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OPEN MIC with MIGHTY! · Ultimate Rewinds Podcast

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  [music]
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  What is up? It is Friday night on the
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  East Coast and nothing is going on.
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  That's why you guys see me here tonight.
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  But I got to tell you guys, I'm going to
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  start this one off telling you, like I
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  said on my Instagram post, I have not
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  slept in seven days really well. I have
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  been just tossing and turning every
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  freaking night. And I don't know what it
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  is. I just I can't get a restful night's
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  sleep lately. I I don't know. But I'm up
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  tonight, so I'm like, you know what? Let
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  me come on the stream. Let me talk to
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  people. Let's have a little fun. Let's
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  talk collectibles. Let's talk whatever
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  you want. I don't even care. There's a
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  couple of topics I'm definitely going to
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  bring up, but other than that, the floor
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  is open to you guys. And as always, I'm
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  uh, you know, allowing anyone who wants
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  to come on and just talk with me
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  tonight. The link, of course, is pinned
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  and starred in the chat. Just click it.
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  Whether you want video or not, you are
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  more than welcome. So, welcome aboard to
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  everybody. Again, we're just getting
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  started here tonight. Let me say hello
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  to a few people. First and foremost, we
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  have my boy Huratan. What is going on on
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  my friend? He's like, "Let's get this
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  puppy off the ground because it was
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  8:20. I had not hit that go live button
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  yet." So, thank you for being here, bud.
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  Kingdom Comics, what is up? Yo yo,
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  welcome to the stream. JSS Brooklyn, one
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  of my moderators. Happy Friday night,
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  all reminder, hit that like button, be
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  responsible, and most importantly, let's
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  have some fun. Of course, we're live on
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  YouTube, but like always, I am trying
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  something new. We're going live on
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  Instagram as well. So, hello to
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  everybody out there on the IG live
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  platform. Guess what? We're streaming to
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  both platforms tonight. We're doing more
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  advanced work with this. So, I'm
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  hopefully you're going to see more
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  things coming your way regarding Mighty
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  Comics and Collectibles and the podcast,
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  of course. Hello to my buddy Dario. What
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  is going on? I haven't seen you jumped
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  on a live stream in a long time, my man.
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  Good to see you. How was your King Kong?
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  I know I saw you there, but uh you know,
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  did you have fun? I don't think you got
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  you bought anything, but you you
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  refreshed my memory. Did you end up
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  picking up anything? Let me know. But
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  let's start the chat off tonight asking
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  a question. Did anybody buy anything
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  lately? Anybody at all? I want to hear
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  from you. Uh we have a question from
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  Instagram already. I'm going to answer
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  you, Dukes. But I have a freaking guest
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  already in the background. Holy crap. A
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  first timer to YouTube. I'm bringing you
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  on in a second, but hang on. But I want
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  to answer this question first. Dukes T
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  angry says, "What do you suggest a
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  collector do when they have hit a patch
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  of the road where nothing is available
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  from what they collect?" That is a great
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  freaking question. As you guys can see,
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  I have the chat going on the screen here
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  tonight as long as I have am by myself
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  and I'm not going to be by myself for
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  too much longer. But that's a great
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  question. I suggest that if you are into
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  other things like I am, you see so many
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  things behind me. I have so many
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  passions and it's really just nostalgia
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  of things I grew up with between comics,
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  you know, comic statues, other statues,
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  toys, cards, you know, anything vintage
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  video games, arcades that I grew up
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  with, I started moving along to those
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  things. So, when I had all my comics
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  that I wanted to keep in my collection
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  and I've gotten rid of a few things here
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  or there, I started to move on to other
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  passions that I had growing up as a kid
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  and I still have affinity for here
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  today. So, great question, Chef. What is
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  going on, my friend? I see you on
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  Instagram. What is going on?
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  It does suck, but what are you going to
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  do? Let me bring in my guest who's
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  backstage and I can't believe he showed
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  up. You've been talking about this for a
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  while.
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  >> Dario, can you hear me, buddy?
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  >> Yeah. Yeah. Can you hear me?
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  >> Yeah, man.
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  >> How you doing? Good. Long time no see.
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  Thanks for popping on, man.
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  >> You, too. I think I hopped on like a
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  couple of years ago.
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  >> Did you really? I don't remember that
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  one.
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  >> Maybe for like a heartbeat.
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  Yeah.
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  >> Yeah. Yeah.
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  >> What's going on? How are you?
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  >> Good. Good. I didn't know you were I saw
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  your thing where you were like I haven't
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  slept in two weeks. I thought that was
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  like a like a joke.
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  >> No, man. I I I don't know what it is
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  this past week. I have been just tossing
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  and turning all night. And I don't know
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  if it's because of the weather cuz, you
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  know, we're both of us are in New
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  Jersey, so like the weather uh last week
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  was ridiculous. It was like 80 degrees
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  one week and now all of a sudden it's 40
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  degrees again. So, I don't know what it
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  is, but it got really hot really quick.
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  And that probably, you know, didn't
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  help. And then it got cooled off real
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  quick. So I think for me, my body the
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  way I am, it's like if I miss like two
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  or three days of like really good sleep,
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  all of a sudden I have trouble like
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  getting back in that rhythm,
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  >> right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, you
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  know, for me, I have horrible allergies
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  and like I'm I'm like a barometer. Like
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  two days ahead, like I had a crazy
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  sneezing attack. My wife's like, "What's
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  your problem? Like will you stop?" And
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  then two days later we had like that
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  crazy rainstorm
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  >> and like you wouldn't know it and then
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  and I was like there you go you know so
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  it's whatever the pressure
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  >> you know kind of hits [snorts] and um
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  whatever. No but it I'll talk to you
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  offline. I mean you know that sucks to
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  not sleep. I mean I'm sleeping too much
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  >> you know.
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  >> Yeah I mean I mean coffee and then crash
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  at 10 o'clock. [laughter]
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  >> So for anybody who and I'll catch up in
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  the chat in a minute. For anybody who
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  doesn't know Doro is a good friend of
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  mine. We met via comics and he lives
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  maybe about 10 15 minutes from me. Um I
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  haven't seen him in a while. I just saw
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  him at King Kong this past week and I
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  reminded him that King Kong was coming
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  and to make sure if he had time to get
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  >> to get out there. Yeah, because it's
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  it's always a good show. So I asked the
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  question before, did you pick up
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  anything when you were there?
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  >> No, I didn't. I I mean I reached out to
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  that guy Dominator about Marvel one
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  Marvel comics number one and I you know
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  I just as a joke I said would you do
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  layaway and he go and he said yeah 20%
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  down non-refundable so uh and then I
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  wrote back like gave him the thumbs up
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  afterwards so no but he had I mean he
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  had a a ton of other books there he had
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  the um
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  >> the uh I always forget the name of it
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  the the red skull this with the Captain
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  America
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  >> on it and he said that that was like 16k
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  and I was like that's more you know
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  that's kind of more in my range but
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  still something that you know is is out
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  of my range but um you know to to own
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  kind of books like that you know is uh
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  is kind of incredible and just to sell
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  it I mean it is interesting for me
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  because I've been doing this for so long
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  well for a couple of years you know and
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  picked up again since I was a kid is
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  like I look at it as with
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  [clears throat] with like almost like a
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  museum type thing you know how you walk
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  around and like I've been to Cooper Town
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  and you look at, you know, the uniforms
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  and the bats and the balls and and the
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  card, you know, they they have a a
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  selection of baseball cards as you leave
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  the stad as you leave the um museum and
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  as a kid you're just like, "Oh my god.
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  Oh my god." And then, you know, for
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  these people just put it up on a wall
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  like it's, you know, like, you know,
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  which what do you want? You know, Marvel
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  comics, right? Make me an offer,
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  [laughter]
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  you know, like uh would you do, you
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  know, 90,000, [laughter] you know, that
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  kind of thing. But uh you know I just
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  it's interesting you know because I
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  watch your your videos a lot and I you
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  know I and I do watch a couple of other
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  guys that have been coming up on my feed
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  lately and you know it's usually the
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  same round of three or four four guys
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  I'm bad with with the names. Absolute
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  Comics um is one of the guys that I that
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  I watch often and it's just it's just
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  interesting because
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  you know they interviewed uh very Gary
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  at the show and somebody said how is the
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  industry doing and he's like we're still
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  selling you know we're still selling a
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  lot of books but again I you know I
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  think based on the conversation we had
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  as a sidebar it all depends on what you
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  get when you got in right because if
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  you're buying collection now, right?
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  You're still selling them at a premium.
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  But if you're holding on to inventory,
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  say you bought maybe three or four years
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  ago, right? You're you're kind of like,
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  "All right, do I still hold this and
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  hope the market comes back or do I just
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  cut my losses,
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  >> you know?" Yeah. And and I guess it's
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  kind of similar to other businesses as
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  well in terms of, you know, do I want to
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  just let it sit on the shelf and
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  hopefully someday somebody's going to
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  scoop that up,
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  >> right? Or do I just put something up,
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  you know, that that's going to move
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  really quickly,
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  >> you know? It's yeah
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  >> everybody I I think a lot of us
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  especially you know that have been
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  around a long time and we've been
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  collecting comics for a long time you
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  know with the boom or right after the
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  boom like
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  >> it's it's just I'll say this is like
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  every people think that comics are going
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  to go away and that selling is going to
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  go away. It's never going to happen
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  folks. There's always going to be people
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  who have that nostalgia who enjoy the
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  medium. Um new books are a different
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  story but right now new books are like
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  the hottest thing out there. So, like
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  sellers are still selling from what I
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  hear. They're doing okay. If you have
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  good inventory, I'll always think you'll
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  move it. That's just my philosophy. If I
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  look at a wall or I look through boxes
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  and there's heat in there, and it
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  doesn't have to be expensive heat. It
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  could be cheap heat. You got you guys
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  saw me go through boxes and I'm picking
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  up, you know,5 to $20 books out of bins.
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  So, that that are still, in my opinion,
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  like nice keys to have. So, it's it's
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  all in, you know, it's all relative, as
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  they say.
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  >> Sure. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, I I
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  was talking to Gerard and um Yael from
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  Zenotramm and you know, he had Silver
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  Age and he had a whole thing of absolute
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  Batman's up on the wall and you know
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  just I mean I think you know just like
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  you and I you could scan a wall within 3
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  seconds and see if you know something
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  catches your eye. And I was like oh
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  how's how the Batman selling? He's like
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  he goes we're just they're flying off
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  the wall. He goes I'll they'll sell and
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  I just go underneath and put more up
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  there. So, I think it's really cool that
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  there is more buzz in the industry now.
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  I mean, look, just there's no such thing
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  as bad publicity, but I think the fact
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  that a lot of huge books have sold
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  lately and it's beyond just, you know,
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  with, you know, the little core of the
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  industry. It's on mainstream. Golden
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  has, you know, they're hyping things up,
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  you know, even though it's for them,
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  they're still hyping things up for
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  comics in general. And then I just
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  watched the um the documentary Selling
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  Superman.
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  >> Oh yeah.
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  >> Mix. And did you see it? Did you watch
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  it?
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  >> I watched it like when it first came
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  out. I I didn't think it was that great.
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  I thought it was going to be more like a
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  film. It wasn't. It was like broke it up
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  into into like four little pieces, which
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  I really wasn't like a fan of that. I
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  wish they would have done like an actual
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  documentary film. It would have been
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  better. But it was okay.
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  >> Yeah. No, I but I for me just the the
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  fact that somebody had that collection
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  speaks to, you know, like you like when
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  I look back at something like um Hulk
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  181, right? It came out 172,
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  >> right? I'm thinking,
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  >> okay, now that's 50some years old.
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  >> I think it might be 70. It might be 73.
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  I don't know, guys. Somebody let me know
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  if it's 72 or 73 came out. Okay.
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  >> And um but again, you think back and
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  you're like, "Oh, I wish you know my dad
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  collected." Right? Because that's the
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  only way you would have gotten an an
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  original copy, you know? And then these
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  these collections that come back from
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  the golden era, too. It's like there was
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  that other U Superman that was found,
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  the 9.0.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> that was uh Sorry. No, there was like I
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  think 9.0,
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  >> right? The se Yeah, I know. Well, the
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  7.0 whatever the one with the the their
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  mom said that she's like, I have a I
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  have a collection in my attic that like
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  a very very valuable book comics. And
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  then it was weird like it
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  [clears throat] never kind of came to
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  light until after she passed. And then
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  she had I don't know how many she had,
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  but she had the Superman number one
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  there I think in a crate. And it was one
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  of these things that hadn't hadn't been
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  touched probably in 70 years. And that's
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  I mean that's the only way that these
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  things can uh you know can preserve that
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  much because [snorts] I mean you know
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  the deal it's like the other day
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  remember I was talking about pulp. I
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  mean, the quality of the pages and, you
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  know, have everything brown so easily
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  that the only way to get like white or
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  off-white pages is to have literally all
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  your books stacked and in somewhere
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  that's literally airtight.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> So,
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  >> so, so before we go any further, I want
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  to um just mention I got a super chat.
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  So, he have a question. Heran, what's
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  going on, my friend? He says, "Hey,
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  Lawrence, longtime listener, first time
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  caller." That's that goes out to like
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  New York guys. If you guys know that,
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  you know it. I recently picked up a TN
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  TMNT1 first print in a lowgrade Eastman
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  Eastman sign with a remark in a 65.
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  Congrats. I I remember you mentioning
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  that to me. So for people out there who
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  don't know TMNT1, you all know that
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  there was only 3,000 printed, but do you
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  know if you go look at the CGC census,
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  >> the lowgrade numbers outweigh the higher
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  grade numbers on the census? So it it it
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  goes to say the lower grades or the
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  mid-grades have less available than the
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  higher grade ones right now, which I
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  which I thought was wild. So I actually
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  looked into buying a one in a lower
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  grade. At one point I was looking like a
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  40 or four or five because it just there
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  was like two or three on the census,
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  whatever it was, and I was just like
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  shocked by it.
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  >> Well, you know, the qual the I think the
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  page quality of those books were were a
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  little better than a regular book,
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  weren't they, at the time?
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  >> [clears throat]
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  >> You know, I have no idea. We're going
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  back to 1984, so still 84 with the old
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  the old pages, but I don't know. You
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  know, I've never actually opened a TMNT1
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  to look inside what the page is like.
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  So, someone who has, let me know. But
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  I'm sure if you have a a first print,
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  you're not, you know, it's probably
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  slabbed at this point, I would think,
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  for most people.
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  >> Because I I remember going to my local
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  shop in Manhattan and um I I think I
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  bought like the one with the Triceratops
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  on the cover. I don't know if it was
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  like TMNT issue 16 or something like
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  that and you know I bought like Flaming
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  Carrot like I bought one of those issues
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  that was like they had like literally in
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  the bottom row a bunch of indies and
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  just just for the hell of it I was like
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  you know what let me pick up one or two
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  of these because you never know what's
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  going to happen and then the Turtles
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  thing was even huge at that point in
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  time and I I mean I literally picked
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  that up right off the the shelf there
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  and I had it and then you know
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  eventually got stolen. That's another
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  That's for another That's That's another
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  >> Yeah. I had [laughter]
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  I had a bunch of I had all my books in
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  bags and boards, but I had them in shoe
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  boxes instead of like um short boxes and
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  somebody like was working on the house
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  or whatever. And um I didn't notice it
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  because I had a bunch of shoe boxes. And
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  then later on I'm like, I don't get it.
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  Like where the hell's this shoe box? I
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  went back in my attic and this and that
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  and I had a stack of like, you know,
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  maybe 25 30 books in that shoe box and I
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  and I I distinctly remember what I'm
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  missing. I had Star Wars 1 2 3 and four.
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  I had that I had the um the first
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  Carnage Spider-Man. I didn't have it,
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  you know, thankfully like every single
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  thing sort of kind of in order, but I
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  had I had that book in there and I had a
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  few other kind of early books there. I
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  had some early Spideies like the first
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  black cat, things like that where I'm
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  just like I can't believe, you know,
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  like somebody walked out with one of my
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  shoe boxes. But yeah, you know, live you
• 15:29
  live and you learn.
• 15:30
  >> Yeah. Al, so before I want to give
• 15:32
  people like a a little bit of an inkling
• 15:34
  into who you are because I met you years
• 15:35
  ago and what you what you collect while
• 15:36
  I have you here, but let me just catch
• 15:38
  let me just catch up on the chat a
• 15:39
  little bit. So Kingdom Comics says not
• 15:42
  on the subject, but his daughter was
• 15:44
  like, "Hey dad, you might want to play
• 15:45
  Red Dead Redemption 2." She said, "This
• 15:47
  might be something you would like, and I
• 15:49
  haven't put it down since." I I remember
• 15:50
  playing Redemption. I haven't I don't
• 15:52
  think I played two, but it definitely is
• 15:54
  an addictive game until you're done with
• 15:55
  it. Then it's like it's hard to go back
• 15:57
  and play it again. But um
• 16:00
  uh JSS says, "I have to say these past
• 16:02
  two weeks were the most interesting new
• 16:04
  comic book days in decades for me
• 16:06
  personally, and I don't collect modern
• 16:08
  books." So JSS, what did you pick up?
• 16:10
  Let us know. Um, so I have to ask this
• 16:12
  person here, the immortal Biggy Chic and
• 16:15
  then the immortal Sticky Shack. Are you
• 16:18
  the same person? Because obviously
• 16:20
  you're trolling Sticky Goose cuz I see
• 16:22
  your
• 16:23
  >> your thumb your your thing [snorts]
• 16:25
  there is a picture of him and then the
• 16:27
  other one is the Chic. So I have a
• 16:29
  feeling this is someone in the community
• 16:31
  uh probably having a good time here. So
• 16:34
  we'll stay away from those comments. Uh,
• 16:37
  Tikker, Tikker 2, if you price something
• 16:38
  below market price, it will always sell.
• 16:41
  And I think that's where we are seeing
• 16:42
  right now most being picked up by others
• 16:45
  dealers. I've heard that as well that
• 16:47
  that if you go to a show, it's a lot of
• 16:49
  people basically buying that are dealers
• 16:53
  and then trying to resell themselves.
• 16:54
  I've definitely heard that. But if you
• 16:56
  went to King Kong, it was for the most
• 16:58
  part it was all collectors, right? There
• 16:59
  were dealers set up, but I didn't
• 17:01
  recognize many dealers from the area
• 17:03
  that weren't there,
• 17:04
  >> you know, that [snorts] weren't wasn't
• 17:06
  set up,
• 17:06
  >> right? Yeah. I saw Kyle's comics there.
• 17:10
  >> Yeah, he was there,
• 17:11
  >> but he wasn't selling. Right.
• 17:14
  >> Um, which I know he's done in the past.
• 17:16
  He's sold there in the past, but I
• 17:17
  didn't go last year because I don't know
• 17:18
  if he set up last year or not, but uh,
• 17:20
  so tell everybody like I know you, but
• 17:23
  how did you get into comics and what do
• 17:25
  you what did you collect?
• 17:26
  >> Yes. So, you know, I grew up in the
• 17:28
  Bronx and funny story, um, Pelen
• 17:31
  Parkway, Mars Park area and I don't know
• 17:34
  like late 70s778
• 17:37
  or nishish. Um,
• 17:40
  my friend my friend got me into it and
• 17:44
  uh, there was a local there was a local
• 17:46
  like coin guy
• 17:50
  on Leic Avenue and he had his own
• 17:53
  collection of comics. So he [snorts]
• 17:56
  had, you know, those glass sliding
• 17:58
  doors, you know, that kind of open like
• 17:59
  that. And he had the stacks of all the
• 18:02
  books there. So he had like X-Men,
• 18:04
  Avengers, Fantastic Fours. Boom, boom,
• 18:06
  boom. And then he had them all hanging
• 18:08
  on the wall. And everything was in bags.
• 18:09
  There was no boards at the time. And um
• 18:12
  when his nickname was ripoff, so
• 18:15
  [laughter]
• 18:17
  we're always like, "Oh, you know, [ __ ]
• 18:19
  I got $2. Let's go to ripoffs." you
• 18:21
  know, so we'd go there and then he would
• 18:23
  flip through, you know, and you'd be
• 18:25
  like, "All right, that one. All right,
• 18:26
  great. That's, you know, that's a buck
• 18:28
  or something like that, you know." But
• 18:30
  again, think about the time, you know,
• 18:32
  he I remember he had Tales of Suspense
• 18:34
  39. He had the first vision. He had
• 18:37
  Silver Surfer number one on the wall. I
• 18:39
  mean, he like he had all these great
• 18:41
  books. That's why for me it was like,
• 18:43
  you know, when you see it in your hand
• 18:44
  and then you remember just vividly as a
• 18:46
  kid looking at these books on the wall
• 18:48
  and then he had boxes of them where you
• 18:50
  know like he had them written in pencil
• 18:51
  like 25 cents 35 cents you know that
• 18:53
  kind of thing. I mean, I I I didn't have
• 18:55
  any money back then, a couple of bucks
• 18:57
  in my pocket and um so I just started
• 19:00
  like, you know, buying books that way
• 19:03
  and um you know, whatever came out like
• 19:06
  local shops or something like I really
• 19:08
  started buying when it was like around
• 19:10
  30 cent issues. Um you know, I remember
• 19:12
  when the first like Frank Miller Dare
• 19:15
  Daredevils came out on the shelf and
• 19:16
  things like that, you know. So, but I
• 19:18
  was always like Fantastic 4, just
• 19:20
  immediately drawn to that there. I mean,
• 19:23
  honestly, when I was a kid at the time,
• 19:25
  um, Fantastic 4 Amazing Spider-Man was
• 19:28
  always number one, like no matter what.
