Inappropriate Toys of the 60s

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @FredGee420
    @FredGee420 3 года назад +50

    You got me there for a few seconds at the end. Well played, sir.

  • @subtleb1138
    @subtleb1138 3 года назад +41

    Green Apple Ballsack , sounds like an alternative group from the 90's

  • @jasonotoole1822
    @jasonotoole1822 3 года назад +11

    Seriously Junkman...I don't think I've laughed as hard in ages...not from the toys but some of your reactions to them...hilarious!

  • @machineman6498
    @machineman6498 3 года назад +17

    Probably one of the most good natured cases of “don’t forget the past”.

  • @mrkrinkle72
    @mrkrinkle72 3 года назад +14

    Yes, I am a survivor of The Thing maker, Jart's and those chemically infused rubber spiders and snakes in those bins at Woolworths that we all chewed on. But, seeing the Great Garloo in the back of my cousin Terrys closet still haunts my darkest nightmares!

  • @BoshiYoshi
    @BoshiYoshi 3 года назад +20

    "Bobby, what are you doing in there?!"
    "Uh...just....playing with my Tiny Ding Dong, Dad!"
    "Oh, ok. Have fun, son"

    • @TheJoePiper
      @TheJoePiper 3 года назад +4

      “That not ain’t right… I tell you what!”

    • @joeszymanski3540
      @joeszymanski3540 9 месяцев назад

      He'll grow out of it honey😂.

  • @masonwallace0572
    @masonwallace0572 3 года назад +7

    You got me with that ending! Lol. Reminded me of your old whiskey drinking rant videos.

  • @jennercustomtoys
    @jennercustomtoys 3 года назад +32

    If you did that on purpose.... that's genius... the ending was the best... love it.!!

    • @ThatJunkman
      @ThatJunkman  3 года назад +8

      Thanks :)

    • @spankynater4242
      @spankynater4242 2 года назад +1

      @@ThatJunkman I don’t get it, please explain the joke to me.

    • @joeszymanski3540
      @joeszymanski3540 9 месяцев назад +1

      Dang I was thinking they literally removed it while I was watching it😂😂.

  • @KJ-tz7vc
    @KJ-tz7vc 3 года назад +14

    "That's worth getting cancelled for!"

  • @pauljoyner4338
    @pauljoyner4338 3 года назад +8

    I love the Calista Flockheart joke you slyly slid in there, JM.

  • @rusalexander1757
    @rusalexander1757 3 года назад +20

    Here in Oklahoma, most "Indigenous People" call themselves Indians or Natives, or identify themselves by their specific tribe. As you may know, this state has ALOT of people with those backgrounds. I'm a longhaired dude of Meskin descent, and I get alot of other brown skinned peeps asking me "Are you Native/Indian?" or "What tribe are you?" So, do with that information what you will.

    • @ChrisCaldwellO66
      @ChrisCaldwellO66 3 года назад

      Meskin?

    • @qualityserviceexperts9996
      @qualityserviceexperts9996 2 года назад +1

      @@ChrisCaldwellO66 assuming you must not be from the United States, he's "saying" Mexican fast.

    • @necron99.aka-sammyboy92
      @necron99.aka-sammyboy92 2 года назад

      I'm native.....siberian. so if someone says native American....uh, no. Or my bestie in army ng, was black....a soldier or Sgt. Wud African-American or stand on the tall African-American guy there, he was from Nigeria moved to France and came to America - he was dual citizen so you got to serve in the military here. So African French American? Yeah he's a fourth generation African, four generations ago my grandparents came from siberia, I have their dark skin the ability to walk around all the winter in a tank top, but I'm not Siberian or Russian or whatever

    • @smackmybitchup9543
      @smackmybitchup9543 Год назад

      @@necron99.aka-sammyboy92 What are you even saying??

  • @restock_1731
    @restock_1731 3 года назад +35

    RUclips cut the middle of the "me Chinese, me play joke, me put pee pee in your coke" song. Also that tiny ding ding," just like your father" had me rolling. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @robertnovelli2960
      @robertnovelli2960 3 года назад +3

      Yeah that's some bullshit

    • @kennethsanderson442
      @kennethsanderson442 3 года назад +7

      Actually, it was a part of his video. I had to rewind it to figure it out. LOL
      Also, the cutaway at the end was hilarious.

