Based Camp - Everyone is Missing This! (Bricks & Minifigs Corporate Is WAY More F＊＊＊ Than You Think)

00:00:00.000 you had watched the coffee zilla piece and were convinced by it on bricks and minifigs and oh my

00:00:06.500 god i thought that you with your business background would immediately see what he was

00:00:11.700 getting wrong what was he getting wrong so there were two big things he got wrong the the really

00:00:17.380 big glaring one is when he said the previous owner sold some of the sets without sending the

00:00:24.240 money to the guy right and yet we see from her own words when they're doing the transition of

00:00:31.260 ownership she goes yeah i'm worried about yeah you're gonna they're like we're gonna have some

00:00:36.360 that's gonna get handled by someone else no no but she wasn't worried about the inventory

00:00:41.380 she she was worried more about closing out the accounts or these are ones that haven't he has

00:00:48.200 not been paid this percentage yet and if i don't have the tickets i won't know how much i need to

00:00:53.760 pay that that's a business thing and not necessarily you are just taking on the business

00:00:59.260 he takes on all that what's extremely funny about this piece in retrospect is you can see that the

00:01:04.620 person if not the ceo at least somebody at bricks and minifigs properly understood the law that when

00:01:10.060 you buy a business you take on accounts payable what that means in business speak is she knew

00:01:15.920 part of the money that was meant to go to him had been unpaid and she's like i need to go over my

00:01:20.920 note she even specifically says i need to go over my notes to see those amounts and then they say

00:01:25.780 no we'll take on that responsibility this is a normal thing in business this isn't her being

00:01:31.300 shady it's not like well that's when you acquire a company if it is not an asset acquisition if

00:01:37.700 it's a stock acquisition you also acquire their liabilities and that one of my abilities is your

00:01:43.720 accounts payable and that is accounts payable yeah that's that's accounts this is the most

00:01:48.500 101 thing in business and you were like oh there weren't that many legos in the store because

00:01:52.860 she had sold some before and it's like that doesn't that doesn't matter and then the second

00:01:57.400 what coffeezilla said is that i thought was most notable was that the amount that sort of pending

00:02:02.620 was much smaller than people thought it's more like in the twenty thousand dollars that's because

00:02:06.060 he wasn't including the accounts payable in the amount i thought that's what the amount was

00:02:11.000 he was talking about the physical sets that were still in the store because he didn't seem to

00:02:16.340 understand accounts payable that can't be that's too obvious no it's obvious to you because you're

00:02:24.440 a business person he very clearly if you watch the piece and he was calculating the amount of

00:02:29.380 money that he said bricks and minifigs owed the guy he just did an addition of all of the sets

00:02:35.060 he could find in their inventory he didn't include accounts payable which would have

00:02:39.440 from what we're hearing maybe doubled that amount

00:02:42.040 so that was the first thing i just figured if that was the case then they would have included

00:02:48.720 featured prominently in that particular investigative episode coffee zilla i mean

00:02:53.240 like she would say and the accounts payable amount was like 34 000 she literally says that

00:03:00.800 she goes i need to check my records so i can settle accounts with the people who have i know

00:03:06.640 from the recorded clip but she doesn't say how much that was in in the subsequent interview 0.97

00:03:10.560 that she would have stated that amount because she's being an idiot but in the when she's having 0.95

00:03:16.380 the store taken over she literally says i need to settle the account implying there's a large 0.97

00:03:21.420 amount of accounts payable specifically to him because why has no one stated that amount

00:03:26.880 when we did our first episode people were like malcolm it's crazy that you saw things in this 0.81

00:03:31.960 case that i just didn't understand i think a lot of people are just tards simone that's that's the 0.99

00:03:37.040 Well, no, but I mean, at the very least, oh, I guess the Brian, the original owner, would not know the amounts because he wouldn't have been aware of what was sold. 0.93

00:03:47.180 Do you think Ben or Brian understand what accounts payable is?

00:03:51.480 Yes, I imagine they do, but I also imagine they couldn't know.

00:03:55.680 Because if I've given something to a shop for consignment, I don't know in any given day what has sold and what hasn't.

00:04:01.440 Yes, which is why she said, I need to check my record.

00:04:03.680 So that really annoyed me.