• 19:30
  >> Uh, DC's I I wasn't really as drawn to
• 19:33
  DC. And I know you're going to laugh
• 19:34
  because of, you know, now like looking
• 19:36
  back at the 70s and some of the great
• 19:38
  artists that, you know, was in Detective
• 19:39
  Comics and Batman, but like, you know, I
• 19:42
  just I as much as I love the Super
• 19:44
  Friends, the cartoon, I was always drawn
• 19:47
  to more the just kind of the stylistic
• 19:49
  view. Fantastic 4 for me was like
• 19:52
  negative zone, things like that. I loved
• 19:54
  things about space. So that was, you
• 19:56
  know, that kind of was like my my genre,
• 19:58
  you know, the whole Star Wars, Star Trek
• 19:59
  thing. So, um, yeah. So, I just started
• 20:02
  buying some stuff. I I never had a ton
• 20:04
  of books. I'd say by the time I stopped
• 20:06
  collecting around 90 91ish, I had about
• 20:10
  500 books. And but, you know, there were
• 20:13
  local stores up in Central Avenue and
• 20:15
  Yoners. And then, you know, when I
• 20:18
  started working in Manhattan again, I'd
• 20:19
  go to Midtown Comics, [snorts] you know,
• 20:21
  so walking to the Port Authority, I'd go
• 20:23
  there and I'd pick up some books, I
• 20:25
  don't know, maybe around 2005, six,
• 20:27
  sevenish time. And then I started
• 20:29
  getting into um X-Force,
• 20:32
  that whole that whole series there, just
• 20:34
  like completely drawn again because it
• 20:36
  was futuristic, you know, Deadpool and
• 20:39
  the future and cable and this and that,
• 20:41
  you [snorts] know. But then I stopped
• 20:42
  collecting for years, you know, just
• 20:44
  because I had kids and I had no money,
• 20:46
  right? And then as soon as COVID came,
• 20:48
  March 2020, I got a new I literally
• 20:51
  started at Macy's in corporate and uh I
• 20:55
  was home and I just was like, you know
• 20:57
  what? Let me go to Heritage Auctions and
• 21:01
  I was like, oh wow, Spider-Man number
• 21:03
  one, what? And then I put a bid in. I
• 21:05
  was the only one that won it. So,
• 21:08
  literally the first book that I won
• 21:10
  getting back into the um game was
• 21:14
  Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man.
• 21:15
  >> So, so let me ask you a question. Now, I
• 21:17
  I know you. So, I know you're a big FF
• 21:19
  collector. So, you went from Spider-Man
• 21:20
  one to to doing FF. And when I say he
• 21:22
  does FF, he's got like multiple copies
• 21:25
  of like
• 21:26
  >> all if if not most of the FF books,
• 21:29
  silver age stuff. [snorts]
• 21:31
  >> Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, it just that was
• 21:35
  you know what it was Lawrence at the
• 21:36
  time
• 21:38
  it was like in March of 2020 it was
• 21:42
  almost like a rebirth kind of thing
• 21:45
  where it was I didn't really kind of say
• 21:47
  I'm only going to collect FFS uh because
• 21:49
  I I still had my collection I think I
• 21:51
  had from issue 135 to like
• 21:56
  340
• 21:57
  >> right so I'd say more than half of my
• 21:59
  books were Fantastic Force because I had
• 22:01
  a subscription to them a for you know
• 22:04
  for a couple of years you know so I have
• 22:06
  new like I have newstand copies of books
• 22:08
  from like you know 240 to the early 300s
• 22:11
  and uh when I got back into it again
• 22:13
  again it was just one of these things
• 22:14
  where I took a swipe and I won it
• 22:16
  [snorts] and um but again like there
• 22:19
  there was there was always a list of
• 22:21
  like 20 to 30 books where I was like oh
• 22:23
  my god it would be so awesome to own it.
• 22:25
  So, at one point I b I bought Silver
• 22:27
  Surfer number four and I and I and I got
• 22:30
  um I bought books on Heritage and Comic
• 22:32
  Link.
• 22:33
  >> So, I put bids in. I won uh Silver
• 22:36
  Surfer number four. I mean, these some
• 22:37
  of these books I ended up selling back.
• 22:39
  Uh Hulk 180. Um
• 22:43
  I actually have Fantastic 4 number 11. I
• 22:45
  sold it back, you know. So, there there
• 22:47
  were a couple of books. I had Spidey
• 22:49
  Spider-Man number 50 that I sold to
• 22:51
  Heritage. uh had a Spider-Man 129 that I
• 22:55
  sold.
• 22:55
  >> So this is this is like this is like
• 22:57
  2020 time like before the boom and
• 22:59
  stuff. So yeah, like I think a lot of
• 23:01
  like
• 23:02
  >> it makes sense because you're winning
• 23:04
  bids when like things like were kind of
• 23:06
  died down at at that point before the
• 23:07
  whole thing went crazy. But uh somebody
• 23:10
  has a question for you. JSS Books and
• 23:12
  Brooklyn asks, "What are your reviews on
• 23:14
  the FF movie?"
• 23:15
  >> Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 23:15
  >> Did you like it?
• 23:16
  >> So I saw it twice. I saw the first one
• 23:18
  in the
• 23:20
  like uh the 3D version which I thought
• 23:23
  was great and then I saw it again cuz I
• 23:26
  knew I wasn't going to get a
• 23:27
  subscription to Disney. [laughter]
• 23:30
  I already I already had a subscription
• 23:31
  to Disney. I saw the movie all the
• 23:34
  Marvel movies again and I was like
• 23:35
  that's not worth the the $10. But um no,
• 23:39
  I thought it was great. I mean I would
• 23:41
  say it was I'd give it four and a half
• 23:43
  stars. I think I thought some of the
• 23:47
  um I wish they had more villains in it.
• 23:50
  >> I'd say that that like that was my only
• 23:52
  criticism
• 23:54
  >> was just I wish that there was more
• 23:55
  villains.
• 23:56
  >> People said that it was too short. I
• 23:58
  thought it was fine. I thought it was a
• 23:59
  lot better movie than Superman, but
• 24:00
  that's just me. Um
• 24:02
  >> Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean there was a
• 24:04
  couple I saw a couple of like scenes
• 24:06
  that were cut. There was one scene where
• 24:08
  Sue goes down to the, you know, to visit
• 24:10
  the Moleman to kind of, you know, to get
• 24:13
  his support for, uh, you know, for
• 24:16
  fighting Galactus when he comes here,
• 24:18
  you know. Um,
• 24:20
  yeah. And there was a couple of other
• 24:21
  smaller scenes. Like I said, I to me
• 24:23
  that was the um the only criticism. The
• 24:27
  other thing too, you know, again, I
• 24:29
  always speak my mind, like I didn't
• 24:31
  think Pedro Pascal was the best fit for
• 24:36
  um Reed Richards.
• 24:37
  >> Reed Richards. Yeah.
• 24:38
  >> Yeah. I was
• 24:38
  >> I thought he was okay.
• 24:39
  >> Yeah. I was kind of hoping they would
• 24:41
  have uh John Krosinski again.
• 24:43
  >> Krinski. Everybody.
• 24:44
  >> Yeah. I mean, I thought he did a
• 24:45
  fantastic job in uh
• 24:48
  >> you know, the verse of Mandis. Yeah. I
• 24:50
  thought he did a fant and he looks the
• 24:51
  part. So, I I'd say that, you know, to
• 24:54
  me that was I wouldn't I wouldn't say I
• 24:57
  was disappointed, but I would say I I
• 25:00
  think he was a little miscast.
• 25:02
  >> I think I think the FF was a solid
• 25:04
  movie. It was a good film,
• 25:06
  >> but again, no FF film has done
• 25:08
  particularly well. All of them have
• 25:10
  really haven't done great. So, like for
• 25:12
  them to get where they were, I think
• 25:13
  it's been fine. But Oh, says, "Back in
• 25:15
  1991, before going to school, I used to
• 25:18
  go and wait for my friend at his house.
• 25:20
  And while I waited, he had five boxes
• 25:22
  filled with 50s and 60s comics. I was in
• 25:26
  awe. He gifted me a Green Lantern 40.
• 25:28
  That's awesome. I mean, in 1991, I mean,
• 25:31
  I can imagine what some of those were
• 25:32
  worth back then. Probably pennies on the
• 25:34
  dollar with what they are now. But as
• 25:36
  always, guys, in the chat, I want to
• 25:38
  hear your questions. If you have
• 25:39
  questions, we talked a little bit about
• 25:40
  like what everybody's picking up. I
• 25:42
  asked Daario what he picked up. I don't
• 25:44
  think he picked up anything. I think I
• 25:45
  think you showed me at the show you
• 25:46
  bought a couple of FFS. But
• 25:48
  >> yeah, I have
• 25:50
  >> Hold on a second here. I want to dig in
• 25:51
  my
• 25:53
  >> my box of oh stuff.
• 25:56
  >> While you're doing that, I'm going to
• 25:57
  ask the chat. Does any anybody out there
• 25:59
  collect other stuff out there? Like you
• 26:01
  guys know I collect a ton of stuff and
• 26:03
  I've started doing videos on other stuff
• 26:05
  as well. So Dario, I'll ask start with
• 26:07
  you. Do you collect other stuff as well
• 26:08
  or just comics?
• 26:09
  >> Uh no. Well, you know, I I
• 26:13
  I'm a collector by heart because in the
• 26:17
  early 90s when Upper Deck came out, I I
• 26:22
  started buying like Upper Deck hockey
• 26:23
  cards cuz it it went from like Tops and
• 26:27
  Score, which were crap, to Upper Deck.
• 26:30
  And immediately they raised the game. I
• 26:31
  mean, they were like the complete and
• 26:32
  then obviously for, you know, mostly for
• 26:34
  baseball, but for hockey, it was a
• 26:36
  complete game changer. And then they
• 26:37
  came out with like the European set as
• 26:40
  well. So when that started, I I was
• 26:43
  like, you know what? Let me just do
• 26:44
  something unique because everybody is is
• 26:47
  um is buying what's out right now. And
• 26:49
  then, you know, they totally ruined it
• 26:50
  by coming out with like six or seven
• 26:52
  different sets. And it was like, oh
• 26:53
  wait, that's the official rookie, the
• 26:55
  unofficial rookie. So I actually I
• 26:57
  actually put together the 1952 Parkhurst
• 27:00
  hockey set,
• 27:02
  >> one card at a time,
• 27:04
  >> and Oh, wow.
• 27:05
  >> Yeah. And it was the good the the good
• 27:07
  thing about it was it was 105 cards
• 27:10
  total. So I don't want to say easy to
• 27:13
  put together, but like I would go to
• 27:15
  shows
• 27:16
  and people I would literally look at
• 27:19
  their um display and they might have two
• 27:23
  and I'm like, "How much for the, you
• 27:25
  know, for this guy for that guy?" And
• 27:26
  they're like, "Ah, 20 bucks, 30 bucks.
• 27:28
  I'll take it." And then I I actually
• 27:30
  went to Montreal. We used to go up to um
• 27:33
  to go to Ranger games up in Montreal.
• 27:36
  And I actually took a bus across town to
• 27:40
  the French section of Montreal because
• 27:41
  for you know most people in f in
• 27:43
  Montreal speak both but this was like
• 27:45
  literally the guy spoke broken English
• 27:48
  and he had a bunch of them and I came
• 27:50
  back and I and I bought a bunch of those
• 27:52
  commons and came back and then little by
• 27:55
  little I started buying some of the uh
• 27:56
  the more expensive cards cuz they're all
• 27:58
  the rookies of everyone. Gordy, how
• 28:00
  Maurice Rashard, uh, etc., etc., you
• 28:03
  know. So, I and then I ended up selling
• 28:04
  that set on Heritage, you know. So,
• 28:07
  yeah. So, I've always and and you know,
• 28:09
  so I know I don't want to say I know a
• 28:10
  ton about baseball cards, but like, you
• 28:12
  know, T206 baseball, the 19101
• 28:16
  cards, you know, whenever I see those at
• 28:18
  a show, you know, I I kind of like, "Oh,
• 28:20
  that's so cool." For me, but just
• 28:21
  because honestly, it's silly because I'm
• 28:22
  a history junkie. So I always look at
• 28:25
  that and you know you you think about
• 28:27
  like okay that card was in a like either
• 28:30
  a cigarette
• 28:32
  you know a box of cigarettes or a cigar
• 28:34
  box right so and there was one card in
• 28:37
  there right so I mean again people
• 28:40
  smoked a lot back in the day so it was
• 28:42
  easy to get 30 40 of those cards if you
• 28:45
  know if you smoked a lot or your family
• 28:47
  smoked a lot but you know
• 28:49
  >> so show show us show us your FFS that
• 28:51
  you pick up or whatever you picked up
• 28:52
  >> here's the Spidey that I got.
• 28:54
  >> Oh, you still have it? Oh, wow.
• 28:56
  >> No, no, I didn't sell this guy. Uh, this
• 28:58
  >> that's a nice copy, too.
• 28:59
  >> So much colors are beautiful.
• 29:01
  >> Yeah, it's a off-white.
• 29:04
  >> TM Nerdy says he ruined his family's
• 29:06
  home when he came out. Um, thanks for
• 29:09
  sharing, brother. Appreciate that.
• 29:10
  [laughter]
• 29:12
  >> So, that's beautiful. Beautiful.
• 29:15
  >> Thank you. I picked up
• 29:18
  >> John B and D. What's going on, brother?
• 29:20
  I picked up a Captain America 227 and a
• 29:22
  9.8. Wow, man. Congrats.
• 29:26
  >> So, this is the one that I just got.
• 29:31
  >> F15.
• 29:33
  >> He's got like every FF book out there,
• 29:35
  and he's got multiple copies. So, if you
• 29:37
  ever want to buy FF, you know where to,
• 29:39
  you know, the guy to hit up. I will say
• 29:41
  that.
• 29:41
  >> So, I just got this one. So, remember I
• 29:43
  was telling you like, should I get the
• 29:44
  SL them slabbed or whatever? So, I was
• 29:47
  just thinking, you know what? Maybe,
• 29:48
  maybe I'll just buy the slab version and
• 29:50
  sell the raw version. So, I have that.
• 29:53
  Then,
• 29:54
  what else did I just get?
• 29:58
  Oh,
• 29:58
  >> my boy Heritan with the $2 Canadian
• 30:01
  super chat. It's Friday night. You
• 30:03
  playing Contra or Metroid? I don't think
• 30:05
  you can go bad. I was just having a
• 30:06
  conversation with somebody actually
• 30:08
  about Contra the arcade game versus the
• 30:11
  NES console game. And I'm hearing
• 30:13
  there's there's possibly a Contra arcade
• 30:15
  game in the works. I don't know if it's
• 30:18
  ever going to come to fruition, but
• 30:19
  that's a little birdie told me that. So,
• 30:21
  I don't know. I'm picking either one. I
• 30:23
  I'll I played both till at Nauseium. I
• 30:26
  never beat Metroid, the original. I'll
• 30:27
  say that right here. The game was too
• 30:29
  hard for me. Contra obviously it was
• 30:31
  easier to beat if you had the codes with
• 30:33
  the uh the infin infinite lives. So, I
• 30:36
  um that's a that's a tough question to
• 30:38
  answer, bro. I'm playing Mike Tyson's
• 30:40
  Punch Out if if I'm home on a Friday
• 30:41
  night. [laughter]
• 30:42
  >> The original the one where you where you
• 30:44
  can't beat Mike. I dude I beat Mike. I
• 30:47
  Dude, it didn't Once I got past King
• 30:50
  Hippo and figuring out that you had to
• 30:52
  to hit him exactly at the time when he
• 30:54
  when he went up. As soon as I figured
• 30:56
  that out, I was off to the races,
• 30:58
  brother. [laughter]
• 31:00
  >> All right. So, here I just got this one
• 31:01
  on Comic Link.
• 31:04
  >> Molecule, man.
• 31:05
  >> Yeah. So, this is I got this for a
• 31:07
  steal. I mean, you know, I was going to
• 31:09
  say if anyone wants to ask questions
• 31:11
  about like where to where to get and
• 31:14
  prices and whatever, let me know. I
• 31:15
  mean, I can't, you know, I can't, you
• 31:19
  know, I can give you advice, but I
• 31:21
  think, you know, Lawrence, you were
• 31:22
  talking about, um, you know, going to
• 31:25
  shows as well. I mean, I haven't really
• 31:28
  bought anything at a show recently
• 31:29
  because
• 31:31
  I'm not buying a stack of books. Like,
• 31:33
  when I first started going to the
• 31:35
  Clifton shows, right? I would go and I'd
• 31:37
  go to Dave. I forgot his last name, but
• 31:39
  I would, you know, I'd pull out like 10
• 31:41
  books and I
• 31:42
  >> So, before you go any before you go any
• 31:44
  further, let me tell everybody out there
• 31:45
  what the Clifton shows is. It's
• 31:47
  basically they run once a month comic
• 31:49
  show in Northern New Jersey and they
• 31:51
  switch locations to like there's four
• 31:52
  different spots I think they go. So, one
• 31:55
  month it's in Clifton, next month in Sid
• 31:57
  Wayne. So, they rotate towns, but it
• 31:59
  occurs every month throughout the year.
• 32:01
  So, go ahead. You go went to the Clifton
• 32:02
  show.
• 32:03
  >> Yeah. No, so when I first started going,
• 32:04
  that was like in 2020. I would go and
• 32:06
  I'd put I'd pull together like a stack
• 32:08
  out of the box and I'd say give me a
• 32:10
  price, right? But you know the thing is
• 32:12
  right now everyone is so over I'd say
• 32:16
  just it's more of a now thing that
• 32:17
  because everything is still sort of on
• 32:21
  two years ago's prices that I don't even
• 32:25
  want to make an offer on something
• 32:26
  because like
• 32:28
  >> it's so far out of slack. Yeah, I'm the
• 32:30
  same way.
• 32:30
  >> Somebody had an FF164.0
• 32:33
  I know. And
• 32:36
  uh it was $400.
• 32:38
  And I know for a fact that, you know,
• 32:42
  some books sold recently on Heritage and
• 32:44
  Comic Link for maybe in the round. Okay,
• 32:47
  let's just say even on the high side
• 32:48
  300, but still in the twos. I mean,
• 32:51
  there was a couple books that I swiped
• 32:52
  at that I didn't get that I knew it was
• 32:54
  going to be a bidding war because every
• 32:56
  time I bid like twice, I kept getting
• 32:58
  and I just kind of gave up on it. So, so
• 33:01
  in that point there, you know, if it's
• 33:03
  $400 and I, you know, how they say,
• 33:05
  okay, sure, no offer is a bad offer, but
• 33:06
  like I go, all right, you know, if I go
• 33:08
  260,
• 33:10
  you got it at 400, it's like, well, you
• 33:12
  know, if you didn't, if you haven't
• 33:13
  priced it from since two years ago, of
• 33:16
  course, it's going to make look like
• 33:18
  insulting. So, it's almost not even
• 33:19
  worth the, you know, the offer. I think
• 33:21
  that's part of the challenge, too, is I
• 33:23
  don't know how people can go through
• 33:24
  hundreds and hundreds of books and
• 33:26
  repric them all, you know.
• 33:27
  >> Well, well, that's the thing. If you
• 33:28
  have a question on a book and you think
• 33:30
  it is overpriced, you got to say, I
• 33:32
  mean, it's hard to do because you're not
• 33:33
  that type of
• 33:34
  >> you're not that type of guy that you're
• 33:36
  Yeah.
• 33:37
  >> Right.
• 33:37
  >> You have to be like, listen, the last
• 33:38
  sale in this grade is what, you know, is
• 33:41
  this. Can you can you be be at that or
• 33:43
  under that? You have to be willing to
• 33:45
  say that. A lot of collectors are not
• 33:46
  willing to be will willing to be that
• 33:48
  bold. So, I I get what you're saying,
• 33:50
  but at the end of the day, if you're a
• 33:51
  dealer and you have a book that's worth
• 33:54
  $400, you should be going monthly and
• 33:56
  and kind of checking on that price. Uh,
• 33:58
  shout out to Amazing Pop Culture Podcast
• 34:00
  with a $4.99 super chat. One of my boys.
• 34:03
  I've been on his channel twice now over
• 34:05
  the past two months, and he's got some
• 34:07
  fire videos and crazy views. So, he
• 34:11
  says, "What's up? What am I drinking?" I
• 34:13
  am drinking Makers Mark. Nothing crazy
• 34:15
  tonight. Oh yeah,
• 34:15
  >> I buy the like the little bottles
• 34:17
  because I don't want to if I get the
• 34:19
  whole big bottle, I'll drink the whole
• 34:20
  big bottle and I don't want it. So I
• 34:22
  I'll buy like a couple here and there.
• 34:24
  And secondly, he got a blind bag coming
• 34:26
  of Thunder Barbarian one coming to his
• 34:29
  house, which
• 34:30
  >> your boy shipped to him because I know
• 34:31
  he was looking for that when we talked
• 34:33
  about on his podcast and I saw it at at
• 34:34
  Zap and I said, you know, are you
• 34:36
  interested? He said, yeah. And I and I
• 34:37
  mailed it out to him. So thank you,
• 34:39
  brother. I appreciate that.
• 34:42
  So, so I got one other book that I
• 34:44
  pulled out. This is one that um
• 34:49
  I forgot somebody else had on the shelf.
• 34:51
  Do you remember?
• 34:52
  >> One of the other Yeah.
• 34:53
  >> dealers had it. I forgot. And this one I
• 34:56
  bought for from Comic Link as well. So,
• 34:58
  there's only like 110 copies of this
• 35:02
  >> on on the census. So 110 blue label and
• 35:06
  sorry 110
• 35:08
  regular edition regular copies and then
• 35:10
  110 var the green variants. So of course
• 35:13
  as a fan I had to have one.
• 35:15
  >> Yeah.
