#110 Collectibles & Memorabilia
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Hello, folks. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. All right. I guess I read my ad so good last week. We're all set. Yeah. That's enough. Hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm here with Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, Dusty Slay.

We're having some work done in our house, so if you hear some grinding, I guess, you might, yeah, I don't know. It's going to be happening. I don't think it was planned. I guess we were hoping it wasn't going to happen during the show, but it is. Tough to drown out cutting concrete, too. Yeah, that's hard. You know, that's hard. I know the podcast next door is having trouble, too. Good.

Just multiple podcasts in the cul-de-sac. Yeah, there it is. So hopefully it won't be too annoying for you.

But yeah, anyway, here we are. I just got back. We got back last night. I was in Selbyville, Delaware. Awesome time. And then Wilmington, North Carolina, which is very cool. Back to the scene of the crime of Cape Fear Serpentarium. We had, I need to...

Terry, Dean, the guy that owned that place, it's his sister. She emailed me. I emailed her and we were trying to hook up. But it did not happen. But it was cool. I think the owners of the new place, I guess that was her or something. Whoever, they came to the show and it was cool. Wilmington was awesome. It was fun to be back into Wilmington and all the people that came out and stuff. The show was unbelievable.

So we had a good time. And then I went to Wyndham Championship, the Wyndham Golf Tournament. Oh, yeah. You got to walk inside the ropes. The kid that won, his name's Tom Kim.

His name's, I don't even know his first name because he goes by Tom. And he goes by Tom because he's watched Thomas the Train. Really? Yeah, he's Korean. Super young, right? Yeah, super young. 20 years old. Second youngest to win it in 90 years. Wow. And he shot it. He almost shot a 59 yesterday. We were like in his group following him. And it was awesome to get to watch him.

But yeah, it goes by Tom. So Tom is the train. He's like, I like that. He goes, I'll just have people call me Tom. So everybody calls him Tom Kim. And his name is something else. Kim Ju Young. Kim Ju Young. Yeah. Yeah. So it was fun. So I did that. My buddy Doug, we walked around. It was a good time. We had a little fun adventure. I don't know if I had anything, trying to think of anything crazy.

I was home this weekend, but I was watching golf and had a Seinfeld Kramer moment. I look and I'm like, Nate? Oh, did you? I had no idea that you were there, but you were on TV. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, very briefly, but you could see you standing. Oh, at the tournament? Yeah. Oh, that's fun. But it was very much like Jerry and Kramer or George. I'm just like, is that Nate? Yeah.

Why are you watching golf? Just had it on? Yeah. I watched women's golf yesterday. When you're sitting there feeding a baby, whatever comes on TV, you just keep watching. It's got to be real peaceful, too, with the baby. That's true. Golf is nice for that. Yeah, you wouldn't watch a UFC fight holding the baby, right? It's a lot. It feels uncomfortable. It would be, yeah. To really dive into it. It would be very uncomfortable.

I watch Better Call Saul sometimes, late at night. Yeah, yeah. But there can be some violence on there. Yeah. Yeah, there's cartels and...

Well, I'm saying I'm not immune to feeding my baby while watching something that's got some violence. I also felt like that was a boring show, though. I feel like that you could get some real sleep down with the baby there, too. You're not a fan? Maybe I did not get far enough. There's this lady that was just smoking cigarettes all the time. I was like, I don't... I think that describes it. Yeah, I mean, she was always smoking cigarettes, and then the other guy was afraid of electricity. I was like, I kind of relate to that guy, but I was like...

Yeah, that guy did. Shortly after that, I was thinking, well, maybe I don't like electricity either. Yeah, it's killing you. It made sense. Yeah, it did make sense. Just turn the electricity off. Yeah, and then I'm like, well, you know, I need it. Yeah. But I was relating to that guy. Yeah, that guy is not well. Yeah, I know. That's the whole point of the character. He's insane. I wonder how much of the hassle would keep you from living that way.

It's the how are you? Just a lot of people. Just a wife and a daughter. Yeah. That's what I'm calling the hassle. Wouldn't like it. And the wife and daughter, that's what I refer to as the hassle. It's family that won't go down the road with you. Yeah. I think my daughter could get into it. She's young enough that we could just start doing it and she might not notice. It's all she would know. Yes. But my wife would appreciate it if I kept the electricity. Yeah. Yeah.

But it would be like, if you want to go live like off the grid, it's just a lot. It's going to be a, you know. Yeah, it's hard. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. Because I think that I would like to get into it until I'm out there. And then I'm like, man, this is boring, you know?

Because I'm so used to my distractions. Yes. You know? That's true. And you want to look at your phone. You don't want to have to, every time your eyes are open, it's like, we got to look for food. You know, because I can go out and chop wood or something, but that's not going to last so long. It's tough. Well, I love Better Call Saul, and there's only like two episodes left. And everyone makes fun of me for still having cable, but if you don't have it, how long do you have to wait to see something like that on streaming?

I mean, immediately after it airs, you can find it. Like immediately? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, never mind. It's still going? Yeah, there's like two or three episodes left. It's the last season. I thought this was a show way in the past. I mean, it started a few years ago. And people really love it. Yeah, that's all. I watched a few seasons of it, and it was great. And then I just kind of...

See, that's how I was too, though. I'm like, I like this. But then it just fizzled out. So I'm like, did I really like it that much? You could have. It's like too much. I like Breaking Bad a lot, and I've watched it a few times. I go back through it. Did you watch that? I did watch that. I liked that a lot. And then so when the new one comes of the same thing, it's like you can do it. Then you're like, all right, I kind of want a new. It's like Narcos. I love Narcos on Netflix.

all that stuff, but I haven't watched the last season because you're just kind of like, all right, I don't know if I can do this again. Another, you know. Yeah, I want to go into a different world. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it might be the last show, great show, that's on regular, like everything's streaming now. And when you look at the Emmy nominations or whatever, it's all shows on a streaming platform. Better Call Saul is like the last one, maybe on a, and that's on Netflix.

like a cable network but and this is us just ended and i think that was pretty popular and that was on nbc that's probably the last on broadcast tv that i don't even know if i know of any a show period yeah on one of the main networks when i'm at my dad's house we watch the tv show mom he likes that one yeah oh yeah yeah and i'm like i don't know how this is on tv it gets wild that show

Yeah, it's on TV Land now. Ruth watches it. Yeah. It's pretty dirty for TV Land especially. Or CMT or one. I mean, there's not new episodes, right? I didn't know. I think it's over. It's like Andy Griffith. Yeah. Yeah. Now, Andy Griffith, that's a good show. That's a good show. Yeah. But you think mom is being filmed every day and it's been off the air for...

I mean, a show like that, just keep it going, you know? A couple of addicts living in a house with a, yeah, I mean. It's in black and white. Yeah. Did you do anything? I was in Seattle, had kind of a crappy travel day yesterday. I've had a 5 a.m. flight, which always sounds good until you're about to do it. You stay up? I got back to my hotel at midnight, and I had a 3 a.m. Uber. So I got about an hour and 45 minutes worth of sleep. Almost wish I hadn't have done that.

I always convince myself I'm taking a nap. I just go, I'm going to take a little nap. I might not even get undressed and just kind of lay there and be like, I'm going to just take a little nap. You're not putting that much pressure on the sleep.

That's interesting. You can kind of trick your body into going like, we're just taking a nap. Yeah, we're not trying to get eight hours. Don't be upset when you wake up. Yeah. Yeah, the undressed nap is the way to go. Because if you get undressed and you get in the covers, you're in bed. Yeah. And then you got to get up and get ready. But if you just have kind of everything on. Yeah, just keep your shoes on. Yeah. You really can. I like to wear a hat. The full effect. I don't take the glasses off.

You don't even let yourself see yourself. Yes, exactly. I took a 3 a.m. Uber and then I flew to Nashville, connecting flight. Couldn't land in Nashville because of the storms yesterday. So we had to go to Louisville and land, and then we couldn't leave the plane. And I'm just sitting there, and I'm like,

I mean, dude, I've been, it was like 14 hours before I was able to land in Nashville. Now I'm back. There you go. Well, that club that you went to is the only club where the owner yelled at me. And you said a comic told you that.

And didn't even, you didn't even bring it up. No. So they let you know. That was memorable for the comics. You're infamous up there. Yeah, for getting yelled at by the owner. For no reason, really. But we had a good time. And I went to West Palm Beach this weekend. You want to say why you got yelled at? Oh, well. I mean, just brought it up. Well, I'll say. But yeah, I mean. Dusty stole something. Go ahead. Yeah, well.

You know, when I'm doing a show, I'm used to like a host, feature, and then me, right? And there was like seven people on the show. And so we're doing a showcase. They're doing every topic that you could possibly do. It's long. So I go to the guy and I go, hey.

Do you think we could maybe use less people on the show? And he's like, this is my club. I'll do what. And he's like, he yelled at me in the bar. And then I go sit down and then he comes in the showroom and yells at me while the show's going on. And you had to go up. And then I got to go up and do comedy. I'm like, hey, we're having a good time. And you're not. Yeah. I just got yelled at. But hey, we're having fun. We're having fun. Yeah. You're the only one not having a good time. Yeah.

But the other, I mean, I'm happy to know that the other comics saw it and were like, I don't know what was happening. Yeah. You were at West Palm Beach? West Palm Beach. And the last time I was there, 2019-

I hated it. I was like, I never want to come here again. This time, complete 180. I was like, now I want to move to West Palm. I mean, it was amazing. It's fun. So fun. Yeah. I got out in the sun. I got laid out by the pool. I don't think I got burned, right? But every picture that people took with me, my face is like beet red. I don't know what's happening with the camera and my face, but I got high blood pressure. Did you go to the beach? I just went to the pool. Yeah.

You ever go to the beach? You know, I lived in Charleston for a long time. I lived on Folly Beach. I used to go to the beach all the time, but I'm pretty good on it now. Did the...

When you grow, have you ever been there with long hair to the beach? Oh yeah. Well, you went recently when you got your fingers stuck. Oh yeah, that is true. I don't dolphin Island. Yeah. My, my nail is still not really healed from that. It's all dented up now. Your finger does look weird. Yeah. It's a bad finger now, but West Palm beach was great. I also went to Gainesville, had a lot of fun there. Gainesville's fun. Yeah. It's a good time. All right. Uh, all right. Let's start with the comments. Uh,

Ooh.

Ooh, that's a good idea. I would like to do a kitchen cabinets episode. Probably a lot of different options. Kitchen cabinets are pretty complicated. My brother-in-law sells kitchen cabinets. He works for a company that sells kitchen. Well, any kind of cabinets, really. It doesn't have to just be for the kitchen. Bathrooms, any kind you want. Oh, yeah. Is there another place?

Well, there's a lot. Yeah. I guess there's cabinets in here. Yeah, there's cabinets in here. You can do podcasts. There's a lot of doors, a lot of wheels. A lot of doors, a lot of wheels. Brad McClung. I was flying home from wedding on the day the time changed. Our flight was at 5 a.m. and the airport was an hour and a half away. I was two time zones away from home and the time changed at 2 a.m. I feel like a relatively smart person, but I could not tell for the life of me what time to set my alarm for or how long it would be until I landed in Nashville.

I eventually counted back from my flight time and just set a timer to go off instead of setting an alarm. Having plans in the middle of the time change and across multiple times is very confusing. Yeah, I would just go to the airport now. That sounds so confusing. I wouldn't know what to do. Yeah, that's a lot.

Time zones confuse me so much. My management is in LA and they'll sometimes send me, they'll be like, oh, this time Pacific time. And then I'm like, don't even send me those times. Just try to get it to me in central time because I'll miss the meeting. I don't know what's happening. I can't handle a time zone. Yeah, we have trouble. My sister is working with us. She had Abigail's trouble with time zones.

