[0:00] I am finally all caught up with the
[0:02] latest in the Lego scandal. So,
[0:05] naturally want to yap about it. I want
[0:08] to bring you aboard the Magic School Bus
[0:10] here as we take a tour through the
[0:12] newest and the most comprehensive dive
[0:15] into this situation, which is found
[0:17] through Coffeezilla's video. I highly
[0:19] recommend you watch his full video here
[0:22] cuz he really gets into the weeds of it
[0:24] and shows everything. He bears it all.
[0:27] Let's let's the entire Lego scandal
[0:30] hanghog in its birthday suit. And I
[0:33] think it is an incredible job he's done.
[0:35] Per usual, Coffeezilla investigations I
[0:38] think are always just so high quality
[0:40] and just so well done. I want to be
[0:42] covering like a lot of the new
[0:43] information as well as also going over
[0:46] how we got here in the first place
[0:47] because now after so much has happened,
[0:50] a lot of people have forgotten what the
[0:52] actual facts are. People are, I think,
[0:54] getting confused or just really falling
[0:58] into the back rooms here when it comes
[1:00] to like this whole story. So, they're
[1:03] regurgitating phony baloney nonsense or
[1:06] even just outright myths, you know, or
[1:09] ghost stories. Reckless Ben's not even
[1:12] real. He's been dead for 15 years type
[1:14] [ __ ] And I think Coffeezilla does a
[1:16] good job of keeping everything extremely
[1:19] clean and all of it is real information,
[1:23] evidence, facts, just the straight up
[1:25] pudding of it.
[1:26] >> A $200,000 Lego collection went missing,
[1:29] causing a lot of you to ask me to find
[1:30] it. And after seeing the cops point guns
[1:32] at YouTubers, people get arrested and
[1:35] sued for 1.3 million, I decided enough
[1:37] was enough. Most people said the same
[1:39] thing after seeing how everything
[1:40] unfolded here with the behavior
[1:42] exhibited by the Bricks and Minifig side
[1:44] as well as the very shady behavior from
[1:47] the American Fork Police Department in
[1:48] the handling of this case. So, it's no
[1:51] surprise Coffeezilla also said no more
[1:53] Mr. Nice Guy and decided to get down and
[1:56] dirty and get to the bottom of this. A
[1:58] massive Star Wars collection was put on
[2:00] consignment at a Lego store called
[2:02] Bricks and Miniigs in Salem, Oregon.
[2:05] Consignment just means the owner, Brian
[2:07] Mancel, gave it to a store to sell and
[2:10] he was supposed to get a cut when it
[2:12] sold. The entire time he maintained
[2:14] ownership of the collection and a social
[2:17] media post estimated it to be worth
[2:19] about $200,000. But then on November
[2:22] 14th, 2024, everything went wrong. This
[2:25] was the night that Crystal and Ben
[2:27] Gorman, the prior franchise owners of
[2:29] the Salem store, got kicked out by this
[2:32] guy. That is Brandon Best. He and his
[2:35] partner Josh Johnson ran a sister store
[2:38] in Eugene, Oregon. And Brandon drove up
[2:41] that night to kick the Gormans out.
[2:42] Brandon and Josh would be taking over
[2:44] the franchise in Salem. And this is the
[2:47] exact moment the Legos go missing. As
[2:50] that store is getting handed over, the
[2:52] question is, is Brian's collection in
[2:55] it?
[2:55] >> A perfect succinct previously on Dragon
[2:58] Ball Z lore dump. That is exactly how
[3:02] everything happened and exactly what
[3:05] started this story to begin with where
[3:09] Brian Manzel had a very valuable
[3:11] collection go into this bricks and
[3:13] minifigs on consignment. the previous
[3:15] franchises get kicked out and there is a
[3:19] lot of questions around well where are
[3:24] the Legos now because Brian Mancel the
[3:26] owner of the Legos has not been
[3:28] compensated for all the Legos that he
[3:31] had brought there that presumably had
[3:33] sold as well and also now Bricks and
[3:37] Minigs is being like really combative
[3:39] and not super cooperative. So, just a
[3:41] lot of like big questions that until
[3:44] Coffeezilla's video hadn't really had
[3:46] any clear answers with strong supporting
[3:49] evidence and proof that really paints
[3:51] the entire picture clearly on the
[3:53] location of these missing Legos. So, the
[3:56] first thing Coffee looks at is the
[3:57] Bricks and Minifigs official press
[3:59] release where they claim that there is
[4:00] only like $2 to $5,000 worth of Legos
[4:03] left there, which is a huge discrepancy
[4:06] based on all of the reporting on how
[4:08] many Legos should have still been there.
[4:12] Coffee then looks at all of the suspects
[4:14] and even toys around with the
[4:15] possibility that this could be someone
[4:17] completely unrelated like thieves. Just
[4:21] regular old Joe Schmo burglars that came
[4:24] in to get their grubby paws on the One
[4:26] Piece here. This extremely valuable Star
[4:29] Wars collection. However, the previous
[4:32] owners, the Gormans, shut that idea
[4:34] down. They admit that they did have
[4:36] break-ins, but at no point were any of
[4:38] the Star Wars, Legos, any of Brian
[4:40] Mancel's collection uh subjected to
[4:43] that. They they were never taken during
[4:46] any of these break-ins. So, it wasn't
[4:48] thieves. That is something that gets
[4:50] ruled out pretty early on here. So, who
[4:52] who has the Legos? Where are they? Is,
[4:54] you know, does Smog have it and he's
[4:56] just sitting on it like his pile of
[4:57] gold? And like it's crazy how this [ __ ]
[4:59] can just vanish like that and no one in
[5:02] a very small tight group of suspects has
[5:06] any knowledge on where it is.
[5:07] Coffeezilla even plays around with one
[5:09] of the ideas that maybe Reckless Bins
[5:11] stole it because as you might recall the
[5:14] cops came in guns blazing when they
[5:16] arrested them because apparently they
[5:19] had got a tip that the YouTubers in this
[5:21] Airbnb had a conversation about their
[5:24] stolen Legos they have. And also, one of
[5:27] the owners even accused Ben of stealing
[5:29] the Legos when he was melting down,
[5:31] [ __ ] crashing out on a phone call
[5:33] saying, "Fuck you. You stole the Legos,
[5:35] bitch." So, Coffeezilla explores that
[5:38] idea and it obviously reaches a pretty
[5:41] comically dumb conclusion that there is
[5:44] no world where that happens. That is
[5:46] just barnacles. Because Reckless Bin
[5:50] literally couldn't steal them. It
[5:52] actually would have been impossible. He
[5:53] wasn't there that night. He had no
[5:54] connection to the uh previous franchise
[5:57] owners. Had no interaction with like the
[6:00] takeover or anything. He had no chance
[6:03] to even steal the Legos if that was part
[6:06] of a nefarious dubious plot he was
[6:08] cooking up. Genuinely, it is impossible
[6:10] for him to have been the one to have
[6:12] stolen the Legos. So then he Coffeezilla
[6:15] looks at Ammon.
[6:17] >> My name is Ammon McNe. I am the CEO of
[6:21] the Bricks and Minifigs brand. So, my
[6:23] name is Matt McNeff. I'm the COO of
[6:25] Bricks Minigs.
[6:26] >> The people you just saw are the McN
[6:28] brothers. They agreed to speak with me
[6:30] to try to clear their name.
[6:32] >> Boy howdy. You can probably already
[6:34] imagine how well this goes. Their
[6:36] defense not watertight. I am always so
[6:41] impressed by Coffeezilla's ability to
[6:43] get the star clowns of his
[6:45] investigations to speak directly to him.
[6:48] And every time without fail they make
[6:51] fools of themselves. It it it it keeps
[6:54] happening and I am thankful that it
[6:56] does. I am just always surprised. Now
[6:58] that being said, Ammon does make a
[7:00] strong point about offsite holding of
[7:03] Brian Mansel's collection, which is
[7:05] something Brian had reiterated on a
[7:07] podcast like a year ago about how his
[7:10] collection was being stored outside of
[7:13] that bricks and mini figs location,
[7:15] outside that facility. It was in, you
[7:17] know, [ __ ] secure black site or
[7:18] something for security, which I think is
[7:21] very odd. That is peculiar.
[7:24] Why? You know, they store the Legos in
[7:26] [ __ ] Fort Knox or something on
[7:28] consignment like it that is very weird
[7:31] if you ask me.
[7:32] >> Parts of it seem to go missing on
[7:34] November 14th.
[7:36] >> Well, and and and I guess the No,
[7:39] not not at all. I'm I'm gonna say, you
[7:41] know, like that that that is not
[7:43] accurate at all because
[7:45] >> So, you think that the collection was in
[7:46] the store at the time or elsewhere?
[7:49] >> Elsewhere. When when you look at Manel's
[7:51] own words that he reiterated to a
[7:54] podcast last year, he explicitly stated
[7:57] to another podcaster, "The sets were
[8:00] moved off site for security.
[8:02] >> The collection will not be stored on
[8:04] site after ours for security reasons,
[8:05] and after Sunday, the sets will be
[8:06] available for purchase, but stored
[8:08] elsewhere." Coffeezilla then brings this
[8:09] up directly to the previous owners, the
[8:12] Gormans, about the off-site storage of
[8:14] Brian Mansel's Star Wars Lego
[8:16] collection, asking them to pour a bit of
[8:18] milk on this cereal. What does this all
[8:21] mean? What does it look like? And I
[8:23] think the way they explain it does make
[8:26] more sense about why it was stored off
[8:29] site for a brief period of time. The way
[8:34] Ammon describes it makes it sound like
[8:35] it was some kind of indefinite thing
[8:37] where they had it buried underground,
[8:39] you know, in like a fallout shelter or
[8:41] something that they were, you know,
[8:43] squatting on there and it it seemed very
[8:45] underhanded and shady. But the way they
[8:48] describe it and like the reason behind
[8:50] it, that also makes sense.
