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Here we go. This train stationhas a mystery vending machine where you can
buy whatever is in the unclean packagesfrom the delivery lockers. But you don't
know what you're buying. You don'teven know what it may look like.
There's I mean a little bit ofsizing that you could tell. But they're
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put in these white bags, andthe bags are turned around so you can't
see any labels or anything on them. They're just white bags in a vending
machine and you see whatever the packageis and you can buy it up on
the vending machine. I've never seenthat before. No, I also know
what my luck would be. I'dlike to buy one. I would be
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very tempted to buy one. I'dbe very tempted to buy one. You've
already done that the okay, butthat was the palette that never came and
that was a bit and that wasfun. But you see this a lot.
I've never done it, but yousee a lot of companies to do
these mystery boxes, these surprise likestitch fix products. No not where you
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don't know exactly, Like I knowI'm getting a bunch of shirts and pants.
Yeah, well you may know it'sshirts, but it's like it's a
three pack of mystery shirts from whateverthe like Breaking Tea or whatever the retailer
is. I think Funko Pop doesit with their figures or it's like it's
a mystery box, like you don'tknow what you're gonna get, and it's
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a cheaper price because you're taking yourrisk. But you could get Funko Pops
of three things you don't want.I don't know if they do a three
pack. They definitely do a singlepack, and maybe you can buy at
a discount if you do more ofthem. But you see this all the
time, and it definitely intrigues youbecause the price is right. Breaking Tea
does a mystery pack, I believe, say, oh that's horrible. Why
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well, because I could get threeshirts that I don't care about that exactly,
but I could also get three shirtsthat I really like. Now I'm
right back in, Oh, I'mnot hip to these. The only other
thing that I saw that I knowgoes on is I know like and uh
was it Barnes and Noble that usedto do mystery books? So what the
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covers were obscured? You couldn't seewhat the book is, but you went
in and you bought a mystery bookand then they gave it to you and
like some some wrapping, and notuntil you left the store could you see
what the mystery book was. Myluck, I'd get like Team chick Lit
or something like that. So yeah, and that's the same thing. I
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would just be so nervous to gothrough with it, whether it's a book
or a T shirt or even littleFunko Pop. I've never done it,
but it must be popular because it'san option on so many different retailers,
websites and in person. Yeah,it was to draw people in. It
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was to draw people in to getthem to buy books. Is like or
it would be like if you boughtif you bought a book, you could
buy the mystery book for you know, like twenty percent or whatever it is.
I will say, this is thatbreaking teas? Yeah, how many
shirts do you get in the mysterypurchase this one? I have to go
through their website. This is justan all sports mystery shirt. No,
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no, our overstock is your game? Whoa? You know what? I
could go both. I could talkmyself into this in a big way and
be addicted to it. I couldalso talk better exactly. I could also
talk myself into hating it. Mysteryshirts are a mix of classics and leftover
inventory. There's no guarantee on whichplayer, team, or even sport you're
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getting fun No, but you knowwhat, Like, there's part of me
that goes, you know what themystery shirt is like the losing team,
but it's their super Bowl championship team, which, by the way, it's
not going to be that that wouldbe cool to own, Like I could
get into that. Or is itlike a novelty that they thought was going
to catch on and it didn't,or it's the or you know what it's
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it's like the the the player whogot traded before his bobblehead night and then
you get that bobblehead and you're like, this sucks. But then at the
same time, what if it's somethingthat's cool? But then why did they
have overstock of it? Why didn'tit sell? See, now you're overthinking
it. But I could get reallyinto it. Hey, Kristen, will
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you find me somebody who's bought amystery box? Or is that what they're
called mystery boxes mystery packs? Ye? Will you find me somebody who's bought
a mystery pack in any of anythingplease eight six six to Elliott eight six
six two three five five four sixeight. I will say this, at
least for like Breaking Tea, youknow you're getting some sports themed shirt this
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vending machine. You have no clue. You don't know what you're getting.
It could be socks, it couldbe a gold bar. Yeah. Like,
have people shared no comments what they'vegotten, No, nobody did.
Everybody thinks that this is a liethough, that that whoever put them in
the pack so you can't tell whatit is, went through and already took
all the good stuff out. Probably. Uh, yeah, they've got going
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back to the shirts, they've gota three pack of youth shirts, and
it looks like at one point theydid a mystery pack of three different hoodies.
Oh yes, you're committing to threerandom sweatshirts. Yeah, but what
if they're awesome? It could beanything. They could right, and and
anything means they could be awesome,but you'd see the chance of it being
something you're interested in is really low. Yes, from Breaking Tea, they
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do everything. In my mind,I'm getting like a Yankees hoodie. Oh
my god, No, it's it'slike pickleball puns. My luck, I
get uh, I get, Yeah, I get for dugo with the reds
out free mystery shirt. With everypurchase, no no returns obviously or exchange
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is on the mystery. And that'swhere the mystery book was different. I
bought a mystery book at a bookstore. It was wrapped in newspaper, and
you bought it. The backflap didn'tinterest me at all, and I left
the book inside the store. Okay, so they weren't allowed to exchange,
they know, they just they boughtit and they opened it and they were
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like this socks just left it?Were they alone in that? Did a
lot of people just leave it soit could be resold? Oh that?
I don't know. Boy, they'rereally going after this vending machine. Every
one of those packages has been retaped, no way, some random employee is
putting good stuff in there. Andof course there's a lot of kids toys
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where you know you're buying a mysteryand you don't know what's going to come
out when you hatch the egg oryou rub the magic lamb. Right,
there's a lot there are toys thatare definitely sold this way, and part
of it is the reveal that's likeyou're paying for some of the entertainment.
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Yeah. No, no, well, I mean this is entertaining to me.
I open that box and I don'tknow I'm either getting I'm getting a
Yankees hoodie or I'm getting pickleball puns. I could get into that. Let
me see what you could get fromup in Boston. I could get I
could get a million. I couldtalk myself into spending a million dollars.
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By the way, I can't evenread everything from here. If I got
a shirt that had the stupid sitGo sign on it, i'd burn it.
