for depending on that video, depending on that
content, what have you it's yeah, it's it's so random. And it's it's honestly too like as a creator, like it is it can be discouraging at times. Like when you crank out, you know, if you spend let's say a full day recording a video, recording editing, splicing, writing a script, what have you there. And you turn that thing out and it gets I thought and you know, when I say, okay, only a thousand views, only two thousand views. I know some people out there that are like they would kill
for that, right? But then you make a like like I make a I shouldn't say stupid, but I make like a throw away two minute long news video. And it's like, Hey, here it is. And I'm just I'm right here. If you want to know it like pull back the curtain. When I'm doing a news video, typically this is where I am. Hey, everybody, you know, this is done today. Garaka, seven foot tall by one. Great. And you know, you shoot that video out and it gets like 10,000 views in a matter of day. We'll say.
And there was no effort behind that. Oh, I should say that sounds that sounds kind of no, but you're right. Some of the stuff has taken off like in the yeah, like and it's also a thing too. I like I don't know if like because you guys are obviously very opinionated on the podcast and everything. So you have you have that kind of like you have your character out there. You know,
people watch you because of you, right? So like for me, there was a very, a very slow burn in terms of finding out who I am for my videos because who I am for my videos, I think is who I am in real life. But I think when I first began, it was I have to be somebody else. I have to,
I have to be a, you know, a reviewer. You know, this is just came out. And I think I was looking at other people for inspiration and like one of my biggest influences when I even starting the site, even though it wasn't even though he didn't do Ghostbusters was back in the day Matt from dinosaur Dracula. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he would do he would do his Halloween countdown. And like he would be very kind of like off-tiltured and off the wall and kind of iraad like very random. And
like all of them. So there's some early videos of mine where I'm just like I'm just going to take that routine. Yeah, of course, it's just repurposing. It's working for him, right? And it just, it just wasn't me. And like I even go back to videos that only four years ago, five years ago, which by the way, I can't watch anything that's over then a week. Like once it's out there, yeah. And it's like I have no control over the editing process. Right. I'm nitpicking. I hate it.
I went it off the internet. I'll never watch it again. Yeah. But going back like three, four years ago, like I need some kind of medication. I need something to perk myself up because like I'm doing these videos and I'm just the lighting's off. I look like I'm I'm pure white like visually. I'm doing nothing to help my skin tone. Every flaw show like it's so bad. But the weird thing was that was around the time where the audience started growing. So it was fun to kind of like
throughout the years. Okay, well, let's fix the lighting. Let's fix the audio. Right. Right. And it's still not around people don't like first of all people. I think people who don't do it don't have a great concept of just how much work goes into a video. Like do you been doing something simple a three or four minute video with some some cuts and some overlays and some voiceover. I mean it could take
hours hours and hours and hours days, maybe. Um, we so my frustration point with that hit so hard that like when we started doing toy anxiety, which like I told you off air was like a symptom of the pandemic, we started doing it live. And we started curating this audience community doing it live. And I was like, Oh, you could do something that that you just you do and you do it live. And it's done. And there's no editing and like and that was satisfying for a period of
time. But then lately I've been like, man, I really like to do some pre packaged edited videos. The thing you were saying sometimes if you can do stuff with urgency, which is that's the double edge sort of all this is being the first one to put up the video and getting all the when everybody searching for it, the benefits are there. You will get more views and more engagement and more growth. But then there's that pressure of having to be the first one. And it can be a real, um,
I don't know. I told to get that. And I think I think that I'm now in a better spot of that where I think the install base for us is there. I mean, Ghostbusters News hopefully continues to grow like we're on YouTube, bro, 90, 90,000. So hopefully a hundred thousand soon. I get my little plaque. Um, that's amazing. Yeah. Thank you for anybody that if you haven't subscribed and you're watching this, Hey, how you doing? I'm, but I kind of feel like we're at a point right now where,
um, you know, we have kind of grown to a larger degree like we're pretty big. And there's a lot of Ghostbusters fan franchise pages out there that I mean, they're, they've got the same if not a little bit larger. But I think that we're, we've got such a vast news source now where I don't really need to worry about being the first, you know, I can be the second, I can be the third,
like me the fifth, right. And I'm sort of going to have that dedicated fan base and also too. Uh, and I, I think there's a quality standpoint that in terms of how something's pitched, how it's marketed, how it's advertised, showing off, uh, I think that has a lot to do with it as well. Um, you know, somebody just throws up a random picture of let's say a new leaked action figure or
something like that. And they're just like, Hey, here it is coming out. That's one thing. But if, you know, I get my hands on it and, you know, do something a little different with the photo and do something with like the text on it. So I know like, oh, maybe this can go a little more viral, you know, it looks kind of like an IG and update when I'm posting it and showing, you know, just little things you can kind of tweak to kind of get that engagement up a little bit higher.