[8:54] >> Locations, can you address what that is?
[8:56] Is that true? So, the off-site location
[9:00] and the the letter that they are re that
[9:03] corporate is referring to is the
[9:05] original press release that we released
[9:07] when we were launching the collection.
[9:09] In that press release, because we had
[9:11] had uh previous break-ins, I
[9:13] specifically included the location that
[9:16] after this weekend, those Legos would be
[9:18] sto
[9:20] stored offsite to deter any future
[9:22] thefts. They were briefly stored offsite
[9:25] after that launch weekend while I bought
[9:28] safes for the back room and then they
[9:30] were moved back into the store.
[9:32] >> Okay. So, for most of the time the the
[9:34] the sets were in the store after y'all
[9:37] got the safes in.
[9:39] >> Yeah,
[9:39] >> exactly.
[9:40] >> To me, that does pass the smell test. If
[9:42] they are having problems with thieves,
[9:44] you know, Lego City's under attack from
[9:47] Nire Dwells, well, now they have this
[9:49] extremely valuable collection that
[9:50] belongs to Brian Mancel's father. And in
[9:52] order to try and keep it safe and
[9:54] secure, they don't have any like safes
[9:56] or anything like that. So in the interim
[9:59] while they get those safes, they store
[10:01] it offsite.
[10:03] I get that. Like I I do understand that.
[10:07] And according to them, once they did get
[10:10] those saves, they did bring it back. So
[10:13] it was in the store for the majority of
[10:14] the time. It was only offsite for a
[10:16] little while. And one group in
[10:18] particular is pointing their finger at
[10:20] them very hard. It's the McNavs who say
[10:22] they were behind on payments.
[10:24] >> We started getting uh calls from the
[10:26] landlord letting us know that Crystal
[10:28] was uh behind on the lease payments at
[10:31] the location. We had also gotten a
[10:33] couple of uh notices from some of our
[10:35] vendor partners that bills had not been
[10:38] paid by the store. And so we felt pretty
[10:40] strongly that there was going to be a
[10:41] risk of her just, you know, like
[10:43] attempting to file bankruptcy, doing
[10:44] some of these other types of things
[10:45] which we've had franchises do in the
[10:47] past. And that's problematic. So that's
[10:49] why we sent him up there to take some
[10:50] video footage. So we need we needed to
[10:52] just be prepared if if we needed to do a
[10:54] hostile takeover.
[10:55] >> This is not new information from the
[10:58] bricks and minig side of things about
[11:00] pointing the finger at the Gormans. That
[11:03] they are responsible for all this
[11:05] hoopla. They are the actual bad guys
[11:08] here. They may not have the twirled
[11:10] mustache, but make no mistake, they're
[11:12] the villains. So he they are claiming
[11:15] that the Gormans were behind on
[11:16] payments. They they weren't doing their
[11:19] due diligence. So there was a fear that
[11:21] there might be bankruptcy, skipping
[11:22] town, this kind of thing. So they
[11:24] actually sent Brandon Best undercover
[11:27] incognito to shop around and take video
[11:31] to send to them. And this was before
[11:34] Brandon came in to kick them out. So
[11:36] they were already like investigating the
[11:39] Gorman's and this shop in particular.
[11:42] >> A video of the store condition in
[11:44] preparation for this handover. But at
[11:46] this point, Brandon does not announce
[11:47] himself to Crystal Gorman. Later though,
[11:50] on November 14th, once again, the same
[11:52] concern about the Gorman stealing or
[11:54] theft was expressed by the McNavs.
[11:57] Brandon was trying to make sure that
[11:58] they weren't taking things from the
[12:00] store. And so, he was kind of trying to
[12:01] make sure that he wasn't putting things,
[12:03] you know, like hiding things in the back
[12:04] and that he like, and while he was
[12:05] watching that, trying to make sure Ben
[12:07] wasn't grabbing stuff from the store and
[12:08] moving or doing anything along those
[12:09] lines cuz he just got a weird feeling
[12:11] about the whole transition. She took at
[12:13] least one, if not more than one, cart
[12:16] fulls of things out to her car with her
[12:18] coat draped over it.
[12:20] >> Agent 47 Brandon Best here is undercover
[12:23] and according to the McNS filming things
[12:25] to make sure everything's above board
[12:27] and that the Gormans aren't stealing
[12:29] things, trying to prevent theft and make
[12:32] sure everything's, you know, above board
[12:33] and as smooth a transition as possible
[12:35] with all the inventory intact without
[12:37] them, you know, making off with it like
[12:40] bandits. The other McNF that doesn't
[12:43] have a mustache even claims that she was
[12:47] taking cart fulls of items to her car
[12:50] under her coat.
[12:53] How How big is her coat? That'd be a
[12:55] [ __ ] massive coat, right? To put an
[12:57] entire cart full of items under it to
[13:00] try and hide it. What is Is that like a
[13:03] XXXL
[13:07] raincoat or something? Like what the
[13:09] [ __ ] Is it like that old thing of like
[13:11] three kids in a trench coat to buy
[13:13] tickets to a PG-13 movie or some [ __ ]
[13:16] Like, how big of a code are we talking
[13:18] here to be able to do that? That's a
[13:21] pretty bold claim. And they follow this
[13:23] up by saying that she actually has a
[13:25] history of retail theft. Like she has a
[13:28] record of like stealing. So, she is
[13:32] someone that they don't trust and they
[13:33] are trying to put doubt into their
[13:36] credibility in the first place here. So,
[13:38] it's something that Coffeezilla explores
[13:39] with the Gormans directly about that.
[13:42] And she does confirm, yeah, that
[13:43] happened in 1999
[13:46] when she was 19 and pregnant, according
[13:49] to her. And the big thing here is that
[13:53] she allegedly told them about that,
[13:57] which is something McNeff claims they
[14:00] had no clue about.
[14:02] >> Kind of their side. But at every turn, I
[14:04] hope you understand, I'm getting
[14:05] contradictory stories down to if the
[14:08] McNeffs knew about her history in the
[14:09] first place.
[14:10] >> Like they're bringing up something that
[14:12] I told them about.
[14:14] >> Wait, wait, wait. You told them
[14:16] >> told them. They asked me.
[14:19] >> They said they had no idea. They said if
[14:21] if we knew, we would have never hired
[14:22] her.
[14:23] >> Cuz we would not have hired her had we
[14:25] known this. I told them I had a record
[14:28] from when I was 18 that was a family
[14:30] issue that and didn't go into all of the
[14:33] details, but they were like, "That's so
[14:36] long ago. We're going to hire you based
[14:38] on who you are now."
[14:39] >> Now, she says that when she told them
[14:41] about it, it was something that happened
[14:42] when she was 18, whereas apparently it
[14:46] actually happened when she was 19. Not
[14:47] that it matters here in the context of
[14:49] this, but it illustrates the
[14:52] contradictions that are being met at
[14:54] every single stage of this investigation
[14:57] in this case overall from the very
[15:00] beginning. And that's something I've
[15:00] said a lot. A lot of what comes out of
[15:02] Bricks and Minifigs has so many
[15:04] contradictions that are easily
[15:07] accessible to just the the naked eye,
[15:10] the the peepers here. You can just see
[15:13] that a lot of what they have said is
[15:16] contradicted by other evidence out
[15:18] there. And this is just another one of
[15:19] those examples here because according to
[15:22] Crystal, she let them know like off rip
[15:25] that you know when she was 18 or I guess
[15:28] 19, she did have this thing on her
[15:32] record here. And after making them
[15:35] aware, they said that was so long ago,
[15:37] which it was [ __ ] two decades ago,
[15:40] that it doesn't bother them and that
[15:41] they're, you know, still willing to do
[15:43] business with her. But McNeff is now
[15:45] turning around and saying they had no
[15:46] idea. And if they did know, they would
[15:48] have never done business with her. You
[15:50] know, this huge blemish on her record.
[15:52] She is a scoundrel. Did you know that?
[15:54] Did you know that she has a retail theft
[15:56] charge? Did you know that? We can't
[15:58] trust her. She's a [ __ ] heinous evil
[16:00] monster. That kind of thing. when
[16:03] apparently from the very beginning
[16:05] according to her she let them know about
[16:07] that. Also, I would think as a big
[16:10] corporation, keep in mind Bricks and
[16:12] Minifigs we have to remember is a huge
[16:14] corporation. They have a team of
[16:16] lawyers. I would imagine they do a
[16:18] vetting process for people that they go
[16:20] into business with because I imagine
[16:22] they would want to know if a new
[16:24] franchisee is like a felon who has a
[16:27] history of stealing and [ __ ] like that.
[16:29] So, there's no doubt in my mind that
[16:31] before they even approved her as a
[16:34] franchisee, they would have seen this on
[16:37] her record, this uh retail theft charge,
[16:42] and they still did business with her.
[16:43] Like, I just find it hard to believe
[16:45] that they wouldn't have known about that
[16:47] because I have to imagine there is a
[16:48] thorough process that goes into being a
[16:51] franchisee owner with Bricks and
[16:52] Minifigs. It's a huge corporation. That
[16:54] kind of standard procedure like
[16:56] background checks that would come up. I
[16:58] feel like it's very unlikely that Bricks
[17:02] and Minifigs had no idea about that
[17:05] before starting to do business with her.
[17:07] And if they really had no idea about it,
[17:09] that just goes to show you that they're
[17:10] not really a very well-managed company
[17:13] if they're uh neglecting like one of the
[17:16] most standard steps in business, which
[17:19] is just doing a background check.
