Ep. 124: First Vendors Experience at Gadsden Collector Con

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Thank you.

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Hey, y'all.

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It's me, Tara Strong, a.k.a.

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Miss Minutes for Bama Geeks.

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I hope you're ready to watch,

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and if you don't,

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I will have to prune you.

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Stay on your sacred timeline.

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And hello.

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Hello.

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Happy Sunday evening.

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Greetings.

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If you are in the eastern part of

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the U.S., southeastern,

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we hope you're warm.

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Yeah.

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Hope everybody's hanging in there.

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You know,

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got some really lovely weather currently

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happening at the moment.

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Yeah.

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We hope you're warm.

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We hope you're safe.

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And we appreciate you joining us tonight.

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Mm-hmm.

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And if you're here,

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that means you have power.

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Yes.

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And Internet or you're, you know,

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just on your phone and trying to conserve

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some battery.

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Who knows?

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Yes.

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Our good friend Phil,

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he was he said his power survived,

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but his Internet was down.

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I was like, well,

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welcome back to nineteen ninety seven.

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Oh, no.

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It's like Little House on the Prairie.

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Yeah.

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Oh, my, my, my, my.

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Well, we are the Bama Geeks.

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I'm Brock Parker.

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That's my wife, Jess, over there.

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And there's Bo Bearden.

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In Center Square tonight.

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That's right.

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Our fourth guy, Kevin Gardner,

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is preoccupied with some work

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responsibilities at the moment.

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If he can join us, he'll hop on.

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I do hope that's the case because Kevin...

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would have a lot of great insights into

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our topic tonight,

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which is how did we do at Gadsden

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Collector Con?

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We'll jump into that in just a second.

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And like I said,

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hopefully Kevin will be on.

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We really hope so.

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But if you're new to the Bama Geeks,

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don't know anything about us, well,

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I have a flickering camera.

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That's first and foremost.

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Please excuse that.

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I've got to upgrade.

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I can't find a fix for this thing.

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but uh anyway but if you don't know

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anything about us bamageeks.com that's

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where you can find us that's our website

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with all the video episodes the audio

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episodes uh some blog posts scattered in

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there somewhere from eight months ago if i

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weren't so busy writing in my everyday

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world i would write more blog posts for

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the site and if i wasn't so busy

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in my everyday world i would contribute a

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little more myself but

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And if Bo wasn't catching catnaps during

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the day,

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that might be a good spot for me

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to put that review of the review of

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the movie.

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I didn't think about that.

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That could be a good spot.

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I could blogging.

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There you go.

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There you go.

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I'm not much of a blogger, so.

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Yeah.

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Let's bring it back.

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Yeah.

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There's still some successful blogs out

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there, right?

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Yeah, sure.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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That like, you know,

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all the ones we can name right now.

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It ain't ours.

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So anyway,

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if you want to see all that mess,

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just go to Bama geeks.com everywhere on

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social media.

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You can find us as well at Bama

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geeks.

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And if you're on Facebook and if you're

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not, I don't blame you.

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Yeah.

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Social media.

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I don't blame you.

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Uh, but if you are on Facebook,

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just search out the Bama geeks front

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porch.

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That's our own private little group where

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we have a nice little community of people

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who just post fun, uh,

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random geeky things.

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And then of course,

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thanks as always to Jamie,

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Mike Darnay and Jack.

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They are our longtime supporters.

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They've been with us almost since the very

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beginning,

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and we are heading into year number five

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of the Bama Geeks this year.

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It's hard to believe.

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It really is.

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It's very hard to believe.

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So thank you guys so much.

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Um, that's just me.

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I'm trying to get everybody to say,

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you know, tell them what you're doing,

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what, uh, all the chats here.

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I'm hitting, I'm hitting all of them.

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I'm I'm master control over here.

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So we are on YouTube X and Twitch.

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You can find us any one of those

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places every other Sunday night as we

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stream.

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So, so anyway, our topic tonight,

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Gaston collector con, uh,

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was last weekend and I am sad that

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it's over.

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too.

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We had a lot of fun with a

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big shout out again to Derek and Wolf

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who were guests on our last episode

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promoting it and we had a great time

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with them at Gaston Collective Con and

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welcome back Finley's.

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Hello.

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Hi there.

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Finley's mini painting.

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So good to see you.

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Thank you so much for stopping back by.

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We appreciate it.

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Uh, and, uh, I believe you were, uh,

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you were also vending at the cons and

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we,

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if you want to chime in at any

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point in time with your experience, uh,

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for this past Gadsden collector con,

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we definitely want to hear it.

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We're going to give kind of our

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perspective.

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Uh,

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this was the first time we have ever

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vended anywhere.

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I have never in my life,

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except a yard sale at my own house.

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grabbed my stuff and said,

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I've got a downsize.

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Let's take it somewhere and do it.

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And that's exactly what we did.

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And again, I apologize for this camera.

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It's, it's wonky more than usual tonight.

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So, uh, just please bear with it.

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But, uh,

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We also got another hello.

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Nerd Viper Studios.

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Nerd Viper Studios.

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Hi, welcome in.

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Hi, thanks for joining us tonight.

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Yeah.

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Again,

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if you were a vendor or just an

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attendee at Gaston Collector Con,

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we'd love to hear your feedback.

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Love to know how things went for you.

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Um, and Kevin, I hate to say that,

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uh,

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Kevin is not here again and he sold

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off a lot of stuff,

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a lot of great stuff.

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I wish you were here to talk about,

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but work obligations.

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We'll try to, we'll try to, uh,

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convey Kevin's stories the best,

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best as we can.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, good to see you.

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Live long and prosper.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we enjoyed seeing you at Gaston.

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And then our buddy Skyler Davis.

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Are you Skyler?

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Yes.

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Made a drive over from Georgia to be

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with us that night?

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Drove three hours to visit the con and

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hang out with us.

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So he said,

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I thought it was a neat show with

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a wide variety of stuff.

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Worth the drive over to hang out with

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y'all.

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Man, we were so happy.

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I was good to see you.

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So happy to see you.

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And he had Jack's.

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Yes.

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He got to experience Jack's while he was

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in Alabama as well.

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Your artery-hardening butter french fries.

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They're good.

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Sonia.

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Hey, Sonia.

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Hey, Sonia.

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She said, I was a vendor there.

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Sunny Bunny Needle Crafts.

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It was a great time.

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Fantastic.

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so glad and uh nerd viper studio says

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he tabled as well and oh look at

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this there's our hi my name is derek

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i was a vendor there my name is

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derek who oh derek so good to see

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you man thanks for stopping in you're more

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than just a vendor that's right he runs

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the thing

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but uh yeah would love to hear uh

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pop off in the chat would love to

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hear everything you guys had to have to

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say about gaston collector con we just

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really wanted to sit down and give you

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our take on it as as first first

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time vendors um the prep leading up to

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it uh was was fun um well our

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prep was kind of fun kind of uh

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because we had

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we had okay anybody who's not familiar

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with the podcast or even long-time

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listeners know that we are all in the

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birmingham area yeah central yeah

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Yeah.

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And for years I lived in Auburn Opelika,

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which is down in East Alabama.

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It's about two and a half hours away

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to two and a half hours.

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I still have two storage units down there

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full of stuff.

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A lot of when my mom passed away,

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I've got all her furniture and stuff still

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in there.

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I've never brought it up to the Birmingham

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area and I've been up here for years.

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And so, uh,

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Jess and I took a trip, uh, down,

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uh, I'd say probably like November,

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November,

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beginning of December and went through

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some stuff,

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realized that my tiny car couldn't put

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everything in it,

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all the old vintage stuff that I had.

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Uh, so we made a return trip.

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We brought some stuff up during that trip

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and then went back, um,

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a week before the con um and so

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went and got a lot of stuff that

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i just had in storage excuse me and

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then a lot of stuff here in the

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house we we live in a shoe box

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and we just really wanted to get rid

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of a lot of stuff and start making

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space you know we're jess and i are

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hoping to move at some point in time

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uh to another area of birmingham uh and

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get out of this place

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Um, and, and so, uh,

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we had a lot of stuff that we

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wanted to sell.

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Kevin and his, uh,

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fiance Victoria had a lot of stuff that

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they wanted to sell.

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Um,

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Jess and I thought we were going to

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have to rent a van.

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To carry all of our stuff.

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Once we got everything collected,

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we were looking.

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I was like,

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this isn't going to all go in the

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car.

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I don't think we can make this happen.

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We were like, we don't have enough.

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And then we're like, we got too much.

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Which wasn't a bad problem to have.

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It was not.

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And so Bo did not have anything to

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sell on that day.

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I was just coming to be part of

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the event.

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I was looking forward to it.

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And I just happened to have the truck.

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So.

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Yeah,

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so we loaded stuff in Bo's truck and

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our car and we headed on up to

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Gadsden.

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And we can't appreciate you enough, Bo,

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for helping us get everything up there.

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Yeah, that was my part.

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Everybody has their part to play and that

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was mine.

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And it's so rare for all four of

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us to get together.

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It was wonderful that we could all be

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there along with Victoria.

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All right.

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Derek says, haha,

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mostly just been to that day.

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I'm here to learn from you guys and

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other vendors on how to make it better.

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We can always improve.

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Okay.

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Look, that's another thing, too.

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Like I said,

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if you were here as a vendor,

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thank you for coming by this evening.

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This is what we can do.

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We can kind of network with each other.

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We can discuss, you know, what we learned.

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Like I said, things we learned.

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What can we figure out?

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How can we do things different?

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What we had our wins.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's what the topic says.

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Yeah.

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And Finley's mini painting.

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Sorry.

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It was my first time bending at an

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event like this.

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I've done a little exhibit for about four

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months in a local gaming store.

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Didn't do as well as I thought I

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would in either the game store or the

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con.

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My stuff is just such a niche that

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people have to want to find my stuff,

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hand painted miniatures and models.

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And I would tell you, Finley, I

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wanted to come by.

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I stepped away from the table for all

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of fifteen minutes the entire day,

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thankfully,

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because we did have quite a few people

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to stop by during the entire day.

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And we'll get to,

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we'll get to how we did, you know,

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not going to give any dollar amounts.

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That's not,

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that's not the important thing.

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The important thing is, uh,

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getting rid of a bunch of junk.

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It wasn't junk.

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It was, it's good.

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No, it was, it was good.

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Once man's junk is another person's

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treasure.

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Thankfully we had treasure for a lot of

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people.

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It was our treasure.

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We just needed to find our treasure,

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a new home.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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You were downsizing.

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Yes.

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We are doing our dead level best to

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downsize.

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You know,

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I've been a collector all of my life.

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You know, mom's not around anymore.

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I can say this because the last time

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I said this, she got mad at me.

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mom mom how can i put this in

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the nicest way my mom was a very

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giving person mom would give you the shirt

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off her back she did so much for

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me i'm so grateful for everything that she

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did for me i miss her terribly uh

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but mom mom would uh i was spoiled

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i'll just say that much yes you were

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an only child i was an only child

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so uh between my mom and my dad

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um

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so uh yeah mom mom would spoil me

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and she spoiled me a lot and so

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i had a lot of stuff growing up

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and i became very materialistic uh sadly

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and it's a it's a

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I realize the older I get,

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the more of a problem it's become because

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a we live in a shoebox and I

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have no space in this house and it's

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just it's not needed.

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The older I get,

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the more I realize I don't need this

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stuff.

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People,

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a lot of other people can get some

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enjoyment out of it.

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And, you know,

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a big thing is my kids don't want

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to inherit this stuff.

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Although I was talking to my son today.

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Oh, he did, yeah.

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I was talking to my son today.

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I was FaceTiming him.

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He was asking how the con went,

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and we told him.

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And I'm like, what do you want, son?

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You know, out of all this stuff,

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what would you like to inherit?

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His first thing,

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and mainly his only concern,

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was I really want your Teenage Mutant

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Ninja Turtles arcade game.

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I respect that.

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I respect that.

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I said,

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do you want all the other turtle stuff

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that I got?

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Yeah, probably.

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What about the wrestling stuff?

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Yeah, that's good.

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Yeah.

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Uh, what about,

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what about my back to the future stuff?

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I definitely want that.

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Anything else?

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No, you're good.

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You can get rid of everything else.

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It's like, okay.

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So,

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so now I have a cleaner idea of

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what I need to leave my kids.

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And so, uh, they don't want to inherit.

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They'd rather have like, you know,

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money to make their lives better,

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you know, because,

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you know they could sell the stuff later

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on and have the money but you know

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why make them do the leg work when

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i'm enjoying downsizing and seeing all the

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old stuff that we've got so and as

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a comment from sonia the goal is always

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to go home with way less than you

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brought lol and we're gonna get we're

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gonna get to our truckload in just a

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few minutes and uh we got some other

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comments up here who we got

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All right.

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We got Finley.

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I had a lot of engagement and oohs

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and ahhs,

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but people at these kind of events look

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for the deals.

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I can't provide as good of a deal

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as people want.

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Well,

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you put a lot of time and effort

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into painting these and creating these.

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Absolutely.

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You should.

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Hundred percent.

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I'm a firm believer,

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especially if you're an artist,

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get what you're worth out of those things.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Rips Diecast Garage.

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Welcome in.

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He said, Man, it was crowded.

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Needs a bigger space.

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It's, it's a good venue.

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It really is.

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Yeah.

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It's a great venue.

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Yeah.

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Um, so, and, uh, see nerd Viper studios.

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I had a similar Finley.

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Uh,

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I think I brought too much high end

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stuff with it being so close to Christmas.

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I think I may miss my mark.

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Lots of high engagement though.

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Yeah.

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Well, Hey, with the,

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with the show coming up in July, uh,

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maybe we'll have better luck, you know?

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And, you know, and then,

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and it's not to really,

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this is not meant like as a negative

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comment, but some people, I think,

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you know, it could have been a,

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with the time of the year.

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Yes.

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It could have been kind of like that

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too.

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Cause you know,

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we're just coming off of Christmas and for

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some people,

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it might just be a little more difficult

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the first of the year, but again, Hey,

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July, we got a,

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got a show coming up in July.

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Yep.

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And Derek says it's an old Kmart,

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but that's the biggest venue in Gadsden.

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Okay.

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Hey, you know, I can see that.

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I can see the old Kmart in there.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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It's such a nice venue though.

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It is.

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I really, really like that place.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Fantastic venue.

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oh yeah there you go there you go

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finley people hadn't gotten tax returns

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yet absolutely i feel that we are come

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on wt yeah i was gonna say right

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after christmas okay can i get my w-two

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now oh man yeah um

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The one thing, Derek,

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here's the one thing that I've got.

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I don't know because this was our first

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time ever setting up a booth,

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as I mentioned.

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The ability for people to walk behind us.

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We didn't know if that was supposed to

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be a walkway behind us or if that

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was just for the vendors to come in

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and out of the booth area.

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We had to

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We had to turn a couple of times.

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People were looking at our stuff from the

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backside.

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So we didn't know if we just didn't

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fill in the space well enough or something

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like that.

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So that was my only thing was having

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to turn.

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Oh, he says definitely was not a walkway.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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And he also said,

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so our dates are basically decided upon

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openings and no college football.

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That's true.

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The best time to go grocery shopping in

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the state of Alabama is if Alabama or

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Auburn are playing.

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If those two teams are playing,

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go hit the stores.

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They're empty.

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It's great.

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But yeah, definitely not a walkway.

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Okay.

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All right.

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And then Sonia says,

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you never know what's going to sell

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though.

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My first sale was a more expensive item,

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a large crocheted creeper.

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Oh, nice.

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The girl walked up,

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no hesitation at the price and paid me.

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We, we had a, uh,

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let's see the item.

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We'll find the right person.

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I agree with you on that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And Derek says the spaces were wonky

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because we couldn't get in the day before,

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unfortunately.

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However,

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that's going to be changing in July.

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I believe it's a Friday and Saturday show

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this time in July.

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If I'm mistaken, Derek, please correct me.

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Uh,

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and then Finley says my space was next

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to one of the doorways.

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It was cut in half.

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Also wish we had power to our spot.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Um, and, uh, yeah, Sonia, we,

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we know what you're talking about with

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somebody finding it because as soon as

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the,

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as soon as the doors open for the

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VIPs,

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I believe it was Arkansas picker who was

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there.

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I had a, a fallout for pit boy,

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uh, that I didn't have the game.

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Uh, with it, but it was just,

00:19:20.886 --> 00:19:21.906
it had everything else.

00:19:21.926 --> 00:19:23.607
It was the, the, the Pip boy and,

00:19:24.669 --> 00:19:27.611
uh, John Anderson, who was an actor, uh,

00:19:27.631 --> 00:19:29.932
in guardians of the galaxy, um,

00:19:30.551 --> 00:19:32.593
and in stranger things and a few other

00:19:32.633 --> 00:19:34.253
things, uh, is a good friend of ours.

00:19:34.755 --> 00:19:37.516
John came around before the doors open and

00:19:37.596 --> 00:19:39.557
he and his wife were like, oh,

00:19:39.616 --> 00:19:41.038
you've got to fall out for Pip boy.

