WEBVTT - "I Can't Unblack My Ears!" The Lego Heist with Mel Mitchell 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:19.599 Scam, Come rob froll scam, come rob Froam Goddess, what's 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.480 popping Congregation at Chigel. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.200 Lacey Mosley aka scam God, is back to you with 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.920 another episode about robbery, fraud and those who practice it. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.480 It is a comedy show. We will laugh at the criminals, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.080 we will never laugh at the victims. And you know 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:41.159 that I'm what, yes, excited, a thrilled, elated, kind of 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.920 a little bit of a scam hunter to get this 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:50.040 gem on the show. Mel Mitchell is a comedian, actress, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:55.360 and digital storyteller. She's opened for veteran comics like Roy Woods, 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.040 Junior's and If Johnson, as well as our Lenox. You 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.080 may know her from her TikTok series TikTok or Scare 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.480 Tactics from Jordan Peele's Monkey Pop productions. She has been 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.960 headlining tours all over the country, making people laugh in 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:12.920 every city. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:13.440 Every state. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:14.800 Period. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:27.680 Married come on, I'm doing to make hard pio period. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.080 I'm so happy you're here. I'm glad to be had, sister, 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:33.120 glad to be had. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.640 I've been playing with some iterations of the show and like, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.520 what version, what am I gonna do at the top? 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:40.920 I don't like to make people work. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.880 So I used to ask people what their relationships with 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.160 scams are, but that kind of makes you have to 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.040 work a little bit. So I will ask that just 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.000 in case there's something you want to volunteer. But the 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.080 first thing I'm gonna ask you is is it a scam? 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.760 Is the scheme? Is it a real thing? I want 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:06.320 your opinion about essential oils? Mmm? I think it depends 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.000 on the oil I haven't. I haven't heard that name 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.680 in years, So that's so maybe it was a scam 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.919 because I had or like, what is that? I don't 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.600 even know what you're talking about. That's the thing, Like, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.720 it's so many of the oils have come to win 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:20.320 and we. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.799 Don't even try to sell your dope tarror or get 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.360 you involved in that program. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.120 No, what is that? Oh they came after me. It's 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.880 like a MLM marketing come out and say that like 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.359 a wake up now for oil. Yeah, but sometimes the 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:39.280 oil do be it to be good, Like so, okay, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.000 you smell of peppermint and it feels like you did 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:46.639 a little bubby cocaine smell. Some of them do be good, 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.160 Like I had a man dang because because the fact 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.440 that these aren't on the streets no more. Might prove 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.720 the point that these were scams, now that I think 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.400 about it, because did you ever try? How not you 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.600 got them? You got to hit you doing a bump 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.520 right now on air? What can I talk about interpropriate 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.880 things on here? I forgot, Well we are we are 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.959 rided ur you can talk about anything. I got. Got 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.440 with the kuchi essential oil to put it on your kuchi, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.400 there was no record, There was no Regulo Yoni oil 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.919 that got me around twenty eighteen. And you're supposed to 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.239 take it and rub the oil into your lips in 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.480 kuchie area. And isn't that for like giving birth. That's 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.720 when you need to start looping your couchie. They say 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.600 it'll heal the yeasts and the BB's and the things. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.000 I was just like, let's just try it. And the 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.160 whole time, honestly, I was just alerted to latex. I 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.320 didn't realize that was just my right, which means that 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.440 you were having protected sex. You were actually protecting your 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.240 kuchi and then the latex was giving you a problem. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.640 That's that's actually that's literally what it was. But I'm 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.560 over here doubting my kuchi and oil like I'm about 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.000 to fry some fucking chicken and yah, you know what 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:05.360 it was? See what sometimes a tea trioil, a peppermint oil. Sure, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.360 every once in a while, but near your COUCHI well, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.200 not in the I'm just saying in general. I'm just 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.480 saying in general because the teacher used to help me 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.600 with my ingrown and stuff like that. But yeah, yeah, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:20.080 you can put that on the side and are coming in. Yeah, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.240 but oils are fine individually, but when you put them 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.800 all together and big essential oil gets involved, big oil, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.640 big oil, big oil, like big pharma, now we're easing 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:36.120 into scam territory, right because why they got people on 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.880 the streets like running the black selling the product oils 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.040 and stuff. I don't want any doctor sebby asparagus to 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.159 cure cancer. I don't want no seams. We're not going 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.840 for we can't. So yeah, that's that's my take on 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:56.320 the oil of it all. Yeah, what's your relationship with scams? 