Garage Sales

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, I think you might beable to pull it off. Actually,
the more I'm thinking about it,because you get like the face cleaned up,
which is one reason why JD.Vance had to grow the beard,
because he can't be looking like he'snineteen years old. I mean, your
utilization of the facial hair is good, but if you want to look nineteen,
you got to you gotta lose it. I can show you a picture

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that is just from late last year. I'm a little bit thinner, no
facial hair, and I bet you'lllook at that picture and be like,
yeah, nineteen, that's like that'slike early twenties right there. Dang,
how old do I look right now? I look fairly disheveled. I think
you could pull off twenty seven.All right? You know that sounds about
right. I do think I looka little younger. You know what the

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secret is? Huh? Lotion?Lotion, lotion, copious amounts of lotion.
Like I go through a bottle oflotion every like three or four weeks.
Wow, like a big bottle oflotion. Take a shower, I
take How often do you shower?How's this? We'll get to the news
in a second. I talked plentyabout it the first hour and a half

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of the show. Unless I havea day where I don't need to go
outside for any reason, and Ijust every day guy, I'm an every
day Yeah, I don't like Idon't. I don't know. I miss
a day or two every day orevery week. I probably miss a day
or two. Really, yeah,it's just like I I I'm a night
shower. Are you a morning ora night guy? Morning? I can't
do nights. Okay, I can'tdo mornings. I don't get my I

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don't give myself enough time. Sothis is why I come in You see
me wearing like a hat and stuff, because I just some days I just
don't feel like doing my hair.I have long hair, for those who
don't know, that's my problem withWhen I had long hair. It was
too much work. It's kind ofwork. At the same time, I'm
okay wearing hats. I am theleast nicely dressed person that comes in here

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every day. Sometimes I look niceand I feel nice and all that stuff.
For the most part, it's justlike, who's gonna see me?
I mean, Olga was here,great interview, love love talking Olga.
I was a little self conscious andmaybe a smell a little bit because I'm
getting a little sweaty under the theunder arms. Yeah, just keep a

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bottle of cologne with you, youknow, keep it in your office.
I feel like it feels like that'sa little much. Anyways. Four eleven
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I mean, Wisconsin. Pretty coolstuff. The We'll do the best
that we can here. So andMatt just sent me a photo. You
know what I think? I think? I think Matt is probably along the

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lines. He looks like he's twentyone. There he's on the phone,
so I'm not gonna bring it backin anyway. So we're talking about Joe
Biden and his speech, if youwant to call it that tonight, and
the I don't know, the fantasypress conference ball that one may or may

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not play here is how long ishe gonna speak? My best guess roughly
ten minutes or so. I don'tthink there's going to be a need for
him to go much longer. Ittook about, I don't know, a
minute and a half to two minutesof quick reading to get through the letter
that he sent. I think thisis going to be a slight expanded version

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of that to the American public.Don't think we're gonna learn too awful much
about this. Again, it's atseven o'clock and it's from the Oval Office.
There's not gonna be questions after this. I'm guessing he's probably gonna stick
mostly to the teleprompter. When hedid the whole Oval Office thing in the
day after the trump Is assassination attempt, it did seem to be a little
riffing. He was kind of tryingto do. The only reason I know

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that is because I know how Ithink or how I speak, and kind
of the things to look for whensomebody's not reading something. And of course
you know, for as slow aswe believe him to be cognitively, at
this point, I do think it'sworth noting that if you're watching Joe Biden,
you know, speak, he's stillgoing to have a lot of this

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same He may not be the bestspeaker now, but there I think is
a chance that he's a decent enoughspeaker that he can still fake it pretty
well. But it seems like healways kind of goes to the terms like
folks and is a matter or afact and listing off his like all the
different things that he like number onefirst of all, Number two, that

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kind of thing. All of thatis coming from a guy that has spent
a lot of time in front ofmicrophones, in front of cameras, and
he just kind of falls back onthat stuff. What is he going to
tell us about his health? Absolutelynothing. I would not anticipate that he's
going to say anything except he's recoveredfrom his COVID nineteen diagnosis and is doing

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the best that he can to getback to normal and fulfill his duties and
finish what he started as the Presidentof the United States of America. So
there is that The next thing,right, how soon before he mentions Kamala
Harris as his successor, not thathe has any control over that necessarily,