Maybe ask a question in the image. Um, just little things like that. So, uh, again here, uh, I, I love every of the visits, subscribers, all that stuff and everything like that. Um, and I love the feedback. I love the comments. I love the engagement, everything like that. But, um, you know, sometimes you got to kind of go for that low-hanging fruit. Yeah. Like, it's a lot of, I know, I know this is what's going to get the views. I know what this is going to
get the engagement. Let's go for it. Right. And it's a lot of trial and error too. And like, and one thing, well, you know, if you, I don't know how much you pay attention to, to other fandoms and like, um, what's going on in their YouTube scenarios. Like people think there's drama and ghostbusters like come on. Go be a Star Wars fan for three. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I live, I live, uh, in my own little bubble. Like I, but by, I'm up here in Canada, you know,
we're, we're lucky to be able to buy groceries and we're probably, yeah. Some of our news outlets are banned and they're crazy up here, man. Yeah. Um, but I, I, I live in my own little bubble by choice. Uh, you know, I'm, I'm the last to find out by a lot of things in terms of things that aren't ghostbusters typically. Um, right. I do like a lot of different pop culture stuff, but I'm not really like crazy into it. But yeah, even I have heard of, uh, the, the, the headache
and craziness regarding Star Wars fandom. Yeah. And it's, and a lot of it is like, it's kind of a symptom of, of just normal toxic internet stuff where it's like, let's make something up and get a bunch of people riled up over, you know, whatever. Like, uh, taking, it's the climate nowadays too. I mean, there's so much media coming out and then people like, oh, well, you know, they change this because of that. And you know, this character's, right. Looks like this because of another
reason. Yeah. Okay. Fine. It's, it's not that fun to even talk about this. I'm like, because I, I'm a movie fan. I, when I watch a movie, I'm analyzing the story and wondering about the script and wonder about the decisions the director made to shoot something a certain way. And like, you see people getting up on stuff that I'm saying, that never even crossed my mind. I mean,
you saw some of it in frozen empire with the, the Phoebe melody stuff. And, and it's like, just the way that like, the way that some people's brain operates, uh, I can't relate to it. I just, I don't, and I don't engage with it either. And it's, and it's not even something I would even, even for, even for the, the, the most coveted thing in our world, which is the like and the
follow. Like, there's just certain things you got to stay away from. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I, I think because again, Ghostbusters news been around since 2009, we, we did the 2016 thing. Like, they're, they were reports, like, I had to report on all that. So I've kind of, what a crazy time I've been in the middle of that nonsense. I'm like, I received death threats.
I received people messaging me like, my time where I worked, like my business, where I, where I worked, you know, just, uh, we were craziness like that, uh, just for reporting on the film. Uh, so there was nonsense that kind of came along with that. Um, but I, I, I think, luckily for me, I think that's made me better for recent things where I'm just like, you know, what? I'm just not going to engage. Right. I'm okay. Well, I found that's the best thing to do.
What happened with us with 2016? So 2016 was part of the reason we started the podcast, because it was like, well, let's lend a voice to this conversation. And it was, it was a good time for you guys to, because like, obviously there was that. And then, um, you know, you guys, both you and Abby, you were like the ghost heads documentary too. Um, so there was, man, do you want to have that therapy session right now? I know. I know. I know. I know. I'm just saying,
from a standpoint, you guys were on Netflix, right? Like we were people could be like, and they'd be like, Hey, who's this Craig Goldberg guy? Who is? And they go go you and they're like, Hey, not only do I like his beard, but I want to like his podcast. Yeah. Ghost heads. Wow. That's a name I haven't heard of a long time. No, we I've, I've talked about it. Uh, maybe, maybe someday we'll have to have a like some sort of like real deep dive public, you know, think piece or something about
that specific project, because I, that project started from an earnest place. And actually, the people who produced it and put it out, um, uh, Tommy Avalone and race, they're great guys. Like, they're awesome guys. And it goes in a lot of different directions. You know, I, I did some interview bits for that. And then I got an email back me and like, Hey, your audio's a little off. Can you record? And I remember being like, nah, man, my audio's fine.