And I feel bad saying that Ilove Boston, I just don't like
the sports teams. And you're thinkingit's gonna be one of the older shirts.
Well, they did say that it'seither like classic or overstock, so
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it could be like the new youngkid that just didn't work out. Oh,
you can maybe pretend, because thecolors are red, belue that this
is a Braves Chris sale shirt.No, no, you can't. Actually,
Oh that's horrible, great City connectt shirt. Oh Verdugo, Yeah,
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there's Verdugo. It ain't from NewYork though, garbage. I'd throw
it out. When Alex Verdugo stepsto the plane in Boston. There's a
good chance that ball's ford gone.There's a good chance that's just going in
the garbage. However, I'll buyanother three pack and see what I get.
Where am I going mine? Too? Hi? Elliot in the morning,
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by good morning? Hey, who'sthis Tiffany and Richmond? Uh?
Yeah, did you buy a didyou buy a mystery box? I actually
have never bought a mystery box.But my girlfriend bought a mystery box from
Michael and when she opened it,it was all of this congratulations, he
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says. Graduation twenty twenty three.Oh, I don't get it was like
whom I know graduating at twenty twentythree? And long behold, I graduated
twenty twenty three with my doctorate inpsychology. So she gave the box to
me. There you go, Thereyou go for you excellent. By the
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way, that's horrible, Oh,Tyler's. Maddy didn't know it exists.
I didn't. I had no ideaat Michael's. But it's the thing that
everything is a year old, whichseems like they should guarantee you that it
could be used in the current country. Grads twenty nineteen knock up for next
Easter Michael's grab bags. Wow.Wow? On site? Oh? Sometimes
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they're just discounted to five bucks.Did she say this was online or on
site? Uh? No, Ithink she made it like it was on
site. Wow. I sound likeOwen Wilson. Uh. I have never
seen these, and I'm in Michael'squite a bit. Where in the store
are these? Oh? My god? Was this a COVID thing? Just
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to get people back in? Nowit works because Tyler's still wearing a mask
or hold on? Hold. Onthe the subreddit Michael's employees, it looks
like there's a lot of comments onthe grab bags. Where am I going?
Line seven? Hi Elliott the morning, Yes me, Yeah? Hi?
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Who's this? Oh? This isRoy from Richmond? Yes? Roy?
What can I do for you?Yeah? I'll go to a bass
potshop and they have mystery like tackleboxes where you pay I say, eighteen
dollars and they give you it's aninclosed box and they give you a bunch
of fish and lures, but youdon't and each box is number, so
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you don't know what you're gonna get. Is that a good deal? Though?
I have no idea, but Ilike it, you know what I
mean. I'm not into fishing.Yeah, but if you go to bass
Pro and you're like, let mejust buy that, it could be anything.
Yeah, I mean one of thelowers, like I'm married is a
twelve dollars loo, and then ithas five other items. So usually you
end up getting getting a lot morethan you paid for. Hey, do
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you know though, do you knowthat you're getting fishing lures? Is it
just a box of mystery lures orcould it be just a mystery of anything?
No, yeah, you know you'regetting fishing lures. You'll get it.
It'll be a combination of like softclassics and yeah, no, no,
no, and listen, I getit. I get it, and
there's probably something to it. Butto me, like breaking tea, you
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could argue, listen, it's allT shirts. But it could be it
could be anything, you know whatI mean? Or like Michael's you could
get dads and grads. You couldget anything phishing lures. Is it too
specific or is somebody here in thatand going if I could quote Tyler,
Wow, I bet there's people there'slike that. No, like is that
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like oh I would never buy thatlure, but for eighteen bucks, we'll
see. How do you deal withcustomers who insist on looking through the grab
bags and taking things out of them. I told one lady today to stop
looking, and she accused me ofharassment and asked to speak to my manager.
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Some stores have it you open it, you buy it policy. See,
that's what it should be, becausethat prevents people from going through and
picking out like the nice Easter decorations. Oh they someplaces tape the boxes so
shut it prevents even the This isa quote the Kareniest of Karens from ripping
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them open. That's actually on aT shirt I just got from breaking tea.
I found someone who did the mysteryfunko. Oh is it, Josh?
Are you serious? Ding ding d? Of course he bought the mystery
funko. Oh he's done it morethan once. Loser any chance to waste
money? Did he get anything ofnote? He's gonna spin it. He
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was trying to get his hands ona rare Marty McFly. Oh you know
what. I bought mystery baseball cards, hoping i'd get that long sought after
Honus Wagner. You never know.I ended up. This is not me,
this is Josh. We know.I ended up getting two crap pops
and one I already had, soI bought more. Oh no, listen,
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if you're in it for the bit, I get it, but don't
tell me. Oh, I'm justhoping to get the rare one. Hey.
Here at Funko, we like totake the most valuable ones we have
and throw it in a mystery grabbot for one kidney to open up and
like, oh, there's that MartyMcFly he's been dreaming of Michael says Elliott
cool hockey. Does this? Dothey really? I don't know what that
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website is. Oh, this lookslicensed. What is this site? But
is it? Is it? I'mtrying to find where they have the mystery
listening. It's it's got to bejerseys. Uh yeah, a jersey mystery
box. Oh my god, that'sexpected fifty BUCKSK But but but are they?
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Are they player jerseys or they justare they just blank? Just says
authentic. Excuse me with random NHLplayer names. I am so in again.
I am in my luck. Awesome. I got a Macca boy,
a Martian and Aposternak. You canchoose the jersey size, right, but
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if you don't like the jersey,you get tough teddy. You are unfortunately
stuck with it. The randomness isthe best part of the Mystery Box?
Is it? Is it over stocked? Is it like everybody like all of
a sudden? I'm sure here theyhave a bunch of reviews. Are people
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happy? Like? Am I gettinglike I'm trying? Am I getting lar
Zell or Penguins jerseys? Don't wantit? This person recently April twenty ninth,
got a Claude dru Ottawa jersey.Okay, I mean I don't want
to wear it, but okay,so you may as well light one hundred
and fifty dollars on fire. Nowait, do you only get one jersey?
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This listing that I clipped on isfor one jersey? I mean one
hundred and fifty bucks for an authenticjersey. Some of these people have purchased.
