July 16, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode of the What Sold Podcast, Brandon and Matt catch up after a long hiatus, discussing their hiatus and share insights from a vacation in Scotland, which included exploring thrift stores and encountering unique reselling opportunities. They delve into the challenges and adventures of reselling while traveling, including navigating Scotland’s roads, and Matt’s visit to London's Christie's auction house. The episode also touches on personal anecdotes about overcoming travel challenges, cultural differences in dining and shopping, and the reopening of the tobacco barn post-Hurricane Helene. They invite insights from UK listeners on reselling in the UK and preview upcoming episodes, including one focusing on selling jewelry.
00:00 Welcome Back to the Podcast
01:13 Vacation Tales and Reselling Challenges
02:25 YouTube and Listener Engagement
04:08 Rusty's Adventures and Boy Scout Memories
07:29 Thrifting in Scotland
13:31 Exploring the Scottish Highlands
17:41 A Visit to Christie's Auction House
19:29 Exploring Local Auction Houses
21:03 Traveling and Thrifting Abroad
21:28 Differences in Thrift Stores: US vs UK
23:10 Hiking Adventures in London and Scotland
24:25 Challenges of Sourcing in Tourist Areas
27:30 Cultural Differences in Dining
34:05 Rebuilding After Hurricane Helene
37:34 Upcoming Shows and Listener Engagement
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(00:38):
Welcome back to the What Sold podcast.
It feels like it has been a long,long time since we've actually talked
through the miracle of podcast editing.
Our multitudes are droves of fans thatare out there that are clamoring for us.
Didn't have a notice because we justdid one, I guess, two best of shows.
So we didn't miss a whole lot.
(00:59):
I do believe we're the hardestworking duo in the podcast world.
I'm going to put that out there right now.
What do you think Matt?
Are we, until this has probablybeen the largest break we've had
since the inception of the podcast,like the time where we haven't.
Been regularly getting together.
And for those listening, it'sbecause I went on a two and a
half week vacation with my family.
(01:19):
The longest period of time I have notworked consecutively in five years since
doing reselling as a full time job.
And.
I was also very intentional abouttrying to not do anything on my phone
with regard to I paused my eBay storesso things can still sell, but I'm not
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obligated to fulfill them until I return.
But that causes a big slump in sales.
A person gets on there and sees,Oh, like I want this, but he's
gone for the next week and a half.
And then they just moveon to the next thing.
And that's a real.
Thing that happens and I know that so Ido some things ahead of time to try to
prep and then of course now I'm back.
So I'm scrambling Let's try to catchup and get back into a routine, right?
(02:05):
But yeah, it does feel likea long time feels good.
Feels good to be back at it.
Yeah, I was bored I'mnot gonna lie to you.
I did a lot of catching up stuff.
I have a lot of other work to doBut this is my favorite thing to do.
So when you you and or rustyare gone, I lose focus.
I lose steam.
I lose power.
In fact, I will, I do want to apologizefor some of it because I realized that
(02:28):
some of our listeners consume the showprimarily through YouTube and I've been a
little slack because I just been so busy.
Getting the YouTube shows up because,we post the show every Wednesday that
never fails, but I realized that a lot ofpeople that are listening on YouTube are
like, Hey, what was our show this week?
I'm like, Oh, that's right.
I got to post a YouTube show.
Yeah.
They'll let you know.
(02:49):
They will let you know.
Oh, skip a beat.
Oh, they have let me know.
YouTube is like feed, feed me.
Yeah, I have loud and proud.
I have heard from manysources, not just one, but.
But a multitude, quite a fewpeople have commented or emailed
saying, Hey, where's the show?
So the show, I think that we've got onemore to post to get 100 percent caught up.
(03:09):
This show will post years from now.
We don't know.
We don't even know.
That world could gooff the rails tomorrow.
It may never post, but if it does post.
The following day, we will post you, Joe,I'm imagining like a post apocalyptic
scene where people are trying tofigure out how to make a device work
and they get the only thing they canget to work is YouTube are trying to
(03:30):
communicate with somebody and then thisepisode pops up and like, Hey, fine,
but this is not what I need right now.
This is the only thing that they canactually access is the what's old
podcast in the post apocalyptic world.
Right.
Twist of fate, the only electronicsavings that's been made, the only
thing people can actually get is this.
So you, the dulcet tonesof Matt and Brandon.
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And all we're doing is teachingpeople how to sell things and
they're like, yeah, this, this inno way helps my life right now.
I need to know how tokill a bear and skin it.
How do I find edible plants?
And how do I, cleandrinking water, please?
We could do that.
We could, you have talkedabout how to sell the things
that you find in your yard.
Oh yeah.
Hey, Rusty.
Rusty.
He wasn't in Boy Scouts.
(04:11):
He was in the religious alternativecalled the Royal Rangers.
Oh yeah.
The Royal Ranger and.
And he learns a thing or two duringthat time that I'm sure he would
love to share with the world.
Oh, fantastic.
How to take a knife from someone'shand, that sort of thing.
So you don't cut yourself.
I actually was for, I was a boyscout, but I was also for one year.
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My mom put us, my brother and I inthis group called the buckaroos, which
I think is one of these religious.
I don't know what Is itcowboy themed, I'm assuming?
I think so.
You have a lasso at alltimes, right on your head.
Yeah, I don't I only think we wentto like four or five meetings.
I barely remember it, but I doremember it was called the buckaroos.
Although that could be apocryphal.
I could be making that up.
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I don't know, but it was when I was young.
I was probably seven or eight.
And I do remember it was through a church.
I did go back.
My brother Damon ended up being an EagleScout, which is quite an accomplishment.
So that was, I dropped outright around 6th or 7th grade.
I do have a daughter that's a Girl Scout.
I don't know if, Bobby Jean, Rusty'sdaughter, is, You were heavy into
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the dating scene at that point.
That was really the transition for you.
Yeah.
I have given your children, Rusty'schildren, I should say, names now.
I just want you to be preparedthat they do have names.
We're not, they're not just namelessCreature Fair, Bobby Jean and Jethro.
That's, those are, that's pretty good.
They went by, , I think they went byLottie and Pete on the last episode where
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I had them on briefly on, the channel.
Well, Lottie, Pete.
Names are subject to change on the show.
They are as we are.
We know that they are.
Alright, Matt, let's stop this.
Tom Foolery.
I actually did follow some, I thinkyou're lying a little bit to your fans
and I just want to put it out there.
Oh man, calling me out.
I like truth in media, so Ilike truth in advertising.
That's why you like to tell lotsof truthful stories that you,
(06:00):
like conversations you've hadwith your wife on here, right?
Absolutely.
That's because you care so much about me.
Oh, yes.
So, what I'm going to say isthis, is that I was perusing the
interwebs at some point and, I wasactually doing the YouTube show.
So I was posting them up and I seethis Rusty has posted a video and Rusty
posted quite a few videos from Scotland.
(06:21):
And now I did not knowRussell was with you.
Well, now Rusty isn't going to changehis accent when he gets over there.
He might just fit in a wee bit.
He is who he is.
So I did notice that Rusty.
Put his face down in the magicalwaters of Scotland and may not return.
He loved it so much, I think, I believethat he drank a lot of Lakavulin, Scotch.
(06:43):
Red Breast in different it's Red, no,Red Breast is an Irish whiskey, right?
It's Irish actually, it isIrish whiskey, yeah, we're,
but, I'm sure he drank that too.
Land of Scotch, well, yeah, if hecan get his hand on a bottle of
something, he's in a happy place.
That's right.
I was watching a documentaryon on moonshine and it was all
in the hills of Appalachia.
I thought that was interesting.
So I'm assuming Rusty has had some contactor experience with running a still.
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I'm just spitballing here,but I feel like he might have.
Yeah, I mean, if he, he definitely wouldbe on brand for him, getting over there.
You know how he is, he can,the camaraderie and get wrapped
up in the magic of things.
He's got a lot of, he's makingfriends over there is what he's doing.
Bouncing from place to place.
People are all quite nice.
(07:29):
All right.
So tell us about your, tell us about yourtrip, not fully into the details of your
family experience, but what was it like?
I knew you did go mudlarkingat one point in Scotland.
I did.
I do.
I, we do have some breakingnews on the show, quite frankly.
It's interesting how the what's oldworld has proliferated my world.
It, at one point it was just sortof a magical place that you didn't
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connect with the real world, butwhat's old is, has connect, has,
is literally seeped into my world.
Yeah.
Wow.
So, I saw Bobby Jean had come backfrom abroad and she had this fancy
purse with her and we were allcommenting on how lovely it is.
Now, what y'all don't know isthat Bobby Jean Matt's alter ego's
daughter is very fashionable.
(08:09):
And she's nine, but she'sincredibly fashionable.
Like she must be the most fashionista.
Doesn't get it from her dad.
I'll put it that way.
It's goes without saying.
That's absolutely true.
I believe that more flowthan pop, but for sure.
