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The Reluctant Adult Podcast is your weekly reminder that growing up is optional, but buying toys as an adult is mandatory. Hosts Paul and Bill tackle the weird, wonderful world of pop culture, collectibles, and childhood obsessions that somehow got more expensive with age. From action figures to comic cons, they cover it all with the enthusiasm of kids and the disposable income of adults (barely). If your idea of “adulting” is deciding whether to open the box, this show is for you. New episodes drop every week. Follow along and remember—we don’t wanna grow up, but we already did!
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Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, Andy Jones aka Mr. Stinkhead from MillionairePlayboy.com joins the show! (3:12) Andy is a raving toy maniac. (4:30) Coming clean about Optimus Prime. (8:44) Millionaire Playboy impersonator. (9:48) Shipping bricks at the LEGO Toy Fair party. (11:00) When ToyBiz owned Marvel. (12:52) Jessica Alba ghosts Art Asylum. (15:30) Do you believe in magic? (17:11) He-Man has the power! (18:18) Wun-Dar conspiracy theories. (21:30) Hasbro denies rocket-firing. (22:11) Creating your own mail-aways. (22:47) Ordering from Facebook ads. (23:15) Deceptive DeLorean. (26:00) Building Devastator on a budget. (28:00) Collecting replicas versus vintage. (30:56) Bill has all sorts of things down there. (31:50) Cleaning out that toy sludge. (34:24) Restoring Castle Grayskull. (36:55) Order PixelDan’s MOTU book! (38:00) G4 is back! (39:42) Halloween is canceled. (39:50) Exclusive toy turmoil, again. (40:40) Fans are coming out of their skulls for NECA’s Musical Mutagen Tour. (44:39) Our great partner Walmart’s jacked up computer system. (48:00) Target invites G.I. Joe fans to Snake Island. (52:50) Lord Drakkon evolves and other Hasbro Pulse exclusives. (59:29) Tulley’s terrible exclusive. (1:01:00) Build-A-Figure minus the building. (1:04:30) Vloggers vite vack. (1:09:00) Ghostbusters II is silly.
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Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (1:34) Where’s Winston? (4:01) How do Mezco’s One:12 Collective Ghostbusters compare to Hasbro’s Plasma Series? (6:58) Don’t cross the streams but do compare them. (8:43) Ghostbusters MiniMates were awesome! (11:32) Powering through a Power Rangers binge watch. (13:37) What are you going to do, replace us? (16:50) Lightning Collection pickups. (17:15) Malaysia gets new Lightning Collection first, but there’s Dino Thunder trouble! (22:46) Is Hasbro splitting from Toei and could that mean animated Rangers? (23:50) Jason’s back! (26:06) Begun, the fan revolution has. (27:40) NECA is sorry you can’t buy their toys. (30:55) Hasbro’s Walmart Collector Con and retro GI Joe. (32:43) You can do a lot with string! (33:40) Clone Wars at Walmart. (34:40) No such thing as bad press. (36:16) Are the Clone Wars Black Series figures supposed to be cartoonish or realistic? (37:46) Malaysia gets Super 7’s Ultimate Turtles first but one reviewer is not a fan. (42:15) NECA proclaims the end to Godzilla collector toys. (43:54) Since the beginning of Turtle time. (47:03) Hiding toys at Target. (50:53) Sphero’s ill-fated Star Wars toys. (52:56) R2 gets (and gives) the shaft. (54:55) Hayden’s back! (58:00) The Marvel Legends Sentinel gets backed, but fans want more! (1:01:00) Customizing Conan. (1:06:50) Currency exchange in Star Wars.
