🎙️ Bodnar’s Bids and Banter Podcast - Episode 4: Fire Sales, Hoarding Nightmares & Collectibles Worth Keeping

This episode is packed with auction-world chaos! Joe, Maureen, Janet, Tracy, and Erica dive into the reality of fire-damaged antiques, extreme hoarder house cleanouts, and the unexpected collectibles that come from it all. From a jaw-dropping Dresden collection to the debate over saving a historic Freehold Raceway program, this episode is full of auction knowledge, behind-the-scenes stories, and plenty of laughs.

🔥 Topics Covered:

• What happens when antiques survive a fire?
• Hoarder house horrors: How do you handle extreme clutter?
• The Dresden collection that took years to assemble—and minutes to sell!
• Can modern collectibles, like raceway programs, become valuable in the future?
• The ongoing evolution of Bodnar’s Auctions and what’s next for the business.

💬 Join the Conversation: What’s the most unusual or fire-damaged collectible you’ve ever come across? Share your thoughts in the comments or message us—we’d love to hear your stories!

🔗 Check Out Our Upcoming Auctions: 🌐 BodnarsAuction.com

📲 Follow Us on Social Media: 📸 Instagram: @BodnarsAuction 📘 Facebook: @BodnarsAuction

Episode Transcript

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We're doing an auction, a live auction, ladies andgentlemen. And even if you're not bidding on

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anything, it's so worth it to watch the amazingpipes of Joe Bodner. Give it up for Joe. Joe, Joe,
Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe Bodner! Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe,Joe, Joe Bodner! 334 bid, 339, 334 bid, 339, 334
bid, 339. Welcome to Bodner's Bids and Banser. I'myour host, Joe Bodner, and my lovely wife. Hi, I'm

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Maureen. Bodner. Yes, Maureen Bodner. That'simplied, sir. That is implied, but I always like to
say you took my last name. I appreciate that verymuch. Yes, much to my mother's sugar. Exactly. At
any rate, our special guest today we have...Janet. Janet, yes. Tracy. Tracy! Oh my God. Erica.

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And Erica, good afternoon, good evening, goodmorning, good morning to all of you. Good morning,
good evening. Exactly. Good morning, goodevening, good night. Yes, exactly. At any rate,
what a day. I tell you... It's Friday. Well, it isFriday, but let me tell you something. I hate
jeans. Why don't they make jeans that actuallyfit? I was so glad that we came back. Wait a second.

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And I was able to put shorts on. I mean, my goodness,jeans are the worst. You know, I can't help but
disagree. I don't know, man. No one wants to seebelow this, okay? I think we should start a nudist
colony auction. What do you think? No. No. No. No.No. I'm not ashamed of my body. What? I love my body.
There you go. See, we could tattoo your buyernumber right across your chest. Look at this. And

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you can just go... Two employees. Excuse me. Thatwas outlawed in the 1800s, sir. Oh, well, I guess it
was. But what I'm saying is that you can have apermanent buyer number. And you... It's going to
be... Buyer 231. Tracy, Christian, and chicken. Idon't know. Today was such a struggle. They don't
make jeans that are comfortable. I think theChinese are making the jeans these days to make you

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like pistol off. What do you think? It's a wholeconspiracy against one singular person. It is.
It's Joe Poc. It is. I don't know. I wore jeans to beprofessional out on the pickup today. Well... And
I died. My ass crack is out. It wouldn't fit right. Imean, my God, I don't understand. It's just
terrible. We changed your name to Plumber Joe.Plumber Joe. That could be just fine by me. Maybe

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I'd be making more money as a plumber, I think. Youshould just do what the rest of us do. On those days,
you need to move around. You need to becomfortable. I guess. Leggings. Leggings.
Leggings. Oh, I mean, do men wear leggings? No. Andmen in tights, I guess? But you're a friend. Men in
tights. I mean, I only did that in high school. But Imean, that was because I was part of the magical
group singing. But I don't know, man. But wear aletter word, Joe. This is my life now. A belt? I had a

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belt. But the belt goes around and it makes you haveto pee every 10 minutes. So I mean, listen. I don't
know. Listen, but I just think I can't stand. I'm soglad to be back here in my shorts. This is why I love
the new world where we're. Well, I would wearshorts at the auction anyway live. But now I wear

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shorts with a suit and tie. It's much better. Yes.Life is better. I'm not influenced by Kevin. You
were like, I could see that. That look works. I cando it, too. I guess so. I was rocking shorts. I was
rocking shorts when we did the Kate May auction. Iput shorts with a suit jacket on it. That's. Your
very first auction here. If the pandemic, I got thephotographs from Janet. That's quite possible. I

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know you definitely were like in boxes. You were insweatshorts. You were like in sweatshorts and
like a fancy top and Janet like sent me the photo.You must have sent it to her. I sent it to Janet. Is
that what happened? I don't remember this.Maureen sent it to me. I sent it to Eric. We had a
video feed at this. I guess we had even the first daywe had a video feed. I guess we did have a live feed,
but at that time, not all the platforms had livefeed, right? We just had it on the one platform. It

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was just you guys. Like you guys didn't show theitems. Well, I do remember. Yeah. During the
pandemic, we actually ran the auction upstairshere. That's where it was. It was in your office
upstairs. I rolled out of bed. He literally rollout of bed. Go right to the computer. Bathroom was
right across the street. Oh, that was the mostconvenient thing for me. It was. I was literally
right outside the bathroom. It was right outsidethe bathroom. He would be selling and I'd be like,

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stop. Stop. Exactly. We go 20, get up, I'm 20, getup, I'm 20, get up, I'm 20. Hurry up. Hurry up. Are
you done yet? It was super convenient. Rolled overand peed, came back and bid. That's how it was. I
don't know. But that's, I mean, that's really thekick. But why that got me? Because I just imagined
329. Exactly. So I mean, it went, but that I get,well, I guess that's when the shorts, I wore shorts

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at the Expo Center. No, really? You were fancy. Iwas fancy. You were fancy. I was more of a shirt and
tie kind of guy. I guess I was always wearing a suit.Yeah, right? I guess I wore suit almost every sale.
You wore that God awful suit that didn't fit you. Idid. How did your ex-wife ever let you leave the
house? I don't know. I don't know. I had the samesuit from the day I got married, I guess. It was

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black, but it was just so ill fitting. Poorly cut.Oh my God, like the arms, you know what I mean?
Because they take guys with big and tall and theyassume that you're like 10 feet tall and for some
reason your armpits down here and they nevertailored it. And it was probably a year and I was
like, that's it. That's it. Get the car. I'm tooglad you're finding this out now. We are going. I

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think that suits upstairs still. Oh, no, he knew.Don't try it on. Go get it on. There you go. He knew my
hatred of that. No, yeah, that was my black shirt.You didn't burn it? No. I would have burned it. Oh,
he doesn't get rid of anything. We've had thisconversation. I am not a hoarder. I am not a
hoarder. No hoarding. No, no, no, no, no. I'm not.The first step towards recovery is admitting the
problem. Right. I understand. So occasionally Ifeel maybe I might be a hoarder, but I don't think.