00:04:04.600 Just so you understand why the law works this way. Imagine if the law didn't work this way and accounts payable magically disappeared or was transferred to the old owner of a business whenever the business changed hands.

00:04:18.160 Now, keep in mind, the owner of a business can be a business or not a specific individual.

00:04:24.840 So suppose one individual accrues a large amount of accounts payable in a business,

00:04:30.800 and they just then transfer that business to themselves for like a $1 sale, right?

00:04:36.740 And they say, oh, all the money that I owed people with this business,

00:04:40.700 no, let's not say themselves, let's say their brother.

00:04:42.760 They say, oh, all the money this business owed immediately disappears because it transferred 0.98

00:04:47.720 hands that would be completely stupid that would be like the easiest business trickaroo in the 0.94

00:04:53.120 world like it's very obvious why you cannot have the law work this way and the second thing that 0.99

00:04:58.280 really annoyed me that we can go further on is they keep focusing on whether or not should they

00:05:02.640 she had the right to enter into the consignment deal which is just totally irrelevant to any of

00:05:08.740 the facts of the case whether or not she had that so think of it this way simone suppose i own a

00:05:15.900 garage, right? Well, let's, let's make this different. I'm leasing a garage from somebody

00:05:21.340 else. Okay. To make this even clearer. And then I use the garage I'm leasing in violation of the

00:05:29.020 terms of my lease to do what do you call that? Where you like pay somebody to park your car for

00:05:35.080 you at like restaurants. I don't know the term you pay somebody at a restaurant. Valet. Okay. Yes.

00:05:40.240 so i use it for valet storage in violation of the agreement right then the owner comes back

00:05:48.140 and they go you didn't have the right to run valet service here so then what they do is they

00:05:55.380 take possession of because i'm only subleasing the asset right they retake possession of the

00:06:01.080 garage and then they turn around and start selling all of the cars like you parked a ferrari and

00:06:08.060 they're like so this is mine now yeah they're like this is that is not remotely how the law works

00:06:13.840 you don't take possession of an asset just because it's in a location that you took possession of

00:06:21.720 again to understand why it would be comical for the law to work this way suppose i owned a storage

00:06:27.920 locker that i rented to someone and then the moment they moved in all their stuff i then went

00:06:33.200 to my brother and i sold the storage locker to my brother and then he now said now i own everything

00:06:38.700 in the storage locker or i own a hotel and i wait until a bunch of really rich people come there for

00:06:45.360 a trip and then i sell it to somebody and now they own everything all you would need to do to

00:06:52.060 legally steal stuff from somebody is to own something where you expected something of high

00:06:57.340 value to go across and then immediately sell it to somebody who you're close with the moment the

00:07:03.780 person with high value walks across a five-foot square of land that you own yeah i wonder how the

00:07:09.380 law works with that like if someone puts stolen goods or like someone else's no it's not how the

00:07:18.260 law it's the clear okay so suppose i walk into a building and i set a a diamond ring i own on a

00:07:24.960 table in the building and then that building sells the person who buys the building doesn't

00:07:29.960 own my diamond ring there's no finders keepers law that's not remotely how it works that wasn't

00:07:36.580 included in the assets of the purchase it wasn't and this is all laid out when you make a purchase

00:07:41.620 of a company yeah but yeah sorry that really gets me as well but how does u.s law work with

00:07:48.840 ownership of lost items for example if i lose a diamond ring at a restaurant and someone picks

00:07:54.420 it up are they legally in trouble for not giving it back to me if i return to the restaurant and

00:08:00.800 say what does that have to do with anything i'm just curious about it because now i'm just curious

00:08:07.660 about finders keepers law it's not a lot it's not a lot i'm just wondering like this is i mean it's

00:08:12.660 clearly how the bricks and minifigs guys think the law works the principle of finders keepers

00:08:18.300 so basically property is yours unless you abandon it a finder generally has a right to possess an

00:08:24.880 item that is good against everyone except the true owner okay so there is kind of a finder's

00:08:31.000 keeper but they have to give it back to the true owner if the owner can prove owners so there kind

00:08:35.600 of is a finder's keeper's law no if the owner can prove ownership which the original contract

00:08:41.180 proves that the person that yes no 100 yeah yeah with with bricks and minifigs of course that's

00:08:46.480 that's obvious didn't have ownership yeah and then it's a civil issue if you refuse to give it back