Do we not talk about that? Well, last week we talked about it on our phones. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Abigail didn't know. She was trying to figure out some time for some meeting. And she got into GMT somehow. And I'm like, what are you talking? No one even knows what GMT is. And then she's like sending me these times. And it's like, I don't even know. Greenwich Mean Time. I'm like, I'm not going to be...

I was in a different time zone. The mountains ones are the ones that are only like an hour. Eastern is like you get it because of TV. Pacific, you kind of get it. And then Central because we live at... But she didn't know we lived in Central time zone. Really? Yeah. She goes, Abigail thought... She goes, now were you in Eastern time zone? I go, you've lived here for 30 something years. You don't know what time zone we're in. I mean, that's the main problem. That's how you get me...

That's how you send me a GMT time. What is GMT? Georgia Mountain Time? Greenwich. We talked about it last week. It was a long time ago. Okay. That's where it started. You learned a lot from Greenwich, England. Yeah. Someday you'll have a show in England and she'll be on it. And she'll nail it. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. I'm with you. It's Go Yanks. I would like to stay standard time. In Georgia in summer, it's light at 10 p.m. on Daylight Savings. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.

Georgia passed a law and the U.S. Congress gave its blessings to stay on daylight savings. I'm seriously considering moving to a different state. It really messes with circadian rhythms. And I disdain it. No? I'm with you. What's the word? Circadian. Circadian. I don't even know what those are. It's like your sleep cycle. Oh. Yeah. It really messes with your sleep cycle.

Could say that. Yep. But when was Circa Day in? Circa, Circa, or... I thought that was an insect. Get some blackout curtains, you know? Yeah, you don't want to go down that. That's a...

When you start tricking your body like that, it can be a problem. Yeah, I mean, two steps, you're on drugs now. That's how it starts. That's how it starts. You don't know what time it is. You wake up, you live your own life, and you just come out of everything. You come out, you've slept for 40 hours. Have I told you that in college? No.

Where it was, you wouldn't get sunlight, so you'd have to go to these lamps that would simulate their sun lamps all over campus. People would go and just sit in front of them. Like a tanning mat. Why wouldn't you get light? Yeah. It's just overcast. The weather's bad. You don't get good sunlight for a good chunk of the year. Is this when you were going to school in London? No, this is in South Bend, Indiana.

They don't get that much sun. They call it the perma cloud. It's for like nine months. You barely see the sun ever. It's just gray. It's overcast. It's gross. So they have these sun lamps all over campus. People go and sit and just soak up the vitamin D. That's how it starts. That's how, that's, yeah. That's got, it all explains why we are where we are. They're, they're inside those lamps? Yeah. That's like a tanning bed. That's what, I like a tanning bed in the wintertime. You know, you just go relax in there. Just kick back. But, yeah.

You don't want electricity in your house. They're not trying to get a tan from these things. What's that? You don't want electricity in your house, but you like a good tanning bed. I know. I mean, yeah. I mean, there's lots of contradictions going on here. I mean, I admit it. But I love the sun. I'm all about it. This 10 p.m. thing, I wish that was happening here. I do, too. I like the sun. I love the sun, too. It does a great job.

Club Greg. Time is created by man. Everything in our existence is on a timeline, life to death. There is no conceivable example for eternity.

I mean, I don't even know what that means. Well, found Dusty's burner account. Sending comments to himself. I mean, I think it's like, like, you know, heaven is eternity. It's, we can't, or like, I'll speak for myself. I can't comprehend eternity. I can comprehend a really, really, really long time, but you still think, that's still thinking like there's an end. Something that never ends, never,

I can't wrap my brain around. How do people say you can't comprehend it and then there's a word for it, though? I mean, you don't fully understand how long eternity is? Like, it's forever and you just don't know what's going to go on? We don't know what forever means? You understand what it means, like, definitionally, but you can't wrap your head around what that really is like. Yeah, is definitionally a word? No.

I don't know. I don't think so. That was a risk. Yeah, that was a risk. It sounded like. I think it is a word. Well, I agree with this guy up until this last sentence. I mean, I'm tracking with him. And then we get to the last sentence and I'm like, well, I don't know. There's no conceivable example. Yeah, I mean, I think time is all made up. We could just be out here living. But now we got this thing keeping track of everything we're doing throughout the day.

We should just be getting up, growing some food, eating, just hanging out, having a good time. Yeah, no meetings. Yeah, instead we got to get up. We got to go to work. We got to pay taxes. You know what I mean? We're just out here on the grind. You want to go back to a previous civilization. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, I mean, of course, until I'm there and then I'm like, ah, I don't know. Maybe I did like a conventional oven. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you liked, you know, when you're going to go hang out with some buddies and they don't show up till dark. Right. And you're like, I thought, you know, you didn't say which dark. I thought you meant the dark in the morning. High noon. Yeah. A lot of high noon stuff. Yeah, yeah. There's no way you're meeting anybody at high noon. It's got to be, you're like, yo, dude, it's...

1.30. Is it? You'd like to go back to a sundial, I bet. Yeah, I mean, I don't know much about the sundial, but yeah, I mean, I like the idea of where, yeah, we're tracking things in a less calculated way. A little, ease it up a little bit. Yeah, we're just free out here. That's what I'm talking about. Wearing a lot of animal skins.

Well, yeah, you want to go live off the grid. Yeah. Okay. But with other people living off the grid, I don't want to be the one off the grid guy in the neighborhood of on the grid people. Okay. I want us to all be doing it. Yeah, yeah. I'd imagine the first steps of a cult is that like. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's probably true. Where you go. Yeah, yeah. But wouldn't that be the new grid? Wouldn't we just be all on that grid? Yeah.

Well, you didn't create a time for your group that you've talked to. A good time. Yeah. Like they go, well, what time are we going to meet for dinner? And you go, I know I said I'm not for time, but...

You know. I'll ring a bell. I'll ring a bell to let you know it's time. Yeah. And so the time is based off you. But then we're not allowed to use that word. Oh, you'd call it something else. Something else. We come up with something else. You know, just so there's no confusion. Your whole phrase is we're having a good time. Yeah, but not if we were all off the grid. All right. We're having fun. Yeah. We're having fun. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Always. Doc Holliday.

In regards to time travel, I did some research and wrote an article on a Missouri dude who claimed to have invented a time machine in 1995, and two years later, he disappeared. It's pretty crazy. And then I read this article. There's a picture from 1930 on a beach where a guy died on the beach, and it looks like this guy. So maybe he figured it out, went back to the past. Died in the past? Yeah. Wow. They have a picture of it?

I don't know if you're going to find it. What are you on there in? I'm scrolling down the article that you sent me. All that's about that article? Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. This is the article referenced in the comment. Wow. So we've known nothing besides the title of this article? Well, I clicked on it and read it. I mean, there's...

So basically, this guy created a time machine in 1995. He claimed he did. In 1997, he disappeared. Some people think he did it as a prank. Some people think he wanted to get off the grid. And some people think it worked. And he couldn't get back. And then later on, this photo pops up from 1930 of a dead person on the beach who looks a lot like this guy. And he's the dead guy. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think he couldn't get back and he was outcasted because he's like, I'm from 1995 and they're like, this guy's a lunatic. Yeah. That's all the witches that were killed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, here's the blueprints of this guy's time machine. It doesn't look super official. It looks like something...

Horseshoe magnet. Well, you got to have one of those. It's just a very elementary looking sketch and then just some arrows pointing at stuff. We got some quartz, granite, positive. I mean, just a bunch of words. Copyright Mike. That's his copyright at the bottom. Just his name. Copyright Mike on the bottom left. Not even the copyright little icon. Yeah. The C. He also wrote not to scale. Yeah.

Yeah, maybe the guy's good at building time machines, but not graphs or whatever. Not blueprints. He's a bad blueprint guy. Yeah. He's got just wood labeled. I hope this guy's okay. I think he's dead. Yeah. Kevin Green. When Aaron asked, do you ever repeat when shampooing? And Nate said, I don't repeat it, but I sometimes wash my hair a couple times. Yeah.

And everyone just kept on going. May have been the funniest moment on Aaron Land yet. Wow. Aaron Land. That was a good episode. Doing some jokes over in Aaron Land. L.O. Nate thinks the phrase is dime's worth, and it means 10 cents worth of whatever substance we're talking about. He then goes on to say, I'm putting a full five bucks worth. It's dime size, Nate, meaning about the size of a dime. Gosh, I love this podcast. Fan for life.

I don't, I, yeah, I, I'm putting a five full five bucks worth. I don't really. Do you remember talking about shampoo and you said, Oh, you're supposed to put a dimes. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know if you knew what it meant or you really thought you just like measuring how much that would be worth and like 10 cents worth. Oh. So when they say a dime's worth, they mean physically the size of a dime. Yeah. I think that's what I think. Okay. Yeah. Five bucks worth. It's a lot of dimes. You said five bucks worth.

And they thought you meant, oh, what he said, dimes worth like 10 cents worth of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny. Wouldn't it be funny? It would be funny. It would be like a comedy podcast to do something like that. I know. I know. That's the idea. Coley Escher. Coley Escher. Coley Escher.

Dusty did a fantastic job at the Palm Beach Improv this weekend, but I was at the show where audience members kept interrupting with yee-yee. Oh, I forgot all about yee-yee. Yeah. Oh, man. What a wild show. It's been a while since you guys shared any tidbits about how the sausage is made, so could you share some experiences with outbursts from the audience and how you choose to handle them? Dusty, you incorporated it really well, but I felt bad for the flow of your jokes because it kept happening before your punchline.

Well, I mean, I do so many shows that that was a blast to me. I was like, I've not, I mean, like I wanted to do yee yee. I can't even do it well. Yee yee. I'm a horse. I feel like, but I used to, I mean, that show was so fun. Like somebody yelled out yee yee. I had never really heard yee yee before. And I just, it felt like every punchline I could work a yee yee in there and the audience loved it.

I mean, a couple of times I got interrupted by people yelling it out, but I had a blast. So you did it most of the time. Well, after the initial, and then a couple of people, I mean, there was one time when I was doing a joke and someone interrupted the joke by doing it, but it, it worked. I even complimented them on it. I was like, that was a well-timed yee yee. I mean, it was so fun. It was one of the most fun shows I've had in a long time. I

I mean, so you encourage more of this. I mean, I don't want it to happen all the shows, but yeah, that particular show is like, let's keep this going. I'm into this. Yeah. Yeah.

What did someone just yelled yee-yee and that's how it got started? Well, I said, you know, I got some jokes about country music and I was like, I'm a big fan of country music. And so people clapped and cheered and then somebody goes, yee-yee. And I guess that's a country thing that people do. I had not heard it. I'm familiar with yee-haw. Yeah. But not a lot of yee-yees. I've never heard yee-yee. And so that's what I talked about, how I didn't really, I wasn't really familiar with yee-yee.

so and then i just kept bringing it back and i mean it was a hit all right i mean coley escher enjoyed the show yeah felt bad for me but don't feel bad for me we had a great time yeah we had a great time yeah you had a great time you got a new merch ee ee ee guy yeah trent mcneely there are a million of these m&m stories out there because everyone thought there was only one bag that had only one color they

They actually distributed a ton of bags with one color only, but it had to be accompanied by a winning notice printed inside the wrapper. Think about it. You could just buy a bunch of bags and take out all the one color and claim you found it otherwise. Very true. That is true. Very true. Didn't think about that. Oh, Aaron doesn't agree. No, I don't even believe that these contests are real. Oh, you don't think anyone? No, I remember reading about the Tootsie Roll Pop Wrapper.