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No, no, no. So anyway, yeah, I had this awfulill-fitting suit and I took him to an actual tailor
and got it tailored to him and he was like, oh, thisis. And this is why a new, a newtist auction would be
better. We wouldn't be looking at people's suits.You know, sorry. Yeah, different kind of suit,
buddy. Yeah, exactly. I get a different kind ofsuit. You're a bird-braid suit. Oh, see, they say

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bird-braid suit. I went straight for a meat suit. Idon't know. But, but anyway, yes. That would be
your most popular auction because everyone wouldbe like, I want this. Yes, I'll take that, please.
Wait, what? What was what? Did I just spend moneyon? I guess so. It would be an interesting auction
for sure. It would be an interesting one. But yeah,jeans hate them. Sorry, I just had to bring it up

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because the jeans were driving me nuts today. I wasso glad to get back here and put on shorts and I was
like, I mean, all winter. You guys can all contest.I've been wearing shorts out there 20 degrees. All
winter. You're one of those freaks. Yeah. He is oneof those freaks. I'm shovel snowing shorts. He's
going to go there. But Alan's in sandals. I don'tknow who's a bigger freak. He's sitting there in
shorts. Oh, yeah. True. In shorts. In sandals. Inshorts. And the rest of us have like scarves and

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earmuffs and layers and thermals. And twoearrings and shorts. I reserve this for special
moments. That's some white people shit. I guessso. I listen, I don't know, man, but I like the
shorts. I mean, I even have electric socks. Butlisten, I am going out in that hot tub every night at
10 degrees. You know, it has been windy at night.It's just cold getting there. It's not too bad

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coming back. I know you don't like coming back, butanyway, I like it out there. That's the gig. Who
knows? But I feel like this week we actually allcame together. I mean, if you look at the first off,
we had so many different weeks here betweenChristmas, New Year's, everything else. It's
been so like sporadic. Nobody working. Everybodywants off. That's me. Eric raises her hand. Yes.

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Everybody wanted off. But I feel like this was thefirst accomplished week where number one,
through the holidays, the building got, it's donefor the most. It's finished. So construction is
pretty much finished. Construction is finished.The ceiling is black. The floor is black. Thank
you. There's some paint. There was paint all overyou. Oh yeah. I was covered. Yes, you were covered.

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Yeah, we painted the one little frame that one dayand I looked at my sweatshirt after I pulled out of
the wash and I was like, how? How? We painted forfive minutes and I'm just covered. But yeah, no, I
think the building looks great. Yeah, I think itlooks great. Eric, what do you think? It looks
fabulous. I think it looks amazing. Oh my God. Oh myGod. This is full circle. So against it. So you were

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so against it. You were like, why are you paintingthat ceiling black? It's so depressing in here.
You did. I know. But it grew. Go into the lower. Whatare you talking about? I'm so confused right now.
But it's okay. I like it. It looks good. Yeah, itlooks good. Because the white tables balance it
out. So I don't feel so depressed. She didn't seethe vision. I love the scent. I did not see the

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fashion. I have no creativity. I'm a book smarttype of girl. Tracy saw the vision immediately.
She was like, I'm all about it. So let's do it. Ithink we should all feel accomplished about that
because the building has come together and now wejust have to get into the cycle of how it's going to
maneuver because the flow of the merchant night.It's changed. For those who don't understand how

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our flow, it's basically like it comes into thebuilding. It gets unpacked. It gets cataloged.
Then it gets photographed. Then it gets stored.Then it gets put out. Then it gets shipped. So
there's like a cycle. We had conveyor belts thatcould only make it that big. I've been saying that
for years. We need a conveyor system. So I thinkwith the system we put in play, I think it's going to
make it flow even better that way where there'sgoing to be one less handling in there. Hopefully

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we'll see. I don't know. I don't know. As far asputting it back into the storage. But what's nice
about it is we can keep going. Like right now. Likewe're all set up. Right now we have three sales
going on three large tables. I just posted that. Wenever had the space for that. I just posted it on
Facebook. I don't know if you caught it, but whileyou guys were, I took pictures of all you'd be on
your backs. Oh, you did? Yeah. Yeah. Erica'sworking on a comic book sale. I said three sales are

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being typed right now. And I got all three of you.You have you there. You there. And you. Jack's
working on jewelry. I'm working on the historicalsale. Yep. And you're off goofing off all day. Oh,
shit. I was goofing off. We're goofing off. No, Iwas picking up. Splitten logs. Splitten logs. He
was Lumberjack Joe. Lumberjack. Yes, your namewas Lumberjack Joe. Today I was picking up Joe.

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Today was Plumber Joe. So yes. Yes, we did splitlogs yesterday. Yeah. I was Paul Bunyan. You were
Paul Bunyan. I was out there with us chainsaw,cutting up wood because, you know, with this cold
weather and we can't get this house above 62. Ourhouse is cold. Even right now. I don't know what you
guys. It feels good to break this second in here,but it's definitely like 63, 64 in here. But we ran

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out of wood and our brainstorm was just cut downsome. We have all those dead trees out there. We do
have dead trees in the back. We keep cutting itdown. It's actually, I'll tell you what, we got a
wood splitter. Log splitter. Oh, log splitter.Same thing, wood splitter, log splitter. It
splits the wood. It's so much easier than trying.Well, first we say, I was out of breath, fucking
chainsaw on the thing. I was like, Oh my God, Ithought I was going to die with the chainsaw. It's

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supposed to be easier, right? But I don't know,man. It was not easy. Sounds difficult. You want to
go? It was difficult. I think we have, we shouldhave a strip into the woods and get wood. What do you
think? Tracy, Tracy's it. I'm like, it's not easy.It's a pain in the neck. Tracy really makes me look
like a shithead. Well, when you put it like that.Come on man, I'm out. Yeah, right? Is there any

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words? No, I'm still, what do you mean? Tracy's akind of crazy. Nah, you got that black survival
instinct. You're like, I ain't fucking going outthere. Like you want me to go in the woods, you are,
but Nana. We're the face to die in these fuckingmovies out of your mind. I guess so. I don't know. I
love about Tracy is like, I'll be when I built Tracythe table for the photograph. Let's go. And I, and I

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put the top on it and I have the, you know, thecircular saw out. Tracy's like, can I try? Can I do
it? And I'm underneath the table. I don't see me.I'm scared. I don't want to be near that thing. Give
me a power tool. It's like, I like this. I must havenot watched final destination. See you're with

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me. At least I have somebody. But yeah, it's calledlogic. Listen, I think it would have been a lot
easier just to buy a half a cord for $300 versus whatI did yesterday. But I felt manly. I was primitive.
How can you imagine how they did this a hundredyears ago? My God. I know we watched those shows.