She had a bag and my wife saw thisbag and said, Oh, that's really cute.
Where did you get it?
No, we got it in a thrift storein Scotland of all places.
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So I thought that was, well, Matt, thatguy he's always looking either rusty or
Matt are out there looking for deals.
And so my wife was curious.
He goes, Oh, I've neverheard of that brand.
I think it was calledlike Magene or something.
And so she looked it up on, of all places.
eBay.
Okay.
And that handbag that Bobby Jean saidthat she paid 3 for, which was quite low.
(08:54):
I was like, that's pretty fetching.
Even if it was three, even ifit was worth 10, still a really
nice bag is for great shape.
That bag on eBay is going for 80 and,I did mention to Bobbie Jean that I
probably shouldn't tell her dad becauseDad, tomorrow, dad, dad, where's my purse?
I can't find it.
Oh, well, what purse?
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I did tell her that she should sell itand make some money and in fact, Jethro,
or Pete, depending on which way you wantto call him, he also agreed with me.
He's like, that would buy a lot of toys.
That was his He's not wrong.
The selling of the purse.
You know the thrift store in,in, in Skyland that we that, that
was purchased at, it was threequarters the way through the trip.
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And the kids have been saving somemoney from Christmas and stuff, knowing
that we were going on this trip.
And you know how it is as a parent.
You wanna make sure they're not justbuying something that's just gonna break
the next day right can't say no to every.
I'm I'm great at saying no Apparentlyas a dad, so I've been pushing a
dog puppy off on the family And hethat Matt is just an old Grinch.
(09:58):
You don't have a puppy.
I just hate animals and Sure.
Yeah.
I can't make money off ofthem, so what do I care?
Right.
What's the point?
? We're in this place.
It happened to be down the driveway from the Airbnb place we were
staying at, so we wa could walk there.
And it happened to be a morning whenit was the first morning that we were
gonna be, because we were hiking.
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We get up in the morning, we leave,hike, and do stuff all day long,
come home, so tired, we just crash.
The first couple days we were there,we were gone before the store opened,
we were back after it had closed.
So we didn't have an option, but thisparticular morning, it was raining.
One of the few days that wegot rain, which is strange for
Scotland, especially the Highlands.
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We got over there right as it opened.
Tiny little place, but my kidswere digging through stuff.
What you don't know about Bobby Jean,Bobby BJ and Bobby Jean, she would have
two names is that she not only did sheget this purse, but I also grabbed a
few things that I knew I could selland make some money on smaller stuff.
I didn't check a bag.
I like to not check bags anymore.
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If I can avoid it.
So then when I want a source,obviously I have limitations, right?
I have to be able to fit thatin my bag, my carrying on.
So I bought a used pair ofwomen's Nike waffle shoes.
I bought three or four of theseolder Thomas, the train, pink
engine type trains, like collectibletoys, a handful of things.
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My son found this motorcyclewith a guy sitting on it.
It's actually like an ambulancemotorcycle person required batteries.
He didn't have batteries.
He wanted it anyways,this would be a Jethro.
Wanted that right?
And so I'm like, okay, let'sput all this stuff together.
Let's go up there Well thatlittle girl snuck this little
bracelet in that purse as well.
And so I'm not payingattention I'm wrangling them.
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I'm talking with some other people agoggles are in pays And so later in
the day, she's got this bracelet onShe's showing it to her aunt because
my brother and sister in law and theiryoung child joined us for part of
that trip And I go, Oh, that's cool.
I've never seen that before.
And she's like, yeah, I know.
I got it at the, I gotit at the thrift store.
I don't remember buying you thatat this because at first I was
like, did you have sticky fingers?
What happened here?
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Oh no, I bought it.
I bought it.
I just.
She just snuck it in there and it's fine.
It was her money that kind of thing.
But yes, she's quite fashionable.
It's funny.
I'm going to tell you that your kidsunderstand the value of a dollar.
Because when I said to Bobby Jeanthat she ought to sell that purse,
Pete's response was Hey, if you dothat, you'll have more money than me.
That was his response toher selling the purse.
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It was, he had calculated the numbers.
He being three years, threeyears younger than her.
Yeah.
And he was still calculating allthe money owned by the two of them.
Also not earned by them.
Just comes in.
Oh no, it's my money.
I'm like, well, where's your money?
Yeah.
It's her money.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, no, it was a cool.
It's funny to know that that turnedout to be a good, I just knew it wasn't
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good shape It was like two and a halfpounds or something, the conversion
rate when we were there was 1.
37, 1. 38, something likethat for every pound.
That's about usually what it is.
So, yeah, so you kind of do thatcalculation in your head, but I mean
we got out of that store and for lessthan 30 American dollars, my kids got
toys, I got a handful of things, I'llmake 30 or more on all that back.
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So they got toys.
And the money's coming back whenyou source on a trip like that, and
you have receipts, you can that is awork trip and your transportation to
and from that place that you boughtsomething can be, utilized for tax.
You can write off a portionof that expense for work.
So I was doing that and.
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But it was lovely.
We flew into London.
I was there a coupledays before the family.
They joined for three or four days,and then the rest of the time we
flew from London to Edinburgh.
We rented a vehicle, a verylarge three seater van.
It was, uh, it's calleda Peugeot Traveller.
Oh.
And it was, as is the case in the UK,you're on the opposite side of the
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vehicle to drive and you're driving onthe opposite side of the road than you're
used to if you're living in the States.
Also, the Scottish roads are quitenarrow in comparison to the States.
Well, they're old too, right?
They're old.
They're super old.
And they, a lot of them don'teven have long stretches where
it's just a single lane road.
And there's plenty of traffic, but theyhave these various what they call passing.
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Spots passing lane or something, but it'sjust a little cut out off of the site.
So they didn't bother.
They got plenty of land,by the way, plenty of land.
They could have made a largersingle road or a double road would
not have been a problem at all.
But instead they make these tinylittle roads with little, and
it's just, you're constantlymoving and stopping, getting over.
Oops.
I've gone halfway.
It doesn't look like they're going.
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So I got to back all the way up intomy little spot so they can pass.
And that was a little aggravating, but.
The other, the flip side of the lackof some of that infrastructure is
that you're looking at such gorgeousland that is highly undeveloped.
And I have to assume, I've notlooked at it, but they have to
have some restrictions or some,some laws, codes in place because
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I know they're getting touristsall the time coming there, probably
tourists with quite a bit of money.
I'm sure it has dawned on some peoplelike I should come and build a thing
here or build a hotel or I shouldPut my business here or whatever else
you don't see much of that at all.
You don't see a lot of influencesfrom the West for example in housing
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in In really much of anything andthat was really nice Frankly, to be
there and you look over and you think,Oh, they just put a bridge here.
That would shave anhour of drive time off.
Nope.
They're not going to do it.
You're going to go in and out of everyone of these little coves driving around.
And that's uh, one of thetowns we stayed in one evening.
We walked along this little, thelock that was coming in there
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and came up to the structure.
That there was some informationwritten on a, a little thing there,
but supposedly it's from 5, 500,I guess, BCE, they would say now.
And I was commenting to Floabout how interesting it is that
the water comes right up to it.
And in 5, 500 years of climate changes andwhatever else, it's exactly where it was.
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The water has not recededout too far or taken it over.
It's all, you're potentially lookingat the landscape that has always
been for many thousands of years.
And I'll also just note that we've beenvery fortunate to travel a decent amount.
Flo and I waited 11 years betweengetting married and having children,
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so we had a good amount of time to dothings that young couples want to do.
Travel was a big one for us.
We've been to a lot of beautifulplaces, tasted some amazing food,
done some really cool things.
There are a handful of thosethat we've experienced, and I
hope to in the future, where theyare a little bit more than that.
They almost seem magical.
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Like you're on a movie set, or you'rein some alien land you've never
been, and Hiking in the highlandsof Scotland was one of those.
There were times when I felt like I was inthe middle of a Lord of the Rings scene.
Or, when they're choppering him in forthe first time to Jurassic Park, and
you get into this lush, tropical, wet,huge rock walls and bluffs and things.
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It was like that.
And, it's just, it's gonnastay with me for a while.
Scottland You got some prettyawesome stuff going on out there.
London was awesome too.
It's just a completely different thing.
We're not hiking around.
I'm more going to museums who has thebest fish and chips; that kind of thing.
Ya.
Bouncing around and they had someawesome stuff, but this is important
for this particular podcast, the peoplewho like the buying and selling world.
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One of the days I was there prior to myfamily coming, I was, I think I'd gone to
like the Royal arts Academy, one of thesebuildings it's, and I was just, I bounced.
From place to place.
I'd look on my maps.
What's within walking distance.
And I'd go there.
I was really close where I stayedto Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly
Circus in that area, right?
So south of Hyde Park and over therecloser to where the parliament is and
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Big Ben and Tower Bridge and all of that.
So I'm walking around and I justhappened to turn a corner and see
the word Christie's on a wall.