This person has done it six times. What they get? Does it
say? What they got? Here'sa picture of one of them. Oh,
that's old school a Nabokov jersey.I don't even recognize that name.
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He was a goalie for the forthe San Jose Sharks. Wow, a
lot of repeat purchases. Yeah,I don't want a Nabokov jersey. Yeah?
Wait, but Nabakov also is ina okay, can I ask a
question, how far back does thisgo? Because Saku Koivu hasn't played for
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the Montreal Canadians in a like likeeven pre cancer. Brett Hole, No,
thank you, Scott Stevens, hedoesn't play. There you go,
Cale mccarr. That's cool. Thatperson was very happy with that jersey,
well compared to the Nabokov goalie jersey. Mark Stone, Yeah, of the
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jersey comes to lt I R MitchMarter all star jersey. Oh, give
me my wallet. Let's do it. It's only one hundred and fifty dollars.
Let's do it. Oh, Idon't Is that a quinn Byfield jersey?
Yes? Oh, I a throwback Quintin buyfield. I don't want
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a Darnell nursed nursed. Oh,let's buy one. Let's buy one.
Oh, Matthew Barzal, great hockeyplayer. I'd never wear the jersey.
Ryan gets laugh. So are youin or no? You're buying one.
I'm buying one now, I'm in. Oh Blivier go to hell. Oh
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Joseph Wall remember he was good forabout five minutes. Where Brett Hale?
Yeah, So there you go.Yeah, let's do it all right,
Where am I going? By theway, that's better than buying stupid funko
pops. Well, when you alreadyhave the one you got hi elliot in
the morning. Hello, yes,sir, Hey, what's going on?
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Hey? What's going on? Itnot my brother? So I uh I
ca on line to this sports auctiononline, sports auction called Christine Auctions,
right, and usually they'll have likefifty fifty or sixty boxes that day auction
off. Oh. It could costanywhere from like maybe three hundred to five
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hundred bucks. But they go,they go pretty quick. But uh,
I was lucky enough to get abox, and I pulled, uh in
your you're you're gonna get an autographof somebody either from football, baseball,
or hockey. I pulled a RayBoord shirt, Colorado Avalanche shirt, right,
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Randy Moss mini Randy Moss signed,mini helmet, and my trout baseball.
Oh my god, that's freaking awesome. That's great. And I paid
three fifty for the box. Ohmy god, that is fantastic. Yeah,
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it's it's not called Christine Auctions.It's they got some pretty cool stuff
online. That's awesome. That's awesome. Good for you, Good for you,
Thank you, my friend, thankyou. Yeah, I'm in the
middle of getting jerseys now, Diane, since hockey isn't your thing. Zach
writ's on Facebook. I bought amystery coin box. Oh god, I
got a billion dollar bill from someother country and thought it was worth something.
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How much is it worth? TwoUS dollars? But what's the excitement
in that? Like, can youget something that's valuable? I assume so
why would they able to sell itif everyone but it poorly? Like?
But what coin are you getting that'svaluable? Am I getting? Like a
like a like here you go.Now I'm Josh, am I going to
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seventeen seventy six Buffalo ahead penny.Well, no, if you're Josh.
He wanted the the low in theDark plutonium Marty Fly number forty nine.
Oh I got a mystery box.Oh I got a loser, Josh.
So I was at the dollar treetwo weeks ago in and there was a
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dollar plus tax, so there wasso much change, and the cashier kept
looking really close at one of thecoins, almost like she couldn't even tell
if it was a quarter, nickelor dime whatever. She then decides it's
a nickel, and she hands itto me. She said, this,
this may be a really old nickel. I get to the car. I
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don't want to seem too interested becausethen I feel like I have to split
it. If I look at it. You're in front of her. I
get to the car. Twenty thirteen. It's really old. Wow, line
too, Hey, don't let linethree go? Hi. Ellie had the
morning. Hey, what's going onthis morning? Hey? What's going on?
Dude? Not too much, man, I think a mystery box with
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the concert tees would be awesome.No, I mean you don't. I
mean it could be, but thenbut then, but then you could also
end up you could also end upwith a bunch of shirts you don't want,
like it's the name of the game. Yeah no, but like it
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would be all like what like Icould get like like System just played a
bunch of shows Like that would becool. But then I don't want.
I don't my luck I would get. I would get like BTS and but
then you can get I like,yeah, I know. I was trying
to think of another one that I'mjust not gonna wear, like Sugar,
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Sugar, Sugar is my God,Jewel, thank you. Yeah, Jewel
and Toledo. Watch this thing birdWhat it's one band dumping all of their
merch from a previous tour. Ohbut it's shirt. But is it the
same shirt? No, No,it's it's like a grab bag thank you
of stuff they sold on the road. So it would be. It could
be they don't own a warehouse forthat. They and they're in a dumping
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the trailer that hauled it. Someof that's good, some of that's bad.
It's a band, you like,Yeah, I know, but what
am I gonna? I don't Inever bought a program when I went to
shows. I don't want, Idon't need. I don't need a scully
like, that's what I would get, Like, give me some shirts,
give me a give me a giveme a hoodie, give me something.
This is not for you. Thenthe I don't know it sounds Jersey the
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second we get off. It soundslike you just want exactly what you want.
Yeah, Like, can't I gothrough? I'm the caringist of the
carryon is I'm opening up the Michael'sgrab bags. Right, there's Elliott,
Hi, Elliot in the morning.Hello, Hello, Yeah, Hi,
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who's that? Hey? There isa chame here at Breaking Tea. I
heard you all talking about our shirts. I love them, and you guys
do the mystery packs. Wait aminute, are you do you work for
their local? Oh? Do youown Breaking Tea? Yeah? I'm went
Breaking Tea, have been there sixor seven years, and I'm getting blown
up this morning because you guys aretalking about them. Hey, how you
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doing? So? I've heard nothingthat? All good things? Is what's
going on? No? No,you know what we were talking about.