[17:21] >> After a lot of convincing, both sides
[17:22] agreed to show me the photos, corporate
[17:24] and the Gormans. In fact, I scheduled
[17:26] the calls to do this an hour apart from
[17:28] each other. But let's remember their
[17:30] positions for a second. The Gorman say
[17:32] whatever was left unsold of Brian's
[17:34] collection that was in that store
[17:36] spreadsheet was in Salem store the night
[17:39] of November 14th. Then you have
[17:41] corporate side. They say whatever was
[17:43] left that night was maybe $2 to $5,000
[17:45] of Legos. The rest was either stolen by
[17:47] thieves, the Gormans, or held off site.
[17:49] It was not in that store. And on both
[17:51] sides, there's a lot to lose here,
[17:53] right? This is where it gets really
[17:55] juicy. And now we do get like hard
[17:58] picture proof. And Coffeezilla also
[18:01] recognizes the effect this has on the
[18:04] others here, the new franchises that
[18:06] came in. This is the most important
[18:08] component so far in the video about the
[18:12] location of these sets and also who is
[18:17] being truthful. Who is actually
[18:19] providing real evidence to confirm their
[18:22] account of things and disproving the
[18:24] other. That is a very crucial thing to
[18:29] finally have definitive light shined on.
[18:33] >> You'd agree?
[18:33] >> There's there's a good amount of Lego on
[18:35] hand. Um, this this isn't what I would
[18:38] say is a well stocked bricks and mini
[18:40] figs, but it's not um it's not terrible.
[18:44] It's it's I would say a little below
[18:46] average as far as overall stock. So, now
[18:48] let's go to November 14th. Can you still
[18:50] see my screen?
[18:51] >> Yes, sir.
[18:52] >> Okay. So, November 14th, we haven't put
[18:56] this is the first time we've shown this
[18:58] publicly. We've been waiting for our
[19:00] attorneys to give us the approval to
[19:01] say, "Hey, this is okay now to share in
[19:03] this capacity." So, okay. Uh, this we
[19:06] we'll go through these pictures. This is
[19:09] what Josh saw when or not Josh, Brandon
[19:11] saw. Uh, he took pictures of everything
[19:13] in the store. All the inventory in the
[19:15] store. This is what the shelves looked
[19:17] like
[19:18] compared to what you just saw a moment
[19:20] ago.
[19:23] Okay. So, I'm seeing a lot less. Just to
[19:25] state the obvious, go back a little bit.
[19:26] >> Yeah.
[19:27] >> I'm seeing like way less. So, yeah. the
[19:29] pictures I was being shown on November
[19:30] 14th, those shelves looked emptier than
[19:33] they did on the day of October 24th. But
[19:35] to be fair to the Gormans, they
[19:37] addressed the empty shelves themselves.
[19:39] >> So, starting with the McN side of things
[19:41] here, they have these videos from
[19:43] Brandon where he was recording the
[19:44] inside of that location. And in the
[19:46] first video that Coffeezilla is getting
[19:48] walked through with the McNS, it does
[19:50] seem like the shelves are far more full.
[19:53] He does say that it's not like a well
[19:55] stocked bricks and mini figs. It's a
[19:57] little below average, but it's very
[19:58] clearly more full than that video from
[20:01] November 14th, which is the big day. The
[20:04] shelves are noticeably emptier on that
[20:06] day in that video.
[20:08] >> As we get to the very end of this video
[20:11] in particular right here, you'll see
[20:13] that empty space right here. So, this is
[20:15] the retired and certified set section
[20:19] that we have to keep separate from the
[20:22] new and boxed current sets being sold by
[20:24] LEGO. All those empty spaces up there
[20:27] were the sets that we had on display
[20:30] during the day from Brian's collection
[20:32] that every night when the store closed,
[20:34] we pulled off and put back into the safe
[20:36] and then put back out in the morning.
[20:38] >> So when they say, "See, there's empty
[20:39] space on the shelves." Yeah, cuz we put
[20:41] them in safes at night to keep them safe
[20:43] >> cuz we have giant windows.
[20:44] >> Yeah, it's an explanation that kind of
[20:46] makes sense given the history of
[20:48] burglary now.
[20:49] >> Yeah, that is an explanation that makes
[20:51] a lot of sense. Breakins happen all the
[20:54] time. Like look at card shops in
[20:56] particular. There's a break-in every
[20:58] hour at a card shop somewhere. Right now
[21:00] there's someone probably getting their
[21:02] glass broken in and all their Pokemon
[21:04] cards stolen right out of [ __ ]
[21:05] display. So they have had a problem with
[21:08] breakins in the past. So it makes sense
[21:10] that they have it on display during the
[21:11] day when there's people there and then
[21:14] they take it down at night to put in the
[21:16] safes. So that way thieves can't just
[21:18] see these valuable Legos sitting out
[21:20] there and decide to just throw a brick
[21:22] through the through the window. But when
[21:24] you have these two videos, it's very
[21:26] easy to spin a narrative that also makes
[21:29] sense. Look, these shelves were full on
[21:32] this day, but on the most important day,
[21:35] the November 14th date, they are
[21:37] noticeably emptier. That must mean foul
[21:40] play. That must indicate that they are
[21:42] stealing these sets. That's the
[21:44] insinuation they're making with those
[21:46] videos. And yeah, you could make that
[21:49] argument, but when you actually hear
[21:51] from the franchisee owners here, the
[21:54] Gormans, their explanation
[21:56] make sense on why those shelves would be
[21:58] emptier.
[21:59] >> My understanding is that he took
[22:00] pictures of everything and all those
[22:03] photos I showed you of the Star Wars
[22:05] were all the photos were all was
[22:07] literally all the Star Wars inventory in
[22:09] the store.
[22:09] >> Yeah, the McNe say all of the photos
[22:12] should be with Brandon of all the Star
[22:14] Wars items. And to be fair to them, they
[22:16] showed me a lot more pictures and even
[22:18] showed me a spreadsheet of all the Star
[22:19] Wars sets in the store the night Brandon
[22:21] took it over. And it valued to about
[22:24] like5 to$10,000 or so. But then I had to
[22:27] ask, sorry, here's another kind of set.
[22:30] >> Okay.
[22:32] >> Do you think y'all have all of these?
[22:36] >> Very likely.
[22:37] >> Okay.
[22:40] Again, I'd be surprised if we didn't.
[22:42] >> But then I couldn't help myself. I
[22:44] started to bring up some of Crystal's
[22:45] photos to see if they matched up. Have
[22:48] you seen this before?
[22:52] >> Uh, not that I recall.
[22:54] >> So, do you see that?
[22:55] >> Yep.
[22:56] >> So, do you see it's in like some kind of
[22:58] like a safe thing? I don't know if you
[23:00] can see the sides there. Looks like a
[23:02] bookshelf to me, but sure.
[23:04] >> A bookshelf. Bro, be real. We're looking
[23:07] at it. What bookshelf has hinges on the
[23:10] left side of it? presumably to close. I
[23:14] the not any bookshelves I'm aware of.
[23:16] Maybe it's not, you know, the craziest
[23:19] high most highquality safe, you know,
[23:21] with the giant [ __ ] wheel on it like
[23:23] the vault door you'd find at a bank, but
[23:25] that does definitely appear to be a safe
[23:28] that those Legos are in there in
[23:30] Crystal's pictures. So anyway, uh McNeff
[23:34] is now saying and even sent a sheet to
[23:38] Coffeezilla about what was left in the
[23:40] store from the collection valued at
[23:42] around like5 to $10,000. And while going
[23:45] through pictures, Coffeezilla starts
[23:48] showing some of Crystal's pictures as
[23:50] well.
[23:50] >> Okay. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So I think the
[23:52] important thing is making sure that all
[23:54] of these are in the inventory for Manel.
[23:57] >> Sure.
[23:59] Sure. That's home.
[24:02] >> 75041.
[24:07] >> Yep. The vulture droid.
[24:11] >> 75169.
[24:16] >> 169. I'm not seeing. So, there may be.
[24:18] Okay. So, there's one that is not on our
[24:20] list.
[24:21] >> Let's try this
[24:24] 10240.
[24:25] >> Okay. Nope. Not seeing that one either.
[24:27] What about 9493?
[24:32] I don't see that one either. So maybe
[24:34] those were locked at the time and
[24:35] Brandon did not get those pictures.
[24:37] >> You already tried pissing on my head and
[24:39] calling it rain when you looked at a
[24:41] safe and said it looked like a
[24:42] bookshelf. So, it's hard to extend the
[24:45] courtesy that this is like an honest
[24:47] mistake about these sets that are in
[24:51] Crystal's photographs not appearing in
[24:54] their records of the inventory there.
[24:58] Like, I can't say for sure if it's by
[25:01] design, like they're omitted uh on
[25:04] purpose, maliciously or not, but it is
[25:07] hard to extend any level of benefit of
[25:09] the doubt here. They should be there.
[25:12] And the fact they're not is alarming and
[25:14] it's something Bricks and Minigs should
[25:16] take seriously. He kind of like brushes
[25:18] past it a little bit, glosses over it
[25:20] and like, okay, well maybe this, but
[25:22] like that shouldn't be the response.
[25:24] Like it should be something that you
[25:25] want to immediately look into a bit more
[25:27] on how this could even happen, this
[25:29] mistake, if it is a mistake. All right,
[25:32] that's kind of a problem because the
[25:34] Gorman's had over 200 photos of this
[25:36] store. I definitely knew looking at
[25:38] these photos, there's a lot more Legos
[25:41] in the Gorman's photos by quite a lot
[25:44] that Brandon's photos just didn't show.