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Yeah, you can. I did it. There you go. But wow. ButI'm just saying how, how could you, how hard it is?
So, so hard. That's all right. But, but, you know,we thank you for that. For we appreciate what you
did. Thank you for your service. Thank you for yourservice, sir. However, think about a hundred

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years ago, you would all summer cut down trees,stack them up, get the hay, da, da, da. Get the
chickens, get the cow, put it on some salt. Is thisthe wheat? I mean, I think about, you think about
how they, how you lived a hundred years. I mean,think of where we've come in a hundred years. I
mean, it's really amazing. That wasn't even thatlong ago. No, it's not. It really isn't that long

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ago. I don't disagree. I mean, it's just insanewhen you look at even some of the primitives we sell
in the antiques and collectible world, thesethings that they were using are so primitive and
ridiculous. It goes into toys. Look at kids, howunsafe kids toys were back then. Yeah. Hainted
with the head. And lead and tin. The good old days.The good old days. Or even if you look at our

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Christmas tree and the other tree, we have candleson our Victorian tree. They lit candles on your
Christmas tree. How to place them burned down isinsane when you think about it. They were all
sitting there when they did it and it was a one nightdeal. That was it. I guess. Not like this where, you
know, talking about taking out the decorationsand you're like, leave them up to Easter. I would

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like to leave them up to Easter. Back then you putyour tree up on Christmas Eve, you had Christmas
day and then it came down. That was it. Goodbye. Iknow. I always say, Christmas is every day. That's
what I say. Speaking of Christmas, did everybodyenjoy their Christmas gifts? Yes. I loved it. You
all got something, right? Yes. What did I forget?What did you get? I got gift cards. Gift cards. Gift

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cards. One for me to get food to order out and born tonoble when I need to escape my house. There you go.
Yeah. I think I was in there. I know there was a themebehind it. Yeah, there was a theme behind it. Yes,
it was perfect. And you got some. I got a terrarium.All right. So excited. I put cuttings in there
already. Cool. It's ready. Growing. Great. Andyou got. I got a Jim Shor's life size stitch. All

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right. That's cool. And you said you're going tokeep it up all year. I'm keeping it up all year. So I
am converted to the weirdo side because he is aChristmas. Christmas stitch. Just called me
leaving my fireplace. It's cool. It's awesome.You got a gift too, sir. Right. Yes, I did. I heard
you're still playing with it. Yes, I am. That's whyyou were late today, actually. I got a

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Ghostbusters Neutrona Wand for a proton pack.It's the geekiest thing here, but I don't care. I
love it so much. Right. He cried at the party. I didcry at the party because I love it so much. It was the
greatest moment for me. It was. It was. Because youdon't understand. They didn't just get like
because there's been them that they're out. Youcan buy them, but they got the limited edition

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special one that I was like, I ain't going to getthat one. Right. Right. And then they had the nerve
to surprise me and make me cry in front of people.That was good. No, it was great. I'm good. I got a rep
to keep up. I can't show emotion. Come on. No, Iloved it though. Thank you. Well, no problem. I
thought the holiday party went spectacular. Mygift was you guys all coming and enjoying

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yourselves. That's what I did. More. So yes, I gotmore. Okay. Yes, clearly my pocket is a little bit
lighter. Yes, I think it gives. Yes, thank you. Iwould be enjoying that warden's steakhouse.
Absolutely. I was going to say, I'm so we were justtalking about it. I'm so ready. I love that. That's
that's Atlantic City trip in two weeks. Yes, I'llbe down there spending that money. And yes, we

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appreciate that. But no, really, the biggest giftyou guys can give me was showing up. So that's
right. Every year, though, for us, you put on thisparty that you not only just have a party, you cook
for us out of your heart. Maureen decorates thehouse. There's not many bosses that do stuff like
that. You guys are so we're family. Well, thankyou. I do that shirtless with a thing. Yeah, if you

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can vision that. No, we're back with nudistcooking. We can go nudist cooking. What do you
think? I think you're going to burn your thing all.I guess that could happen. But yes, no, I enjoy
cooking. I enjoy cooking the Hungarian food. Heenjoyed making. It was so good. We ate Hungarian
food for a week. Oh, my God. I ate so much cabbage andcoba. I ate smoked cobas for three and a half weeks.

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And I couldn't stop farting. I farted for three anda half weeks straight. It was terrible. I'm so
sorry. It was so good, though. I can't help it. Itwas tremendous. He's not even remotely lying. I'm
online. It was it was so good. I love it. It's so bad,but it's so good. I'm so glad it's all gone. Yeah.
I'm so glad. Maureen said that with the wholechest. She was like, I'm done. I'm done. That's so

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good, man. But I I I I enjoy that was the first. Thatwas the first time I'd ever had like plenty of those
dishes. What Gary? Yeah, Hungarian food. It wasgood. Well, you know, you don't see it. So you it's
you have we had stuffed cabbage. We had a sicklygoulash. We had chicken, paprika and and cabbage

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noodles. Halouzske is what I would call it. Youknow, we had a great key fleas from a. I didn't
realize how much cabbage was so part of the. Yes,cabbage was cheap. That's what they grew in
Europe. Yeah, that's what they grew in Europe.Yeah, cabbage, potatoes and cucumbers. Yeah.
Think about that. Cabbage is even cheap. I mean, tomake those cabbage deals, dishes cheap is

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anything. You know, just throwing in some cabbageand some butterns like nothing. But you know, it's
crazy to think about you go to all theserestaurants. You can't really get a Hungarian
dish out. There's not many places that servechicken, Pappercot or anything like that. You
just can't find it. There used to be a Hungarianrestaurant here in town. And Friday night, they
played a violin and it was really fantastic. Butthey went out of that was a rank is that they went out

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of business many, many years ago. But I thought Iloved it, but they're they're done. I don't know.
All right. Well, we'll be right back. Hey, JoeBodner here reminding you, our next regular
scheduled sale is February 13th.www.bodner'sauction .com, the Brooklyn estate.

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Make sure you check it out. Antiques collectiblesartwork sterling. Check it out. Bodner's
Auction.com now back to the show. Hey, welcomeback to the show. All right, Janet. Yes. We've been
around and together for I met you when you were 17, Ithink. Wow. 17. Working at an auction and you were

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the runner. Young. Yes, I was. He was. And he was andhe would get distracted. So he was the runner and
he'd be holding up something and he's looking. Oh,Joanne. Yeah. Basically. Yes. I was not like
Joanne, but go ahead. No, not. No, OK. You weren'tthat. She's listening. I'm sorry, Joanne. We love

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you. But go ahead. Next guy. Yeah. And I met you atthe auction and all your kids are like babies. All
my kids were babies. Two of them were born when I metyou. Wow, that's crazy. That's insane. Brittany
and Devin and think about it. All four of my kidshave worked for you. Yes. My daughter met her
husband at the auction. My daughter got engaged ina jewelry sale. Yes, she did. With the auctioneer.