And I think Christie's likeChristie's the auction house, like
a Sotheby's, but Christie's like UK.
Sure enough, I am at theChristie's auction house.
I think they probably have multiplelocations they operate out of, but
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I didn't realize it because I'dnever done the research on this.
They operate as an open to the public,almost like a museum where in between
each of their auction cycles, probablynot all, but a good portion of the
things that are available for saleare in there displayed, you can walk
in and see them, you can place bidsright there on the spot if you want to.
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So without planning it, I got to walk in.
And see Picasso's, aMatisse, I saw a Klimt paint.
I think it was in maybe a lithograph.
I saw a Munch, I don't know if I'mpronouncing it right, the artist
that did the scream with that kindof alien figure on the bridge.
I saw a Banksy in there.
There was a large cause sculpture, andvarious other amazing pieces of artwork.
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And that was just lovely.
So I got to see a bunch of stuff.
What was cool is, I haven't done ityet, but That sale was ending like maybe
four or five days after I toured it.
I can go right now online andlook and see what those things
sold for stuff that I saw.
I was two feet away from, I cansee what those sold or at auction.
Which is really cool and somethingI actually encourage people who
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are interested in doing this kindof thing, selling for a living.
It would behoove you to not justChristie's or Sotheby's, the giant ones.
Those are definitely one to look at.
But I would look around at the auctionsites around you, auction houses and
places that will offer up to you.
The sale price on thingsafter one has ended.
There's one in the Ashevillearea called Brunk Auctions.
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B R U N. If you get on theirs, you cansee what their stuff sold for as well.
That can help inform you as to what ispopular, what people are buying right now
and what they're willing to pay for it.
And that's all knowledge.
You want to be.
Always educating yourselfbecause the market is not static.
It's changing all the time as well.
And I just think that it's fascinating.
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It was lovely to see it.
It was just an enjoyableexperience to be there.
And then I can look andsee what things sold for.
And not that you're going to walk in toa thrift store and find Oh, Picasso, this
is probably not going to happen, right?
But if you start to see trendsor patterns, or you start to pick
up on, okay, seems like modernart or whatever, impressionism
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seems to be really hot right now.
Maybe that's stylistically somethingthat you then do a deeper dive on and
start researching because you might comeacross pieces that, okay, not the same
artist, but same colors, same, it's alandscape it's done in this type of style.
You already know you're in a better spot.
So for have something like thatsell now, because it tends to be
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what the trend is at this moment.
So let me ask you a question, I knowyou spend a lot of your time going
into thrift stores in differentplaces as does a lot of our audience.
When you were over there, and I highlyencourage people to travel, because
traveling is a great, Educator.
There's no question.
My wife and I have beenlucky enough to travel a lot.
I get to travel a lotwhen I was a teacher.
So traveling is a great experience.
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And I even say traveling around theUnited States, a lot of people don't
do that, but there's just reallycool things to see everywhere.
When you were in London or Scotland,I know you did go and do some
scouting of what was out there.
Did you see a difference in thetypes of things that were popular
there versus what are popular here?
That's a really good question.
Wait, before you answer that, wedo have quite a few UK listeners.
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Oh, wonderful.
Who have commented and come in.
So if anybody in the UK has thoughts onthat, we'd love to hear them, but I'm
just curious about what did you see?
What did you think?
Let me, let me try to get it more refined.
Are you talking about.
Clothing like what they were wearingyou're talking about handbags
things that they were they had orno Like if you went into a thrift
store, did you see a difference inlike what jewelry was being sold?
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What items were popular, you know Ifyou're going I know you've always said
that there are certain things thatwhen you go into thrift stores here
You kind of know where everything is.
Yeah, was it differentthere or is it the same?
So we didn't go in very many.
I don't have a great Set of experiencesto give real good example, like
to really compare and contrast,but generally speaking, the setup
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for the thrift stores is the same.
I wasn't in any large ones.
So they were... they were just tryingto get stuff where they had space, but
they all had the same types of items,clothing, some handbags and stuff,
some knickknacks, some tchotchkes, alittle bit of jewelry here and there,
some books, music, that kind of thing.
I didn't see a whole lot of fine jewelry.
Really hardly anywhere, even storesthat you would normally see, they
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would have some kind of jewelry andas well, they didn't have a whole lot.
And if I saw it, I saw predominantlysilver jewelry, not as much gold.
If I had been in more rural areas and thetrip had been set up more revolved around
the type of work I do, it would have beendifferent, but again, this was primarily.
We were hiking, to give you an example,my wife even told me today, she had
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one of those watches or her phonethat tracks our steps and basically
tells you how far you're going.
Mmmhmm.
My family was there for, I don't know,14, 15 days, something like that.
And total, between days where we werejust walking, like in London, versus
the majority of time where we werehiking, trails, we did 171 miles.
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Wow.
The kids did too.
My nine year old and my six yearold did it all with us as well.
One day in London, we did 23miles just walking around the
city, walking around Hyde Park.
We went to the British Museum.
That's a lot for a six year old.
I take a stride, and he takes one anda half to two for every step of mine.
They didn't complain they were tired,but we were seeing such incredible stuff.
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The majority of that was hiking, likewe were doing 2, 600 feet in elevation
and in less than two miles at times.
So you're climbing.
We were doing an average of 11 or 12miles a day consecutively for two weeks,
going on two and a half weeks for me.
So we didn't have a lot of time to be outshopping, we were just out really trying
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to take in the experience and the sights.
The nicer items I saw, I saw inLondon, but as you, it wouldn't be
hard to convince you that perhapsthe best place to go source items to
sell and make a profit on would notbe shops in like downtown London.
That's just not where you're making.
So I went in several.
Covent Gardens.
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several cool.
Yeah, exactly.
And which I went to, I was there, I didsee a lot of really cool things and a lot
of stuff that I sell on a regular basis.
They were more expensivein those shops because.
They're banking on tourists and travelerscoming in and spending up and justifying
it because they're on vacation.
You can spend more money by the way, whenyou're on vacation, you tell yourself.
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Sure.
Does not real.
Not right.
Right.
You, you're going tostress about that later.
You'll be where I am today when it'sstressed out about not working for
two weeks, but it's good though.
I'm going to channel thatand try to be creative.
It's a bit of a challenge.
It's like when you're in a boardgame and you get yourself backed
into a corner and you're like, howam I going to get myself out of this?
That's where I'm at now.
Trying to catch back up, but Ithink the things that are there.
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It's different brands.
It's different looks, but I think ifanything, what I noticed, there were
a lot fewer of these types of thriftstores than we have around here.
You had antique stores that were more likeminiature museums, collections of just
really, Amazing things, very high priced.
And then you had department stores, butyou didn't have a whole lot in between.
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I've heard people told me that a lot ofthe sale by individuals of those types
of things tend to be more these weekendevents where people will get together in
these large outdoor venues where they'llsell a bunch of things and not as much
in these tiny little thrift stores.
The thrift stores we wentto were in tiny communities.
They were funneling money to nonprofitorganizations in their areas.
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And I feel good about supporting thoseplaces because I'm not concerned that
those storefronts in London are hurting.
It's gotta cost a lot to havethose and they're clearly making
it because they're still there.
And London is a firstclass city too, by the way.
My brother lived in London backin the early 90s and it was a much
grittier place in the early 90s.
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And that was the end of thethug era, the soccer era.
Thugs that would go and allthat stuff that was going on.
But now when you go to London, it is,as they say over there, very posh.
It is, there's a coffeeshop on every corner.
Yes.
It's just lovely.
It's nice.
It is.
It's a wonderful walking city for sure.
There were not enough trash cans, though.
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I'm gonna throw this out there, England.
Generally speaking, whereare your trash cans at?
I'm a trashy guy!
I'm a trashy American, I'm gonnacome to your city, and I got
trash that I need to dispose of.
I don't want to drop it on the ground.
And by the way, that's all over Europe.
They do not create as much trash as wedo, I tell you with absolute certainty.
I remember walking around multipletimes, not angry, but generally annoyed
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that I could not find a receptacle.
To drop this, whatever it was in.
So good for you, I guess,not making as much trash.
It's not just that, but there isan expectation here that things are
going to, going to be set up for us.
Whereas if you go to, if yougo to Italy, I lived in Italy
and spent a lot of time there.
And it's just a different.
They give you one napkin, not 30.
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They, it's just a different value system.
They eat the waiter.
One of the things that I always tellpeople, this will sum up Italian living
is that the waiter will never, evercome and ask you if you're done ever.
You will see, you could sit there forever.
Yes, we did experience that as well,actually in Scotland, where they bring
us a nice meal and a drink to start.
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I'm done with my drink.
I'd have another, if somebodywould come check on me.
But I, and it's like this wrestlingbetween, I, am I going to be rude
if I don't, am not patient and Idon't wait on them to come serve me?
I'm not going to do the proverbial,shake the ice in your glass.