• 35:18
  >> Oh says you know my friend I'm a huge
• 35:20
  19s Twilight Zone and original War of
• 35:23
  the Worlds fanatic but acquiring any
• 35:25
  props from that show and movie is such a
• 35:28
  rare thing to find. So it's funny you
• 35:30
  say that. Oh he meant 1960s right there.
• 35:33
  So, it's funny because we talked about
• 35:35
  when the show started how like somebody
• 35:37
  asked the question of,
• 35:39
  >> you know, if if it's harder to get
• 35:41
  something in the genre or collection,
• 35:42
  let's just say comics, like I can't get
• 35:44
  this comic or I can't get these comics
• 35:46
  that I want, whether it's unavailable or
• 35:48
  out of the reach or whatever it is, you
• 35:51
  know, I I said, you know, I kind of move
• 35:52
  on to some of the other passions. So,
• 35:54
  it's funny you mentioned like these prop
• 35:56
  props and stuff like that
• 35:58
  >> because I was looking at a couple things
• 36:00
  that I saw and
• 36:02
  >> it was just like I I was trying to get
• 36:03
  like original pieces of Masters of
• 36:05
  Universe artwork. Uh, Heritage had some
• 36:08
  like a a few months back and I was in on
• 36:10
  the bidding for a while and it just got
• 36:12
  crazy expensive. But that's the type of
• 36:14
  [ __ ] that I'm looking for right now is
• 36:15
  just like super rare things for stuff
• 36:18
  that I have an affinity for. So, like I
• 36:20
  I have a buddy uh I had him on the
• 36:22
  podcast. His name is a sports card dad.
• 36:24
  He's a big Masters of Universe fan just
• 36:26
  like I am and he's been collecting some
• 36:28
  of the Minton card original figures as
• 36:30
  I've been looking for some as well. So
• 36:32
  like you fall back into stuff that you
• 36:34
  love whether it be rare not rare. I
• 36:37
  think though if you're looking for like
• 36:39
  if you fall out of one genre and you go
• 36:41
  to the next like you're kind of looking
• 36:42
  for like more things that are
• 36:44
  unavailable. That that's just my my
• 36:46
  mind.
• 36:48
  >> Yep. Are did you bid on like was it
• 36:50
  Cells like the the comic cells?
• 36:54
  >> It was auction. It was at auction at
• 36:55
  Heritage,
• 36:56
  >> right? Okay. Yeah, I was going to say uh
• 36:58
  I've seen stuff like that. I mean,
• 36:59
  there's always tons of movie props on
• 37:01
  Heritage. So,
• 37:03
  >> they they als they they also had like um
• 37:05
  original Garbage Pail Kid art, which I
• 37:07
  also bid on, but they ended up going for
• 37:09
  ridiculous insane like $25,000. Like, I
• 37:12
  would love to own original Garbage Pail
• 37:15
  Kid art. the stuff, the art that they
• 37:16
  made that was a card before they
• 37:18
  actually printed it. I would love that.
• 37:19
  That's like a oneofone iconic item for
• 37:23
  like a fad that I think a lot of people
• 37:24
  enjoy,
• 37:25
  >> right? Yeah. I saw the the card that you
• 37:27
  made of yourself.
• 37:29
  >> Yeah, that's my second dude. That was
• 37:31
  all AI, man. I just put it make I gave
• 37:34
  him a picture of myself like make me a
• 37:37
  garbage field kid and they shot that out
• 37:38
  like holy [ __ ] man. Izzy, what's going
• 37:41
  on, man? How are you doing, brother? Is
• 37:42
  he?
• 37:44
  >> Yeah. Wild.
• 37:46
  >> Saw him at the show doing the tour.
• 37:48
  [snorts]
• 37:49
  >> He's Yeah, he's growing. He's out there
• 37:51
  doing I like I liked his mic. They had
• 37:53
  you like real nice professional mic. Him
• 37:55
  and Cliffs on comics. It was they, you
• 37:57
  know, they're at every show though. They
• 37:59
  >> Oh, yeah. And here's the last one I got,
• 38:01
  Lawrence. So, like I don't only get FF.
• 38:04
  So, I picked up this one.
• 38:07
  >> Is that two?
• 38:08
  >> No.
• 38:08
  >> Or is that five? Five. Five. So, just
• 38:10
  because it's one of my favorite covers.
• 38:12
  The two The two is like way way too
• 38:15
  expensive, you know, and it's,
• 38:19
  you know, even for something that's
• 38:21
  [snorts] that's a rag, you know, they
• 38:23
  charge like a,000.
• 38:24
  >> I got a great question.
• 38:26
  >> This I got a great question for you and
• 38:28
  for everybody in the chat. So, if you're
• 38:29
  in the chat, I want you to to post the
• 38:31
  answers. I want you to answer this. What
• 38:34
  is the What is the biggest book in your
• 38:37
  collection? And what's your favorite
• 38:39
  book in your collection? Because that's
• 38:40
  something all the live streams I've
• 38:42
  done, I've never asked that question.
• 38:43
  So, I'll pose it to you first, Dario.
• 38:45
  What's your the biggest book you have
• 38:47
  and your favorite book that you have?
• 38:49
  >> So,
• 38:52
  this is my This is my biggest book.
• 38:56
  So, I got my FF1
• 38:59
  >> just lying right next to you, too. You
• 39:00
  just went down and you popped it out and
• 39:02
  you're ready.
• 39:02
  >> Well, you know, I I got them in my in my
• 39:04
  my box. So, this is my bad boy. I got
• 39:07
  this from Buzzard Brothers. [snorts]
• 39:09
  Highly recommend those guys. I know they
• 39:11
  do.
• 39:11
  >> Yeah, they're great.
• 39:12
  >> Yeah, Greg. And um I don't know if
• 39:16
  they've always done live sales, but I
• 39:17
  mean again if you're you're doing over
• 39:21
  the course of six years like the
• 39:26
  you know I know whatnot is still huge
• 39:28
  but I remember when that took off and
• 39:30
  you know Elite and all the other live
• 39:32
  streamers there but this is before even
• 39:34
  people were doing kind of those live
• 39:36
  sales and there were some people that I
• 39:38
  met along the way that now they are
• 39:42
  dealing comics. you know. So, but I
• 39:44
  would I don't know if this is my
• 39:46
  favorite book. Uh I don't know. I'm like
• 39:48
  a big cover guy. This is probably one of
• 39:52
  my favorites here.
• 39:54
  >> Oh, wow. Okay. Of course, Loki.
• 39:56
  >> Yeah. Yeah. So, all of my um all of my
• 40:00
  names offline is like Loki or Loki Fire.
• 40:03
  So, he's like one of my favorite just
• 40:05
  alltime characters. Um so, I had to have
• 40:08
  this there. Again, I see nobody in the
• 40:12
  chat posting what their favorite and and
• 40:15
  what their biggest is. There's no
• 40:17
  there's no shaming here, folks. So, I'll
• 40:18
  say I'll tell you mine. My favorite book
• 40:21
  in my collection is also the biggest
• 40:24
  book in my collection. And that's my
• 40:25
  Tech 27. I don't care if it's coverless.
• 40:28
  I don't and I don't care if it's missing
• 40:29
  pages, repro pages, but just to own it,
• 40:32
  it's just like wow. So, it's my favorite
• 40:35
  and it's my my my biggest book as well.
• 40:37
  So, it's just it it surpassed my AF15 at
• 40:40
  this point, even though I love
• 40:41
  Spider-Man, but just like the iconicness
• 40:44
  of that book is just is just jumped.
• 40:50
  All right, Lawrence, I'll bore you with
• 40:51
  a few more books.
• 40:54
  So, this is another one I had to have.
• 40:58
  So, Dr. Doom Concept. Yes, I talked
• 41:02
  about that was recently on my top 10
• 41:04
  comics of the week as well because I
• 41:06
  don't think a lot of people know about
• 41:07
  these silver age like uh these like
• 41:10
  prequels of like these characters.
• 41:12
  >> Yeah, a lot the the there's a few of
• 41:14
  them prior to this one. There's one
• 41:16
  literally called the Hulk. Then there's
• 41:19
  I think
• 41:21
  there's a thing
• 41:24
  >> right concept too. Obviously the you
• 41:25
  know
• 41:26
  >> I don't know about the thing. There's an
• 41:28
  FF There's an FF book that's not Tales
• 41:31
  of Suspense that was a prequel.
• 41:33
  >> Uh I forgot the name of it. It's like
• 41:34
  some weird like wow unknown something.
• 41:38
  >> Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Unknown. It's like Mr.
• 41:41
  Fantastic or something like And then
• 41:43
  obviously Human Torch has been around it
• 41:45
  >> literally from day one,
• 41:47
  >> you know. And then here's another one
• 41:48
  too. This is uh actually I put a bid on
• 41:51
  another one this week. So this is the
• 41:52
  only golden age that I have.
• 41:55
  >> Oh, really? That's the only one? Yeah.
• 41:57
  Yeah. I mean it just the one was just
• 41:59
  literally on Heritage this week and this
• 42:03
  one I got for like 220
• 42:07
  and it's not in great shape. The one
• 42:10
  that was on it was still it was a 0.5
• 42:12
  but only because it had a little had
• 42:15
  like a coupon cut out in the back but it
• 42:17
  was it was crisp and sharp and that one
• 42:19
  went for like you know including buyer
• 42:21
  premium like 420 I think. And I was
• 42:24
  like, "All right, with taxes and
• 42:25
  shifting on it."
• 42:26
  >> Yeah. But I was I'm like, "You know
• 42:28
  what? If I'm going to drop 500, I'm
• 42:29
  going to drop it on another FF."
• 42:32
  >> Uh,
• 42:32
  >> so Izzy says Izzy says his FF67
• 42:36
  signed by Stanley is his favorite book.
• 42:38
  That's awesome, brother.
• 42:40
  >> That's the first uh I think that's the
• 42:42
  warlock in the in the cocoon.
• 42:43
  >> Cocoon. Yeah.
• 42:44
  >> And then his biggest book is The Hulk
• 42:46
  340. Triple sign. Izzy. Who's it signed
• 42:48
  by? Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:49
  >> I gotta assume McFarland.
• 42:51
  >> Who else? Who are the other two?
• 42:54
  That's a great book.
• 42:56
  Amazing Pop Culture Podcast. He says,
• 42:58
  "Lawrence, your guest has to admit that
• 43:00
  the female Silver Surfer named Shalabal
• 43:02
  and Johnny Storm were horrible in the FF
• 43:05
  movie." [laughter] I thought it made
• 43:07
  sense.
• 43:09
  >> Great. He's He was uh he was the same
• 43:12
  guy in um what you call he was one of
• 43:16
  the emperors
• 43:18
  in um what you call
• 43:21
  I'm blanking. Gladiator 2.
• 43:24
  >> Oh, no. Nobody saw Gladiator 2 except
• 43:26
  you, bro.
• 43:27
  >> Well, I My wife was like, "You want to
• 43:30
  go out to the movies?" And we saw it.
• 43:31
  So, and even Pedro Pascal was in that. I
• 43:33
  mean, he's like the new Lawrence uh
• 43:35
  what's his name?
• 43:37
  >> Uh what's his name? Samuel Jackson. So,
• 43:41
  >> he's like in every he's like in every
• 43:42
  movie.
• 43:44
  >> Pop Culture Podcast is breaking my
• 43:45
  chops. He's saying his biggest book is a
• 43:47
  treasury edition. Obviously, he had to
• 43:49
  fold it in half to fit in his long box.
• 43:52
  >> [laughter]
• 43:53
  >> Izzy says the 340 is signed by
• 43:56
  Mcfarlland P. David and Bob Whiteack.
• 43:59
  Very cool, man.
• 44:01
  >> So, I got the glare. So, I picked up the
• 44:05
  Silver Surfer Pop here, but these are I
• 44:08
  mean, these were cheap. And I got the uh
• 44:12
  all the pops here as well.
• 44:15
  >> So, they have them in the space suits.
• 44:18
  [snorts] So, while while you're talking
• 44:20
  about pops,
• 44:21
  >> yeah,
• 44:22
  >> are are you like, you know, pissed off
• 44:24
  that like, you know, they're not really
• 44:26
  collectible that much anymore? People
• 44:27
  People like lost lost their minds when I
• 44:29
  said that on a pop culture podcast. I
• 44:31
  was told
• 44:32
  >> well look I know a friend there's a
• 44:35
  friend of a friend
• 44:36
  >> who
• 44:38
  has his own collectible store
• 44:41
  >> and he he was selling uh pops and
• 44:46
  statues and and other collectibles not
• 44:48
  so much comics and um and this was going
• 44:51
  back three or four years and I'd go to
• 44:53
  the bar and I'd be like hey Mike how's
• 44:54
  your buddy doing? Oh he's he's killing
• 44:56
  it he's killing he's killing it. and uh
• 44:59
  he had a warehouse full of this stuff.
• 45:02
  Then when I saw him last year, I was
• 45:03
  like, "Oh, how's your buddy?" I'm like,
• 45:05
  you know, the market's He's like, "Oh my
• 45:07
  god." He goes, he's taking a bath on
• 45:09
  everything.
• 45:10
  >> Yeah.
• 45:10
  >> Nothing Nothing's selling, you know. So,
• 45:12
  it's, you know, it's timing. I mean, I
• 45:15
  buy this as a fan. I mean, these are
• 45:16
  like
• 45:17
  >> $14 each.
• 45:19
  >> Yeah. They're they're not they're not
• 45:20
  expensive. Now, if you're buying them
• 45:22
  now, they're not bad at all. But I have
• 45:24
  a question for somebody on
• 45:25
  >> here, you know. question from somebody
• 45:27
  on Instagram. Uh, Maddie says, "If I
• 45:30
  bought a Stanley signed comic without
• 45:32
  COA from eBay, could I get could I get
• 45:36
  an authentic yellow label by CGC?" And
• 45:38
  the answer is yes. They do do a
• 45:40
  >> They have a new yellow label which is
• 45:42
  non-witnessed. Um, as long as it is
• 45:44
  authentic, they will give you a yellow
• 45:46
  label, but
• 45:46
  >> yellow with a black uh trim on it.
• 45:49
  >> Yes. At the top. But the one thing I'll
• 45:50
  say to you, Maddie, is this. There's
• 45:51
  been a lot of known uh fraudulent
• 45:53
  signatures recently on eBay. So, please
• 45:56
  be careful if you are going to buy it.
• 45:58
  Um, you know, at least run it by
• 46:01
  somebody first to say, "Hey, do you
• 46:02
  think this is real?" Um, because I got
• 46:04
  to be honest with you, a lot of
• 46:06
  signatures on eBay are coming back fake.
• 46:08
  So, just please be careful,
• 46:10
  >> right? I mean, again, even if you even
• 46:12
  if it's a fivestar seller, right? I
• 46:15
  mean, you kind of have to trust them
• 46:17
  maybe, you know, but then right talk to
• 46:19
  them offline as well.
• 46:21
  >> Be careful. You know, I I I don't trust
• 46:24
  a lot of the the signatures out there on
• 46:25
  Robux that haven't been graded yet
• 46:28
  because
• 46:28
  >> when CGC announced that like people
• 46:30
  started sending stuff in and started
• 46:32
  putting up fake stuff left and right.
• 46:34
  So, just be careful. I wanted to show
• 46:36
  you this. That's why you guys saw me saw
• 46:37
  me back out of the screen for a little
• 46:39
  bit. But when I went to Toyf Fair,
• 46:41
  >> uh Mattel was nice enough to give me
• 46:43
  Masters of Universe Empire issue, which
• 46:46
  actually this had come out in overseas
• 46:48
  like a month prior to the United States.
• 46:51
  So they had it like literally like close
• 46:54
  to the day of release when I was over at
• 46:56
  Toyf Fair. So I would love to get this
• 46:58
  signed by some of the cast and maybe
• 47:00
  have it slab one day. But hopefully I
• 47:02
  will get to meet like you know Jaral or
• 47:05
  Nicholas Gallatine because I thought
• 47:06
  this was really cool to do that for for
• 47:08
  us MOTU fans being it's the year of
• 47:10
  Masters of the Universe.
• 47:12
  >> Well Lawrence are they going to be at
• 47:13
  like any other con where like they might
• 47:15
  be on a P that you can go to?
• 47:16
  >> No. So no. Like so toy fair is like its
• 47:19
  own thing. It's not like a con where
• 47:20
  everybody gets to go. Like they only let
• 47:23
  people in who are looking to stock some
• 47:24
  of these toys from these businesses, you
• 47:27
  know, that they're selling and they let
• 47:28
  some press in as well. So Joe Schmo
• 47:30
  can't go to this thing. So
• 47:32
  >> Oh, okay.
• 47:32
  >> Um
• 47:33
  >> industry only.
• 47:34
  >> Yeah. Exactly. So I was just happy happy
• 47:36
  to be let in.
• 47:37
  >> Mhm.
• 47:39
  >> So we'll see, you know, further down the
• 47:41
  road if uh if things progress and we get
• 47:43
  other things like that. But I was just
• 47:44
  happy to go on a year that they were
• 47:45
  doing the movie because like other years
• 47:48
  it might not have been such a a
• 47:50
  tremendous event, but because it was I
• 47:52
  mean it was still fun regardless. I'll
• 47:53
  go there again next year uh to kind of
• 47:55
  review some of the toys and stuff that
• 47:57
  come out. But it was a good time.
• 47:59
  >> Right. Here's here's something
• 48:00
  interesting, Lawrence. Now that we're
• 48:02
  talking about autographs, so this here,
• 48:06
  this I I sent I got I had this pressed
• 48:08
  and cleaned and sent in for grading,
• 48:10
  right? So I got a 40 on this. I bought
• 48:12
  it off of eBay and it says uh signed by
• 48:16
  Roy Thomas.
• 48:18
  >> Okay.
• 48:20
  >> Inside or on the cover?
• 48:21
  >> It's Yeah. No, it's on the first page.
• 48:23
  >> Okay.
• 48:23
  >> Right. On the splash page. But again, it
• 48:25
  says on here Roy Thomas signature on
• 48:28
  page one. So, I mean,
• 48:31
  >> but that's not verified.
• 48:33
  >> No. No, it's not. This is before they
• 48:35
  did the um they signed with that third
• 48:37
  third party company. So,
• 48:39
  >> I don't know if you if you want to crack
• 48:40
  that and rescend it in or maybe have
• 48:42
  them crack it out and verify the
• 48:44
  signature just for the yellow label
• 48:45
  because they do hold a little bit of a
• 48:47
  premium.
• 48:47
  >> Sure.
• 48:48
  >> I don't know about Roy Thomas healthy. I
• 48:50
  hate to say it but like there are
• 48:52
  certain signatures of artists or
• 48:54
  creators that really hold a big premium.
• 48:57
  Obviously Stanley is one of them. John
• 48:59
  Ramita is also one of them as well. Todd
• 49:01
  McFarland is another one. Even though
• 49:03
  >> Yeah. Old older guys. Yeah.
• 49:05
  But the like even Todd now is with so
• 49:08
  many signatures out there that's kind of
• 49:09
  waning as well. But Pop Culture Podcast
• 49:11
  says, "What's the best and worst Marvel
• 49:14
  movie in your opinion?" I'll let you
• 49:17
  start on this.
• 49:18
  >> Me? Oh,
• 49:19
  >> yeah.
• 49:19
  >> Infinity War and Endgame. I mean,
• 49:21
  they're like they were on yesterday.
• 49:23
  Infinity. I mean, it's almost like Good
• 49:26
  Fellas at this point. When it's on, I I
• 49:27
  have to watch it, [laughter] you know.
• 49:30
  >> So, what's the worst?
• 49:31
  >> The worst
• 49:33
  >> [sighs]
• 49:37
  >> I don't know. Carnage was pretty bad. Uh
• 49:40
  >> oh, the Venom uh two.
• 49:42
  >> Yeah, Venom Carnage. Um
• 49:44
  >> or was it three? It was three, I think.
• 49:46
  I don't know. I don't remember.
• 49:47
  >> Yeah, the third one. I don't know. I I
• 49:49
  have
• 49:50
  >> that was Sony. That wasn't Marvel. That
• 49:52
  was that was Sony.
• 49:53
  >> Thor Love and Thunder. I saw in the
• 49:55
  theater.
• 49:56
  >> Oh my god. I mean, from Ragnarok, which
• 50:00
  is probably second best movie in in the
• 50:03
  whole lexicon to one of the worst movies
• 50:07
  where it was just so forced. It was and
• 50:09
  I and I thought what's his name did a
• 50:11
  great job as Gore the God Butcher, but
• 50:13
  he didn't kill anyone. I mean, you know,
• 50:15
  they they PGed it. They had kids in it
• 50:19
  and they, you know, they had all these
• 50:21
  silly scenes and I'm like, "All right,
• 50:22
  enough of this pandering to kids." and I
• 50:25
  know what's his name directed both
• 50:26
  movies and you know directed the wor the
• 50:28
  best movie and the worst movie and like
• 50:30
  now you don't you know you don't you
• 50:32
  never hear of him anymore you know Taco
• 50:35
  or whatever his name is and uh yeah I
• 50:38
  mean completely forgettable
• 50:41
  >> so for me like I I'm going to tell you
• 50:43
  this I agree with you Love and Thunder
• 50:45
  was the by far the worst Marvel movie of
• 50:47
  all time
• 50:49
  though I'm going to challenge people to
• 50:51
  tell me I understand why people say
• 50:52
  Infinity War and Endgame I get it
• 50:54
  because like the massive, you know,
• 50:56
  whatever what the culmination of
• 50:58
  everything in those movies. I understand
• 51:00
  why people say that and they were great
• 51:01
  movies. The original Iron Man movie to
• 51:04
  this day is the best Marvel movie. I
• 51:06
  could watch it every time it's on.
• 51:09
  >> Phenomenal movie. So that that's my
• 51:11
  choice.