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but how he approaches this conversation,which I'm sure is going to be really
a rally for Kamala, like amini rally, just saying, hey,
if you supported the things that wehave done and where we're going in this
society, you got to support KamalaHarris. And then I think it's going
to become we had a great threeand a half years. I think he's

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going to start there of great progressand we want to keep it going.
I'm going to finish this churnm ountand then Kama's going to take over from
there. And then the other thingI think that he is going to also
say is that Donald Trump is abad guy and voting for the Republicans is
truly voting for a threat to ourdemocracy. Even though they wanted to tone
down that kind of stuff, andthat kind of talk wouldn't surprise me in
the slightest bit if they like it, wouldn't surprise me if they kind of

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revert back to it at this pointbecause they just want to combat the attacks
on their record and especially Kamala's recordwhen she was a leader whether it was
the Attorney General of California San Franciscoor as a senator from the state of
California, and what she either wasor was not able to do in those

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capacities, if you will. Sothose are all things that I think are
going to be mentioned. I thinkit's going to be a lot more condensed
than probably I made it sound.He's also probably going to refute any health
related issues. I don't think he'sgoing to mention it much except for COVID.
And I also think that he's goingto make it pretty pretty clear,
just like he did in the letter, that he's stepping down and it's an
honorable thing. I'm trying to dothe honorable thing by stepping aside because I

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think it's what's best for my partyand for the country. But he's not
going to elaborate on that, Sothat could quite literally mean anything, right,
So what do you have to sayabout that? I have no earthly
idea. We're going to find out, and I'm sure, well when we
revisit this tomorrow, there's going tobe kind of this air of well,

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what did he or didn't he saythat? Maybe we didn't expect I don't
know If that's going to be thecase, I think it's going to be
a very safe little thing that he'sgoing to do, because he kind of
has to the unpressed. Dropping outat this stage of the game, It's
going to require answers. I don'tthink we're going to accept those answers.

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But I understand that it's not evenjust beyond his I think it's a lot
beyond his control about the way theDemocrats approached the primary and caucaus process this
time around, which is why thisis different than what Lyndon B. Johnson
or what Harry Truman had involved whenthey were the presidents incumbents eligible to be
elected for an additional term, yetalso dropped out early in the primary process

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because they recognized they were going tolose. I mean, if they,
if they the Democratic Party of twentytwenty four would have just like sat down,
looked themselves in the mirror, andrealized, maybe we need to have
an open primary and caucas season aboutthis. First of all, it would
make them look bad. They didn'twant that, and it'd make Joe Biden
look bad. They didn't want that. But it also kind of took the

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decision making out of the Democratic voter'shands that would have participated in those primaries
and those caucuses. And I'm reallyinterested to figure out what those voters feel
like and how the Democratic Party andKamala Harris when she does get officially the
rains, how they're going to beable to explain themselves to those voters so
they don't make them feel disenfranchised atall. And trust me, they should

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feel disenfranchised if you're a Democratic voter. This was treated so poorly. We
were telling you that this was probablygoing to happen for a year, and
everybody in the party and everybody inthe administration basically refuted all of that until
it actually did end up happening.We tried to tell you, and now
you didn't even get a chance toreally exercise your free right to vote for

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a legitimate candidate that would be runningin November. How do you feel about
that? I guess time's going totell four Eighteen's the time I got to
tell you about my thoughts on garagesales, because I don't know if it's
popular or it's unpopular, or ifmaybe I'm just kind of a rebel about
it. But I got a thoughton groage sales, and I'm going to
get your perspective on it as wellon news radio eleven to ten kfab.

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Em Marie's sung on news radio eleventen kfab. It's like taped to the
telephone pole in like the I don'tknow adjacent light pole, and it's taped
there wide enough that you can seeit, and it says garage sale says.

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The address says when the garage shaleis. They put that there like
five days out from when they're goingto do this garage show. And I
had to think to myself and Iagain, I have neighbors I think along
that same street that I've seen layingstuff out for a garage shale. My
first question, my first inclination wasdo people really still go to garage shales?