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Yes. Oh, yes. He bought a ring. And then. From Jo.Yeah. From the auction. From the auction. So, give
it to me right now, William Mary. What's with you,man? What's with you, man? He went. What's it? We
did. Were we selling the ring? We were selling thering. I don't remember. Yeah, we were. I thought we
set up the. Set up the. No, no. We were selling the. Ishould have ran them. I mean, we should have got

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them up to five grand for God's sake. You know, hewent to back down at that moment. I'm sorry. He,
Brittany fell in love with the ring. She wanted it.And he came over to me and Amyl and said, you know, is
it okay? I want to propose to her here at theauction. Right. Yep. And we're like, that's
awesome. We love him. He's great. And he was theauctioneer and he bid on the ring and she didn't

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realize he was bidding. I saw the video. And thenMaureen was in. Your dad was in. You weren't in the
room because you were auctioneering and hestopped the auction and he started saying, you
know, I've spent so many years here and this is myfamily and loud Gary and quiet Gary were in the
front row and they're going, he's quitting. He'squitting. The way he said it. And he's like, no, no,

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no, I'm not quitting. And then he went into a speechhow he met us all and he said really nice things
about me, which is you can't ask for anythingbetter for a son-in-law. And then he turned around
and said, Brittany, will you marry me? Right. Andput the ring on her finger and everybody was
clapping. And this was my first time really likegetting close and knowing Monica. Monica then

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went out to box lots. She bought a box of champagneflutes. Yeah. She went home. She went home. She
baked a cake, stopped at the liquor store, gotchampagne, wrapped it all up, and drove back to the
auction. And within two hours, she had this likeparty going. This was before she worked for me.

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Yes. Obviously she didn't do all this on the clock.No, no, no, no. I'm not going to say she did all this
on the clock because she was supposed to be takingcare of customers. No, no. It was before she worked
for me. A lot of shit happens in that jewelry roomback in the day. Oh, my God. Oh, we had phone rings.
We were hop. That room was hop. All right. Well,yeah, you could. You got I couldn't see what was
happening. It was the best room to be in. Best room.We have so much fun. See, back at the Ukraine

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Center, we had this big auditorium. And then therewas this annex that we called the jewelry room. So
when I was up on stage, I could see everything thatwas happening. I could see because we literally we
had the room broken into three auctions. So I wouldhave the stage auction. We would have a box hot sale
in the middle and another sale in the back. And Icould see everything that's going on, but I

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couldn't see what was happening. I couldn't seethe jewelry room. And I had walkie talkies on
everybody. And when somebody would disappear fora long time, like, are they in the jewelry room? Get
them back out here and get them out. Right. I used todo that because we everybody would sneak back. So
much fun. The best thing he ever did was give me morering to the jewelry room. And the first day she came
into work. I said, would you help sort through thismilitary stuff? This is where we're even

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together. We're talking about not knowing herbackground. And she most people sort just throw it
in boxes. She went and it was labeled. It wastagged. It was phenomenal. Everything was
described. And I looked at her and I go, how do youknow all this stuff? And she goes, well, I know it.
And also there was a book. There's a book over thereover there at use. What employee did we ever have

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that used like a research book to tag things?Nobody. Nobody. And I said, keep her. I said to Joe,
she's a keeper. I love her. She's fabulous. Oh, wehad so much fun. Yeah. You said, marry her. Marry
her. Absolutely. Do not go on that date. Yes, thatis true. And the next day, I did not hear from you.

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And my husband looked at me and said, he's on thatdamn date. That's why he's not calling you. Yes,
that is true. And I talked to you the next day and yousaid, yeah, I went. We just went to New York City. It
wasn't it. It was it. It was a great day. No, I know itwas fabulous. I know. It was. No, it was. It was. We
went to the Met. We went to the Met. We went to theMet. And walked around New York City. He actually

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took me out for a dinner, which then after that, youdidn't feed me for months. Yeah, I guess so. No, we
did. We had a great lamb. We had a lamb. Crackers. Ihad lamb at that restaurant in New York City. It was
great. Yeah, then you fed me crackers. I did fight.It's a running joke. If you ever heard Joe will say
to me in the middle of the day, I'll be like, yeah,you've earned your crackers today. I did used to

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say that. Yes, I did. Nice. He won because he'd onlyfeed me crackers. Cheese on a good day. Oh, cheese.
Cheese and crackers. But yeah, no, we had a lot offun in that joy. Paul, you want a cracker? Right. It
was crackle barrel cheese, too. It was goodcheese. Cracker barrel cheese? Yeah, good
cheese. Anyway. You really smudged. No. It wasgood. It was the good shit. No, we'd have a lot of fun

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in that jewelry room and Jill and I sitting therewaiting to run. Tommy would have to tell us where to
go because we weren't paying any attention. Now wewere having way too much of a move. Jill and I were
just looking off. You know what I remember themost? That a state in New York that the woman, oh, I
know what's up with this guy. She had the storageunit. Yeah. What are you talking about, the date

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after New York? No, no, no. What? The estate fromNew York. The estate. The estate from another date
from New York. What are you talking about? No, thewoman in New York in the apartment who had the
storage unit at the end and she stored everythingin black garbage bags. Oh my God. No, I know. I know.
You know. I know. Okay, so you would get. Erica camein on the very last end of that. The bags would come

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into the jewelry room and we would unpack andbasically you would pull out like a Tiffany
bracelet and then a dirty diaper. Oh, yeah. Andthen a half eaten pop torch. No. And dirty
underwear. Dirty underwear. The best we couldfigure out is anytime she needed to clean, she

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would just dump everything in garbage bags andthen how to pick them all up. When I tell you, we
found amazing things. Amazing. Covering poop.No. No, it really. It was in good condition, but it
was just imagine you wore it once and threw it in abag. Yeah. Yeah. She was an interesting
character. She was definitely interested. Youknow what the worst part of that pickup was? We're

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in the middle of Harlem and she was AfricanAmerican and she collected racist stuff. She was
black memorabilia. And so we took the blackmemorabilia and we bring it all down. And big Al's.
And big Al who was working for me, you know, he'sloading the truck and I keep bringing down like
there's artwork and stuff, but it's all blackmemorabilia racist. And he's got it on the side.