• 51:12
  >> Yeah, I saw that twice in the theater
• 51:13
  and
• 51:14
  >> yeah,
• 51:14
  >> I actually went by myself cuz you know
• 51:17
  it was it was 2009
• 51:19
  when that came out. Eight, right?
• 51:23
  No, it was 2008 when it came out. Yeah.
• 51:26
  >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just remember I
• 51:27
  was working like like insane hours and
• 51:31
  this and that and I just again it was
• 51:32
  another one of these things where I'm
• 51:33
  like I need a breather,
• 51:35
  >> you know. So, and my kids were still
• 51:37
  younger at the time, you know, now
• 51:39
  they're in their 20s, you know. So,
• 51:41
  like, you know, you look at that the
• 51:43
  time in your life too
• 51:45
  >> where you're like, "Oh, I wish I had
• 51:46
  done more." And you're like, "Well, how
• 51:47
  could I have? I didn't have the time or,
• 51:49
  you know, or the money to do it, you So,
• 51:51
  don't look back and regret people.
• 51:53
  >> Solid. Yeah, Solid Teleport says his
• 51:56
  biggest book is X-Men 1 and his CGC 2.5.
• 51:59
  That's a good one, man. And my favorite
• 52:01
  book is Giantsiz X-Men one. So, you got
• 52:03
  some bangers right there, man.
• 52:05
  >> Yep.
• 52:07
  >> Um, I see I see. Let me let me answer
• 52:10
  some questions first because we got a
• 52:11
  bunch of questions and whatever.
• 52:14
  >> So, Maddie says, "So, they have so they
• 52:16
  have a way that they could find it
• 52:17
  authentic, not fake, signed. Thank you."
• 52:20
  So, she still talked about the San Le.
• 52:21
  So, yes,
• 52:22
  >> they will authenticate if it's real or
• 52:24
  fake. So, my question is if you if
• 52:26
  you've already bought it, uh I would say
• 52:29
  yes, if you want to send it in and spend
• 52:30
  the money, they will tell you if it's
• 52:31
  real or fake, no question. And if it's
• 52:33
  real, they will give you a yellow label
• 52:35
  with a black bar at the top. They will
• 52:37
  do that, no questions asked. But if is
• 52:39
  fake, they will won't give it a yellow
• 52:42
  label and they'll give it a green label
• 52:43
  and say, you know, Stanley written on
• 52:47
  cover basically or or signature not
• 52:49
  authenticated. So you have to be careful
• 52:51
  because once you get this book
• 52:52
  authenticated, if it doesn't come back
• 52:54
  real signature, the [snorts] book is
• 52:56
  basically worth worthless. I'm not going
• 52:58
  to lie to you. So it is what it is. If
• 53:01
  you want to take that chance, uh I would
• 53:03
  say go for it. Uh, John B and D says
• 53:06
  Amazing Spider-Man's 129 ungraded and
• 53:09
  Tomb of Dracula 10 in a 9.8 first
• 53:13
  appearance of Blade. But what what is
• 53:15
  what, guys? Is is the ASM your favorite
• 53:17
  or is the ASM your most I got to assume
• 53:19
  the Tomb of Dracula 10 9.8 is the most
• 53:21
  valuable, right? Because that's it's a
• 53:23
  9.8. But [ __ ]
• 53:25
  >> that is a book.
• 53:26
  >> Tough.
• 53:26
  >> Wow.
• 53:29
  >> Solo agrees with me. He says Iron Man is
• 53:31
  is the best movie of them all. I agree.
• 53:33
  the first one. It was just iconic. It
• 53:35
  really was.
• 53:38
  >> And you know, not to be nerdy too, but
• 53:40
  like
• 53:41
  >> they bet a lot on that because they
• 53:46
  they convinced Downey to do the movie,
• 53:49
  right? Cuz he was remember what he was
• 53:51
  like prior to that, right? All this
• 53:53
  controversy, right? I mean, he had the
• 53:55
  acting chops and he had the look and the
• 53:57
  swagger, but you know, was he toxic,
• 54:00
  right? So he was he was kind of the test
• 54:03
  and then the movie was a test and that
• 54:05
  just took off. So
• 54:08
  >> Oh, Ham, I do not believe you. He says,
• 54:09
  "I haven't watched any superhero movies
• 54:11
  besides Batman 89 and Batman Returns." I
• 54:14
  no way I believe that. No freaking way.
• 54:18
  >> Especially if you buy comics. I just I
• 54:20
  just can't I can't.
• 54:22
  >> Heran another super chat. Thank you so
• 54:24
  much, brother. Why green label? If it's
• 54:26
  complete, shouldn't it be blue? If it
• 54:28
  it's like if you signed Lawrence Mighty
• 54:30
  Comics on the cover, randoms put their
• 54:32
  name on books all the time. Yeah, but
• 54:34
  this is like a would be a fraudulent
• 54:36
  signature. So I, you know, I'm not the
• 54:38
  expert on if it's going to come back
• 54:39
  green. I assume it would come back
• 54:40
  green. There are books out there that
• 54:43
  have somebody's signature on it that are
• 54:45
  not, you know, before they started
• 54:47
  authenticating that are green label.
• 54:49
  >> Like Daario shows you, he shows you a
• 54:51
  Roy Thomas on on the on the first page
• 54:54
  and it's blue.
• 54:55
  >> Yep. So it it's CGC. They do one thing
• 54:59
  one time and another thing another time.
• 55:01
  So I've been on them for that since the
• 55:03
  beginning because there's no
• 55:04
  consistency. They'll tell you that like
• 55:06
  it depends on the grade blah blah blah.
• 55:08
  [ __ ] I'll also say this.
• 55:10
  >> If you can put a note when you when you
• 55:13
  submit something, please give me a blue
• 55:15
  label. I've done that in the past years
• 55:17
  ago on like books that like either
• 55:21
  I thought there was an issue where and
• 55:22
  they gave me like my Amazing Spider-Man
• 55:24
  one. I have a.5 the back cover missing
• 55:27
  and I wrote a note on it saying do not
• 55:29
  give a green label. I'd rather have a
• 55:32
  blue label and a.5. And that's what they
• 55:33
  did.
• 55:34
  >> So you can request it. They don't always
• 55:37
  listen to you as well. So it's like it's
• 55:38
  depends who you get over there. So it's
• 55:40
  nothing's consistent unfortunately.
• 55:43
  >> Yeah. And Lawrence, I think even on that
• 55:45
  FF4, I didn't even call out the the
• 55:48
  autograph because I knew they wouldn't
• 55:51
  uh authenticate it. So, I didn't even
• 55:53
  bother like I just sent it in. They just
• 55:55
  said, you know, F4,
• 55:56
  >> you know,
• 55:57
  >> now they will though. Now they will if
• 55:58
  you crack it and send it in, they will.
• 55:59
  >> Prior to that, like I just submitted it
• 56:01
  with, you know, what I thought the value
• 56:04
  was and you know, like I said, clean
• 56:06
  press, boom, send it off to CGC.
• 56:10
  >> Yeah.
• 56:10
  >> Any more questions? [snorts]
• 56:12
  >> Yeah, guys, please ask. Like, I don't
• 56:14
  want to hold you up either, Dar, if you
• 56:15
  got to go. I know this is like a first
• 56:17
  for you coming on with me. It's been
• 56:18
  like
• 56:18
  >> Yeah. No, I'm enjoying You know what it
• 56:20
  is? It's just Fridays are tough because
• 56:22
  you know I'm working all week and then
• 56:24
  usually my wife and I are both like we
• 56:26
  got to go out you know so you know like
• 56:29
  here I don't know if you can see it the
• 56:31
  glare is terrible but see it says like
• 56:34
  Roy Thomas sign their you know splash
• 56:36
  page so and like I said it was cool that
• 56:40
  they call that out but it wasn't
• 56:42
  something that I asked them to uh
• 56:43
  verify.
• 56:45
  >> So that's my point though like you know
• 56:46
  what
• 56:47
  >> I've seen them with a blue label. Yeah.
• 56:48
  And I've seen them with green label. So,
• 56:50
  it's very consistent. And I actually,
• 56:52
  it's funny because when I actually
• 56:54
  messaged Matt Nelson on email like years
• 56:56
  ago when I had a Batman one that was a
• 56:58
  five
• 56:59
  >> and I said, "Listen,
• 57:00
  >> I said this says it's married, but it
• 57:02
  said the cover was married, but I've
• 57:04
  seen other books that are blue label
• 57:05
  that has the same annotation. So, why is
• 57:08
  this green and the other one's blue?"
• 57:09
  And he basically says, he told me
• 57:11
  straight out, he said, "All books with a
• 57:13
  married cover should be green label." I
• 57:15
  said, "Well, I've seen them without, so
• 57:17
  tell me why." And that was that was the
• 57:19
  there was no answer basically. So I get
• 57:21
  it. It's fine if it's a green label, but
• 57:23
  it's got to be that across the board.
• 57:26
  >> Yeah. I mean I have I've asked a million
• 57:28
  people this too and then there's a
• 57:29
  couple of questions in the in the chat,
• 57:31
  but I have a FF8 where it has the tear
• 57:36
  has a tear on the right side of P the
• 57:39
  cover. But I actually have the piece
• 57:42
  where if you put it on it almost looks
• 57:44
  like it literally looks like there's no
• 57:46
  tear. So, I'm afraid of putting it a
• 57:48
  piece of tape in the back. And everyone
• 57:49
  was like, you know, even I showed it to
• 57:51
  Dan Gallow and and some other people and
• 57:53
  they were like, I just put a piece of
• 57:54
  tape on it and send it to CGC,
• 57:56
  >> you know, but then I'm afraid of getting
• 57:57
  a purple label,
• 57:59
  >> right? And
• 58:00
  >> no, you won't get tape will not be
• 58:02
  purple label. Never never going to
• 58:04
  happen. If it's just tape, they won't
• 58:06
  get a purple no matter what. I've never
• 58:07
  seen that. Just tape. There has to be
• 58:09
  something.
• 58:10
  >> There has to be something else. But, um,
• 58:12
  here's a good question. We haven't
• 58:14
  touched this on this yet in the chat.
• 58:15
  What are your thoughts on cherry
• 58:16
  pop-tart type of books and underground
• 58:18
  books in general? I want to start on
• 58:21
  this one. I actually love that type of
• 58:22
  comic material as long as it's
• 58:24
  affordable. I'm not going to pay up for
• 58:26
  those books like that, but I do find
• 58:28
  them very collectible if that's your
• 58:30
  niche.
• 58:31
  >> I'm that type of guy. I don't know how
• 58:33
  to say it better than that. Like I love
• 58:36
  titty books. I love like especially like
• 58:38
  I remember went to um what's the show up
• 58:41
  in Connecticut? uh the freaking the one
• 58:44
  in the casino. What's it called?
• 58:46
  Terrific. Terrific. I went to Terrificon
• 58:48
  and I bought a Masters of the Universe
• 58:51
  sorceress
• 58:52
  titty book. She's on the cover. The art
• 58:54
  was absolutely amazing. But it was just
• 58:56
  incredible art. Cans are hanging out. I
• 58:59
  bought it. It was cheap and I was like,
• 59:01
  you know what?
• 59:03
  >> That's my type of book for for the
• 59:04
  amount of money I'm going to spend. So,
• 59:06
  I like Cherry Poptart. Believe it or
• 59:07
  not, I've covered the first appearance
• 59:09
  of her on the top 10 comics of the week,
• 59:11
  and that is not a cheap book. So, you
• 59:13
  can find them for for cheap. I'm all for
• 59:16
  it. Same with underground books. Like,
• 59:17
  they're very unique, very niche.
• 59:19
  >> Uh like I saw a Cocaine Comics at uh
• 59:22
  King Kong.
• 59:23
  >> Yep. All those Cocaine books and
• 59:26
  >> Yeah.
• 59:26
  >> Right. The name the
• 59:29
  >> rel relatively cheap. So,
• 59:32
  >> but you know, but he was the only one
• 59:33
  there. And honestly, I even told I even
• 59:35
  said I'm like, "You have a sick
• 59:37
  collection here." Uh he had some
• 59:39
  Chromebooks as well. And uh I was like,
• 59:42
  "You're looking for that niche
• 59:45
  collector." Yeah. And he's like, he
• 59:46
  goes, "No." He goes, "We'll sell some
• 59:47
  books here." But I go,
• 59:49
  >> you know,
• 59:50
  >> you're you know, you almost need like an
• 59:52
  indie con,
• 59:54
  >> you know, of of kind of or a section in
• 59:56
  the like in the con,
• 59:59
  >> you know, for that type of work, right?
• 1:00:01
  But that's what made King Kong great is
• 1:00:03
  because you had a a lot of variety. You
• 1:00:05
  have people stuff like like people like
• 1:00:08
  me were like searching for that stuff
• 1:00:09
  now. They had that. They had regular
• 1:00:11
  like mainstream stuff. They had modern.
• 1:00:13
  They had Pokemon. So it was just a great
• 1:00:15
  variety. And Izzy, yes, I did do a King
• 1:00:17
  Kong video already. That means you
• 1:00:19
  haven't watched it. So get on
• 1:00:20
  [clears throat] that, brother. I
• 1:00:21
  appreciate it. Go watch that video. But
• 1:00:23
  yes, I did do a review.
• 1:00:24
  >> He mentioned you. He mentioned you on
• 1:00:26
  it.
• 1:00:27
  I did just just like I watched your I
• 1:00:29
  know you did a he did a live show there
• 1:00:30
  and I watched that as well. Mhm. You
• 1:00:33
  know what I'm noticing, Lawrence, too,
• 1:00:35
  just because I follow um
• 1:00:38
  >> what you call comic uh whatever go
• 1:00:40
  collect and I always look at like the
• 1:00:42
  top sellers the
• 1:00:45
  uh well not the good girl books but like
• 1:00:47
  the love story books and the Dell books
• 1:00:51
  like there's just a little bit of a you
• 1:00:53
  know like Scooby-Doo's
• 1:00:56
  and um space ghost. Well, that tells me
• 1:01:00
  you don't watch you don't watch my
• 1:01:01
  videos either because if you watch my
• 1:01:03
  top 10 comics of the week every week,
• 1:01:05
  you notice that there's a ton of Dell
• 1:01:06
  books on there right now. A ton,
• 1:01:08
  >> right? And that's I think that is a
• 1:01:12
  shift sort of probably in like I can't
• 1:01:16
  afford these crazy keys anymore, you
• 1:01:18
  know, or you know, somebody had a
• 1:01:20
  question about Absolute Batman, which I
• 1:01:21
  think is a fantastic series. I mean, and
• 1:01:24
  I I do
• 1:01:24
  >> we're going to get we're going to get to
• 1:01:26
  that before you even go there. We're
• 1:01:27
  going to get to that. But like we talked
• 1:01:28
  on Dell and same thing for Gold Key. We
• 1:01:30
  haven't had as many gold keys appear on
• 1:01:32
  the top 10, but they've been on there as
• 1:01:34
  well. So he's, you know, Oh says he's
• 1:01:36
  got that's where his heart is right now
• 1:01:37
  with he loves those hand painted covers.
• 1:01:40
  And we're talking about hand painted. We
• 1:01:41
  just saw the the cover for uh
• 1:01:42
  Vampereella one sell for crazy amount of
• 1:01:45
  money, the original art. So like I see
• 1:01:48
  all those obscure things starting to
• 1:01:49
  come to like market and start to like
• 1:01:51
  be, you know, valuable. People looking
• 1:01:53
  into those things. That's why I'm
• 1:01:55
  reporting on it on the top 10 because
• 1:01:56
  those are the things that people are
• 1:01:57
  actually buying.
• 1:01:58
  >> See it, right?
• 1:01:59
  >> Yeah. We know that. We know that the
• 1:02:01
  mainstream stuff, we know where it's at.
• 1:02:03
  We know that there's a million copies of
• 1:02:04
  everything. But these obscure keys that
• 1:02:06
  Dell, the gold key, the cherry
• 1:02:09
  pop-tarts, all those little niche books,
• 1:02:10
  the underground books, and even like the
• 1:02:12
  golden age stuff that's not readily
• 1:02:14
  available, those are the things they're
• 1:02:15
  selling. That's why they appear on that
• 1:02:16
  list. But um
• 1:02:18
  >> back to the uh Solo Reaper says, "What
• 1:02:21
  do you guys think of the absolute
• 1:02:22
  series? What do we think it's going to
• 1:02:24
  be worth? I'll let you start with that.
• 1:02:27
  >> Yeah, I mean, look, I, you know, value
• 1:02:30
  is based on scarcity, right? You know,
• 1:02:32
  so I don't know how many copies of 9.8s
• 1:02:34
  are out there. I I would say, you know,
• 1:02:36
  in terms
• 1:02:38
  >> Exactly. Right. So, I would say, you
• 1:02:40
  know, just I I mean, I just picked up a
• 1:02:42
  copy just to read it at the show. Um
• 1:02:46
  I mean, it's literally like right here.
• 1:02:49
  And um you know I paid whatever it was
• 1:02:52
  five bucks for it and I you know I'll
• 1:02:54
  probably buy the rest of them just to
• 1:02:55
  read. You know I would say as a you know
• 1:02:58
  as a collector
• 1:03:00
  um
• 1:03:02
  I don't know if it's worth $300 for 9.8
• 1:03:05
  or $400 for 9.8. I mean at this point
• 1:03:09
  yeah at this point it's I don't want to
• 1:03:10
  say it's it's had its run. I think it's
• 1:03:13
  I think it's great. I think it's you
• 1:03:14
  know the fact that it's bringing a lot
• 1:03:16
  of people in the market. I actually saw
• 1:03:18
  um a little Instagram video of Method
• 1:03:21
  Man talking about the entire
• 1:03:23
  >> I saw that as well.
• 1:03:24
  >> You saw that of Absolute Batman and how,
• 1:03:26
  you know, it's it's kind of bringing a
• 1:03:28
  lot of people back into, you know, to
• 1:03:30
  reading comics based on the stories and
• 1:03:32
  the art, you know. So, um I don't want
• 1:03:34
  to say I'm I'm not bullish on it, but
• 1:03:36
  like I'd say collect it as a fan, but
• 1:03:38
  I'm not sure if there's a ton of
• 1:03:40
  long-term value there.
• 1:03:42
  >> Yeah. Yeah. And again, I want to remind
• 1:03:43
  you guys if you if anybody else wants to
• 1:03:45
  jump in on the chat, they're more than
• 1:03:46
  welcome to besides me and Dario here.
• 1:03:48
  But I will say this about Absolute
• 1:03:49
  Batman. If you if you think it's a
• 1:03:51
  phenomenal read, I think that's awesome.
• 1:03:53
  But why are we forget about the story
• 1:03:56
  aspect of it? When it comes to buying
• 1:03:58
  collectibles at high dollar value,
• 1:04:02
  you have to look at the quantity
• 1:04:03
  available. And because it's a modern
• 1:04:04
  book, you only want that book in a 9.8
• 1:04:07
  like most modern collectors. And there's
• 1:04:08
  already a ton of them out there. So,
• 1:04:11
  it's it's going to drive the price down
• 1:04:13
  on the book. So, it's already like under
• 1:04:16
  $400 or people were paying getting
• 1:04:18
  closer to $300, probably going to drop
• 1:04:20
  even further because of the amount that
• 1:04:21
  are out there and available. So, I just
• 1:04:24
  think down the line if you love the book
• 1:04:25
  and you love the story,
• 1:04:27
  >> you know, you could own the book, buy a
• 1:04:28
  raw copy if you could find one. If not,
• 1:04:30
  just get it because you want to own it.
• 1:04:32
  You could buy the the trade paperbacks
• 1:04:33
  of like the first five or 10 issues,
• 1:04:35
  whatever it is. That that's what I did.
• 1:04:36
  Uh just because I want to read it
• 1:04:38
  because everybody's just raving about
• 1:04:39
  it. So,
• 1:04:41
  >> right, you're a Batman fan, too. I mean,
• 1:04:43
  I'm
• 1:04:43
  >> Yeah, you know,
• 1:04:44
  >> but it's nothing
• 1:04:46
  show. And I know, but still, right?
• 1:04:50
  It's an alternative universe, right?
• 1:04:52
  >> Yeah. It's it's it's nothing like the
• 1:04:54
  Batman that that you and I grew up with.
• 1:04:56
  So, that's why I don't like when they
• 1:04:58
  take a character and kind of reinvent it
• 1:05:00
  because people who are a fan of the
• 1:05:01
  character when they go to read that,
• 1:05:02
  they're instantly turned off. At le
• 1:05:06
  not not all of us. Some maybe just just
• 1:05:07
  love a a new fresh story and that's
• 1:05:09
  great. I want to see, you know, my
• 1:05:12
  Batman is Frank Miller's Batman. So
• 1:05:13
  that's what I want to see. I want to see
• 1:05:14
  guy who hates everything except freaking
• 1:05:19
  beating the freak out of people because
• 1:05:21
  he hates basically his regular life and
• 1:05:23
  he he hates the way he's you know, you
• 1:05:27
  know what I'm saying? To me, Frank
• 1:05:28
  Miller's Batman is my Batman. I can't
• 1:05:30
  read anything else besides that. I used
• 1:05:32
  to be able to read some of the stuff
• 1:05:33
  that was done in the 80s like be, you
• 1:05:35
  know, I thought it was good like just to
• 1:05:37
  be, you know, a fun Batman, you know,
• 1:05:39
  story-wise, but like once I read Frank
• 1:05:41
  Miller's Batman, it was like, you know
• 1:05:42
  what, I get it.
• 1:05:44
  >> Yeah. So that's always been the
• 1:05:45
  definitive Batman for me.