I'm not going to, I'mnot going to, yeah, yeah.
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I'm not going to snap, at a person.
Garcon.
It's ridiculous.
Exactly So I'm, kind of self conscious.
You're thinking, I would,I'd get something else.
If you come and they won't come.
It was a back and forth with Flo, andFlo was like, you just gotta, it's
different here, you just gotta you makeeyeballs, just put your fingers up,
and she did it, got their attentionright away, and I'm like, that's fine.
They're wonderful, and they'reprofessional servers there, so the
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reason why they do that is theydon't want to interrupt your meal.
There's a very much Aculture of not interrupt.
In America, it's not that waitersinterrupt us here, they're just
filling up drinks or whatever.
But in Europe, especially inmy experience in England and in
Italy, and even in France, theyjust don't want to interrupt you.
Yeah.
So it's not rude to raise your handand ask for someone to come over.
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They're being respectful.
But just that that just goesto show you listener how.
Your worldview is shaped by what youexperience on a day to day basis.
So with American culture, if it tookthat long, that's a problem because
our expectation is that they're goingto come periodically and check on us.
So then when I go over there andit doesn't happen, how am I to
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determine what it is that's happening?
I guess my first presumption is thatthey're just not a good server, right?
Because.
That would be theexperience if I was here.
But the other way of looking atit is, Oh, actually they're being
patient and respectful of you.
And it's a full time job.
It's not a, it's not like a, I think alot of people that serve here are, it's
like a stepping stone job, somethingelse for the most part, unless you're
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at a super high end restaurant,but there it's a career, a lot of
those people will spend their entirecareer waiting tables and everything.
And it's a, it's not, it'sjust a different value system.
Going on, I think that everyoneshould take a trip to another
country at some point to see justthe difference in the way people view
the world and think about the world.
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I love this country.
I'm not one of the peoplelike the, America terrible.
I don't like that.
But I do think thatthere are things that we.
We do really well, and there arethings that we don't do so well, and it
doesn't hurt to see a different mode.
It's not terrible todo something different.
If it works better, so I thinkthat there's something to be said
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about that and I really enjoy it.
I enjoy my trips to Europe.
I was going to say, it soundslike the what's old podcast
needs to make a trip to England.
Oh, man, set up and do a show fromEngland where we can go in and
different into these different places.
And talk to them about,what's their experience.
It feels like you had a littletoo much fun, Matt, and not
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enough working going on.
I'm just a little, although I will saythis, I guarantee you, my daughter would
have complained about hiking 23 miles.
So the fact that he didn't,it's pretty impressive.
I was so proud of them and they didsuch a, this was the first big trip.
We've taken both of them on.
He's, because he's finally old enough.
We thought, okay, I think we can do this.
This was very much a checkit out and see situation.
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And they did so well.
I'm like, I'm not concerned.
We can take him.
We can take him anywhere.
I think at this point.
The food thing, they'restill a little bit picky.
That's the one thing to get over.
Yeah.
We gotta get over with them.
But, beyond that, they workedtheir little tails off.
So, it was great.
When you went and shot some of thisfootage for Rusty over there, you did
one that I thought was really funnywhere you put your face into the stream.
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Did you find that you're morebeautiful now that you've put
your face into the magical stream?
Did you feel the magic of the watersis really what I'm asking about.
I did feel the magic in the water.
Someone later posted that, thelocals, use the restroom upstream.
I, Which I didn't love to hear.
Sure, but that's what givesyou the magical water.
That's exactly, that's why it tingles.
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They didn't say it was supposed to tingle.
It burns, it burns.
No, so there's supposedly like thislore around fairies in Scotland.
This particular one was something aboutif you put your face in the water, And you
take it out and you let it dry naturally.
So I can't wipe it off.
I have this very large, it's actuallyquite small right now, my beard,
but it's still, it's like a sponge.
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It can soak up that water.
So like the rest of the day, we'regoing in places and I just have
this weird, wet stain down my shirtwhere I'm just constantly dripping.
What Matt doesn't know is that I didsome research on that very thing.
And apparently it's not as old a storyas Matt would lead you to believe.
It's actually from the postsoldiers would come over.
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They're like, we've got to come upwith something that will get them to
put their face in the urine water.
Yeah.
So we're going to come up with a story andthat is what you basically were involved.
The good people of the Highlandsof Scotland are having a good
chuckle at your expense as we speak.
It's smart because you'relike, what is America?
What's the Achilles heel Americans?
They're vanity.
Let's come up with a way where they canmake themselves even more beautiful.
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Oh, I think, I don't, I feel likethere's nothing that you could do to
make yourself more beautiful, Matt, thansoaking your face in the urine filled
waters of the Highlands of Scotland.
That just says it all to me.
It felt good, to be honest with you.
It felt good.
It was not like trout water, but itwas that cold, but It was cool, and
it was coming off the mountains.
It was right there bythis really old bridge.
I noticed that Flo did not do it.
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No, but you heard for the first time.
You heard Flo's voice.
That's the first time Flohas ever been featured.
Her back.
And the back of her headhave been featured before.
She's never spoken.
So I don't know if this is movingtowards, Hey, listen, I've known from the
beginning that if I just put my wife on,this channel would be 10 times as hot.
But they're not going to let youtake her out of the bowling alley.
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She's got served the good people.
I'm surprised they lether go for that long.
Also, this is my YouTube channel.
Thank you very much, Flo.
This is not for you.
Do you want something?
Go make your own.
You could do your owndamn YouTube channel, Flo.
So you would say that theexperience overall was a good
one and you're ready to be back.
One of the things that Idid want to give an update.
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We talked at length aboutHelene, Hurricane Helene.
And by the way, our hearts go out tothose people in Texas right now, because
I don't think any people in the countrycan truly appreciate what they're
going through right now more than us.
It's really tough and it's just, I hate tosay our, our thoughts and prayers because
I think we should be doing more than that.
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But it is tough, but one of the thingsthat was devastated when Helene hit
was this place called the tobacco barn.
It was this great big,It was a tobacco barn.
It was this huge building thatused to dry tobacco and they used
it for high end antiques stuff.
Some of it wasn't antiquity,but lots of tourists went there.
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Very, very popular.
Yes.
And it was wiped out.
And I remember the owner of thetobacco barn saying, we don't
know what's going to happen.
We'll see what we can do.
They have reopened.
They're back.
It is beautiful.
It is packed with people.
Have you been in it?
Have you been in it since?
I've been by it becauseit's so busy right now.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna wait.
Yeah.
The outside looks great.
I'm excited to go.
Maybe you and I should take atrip to the tobacco barn together.
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Oh yeah.
To see what it looks like.
Scope it out.
Scope it out.
Happy that they were able to do that.
I had stuff in an antique storewithin walking distance on the same
road that was completely destroyedand all the inventory was lost.
And that same group had one onthe other side of the river.
I wasn't in that particular building, butthat building has now, it's now rehabbed
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and they're trying to get us to comeback in and I, I'm just not going to
because it's the same area that flooded.
They've rebuilt the stuff in the tobaccobarn, but it's in the same location.
It's in the same spot.
You can't guarantee me it'snot going to flood again.
So I'm out as a seller there, ithas always been really good for
tourists traffic and they sell stuffand it'll be all new stuff because
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all the stuff that was in therewas predominantly damaged or lost.
So maybe a lot of the samevendors, but new items.
So yeah, it's definitelyworth checking out.
I'm definitely going to go check it out.
Cause I liked the store before that.
So I'm curious to see, and it'salways nice to see like the, we had an
Aldi that was near us that, that wascompletely wiped out and they rebuilt it.
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And it's going to open I guess dayafter tomorrow, it sounds so silly,
but it's just such a, a thing tohave that, stuff coming back to life.
It's nice.
We wanted to do, we wantedto check in with you.
I am very excited that you're back.
We are going full speed ahead.
We're going to be bringingsome new types of shows.
Hopefully somebody from the UK willreach out, come on, and talk about what
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it's like to be a reseller in the UK.
I know there is, we did have somebodyreach out to us somewhere, someone
reached out to me that was a resellerin the UK, so that would be super
fun to have somebody come on.
I would love, yeah, to hear,if somebody wants to get on
and give us your experience.
Tell me what I missed, which was a lotwhile I was there, and maybe give some
tips for the next time I make it outthat way, I would love to know, but
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even for other listeners who live inthat region, hey, share some thoughts
of this, like where do you go over thereto find stuff if you want to resell?
Is it more like I had heard, which ismore outdoor stuff, like infrequent,
or are there good spots day in and dayout during the weeks or weekends that a
person can go and find some decent stuff?
And that depends on whereyou are, I'm sure, but.
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Please, we'd love to, to hear, I'malways trying to learn more about what's
out there because I like to travel.
So if I can pair both work with thetravel piece, then all the better.
Absolutely.
We are excited to be back.
As I said, Looking forward tobringing you some brand new shows.
We'll be back with a,get some jewelry soon.