00:08:54.160 interesting many systems distinguish lost from mislaid aka like deliberately set down or

00:09:03.260 forgotten property left on the premises is often treated as mislaid oh law is so interesting i

00:09:09.840 totally can understand why that one famous housewife women right to work like female equality 1.00

00:09:16.240 what was her name she's a difficult to pronounce unflattering style name who became a lawyer 1.00

00:09:21.840 note here while i say i don't hold it against coffeezilla for not understanding accounts payable

00:09:29.320 maybe he did understand it and it just slipped his mind in this case because he has done really

00:09:33.280 complex financial stuff in some of his other videos so it's it's almost sort of baffling to

00:09:38.200 me that this wasn't just like immediately top of mind for him but maybe he knows what accounts

00:09:44.100 payable is he just doesn't know what happens with accounts payable during a business transaction

00:09:47.640 like even if she was being shady even if the accounts payable she had had accrued for

00:09:52.780 a year or two years it would still transfer to bricks and minifigs it's it's irrelevant

00:09:59.920 although it appears very clearly that she wasn't being shady because she specifically asked for

00:10:05.220 her books before being kicked out to ensure that she did make the payments to him or these are

00:10:10.400 ones that haven't he has not been paid this percentage yet and if i don't have the tickets

00:10:15.580 i won't know how much i need to pay that's a business thing and not necessarily you are

00:10:21.040 taking on the business he takes on all that because very few people simone and i have bought

00:10:26.220 businesses before that was our job in the past to buy and sell businesses which is why this is so

00:10:32.140 incredibly salient for us and just seems like the simplest thing in the world which it should

00:10:36.940 have been for the bricks and minifigs corporation and it seems to have been because when the guy

00:10:40.800 was making the transaction he explained to her accurately when you do a acquisition we take on

00:10:46.820 the accounts payable that's a business thing as he said you know that's a you know simple

00:10:51.260 understanding second here is it's not that a coffeezilla did nothing in their video they did

00:10:56.320 some really cool work it was really cool when they showed the guy that he had all the stuff

00:11:00.280 in his own corporate records from his own corporate google drive and the guy was like what

00:11:04.980 and then oh my god that's so cool the u-haul thing was really neat see the window but the

00:11:10.080 problem is it's night outside so you can't see and so i'm looking at everything i can and there's

00:11:15.480 just nothing you know i have this alternate angle i'm looking at that and then wait a minute zoom

00:11:22.840 in on that photo bring up the brightness of this photo a little bit and my gosh there's a u-haul

00:11:30.360 in the parking lot right outside of the store

00:11:33.960 the night of November 14th, 2024.

00:11:37.620 This is something that Matt said he had seen footage of

00:11:40.860 and it couldn't be true.

00:11:42.640 And again, I believe I have seen footage from that night

00:11:45.700 that shows clearly out into the parking lot

00:11:47.560 and there's no U-Haul.

00:11:49.000 After seeing this, I said, I really have to make a call.

00:11:52.020 And that's when the story changed.

00:11:53.640 So last night I talked with Matt McNeff.

00:11:56.800 I brought up this question of the U-Haul.

00:11:58.800 he told me emphatically there was no u-haul y'all came to me this morning you said hey we looked

00:12:03.820 into it there actually was a u-haul there that night can you clear up what that's about so

00:12:07.820 actually it is a good idea to do the the lego minifig one just to give people an update on

00:12:12.680 what everyone's missing because that's actually i was so annoyed by the coffee zilla piece on it i

00:12:17.460 was like they're obviously talking about getting accounts payable and the other company you take

00:12:25.800 on accounts payable that is normal when you acquire a business that is like a business 101

00:12:30.660 if you do a stock purchase the question is if we do a hostile takeover of a store you obviously

00:12:38.980 take on that asset if you take on liabilities and assets if you during a hostile takeover you

00:12:45.380 absolutely do yeah i don't know i don't know how it legally works with franchise agreements like

00:12:49.940 how the corporate entities are related here's another way to put it simone it doesn't matter

00:12:54.760 how you took over a company if that company had a bunch of stolen goods goods that were legally not

00:13:02.080 theirs in a storeroom you don't all of a sudden own all of those stolen goods just because you

00:13:09.220 own the company now that is functionally what the company did they said your paper only proves

