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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you I'm just curious quickly before I do the story,
because it's all random eight five, five, five, nine one
one three five do you have any any sort of
item that you own in your home or something that
is just random, randomly valuable like that nobody would assume
because this is where I'm going with this.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
There's a dude named Mark Smith.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
He's an artist, and he pitched the idea of commissioning
original work to Taco bell executives in the eighties. So
it was I guess he was like, I want to
paint stuff that would then become prints that will go
in your restaurants. And he pitched them and it was
a lot of money and they went for it. So
if you remember like the old remember the old taco
bells that like looked like they had like Hispanic like mexicanos,

(00:41):
Hispanic they had like, yeah, I don't I don't know
if it's Mexican style architecture. I'm not trying to you know,
appropriate here, but like whatever, you know the Spanish Chile. Yeah,
you know, like if you drive by one right now,
maybe a lawyer's office, but like that was a taco
bell the same way if you drive by a best
Buy that was a Best Buy, or a Circuit City
that was a Circuit City and everybody knows it. And
it had the Spanish tiles and had the roof and

(01:02):
the whole thing. So I guess in these restaurants. He
made three prints and they started appearing in stores in
two thousand and three. Now twenty years later, there's a
serious black market for these pictures. So as they renovate
these stores, they're throwing them away, and now people are
digging through the trash to get these prints, and they're
selling them online for as much as ten thousand dollars

(01:24):
for a print that once hung in a Taco Bell restaurant.
And I'm just curious if anybody has anything like this
that they're very proud of. That's totally random that nobody
would think of. I remember there was a prank a
few years ago on one of these somewhere, maybe it
was YouTube, where you know, like McDonald's they have pictures
of like models eating the McDonald's or whatever they have,

(01:46):
like like or like the ads where it's like a
family eating. Well, these guys went and made their own
with themselves in it, and then hung them up in
the restaurants to see how long before somebody noticed that
they weren't approved images, Like, they went and made their
own McDonald's ads with themselves in it, eating them and
they hung them up and they hung there for like
a year before anybody realized that it was not the

(02:09):
you know, approved photograph. It was like customers that were
messing around. But yeah, these prints are worth as much
as ten thousand dollars for a random taco bell basquiacht
looking maskat looking print thing. And I'm just do you
guys anything, do you have anything in your home that
you're very proud of that people would think is you know,

(02:30):
completely random?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean, you know, I had the the Princess DIABETI baby,
like the one that costs all the money, and my
sister ripped the tag in half so it is now
worth nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
So she ruined my life tell her every day.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I mean I feel like, I don't know, like
I should have stolen something from Blockbuster. Oh, I stole
a lot of things from Blockbuster when I word there,
but I should have stolen something like like a guess
you know you should have I don't know, something nostalgic,
right that I could have now for posterity when on
all your time working at fast food, you guys never
stole anything any Sultan pepper shakers or I don't know

(03:03):
anything off the wall. Nothing I used to steal the
one used to take the CTA like the train wins
the city.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Everybody used to take the maps off.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Of the like the wallpart. It would tell you where
your next stap was.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, so when you go on there, they'd
be missing half the time because everybody would take fright.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I have that. I don't know where it is exactly,
but I had it.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hey, Scott light, how did what do you have? And
how did you get this? And are you allowed to
have it?

Speaker 5 (03:30):
I am allowed to have it. So I have a
flight log for the Apollo eleven Moon mission. Oh and
back in the sixties they didn't have digital, you know.
They handed everyone a manual and it's like the size
of a psyclopedia Britannicut's huge. And they had three different colors.
One they gave to the astronauts, one they gave to

(03:52):
the mission control, one they gave to the press.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have a press one that's sex that is actually
very cool.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
What do you do with that? Is it just like
sitting on your coffee table.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
My dad gave it to me when I was very young,
and it convinced me to want to be an astronaut.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Are you Are you a an astronaut?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I wish I was. What are you very?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Very I'm an electroal engineer. I traveled the country. I
built smart homes for disabled veterans.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
That makes you an amazing person. I mean, so you're
you're doing great work. But I heard Boeing has a spaceship.
Something tells me that they are. I think I read
this morning. They scrapped the launch again, which is I
mean Shenanigan's there's nothing wrong with that thing.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's Boeing Scott. I mean if any't bowing, I ain't
going you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (04:39):
That's right?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Right?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
How much is this book worth? Do you think? Do
you know?

Speaker 5 (04:45):
I've seen it all over the place, but it averages
for about eight to nine thousand.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
With that thing. Yeah right, they'll bring an expert in
bringing or somebody you know what I'm saying, Well.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Up buzz will come in and be like, yeah, this
ain't nothing, you know man, Well, if I.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Have there, I could buy a house with it.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, here's what you do.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Take it in, sell it to pond Stars, and then
use the money to go to space with like Jeff
Bezos or something. Then and I mean, this is why,
this is why I have this job. Thank you, Scott.
Have a good day. I got tons of ideas like this,
Like there are people that have random like when they

(05:29):
tear a stadium down, they'll sell you the seats. Yeah, Like,
I'm sure people have seats from Kamiski or you know whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I mean, people have seats from yeah whatever. Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I In our old studio we used to have two
airplane seats from air China or something that I bought
on eBay.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, those are cool. I still don't Yeah, yeah, if
you want to there.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
A listener sent me a book about the Titanic from
the year the Titanic sink, which is really cool and
probably worse.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's cool.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, that's one of my favorite things I've ever gotten.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hey, Dave, Hey, this is Dave. Well good, I got
the right Dave.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Is this Dave?