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Yeah.
Some, yeah, we're goingto be doing a show.
Our next show will be on jewelry andwhat's sold jewelry has been a forte.
It's also really popular.
People like jewelry andtalking about jewelry.
So we'll be bringingyou some stuff on jury.
We're excited to be back.
Please remember to, emailus, send us your comments.
It is deeply appreciated.
We have some super fans outthere that comment a lot and
we really appreciate that.
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Remember you can email usat whatsoldpodcast at gmail.
com.
You can always find that email in the shownotes that are attached to every episode.
Otherwise that is all thetime we have for today.
Back with a brand newshow next week or not.
I don't know.
You never know.
I said that before and we didn't do it.
So we'll see what happens.
But anyway, have a great week everybody.
Welcome back to the What Sold podcast.
It feels like it has been a long,long time since we've actually talked
through the miracle of podcast editing.
Our multitudes are droves of fans thatare out there that are clamoring for us.
Didn't have a notice because we justdid one, I guess, two best of shows.
So we didn't miss a whole lot.
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I do believe we're the hardestworking duo in the podcast world.
I'm going to put that out there right now.
What do you think Matt?
Are we, until this has probablybeen the largest break we've had
since the inception of the podcast,like the time where we haven't.
Been regularly getting together.
And for those listening, it'sbecause I went on a two and a
half week vacation with my family.
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The longest period of time I have notworked consecutively in five years since
doing reselling as a full time job.
And.
I was also very intentional abouttrying to not do anything on my phone
with regard to I paused my eBay storesso things can still sell, but I'm not
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obligated to fulfill them until I return.
But that causes a big slump in sales.
A person gets on there and sees,Oh, like I want this, but he's
gone for the next week and a half.
And then they just moveon to the next thing.
And that's a real.
Thing that happens and I know that so Ido some things ahead of time to try to
prep and then of course now I'm back.
So I'm scrambling Let's try to catchup and get back into a routine, right?
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But yeah, it does feel likea long time feels good.
Feels good to be back at it.
Yeah, I was bored I'mnot gonna lie to you.
I did a lot of catching up stuff.
I have a lot of other work to doBut this is my favorite thing to do.
So when you you and or rustyare gone, I lose focus.
I lose steam.
I lose power.
In fact, I will, I do want to apologizefor some of it because I realized that
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some of our listeners consume the showprimarily through YouTube and I've been a
little slack because I just been so busy.
Getting the YouTube shows up because,we post the show every Wednesday that
never fails, but I realized that a lot ofpeople that are listening on YouTube are
like, Hey, what was our show this week?
I'm like, Oh, that's right.
I got to post a YouTube show.
Yeah.
They'll let you know.
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They will let you know.
Oh, skip a beat.
Oh, they have let me know.
YouTube is like feed, feed me.
Yeah, I have loud and proud.
I have heard from manysources, not just one, but.
But a multitude, quite a fewpeople have commented or emailed
saying, Hey, where's the show?
So the show, I think that we've got onemore to post to get 100 percent caught up.
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This show will post years from now.
We don't know.
We don't even know.
That world could gooff the rails tomorrow.
It may never post, but if it does post.
The following day, we will post you, Joe,I'm imagining like a post apocalyptic
scene where people are trying tofigure out how to make a device work
and they get the only thing they canget to work is YouTube are trying to
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communicate with somebody and then thisepisode pops up and like, Hey, fine,
but this is not what I need right now.
This is the only thing that they canactually access is the what's old
podcast in the post apocalyptic world.
Right.
Twist of fate, the only electronicsavings that's been made, the only
thing people can actually get is this.
So you, the dulcet tonesof Matt and Brandon.
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And all we're doing is teachingpeople how to sell things and
they're like, yeah, this, this inno way helps my life right now.
I need to know how tokill a bear and skin it.
How do I find edible plants?
And how do I, cleandrinking water, please?
We could do that.
We could, you have talkedabout how to sell the things
that you find in your yard.
Oh yeah.
Hey, Rusty.
Rusty.
He wasn't in Boy Scouts.
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He was in the religious alternativecalled the Royal Rangers.
Oh yeah.
The Royal Ranger and.
And he learns a thing or two duringthat time that I'm sure he would
love to share with the world.
Oh, fantastic.
How to take a knife from someone'shand, that sort of thing.
So you don't cut yourself.
I actually was for, I was a boyscout, but I was also for one year.
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My mom put us, my brother and I inthis group called the buckaroos, which
I think is one of these religious.
I don't know what Is itcowboy themed, I'm assuming?
I think so.
You have a lasso at alltimes, right on your head.
Yeah, I don't I only think we wentto like four or five meetings.
I barely remember it, but I doremember it was called the buckaroos.
Although that could be apocryphal.
I could be making that up.
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I don't know, but it was when I was young.
I was probably seven or eight.
And I do remember it was through a church.
I did go back.
My brother Damon ended up being an EagleScout, which is quite an accomplishment.
So that was, I dropped outright around 6th or 7th grade.
I do have a daughter that's a Girl Scout.
I don't know if, Bobby Jean, Rusty'sdaughter, is, You were heavy into
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the dating scene at that point.
That was really the transition for you.
Yeah.
I have given your children, Rusty'schildren, I should say, names now.
I just want you to be preparedthat they do have names.
We're not, they're not just namelessCreature Fair, Bobby Jean and Jethro.
That's, those are, that's pretty good.
They went by, , I think they went byLottie and Pete on the last episode where
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I had them on briefly on, the channel.
Well, Lottie, Pete.
Names are subject to change on the show.
They are as we are.
We know that they are.
Alright, Matt, let's stop this.
Tom Foolery.
I actually did follow some, I thinkyou're lying a little bit to your fans
and I just want to put it out there.
Oh man, calling me out.
I like truth in media, so Ilike truth in advertising.
That's why you like to tell lotsof truthful stories that you,
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like conversations you've hadwith your wife on here, right?
Absolutely.
That's because you care so much about me.
Oh, yes.
So, what I'm going to say isthis, is that I was perusing the
interwebs at some point and, I wasactually doing the YouTube show.
So I was posting them up and I seethis Rusty has posted a video and Rusty
posted quite a few videos from Scotland.
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And now I did not knowRussell was with you.
Well, now Rusty isn't going to changehis accent when he gets over there.
He might just fit in a wee bit.
He is who he is.
So I did notice that Rusty.
Put his face down in the magicalwaters of Scotland and may not return.
He loved it so much, I think, I believethat he drank a lot of Lakavulin, Scotch.
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Red Breast in different it's Red, no,Red Breast is an Irish whiskey, right?
It's Irish actually, it isIrish whiskey, yeah, we're,
but, I'm sure he drank that too.
Land of Scotch, well, yeah, if hecan get his hand on a bottle of
something, he's in a happy place.
That's right.
I was watching a documentaryon on moonshine and it was all
in the hills of Appalachia.
I thought that was interesting.
So I'm assuming Rusty has had some contactor experience with running a still.
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I'm just spitballing here,but I feel like he might have.
Yeah, I mean, if he, he definitely wouldbe on brand for him, getting over there.
You know how he is, he can,the camaraderie and get wrapped
up in the magic of things.
He's got a lot of, he's makingfriends over there is what he's doing.
Bouncing from place to place.
People are all quite nice.
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All right.
So tell us about your, tell us about yourtrip, not fully into the details of your
family experience, but what was it like?
I knew you did go mudlarkingat one point in Scotland.
I did.
I do.
I, we do have some breakingnews on the show, quite frankly.
It's interesting how the what's oldworld has proliferated my world.
It, at one point it was just sortof a magical place that you didn't
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connect with the real world, butwhat's old is, has connect, has,
is literally seeped into my world.
Yeah.
Wow.
So, I saw Bobby Jean had come backfrom abroad and she had this fancy
purse with her and we were allcommenting on how lovely it is.
Now, what y'all don't know isthat Bobby Jean Matt's alter ego's
daughter is very fashionable.
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And she's nine, but she'sincredibly fashionable.
Like she must be the most fashionista.
Doesn't get it from her dad.
I'll put it that way.
It's goes without saying.
That's absolutely true.
I believe that more flowthan pop, but for sure.
She had a bag and my wife saw thisbag and said, Oh, that's really cute.
Where did you get it?
No, we got it in a thrift storein Scotland of all places.
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So I thought that was, well, Matt, thatguy he's always looking either rusty or
Matt are out there looking for deals.
And so my wife was curious.
He goes, Oh, I've neverheard of that brand.
I think it was calledlike Magene or something.
And so she looked it up on, of all places.
eBay.
Okay.
And that handbag that Bobby Jean saidthat she paid 3 for, which was quite low.
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I was like, that's pretty fetching.
Even if it was three, even ifit was worth 10, still a really
nice bag is for great shape.
That bag on eBay is going for 80 and,I did mention to Bobbie Jean that I
probably shouldn't tell her dad becauseDad, tomorrow, dad, dad, where's my purse?