If there's a star on it, then you win something, and then that was all fake. I just think these are all urban legends. Yeah, get you to buy the candy. Mm-hmm. Oh, Eminem starts it. I think they're all doing it. They start these rumors. They go to playgrounds, and they go, hey, kids, if it's all green, and then they go home and tell their parents. Get yourself a golden ticket. There's no... Exactly, exactly. But there's no golden ticket. Like Michael Scott? I was thinking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I don't... So if you see...

I don't know. I mean, I don't know the office. That's what you mean, right? Yeah. I don't know it that way. I watched it and I enjoyed it. So we've seen adults near playground. Expect them that they're starting like a candy. Right. They work for the candy industry. That's why candy is always affiliated with don't go get candy from a stranger. Exactly. Because they're starting a fake. They're really just serving potential customers. Yeah. Back in my day. That's worst case scenario. Worst case scenario. Worst case. Either if they're not doing that, then take their candy. Yeah.

Back in my day, we had real Coke bottles, and you had to have like a... You grew up with glass Coke bottles? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, I can remember them. I had the old aluminum freezers with the Coke bottle attached to it, the opener attached to it. Yeah, you need a bottle opener. And underneath the tin thing, they had a contest, Coke is the real thing. And you had to have all four.

Real was the tough word to find. Okay. So I think if you got all four, you won like a thousand bucks or something like that. But there were people that would, I never found it, but it was a big thing. It was like one of the first contests like that. And it was real. You know people that got the thousand dollars. I saw, I don't personally, I saw people in the newspaper who won. So they were probably planted, I'm sure. They're in cahoots with the. They don't exist. Did you read the newspaper at a young age? I did. I love how conspiracy oriented you are now, Aaron. Yeah.

I mean, this is like when you were a child, you're like, well, in the paper, we read it when I read it. It wasn't a lot to do. Yeah. The Lebanon Times. Lebanon Democrat. You'd go out and get it with your coffee, your old brine. I was excited. Yeah. I...

But now the problem with the contest, they've gotten to, it's like they have them, but it's like you're scanning phones or they want your email. It's enough that you're like, I'm not doing it. You want it to be as simple as that. Yeah. And then I'll play your game. Yeah. I won $20 off a Coke bottle cap one time and a guy paid me $19 for it because I was like, I don't want to go through the trouble of ordering the whatever this is.

So I'll lose the dollar. And he got the dollar? Yeah, he wanted to do the process. Yeah, I think I would have come in at $15 or something. Yeah, he gave me $19. I was like, okay. Yeah. That's like, you know, someone won that billion dollars, the lottery. And I saw, I read that it's like they get $400 million after taxes. After taking the lump sum and then taxes on top of that. That's insane. They get less than half of it.

Every time someone wins the lottery, the government wins the lottery. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah, probably a third because I think it was $1.2 billion, right? Yeah. I mean, that's a good business to be in. It is a good business. A guaranteed lottery winner every time. I want some of that. You know what I mean? Yeah. It is crazy. I mean, and then it's like I won $400 million. You obviously got to be happy with that because it's crazy, but you're just like –

You're like, but I mean... It's crazy to see that number just drop. I want $1.2 billion. And you get $433 million is what you get to walk away with. That's insane. It's wild. Yeah. And everybody and the hassle, and it's not complaining about it. You still want it, but then the hassle, everybody thinks you're a billionaire. Why is the lump sum so much less than the payouts? Because of the...

Well, they don't necessarily have all of that money, first of all. Why? Because it's just they don't have it like liquid where they can just give it to you all at once. But they can pay out that amount over a certain number of years. But it's always beneficial to take the lump sum, even if it's smaller, because of the present value of money.

Because you can invest it. Yeah. In theory, you can invest, even though the amount is much smaller, you can invest that. You'll have way more than you would by the time those payments got done. Yeah, plus if you take the payments, then the company's like, listen, we're bankrupt, okay? We can't make the payments anymore. That's a big amount. It's the government, though.

though. Difference. What's more stable than the government? I didn't know it was the government. I saw the same thing. I just thought, I picture some gas station going out of business and you're like, are you kidding me? And then they can't write you $10 million every month and you're like, gosh. The government can't pay you the $1.2 billion or whatever? I mean, they might have that money somewhere, but it's going to be tough to scrounge together $1.3 billion in cash.

Well, they shouldn't do the contest then. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, no one should get it. They should do it. Yeah, because it's like, I mean, you get that $400 million. I mean, it's insane. But that's what's crazy. You have to live. You need it to get to $1.2 billion to even get to $430 million. Like, you got to get it way up just to get...

Yeah, imagine getting $400 million and still feeling cheap. Yeah. You know, it's like, that's how I would feel. I'd be like, yeah, sure, I'm a millionaire now. Maybe the government never anticipated it would keep going up that high, and then like, oh, crap, can I just write you a check? Yeah, that's what it is. That's the highest it's ever been, right? Don't cash until next week. Yeah. We've got to move some stuff around. Yeah. That person still has the pre-tax amount. I mean, they got that amount.

It's just if they're smart, they're going to set aside the difference. Yeah. So they actually have more than that $400 million. Yeah, but then your life can be ruined if you don't go pay it. It's like... Yeah, you're done. You're done. And it's over. And you're... Yeah.

You know what? Tear up the thing. One of those, you're like, not even worth it. I mean, there was a show about how people would win the lottery and then it would ruin their lives. Yeah. I mean, like lots of people have their lives ruined after winning the lottery. I'd imagine if you went $430 million, you'd be all right. I mean- Even if you're like, I always think if you got $430 million, you're like, someone's like, here's $100 million.

I never question where this goes. You can't trust anybody anymore all of a sudden and people get into, you know, they become alcoholics and addicts. Yeah, what's hard is, yeah, yeah, that and then the

Because you almost need to get a financial guy, but you got to get one that you trust, one that knows how to handle that kind of money. Because you probably go to your local guy, and then you're just like, you got more money than your local bank has. Yeah, your brother-in-law pops up who's good with money. Right. That's why you can't tell anybody. A lot of family pop up. You tell your spouse, and that's it.

That's what you have to do. That's hard. I know. It probably is very hard. There was a guy in Michigan, I think. He was a retired math teacher. He figured out how to beat the lottery. It was like one of these new games that not like – I mean, there's so many different little games out there. This is one of the small ones. And he figured out somehow an equation to win.

And then he started telling other people and all these people started doing it. And like, finally the government, I think figured it out and put a stop to it, but everybody was winning.

I think there's a movie coming out with Bryan Cranston about it. I saw this on 60 Minutes when I was reading my paper. Yeah. So some of my facts may be wrong. Rocking chair, Eleanor. Why would you tell people? If you want to help people, win the money, just give them some. Yeah, but then you've got to tell them because then they have the money.

Yeah. If you just pop over, here's a million dollars cash. Did you win that lottery? No. No. I've always had this money. I've always had it. Rich uncle died. Yeah. Left me a lot. How much did he give you? $433 million. Yeah. Isn't that the amount that it won? Oh, was it? I don't know. I'd love to meet that guy so I could talk to a person as wealthy as me. Maybe we could share ideas. Yeah, you got to grab who you want to grab.

Tell them and then go build a fence around your head. Yeah, get off the grid quick. Get off the grid quick. Yeah. Scott Donnelly.

Quick note about yay or nay and ay or nay. I'm pretty sure when the votes are tallied or they vote by walking up and putting their vote in, it's yay or nay. If it's a vocal vote, they have their name called and shout out ay or nay. Ay or nay. Ay. Ay. The ay is ay. Deadcommit.

I or nay? I looked this up. That's true. God, how stupid would you feel? This is why I would be so a nay-bar-getsy. Ay! Because you'd be first because you're a nay. Yeah, I would be right at it. We're good to go? Ay-yah! Ay-yah! Ay-yah! You'd be high-fiving. Boom, and they go, we got four ayes, a hundred nays, and one ay-yah! Ay-yah!

And they don't know what to do. I looked this up. The Senate does it all the same, but the House of Representatives does it like he said. If it's a vocal, it's I or nay. All right. All right. So now we know. Now we know. Dustin Crane. U.S. Marshals update. Kentucky is swampier than you might think. There's a 450-acre swampland in Kentucky along the Ohio River, which is where the plane crashes in the movie.

Axe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve. It's part of a project to protect 3,000 acres of swampland in Kentucky. So there is a swamp. Well, I would imagine you should point that out maybe more. Maybe they did and I didn't think much of it. That's a mouthful of a name though, right? Axe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve. I feel like you owe Hollywood an apology.

Yeah, I mean, I would like more example. Be like, I know what you're thinking. Maybe they did say that. I would imagine I would have a line in there going, how does Kentucky have swamps? Swamps in Kentucky? Just one part of area, and they randomly hit it for this movie, and then you'd move on. I would want you to do that. I mean, that was a good line. If you were reading for that role, I would hire you. Thanks, man. Scott Reed.

Filming of the swamp scene in U.S. Marshals took place in Obeyan County by the shallow Real Foot Lake in northwest Tennessee. So it was in Tennessee. The two states you said had no swamps. We have swamps. Well, I want to go to our swamps. Obeyan County. Yeah, Real Foot Lake is pretty great. That doesn't seem like a swamp, though. That just seems like a lake. Well, I think it's pretty big, and there's some swamp areas. What's a swamp area? Like a tree grows in a lake? Yeah.

I guess, yeah. I don't know what the technical definition of a swamp is. Yeah, I don't know. But it just kind of feels, you just feel it out. I feel like, why is that tree way out there? Yeah. I always thought a swamp would be like a lot of trees, and then there's almost like a moss layer over the water. Dirty water. Yeah. I mean, if alligator's not there, I don't.

You don't consider it a real swamp? No. Yeah. You need some alligators. Yeah, this is maybe a little bit marshy, but this is a swamp. Give me some alligators, some piranhas. I don't know if they're in swamps. You can go walk. I want piranhas in there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that just gives it the real danger feel that you're looking for. You know what I mean? Positive. That's great. He's good. He's good. He's the best. Yeah. So...

They're still working out there. And what, so this week, what are we talking about? We're talking about collectibles and memorabilia. And the reason this week, last Thursday, the Hannes Wagner baseball card was sold at auction. The most expensive card ever sold. Sold for $7.25 million. Whoa, what's this card? Maybe I got that card at home. Hannes Wagner. I seriously doubt it. Yeah.

Yeah, but maybe a fake one. Yeah. Everybody has this car at home, but no one has this car at home. The real one. The real one. So the reason this car- They made a bunch of extra. This is like the ultimate car. The reason it's so valuable is because there was only like 200 ever made. It was made by the American Tobacco Company. And then Hannes Wagner said, I don't want to encourage children to buy cigarettes because of my image. So they stopped production.

So there's only about 200 made. Now they think there's maybe 50 left in circulation. So if you have one that's in good condition, it's going to go for a few million dollars. It's not the only one that's done that, but this is the most expensive one yet. Even in very bad condition. It would be a ton of money. Is he more famous from the card than baseball? I think so. These days, yeah. And he was a great player. He was? Yeah. Like he was like an all-star. He was a Hall of Famer. Hall of Famer. Yeah. Okay.

I think he was one of the first, when they started the Hall of Fame, they had an initial batch of the best players ever. He was one of them. Ty Cobb. Babe Ruth. Yeah. Ty Cobb's a great name. It is. It's a really good name. Better than Honus? They're all good names. Babe Ruth's a good name. What was Babe Ruth's real name? Herman. George Herman Rhea. Yeah, Babe Ruth. Oh, I had no idea. You thought his name was Baby? Just Babe. Okay. Honus Wagner. I love Baby Ruth.

