0:00 How many did he have? >> I have like four of them. >> What are you going to do with it? >> I have a bald eagle. >> Sell it >> on my arm. >> You're going to put it in your house. >> You're about to liquidate everything he has for his kid. >> Look at that. >> Well, that's kind of I might give you one. >> All right. So, a wild new thing is going around right now. We're We're obviously losing some boomers out there and they're leaving behind things that nobody really wants. >> What do you mean losing? Like they're just dying off. We're we're we're getting to the point where a lot of our parents are passing away and they're like we're inheriting ████ that for them it was very valuable and precious, but for us it's like the ████ am I going to do with this? >> It's like your grandkids getting your Pokemon cards. Like what if if they're not into it? >> That's a bad analogy. >> It's a bad analogy. You're probably right. You're probably right. >> It's like a beanie baby. >> Bart just started getting into ████ Pokemon cards or whatever.
0:50 >> And I just started getting into losing parents, too. >> Andy, >> that's crazy. >> You No, but you've been into losing parents. I've been in I've been Yeah. I'm like a one of the OGs. They would say >> Joe's been into losing parents. >> Joe's been in the losing parents for a long time. >> I didn't lose them. They just ran. >> Oh, fair. >> That's losing. >> This is still findable. >> Here, peep this game. Peep this game. >> Um, whenever I'm ready. >> Where once it was just my wife and I b███████ about the generations of Onida crap we inherited. I have a whole community b███████ about emotional clutter that they inherited. Cuz let's be honest, we didn't ask for. I'm your perpetrator of porcelain predicaments, Nick Fox. And today we're talking Hummels. Those tiny wideeyed figurines that look like they're about to sing Idol White. >> Little porcelain doll. >> The holy origin story of Hmel starts with Berta Hmel, a German nun who went
1:41 by sister Maria in Asentia. Made sweet little sketches of children, which of course went ended up turning them into figurines back in 193. And after World War II, a bunch of sent homes home to give away as gifts and souvenirs, thus launching a nationwide epidemic of collectible children watching us from curio cabinets. Now ask your local family dinosaur and they'll tell you that these were and perhaps they were, Nana, back when malls were still thriving, but now you can find them online for less than a pumpkin spice latte. Don't even get caffeine. Inherited guilt. Every Humble Shelf was basically the OG Ring camera silently judging you for not calling enough and charging you for a subscription storage fees. If you ever broke one, that wasn't a mistake. That was a generational
2:31 incident report. You didn't just break porcelain. You broke Nana's moral compass. What was once meant to represent innocence and comfort now just represents storage anxiety. Tiny people who whisper sweet nothings into your ear like the city. >> So if you've got a box of Hummels hiding behind your Christmas totes, too scared to sell them because Nana's ghost might try to knock one off the shelf, send it in. We're going to start a porcelain support group called Porcelain Anonymous. Huh? >> So I think you get it right. So like >> Yeah. All kinds of ████ from that generation though. Useless ████ >> Like my grandma has so much like just dishwear. Like they used to put dishes like behind these big cabinets with glass and then it's like you're not supposed to use it. And it's like it's like when are we ever supposed to use >> decorative plates. >> That's the nice China. >> Or if you're watching American Beauty on the back of them they have swastikas.
