0:00 When me and Jill first were like first in our early phases of dating, we did have a ton of magnets, but this is during our fighting phase. I remember one time we just slammed the refrigerator in a door and it was like b I'm never having magnets on a refriger. [Music] We're going to riff on this one. Okay. Reef. A lot of riffing. That's what we've been doing the whole time. Can you just ████ support a friend? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's rough, guys. All right. 3 2 1. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Careful Boys where we are going to yell. Okay. Clap it up. Damn. Clap, dude. Offbeat. Everybody off feet. Okay. All right. You guys know about Le
0:51 Boooos. Yeah. It's crushing it right now. It's crushing it. I'm talking about like over like it turned PopMart or this dude in China technically it's originally from uh Hong Kong I think but uh PotMart the company that sells them. It brought in like over a billion dollars. Holy ████ And it's just because of the laboo. Just laboo. I don't know what this is. Okay. Laboos are these cute little characters. They're like they look like toddlers in like a bunny suit. In a bunny suit. Yeah. So, let me show you. Is it not a bunny? It is a bunny. This is a labubu. I don't know. To me, it looks like a toddler wearing like a bunny. I don't know. People wear them with their bags. It's a furry bunny. Yeah, that's a labubu. Yes. Is that like the standard stock non collap? No, it has clothes on it. The regular labu is like more like
1:42 it's naked. Okay. It's originated original. Yeah. I mean, it's just a collectible thing. I think it's a dude from Hong Kong, I think. The birth of the boooo. first debuted in 2015 as part of Hong Kong illustrator Casing Lung story series, The Monsters. So, it's from like this broader thing called The Monsters. Um, it sold in Pop Marts and then suddenly it blew the freak up. And I'm talking like low-key Thai Beanie Baby era style. Like, I think it's better for sure. Why is it better than a Beanie Baby? Because like I don't know, man. People nowadays like things spread like wildfire way faster than back in that era. You know what I mean? Because of the internet. So I think this blew up faster and like even my mom has it. Like why does my mom have it? She has a Laboo. She has like eight of them for real. How much are they a piece? Like 20 bucks. Cuz I heard I heard people resell
2:32 them too. Oh yeah, dude. My brother because it's a blind box thing. So you don't Yeah. There's like a gambling element to it. You get a rare one or something. Oh, that's why that's why basically every set it's like a blind box. So you don't know which one you're going to get of the set. But then out of the set, there's also one that's called a secret, which is like one in 70 chances or something like that of getting it. Yeah. And this has been a thing with like a bunch of other um I guess toys or brands or whatever. For some reason, this just popped off. I don't know. Well, apparently one of the again, I don't know, but apparently one of the things that happened was uh Lisa from Blackpink, like she she showed like a labubu or whatever when she was in Thailand. She was like, "Oh, all about it." And then every labu was bought in the entire country of Thailand right after that. That's probably what sparked it. Wow. People love that girl, huh? Lisa. Yeah. From Black Pink. She's the
3:22 one that was in White Lotus, right? Lotus. Yeah. Yeah. People love her, man. Yeah. Jeez. Damn. So, it's just one of those things that just somehow the craze and sensation is like That's amazing. It's a billion dollar industry. Billion dollars, dude. It's It's so stupid, too, because it's like one of those things that you just see in other toys that just keeps repeating. People buy it, have a whole collection, and then next thing you know, nobody gives a ████ about it until the next thing comes out. Are you going to get one, dude? I don't have No. Nah sent me this photo yesterday. She sent me this photo of her Leoooos. Oh, there's like a set. She could put them on a couch. Happens to have a bunch, right? And then I was like I was like, "Cool." And then she was like, "You don't like the chair I got for them?" I see people,
4:12 it's a labu chair. No, she just found a chair at like a thrift store or something like that. And then she's like, "Oh, I can put my laboo in it." Wow. Perfect. You know, the cat's going to get some, bro. That's called a problem, right? Yeah, that's a problem. This is This is literally what I was saying uh the other day when she was looking at all these Leoos and she's like, "Oh, can you get me this one?" And I was and I looked at I was like, "Do you want that or do you want like a investment property?" That's probably what our parents thought of like the whole shoe collecting. Like what the hell are you going to wait in line for these stupid ████ shoes? That's what people do. The lines are just like people are camping out for these things. It's It's insane. And when I was in China in March recently, um, of course they have a lot of PopMarts there. And then when you think about like her and her sister and her best