First of all, if you lookup Molnar and Siegel, you'll see quite
a bit of money spent the U. No, no, you know what
we were talking about is just likemystery packs and mystery purchases and stuff like
that. The yeah, so wewere best deal in town. No,
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so, we were talking like theidea of it is awesome to me,
And then we started going through thesite. I don't need an Alex Verdugo
Boston Red Sox T shirt. That'swhat I would end up with. That's
right, Well, that's why youget it for five bucks. Man.
I wouldn't if you pay me,paid me five dollars, I wouldn't wear
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that thing. He loves the concept. He just wants to to be Yankees
only. Hey, we got greatYankee shirt. We have all Asot does
and judge you on the mystery.I know, I know. Hey,
So let me ask you, thisis all of the mystery stuff? Is
it? Is it like players thataren't on the teams anymore and stuff.
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It's a total grab back. Someof it is guys that have been traded
and nobody's gonna buy that stuff,so we put it in the mystery.
You know, it's that kind oflike stale inventory. Some of it is
like stuff that we just overstocked byaccident, and it's pretty good stuff,
you know. It's it's kind ofa mix. You know, some of
his returns you know that came backfrom from customers, oh mine stuff that
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Yeah, nothing with pitt stains isgoing in the mystery. Don't worry about
that, right, It's all gonnabe, you know, a mix of
stuff that actually is is pretty great, or stuff that's pretty terrible but still
pretty great. Cause it's funny.Now, can I ask you this?
Like for example, when when AlexVerdugo was talking about the outfield and was
talking about like a Judge and Stan, he was like, we're just dogs
out here, and that took offfor about three days before Aaron Judge shut
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him down. I see on thesite and still says beware of dogs.
I'd like that T shirt, butat five dollars because I feel like that
doesn't exist anymore. Put that inthe grab bag for me, please.
You might end up with that.That was a great shirt for about seventy
two hours exactly. But you knowwhat, it's a fond memory. You
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know we can all look back inlift Listen. I would love that.
I would love that to be theT shirt. Listen. I got Travis
Kelsey reminding everybody to know their role. By the way, I don't want
the glabor good. I want thegla happy Glabor Day. Oh my god,
give me the good wads. Hey, do I get to beauty of
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it? Go ahead, you canget whatever you want. It's gonna call
you thirty bucks. Hey. DoI get to choose the size on the
grab bag? Or? Does everythinglook like muffin top shower? Yeah,
everything's going to come in sh medium. You know you'll have the muffin top
hanging out. No, you canpick your size. Come on, we
can help you out with that.At least, that's awesome. That's great.
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So wait a minute, so youown Breaking Tea. I was the
first employee at Breaking Tea. Iwish I owned Breaking Tea. But yeah,
I've been doing this for six years. Wow. Wait so you were
the first employee. That's kind ofcool. Yeah, love it. You
know, the company came out ofDC started doing like you know, hot
hot topics style shirts for DC sports, and now we do all sports,
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all markets. And you know,we're sold online at Breaking Tea dot com.
But you can also buy us somesporting goods and buy us and arenas
sure and stadium stores buy us atNAT's Park. But yeah, it's all
sports nationwide. But we started ind C. Dude, good for you.
I hope they took care of you. You were the first one in
I hope it just ain't the ownersgetting rich. Hey man, I get
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to, you know, provide formy whole family by selling twenty T shirts
and mystery packs. Hey, theywouldn't. They wouldn't even notice. Hey,
look up Siegel, you'll get you'llsee the address. Just send one
of them be wearing than dogs forme. Oh you got it. You
better watch out. You might begetting a care package in the station.
Hey, Hold on one second,let me make sure we have your info.
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Hold on one second, and shirtsverdue gone factory, all right,
hold on one second. Hold onone second, and I gotta go to
line too. Dude. That's awesome. That's my boy, Jamie. I
bought so much stuff from them afterthe most recent Chief super Bowlin. Oh
my god. And the worst partand maybe for my family, the best
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part. None of it was forme because I wanted to support the United
Way and the victim of the shooting. So I got a Kansas City Strong
shirt. The rest of them gotall the like in my back to Back
era regular QB from a home HiElliott in the morning, four or five
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cents. Hey, this is thatI. I was the one that made
the comment about buying the mystery coinbox. Hey remember when we were just having
fun talking about sports T shirts?Back to coins? Wait? So what
what coins? What coins are youare you getting? Like? Is there
anything valuable you can get? Well, my mom is really good and hen
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she'll go to Goodwill and she canpick up something and look at the bottom
and see like an autographer's signature orsomething about it. And she does that
and sells it on eBay. Andshe makes a whole lot of money doing
it. And she told me aboutyou can buy mystery coin boxes and apparently
there are good coins out there.I don't know. I mean there's videos
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online that you can see like,oh, if you get a nineteen fifty
two penny, it has the peeupside down or whatever. But she like
can notice stuff like that. Andso I bought one and it came with
it was like a billion dollar billor something. And I was like,
huh, I wonder if this isworth anything? Take it and trade it
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in for you know, money,But it was worth like two bucks.
Yeah, it wasn't anything exactly.But did you keep it? Did you
keep the billion dollar bill? No? And it's worthless. Yeah you did,
you did? Kiss but yeah.And I put it in a little
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frame and it's cool. I haveit in my office at home. I
have to. I'm at work rightnow. But uh but yeah, I
uh, you know, because it'scool to have that right to be like,
hey, and I'll give it tomy daughter and be like, yeah,
you're a billionaire, but you know, yeah, like me something all
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right, very good, very good, thank you, my friend, thank
you. Yeah, I'm buying ajersey oh, you're waiting on that care
waiting on them, be wearing themdogs. And if you're sending one to
me, I already do have.It's me Hi, I'm the champion. It's me
Here we go. This train stationhas a mystery vending machine where you can
buy whatever is in the unclean packagesfrom the delivery lockers. But you don't
know what you're buying. You don'teven know what it may look like.
There's I mean a little bit ofsizing that you could tell. But they're
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put in these white bags, andthe bags are turned around so you can't
see any labels or anything on them. They're just white bags in a vending
machine and you see whatever the packageis and you can buy it up on
the vending machine. I've never seenthat before. No, I also know
what my luck would be. I'dlike to buy one. I would be
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very tempted to buy one. I'dbe very tempted to buy one. You've
already done that the okay, butthat was the palette that never came and
that was a bit and that wasfun. But you see this a lot.