3:21 >> ████ I got to watch that. >> Why not? >> You ever seen American Beauty? >> Oh my goodness. >> I was uh thrifting the other day at like Salvation Army and they had ████ stacks. I'm telling you, like a whole wall full of um still in the box decorative plates, right? We you lift them open and it's like some of it looked really cool, but it looked like western cowboy art or like some like >> it looked like a ████ Arizona sunset and just different themes and ████ And I was like, dude, this used to be like the holy grail for like grandmas. They would be like, they would collect that ████ like a labu, put it on their wall, just decorate it so all their homies can go, "Oh ████ you got the next edition ████ Wyatt Herp or like, you know, like they collect that ████ like crazy." >> No, my grandpa when he died, uh, he has
4:11 these bald eagle statues and like a giant bald eagle fountain with like a bunch of bald eagles like around it. >> Well, bald eagles are timeless. >> They're they're tight, right? But then my mom's like, "Who wants this s███?" >> Yeah. What are you going to do with that? >> Right. And so like out of guilt, I have them, but I'm like I haven't They're in the boxes. I haven't even done anything. >> They're at your house. >> They're at my house. Yeah, I have them. >> How many did he have? >> I have like four of them. >> What are you going to do with it? >> I have a bald eagle. >> Sell it >> on my arm. >> You're going to put it in your house. >> You're about to liquidate everything he has for his kid. >> Look at that. >> That's kind of I might give you one. >> I'm about it. >> I might give you one. >> Is it plastic or wood? >> No, they're made out of like resin. >> Oh, like a mold. >> Yeah, it's like cold to the touch. It's like weight like heavy. I'm down if I got passed down dope ████ like old guns, old watches. >> Dude, when my mom dies, she's gonna pass on what? A ████ broken sewing machine that's still in the garage. It's broken.
5:01 >> Yeah, she never fixed it. >> Collect ████ like this, >> dude. It's not called collecting at their level. It's called hoarding. It's just hoarding. >> My mom, if my mom passes, I'm going to get a ████ ton of ████ Chinese furniture, and I'm like, what the ████ am I going to do with this? >> My dad still has one of my BMX bikes tied up in the top of the garage that has pegs on it. Dino. >> That's tight. >> It might be a dyno. >> You should keep it. That's sick. You know how much they go for now? It's rusted. Just polish it up. You They go for thousands now. >> Wow. I should have kept mine. >> They kept go for thousands. >> All chrome, baby. >> Yep. They go for a thousand. >> I sold my ████ for $300. >> The ████ would it go for that much? >> So, I was So, >> that's just inflation. >> When I was building our podcast room, uh, when me and G were doing our podcast, I wanted to like have little souvenirs from my childhood and I was looking into like a old GT bike and they were go they went for thousands. I was like, "Oh ████ I can't afford that." >> Just as like a decorative thing. But
5:51 like things from our cuz I think the stuff that we cherished as kids, we're older now, so we have money. So people want to buy the old things that you couldn't have. >> Like Legos. I went and saw how much a ████ pirate set is. Thousands. >> Thousands. ████ >> Like this kind of ████ dude. >> YEAH, DUDE. That is patriotic as hell. >> You probably get that at Bass Pro Shops. >> It's like a double negative. It's like America. America. >> It cancels itself out. >> True. >> Uh or it's double it down on the positive, brother. See, that's the good era. Good era of America. >> Yeah. Enough of them for >> My dad has a bunch of those, too. >> Does he? >> But that's also because that's just like the Eagle Scout Eagle Scout symbol for Boy Scouting. >> Oh, yeah. >> That's why I have it on my arm. It's just like a It represents the highest rank of like something that you experience. >> Nice. Yeah. My My grandpa and my
6:42 grandma's into goddy ████ Like they have this like uh it's a fake bonsai tree and it's made out of like pink jewels. I've seen those. I know what you're talking about. Right. And it's like who is this for? >> By the way, I never buy those things but I love walking in those stores. >> It's cool. No, it's cool. But then like cuz I'm telling Nikki I'm like well I'm taking them and my Nikki's like give me the ████ demon stair and I'm like it's for my office cuz she's like where's it going to go? Like it's going to look like ████ >> Does it ruin her her >> it ruins her aesthetic? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Big old bonsai gem tree. >> Yeah, dude. Yeah. No, they had all that. >> Exactly what you're talking about. It's usually at like >> it's like the Asian store where they got like statues and jade bracelets and ████ >> It's like a gift shop in Chinatown. >> And my grandparents are big time whiteies, you know? So, they just thought it was tight. >> Well, back then it was like that's that's them being cultured. They're buying all kinds of ████ from the gift
7:33 shops, you know. >> People are still buying that ████ there. That's true. >> Yeah. It got to be. >> Yeah. I like I like seeing, you know, when you go to um like a arts district out here, right? And you go to like those vintage stores and then in some random corner you see like an entire statue that's built out of like forks and spoons. >> But that s███'s tight. >> I'm like, that's tight. I would never buy it. >> No. >> But if I if it got passed down in the airport, you know, the Transformers sick, too. At the Antique Valley Mall here, they have one pew. >> I seen that. It's just when you walk in on the left, it's just who buys just one church pew. >> Just one pew. I'm like, what the ████ People go, "Aha, this is what my man cave is missing." >> I bet you Ryan would be like, "I know exactly what I'm going to use that for."