00:13:15.700 that the woman who we took over the store from didn't own it it's like no it proves that you

00:13:21.180 don't own it because you only acquired her assets you didn't acquire other people's assets simply

00:13:28.000 because they happen to be around that is the wildest thing ever like i to think that you

00:13:34.580 like when you think about it was the stolen stuff i think it becomes so much more clear

00:13:38.100 to think that oh i bought a warehouse full of stolen goods now i own all of the stolen goods

00:13:44.100 everyone would be like no or even worse right somebody was renting a a storage locker from me

00:13:53.440 and stole a bunch of goods and they defaulted on their payment so i took all of those goods

00:13:57.640 it's like that's not how this works at all and you're like but it was illegal for them to have

00:14:02.920 the goods there in the first place and i'm like that does nothing to help your case

00:14:07.320 so you think for proper resolution the accounts payable just needs to be paid out to this guy

00:14:18.260 no but the framing of the coffee zillow where he tried to make it seem like it was over a very

00:14:21.960 small amount of money and i guess his framing if i recall correctly was just like the the big thing

00:14:27.380 is where are the missing legos they either were stolen by a disgruntled employee no that's literally

00:14:33.360 not the thing and that's what i'm trying to explain what i'm what i'm trying to do is recap 0.56

00:14:37.460 what his argument was and i think that's what his argument it's a stupid argument we know where the

00:14:42.340 missing legos are functionally speaking they were either sold in those early books or they were 0.55

00:14:48.160 inherited by the store what he uncovered is that the vast majority of the money to be paid for this

00:14:53.960 guy may not have been in the legos in the store but in accounts payable that doesn't mean the

00:14:59.840 previous owners did anything wrong. Basically, we know where they were. They were sold. And we know

00:15:05.240 the previous owners didn't do anything wrong because we have the video where she explicitly

00:15:08.680 says, I need the books to settle my accounts. Settling your accounts means paying out accounts

00:15:13.960 payable. That's what that means. They said, no, don't settle your accounts. We will manage it.

00:15:22.060 That was literally them. And then somebody could say, oh, that's a low level employee saying that

00:15:26.620 or something like that that low level even if it was a low level employee when they took custody of

00:15:32.020 the books which managed what had gone out and what hadn't gone out without going through with her as

00:15:38.140 you always do doing a biggest acquisition and she was trying to be nice in those videos and stuff

00:15:42.480 like that like she was literally like hey let's get on the same page about the accounts payable

00:15:46.400 about the the the consignment stuff and they're like no i don't want to get on the same page with

00:15:52.020 you because they knew i think functionally what happened is they knew that the way they were

00:15:55.040 shutting down the store was very immoral and they felt really uncomfortable about it oh like i've

00:16:00.800 been told to do this i'm just doing my job this is corporate yeah they basically knew corporate

00:16:08.180 had sent them to do something absolutely demonstrably immoral and so even though she

00:16:13.320 was willing to and we see in the videos obviously willing to talk them through everything they

00:16:19.440 didn't want to be talked through everything right and that that is on them if i sense like they're

00:16:26.420 like oh that's a low-level employee he doesn't represent corporate or anything like that it's

00:16:30.600 not even the fact that he affirmed to her oh i know what's in these books corporate at any point

00:16:37.740 could have gone back to her to get better accounting and it appears that they never tried

00:16:41.560 right and it appears that she wanted to give them the better accounting what corporate does if i

00:16:47.520 send, let's say I send an employee and the employee is the one who actually shuts down

00:16:54.360 the storage locker that's full of stolen goods, right? That doesn't mean that I of a company am

00:17:00.500 now not legally responsible for the fact that those goods are stolen and need to get back to

00:17:06.600 their rightful owner. Even if it's an employee who shuts down the garage that's full of cars that

00:17:12.080 somebody had a you park for them right that that doesn't absolve corporate from the basic

00:17:18.680 financial accounting responsibility of determining the ownership of the assets at the property

00:17:23.980 especially when multiple people are telling you these assets are not what you know and a day or

00:17:31.000 so ago corporate released a their timeline of events and their timeline of events clearly shows

00:17:37.120 that from nearly the very beginning they were very aware of this consignment lego set so they

00:17:43.840 can't say we were unaware that she didn't own this and the thing that always gets me is they