I've never done it, but yousee a lot of companies to do
these mystery boxes, these surprise likestitch fix products. No not where you
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don't know exactly, Like I knowI'm getting a bunch of shirts and pants.
Yeah, well you may know it'sshirts, but it's like it's a
three pack of mystery shirts from whateverthe like Breaking Tea or whatever the retailer
is. I think Funko Pop doesit with their figures or it's like it's
a mystery box, like you don'tknow what you're gonna get, and it's
(01:29):
a cheaper price because you're taking yourrisk. But you could get Funko Pops
of three things you don't want.I don't know if they do a three
pack. They definitely do a singlepack, and maybe you can buy at
a discount if you do more ofthem. But you see this all the
time, and it definitely intrigues youbecause the price is right. Breaking Tea
does a mystery pack, I believe, say, oh that's horrible. Why
(01:55):
well, because I could get threeshirts that I don't care about that exactly,
but I could also get three shirtsthat I really like. Now I'm
right back in, Oh, I'mnot hip to these. The only other
thing that I saw that I knowgoes on is I know like and uh
was it Barnes and Noble that usedto do mystery books? So what the
(02:15):
covers were obscured? You couldn't seewhat the book is, but you went
in and you bought a mystery bookand then they gave it to you and
like some some wrapping, and notuntil you left the store could you see
what the mystery book was. Myluck, I'd get like Team chick Lit
or something like that. So yeah, and that's the same thing. I
(02:36):
would just be so nervous to gothrough with it, whether it's a book
or a T shirt or even littleFunko Pop. I've never done it,
but it must be popular because it'san option on so many different retailers,
websites and in person. Yeah,it was to draw people in. It
(02:57):
was to draw people in to getthem to buy books. Is like or
it would be like if you boughtif you bought a book, you could
buy the mystery book for you know, like twenty percent or whatever it is.
I will say, this is thatbreaking teas? Yeah, how many
shirts do you get in the mysterypurchase this one? I have to go
through their website. This is justan all sports mystery shirt. No,
(03:22):
no, our overstock is your game? Whoa? You know what? I
could go both. I could talkmyself into this in a big way and
be addicted to it. I couldalso talk better exactly. I could also
talk myself into hating it. Mysteryshirts are a mix of classics and leftover
inventory. There's no guarantee on whichplayer, team, or even sport you're
(03:44):
getting fun No, but you knowwhat, Like, there's part of me
that goes, you know what themystery shirt is like the losing team,
but it's their super Bowl championship team, which, by the way, it's
not going to be that that wouldbe cool to own, Like I could
get into that. Or is itlike a novelty that they thought was going
to catch on and it didn't,or it's the or you know what it's
(04:06):
it's like the the the player whogot traded before his bobblehead night and then
you get that bobblehead and you're like, this sucks. But then at the
same time, what if it's somethingthat's cool? But then why did they
have overstock of it? Why didn'tit sell? See, now you're overthinking
it. But I could get reallyinto it. Hey, Kristen, will
(04:27):
you find me somebody who's bought amystery box? Or is that what they're
called mystery boxes mystery packs? Ye? Will you find me somebody who's bought
a mystery pack in any of anythingplease eight six six to Elliott eight six
six two three five five four sixeight. I will say this, at
least for like Breaking Tea, youknow you're getting some sports themed shirt this
(04:50):
vending machine. You have no clue. You don't know what you're getting.
It could be socks, it couldbe a gold bar. Yeah. Like,
have people shared no comments what they'vegotten, No, nobody did.
Everybody thinks that this is a liethough, that that whoever put them in
the pack so you can't tell whatit is, went through and already took
all the good stuff out. Probably. Uh, yeah, they've got going
(05:15):
back to the shirts, they've gota three pack of youth shirts, and
it looks like at one point theydid a mystery pack of three different hoodies.
Oh yes, you're committing to threerandom sweatshirts. Yeah, but what
if they're awesome? It could beanything. They could right, and and
anything means they could be awesome,but you'd see the chance of it being
something you're interested in is really low. Yes, from Breaking Tea, they
(05:42):
do everything. In my mind,I'm getting like a Yankees hoodie. Oh
my god, No, it's it'slike pickleball puns. My luck, I
get uh, I get, Yeah, I get for dugo with the reds
out free mystery shirt. With everypurchase, no no returns obviously or exchange
(06:04):
is on the mystery. And that'swhere the mystery book was different. I
bought a mystery book at a bookstore. It was wrapped in newspaper, and
you bought it. The backflap didn'tinterest me at all, and I left
the book inside the store. Okay, so they weren't allowed to exchange,
they know, they just they boughtit and they opened it and they were
(06:25):
like this socks just left it?Were they alone in that? Did a
lot of people just leave it soit could be resold? Oh that?
I don't know. Boy, they'rereally going after this vending machine. Every
one of those packages has been retaped, no way, some random employee is
putting good stuff in there. Andof course there's a lot of kids toys
(06:47):
where you know you're buying a mysteryand you don't know what's going to come
out when you hatch the egg oryou rub the magic lamb. Right,
there's a lot there are toys thatare definitely sold this way, and part
of it is the reveal that's likeyou're paying for some of the entertainment.
(07:08):
Yeah. No, no, well, I mean this is entertaining to me.
I open that box and I don'tknow I'm either getting I'm getting a
Yankees hoodie or I'm getting pickleball puns. I could get into that. Let
me see what you could get fromup in Boston. I could get I
could get a million. I couldtalk myself into spending a million dollars.
(07:29):
By the way, I can't evenread everything from here. If I got
a shirt that had the stupid sitGo sign on it, i'd burn it.
And I feel bad saying that Ilove Boston, I just don't like
the sports teams. And you're thinkingit's gonna be one of the older shirts.