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And he's just leaving it right out the middle of thestreet. I'm in Harlem and it's all laid out in
Harlem and we're a bunch of white guys standingthere. Five white guys picking up. I'm like, what
are you doing? Five white guys. You're gonna get meburned. Get me burned. Black memorabilia from
Harlem and he's just laying it out all in the middleof the street. It was like Bruce Willis and Die
Hard. I was just gonna make the reference. It waslike Bruce Willis and Die Hard and I'm sitting

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there going, dude, would you we started around? Iput a moving pan over this. It was at that day Joe
lost his black card and it was never invited to thebarbecue again. So we had to make his own. That's
what I started wearing shorts. But I'm justsaying, my God, I'll never forget that. But you're

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right. We had this big and we sold that for years.Two years. Years, at least two years of her stuff.
Listen, this is put in perspective. It had to be atleast 50,000 worth of clothing. Oh, yeah. I think
it was at least 50,000 worth of clothing becausethere was there was 20,000 dollars in clothing
that she never cashed to checks. And then finallyfive years later she contacted the pandemic. It

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was like, I lost my checks. I lost my checks. Yeah,it was a shock. And I'm like, you lost your checks.
And yeah, you know, and one was probably in a blackgarbage bag. And it probably are. One check was for
like 19,000 and change. And another check was forlike 8,000 and change. How do you misplace that?
And I'll never forget, because I was allaggravated because I was like, I just went through
the divorce. We just went through changingaccounts and everything else. And I'm like, dude,

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how can you not have 26,000 dollars in the check?That was a go back years and balance the check. Oh my
God. Yeah, we did. I went back and balanced thatcheck. Figure everything out. And it was crazy.
Right in the middle of the pandemic too. But thatwas when Jill became an auctioneer. You know.
Remember that? Yeah. Jill, Alfred was taking toolong, I guess, one day to start a clothing sale.

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Something like that. And Jill used to separate allthe clothes. She was hilarious. She was. And so
she's waiting, and Alfred was just taking toolong. So I walk into the back room after saying, I
don't know where he went. And Jill's standingthere with the mic going, five, seven and a half,
two, I have seven and a half, 10 dollars, 10, 10 inthe back, 12. I swear, because that's how she

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talked. That's how she talked. And yeah, I missJill. I know, I miss Jill. And she had to bottom her
last name. Yeah, yeah. She was a bottomer, but notrelated. Oh, hey. Oh, hey, guys. Good morning,
Kitty. Yes, good to see you. You're mad at Jill. I'mmad at Jill. I'm mad at Jill. But yeah, no, that, so
that collection was quite interesting. Tookyears to sell and everything. That was, that was

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quite, quite the thing. And that came from Harlem.That was a whole job. But yes, I was 17 years old, and
I was working for A &E Auction, and that is where Imentioned, I do remember you holding the baby's
hand. Used to come with your husband and bid onstuff, and you were always sitting there. And I
remember, I used to come to yard sales of mine. Oh,your yard sales were crazy. Yeah, my yard sales

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were crazy. He advertised Maureen, these yardsales. This is true. 5 AM. And 3 AM. 3 AM? It was 3 AM.
Was it 3 AM? Because I thought the first. Oh, no,you're right. 5 AM. Yeah. I advertised as 5 AM. And
people would show up at 3 AM. Yeah. And you know whowould show up? Sherri Levine and Andrea Sandler.

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Those two would show up at like 3.30 in the morning.Because at first, it has to be a typo. Who has a yard
sale at 5 AM? And the first time I pulled up and I sawhim, I go, oh, makes sense now. Makes perfect
sense. I got it. Perfect sense. What's a bottomyard sale? Crazy. Crazy? Like massive? Like what

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do you, like, at one of everything? So back in thosedays, back in those days, I did a lot of house
cleanouts, and we would take the better stuff forauction. And then things that weren't so great for
auction, I would just tuck away, tuck away, tuckaway. And then my father has a house in Somerset
with a driveway that could park 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 5vehicles wide coming down. You could park 30, 20

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vehicles in his driveway. So imagine me loading upa trailer, bringing it out and dropping it all. We
would start at 11 o'clock at night, and we woulddrop all the boxes and set up about 35, 40 tables of
stuff. And I would, I know, she's looking at me.It's no different from what I'm doing now, the
craziness. But the craziness of the auction,imagine, it's the craziness of a yard sale. But I

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would do like 3,000. He would, though. I have afeeling. Would you do the 3,000? Yeah, we'd have a
lot of that. And I was fair, I'm sure you would say Iwas fair. Oh, absolutely. Could I be given deals? A
lot of customers that would come through theauction would also come to hear. And I'd just make a
pile, we'll make a deal, you know? And I'd be like,okay, 200 for the pile. 100 dollars for the pile, 50
dollars for the pile. You still do that. I do stilldo that, yeah, that's true. I, oh yeah, once a year

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we have a yard sale here. But not the bad store. Thatwould be not 35 tables. No. I do have an
observation. This does sound like hoarding withextra steps. It might be hoarding, but I'm selling
it. So that's not technically hoarding if I'mgetting rid of it, right? You always collect more,
always and forever. Yes, you want more. And that'show we keep, do we stay in business? It's not

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balancing the scales. If when you remove itemsfrom the scale, the scale stays the same. Yes. That
and I agree, you know? But I, you know, I- 100% thesame. I see value in everything, right? Yeah, you
have to admit I see value in everything. See,that's the thing is I totally understand the
mindset too, because if I had it my way, I'd becollecting so much stuff. Right, right. It's bad.

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It's great. It's my dad's fault. No, nothing wrongwith that. But at some point you have to draw the
line. I can't let it go. Let it go. No. Let it go. Letit go. No. Copyright. Sorry. Letting. No, no, no,
no. Rid of it. But so, used to come to mymega-bondner yard sale, which was crazy, because

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I really would, Alan would help me with that. Alanwould always be there. That's how he got involved
with the yard sales. But so we would start at 11o'clock at night. I'd be set up by three in the
morning. The neighbors would all be coming withflashlights because they'd think I'm nuts. Yeah,
especially the next door neighbor to my fatherthought I was crazy. You are not. But let me guess,
they found some cool stuff, didn't they? Yeah, ofcourse. Everybody would buy it. Everybody finds

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something cool. Yeah, no. And then whatever wasleft would go into dumpster at that point. So I
would collect all the things. And I thought, justlike I'm doing now, in the back, in the shed, in the
back. But putting stuff in the back, in the back, inthe back. And then, boom. And then flush it. But I
remember you came to one of the yard sales. And Isaid, why don't you work for me? I think that's

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where I hired you, right? Is that how it came to me?No, it was in the Ukrainian center. OK. I was
browsing box slots. And you came over and said, whydon't you work for me? Right. And I was like, OK.
Yeah, what am I doing? Right. And helping sort outthe box slots, pull out stuff. The first time I

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worked, though, the first time I came. Oh, no, Iremember. It was after you said that, you said, I
buy the employees lunch. I buy snacks. And I said,do we get nap time too? I was just saying to Jen, and
all we need is a cot in the corner. Do we get nap time?That's where Darren got nap time. Darren got nap
time. Darren definitely loved his nap time. Yeah,Darren definitely had nap time in the back here.