[25:46] But corporate didn't really see it that
[25:47] way.
[25:48] >> But still, in in the grand scheme of
[25:52] things, we're not talking again 10 times
[25:54] the amount of of sets here.
[25:56] >> I don't know. I I haven't shown all the
[25:59] the photos yet. I don't know exactly how
[26:00] much.
[26:01] >> If there's a calculable figure that we
[26:03] can look at and say, "Great, this is
[26:05] what was there." I promise you it's not
[26:08] $100,000 worth of of Lego. And so
[26:11] where's the rest of it? He got me. I
[26:14] don't know.
[26:14] >> Maybe I'm a little too in my head about
[26:16] this this U-Haul story. You don't think
[26:18] it could have been some U-Haul thing?
[26:21] There's no way. So to me, I believe the
[26:24] Gormans provided significantly more hard
[26:27] evidence with apparently a couple
[26:30] hundred photos showing significantly
[26:32] more Lego sets in the store than
[26:36] Brandon's documentation had and what
[26:39] Bricks and Minigs is touting. I I don't
[26:43] think that's something to just gloss
[26:45] over here. I I don't know if Mc Maf
[26:47] realizes how bad that looks for them.
[26:50] It's hard to chalk that up as some
[26:53] honest to god mistake or or something
[26:56] like that. Especially when at every turn
[26:59] McNeff is trying to like minimize the
[27:03] amount of Legos with this discrepancy.
[27:05] Like okay, even if there was some
[27:07] unaccounted for and some uh wackiness
[27:12] documentation got cattywampus, it's not
[27:14] a hundred thousand. It's not 10 times.
[27:17] Yeah, you might have a couple hundred
[27:18] photos, but it's not like that much.
[27:21] It's just it's very uh fishy behavior.
[27:25] And speaking of fishy, it's about to get
[27:28] real weird with the U-Haul story.
[27:30] >> So, when Brandon came to the store that
[27:33] night, uh he was driving a U-Haul truck.
[27:35] >> Now, in typical fashion, this was
[27:37] immediately disputed.
[27:39] >> Brandon showed up to to the Salem store
[27:42] in a rental car. uh when when he came to
[27:44] to get the keys from Crystal, he was
[27:46] there in a rental car, not in a U-Haul.
[27:47] >> But the big reason it mattered to me was
[27:49] because I was actually called by an ex
[27:52] employee of the Bricks and Miniix store
[27:55] in Eugene, Oregon. Remember, that's the
[27:57] one that Brandon and Josh owned. And he
[28:00] told me something very interesting.
[28:02] >> I'm a former employee started in 2024,
[28:06] and I was working under the old um
[28:08] manager Brian. He sold the store to a
[28:11] random best Josh. Josh like, "Oh,
[28:15] Crystal um stole Lego sets and bolted
[28:19] out of the country."
[28:20] >> Who says that?
[28:22] >> Brandon. Brandon Best told us
[28:26] when he was um dropping off all the Lego
[28:28] sets to us that night. They used like it
[28:31] was a bunch of used Lego sets that were
[28:34] like Saran Graph. They had Star Wars
[28:36] City. I used just a lot of stuff. It was
[28:39] like a mediumsiz U-Haul truck.
[28:41] >> Wait, wait. They brought a U-Haul truck.
[28:45] >> Yeah, from Salem. To Eugene
[28:47] >> and to Eugene and it had a bunch of Star
[28:49] Wars sets on it.
[28:51] >> Yes, Star Wars sets and everything. A
[28:53] bunch of new stuff, too. So, Coffeezilla
[28:56] was contacted by a former employee at
[28:58] the Eugene location, which was owned by
[28:59] Brandon and Josh, and he talks about how
[29:02] he watched the Reckless Bin YouTube
[29:04] video, and a lot of like what they were
[29:06] experiencing with on their own started
[29:08] to make sense. And then even talks about
[29:11] how that U-Haul has been brought up by
[29:15] the Gormans actually arrived at the
[29:17] Eugene store full of Lego sets, Saran
[29:20] Wrap Lego sets, Star Wars Lego sets.
[29:24] This is a huge big claim here and this
[29:28] is a real former employee. Coffeezilla
[29:30] did his due diligence from everything I
[29:32] can tell to confirm this really is an
[29:34] employee who worked where he said he
[29:36] worked which was at that Eugene location
[29:38] with Brandon and Josh as the owners. And
[29:41] he is talking about how they had a
[29:43] U-Haul that brought these Lego sets. And
[29:46] uh they were saying like that facility
[29:47] was closed down, you know, [ __ ] was like
[29:49] haunted. Crystal big thumbs down. Boo.
[29:53] Crystal. We don't like Crystal. Boo. She
[29:54] was like stealing Legos and stuff. And
[29:56] then he arrives on his chariot here, his
[29:58] U-Haul with these [ __ ] Star Wars
[30:00] sets.
[30:02] That's That's big. That is colossal. And
[30:04] Bricks and Minifigs McN there. You can
[30:06] hear him still denying the existence of
[30:08] that U-Haul in the first place. It is
[30:11] heavily disputed, saying he showed up in
[30:13] a rental vehicle, not a U-Haul.
[30:16] Explicitly saying not a U-Haul. But the
[30:17] Gormans are saying it's a U-Haul. A
[30:20] former employee at the Eugene location
[30:22] is saying it was a U-Haul.
[30:25] I mean, it sounded like it was a [ __ ]
[30:27] U-Haul to me. If it walks like a duck,
[30:29] talks like a duck, probably a [ __ ]
[30:31] U-Haul. Like, if you were to look at the
[30:33] the footage, uh the ring cameras, all
[30:36] that stuff, you you won't see a U-Haul
[30:38] sitting anywhere in the the parking lot.
[30:40] >> So, after in hearing all of this, I
[30:41] realize, look, I just got to find the
[30:43] evidence. So, I start sifting through
[30:44] these photos I have, right? I realize I
[30:45] have a parking lot photo. I check it. No
[30:48] U-Haul, just a red truck out there. I
[30:50] check another photo where you could see
[30:51] the window, but the problem is it's
[30:53] night outside, so you can't see. And so
[30:55] I'm looking at everything I can and
[30:57] there's just nothing, you know? And I
[30:59] have this alternate angle. I'm looking
[31:01] at that and then wait a minute. Zoom in
[31:05] on that photo. Bring up the brightness
[31:07] of this photo a little bit. And
[31:10] my gosh, there's a U-Haul in the parking
[31:14] lot right outside of the store the night
[31:17] of November 14th, 2024. I mean, is this
[31:20] not Coffeezilla just reaching over to
[31:22] deliver the scholars mate here on that
[31:24] claim of no U-Haul? They now have
[31:26] irrefutable evidence of that U-Haul's
[31:29] presence there on that night, which
[31:32] confirms the Gorman's account of things
[31:34] and disproves the bricks and minifig
[31:36] side of things. Now, there was that
[31:38] truck that was there in like the the
[31:40] footage that Coffeezilla had access to,
[31:43] but there is also a U-Haul there. So,
[31:46] does Bricks and Minigs just deny the
[31:49] U-Haul in light of irrefutable proof and
[31:52] try and stick to the story that we now
[31:54] know is inaccurate about no U-Hauls
[31:57] being there, only a truck? Or do they
[31:59] try and feain ignorance like, "Oh, we
[32:01] were only made aware of that like rental
[32:03] truck. We had no clue about this U-Haul
[32:06] scheme here.
[32:08] >> This is something that Matt said he had
[32:10] seen footage of and it couldn't be true.
[32:13] >> And again, I I believe I have seen
[32:14] footage from that night that shows
[32:16] clearly out into the parking lot and
[32:18] there's no U-Haul. After seeing this, I
[32:20] said, I really have to make a call. And
[32:22] that's when the story changed. So, last
[32:24] night I talked with Matt McN. I brought
[32:27] up this question of the U-Haul. He told
[32:30] me emphatically there was no U-Haul.
[32:32] Y'all came to me this morning. You said,
[32:33] "Hey, we looked into it. There actually
[32:35] was a U-Haul there that night. Can you
[32:36] clear up what that's about?"
[32:38] >> So, so, so there's there's actually two
[32:40] different things that are going on here
[32:41] just to help you understand.
[32:42] >> Bro, I hate the way Ammon talks. I hate
[32:44] the way he conducts himself. His clothes
[32:46] whack. His mustache whack. This guy
[32:48] sucks, man. Like, let me just help you
[32:50] understand, actually. So, yeah, there's
[32:53] a U-Haul there. We know you we know you
[32:55] found it. We We know you found the the
[32:57] evidence of the U-Haul. We're going to
[32:58] have to change our story a little bit.
[33:00] We're going to have to tighten the
[33:01] screws a little bit here and try and get
[33:03] something cohesive here cuz yeah, that
[33:06] doesn't look good cuz we really were
[33:08] strongly saying that there's no U-Haul.
[33:11] So, here's the spin. Here's the scoop.
[33:14] And I don't want to torture you with
[33:16] more than necessary Ammon words that he
[33:19] drils out. He's basically now spinning
[33:22] this this web here that actually this is
[33:26] a big misunderstanding. Uh there's
[33:28] there's a odd conflation that's going on
[33:31] here about like the U-Haul. Like it's
[33:33] not actually there for like this store's
[33:36] inventory. There was a disgruntled
[33:37] former employee. Uh and there was a a
[33:40] bit of uh mishandling of inventory. So
[33:43] now the U-Haul is there for that
[33:45] something totally separate and and you
[33:47] know now things are wires getting
[33:49] crossed. Everyone's all over the place.