00:19:41.917 --> 00:19:43.179
We need to come back for that.

00:19:43.199 --> 00:19:44.799
He's like, he's like,

00:19:45.259 --> 00:19:46.060
we're going to be back.

00:19:46.201 --> 00:19:47.622
I said, okay, it'll be right here.

00:19:48.122 --> 00:19:48.201
Yeah.

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Well, once the Arkansas picker got around,

00:19:51.375 --> 00:19:51.494
yeah.

00:19:51.694 --> 00:19:52.635
Once Arkansas picker,

00:19:52.655 --> 00:19:54.375
who apparently is a call or fallout

00:19:54.415 --> 00:19:55.036
cosplayer,

00:19:55.655 --> 00:19:57.736
he came around right at ten o'clock,

00:19:58.057 --> 00:20:00.277
saw it, shut the lid on it,

00:20:00.457 --> 00:20:02.257
handed me a hundred dollar bill and walked

00:20:02.356 --> 00:20:02.517
off.

00:20:02.537 --> 00:20:03.737
And I'm like, thanks.

00:20:03.758 --> 00:20:06.758
And then John's wife came back around.

00:20:06.778 --> 00:20:10.578
She goes, she was not happy.

00:20:10.638 --> 00:20:11.638
Like, I'm sorry.

00:20:11.699 --> 00:20:12.699
He handed a hundred.

00:20:13.239 --> 00:20:14.159
He scooped it up.

00:20:14.199 --> 00:20:16.380
He handed over the money and that was

00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:16.579
it.

00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:17.759
I mean, just that quick.

00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:18.059
Yeah.

00:20:20.816 --> 00:20:22.637
Nerd Viper Studios says, Sonia,

00:20:22.657 --> 00:20:23.199
that's very true.

00:20:23.219 --> 00:20:24.420
I had a bunch of customs I'd done

00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:25.861
and never sold for the past few years.

00:20:25.942 --> 00:20:28.944
First sale was a guy buying all of

00:20:28.964 --> 00:20:29.144
them.

00:20:29.724 --> 00:20:29.925
Yeah.

00:20:30.226 --> 00:20:32.048
And speaking of all of them, Derek says,

00:20:32.067 --> 00:20:33.169
you found the right guy to buy all

00:20:33.189 --> 00:20:33.630
this Funko.

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And we appreciate that, Derek.

00:20:35.050 --> 00:20:35.692
Thank you, Derek.

00:20:35.711 --> 00:20:38.013
You helped us empty it.

00:20:38.074 --> 00:20:39.816
We had a whole tote full of them.

00:20:40.396 --> 00:20:41.938
It was probably a six-gallon tote.

00:20:42.699 --> 00:20:44.339
Full of Funkos.

00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:46.820
And I've been wanting to offload those

00:20:46.840 --> 00:20:48.221
things forever.

00:20:48.300 --> 00:20:49.821
And he almost didn't bring them.

00:20:49.942 --> 00:20:51.201
He was about to say, no,

00:20:51.221 --> 00:20:51.962
we're not taking them.

00:20:52.022 --> 00:20:53.442
I said, no, we are taking them.

00:20:53.782 --> 00:20:55.804
I was like, even if I said, look,

00:20:56.064 --> 00:20:57.163
five dollars a pop.

00:20:57.345 --> 00:20:58.605
OK, five dollars.

00:20:58.724 --> 00:21:00.586
And immediately I sold two of them.

00:21:01.566 --> 00:21:02.406
Right off the bat,

00:21:02.527 --> 00:21:03.647
as soon as the door had opened.

00:21:03.667 --> 00:21:05.709
And then some girl came around and she

00:21:05.749 --> 00:21:06.690
found some Harley.

00:21:06.710 --> 00:21:11.432
She collected Harley Quinn stuff and she

00:21:11.472 --> 00:21:13.914
found all the Harley pops we were selling.

00:21:13.934 --> 00:21:15.174
Apparently she didn't have those.

00:21:15.194 --> 00:21:18.217
She'd been looking for them and we had

00:21:18.237 --> 00:21:18.738
them for her.

00:21:20.178 --> 00:21:20.298
Uh,

00:21:20.778 --> 00:21:22.499
it got to be what about three o'clock

00:21:22.538 --> 00:21:25.000
and I started putting what was left.

00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:26.579
We had left, we had girl come back,

00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.300
you know, twice, uh,

00:21:29.320 --> 00:21:30.381
to buy pops from us.

00:21:30.441 --> 00:21:32.842
So I, that's what I told him.

00:21:32.922 --> 00:21:33.942
I was like, we're just going to,

00:21:33.961 --> 00:21:34.521
we're going to take them.

00:21:34.741 --> 00:21:35.461
We're going to sell them.

00:21:35.821 --> 00:21:37.863
And about three o'clock hit.

00:21:38.123 --> 00:21:40.222
And, uh, I said, I've changed the price.

00:21:40.282 --> 00:21:41.443
I said, three dollars a pop.

00:21:44.704 --> 00:21:46.444
And I hope that he's listening,

00:21:46.545 --> 00:21:48.644
and I'm going to apologize that I did

00:21:48.664 --> 00:21:49.384
not get your name.

00:21:50.645 --> 00:21:52.286
We just got caught up in talking,

00:21:52.425 --> 00:21:54.967
and we had a guy visit our table,

00:21:55.807 --> 00:21:59.227
and we made a joke with him about

00:21:59.326 --> 00:22:01.768
subscribing to the podcast or whatever.

00:22:01.887 --> 00:22:03.807
He subscribed while he was standing there,

00:22:04.308 --> 00:22:07.308
and his subscription got him the choice of

00:22:07.328 --> 00:22:08.788
a pop from our table.

00:22:08.929 --> 00:22:11.089
Look, we are not above bribing.

00:22:11.949 --> 00:22:13.650
We had actually floated that idea.

00:22:13.670 --> 00:22:13.730
Hey,

00:22:14.069 --> 00:22:15.631
if it gets late in the day and

00:22:15.651 --> 00:22:17.211
these pops aren't moving, come by,

00:22:17.432 --> 00:22:18.972
subscribe, show us that you're,

00:22:18.992 --> 00:22:20.653
that you've subscribed to the podcast.

00:22:21.034 --> 00:22:22.035
We'll give you a free pop.

00:22:22.055 --> 00:22:23.756
And by golly, that worked.

00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:27.342
And then Derek came around and then Derek

00:22:27.362 --> 00:22:28.842
came by and we honestly,

00:22:28.942 --> 00:22:30.462
I'm so tired of the Funko pops.

00:22:30.603 --> 00:22:32.163
I'm really, I'm sick to death of them.

00:22:32.963 --> 00:22:33.084
Um,

00:22:33.884 --> 00:22:35.744
and I just wanted to get rid of

00:22:35.765 --> 00:22:35.884
them.

00:22:36.005 --> 00:22:37.625
And so Derek came by and was asking

00:22:37.644 --> 00:22:39.306
about it and we were like, dude,

00:22:39.326 --> 00:22:40.105
you can take them.

00:22:40.425 --> 00:22:41.926
We don't care, but he's like, no,

00:22:41.946 --> 00:22:42.826
I'm going to pay you something.

00:22:42.866 --> 00:22:44.268
So he, we, we,

00:22:44.307 --> 00:22:46.769
we cut a really sweet deal with Derek.

00:22:46.808 --> 00:22:48.368
He came and took the rest of those

00:22:48.409 --> 00:22:48.788
pops.

00:22:48.888 --> 00:22:50.630
Our house is, is,

00:22:50.769 --> 00:22:52.851
is turning more and more populous.

00:22:53.351 --> 00:22:54.811
But I see Derek has a comment after

00:22:54.832 --> 00:22:56.073
his.

00:22:56.113 --> 00:22:56.493
Derek says,

00:22:56.513 --> 00:22:58.055
Kylie isn't happy because they're in our

00:22:58.095 --> 00:22:59.415
living room and I haven't had time to

00:22:59.556 --> 00:23:01.057
go to my booth that leaves and dump

00:23:01.096 --> 00:23:01.237
them.

00:23:01.518 --> 00:23:03.378
Sorry, Kylie.

00:23:03.598 --> 00:23:04.440
We're very sorry.

00:23:05.381 --> 00:23:05.901
But hey,

00:23:06.481 --> 00:23:08.063
he's going to turn those things around and

00:23:08.103 --> 00:23:08.903
hopefully make a buck.

00:23:09.844 --> 00:23:10.085
Yeah.

00:23:10.484 --> 00:23:10.805
Yeah.

00:23:10.865 --> 00:23:12.006
And then Sonya says, Oh, wait,

00:23:12.026 --> 00:23:13.827
you're the ones who bought my husband

00:23:13.847 --> 00:23:15.608
bought my buddy and kid sister from.

00:23:15.989 --> 00:23:17.851
Unfortunately, no, that wasn't us.

00:23:18.451 --> 00:23:19.731
I've never had a my buddy.

00:23:19.991 --> 00:23:21.252
I can sing the song to you if

00:23:21.272 --> 00:23:21.733
you'd like.

00:23:23.134 --> 00:23:25.256
But no, we've never had a my buddy.

00:23:25.376 --> 00:23:28.219
But that's awesome that he got one.

00:23:28.979 --> 00:23:29.239
Yeah.

00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:30.480
And a kid sister.

00:23:30.580 --> 00:23:30.840
Yeah.

00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:31.580
Yeah.

00:23:31.902 --> 00:23:32.981
You kind of have to pair those.

00:23:33.021 --> 00:23:33.222
Great.

00:23:33.242 --> 00:23:33.323
Yeah.

00:23:34.246 --> 00:23:38.086
Um, our friend, uh, Bama, Freddie, uh,

00:23:38.547 --> 00:23:39.227
Adam Frederick,

00:23:39.307 --> 00:23:41.846
who sells these incredible dioramas.

00:23:42.847 --> 00:23:44.107
I got over to his booth and he

00:23:44.127 --> 00:23:45.228
had stepped away to the restroom.

00:23:45.248 --> 00:23:46.748
I didn't even get to see him while

00:23:46.768 --> 00:23:47.749
we were there.

00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:48.608
Like I said, I made a quick,

00:23:49.409 --> 00:23:56.450
a quick run around, uh, and he says,

00:23:56.490 --> 00:23:57.250
oh man, you want one?

00:23:57.289 --> 00:23:59.131
We have to switch up Sonia.

00:23:59.371 --> 00:23:59.510
Uh,

00:24:00.790 --> 00:24:04.211
I think you missed the earlier message of

00:24:04.271 --> 00:24:06.012
us downsizing.

00:24:07.053 --> 00:24:07.452
Thank you.

00:24:07.593 --> 00:24:08.752
We appreciate the offer.

00:24:09.012 --> 00:24:10.713
We did have people come by the table

00:24:10.814 --> 00:24:12.013
asking if we did trades,

00:24:12.054 --> 00:24:14.474
and we were like, sorry, we don't.

00:24:14.535 --> 00:24:15.914
Our goal is to offload,

00:24:16.035 --> 00:24:16.914
not to take in.

00:24:17.134 --> 00:24:18.875
Let me tell you,

00:24:19.895 --> 00:24:21.296
there's one thing I learned.

00:24:22.517 --> 00:24:23.596
All right, stuff that we brought.

00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:26.001
Uh, let's see, let's see, uh,

00:24:26.022 --> 00:24:26.542
hang on one second.

00:24:27.143 --> 00:24:28.243
Uh, Rip's diecast garage.

00:24:28.263 --> 00:24:29.586
Did you get to pick your spot or

00:24:29.625 --> 00:24:31.067
were you assigned a booth location?

00:24:31.826 --> 00:24:32.768
Would it be better if set up,

00:24:32.827 --> 00:24:33.929
if it was set up by theme?

00:24:34.490 --> 00:24:36.171
Uh, we were assigned our booth location.

00:24:36.191 --> 00:24:36.230
Uh,

00:24:37.192 --> 00:24:39.034
we paid for two spots kind of in

00:24:39.054 --> 00:24:41.375
the middle of a walkway, uh,

00:24:41.395 --> 00:24:43.457
which we think worked very well for us.

00:24:43.778 --> 00:24:45.259
Yeah, we were right across from,

00:24:45.578 --> 00:24:48.582
as you're going in the right side wall,

00:24:48.761 --> 00:24:49.142
we were,

00:24:49.883 --> 00:24:51.763
we were on the inside aisle facing that

00:24:51.844 --> 00:24:52.065
wall.

00:24:52.906 --> 00:24:54.467
across from, uh, some card dealers.

00:24:55.627 --> 00:24:57.548
Um, and I now,

00:24:58.627 --> 00:25:00.807
I now regret never getting into Pokemon

00:25:03.628 --> 00:25:06.209
because those tables were the busiest.

00:25:06.229 --> 00:25:06.930
Yeah.

00:25:07.009 --> 00:25:07.950
All the card dealers.

00:25:08.130 --> 00:25:09.670
And in April, uh, they're,

00:25:09.690 --> 00:25:11.589
they're having a card D a card show

00:25:11.830 --> 00:25:14.391
card only show, uh, in April.

00:25:14.770 --> 00:25:15.790
And so we're going to try to get

00:25:15.810 --> 00:25:17.731
those guys, get Derek and, and, uh,

00:25:17.771 --> 00:25:19.291
Wolf back on to talk about that.

00:25:19.392 --> 00:25:19.852
Cause yeah.

00:25:20.251 --> 00:25:21.232
That's out of my element.

00:25:21.252 --> 00:25:22.993
I'm not, I, I, I'm not,

00:25:23.253 --> 00:25:23.953
I love cards.

00:25:23.973 --> 00:25:25.515
I love trading cards and stuff like that,

00:25:25.555 --> 00:25:28.297
but I don't know how to deal them

00:25:28.336 --> 00:25:29.998
or price them or anything like that.

00:25:30.638 --> 00:25:33.339
And now I, I regret not learning that.

00:25:34.020 --> 00:25:35.381
I got some good friends who've got into

00:25:35.461 --> 00:25:36.461
the magic of gathering.

00:25:36.501 --> 00:25:37.742
And I know, like I said,

00:25:37.762 --> 00:25:38.963
there should be some, some,

00:25:38.983 --> 00:25:40.243
I'm assuming there'll be some cards up

00:25:40.284 --> 00:25:40.664
there of that,

00:25:40.684 --> 00:25:41.565
that they've already talked about.

00:25:41.585 --> 00:25:42.125
They want to go.

00:25:42.165 --> 00:25:42.605
So we may,

00:25:42.905 --> 00:25:44.086
we may make the trip up there for

00:25:44.106 --> 00:25:44.727
that one in April.

00:25:44.787 --> 00:25:45.928
Oh yeah.

00:25:46.778 --> 00:25:46.897
Oh,

00:25:46.938 --> 00:25:48.659
Rip says I bought a Batmobile from you.

00:25:48.679 --> 00:25:49.499
Thank you.

00:25:49.538 --> 00:25:51.179
Thank you.

00:25:51.199 --> 00:25:54.480
Jess's dad brought all the Batmobiles,

00:25:55.661 --> 00:25:56.441
the Hot Wheels and stuff.

00:25:56.461 --> 00:25:57.801
Need to have a die-cast show.

00:25:58.521 --> 00:25:59.541
Wholeheartedly agree.

00:25:59.561 --> 00:26:00.582
Derek,

00:26:00.642 --> 00:26:02.063
if you need another show at some point

00:26:02.083 --> 00:26:02.462
in the year,

00:26:02.482 --> 00:26:04.183
a die-cast show would not be bad.

00:26:04.644 --> 00:26:05.784
And let me tell you what we could

00:26:05.824 --> 00:26:06.604
supply you with.

00:26:06.683 --> 00:26:08.325
We've got Hot Wheels.

00:26:08.724 --> 00:26:09.944
Her dad has,

00:26:10.226 --> 00:26:11.306
ever since he was a kid,

00:26:11.326 --> 00:26:12.385
has been buying Hot Wheels.

00:26:12.465 --> 00:26:14.106
He's got some rare ones.

00:26:14.346 --> 00:26:14.446
Yeah.

00:26:15.047 --> 00:26:17.929
Um, that he would love to offload.

00:26:18.068 --> 00:26:20.711
And so we could certainly drag him up

00:26:20.730 --> 00:26:22.112
there and let him set up and he'd

00:26:22.172 --> 00:26:23.772
probably take up a whole corner of a

00:26:23.833 --> 00:26:24.894
building by himself.

00:26:25.939 --> 00:26:26.098
Yeah.

00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:26.818
Thank you for,

00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:28.059
thank you for the purchase of the

00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:28.599
Batmobile.

00:26:28.660 --> 00:26:28.980
Thank you.

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:29.961
We appreciate it.

00:26:30.020 --> 00:26:31.041
My dad appreciates you.

00:26:31.082 --> 00:26:31.402
Thank you.