    • @ascensionindustries9631
      @ascensionindustries9631 3 года назад +3

      @@kennethsanderson442 Me too. I was about to have a fit.

    • @herrflick1244
      @herrflick1244 Месяц назад

      Oops! RUclips has taken off the video😮

  • @80sToysRoc
    @80sToysRoc 3 года назад +6

    Do you remember that episode of the Brady Bunch where they got into a car accident in the grocery store parking lot and the Plantiff sued them and he wore a neck brace? And ole Mike Brady won the case by dropping a briefcase and getting the dude to turn his neck? Remember that? Ya, that was pretty cool. 😂😂

  • @star-brigadesb-1325
    @star-brigadesb-1325 3 года назад +32

    I'm glad someone has some balls left in this wussy society we're living in 👍

  • @lt1vetteOwner
    @lt1vetteOwner 3 года назад +4

    Junkman out there pushing the PC envelop more than Maverick did his F 14 Tomcat

  • @treyjohnson82
    @treyjohnson82 3 года назад +8

    Kids then knew what what was pretend and what was real

    • @tmapes1989
      @tmapes1989 2 года назад

      So did cops!!!

    • @ExtremeWreck
      @ExtremeWreck Месяц назад

      That's more or less because most of these were cheap plastic junk compared to the likes of G.I. Joe or Hot Wheels.

    • @mikemarvelous7865
      @mikemarvelous7865 Месяц назад +1

      ...and your point being?

    • @jacktorrance2633
      @jacktorrance2633 24 дня назад

      ​@@mikemarvelous7865 That it was just a joke. Lighten up!

  • @Slant325
    @Slant325 3 года назад +12

    Not gonna lie; that was highly inappropriate, but hilarious. I lost it at the Gay School Bus, and completely perished at the Minstrel Make Up Kit. I wouldn't get these for my kids, but I can appreciate that they were around back in the day.

  • @treyjohnson82
    @treyjohnson82 3 года назад +5

    Learn from the past don't sweep it under the rug,which is what we want

  • @kenpope5798
    @kenpope5798 3 года назад +3

    Have you ever come across a Daniel Boone flintlock Brown plastic 43 inch toy rifle that was in the 1966 sears catalog used roll caps 79n 2704C was the model number I think my friend says he’s been looking for this item for over 20 years if not do you know of any kind of finding service that looks for toys?

  • @bagman147
    @bagman147 3 года назад +2

    Lol that fooled me for a sec. I need to hunt down another pair of chop suey specs

  • @joshuachristian5443
    @joshuachristian5443 3 года назад +5

    The ending was awesome. I thought it REALLY was taken down as I was watching it. 👍

  • @Tfor2show
    @Tfor2show 3 года назад +3

    BRILLIANT ENDING. You actually had me for half a second there! That was good shit, J.M.

  • @ChrisCaldwellO66
    @ChrisCaldwellO66 3 года назад +3

    Oh I get it now!😂 You added the part about the video being removed. I thought RUclips really blocked that part! 😂 You got me.

  • @alexrodriguez9441
    @alexrodriguez9441 3 года назад +5

    I managed to live 48 years without hearing the phrase “Green Apple Ballsack”.

    • @PhooAction
      @PhooAction Месяц назад

      41 years here and that streak ended today

  • @thejedi1076
    @thejedi1076 2 года назад +4

    Yet again another junkman masterpiece
    You sir are a quality entertainer

  • @mikedavis8868
    @mikedavis8868 3 года назад +8

    reminds me of the skit dan akroyd did on snl. where he pushed dangerous toys like bag o' glass. lol

  • @Wario7793
    @Wario7793 3 года назад +4

    haha the ending caught me by surprise.

  • @inspector2363
    @inspector2363 3 года назад +5

    Those "Chop suey" specs are so bad they're good, must find some.

    • @nicholastosoni707
      @nicholastosoni707 2 месяца назад

      Joel Hodgson used them to impersonate a dubbed Godzilla movie during his standup sets.

  • @chrisalan457
    @chrisalan457 3 года назад +7

    Another very entertaining video Junkman. I remember having candy cigarettes when I was a kid that and those awesome toy guns. Kids today are too sheltered but maybe in some of these cases that's not necessarily a bad thing 🤔 You had me going at the end, well played.