• 1:05:46
  >> Sure. And there was I think just I'm
• 1:05:48
  seeing a lot of stuff the anniversary of
• 1:05:49
  it, right? I think
• 1:05:51
  >> Well, they just released Yeah, they just
• 1:05:53
  released another um trade of it. I don't
• 1:05:56
  know what the re what printing it is at
• 1:05:57
  this point, but I did see it at Zap when
• 1:05:58
  I went this week. So, they just released
• 1:06:00
  another one.
• 1:06:02
  I see a couple of questions in there.
• 1:06:05
  >> What are your thoughts on CLA CLA
• 1:06:07
  Classics Illustrated?
• 1:06:10
  So, it's funny. It's funny you mentioned
• 1:06:11
  this pop culture. I was at there's a a
• 1:06:13
  great antique shop by me. I don't know
• 1:06:15
  if you've been to it, Dario. I forget
• 1:06:17
  the name of it, but it's like a giant
• 1:06:18
  warehouse and they have comics. I've
• 1:06:21
  gone there before. I did a video years
• 1:06:23
  ago when I went there
• 1:06:25
  >> and they have a ton of classic stuff.
• 1:06:28
  Uh, I want to say it's Midland Park.
• 1:06:30
  >> Oh, okay.
• 1:06:32
  >> But they had a ton of classics
• 1:06:34
  illustrated there, but I don't know like
• 1:06:36
  what I'm looking at. I'm not going to
• 1:06:38
  lie to you.
• 1:06:39
  >> So, like I don't know if many of them
• 1:06:41
  hold value. I have no idea. I'm sure
• 1:06:43
  they're great reads, but
• 1:06:45
  >> when I say they had a ton, they had like
• 1:06:46
  at least a long box full of all classic
• 1:06:48
  illustrated there. So, like if you could
• 1:06:50
  direct me and give me like some titles I
• 1:06:52
  should be looking for or issues, I can
• 1:06:54
  go back there and look. But as far as
• 1:06:57
  like collectibility, I'm sure at one
• 1:06:59
  point people did. I don't see a lot of
• 1:07:00
  people collecting classic Illustrated
• 1:07:02
  right now.
• 1:07:03
  >> Yeah, I've seen a bunch on. Again, I I
• 1:07:05
  always defer to like Heritage or Comic
• 1:07:07
  Link. It's it's one or the other that I
• 1:07:09
  see on it. I mean, again, if it's slabed
• 1:07:11
  and it's it's a high grade, again, just
• 1:07:13
  because those books are are pretty old,
• 1:07:16
  then, you know, there's some value to
• 1:07:17
  it, but I mean, you know, I don't know.
• 1:07:19
  I don't think they go for more than $100
• 1:07:21
  to $200. There might be one or two books
• 1:07:24
  that um you know are like the ones to
• 1:07:26
  have within the series. But yeah, again,
• 1:07:30
  if you're buying it, you're buying it
• 1:07:31
  because you like it.
• 1:07:33
  >> Yeah, exactly. Helmouth presents says
• 1:07:34
  Dark Knight changed his life. I read it
• 1:07:36
  once a year. That's how I was, man. Like
• 1:07:38
  once you once I read that book, I was
• 1:07:40
  like,
• 1:07:40
  >> "Holy crap." like like I don't I'm going
• 1:07:44
  to be personal here for a bit but like
• 1:07:47
  I as as when I read that as a kid like I
• 1:07:50
  was like 11 or 12 years old and I was
• 1:07:53
  like you know what I that that story
• 1:07:55
  resonated with me that that Batman
• 1:07:56
  resonated with me so much because of the
• 1:07:59
  way I grew up that it was just like it
• 1:08:02
  resonated a lot with me as well man. So,
• 1:08:05
  I get what you're saying. Like, it's
• 1:08:07
  just like totally changed the way I
• 1:08:09
  looked at things, the way I looked at
• 1:08:10
  comics, Batman. So, I totally get it. It
• 1:08:13
  It's a great read. If you haven't
• 1:08:15
  watched the uh there was an animated
• 1:08:17
  feature done on that, I own it as well.
• 1:08:19
  It was a really good portrayal of the
• 1:08:21
  comic as well. go check that out because
• 1:08:23
  it was just such a good story and and
• 1:08:26
  just something I think the character
• 1:08:28
  needed.
• 1:08:35
  A little bit of silence there. The day
• 1:08:37
  John B and D says that the day that I
• 1:08:39
  won the auction for Tumor Dracula 10 was
• 1:08:42
  the day I lost my job. Holy [ __ ] And so
• 1:08:45
  refresh your memory. He he bought a 9.8.
• 1:08:48
  >> Really didn't know whether to buy the
• 1:08:49
  book or not. I took the chance and
• 1:08:51
  bought it anyway. So, I gotta assume,
• 1:08:53
  John, that you everything turned out all
• 1:08:55
  right. So, that that's a a feel-good
• 1:08:57
  story. I hope
• 1:09:00
  >> that that's, you know, I So, again, I'll
• 1:09:02
  get a little personal here. I know
• 1:09:03
  Daario knows this, but like
• 1:09:05
  >> u my family business closed in January,
• 1:09:07
  the end of January. So, right now, I'm
• 1:09:09
  only working like part-time somewhere
• 1:09:11
  else. So, I'm not taking in a lot of
• 1:09:13
  income, which is fine. We all wanted
• 1:09:15
  this and I knew it for a long time that
• 1:09:16
  I was going to be take some time off and
• 1:09:19
  then figure out kind of where I wanted
• 1:09:20
  to go from here in my life. So, I get
• 1:09:22
  it. Um, that's why another reason why I
• 1:09:24
  don't buy as as much stuff as I used to
• 1:09:27
  because, you know, I really have to be
• 1:09:29
  smart about where I spend my income. So,
• 1:09:31
  I get what you're saying.
• 1:09:35
  >> Yeah. No, I hear you, Lawrence. I mean,
• 1:09:38
  for me,
• 1:09:40
  like I go to shows now sometimes to see
• 1:09:43
  people.
• 1:09:44
  >> Yeah, exactly.
• 1:09:45
  >> It was great to go to King Kong. I mean,
• 1:09:47
  I knew I was going to see you, which was
• 1:09:48
  great, but I saw like four or five other
• 1:09:49
  guys I hadn't seen in a while.
• 1:09:51
  >> Uh, a lot of sellers that I that I know
• 1:09:53
  just by going to shows, you know, I'm
• 1:09:55
  still looking. I'm still digging in the
• 1:09:57
  boxes. But, you know, I I feel like,
• 1:10:02
  you know, the chase is the is the fun
• 1:10:03
  part of it because I did complete the FF
• 1:10:06
  run, right? Which again for me is like,
• 1:10:08
  you know, just
• 1:10:10
  a great goal of my life. I know it
• 1:10:12
  sounds silly. Um, but that's why I'm
• 1:10:14
  buying scoops, you know?
• 1:10:16
  >> It's really it's really not it's really
• 1:10:17
  not silly because you know what?
• 1:10:20
  >> Being a collector is like
• 1:10:23
  filling a hole that you have in your
• 1:10:25
  life. I hate to say it, but that's
• 1:10:26
  really what it is. We all have a if you
• 1:10:28
  collect something, we have a hole uh in
• 1:10:31
  our lives that is missing something.
• 1:10:33
  Collecting things that we enjoy fills
• 1:10:35
  that hole. That that's what it's all
• 1:10:37
  about. But before we go any further, I
• 1:10:38
  want to give a big shout out to Heritan.
• 1:10:40
  Not only because he says he's been
• 1:10:42
  there, man. Got to not let these kinds
• 1:10:44
  of circumstances keep you from enjoying
• 1:10:46
  life. Glad you got that book. Like
• 1:10:48
  that's what makes this community so so
• 1:10:50
  great because
• 1:10:51
  >> we all support each other, man. We're in
• 1:10:53
  this together. We know what we've been
• 1:10:54
  through. We know what we're going to go
• 1:10:55
  through and we're here for each other.
• 1:10:57
  And on the back of that,
• 1:10:58
  >> the dude just sends me a $100 Canadian
• 1:11:01
  super chat. Dude, thank you so much.
• 1:11:04
  He's a huge supporter of the channel.
• 1:11:06
  So, thank you so much, Huran, man. You
• 1:11:08
  are the [ __ ] man. I know that. You've
• 1:11:10
  been a friend for for the past year or
• 1:11:12
  so since we've met. So, I really
• 1:11:13
  appreciate you, brother. You're [ __ ]
• 1:11:15
  awesome.
• 1:11:17
  >> I don't know how I could thumbs up
• 1:11:18
  people on the chat. Lawrence, let me
• 1:11:20
  know.
• 1:11:20
  >> I don't I don't know if you can. No, as
• 1:11:22
  as a guest, you can.
• 1:11:24
  >> All right.
• 1:11:25
  You know, thanks for everyone for
• 1:11:26
  joining too, man. You know, just I love
• 1:11:28
  talking shop.
• 1:11:29
  >> Yeah. I mean, I haven't had Doro on
• 1:11:30
  here. So, like five, what has it been
• 1:11:32
  five years since you've been on the
• 1:11:33
  channel, and it wasn't for long.
• 1:11:34
  >> Mhm.
• 1:11:36
  >> So, Ohham says, "You guys think that
• 1:11:38
  modern collecting anything is about what
• 1:11:40
  what it will be worth tomorrow or
• 1:11:42
  because of preserving history?" So, he's
• 1:11:45
  not talking about modern books. He's
• 1:11:46
  saying collecting in general. Is it
• 1:11:47
  about what it what it's going to be
• 1:11:48
  worth tomorrow or because of preserving
• 1:11:50
  history? I'll let you start first on
• 1:11:53
  that. Well, I mean
• 1:11:56
  [snorts]
• 1:11:57
  it it's kind of weird perspective
• 1:12:00
  because like right now I think the
• 1:12:02
  economy is going to force people to
• 1:12:04
  sell, right? I think that's what's
• 1:12:06
  happened over the last couple of years.
• 1:12:08
  Number two, a lot of people are going to
• 1:12:11
  pass their collections on, right? You
• 1:12:13
  know, so if you're, you know, so there
• 1:12:15
  may be a glut of of collections, but you
• 1:12:18
  know, it may be it may not be as much
• 1:12:20
  golden. it's gonna, you know, it might
• 1:12:22
  be more that 70s, 80s, 90s kind of thing
• 1:12:25
  there, but um
• 1:12:29
  if you're buying stuff now,
• 1:12:32
  I I don't know there's if there's a ton
• 1:12:34
  of upside, and I'm not trying to be
• 1:12:36
  pessimistic, but like remember when
• 1:12:39
  there were movie announcements coming
• 1:12:40
  out and teasers and then everyone would
• 1:12:42
  go out and buy that that book. you'd go
• 1:12:44
  to eBay and then immediately a $20 book
• 1:12:47
  became a $100 book and you just saw all
• 1:12:48
  greens of $1, $120 and this and that.
• 1:12:51
  So, I would say that, you know, there's
• 1:12:52
  going to be there's a little bit of
• 1:12:55
  upside if you're looking to sell. Like
• 1:12:57
  right now, I look at what I have in the
• 1:12:59
  in my box here as value, right? And I
• 1:13:02
  tell my son all the time, I'm like,
• 1:13:03
  "Hey, when I'm gone, this is this is for
• 1:13:05
  you." And no fire sales. I'm like, "When
• 1:13:08
  you know, if I'm gone, you call Lawrence
• 1:13:09
  and he'll tell you what what it's worth,
• 1:13:11
  you know?" So, so you get value of what
• 1:13:13
  I have here. But, you know,
• 1:13:15
  >> that means you assume that you're going
• 1:13:16
  to die before me.
• 1:13:17
  >> Well, I don't know. We'll we'll have to
• 1:13:19
  we'll have to draw straws. [laughter]
• 1:13:21
  But, uh, you know, no, but like looking
• 1:13:24
  in my box brings me joy. You know, just
• 1:13:27
  I have a hard day at work and I look at
• 1:13:29
  a book and I and you know, I I know
• 1:13:31
  again this is all silly, but like I
• 1:13:32
  can't believe I have that book. And, you
• 1:13:35
  know, it just it's, you know, quote
• 1:13:37
  unquote my prized possession. I mean,
• 1:13:39
  like one of my dreams was to own like a
• 1:13:41
  68 Camaro, you know, and I'm like, "All
• 1:13:44
  right, well, that's a 25 $35,000 car."
• 1:13:46
  And I'm like, "You know what? [ __ ] the
• 1:13:48
  car." Like, I love the books. I've
• 1:13:50
  always loved comics. And but again,
• 1:13:53
  these have value, you know? So, even if
• 1:13:55
  I paid overpaid for some of these books,
• 1:13:58
  which I did on a lot of them, but you
• 1:14:00
  know, like all these books that I'm
• 1:14:02
  buying now, they're $200 books. They're
• 1:14:03
  not completely ridiculous, but they'll
• 1:14:06
  still always have a little bit of value,
• 1:14:08
  you know, to me. But I'm not not I'm
• 1:14:10
  personally not looking at them as like
• 1:14:12
  this is going to be a flip to make some
• 1:14:14
  money, you know. So,
• 1:14:16
  >> I I think I think that I don't collect
• 1:14:19
  books to
• 1:14:22
  think about what they're going to be
• 1:14:23
  worth in the future. I just don't do
• 1:14:25
  that. I think there was a time to do
• 1:14:27
  that. like when we got into like 2020
• 1:14:30
  2021 like even 2019 like you could buy a
• 1:14:34
  book and then flip it like within a year
• 1:14:35
  and make good amount of money.
• 1:14:37
  >> I after that time like 2021 I only
• 1:14:41
  that's when I downsized my collection
• 1:14:43
  like the only reason I buy stuff now is
• 1:14:45
  because of nostalgia because I had an
• 1:14:48
  affinity for it growing up. So I don't
• 1:14:50
  really think it's preserving history and
• 1:14:52
  I definitely don't think it's because
• 1:14:53
  what it's going to be worth tomorrow. I
• 1:14:55
  think it's if you're a collector now,
• 1:14:58
  and I use the word collector because
• 1:14:59
  you're not a flipper. If you're a
• 1:15:00
  flipper that you can talk about what
• 1:15:02
  it's worth tomorrow, I'm not that
• 1:15:03
  person. I don't think a lot of people
• 1:15:04
  are that person who we're probably in
• 1:15:06
  this chat. There's probably a few are,
• 1:15:08
  which is fine. You know, you know, be a
• 1:15:10
  capitalist, try to make money. I'm all
• 1:15:12
  for that. But at the same time, like,
• 1:15:14
  it's about you and it's about what you
• 1:15:16
  want and it's about what makes you feel
• 1:15:17
  good and what fills that hole that that
• 1:15:19
  you have in your life. For me, it was
• 1:15:21
  just trying to bring back the things
• 1:15:22
  that like I felt that when I was a kid
• 1:15:24
  that I really really enjoyed. So, it's
• 1:15:27
  it's you say preserving history, I'm
• 1:15:29
  talking about preserving me. Like that's
• 1:15:31
  what these things mean to me. It's about
• 1:15:33
  preserving me, if that makes sense,
• 1:15:35
  right? [clears throat]
• 1:15:37
  >> Yeah. No, for sure.
• 1:15:39
  >> Izzy says he loves The Dark Knight
• 1:15:41
  Returns, but he really loves Year One.
• 1:15:43
  Uh DMR in that book says noir beauty. I
• 1:15:46
  agree. I I loved year one as well, but
• 1:15:47
  again that story to me had been told in
• 1:15:49
  like you know a bunch and Frank Miller
• 1:15:52
  Frank Miller back then he was the goat
• 1:15:54
  back then in my in my opinion in that
• 1:15:56
  80s time frame. I don't think anybody
• 1:15:58
  was better than Frank Miller. So um I
• 1:16:00
  just really love the Dark Knight Returns
• 1:16:02
  and I really wasn't a fan of Carrie
• 1:16:04
  Kelly.
• 1:16:05
  >> But outside of that um just returns
• 1:16:08
  really got me.
• 1:16:12
  Uh Helmouth, what's going on brother? He
• 1:16:13
  says, "I've been trying to get a
• 1:16:14
  Daredevil one to 100 slab run together
• 1:16:17
  for years. I know what you're talking
• 1:16:20
  about. We will always be missing
• 1:16:21
  something." Yeah. I mean,
• 1:16:23
  >> I mean, I'll let you speak on this
• 1:16:24
  because you're you're you have that FF
• 1:16:25
  run. I have the ASM run. So, like
• 1:16:28
  >> the one thing I'll say is like the runs
• 1:16:30
  are the hardest thing to do, especially
• 1:16:32
  when you're trying to, you know, do like
• 1:16:34
  silver age runs because that shit's
• 1:16:36
  expensive, right, man? Like the silver
• 1:16:38
  age stuff is expensive. Even like the
• 1:16:39
  the shittiest nonkey is not cheap.
• 1:16:43
  Mhm. Yeah. I mean,
• 1:16:47
  I been buying them like cherry-picking
• 1:16:49
  at a time, you know? So,
• 1:16:52
  like there is the FOMO part of it, but
• 1:16:54
  like the Hey, Izzy. What's up, buddy?
• 1:16:55
  >> What's up, guys?
• 1:16:56
  >> Hey. I mean, there's like just remember
• 1:16:58
  this as well. If you follow Heritage
• 1:17:01
  every week, comic link every week, like
• 1:17:05
  you'll look, if you're looking to get a
• 1:17:07
  96 or 98 of every issue, sure, then
• 1:17:10
  that's going to take you a really long
• 1:17:11
  time. But if you're like, "Hey, you know
• 1:17:12
  what? But I want something five and up.
• 1:17:14
  You're, you know, you'll be able to kind
• 1:17:16
  of, you know, fill that run. And I don't
• 1:17:17
  want to say pretty quickly because
• 1:17:19
  honestly, I don't know how many people
• 1:17:21
  have
• 1:17:22
  slam daredevils from like number 50 to
• 1:17:25
  100.
• 1:17:26
  >> Right.
• 1:17:26
  >> Well, I I'll ask I'll ask the person who
• 1:17:29
  asked it, John. Oh, not not John. Who is
• 1:17:33
  it? Helmouth. Who said like why does it
• 1:17:35
  have to be slabbed? Like like is there a
• 1:17:37
  reason it it has to be slabbed? The only
• 1:17:39
  thing because you could probably get
• 1:17:40
  these books on the cheap if you bought
• 1:17:42
  them raw,
• 1:17:43
  >> right?
• 1:17:43
  >> That that's that's what I did because I
• 1:17:44
  didn't want to spend the crazy amount of
• 1:17:46
  money on slabs and also like the storage
• 1:17:48
  for slabs is, you know, it takes they
• 1:17:50
  take up so much room as compared to sl
• 1:17:52
  as compared to to raws that I I I'd
• 1:17:54
  rather go raw. But that's just me like
• 1:17:56
  collecting, you know, do what you want.
• 1:17:58
  But I asked why slabed helmouth, let us
• 1:18:00
  know.
• 1:18:02
  >> Is he all right, brother? All I hear is
• 1:18:04
  like stuff going on in the background.
• 1:18:06
  Yeah, [laughter] I'm just I'm just
• 1:18:07
  gathering some things, man.
• 1:18:09
  >> He's putting his seatelt on. [laughter]
• 1:18:12
  >> I am putting my seatelt on, right?
• 1:18:15
  >> Um, interesting question about slab or
• 1:18:17
  not to slab. I slab that that I think
• 1:18:20
  deserves to be slabbed. If that's if
• 1:18:22
  that's a good way of looking at it,
• 1:18:24
  >> right? So, I look at a book,
• 1:18:28
  it has to have it has to meet one of two
• 1:18:30
  factors. Maybe there's a third one that
• 1:18:32
  I can't think of, but it has to be one a
• 1:18:34
  key that's worth slabbing,
• 1:18:37
  which means it has to be a book that you
• 1:18:41
  know you need to preserve it, right? An
• 1:18:43
  FF1 for example, or you know, things
• 1:18:47
  like that, right? Or
• 1:18:49
  >> if it has a sentimental value to me,
• 1:18:53
  >> just to have it, not to not to open it
• 1:18:55
  up or things like that or stuff like
• 1:18:57
  that. So, I do have a book here. I have
• 1:18:59
  a few books that are slabed, but they're
• 1:19:00
  slabed for my purposes. You know what I
• 1:19:03
  mean? Especially if if it's a art, if
• 1:19:04
  it's one of the pieces that I drew, I
• 1:19:06
  like to have my artwork slab because
• 1:19:08
  that's the important part of the book to
• 1:19:10
  me. You know what I mean? Stuff like
• 1:19:11
  that. But if it's like a personal item,
• 1:19:13
  then yeah, sure, I'll slab it. But, but
• 1:19:16
  to keep in mind, folks, anybody
• 1:19:18
  listening out there, slabbing will only
• 1:19:20
  give you monetary value. Some people
• 1:19:23
  prefer slabs, and that's 100% fine.
• 1:19:24
  Like, I'm not saying you shouldn't slab
• 1:19:26
  because you should. I have slabs as
• 1:19:27
  well. So, you know, I'm not saying that.
• 1:19:29
  But all slabbing does is give you a
• 1:19:32
  definitive value for your book. Now,
• 1:19:34
  artwork is a different story. Is he
• 1:19:36
  slabs artwork? Because he's an artist
• 1:19:37
  and he does commissions and stuff like
• 1:19:39
  that. So, slabbing or work is totally
• 1:19:40
  different. So, I understand that. But if
• 1:19:42
  we're just talking about a straight
• 1:19:43
  comic, it's just assigning value if
• 1:19:46
  that's why you're doing it. Unless it's
• 1:19:47
  just preference. If your preference is
• 1:19:48
  just to have slabs, that's a different
• 1:19:50
  story. But we have a question from Solar
• 1:19:53
  Reaper. says, "Are newer books still
• 1:19:55
  newstands or are they called something
• 1:19:57
  else?" Uh, I don't know. There aren't
• 1:20:00
  too many news stands now. I'll let I'll
• 1:20:01
  defer this to Izzy because he knows
• 1:20:03
  better than me. Yeah, it doesn't. Right.