5:02 friend and stuff like that, they all like collect these little Lab boos and whatnot. But the difference is if you're all in the same region, then you're all playing with the same stock, what's available. But then when I go out of town, I go to a different country and they have like, we don't have that in America. Bro, I had to I had to get I went to three different PopMarts and as long as it was something she didn't have, I got like two versions of those blind boxes of everything. And I literally had to like go get an extra I bought I walked to Adidas and grabbed like a a little duffel bag cuz I had to mule the boooo's bag. And in my mind in my mind I'm like, "Okay, cool." Like she's getting some for like, you know, her best friend or sister. She kept everyone. That's when you text her and now she has a couch. That's when you text her, "What about
5:52 the investment property?" She's like, "I got one right here. It's a house for them." So, they have a front yard, a backyard, and watch like they they go up in value that you can now get an investment house because of those lagoos. Except that, but you would probably have to keep it in the box or some weird ████ like that, right? On some collector stuff. Can't have like ████ cat pherommones on it and stuff. That's so funny. She gets a house for a li. She's like, "Look, I'm building an ADU for the I'm burning it right now." Now they have a separate house. They have a back house now. Dude, it's a crazy tight. Ever since we had the Miffy collab at uh Jumbi, I was like super fascinated on like what gets girls going to buy stuff because like I think my mind's always been like I'm just going to sell ████ that I like, you know? And then so I never really tapped into that
6:43 market and I started to see a common thing of what drives them nuts and it's things that remind them of babies but it's a subconscious stuff. So anything that's a cute toddler looking thing or like a child or whatever their eyes I just be sitting on the um couch just watching customers walk by or whatever and what draws them. It's things that make them think of baby or like something really cute. Yeah. It's got to be cute. Like boys want something that looks cool. Girls want something that looks cute. Yeah. And I mean like Yeah, it's probably like duh, right? But how much it's like a crack rock to them. This dude, it doesn't matter if you're a ████ kid or like a 50-year-old lady, they'll go they'll break their neck for it and then they'll come up and they'll be like, "Oh my god, I need to get that." And I'm like, "Really?" It's like
7:35 akin to like a mental drug. Like cuz you know on drugs you get the physical high but this is like a psychological high that just they just have to have it because this person has it. I mean we do that too, right? But it's like oh ████ look at that car and then you're just oh my god I need to do it now. You know? Yeah. But like even now I'm not like I really need to get that that dinosaur or that toy truck. Like I I phased out at some point, right? Yep. Yep. Yep. But at the same time like who am I to say though because I'm like super down for random ████ when I was a kid. like Pokemon Magic cards, right? I think it's cuz what we like isn't socially acceptable. So imagine there's like cuz us is the our version of Laboo is titties. So imagine that's what I was thinking too. Leoobies like titties. I'm going to go buy this titties card right now. But if you buy titties card, people like dude, look at that ████ creep.
8:26 Yeah, titties card is crazy. That's the problem. That's the problem. This was only He still can't go to the boobies. He's like titties card. Yeah. And then we and if we go to every other country, we're trying to buy titties in every country, just like, you know, the boooos in every country. And oh, imagine collector editions of collector titties. Yeah. Different types of titties. You don't know which one you're going to get. They're like, "This guy's a ████ creep." Yeah. Usually guys that are like collecting and doing all that, um, it's still like there's like a childlike nature to it, right? But then like I think when I see women there's just it's just normal every they're not like obsessed nerds. They're not like they're just regular everyday moms, aunts, kids, whatever. But they'll be something that draws them and they're like, "Oh, we there's a line out now and they they got
9:16 to buy this thing." But then I think for guys it's like hella specific and niche and they're all about that and then there's a line out cuz these guys are really into Pokemon or whatever it is. I mean last time you know I really was like I wasn't willing to wait in line but last time I kept on checking where it might be so I can buy it was PS5. Oh and then even then I But you're trying to play it though. You're not trying to collect it. True. True. There is a hype though. There is a hype. That is the difference. See, I would collect tits and ass cards, but then that's not that's not socially acceptable. But have you ever been a collector or like Yes, I I know exactly cuz I used to collect comic books. I had a whole stack of them and then I realized like what what the ████ am I going to do with all this ████ And I went through that multiple times with different things throughout my life to the point where I'm like I could just