I like Ty Cobb more than Honus Wagner. Cobb Salad's named after him. Oh, really? I think. There's an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where they talk about that, I think. Hmm.

I'm sure. But I'm going to keep saying it. Yeah. Honus is fun, though. You don't hear a lot of Honuses out there. No, not anymore. Yeah. I never heard the name. If you say Honus, all you think about is Wagner. Yeah, he's the only one. He's the only one. The Flying Dutchman. That was his nickname. Oh, okay. So this T-206 Honus Wagner sold for $7 million, you said? Yeah.

Yeah, there's one that sold last year for $6.6 million, and it had a grade... Inflation. Well, it had a grade three on this grading scale. This one that sold last week had a grade two, so it was in worse condition, but it just keeps going up. Every time they sell, they go up in value. So if you can afford to buy one and hold on to it for a few years, you're probably going to make some money. Wow. It's like almost guaranteed to make money.

The baseball card market 2020 went insane because so many of these people, 2020, you got nothing going on. I'm going to get back into these hobbies. What happened in 2020? Your special came out? Yeah. No. Is it the old or new cards? Mostly old. There are some new ones that are now valuable. I was in the golden age of bad baseball cards when it was oversaturated, the 80s and 90s.

Where there was just so many sold that 90s model Don Ross. You think that's going for these days? What? Don Ross. You remember Don Ross? Yeah. What year? I thought you said like a guy's name, like Don Russ. No, I thought it was Don Russ. Yeah. What is I used to have a whole collection of Don Ross cards.

I don't know. I don't even know what's really happening right now. You're saying it like it's a player named Donruss. Oh, no, it's a... It's D-O-N-R-U-S-S is a brand. Yeah. Yeah, a brand of cart. I had a whole bunch of them, a bunch of Donrusses. There's Topps... It does seem, I guess, Don and then Russ. It does probably flows together better than what I'm saying. Donruss. Topps is the main one that most people think about. There was Donruss or Donruss and Fleer.

I know Top and Fleer. I've never heard of Donruss. Yeah, I had some Fleer. You didn't want to go with the main one, right? I had no idea. You're off the grid. Donruss doesn't have licensing agreements with baseball anymore. So when you buy a Donruss card now, they're not going to have the actual team name on there. The players will be positioned in such a way where you can't see the logo on their jersey.

Because they don't have licensing rights. And Topps actually just lost licensing rights. Wow. So FLIR is racking up then. FLIR has not been a thing for quite some time. All right. So no one has license rights. It's Fanatics. I think Fanatics bought Topps. So in the next year or so, it's going to be completely different than it is now.

So Topps does have license rights. At the moment, but they've lost it for the next year. But then those people bought that company. Yeah, I think it's more complicated than I'm saying it. Okay. I'm hearing what you're laying down. I smell what you're stepping in. All right, so this is the most valuable car, but later this month, there's an auction.

For a 1952 Mickey Mantle, which is also incredibly rare. Another great name. Yeah. Mickey Mantle. And they think this one could go for $10 million. Wow. It's also very rare. A guy, the owner is a 75-year-old New Jersey waste management entrepreneur, so the mafia. And he's had the card for over 30 years. And he bought it in 1991 for $50,000. And they think it could sell for $10 million later this month.

So you got to hold on to it for 30 years. Well, in this case, that's really... And I was joking about him being the mafia. New Jersey wastes money. I think people took it serious. Yeah. I mean, I got... I didn't want him to be a folk and like... Yeah, I'm sure he listened. I had some words with my trash company and I was afraid for a little while. When? Well, not long ago. Yeah? They just were not coming on time.

I think that was all in Nashville. So I'm like, I was worried for a minute. Like a day? You're talking about time, like is it the day? Yeah, like the day. They would skip a week. And I'm just like, what? And they're like, well, we'll give you a refund on that week. And I'm like, well, that's $15. I really just need you to come pick up the trash. I don't need you to just skip the week and be like, we'll give you the money back. What did they say? They were like, what? There's nothing we can do. Oh, you pay for trash pickup? Yeah. I thought that was just a Metro service. Yeah.

Metro Nashville service

I don't think so. Yeah, I pay for trash too. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Have you been slipping through the cracks? Yeah. I guess my wife pays it, but. Yeah, I think that's what's happening. There was weeks where I thought that was like Metro public waste or something that they was part of our taxes. I thought our taxes paid for our. Y'all pay for electricity too? Y'all getting scammed out here. Yeah. So what's crazy, you got to pay taxes and then they also charge you. It is true. Why would the, the tax is not for that.

I guess they're earmarked for other things. It should all just be lumped into one. I pay taxes, then I get all the stuff for free. Yeah, like an HOA. Like an HOA. I don't know. My HOA doesn't... I don't know what they're doing either. I don't know what kind of services they're bringing us either. I mean, they just drive around the neighborhood going, ah, pay taxes. When you went out and talked to them...

Did you, what'd you do? You waited? You had to watch? B-H-O-A? No, the trash. Oh, I called him. Oh. Oh, no. I don't confront the guys on the street. Oh, that's what I was hoping. No, no. There's a guy that pulls up and he has a mullet. He has a really long mullet, kind of shaved sides. He's older. Always has a black and mild, but he's not smoking. Oh, wow. And I'm like, I'm not confronting that guy. You respect him too much. No, well. Seems like a guy you'd love. Yeah.

Well, I mean, no, that's what I'm saying, though. I'm not going to get into it with that guy. I do love him, but if I go confronting him, that love will go away quick. Right. He'll be into a fight out there in the street. Yeah. And I feel like he would win. And if you and him got in a fight, would it be hard to tell who's the trash man? Yeah.

If someone comes breaking up, they come break it up. Get back in the truck. They shove you in the truck. You back in the house. And that guy lives there now. Yeah. They can't tell. He goes, I don't know. I'm just guessing. Yeah. I mean, that is true. I mean, even the other trash guys might even be confused. I think didn't trash men used to be ripped because they had to pick up those trash cans with their hands. I imagine they used to be like, look like Vikings. Yeah.

And now it's all machine.

Well, now they get out because you got to put it like ours is a cul-de-sac. So you always – it's like I try to put it in the best way. I'll watch them just to see did I get it where it's easy for them to get. But it's a lot of being, being, backing up and trying to grab it. They don't really need to be out of the vehicle anymore, right? I mean, cul-de-sacs, they get to be out of the vehicle I think now enough that it's super annoying. If it doesn't – if you can't get it, you're like –

Yeah, there's one trash service that comes to our neighborhood that we'll pick up with the claw and dump it. And then there's another one where they have to get off the back of the truck and then pull the trash can around to the back, and then it'll give it a lift in there. Yeah. The two guys chilling on the back, just hanging out. Yeah, that's how I remember it. Still the classic, hanging on the back. That's fun. Yeah. I like that. Like a caboose on a train. You remember those? There used to be a guy out there waving. Gone now. No cabooses. No, just the end of the train.

Wait for that whole thing and you don't even get a reward. Why would they have a caboose? Yeah, I remember waiting. I think I remember cabooses going away because I remember seeing them and you wait for them and then you start waiting. You're like, let's see one that time. Yeah. Because there used to be a guy on the back waving at you. Wouldn't just the last one be the caboose? Yeah, but it's like a freight train. It was red. I think there's still caboose. They have to let you know when it's over.

Well, that's what I thought too, but now it just ends. I haven't seen a caboose in a while. And you're like, I don't know if it's over or not. Yeah. This might be a dumb question. I thought the caboose was just what you called the last card on the train. I picture it being red and smaller. It's a whole different thing. It's a whole different thing. Kind of like a little porch on the back of it. You know what I mean? Like where a guy could stand. Yeah. Look up, are there still cabooses? I think they're...

I think there still could be cabooses. I think you don't have to have a caboose now, but I think, you know. Let's go to worldwiderails.com. They are no longer used on mainline trains. In the early 80s, it was replaced on mainline trains. Well, in Alabama, we still had them up until the early 90s.

Move a little slower down there. Yeah, we were still hanging on. I think trains in general seem to such a throwback. Like, where are they going? They all look like they're on their last leg. I think trains are getting more popular. Really? Well, you got to think you're going to use it if they're having trains now. They want you to use public transportation and all that stuff. It's going to be in that aspect. Oh, I didn't mean passenger train. I meant hauling stuff. That's how they get everything everywhere. I just feel like nowadays you got...

Yeah, but you got to fly big. What are you talking about? For you or for like companies? I guess I don't know what is on a train, but when I see one go by, I'm like, what are they hauling? You got to haul so much stuff. You can haul so much more stuff than on a plane. Yeah, like a lot of rocks and coal. That's like trucks are going like crazy because there's so much stuff that has to be on it. I would like an Amazon train car where a guy's just out there throwing gifts out, you know, like the Amazon Santa Claus. Yeah, exactly.

I just think it'd be fun. Someone from the 1800s came to our time, and they're like, back in our day, we had trains. And we're like, well, yeah, we still have those. I mean, they're essentially the same. They haven't changed in the last, I guess, the caboose. Caboose is gone. I took Seattle. I was just there, and I took there. They just got new public transportation. They got a light rail train running through the city. It was awesome. I got everywhere in like 10 minutes for two bucks. Well, I had to ride with the guy that yelled at me.

They didn't have a train back then when I went. He picked you up. Yeah. He took you back to the airport too? I don't remember who took me back.

Was there a bunch of people in the car and you're like, could we not have so many people in here? Yeah, yeah. Well, to be honest with you, I would have liked some of those people to be in the car. Have a little different conversation going on. Yeah. Well, there's three grading companies that grade these baseball cards. And they do it on a scale from 1 to 10. They look at basically four things. Centering, meaning if it's centered properly, like when they cut it up. Corners, edges, and surface. Okay.

And then they grade it on a scale from 1 to 10. Uh...

You got some? Yeah, I've got some PSAs. I've got some Beckett's there. I remember Beckett. Beckett will actually break down how it scored in each of those individual categories. Yeah, corners nine, surface nine and a half, centering nine, edges nine. I've got one from your era here, Brian. Here's a 1969 tops. Jeff Samarja. Jeff Samarja. Samarja. I played at Notre Dame. He was a wide receiver at Notre Dame, but he played professional baseball. For the Cubs and then the Giants.

And still playing? No, he retired. I have Dikembe Mutombo, who's now doing commercials where he's slapping groceries out of people's hands and stuff. It's his rookie card. So if it's Sinner, though, that's like on the company, right? It's on the company. Some of it's not your fault. A lot of it's just the luck of the draw. Because when they cut them from the big sheet, sometimes you'll just get... Like, look at this one. This is Dick Bossman. Oh.

That's a good answer. That's from the Washington Center. That's a great answer. See, the centering's way off on that, and that's not whoever found that card's fault. Because he's not centered. Is that what you mean? Yeah. He's not in the middle? No, look at the black border around the edge there. There's like nothing on the right. That's just the way it was cut. I was looking at him. Oh, like the image center. Yeah. Like I thought. So like half these cards, they don't work because the guy didn't go, scoot a little bit to the right, please. Well...

Error cards. You go, all right, Dick Bossman. You just ruined... Dead gummit, man. Could you just do a normal pose in the middle? And there's like one, you just see like the back half of the guy's running away. And you're like, we didn't even...

get a chance to get them in the middle. And do you mail these in or how do you get these graded? So in 2020, there became such a huge backlog with PSA that you had to pay four or $500 to get one card expedited.