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Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, SirSteve from TheForceGuide.com joins the show! (8:20) SirSteve’s Guide breaks the internet thanks to a well-timed Star Wars: Episode One leak. (9:55) Happy Thanksgiving, please cease and desist. (13:33) Kenner is not a fan. (16:00) Starting an action figure network. (17:00) Browsing incognito at Toy Fair. (19:50) Going public. (21:40) That other famous Star Wars Steve. (22:00) Laying the Smackdown on the wrestling figure competition. (23:12) The origin of “SirSteve.” (28:20) So, you’re SirSteve. (29:30) You got a lot of people fired. (32:06) Dumb smart phones, ruining Toy Fair. (34:29) Lost in translation at Tokyo Toy Fair. (36:35) Toy Fair extra curriculars. (39:40) Holy $%&@, who approved this? Carrie Fisher shows her ass. (42:00) The Star Wars celebs on the bus go Yub Nub Nub. (44:00) The dot com bubble bursts. (59:53) Hasbo’s giant Sentinel gets funded, fast! (1:02:00) Bustin’ open fresh a fresh case of Hasbro’s Plasma Series Ghostbusters makes me feel good! (1:08:00) NECA must be going out of their skulls making Coming Out of Their Shells TMNT figures. (1:12:05) Duke’s crotch convinces Paul to collect the new G.I. Joe figures.
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, happy birthday America, sorry your party is so lame. (2:17) Are fireworks legal where you live? (6:00) Bill lived long enough to see himself become a villain. (7:55) Walmart pre-order blues. (12:30) The epicenter of exclusivity causing headaches and heartbreak with NECA’s Casey Jones/Raphael Ninja Turtles. (14:29) April gets a big head. (16:00) Godzilla washes over Target. (16:50) POPs as far as the eye can see. (17:55) Walmart doesn’t care. (18:49) Gigawatt the hell?! (23:45) Tales of toy anxiety. (29:30) C10 mint! (31:28) Crazy stupid expensive Star Wars comic pack toys. (34:35) When XEVOZ ruled the earth. (38:00) From not to hot! (40:33) Retconning the Star Wars prequels. (46:49) Working in toys. (53:00) The pixel man behind the Dan. (55:43) Wait, what does “retcon” even mean? (56:40) Bantam Books is forced to retcon ALIENS. (1:00:00) Wait, Star Wars is racist? (1:01:46) Space Boston?
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Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, the kids kick off the show. (2:51) Are the guys flattening the curve? (6:11) The summer convention season goes digital. (6:51) I pity the fool who missed out on ordering Mattel’s Mr. T from Entertainment Earth (8:29) Wayne Knight is having a big month. (9:53) Hasbro sells dead Transformers. (12:21) Hasbro sells Transformes that don’t transform. (15:41) Walmart is finally shipping their retro Kenner Ghostbusters, but that’s where the good news ends. (26:35) NECA’s TMNT exclusive went live on our great partner Walmart.com and it went about as well as expected. (32:16) It might take Tokka and Rahzar to get Paul to visit another Walmart. (34:21) He-Man has a new hat. (35:16) Spawn has a new hat. (36:56) Hasbro unleashes more G.I. Joe. (40:07) Sgt. Slaughter drops on his Marauders for Action Force. (46:53) Floor is llamas. (49:54) Hamilton gets the F out on Disney Plus. (1:14:31) The truth behind Bill's hatred of toy photography is finally revealed.
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Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, the joys of COVID and raising children under four. (9:10) Paul gets his Kenner Ghostbusters fulfilled by eBay, but there is a problem! (11:00) Charlie joins the show for a quick interview. (21:00) Cobra Commander shenanigans with NTWRK. (31:00) NECA is sweatin' to the oldies and Pee-wee was jerkin' his Jambi. (39:00) Paul makes a Muppet deal with WWE Superstar Hornswoggle. (46:16) Bill finds out why Beast Machines' toys were so awful (55:00) and Paul finds out why Space Force is so awful. (56:45) Happy Father's Day!
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Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
On a riveting new The Reluctant Adult Podcast, the guys discuss their adventures in collecting as Paul finds Ghostbusters at Walmart and Bill finds Ghostbusters at Target. Plus, the guys tear into Hasbro's Hyperreal Star Wars figures and why isn't Jon Hamm in more stuff?
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
On a thunderous new The Reluctant Adult Podcast, the guys finally receive some of their Kenner The Real Ghostbusers from Walmart.com, but how did the packages hold up to Walmart's unique shipping methods?
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Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, Paul unboxes one of his holiest of grails, plus the guys talk about losing interest in Sideshow's 1/6 Star Wars line, and who remembers Marvel Superhero Showdown from ToyBiz?
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Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
On this episode of The Reluctant Adult Podcast, we hold our breath as Bill unboxes The Empire Strikes Back Retro figures from Walmart. Plus, we breakdown our favorite Kenner The Real Ghostbusters.
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