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.680 Have you ever been scammed or no? People who've been 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.400 scam I'm sure I'm probably getting scammed right now. I 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.920 don't know because I'm an easy look on this show. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.640 So yeah, you're being scammed a little bit. I'm being scammed. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.400 You know, I live in America. I'm paying ninety dollars 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.200 for gas my chick for like kids, men, it was 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.600 nine dollars. I think because I upsized the lemonade. Probably yourself, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.920 that's too every day. Every day is a scam. Every 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.200 day I wake up in this god forsaken effing country, 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.960 it's a goddamn scam. Everything, everything's a scam. I went 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.680 to Walmart today. I went to go look for the 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.480 angel rees Barbie. I knew they weren't going to have 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.920 it because it was a black Walmart, but I was 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:38.800 gonna try anyway. I bought some cups, some soap, a deodorant. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.200 What else did I even buy? I think that was 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:47.040 about it. Fifty dollars. I can't see doll hairs. I 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.400 don't even ooh not doll hairs, doll I can't even 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.240 walk up in ad Bittional more because every time I 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.320 go in there, I go for one thing. And you know, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.360 black people are supposed to be boycotting Target still, so 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.040 we're not supposed to up there anyway to Target. So 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.840 you gotta go to Walmart. But Walmart's hard to get 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.159 to on targets up the street and then I've been 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.479 driving all around town trying to avoid going to target 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.400 and how to pass eight targets and also as black women, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.680 I'm sorry, everybody needs to give us a fucking past. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.520 Like I should be able to fly on a private jet. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.880 I know it's bad for the air, and get the 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.880 mean I should be able to do it because that's reparations. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.760 Y'all ain't want to give me my forty acres and 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.760 my mule, so at least let me in this jet. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:35.920 I'm getting on me a private jet. Y'all kiss my 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.400 mass man. Right? Why why are you trying to do 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.560 the right thing? We always on nobody else doing it. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.400 Taylor Swifton took a private jet from Newark to New 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.000 York and I got to sit in the goddamn South 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:54.520 a private jet from from Hollywood to Pasadena. She been 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.440 just flying all over the police time, wasting good good 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.200 O zone, good old zone. I'm not gonna take no 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.480 ship from you all the whole Like we know it's 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.239 a hole in the O zone layer, but she didn't. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.560 She didn't expanded it. It has her own hole. You 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.680 know how you can buy a star. Taylor Swift has 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.680 her own hole in the O zone layer that specifically 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.760 she made from taking that private jet. I for god 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.080 damn driveway, and then she'd be you know what people 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.320 do in private jets too, is like it's also a 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.360 flex to like let someone else use your jet. You 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.600 rent it out, yeah, when you don't need it, and 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.880 you just tell them to pay for the gas and 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.560 that's like thirty k you pay, You're tell them to 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.520 pay for gas and then they fly your jet around 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.120 and then you can call on a favor later. Like 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.440 she knows the whole game. She's she's in it. She's 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.800 a sagittariust and it's something about all of them. And 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.920 I haven't met a single normal sagittarius in my life. Okay, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.840 that's so with cancers. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.640 The men are bad with sadgets, the women are bad, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.480 but the men actually aren't that bad, Like I like 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:08.200 a sad jay Z Offset Okay, damn, why would you 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.960 say that your name? 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.000 Okay, well that's just off the top of my head. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.760 That's just that's just Fred Hampton. I don't know, No, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.480 that's other day he was born. That's the day he died. Yes, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.520 he died, remember because jay Z said something that he 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:29.680 was born the same day. Yeah, friend Hampton, Yeah, I 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.360 was like his death day. But also such a sagittarius 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.040 man thing to say, why why are you celebrating the 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.360 day that a black leader died? Oh, I was born 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.559 on that day that the black leader died. But why 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.480 is a scorpio? Is he a scorpio or oh no? 