And people weren't getting their cards back for like 18 months, two years, because they were just so backlogged. So I've never submitted a card myself there. You just buy them after the fact. Oh, so you didn't have these. You bought them. Yeah, these were cards that I got after they'd already been graded and stuff. Now, this is a good example of why you need these grading companies. This is before I knew what I was doing. This is a Ronald Acuna Gem Mint 10 rookie card.

But this is, I don't even know what grading company that is. That's just, that's something you sell to an idiot, which is what I bought. Oh, because they're saying this card's a 10. Yeah, but that company, it means nothing from that particular grading company. You can't just get it graded again? Well, that's, I bought that after it was already graded in that slab. Because I thought, oh, a 10, a 10 Ronald Acuna card, it's going to be worth millions. I got it for like $18. $18.

When are you planning this to be worth millions?

I don't think any of the cards I have will be worth millions. A lot of these I collect. A, I like Jeff Samarja, and I like funny names. I like old, old school, cool names. I just like having them. I got some NASCAR cards. I wonder where you can get those graded. I have a Dick Trickle NASCAR, which I always thought was the funniest name in all of NASCAR. You can Google and get an estimate. These are from my era. Oh, yeah. Dang. Dang.

So here's how I collected. That's how I collected too. Yeah. In these books. You didn't collect like this? I did when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. But I was told if you bought a complete set, never open, that they're worth more.

So this is from the Complete Set Tops 1987. My mom wrote on here, value 19, I guess that's what we pay, $20. And I looked it up last night, and it's now worth $25. All right. Is it because, so you opened it? You opened it last night? Well, I did it as a kid, but. Oh. I know, I couldn't help it. I was just too into it.

But that was the point. It's funny too. They'd be like. But they're all in mint condition. They're like, this is worth a hundred grand unopened. And they go, the only problem is your mom wrote the price. And that's not good. Like you didn't think about doing that. These are all mint condition. Because they've never been taken out. Have you looked at them? I pulled a few out. So they have been taken out. Zane Smith. I remember him. Yeah. The Braves. Yeah. I mean, again, I haven't had any graded. I looked last night. Just.

online Googling my cards. Most of them are worth nothing. I got a few that are worth double digits. One, I told you guys about previously, a Roger Maris rookie card that's worth a few hundred. But you got that when you got drafted. Yeah. I was waiting for him. He was two years behind me in high school. So, but I've got a ton of like, you know, rookie cards from

Ricky Henderson, Darryl Strawberry. That's awesome. People like that. I mean, I was so into baseball cards. I was too. I texted your mom and I said, did your kids collect anything growing up? She's like baseball cards. She said Derek had some Batman memorabilia and Abby did Beanie Babies. Yes. And do you still have your baseball cards? I don't know. She would, I guess my mom would know. I don't know if I have them. I don't think I have them.

I asked if y'all still had them. She said she thinks the kids got the Batman toys and did something with them. She said the other stuff is at your individual houses. So she thinks they're here. Oh, I don't know. You might have a Honest Wagner. Yeah, I don't have a Honest Wagner. Abigail got these Beanie Babies. I remember when that became a big thing.

And my parents would buy. They thought these were going to be worth money. Your mom said this was supposed to be her college fund. Yeah. And Abby told me that your dad, every time he would go on the road, he would buy one and come back and bring it to her. And she said the tag, which I think it says, was it say tie? Yeah. You got to leave them on. That's kind of like, don't open the box. They're worth more with the tag on them. This even got a special tag on it.

Yeah, they were a big deal. I mean, I remember it was a whole thing. This was a phenomenon. And we had so many of them. A Beanie Baby. There was a couple that got divorced. There was a thing on Instagram where they got divorced and they were like dividing up their Beanie Babies in court. Here's the picture right there. These are grown people. And they're choosing which ones to do. It looks like me from like 20 years ago. It's like while they're doing that, you're like, oh, I know why you're getting divorced.

Cause you guys are, this does look like you, right? That might've been me. And, and, and the judge has to watch that. Yeah. You got to make sure it's fair.

Either divvying up big assets. These could be worth potentially millions of dollars apiece. Beanie Babies never became anything. Weren't some of them pretty valuable? There's some now that... Is it like a Princess Di Beanie Baby? That's what your sister's talking about. She said she has a Princess Di that she didn't bring. She said that camel there is a knockoff Beanie Baby. Yeah.

So she got that on the black market. But those bears. Doesn't have eyes. Dang. I mean, I looked up the most expensive Beanie Babies. There's some rare ones that, and she's got a huge crate down there that are worth a lot of, I mean, a few hundred dollars. Oh, really? Yeah. I think on average, some of them are like $400. This is the devil here.

I think it's supposed to be a boom. So each one's worth $400? I think on average, I think most of them are worth nothing, but I think there's some that are so expensive that it averages out to like $400. Well, it says a collection. Oh, it's Furby's. Furby's is another thing. There's some that came from McDonald's. I guess McDonald's gave away Beanie Babies back in the day, and some of those are so rare that they're worth on average $400. Wow. This is a McDonald's one, she said.

I mean, I think like the idea of like, I like the idea of collecting stuff. I guess I see the idea of it. It's fun. When I was a kid trading baseball cards, it's like, that's what it was about. It was about trading the cards and stuff like that. And I guess I never attached the money to it as much as like I wanted that person for whatever reason.

We used to have the Beckett magazines in school, and we would always be looking up what cards were worth. I mean, that was a lot of fun. Yeah, so maybe I did do that. I do remember that, actually. But it was like, yeah, I mean, you really think you were making some investment, but you were like, oh, this card's worth $10, and I bought it for $1. Yeah. I got it in a pack with some gum. Well, you were trying to get those cards that were worth, but how many do I have to give you to get that? Remember, sometimes they would have a little piece of gum in there.

Oh, yeah. Still get old packs with the gum still in there. I would eat it, too. Yeah. You got to try it once. Yeah. I had a piece of gum from like 1982 or 83. I wonder if the gum's worth money. It's not good. Just the gum? Just save the gum. It's worth money now. Well, before my time, they would put baseball cards in spokes of bicycles because it would make a sound. Yeah.

And that's why these old Mickey Mantles are so rare that there's any good condition because they would just get tore up. You never heard that? Yeah, but that's so funny to me. Just the visual. There's a little Brian out there with his baseball cap. I said before my dime, Dusty. I used to collect comic books. That's what I had as a kid. And when I moved...

I had two big Tupperware, big Rubbermaid boxes of comic books. I took them to this comic book store to see if I could get some money for it. The guy flipped through them. He goes, nah, these ain't worth nothing. And I was like, but can I just leave them with you? Yeah.

They're worth... If you let me walk out of here, then I got a great deal. What kind did you have? Did he take them? Yes. You know, I had some X-Men. I like Punisher. That was the comic I liked. I had like a whole set of Punisher that I really... I had like number one, two, you know, all the way. You know how it goes. And I thought that would be worth something. It could be. I don't know. I still have the cards. I got a lot of comic cards, but...

Yeah, I mean, I was like, my poor mom, you know, we lived in a trailer. She was buying me comic books every week, and I just give them away in a store. You think that's why y'all stayed in a trailer? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, it didn't help. You know what I mean? My mom was investing in the future of comic books. Well, we invested in Beanie Babies. Well, comic books, there's the record comic book just sold. So last year, the Superbrand, the first one that he appeared in, sold for $1,000.

2.6 million. Then later the year, the first Spider-Man sold for 3.6 million. Well, those are the ones that were even valuable when I was a kid. That was the reason we were all collecting them. Because my mom was like, oh, I had that one when I was a kid. If I had it, we'd be rich. Well, a different Superman just passed Spider-Man, 5.3 million. Wow. So...

So it keeps going up. But the Supermans are by far the most... I don't feel like anybody that gets that money is someone that needs that money either. Yeah. Like it's a guy that, you know, I mean... It's an investor. It's an investor that's like, we paid 200 grand for it. Now it's worth 500 grand and then it's worth this. Yeah. They're always anonymous usually, the buyer and seller. Yeah, or it's a way to hide...

blood money and bad money and move money around in shady ways. That seems extreme. What do you mean? Let's say I had $50 million of money that I acquired through bad things to get them. I need to move that money around. Let me just buy some artwork. You're very conspiracy learning today. You two are rubbing off on me. I always think when people sell art and stuff, how do you find a buyer?

If you stole art. Oh, stole. I don't know. I mean, we've talked about the Mona Lisa, how it was stolen. And then it set for years, I think, because we talked about, wait, how are you going to do it? And then finally someone found it. Yeah. You have to find someone in another country. Yeah. Or someone that, yeah, lives like one of these guys. They don't care if you know they stole it. Yeah. You know, they got a pet tiger that'll protect it.

Now, there are cases I found with baseball cards and comic books. Someone died, the kids are cleaning out the attic, and they find a Hannes Wagner, a Superman original worth millions, and then they sell it at auction. Like, my brother-in-law has all this Dale Earnhardt memorabilia, and it's like, I feel like he's the kind of guy that if it were worth a lot of money, he would still be like, nah. Like, he would keep it.

just because he loves Dale Earnhardt. Do you know what I mean? Like, even if it were valuable and he could pay his mortgage off, he's like, nah, I like this car. Does it have sentimental value to him too? Maybe. Okay. But he just likes. He just likes Dale Earnhardt that much. Yeah. There's, like, Nicolas Cage is such a big superhero fan. He had a huge comic book collection. He had the original Superman he sold for $2 million. His last name Cage comes from Luke Cage, who's a Marvel character. Yeah.

And his son, he named his son Kal-El, which is Superman's name on Krypton. So he has one of the biggest, or at least used to have one of the biggest comic book collections of anybody. Wow. That's, yeah, I like the idea of collecting stuff, but I don't know if I have the real, like the hobby of it. I don't know. I think I would just get, it's like, I don't think it ever stuck with me. Hotel keys? Keep those. Yeah. But it's like, yeah, it's something that I don't know if I, you know,

The idea of trading or something, I don't... Yeah. Well, let's go bigger. I don't have the idea of taking advantage of something, like either... What do you mean? Like, trading can be very... You feel like you're just ripping... Someone's getting... Oh, you got to be ethical about it. You got to make sure it's a fair trade. Yeah.

Because old newspapers can be worth something. Didn't you say you have the 9-11? I have the 9-12. Well, yeah, that's what I meant. That'd be amazing if you had the... I had the September 10th where they called it. That would be worth a lot. I bought the September 12th one. That was one that I did buy. You still have it? Yeah. I was trying to think, did I buy it because I thought...

It's funny to be here now because, I mean, maybe I thought it could be worth something, but I think I also thought, like, we have kids. Yeah, show them. So you recognized even that day, like, the significance of it. The day after. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, just seeing that newspaper and being like buying a couple and being like, this is like a headline, like Pearl Harbor. Like we just went, we went to Pearl Harbor and they sell newspaper, you know, they're just replicas of that next day. And it's, it's kind of weird. It's crazy. Cause you want to see it. You want to see what was the other stuff about what was going on.

Yeah, there are a few iconic ones. I can think Man Lands on Moon. I would keep sports sections from the Tennessee end as a kid if it was some big sport event. Years later, I went back and looked. What I thought were huge, it would be like Martina Naturolova wins Wimbledon, which every year somebody's going to win Wimbledon. Barry Goheen hits shot at the buzzer to beat George. It was a lot of Vanderbilt stuff that I was so excited about. I thought this is going to be worth a lot of money someday.

But obviously it was just pretty. And then now with the internet. I buy it off of you. It's like, you can just find those things on the internet, right? Like not, not even like if you want to buy the physical copy, but you can just see a picture of it on the internet. Right. So, but like there was a time when, when the, in the internet didn't exist. So the only evidence for it was that thing.