00:26:31.481 --> 00:26:33.123
Yes, very much.

00:26:33.163 --> 00:26:34.542
Nerd Viper Studio says, dude,

00:26:34.563 --> 00:26:35.663
the car dealer's clean house.

00:26:36.124 --> 00:26:36.785
Absolutely.

00:26:36.984 --> 00:26:37.345
Yeah, they did.

00:26:37.444 --> 00:26:39.605
Trade card games is like, that's, I think,

00:26:39.846 --> 00:26:41.626
I think traded card games are what retro

00:26:41.646 --> 00:26:44.288
games were about five years ago, five,

00:26:44.328 --> 00:26:45.269
ten years ago.

00:26:45.388 --> 00:26:45.608
Yeah.

00:26:46.450 --> 00:26:48.049
Rip says, let's go.

00:26:48.131 --> 00:26:48.330
Hey.

00:26:48.451 --> 00:26:48.530
Hey.

00:26:52.320 --> 00:26:54.541
Yeah, but some things that we brought,

00:26:54.721 --> 00:26:56.122
I have a lot of old Harley Quinn

00:26:56.162 --> 00:26:57.761
stuff that I just wanted to offload

00:26:57.821 --> 00:26:58.742
statues,

00:26:59.702 --> 00:27:02.942
things of that nature and sold half of

00:27:02.982 --> 00:27:03.723
what I brought.

00:27:05.144 --> 00:27:06.503
Had one guy stop by.

00:27:06.743 --> 00:27:09.825
I've got a tweeter head DC Superpowers

00:27:09.865 --> 00:27:11.965
Harley Quinn statue that goes for about

00:27:12.006 --> 00:27:13.266
five hundred bucks online.

00:27:13.885 --> 00:27:14.727
And he came by,

00:27:14.767 --> 00:27:16.347
and he sat there eyeballing it and

00:27:16.407 --> 00:27:17.969
chit-chatting with me about it for quite a

00:27:18.009 --> 00:27:18.489
few minutes.

00:27:18.509 --> 00:27:19.750
You even took it out of the box,

00:27:19.769 --> 00:27:21.050
too, didn't you?

00:27:21.432 --> 00:27:22.412
I took another one out of the box

00:27:22.432 --> 00:27:23.133
for somebody else.

00:27:23.853 --> 00:27:25.433
He didn't want me to take it out,

00:27:25.554 --> 00:27:29.257
but he kept, and I'm like,

00:27:29.297 --> 00:27:30.038
please take this.

00:27:31.159 --> 00:27:32.298
I don't want it anymore.

00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:34.260
I'm really in clearing out my old Harley

00:27:34.280 --> 00:27:34.681
Quinn stuff.

00:27:34.780 --> 00:27:36.241
I used to be a massive Harley Quinn

00:27:36.281 --> 00:27:36.602
fan,

00:27:36.702 --> 00:27:38.723
and I still like her bombshell stuff

00:27:39.124 --> 00:27:40.644
because I'm an old Air Force veteran,

00:27:40.684 --> 00:27:42.507
and I like the World War II bomber

00:27:42.606 --> 00:27:42.767
art.

00:27:44.028 --> 00:27:46.028
And so Aunt Lucia,

00:27:46.588 --> 00:27:48.150
who had the pleasure of reading at Dragon

00:27:48.190 --> 00:27:50.090
Con, designed the DC bombshells.

00:27:50.770 --> 00:27:52.352
And so I love that line.

00:27:53.192 --> 00:27:54.133
So I'm keeping all that.

00:27:54.192 --> 00:27:57.315
But a bunch of old Harley Quinn stuff.

00:27:57.934 --> 00:27:59.215
We sold some statues,

00:27:59.276 --> 00:28:02.277
sold all the pops for Harley.

00:28:03.057 --> 00:28:05.219
Your GI Joes, except for one thing,

00:28:05.538 --> 00:28:06.839
the GI Joe things you took.

00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:07.099
Yeah.

00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:07.779
Yeah.

00:28:08.539 --> 00:28:09.580
Definitely this show.

00:28:10.201 --> 00:28:11.942
I brought Masters of the Universe stuff.

00:28:12.021 --> 00:28:13.002
Didn't sell a thing.

00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:15.540
from masters, which kind of surprised me,

00:28:15.601 --> 00:28:17.701
but the GI Joe stuff outside of the

00:28:17.821 --> 00:28:20.623
one I was really hoping would sell, um,

00:28:20.663 --> 00:28:21.002
sold.

00:28:21.242 --> 00:28:21.603
Yeah.

00:28:21.982 --> 00:28:25.065
Uh, there was a retro card back, uh,

00:28:25.105 --> 00:28:28.746
Walmart exclusive, uh, uh, snake eyes.

00:28:29.606 --> 00:28:31.146
And those things are going for a pretty

00:28:31.186 --> 00:28:32.607
penny right now on eBay.

00:28:32.627 --> 00:28:34.107
And I was hoping that one would sell.

00:28:34.929 --> 00:28:38.730
Um, but, uh, nobody bought it,

00:28:38.849 --> 00:28:40.230
bought all my other GI Joe stuff.

00:28:40.250 --> 00:28:42.251
I didn't buy, but didn't buy that.

00:28:43.372 --> 00:28:47.054
um let's see i won't say their name

00:28:47.074 --> 00:28:48.874
but one card vendor claimed and i believe

00:28:48.913 --> 00:28:52.915
him he did thirty thousand dollars in

00:28:52.996 --> 00:28:57.438
deals i need to step up what can

00:28:57.458 --> 00:28:59.518
we learn about the card game here how

00:28:59.557 --> 00:29:02.960
quickly can you teach us derek you need

00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:05.220
to have like a master class and learning

00:29:05.259 --> 00:29:06.240
about the card game

00:29:07.094 --> 00:29:07.494
Wow.

00:29:08.075 --> 00:29:08.234
Okay.

00:29:08.255 --> 00:29:10.718
We didn't clear remotely close to a

00:29:11.018 --> 00:29:12.900
fraction of a, of a percentage of that.

00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:13.921
Yeah.

00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:14.582
But we,

00:29:14.682 --> 00:29:15.823
we got rid of some big things,

00:29:16.022 --> 00:29:19.626
but anyway, my GI Joe stuff sold, uh,

00:29:19.727 --> 00:29:21.107
classified series stuff.

00:29:21.608 --> 00:29:21.648
Um,

00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.742
uh and then motu didn't sell and i

00:29:27.063 --> 00:29:28.884
you know one thing i've been seeing online

00:29:28.904 --> 00:29:31.507
is a lot of people are looking for

00:29:31.906 --> 00:29:34.669
the masters of the universe origins snake

00:29:34.709 --> 00:29:37.090
mountain playset i mean it's going for

00:29:37.131 --> 00:29:38.892
upwards of three hundred dollars on

00:29:39.833 --> 00:29:41.653
on eBay right now.

00:29:41.692 --> 00:29:42.453
And so I'm like, well,

00:29:42.473 --> 00:29:43.874
people are looking for this thing.

00:29:44.413 --> 00:29:46.074
And yeah, that is insane.

00:29:46.153 --> 00:29:46.734
Absolutely.

00:29:46.934 --> 00:29:48.914
And then I like this.

00:29:49.035 --> 00:29:53.155
Sonia said, I need to crochet.

00:29:53.215 --> 00:29:53.776
Funny story.

00:29:53.875 --> 00:29:55.156
I am trying to learn how to crochet

00:29:55.196 --> 00:29:55.676
myself.

00:29:55.737 --> 00:29:57.257
My stepdaughter, uh,

00:29:57.297 --> 00:29:59.678
gave me some yarn and some, uh,

00:29:59.698 --> 00:30:01.077
crochet needles for Christmas.

00:30:01.417 --> 00:30:03.939
She's supposed to be, be my teacher.

00:30:03.979 --> 00:30:05.199
We haven't gotten there yet, but

00:30:05.898 --> 00:30:08.780
I'm going to, my grandmother was, uh,

00:30:08.800 --> 00:30:10.061
known for her crocheting.

00:30:10.082 --> 00:30:11.123
So I figured I need to pick up

00:30:11.143 --> 00:30:11.803
the reins here.

00:30:11.823 --> 00:30:12.763
So yeah.

00:30:14.065 --> 00:30:14.365
Yeah.

00:30:14.424 --> 00:30:16.247
And nerd Viper studio says I didn't sell

00:30:16.287 --> 00:30:17.446
a single classified.

00:30:17.788 --> 00:30:18.167
Really?

00:30:18.847 --> 00:30:20.450
Uh, not Serpentor, not Zartan,

00:30:20.470 --> 00:30:21.250
not Mindbender.

00:30:21.289 --> 00:30:23.571
And those are three other really are the

00:30:23.652 --> 00:30:24.932
ones that are in demand from what I've

00:30:24.972 --> 00:30:25.232
seen.

00:30:25.752 --> 00:30:27.654
I was priced thirty bucks below eBay.

00:30:27.694 --> 00:30:28.315
Weird crowd.

00:30:28.736 --> 00:30:29.336
Yeah, that is.

00:30:30.636 --> 00:30:31.657
Absolutely is.

00:30:31.738 --> 00:30:34.500
Um, I had a Cobra armor, uh,

00:30:35.326 --> 00:30:40.249
figure and one guy here's I had a

00:30:40.308 --> 00:30:43.990
price for a hundred and fifteen uh and

00:30:44.191 --> 00:30:46.011
one guy came up apparently my handwriting

00:30:46.071 --> 00:30:49.353
is terrible because the guy was he kept

00:30:49.373 --> 00:30:51.493
looking at it my handwriting was terrible

00:30:51.513 --> 00:30:53.815
and he said his eyes were bad um

00:30:55.016 --> 00:30:56.477
he looked at it and goes because I

00:30:56.497 --> 00:30:58.538
had one one five written on the sticker

00:30:58.557 --> 00:31:00.018
and he thought I said forty five he

00:31:00.038 --> 00:31:02.740
goes I'll give you thirty five for it

00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:03.220
and I said

00:31:04.223 --> 00:31:05.845
And I kind of went and I'm like,

00:31:06.204 --> 00:31:07.846
I'm being real generous with my offers

00:31:07.865 --> 00:31:09.086
because I really wanted all this mess

00:31:09.105 --> 00:31:09.425
gone.

00:31:10.066 --> 00:31:12.607
And I said, I can't do thirty five.

00:31:12.627 --> 00:31:13.548
That's a little low.

00:31:13.748 --> 00:31:15.729
And he's like, what about thirty seven?

00:31:18.769 --> 00:31:19.150
I'm like,

00:31:19.750 --> 00:31:20.951
I got to and I looked at him

00:31:21.570 --> 00:31:23.372
and he leans in and he squints.

00:31:23.392 --> 00:31:25.532
He's like, oh, is that one fifteen?

00:31:25.553 --> 00:31:26.633
Is that a one one five?

00:31:26.853 --> 00:31:28.094
I thought I said forty five.

00:31:29.436 --> 00:31:30.577
And I said, no,

00:31:30.657 --> 00:31:31.938
it's now one hundred and fifteen.

00:31:31.958 --> 00:31:33.078
He goes, oh, man.

00:31:33.179 --> 00:31:33.378
Yeah,

00:31:33.398 --> 00:31:35.039
it's like he felt so bad that he

00:31:35.059 --> 00:31:36.140
was like trying to like,

00:31:36.180 --> 00:31:37.121
I'll give you thirty bucks for it.

00:31:37.161 --> 00:31:38.801
He's like, I'm so sorry.

00:31:38.821 --> 00:31:40.082
I didn't mean to try to lowball you.

00:31:40.642 --> 00:31:41.923
I said, buddy, I don't care.

00:31:42.383 --> 00:31:43.604
I said, I want this stuff gone.

00:31:43.644 --> 00:31:44.624
Will you do fifty?

00:31:45.404 --> 00:31:46.845
And he goes fifty for that.

00:31:46.925 --> 00:31:47.246
Really?

00:31:47.405 --> 00:31:49.027
You drop it from one fifteen to fifty.

00:31:49.047 --> 00:31:51.667
I'm like, yeah, I really would because.

00:31:53.450 --> 00:31:54.631
I have a generous heart,

00:31:54.790 --> 00:31:56.270
and I want an empty house.

00:31:57.411 --> 00:31:59.271
And so I shot him a deal,

00:31:59.311 --> 00:31:59.672
and I said,

00:31:59.771 --> 00:32:01.792
tell everybody you know at this show,

00:32:02.173 --> 00:32:05.114
you got the best screaming deal of anybody

00:32:05.153 --> 00:32:06.273
over here at the Bama Geeks.

00:32:07.894 --> 00:32:08.454
He laughed.

00:32:09.615 --> 00:32:10.295
He's like, man.

00:32:10.315 --> 00:32:11.836
He's like, yeah, absolutely.

00:32:12.415 --> 00:32:12.576
So...

00:32:13.752 --> 00:32:15.335
Um, but anyway, the, the,

00:32:15.776 --> 00:32:17.157
the origin snake mountain, I,

00:32:17.438 --> 00:32:19.300
I have it in the shipping box sealed.

00:32:19.320 --> 00:32:20.382
I've never opened it.

00:32:20.942 --> 00:32:21.703
Cause I got two of them.

00:32:21.723 --> 00:32:24.227
Uh, the first one I opened, but, uh,

00:32:24.267 --> 00:32:25.308
this one I didn't open.

00:32:25.409 --> 00:32:26.410
And so I'm like, oh,

00:32:26.770 --> 00:32:28.313
it's going for three hundred on eBay.

00:32:28.353 --> 00:32:29.755
I'll stick a two hundred on it and

00:32:29.775 --> 00:32:30.576
we'll see what happens.

00:32:31.576 --> 00:32:33.919
nobody even asked about it yeah so yeah

00:32:33.999 --> 00:32:35.560
i was i was disappointed in that one

00:32:35.661 --> 00:32:38.163
the the snake eyes the classified snake

00:32:38.282 --> 00:32:40.785
eyes that that really hard to get because

00:32:40.925 --> 00:32:43.007
it's flimsy walmart shipped them out and

00:32:43.027 --> 00:32:44.608
they were all bent and everything i

00:32:44.729 --> 00:32:47.811
somehow got a mint card uh we've got

00:32:47.852 --> 00:32:49.432
that thing in bubble wrap it's in bubble

00:32:49.452 --> 00:32:53.136
wrap right now and nobody nobody asked

00:32:53.156 --> 00:32:54.337
about it nobody i was like hmm

00:32:54.929 --> 00:32:56.873
but a lot of all my other classified

00:32:56.913 --> 00:32:57.594
stuff sold.

00:32:58.336 --> 00:32:59.838
And I didn't bring like a lot of

00:32:59.858 --> 00:33:00.961
classified figures.

00:33:02.398 --> 00:33:05.000
But I did bring a couple of the

00:33:05.040 --> 00:33:07.482
vehicles and everything that wound up

00:33:07.522 --> 00:33:07.903
selling.

00:33:08.483 --> 00:33:09.565
That's just because I had double of

00:33:09.625 --> 00:33:10.085
everything.

00:33:11.446 --> 00:33:13.067
As a collector, you buy two of things.

00:33:13.327 --> 00:33:18.192
One to sell, one to keep.

00:33:18.231 --> 00:33:19.633
Thanks for the encouragement, Sonia.

00:33:19.653 --> 00:33:20.614
I appreciate that.

00:33:21.134 --> 00:33:21.894
It's a bunch of knots.

00:33:21.934 --> 00:33:22.414
It's a bunch of knots.

00:33:26.057 --> 00:33:27.219
And yes, you're right.

00:33:27.659 --> 00:33:28.900
There's always next time.

00:33:29.260 --> 00:33:30.020
Always next time.

00:33:31.182 --> 00:33:31.742
Um,

00:33:31.823 --> 00:33:33.263
and we're hoping we can come back to

00:33:33.284 --> 00:33:34.584
the July show.

00:33:34.904 --> 00:33:36.346
The thing is it falls and we were

00:33:36.365 --> 00:33:38.747
telling Derek and Wolf this, um,

00:33:38.787 --> 00:33:40.347
that show falls right.

00:33:40.407 --> 00:33:40.508
The,

00:33:40.627 --> 00:33:42.650
like the day before my fiftieth birthday.

00:33:43.430 --> 00:33:44.510
And so we're trying to do something

00:33:44.550 --> 00:33:45.672
special for my fiftieth.

00:33:45.692 --> 00:33:47.093
I don't know what just has something.

00:33:48.171 --> 00:33:48.612
brewing.

00:33:48.652 --> 00:33:49.132
We don't know.

00:33:49.373 --> 00:33:49.992
I don't know what.

00:33:50.594 --> 00:33:51.434
So I don't know if we're going to

00:33:51.454 --> 00:33:52.435
be able to be there or not.

00:33:53.277 --> 00:33:54.459
But my daughter is going to be out

00:33:54.499 --> 00:33:55.779
of the country on my birthday.

00:33:55.840 --> 00:33:56.401
So I don't know.