Well, they did say that it'seither like classic or overstock, so
(07:51):
it could be like the new youngkid that just didn't work out. Oh,
you can maybe pretend, because thecolors are red, belue that this
is a Braves Chris sale shirt.No, no, you can't. Actually,
Oh that's horrible, great City connectt shirt. Oh Verdugo, Yeah,
(08:16):
there's Verdugo. It ain't from NewYork though, garbage. I'd throw
it out. When Alex Verdugo stepsto the plane in Boston. There's a
good chance that ball's ford gone.There's a good chance that's just going in
the garbage. However, I'll buyanother three pack and see what I get.
Where am I going mine? Too? Hi? Elliot in the morning,
(08:39):
by good morning? Hey, who'sthis Tiffany and Richmond? Uh?
Yeah, did you buy a didyou buy a mystery box? I actually
have never bought a mystery box.But my girlfriend bought a mystery box from
Michael and when she opened it,it was all of this congratulations, he
(09:00):
says. Graduation twenty twenty three.Oh, I don't get it was like
whom I know graduating at twenty twentythree? And long behold, I graduated
twenty twenty three with my doctorate inpsychology. So she gave the box to
me. There you go, Thereyou go for you excellent. By the
(09:22):
way, that's horrible, Oh,Tyler's. Maddy didn't know it exists.
I didn't. I had no ideaat Michael's. But it's the thing that
everything is a year old, whichseems like they should guarantee you that it
could be used in the current country. Grads twenty nineteen knock up for next
Easter Michael's grab bags. Wow.Wow? On site? Oh? Sometimes
(09:46):
they're just discounted to five bucks.Did she say this was online or on
site? Uh? No, Ithink she made it like it was on
site. Wow. I sound likeOwen Wilson. Uh. I have never
seen these, and I'm in Michael'squite a bit. Where in the store
are these? Oh? My god? Was this a COVID thing? Just
(10:11):
to get people back in? Nowit works because Tyler's still wearing a mask
or hold on? Hold. Onthe the subreddit Michael's employees, it looks
like there's a lot of comments onthe grab bags. Where am I going?
Line seven? Hi Elliott the morning, Yes me, Yeah? Hi?
(10:33):
Who's this? Oh? This isRoy from Richmond? Yes? Roy?
What can I do for you?Yeah? I'll go to a bass
potshop and they have mystery like tackleboxes where you pay I say, eighteen
dollars and they give you it's aninclosed box and they give you a bunch
of fish and lures, but youdon't and each box is number, so
(10:54):
you don't know what you're gonna get. Is that a good deal? Though?
I have no idea, but Ilike it, you know what I
mean. I'm not into fishing.Yeah, but if you go to bass
Pro and you're like, let mejust buy that, it could be anything.
Yeah, I mean one of thelowers, like I'm married is a
twelve dollars loo, and then ithas five other items. So usually you
end up getting getting a lot morethan you paid for. Hey, do
(11:16):
you know though, do you knowthat you're getting fishing lures? Is it
just a box of mystery lures orcould it be just a mystery of anything?
No, yeah, you know you'regetting fishing lures. You'll get it.
It'll be a combination of like softclassics and yeah, no, no,
no, and listen, I getit. I get it, and
there's probably something to it. Butto me, like breaking tea, you
(11:39):
could argue, listen, it's allT shirts. But it could be it
could be anything, you know whatI mean? Or like Michael's you could
get dads and grads. You couldget anything phishing lures. Is it too
specific or is somebody here in thatand going if I could quote Tyler,
Wow, I bet there's people there'slike that. No, like is that
(12:01):
like oh I would never buy thatlure, but for eighteen bucks, we'll
see. How do you deal withcustomers who insist on looking through the grab
bags and taking things out of them. I told one lady today to stop
looking, and she accused me ofharassment and asked to speak to my manager.
(12:24):
Some stores have it you open it, you buy it policy. See,
that's what it should be, becausethat prevents people from going through and
picking out like the nice Easter decorations. Oh they someplaces tape the boxes so
shut it prevents even the This isa quote the Kareniest of Karens from ripping
(12:48):
them open. That's actually on aT shirt I just got from breaking tea.
I found someone who did the mysteryfunko. Oh is it, Josh?
Are you serious? Ding ding d? Of course he bought the mystery
funko. Oh he's done it morethan once. Loser any chance to waste
money? Did he get anything ofnote? He's gonna spin it. He
(13:13):
was trying to get his hands ona rare Marty McFly. Oh you know
what. I bought mystery baseball cards, hoping i'd get that long sought after
Honus Wagner. You never know.I ended up. This is not me,
this is Josh. We know.I ended up getting two crap pops
and one I already had, soI bought more. Oh no, listen,
(13:37):
if you're in it for the bit, I get it, but don't
tell me. Oh, I'm justhoping to get the rare one. Hey.
Here at Funko, we like totake the most valuable ones we have
and throw it in a mystery grabbot for one kidney to open up and
like, oh, there's that MartyMcFly he's been dreaming of Michael says Elliott
cool hockey. Does this? Dothey really? I don't know what that
(14:00):
website is. Oh, this lookslicensed. What is this site? But
is it? Is it? I'mtrying to find where they have the mystery
listening. It's it's got to bejerseys. Uh yeah, a jersey mystery
box. Oh my god, that'sexpected fifty BUCKSK But but but are they?
(14:22):
Are they player jerseys or they justare they just blank? Just says
authentic. Excuse me with random NHLplayer names. I am so in again.
I am in my luck. Awesome. I got a Macca boy,
a Martian and Aposternak. You canchoose the jersey size, right, but
(14:46):
if you don't like the jersey,you get tough teddy. You are unfortunately
stuck with it. The randomness isthe best part of the Mystery Box?
Is it? Is it over stocked? Is it like everybody like all of
a sudden? I'm sure here theyhave a bunch of reviews. Are people
(15:07):
happy? Like? Am I gettinglike I'm trying? Am I getting lar
Zell or Penguins jerseys? Don't wantit? This person recently April twenty ninth,
got a Claude dru Ottawa jersey.Okay, I mean I don't want
to wear it, but okay,so you may as well light one hundred
and fifty dollars on fire. Nowait, do you only get one jersey?
(15:31):
This listing that I clipped on isfor one jersey? I mean one
hundred and fifty bucks for an authenticjersey. Some of these people have purchased.