I can't find it.
Oh, well, what purse?
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I did tell her that she should sell itand make some money and in fact, Jethro,
or Pete, depending on which way you wantto call him, he also agreed with me.
He's like, that would buy a lot of toys.
That was his He's not wrong.
The selling of the purse.
You know the thrift store in,in, in Skyland that we that, that
was purchased at, it was threequarters the way through the trip.
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And the kids have been saving somemoney from Christmas and stuff, knowing
that we were going on this trip.
And you know how it is as a parent.
You wanna make sure they're not justbuying something that's just gonna break
the next day right can't say no to every.
I'm I'm great at saying no Apparentlyas a dad, so I've been pushing a
dog puppy off on the family And hethat Matt is just an old Grinch.
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You don't have a puppy.
I just hate animals and Sure.
Yeah.
I can't make money off ofthem, so what do I care?
Right.
What's the point?
? We're in this place.
It happened to be down the driveway from the Airbnb place we were
staying at, so we wa could walk there.
And it happened to be a morning whenit was the first morning that we were
gonna be, because we were hiking.
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We get up in the morning, we leave,hike, and do stuff all day long,
come home, so tired, we just crash.
The first couple days we were there,we were gone before the store opened,
we were back after it had closed.
So we didn't have an option, but thisparticular morning, it was raining.
One of the few days that wegot rain, which is strange for
Scotland, especially the Highlands.
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We got over there right as it opened.
Tiny little place, but my kidswere digging through stuff.
What you don't know about Bobby Jean,Bobby BJ and Bobby Jean, she would have
two names is that she not only did sheget this purse, but I also grabbed a
few things that I knew I could selland make some money on smaller stuff.
I didn't check a bag.
I like to not check bags anymore.
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If I can avoid it.
So then when I want a source,obviously I have limitations, right?
I have to be able to fit thatin my bag, my carrying on.
So I bought a used pair ofwomen's Nike waffle shoes.
I bought three or four of theseolder Thomas, the train, pink
engine type trains, like collectibletoys, a handful of things.
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My son found this motorcyclewith a guy sitting on it.
It's actually like an ambulancemotorcycle person required batteries.
He didn't have batteries.
He wanted it anyways,this would be a Jethro.
Wanted that right?
And so I'm like, okay, let'sput all this stuff together.
Let's go up there Well thatlittle girl snuck this little
bracelet in that purse as well.
And so I'm not payingattention I'm wrangling them.
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I'm talking with some other people agoggles are in pays And so later in
the day, she's got this bracelet onShe's showing it to her aunt because
my brother and sister in law and theiryoung child joined us for part of
that trip And I go, Oh, that's cool.
I've never seen that before.
And she's like, yeah, I know.
I got it at the, I gotit at the thrift store.
I don't remember buying you thatat this because at first I was
like, did you have sticky fingers?
What happened here?
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Oh no, I bought it.
I bought it.
I just.
She just snuck it in there and it's fine.
It was her money that kind of thing.
But yes, she's quite fashionable.
It's funny.
I'm going to tell you that your kidsunderstand the value of a dollar.
Because when I said to Bobby Jeanthat she ought to sell that purse,
Pete's response was Hey, if you dothat, you'll have more money than me.
That was his response toher selling the purse.
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It was, he had calculated the numbers.
He being three years, threeyears younger than her.
Yeah.
And he was still calculating allthe money owned by the two of them.
Also not earned by them.
Just comes in.
Oh no, it's my money.
I'm like, well, where's your money?
Yeah.
It's her money.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, no, it was a cool.
It's funny to know that that turnedout to be a good, I just knew it wasn't
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good shape It was like two and a halfpounds or something, the conversion
rate when we were there was 1.
37, 1. 38, something likethat for every pound.
That's about usually what it is.
So, yeah, so you kind of do thatcalculation in your head, but I mean
we got out of that store and for lessthan 30 American dollars, my kids got
toys, I got a handful of things, I'llmake 30 or more on all that back.
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So they got toys.
And the money's coming back whenyou source on a trip like that, and
you have receipts, you can that is awork trip and your transportation to
and from that place that you boughtsomething can be, utilized for tax.
You can write off a portionof that expense for work.
So I was doing that and.
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But it was lovely.
We flew into London.
I was there a coupledays before the family.
They joined for three or four days,and then the rest of the time we
flew from London to Edinburgh.
We rented a vehicle, a verylarge three seater van.
It was, uh, it's calleda Peugeot Traveller.
Oh.
And it was, as is the case in the UK,you're on the opposite side of the
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vehicle to drive and you're driving onthe opposite side of the road than you're
used to if you're living in the States.
Also, the Scottish roads are quitenarrow in comparison to the States.
Well, they're old too, right?
They're old.
They're super old.
And they, a lot of them don'teven have long stretches where
it's just a single lane road.
And there's plenty of traffic, but theyhave these various what they call passing.
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Spots passing lane or something, but it'sjust a little cut out off of the site.
So they didn't bother.
They got plenty of land,by the way, plenty of land.
They could have made a largersingle road or a double road would
not have been a problem at all.
But instead they make these tinylittle roads with little, and
it's just, you're constantlymoving and stopping, getting over.
Oops.
I've gone halfway.
It doesn't look like they're going.
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So I got to back all the way up intomy little spot so they can pass.
And that was a little aggravating, but.
The other, the flip side of the lackof some of that infrastructure is
that you're looking at such gorgeousland that is highly undeveloped.
And I have to assume, I've notlooked at it, but they have to
have some restrictions or some,some laws, codes in place because
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I know they're getting touristsall the time coming there, probably
tourists with quite a bit of money.
I'm sure it has dawned on some peoplelike I should come and build a thing
here or build a hotel or I shouldPut my business here or whatever else
you don't see much of that at all.
You don't see a lot of influencesfrom the West for example in housing
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in In really much of anything andthat was really nice Frankly, to be
there and you look over and you think,Oh, they just put a bridge here.
That would shave anhour of drive time off.
Nope.
They're not going to do it.
You're going to go in and out of everyone of these little coves driving around.
And that's uh, one of thetowns we stayed in one evening.
We walked along this little, thelock that was coming in there
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and came up to the structure.
That there was some informationwritten on a, a little thing there,
but supposedly it's from 5, 500,I guess, BCE, they would say now.
And I was commenting to Floabout how interesting it is that
the water comes right up to it.
And in 5, 500 years of climate changes andwhatever else, it's exactly where it was.
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The water has not recededout too far or taken it over.
It's all, you're potentially lookingat the landscape that has always
been for many thousands of years.
And I'll also just note that we've beenvery fortunate to travel a decent amount.
Flo and I waited 11 years betweengetting married and having children,
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so we had a good amount of time to dothings that young couples want to do.
Travel was a big one for us.
We've been to a lot of beautifulplaces, tasted some amazing food,
done some really cool things.
There are a handful of thosethat we've experienced, and I
hope to in the future, where theyare a little bit more than that.
They almost seem magical.
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Like you're on a movie set, or you'rein some alien land you've never
been, and Hiking in the highlandsof Scotland was one of those.
There were times when I felt like I was inthe middle of a Lord of the Rings scene.
Or, when they're choppering him in forthe first time to Jurassic Park, and
you get into this lush, tropical, wet,huge rock walls and bluffs and things.
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It was like that.
And, it's just, it's gonnastay with me for a while.
Scottland You got some prettyawesome stuff going on out there.
London was awesome too.
It's just a completely different thing.
We're not hiking around.
I'm more going to museums who has thebest fish and chips; that kind of thing.
Ya.
Bouncing around and they had someawesome stuff, but this is important
for this particular podcast, the peoplewho like the buying and selling world.
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One of the days I was there prior to myfamily coming, I was, I think I'd gone to
like the Royal arts Academy, one of thesebuildings it's, and I was just, I bounced.
From place to place.
I'd look on my maps.
What's within walking distance.
And I'd go there.
I was really close where I stayedto Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly
Circus in that area, right?
So south of Hyde Park and over therecloser to where the parliament is and
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Big Ben and Tower Bridge and all of that.
So I'm walking around and I justhappened to turn a corner and see
the word Christie's on a wall.
And I think Christie's likeChristie's the auction house, like
a Sotheby's, but Christie's like UK.
Sure enough, I am at theChristie's auction house.
I think they probably have multiplelocations they operate out of, but
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I didn't realize it because I'dnever done the research on this.
They operate as an open to the public,almost like a museum where in between
each of their auction cycles, probablynot all, but a good portion of the
things that are available for saleare in there displayed, you can walk
in and see them, you can place bidsright there on the spot if you want to.
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So without planning it, I got to walk in.
And see Picasso's, aMatisse, I saw a Klimt paint.
I think it was in maybe a lithograph.
I saw a Munch, I don't know if I'mpronouncing it right, the artist
that did the scream with that kindof alien figure on the bridge.
I saw a Banksy in there.