00:33:56.421 --> 00:33:58.644
We may hold back and just celebrate when

00:33:58.683 --> 00:33:59.325
she gets back.

00:33:59.444 --> 00:33:59.885
I don't know.

00:33:59.905 --> 00:34:00.006
Yeah.

00:34:01.126 --> 00:34:03.210
But if we if we can make it,

00:34:03.250 --> 00:34:03.809
we'd love to.

00:34:03.869 --> 00:34:05.152
We'd love to do this again.

00:34:06.675 --> 00:34:08.097
It was definitely, it was,

00:34:08.617 --> 00:34:10.778
it was a very fun experience for us.

00:34:10.818 --> 00:34:11.840
You know, we made the joke.

00:34:12.021 --> 00:34:13.442
We, we, when we got down,

00:34:13.461 --> 00:34:15.163
we got everything set up right before it

00:34:15.204 --> 00:34:15.583
started.

00:34:15.963 --> 00:34:16.545
I looked at Brock.

00:34:16.585 --> 00:34:17.385
I was like, Oh,

00:34:17.425 --> 00:34:19.027
we're on this side of the table now.

00:34:19.126 --> 00:34:20.528
Yeah.

00:34:20.648 --> 00:34:21.528
We're not the ones buying.

00:34:21.550 --> 00:34:22.449
We're the ones selling.

00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:22.771
Yeah.

00:34:23.331 --> 00:34:25.753
i did i did make one purchase um

00:34:25.833 --> 00:34:27.134
i did make one purchase and i'll show

00:34:27.153 --> 00:34:29.255
you guys what that is uh derek says

00:34:29.295 --> 00:34:31.615
celebrate at the con we just might we

00:34:31.635 --> 00:34:33.717
just might we just might yeah yeah i

00:34:33.737 --> 00:34:35.159
got my purchases too i can show off

00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:36.398
too as i said yeah we'll show off

00:34:36.418 --> 00:34:38.981
our purchases uh don't want to speak for

00:34:39.021 --> 00:34:41.161
kevin uh because he's not able to be

00:34:41.202 --> 00:34:42.682
here with us right now but kevin had

00:34:42.722 --> 00:34:44.465
a lot of star wars stuff a lot

00:34:44.505 --> 00:34:44.565
of

00:34:45.565 --> 00:34:48.527
That man brought a ton of t-shirts.

00:34:49.688 --> 00:34:51.389
And Kevin was the deal maker.

00:34:51.889 --> 00:34:53.492
Everybody that walked by.

00:34:53.592 --> 00:34:55.853
It didn't matter if they had walked by

00:34:55.893 --> 00:34:56.594
the table before.

00:34:56.934 --> 00:34:58.414
Make your deal.

00:34:58.454 --> 00:34:59.556
First words out of his mouth.

00:34:59.655 --> 00:35:00.556
I'll cut you a deal.

00:35:00.597 --> 00:35:01.137
Cut you a deal.

00:35:01.157 --> 00:35:02.277
Make a deal.

00:35:02.438 --> 00:35:03.239
He's looking at everybody.

00:35:03.699 --> 00:35:04.860
And they stopped in and they made some

00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:05.221
deals.

00:35:05.260 --> 00:35:06.862
He sold some Star Wars figures.

00:35:08.963 --> 00:35:11.184
He gave a person a random guy figures.

00:35:11.224 --> 00:35:13.246
We dubbed him a nice new home that

00:35:13.266 --> 00:35:14.168
somebody had been looking for.

00:35:15.603 --> 00:35:17.804
I think it was the Imperial Dignitary,

00:35:17.844 --> 00:35:18.945
if I'm not mistaken.

00:35:20.525 --> 00:35:22.106
It was one that's loose that goes for

00:35:22.246 --> 00:35:23.467
a ton of money,

00:35:23.547 --> 00:35:24.949
and Kevin cut him a deal on it

00:35:25.188 --> 00:35:27.809
and made the guy super happy.

00:35:27.869 --> 00:35:31.532
He had these little bags of the Attack

00:35:31.552 --> 00:35:33.434
of the Clone Lego Troopers.

00:35:33.454 --> 00:35:35.094
Attack of the Clone Storm Troopers from

00:35:35.295 --> 00:35:36.556
the original release.

00:35:36.635 --> 00:35:39.737
It was a promo thing that you could

00:35:39.777 --> 00:35:41.918
build.

00:35:41.938 --> 00:35:42.920
These things are going for

00:35:44.391 --> 00:35:45.253
I think he had a bag.

00:35:45.293 --> 00:35:47.153
He was selling bags of seven for like

00:35:47.554 --> 00:35:48.494
a hundred bucks a piece.

00:35:48.773 --> 00:35:51.876
People came and bought some, you know, um,

00:35:51.936 --> 00:35:53.657
he was pulling star Wars figures out of

00:35:53.697 --> 00:35:55.777
his box and, and pricing them.

00:35:56.197 --> 00:35:56.838
And then, you know,

00:35:56.858 --> 00:35:58.380
putting the price tag on him and putting

00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.280
them over in the, in his little tub.

00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:00.960
And he had,

00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:02.882
he had quite a few takers on,

00:36:03.081 --> 00:36:04.382
on what he had brought to the con.

00:36:04.543 --> 00:36:04.842
Yeah.

00:36:05.043 --> 00:36:05.282
Um,

00:36:05.382 --> 00:36:07.344
and Victoria had some glasses like the old

00:36:07.385 --> 00:36:10.925
character glasses that you could buy from

00:36:10.985 --> 00:36:12.467
Hardee's and McDonald's and stuff.

00:36:12.507 --> 00:36:13.608
And those weren't really well.

00:36:14.954 --> 00:36:17.916
Um, Oh, nerd Viper studios.

00:36:18.016 --> 00:36:18.297
What?

00:36:18.416 --> 00:36:19.297
I have a box of them.

00:36:19.358 --> 00:36:20.938
I did that event at Walmart years ago.

00:36:20.958 --> 00:36:21.458
Yeah.

00:36:21.478 --> 00:36:22.119
Kevin dude.

00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:23.000
Yeah.

00:36:23.019 --> 00:36:24.860
Those things are worth money.

00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:25.061
Yeah.

00:36:25.081 --> 00:36:26.221
You need to look into that.

00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:27.601
Like I said, he was, he was,

00:36:27.762 --> 00:36:29.362
he had them in divided up into like

00:36:29.443 --> 00:36:32.824
Ziploc, like seven Ziploc bags or so.

00:36:32.905 --> 00:36:33.125
And they,

00:36:33.264 --> 00:36:34.766
they were selling for a hundred dollars a

00:36:34.826 --> 00:36:35.706
bag and he had to like

00:36:36.536 --> 00:36:37.436
Five, five of them,

00:36:37.617 --> 00:36:38.757
maybe five in a bag.

00:36:38.996 --> 00:36:39.556
I think so.

00:36:41.257 --> 00:36:42.958
Yeah, that's what we were saying too.

00:36:42.978 --> 00:36:43.719
You're sitting on them.

00:36:44.018 --> 00:36:45.059
You're sitting on some good stuff.

00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:45.480
We learned.

00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:47.440
Kevin was saying that too, by the way,

00:36:47.541 --> 00:36:48.400
when he was looking at.

00:36:48.661 --> 00:36:49.282
Kevin was like,

00:36:49.442 --> 00:36:50.322
I didn't realize they were this,

00:36:50.541 --> 00:36:51.623
this going for this much.

00:36:52.063 --> 00:36:52.422
So yeah,

00:36:52.523 --> 00:36:53.784
you've got yourself a little treasure

00:36:53.804 --> 00:36:54.443
there, Nerd Viper.

00:36:54.835 --> 00:36:58.257
And the Imperial Dignitary figure we were

00:36:58.277 --> 00:36:58.896
talking about,

00:36:59.958 --> 00:37:02.599
the gentleman that purchased that,

00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:04.601
he had actually made a comment off of

00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.722
our post on our Facebook page where he's

00:37:06.762 --> 00:37:07.682
displayed the figure.

00:37:07.802 --> 00:37:09.123
Yeah.

00:37:09.224 --> 00:37:10.063
I'll see if I can find it real

00:37:10.083 --> 00:37:10.204
quick.

00:37:10.684 --> 00:37:11.664
Yeah, find it and pull it up.

00:37:11.824 --> 00:37:13.005
And I want you to know that that

00:37:13.045 --> 00:37:15.387
made Kevin genuinely happy.

00:37:16.248 --> 00:37:18.248
Kevin's comment when he saw that photo

00:37:18.268 --> 00:37:18.489
was,

00:37:18.949 --> 00:37:21.291
I'm so happy this went to a collector

00:37:21.331 --> 00:37:22.791
who's going to display them and love them.

00:37:23.052 --> 00:37:23.231
Yeah.

00:37:23.931 --> 00:37:25.313
That made his heart happy because Kevin

00:37:25.333 --> 00:37:26.494
cut him a pretty good deal on him.

00:37:26.514 --> 00:37:29.197
But yeah, they had,

00:37:29.577 --> 00:37:30.597
Kevin had a whole bunch of stuff.

00:37:30.637 --> 00:37:32.659
Kevin wound up selling quite a bit.

00:37:34.121 --> 00:37:35.302
We wound up, we brought

00:37:36.699 --> 00:37:39.501
We brought four twenty seven gallon totes

00:37:40.422 --> 00:37:43.003
and a sixty gallon tote,

00:37:43.103 --> 00:37:45.045
which that's the one Derek thankfully

00:37:46.244 --> 00:37:48.527
cleaned us out of for the Funko Pops.

00:37:50.568 --> 00:37:52.389
And we wound up coming home with two

00:37:52.489 --> 00:37:53.108
empty totes.

00:37:53.469 --> 00:37:53.989
Well, three,

00:37:54.670 --> 00:37:57.010
pretty much three empty totes altogether.

00:37:57.030 --> 00:37:57.751
What we came home.

00:37:57.791 --> 00:37:58.652
Yeah, it's about half.

00:37:58.711 --> 00:37:59.413
Yeah.

00:37:59.472 --> 00:37:59.853
Yeah.

00:38:01.713 --> 00:38:03.054
And we had some things that we carried,

00:38:03.074 --> 00:38:04.235
you know, outside of the totes.

00:38:04.355 --> 00:38:04.615
Right.

00:38:04.635 --> 00:38:04.815
Yeah.

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:09.483
Sold some of your dad's Hot Wheels.

00:38:10.445 --> 00:38:11.226
A lot of my old...

00:38:12.047 --> 00:38:16.771
I had a set of Batman, Robin, Joker,

00:38:16.791 --> 00:38:17.373
and Harley.

00:38:17.492 --> 00:38:18.454
Oh, the Japanese figures.

00:38:18.474 --> 00:38:19.635
The figures from Japan.

00:38:20.135 --> 00:38:20.257
Yeah.

00:38:20.317 --> 00:38:21.338
I've had those things for like,

00:38:21.398 --> 00:38:22.159
twenty years.

00:38:23.019 --> 00:38:24.641
And one guy...

00:38:25.902 --> 00:38:27.605
one guy really wanted the set somebody

00:38:27.625 --> 00:38:30.568
came by and only wanted the batman before

00:38:30.608 --> 00:38:32.951
he got a hold of him and uh

00:38:32.990 --> 00:38:34.731
so i sold the one batman had robin

00:38:34.771 --> 00:38:35.994
joker and harley left

00:38:36.952 --> 00:38:37.773
And, uh,

00:38:38.273 --> 00:38:40.235
the guy saw the Batman was gone.

00:38:40.255 --> 00:38:41.376
He's like, oh, you sold them all.

00:38:41.396 --> 00:38:42.817
But we had moved the figures up to

00:38:42.836 --> 00:38:44.259
a higher shelf, the other three.

00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:45.119
And I said, well,

00:38:45.139 --> 00:38:45.980
we've still got these three.

00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.021
He goes, yeah,

00:38:47.081 --> 00:38:47.782
at least I can get those.

00:38:47.822 --> 00:38:48.461
Yeah.

00:38:48.481 --> 00:38:49.402
He was happy to have those.

00:38:49.583 --> 00:38:50.824
He was very happy to have those.

00:38:51.364 --> 00:38:51.744
And I don't,

00:38:51.945 --> 00:38:53.206
I don't know who it was that had

00:38:53.425 --> 00:38:54.487
said something to us.

00:38:54.507 --> 00:38:55.527
Uh,

00:38:55.568 --> 00:38:57.090
not too long after we'd gotten everything

00:38:57.150 --> 00:38:58.990
set up, but they did compliment our setup,

00:38:59.030 --> 00:39:00.112
which we appreciate that.

00:39:00.152 --> 00:39:00.873
That was our, yeah.

00:39:01.072 --> 00:39:03.014
Our first time to set up and I

00:39:03.054 --> 00:39:05.077
guess all the years of going to cons

00:39:05.137 --> 00:39:07.519
and seeing other setups just kind of

00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:08.661
helped put that in place for us.

00:39:09.536 --> 00:39:12.958
The amount of anxiety that we had once

00:39:12.998 --> 00:39:14.438
we got to the, you know,

00:39:14.458 --> 00:39:16.958
we had our tables sitting there and we

00:39:16.998 --> 00:39:18.278
all got there and brought us up in

00:39:18.298 --> 00:39:19.320
and I just looked at it,

00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:20.699
looked at all our stuff and I went,

00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:22.701
I don't know how to do this.

00:39:23.021 --> 00:39:25.061
I have no idea how to set this

00:39:25.201 --> 00:39:25.340
up.

00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:26.001
But thankfully,

00:39:26.822 --> 00:39:28.581
we had we did have some wonderful people

00:39:28.621 --> 00:39:30.422
come by and compliment us on our setup.

00:39:30.503 --> 00:39:31.163
Yeah.

00:39:31.342 --> 00:39:32.943
but here's our here's our setup as it

00:39:33.003 --> 00:39:34.784
is right here that's what we had and

00:39:34.804 --> 00:39:37.567
then going to our steve drummond like i

00:39:37.586 --> 00:39:40.148
said his purchase of random guy yeah

00:39:40.228 --> 00:39:42.210
random yeah the guy in purple here that

00:39:42.250 --> 00:39:44.331
was yeah yeah and he also bought that

00:39:44.391 --> 00:39:45.692
one on the yeah i think he bought

00:39:45.731 --> 00:39:46.891
he bought all three of them from kevin

00:39:46.913 --> 00:39:48.253
didn't he or did he just i know

00:39:48.273 --> 00:39:49.233
the one on the left and the one

00:39:49.253 --> 00:39:50.994
on the right okay yeah i'm not sure

00:39:51.014 --> 00:39:55.777
but yeah oh okay okay yeah yeah so

00:39:55.797 --> 00:39:55.898
yeah

00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:56.539
Yeah.

00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:57.840
Kevin was, uh, he was just,

00:39:58.141 --> 00:39:59.342
he kept pulling out, you know,

00:39:59.362 --> 00:40:01.505
figures from his box and price them and

00:40:01.945 --> 00:40:02.646
throw them in the,

00:40:02.686 --> 00:40:03.726
throw them his little tray there.

00:40:03.746 --> 00:40:04.947
So, yeah.

00:40:05.007 --> 00:40:06.469
Yeah.

00:40:06.489 --> 00:40:08.590
But, uh, it was a great setup.

00:40:10.092 --> 00:40:10.233
Uh,

00:40:10.253 --> 00:40:12.134
I thought we appreciate everybody that

00:40:12.153 --> 00:40:13.414
just came, you know, we were just,

00:40:13.916 --> 00:40:15.177
like I said, we were not,

00:40:16.077 --> 00:40:19.021
we came in with the expectations of,

00:40:19.081 --> 00:40:21.262
you know what, if I sell, uh,

00:40:21.943 --> 00:40:24.364
enough to cover the table fee just being

00:40:24.405 --> 00:40:26.706
here i'm happy i was happy just to

00:40:26.766 --> 00:40:29.307
talk to people yeah and interact with a

00:40:29.327 --> 00:40:31.929
whole bunch of fellow collectors and uh

00:40:31.969 --> 00:40:34.012
thankfully arkansas picker when he got

00:40:34.092 --> 00:40:36.413
that when he picked up the pit boy

00:40:36.472 --> 00:40:38.155
from me first thing at ten o'clock on

00:40:38.195 --> 00:40:40.115
saturday morning uh that paid for the

00:40:40.135 --> 00:40:42.016
table yeah yeah so i was done for

00:40:42.036 --> 00:40:43.398
the day i'm like okay i'm happy everything

00:40:43.458 --> 00:40:45.400
else now is just gravy and everything

00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.161
turned out to go really really well yeah

00:40:47.922 --> 00:40:47.961
um

00:40:48.561 --> 00:40:51.623
It gave me some really good insights into

00:40:52.384 --> 00:40:56.625
what people are looking for at these

00:40:56.664 --> 00:40:57.065
things.