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Yeah, you treated us all very well. Well, thankyou. The first time I was unpacking boxes, there
was a girl there. I don't remember her name. She wasfrom Staten Island. And she would sit in a chair and
were unpacking boxes. And she would be, could youpick that up for me? It's heavy. Do you remember
this? You weren't around. I wasn't around. That'swhat Jen and I have talked about this. Yeah. And I

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don't talk to her. She didn't last long. No, shedidn't last long. And I would hand her something
and think, OK, no problem. Oh, could you reach thatfor me? Sounds like my daughter. Oh my god. She sat
in a chair the entire time. She did that for me. Andwanted us to hand her stuff. Oh my god. And I'm like,
all right, this one's got to go. My first day. Thisone's got to go. That's fine. I can't remember her

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name. Was it Donna? That could sound about right. Ithink it might be Donna. Donna, if you're
listening, don't come back. No. But I Joe means it.I don't know. There again, I don't really fire
people. I don't remember. Did I fire? I must have.They escort themselves out. I probably didn't ask

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her back. Yeah, I think. I'm right. A lot of people.Well, a lot of people. I fired a few people. Yes, but
that was one of the ones that didn't work out. No,she didn't work out. I forgot. Yeah, I used to
actually go to shop, right? Or a food town and buylunch meat. Remember I used to buy? Yeah. We used to
have lunch meat lunches. And I'd buy. I'd go thereand get. I'd eat three pounds of roast beef, five

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pounds of ham, three pounds of this. Oh, and then itturned into ordering food. Then it turned into
ordering food. Then ordering food. And then oneday, because I was doing the orders, I tallied it
up. Oh my god. And for a week at the auction, he spent$1,500 on the employees. On food. Just on food. And
I said, do you spend that much grocery shop? And hegoes, no. I said, this needs to stop. It was getting

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out of control. I mean, yeah, it was. There was atime it was 1,500, 2,500 dollars just for food.
With the guys who were unloading and stuff, I neverhad a problem with you buying them food and stuff.
But when you started telling people, OK, lunch,you figure a sandwich and people are ordering
shrimp, and porn, dinner, Jeffrey, getting thesemassive platters. So they can bring it home. It's

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like, all right, you're taking advantage of myboss. Stop it now. Yeah, no, that was a hard thing
for me to break. Oh, I remember when all that wentdown. Yeah, no, that was a hard thing to break. I
mean, I felt bad. It took teamwork to break it. Itdid. Janet and I banded together. And then Joe
threw me under the bus and right into the fire.Yeah, you stopped buying the employees lunch. And

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in the same meeting, you had them. You told themthey were going to start checking in when they got
in and checking out when they left with a certainsomeone. This was before we were even together.
Yeah, this is before we were even together. I was tokeep track of everyone in and out time. Yes, you
were. Which royally ticked off certain people.Yeah, no, keep close to people. Yes, that's true.

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Yes. Oh, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy,buddy, buddy, buddy. But you did a great job. Thank
you. Thanks a lot. Well, my god, yeah. No, Isupplied food for a very long time. But that's such
a tough call because it's appreciative. But at thesame sense, it becomes a major liability. It was
money-wise. Money-wise, it was so much. It wassomething crazy when you think about it. It's

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almost 50, 10, 12. That's 12, 24, 36, 40. It's like42,000 a year, $50,000 a year in food. I mean,
that's insane when you think about it. We had over12 auctions or what happened. We always pay you for
DoorDash now. Well, yeah. Yeah, we always pay youback. Yeah, no, no, we changed it all up because it
got to a point where it was like. Yeah, this is goingback 11 years ago. Can you imagine the food today?

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Oh, my god. Right now? Yeah. Oh, my god, it'd becrazy. I know it'd be crazy because I know what it is
because when it adds up on the credit card, it'sexpensive, right? Very expensive. It's very
expensive, you know? But that was a tough thing.Then that's why I cook. It's cheaper. I need a
kitchen. Whatever auction hall we get, I need akitchen too. So in between auctioneering, I can go

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and serve food and cut and cook. And then I'll goback and auctioneering and I'll serve some food.
We can auction off the food or something like that.No, I don't know. Can you imagine that? That would
be interesting. I always thought about having adrum set up there and playing drums while I'm
auctioneering and hitting the cymbals andhitting the bar. I have a gong. I do have a gong.

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Yeah, I used to have a gong at the auction. I stillhave it. On the stage. I had a gong on the stage like
the gong show. Oh, yeah, you did. Yeah, no, but itwas like, if the crowd got too crowdy, which they
always did, they would become a point whereeveryone's starting to talk and they get too loud
or I would hit the gong and shut everybody up. Or ifsomething was going too cheap and I was like, it's a

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$200 item and I'm stuck at $20 and nobody's payingattention. I would hit the gong and be like, pay
attention, guys. And it would wake everybody up.You need that on your soundboard, a gong. I would
love that. Well, I would love to have a soundboardthat has all these different sound effects. You
know, the soundboard I got is a shitty Chinese onethat only has what, six things? Clapping. Machine

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gun. The machine gun. That's my favorite. Right,the laughter. I only got like six things. In
theory, I know I can do it. I just don't, I haven'tdone it yet, but I would love to get like, queue up a
couple different things. You could probably get aprogram for this. I could actually ask you to do
this, but I would love to have a couple of songs.Because if you think about when I'm selling now,

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I'll be going through my iPod to get that one StarWars theme. Or, oh wait, we had the Rock and Roll and
I'm looking for the song. Beatles, okay, here'sthis one. It sounds like you need a DJ during these
auctions. I do, no. DJ? Like not even for justmusic, like just for sound effects already. Yeah.
DJ Joey B. That's it, DJ Joey B. That's his name.What was that about a year ago? Yeah, DJ Joey B. DJ

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Joey B, man. That's his laughter. I don'tdisagree. I mean, oh my God. I like Paulie D. He's
the same thing, you know? He's from Jersey. I'mfrom Jersey. And I thought his air diss. I thought
Ego was strong ballerine. I know the basis of mynext beat. It's going to be great. I'm just going to
steal that audio clip. But yeah, no. The, I love it.Yes. I forget where I was, but that is true. You know

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what? I got, you know what? This is, I don't know howelse to segue to it, but I just figured I would ask
you guys, because you guys have been in the expertshere. Sure. I have an item and I was curious to know
if this is something that I should hold on to. Interms of, because now you guys, I'll be honest. You
guys got me thinking about Horton Crap again. AndI'm like, this is, this though, I think I should. So

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I worked on the last day, Freehold Raceway was inoperation. Oh, that was just a couple of days? Like
a week ago. I was just, I was working on a, someonewas shooting a movie while they were doing the last
race and I was working the movie. So I got theprogram, their very last one apparently. Right,

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right. Is this going to be one of those things wheremaybe I should hold on to this? Or is this kind of
like, it depends. Well, it depends. But what Ithink, I think, I'll see now, I just agree with you.
I don't know. I think so. So Freehold Raceway hasbeen around for like 150 years? 170. Yeah. 170
years. Think about that. Have any of you beenthere? I've been there. Yeah, of course. Have you

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ever been there? The mall. The mall. Oh no. Thehell? No, the actual raceway. The actual raceway.
You've never been to see the horses? Have you beento the horse races there? No. No. I'm probably
lying. We went to mom. We went to mom. I think when Iwas a kid, my grandmother used to take me there when
I was little. I've been there. I've bet moneythere. That was the first time I'd ever went.