  • @jtszabo1691
    @jtszabo1691 3 года назад +4

    The Flintstones were sponsored by Winston Cigarettes, no surprise we’d see Hannah Barbara smoking toys

  • @edfivedownunderplasticplanet
    @edfivedownunderplasticplanet 3 года назад +5

    🤣😂🤣😂🤣 You can't not laugh at a good dog lipstik joke!! "Yeah you eat that green sack!" Cheers🍻👍🏻

  • @ronhaller2143
    @ronhaller2143 3 года назад +7

    I loved the little smoking figurines as a kid. And I think a lot of „woke“ toys and childrens‘ books of today, will seem very inappropriate in 40 years!

  • @JohnPatterson-kz8jr
    @JohnPatterson-kz8jr 10 месяцев назад +1

    "The Drunk Old Injun
    Squatting In His Teepee.
    Firewater Keepin'Him Warn"-Family Guy😮😅

  • @udovelvet
    @udovelvet 3 года назад +3

    I had the chop suey specs.. wish I still did

  • @MrThelittleguy903
    @MrThelittleguy903 2 года назад +1

    They weren't inappropriate in their time. Many people back then were being raised by WW2 vets. It was hard to hurt the feelings of men that stormed the beaches of Normandy and Tarawa. And they wouldn't have any sympathy for those that were offered, including their children. They produced real men.

  • @stevenschwartzhoff1703
    @stevenschwartzhoff1703 2 года назад +1

    A small correction: I had the "cowboy and indian" plastic figures on a birthday cake in the 70s, and to the best of my recolection the figures were random colors. There were red, green, yellow etc. cowboys and red, green, yellow etc. natives. I think it was simply different runs of the molds. A brief internet search confirms my memories. Still, some good stuff in the video.

  • @GekoPish
    @GekoPish 3 года назад +2

    I remember those smoke ring things. They would literally just every couple of seconds puff a hoop out of the ciggie itself.

  • @lunarmodule6419
    @lunarmodule6419 3 года назад +1

    "Me makeup you long time" lol

  • @BangBang-hk4rg
    @BangBang-hk4rg 3 года назад +1

    9:44 It’s batteries for the lightbulb in the toy cigarette lighter.

  • @saltrisha1
    @saltrisha1 3 года назад +3

    Wow ,youtube cut off the last part

  • @timx8872
    @timx8872 3 года назад +13

    Dear Facebook Overlords.This video is about “inappropriate toys of the 60’s” It says so right in the title. This piece is about an ugly period of toy history. It happened, and no one can change that. Using your logic, removing this video would be akin to removing an ugly part of human history. Which also happened, and cannot be changed. My suggestion to you, and to anyone else reading this would be that if the words “inappropriate” or “offensive” may upset you, feel free to click on an episode of Sesame Street. And keep in mind that not all days are sunny, and not all clouds can be swept away.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 3 года назад

      The "Sesame Street: Old School" DVDs also have content warnings on them.

    • @tmapes1989
      @tmapes1989 2 года назад +1

      Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it!!!

  • @jackilynpyzocha662
    @jackilynpyzocha662 8 месяцев назад +2

    I love that he wears "Kay Bee Toys" shirt!

  • @riveny1066
    @riveny1066 Месяц назад

    In the 60s, the Tobacco Industry was trying to convince everyone smoking was ok, even healthy.

  • @Justin_80
    @Justin_80 3 года назад +9

    No need for racist toys, but dangerous toys are more fun....up until there's blood everywhere.

    • @PozerAdultRacingTeam
      @PozerAdultRacingTeam 3 года назад +3

      Love those Lawn Darts.

    • @Zan_Jayna
      @Zan_Jayna 3 года назад

      Im keeping my spearchucker johnson figure, no need to virtue signal about it. It’s not as though asians for example, like white Americans very much, so dont feel all icky, theyre way more racist than you’ll ever be

    • @Donathon-f6f
      @Donathon-f6f 2 месяца назад

      I will always remember the old saying.
      .it's only funny until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious 😂 😂😂

  • @darthg6505
    @darthg6505 3 года назад +2

    GREEN BALL SACK!!! That was so funny I spit out my JD!