There was a large cause sculpture, andvarious other amazing pieces of artwork.
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And that was just lovely.
So I got to see a bunch of stuff.
What was cool is, I haven't done ityet, but That sale was ending like maybe
four or five days after I toured it.
I can go right now online andlook and see what those things
sold for stuff that I saw.
I was two feet away from, I cansee what those sold or at auction.
Which is really cool and somethingI actually encourage people who
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are interested in doing this kindof thing, selling for a living.
It would behoove you to not justChristie's or Sotheby's, the giant ones.
Those are definitely one to look at.
But I would look around at the auctionsites around you, auction houses and
places that will offer up to you.
The sale price on thingsafter one has ended.
There's one in the Ashevillearea called Brunk Auctions.
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B R U N. If you get on theirs, you cansee what their stuff sold for as well.
That can help inform you as to what ispopular, what people are buying right now
and what they're willing to pay for it.
And that's all knowledge.
You want to be.
Always educating yourselfbecause the market is not static.
It's changing all the time as well.
And I just think that it's fascinating.
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It was lovely to see it.
It was just an enjoyableexperience to be there.
And then I can look andsee what things sold for.
And not that you're going to walk in toa thrift store and find Oh, Picasso, this
is probably not going to happen, right?
But if you start to see trendsor patterns, or you start to pick
up on, okay, seems like modernart or whatever, impressionism
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seems to be really hot right now.
Maybe that's stylistically somethingthat you then do a deeper dive on and
start researching because you might comeacross pieces that, okay, not the same
artist, but same colors, same, it's alandscape it's done in this type of style.
You already know you're in a better spot.
So for have something like thatsell now, because it tends to be
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what the trend is at this moment.
So let me ask you a question, I knowyou spend a lot of your time going
into thrift stores in differentplaces as does a lot of our audience.
When you were over there, and I highlyencourage people to travel, because
traveling is a great, Educator.
There's no question.
My wife and I have beenlucky enough to travel a lot.
I get to travel a lotwhen I was a teacher.
So traveling is a great experience.
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And I even say traveling around theUnited States, a lot of people don't
do that, but there's just reallycool things to see everywhere.
When you were in London or Scotland,I know you did go and do some
scouting of what was out there.
Did you see a difference in thetypes of things that were popular
there versus what are popular here?
That's a really good question.
Wait, before you answer that, wedo have quite a few UK listeners.
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Oh, wonderful.
Who have commented and come in.
So if anybody in the UK has thoughts onthat, we'd love to hear them, but I'm
just curious about what did you see?
What did you think?
Let me, let me try to get it more refined.
Are you talking about.
Clothing like what they were wearingyou're talking about handbags
things that they were they had orno Like if you went into a thrift
store, did you see a difference inlike what jewelry was being sold?
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What items were popular, you know Ifyou're going I know you've always said
that there are certain things thatwhen you go into thrift stores here
You kind of know where everything is.
Yeah, was it differentthere or is it the same?
So we didn't go in very many.
I don't have a great Set of experiencesto give real good example, like
to really compare and contrast,but generally speaking, the setup
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for the thrift stores is the same.
I wasn't in any large ones.
So they were... they were just tryingto get stuff where they had space, but
they all had the same types of items,clothing, some handbags and stuff,
some knickknacks, some tchotchkes, alittle bit of jewelry here and there,
some books, music, that kind of thing.
I didn't see a whole lot of fine jewelry.
Really hardly anywhere, even storesthat you would normally see, they
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would have some kind of jewelry andas well, they didn't have a whole lot.
And if I saw it, I saw predominantlysilver jewelry, not as much gold.
If I had been in more rural areas and thetrip had been set up more revolved around
the type of work I do, it would have beendifferent, but again, this was primarily.
We were hiking, to give you an example,my wife even told me today, she had
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one of those watches or her phonethat tracks our steps and basically
tells you how far you're going.
Mmmhmm.
My family was there for, I don't know,14, 15 days, something like that.
And total, between days where we werejust walking, like in London, versus
the majority of time where we werehiking, trails, we did 171 miles.
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Wow.
The kids did too.
My nine year old and my six yearold did it all with us as well.
One day in London, we did 23miles just walking around the
city, walking around Hyde Park.
We went to the British Museum.
That's a lot for a six year old.
I take a stride, and he takes one anda half to two for every step of mine.
They didn't complain they were tired,but we were seeing such incredible stuff.
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The majority of that was hiking, likewe were doing 2, 600 feet in elevation
and in less than two miles at times.
So you're climbing.
We were doing an average of 11 or 12miles a day consecutively for two weeks,
going on two and a half weeks for me.
So we didn't have a lot of time to be outshopping, we were just out really trying
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to take in the experience and the sights.
The nicer items I saw, I saw inLondon, but as you, it wouldn't be
hard to convince you that perhapsthe best place to go source items to
sell and make a profit on would notbe shops in like downtown London.
That's just not where you're making.
So I went in several.
Covent Gardens.
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several cool.
Yeah, exactly.
And which I went to, I was there, I didsee a lot of really cool things and a lot
of stuff that I sell on a regular basis.
They were more expensivein those shops because.
They're banking on tourists and travelerscoming in and spending up and justifying
it because they're on vacation.
You can spend more money by the way, whenyou're on vacation, you tell yourself.
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Sure.
Does not real.
Not right.
Right.
You, you're going tostress about that later.
You'll be where I am today when it'sstressed out about not working for
two weeks, but it's good though.
I'm going to channel thatand try to be creative.
It's a bit of a challenge.
It's like when you're in a boardgame and you get yourself backed
into a corner and you're like, howam I going to get myself out of this?
That's where I'm at now.
Trying to catch back up, but Ithink the things that are there.
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It's different brands.
It's different looks, but I think ifanything, what I noticed, there were
a lot fewer of these types of thriftstores than we have around here.
You had antique stores that were more likeminiature museums, collections of just
really, Amazing things, very high priced.
And then you had department stores, butyou didn't have a whole lot in between.
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I've heard people told me that a lot ofthe sale by individuals of those types
of things tend to be more these weekendevents where people will get together in
these large outdoor venues where they'llsell a bunch of things and not as much
in these tiny little thrift stores.
The thrift stores we wentto were in tiny communities.
They were funneling money to nonprofitorganizations in their areas.
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And I feel good about supporting thoseplaces because I'm not concerned that
those storefronts in London are hurting.
It's gotta cost a lot to havethose and they're clearly making
it because they're still there.
And London is a firstclass city too, by the way.
My brother lived in London backin the early 90s and it was a much
grittier place in the early 90s.
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And that was the end of thethug era, the soccer era.
Thugs that would go and allthat stuff that was going on.
But now when you go to London, it is,as they say over there, very posh.
It is, there's a coffeeshop on every corner.
Yes.
It's just lovely.
It's nice.
It is.
It's a wonderful walking city for sure.
There were not enough trash cans, though.
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I'm gonna throw this out there, England.
Generally speaking, whereare your trash cans at?
I'm a trashy guy!
I'm a trashy American, I'm gonnacome to your city, and I got
trash that I need to dispose of.
I don't want to drop it on the ground.
And by the way, that's all over Europe.
They do not create as much trash as wedo, I tell you with absolute certainty.
I remember walking around multipletimes, not angry, but generally annoyed
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that I could not find a receptacle.
To drop this, whatever it was in.
So good for you, I guess,not making as much trash.
It's not just that, but there isan expectation here that things are
going to, going to be set up for us.
Whereas if you go to, if yougo to Italy, I lived in Italy
and spent a lot of time there.
And it's just a different.
They give you one napkin, not 30.
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They, it's just a different value system.
They eat the waiter.
One of the things that I always tellpeople, this will sum up Italian living
is that the waiter will never, evercome and ask you if you're done ever.
You will see, you could sit there forever.
Yes, we did experience that as well,actually in Scotland, where they bring
us a nice meal and a drink to start.
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I'm done with my drink.
I'd have another, if somebodywould come check on me.
But I, and it's like this wrestlingbetween, I, am I going to be rude
if I don't, am not patient and Idon't wait on them to come serve me?
I'm not going to do the proverbial,shake the ice in your glass.
I'm not going to, I'mnot going to, yeah, yeah.
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I'm not going to snap, at a person.
Garcon.
It's ridiculous.
Exactly So I'm, kind of self conscious.
You're thinking, I would,I'd get something else.
If you come and they won't come.
It was a back and forth with Flo, andFlo was like, you just gotta, it's
different here, you just gotta you makeeyeballs, just put your fingers up,
and she did it, got their attentionright away, and I'm like, that's fine.
They're wonderful, and they'reprofessional servers there, so the
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reason why they do that is theydon't want to interrupt your meal.
There's a very much Aculture of not interrupt.
In America, it's not that waitersinterrupt us here, they're just
filling up drinks or whatever.
But in Europe, especially inmy experience in England and in
Italy, and even in France, theyjust don't want to interrupt you.
Yeah.