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Really? On the last day. It's a lot of fun actually.It was a cool time. I felt bad because I was like,
well, this is going away. But like it felt, I thinkbecause we were also like filming it and I was doing
sound. Right. It felt monumentous because of the,because it's like, oh, this is an institution in
this area. It is. Now, I think when you're lookingat collectibilities, things like that, yes,

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it'll probably become worse something. Is itworse something right to second? No, no, I'm not
assuming that. No, but I think one day. If you lookat, if you look at playboys, sitting in my
backpack, I'm sorry. If you look at playboys, andwe go back to the nudist here, but if we go back to
playboy, well, playboy, they were not new. Theywere all dressed. But at any rate, first playboy

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worth a ton of money when Marilyn Monroe was on it.And surprisingly enough, the last playboy we sold
in that collection did okay. I mean, it didn't dogreat, but it was better than cover price. If I
remember correctly. Yes. It was definitelybetter than cover price. So it was cover price is
what, 4.95? It was better than $4.95. Yeah,exactly. No, I don't know. I think it's probably

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more like $10 really. But I think the last playboythat we sold brought like 30 bucks. Yeah, $30, $40.
So in theory, the first and the last, I think wouldhave value. Yes, I think when you're looking at
sports programs and things, I think it comes downto who was in the races or somebody. So what if
there's a horse there that is coming in to lead andthen 10 years from now is the triple crown or

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something like that, then it has potential. So Ithink my feeling would be, yes, I would keep it.
He's a hoarder though. Exactly. I see value inevery kid. I don't know. I realize the issue in
asking, but now I'm just like, maybe I will keep it.Yeah, I would keep it. I think it's cool. I think
it's a neat situation. I mean, you never know. Imean, look at, you know, even if you look at the last

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auction, we just came off our first sale of theyear, our Brooklyn estate that we were talking
about that we picked up in Brooklyn. And, you know,it had its ups and downs and that was a rocky sale. I
should say it was a rocky sale. Before the auction,very concerning. No pre-bidding was happening.
It was very scary. We went into sale day and nobodywas pre-bidding. It was very nerve-wracking. And

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then came sale day, it did fine. I thought theprices were really good, you know? And with that, I
mean, if we go back a hundred years ago, they wouldbe like, is this Dresden gonna be worth money
someday? True. What do you think they said? Theyprobably thought, no. No, because the lace breaks
off all those little dresses. Isn't that thefucking truth? Oh my God. No, no, no, no. You know

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what's funny? So if you look at that last sale, wehad all that Dresden. And that was probably the
largest collection of Dresden we've sold as onebig collection in years. I can't remember the
amount having like 85, 90 figures from onecollection. There's two I put together that were
broken. And that was the top lot of those Dresdens.Really? That brought 800 bucks. Yeah, there was

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one lot I estimate at 50 to 100. And both werebroken. I think one was missing fingers, the other
one was totally re-glued or something like that.And that's the one that was missing hundreds of
dollars. It had to be early. It had to be like superearly. Exactly. Something like obviously we just
didn't know. And that's one of the benefits of theauction because you never know. I mean, that's
something like, you know, we all look at it, wecould all evaluate it, we could all have different

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opinions. And then our opinion don't mean nothingbecause once we put it on the auction box, it's
gonna bring what it's going to bring. And twopeople saw it online, looked at the photos and it
smoked. It was surprising to me this past auctiontoo, is like, and it was interesting. And I don't
know how to make this better. But theconceptualize the size of things online. I think

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that's an issue with the online sales. It's hard.Because if in this auction, what surprised me, we
had all these big earns and beautiful monumentalearns that were like three feet, four feet big. And
they brought nothing, absolutely nothing. But Ifeel like in person, people would have been like,
damn. It's a look in person, but all the people thatdid buy it, most of them, I would say 80% went to

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local pickup. Why? Because it's heavy and big. Andexpensive to ship. That's the only like pro and con
from an online sale is when you get big things. It'salmost like a double-edged sword. Like they're
really monumental and big and beautiful for us.But then if you live in California or you live in

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England, or if you live in Texas, it's gonna costyou $300, $400 to ship something three feet tall.
Right, right. And that is the issue, cause you camein and you were like. You came in, I know the
description said monumental. I didn't look at thesize. I walked in the room and was blown away. I was
like, I never even, monumental, I'm thinking thisbig, not that big. Monumental means monumental. I

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think Erica should have stood next to them. Areference. Yeah, for reference. There we go. I'm
like four feet tall, so three feet. You're apermanent staple on my catalog because you have
done that. I have done it. Yeah. I was gonna say,what are the pieces of art we saw that had you stand
next to it for perspective? I was near a totem poleonce. I was near artwork. Every fur coat. You need a

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tall person. Oh yeah, every fur coat. Every furcoat. I had hives for like a week, but I didn't.
She's allergic to fur. I'm allergic to fur, but Iput on every fur coat. I'm not kidding. I had hives
all over. I'm like, I'm doing it for you guys.Right. No, but. Who wore that necklace one? Yeah,
you wore it online too. I tried that on the last salebefore we mail it back to them. Oh, you didn't hear,

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were you in the room? Was I in the room? No. Were youin the room where? The reason we haven't heard from
the jewelry people, they're in the middle of thefire and they're in an evacuation zone. And that is
true. So she said she'd get back to us aftereverything. Oh my God. Oh my God, I can't even
imagine. They're gonna be looking to buy stuff.We'll be shipping a lot out to California. We're

(48:40):
gonna be sending them stuff. I mean, did you seethem homes? It's unbelievable. I can't. I did only
bonus. I mean, my God, I mean, when you look at that,it's total destruction. It's totally
apocalyptic. Shut up though. It's so scary. KevinSmith, whose house was spared, did you see his
house? No, I did see his post. I didn't go through itall, but he's yet. It was coming up over the hill. He
left thinking, coming back to nothing and theymanaged to put it out. Wow, that's great. Wow. It's

(49:07):
crazy. It hasn't been fun, my sister's out there.So I'd like pins and needles. Right. We're waiting
to hear if she's gonna have a flight. Yeah, no, it'stotal craziness, man. I mean, these natural
disasters are unreal. I mean, I've never, I'vebeen in houses that have had a fire and taken stuff
out and it's unbelievable what it looks likeinside a house when there's a fire. And the

(49:31):
destruction and how it, and even there, I see valuein that I would take a fired house. I've done that.
We had a woman once. This is stuff from Brooklyn. Itwas, some of the things were very fired. We had a
woman once called up and she said, I have a nicecouch, I'd like to sell it. I said, okay, great,
send a photo. She goes, well, my house had a fire andit didn't burn the couch, but it's still wet from

(49:57):
the fire hoses. No, we can't sell that one. No, wecan't sell that one. But it's amazing to me. I've
been through the houses through fire, but we,through the different hurricanes that we've had,
just the destruction that comes through withwater damage and going into these towns after
something like that happens is unbelievable. Andthen you get the looters. I don't know how they