  • @qwaurk985
    @qwaurk985 3 года назад +1

    Reminds me of classic SNL of the toy maker who had toys like Bag of Broken Glass, Johnny Switchblade, and Human Torch complete with oily rags and lighter.

  • @PozerAdultRacingTeam
    @PozerAdultRacingTeam 3 года назад +1

    Green apple ball sack? You almost made me spit out my coffee laughing.

  • @joshuachristian5443
    @joshuachristian5443 3 года назад +2

    In regards to the Smoking pets...the lighter was invented before matches. They had both back in the days of Theodore Cleaver.

    • @tmapes1989
      @tmapes1989 2 года назад

      Matches weren't invented til the 1880's. Flint and steel been around forever!!!

  • @jamesbounds
    @jamesbounds 3 года назад +8

    It's crazy all the stuff they had to promote smoking back then.

  • @GaryAa56
    @GaryAa56 2 года назад +2

    That had to be in he best video yet! The makeup kits were sold usually during Halloween. To the day, I hate Halloween. Yep, our Sixties toys were racist.

  • @lottovegas
    @lottovegas 3 года назад +3

    they cancelled you !!!! come back with more jokes, i was rolling!!

  • @DamonNomad82
    @DamonNomad82 3 месяца назад +1

    That t-shirt makes me nostalgic, as the toy store in the mall at the town I lived in as a kid in the late 1980s was a Kay Bee Toy Store. I think I still have some old plastic dinosaurs I bought there moldering away in my storage unit.
    - The DIY licorice kit reminds me of something I had as a teen in the mid-1990s. The difference was that the licorice kit was body part themed while what I had was horror themed and called "Doctor Dreadful", with things like "zombie brains" and "monster skin" (with "blood" dipping sauce), all sweet treats made from various kinds of candy.
    - "Tiny Ding-Dong" and the school bus's name sound bad now, but were quite innocent at the time, as the meanings of certain words were different back then. On a somewhat related note, I had quite a start once when I picked up a hundred-year-old children's poetry book, was reading through the table of contents and encountered a poem called "I Love Little P---y". The poem was simply a child expressing innocent affection for a pet cat, but the modern implications of the title are very, very bad!

  • @TheCrazyHedgehogLady
    @TheCrazyHedgehogLady 2 года назад +1

    Great ep, as always! Loved the ending. I’m an 80s kid and so happy I discovered your channel. Thanks for all the awesome (and inappropriate!) laughs. My hedgehog (Quillemina) and I are loving binging your archives. 👍🏻🦔

  • @pmccue226
    @pmccue226 3 года назад +16

    I like the Asian glasses as well and would wear them while smoking the fake cigarette

    • @lunarmodule6419
      @lunarmodule6419 3 года назад +1

      Not on ebay I looked.

    • @stoneyboyd
      @stoneyboyd 2 года назад +2

      @@lunarmodule6419 I’ve looked too, the only people who own them are DEVO fans, because DEVO themselves used those glasses in various music videos.
      The most notable example is the music video for “Peek-A-Boo” in which the lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh wore them without the inserts. He also wore the on the cover artwork for the bands 5th Album “Oh, No! It’s DEVO”

    • @darylarmentrout252
      @darylarmentrout252 2 года назад +1

      @@stoneyboyd DEVO was huge in Japan

    • @stoneyboyd
      @stoneyboyd 2 года назад +1

      @@darylarmentrout252 I know they were

    • @darylarmentrout252
      @darylarmentrout252 2 года назад +1

      @@stoneyboyd a fine example of how eastern cultures don't get offended rather take "cultural appropriation" as cultural appreciation anyway lol

  • @bradbrown8759
    @bradbrown8759 3 года назад +2

    LMFAO! Huckleberry hound smokes two packs a day😂 ... A different time.

  • @CoconutDaddy
    @CoconutDaddy 3 года назад +2

    You had me at Luscious Limbs

  • @robertburnett9260
    @robertburnett9260 Месяц назад

    I don't think the toy companies could care less how the toy looks, they care about getting the money from the consumer.

  • @stoneyboyd
    @stoneyboyd 2 года назад +1

    Those Chop Suey Specs are also well known for being used by DEVO in various music videos.