• 1:20:06
  >> So, newsstands died in the I want to say
• 1:20:10
  the early 2000s. Um, so if if you have a
• 1:20:13
  newsstand from a news stand book from
• 1:20:15
  the 2000s,
• 1:20:17
  >> that actually has significant value as
• 1:20:19
  opposed to the the regular. Uh that
• 1:20:22
  doesn't mean much, you know, to to some
• 1:20:24
  people. Like I obviously some people
• 1:20:26
  care about the news stand, some people
• 1:20:27
  don't. Um but that's where it actually
• 1:20:30
  matters the most. Um news stands in the
• 1:20:34
  70s and the early 80s, they they're
• 1:20:37
  about the same price. Um sometimes they
• 1:20:40
  get they demand a little bit more
• 1:20:41
  because of the treatment of it all. You
• 1:20:43
  know what I mean? Um
• 1:20:46
  it's how they were treated. So, you
• 1:20:47
  know, a news stand book was treated
• 1:20:50
  >> like it was in a newsstand, you know
• 1:20:51
  what I mean? Um, and that's why there
• 1:20:53
  could be a little bit of rarity to it.
• 1:20:55
  Um,
• 1:20:56
  >> not that there is much rarity to it.
• 1:20:59
  >> Um, but it it really after the 90s,
• 1:21:02
  that's when the news stands became a
• 1:21:05
  thing, a bigger thing. And again, it's
• 1:21:07
  it's a it's a way um it's a way the
• 1:21:10
  marketplace could say could make a
• 1:21:12
  differential. You know, same thing with,
• 1:21:14
  you know, I think Mark jewelers are
• 1:21:15
  probably more important than news stands
• 1:21:16
  versus
• 1:21:17
  >> Oh, yeah. For sure.
• 1:21:18
  >> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because
• 1:21:19
  of where there's also history involved
• 1:21:21
  in mark jewelers
• 1:21:22
  >> and stuff like that. So, there's a
• 1:21:24
  little bit of that going with the marks
• 1:21:25
  jewelers. But as far as the difference
• 1:21:27
  between a news stand versus a standard,
• 1:21:30
  >> I don't make much difference of it. I
• 1:21:32
  think there's only there's some books
• 1:21:33
  where the news stands matters more than
• 1:21:35
  others, but honestly, personally
• 1:21:38
  speaking, everything to pretty much
• 1:21:40
  everything has a barcode now. So
• 1:21:43
  >> yeah,
• 1:21:43
  >> that's you know what I mean? There's no
• 1:21:44
  difference.
• 1:21:46
  >> Polarmo, what is going on, my friend? I
• 1:21:48
  haven't purchased Absolute Batman. It
• 1:21:50
  will likely price correct, but it could
• 1:21:52
  bring in new Batman collectors, which is
• 1:21:54
  good for us who have been collecting for
• 1:21:55
  50 plus years. I don't want to say it
• 1:21:57
  already has brought in
• 1:21:59
  >> uh newer collectors. There's no question
• 1:22:00
  in my mind. Like I I haven't seen
• 1:22:03
  anything this hot and I know Izzy could
• 1:22:04
  touch on this because he does covers a
• 1:22:06
  lot of modern stuff. I haven't I haven't
• 1:22:08
  seen anything this hot in in all my
• 1:22:11
  years of collecting how hot this thing
• 1:22:12
  is.
• 1:22:13
  >> Yeah. The only comparison, and I've said
• 1:22:14
  this countless times, the comparison I
• 1:22:16
  give to it is Ultimate Spider-Man, the
• 1:22:18
  first Ultimate Spider-Man from the 2000s
• 1:22:20
  where that started something new. That's
• 1:22:23
  why brought in a lot of new people into
• 1:22:25
  it because it was a fresh take on
• 1:22:27
  Spider-Man without it. It it updated the
• 1:22:30
  origin. This one didn't really update
• 1:22:32
  the origin. It kind of like flipped it
• 1:22:35
  across its head. But I think what
• 1:22:37
  happened with Absolute was it was a
• 1:22:40
  fresh take on Batman. It is an it's an
• 1:22:43
  elseworld. Let's call it what it is.
• 1:22:45
  It's an Elseorld.
• 1:22:46
  >> Uh but it it because of Draot's I think
• 1:22:50
  Dragot's art more than s um Scott
• 1:22:53
  Snider's writing. I think it's their
• 1:22:55
  go's art that's what's capsulating
• 1:22:57
  people to do it because he has a very
• 1:22:59
  >> he has this distinct style that relates
• 1:23:02
  to the manga audience and the manga
• 1:23:05
  audience is coming in
• 1:23:07
  >> to it
• 1:23:08
  >> and that's what's causing it and I think
• 1:23:10
  that's kind of causing that same FOMO
• 1:23:11
  thing that's happening week over week
• 1:23:14
  with certain books especially Image
• 1:23:16
  books and Mad Cave books I'm starting to
• 1:23:17
  notice um where people are starting to
• 1:23:20
  gravitate towards those books because
• 1:23:21
  they're they're easy to get into you
• 1:23:24
  don't have a laundry list of history
• 1:23:27
  with them. And it's just to be honest
• 1:23:30
  with you, you know, especially with
• 1:23:31
  Marvel, um, which I hate to say it, but
• 1:23:33
  Marvel has dropped the ball in the last
• 1:23:35
  couple of years on how they treat their
• 1:23:37
  stories. DC, on the other hand, been
• 1:23:39
  working a little bit harder, but
• 1:23:41
  >> Marvel's been dropping the ball, man.
• 1:23:43
  And it's sad seeing it that way.
• 1:23:45
  >> Yeah. Run me through says I'm partial to
• 1:23:47
  newsstands because my pops was a manager
• 1:23:49
  for a grocery store and all the comics
• 1:23:52
  he bought my brother and I were off the
• 1:23:53
  magazine rack. Didn't have bags and
• 1:23:55
  boards until adulthood. I was the same
• 1:23:56
  way. Like my dad owned a pharmacy when I
• 1:23:58
  was a kid. So like
• 1:24:00
  >> he I've talked told the story many a
• 1:24:01
  time where like he would bring home
• 1:24:03
  comics for me and they were all new
• 1:24:04
  stands as well. But
• 1:24:06
  >> back as a kid like you didn't want the
• 1:24:07
  new stands. You wanted the one with like
• 1:24:09
  Spidey's head of the on the instead of
• 1:24:10
  the bar cooler, right? Like that's what
• 1:24:11
  you wanted.
• 1:24:13
  >> That's what you wanted. Yep. I was, you
• 1:24:15
  know, especially like the Mcfarlands,
• 1:24:17
  right? Because McFarland used to love
• 1:24:19
  doing the drawings. And the funny thing
• 1:24:21
  is that the news stands for the
• 1:24:22
  Mcfarllands are way more expensive than
• 1:24:24
  the ones that has his art because he art
• 1:24:27
  on it. Yep. The little venom head or
• 1:24:28
  whatever. Right.
• 1:24:29
  >> Yeah. He decided, I'm going to take
• 1:24:30
  advantage of this corner this little
• 1:24:32
  under corner box and have fun with it.
• 1:24:35
  So when the direct market came in,
• 1:24:37
  everybody was grabbing those books.
• 1:24:39
  Nobody wanted the new stands. And I
• 1:24:41
  think that's what caused the new stand
• 1:24:42
  rarity in those books because nobody
• 1:24:44
  actually wanted them for that time and
• 1:24:47
  now they want them. But I'll take a
• 1:24:50
  McFarland to wreck any day over a new
• 1:24:52
  sand just because it's cooler.
• 1:24:54
  >> Yeah. It's just a matter of what you're
• 1:24:56
  willing to pay for it because now like I
• 1:24:58
  see people paying still stupid money for
• 1:25:01
  like Spider-Man won the McFarland run.
• 1:25:03
  It's a $5 book is all the the amount of
• 1:25:05
  copies out there in any grade. I don't
• 1:25:06
  care what the grade is. It's a $5 book.
• 1:25:09
  >> Mhm. I have one. [laughter]
• 1:25:12
  >> Yeah,
• 1:25:12
  >> I have a few.
• 1:25:13
  >> Everybody has one.
• 1:25:16
  >> There's certain books that you must have
• 1:25:17
  in your collection. Spider-Man number
• 1:25:19
  one, X Force number one, X-Men X X-Men
• 1:25:23
  number one, the Jim Lee X-Men.
• 1:25:26
  >> You have to have all
• 1:25:28
  >> and you have to have No, you have to
• 1:25:29
  have all five of them because you have
• 1:25:30
  to get the edition, right?
• 1:25:33
  >> Yeah.
• 1:25:34
  >> I don't I don't have the collector's
• 1:25:36
  edition to be honest with you. But like
• 1:25:38
  uh the four Yeah, the the four everybody
• 1:25:40
  has.
• 1:25:41
  >> Yeah, I have I got the four. And what
• 1:25:43
  was nice about those variants was what
• 1:25:45
  they did they it wasn't like today that
• 1:25:48
  they all released them in the same in
• 1:25:49
  the same week. Those four was being if I
• 1:25:52
  remember correctly they were being
• 1:25:54
  released each week.
• 1:25:56
  >> So the first week the first week you got
• 1:25:58
  the first piece and then the following
• 1:26:00
  week you had so you had to return to the
• 1:26:02
  shop to get it and that drive the price.
• 1:26:06
  So, and the last one was obviously the
• 1:26:08
  Magneto. And then came the what they
• 1:26:11
  called the collector edition.
• 1:26:14
  >> Murf, what's going on, brother?
• 1:26:16
  >> How are you? Another guy who set up at
• 1:26:18
  King Kong. How you doing, brother? How
• 1:26:19
  are you? Um, what did you think of King
• 1:26:21
  Kan? Izzy.
• 1:26:22
  >> Um, that's what I was That's why I
• 1:26:24
  stopped by.
• 1:26:26
  Um, I'll tell you what I think of King
• 1:26:28
  Kong. This is what I thought of King
• 1:26:31
  Kong. [laughter]
• 1:26:34
  >> All right. So,
• 1:26:35
  >> there you go. Show show us. I know. I
• 1:26:37
  know. I spoke to you briefly at the show
• 1:26:38
  about what you picked up, but you didn't
• 1:26:40
  show me. So, let's go ahead and and show
• 1:26:42
  us. But before you do that, I have to
• 1:26:44
  >> big shout out to Jay knows the way 1462
• 1:26:47
  for the $20 super chat. Jay, thank you
• 1:26:49
  so much. This would have been $100, but
• 1:26:51
  easy [laughter] showed up.
• 1:26:54
  >> Uhoh. Degraded.
• 1:26:56
  >> I have so much hate, man. People just
• 1:26:58
  love to hate me.
• 1:26:59
  >> No, he's breaking he's breaking the
• 1:27:01
  chops.
• 1:27:01
  >> No, but everybody knows I I'm that guy
• 1:27:03
  that can handle that kind of stuff. So,
• 1:27:05
  I'm okay with that. Everybody knows
• 1:27:06
  that. I love I love busting people's
• 1:27:08
  stuff.
• 1:27:08
  >> I know, right?
• 1:27:09
  >> So, show us what you got. Show us what
• 1:27:10
  you got.
• 1:27:11
  >> So, I So, pretty much everything I
• 1:27:13
  picked up is what I consider a banger
• 1:27:15
  because now I do collect for I collect
• 1:27:18
  more for fun than anything, but I do
• 1:27:20
  like picking up a a key here and there.
• 1:27:23
  So, there was a few books that I picked
• 1:27:24
  up that were funsies and there was a few
• 1:27:26
  books that I thought were amazing for
• 1:27:28
  the price. So, I'll start with this one
• 1:27:30
  is Avengers 181. This the first Scott
• 1:27:33
  Lang. So, I picked this. Um, he we were
• 1:27:36
  talking about
• 1:27:38
  >> Do you remember who you got them from?
• 1:27:40
  If you could shout them out as well,
• 1:27:41
  that'd be great.
• 1:27:41
  >> Actually, I can't remember everybody,
• 1:27:43
  but I did get this one from Oh, man. I
• 1:27:47
  forget his name. So, when you walked
• 1:27:49
  when you walked into the the ballroom,
• 1:27:52
  he had the he had the big the big aisle.
• 1:27:56
  Well, he was like the first guy in that
• 1:27:59
  was on the left hand side. I think it
• 1:28:00
  was Jared or something like that.
• 1:28:02
  >> Gerard. Yeah, Gerard. Okay,
• 1:28:04
  >> Gerard. It was Gerard. So, I got this
• 1:28:05
  one from Gerard. Um, I can't say
• 1:28:08
  everybody cuz I don't remember
• 1:28:09
  everybody, but the ones I remember, I'll
• 1:28:12
  remember. I also got You were talking
• 1:28:14
  about Batman.
• 1:28:15
  >> I got a Batman year one.
• 1:28:17
  >> Nice.
• 1:28:18
  >> This was I got this. It says here 15,
• 1:28:21
  but I got this for five bucks.
• 1:28:25
  >> That I remember. This I got from um Very
• 1:28:28
  Gary um which is
• 1:28:31
  >> the first
• 1:28:32
  >> Yes. So I remember I was standing right
• 1:28:33
  next to you when you were talking about
• 1:28:35
  that. All right. Yeah.
• 1:28:36
  >> I got this one for Very Gary. This is
• 1:28:38
  another one that I'm not sure who I got
• 1:28:39
  it from, but it's the Peter Porker
• 1:28:42
  number one.
• 1:28:42
  >> Oh, that's cool.
• 1:28:44
  >> Yeah. So, that's a fun book. Another one
• 1:28:46
  that I got I must have gotten these
• 1:28:49
  Yeah, these I think I got it from 360.
• 1:28:51
  Um 360
• 1:28:53
  >> from my boy Joe.
• 1:28:55
  >> Yeah. So, I think this little stack here
• 1:28:57
  I got from him. Um, and all of these
• 1:28:59
  were five bucks. So, I got Avengers 223,
• 1:29:04
  iconic
• 1:29:05
  >> classic cover. Joe had a Joe had a good
• 1:29:07
  mix. He had Golden Age and then he had
• 1:29:09
  some
• 1:29:10
  >> some everything.
• 1:29:11
  >> Talking about books that everybody
• 1:29:12
  should have in their collection.
• 1:29:15
  >> We we we failed to mention this one.
• 1:29:18
  >> Oh, yeah. Wow.
• 1:29:19
  >> I think everybody does have that already
• 1:29:21
  in their collection.
• 1:29:23
  >> Yeah. I have the bagged version. I have
• 1:29:26
  two bagged and I have one of these. So,
• 1:29:28
  I decided to pick this one up because I
• 1:29:30
  don't like I I only have one of these.
• 1:29:32
  >> But five bucks.
• 1:29:35
  >> Yeah.
• 1:29:35
  >> Not bad for
• 1:29:36
  >> the auctions coming up for the original
• 1:29:38
  artwork.
• 1:29:39
  >> Oh, all the pages. I can't believe I saw
• 1:29:42
  that.
• 1:29:42
  >> You see that?
• 1:29:44
  >> I saw all the all pretty much all the
• 1:29:46
  pages.
• 1:29:46
  >> Metropolis.
• 1:29:47
  >> It's insane. [snorts]
• 1:29:48
  Just looking at for super
• 1:29:50
  >> got the Superman the original
• 1:29:53
  pieces like all of that because they're
• 1:29:56
  all literally splash pages. Every page
• 1:29:59
  >> why why now though? Why are they putting
• 1:30:00
  that up now? That's my my question.
• 1:30:02
  >> The real question who had the
• 1:30:04
  collection. Did Dan have the collection
• 1:30:05
  decide to let it go? Did did a did
• 1:30:08
  somebody had the collection decide it
• 1:30:10
  was time?
• 1:30:11
  >> You know, there's there's a lot there's
• 1:30:12
  a lot of variables to that. Um, is it a
• 1:30:15
  good time to buy and sell Superman
• 1:30:17
  property because of the movie came out
• 1:30:19
  and then you had these action comics and
• 1:30:22
  and Superman number one selling for the
• 1:30:24
  prices? So,
• 1:30:25
  >> you know, so I think it could be a
• 1:30:27
  little bit of everything.
• 1:30:28
  >> Um,
• 1:30:29
  >> I got a Spawn 50. That was nice.
• 1:30:32
  >> That's another $5 book.
• 1:30:34
  >> Now, you talk about nostalgia. I got
• 1:30:37
  this one because I just thought this
• 1:30:39
  cover was awesome and then I realized
• 1:30:40
  what this cover was a paying homage to.
• 1:30:43
  That's the Justice League.
• 1:30:44
  >> Oh, that's cool.
• 1:30:46
  >> So, you know what?
• 1:30:46
  >> What is that? The freaking uh
• 1:30:48
  Poltergeist.
• 1:30:49
  >> No, it's Exorcist.
• 1:30:50
  >> Well, that's what I meant. That's
• 1:30:51
  Exorcist. That's what I meant.
• 1:30:53
  >> The other one. The other movie.
• 1:30:54
  >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.
• 1:30:56
  >> Another I've never seen that. I've never
• 1:30:59
  seen that.
• 1:30:59
  >> Well, it was one I've seen it before and
• 1:31:01
  I kind of forgot about it. And it's
• 1:31:03
  Justice League of America issue 27.
• 1:31:07
  >> But it it is pretty cool that they did
• 1:31:09
  this with a Justice League comic book.
• 1:31:10
  You know, you can expect it for like a
• 1:31:11
  Vertigo maybe, but not for a Justice
• 1:31:13
  League.
• 1:31:14
  >> So, I thought that was pretty
• 1:31:15
  interesting. I also got the first
• 1:31:18
  >> Brother Blood from the Teen Titans.
• 1:31:20
  Another $5 book. Um,
• 1:31:23
  >> were these all wall books or were they
• 1:31:24
  in the bins?
• 1:31:25
  >> No, these were all in the bins. These
• 1:31:27
  were the those specific books, those
• 1:31:29
  books I just showed you. I got it from
• 1:31:30
  360. Um, and he had them for five bucks.
• 1:31:34
  And and I've picked up books from him
• 1:31:35
  like that before, too, where he's like,
• 1:31:37
  "Yeah, I'm just giving them away." He's
• 1:31:39
  p it's like practically giving them
• 1:31:41
  away, right?
• 1:31:41
  >> When you sell them for like five bucks,
• 1:31:43
  it's that's like the new dollar bid.
• 1:31:45
  >> You know, dollar bids don't exist like
• 1:31:47
  they used to, man, because you know,
• 1:31:49
  >> you can't it's inflation.
• 1:31:52
  All right. Um then there's this again
• 1:31:54
  another one I can't rem like there was a
• 1:31:57
  lot of guys here and there that was
• 1:31:58
  doing things. They didn't really have a
• 1:32:00
  name attached to them, so I just picked
• 1:32:01
  them up and it was um this Avengers 33
• 1:32:05
  um 33. This is a spec book because of
• 1:32:08
  the whole
• 1:32:09
  >> Well, it's a Delato, but it's also a
• 1:32:11
  spec book because of the incursions.
• 1:32:14
  >> Yeah, it's a Doom cover, incursions, all
• 1:32:17
  that stuff.
• 1:32:18
  >> Here's another spec book because they
• 1:32:19
  they optioned the they optioned the show
• 1:32:22
  option, I think, for a show or a movie.
• 1:32:24
  And this four kids walk into a bank.
• 1:32:27
  This is one of those indie books. Oh,
• 1:32:29
  wow.
• 1:32:29
  >> I heard about that. I heard about that.
• 1:32:31
  That they're going to option.
• 1:32:32
  >> It was funny. So when he got optioned,
• 1:32:34
  this book went as high as like 30, 40
• 1:32:36
  bucks, right? I got this for a five.
• 1:32:43
  >> You know what I mean?
• 1:32:44
  >> Yeah.
• 1:32:44
  >> Here's another fun book talking about
• 1:32:45
  absolute Batman. Um, this was a cool
• 1:32:48
  one. It's not an absolute, but it is an
• 1:32:50
  Elseorld.
• 1:32:53
  >> I love this cover.
• 1:32:55
  >> I had that when I was growing up. So So
• 1:32:57
  Murf said that was that was his his book
• 1:32:58
  that you picked up.
• 1:32:59
  >> Oh, okay. Good. Well, thanks, Murf. Like
• 1:33:01
  like I said, I can't remember everybody,
• 1:33:02
  so I'm sorry. Uh I have to apologize. I
• 1:33:05
  can't remember everybody. [snorts]
• 1:33:07
  I'm an old guy.
• 1:33:09
  [laughter]
• 1:33:10
  I did also get a blank. I got a new gods
• 1:33:12
  blank.
• 1:33:14
  I might already have this commissioned
• 1:33:16
  out for somebody. And I got this from I
• 1:33:19
  got this from Zap, believe it or not. I
• 1:33:21
  went to Zap Comics, too, afterwards.
• 1:33:23
  >> So So here you go. I was at Zap on
• 1:33:25
  earlier this week and I picked up a
• 1:33:27
  bunch of blank covers for uh my buddy
• 1:33:30
  Jyn. I don't know if you guys know he
• 1:33:32
  came on and he did a bunch of art on the
• 1:33:34
  channel. We're probably going to do it
• 1:33:35
  at the end of this month as well. So, I
• 1:33:37
  know you're artist as well. So, I picked
• 1:33:38
  up like 15 to 20 blank covers for him at
• 1:33:41
  Zap and that was one of them as well.