(50:21):
could be looting out there. I mean, everything istotally burnt. And how can you go out there and loot
somebody's shit after you've totally losteverything? They lost everything. I hope you walk
out with fourth degree burns. Yeah, right? Yeah,it's unbelievable. They're the worst people.
It's unreal and our hearts go out and prayers goout. Oh, for sure. And it's not over. Did you see the
scale analysis that they just did? I was looking atsome of that. They said that the amount of acreage

(50:46):
that is burned and is still actively burningsurpasses the size of Manhattan. I believe it. And
it's still going on. It's ain't done yet. That'swhat's even crazier about it. That's totally
nuts. But fire damage is quite interesting. I'vebeen through some of those. And it's amazing how
some of these places like Serpro and stuff couldactually turn things around and fix that. But even

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if the stuff we're selling up and coming up next inFebruary, February 13th is the actual auction
date. We were just photographing all that. Some ofthat's been through damage. Some of those prisms,
you could tell. Like the paintings around theedges. And just the texture of the things. Like if
it wasn't a fire or something damaged, like youcould feel it. When you touch the fru- They had like

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a minor- Like a flashy kind of journey. It's dry,but it's not the same kind of texture as not burned.
And some of those prisms, they were like melted.They were misshapen. But yeah, there was
definitely some water damage. And they had a smallfire, I think, in the store in the back. It's really
interesting because we took stuff from- The wholeplace was a hoard. Now, there's a true hoarder. But

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at any rate, we took place out of that hoard. Andparts of it, you could see where there was damage.
And some things were not damaged whatsoeverbecause it was all the way on the other side of the
building. But I think there's definitely somegreat stuff coming up that we just photographed as
far as that's concerned. Have you ever hadsomething come through where you were like- Or if

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there was a fire or if it was a part of somethingwhere there was a fire, you're like, holy crap, I'm
so glad this survived because this is going tobring a huge value to the family or something like
that. Were there any situations like that? Right.I don't know. That's a good question. I don't
recall anything like that. But I just remembergoing in and really amazed on the fire damage. Fire

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has its own- even when we sit here and I look at thefireplace, as it goes through my head, it's a
living, breathing thing. It really is. It's aliving, breathing thing and it has life. And it
could really just- You know what I'm saying? But asfar as finding something that was like, oh, saved
by the fire, I can't think of anything like that. Orafterwards, you know what I mean? Like you're just

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like, oh, thank God this survived. Yeah, no.You're right. I haven't seen too many fire things.
The only thing I can remember is the bobble heads.Bobble heads? We had boxes of bobble heads. Yeah,
we did. You remember what I'm talking about? We hadall the- but we still sold them and they did okay.
But they were just like a little- some of them, itreally had a smell of fire. Those did. And he had

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another stuff, Queen. Melty. Yeah, a lot of theother stuff was saved. They weren't melty, they
just had like soot on. They had- Oh, like some of thestuff they were? He had a lot of Mustang things. It
was a collection. He had a lot of Ford Mustangs. So Iwas very happy that a lot of that survived because
I'm a Mustang girl. He was- his Mustang is nice.Yeah, he has a family-ass Mustang. Wait, what
year? It was like, uh, 68, I think, somethingaround then. He collects Disney, he had Disney

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items, we sold stuff for Disney items. I justremember some of the stuff was like, he was like,
this is the fire section. And some of the things hadfire damage, but like we were still able to salvage
some cool things. Just a little melty. A littlesquishy. A little squishy. It's just a little
squishy. A little droopy. A little black and, youknow. Cajun. Why does that one model have like,

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sloth from the goose? Exactly. No, exactly. Iguess we really haven't done many fire damage
places. I could, you know, a lot of times whensomething's been through a disaster or something
of that nature, I'll back it off or I might back offthe situation because, you know, it's like people
ask, has this come from a smoking home and does itsmell like smoke or does it have it like that?

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Collectors- It's hard to get the smell out.Collectors take prone to that. You know, they want
it from a clean house or a clean stable situation.Because when you think about it, mold, water
damage, fire damage, all that, that devalues someof the stuff. I was, oh my God, I actually, I was
storing for that. I, when I was collecting vinylfor a little while, I found this dope little lot of

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records for like 50 bucks. But going through it, Iwas like, that's a $200 a lot. I'm gonna go pick this
up. And I was so excited because the pictures, itwas all cool stuff. And then I get there and the
second I open the box, just cigarettes. I was like,it ain't even worth it. No, no. So it just permeates

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just all through everything. Yeah. And I alwayswonder like too, if that also like messes with the
quality of the vinyl like itself after a while. Whoknows? They were older records. Sure, it leaves a
residue. And I was totally mad too. Right. BecauseI should have known when the dude walked out with a
cigarette in his mouth. I was like, oh, yeah, but Iturned down the entire collection just because I

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was like, that smell. Well, that's happened. Imean, we did a doll collection. This is where
Christian walks out. I'm walking out with you.Take me, please. We got these horror movie
instincts. We're right. We got this. We out. We'redone. We did. We did this doll collection.

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Absolutely crazy. It was it was a an older woman andshe was she was absolutely had fifty thousand
dollars. Oh, God, I did. Now, that's a whore. Therewas a whore there. All right. That you couldn't
even walk. I couldn't get through the front door.Just why I beamed it. You just justified. When I

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tell you she had, I think, 200 doll houses in her.And you. OK, you had a walk. The one that's on the
way. Oh, yes, that one. You had a walk. So this is theone that Tommy had his heart attack on. Yeah, it
actually killed Tommy. Well, he's not dead, butlike it almost. The owner, the owner fell on the
ambulance. She was the one. OK, that's who Ithought. We had to like break in through the

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window. The runtime. Some men. The yeah, this dollwoman. Oh, my God. Were they haunted? They
probably were just like that one doll you unpackedfrom Brooklyn. Yeah, I didn't. She didn't. I
didn't like the look of her. She's not wanted.They're done. But we was it from the the the Jim Crow
collection? No, no, no, no, I'm not even kidding.Like that's what that those with those items are

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kind of called. Right. There's weird fascinationwith that stuff, because I think whoopie Goldberg
actually opened a museum of just that stuff.Right, right. And I think we're in New York. Yeah.
So I wonder like where stuff like that ends upsometimes. I'm curious. Right. Anything of that
right? We went there. No, it was as big as you weretalking about it. I'm like, that sounds
interesting. So we went in, we took a load and thehouse there again, it was so hoarded. There was

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holes in the roof. It was leaking. It was leaking.It was it was moldy in there. But I was trying to I was
not. This is like a farmhouse. This is a farmhouse.And and and and we took a load and I told myself, oh,
it'll be fine. And we got it to the auction. Weunpacked it and you could smell it at the building.
So I didn't take a second load from. No, we did. Wetook another one. I took another. But no, but not

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after we unpacked it. So we took two and we werescheduled for another one and you let the last one
go. And the last time I let it go. Right. You're justlike, nope, the smell. It was too bad. I let it go.
See, I can let it go. You say I can't. Nobody sing thesong. OK. But you know, I did let it go. All right,

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