00:17:48.640 keep saying we tried to give brian mansell all of this in the past why can't they provide proof of

00:17:53.180 that that would be very easy to provide proof of presumably it's in an email right emails are

00:17:57.760 easily recorded so if they don't have that email then i don't believe that and i don't understand

00:18:04.220 why they haven't presented that email of them trying to give them back in the past it seems

00:18:07.600 like an obvious lie but also there's disorganized stuff on both ends like why did the original

00:18:15.080 franchise owner provide spreadsheets of records so late as well i don't know so the other thing

00:18:21.580 that we've learned since the the well this is before the coffee's little piece but he didn't

00:18:26.420 include it is the way that brian manzel originally acquired bricks and minifigs was through in a

00:18:31.860 really scammy way suing his father for control of a company that his father had built and it appears

00:18:37.800 that pretty much since day one bricks and minifigs has been bleeding money so he basically stole his

00:18:43.160 father's assets and used that to build his pet project company that he has never been able to

00:18:49.340 get financially stable truly and that might also explain why they cared so much about such a small

00:18:56.200 amount of money one they're just not good at their jobs and then two they feel really pinched on

00:19:00.840 money right they actually don't have the money yeah like when you look at his house when you see

00:19:06.300 you know it doesn't look like a house with someone with that much money right so it may have been

00:19:12.000 that's why he felt pressured to steal this stuff but it's still stealing yeah yeah well and i mean

00:19:19.280 also if the company is not immensely profitable you know it it probably isn't run well they don't

00:19:26.800 have good records like all that kind of thing you know like it's not it's just kind of falling apart

00:19:30.260 so that that makes sense poor things anyway i mean not poor the ceo is not a poor thing he seems like

00:19:36.760 a truly evil person the way that he's acting in the way that he's responding that he still has

00:19:42.380 been under a gag order you know that's why i have to release this episode maybe maybe you can let

00:19:46.760 ben talk right this isn't a normal thing to do in the world of youtube and i think he thought

00:19:51.060 talking down to a youtuber he didn't realize in the world of the actual world today youtubers

00:19:56.680 are significantly more powerful than these big ceos who's like no that's why he did that he did

00:20:02.640 that because he was getting severe amounts of harassment because oh yeah but he makes it worse

00:20:08.960 he needs to basically get on his hands and needs to beg the youtuber he doesn't seem to understand

00:20:13.720 that right he can shut it down right it's like it's not brian you need to settle this with

00:20:18.620 anymore it's been you need it's been who you need to prostrate yourself to and i know that that hurts

00:20:24.160 your ego but fundamentally that's the only way this gets right sorry no no no it's not ben it's

00:20:30.940 brian no it's been it's been it's the youtuber that the ceo needs to be proselyting himself to

00:20:35.900 not the old man he thinks he can make this right with the old man because it's no longer about

00:20:41.960 brixton minifigs oh it's it's about the cover-up it's destroying the fact the way that he tried

00:20:49.280 to stifle ben's investigation and ben's honest efforts to try to get this and then try to destroy

00:20:56.080 ben's life through jail time through these court cases these are targeted personalized court cases

00:21:02.560 right that's true choose not to do this but he didn't so no absolutely it is and this is what

00:21:08.480 he's getting wrong he needs to get ben to accept his apology to even begin to get anywhere with

00:21:14.640 this not brian ben is his problem here bren is not some kid anymore ben is the victim in everyone's

00:21:22.320 mind and the core victim in everyone's mind well especially the way he films that i can't talk

00:21:26.800 anymore video against this dark hostage style background but anyway i have to go get the kids

00:21:32.460 what needs to be done next

00:21:38.180 i don't know uh we're just saying we gotta use the wrong screwdriver to do it

00:21:46.880 oh no it's okay where did the wrong screwdriver go i see a screwdriver right there i think about

00:21:56.560 the wrong one see there's a phillips head and a flathead do you know the difference between the

00:22:00.980 two what one has an x at the end and the other one has a line at the end the one with the red

00:22:08.060 handle that's a wrench oh yeah octavian it's true that screwdrivers and wrenches are easier

00:22:22.060 like if you use that to turn the screw in

Based Camp - June 14, 2026

Everyone is Missing This! (Bricks & Minifigs Corporate Is WAY More F＊＊＊ Than You Think)

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