Do you know what I mean? So it's like now, I don't know. It just feels like all that stuff doesn't mean. But the fun is having it. The fun is thinking what this was. The fun, for sure, but the value. It would be like a hidden gem that no one would even know about. Now it feels like nothing's hidden or lost. Yeah, you can find. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's like an NFT or something. I mean, I guess that's a new collectible.

I like to collect DVDs that I think they're going to ban. Because I'm like, when I can't find this streaming anymore, I want to watch this movie. But you got a bunch. The Fugitive. I don't have The Fugitive. I should get that. Fugitive 2? I should check Fugitive 2 out. I even forgot what that movie was we talked about. U.S. Marshals. Blew my mind.

Well, sports memorabilia is a huge thing too. And autographs, the most expensive autograph going right now is anything signed by Kobe Bryant. Oh, yeah. I read one place where stuff's going on average for $17,000 if Kobe signed it. But then when I Googled trying to find something, I couldn't find anything close to that. But it had Kobe by far the most, Jordan second, Babe Ruth third as far as autograph memorabilia. The Kobe thing is, maybe it is if you know it's legit. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Legit autograph. Jay Cutler, photo fourth. If you have an autograph, Jay Cutler. Oh, nice. And he confirmed it. Yeah, on our podcast. That was his signature. You can like, people sell everything online. If you went on eBay or some of these sites and look for a Nate Bargatze, there's stuff out there. Oh, really? I may or may not have been the person who puts it on sale. But here we go, right there. See if it goes for anything.

Oh, someone's selling the lanyard? The meet and greet pass from your rain check tour, $10. But the rain check tour is still going on, huh? Yeah. I mean, you would. If you want a free meet and greet, yeah. This is not even memorabilia. They're like, try to get a meet and greet here. I've got one. Does it say anything else about where it came from or who the seller is? Because I've got the, what was the one before that with the coffee cup? Oh, yeah. I could sell that for a ton. Yeah.

But there's a lot. I actually did look. There's a lot of Nate Bargetti stuff on there. There's autographed pictures. Aaron signed 8x10. Is that an authentic picture, Nate? Yeah. What's that one going for? I think it was $10, wasn't it? Yeah. There's another 8x10. Signed at the cellar. It looks like a homeless pimp picture. It is. From the cellar. That's in Spanish or something. Oh, this is cool. The Greatest Average American poster.

Going for $17. All right. That's not bad. Something. That's not bad at all. It's still there. It's still available. Yeah. In stock. Multiple stocks. So you don't have to be, I mean, there's comedians, anything people can get autographed. And that's why we've talked about this. Some of these professional autograph seekers, they're doing it to sell it. It's not for kids. It's not. Yeah, that's a weird, because I saw him with like, I was seeing him with like Sal. Yeah. When we were with Impractical Jokers.

Well, I was with you one night. We just made that. Laura made that and gave the magnet set that we did. We gave that away. We just gave it away. Now they're selling it for 15 bucks on eBay. That's why you can't give people things. You give somebody something, they go try to sell it. Like I worked, my buddy and I worked at TMZ and we, I was walking around with him once in New York City and we went to try to catch somebody on a late night show and

all of these autograph people are just showing up and they like know each other. It's like a club. They're all showing up everywhere, getting autographs. Very strange. It's yeah. And it's a weird thing. I mean, I remember being with Chris rocks and a guy was in the lobby with his kids. And then I remember in Salva, Connell and all the impactful Joker guys. And I mean, they are just, we go to this restaurant. They're just, I was with you on that. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Yeah. Yeah. They were everywhere. Yeah. And then, I mean, uh,

And it's a weird thing because you don't want to be ever mean to someone, especially because they can have their kid out there. Yeah. But you're also like, this guy is just trying to get this autographs and they just play the, you know, it's like a sad kind of, come on, man. Like, you're not going to, like, you would think like, then you make those guys be jerks. And you're like, dude, every town y'all are coming to this and your reasoning is not

You're trying not to have a job. Right. So you're coming up with this thing and then you guilt people into, they do the autograph and then... And it might be easier to just have a job. Might be. I mean, you're working so hard at this. What if you put that into a real creative venture? You know what I mean? I always think about that when I see people like panhandling. I'm like, this is hard work. You might think about getting a job. You telling them? Well, no, but...

You call it the company? It might be easy. You call it the panhandling company? Yeah. And you do it the proper way? Yeah, so you got your whole spiel down. It's like, if you put this into a real sales job, you could be making some real money here. Yeah. The most expensive sports memorabilia ever is... I think the perks are different, though. Yeah, maybe so. I think panhandling perks are a little bit better than...

No drug testing policies. Yeah, you're on your own time. Come and go as you want. Yeah. You set your own hours. Most expensive memorabilia ever sold was the original Olympic Games manifesto. This is from the modern Olympics where the guy wrote up the idea and the plans and kind of the rules for it. And it sold at Sotheby's auction house for $8.8 million. Wow.

There's maybe like I'm trying to think what I want this more. I would I would almost rather have this than a baseball card because this is like something you can read. It's like, you know, it's it's like something that could be in a museum.

They thought this was going to go for somewhere between $700,000 to a million, and it sold for $8.8 million. So that guy had a good day, whoever the seller was. Yeah, that would be really cool to have. Yeah, I almost think I would rather have history things now than I would...

A baseball card. Yeah, Honus Wagner's over 100 years old. There's some historical value. Yeah, no, Honus Wagner, but it would need to be that. It needs to be, I know everybody knows this card. Everybody knows. Yeah. And it's the card. I could see one at some bigger. But I guess it's like if you don't get the autograph or if you don't acquire the thing, then it's like you just bought it. It's like does that take the special away from it?

Because you're just like, oh, so you just had $8 million. Right. And it's, you know... Now, I understand buying this because it's like... How else would you have gotten that? How else would you have gotten that? And it's... And you tracked it down. Like, so I guess when it's history... That's what I mean when it's history. But it's like you're paying...

All this money for a Michael Jordan autograph. You're like, well, you just... You just bought it. You just bought it. There's no experience tied in with it. Yeah, there's no story tied in with it. This is what a lottery winner's buying. Something like this. I just won the lottery. I got $400 million. Yeah, I'll buy these...

And then he's drunk one night and forgets what it is and uses it for kindling to start a fire or something. He's like, oh, I'm rich. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean, I could almost see buying art. I've been thinking about art. I'm like, I wonder if I could get in, if I would get into it.

I think I could. Do you like any kind of art in particular? I don't know. I don't know any. But I think when I look at it, I like it on a wall. And I think it's nice. And I could see looking at it. And you're like... But then I also... Maybe I could buy it at iBiggle. That's stupid. And we have art. Laura, we have art down...

I don't ever, I don't know if I look at it. I do think the older you get, the more like good art is like, like when you're like late teens, early twenties, like a Salvador Dali poster is like, that's big time, you know? But like, as you get older, like appreciating good art, it feels good. I don't understand art at all. Well,

Well, there's something you see it like, you know, the Starry Night or like if you had the original one, it's like I could see. Because you could stare at it and I would look, I think you would look at it and be like, I can't believe this is in my house. Yeah. Like that's the stuff that it would like, I would buy something for that. I can't believe. Because I guess it's your journey. Maybe, maybe it's that it's your journey to acquire a piece like that. Right.

So the experience with it is how did I get my, you went from, I could never ever even dream of getting this to then you have the original.

And you're like, now that's in my house, that's insane. So all of that journey's tied up in the value of that to you. In that picture. That's almost like you've talked about when you get a watch for all the significant moments in your career. Yeah. All of those, it's all of that tied up in it. Yeah. But you got to be able to keep that. Once you start collecting stuff, because I can even see it with the watches. I like them and I like that idea. And then you're like, but am I going to...

It's like you almost like you need one thing has to be tied into it, I guess. But I could see for myself being like, all right, if there was a piece of art that I'm like, I want to somehow get this original one. How do I make it where I can? It's like I like that challenge of a thing. That's like a fun challenge. How do I get to that? Mm-hmm.

What do I got? I got to do some pretty crazy things. I don't know what I got to do, but I got to do some crazy things to get that. Yeah. Like that's that's actually that might be my thing. What if I tell you, can you buy this? This is a scream painting, which I used to have a poster of this in my dorm room.

But could you ever buy the real one? Nah, it's in a museum. All of these live in museums now. So how do you ever own this kind of art? There are. I was about to talk about that. So David Geffen, Geffen Records, he's supposedly the biggest buyer and seller of the art world. He's got original, a lot of these things, it's estimated $2.3 billion. So I think if you paint a ton of stuff like...

Van Gogh or any of these guys, there are occasional, a private owner will get a hold of one. And then once it's, they own it and it just gets passed around. And as long as no one gives it to museum, you can keep buying it from someone else with more money. But I think majority of them go to museums. I mean, I've been to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam and there's, but isn't the museum own it? The museum doesn't own it. Doesn't it use like someone owns it and then they, I think a lot of times someone does donate it. Yeah. Yeah.

So they could take it back. Or you can go, I still retain ownership of this, but I will let you have it in exchange for you just taking care of it and making sure that you... Yeah. The upkeep on it. So how do you do that? I don't know. I don't know if I can... I mean, this... How much...

If you wanted to, like, I mean, you've got a priceless piece of art in your house. Now you're all worried about security. That's what I'm saying. Fire, damage. You give it to a museum. How do I give it to putting an old hickory country club? That painting, The Scream, the one we were just looking at, in 2012, it sold for $119 million. And at the time, it was the most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction.

So you could buy a name. See, it seems too scary. That's so weird, honestly. Do you know where it's at now? Like, is it in someone's house? I'll find out. I thought it was in a museum. I don't know where it lives. Yeah, that's, I mean, you'd have to be a billionaire. But you can even find people that are making good art. You know, it's not these classic paintings, but they're making good art, you know, for, you know, several thousand dollars. You know, even tens of thousands. Where are our folks? Yeah. They make some...

It's good graphic art. Yeah. Steve Cohen, owner of the Mets, he has an original Van Gogh. His overall portfolio is over a billion dollars in art. Jay-Z and Beyonce have a half a billion dollars in art in their house or art that they own. So you can do it. You just got to – it's expensive to get the best – You got to get some gold records out there. Yeah. But I think there's some – I mean, how did Beyonce and Jay-Z, how –

there's no way they spent half a billion dollars on art. It's just worth half a billion. I guess. Yeah. I mean, you spend a half a billion, like how much money could you have? I know. You spend half a billion.

even if you're worth a billion, I would imagine they would say, how about you don't spend half of it on art? But I guess if it's an investment and you're like, well, this will never go down in price. But for it to never go down in price, there's a point, well, how much money does someone have to have? You have a billion and you don't think it's ever going to go down. Well, you need people to have like 400 billion for that. So there's your limited group of who wants to sell it.

I mean, you know them. Yeah, it's all status. Five people. It's all status stuff at that point. You just bring people in and be like, look at this. This is how much I paid for it. Charlie Sheen bought one of Babe Ruth's World Series rings for $2 million. Wow.

So I guess he could just wear it on his hand. I think he later sold it, or maybe sold it for $2 million, but he had it for a while. Yeah, it's like you buy something like that, you're not modest about it. You don't go, you're not humble, and you're telling people what you paid for it. You keep it in the closet. No, the screen painting would be behind my head right now. Right, right. It's not even in a frame. You're just like out, and you're like, I mean, you're just damaging this. I'm like, what's up? I'm like, what's up?