00:40:57.465 --> 00:40:59.746
So I don't know that I'll bring Masters

00:40:59.766 --> 00:41:00.746
of the Universe back.

00:41:02.367 --> 00:41:03.668
I think I'll probably go to eBay to

00:41:03.708 --> 00:41:04.588
sell those things.

00:41:05.248 --> 00:41:05.969
Yeah, go ahead, babe.

00:41:06.585 --> 00:41:08.065
Oh, I was just, uh,

00:41:08.085 --> 00:41:09.367
I was just looking at our comments that

00:41:09.387 --> 00:41:09.847
have come in.

00:41:09.867 --> 00:41:10.268
I'm sorry.

00:41:10.447 --> 00:41:11.588
Oh, Finley says, yep.

00:41:12.068 --> 00:41:13.510
Covered table fee and lunch.

00:41:13.530 --> 00:41:14.231
That's always good.

00:41:15.731 --> 00:41:17.793
Derek says you guys had a fantastic eye

00:41:17.813 --> 00:41:18.434
appealing booth.

00:41:18.474 --> 00:41:18.813
Thank you.

00:41:18.893 --> 00:41:21.115
I appreciate the professionalism because

00:41:21.135 --> 00:41:23.396
unfortunately some booths look like trade

00:41:23.416 --> 00:41:24.358
day booths like mine.

00:41:28.139 --> 00:41:28.739
And Sonya says,

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:30.280
I do a practice setup at home to

00:41:30.300 --> 00:41:31.621
see how it all fits together,

00:41:31.701 --> 00:41:32.380
take pictures,

00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:34.121
and then do my event setup from those.

00:41:34.681 --> 00:41:36.422
Too many years in retail following

00:41:36.483 --> 00:41:36.963
planograms.

00:41:36.983 --> 00:41:37.023
Oh,

00:41:37.043 --> 00:41:39.543
I started my time in retail and

00:41:39.583 --> 00:41:40.204
planograms.

00:41:40.463 --> 00:41:41.483
Oh, Bo,

00:41:41.503 --> 00:41:43.224
did you get taken back by that phrase

00:41:43.244 --> 00:41:43.344
there?

00:41:43.364 --> 00:41:44.565
Oh, that word, that word.

00:41:46.405 --> 00:41:48.606
My first job was Sears, Sonya,

00:41:48.985 --> 00:41:50.606
and that planogram.

00:41:50.706 --> 00:41:50.746
Oh.

00:41:54.742 --> 00:41:56.922
oh i i have not worked retail in

00:41:56.963 --> 00:41:58.523
that aspect i've always i worked food

00:41:58.563 --> 00:42:02.365
service not not the retail side of of

00:42:02.405 --> 00:42:05.608
those careers but um yeah we i went

00:42:05.628 --> 00:42:09.989
and bought two two three foot shelf stacks

00:42:10.471 --> 00:42:13.152
uh at lowe's the week before and brought

00:42:13.172 --> 00:42:16.393
my mom's folding table yeah uh as just

00:42:16.454 --> 00:42:19.054
as an extra piece and had no idea

00:42:19.114 --> 00:42:20.795
how i was gonna set up kevin had

00:42:20.876 --> 00:42:23.878
extra tables as well yeah yeah yeah yeah

00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:26.822
Sonia says, JCPenney here,

00:42:26.862 --> 00:42:31.125
still working through the trauma.

00:42:31.144 --> 00:42:32.085
You were on the other side of the

00:42:32.106 --> 00:42:32.947
ball where he was overseas.

00:42:34.728 --> 00:42:41.753
Y'all were in different anchor stores.

00:42:42.155 --> 00:42:43.036
Big E says,

00:42:43.456 --> 00:42:44.856
bring the Masters of the Universe back.

00:42:44.876 --> 00:42:45.958
As soon as the new movie drops,

00:42:45.978 --> 00:42:48.179
those characters are going to be hot.

00:42:48.860 --> 00:42:49.501
You're right.

00:42:49.561 --> 00:42:51.121
And the movie will drop in June.

00:42:51.742 --> 00:42:51.862
And

00:42:53.586 --> 00:42:56.471
Yeah, and Big E, this right here,

00:42:58.353 --> 00:43:03.019
this is the fun aspect of a display

00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:04.181
here.

00:43:04.282 --> 00:43:05.463
Under this is not a table.

00:43:07.269 --> 00:43:10.811
This is the newest Eternia,

00:43:11.351 --> 00:43:13.992
Master of the Universe Eternia box that

00:43:14.032 --> 00:43:14.811
I've not opened.

00:43:14.931 --> 00:43:15.952
I didn't have anywhere to put it,

00:43:15.972 --> 00:43:17.612
so I just put it in tablecloth over

00:43:17.632 --> 00:43:17.833
it.

00:43:17.913 --> 00:43:18.672
It's a little big.

00:43:18.853 --> 00:43:20.373
It's a little big for our house.

00:43:20.934 --> 00:43:22.673
So yeah, this is Eternia under here.

00:43:25.775 --> 00:43:26.974
For those of you that are new to

00:43:26.994 --> 00:43:27.675
the podcast.

00:43:28.876 --> 00:43:28.976
Yeah.

00:43:28.996 --> 00:43:30.056
We try to make the most of our

00:43:30.096 --> 00:43:30.635
space.

00:43:30.655 --> 00:43:32.976
So if you want Eternia, it's right here.

00:43:34.076 --> 00:43:35.018
No, I'm not getting rid of the journey.

00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:36.242
He's not getting rid of it.

00:43:36.902 --> 00:43:37.965
I only bought one of those.

00:43:37.985 --> 00:43:38.967
He will not get rid of it.

00:43:40.833 --> 00:43:42.655
But I do have, I do have, uh,

00:43:42.775 --> 00:43:44.215
an extra castle gray skull.

00:43:44.275 --> 00:43:47.356
I've got that, uh, the snake mountain, um,

00:43:47.817 --> 00:43:49.038
from master of the universe.

00:43:49.498 --> 00:43:51.018
I don't have any of my original,

00:43:51.398 --> 00:43:52.820
and this is where all of you can

00:43:52.860 --> 00:43:53.340
shame me.

00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:55.701
Uh, as a kid growing up,

00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:57.742
I don't have any of my original masters

00:43:57.762 --> 00:43:58.882
of the universe figures, uh,

00:43:59.943 --> 00:44:01.923
because as a kid,

00:44:02.423 --> 00:44:03.945
once I was done with them and outgrew

00:44:03.965 --> 00:44:04.144
them,

00:44:04.244 --> 00:44:05.646
I thought they would fly with bottle

00:44:05.686 --> 00:44:06.045
rockets.

00:44:07.273 --> 00:44:09.454
So I would strap bottle rockets to He-Man

00:44:09.514 --> 00:44:11.273
and he'd get a couple inches off the

00:44:11.293 --> 00:44:12.315
ground and explode.

00:44:12.394 --> 00:44:16.356
Oh, you are the Sid from Toy Story.

00:44:16.835 --> 00:44:17.596
Unfortunately.

00:44:17.615 --> 00:44:18.436
Yeah.

00:44:18.456 --> 00:44:19.137
Unfortunately.

00:44:19.177 --> 00:44:23.898
Well, Bo,

00:44:23.998 --> 00:44:27.378
even though you didn't bring anything to

00:44:27.438 --> 00:44:27.820
sell,

00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.199
what were your thoughts on Gaston

00:44:30.219 --> 00:44:31.541
Collector Con this year and being there

00:44:31.581 --> 00:44:32.181
working the booth?

00:44:32.516 --> 00:44:33.398
Well, I mean, like for me,

00:44:33.438 --> 00:44:34.579
like I said, I was mostly, you know,

00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:35.420
if somebody had a question,

00:44:35.481 --> 00:44:36.242
I would try to help them out.

00:44:36.302 --> 00:44:36.521
If not,

00:44:36.581 --> 00:44:37.884
I directed it to you guys who were

00:44:37.903 --> 00:44:38.644
selling this stuff.

00:44:38.985 --> 00:44:39.445
But I mean,

00:44:40.186 --> 00:44:42.590
all the guests were very enthusiastic and

00:44:42.650 --> 00:44:43.150
joyful.

00:44:43.311 --> 00:44:43.532
I mean,

00:44:43.552 --> 00:44:45.233
like it was steady flow of folks,

00:44:45.273 --> 00:44:46.896
except about lunchtime, which is normal.

00:44:46.976 --> 00:44:48.057
You know, everybody gets hungry.

00:44:48.117 --> 00:44:48.958
Got to get the grub.

00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:50.059
Got to hit the food trucks, man.

00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:51.280
Yeah, got to hit the food trucks.

00:44:51.882 --> 00:44:52.762
But for me, like I said,

00:44:53.003 --> 00:44:53.943
I had a great time.

00:44:53.983 --> 00:44:55.364
I know, like I was telling y'all,

00:44:55.385 --> 00:44:56.806
like I said, I got up,

00:44:56.846 --> 00:44:57.626
we got up about four,

00:44:57.726 --> 00:44:58.967
I got up about four a.m.

00:44:59.027 --> 00:45:00.849
So I had to get a power nap

00:45:00.889 --> 00:45:01.990
just to make the drive home.

00:45:02.010 --> 00:45:03.572
If anybody saw me asleep in our booth,

00:45:03.692 --> 00:45:05.213
it was not because of lack of fun.

00:45:05.273 --> 00:45:06.914
It's because I'm a middle-aged man who

00:45:06.954 --> 00:45:08.137
needs a nap every now and then.

00:45:10.038 --> 00:45:10.699
I was, you know,

00:45:10.739 --> 00:45:11.639
like if somebody had been,

00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:12.960
I could have been watching something and,

00:45:13.001 --> 00:45:14.282
you know, I could have, I'm watching that,

00:45:14.382 --> 00:45:16.403
but no, you know, but I, I,

00:45:16.503 --> 00:45:17.085
it was wonderful.

00:45:17.144 --> 00:45:17.824
I said, I got to walk,

00:45:17.905 --> 00:45:19.226
I got up, walked around a little bit.

00:45:19.306 --> 00:45:19.527
I said,

00:45:19.567 --> 00:45:20.907
I made me a few purchases there.

00:45:20.987 --> 00:45:21.949
I'm like, I said, I'm,

00:45:22.248 --> 00:45:23.329
I didn't buy any toys.

00:45:23.349 --> 00:45:25.152
Like, so I'm mostly, I don't know.

00:45:25.211 --> 00:45:26.793
I'm, I'm being much more like, I'm,

00:45:26.994 --> 00:45:28.514
as you see, you guys see behind me,

00:45:28.574 --> 00:45:30.317
I got a bunch of stuff as myself

00:45:30.336 --> 00:45:31.737
and I don't plan to move anytime soon,

00:45:31.777 --> 00:45:32.119
hopefully.

00:45:32.619 --> 00:45:36.121
uh but like and uh i'm very selective

00:45:36.161 --> 00:45:37.760
now i'm buying smaller things or something

00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:39.422
like something different or something i

00:45:39.461 --> 00:45:41.443
had i didn't have but like me i'm

00:45:41.483 --> 00:45:43.443
still i'm still big into the retro gaming

00:45:43.463 --> 00:45:44.563
like even if i'm not going to play

00:45:44.583 --> 00:45:45.485
it i still like to have it for

00:45:45.505 --> 00:45:48.186
a display piece yeah so yeah that was

00:45:48.286 --> 00:45:49.646
that was me i walked around a lot

00:45:49.666 --> 00:45:51.007
of a lot of the good toy the

00:45:51.047 --> 00:45:52.547
light of the vendors the toys and like

00:45:52.568 --> 00:45:55.469
i said i looked at um what's the

00:45:55.489 --> 00:45:57.170
the uh oh crud you said you know

00:45:57.190 --> 00:45:58.769
he had the display pieces for the action

00:45:58.789 --> 00:45:59.570
figures i'm blanking

00:46:01.152 --> 00:46:01.532
Oh, Adam.

00:46:01.552 --> 00:46:01.833
Yeah.

00:46:02.994 --> 00:46:04.376
Like I looked at his booth.

00:46:04.396 --> 00:46:04.876
He was beautiful.

00:46:04.896 --> 00:46:05.836
I think I said, Sonia,

00:46:05.856 --> 00:46:07.099
I think I remember seeing your crochet

00:46:07.139 --> 00:46:07.438
stuff.

00:46:07.838 --> 00:46:09.961
Like the crochet stuff always pops out at

00:46:09.981 --> 00:46:11.543
me at conventions because like, it's just,

00:46:12.103 --> 00:46:13.706
I like to see what something nerdy

00:46:13.985 --> 00:46:14.967
somebody's created in,

00:46:15.226 --> 00:46:16.168
in the crochet form.

00:46:16.849 --> 00:46:19.431
like we went uh kevin probably looked over

00:46:19.451 --> 00:46:20.972
there too because kevin's real big into

00:46:20.992 --> 00:46:22.934
the crochet stuff as well he's really big

00:46:23.014 --> 00:46:26.277
into it yeah he'll tell you but yeah

00:46:26.297 --> 00:46:28.539
like no it was actually a wonderful

00:46:28.579 --> 00:46:31.501
experience like i said it was uh i

00:46:31.521 --> 00:46:32.521
mean like so i know i'm trying not

00:46:32.541 --> 00:46:34.724
to sound the cliche things but i i

00:46:34.764 --> 00:46:36.545
mean it's i had a great time i

00:46:36.726 --> 00:46:38.527
did not have one single like as for

00:46:38.547 --> 00:46:39.387
me like i said i was you know

00:46:39.467 --> 00:46:40.829
i was kind of a vendor but not

00:46:40.909 --> 00:46:41.409
i was there

00:46:42.130 --> 00:46:43.809
But I mean, I mean, as a,

00:46:43.829 --> 00:46:46.391
as I can consider myself an attendee that

00:46:46.411 --> 00:46:47.471
just had a booth, you know,

00:46:48.510 --> 00:46:49.490
wonderful experience.

00:46:49.811 --> 00:46:51.711
I mean, yeah.

00:46:52.192 --> 00:46:54.132
Derek, congratulations to,

00:46:54.612 --> 00:46:57.193
to you and Wolf and your other partner,

00:46:57.532 --> 00:47:00.472
um, for, for such a wonderful show.

00:47:00.532 --> 00:47:01.534
We, we,

00:47:01.554 --> 00:47:03.393
we've been twice now and we're going to

00:47:03.414 --> 00:47:05.114
keep coming back hands down.

00:47:05.134 --> 00:47:06.695
This is a fun, fun show.

00:47:06.735 --> 00:47:08.574
I love, it's just, you know,

00:47:09.394 --> 00:47:10.016
You know, like we said,

00:47:10.036 --> 00:47:12.237
work in the booth this time and having

00:47:12.318 --> 00:47:13.838
a lot of people just come by and

00:47:13.878 --> 00:47:14.400
just chit chat.

00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:14.579
Yeah.

00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:14.679
Yeah.

00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:17.302
You know, admittedly,

00:47:17.382 --> 00:47:18.543
I may not seem like it.

00:47:18.682 --> 00:47:22.106
I am an introvert, pretty big introvert.

00:47:22.387 --> 00:47:24.047
But at something like this, you know,

00:47:24.148 --> 00:47:25.889
I can easily be an extrovert.

00:47:25.989 --> 00:47:27.311
And I loved every minute of it.

00:47:27.811 --> 00:47:28.911
Had such a good time.

00:47:29.672 --> 00:47:32.275
So many nice people come through there and

00:47:32.315 --> 00:47:34.237
just chit chat and reminisce about things

00:47:34.257 --> 00:47:36.358
they had when they were kids or whatever.

00:47:36.539 --> 00:47:36.878
You know,

00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:38.581
if they try to talk cards with us,

00:47:38.641 --> 00:47:41.385
it goes over my head, but you know,

00:47:42.465 --> 00:47:43.186
yeah.

00:47:43.286 --> 00:47:45.028
And I, I've, I hated it.

00:47:45.148 --> 00:47:45.509
I didn't,

00:47:46.150 --> 00:47:47.572
I just kind of let time get away

00:47:47.632 --> 00:47:47.972
from me.

00:47:48.012 --> 00:47:48.853
And I was, I mean,

00:47:48.873 --> 00:47:49.994
you don't realize it's like,

00:47:50.034 --> 00:47:51.536
you think you've got all this time in

00:47:51.576 --> 00:47:52.496
the day to do this,

00:47:52.516 --> 00:47:53.798
but it goes by so fast.

00:47:53.838 --> 00:47:55.760
It really did really quickly.

00:47:56.221 --> 00:47:58.001
I got a quick time to get up

00:47:58.021 --> 00:47:59.083
and kind of move around.

00:47:59.143 --> 00:48:01.003
And I, you know, that, I guess that's,

00:48:01.123 --> 00:48:02.945
um, you know, we had,

00:48:02.985 --> 00:48:04.246
we had enough people there to man the

00:48:04.286 --> 00:48:04.606
booth,

00:48:04.626 --> 00:48:06.106
but for some reason it was just like,

00:48:06.146 --> 00:48:08.407
I couldn't get out of my brain to

00:48:08.507 --> 00:48:09.829
step outside the booth and,

00:48:09.969 --> 00:48:11.650
and go look at other things I did.