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Are those still a thing that peopledo. I remember going garage sale
hopping with a girl when I wasin high school once, and that was
kind of interesting because I got tospend time with her and she was interested
in it. But in the ageof social media, Facebook, Marketplace,
Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, youcan find pretty good deals on a lot

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of stuff, a lot of usedstuff, and you don't have to even
leave your house. What's the viabilityof a local neighborhood garage sale in twenty
twenty four? Matt Case, haveyou even thought about going to a garage
sale in twenty twenty four? Idon't know when the last time was that
I even went to one. It'sbeen many years. I would say that,

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I, well, I don't know. I want to walk that back.
I was gonna say, maybe I'mnot their their target demo for that,
but I think that just depends.I like sitting here thinking about garage
sales. I've been to thrift stores. That's not the same thing. But
it's similar. It's not the samesimilar, No it's not. It's similar.
No, it's near in the samevein. No they are. Items

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might be in the same vein.The items themselves might be in the same
vein. What I'm trying to letme, Let me let me separate the
two out here, all right,if you give me a second, go
ahead. Now, you go toa thrift store, you're getting the stuff
that people were willing to put intheir car and drive down to a Goodwill
or a Salvation Army or a thriftworld or into the And that's a certain
level of goods that are going tobe there. Now you go to a

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garage sale, that's the stuff thatpeople are like, you know what,
I'm just going to bring this tothe to the outside of my house,
and I want to make sure Iget a good price for it. They're
not donating it, they're getting moneyback. So I would say that garage
sales, like you're saying, it'snot the same because it's a higher threshold.
Of course, So if you're talkingabout the products or how people care

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about them, not even necessarily thequality, because for it's relative, right,
Like if a rich guy who wantsto be judicious with his money or
his resources would be sitting there andjust like, well, i have a
bunch of really nice Polo shirts thatI don't use anymore because I bought a
bunch of new Polos already. SoI'm going to take these Polo shirts and
just donate them because I want tobe a nice guy. Okay, So

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there's that, But that doesn't meanthat because that's low quality or those are
old for him. That's not necessarilylike what somebody could be trying to sell
something in their parking, in theirdriveway or in their garage or whatever.

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You want to call the rummage sales, and you might do that right as
a true exercise of making money.But the rich guy who donated his polos
he didn't need anymore is still higherquality stuff than the stuff that the people
who are selling this down the streetthink is really nice stuff that they have.
Does that make sense? It's allrelative, sure, I get what

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you're saying that in the levels ofhow much do I care about having this
thing, the top level is I'mkeeping it. The second level probably is
I'm not taking it further from mydriveway, and I want to make sure
I see where it goes and howmuch money I get for it. And
the third level is just don't itbecause I definitely don't want it anymore and
somebody else could definitely use it.I'm saying those levels are completely relative and
are not specific to the actual qualityof the goods that that makes sense,

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Like rich guy donating really nice polosthat he just doesn't need any more.
He has so many polos and justdonting them because he wants to feel good
about himself, those polos are stillprobably higher quality than a lot of the
clothes that you're going to see thatpeople think are nice clothes of theirs at
a garage sale down the street.I'm sure that there are case by case
examples that prove your point. Iwould say that generally, I disagree because

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I think if you're willing to driveto a store and donate something, you
just want it out of your houseand you're done with it. If you're
willing to put it right outside yourgarage and sit there while people come by
on a Saturday, you know what, some of this stuff like, you
want money for it? How manypeople are even going and buying that?
Though? Is my thing because it'sbeen replaced by Facebook Marketplace, And that's
what I'm saying is just the onlinegage store. Is what is the the

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viability of just having a rumma shaleof all your old stuff, just sitting
it out on tables or in yourdriveway or whatever and hoping that people I
mean, this person is advertising thisgarage shale on my street for a week
leading up to the garage sale.How many people would it be a success
for them to come by? Howmuch money do you need to make?
How much stuff do you need toget rid of for money that you really

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like? Are like, yeah,you know what? That was actually a
good idea. Well, help meout. If you got thoughts on garage
sales. You've been to a garagedeal, you've had a garage sale recently,
you got thoughts on garage shales?Hit me up four h two five
five eight eleven ten and we'll takea Call's next news Radio eleven ten kfab
and Marie's songer on news Radio eleventen kfab. This garage shale that's supposed

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to be happening on my street herein the next few days, and it's
like, do people still go togarage sales? Well, I want your
perspective or your ideas on this andwhether or not this is something that I'm
just I don't understand. Tom's onthe phone line of World two five five
eight eleven ten. Tom, welcometo the show. What's on your mind?