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Fantastic? What do you have this kind of random that
you're very proud of that you own?

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Well, I'm very proud of this.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
Probably wasn't probably doing it as a child. But back
in the day, they used to have the salt and
pepper shakers on like United Airlines flights if people first
or a long distance okay, And I actually have those
in some of the glassware that I kind of put
in my mom's purse.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh, first class, fancy airline salt and pepper shakers.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think that's kind of cool. Oh yeah, I love it.
I like it.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Dave, Thank you, Dave, have a nice day. Yeah you
didn't like wheel out one of the friars or something.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
I mean just you know, no, I just I collected
my name tags from my fast food days, like my
little you know, when I'm a remember manager, and I was,
so I kept that. I kept the uniform, but I
did not think to steal anything.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
I have something, I have something from that when not No,
it was like it was okay. So I was actually
sent from McDonald's to Florida for like their grand convention
out there.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, I was sixteen years old. They came to my
restaurant and they were filming.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
They were filming crew members like, oh, if you had
all the money in the world, what would you do
with it?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And I was just like I would still be working
at McDonald's. So they loved my answer.

Speaker 8 (07:28):
So, like the woman that was in charge of like
everything in America sent me out there and she greeted
me on stage, and I was in front of everybody,
got job offers from like every single McDonald's in the country,
but she gave me her it was like a lapel
pin that was like twenty four carred gold and had
a diamond on it.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I still have it, but that's like probably. Yeah. I
went to like the World. It was in Florida.

Speaker 8 (07:51):
I got to see all the products that they were
introducing that year and stuff like that, so it was pretty.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
You didn't.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Nuggets right out of the fryar and then they sitting
there paying for trips.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Company girl flute out for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Someone said, my parents have one of the original ticket
boots from six Flags Great America.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Cool. That is kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
My husband's a roofer and hit Wood chips from when
they tore the roof off of Wrigley. That's cool. Yeah,
pine classes from an Ireland bar. I have a pine
glass from an English bar, and I stole a ginormous
collection of antique license plates and specialty license plates.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That I inherited. I just have no idea of their
worth anything. Ummm yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
And then someone else asked if I was on hallucinogens.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
As over there. Yeah, why didn't. I didn't lick it.
I just talked to it.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
But in retrospect, I should have lickd it.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
It was acting like that linked it. So Hey, Nate, Hey,
what's going on?

Speaker 6 (08:54):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hey man, good morning. What do you have? This is
sort of random, but you're very proud of.

Speaker 9 (08:59):
I have a full sized stoplight.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
How did you get that?

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Traffic light?

Speaker 9 (09:04):
So, my dad owned a bunch of property in the.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Town that his business was in, and.

Speaker 9 (09:10):
The whole city was getting new stop lights, and the
company doing the work needed a bunch of space to
lay it all out, so they had a ton of
these old junk stop lights. And for Christmas we asked
for a cool junk for our apartments and my parents
are like, well, these are freaking cool. So my dad
got three of them and wired them all up with

(09:30):
cut off extension cords so we can plug it in
and light up a five foot tall stop light in
my house if I want.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's pretty cool. Yeah, stop light, that is cool. Okay,
all right, Nate, Well, thank you, have a good day.

Speaker 9 (09:43):
And there yeah you too.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
And they're what you' go ahead and finish your thought.

Speaker 9 (09:47):
I was just gonna say, they're not as heavy as
they look.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, they're pretty heavy.

Speaker 9 (09:52):
You could lift one up with going arm. They're not bad.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I liked it all right, Thank you, Nate, have a
good day than this. He's fascinating the stuff that people
have that you. I mean, I remember my fraternity brothers
still an actual like highway roads sign off the side
of the road. It was the exit for the Texas
Alcoholic Beverage Commission to ABC, I mean, and it was
the size of it.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Was a it was like, I mean huge.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I mean we're talking like five or six feet by
you know, four or five mean, these things are really
really big. And they nol and I they just went
and took it. I don't know why. My fraternity brothers
were all leptomaniacs, but they were trying to steal everything.
And then we had like a fire inspection at the
fraternity house and the fire department came and they took
it back. They were like, these are expensive. We've been
looking for this. Oh ab oh ab no ab, hey

(10:40):
ab what a how are you What do you have
a collection of I have a whole.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
Collection of at least forty to fifty Hennessy bottles my show.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
So you're you're that person speaking of fraternity. You're that
person you drank the bottle and then you put it
on display. Because when I was like twenty, that's what
we did in our like you know, apartment as We'd
have all the empty bottles, like because we were alcoholics,
so and it would just we just put them on
display like it was cool. Now, are these like collectible
hemp bottles? Or is this just you bragging that you
drank them.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
All that I can drink them.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
All from you?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Okay, he learned from you, he said, you learned from
me anything as possible.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, all right, a b thank you about for that.
Are you drinking them all by yourself?

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Like I think you?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Actually? I have a number. Maybe do you talk to
frogs too?

Speaker 9 (11:31):
Or what?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
More? Like a over here? Oh boy,

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