8:23 You know? >> Yeah. But that's that's a given talent though. Like when you could see something that is seemingly junk. Like we have an Atlantic Avenue street sign here. >> No, that's ████ worth a million dollars >> to us only. >> You don't think Tao would want to inherit that? >> You might not even know what the hell that he's like, why is there a ocean on a sign? >> But as a Nickelodeon kid, I remember like watching Clarissa explains it all. And she had like a she had like a full-on like street light >> like with like with the stop in the middle and the and the green light on it. And I'm like that she only got that if she's out there ripping off >> she's out there like sawing off like like families like like taking stop signs and ████ like that. It's crazy. >> I think Ta would love all the plaques though
9:13 >> cuz that means something to his generation. >> Oh, a million subscribers. >> He knows what that is too, right? >> Yeah, >> cuz all the people he watches has those plaques. So in his brain he's like, "What the f███?" when he went to the JK office in Monterey Park for the first time, he saw that. He was like, "What? Who gave you those?" I'm like, "Those are your papa and Theo Joe's." And he was like, "What?" It just blew his brain. >> You guys were cool. >> Well, dude, at Spy Ninjas HQ. >> Oh, they have all that ████ >> They have all that ████ and they have the diamond ones and ████ >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the next level. >> Look like little ████ >> ████ Little ████ boys. >> Little cuck ████ boys. >> Giant HQ. Just the plaques. >> Just the plaques, dude. 100%. Yeah. at the giant HQ makes us look tight, I guess. >> Yeah. >> I I'm very uh me and my family have a joke where it's like when our parents go, they're going to leave so much hoarders ████ behind and they have
10:03 actual shipping containers filled with just ████ >> shipping containers >> on the property >> the on the um property that Yeah. the white trash property that we the compound that we grew up on. So then it's like we're I I'm like we'll just gasoline light a match >> as a bonfire family bonfire. try to sift through and see if anything's valuable. >> Bro, I don't think so. >> There's like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ████ that >> There's no way. What if there's like a Babe Ruth baseball card? >> There's not. My mom collects like chicken statues and ████ like that. Like, I'm not kidding. >> Yeah, but what if in like it's like one of these where it's like, we don't know, but a boomer would buy it. >> What if Babe Ruth signed a chicken statue? >> Yeah. >> I'll look into it. Right. >> Like Warvette, he like brings his like Rolex to get appraised. >> I saw that. And then he's like, I was like 200,000. He was like, and he ████ what if he has one of those type
10:54 of things where it's just like you don't even know you. >> Do you want to go imagine this like you're looking at like 400 hours of like going through ████ >> I actually like looking through ████ >> To me, that's a treasure hunt. >> Dang. Like I like looking at old like uh one of my buddies when his grandma passed like his dad wanted him and his friends to see if they could help sort out some of the back and I found like Coke cans from like the 50s like just stuff that was just stored and it it was like walking through a museum but it was cool because it's not curated. It's like raw like raw ████ you know like someone else doesn't tell me what the story is. I see what the story is. I think it's cuz I've been around that ████ since I was a kid and I got so sick of seeing junk everywhere that I'm just over it. >> Over it. One man's trash is another man's trash. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Exactly.
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