00:48:12.090 --> 00:48:13.451
I did one time I did get up

00:48:13.471 --> 00:48:15.592
and do one good, you know, lap around,

00:48:15.632 --> 00:48:17.253
but it didn't give me time to kind

00:48:17.293 --> 00:48:19.675
of look at what other people were selling

00:48:19.815 --> 00:48:20.155
or, um,

00:48:20.574 --> 00:48:20.815
You know,

00:48:20.934 --> 00:48:22.496
I kind of would like to I guess

00:48:22.635 --> 00:48:24.195
something I would like to do differently

00:48:24.275 --> 00:48:25.836
is have a chance, you know,

00:48:25.896 --> 00:48:27.797
take a break and do that again at

00:48:27.818 --> 00:48:30.099
the next con and then kind of get

00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.619
to know some of, you know,

00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:34.139
you guys in the chat tonight.

00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:35.501
We appreciate you being here because,

00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:36.240
you know,

00:48:36.481 --> 00:48:37.882
getting to know some of you people that

00:48:37.942 --> 00:48:39.961
are involved in this and Venn and things

00:48:39.981 --> 00:48:41.862
like that, you know, you you network,

00:48:41.882 --> 00:48:43.503
you build relationships with people like

00:48:43.543 --> 00:48:43.784
that.

00:48:43.864 --> 00:48:44.003
So.

00:48:44.344 --> 00:48:44.945
Absolutely.

00:48:45.585 --> 00:48:48.489
And, uh, you know, uh, like with Finley,

00:48:48.708 --> 00:48:50.952
I would definitely want to, I, I hate,

00:48:50.972 --> 00:48:52.213
I missed your miniatures while we were

00:48:52.233 --> 00:48:52.494
there.

00:48:52.833 --> 00:48:54.155
I took one quick lap.

00:48:54.615 --> 00:48:54.817
I mean,

00:48:54.876 --> 00:48:56.338
it was a quick one because I was

00:48:57.039 --> 00:48:58.240
trying to get back to the booth to

00:48:58.280 --> 00:48:59.641
do some wheeling and dealing myself.

00:48:59.722 --> 00:49:00.724
Cause it was a,

00:49:01.123 --> 00:49:02.545
It was a pretty decent day for us.

00:49:04.108 --> 00:49:05.148
Bama Freddy, like I said,

00:49:05.210 --> 00:49:07.311
he had stepped out to the restroom,

00:49:07.331 --> 00:49:08.994
so I missed saying hey to him.

00:49:09.715 --> 00:49:13.079
And I bought one of his dioramas for

00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:16.083
my Ghostbusters figures in my Detolf

00:49:16.123 --> 00:49:16.483
shelf,

00:49:16.563 --> 00:49:17.965
as you can see over Jessica's shoulder.

00:49:18.827 --> 00:49:20.327
Um, it's down.

00:49:20.387 --> 00:49:20.628
No, no, no.

00:49:20.788 --> 00:49:21.148
The other way.

00:49:21.248 --> 00:49:22.789
Other way.

00:49:23.050 --> 00:49:23.990
You see them all down there.

00:49:24.010 --> 00:49:25.110
You see the Ghostbusters down there.

00:49:25.190 --> 00:49:25.271
Yeah.

00:49:25.291 --> 00:49:25.391
Yeah.

00:49:25.952 --> 00:49:26.032
Yeah.

00:49:26.072 --> 00:49:27.512
They're standing on one of his dioramas.

00:49:28.172 --> 00:49:29.454
Uh, and I hate,

00:49:29.474 --> 00:49:30.454
I didn't get over there to,

00:49:30.815 --> 00:49:32.335
to purchase one from him this year,

00:49:32.376 --> 00:49:33.976
but honestly, this time around,

00:49:34.016 --> 00:49:34.838
I was trying to sell,

00:49:34.918 --> 00:49:35.838
wasn't trying to buy.

00:49:36.898 --> 00:49:36.998
Um,

00:49:39.072 --> 00:49:40.813
And see if anything said it'd be cool

00:49:40.833 --> 00:49:41.954
to have something for the kids to be

00:49:41.974 --> 00:49:43.235
able to trade up in an hour or

00:49:43.275 --> 00:49:44.396
two who got the best thing.

00:49:44.496 --> 00:49:45.418
Oh, that would be cool.

00:49:46.177 --> 00:49:46.458
Yeah.

00:49:48.219 --> 00:49:48.699
And Derek says,

00:49:48.739 --> 00:49:49.860
thank you guys for the support and all

00:49:49.900 --> 00:49:50.521
the kind words.

00:49:50.561 --> 00:49:52.342
We do understand why cons are once a

00:49:52.422 --> 00:49:52.663
year.

00:49:52.702 --> 00:49:54.143
Now it's a lot of small details to

00:49:54.184 --> 00:49:55.184
hash out.

00:49:55.224 --> 00:49:55.324
Yeah.

00:49:55.344 --> 00:49:56.146
But you guys nail it.

00:49:56.166 --> 00:49:57.286
Yeah, absolutely.

00:49:57.766 --> 00:49:58.306
And he says,

00:49:58.547 --> 00:49:59.929
we're already talking to celebs and

00:49:59.949 --> 00:50:01.309
signing contracts for July.

00:50:01.769 --> 00:50:03.490
Then this April card show is fast

00:50:03.550 --> 00:50:03.952
approaching.

00:50:03.972 --> 00:50:04.052
Yeah.

00:50:04.112 --> 00:50:05.072
It'll be here before, you know,

00:50:05.532 --> 00:50:07.173
we want you back on to help promote

00:50:07.213 --> 00:50:07.434
that.

00:50:07.474 --> 00:50:08.175
We definitely want to,

00:50:09.498 --> 00:50:10.302
to talk about that.

00:50:10.461 --> 00:50:12.668
I really, you got to teach me cards.

00:50:12.748 --> 00:50:13.010
I don't,

00:50:15.811 --> 00:50:20.193
I saw Wolf had an autographed Tom Glavin

00:50:20.853 --> 00:50:22.853
baseball card in there.

00:50:22.954 --> 00:50:24.994
If I wasn't trying to save money this

00:50:25.034 --> 00:50:26.253
time and sell things,

00:50:26.813 --> 00:50:28.295
I was going to buy that Tom Glavin

00:50:28.315 --> 00:50:29.074
card off of him.

00:50:29.094 --> 00:50:31.695
Because I would love to have something

00:50:31.775 --> 00:50:35.315
signed from each of the pitchers from the

00:50:35.376 --> 00:50:36.396
mid-nineties Braves.

00:50:36.615 --> 00:50:37.295
I love those.

00:50:38.096 --> 00:50:40.197
Glavin and Maddox and Smoltz and...

00:50:42.038 --> 00:50:45.619
Steve Avery, Denny Nagel.

00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:47.021
That was a pitching lineup like you

00:50:47.041 --> 00:50:47.661
wouldn't believe.

00:50:48.322 --> 00:50:48.621
That was...

00:50:49.556 --> 00:50:51.697
That's where my heart lies is with the

00:50:51.757 --> 00:50:52.697
mid-nineties Braves,

00:50:52.757 --> 00:50:54.219
early mid-nineties Braves.

00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:57.059
I know someone had made a comment earlier

00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:57.559
in the chat.

00:50:57.579 --> 00:50:59.019
I'm sorry that, you know,

00:50:59.059 --> 00:51:00.920
that there was a lot of people there

00:51:00.981 --> 00:51:02.742
and that's a good thing.

00:51:03.581 --> 00:51:05.702
We're glad that, you know, for, I know,

00:51:05.762 --> 00:51:07.782
yes, it can probably be crowded at times,

00:51:07.842 --> 00:51:08.643
but, you know,

00:51:09.123 --> 00:51:11.284
it's better to have the crowd showing up

00:51:11.324 --> 00:51:11.844
than not.

00:51:14.806 --> 00:51:16.387
I only made it in the main room.

00:51:16.467 --> 00:51:18.309
I didn't make it into the other hallway

00:51:18.369 --> 00:51:19.289
like we did in July,

00:51:19.309 --> 00:51:20.489
and I didn't make it into that other

00:51:20.630 --> 00:51:22.610
room, which I hate.

00:51:23.911 --> 00:51:23.992
Bo,

00:51:24.012 --> 00:51:25.452
are you about to show some pickups that

00:51:25.472 --> 00:51:25.713
you got?

00:51:25.773 --> 00:51:26.713
Yeah, I was going to show my thing.

00:51:27.313 --> 00:51:28.675
Mostly the thing I buy is I buy

00:51:28.715 --> 00:51:29.275
retro games.

00:51:29.295 --> 00:51:30.615
Of course, I like old wrestling,

00:51:30.635 --> 00:51:31.697
so that's what I'm going to show you.

00:51:31.717 --> 00:51:32.637
The main thing I picked up,

00:51:32.657 --> 00:51:33.797
a couple of wrestling games.

00:51:33.818 --> 00:51:37.940
I got WCW Mayhem and a couple of

00:51:38.001 --> 00:51:39.802
the SmackDown games for PlayStation.

00:51:40.601 --> 00:51:41.202
And then, of course,

00:51:41.461 --> 00:51:42.623
I bought this one just because this is

00:51:42.643 --> 00:51:45.043
from one of my sons and myself's favorite

00:51:45.063 --> 00:51:46.943
episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd,

00:51:46.963 --> 00:51:49.525
but it is Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle for

00:51:49.545 --> 00:51:49.885
the NES.

00:51:49.905 --> 00:51:50.144
That's good.

00:51:50.204 --> 00:51:55.067
That's mostly it.

00:51:55.086 --> 00:51:56.288
I just bought video games,

00:51:56.327 --> 00:51:57.367
which I'm still, you know,

00:51:57.507 --> 00:51:58.648
even if I may not play it,

00:51:58.668 --> 00:51:59.768
I want it for a display piece.

00:52:01.313 --> 00:52:02.875
Yeah, and I'm with you both.

00:52:02.914 --> 00:52:04.617
The only thing I bought while we were

00:52:04.677 --> 00:52:07.137
up there was video game stuff,

00:52:07.157 --> 00:52:09.599
because I'm sure some of you guys,

00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:11.702
especially your old retro gamers like us,

00:52:11.902 --> 00:52:13.543
like Atari, like,

00:52:14.264 --> 00:52:16.164
has re-released the the twenty six

00:52:16.204 --> 00:52:16.425
hundred.

00:52:16.445 --> 00:52:17.786
This is the twenty six hundred plus.

00:52:17.806 --> 00:52:18.847
That's the Pac-Man edition.

00:52:18.867 --> 00:52:20.929
You turn it on and all the ghosts

00:52:20.949 --> 00:52:22.309
and Pac-Man, all this lights,

00:52:22.349 --> 00:52:23.331
lights up LED.

00:52:24.731 --> 00:52:26.532
But the nice thing is it can play

00:52:26.572 --> 00:52:28.494
the old Atari cartridges.

00:52:29.735 --> 00:52:29.956
So

00:52:31.710 --> 00:52:33.771
I walked around and one of the dealers

00:52:33.791 --> 00:52:38.137
who was right across from Wolf had these

00:52:38.336 --> 00:52:44.623
really nice old Atari cartridges in really

00:52:44.663 --> 00:52:45.344
great shape.

00:52:45.384 --> 00:52:47.425
And so I went through and I said,

00:52:48.527 --> 00:52:48.748
okay,

00:52:48.768 --> 00:52:50.329
it's time to start rebuilding my Atari

00:52:50.349 --> 00:52:52.130
twenty six hundred collection.

00:52:52.150 --> 00:52:54.112
So I wound up with Space Invaders.

00:52:55.483 --> 00:52:57.925
and then uh outlaw which is a lot

00:52:57.945 --> 00:52:59.387
like combat if you know what that is

00:52:59.427 --> 00:53:00.467
this is one of my i played this

00:53:00.487 --> 00:53:03.268
game for hours as a kid and then

00:53:03.429 --> 00:53:06.771
raiders of the lost ark and then and

00:53:06.811 --> 00:53:10.273
then and then he had a copy

00:53:11.297 --> 00:53:14.298
of a game that lives in infamy on

00:53:14.338 --> 00:53:16.940
the Atari and it's in great shape.

00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:17.719
And it's actually,

00:53:18.021 --> 00:53:20.161
I actually beat it once as a kid,

00:53:20.342 --> 00:53:24.403
only once ET I had to get it.

00:53:25.123 --> 00:53:26.684
And so we did not get that out

00:53:26.704 --> 00:53:27.525
of a landfill.

00:53:27.565 --> 00:53:29.467
This was not from New Mexico.

00:53:31.061 --> 00:53:32.543
Uh, so that's all I bought was, was,

00:53:32.804 --> 00:53:35.565
were these four Atari games and I came

00:53:35.626 --> 00:53:37.708
home and I plugged them into that, that.

00:53:37.788 --> 00:53:40.891
Work worked perfectly.

00:53:40.911 --> 00:53:41.451
I sat there and played,

00:53:42.052 --> 00:53:43.432
played them off all for them for just

00:53:43.452 --> 00:53:45.974
a little bit and realize just how stiff

00:53:45.994 --> 00:53:47.076
that controller is.

00:53:47.396 --> 00:53:48.396
And I got to get another controller.

00:53:48.416 --> 00:53:49.577
I don't like the controller for that

00:53:49.597 --> 00:53:50.699
Atari.

00:53:50.778 --> 00:53:52.960
If anyone has a class on trading cards,

00:53:53.041 --> 00:53:54.563
please let me know where to enroll.

00:53:55.744 --> 00:53:56.603
Professor Derek.

00:53:59.387 --> 00:53:59.927
Speaking of,

00:54:00.166 --> 00:54:02.009
I had a dollar dig box at my

00:54:02.028 --> 00:54:04.710
booth and there were like thirty Atari

00:54:04.731 --> 00:54:06.932
games in it.

00:54:07.092 --> 00:54:08.954
I didn't see them.

00:54:08.974 --> 00:54:09.936
That's it.

00:54:10.396 --> 00:54:10.896
Next time.

00:54:11.643 --> 00:54:12.744
Hey, are you keeping them?

00:54:13.266 --> 00:54:14.226
Do you have some at Leeds?

00:54:14.827 --> 00:54:15.789
At your booth in Leeds?

00:54:16.190 --> 00:54:18.311
Because I'll go by there and I will

00:54:18.351 --> 00:54:19.634
repay the Funko favor.

00:54:19.653 --> 00:54:21.376
The Funko favor.

00:54:22.056 --> 00:54:23.639
I will buy your Atari cartridges.

00:54:26.983 --> 00:54:29.385
and i saw uh and i saw in

00:54:29.445 --> 00:54:31.806
the alabama toy marks group earlier or

00:54:31.927 --> 00:54:35.371
yesterday that wolf got a case of the

00:54:35.590 --> 00:54:38.413
of the batman returns mcfarland catwoman

00:54:38.432 --> 00:54:41.675
figures um i don't know when i can

00:54:41.715 --> 00:54:42.956
make it up there to wolf's store but

00:54:42.978 --> 00:54:45.320
that's a figure that i'm after you know

00:54:45.340 --> 00:54:47.501
i don't know you know pull some strings

00:54:47.541 --> 00:54:49.103
and like hold one for me or something

00:54:49.182 --> 00:54:51.164
but he says he'll put some there oh

00:54:51.204 --> 00:54:52.266
nice awesome

00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:54.481
Awesome.

00:54:54.501 --> 00:54:54.581
Now,

00:54:54.721 --> 00:54:55.621
I'm not going to ask you to pull

00:54:55.681 --> 00:54:57.322
a string and ask Wolf to hold one

00:54:57.342 --> 00:54:58.324
of those Catwoman figures for me.

00:54:58.704 --> 00:55:00.204
I'll give somebody else a fair shot at

00:55:00.264 --> 00:55:02.686
it, but I'm after that one.

00:55:03.027 --> 00:55:05.889
I'm not looking to increase my collection

00:55:05.949 --> 00:55:07.250
of action figures these days,

00:55:07.309 --> 00:55:10.893
but that Catwoman figure, I'm after.

00:55:10.952 --> 00:55:13.574
That one has been impossible to find.

00:55:15.842 --> 00:55:16.222
And really,

00:55:16.322 --> 00:55:18.623
I've gotten away from action figures for

00:55:18.663 --> 00:55:19.083
the most part,

00:55:19.123 --> 00:55:20.143
like buying and collecting them,

00:55:20.222 --> 00:55:22.543
except for Masters of the Universe.

00:55:22.804 --> 00:55:27.664
And I'll tell them, hey, thank you.

00:55:28.824 --> 00:55:30.065
If you'll hold one for me,

00:55:30.146 --> 00:55:31.965
if the weather's decent next weekend,

00:55:32.005 --> 00:55:33.005
maybe I can run up there.