So it's not rude to raise your handand ask for someone to come over.
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They're being respectful.
But just that that just goesto show you listener how.
Your worldview is shaped by what youexperience on a day to day basis.
So with American culture, if it tookthat long, that's a problem because
our expectation is that they're goingto come periodically and check on us.
So then when I go over there andit doesn't happen, how am I to
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determine what it is that's happening?
I guess my first presumption is thatthey're just not a good server, right?
Because.
That would be theexperience if I was here.
But the other way of looking atit is, Oh, actually they're being
patient and respectful of you.
And it's a full time job.
It's not a, it's not like a, I think alot of people that serve here are, it's
like a stepping stone job, somethingelse for the most part, unless you're
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at a super high end restaurant,but there it's a career, a lot of
those people will spend their entirecareer waiting tables and everything.
And it's a, it's not, it'sjust a different value system.
Going on, I think that everyoneshould take a trip to another
country at some point to see justthe difference in the way people view
the world and think about the world.
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I love this country.
I'm not one of the peoplelike the, America terrible.
I don't like that.
But I do think thatthere are things that we.
We do really well, and there arethings that we don't do so well, and it
doesn't hurt to see a different mode.
It's not terrible todo something different.
If it works better, so I thinkthat there's something to be said
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about that and I really enjoy it.
I enjoy my trips to Europe.
I was going to say, it soundslike the what's old podcast
needs to make a trip to England.
Oh, man, set up and do a show fromEngland where we can go in and
different into these different places.
And talk to them about,what's their experience.
It feels like you had a littletoo much fun, Matt, and not
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enough working going on.
I'm just a little, although I will saythis, I guarantee you, my daughter would
have complained about hiking 23 miles.
So the fact that he didn't,it's pretty impressive.
I was so proud of them and they didsuch a, this was the first big trip.
We've taken both of them on.
He's, because he's finally old enough.
We thought, okay, I think we can do this.
This was very much a checkit out and see situation.
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And they did so well.
I'm like, I'm not concerned.
We can take him.
We can take him anywhere.
I think at this point.
The food thing, they'restill a little bit picky.
That's the one thing to get over.
Yeah.
We gotta get over with them.
But, beyond that, they workedtheir little tails off.
So, it was great.
When you went and shot some of thisfootage for Rusty over there, you did
one that I thought was really funnywhere you put your face into the stream.
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Did you find that you're morebeautiful now that you've put
your face into the magical stream?
Did you feel the magic of the watersis really what I'm asking about.
I did feel the magic in the water.
Someone later posted that, thelocals, use the restroom upstream.
I, Which I didn't love to hear.
Sure, but that's what givesyou the magical water.
That's exactly, that's why it tingles.
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They didn't say it was supposed to tingle.
It burns, it burns.
No, so there's supposedly like thislore around fairies in Scotland.
This particular one was something aboutif you put your face in the water, And you
take it out and you let it dry naturally.
So I can't wipe it off.
I have this very large, it's actuallyquite small right now, my beard,
but it's still, it's like a sponge.
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It can soak up that water.
So like the rest of the day, we'regoing in places and I just have
this weird, wet stain down my shirtwhere I'm just constantly dripping.
What Matt doesn't know is that I didsome research on that very thing.
And apparently it's not as old a storyas Matt would lead you to believe.
It's actually from the postsoldiers would come over.
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They're like, we've got to come upwith something that will get them to
put their face in the urine water.
Yeah.
So we're going to come up with a story andthat is what you basically were involved.
The good people of the Highlandsof Scotland are having a good
chuckle at your expense as we speak.
It's smart because you'relike, what is America?
What's the Achilles heel Americans?
They're vanity.
Let's come up with a way where they canmake themselves even more beautiful.
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Oh, I think, I don't, I feel likethere's nothing that you could do to
make yourself more beautiful, Matt, thansoaking your face in the urine filled
waters of the Highlands of Scotland.
That just says it all to me.
It felt good, to be honest with you.
It felt good.
It was not like trout water, but itwas that cold, but It was cool, and
it was coming off the mountains.
It was right there bythis really old bridge.
I noticed that Flo did not do it.
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No, but you heard for the first time.
You heard Flo's voice.
That's the first time Flohas ever been featured.
Her back.
And the back of her headhave been featured before.
She's never spoken.
So I don't know if this is movingtowards, Hey, listen, I've known from the
beginning that if I just put my wife on,this channel would be 10 times as hot.
But they're not going to let youtake her out of the bowling alley.
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She's got served the good people.
I'm surprised they lether go for that long.
Also, this is my YouTube channel.
Thank you very much, Flo.
This is not for you.
Do you want something?
Go make your own.
You could do your owndamn YouTube channel, Flo.
So you would say that theexperience overall was a good
one and you're ready to be back.
One of the things that Idid want to give an update.
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We talked at length aboutHelene, Hurricane Helene.
And by the way, our hearts go out tothose people in Texas right now, because
I don't think any people in the countrycan truly appreciate what they're
going through right now more than us.
It's really tough and it's just, I hate tosay our, our thoughts and prayers because
I think we should be doing more than that.
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But it is tough, but one of the thingsthat was devastated when Helene hit
was this place called the tobacco barn.
It was this great big,It was a tobacco barn.
It was this huge building thatused to dry tobacco and they used
it for high end antiques stuff.
Some of it wasn't antiquity,but lots of tourists went there.
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Very, very popular.
Yes.
And it was wiped out.
And I remember the owner of thetobacco barn saying, we don't
know what's going to happen.
We'll see what we can do.
They have reopened.
They're back.
It is beautiful.
It is packed with people.
Have you been in it?
Have you been in it since?
I've been by it becauseit's so busy right now.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna wait.
Yeah.
The outside looks great.
I'm excited to go.
Maybe you and I should take atrip to the tobacco barn together.
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Oh yeah.
To see what it looks like.
Scope it out.
Scope it out.
Happy that they were able to do that.
I had stuff in an antique storewithin walking distance on the same
road that was completely destroyedand all the inventory was lost.
And that same group had one onthe other side of the river.
I wasn't in that particular building, butthat building has now, it's now rehabbed
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and they're trying to get us to comeback in and I, I'm just not going to
because it's the same area that flooded.
They've rebuilt the stuff in the tobaccobarn, but it's in the same location.
It's in the same spot.
You can't guarantee me it'snot going to flood again.
So I'm out as a seller there, ithas always been really good for
tourists traffic and they sell stuffand it'll be all new stuff because
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all the stuff that was in therewas predominantly damaged or lost.
So maybe a lot of the samevendors, but new items.
So yeah, it's definitelyworth checking out.
I'm definitely going to go check it out.
Cause I liked the store before that.
So I'm curious to see, and it'salways nice to see like the, we had an
Aldi that was near us that, that wascompletely wiped out and they rebuilt it.
(36:14):
And it's going to open I guess dayafter tomorrow, it sounds so silly,
but it's just such a, a thing tohave that, stuff coming back to life.
It's nice.
We wanted to do, we wantedto check in with you.
I am very excited that you're back.
We are going full speed ahead.
We're going to be bringingsome new types of shows.
Hopefully somebody from the UK willreach out, come on, and talk about what
(36:36):
it's like to be a reseller in the UK.
I know there is, we did have somebodyreach out to us somewhere, someone
reached out to me that was a resellerin the UK, so that would be super
fun to have somebody come on.
I would love, yeah, to hear,if somebody wants to get on
and give us your experience.
Tell me what I missed, which was a lotwhile I was there, and maybe give some
tips for the next time I make it outthat way, I would love to know, but
(36:58):
even for other listeners who live inthat region, hey, share some thoughts
of this, like where do you go over thereto find stuff if you want to resell?
Is it more like I had heard, which ismore outdoor stuff, like infrequent,
or are there good spots day in and dayout during the weeks or weekends that a
person can go and find some decent stuff?
And that depends on whereyou are, I'm sure, but.
(37:19):
Please, we'd love to, to hear, I'malways trying to learn more about what's
out there because I like to travel.
So if I can pair both work with thetravel piece, then all the better.
Absolutely.
We are excited to be back.
As I said, Looking forward tobringing you some brand new shows.
We'll be back with a,get some jewelry soon.
(37:41):
Yeah.
Some, yeah, we're goingto be doing a show.
Our next show will be on jewelry andwhat's sold jewelry has been a forte.
It's also really popular.
People like jewelry andtalking about jewelry.
So we'll be bringingyou some stuff on jury.
We're excited to be back.
Please remember to, emailus, send us your comments.
It is deeply appreciated.
We have some super fans outthere that comment a lot and
we really appreciate that.
(38:02):
Remember you can email usat whatsoldpodcast at gmail.
com.
You can always find that email in the shownotes that are attached to every episode.
Otherwise that is all thetime we have for today.
Back with a brand newshow next week or not.
I don't know.
You never know.
I said that before and we didn't do it.
So we'll see what happens.
But anyway, have a great week everybody.
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