[33:50] But yeah, does that clear it up? Does
[33:52] that make sense? It really just doesn't
[33:54] make any sense. He's saying that that
[33:57] collection that he had brought to the
[33:59] Eugene store was from that other problem
[34:02] that they had and the employees just
[34:06] misremembering the timeline. Like those
[34:08] Star Wars sets that he had in Matt
[34:10] U-Haul didn't come from, you know, this
[34:12] one. It was from something totally
[34:14] separate that he was also just doing it
[34:15] like the same time as him investigating
[34:18] the Salem store. He was doing them both.
[34:21] He wears many hats. Jack of all trades.
[34:23] He's very talented. So yeah, he was
[34:25] doing that and then when he came back on
[34:29] the 14th, uh he then starts talking
[34:32] about like oh he had like a rental truck
[34:34] and he tried to attach a camper to it
[34:36] but it just wasn't rated for that. So he
[34:38] thought a crap like this is this is the
[34:41] story that McNe is telling. Like it is
[34:44] it is quite a tale. It is it is like a
[34:47] you know an epic up there with the Iliad
[34:49] I'd say but like it's not really making
[34:51] a ton of sense to me
[34:53] >> in anticipation like meaning like a
[34:55] camper trailer in anticipation of the
[34:57] the potential hostile takeover
[34:58] previously.
[34:59] >> Is that why he had a U-Haul? Is that the
[35:01] reason he had a U-Haul was for this
[35:03] camper or what's going on with the
[35:05] >> So, so, so then what happens is he takes
[35:07] his his uh rental vehicle truck and he
[35:10] tries to connect the the trailer uh the
[35:13] camping trailer to that truck and and
[35:15] it's not rated for that particular
[35:17] weight and he realized, a crap. He
[35:20] called around and found that that U-Haul
[35:22] uh had a rating for, you know, like one
[35:25] of their box trucks. And so he grabbed
[35:26] that, went and got it at 10:00 a.m. on
[35:29] the 14th. And at uh and so he then went
[35:32] and hooked that trailer up um to the
[35:36] camping trailer to a U-Haul, drove that
[35:39] trailer down to another location where
[35:42] he could set up the camping trailer in
[35:43] Salem. Uh dropped off the camper
[35:45] trailer, and then he arrived in a U-Haul
[35:48] to the Salem store. And then um
[35:51] >> what a story, Mark. [ __ ] me, bro. the
[35:54] amount of and then it's like he's
[35:56] writing fanfiction live. I'm taking a
[35:59] peek inside the writer room here. Like
[36:02] he's talking about all of this as if he
[36:04] was like a force ghost on this guy's
[36:06] shoulders like watching him do all of
[36:08] it. Where is this even coming from? Like
[36:10] this who who would ever do this? By the
[36:14] way, the story he is telling, I can't
[36:16] fathom a human being doing. Like, it's
[36:20] just so messy and sloppy and convoluted.
[36:24] Like, I don't I just don't see a world
[36:27] where this would be a path that someone
[36:29] actually takes. Now, I'll go ahead and
[36:32] spoil that the U-Haul plotline doesn't
[36:35] get us anywhere closer to finding the
[36:37] Legos, but I do think it is important
[36:39] because it illustrates their willingness
[36:41] to change their story or just outright
[36:44] tell a fib. So, Coffeezilla got
[36:47] documentation of that U-Haul. He got
[36:50] photos from Brandon of that night and
[36:52] there's so much discrepancy there that
[36:54] it literally would be impossible for the
[36:57] story to have gone the way that Ammon is
[37:00] claiming it did. The timing is just not
[37:02] feasible. It literally cannot happen the
[37:04] way in which it's described. So, even
[37:06] though the U-Haul doesn't help us solve
[37:08] the mystery Lego here, like Coffeezilla
[37:10] get to the bottom of it, it just shows
[37:12] to me the willingness for Bricks and
[37:14] Minigs to just start spinning their
[37:16] [ __ ] wheels about basically anything.
[37:19] and just a complete refusal to like even
[37:22] stick to their own story and their own
[37:25] facts. Like it's constantly changing
[37:27] with them and there's always like
[37:28] contradictions that seem to pop up. It
[37:31] is just very uh shady I would say. In
[37:35] particular with Ammon's behavior, this
[37:38] guy has a humiliation fetish
[37:40] potentially. He loves to put his face on
[37:43] claims that have contradictory evidence
[37:46] publicly available. So like in this one
[37:48] he tells this whole story this this
[37:51] novel that he writes here about like the
[37:54] U-Haul to explain it even after the
[37:56] other McNF firmly sternly with no
[37:59] riddles no guesswork no wiggle room
[38:02] saying there is no U-Haul that's wrong
[38:05] now proven that that wasn't true there
[38:07] is a U-Haul there and now Ammon's got
[38:09] this massive story cooked up about it
[38:12] and the story just like there's no way
[38:14] it can be true based on everything
[38:16] Coffeezilla was able to together from
[38:18] Brandon like the actual documentation.
[38:20] So like I don't think there's any world
[38:22] where that's true or reality yet he's
[38:26] proudly making that claim even when it's
[38:29] like evidence contradicts it like
[38:32] provably contradicts it. I that's why
[38:35] it's just so peculiar to me. Like they
[38:37] keep saying these things and can't even
[38:38] stick to their own story.
[38:40] >> First from corporate I got the point of
[38:42] sale records from the Salem store from
[38:44] 2023 to 2024. And secondly, from Crystal
[38:47] Gorman, I got her internal records of
[38:49] Brian's inventory of what was sold or
[38:52] not in order to pay him and keep track
[38:54] of prices. Now, Coffeezilla gets access
[38:57] to some of the bookkeeping here, and he
[38:59] talks about how the original claim of
[39:01] this being a $200,000 LEGO collection is
[39:04] just not true. It's highly inaccurate.
[39:07] It was used as marketing buzz online.
[39:10] Yes. like from Bricks and Minifigs
[39:12] themselves as their marketing material,
[39:14] like the $200,000 collection, that kind
[39:15] of thing. And that became, you know, the
[39:18] most eye-catching part of this whole
[39:20] story is how much the Legos are worth.
[39:23] But according to all of what is
[39:26] available here, the actual estimated
[39:28] value is calculated to be around
[39:30] $107,000 according to what Coffeezilla
[39:33] has access to. still an extremely
[39:35] valuable Lego collection, but that claim
[39:37] is just not accurate about it being
[39:40] 200K. It is still extremely valuable and
[39:43] that is still an extreme amount of
[39:44] money, but it is important to get things
[39:47] correct and the correct amount is around
[39:50] $100,000 $107,000,
[39:52] which as Coffeezilla mentions is
[39:54] somewhat nebulous because they're not
[39:56] all sold. So, you can't really say
[39:58] exactly what the value is cuz they
[40:00] haven't been paid for. So maybe it could
[40:02] be a little more, maybe a little less,
[40:03] but it is not fair to say it's $200,000.
[40:06] He then talks to Ben about it, about how
[40:08] surprised Ben is, cuz he'd been led to
[40:10] believe it's 200K this whole time. He
[40:12] then talks to the Gormans about it and
[40:14] Crystal talks about how she initially
[40:16] arrived at that number for the sake of
[40:18] like the press release to be eye
[40:20] grabbing. But in her spreadsheet she
[40:23] mention or she calculates it around like
[40:26] the 85 to 120k ballpark range not 200.
[40:32] That was her arriving there off
[40:34] basically like eyeballing it and then
[40:36] putting out the press release about this
[40:37] huge collection that is very valuable
[40:39] that they got their hands on. But as she
[40:41] actually went through the inventory in
[40:42] the spreadsheet, it was closer to that
[40:44] like 100k mark.
[40:46] >> It's about $107,000. Now, between 2023
[40:49] and 2024, the Gorman's record sales of
[40:52] about $24,000 of Brian's collection in
[40:55] their inventory tracking list. And of
[40:57] those sales, Brian was entitled to about
[40:59] 65 to 70% of it. He was paid $17,000,
[41:03] which roughly tracks with that. Which
[41:06] means on November 14th, the big night,
[41:08] the remaining amount of Brian's
[41:10] collection that should have been in
[41:12] there is about $82,000.
[41:14] >> And this is why having the correct
[41:16] number is important. And it's something
[41:17] Coffeezilla mentions. If you're going to
[41:19] be trying to locate the missing Legos,
[41:21] you have to know what you're even
[41:23] looking for and how much you're looking
[41:25] for here. cuz if it's a $200,000
[41:28] collection, there is a lot more out
[41:31] there in the [ __ ] wild out there in
[41:33] the rain and cold, you know, needing to
[41:35] be found. But now that we have the
[41:37] accurate numbers, you can start to more
[41:39] fine-tune the investigation to locate
[41:41] them. So, on the the big night here, uh,
[41:45] you know, on on judgment day, $82,000
[41:49] worth of Legos should have been in that
[41:52] store, which is a really big deal
[41:54] because Bricks and Minifigs officially
[41:56] stated that there is only like 2 to
[41:57] 5,000 that they located there. And
[42:00] McNeff even said that there's only like
[42:03] 11 to 15k total Star Wars in that
[42:07] location.
[42:08] How is that possible? We have the
[42:10] bookkeeping. There should have been
[42:12] $82,000 worth of Star Wars Lego sets
[42:15] from Brian Mansel's collection there.
[42:17] But according to Bricks and Minifigs and
[42:19] according to uh uh MC Mcnasty McNeff, I
[42:24] don't know why I blanked on his name so
[42:26] hard. Uh [ __ ] Mc Cheeseburger here.
[42:29] According to him, there was only 11 to
[42:32] 15K in total Star Wars there. So that's
[42:35] just that's not adding up. Where is it?