• 1:33:43
  >> Yeah, Zap has some good ones. So, I
• 1:33:44
  picked up that one. I also picked up a
• 1:33:46
  Batman RIP cover that I thought was
• 1:33:49
  pretty cool.
• 1:33:50
  >> Um this one was another one I picked up.
• 1:33:53
  Now, he was opposite Jared. So, that's
• 1:33:55
  where I got this one. Um, and that was
• 1:33:58
  Star Slayer. First Rocketeer.
• 1:34:00
  >> Okay.
• 1:34:02
  >> Right.
• 1:34:03
  >> I would I wouldn't even have known that
• 1:34:04
  it was the first Rocketeer. How How much
• 1:34:06
  is that?
• 1:34:08
  >> 20 bucks.
• 1:34:09
  >> Oh, okay.
• 1:34:10
  >> Okay. Yeah. I was going to say there's
• 1:34:11
  no way. First Rocketeer is five bucks.
• 1:34:13
  There's no way.
• 1:34:14
  >> Yeah. Imagine.
• 1:34:16
  >> But the way you know is if you if you go
• 1:34:18
  back here.
• 1:34:19
  >> Oh, wow.
• 1:34:20
  >> There. There it is.
• 1:34:22
  >> Mhm. What issue is that?
• 1:34:24
  >> This is Star Slayer issue two.
• 1:34:26
  >> Show it again. Show the cover so the
• 1:34:28
  people out there so they know
• 1:34:29
  >> because I wouldn't have known that
• 1:34:30
  either unless you just showed it. So
• 1:34:32
  yeah. All right.
• 1:34:33
  >> So this,
• 1:34:36
  you know, Dave Stevens love
• 1:34:38
  >> um $20 and it's a really good condition.
• 1:34:41
  This again, this is one of those books
• 1:34:42
  I'll get slabbed.
• 1:34:44
  >> Sure.
• 1:34:44
  >> Um and here's another one that I got
• 1:34:47
  this I think I might have got this from
• 1:34:49
  Mary Gary, but I'm not sure. But
• 1:34:53
  it's the
• 1:34:54
  >> Oh, yeah. Yeah,
• 1:34:54
  >> you did because that was one of the ones
• 1:34:56
  I was standing next to you talking to
• 1:34:57
  you when you were doing it. Yeah.
• 1:34:59
  >> So, I might take this to Jim Starland.
• 1:35:02
  It It's a newsy, but it doesn't matter,
• 1:35:05
  >> right? It's nice.
• 1:35:08
  >> So, that's some of the stuff I got
• 1:35:10
  there. I also picked up a couple of
• 1:35:13
  slabs here and there. Um, one slab
• 1:35:15
  you're familiar with, I'm sure.
• 1:35:18
  Uh
• 1:35:18
  >> oh.
• 1:35:19
  >> So, let me see if I can grab it here.
• 1:35:21
  So, here's one that I grabbed.
• 1:35:25
  >> Oh, somebody told me he was talking
• 1:35:26
  Daredevil.
• 1:35:28
  >> Yeah.
• 1:35:28
  >> Mhm.
• 1:35:29
  >> I kept saying the first Daredevil and I
• 1:35:31
  kept me and I meant to say the first
• 1:35:32
  bullseye. So, and this is a book that
• 1:35:35
  I've always wanted to have, but I never
• 1:35:37
  put it on like a list to get because I
• 1:35:39
  always think it was out of my reach at
• 1:35:40
  times.
• 1:35:41
  >> Mhm. You know how certain books feel you
• 1:35:43
  feel like they're out of your reach, but
• 1:35:45
  the price was impossible to pass.
• 1:35:48
  >> Yeah.
• 1:35:49
  >> Right.
• 1:35:49
  >> You know,
• 1:35:50
  >> and all those have come down a lot,
• 1:35:52
  >> you know, the first electron,
• 1:35:55
  >> right?
• 1:35:56
  >> Yeah. I got this from Chimmo. Chimmo was
• 1:35:59
  sent was doing it. So, he was like,
• 1:36:02
  so I was like I immediately just bought
• 1:36:03
  it from him. So, he gave me a great
• 1:36:05
  price on the book. Like, again, couldn't
• 1:36:08
  pass it up. Um, let me see if I can find
• 1:36:10
  the other ones here.
• 1:36:12
  >> You had a lot. You had a [snorts]
• 1:36:15
  >> He bought a lot of stuff. So, people,
• 1:36:16
  you know,
• 1:36:18
  >> Yeah. He was He was there early, but
• 1:36:22
  like I'll tell you how
• 1:36:23
  >> I opened the doors pretty much.
• 1:36:26
  >> Yeah. So, I got this one. This is the
• 1:36:27
  first Silver Sable.
• 1:36:28
  >> Silver Sable. Yep.
• 1:36:30
  >> Now, take a wild guess what I paid for
• 1:36:33
  this book.
• 1:36:35
  It's a 7.5. So it's not, you know, it's
• 1:36:37
  not 98
• 1:36:39
  25 bucks.
• 1:36:41
  >> Close. Very close.
• 1:36:43
  30.
• 1:36:45
  >> All right. It's still still worth it. A
• 1:36:47
  slab.
• 1:36:47
  >> Cost a slab.
• 1:36:49
  >> It cost more than it costs more slab
• 1:36:51
  now.
• 1:36:51
  >> Yeah. Now it costs more with the ship if
• 1:36:52
  you count shipping and all that stuff.
• 1:36:54
  >> Yeah.
• 1:36:54
  >> But I saw first appearance of Silver
• 1:36:57
  Sable. She's one of those characters
• 1:36:58
  that maybe someday, right? Who knows?
• 1:37:03
  And it's like it's an old enough book
• 1:37:06
  that it's probably worth it. You know
• 1:37:08
  what I mean?
• 1:37:09
  >> So why not? And I know I got this from
• 1:37:12
  So you know how before you get into when
• 1:37:14
  before you got into King Kong, there was
• 1:37:16
  like an area where you you make the
• 1:37:18
  line.
• 1:37:19
  >> Yeah.
• 1:37:19
  >> And there was these guys. It was one of
• 1:37:21
  those guys. So that's where I got
• 1:37:23
  >> Humble Comics.
• 1:37:24
  >> Yeah. There's a guy Humble.
• 1:37:26
  >> Yeah. That's the He was set up all the
• 1:37:28
  way on the back wall there. Yeah.
• 1:37:29
  >> Yeah. He was set up in the back wall.
• 1:37:31
  So, there was those were that one. Those
• 1:37:34
  were the two slabs I got. And of course,
• 1:37:38
  I got the other one that's hanging back
• 1:37:40
  there.
• 1:37:41
  >> Yes.
• 1:37:41
  >> That I'm pointing to right there.
• 1:37:44
  >> The 101.
• 1:37:46
  >> The 101. Okay.
• 1:37:47
  >> He got he got that from me from the
• 1:37:49
  collection that I a buddy of mine was
• 1:37:51
  was getting out of comics.
• 1:37:52
  >> So, I put it right next to the Jubilee.
• 1:37:56
  And and you can't it's kind of hard to
• 1:37:57
  see it, but there's no there's little
• 1:38:00
  figurines right on right next to them
• 1:38:02
  and right in front of them. So I got the
• 1:38:04
  little figurines. So I had to get that
• 1:38:06
  because as I told you, I named my
• 1:38:07
  daughter Phoenix.
• 1:38:09
  >> So now I So what one of my daughters is
• 1:38:11
  Phoenix, the other one's Jubilee. So now
• 1:38:13
  I got their I got both of their first
• 1:38:14
  appearances.
• 1:38:16
  >> Your your daughter's really name is
• 1:38:17
  Jubilee.
• 1:38:19
  >> Her name is Jubilation.
• 1:38:21
  >> Oh, that's right. You did tell me that
• 1:38:22
  one at the time. You did tell me that. I
• 1:38:24
  gave her the full name. [laughter]
• 1:38:26
  >> I was like, screw that. I'm giving her
• 1:38:28
  the full name. We call it Jubilee, of
• 1:38:30
  course. Um, and Shauna Rain 8605 says,
• 1:38:34
  "Mighty Thomas and Collectibles is a
• 1:38:35
  legend. Nothing but love for Nebraska."
• 1:38:38
  Brother, you're the legend. Thank you so
• 1:38:41
  much. You are the legend for watching.
• 1:38:43
  Appreciate you, man. What were you
• 1:38:45
  saying? [snorts]
• 1:38:46
  >> No. So, yeah, I named I named That was a
• 1:38:48
  name. So, Jubilee was the first one. I
• 1:38:51
  had her name I had her name already
• 1:38:53
  scouted before me and my wife even
• 1:38:56
  started dating. In fact, my wife was
• 1:38:59
  going into the relationship knowing that
• 1:39:02
  if I ever have
• 1:39:04
  >> her,
• 1:39:06
  >> how did your wife take that? Like like
• 1:39:08
  >> you know, come on. How did you Yeah,
• 1:39:10
  >> she loved it. She So, for a lot of
• 1:39:12
  people don't may not know this, there's
• 1:39:13
  no real moment of me and my wife
• 1:39:15
  meeting. So you could technically say me
• 1:39:18
  and my wife met when she was born
• 1:39:20
  >> because we grew up in church together.
• 1:39:23
  >> Okay. And crazy sto crazy story. I love
• 1:39:27
  telling people this part. I held her as
• 1:39:29
  a baby at the age of three.
• 1:39:33
  >> How old were you?
• 1:39:34
  >> I said three. At the age of three. I was
• 1:39:36
  three. She was she was a baby.
• 1:39:38
  >> Okay.
• 1:39:39
  >> So how did you hold her at three?
• 1:39:40
  >> So I held her in my hand. my my mom and
• 1:39:44
  her mom were like, "Okay, you want to
• 1:39:45
  hold the baby?" And I was like, "Yeah,
• 1:39:46
  hold the baby." And I just, you know,
• 1:39:47
  hold the baby just for a couple of
• 1:39:49
  seconds. And I do remember that. As
• 1:39:50
  crazy as it sounds, I do remember that.
• 1:39:52
  But I would have never told I, you know,
• 1:39:54
  of course, never in my wildest dream
• 1:39:56
  would have said this is going to be my
• 1:39:57
  wife. You know what I mean? But
• 1:39:59
  [laughter] that's that's a little cute
• 1:40:00
  story that people say like, "What?" You
• 1:40:03
  know, I have to I I also have to preface
• 1:40:04
  it by saying I was three before anybody
• 1:40:07
  [laughter] says anything,
• 1:40:09
  >> right? When she was three, right? No,
• 1:40:12
  [laughter] no, no.
• 1:40:13
  >> She was when she was born, I was was
• 1:40:16
  three.
• 1:40:17
  >> So, so that's thing. But yeah, um so
• 1:40:20
  during that time we got to we knew each
• 1:40:22
  other from church. We we did our thing.
• 1:40:24
  I I dated elsewhere other people. She
• 1:40:25
  dated other people and then we start
• 1:40:26
  started dating
• 1:40:28
  somehow. So it was something that she
• 1:40:30
  always knew like cuz I've everybody knew
• 1:40:33
  I was into comics back then too. So I
• 1:40:35
  was always into comics even at a young
• 1:40:36
  age. So everybody knew that that and I
• 1:40:39
  would say yeah if I ever have a kid I'm
• 1:40:40
  going to name him jupilation. and she
• 1:40:42
  knew that. So she w she got into the
• 1:40:44
  relationship knowing that.
• 1:40:46
  >> So
• 1:40:47
  >> Run Me says
• 1:40:48
  >> and know and she she named Phoenix.
• 1:40:52
  >> Uh Run Me through says your daughter is
• 1:40:53
  named Jubilation. My daughter is named
• 1:40:55
  Ilana. They're best friends now.
• 1:40:59
  >> Do you know him or do you know him or
• 1:41:00
  No.
• 1:41:02
  >> No, I don't know if I know. Run me
• 1:41:03
  through. So I have to actually know him.
• 1:41:06
  But my daughter my daughter's her
• 1:41:08
  choices of friends are very interesting
• 1:41:10
  to me. I gotta move up so the other
• 1:41:12
  camera can catch me.
• 1:41:14
  >> Yeah, I keep going in and out. I don't
• 1:41:15
  know why my [ __ ] camera goes It's
• 1:41:17
  freaking
• 1:41:19
  >> Well, it's because you got the vertical,
• 1:41:21
  right? The vertical.
• 1:41:23
  >> So, that's it. It's, you know, it's one
• 1:41:25
  of those things. And the there's there's
• 1:41:28
  the there's the Incredible Hulk right
• 1:41:30
  there. The one I was talking about,
• 1:41:32
  triple sign.
• 1:41:34
  >> Where'd you get that?
• 1:41:35
  >> That's that's knife fun book. And
• 1:41:36
  there's Mike Drake,
• 1:41:37
  >> right?
• 1:41:38
  Um, so that's that's funny you say that.
• 1:41:41
  That's that's one of my earliest comics
• 1:41:44
  >> that I ever ever got. I got it at a news
• 1:41:46
  stand.
• 1:41:47
  >> I bought that in a new stand. I I kept
• 1:41:50
  it and preserved it for years. Um, you
• 1:41:53
  know, to the best of my ability being a
• 1:41:56
  12-year-old. Um, and then slowly but
• 1:42:00
  surely I got every signature. So the
• 1:42:03
  first signature I got was Peter David's.
• 1:42:06
  I got Peter David's signature and I got
• 1:42:07
  it in Midtown Comics years ago. I can't
• 1:42:10
  even tell you what was what was the
• 1:42:12
  event and what was the purpose of the
• 1:42:13
  signing. Um, but I got that signing
• 1:42:16
  there all the time, busy.
• 1:42:18
  >> Yeah. So, you know, that's that's one of
• 1:42:20
  the benefits of living in New York. You
• 1:42:21
  go to Midtown all the time. Like Tom
• 1:42:22
  King just had a signing just not that
• 1:42:24
  long ago. Um, so I got Peter David's
• 1:42:27
  signature and I've had it for years. And
• 1:42:29
  then last year I was at Guardian State,
• 1:42:32
  one of the Guardian State shows, the
• 1:42:34
  Winterfest, not this year, but the the
• 1:42:36
  previous year. And Bob White was there.
• 1:42:38
  So I got him to sign it. And then over
• 1:42:40
  at New York ComicCon
• 1:42:42
  when they were doing the Todd McFarland
• 1:42:43
  signature, I was able to get Todd's
• 1:42:45
  signature. So I got that I got that
• 1:42:48
  Incredible Hulk signed, but I also got
• 1:42:50
  the Batman signed too by Todd. And the
• 1:42:52
  the Batman the Batman 423 is now signed
• 1:42:55
  by Todd McFar, but it's also not signed
• 1:42:57
  by Jim Star. And crazy, they both came
• 1:43:00
  back at 9.0.
• 1:43:04
  >> Oh says he hasn't heard me mention Elfqu
• 1:43:07
  Quest by Wendy and Richard Pey, which
• 1:43:09
  their beginning story is amazing. So if
• 1:43:12
  you go back in the top 10 comics of the
• 1:43:14
  week, one of the very first ones, the
• 1:43:16
  book appeared on that list and I talked
• 1:43:18
  about it then and there, but it hasn't
• 1:43:19
  been on in quite a while, but it has
• 1:43:21
  been on there 100%.
• 1:43:24
  >> Elf Quest is one of those comic books. I
• 1:43:26
  think it was a large it's larger than
• 1:43:28
  your standard comic book.
• 1:43:30
  >> So that makes that makes it a little
• 1:43:32
  more difficult to collect. But it does
• 1:43:34
  have a fan base.
• 1:43:35
  >> Has a big fan base actually.
• 1:43:37
  >> And it's it's not that easy to find
• 1:43:39
  either. That's the next thing, right?
• 1:43:40
  >> No, it's not. It's it's an it's an 80s
• 1:43:42
  indies book. So it's it might be just as
• 1:43:45
  rare as let's say Teenage Mutant Ninja
• 1:43:47
  Turtles, but since you know the demand
• 1:43:49
  for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles higher,
• 1:43:51
  that's why that book demands more money.
• 1:43:53
  But getting to Elf Quest number one, I
• 1:43:54
  think it was ear late7s. I don't even
• 1:43:57
  think it was ' 80s. I think it was late
• 1:43:58
  '7s, like 79 or something like that.
• 1:44:00
  >> And I thought I thought they were doing
• 1:44:01
  something with the IP. I just don't
• 1:44:03
  remember what it was. I heard something
• 1:44:04
  a while back about Elf Quest, but I
• 1:44:05
  don't remember what it was.
• 1:44:07
  >> They've been trying for years to get
• 1:44:09
  something going with Elf Quest, but it
• 1:44:11
  just they want to have they want to have
• 1:44:13
  the most control they could possibly
• 1:44:14
  have. So, I think that's what's kind of
• 1:44:17
  causing that problem for them. It's kind
• 1:44:19
  of like the same thing with Todd with
• 1:44:21
  Todd and Spawn where you know he he
• 1:44:23
  wants to have this control and and
• 1:44:26
  industry is like but we need to do what
• 1:44:29
  we need to do.
• 1:44:30
  >> Yeah.
• 1:44:31
  >> That kind of like what stops it. Um but
• 1:44:33
  I'm h I'm all for the creator getting as
• 1:44:36
  much rights as they could possibly get
• 1:44:37
  for it. Uh but studios always want their
• 1:44:40
  cut.
• 1:44:42
  >> Jay knows the way. He says he named his
• 1:44:44
  daughter Stan.
• 1:44:47
  >> I love that.
• 1:44:49
  Hey, she's okay with it. [laughter]
• 1:44:56
  >> All right. And even
• 1:44:59
  >> named Carmen. My father I'll give you
• 1:45:00
  another one. My father's name is
• 1:45:02
  Jennifer.
• 1:45:02
  >> That's
• 1:45:03
  >> what
• 1:45:04
  >> Get the [ __ ] out of here.
• 1:45:05
  >> I'm not kidding. [snorts]
• 1:45:07
  >> Carmen, I've heard. But that that's I
• 1:45:09
  would say common in Hispanic Heritage.
• 1:45:11
  Jennifer is a different story though.
• 1:45:13
  >> Name plural too. Jennifers.
• 1:45:17
  So, that's one of those stories, too,
• 1:45:18
  where a police officer saved my
• 1:45:20
  grandma's life in Puerto Rico, and then
• 1:45:22
  she promised to name her her first born
• 1:45:25
  after the
• 1:45:27
  >> the police officer. My only, you know,
• 1:45:29
  since, you know, they're both long gone,
• 1:45:31
  I can't really, you know, vouch for it,
• 1:45:33
  but my guess is that that was the police
• 1:45:35
  officer's last name.
• 1:45:36
  >> Wow.
• 1:45:40
  >> He hated Yeah, actually, he hated his
• 1:45:42
  name.
• 1:45:43
  >> I mean, yeah, if I was named Jennifer, I
• 1:45:45
  probably wouldn't like that either. So
• 1:45:46
  he wait
• 1:45:46
  >> how do you spell it? [laughter]
• 1:45:48
  >> He the same way but he will he will
• 1:45:50
  spell it with an s at the end.
• 1:45:52
  >> So Jennifer
• 1:45:53
  >> Jennifer
• 1:45:54
  >> two ends.
• 1:45:55
  >> Two ends. Yeah. Same exact way.
• 1:45:57
  >> Wow. That's that's I've never heard
• 1:45:59
  that.
• 1:46:00
  >> So he would go by so he would go by his
• 1:46:02
  nickname BP or he he later on he adapted
• 1:46:06
  a name um Johnny.
• 1:46:08
  >> That works.
• 1:46:09
  >> That worked. And then sometimes he just
• 1:46:10
  will go by Jay Lauraniano. In fact when
• 1:46:12
  he passed away he passed away. It's been
• 1:46:14
  like it's been over 15 years now. When
• 1:46:17
  he passed away and we did the tombstone,
• 1:46:19
  we purposely decided not to put
• 1:46:21
  Jennifer's and we just put Jay J Boppel
• 1:46:25
  like that and then with his with our
• 1:46:26
  last name uh because we knew even in his
• 1:46:29
  grave he wouldn't want to see his name
• 1:46:31
  there. [laughter] So we we did that um
• 1:46:34
  stuff like that. But he Yeah, he hated
• 1:46:36
  his last name. He hated his name.
• 1:46:38
  >> He couldn't stand it. He he would have
• 1:46:40
  legally changed it if he had the ability
• 1:46:42
  to. So, so one question I might as well
• 1:46:44
  ask you guys this since I have you on
• 1:46:46
  here, and it has nothing to do with
• 1:46:48
  comics whatsoever, but a a content
• 1:46:50
  creator that has recently left the
• 1:46:52
  space, and and I'll ask you guys about
• 1:46:54
  this because I wanted to ask it early
• 1:46:56
  on, and then I I kind of forgot, but I
• 1:46:58
  don't know if you guys noticed that
• 1:46:59
  Sticky Goose deleted all his YouTube
• 1:47:02
  content and his Instagram.
• 1:47:06
  >> Just Well, how recent?
• 1:47:09
  >> I I don't know. Uh, somebody sent it to
• 1:47:11
  me and and and all his YouTube content
• 1:47:13
  was gone. The channel's still there, but
• 1:47:15
  all there's no videos. Uh, his Instagram
• 1:47:17
  is basically been deleted. There's
• 1:47:19
  nothing there. So
• 1:47:20
  >> So he
• 1:47:22
  I don't know what he did. I I know that
• 1:47:25
  he sold all his books. I haven't talked
• 1:47:26
  to him in a long time, but I was shocked
• 1:47:28
  that he would delete all his content
• 1:47:30
  because that's still a revenue stream.
• 1:47:32
  You know, people watch old content and,
• 1:47:34
  you know, that's still so to delete all
• 1:47:36
  of it. That was quite shocking to me.