10:06 recognize like oh I'm not even going to start on this cuz I already know where it leads. And to me, the question always is always like when I see people start it is like when does it stop? Would you? Yeah, totally. Dude, you have to, man. ████ I don't think I would. Hell yeah. Honestly, collecting things like that kind of Imagine a mint titty cart. Honestly, like collecting things like that doesn't I don't know. For whatever reason, it just doesn't track. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not even that it doesn't bring me joy. It just it just I don't Maybe it's just not for me. Like collecting anything really. I don't like a bunch of stuff. It's a little bit of like a hoarding mentality. What about a mint 1994 Cindy Crawford? You know what is fun about I just want to make sure I
10:56 have nice white socks in my my drawer. That's all I care about. For other I get I get I ████ get that. You know what I'm saying? I understand you. Yeah. But yeah, that's that's true. I mean, you know, being able to purchase something that's relatively inexpensive. I mean, $20 for a toy is like that's ████ expensive, but $20 just in general, it's like, okay, you this is really going to make you happy if I get you this. Like, ████ yeah. I'm down. You're not asking me for like a Hermes bag or some ████ Yeah. ████ For real. Every single time we have a new launch um like a collab, we get like 3 400 people in line and they'll wait from like 6:00 in the morning with like chairs and everything. You do a June be laboo collab, you're going to have like 4,000. We're trying to talk to Pop Mart, but like but that's the psychology behind the people that likes collecting, right? And then like the more like I'll
11:47 go in a line and I'll ask them and stuff and for them it's the treasure hunt. That's the ████ that makes them like they want to cuz when I see a line I'm like I don't want to get into this hobby cuz I don't want to ████ wait in that line. I'm not the consumer. But for them it's the whole story of it's kind of I get it cuz it's like with thrifting, right? You're like going through rows of clothes and then you find that one thing you're like ah and I got it for $2. So it's like that I guess. And the cool thing is if you're doing an exclusive at your store only, like they're they can only get it here and once it's done, it's done. So to them it is it's exclusive. It's special. It's limited. I get it. I just never was the type to wait in line for anything. Like I'm just Yeah. I'm just too impatient. N that's why you got to work at these things and you get it for free like right on the
12:38 spot. I guess the only thing that I've collected or been close to is like recently I've been getting into like cigars more and then the types and whatever, but there's still a use to it. You didn't Yeah. You do something. I don't want to like hold on to it. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz toys is like it just sits there and then it's later on you either resell it or whatever. I mean, maybe it'll go up, but who knows? And guns like I made hell excuses that I needed more and more and more. Always always more. And then that's kind of a collector stuff. a good problem. But I I don't think I'm an an actual collector. Like some guys are like, "Yo, this one's straight from 1884 and then like, you know, like they know everything about it." I think, you know, that's going super deep. Um, right. But what do you do with it once you have it? Cuz even if it's like special, you jack off to it. Duh. Yeah.
13:30 You smell it. You hold the gun and you jack off to it and you're like, "That was that was good." Then you put it back for next time. Put in the safe. Put in the safe. Yeah. Is that what you do? No, cuz I don't collect anything. But if I did, I would jack off to all of those things. Yeah. Damn. The only thing I kind of semi collect, but not really collect and it's not even for us, is every time me and Gio when we travel, we always bring back a magnet u for Gio's mom. And I didn't realize how much we've actually traveled until we look at her fridge and it's ████ tons like all over the place. And it looks so cool. I'm like, man, I should have did that with our fridge. Our fridge got ████ ████ on it. We didn't do that with your fridge. No, we just got little magnets from like rand like ████ Zion over to all these random places. And her fridge looks hella like comfortable. But she
14:21 hasn't been to any of those places. We we do that with our fridge. And then with Tiff when she ever she wants to go get like a magnet at like a a gift shop, I'm always like, "All right." But then it's one of the Cuz I'm such a party pooper. And then once you realize like, yeah, we're using the fridge, you're like, oh yeah, this is actually really nice. I should stop being such a ████ ████ you know? Good reminder. Yeah. Like, I should smell. Yeah. I'm just like, oh, babe, for real, I want to go in here. You're like, you know what's hilarious? Um, when me and Jill first were like first in our early phases of dating, we did have a ████ ton of magnets, but this is during our fighting phase. I remember one time we just slammed the refrigerator door and it was like I'm like I'm never having magnets on the refrigerator ever again. Hey, don't slam the refrigerator, bro. Hey, you slam it too hard the shelves. And I'm like, I'm only slamming the other