[42:37] So, I went through Crystal's photos
[42:39] myself, which she shared with me, and
[42:41] hired people to go through and hand tag
[42:44] the Star Wars Legos that were in these
[42:46] photos. We looked through over 200 plus
[42:50] photos, multiple videos, and matched
[42:52] what we saw with Brian's collection. In
[42:55] the end, I ended up with about $21,000
[42:59] of Legos matching Brian's collection
[43:01] that can be proven to be in the store on
[43:04] the night of November 14th. Now, to
[43:07] state the obvious, that's about three to
[43:09] five times what corporate estimated, at
[43:11] least on their press release. Now, yes,
[43:14] there are inherent errors in these
[43:16] estimates. Maybe we picked up some Lego
[43:18] that matched Brian's collection, but
[43:20] wasn't Brian's. But even though this is
[43:23] a bigger number than corporate said, I
[43:25] have to admit, even with pretty generous
[43:28] assumptions being made, there's still a
[43:30] huge gap of about $61,000 here that I
[43:33] just couldn't find. I think that was a
[43:35] really clever way of doing things here.
[43:37] He has so many photos from the Gormans
[43:39] here and he hired a team to go through
[43:43] manually old natural and tag them and so
[43:47] that way they could find the valuation
[43:50] of what is provably in the store on that
[43:53] night and there is still a large amount
[43:56] unaccounted for. Like yes, of course,
[43:58] give or take, there's some error there
[43:59] and how it was gathered and like what
[44:00] the actual value might be, which he
[44:02] points out. But even still, that is such
[44:04] a good thing to work off of there
[44:06] because now you have provable amount of
[44:09] what's in the store and what is still
[44:10] just completely lost in the ether, you
[44:12] know, [ __ ] ghosts out there. But then
[44:15] I learned Brian had made a special side
[44:17] deal with M&R Productions, who had
[44:20] recently purchased some Legos from him.
[44:23] And this is where it starts to get
[44:24] messy. So, these are the pictures that
[44:26] M&R Productions sent me looking at the
[44:29] Lego that Brian sold him. This was stuff
[44:32] reportedly in storage. And it's
[44:33] interesting because of an early
[44:35] inventory list which had a column called
[44:38] location that Crystal used. And it
[44:41] listed a lot of the Star Wars items as
[44:43] being located in what they called
[44:45] storage. Now, previously I was told that
[44:47] all of the stuff in storage was put back
[44:49] in the store, but there's a bunch that's
[44:52] on this list that I can't find in the
[44:54] store that seem to appear in these
[44:56] pictures. Now, I've been assured, by the
[44:58] way, that most of these Legos were not
[45:01] part of the inventory spreadsheet. They
[45:03] were never given to Bricks and Miniigs.
[45:04] This is a separate part of the
[45:06] collection. But I did a check and 100%
[45:10] of the items that match the Brian
[45:13] collection inventory just so happen to
[45:15] be listed with a location of storage. So
[45:19] this starts to make things incredibly
[45:21] fuzzy and I'm inclined to believe that a
[45:23] lot of these are part of that same
[45:25] inventory list.
[45:26] >> Yeah, but I think that's a very natural
[45:27] conclusion to draw from that. And this
[45:29] is a really big thing that I had never
[45:32] heard anything about. This uh side deal
[45:35] on the Star Wars Legos that were sold to
[45:40] someone else totally outside of all of
[45:42] this commotion, but those sets still
[45:45] appear in that spreadsheet, but they're
[45:48] marked as located in storage, which as
[45:50] Coffee points out, storage is something
[45:53] according to the Gormans that they had
[45:55] offsite, but would bring back to the
[45:57] store and put in the safes. So like it
[45:59] was in their possession still like
[46:03] securely locked down. But how could that
[46:05] possibly be true if they have been sold
[46:07] to somebody else and there are now
[46:10] pictures to confirm it and it seems like
[46:13] it is all part of that collection. It
[46:16] shouldn't be appearing in the
[46:17] bookkeeping at all in that case. That is
[46:20] super messy. And according to
[46:21] Coffeezilla's estimates, it comes out to
[46:23] about $15,000 in Lego that isn't
[46:27] missing. We can see where it went. It
[46:30] was sold to somebody else, but in the
[46:33] inventory sheet is still marked in
[46:36] storage, which I believe is very
[46:38] inaccurate to say, and that is quite
[46:41] shady.
[46:42] >> Anything. And by the way, before we
[46:43] continue, yes, this was all a lot of
[46:46] work. If you want to, please support us
[46:47] on Patreon. That's how this show gets
[46:49] made.
[46:50] >> I wanted to leave that plug in here
[46:51] because Coffeezilla's work truly is
[46:53] incredible, and I highly recommend
[46:55] everyone go support him in any way you
[46:57] can. his his investigations, I think,
[46:59] are among the best, not only on YouTube,
[47:02] but just in general. He really does get
[47:05] to the bottom of his [ __ ] stories in
[47:07] a way that is very rare these days. And
[47:09] I'm always appreciative of his work.
[47:11] Now, the next thing he's looking at is
[47:13] the point of sales records. And in
[47:15] there, he notices that according to
[47:17] this $51,000
[47:20] worth of Brian Mansel's collection was
[47:22] sold. And according to Crystal herself
[47:26] back in like an earlier talk with
[47:28] Coffee, she even says like $50,000 of
[47:30] the collection was sold. But Brian's
[47:34] only been paid $17,000. What sense does
[47:36] that make? He should be paid more. He is
[47:40] owed more. So where is that? Where has
[47:44] that gone? Who came in and shook that
[47:47] lunch money out of him?
[47:48] >> Hey, it was about 50 something,000.
[47:50] Yeah,
[47:51] >> but Brian was only paid 17,000.
[47:53] >> Okay.
[47:54] >> And it should have been about double
[47:56] that
[47:57] >> without again without seeing any of
[48:00] those any of those records, without
[48:01] seeing those individual tickets. I can't
[48:04] answer that any better.
[48:06] >> This is kind of a problem. The math
[48:07] ain't math in here. 65 to 70% of 50,000
[48:10] is almost double what we believe Brian
[48:13] was paid. And digging into the details,
[48:15] it turns out a lot of these sales come
[48:17] from what Crystal's spreadsheet actually
[48:19] categorizes as layaways, meaning they
[48:23] were marked as having been sold. But
[48:25] layaways are when someone puts a down
[48:27] payment on an item and later pays it
[48:29] off. I imagine if any of you are
[48:31] familiar with layaways, you just rolled
[48:32] your eyes in a big way that always ends
[48:38] in a lot of fuzziness, a a lot of
[48:42] friction. So now we're starting to we're
[48:46] starting to see
[48:49] something very new in this story here.
[48:51] So, Coffeezilla has learned that a lot
[48:54] of this comes from layaways
[48:56] >> worth about $20,000
[48:58] in layaway. And that felt a little
[49:01] strange to me. And because of that, I
[49:03] asked Josh Johnson, the incoming owner,
[49:05] and he responded, quote, "There were two
[49:08] to three items on layaway when they took
[49:10] over."
[49:11] >> I haven't gone through and done a count,
[49:13] but I know it was
[49:15] vastly more than 2 to three.
[49:18] >> It was about 98. that that makes sense.
[49:22] >> Coffee then tries to wrap his head
[49:23] around this whole huge amount of
[49:26] layaway. And Crystal then explains like,
[49:29] "Yeah, it is extremely rare." And she
[49:31] says that she's not even sure they've
[49:33] ever done layaway until this set came
[49:35] in. But then goes on to explain like how
[49:37] their layaway worked where they'd, you
[49:39] know, put the down payment then make
[49:41] payments over like 30 days and that kind
[49:43] of thing. and that it was just a a big
[49:47] there was the way she dove into it was
[49:49] already very much a lot of moving
[49:53] pieces. She even mentions like one set
[49:56] in particular went on layaway four times
[49:58] and then eventually got sold. So like
[50:01] this amount of layaway and like the
[50:03] discrepancy between how much layaway
[50:06] like what what Josh is reporting and
[50:08] what is reported on the sheet like the
[50:11] whole thing with this layaway here is
[50:13] already getting into some really spotty
[50:15] ground that makes it hard to like really
[50:19] nail down what's going on and why
[50:22] because it feels like a crazy amount to
[50:25] be doing on layaway which is something
[50:28] Coffeezilla mentions as So, a lot of
[50:30] these are see like look at this like so
[50:33] like it says POSOS final sale price but
[50:36] it's listed as a layaway but it's but
[50:37] it's sold for $5.99 because it matches
[50:41] it matches with the store sale price.
[50:43] >> Okay.
[50:44] >> So, were they on layaway? Were they
[50:46] accidentally marked layaway on the
[50:47] spreadsheet? What's going on there?
[50:49] >> Um our Ewok Village was one of those
[50:51] cases. Uh at some point he had I think
[50:53] like eight or nine different items on
[50:55] layaway. Um, so they'd come in and make
[50:58] a payment for a a a bulk payment. You
[51:02] know, I've got 800 things on layaway.
[51:06] I'm going to make $100 on my payment.