This person has done it six times. What they get? Does it
say? What they got? Here'sa picture of one of them. Oh,
that's old school a Nabokov jersey.I don't even recognize that name.
(15:54):
He was a goalie for the forthe San Jose Sharks. Wow, a
lot of repeat purchases. Yeah,I don't want a Nabokov jersey. Yeah?
Wait, but Nabakov also is ina okay, can I ask a
question, how far back does thisgo? Because Saku Koivu hasn't played for
(16:18):
the Montreal Canadians in a like likeeven pre cancer. Brett Hole, No,
thank you, Scott Stevens, hedoesn't play. There you go,
Cale mccarr. That's cool. Thatperson was very happy with that jersey,
well compared to the Nabokov goalie jersey. Mark Stone, Yeah, of the
(16:41):
jersey comes to lt I R MitchMarter all star jersey. Oh, give
me my wallet. Let's do it. It's only one hundred and fifty dollars.
Let's do it. Oh, Idon't Is that a quinn Byfield jersey?
Yes? Oh, I a throwback Quintin buyfield. I don't want
(17:02):
a Darnell nursed nursed. Oh,let's buy one. Let's buy one.
Oh, Matthew Barzal, great hockeyplayer. I'd never wear the jersey.
Ryan gets laugh. So are youin or no? You're buying one.
I'm buying one now, I'm in. Oh Blivier go to hell. Oh
(17:30):
Joseph Wall remember he was good forabout five minutes. Where Brett Hale?
Yeah, So there you go.Yeah, let's do it all right,
Where am I going? By theway, that's better than buying stupid funko
pops. Well, when you alreadyhave the one you got hi elliot in
the morning. Hello, yes,sir, Hey, what's going on?
(17:59):
Hey? What's going on? Itnot my brother? So I uh I
ca on line to this sports auctiononline, sports auction called Christine Auctions,
right, and usually they'll have likefifty fifty or sixty boxes that day auction
off. Oh. It could costanywhere from like maybe three hundred to five
(18:22):
hundred bucks. But they go,they go pretty quick. But uh,
I was lucky enough to get abox, and I pulled, uh in
your you're you're gonna get an autographof somebody either from football, baseball,
or hockey. I pulled a RayBoord shirt, Colorado Avalanche shirt, right,
(18:42):
Randy Moss mini Randy Moss signed,mini helmet, and my trout baseball.
Oh my god, that's freaking awesome. That's great. And I paid
three fifty for the box. Ohmy god, that is fantastic. Yeah,
(19:02):
it's it's not called Christine Auctions.It's they got some pretty cool stuff
online. That's awesome. That's awesome. Good for you, Good for you,
Thank you, my friend, thankyou. Yeah, I'm in the
middle of getting jerseys now, Diane, since hockey isn't your thing. Zach
writ's on Facebook. I bought amystery coin box. Oh god, I
got a billion dollar bill from someother country and thought it was worth something.
(19:26):
How much is it worth? TwoUS dollars? But what's the excitement
in that? Like, can youget something that's valuable? I assume so
why would they able to sell itif everyone but it poorly? Like?
But what coin are you getting that'svaluable? Am I getting? Like a
like a like here you go.Now I'm Josh, am I going to
(19:48):
seventeen seventy six Buffalo ahead penny.Well, no, if you're Josh.
He wanted the the low in theDark plutonium Marty Fly number forty nine.
Oh I got a mystery box.Oh I got a loser, Josh.
So I was at the dollar treetwo weeks ago in and there was a
(20:11):
dollar plus tax, so there wasso much change, and the cashier kept
looking really close at one of thecoins, almost like she couldn't even tell
if it was a quarter, nickelor dime whatever. She then decides it's
a nickel, and she hands itto me. She said, this,
this may be a really old nickel. I get to the car. I
(20:33):
don't want to seem too interested becausethen I feel like I have to split
it. If I look at it. You're in front of her. I
get to the car. Twenty thirteen. It's really old. Wow, line
too, Hey, don't let linethree go? Hi. Ellie had the
morning. Hey, what's going onthis morning? Hey? What's going on?
Dude? Not too much, man, I think a mystery box with
(20:56):
the concert tees would be awesome.No, I mean you don't. I
mean it could be, but thenbut then, but then you could also
end up you could also end upwith a bunch of shirts you don't want,
like it's the name of the game. Yeah no, but like it
(21:17):
would be all like what like Icould get like like System just played a
bunch of shows Like that would becool. But then I don't want.
I don't my luck I would get. I would get like BTS and but
then you can get I like,yeah, I know. I was trying
to think of another one that I'mjust not gonna wear, like Sugar,
(21:37):
Sugar, Sugar is my God,Jewel, thank you. Yeah, Jewel
and Toledo. Watch this thing birdWhat it's one band dumping all of their
merch from a previous tour. Ohbut it's shirt. But is it the
same shirt? No, No,it's it's like a grab bag thank you
of stuff they sold on the road. So it would be. It could
be they don't own a warehouse forthat. They and they're in a dumping
(22:00):
the trailer that hauled it. Someof that's good, some of that's bad.
It's a band, you like,Yeah, I know, but what
am I gonna? I don't Inever bought a program when I went to
shows. I don't want, Idon't need. I don't need a scully
like, that's what I would get, Like, give me some shirts,
give me a give me a giveme a hoodie, give me something.
This is not for you. Thenthe I don't know it sounds Jersey the
(22:22):
second we get off. It soundslike you just want exactly what you want.
Yeah, Like, can't I gothrough? I'm the caringist of the
carryon is I'm opening up the Michael'sgrab bags. Right, there's Elliott,
Hi, Elliot in the morning.Hello, Hello, Yeah, Hi,
(22:47):
who's that? Hey? There isa chame here at Breaking Tea. I
heard you all talking about our shirts. I love them, and you guys
do the mystery packs. Wait aminute, are you do you work for
their local? Oh? Do youown Breaking Tea? Yeah? I'm went
Breaking Tea, have been there sixor seven years, and I'm getting blown
up this morning because you guys aretalking about them. Hey, how you
(23:07):
doing? So? I've heard nothingthat? All good things? Is what's
going on? No? No,you know what we were talking about.