00:55:35.786 --> 00:55:37.226
I'd love to get my hands on one.

00:55:38.148 --> 00:55:39.507
I've been searching ever since they came

00:55:39.608 --> 00:55:39.788
out.

00:55:40.387 --> 00:55:40.688
Yeah.

00:55:44.963 --> 00:55:45.342
Where was I going?

00:55:45.463 --> 00:55:45.983
Oh,

00:55:46.003 --> 00:55:47.503
I'm still buying masters of the universe

00:55:47.523 --> 00:55:48.005
figures.

00:55:48.784 --> 00:55:48.844
Uh,

00:55:48.885 --> 00:55:50.666
and I'm still buying GI Joe classified.

00:55:50.726 --> 00:55:52.927
There's the only really the figures that

00:55:52.947 --> 00:55:54.128
there's the only ones I'm buying now

00:55:54.228 --> 00:55:57.030
outside of you see that fallout figure of,

00:55:57.050 --> 00:55:59.431
uh, Cooper Howard over Jess's shoulder.

00:55:59.791 --> 00:56:02.072
We are picking up the, the,

00:56:02.092 --> 00:56:04.373
the fallout figures cause it's fallout and

00:56:05.014 --> 00:56:05.894
it's Walton Goggins,

00:56:05.934 --> 00:56:07.735
Walton Goggins from Mount Levant from born

00:56:07.775 --> 00:56:08.536
in Birmingham.

00:56:08.775 --> 00:56:10.317
Gotta have Walton on the shelf.

00:56:11.257 --> 00:56:11.418
Um,

00:56:13.141 --> 00:56:18.106
So and wrestling figures and wrestling,

00:56:18.266 --> 00:56:19.065
very selective.

00:56:19.085 --> 00:56:20.206
Well, we're very selective.

00:56:20.266 --> 00:56:21.327
Yeah, very selective.

00:56:21.608 --> 00:56:22.929
We're buying the Rhea Ripley's.

00:56:22.949 --> 00:56:24.570
We're buying the Stone Cold's, you know,

00:56:24.710 --> 00:56:25.731
are buying the CM Punk's.

00:56:25.771 --> 00:56:26.353
Yeah, of course.

00:56:27.373 --> 00:56:29.094
But not multiples of each character.

00:56:29.114 --> 00:56:30.697
The Joe Hendry's, the John Cena's.

00:56:31.376 --> 00:56:31.978
Yeah.

00:56:32.318 --> 00:56:33.958
I'm giving all the John Cena's to my

00:56:33.998 --> 00:56:35.280
son.

00:56:35.300 --> 00:56:36.320
He's a big Cena fan.

00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:39.903
What I am collecting these days is hot

00:56:39.943 --> 00:56:41.244
toys and statues.

00:56:41.284 --> 00:56:43.246
I've been collecting hot toys for ages.

00:56:44.586 --> 00:56:44.847
Again,

00:56:44.867 --> 00:56:46.949
in that detour behind Jess is my very

00:56:46.989 --> 00:56:48.090
first hot toy figure,

00:56:48.130 --> 00:56:49.630
which was the nineteen eighty nine jet

00:56:49.670 --> 00:56:50.411
Nicholson Joker.

00:56:51.393 --> 00:56:54.315
I bought it, I bought it twelve,

00:56:54.356 --> 00:56:56.217
thirteen years ago when it first came out

00:56:57.139 --> 00:56:59.380
and that became an addiction to me.

00:56:59.420 --> 00:57:00.940
Hot toys are an addiction.

00:57:01.742 --> 00:57:03.382
So I've got a lot of hot toys

00:57:03.422 --> 00:57:06.365
figures and I've always bought statues

00:57:06.405 --> 00:57:08.306
just simply because they look better than

00:57:08.327 --> 00:57:10.708
anything else in my brain.

00:57:10.869 --> 00:57:13.030
And I've got so many statues that are

00:57:13.050 --> 00:57:16.353
still in storage and still in their boxes.

00:57:16.452 --> 00:57:16.753
Again,

00:57:17.514 --> 00:57:18.695
we want to move all this other stuff

00:57:18.775 --> 00:57:20.356
out so we can get to that,

00:57:20.396 --> 00:57:21.137
put that stuff out.

00:57:21.606 --> 00:57:23.628
And things like Gadsden Collector Con have

00:57:24.228 --> 00:57:25.527
kind of helped put some of that in,

00:57:26.148 --> 00:57:27.248
in process for us.

00:57:27.288 --> 00:57:28.728
So, you know.

00:57:28.849 --> 00:57:29.369
Absolutely.

00:57:29.449 --> 00:57:31.208
So as long as you'll have us, Derek,

00:57:31.289 --> 00:57:32.869
we will keep coming back.

00:57:32.989 --> 00:57:34.110
Absolutely.

00:57:34.190 --> 00:57:35.449
I know a lot of, you know,

00:57:35.489 --> 00:57:37.971
it's like we going kind of back just

00:57:38.070 --> 00:57:39.952
real quick to previous conversation,

00:57:39.992 --> 00:57:40.251
you know,

00:57:40.271 --> 00:57:42.311
cause if you're kind of like us,

00:57:42.351 --> 00:57:42.891
we're not really a,

00:57:43.152 --> 00:57:44.632
we're not really a toy business or we're

00:57:44.952 --> 00:57:46.092
not, we're not a business.

00:57:46.233 --> 00:57:46.992
We're a yard sale.

00:57:47.293 --> 00:57:47.552
Yeah.

00:57:47.572 --> 00:57:49.653
We're basically a yard sale and yeah.

00:57:50.333 --> 00:57:53.096
But, you know, people that collect,

00:57:53.115 --> 00:57:53.735
you know, you can't,

00:57:53.755 --> 00:57:55.117
there's just things you just can't,

00:57:55.396 --> 00:57:56.836
you can't set up a yard sale at

00:57:56.856 --> 00:57:58.398
your house and put these things out

00:57:58.438 --> 00:58:00.159
because people will think, oh,

00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:01.639
I'll give you two bucks for that.

00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:03.981
That big statue, how about five?

00:58:04.001 --> 00:58:05.501
Five hundred.

00:58:07.606 --> 00:58:08.907
Well, the thing about it is you care,

00:58:08.947 --> 00:58:10.507
you care to collector con because the

00:58:10.547 --> 00:58:11.307
people who are coming there,

00:58:11.327 --> 00:58:12.568
they understand they're coming for a deal,

00:58:12.588 --> 00:58:13.110
but they also,

00:58:13.329 --> 00:58:15.251
they're being respectful of what you're

00:58:15.331 --> 00:58:15.650
selling.

00:58:15.670 --> 00:58:18.293
You know, it's not a, like you said,

00:58:18.333 --> 00:58:19.414
yard sale.

00:58:19.534 --> 00:58:20.534
And it wasn't our goal.

00:58:20.574 --> 00:58:22.115
You know, it's like, we just, we,

00:58:22.155 --> 00:58:23.936
we honestly look at, see where you,

00:58:23.956 --> 00:58:24.838
we go to eBay.

00:58:24.878 --> 00:58:26.478
We see what things, you know,

00:58:26.498 --> 00:58:27.780
what's actually selling for.

00:58:28.099 --> 00:58:30.141
And I will price it well below eBay.

00:58:30.181 --> 00:58:30.382
Yeah.

00:58:30.961 --> 00:58:33.182
And it's like, hey, come,

00:58:33.202 --> 00:58:34.463
we'll have some things.

00:58:34.483 --> 00:58:35.804
You don't have to pay shipping.

00:58:35.844 --> 00:58:37.603
We don't have to worry about eBay fees.

00:58:38.184 --> 00:58:38.844
Here it is.

00:58:38.885 --> 00:58:39.224
Take it.

00:58:39.304 --> 00:58:40.085
It's yours.

00:58:40.105 --> 00:58:40.804
Let's cut a deal.

00:58:40.945 --> 00:58:43.925
And the guy who bought the Cobra Armor

00:58:44.146 --> 00:58:46.067
thing from me for fifty bucks, I mean,

00:58:46.226 --> 00:58:48.307
I paid more than that for it,

00:58:48.347 --> 00:58:49.387
but I just wanted it gone.

00:58:50.108 --> 00:58:51.969
And so we really, really,

00:58:52.068 --> 00:58:53.349
really tried to cut deals.

00:58:53.389 --> 00:58:56.590
The sticker prices were a starting point,

00:58:56.630 --> 00:58:58.371
just to give you a roundabout idea.

00:58:58.411 --> 00:58:59.711
But we made deals all day.

00:59:00.842 --> 00:59:02.182
You know,

00:59:02.202 --> 00:59:03.182
I know for a lot of vendors,

00:59:03.202 --> 00:59:04.242
this is your livelihood.

00:59:04.603 --> 00:59:07.244
You know, you guys, you guys really,

00:59:07.304 --> 00:59:07.965
really do this.

00:59:08.005 --> 00:59:08.925
This is your business.

00:59:09.045 --> 00:59:10.065
And we respect that.

00:59:10.146 --> 00:59:13.367
And I will absolutely support you as much

00:59:13.407 --> 00:59:14.027
as possible,

00:59:14.728 --> 00:59:17.108
as much as my wallet will allow.

00:59:17.148 --> 00:59:17.389
You know,

00:59:17.409 --> 00:59:18.869
we definitely want to support you guys as

00:59:18.989 --> 00:59:19.869
your artists and everything.

00:59:19.889 --> 00:59:21.831
You guys are incredible and.

00:59:22.170 --> 00:59:23.572
that's been one of my favorite things to

00:59:23.592 --> 00:59:25.351
do at cons is go around and support

00:59:25.472 --> 00:59:29.074
artists yeah um you know for us it's

00:59:29.114 --> 00:59:31.215
just like we said it's just offloading

00:59:31.255 --> 00:59:33.195
stuff and so we make deals and we're

00:59:33.215 --> 00:59:37.137
not there to every it's been so long

00:59:37.177 --> 00:59:39.057
since we've poured money into what we're

00:59:39.077 --> 00:59:41.418
selling that i don't care what the price

00:59:41.498 --> 00:59:44.119
is normally i just want the space in

00:59:44.139 --> 00:59:45.179
the house okay

00:59:47.862 --> 00:59:48.463
All right.

00:59:48.483 --> 00:59:49.704
And Derek says just the demographic,

00:59:49.744 --> 00:59:51.186
but we do have people travel from all

00:59:51.266 --> 00:59:53.329
over and come out, which is awesome.

00:59:53.650 --> 00:59:55.391
And my dollar comics were the biggest

00:59:55.411 --> 00:59:57.333
seller per volume sold about six hundred

00:59:57.353 --> 00:59:58.215
and fifty of those.

00:59:59.916 --> 01:00:00.556
That's great.

01:00:01.077 --> 01:00:01.838
And I have box.

01:00:01.978 --> 01:00:03.579
I have like four or five boxes of

01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:06.322
comics that I almost brought.

01:00:06.503 --> 01:00:07.505
And I'm glad I didn't.

01:00:08.025 --> 01:00:09.407
We'll save those for another show.

01:00:10.204 --> 01:00:11.626
I'm also thinking about going through,

01:00:12.266 --> 01:00:13.568
Brock is going to be shocked to hear

01:00:13.608 --> 01:00:13.807
this,

01:00:13.827 --> 01:00:15.128
but I am thinking about going through the

01:00:15.168 --> 01:00:16.028
t-shirt collection.

01:00:16.048 --> 01:00:16.969
Yeah, we'll see.

01:00:17.731 --> 01:00:18.871
Look.

01:00:18.931 --> 01:00:21.032
Look, we have four closets in our house.

01:00:21.713 --> 01:00:23.514
Jess has three of them full of shirts.

01:00:25.271 --> 01:00:26.692
one of them is the t-shirt closet.

01:00:26.731 --> 01:00:27.072
Thank you.

01:00:27.132 --> 01:00:27.393
Yes.

01:00:27.932 --> 01:00:28.952
Yeah.

01:00:29.014 --> 01:00:30.733
And some of those are, see, I can,

01:00:32.094 --> 01:00:32.576
I am,

01:00:33.036 --> 01:00:35.137
I am willing to go through things and,

01:00:35.336 --> 01:00:36.978
and look in part with things.

01:00:37.038 --> 01:00:37.858
Cause you know,

01:00:37.958 --> 01:00:39.099
kind of like that mentality.

01:00:39.179 --> 01:00:41.940
Hey, you know, I, this was my treasure.

01:00:42.141 --> 01:00:43.442
Now I'd like to, you know,

01:00:43.621 --> 01:00:45.043
give you the opportunity to have the

01:00:45.083 --> 01:00:46.724
treasure that I once had.

01:00:46.864 --> 01:00:48.184
That's right.

01:00:48.304 --> 01:00:49.945
I'm looking, I'm seriously looking at,

01:00:50.005 --> 01:00:52.286
you know, shirts and, uh,

01:00:53.429 --> 01:00:54.635
You're also going to be shocked to hear

01:00:54.655 --> 01:00:56.121
this, but coffee cups as well.

01:00:57.514 --> 01:00:58.596
I can see you selling some of your

01:00:58.635 --> 01:01:01.378
coffee cups because you've got so many and

01:01:01.418 --> 01:01:02.940
now so many are in storage.

01:01:03.561 --> 01:01:04.842
And I know the ones you love so

01:01:04.902 --> 01:01:05.181
much.

01:01:05.282 --> 01:01:05.583
Yes.

01:01:05.802 --> 01:01:06.103
Yeah.

01:01:06.262 --> 01:01:07.164
Yeah.

01:01:07.244 --> 01:01:09.166
It's getting down to where, you know,

01:01:09.226 --> 01:01:10.327
it's kind of like you with your

01:01:10.367 --> 01:01:11.168
collection, you know,

01:01:11.268 --> 01:01:12.449
I have my things too.

01:01:12.509 --> 01:01:13.909
And, and most of everything,

01:01:13.949 --> 01:01:15.992
what we brought was, was your stuff,

01:01:16.211 --> 01:01:17.333
but I just didn't have a chance.

01:01:17.594 --> 01:01:19.114
And I also have another idea.

01:01:19.215 --> 01:01:20.536
That's because when I moved into this

01:01:20.576 --> 01:01:21.197
house, it was,

01:01:21.356 --> 01:01:22.737
it was just your stuff and it was

01:01:22.797 --> 01:01:23.079
empty.

01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:23.298
Yeah.

01:01:23.619 --> 01:01:25.364
And then I came along and wow,

01:01:25.384 --> 01:01:27.369
we got four storage buildings and

01:01:27.409 --> 01:01:28.532
everything else in this house.

01:01:28.996 --> 01:01:31.416
Maybe I can, uh, maybe, maybe, you know,

01:01:31.476 --> 01:01:32.976
I can learn about my cro- I can

01:01:32.996 --> 01:01:34.398
get some, you know, better at crocheting.

01:01:34.478 --> 01:01:35.438
I can make some things.

01:01:35.777 --> 01:01:37.619
I also have the bracelets.

01:01:38.018 --> 01:01:39.579
I thought of that at the last minute

01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:41.159
and, um,

01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:43.061
maybe doing up some bracelets and selling

01:01:43.081 --> 01:01:43.481
those.

01:01:44.101 --> 01:01:45.001
And even personal,

01:01:45.021 --> 01:01:47.442
like if somebody wants one customized,

01:01:47.501 --> 01:01:49.143
I could customize a bracelet for them.

01:01:49.282 --> 01:01:50.862
While you shop at the con, come by,

01:01:51.443 --> 01:01:52.963
pay five bucks and tell her what you

01:01:53.003 --> 01:01:54.204
want on your bracelet and she'll put the

01:01:54.224 --> 01:01:54.945
little beads on.

01:01:54.965 --> 01:01:55.045
Yeah.

01:01:55.085 --> 01:01:55.264
Yeah.

01:01:56.885 --> 01:01:57.065
I mean,

01:01:57.085 --> 01:01:58.706
there's all these things that when you

01:01:58.746 --> 01:02:00.568
kind of start thinking about, I could do,

01:02:00.728 --> 01:02:01.710
I could do this differently.

01:02:01.809 --> 01:02:02.871
I could do this next time.

01:02:03.291 --> 01:02:04.751
Should we have the opportunity to come and

01:02:04.771 --> 01:02:05.472
do this again?

01:02:05.552 --> 01:02:06.934
So, yeah.

01:02:07.014 --> 01:02:07.153
Yeah.

01:02:07.173 --> 01:02:08.175
And we absolutely will.

01:02:08.195 --> 01:02:12.398
We'll absolutely apply whenever we can,

01:02:12.597 --> 01:02:14.960
because I tell you, Derek and Wolf,

01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:15.860
you guys, like I said,

01:02:15.900 --> 01:02:17.262
you guys put on a heck of a

01:02:17.282 --> 01:02:17.521
show.

01:02:17.601 --> 01:02:18.382
It's so much fun.

01:02:18.422 --> 01:02:19.143
We enjoyed it.