• 1:47:39
  Yeah, I actually chatted with him on
• 1:47:40
  Instagram because he's he was like,
• 1:47:43
  "Hey, I'm selling my stuff." And I'm
• 1:47:44
  like, "You have any FFS, [laughter]
• 1:47:46
  you know, [gasps] and
• 1:47:48
  >> yeah, I've never had a chance I never
• 1:47:49
  had a chance to meet Sticky um or talk
• 1:47:52
  to him or anything like that." I I I am
• 1:47:54
  one I am one of the guys who was not a
• 1:47:57
  big fan of his little roast.
• 1:47:59
  >> Um you know, not that not because I'm
• 1:48:01
  not a fan of roast. I like a good roast
• 1:48:04
  here and there. Um, I just don't like
• 1:48:06
  the people he was roasting, if that
• 1:48:08
  makes sense. I didn't like how he was
• 1:48:09
  roasting certain individuals that he
• 1:48:11
  didn't know who they were and why he was
• 1:48:13
  roasting them. They just decided to pick
• 1:48:15
  on them.
• 1:48:15
  >> Um, so I think that was punching down.
• 1:48:18
  Um,
• 1:48:18
  >> but that was also a long that was like
• 1:48:20
  the first video or first or second video
• 1:48:22
  where he did. So after that though to
• 1:48:24
  like calm down or whatever.
• 1:48:25
  >> Yeah. And you know, and again, I never
• 1:48:28
  partic like I've wa I watched his
• 1:48:30
  contact like everybody else would. Um,
• 1:48:34
  but there was a part of me that also
• 1:48:35
  knew
• 1:48:37
  that
• 1:48:39
  he was he was he was he was kind of one
• 1:48:41
  of those guys to me and again, nothing
• 1:48:43
  against personally against him or
• 1:48:44
  anything like that. Um, he was just one
• 1:48:46
  of those guys that I think he had a pers
• 1:48:49
  perspective of the comic book industry
• 1:48:52
  that wasn't entirely true, but it was
• 1:48:54
  true to him. So that I guess that's
• 1:48:56
  that's his perspective or his perception
• 1:48:58
  probably is probably a better term for
• 1:49:00
  it. Um because there was times I was
• 1:49:02
  like he doesn't know the real story and
• 1:49:06
  that happened a few times when I would
• 1:49:08
  watch his contact like if you remember
• 1:49:11
  not not what what happened over here in
• 1:49:14
  in Brooklyn in the Brooklyn comic show
• 1:49:16
  with the the comic book that was stolen.
• 1:49:20
  >> We're talking about freaking what's his
• 1:49:22
  face? Uh what's that guy's name? Um,
• 1:49:25
  >> oh man, what's his [ __ ] name now? He
• 1:49:27
  just came back on the scene. So, Nemesis
• 1:49:29
  Prime posted a photo. He's like, "Whoa,
• 1:49:30
  Nemesis Prime was like a big It was a
• 1:49:32
  big He he really instigated."
• 1:49:34
  >> What What the [ __ ] is the guy's name
• 1:49:36
  now? Now it's going to drive me nuts.
• 1:49:37
  >> Yeah. Um Oh, it's in the tip of my
• 1:49:39
  tongue, too. [laughter]
• 1:49:41
  >> Oh, man.
• 1:49:41
  >> You know, I know what you're talking
• 1:49:42
  about. I know what you're talking about.
• 1:49:43
  >> He's like he's I don't know if he's
• 1:49:45
  Indian or he's like uh from that part of
• 1:49:47
  the the country from the world.
• 1:49:50
  >> Oh, man. I'm probably better, right?
• 1:49:52
  >> Yeah. I I forget his name, but he was
• 1:49:54
  like the big dude on whatnot, scamming
• 1:49:56
  people. He was scamming people
• 1:49:57
  everywhere.
• 1:49:58
  >> Yeah,
• 1:49:58
  >> forget his [ __ ] name now. That's
• 1:50:00
  going to drive me nuts.
• 1:50:01
  >> Oh, right. Yeah, I remember now.
• 1:50:03
  >> It wasn't Carbo. [laughter] It wasn't
• 1:50:05
  Carbo.
• 1:50:06
  >> No, I I saw that. I saw that.
• 1:50:09
  >> It wasn't Carbo. It was a different
• 1:50:11
  case. But
• 1:50:12
  >> no, what the Oh my god. What is his name
• 1:50:14
  now? That's going to drive me nuts.
• 1:50:16
  >> Carbo.
• 1:50:17
  >> What? No, it's not Carbo. It's
• 1:50:20
  >> We all know who it is. is I bet you
• 1:50:21
  someone in the chat would know.
• 1:50:22
  >> [ __ ] Yeah, put it in the chat if you
• 1:50:24
  remember his name.
• 1:50:25
  >> He had a He had a line.
• 1:50:27
  >> His name is Ram Ram Cassoon. I remember
• 1:50:29
  that name.
• 1:50:30
  >> There it is. Epic.
• 1:50:30
  >> Epic Nation. That's it. Yes.
• 1:50:33
  >> Okay.
• 1:50:34
  >> Luis Mendoza, my man. Good job.
• 1:50:36
  >> Thank you. Thank you. Epic Nation. Thank
• 1:50:37
  you. Uh, so he put his video on he put
• 1:50:42
  his take on Epic Nation and he gave like
• 1:50:45
  [laughter] he did like almost like his
• 1:50:47
  investigative reporting of what was
• 1:50:49
  happening which was completely wrong
• 1:50:52
  [laughter]
• 1:50:52
  and I was cra that that actually made me
• 1:50:55
  laugh. Um, so I was like no dude that's
• 1:50:57
  not the how it went because I was there
• 1:50:59
  that day. I was there that day.
• 1:51:02
  Thankfully I wasn't there when it
• 1:51:03
  happened.
• 1:51:04
  >> Wow. But I was there with that day and
• 1:51:05
  how and what what went down when he he
• 1:51:07
  had his guy switch the book and things
• 1:51:10
  like that. And the best to me the best
• 1:51:13
  part of the story is the aftermath of
• 1:51:14
  the story. You know what [laughter] I
• 1:51:16
  mean? With with all the drama that that
• 1:51:19
  followed within the weeks to come and
• 1:51:20
  how Nemesis's Prime was like drilling
• 1:51:23
  him. So I got to give Justin credit for
• 1:51:25
  that one.
• 1:51:27
  >> Yeah. I mean really hard.
• 1:51:30
  >> He he was funny. like he Justin was very
• 1:51:32
  funny with that whole situation like but
• 1:51:35
  deservedly so obviously but uh I don't
• 1:51:38
  remember that video that Sticky put out
• 1:51:40
  about Epic Nation but like I don't know
• 1:51:42
  how how it took so long for whatnot to
• 1:51:44
  ban that dude. I know he's back now
• 1:51:46
  selling Pokemon. Uh
• 1:51:48
  >> oh yeah he's been doing Laboo's Pokemon.
• 1:51:50
  >> Yeah. So he's been sticking around a lot
• 1:51:52
  in the anime community lately.
• 1:51:55
  >> That's kind of like where he's at now.
• 1:51:57
  Uh, personally speaking, I got nothing
• 1:52:00
  against Epic Nation because again, what
• 1:52:03
  he did was wrong. Of course, he and his
• 1:52:05
  guy did it and he he didn't really fess
• 1:52:07
  up to to doing it. Um, and it's messed
• 1:52:10
  up how he did it and then, you know,
• 1:52:12
  other people that got involved. That's
• 1:52:13
  also the part that's that's kind of
• 1:52:15
  messed up about the whole story. But
• 1:52:17
  personally speaking, I don't have
• 1:52:18
  anything against Epic Nation because I
• 1:52:20
  never had a bad altercation with Epic.
• 1:52:22
  So, I'm not going to I won't say
• 1:52:24
  anything bad about the person, but what
• 1:52:25
  happened and it's clear what happened,
• 1:52:28
  >> you know, when you saw it. And I
• 1:52:29
  remember seeing Billy Bob, he was
• 1:52:30
  talking Ian, those guys from the book
• 1:52:33
  comic show, but I remember being there
• 1:52:34
  and I remember my boy was there, too. He
• 1:52:36
  was selling stuff like, yo, he was at my
• 1:52:38
  table. I like he could have taken
• 1:52:39
  something from me. It's like, but there
• 1:52:41
  was no way for him knowing it until, you
• 1:52:43
  know, after the fact. But it was it was
• 1:52:45
  pretty crazy, man. all the all the [ __ ]
• 1:52:47
  that came out about that dude like like
• 1:52:50
  I remember like he was like renting cars
• 1:52:53
  or doing something and ripping people
• 1:52:54
  off. I don't know. All the stuff that
• 1:52:56
  came out was just wild to me. So, but
• 1:52:58
  regardless back back on topic here, I
• 1:53:00
  was just really shocked to see that he
• 1:53:03
  would just delete everything like that
• 1:53:04
  on a whim considering, like I said, it's
• 1:53:06
  a money maker. He could still, you know,
• 1:53:09
  >> get money from the channel like from
• 1:53:11
  older videos. That was
• 1:53:13
  >> Yeah. So, like that that shocked me as
• 1:53:15
  all. That was all just sad to see him go
• 1:53:17
  cuz I don't think he was a bad dude.
• 1:53:19
  Yes, he made some bad decisions with
• 1:53:20
  regard to content, but at the same time
• 1:53:22
  like I had him on the podcast and we had
• 1:53:24
  just like a long conversation about like
• 1:53:26
  stuff that he enjoyed. Just seemed like
• 1:53:28
  a regular dude. But uh the the one thing
• 1:53:30
  I I'll caution all people, if you're
• 1:53:33
  collecting anything and and this has
• 1:53:35
  happened multiple times in multiple
• 1:53:37
  genres of collecting is like when you
• 1:53:39
  get in over your head a little bit and
• 1:53:41
  you spend too much money or you've been
• 1:53:43
  ripped off. That's what happens. I hate
• 1:53:46
  to say it, people just like shut down
• 1:53:48
  and they leave and they just don't want
• 1:53:49
  to see it. It's like out of sight, out
• 1:53:51
  of mind type of thing.
• 1:53:52
  >> Yeah. Yeah. It was a little because it
• 1:53:54
  ended up becoming
• 1:53:56
  not understanding how the industry
• 1:53:59
  works. The market I guess more not so
• 1:54:02
  much the industry, the marketplace, not
• 1:54:04
  understanding how the marketplace could,
• 1:54:06
  you know, it's like it's like when you
• 1:54:08
  get into gambling for stuff like that or
• 1:54:10
  you're playing blackjack or poker
• 1:54:12
  without having the knowledge of how to
• 1:54:13
  play blackjack or poker, you could have
• 1:54:15
  a string of good luck and then out of
• 1:54:17
  nowhere all this bad luck comes
• 1:54:18
  afterwards.
• 1:54:19
  >> Yeah. um you know he he was definitely
• 1:54:23
  he saw like a gatekeeper community type
• 1:54:25
  of thing which I do admit does exist uh
• 1:54:28
  with with certain individuals but I
• 1:54:30
  don't think everybody's like that.
• 1:54:31
  That's the other thing.
• 1:54:32
  >> I said that's my question like people
• 1:54:34
  say that there's gatekeeping. I have
• 1:54:35
  never experienced that in any
• 1:54:38
  >> in anything that I collect and I collect
• 1:54:39
  a lot of [ __ ] [ __ ] as you guys can
• 1:54:41
  see here. Like I've never experienced
• 1:54:42
  that. So tell me how some people
• 1:54:45
  experience that and and I've never of
• 1:54:47
  all the genres of [ __ ] that I collect.
• 1:54:49
  that I don't understand it.
• 1:54:50
  >> So, I think it's more a like I think
• 1:54:53
  it's it's it's not gatekeeping in the
• 1:54:56
  same way as your traditional gatekeeping
• 1:54:58
  like you can't come here type of thing.
• 1:54:59
  But I think it I think there is um
• 1:55:03
  clicks if that means something. I do
• 1:55:06
  believe there's
• 1:55:07
  >> I get that.
• 1:55:08
  >> Yeah. And I think those clicks are what
• 1:55:10
  seems to be gatekeeping even though
• 1:55:12
  those clicks themselves are not
• 1:55:14
  gatekeeping. You get my point. So, it's
• 1:55:17
  like this group over here is doing their
• 1:55:20
  little thing here. This group over here
• 1:55:21
  is doing their little thing, right? But
• 1:55:23
  they're not telling you you can't join
• 1:55:25
  them, but you feel like you can't,
• 1:55:29
  >> if that makes sense. You know what I
• 1:55:30
  mean? So,
• 1:55:32
  >> I would environment. There's um not I've
• 1:55:37
  I've posted some things in CGC chat
• 1:55:40
  boards
• 1:55:41
  >> and there's you know some people are
• 1:55:43
  great and I've answered questions and
• 1:55:44
  then other people are like you know you
• 1:55:46
  didn't ask your question in the right
• 1:55:48
  manner or something like that. It's
• 1:55:50
  like, you know, you got, you know, you
• 1:55:51
  have to clear the filters first. And
• 1:55:52
  there was something else, too, where I
• 1:55:54
  posted like, hey guys, in search of
• 1:55:56
  certain books or something like that
• 1:55:57
  and, you know, and then I just got all
• 1:55:59
  these comments and I was like, all
• 1:56:00
  right, why did I even bother, you know,
• 1:56:02
  and I get it like first time, you know,
• 1:56:04
  and I even said first time posting, you
• 1:56:07
  know, hey, bear with me kind of thing,
• 1:56:08
  you know. So, it's kind of hard to just
• 1:56:10
  sort of sneak in there, but, you know,
• 1:56:12
  by and large, you know, 99% of the
• 1:56:15
  people I've met in this community have
• 1:56:17
  been great. I mean, Lawrence and I are
• 1:56:19
  friends and we met.
• 1:56:20
  >> Yeah.
• 1:56:20
  >> Just I was like, "Hey, dude, you live in
• 1:56:22
  you live in uh Bergen County." I'm like,
• 1:56:24
  "I live in B, you know, and I think
• 1:56:25
  that's how we met up." [snorts]
• 1:56:28
  >> But even like YouTube in itself, like
• 1:56:30
  it's just like, you know, you meet
• 1:56:31
  people, you talk on Instagram, you do
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  whatever. Like Izzy, I think I met you
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  for the first time at the Garden State
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  ComicFest and stuff like that. So like
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  like you just it I don't know like I
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  think it really depends on like the type
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  of person you are, but I haven't really
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  haven't met many bad people in this
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  hobby. But that's just me.
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  >> Yeah. And the people I've met that I
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  would consider to be bad people, they
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  want to be bad people,
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  >> if that makes sense. You know, they want
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  to be the instigators. They want to
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  bring the drama.
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  >> Um where I think the majority the
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  majority of people in in this community,
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  we'll call it, they just want to talk
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  comic books to people that they can't
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  talk comic books to because it's hard to
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  find comic book friends. You know what I
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  mean?
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  >> Especially us, man. We're, you know, we
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  we've reached an age where we're not
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  interested in going to find friends
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  anymore. [laughter]
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  >> You know what I mean?
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  >> No, it's true.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> It's hard to find new friends. I mean,
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  look, I'm a heavy metal guy,
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  >> you know? So, it's like for me, it's
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  like, you know, a grain of pepper in in
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  the middle of salt, you know? It's like
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  when I find one person, I'm like, "All
• 1:57:34
  right, dude. We got to talk shop, you
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  know?"
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  >> Especially when you get when you get
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  older, right? when you hit like in your
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  your 30s and 40s or even older like like
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  [snorts] if you find accommodation to
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  someone like hey you have someone to
• 1:57:46
  someone to talk to you can bounce things
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  off as like as you get older it's it's a
• 1:57:49
  lot easier to make friends with someone
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  as you know when you're younger it's
• 1:57:53
  like you know what there's so many other
• 1:57:55
  things going on when you're older like
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  you know I I don't know besides work and
• 1:57:58
  like maybe some family stuff like
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  >> like yeah like like this is it like this
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  is what we have now
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  >> yeah you become likeminded
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  >> um you know it This is the equivalent of
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  just hanging out in the bar and having a
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  couple of drinks with some people
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  sometimes
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  for us, you know.
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  >> Oh says this should be a continuously
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  Friday night talk. Love the insight from
• 1:58:20
  you guys. So, it's funny you say that
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  cuz somebody mentioned to me like I
• 1:58:23
  should do like a regular like monthly
• 1:58:25
  show, like a live show, and I try to
• 1:58:27
  come on whenever I have time, but like I
• 1:58:30
  I'm I'm contemplating if I should do
• 1:58:32
  like one regular monthly show on a
• 1:58:34
  certain like Friday night or something
• 1:58:36
  like that that everybody knows, hey,
• 1:58:37
  he's going to be live this night. But
• 1:58:38
  we'll see what happens. Uh MV says that
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  receipts are collected for certain
• 1:58:43
  people and forgiveness is hard to get
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  within a community, which I also
• 1:58:46
  understand. What do you think about
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  that?
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  >> Yeah, I agree.
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  I agree to that. I think, you know, I've
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  been I've been I've been told to to be
• 1:58:56
  to change my mind at times, which I do.
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  Um because that's just the way things
• 1:59:00
  are, especially in where where I do what
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  I do. Um with with trending comics
• 1:59:05
  specifically, uh because that's kind of
• 1:59:08
  what I work on, right? That's I work
• 1:59:09
  with Cover Prize. I work with Gold
• 1:59:10
  Collect and those guys,
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  >> we talk about what's trending and stuff
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  like that. Not everybody
• 1:59:15
  >> What's interesting is not everybody
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  likes that. people want to. And again, I
• 1:59:20
  think we live we live in a world where
• 1:59:23
  if you don't like what I like, then I
• 1:59:25
  don't I I don't think I should like you.
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  >> I think there's a little bit of that
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  going on sometimes.
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  >> That's that's the problem. Yeah. It's
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  [ __ ] everybody is too like my way, my
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  way, my way.
• 1:59:35
  >> Yeah. And that's the thing. It's like
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  buy what you want to buy. If you want to
• 1:59:39
  buy manga, buy manga. If you want to if
• 1:59:41
  you want to buy modern books, buy modern
• 1:59:43
  books. If you want to buy, you know,
• 1:59:44
  silver age and golden age, go for it. I
• 1:59:48
  I personally don't care. As long as you
• 1:59:50
  buy comic books, that actually makes me
• 1:59:52
  more happy because I like talking comic
• 1:59:54
  books. I like talking I you know, I
• 1:59:56
  can't tell you about the modern age
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  stories that are going on because no one
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  cares about them as much.
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  >> But I know there's people out there that
• 2:00:04
  knows everything that's going on in
• 2:00:05
  every comic book. Like right now,
• 2:00:06
  recently, the recent Batman run has been
• 2:00:08
  pretty good. And I'm talking about
• 2:00:09
  Batman general, not Absolute.
• 2:00:11
  >> You know, Matt Fraction's doing he's
• 2:00:13
  doing something interesting with Joker,
• 2:00:15
  which I think was will be cute. I'm
• 2:00:17
  curious to see. But um but at the end of
• 2:00:20
  the day, man, just love comic books for
• 2:00:22
  what they are, regardless of what they
• 2:00:24
  are,
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  >> you know.
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  >> I agree.
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  >> Uh- w with that said, guys, it's almost
• 2:00:31
  10:30. I'm going to call it tonight. Uh
• 2:00:33
  we've been on for like two hours. So,
• 2:00:35
  again, I want to thank both of you guys
• 2:00:36
  for for hanging with me. Izzy, you've
• 2:00:38
  been on multiple times, but Dario hasn't
• 2:00:40
  been on with me for like five years,
• 2:00:42
  man.
• 2:00:42
  >> So, I I appreciate both of you guys for
• 2:00:44
  hanging out. stop by for a brief moment
• 2:00:46
  only because I have to say thanks for
• 2:00:48
  for for that baby because I really
• 2:00:50
  appreciate that was
• 2:00:51
  >> thank you for taking it off my hands.
• 2:00:53
  >> Yeah, that was a good one. You showed
• 2:00:55
  that. So guys, just to make it quick, he
• 2:00:57
  showed the picture and I immediately
• 2:00:59
  contacted him like within seconds of you
• 2:01:01
  posting it somehow
• 2:01:02
  >> and I was like, "Is that book still
• 2:01:04
  available?" He's like, "Yep, [laughter]
• 2:01:07
  >> I want it." He get he gives me the price
• 2:01:09
  like, "Okay, good. So done."
• 2:01:12
  >> Yeah, man. I'm trying to get a bunch of
• 2:01:14
  like Instagram um sellers, like dealers
• 2:01:17
  together to kind of do like some some
• 2:01:19
  live streaming and claim sales. Uh I
• 2:01:21
  haven't gone fully yet and and figure
• 2:01:24
  out what what I'm going to do 100%, but
• 2:01:25
  I'm just trying to get a bunch of people
• 2:01:27
  to kind of come on board. So, if you're
• 2:01:28
  a collector or if you're a um a dealer
• 2:01:30
  or an artist like you are, Izzy, and you
• 2:01:32
  want to pop on the show, you know, I'm
• 2:01:35
  kind of scaling this out. I want to get
• 2:01:36
  a bunch of people and go from there. So,
• 2:01:38
  I'll keep everybody posted, but that's
• 2:01:40
  that was part of it. um a friend who
• 2:01:42
  wanted to get out. So, that kind of made
• 2:01:43
  me think about it. But, I'll keep you
• 2:01:45
  guys informed. And again, appreciate
• 2:01:47
  both of you guys for hopping on tonight,
• 2:01:48
  man.
• 2:01:48
  >> Thanks.
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  >> Have a great weekend.
• 2:01:50
  >> You too, guys. Take care.
• 2:01:52
  >> All right. Take it easy, guys.
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  >> Bye.