I'm looking back. My audio is horrible. But, um, I have a time I was like, nah, my audio's fine. I'm wrong. I'm not going to do this. And then I didn't submit anything. And, uh, yeah. I kind of wish, yeah, we, I, it's really funny too. I've, I've, I've heard people say like, well, I submitted stuff. They didn't use mine. So therefore I hate that movie. And I'm like,
you want to train? You could go, you could get in. If you want, I'll take my stuff out. Um, I, you know, in all complete honesty, I was, I was excited for Abby to share her story. And we were kind of doing all of it. And it's like, it is what it is. It's, it's a little time stamp, uh, uh, it takes me back to a fun time. Um, and, uh, yeah. I mean, it's, and, you know, looking back at projects like that and everything, I mean, you know, like right now, there's talks
obviously of, um, uh, what was like the toys that made us doing a real Ghostbusters. Oh, yeah, yeah. And it's like, Hey, you know what, guys, you got a toy room. I got a toy room. Right. Like, top of no spusters. I mean, you know, like, if that would be cool, that would be cool. Exactly. If you could have like another, like opportunities like that, like,
those timestamp opportunities, uh, they're amazing. They're totally amazing. Yeah. And honestly, like, it, there's been people, there's been people who've reached out to Abby before, like, hey, like I had a drinking issue and you helped me and like, and whether or not that's true, like, I hope it is. Oh, I actually, I don't hope they had a drinking issue. But if they do, uh, I hope that if, if, and it's like anything, like, I'm sure people reach out to you all
the time and say, Hey, like, I just really appreciate your content. And like, that means a lot to me when people reach out and say, like, Hey, like, how is having a shitty day? I listen to the podcast and it helped me like, uh, like, that's cool. And I'm always just like, cool, man, just like, throw me 20 bucks. Here's my PayPal, like, 50, 50 would be great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got
about who's, how am I going to get these Monday figures if you don't, you know, cough it up? Um, no, I mean, uh, but yeah, 2016, we started the podcast and like, like, the discourse around that movie was so crazy that like, I felt myself, I wasn't even able to analyze my actual thoughts about the movie because I was so busy being like, you know, you just got to keep up a positive outlook because there's so much negativity and the fandoms getting,
you know, unfairly treated and I think it was about a year and a half later. I was able to finally, like, assess like, okay, what would I actually think of this as as a movie and its impact on the franchise and all that. So definitely a crazy time though. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, again, here, it's, it is what it is. You know, you're, you're still going on, uh, social media pages and
people are still posting memes about it in 2024. Yeah. And or, you know, you're posting something about, I don't know, Mondo figures and people are like, hey, maybe if they're successful, they'll do extreme ghost postures. And then a reply will be like, as long as they don't do answer the call. Yeah. That's always like, okay. I guess. I mean, like, I don't know, like, I don't go into McDonald's. They're like, Hey, can you guys, I don't know, serve lobster? Yeah.
Why aren't you serving the lobster? Yeah. I go with, maybe they should. No, I mean, I completely, very, very, as a lobster. It has made some of it. Oh, we, uh, you know, ghost postures after life and, and frozen empire and like Jason right men coming into ghost core and working with I've been like, there's a direct reaction and result to, to 2016. So it's like, I'm not saying that wouldn't have happened otherwise, but ghost busters was put into a position where
it was kind of like, okay, we tried this thing. It didn't work. What's next? And everything that's come after that has been like super great and fun and, and in a lot of ways, the franchise is in the best shape it's ever been in. So I'm grateful for that. Um, and he can't go back and change things. So just move on. Oh, I mean, it's out there now and everything like all the, everything's out there. It obviously there's kind of a weird thing in terms of how do we handle certain assets of it
regarding, um, whole media releases. Like we're going to be doing a complete set of the cloud. Right. There's like that. There's always that kind of oddity and people kind of chime in and everything. But I don't know if I'm buying a complete edition, I want a complete edition. I want everything. No, I would, I would love to have an all in one real extreme movies. Everything just a massive bundle. I wonder when they put out like the Robocop box set if they include the
the remake that nobody remembers even. I remember thinking about ever. It's like, what really happened? Yeah, I remember Michael Keat was another is crazy. Um, well, cool man. Well, listen, this has been fun. What, what can we expect from you going into fall and the rest of the year? Are you working on any projects or anything? I mean, just the, the usual videos and stuff like that, obviously covering all the news, all the information that's coming out of New York Comic-Con