  • @gishmoe3088
    @gishmoe3088 3 года назад +7

    I'm Asian and have to say, there's nothing offensive about that toy whatsoever.
    Tiny Ding Dong is just a stereotype.

  • @opuscrap4322
    @opuscrap4322 3 года назад +4

    I should have watched this earlier. At least I was only 12 seconds from the end when you tube took it down.

  • @dalemoyers8881
    @dalemoyers8881 3 года назад +1

    Awesome video my friend!!!! You got with the ending for a moment. Lol. 😎

  • @AnakinStarkiller1974
    @AnakinStarkiller1974 3 года назад +3

    I used to buy the smoking monkey outta this giant robot vending machine at Geebees dept store outside of Pittsburgh in the early 80s And they did look like a mini joints not that I know what that looks like either...

  • @citadelli
    @citadelli 3 года назад +2

    Lmao that ending had me goin too…very sad toys indeed

  • @ghostbusterguy20011
    @ghostbusterguy20011 3 года назад +1

    That joke at the end almost got me 😁😂😄

  • @richardyoung9024
    @richardyoung9024 Месяц назад

    I am 70 and I never heard of any of these “toys”.

  • @tperson8347
    @tperson8347 Месяц назад

    Loved these. :)
    I wish they still made some of the stuff like this today, everyone's just so uptight.
    Hilarious.
    Thanks for the video. :)

  • @Keith-rk4td
    @Keith-rk4td Месяц назад

    Those chemistry sets back then had nearly enough chemicals to get in real trouble.

  • @BrianMillerCEO
    @BrianMillerCEO 3 года назад

    Just, whatever you do, don't buy any Lego today! You may have some fellers in black suits stopping by your house to have a word with ya!

  • @Oldbmwr100rs
    @Oldbmwr100rs Месяц назад

    I have to wonder if around the same time someone was selling funny "round eyes" glasses in Asian markets, and there were "white face" makeup kits too.

  • @sarawelling5271
    @sarawelling5271 Год назад

    The smoking pets were basically incense or punk sticks. Just as you light and blow out a stick of incense or punk stick that's how these worked. These were the kinds of toys you'd see near checkout lines. They were put at eye levels of kids and were almost always impulse purchases. I had several such toys.

  • @hanniballecter4924
    @hanniballecter4924 3 года назад +1

    Great video again M8, funny as hell.

  • @riveny1066
    @riveny1066 Месяц назад

    I'm so glad that as a child we had a big family with little money. I REMEMBER some of these!

  • @DamonNomad82
    @DamonNomad82 3 месяца назад

    The "Chop Suey Specs" remind me of an Abercrombie and Fitch T-shirt that came out when I was in college at the turn of the millennium which was extremely controversial due to the fact that it was designed as a humorous ad for a fictional Chinese laundry business. I don't remember all the words on it, but they included the line "Two Wongs can make it white!"

    • @ThatJunkman
      @ThatJunkman  3 месяца назад +1

      Love that one. I need to remake it for my shirt store

  • @chrischriskidnicky6088
    @chrischriskidnicky6088 2 года назад

    I worked at Halloween Spirit in 2001 and we STILL sold those “Chop Suey Spex”!!!!

  • @thegeorgiealityshow359
    @thegeorgiealityshow359 2 года назад +1

    Wow with a wow=wow those toys were off so awkwardly weirded out.JUNKMAN those toys will never be on my list if they was to return on the market.

  • @Black_Patriot-Veteran-1970
    @Black_Patriot-Veteran-1970 Год назад +1

    When I was a kid I bought this toy guy figure who had a wood barrel around him for like a dollar at a swapmeet. It wasn't until I got home that I discovered the barrel could be removed, only to reveal a spring loaded dong in semi erect fashion.....
    My mom threw it away immediately.....

  • @Agent_86_
    @Agent_86_ 23 дня назад

    I'm pretty sure Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers, the one and only) used Chop Suey Specs on one of his missions!

  • @SlickArmor
    @SlickArmor 23 дня назад

    It's WING then DISGUISE. And the last one was two batteries at the bottom.

  • @spankynater4242
    @spankynater4242 2 года назад +1

    What, no NASA Saturn missile with realistic vibrating action?

  • @grover10011
    @grover10011 Месяц назад

    And we still survived.