[51:08] Um, one customer in particular would do
[51:11] that and then when he'd gotten up high
[51:12] enough to pay for one set, we'd pull
[51:15] that set out, mark it as sold. She
[51:17] states numerous times that without being
[51:18] able to see like the actual sales
[51:20] ticket, she can't really give a great
[51:22] explanation, but she talks about like
[51:25] one of the more complicated layaway
[51:27] experiences they had like with the Ewok
[51:30] village. And like you can see
[51:34] where things are getting really muddy
[51:36] through this layaway um protocol that
[51:40] they had there. and it's leading to a
[51:42] lot of funky bookkeeping that is making
[51:45] some really odd stuff come to light. And
[51:49] another thing that Coffeezilla gets into
[51:51] I think is a very big one. But I even
[51:53] found more than that in this POS data. I
[51:55] also found about $10,000 in sales that
[51:59] match Brian's collection that were not
[52:01] marked as sold under this inventory
[52:04] spreadsheet. Some of our things that
[52:06] were not found,
[52:08] >> okay,
[52:08] >> were explained by the POSOS system
[52:11] because they were found in the POS
[52:13] system as being sold. So, like they
[52:16] weren't marked on the spreadsheet, but
[52:17] they were marked as sold via the POS
[52:20] system. And this is about $10,000 worth
[52:24] of Lego that basically were matched.
[52:27] >> Huh. Uh there is a possibility that the
[52:30] the consignments were ended when I
[52:33] wasn't at work and I just didn't go
[52:35] through and pull them up. They didn't
[52:37] get put in the consignment ticket. I
[52:39] hadn't gone through that those those
[52:41] consignments in a couple of months. I
[52:43] hadn't gone through the inventory in the
[52:45] back room in a couple of months. So
[52:46] there it is entirely possible there were
[52:48] things there were sales that were
[52:50] finished that I never clocked as being
[52:53] finished. I don't know that without
[52:56] going through and actually seeing it.
[52:58] >> But you're saying it's possible stuff
[53:00] was sold, not updated on this inventory
[53:03] list.
[53:04] >> It's entirely possible.
[53:05] >> Now, that is a big stinky whoopsie if
[53:10] things from this collection are being
[53:12] sold and they're not being updated and
[53:16] Brian is not getting paid because it's
[53:18] not getting updated. So, they don't know
[53:20] that it's getting sold in the first
[53:21] place. You can see where we're having a
[53:23] big problem now. This bookkeeping is now
[53:26] seeming to be the most egregious
[53:30] catalyst to where this whole thing
[53:32] started with this missing Lego
[53:34] collection and him not being properly
[53:37] paid for Legos that may have actually
[53:40] already been sold and aren't even
[53:42] missing. Now, in that audio recording
[53:45] when Brandon Best came in and kicked
[53:46] them out, she does make a mention that
[53:48] Brandon may not have been paid yet.
[53:51] everything that he's owed. That is
[53:53] something that is explicitly mentioned
[53:54] by her. Coffeezilla also plays the
[53:56] recording where you can hear all of
[53:57] that. I've played it for you a couple
[53:59] times. I'm sure you know what I'm
[54:00] talking about and is assured by the man
[54:02] on the phone who we know is Kai or Key.
[54:05] I already forgot how to say his [ __ ]
[54:06] name. That the consignment liability
[54:08] will be taken on by the new franchises
[54:11] here that are coming in. So Crystal does
[54:14] make a mention that Brian hasn't
[54:16] received everything that he is owed here
[54:19] from all the sales, but from the
[54:21] bookkeeping here, it looks very messy.
[54:23] So the amount that he was going to get
[54:25] paid from Crystal probably still
[54:26] wouldn't have been accurate. At least
[54:28] not in my opinion. Not based on
[54:30] everything I'm seeing here, cuz it seems
[54:31] like a lot may have been overlooked,
[54:33] forgotten to be updated, or just lost
[54:36] somewhere along the way in the
[54:37] bookkeeping, which would make it very,
[54:39] very difficult for them to properly
[54:41] compensate him for what they have sold
[54:42] from his collection, either through
[54:44] layaway or through just finishing that
[54:46] consignment there on those. So, it was
[54:48] already in a weird spot, but she did
[54:50] recognize that there was money that he
[54:52] was owed and put that on the radar of
[54:54] the new incoming owners. Maybe you can
[54:57] chalk some of this up to bad
[54:59] recordkeeping between the U-Haul, the
[55:01] layaways, the $20,000 in Lego sets that
[55:03] corporate called $2 to $5,000 that was
[55:05] there that night, the offbook deals. But
[55:08] even if we can't like fully know 100%,
[55:12] you know, what these weird things were
[55:13] about, I think they tell a story of what
[55:15] actually happened to Brian's collection.
[55:17] In a way, multiple people, I think, are
[55:20] kind of right, kind of wrong. The
[55:21] Gormans were correct that more of that
[55:23] collection was there that night of the
[55:25] takeover than previously thought. But
[55:27] corporate also alleged that some of it
[55:29] was offsite and that appears to be
[55:30] partly true. Although some of that is
[55:32] disputed and it looks like, you know,
[55:35] way more of the collection was sold and
[55:37] layawayed than Brian was paid for. But
[55:39] all in all, there's a lot less missing
[55:42] than many people think, especially if
[55:45] your starting number is $200,000.
[55:47] >> Very, very, very true. Yeah. After
[55:51] watching this, it is extremely clear
[55:53] that from the very beginning, there was
[55:56] not nearly as much missing as everyone
[56:00] thought going into this story. And yeah,
[56:03] bricks and mini figs seems to be liar,
[56:06] liar, plants for hire in a bunch of
[56:07] cases. Sure. But their claim about like
[56:10] the off-site stuff, yeah, Coffey's
[56:13] right. It does seem like on all
[56:15] available evidence that is true. not
[56:16] just offsite and then brought back and
[56:18] put in the safe, but like sold offsite
[56:20] like to that other guy, the M&R. And
[56:24] then the Gormans are correct that there
[56:26] were more Legos there than Bricks and
[56:28] Minifigs is saying. And it does look
[56:30] like a lot of this goes back to really
[56:33] terrible recordkeeping. I don't know
[56:35] whether that's like malicious like the
[56:37] Gormans were trying to like scrape from
[56:39] the top or try and like, you know, stiff
[56:43] Brian and take the lion share for
[56:45] themselves and like use underhanded
[56:48] tactics for it or if it really was just
[56:50] bad bookkeeping because they weren't
[56:53] very good at bookkeeping. It's hard to
[56:55] say for sure. I like I really I don't
[56:58] know one way or the other on that, but
[57:00] the layaways and how they kept track of
[57:03] everything is clearly a huge issue that
[57:06] definitely made this situation
[57:09] significantly messier. And according to
[57:11] Coffeezilla, Brian Mancel is still owed
[57:14] like $50 to $83,000
[57:17] by his estimation here in payments that
[57:20] he hasn't received that he should have
[57:23] received in this general ballpark range.
[57:26] That is the most important piece of all
[57:28] this. A man who's been really wronged on
[57:32] all sides here, it seems that is still
[57:35] owed this money here from this [ __ ]
[57:39] conundrum for Lego. He wasn't
[57:41] compensated for. And I think honestly
[57:43] that's something that Bricks and Minigs
[57:45] obviously should handle and make right.
[57:48] Regardless of what a franchisee does,
[57:51] the new one, the old one, the company
[57:53] behind it must stand behind their
[57:55] product, their service, and I can't
[57:57] imagine a better example of a company
[57:59] doing the opposite. Unfortunately,
[58:01] Bricks and Miniix has chosen to deflect
[58:03] and dodge responsibility at most
[58:06] opportunities and created a really awful
[58:09] customer experience that has snowballed
[58:12] into this crazy series of events.
[58:15] >> That's so [ __ ] right. Coffeezilla
[58:18] absolutely hitting the bullseye. It's
[58:19] something I've been saying from the very
[58:20] beginning. Even if Bricks and Minigs at
[58:22] some point along this journey came out
[58:24] and proved everyone was wrong here, at
[58:26] the very core, Brian Mancel is a
[58:29] customer who attempted to use the Bricks
[58:31] and Minifig service because he believed
[58:33] it was the gold standard and his best
[58:34] bet to sell his father's lifelong Star
[58:37] Wars collection for life-changing money.
[58:40] and through this ended up getting
[58:42] completely shafted. And yes, a lot of it
[58:44] could maybe tie back to like the
[58:45] terrible recordkeeping with the previous
[58:47] owners, but at the end of the day, it is
[58:49] something that Bricks and Minifigs
[58:50] themselves should have been more more
[58:53] than willing to make right on their own
[58:55] because it is still their company. It is
[58:57] their brand. And every step of the way,
[59:00] they villainized Brian. They attacked
[59:03] Brian and refused to make it right
[59:05] without this huge public spectacle
[59:07] putting pressure on them. Now Ammon's
[59:09] singing the whole like, "Let's just all
[59:10] be friends. Come grab my arm and we'll
[59:12] square dance" type [ __ ] Like it took a
[59:15] huge massive avalanche as Coffeezilla
[59:17] describes it to finally get them to even
[59:19] toy with the idea of making it right.
[59:22] But they have nowhere along this path
[59:24] actually wanted to do that. Which is why
[59:26] I've said this makes no sense for their
[59:28] business because who the [ __ ] would want
[59:30] to work with them going forward? Because
[59:32] if you are brand main sale in this case,
[59:34] if you are a customer that wants to use
[59:35] bricks and minigs and you're going to
[59:37] sell through them and something goes
[59:39] wrong, they're not on your side. They
[59:41] have proven that they will be actively
[59:43] combative against you and will do
[59:46] everything they can to slap you down for
[59:49] their own self-interest. That is the
[59:52] most glaringly obvious fumble you could
[59:55] ever make as a business. And it's
[59:57] something Bricks and Minifig still to
[59:59] this day refuses to recognize. But
[60:02] instead of taking accountability for
[60:04] that, they've taken an aggressive legal
[60:06] strategy, which I told them personally
[60:07] was a horrible idea. As of writing this,
[60:10] Brian Mancel is being sued for 1.3
[60:13] million as part of a legal campaign
[60:15] against him and Reckless Ben and any of
[60:18] the associates. Remember, Brian is the
[60:21] same guy who lost all these Legos at
[60:24] Bricks and Miniig store. And I told the
[60:26] CEO and COO that's ridiculous and they
[60:28] should drop this. Look, mistakes have
[60:30] been made by plenty of people here. But
[60:32] there's a lot more people who have
[60:34] inflicted selfowns the likes of which
[60:36] we've rarely seen by just choosing the
[60:39] worst possible path at every fork in the
[60:42] road. No pun intended. But the best path
[60:45] to making things right in my view is by
[60:48] just making Brian whole and moving on.