It's mine. Yeah. This weekend at an auction, Bobby Bonilla's famous contract sold for $180,000. Oh, that's cool. The actual paperwork of it? Yeah. His agent sold it, who came up with this contract. Do you know about this contract? Yeah. So Bobby Bonilla was playing for the Mets. Yeah.

and he had some claws where every... You don't know? Have you ever heard that name? Yeah, I've heard the name. I think someone told me something about this. If we told you he raised NASCAR, though, would you have believed that? No, no. Because you know NASCAR. Yeah, I mean, I don't feel like there's a lot. There's some Bobbies, but not a lot of Bonillas. There's some Bobbies in there, though. Yeah.

Basically, his contract, long after he retired, he gets $1.1 million every July 1st, every year till the year 2035. Oh, so there's a Bobby Bonilla's day. Yes. Somebody told me about this. It's Bobby Bonilla day because he gets his $1.1 million from the Mets. So that contract just sold this weekend for $180,000. Now, you also get...

It says a 30-minute Zoom meeting with him. But then later on, it says you get a day with him where you get to go to breakfast, a trip to Citi Field for batting practice, and dinner. So you get more than just the contract. I think I'd pass on the 30-minute Zoom meeting with Bobby Bonilla. I don't know what I would. Yeah. So that's crazy what you did, huh? That's crazy, man. I was reading through your contract. I think you got a little more.

Why would you want the contract? You telling me that a guy bought it is as exciting as if the guy said, hey, I just bought it. Here it is. If I had to pull it out, I'd show it to you. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I would...

And I would probably talk about Brian more than I would talk about you. I go, dude, I saw Brian today. He said he knows a guy that bought that body. He wouldn't even. And you're like, no, I'm the one that bought it. You're like, Adam, that's ridiculous. You know, okay. Yeah. You're not going to read the contract of it. Yeah. This agent really, though, is crushing it, though. Am I right, though? He's like, he makes that contract and then goes off and sells the contract.

Yeah. His agent's working it. Yeah. Bobby Bonilla's getting a million dollars every year, but he's still getting his 10% probably, and then he gets another $180,000. Yeah. I don't think athletes have to pay off their salaries. I'm almost positive because I've talked to them. Okay. I think it's all off-field is where they make their money. Oh, interesting. Or maybe the exact opposite? No. Oh, you know what? I'm thinking, I don't know.

Yeah, maybe I'm thinking of golf. Golf is because they make the money and agents don't get anything. Of like their winnings? Of their winnings. Okay. But they would get their off the field. Endorsements and such. Yeah. Another big thing that billionaires are into is rare coins.

Any kind of coins, really. Well, yeah, I guess that's true. But the most expensive coin ever sold for $18.9 million last year. It's a gold coin that I guess Roosevelt ended the gold standard back in the 1930s. This is where they didn't want us using gold as currency anymore. And this is the only...

So they melted them all down, these gold double eagle, but one got out. All downhill after that. And only one private person has owned this coin, this double eagle. The whole time? I think so, yeah. Wow. Yep. And, wow, $18.9 million. $18.9 million. How much was the value of the actual coin? Was it a dollar coin? I think it was $20 I read somewhere. A $20 coin? Yeah.

So that's the most valuable. And then the second one is the U.S. silver dollar, 1794 silver dollar. It's the first coin ever minted when U.S. became a country and they started doing currency. I got a couple of those. How much is that? $10 million. I do get the idea you own something that doesn't exist. It's a one of one. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

We inherited when my great-grandfather died. Him and his wife, my great-grandmother, they've collected a bunch of random stuff. We got a big bunch of spoons. We got a spoon collection.

And I guess they're valuable. I guess they look nice. We just kept them under the couch in the living room because we don't know how to display a bunch of spoons. Yeah, but I've never kept anything under the couch, even if I didn't want it. So I'm just very confused on why.

It came in this leather. The brilliance of your family. I know, I know. And y'all don't know how to put stuff away. You go, well, what are we going to do with it? I'll just slide it under the couch. We can't display it, so hide it under the couch. Hide it under the couch. I guess that is a little odd to keep it under the couch, but that's where we kept it. How high was your couch up? Nah, I think it fit just right. I think that's why we did it. We were like, oh, this is great. You looked everywhere. You didn't know what to do.

I want to go to your parents' house. Y'all are big into forks. Y'all might have all kinds of stuff. What else is under there? Yeah. There's all kinds of stuff. Yeah. I need to look around. My mom just texted me this weekend. She found... My parents are moving, so she's going through the garage in their house and found... And you have a garage. And still went under the couch. I just don't know what to do with these spoons. I think it's like you got these silver...

It's like pure silver. So you almost don't want to put them in the garage. That feels dangerous. Yeah. So under the couch. Do you know what I mean? So under the couch is a little safer. Yeah, a little safer. She pulled her baseball glove out, sold it. Right. Get rid of that. But she found, we have a Babe Ruth autographed baseball. Oh. Found it.

Wow. She's got some sort of certification too, but it's old for my great grandfather. So we're going to send that in. You have any idea what it might be worth here?

um i saw on ebay i saw some sold seven eight thousand dollars look a little worse wow look a little worse than this one maybe ten thousand everybody that has a thing they always go i saw some they look they were worse than mine but yeah that's what everybody says that you know they got a card i've seen one card it went for 10 grand that guy his card was garbage and yeah some of these babe ruth uh balls

You can't even see the autograph with your naked eye because it's faded so much. So you have to look at it under infrared light and then it'll show up. And those still sell for thousands of dollars. Yeah, you would have to probably put it in a case that has... That showed the light, yeah. So you can see it.

I found a – I was reading this weekend about how a Kirk Gibson rookie card is worth some money in good condition. And I had it, and I found it. I think it's in here. And I had taken a black marker when I was a kid and blacked out one of his teeth. Oh, no. Probably not worth as much. Why did you do that? Because I was a kid. I don't know. Just sometimes you're just like –

That's what kids do. Most of these are in good condition, but the Kurt Gibson... Imagine if you could have just had TV admitted by when you were a kid. You wouldn't have been so bored. Uh...

So what were the spoons? Did you have another thing with the spoons? Silver spoons. I think they're worth a lot. Literally born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Born with a silver spoon under the couch. That's a good metaphor for me. I don't know what we're doing with it now. You had silver spoons there just under the couch. Y'all didn't eat from them. That's so many spoons you had others to eat from. Yeah.

But this is one of those things we don't know. We're not going to do anything with these spoons. We don't really care about them. We'll pass them down. I think you just think I'll just pass them down. If you need to get rid of them, though, I will take them. You'll take those silver spoons? Yeah. Okay. First one I ever held. I'll loan them to you like a museum. Yeah. And I'll take them back at some point. Yeah, I'll put them under my couch.

is he's probably a lot of stuff under there he goes and when he means under his couch he means the door that's under his couch that goes downstairs into his bunker yeah he goes he's got i got a ton of room under my couch he goes you can stand up there's food for years under there that's right uh

If the silver spoons are, you don't want to go see like antique roadhouse. That'd be like a perfect antique roadhouse thing. And my grandmother, she had a guy come and do an appraisal of all her stuff. So we haven't looked at those spoons in particular, but I think at some point we'll take it in. We had a weird pot that we inherited from our great grandfather too. That was worth a lot. And then we had a couple rugs.

Just in a normal house with a bunch of other stuff, we had these really expensive rug. I read about a guy who was borderline homeless. He'd done it with his luck, and he had a Navajo blanket that thought was worth nothing. And then somehow he found out someone, I think he went to one of those antique roadshow things. It was worth $1.5 million. And then he sold it? Yeah. I think it sold at auction for $1.5 million. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah. And he was using it as a homeless guy? I mean, he wasn't homeless, but he just had a wreck where I think maybe part of his leg got amputated and he was just barely getting by. And then he sold this Navajo blanket. He's wrapping his leg up with that blanket. Yeah. That's why I sold so much of those blood from... I like the term borderline homeless.

That's a fun term. You're not homeless, but... Off the grid. You're almost there. If you lived off the grid, you could be like... If someone was like... They couldn't wrap their head around what you mean, you'd be like, borderline homeless. Yeah, right. Or you might be really homeless, but you're choosing. Yeah, borderline. I got a place. I got a couple places. Got a couple places. Yeah. Thoroughbred racehorses. It's a big collector thing for billionaires.

Most of the most expensive ones are in the United Arab, am I right? How do you say it? United Arab, am I right? How did you say it? UAE. UAE, okay. Dubai, all that. I thought you were really saying that's what it's called. Yeah, because we talked about it once before on here. I think a long time ago, yeah. But one horse sold for $70 million. Wow. And this is back in 2000. He did win the Kentucky Derby.

which was about $2 million in prize money. But they use them for stud fees. That's where you make most of your money. So it's $150,000 to have this horse breed with your horse to try to make more purebred champion horses. Champions.

And then it eventually dropped and he retired in 2020. I don't think they got their $70 million back. Yeah, I would imagine. That doesn't seem like that high of a... I mean, if you bought something for $70 million and you're charging $150,000, I would think, well, that's not you. You would never be able to get your money back. It seems like it, yeah. That'd be $466,000.

That horse has got to be busy. Yeah. That many times to get it back. To get your 70. Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's a little trembling of horses. Yeah. Jewelry. It's another big thing. Now, most of these, they don't know who has them because they always keep it secret. They think at one time, Elizabeth Taylor had the biggest collection of jewelry over a billion dollars, I think, until she died. And I'm sorry, not over a billion, 157 million. It's a little off there.

But she died in the auction home off. But at one time, she had the biggest collection. What's interesting, just the fact that she owned it definitely increased the value of it. Yeah, I guess that's true. If you're that famous and you're like, well, I can just own it. And just the fact that I have it. You can build it. Yeah. That's another way to get, yeah. You could think that with collecting stuff to be like, all right, if you're never going to get that one thing, you're like, but how can I make something better?

I don't know if this is true. I've read that Mike Trout will not sign. There's one card of his own that he won't sign because it just becomes too valuable. One of his rookie cards, he's like, if I sign that, it messes up the whole market. That'll just become a crazy valuable card. I don't know Mike Trout. He's a baseball player. It seems like a baseball name, Mike Trout. It's a great name. Yeah.

Okay. So he does it maybe... No, that is crazy. Yeah, so he can make money like if he's... Is he in on the sales? And so therefore he doesn't want to decide... Well, no, it would just disrupt the whole market because this particular card and autograph would be...

this valuable it feels cocky i guess i'm trying to figure out why he cares you know it's worth so much that if i sign it it's just astounding well what if he said i mean he's setting himself up or he could set his kid up he could set up a family member just to go like i'll sign it i'll sign one for you and you can go sell it it's the only one that's so much it's the only one that i would ever sign literally just by me doing this yeah i can give generational wealth to your family yeah

Yeah. Stamps. Stamps is a big one for old and young and rich and... A bunch of young bucks are into stamps, huh? Yeah, in Asia especially. It's kind of become a big thing. They think it's a good investment. What's it called? Canoodling?

I don't know. I hadn't heard that. That's what stamp collecting is? Yeah. Finagling? Well, I've heard that term. I didn't know it for stamp collecting. But China and Saudi Arabia are really big into stamp collecting now. Falatelist. I bet you could think of what would be the next thing. What could be something now that's like, just keep it. I've got some stuff on here. Oh, really? That I was just going to kind of end on. Fabergé egg, which I think...

Ocean's 12 that was what they stole there was 65 made in Russia and then there was a revolution and they all got lost and now there's 10 I think that are left to the private owners how's there like do people just lose this stuff you

You know, in World War II, Nazis destroyed so much artwork. Oh, really? They came through and burned a bunch and stole it all. And World War II really messed up a lot of what was... You just watched Red... Yeah, I watched the movie Red Notice. Okay. On Netflix. And it's with Dwayne Johnson and Ron...