and as we kind of near the upcoming Netflix series and everything. In terms of what's coming up right now, like, it's the annual Ghostbusters news, Halloween countdown and over on our YouTube channel. And I guess in the site too. And this year, I mean, we're going to be taking a look at that again, that big six foot eight inch tall Garaka soon, whenever ships. We've got apparently one of the the Blitzway afterlife, actual ones in the way. So we're going to look at that before the
new Blitzway figures start coming out. So that's going to be kind of cool. Oh, perfect. Hopefully it's one of those PCS collect big statues of the statue. Yeah. So it's going to be some pretty substantial big reviews and also that like massive Halloween costume is nine foot tall firehouse. So a lot of really big items. That's moving into a time period of just marquee giant Ghostbusters items. And I will say people, please watch them because I need to feel validated and you can live
through me. Yes, you can live by sharing the list because you can't have a nine foot firehouse. Doesn't mean you can't. Hey, now I didn't anybody can have a nine foot tall fire. They're greatly priced. If you're judging by the foot, it's a wonderful deal. You know, you're going to love it. Yeah, I think that whole building should be condemned. I'm sorry. Listen, I got to, I'm trying not to be a quote guy, but I can't help a quote a ghost. But I'm still like quote and ghostbusters
in daily life. It's kind of a sickness. Um, well, listen, man, that sounds great. Yeah, well, I'm really glad we made this happen. And I think that we should do it again and catch up from time to time. Um, obviously anybody watching this or listening probably knows where to find you, but go ahead and let them know anyways. Uh, yeah, I'm of course, GhostbustersNews.com, Ghostbusters News here on YouTube. Uh, we're on pretty much every social, uh, not on discord.
We don't have a discord because I feel like I'm too old for that. You guys are hit to. You're here. Yeah. I don't even people who you should get a discord. Okay, what is that? They described him like, that's called a chat room. You're describing a chat room. See, you just broke it down for me. Yeah. To the point that I understand now, nobody can understand it to me. They're like telling me all you and you just, so it's a chat room. It's a chat room. It's a whole. Okay.
Literally all it is. It's, it's, it's great. Okay. Yeah. Well, coming on, coming in, coming alongside those Mondo figures, look forward to the Ghostbusters News discord. Hey, breaking news. Now you have to do it. We're doing it. We're doing it. It's like in six months, some guys got a message. You heard you on wide, Joe. She said you have a discord. Where is it? Cool. And I do thank you, obviously, for having me. Hopefully, you know, the, the, the yes,
have some of your dedicated, lovely, fantastic audience, uh, enjoyed, enjoyed this episode. And hopefully they enjoyed Ghostbusters News. I think, I think they will. I actually know they will. People have asked for a very long time. Why don't you guys do something Jason? I'm like, well, because mainly because we're not a product that's being sold. So you can't review us. Although that'd be a funny video. Like you, uh, a crate of YHS gets shipped to you and you,
you have to, we just a crate of YHS. A crate of, what is it? What are we talking about? It's a creative people. We ship. Okay. We ship the people on the podcast to you and you review it. No, this was great. I'm, I'm excited. I can't wait to get this out. Uh, Jason, we will catch up, uh, down the road. Um, and for everybody else, thank you for listening. Don't forget to, uh, do all the things we ask you to do. Like, subscribe wherever you're listening, whether it's you to
Apple podcast Spotify, uh, maybe even leave a review. I think people still leave Apple podcast reviews. We got one the other day that was bad that we had an F bomb in our first and empire review. So quality reviews coming in from the audience. Listen, we liked the movie a lot. We were excited about it. Uh, you know how hard it is, honestly, because like, I try, like my YouTube channel is pretty squeaky clean. Yeah. But to go on a podcast and not drop an F bomb, it's hard.
You know, like, you can do it if you. Oh, yeah. I get like, mothers being like, oh, my kid watches you every night before bed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, great. So like, so the upcoming video about the Grock, when I met when I make like a, I don't know, a devil's testicle joke. Yeah. Well, it's in the movie. Or listen, yeah. Those posters has a lot of adult themes, you know? Just, I mean, I, I just 3d printed an orb just because I know in the video, I want to take it out from underneath.
Oh, cool. Exactly. I need to grab that devil's testicle. See, you don't know about discord is, but I really like, I'm intimidated by the thought of a 3d printer. I'm like, where do you even plug it in? I don't even know what to do. How do you get the files in it? Is it email? I have no idea. You have to print them out physically on paper. I got a fax machine just kind of feeds right into it. That's literally what I think. I was like,
I think you buy the files off an Etsy site. They mail them to you. You upload them to your computer, you print those out, and then you make a paper airplane throw it at the 3d printer. You got to print four of them just because that's the dimension, right? Like a, do you create that full square? I'm going to figure it out. All right, everybody. We'll see you next time. Thanks for joining YHS. Bye.