[60:51] >> Yeah. So, as Ammon continues to do his
[60:54] like playing the world's smallest violin
[60:56] for why won't anyone think about bricks
[60:58] and mini figs feelings, we just want to
[61:00] make Brian Mancel whole. That's the main
[61:02] thing that we're thinking about over
[61:04] here. We just have him constantly in our
[61:06] thoughts and we're praying for him and
[61:07] we want to help and we want to work with
[61:09] him collaboratively as best friends
[61:10] together. I want to kiss him on the
[61:12] mouth. I want to have a group hug in the
[61:13] shower with Brian and all of our team
[61:15] together as one nude. just going on and
[61:17] on about how their mission is now to
[61:19] help Brian do everything they can for
[61:21] Brian
[61:23] and meanwhile they're actively suing him
[61:25] for $1.3 million which is why everything
[61:27] Ammon is saying about it just feels so
[61:30] fraudulent feels so scummy he is a snake
[61:33] he's saying that he just wants to help
[61:35] him and make Brian whole again we want
[61:36] to give him what he's owed while
[61:38] actively suing him for $1.3 million
[61:41] coffee is right that's a terrible idea
[61:43] and again this should show every
[61:45] customer ever in the LEGO community to
[61:48] not work with Bricks and Minifig because
[61:50] Brian's only crime was getting [ __ ] by
[61:52] their business. Like, yes, their
[61:54] franchisee, like the Gormans, definitely
[61:57] played a huge role with how they handled
[61:59] things and making it so messy in the
[62:01] first place, but when he tried to
[62:02] correct course and try and get what he's
[62:04] owed and going through corporate, look
[62:06] at what happened. Look at what's
[62:08] happened. Yes, he went to Reckless Bin
[62:09] as well where things really popped off,
[62:11] but what other avenues did he have? He
[62:13] couldn't fight them legally. There's
[62:14] even record of a bricks and minifigs
[62:17] higher up like someone that's not at the
[62:19] bottom of the food chain that has a
[62:21] pretty substantial position there on on
[62:23] record on the phone even saying that
[62:26] they will just financially bleed them
[62:28] dry talking to the Gormans. They'll draw
[62:30] it out in court and they'll lose more
[62:31] than they would have ever made should
[62:32] they win. Like going the legal route for
[62:35] an ordinary citizen like Brian Mancel is
[62:38] an extremely costly and not actually
[62:40] attainable path. So, he tried to do
[62:42] everything in his power to just be paid
[62:45] what he's owed. Like, be made whole
[62:47] again. Just try and get this resolved.
[62:49] And look at what's happened to him.
[62:50] Bricks and Minigs is suing him for $1.3
[62:53] million. I don't blame him for going to
[62:55] Reckless Ben. You can point the finger
[62:56] at Reckless Ben like the way he handled
[62:58] it was like bad and counterproductive,
[63:00] whatever. Without it, nothing would have
[63:02] changed in Brian's personal situation
[63:04] here. And and it's just I don't know how
[63:08] anyone could possibly defend Bricks and
[63:10] Mini Fig's decision to sue him here.
[63:13] $1.3 million. Like he is a victim of
[63:16] your business, man. Like this [ __ ] is
[63:18] crazy to me. It is a terrible idea and
[63:21] they refuse to back down on it. This is
[63:23] why I really just don't think anyone
[63:25] should do business with Bricks and
[63:26] Minifigs going forward. They are not
[63:28] good partners to work with. They are not
[63:30] looking out for you, the person that
[63:31] wants to do business with them. This
[63:33] [ __ ] is just ridiculous. tried it. They
[63:35] were basically met with like
[63:38] unreasonable requests, things like that.
[63:41] So,
[63:42] >> verification, documentation. Is that
[63:45] unreasonable, do you think?
[63:48] >> Uh, well, I think they would say they
[63:50] provided the documentation and you guys
[63:52] say you need more documentation. So, I
[63:53] mean, that's the kind that's kind of the
[63:55] >> right a spread like I understand a
[63:57] spreadsheet and a contract are are a
[63:59] good start.
[64:00] >> Yeah.
[64:02] Yeah. But we never got that. That was
[64:04] never sent to us at corporate, by the
[64:05] way.
[64:06] >> Y'all don't have the Y'all do have the
[64:08] spreadsheet, though. Yeah, y'all have
[64:09] the spreadsheet.
[64:09] >> That That was shared online, but like
[64:11] But months after we asked for it,
[64:13] >> it says it's I I'm just I'm so confused.
[64:16] It says I I'm I'm on the I'm on the file
[64:18] right now. It says storage used owned by
[64:20] BAMranchising, Inc. owner salem.org
[64:25] bricksandmigs.com.
[64:26] >> What What are you looking at? It is
[64:28] incredible how Ammon cannot help but put
[64:30] his own dick in his mouth all the time,
[64:32] constantly. So, this is like at the end
[64:35] of Coffeezilla's video now. He's given
[64:37] his thoughts on this whole thing and his
[64:39] conclusions and he was taking it to the
[64:41] parties involved here. And when talking
[64:42] with Ammon, he Ammon's like, "Oh, we
[64:46] never even got that." Which is just
[64:48] provably false. Copy to his face proves
[64:50] that they had access to this spreadsheet
[64:52] that he's claiming they didn't have
[64:54] access to until months later. That is a
[64:57] verifiably false statement. Ammon says
[65:01] owner salem
[65:04] at bricksand minifigs.com. That's you
[65:06] guys. Says owned by BAM Franchising Inc.
[65:10] says created September 6th, 2024. And
[65:13] when I look at it, this is the the Manel
[65:18] uh list, I believe.
[65:20] So this this would have been created
[65:22] under like so so we
[65:25] we have the um we all
[65:28] >> you'll definitely have this. You'll have
[65:29] access to this.
[65:30] >> Well, I had no idea. Then you're dumb,
[65:33] Ammon. Then you're just stupid. How
[65:35] about that? You're just an idiot. You're
[65:37] a bumbling imbecile. You're a [ __ ] And
[65:39] yet you continue to say like, "Oh, they
[65:41] never even provided it." Well, you just
[65:42] don't know then because you're too
[65:44] stupid to know. Like what? It Ammon
[65:47] actually boggles my mind, bro. It's
[65:49] crazy.
[65:50] >> Like, so if this is the first anybody
[65:53] has shown me
[65:55] >> that
[65:56] >> that a spreadsheet was created using
[65:59] like bricks and minifigs Salem like and
[66:01] all of this stuff was archived. This
[66:03] this is the first I've seen that this
[66:06] spreadsheet was created by Crystal and
[66:08] we don't know how accurate it is, how up
[66:10] up to date it was. We don't know a lot
[66:11] of those types of things. And and
[66:13] understand I appreciate you sharing this
[66:15] with us because we had no idea. Again,
[66:17] you don't know what you don't know. And
[66:18] you you can't like we don't know
[66:20] everything and we don't go you know like
[66:23] looking in every nook and cranny
[66:24] everywhere, you know, like we just don't
[66:26] know some of those things. So
[66:27] >> then you're a bad business. Then you're
[66:29] just a dog [ __ ] business. Like this
[66:31] isn't a good defense, Ammon. Oh, we just
[66:33] don't know. We just like actually don't
[66:34] keep track of any of this [ __ ] Yeah, we
[66:35] just like actually have no idea. You
[66:37] don't know what you don't know and you
[66:38] don't know your own business.
[66:41] Man, wake up. Use your head. You
[66:45] shouldn't be in the position you're in
[66:46] then. How about like I how does that at
[66:49] any in any way excuse anything of what's
[66:52] happened here? It's a terrible defense,
[66:54] man. Especially when you keep trying to
[66:56] like poke holes in other people's
[66:58] stories when you admittedly don't even
[66:59] keep track of your own [ __ ] You don't
[67:01] even know your own things. You don't
[67:02] even know what you even have access to
[67:04] in the first place. So, how can you even
[67:06] be approaching things to talk about them
[67:08] or opine on them? Ammon, like you're
[67:11] just you're off your gourd. But yeah,
[67:13] anyway, it was a fantastic investigation
[67:15] that I really do think got to the bottom
[67:17] of most of the meat and potatoes here.
[67:19] Uh, at the end, the Gormans also
[67:21] mentioned that they recognize that a lot
[67:23] of this falls on their shoulders for
[67:24] potentially like bad bookkeeping and
[67:26] that they're more than willing to like
[67:28] take accountability for that and try and
[67:29] make it right, but they need the tickets
[67:31] from Bricks and Minifigs, which they
[67:32] said they would do that kind of stuff.
[67:34] All in all, just another banger here
[67:36] from Coffeezilla in an incredible
[67:37] investigation and can only hope that
[67:40] Brian Mancel gets made whole here from
[67:44] Bricks and Minigs and they actually pay
[67:46] him what he's owed. Uh that they like
[67:50] they need to make things right and it
[67:52] starts with making him whole and
[67:53] dropping that [ __ ] lawsuit. You
[67:55] actual imbeciles, man. It's crazy.
[67:59] Anyway, anyway, anyway though, amazing
[68:01] work from Coffeezilla. Please go support
[68:04] him in any way you can. That's really
[68:05] about it.