01:02:20.123 --> 01:02:22.025
Just chit chatting with people that came

01:02:22.065 --> 01:02:23.367
by, you know, that,

01:02:23.427 --> 01:02:24.347
that was a lot of fun.

01:02:24.867 --> 01:02:25.969
And so I'm hoping next time I can

01:02:26.009 --> 01:02:28.690
actually get up and see some more things

01:02:28.730 --> 01:02:29.889
and spend a little bit more money.

01:02:30.110 --> 01:02:30.829
Yeah.

01:02:31.210 --> 01:02:32.690
Uh, definitely want to support, uh,

01:02:32.791 --> 01:02:34.092
all the artists and everybody that's

01:02:34.132 --> 01:02:34.431
there.

01:02:36.092 --> 01:02:38.873
So, uh, any, any final thoughts?

01:02:38.994 --> 01:02:41.074
Uh, anybody in the chat, uh,

01:02:41.434 --> 01:02:42.474
got something, uh,

01:02:42.494 --> 01:02:43.414
you want to say we're gonna,

01:02:43.635 --> 01:02:44.996
we're probably going to start winding this

01:02:45.056 --> 01:02:45.476
down.

01:02:46.295 --> 01:02:51.038
Um, again, uh, gas and collector con.com.

01:02:51.797 --> 01:02:53.298
Uh, that's where you can, uh,

01:02:53.619 --> 01:02:55.760
uh, there and on Facebook and Instagram,

01:02:55.780 --> 01:02:56.842
that's where you guys can,

01:02:57.121 --> 01:02:58.282
can keep up with,

01:02:58.342 --> 01:02:59.983
with all the goings on there.

01:03:00.364 --> 01:03:01.284
Appreciate, uh,

01:03:01.425 --> 01:03:03.206
Derek and Wolf being on with us last

01:03:03.226 --> 01:03:03.786
episode.

01:03:03.806 --> 01:03:05.027
And we appreciate you being in the chat

01:03:05.047 --> 01:03:09.110
this time, Derek, and, um, hopefully, uh,

01:03:10.117 --> 01:03:11.458
hopefully you got some insight from,

01:03:12.018 --> 01:03:13.380
from us and a lot of other people

01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:14.001
on the show.

01:03:14.081 --> 01:03:14.942
It's fantastic.

01:03:14.961 --> 01:03:16.264
You guys do a wonderful job.

01:03:16.664 --> 01:03:17.025
Love it.

01:03:17.605 --> 01:03:19.567
We'll support it in any way that we

01:03:19.606 --> 01:03:19.947
can.

01:03:20.728 --> 01:03:22.510
And for, for, you know,

01:03:23.050 --> 01:03:24.833
Finley and Biggie and, and,

01:03:25.773 --> 01:03:27.275
and I got to go back and remember

01:03:27.315 --> 01:03:28.077
some of these names here.

01:03:28.117 --> 01:03:28.958
I'm old.

01:03:29.057 --> 01:03:29.237
Bye.

01:03:30.478 --> 01:03:33.320
Sonia and Nerd Viper.

01:03:33.420 --> 01:03:36.681
And if I'm missing anyone, I apologize.

01:03:37.661 --> 01:03:39.262
But everybody for showing up here in the

01:03:39.302 --> 01:03:40.782
chat tonight, being here with us.

01:03:40.802 --> 01:03:41.802
Thank you so much.

01:03:43.422 --> 01:03:46.463
Thank you so, so much for being here.

01:03:46.523 --> 01:03:49.105
We hope you subscribe to the channel.

01:03:49.364 --> 01:03:51.106
We do this every other Sunday night.

01:03:52.505 --> 01:03:53.806
Rip's diecast garage.

01:03:54.126 --> 01:03:54.367
Yeah.

01:03:54.427 --> 01:03:54.646
Yeah.

01:03:54.686 --> 01:03:55.126
Yeah.

01:03:55.186 --> 01:03:55.387
Yeah.

01:03:55.427 --> 01:03:56.768
Thank you, man.

01:03:57.068 --> 01:03:57.947
Definitely Rip.

01:03:57.967 --> 01:03:59.108
Keep an eye out for us.

01:03:59.168 --> 01:04:00.268
Cause I'm telling you, man,

01:04:00.289 --> 01:04:02.769
we got some Hot Wheels.

01:04:02.809 --> 01:04:03.690
Boy, her dad.

01:04:04.610 --> 01:04:05.690
You like Hot Wheels?

01:04:05.751 --> 01:04:07.231
I can put you in touch with somebody.

01:04:07.911 --> 01:04:09.052
Her dad is,

01:04:09.693 --> 01:04:11.954
is a museum unto himself with Hot Wheels.

01:04:13.197 --> 01:04:13.617
Let's see.

01:04:13.657 --> 01:04:15.139
Let's see.

01:04:16.661 --> 01:04:18.342
Yeah, I think you showed these comments.

01:04:18.362 --> 01:04:19.842
Yeah, Nerd Vipers is a great show, Derek.

01:04:19.862 --> 01:04:20.824
Thanks for having us.

01:04:21.563 --> 01:04:23.505
Finley says, loads of fun.

01:04:23.585 --> 01:04:25.766
Sonia says, we enjoyed ourselves.

01:04:25.806 --> 01:04:27.487
Hope to be there next time.

01:04:28.489 --> 01:04:29.188
Derek says,

01:04:29.248 --> 01:04:31.010
registration will be open for July in a

01:04:31.170 --> 01:04:32.010
couple of weeks.

01:04:32.030 --> 01:04:32.612
Thanks, guys.

01:04:32.632 --> 01:04:34.632
I appreciate you guys in the chat vending

01:04:34.672 --> 01:04:35.012
with us.

01:04:35.989 --> 01:04:36.791
And then Biggie says,

01:04:36.871 --> 01:04:38.072
one thing I will say about the gas

01:04:38.112 --> 01:04:39.411
and collector con is like a family.

01:04:39.452 --> 01:04:40.492
And the more you've been,

01:04:40.954 --> 01:04:42.534
you will get a lot of return customers

01:04:42.574 --> 01:04:43.655
wanting to buy from you again.

01:04:44.356 --> 01:04:45.617
I can, I agree with that.

01:04:45.976 --> 01:04:47.998
I get that feeling too, just being there.

01:04:48.219 --> 01:04:48.438
Yeah.

01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:49.300
Yeah.

01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:49.800
Yeah.

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We had so many,

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we had so many people come by multiple

01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:53.842
times and just chit chat and had a

01:04:53.862 --> 01:04:54.242
great time.

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And it's so good.

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You know, like, you know,

01:04:56.204 --> 01:04:58.065
one thing about us is this podcast is

01:04:58.106 --> 01:04:58.846
we, you know,

01:04:58.865 --> 01:04:58.965
we're

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We try to do topics and things that

01:05:01.449 --> 01:05:03.590
are relatable to Alabama and things that

01:05:03.630 --> 01:05:06.052
bring it all back to pop culture and

01:05:06.092 --> 01:05:07.514
the good things about Alabama.

01:05:07.554 --> 01:05:09.295
And this has just become one of the

01:05:09.697 --> 01:05:11.318
good things about Alabama is to have

01:05:11.338 --> 01:05:12.119
events like these,

01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:15.302
to have shows like these in the state.

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Absolutely.

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I'm sorry, but were you going to,

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I was just saying, I would say,

01:05:18.907 --> 01:05:20.246
I see all this love here from the

01:05:20.266 --> 01:05:20.768
vendor folks.

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I'm saying, Hey,

01:05:21.307 --> 01:05:22.889
since maybe next time it's going to be

01:05:22.929 --> 01:05:23.528
two nights, Hey,

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maybe that Friday night after everybody

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set up some of the vendors get together,

01:05:26.750 --> 01:05:28.630
just say, you know, have a, a talk,

01:05:28.690 --> 01:05:30.192
you know, or talk or grab dinner,

01:05:30.472 --> 01:05:31.612
go to top river, grab dinner.

01:05:31.632 --> 01:05:34.273
Hey, we can, yeah.

01:05:34.474 --> 01:05:35.054
I was going to say,

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it's a couple of,

01:05:35.934 --> 01:05:37.394
get us a couple of tables over top

01:05:37.414 --> 01:05:40.835
of the river and seafood and networking.

01:05:41.096 --> 01:05:41.996
Exactly.

01:05:42.077 --> 01:05:43.456
I'll take that every day.

01:05:43.476 --> 01:05:43.556
Yeah.

01:05:44.978 --> 01:05:46.831
My doctor appreciates my seafood diet

01:05:46.873 --> 01:05:47.295
these days.

01:05:47.900 --> 01:05:49.081
And I, I mean, I,

01:05:49.742 --> 01:05:50.682
and I know that, you know,

01:05:50.762 --> 01:05:52.284
over not saying, you know,

01:05:52.304 --> 01:05:54.025
it's like not trying to over suggest

01:05:54.105 --> 01:05:55.005
anything, but you know,

01:05:55.045 --> 01:05:56.045
we've been to toy Atlanta.

01:05:56.065 --> 01:05:58.188
We know that after the show is over

01:05:58.208 --> 01:05:59.088
with some of the,

01:05:59.108 --> 01:06:01.690
some of the vendors get together for swaps

01:06:01.730 --> 01:06:03.291
and buys and trades.

01:06:03.351 --> 01:06:05.693
And, you know, that was a,

01:06:05.713 --> 01:06:07.134
that was an interesting experience.

01:06:07.153 --> 01:06:08.715
We got to tag along with some friends

01:06:08.735 --> 01:06:10.076
of ours that were doing that at toy

01:06:10.096 --> 01:06:11.396
Atlanta and got to kind of sit back

01:06:11.436 --> 01:06:12.617
and watch that take place.

01:06:12.956 --> 01:06:14.358
Yeah, absolutely.

01:06:14.498 --> 01:06:14.858
Yeah.

01:06:15.603 --> 01:06:18.143
So, uh, but thank you guys again, again,

01:06:18.184 --> 01:06:19.304
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01:06:19.344 --> 01:06:20.744
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01:06:20.806 --> 01:06:22.085
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01:06:23.126 --> 01:06:25.128
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01:06:25.307 --> 01:06:27.469
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01:06:27.489 --> 01:06:29.489
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01:06:29.530 --> 01:06:31.291
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01:06:31.391 --> 01:06:32.931
And there's also,

01:06:33.010 --> 01:06:34.592
if you go to Bama geeks.com,

01:06:35.192 --> 01:06:37.634
there's a link that you can request to

01:06:37.693 --> 01:06:38.293
be a guest.

01:06:38.454 --> 01:06:40.355
Some of your vendors and artists in here,

01:06:40.795 --> 01:06:42.255
if you guys want to join us for

01:06:42.275 --> 01:06:43.996
an episode where we can highlight your

01:06:44.056 --> 01:06:44.836
work, uh,

01:06:45.597 --> 01:06:47.617
highlight the things that you do.

01:06:48.278 --> 01:06:49.358
We'd love to have you on as a

01:06:49.398 --> 01:06:49.719
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01:06:49.759 --> 01:06:52.681
Just go to BamaGeeks.com and request to be

01:06:52.721 --> 01:06:53.101
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01:06:53.141 --> 01:06:54.081
Fill out that form.

01:06:54.541 --> 01:06:55.641
Let us know how we can get in

01:06:55.681 --> 01:06:56.882
touch with you if you'd like to be

01:06:56.922 --> 01:06:58.164
featured here on the podcast.

01:06:58.204 --> 01:06:58.943
We'd love to have you.

01:06:59.456 --> 01:06:59.996
Absolutely.

01:07:00.617 --> 01:07:03.860
We, we, we love to feature, you know,

01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:04.639
artists like that,

01:07:04.679 --> 01:07:06.360
especially when you're here in Alabama,

01:07:06.380 --> 01:07:07.402
let's, you know,

01:07:07.422 --> 01:07:08.902
let's share these good things that are

01:07:09.023 --> 01:07:10.043
that, that, you know,

01:07:10.063 --> 01:07:11.224
the good things about Alabama,

01:07:11.284 --> 01:07:12.764
the things that are out there that people

01:07:13.385 --> 01:07:14.106
may not know about.

01:07:14.306 --> 01:07:14.547
Yeah.

01:07:14.606 --> 01:07:15.766
What got you into collecting?

01:07:15.847 --> 01:07:17.789
What, what, you know, crocheting,

01:07:18.208 --> 01:07:19.690
you know, how did you start that,

01:07:19.730 --> 01:07:21.371
you know, and where has that taken you?

01:07:21.471 --> 01:07:22.831
You know, just things like that.

01:07:22.891 --> 01:07:24.132
We'd love to talk to you about that.

01:07:24.913 --> 01:07:25.552
Absolutely.

01:07:26.773 --> 01:07:28.355
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01:07:28.815 --> 01:07:30.896
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01:07:30.916 --> 01:07:31.416
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01:07:32.456 --> 01:07:34.117
And then, of course, as always,

01:07:34.137 --> 01:07:36.338
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01:07:36.358 --> 01:07:39.000
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01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:40.059
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Of the Bama Geeks,

01:07:43.762 --> 01:07:44.784
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01:07:50.911 --> 01:07:51.972
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01:07:51.992 --> 01:07:53.434
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Absolutely.

01:07:54.295 --> 01:07:57.378
All the info on anything related to that

01:07:57.398 --> 01:08:00.041
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01:08:02.380 --> 01:08:03.041
Love you guys.

01:08:03.302 --> 01:08:05.242
Thank you so much for being here tonight.

01:08:05.262 --> 01:08:06.724
We'll be back in two weeks.

01:08:07.965 --> 01:08:09.907
We may talk a little movie review then.

01:08:10.226 --> 01:08:12.068
I finally saw a movie for the first

01:08:12.108 --> 01:08:14.369
time ever after forty years of it being

01:08:14.490 --> 01:08:15.411
out.

01:08:15.851 --> 01:08:17.592
Also related to Alabama a little bit.

01:08:17.613 --> 01:08:19.795
It has a little connection, yeah.

01:08:19.854 --> 01:08:21.615
One of the characters might be at

01:08:21.676 --> 01:08:23.358
Unclaimed Baggage up in Scottsboro.

01:08:23.877 --> 01:08:24.618
A little hoggle.

01:08:25.626 --> 01:08:28.167
Yeah, we may talk about that next time.

01:08:29.528 --> 01:08:30.207
But until then,

01:08:31.047 --> 01:08:32.689
we just appreciate you being here.

01:08:32.729 --> 01:08:33.168
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01:08:34.289 --> 01:08:35.550
Thank you so much for joining us.

01:08:35.710 --> 01:08:37.690
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01:08:37.970 --> 01:08:40.712
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01:08:40.771 --> 01:08:41.693
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What did you think of the stream and

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And I said,

01:08:56.402 --> 01:08:57.502
all you guys who were trying to get

01:08:57.523 --> 01:08:58.923
yours out, like I said, put your,

01:08:59.304 --> 01:09:00.224
if anything, your comment,

01:09:00.264 --> 01:09:01.765
put a link to your Facebook page or

01:09:01.786 --> 01:09:01.886
your.

01:09:02.565 --> 01:09:03.407
whatever you're, you know,

01:09:03.627 --> 01:09:04.407
ever had to reach you.

01:09:04.466 --> 01:09:04.908
So like I said,

01:09:04.927 --> 01:09:06.127
if somebody goes back and watches this and

01:09:06.167 --> 01:09:06.588
they see you,

01:09:06.689 --> 01:09:08.609
I want to check out that person, please,

01:09:09.010 --> 01:09:10.530
please put y'all's link in the comments,

01:09:10.551 --> 01:09:11.572
do something, you do it,

01:09:11.591 --> 01:09:12.171
get you out there.

01:09:12.193 --> 01:09:12.552
Cause like I said,

01:09:12.993 --> 01:09:13.873
on top of getting us out there,

01:09:13.894 --> 01:09:14.873
when do we get you guys out there

01:09:14.913 --> 01:09:15.194
as well?

01:09:15.215 --> 01:09:16.534
Yeah, absolutely.

01:09:17.456 --> 01:09:18.115
So, uh,

01:09:18.136 --> 01:09:19.356
unfortunately Kevin couldn't make it

01:09:19.396 --> 01:09:21.779
tonight, but for Kevin and Bo and Jess,

01:09:21.918 --> 01:09:22.418
I'm Brock.

01:09:22.439 --> 01:09:23.600
We're the Bama geeks.

01:09:24.140 --> 01:09:25.681
We can't thank you enough for joining us.

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01:09:26.981 --> 01:09:28.764
We hope to see you again in two

01:09:28.783 --> 01:09:29.064
weeks.

01:09:29.083 --> 01:09:29.623
Thanks so much.

01:09:29.684 --> 01:09:30.324
Have a great night.

01:09:30.685 --> 01:09:30.784
Bye.

01:09:31.006 --> 01:09:31.771
Stay warm.

01:09:31.832 --> 01:09:32.417
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Bye.