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Yeah? I didn't listen to yourwhole show, But the last thing
I heard you say is that,why, in the day of Facebook,
Marketplace and such, why anybody whogo to a garage sale? Yeah?
Well I can tell you exactly why, uh Facebook Marketplace. You want to
buy something, you send them amessage. It takes a half an hour

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get a message back. You askfor like some interaction for them to call
you or whatever. Then they thinkyou're a scammer. So you go to
a garage sale, you actually meetsomebody, you have a human interaction.
Right I suppose, Tom, doyou go to a groad shale and accident
you like drive buying, like,oh's groad shall and you stop by,

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or like you go looking for garageshales and try to find them on certain
days. I go by the groadshales quite a bit, and I've got
fantastics deals at garage sales that goto garage shales and make a living reselling
what they get. Huh. It'slike I say, sometimes you'll meet somebody
and have a lifelong bond with themjust because you bought something in a ga.

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You're not going to get that onthe internet. Yeah, that's it's
a good point. It's a goodpoint. It's definitely a part of this
that I'm not thinking about. Well, it's Tom, I Uh, can
I ask the nicest thing that you'vebought at a garage shell? Uh?
Not? Right off hand? Doyou might have like mostly clothes or like

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what's kind of mostly the stuff thatyou buy? I have bought a couple
of vehicles at groage sales. Ohlike cars, yep, wow, And
that's that's a good place. Butfor stuff like that, all right,
I didn't even think about it.I'm thinking more like people's old shirts and
stuff like that. You can buyanything on the garage shale. I mean,
they don't necessarily have to have itout. You can go, hey,

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what's that old car behind the garagedoing? And there there you go.
That's how Tom, did you uh? Did you miss your calling as
like a like an American picker.There's one hundred American pickers out there,
the people that go to garage sales. All right, fair enough, Tom,
Okay, this is why I askedthe question. Tom. If I
thought I had all the answers,then I wouldn't take phone calls. Thanks

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for listening to call. All right, Well, happy to be corrected.
There's no doubt about that. Ifeel like Tom was a little defensive about
my attitude towards garage shales. Kindof sounded like how my dad would talk
to me about garage shales. Yeah, it's like sor right, geez.
I didn't think about that. Well, and that's I mean, you know,

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it might be a bit of ageneration gap between younger people more willing
to embrace the social media medium tobecause I mean, hey, look,
Tom has a good point, butI'm sure there's people who have met on
Facebook Marketplace who maybe have started afriendship. A lot of a lot of
my friends in Des Moines started withone of us messaging each other when I
first moved there, because I wasin the media and I message other media

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people and they were like, oh, hey, yeah, I like,
I'll hang out with you kind ofthing. Yeah, I don't know.
Teresa's on a phone line for two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten, Teresa, you got athought on this today? Garage sales
are great. They're less expensive thanFacebook Marketplace. And I agree with tom

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my Son does a lot of FacebookMarketplace stuff. And he says people don't
answer when they say, hey,is it still available? Yeah, it's
still available, okay, and thenthat's the end of the conversation and then
he's waiting or they say yeah,I'll be by to pick it up,
you know, seven o'clock tonight andno show. I will say this,

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there is that element of a creepyfactor and just kind of uneasiness that I
have with Facebook Marketplace I don't usuallyuse it myself. My sister is a
frequent seller on Facebook Marketplace, soI can like it must work for her
because she's always posting random stuff onher Facebook about that. But I suppose,

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you know, like that's an elementthat is just not controllable. Would
it make you feel differently if theywere willing to just like ship it to
you like shit, like like tolike box whatever the product the product is
or whatever you're trying to buy fromthem, and they just send it to
you like like an Amazon or aneBay thing would have been. I'm going
to say no, because I havebeen at my son's house before and he

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said, Mom, I've got somestuff on the front porch. The lady
said she'll be buy at five.I told her to put the money underneath
the doormat. So what do theydo? They take the product and they
don't leave any money, or it'ssupposed to be twenty dollars and it's only
ten. So if it's some randomperson on Facebook marketplace, absolutely not sure.