First of all, if you lookup Molnar and Siegel, you'll see quite
a bit of money spent the U. No, no, you know what
we were talking about is just likemystery packs and mystery purchases and stuff like
that. The yeah, so wewere best deal in town. No,
(23:33):
so, we were talking like theidea of it is awesome to me,
And then we started going through thesite. I don't need an Alex Verdugo
Boston Red Sox T shirt. That'swhat I would end up with. That's
right, Well, that's why youget it for five bucks. Man.
I wouldn't if you pay me,paid me five dollars, I wouldn't wear
(23:56):
that thing. He loves the concept. He just wants to to be Yankees
only. Hey, we got greatYankee shirt. We have all Asot does
and judge you on the mystery.I know, I know. Hey,
So let me ask you, thisis all of the mystery stuff? Is
it? Is it like players thataren't on the teams anymore and stuff.
(24:18):
It's a total grab back. Someof it is guys that have been traded
and nobody's gonna buy that stuff,so we put it in the mystery.
You know, it's that kind oflike stale inventory. Some of it is
like stuff that we just overstocked byaccident, and it's pretty good stuff,
you know. It's it's kind ofa mix. You know, some of
his returns you know that came backfrom from customers, oh mine stuff that
(24:41):
Yeah, nothing with pitt stains isgoing in the mystery. Don't worry about
that, right, It's all gonnabe, you know, a mix of
stuff that actually is is pretty great, or stuff that's pretty terrible but still
pretty great. Cause it's funny.Now, can I ask you this?
Like for example, when when AlexVerdugo was talking about the outfield and was
talking about like a Judge and Stan, he was like, we're just dogs
out here, and that took offfor about three days before Aaron Judge shut
(25:06):
him down. I see on thesite and still says beware of dogs.
I'd like that T shirt, butat five dollars because I feel like that
doesn't exist anymore. Put that inthe grab bag for me, please.
You might end up with that.That was a great shirt for about seventy
two hours exactly. But you knowwhat, it's a fond memory. You
(25:26):
know we can all look back inlift Listen. I would love that.
I would love that to be theT shirt. Listen. I got Travis
Kelsey reminding everybody to know their role. By the way, I don't want
the glabor good. I want thegla happy Glabor Day. Oh my god,
give me the good wads. Hey, do I get to beauty of
(25:49):
it? Go ahead, you canget whatever you want. It's gonna call
you thirty bucks. Hey. DoI get to choose the size on the
grab bag? Or? Does everythinglook like muffin top shower? Yeah,
everything's going to come in sh medium. You know you'll have the muffin top
hanging out. No, you canpick your size. Come on, we
can help you out with that.At least, that's awesome. That's great.
(26:14):
So wait a minute, so youown Breaking Tea. I was the
first employee at Breaking Tea. Iwish I owned Breaking Tea. But yeah,
I've been doing this for six years. Wow. Wait so you were
the first employee. That's kind ofcool. Yeah, love it. You
know, the company came out ofDC started doing like you know, hot
hot topics style shirts for DC sports, and now we do all sports,
(26:37):
all markets. And you know,we're sold online at Breaking Tea dot com.
But you can also buy us somesporting goods and buy us and arenas
sure and stadium stores buy us atNAT's Park. But yeah, it's all
sports nationwide. But we started ind C. Dude, good for you.
I hope they took care of you. You were the first one in
I hope it just ain't the ownersgetting rich. Hey man, I get
(26:59):
to, you know, provide formy whole family by selling twenty T shirts
and mystery packs. Hey, theywouldn't. They wouldn't even notice. Hey,
look up Siegel, you'll get you'llsee the address. Just send one
of them be wearing than dogs forme. Oh you got it. You
better watch out. You might begetting a care package in the station.
Hey, Hold on one second,let me make sure we have your info.
(27:21):
Hold on one second, and shirtsverdue gone factory, all right,
hold on one second. Hold onone second, and I gotta go to
line too. Dude. That's awesome. That's my boy, Jamie. I
bought so much stuff from them afterthe most recent Chief super Bowlin. Oh
my god. And the worst partand maybe for my family, the best
(27:44):
part. None of it was forme because I wanted to support the United
Way and the victim of the shooting. So I got a Kansas City Strong
shirt. The rest of them gotall the like in my back to Back
era regular QB from a home HiElliott in the morning, four or five
(28:07):
cents. Hey, this is thatI. I was the one that made
the comment about buying the mystery coinbox. Hey remember when we were just having
fun talking about sports T shirts?Back to coins? Wait? So what
what coins? What coins are youare you getting? Like? Is there
anything valuable you can get? Well, my mom is really good and hen
(28:32):
she'll go to Goodwill and she canpick up something and look at the bottom
and see like an autographer's signature orsomething about it. And she does that
and sells it on eBay. Andshe makes a whole lot of money doing
it. And she told me aboutyou can buy mystery coin boxes and apparently
there are good coins out there.I don't know. I mean there's videos
(28:56):
online that you can see like,oh, if you get a nineteen fifty
two penny, it has the peeupside down or whatever. But she like
can notice stuff like that. Andso I bought one and it came with
it was like a billion dollar billor something. And I was like,
huh, I wonder if this isworth anything? Take it and trade it
(29:17):
in for you know, money,But it was worth like two bucks.
Yeah, it wasn't anything exactly.But did you keep it? Did you
keep the billion dollar bill? No? And it's worthless. Yeah you did,
you did? Kiss but yeah.And I put it in a little
(29:38):
frame and it's cool. I haveit in my office at home. I
have to. I'm at work rightnow. But uh but yeah, I
uh, you know, because it'scool to have that right to be like,
hey, and I'll give it tomy daughter and be like, yeah,
you're a billionaire, but you know, yeah, like me something all
(30:00):
right, very good, very good, thank you, my friend, thank
you. Yeah, I'm buying ajersey oh, you're waiting on that care
waiting on them, be wearing themdogs. And if you're sending one to
me, I already do have.It's me Hi, I'm the champion. It's me
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