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.920 November twenty oh, oh, I think that'sius. I think that's 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:58.480 the cuss. Let's see, huh the way he was a scorpio, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.520 it still kinds a scorpio apparently. Well, the way that 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.719 he did Carti and Carti is a nice lady. And 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.439 I want to say the new man is also oh 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.200 se dis Yeah November twenty nine. Oh, she keeps dating 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.800 people in the same range. Damn, same level of hell, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.200 the same circle of hell. Because that new Nigerian soccer 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:25.760 player is also evil apparently. But here's My parents kept 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.840 telling me to watch Shameless, and I think they wanted 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.520 me to watch it so that they could realize, like 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.800 they wanted me to realize they weren't that bad because 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.920 they had generational trauma and they put a lot of 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.280 shit on me. I'm the eldest daughter and oh god bless. Yeah, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.000 I've been through there. They that took me through there, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.319 and they were like, look at this, look at how 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.120 bad these people are on this TV show? Were that bad? 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:51.520 Right? Like? 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.599 But watching Shameless has been something I've been doing that. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.080 It's like eleven seasons, I think, like, there's a lot 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:03.760 of content to watch and it's all about generational curses, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.000 trauma and how sometimes you can't get away from it 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.199 because it's not on you, it's in you, and you 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.959 look for familiar patterns and then you end up in 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.719 situations that feel familiar that aren't good for you. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:25.800 Yeah, it's like a mess magnet. Damn it'd be up. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.240 Then that's why you gotta like unpack your shit. Listen. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.400 I've done all the therapy I've hopped in and paid 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.120 a lot of people a lot of money just try 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.520 to fix shit, and then sometimes is still there. It's 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.160 hard to go to therapy when like the people who 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:41.800 are the reason you need therapy won't go to it. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.640 Because I can get fixed all the shit I want to, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.360 and as soon as I get around people who unfixed, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.079 they break my shit again and I come to the 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.160 same piece of brain and got to put back together right. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.120 That's why alan On exists. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.680 That's why there's AA for addicts, but there's also alan 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.640 On for people who have addicts in their life who 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.400 have terrorized them. So they have groups and meetings for 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.160 non addicts where you can sit down and talk about 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.480 all the ship that crazy ass did to you with 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:16.400 other people who understand. That's almost like, what's the movie 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.040 with a Viola Davis and j Lo and they was? 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.240 She was in like the AA for like mothers who 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.199 have lost sons, and they was talking and fighting. She 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.960 was going to find a person who killed her son. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.920 And the whole time, j Loo wasn't real, right, Okay, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.959 I know what you're talking about. That was like that 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:40.080 was like, no, that's that's a Netflix show. When you're 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.800 talking about Light and Eve, that was that was Viola's 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.400 moment to be Liam Neeson. She was neck chopping, she 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.120 was out here in the streets. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.120 Yeah, she was. It was it was Jlo won real. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.640 That was a good movie. What you that came out? 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.719 I remember being like this cinema. People who understand this 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.360 podcast know that I have issues with j Low. They 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.880 saw people see they saw how she did me. She 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.040 did me dirty, and she really run for it. Yeah, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.880 and she was trying, she was letting it go. She 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.160 just kept extending it. She kept talking about the ship, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.720 trying to make herself a victim, and nobody was believing 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.559 her because it's like, girl, we know we have a 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.480 track record of being the biggest bitch ever, sister, so 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.959 do this to you. I didn't. I didn't even bring 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.240 this ship up. I'm not gonna say that. I'm not 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.480 going to say what I really want to say because 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.000 some other people pissed me off and I was told 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.960 not to say thank you by my publicist, so I'm 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.839 not going to say those things. Yeah, Yeah, j Lo 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.559 is interesting. I had one of my posts that made 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.800 that attraction was so funny because I was talking about 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.439 when I was a PA for the Grammys, I was 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.280 the talent escort for her band when she did the 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.240 Motown tribute, and which why was she in the Motown Tribune? 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.559 Why was j Lo doing the Motown tribute? Are you what? 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.760 And you were one non nigga, not even a group 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.240 of niggas, So you're doing so men a singer, you 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.080 can't even sing down. You should never be nowhere near 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.640 the Motown Why was Jenny from the block doing the 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:25.760 Detroit motor Town tribute. Honestly, though, I kind of low 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.679 key respected as a skimmer. Jenny is a skimmer, and 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.800 she has always known how to position herself to survive. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.280 You ain't get rid of Geny's she from the streets, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.240 she from the coltosac ain't you the game has been 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.679 played this whole time, and you know, and she has 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.360 some songs his and movies. Now she got her some 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.640 movies on her. She's trying to steal songs from bites 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:55.000 from black queens. So for you to have have infamously 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.319 solen music and demos and voice and vocals from like 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.559 how black women songs are shying do and to do 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:14.199 a Motown tribute Motown, which is the foundation of why 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:14.920 would she do that? 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:25.280 But also so funny, oh crazy, But also I kind 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.280 of respect, like. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.400 Just like because honestly, no one has checked her and 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.720 she's gone unchecked, So why would she not keep going? 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.920 Why was she not like if they were like if 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.520 I can get away with this, I'm gonna go get right. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.440 Let's let's right it up, let's go for the generational run. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.520 She didn't eat that, Like I actually kind of underspand 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:57.000 like it's it's good Scar God. Let's get into the episode. Yes, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.200 so historic could wings. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.400 This is where I well over Gale Mitch with the 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.640 famous con Caper group of criminals. We don't know yet, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.760 and maybe we love them, maybe we hate them, but 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.040 we will never laugh at the victims. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.560 We will laugh at Joe criminal ass. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:15.240 So an eighty three year old man's ultra rare Star 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.400 Wars lego collection has gone missing. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.600 Oh god, who has it? 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:27.640 And how much is the whole collection really worth? That's 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:32.960 become the subject of lawsuits and arrests. So let's go 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.160 back to nineteen ninety nine. We was barely alive. We 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.120 don't have to get right, just a twinkle. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:44.240 Yeah, we are for real. We was zygoats, we zygoats cool. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.760 The first Star Wars prequel hit theaters, and a man 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.400 in Kaiser organ named Ed Manzel started collecting Lego Star 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:54.160 Wars sets. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:55.720 Over the next twenty years. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.320 As collection grew to seven hundred and eighty unopened, you 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.960 know that's when they that's when it's real good when 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.840 you ain't open Lego Star Wars sets around twelve hundred 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.200 rare many figures by twenty twenty, three. His collection was 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:16.560 described by some as the world's largest Lego Star Wars collection, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.600 and it was valued at like two hundred thousand dollars, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.880 although the actual value is disputed. But the thing is 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.720 is like we put value to things. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.480 Nothing costs anything other than what we say it costs 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.800 everything that we buy, how much we spend on things, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.080 It's about how much we value it. So you had 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.120 og original legos, like that's crazy, right, and he was 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:45.520 collecting them from ninety nine. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.960 Yeah, he even had the Ultra Cloud City set that 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.320 was worth as much as ten thousand dollars. So look, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.280 this is what we're looking at right now. Apparently this 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.880 is highly valuable. And to me it just looks like 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.000 plastic toards. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.480 You know, as a collector of things, aka order, I 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:09.800 understand these bics. These are high. These be like five 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.720 hundred dollars, right the old apartment complex in the in 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.720 space they be having on Star Wars. Those are yeah, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.280 you never put them together, they're just in the box. No, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.280 he didn't touch them, and that makes it more valuable. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.199 That's like having comic books that you don't take out 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.440 the plastic people want that. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:29.720 Yeah. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.440 So by twenty twenty three, Ed was eighty three and 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:38.760 had been diagnosed with cancer. He asked his son, Brian Mansell, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.240 to sell the Lego collection and put the proceeds towards 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:47.840 his grandkid's education. Okay, grandfather a grandfather, okay. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:54.240 Period. Brian approached the store Brick and Menfigs to handle 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.720 the sale. Brick and Menphigs is a Lego reseller chain 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:03.080 with over three hundred franchise locations. Three hundred franchise locations 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.080 for Lego selling. There's a whole other world that we 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.800 have no idea about. Like you don't know what people 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.280 are doing in their house, You really don't. That's crazy. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.840 I ain't know they was doing all this. They have 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.880 locations in Burbank and Pasadena in Oregon. The store owner, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.880 her name was Crystal Law, and she accepted a confinement 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.000 deal to sell the collection for Brian, who's the son 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.280 of the grandpa who's trying to offload the stuff for 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.800 his grandkids. And they made a deal that would make 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.920 sure that Bricks and Menphase got thirty five percent of 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.760 the cut out of the resale. Brian headed the Legos 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.960 over to the store in November of twenty twenty three. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.679 They put a yellow sticker over the barcode to identify 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.240 this stock. The collection was one of the largest sealed 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.560 Star Wars collections covered. It was like covered by the 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.480 local news. Everybody was like excited by the shit, which 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.879 is strange to me. But you're right, we don't know 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:02.639 what people doing. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.120 In they house. You never know, you never know. About 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.600 a third of the collection did get sold and Brian 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.040 melt like the sun. He was paid for it. But 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.640 that's when the shenanigans started. In November twenty twenty four, Crystal, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.359 that store owner who the Reseller store, her and her 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.680 husband planned to leave the US when Donald Trump won 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:30.680 his second term. She thought the plan was for B 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.879 and M Corporate to buy the store back from her, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:40.119 but she was fired instead. Oh and I honestly really 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.720 resonate with her wanting to leave the country when Trump 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.040 for the second time. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.720 I was in Ireland when he got elected a second time, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.560 and I love they're my favorite white people. Irish people 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.480 are my favorite white people. They understand the pressure. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.159 They didn't let them be white for a while. Noah, Like, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.000 that's the thing about whiteness. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.720 That's why whiteness is not the same as blackness is 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:08.159 because being black in America. It was us all realizing like, Okay, 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.560 we have the same skin tone, we have the same milk. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.640 We all just gonna ride for each other. We're gonna 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:17.840 be down for each other. Whiteness if it's not specific 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.760 to the country of origin that you're from, we don't 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.760 know where we're from. You stole us, but you know 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:24.400 where you're from. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.320 So if y'all have an Irish parade, if y'all have 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.080 a Scottish parade, if y'all like do anything, those are 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:35.880 specific countries. But when y'all get together on whiteness, that's 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.840 a clan rally. That's the thing. Yeah, it's not the same. 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:41.919 They think it's the same as being black and us 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:43.679 being out blackness. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:45.200 Like, no, we didn't know where we're from, so we 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.960 just all locked in together because we at least know 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:49.760 that we look like each other. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:56.399 You are getting in white events to be evil. The 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.359 gold Post always moved to whiteness. They don't. They started 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.040 accepting Italians and the Irish and all of them. 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:08.320 And you know, so depending on the day, when she 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.359 gets bad in the country, Jewish people will come niggas again. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.879 And then they started trying to hang around us again, like, 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.640 hey niggas, sorry we left off for a little bit. Yeah, 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.720 don't be back. We back. Depends on the day, depends 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.399 on the day were back though, So what's going to 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:32.760 On's crazy? So yes, Crystal, Yes, Crystal. So we have 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.480 a video from the day that she was kicked out 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:40.879 and it shows Crystal and the new store owners of 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:42.960 the place that she thought she was gonna get bought 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.399 out of where she was fired from. So we have 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:50.159 Crystal talking to the director of operations, Ki McAllister about 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.359 the Lego collection. So here's the video. 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.200 A guy named Brandon Best showed up on a Thursday 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.800 night and demanded the keys. They threatened us with the 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.679 police and promised to do and inventory and compensate us. 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.200 They said they understood there was a large collection on 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.600 consignment and acknowledge they were taking that over. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.200 They told us the same thing they told Brian Mansell 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.280 that we could fight them, but they would drag it 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.520 out and make it so expensive we would be putting 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:18.320 ourselves into a whole lot of shit. Hmmm, Josh and Brandon. 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:23.560 They took over the Lego collection and later removed identifying 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.080 yellow stickers. Brian came to the store a few days 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.720 later and found Crystal gone, and the new owners said 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:35.760 they were unaware of any Star Wars collection. There were 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.440 reports of a U haul truck moving Lego to the 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:45.359 Bricks and Memphigs store in Eugene, Oregon. Mind you remember 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:46.439 they got three hundred stores. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.360 Was Josh and Brandon also owned and on the night 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:54.000 that the new owners took over, how much Lego was 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:55.960 left and the store was up for debate because it 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:00.920 wasn't So this is a Lego heights yeah, not diamonds, 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.920 not the pink panther. Not care right? Why do people 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:09.399 care about this so much? I'm confused as well. I 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.720 don't know why people care about this? Go to comic 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:12.320 con with it? 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:12.639 Is this? 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:17.080 How you gets? What is the motive? Okay? Continue? 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:17.639