15:11 doors of being like that mad and having to clean up the thing that you just crashed. You're just like, "F███, supposed to be satisfying." Supposed to be. And then you just instantly humbled. God, you're like, "What a ████ idiot." Yeah, but you're slapping them up there. I I also was trying I used to hate it too. Nina would always be like, "Oh, we got to go get this magnet." I'm like, "This ████ gay." Yeah. I was like, "This is ████ a ripoff." That's my dad's voice. I couldn't I couldn't beat her. So, I had to join her. So, I was like, "Look, if we're going to get a magnet, we're going to get the coolest magnet, right?" So, I started getting like whatever if we traveled somewhere, whatever country, you get like the cool. You don't just get like the picture of the spot. You get the one that's got like the ████ windmill that turns you. Well, you know, whatever. That's a fancy snow glove on until you ████ get like cats that like will jump onto the fridge and use it as a step and then they're just shooting them down. They're
16:02 splashing everywhere and you're like that was our favorite one. Our windmill. That's why we got to glue the magnets to the fridge. Dude, now I just get like the the plastic ones that just say where we were. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The fancy ones. Cats are in everything, man. Why you guys have them then? Why don't you collect more cats? They're they're humbling us. They're reminding us that it's about Don't mean ████ You went to Switzerland, dude. All right. It's not the material stuff. Like, ████ Switzerland. Y'all should have been at home. Y'all should have been home. Stop travel. I miss collecting things though and being excited about it and then like displaying it and all that. But like what I don't miss is having to take care of ████ cuz that's more the more stuff you have the more things you have to clean. You have to have a
16:52 display case, dude. Yep. But it does look nice when your home is filled with cool stuff and it looks like a museum. Yeah, I have these uh statues from anime conventions that I just randomly would You mean the naked girls that are bent over and stuff? No, I don't have that unfortunately. But I have a reason to collect them now cuz I have an office. So, I just display them there. So, when people come over, they're like, "Whoa, look at that girl to bikini." Like, "Wa, she's bending over crazy." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is weird, but if I could have gone back to all the international spots there where there's all those souvenirs that you get set of magnets, well, I mean, now that we already have magnets, two things I wish I would have gotten was like a patch cuz I think that would be cool to like throw on something, even like a bag or something like a travel duffel, you know? Oh, and also this is really weird, but uh you know those
17:44 little teaspoons have How small are that teaspoon? They're just like little ass spoons, but they have like a picture of whether it be like the flag. Oh yeah, those are cool. I Yeah, I always thought they were like, "Who the ████ What granny ass whatever." And I went to a homie's house one time who whose mom actually did hella travel, so always collected spoons and they had like a display case by their kitchen and it just looked epic. And I was like, "Wait, that's that's small. really. Yeah, they have like 40, but it's just like it's small, but it's also metal. It doesn't feel like it's cheap and janky. SH glasses are cool, too. They are until, you know, they break. Yeah. Yeah. Drink your life out of it. Yeah. Making art out of something. And then when doing things like that, I think it it kind of like immortalizes
18:34 that memory. Mhm. Cuz what happens is I'll travel a lot and then I'll forget what happened and I don't even remember that I went to that country sometimes. You know what's cool is when you go to a different country, you get a tattoo, like a small tattoo from someone local there and then you get an infection. Yeah. Cuz they don't have American standards. I had a friend who would collect all the hotel room card keys and so they would be different colors. She was an artist and she would put them into um kind of like a a large frame but arrange it so that way the colors would actually create some sort of picture. Oh, and then that became like an actual art piece out of hotel car keys. So cool. That is really That could never be me, bro. I could I'll never save those. I'm like, "Oh, ████ I missed the key." Are you a a minimalist? Like you like
19:24 just throwing away ████ all day long? Yeah. You're not You're not sentimental. Not with objects. You don't save movie tickets. Like I would Nah, maybe I should be. Is that Is that bad that I'm not I feel like a ghee collection? Probably got a ghee collection. You got to have something. You got a white belt collection. He's got white socks. That's all he needs. Like all the ████ I've like won. Like even like I just give it like like these medals. I don't even have them anymore. How do you do that? Cuz I'm just like maybe I just downplay. I'm like, I'm never going to use this ████ again. I was kind of like you. Like, I lost at least half of my powerlifting medals until I had a kid. And then when he when I saw how he viewed it, wow, where did you do that? Oh, that's what I did. Whatever. Oh, man. I should have kept all that ████ Maybe you're right. Maybe about it. Maybe I don't have kids, bro. Cuz I show it to my dogs and they just look at it like, you got snacks, bro.
20:14 You know, they don't give a ████
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