Gosling? Reynolds. Oh, Ryan Reynolds. But they go and I think they find something that's like all this stuff that's like the Nazis. Dwayne Johnson is dropping the movies, huh? Yeah, this is an older movie. Left and right. Or it came out in 2021. It's a classic. It is. I talk about it all the time. I'm bringing up Shellshaker Redemption. You're like, don't tell me. Yeah. I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, this one, I watched it. And...

But it's like the idea, like there could, could there be some art? Like, I guess there's like, could there be, did they take, you know, would they have, they destroyed it, but like maybe they knew like, Hey, this stuff is out there. Cause it's like how much, cause it is like our stuff just gets lost. You know, like how's it lost? Mm-hmm.

It was under the couch. And then you sold the place, forgot to keep the couch, forgot to move the spoons. Next thing you know, family moves in. They're like, we got these valuable spoons here. And they live under, they don't ever look under the couch. Yeah. They're just happy that there was even a couch in there. Yeah. Such a good couch. Why would I move it? Yeah. And family couldn't afford spoons. They only had to eat cereal forks.

And then they just never knew. One day they found it. When they finally move out and they go, he goes, I'd say the only thing was this town doesn't sell spoons. Not a lot of spoons around here. Not a lot of spoons around here. And you go, Dad, I'm so sorry. You lived here for 25 years. There's the most spoons around here.

Actually, why they don't sell spoons is because the most and the best spoons. We got them all. Look underneath that couch right now. You're going to feel stupid. Look at that couch. Who doesn't clean under the couch? You don't clean under the couch once? They eat their cereal with a fork. That's just such a funny vision. Never get the milk. Never get the milk. Just cereal.

Classic cars. Jay Leno owns almost 200 automobiles and motorcycles worth $150 million. Seinfeld sold his collection in 2016 worth $22 million. He has Porsches. One of his Porsches sold for $5.3 million. I knew those two. Gabriel Iglesias, he owns VW bus models. He has a fluffy museum where he displays all his VW Volkswagen buses.

all right where's the museum at wherever fluffy lives i guess the museum i love that yeah he's got over 80 look at this yeah oh maybe the museum is something to do with uh him like with the volkswagen i guess that was i mean he was 17 years 17 yeah so he it was his first car so there's definitely sentimental value to this yeah

What would the Nate Bargetzi Museum be? I always think about trying to collect something, and I can never figure out what to collect because I don't think I care. Golf balls? No, but I just go, then I don't care. Those golf bags, weren't you collecting those for a while? I have some of those, but those are just for the room. But it's like Jason Day gave me, I got one of his golf bags that he used in the Masters his first year. Yeah.

He finished second. And then Augustine gave me one of his tour bags. That'd be worth something. John Augustine goes off and becomes huge. But he never used it. But it's, I don't, yeah, I just try to think like, what could I collect? And I don't know what I would, I don't know what I want to collect enough that I care about. Like, I don't know. I don't know if I appreciate anything.

that's it i have a hard time appreciating the these kind of things like cars i don't really appreciate i like those watches but i don't then i realize like i'm not appreciating like a person that buys these watches i've been a lot like the watches and i like the but it's like to me it's more about i wore it on that and that and it meant for the special like i have to tie it in yeah

I guess there's a movie called Bling Ring where about a bunch of teenagers who would break into Hollywood stars' homes and steal stuff. And Orlando Bloom had $3 million worth of watches that they stole from his home. He was really into watches. There's a lot of celebrities on here that are really, really into Rolexes and stuff like that. So this was based off a true story, the Bling Ring? Yeah.

I mean, I think it's a true story, and then they made a movie about it, about how these teens, called the Hollywood Hills Burglars. So, yeah, it's based on a... All right. You go, was that based on a true story? And you go, I think it was a true story, and then they based a movie on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Circular, who's on first? I feel like I might be walked to something tonight. The bling ring? The bling ring. That seemed, yeah, that's like a clueless sequel, I think. Yeah, it's not the...

Not the poster, I would imagine. Yeah. I meant to mention, you kind of mentioned on that baseball card where the guy wasn't centered. Error cards are a big thing because basically mistakes made by the company are

And there was one of the most famous ones, Billy Ripken, Cal Ripken's brother. Do you know this card? It had the obscenity written on the end of the bat, and it made it on the baseball card. So if you have one of those, it's worth a lot of money because they quickly. I got a bunch of WCW cards. I feel like that whole thing was a mistake. I always thought I had one of those cards, but then I think maybe I just saw one of those. Let's take one of those that maybe I read about it.

WCW, I do agree. I never got into the WCW. Yeah, like the ones with the yellow around it. You had a bunch of these? Oh, I got so many of those. Man, it could be worth something. Yeah. People, you know. Put that in the Dusty Slate Museum. Yeah. I agree with the WCW. And then that hurt me with wrestling. Once they all combined, I was like, now I'm really out. Yeah. I could never get into WCW.

Yeah, I mean, the NWO years were something. They were something. Yeah, Hollywood Hogan. Goldberg. Yeah. Well, anyway, there's Adele Murphy that's the negative one on the card, so it looks like he's batting left-handed, I think. So if you find one of those rare cards, they're worth something. Keep them. Keep them. All right, so here's a few things that they think could be worth something down the road. So if you have one of these, keep them.

McDonald's plastic straws. I guess McDonald's doesn't do plastic straws anymore. No, they still do. Maybe it's some kind. They talk about the yellow and the red and the white, like the coloring of the McDonald's straw, but they still do. Okay. Well, I think they're phasing them out. I don't think you can get one in the UK and they think soon there won't be any. So if you have some, you might want to keep them. I think America will hold on. Yeah, I'll have them. Yeah.

You'll have them even at McDonald's stops. You'll find a way. No, I don't know, but I'm going to grab some right now. Are we talking just plastic straws that you just take out of the wrapper or it's a special McDonald's straw? How do you open a straw? This has fascinated me because if you look around, everybody does it differently, but it's something you don't think about. I've never peeled it off. So you peel off the top? Sometimes you can do it like this and pull it. That's when you wait tables. You pull it off.

hold the end and then pull the rest of it off that we can leave the tip with the okay paper on there i should almost say starbucks has got a new their straw i mean you gotta it's like trying to uh hard boiled egg it's trying to get the shell off it just sticks to the you're just like scraping it and you're like yeah i i i

I don't like paper straws, so I don't want to use those. And so then they found, they went to this plastic. They've made it worse. You almost like, just go back to the paper. Oh, yeah. I mean, and I really don't like paper because you can't just, it doesn't move off. It like sticks to it. It just gets all soft. Yeah, I think I always would do that. And then I always look in the hole to make sure nothing's inside of it.

What could be inside of it? Oh, just some paper? Paper or something. I just always do it, and then I give it a little glance. Have you ever found anything in there? I think I did one. I don't... Maybe not, but then I think I did one time to remind myself, this is why we do it. Oh, yeah. And I think I remember telling myself that. Yeah. Yeah. You did it. Do you always use straws? No. Not sitting down. I don't... I use them... The only time I like them is...

With coffee, like a Starbucks or something. Or a fountain drink. I always use a fountain drink. Not every time, but I like a nice fountain drink. Yeah, straw with a fountain drink is... That's the way to go. It's nice. Styrofoam cup. Oh, yeah. I don't like a styrofoam cup. Oh, styrofoam cup's the best. Tastes better out of there. Yeah. I'm telling you. Well...

some McDonald's plastic straws recently sold for a few hundred dollars on eBay to some people in the UK because they can't get them. Wow. All right. Just buy a plane ticket here. Yeah. You can get them as much as you want. Probably cost more than a few hundred. Get a visit of town. Yeah.

Yeah. Get something out of it. The original Amazon Echo, that's like the round-based speaker, I guess, because it'll just be like a flip phone or one of the block phones or whatever. They think that'll be worth something someday. And it'll have probably a lot of somebody's secrets in it. Yeah. But I mean, a flip phone, is that even worth anything? That's a good question. I don't know. I said that like nowadays, they're worth so much. If not, eventually, I'm sure it will be. Yeah.

By the way, you talked about, you joked about episodes ago about an Amazon, Alexa riding a Roomba around the house. I wasn't going to know, but yes. Amazon just bought Roomba, the company, and people are worried about it because now Amazon will just have a map of your house. Yeah. They'll know if you have a crib in your room. They'll know. If you have spoons under your couch. They'll know all that stuff. I posted that video on my Facebook and some dudes got very upset with me about it.

They were so mad that I had made that joke. And if you're listening, there may or may not have been quotation marks. And it's like, yeah, I mean, they were like, oh, but you have a cell phone. And I'm like, well, yeah, it's hard to live without a cell phone these days, but I don't need the Roomba.

roaming around the house. It's almost like I'll give you, I'm letting you have some, I'm letting you have access, but it doesn't mean you get just all the access. Yes. I'm going to draw the line somewhere. Exactly. Yeah. Well, they bought Roomba for $1.7 billion. So I'm sure they're going to have a little camera on there. It's just going to know about everything in your home. It'll be like the robot in what? Rocky three.

I think you mentioned it once before. That really stuck with you, didn't it? Yeah, it's the worst character ever in a movie. It was like taller than a person. Yeah, it's the worst character ever to be. And then iPods, an iPod shell. I guess iPods, they've stopped making them.

I think technology is going to get so crazy that, I mean, it almost would be like if you had an iPod shuffle, it'd be an art piece. I guess that's what it would be more than. Well, they said after Guardians of the Galaxy came out, they used a Sony Walkman in that, that Sony Walkman's shot up in value because it's like a retro piece. Yeah. Not retroactive. So they think the same thing with iPods because they don't make them anymore. Yeah. Yeah.

I could see you have a bunch of these things and someone could come over and touch it. But it's like, I don't think it'd ever be... Because you'd want to touch it. Like, if I want to show Harper a Sony Walkman, you know, like, I would want her to, like, press it and, like, that kind of stuff. So, I mean, it's hard to keep it in, like, mint condition. It's crazy to think about. She's never used, like, CDs, huh? No, I mean, I think for her, she'll be, like... She'll probably kind of remember DVDs. Like, enough...

And maybe it was a Blu-ray. Like, we had a Blu-ray player. We had, like, I've had some, like, Rio or some of those animated shows for her on some of the things. But, yeah, like, it's never going to, like, for her, we'll be like, yeah, I kind of remember DVDs. You know, like, I kind of, like, I remember Atari. But we had an Atari. But it's like, I remember more Sega Genesis than I do Atari. But I think I remember Atari, you know. So she'll remember some DVDs.

It's wild. It's wild. Yeah. All right. All right. That's it. That's it. That's it. All right, everybody. Thank you for listening, as always. I'm trying to think where I'll be this week. I'll be in Wisconsin Dales. Maybe somewhere else. Wisconsin Dales. And then Vail and all that. Neighborhood2.com. Check that out.

I will be with Leanne Morgan this weekend in Davenport, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. All right. That's fun. I got a big weekend coming up. Thursday night, I'm in Columbus, Ohio at the Columbus Funny Bone. First time headlining there. Nice. And then the next day, I'm going to Arlington, Virginia at the Arlington Draft House, Friday, Saturday. Four shows. Come on. Great, great venues. Yeah. I'm excited.

This weekend, I'm off. But next weekend or next week, I'm at the Iowa State Fair with John Crist. And then I'm in Wichita, Kansas, and then Kansas City Improv, and then Columbia, Missouri. All right. I like it. DustySlay.com. DustySlay.com. Yeah. As always, thank you guys for listening. We really appreciate it, as always. And we love you. And we'll see you next week.

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