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I guess I should have added thecaveat that we're only paying with with
our credit card or a debit cardor something like that. That can be
tracked online. I don't have torely on somebody bringing the actual money because
that sounds that sounds like that wouldhappen a lot if that's what the people
were doing. Okay, Teresa,I appreciate your perspective on this. Thanks
for calling in. And one otherthing, Emory the I can only speak

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about good old Will because he's myuncle from back in my day. He
Their prices are higher on on ohcrap, I'm sorry, like under armour,
Oh okay, yeah, Nebraska products, so anything that. Yeah,
they're they're all higher priced. Orif you leave the tags on those things,

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they'll sell them for hire. IfI've questioned them, like well why
is this shirt this much? Andthis shirt is this much? Their identical
shirts. Oh the tag was lefton this one, so it's new.
Okay, so yeah, he canbuyer beware. That's a good point.
Yeah, and the person who droppedthat off at the at the store probably
didn't even think, you know,like, they're not thinking about that anymore
for the rest of their lives becausethey didn't want money out of it.

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They just donated it to begin with. So interesting. All right, Teresa,
thanks for calling in. You allright, Bob's online. Hello,
Bob, welcome to the show.What's on your mind? Yeah, I'd
go to the groag sales. Imean you can get some terrific buys there.
People like they need a ladder tenyears ago and they went down the
hardware store and got it six footerand perfect shape, and it's sitting in

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the garage for the last ten yearsand never took it out again, and
it's like brand new, and you'rebuying it for twenty five percent of what
they paid for. Sure. Yeah, no, I can see that.
I could see that, Bob.Do you ever have you ever like put
a garage shell together yourself? No, I'm always buying all right, money

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bags, Bob. I use stuffin my business, all right, fair
enough, So okay, well toolsa lot of tools. I'm a plumber,
so I'm always looking for plumb Thereyou go. Now see that's different.
I feel like that really makes sensebecause you're you're you're not just going
for the pleasure of like trying tobuy somebody's old stuff. You're going because

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you have actual like reasons you're lookingfor things, and you can you have
a history of being able to findthose things at a garage sale. I
sell very little. I do givethem to the guys that work for me
though, makes sense too in plumbingthings very easy, you know, and
so you're always replacing something. Ihear you well, Bob, that's a

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very practical use for a garage sale, and I appreciate you calling in with
those thoughts with us, sir.Yeah, thanks for calling. Greg is
on our phone line at four twofive five eight eleven ten. Hello Greg,
what's on your mind? Yes,sir, I think this is a
great topic. You love your show, by the way. I think you're
amazing. Besides, I see bothsides of the story, and if I'm

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selling something, I won't have agroad shill all either you know, facebook
it or donated. But that toois pretty cool and you can find some
wicked stuff, you know. Iwas at one recently in a nicer neighborhood
and Emry, have you ever heardof the yard game called yards? Yards

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like like charts. It's like adirt with a metal stake. They're I
legal now, yeah, but they'repopular back years and years ago, right,
And that described to a nice couple, you know, very inviting.
And that's one thing about grod sills. If they're inviting or not, there's
not too many they're inviting all stopby This guy was asking two hundred and

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fifty dollars for this yarts game.You know, you know, it's crazy
and if he, if he,they're completely illegal. I mean there's been
fatalities, you know, just insane. So seeing stuff like that and seeing
what people are asking for it andwhat people have, and you would even
think. I mean, like Isaid, this was a nicer neighborhood and

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then it's sitting in the corner there, so you know, stuff like that's
kind of cool. But again,you know, uh, it's kind of
how it's set up. I've seengroad sales, the common ones where they
have stopped and clothes, which isweird, and there's someone by themselves in
the back of the garage, youknow, yeah, going on those.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just likeI don't, I don't. It's not
an approachable vibe to me. Idon't know. And maybe it's just I

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have a trouble, like I don'teven go to regular big stores with nice
new stuff. I don't buy alot of stuff like that anyway. I'm
kind of a minimalist. My wifehas to tell me, hey, you
need new geens because there's a holein your bum. And that's like my
cue. Okay, I need togo Jean shopping. I haven't bought a
new pair of shoes for like twoand a half years, except for my
basketball shoes. Like, I'm terribleat this, so I'm probably this is

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why I farmed this question out,because I just don't know. I'm never
thinking like that, Greg, thanksfor calling in. This is great,
all right, thank you. Allright, we'll get to more phone calls,
free to John, everybody else callingin. We'll try to get as
many of you and when I comeback right here on news radio eleven ten kfa B