  • @joeszymanski3540
    @joeszymanski3540 9 месяцев назад

    When I was a little bitty boy, my grandmother bought me a cute little toy.. silver bells hanging from a string..

  • @edbouman5013
    @edbouman5013 Год назад

    I pissed myself laughing at this video! lol There are definitely some of those toys I would love to have in my collection, like the "Gay School Bus" lol

  • @simonpaquet7161
    @simonpaquet7161 3 года назад

    Haha! I totally believed your ending... I even thought it happened right when I was watching, felling lucky to have seen it just before, and all that...
    🤣🤣

  • @LurkingCrassZero
    @LurkingCrassZero 3 года назад +1

    The Nutty Mad Indian looks like Batise, the French speaking (and mad as a hatter) indian, in A Man Called Horse (1970). Maybe a cash in?

  • @cornflakesbaby
    @cornflakesbaby 3 года назад

    Lmao 2:23 Well played Junkman!

  • @paint3d
    @paint3d Месяц назад

    Me Chinese! Me play jokes! Me have adorable pet that smokes!

  • @johnwells5314
    @johnwells5314 3 года назад +1

    WTF..😂😂😂 That should have been put on the game Operation. Doctor, you need to remove the green apple ball sack. It's imperative to the patient's recovery. 🤔That's definitely much more satisfying than removing the "funny bone" ... Father asks his son what he did today and the son's reply.. I saved a patient's life today Dad. I removed his green apple ball sack.

  • @aydinstone
    @aydinstone 3 года назад

    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley

    • @gishmoe3088
      @gishmoe3088 3 года назад

      Their food and music is pretty damn good though.

  • @user-yt2hv8lv2s
    @user-yt2hv8lv2s Год назад

    I use to play with lighters as a kid. Caught my dad's hair on fire and got my ass beat lol

  • @MistahBryan
    @MistahBryan 3 года назад

    @5:19, reminds me of the Straigt-Edge Rulers we have at my workplace, they're 24 inches and the company's name is: Johnson.
    yup, I can only imagine the commercial "Hey, Ladies... do you want your man to have a 24inch Johnson? Of course you do...."
    ugh!

  • @Dale_The_Space_Wizard
    @Dale_The_Space_Wizard 3 года назад

    I was expecting Golliwogs to make this list. I still own a couple of them from my childhood.

    • @paluxyl.8682
      @paluxyl.8682 3 года назад +1

      You can still find some new at ebay . ^^

  • @michaelhewitt258
    @michaelhewitt258 8 месяцев назад +1

    Oooops
    This video banned bi You Tube
    For being inappropriate

  • @worldsgreatestchannelinthe4234
    @worldsgreatestchannelinthe4234 3 года назад

    Good one, Junkman. I legitimately thought this video got pulled while I was viewing it. Hat's off to you, sir! J$H Fri 06.18.2021 8:08 PM

  • @80sToysRoc
    @80sToysRoc 3 года назад +1

    True a lot of people would be upset if you say Indian, but at the end of the day, say whatever your heart desires. Indian, Red Man, Savage, Native American, Indigenous People, whatever you want. This is America and we have freedom of speech…even if other people don’t like it.

    • @shanec9081
      @shanec9081 Год назад

      Yes , we have freedom of speech .. as long as you don’t say to much

  • @thaddeusmcgrath
    @thaddeusmcgrath 3 года назад

    Dam that ending had me fooled, hail the Junkmam Troll of trickery!

  • @StanleyTeriaca
    @StanleyTeriaca Год назад

    "First Nation" is the current official name appropriate.

  • @JxT1957
    @JxT1957 Месяц назад

    when i was a kid we played with matches not lighters

  • @greycloudyday5980
    @greycloudyday5980 3 года назад

    Is that your old school bus you rode?

  • @joshuaross4644
    @joshuaross4644 3 года назад

    Re : Neckbraces in 70’s TV
    I always think of Jackie Coogan ( Uncle Festa ) in the Brady Bunch 😉

  • @chartreuseninjano.7762
    @chartreuseninjano.7762 3 года назад

    You had a hit show with that action figure show @ 8pm

    • @ThatJunkman
      @ThatJunkman  3 года назад

      Working on something about that. Hope to have a test up soon