♪♪
robbie: Did you hire somebody else to do mom's snow?
Mike: No why?
Isn't what's-his-name, tim, doing it?
Robbie: He said he went over there and it was already done.
Mike: Call her up and ask her about it.
Robbie: I tried to call her this morning 3 times.
She doesn't answer the phone.
Mike: Here, call her from my phone...
Top one right there.
Robbie: Oh, hold on here...
Mom, right there, got it.
[phone ringing]
mom (on phone): Hello.
Mike: Mom!
Robbie: What's going on, mom?
Mom (on phone): Hi.
Mike: Robbie said that tim went over to your house to
do all the snow and it was already done.
So did you hire somebody?
Mom (on phone): No.
I did it myself.
Robbie: What are you talking about?
Mom (on phone): I was expecting bernie or her boyfriend to come
over and I went out and before I knew it,
I had the whole driveway done and the sidewalks done.
Mike: You shoveled the driveway?
Robbie: And the sidewalks?
Mom (on phone): Don't interrupt me.
You know I'm tough as nails.
Mike: Mom, it's not about that.
It's about you falling and breaking a hip or something.
Mom (on phone): I got a brand new hip and I'm going to get a
brand new knee, I'm going to be bionic.
Robbie: Mom, we have a contract with this guy,
we have to pay him no matter what.
Mom (on phone): The hell you are!
We're not going to pay for something he didn't do.
I'm going to call him right now.
Mike: Mom.
Robbie: Mom.
Mike: Don't call him right now.
Robbie: Mom!
Mike: Mom!
Robbie: Mom... What the heck!
Mike: Did you notice how she answers my phone call?
♪♪
[phone ringing]
mike: Dani d, what's up?
Robbie: 'sup, girl?
Danielle: Hey boys, how're you doing this fine day?
Mike: Hanging in there.
What do you got going on?
Danielle: Boy howdy, I got you guys the best pick -
the pick of all picks.
Mike: Never heard that.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: No, I really mean it, and I really mean it this time.
I'm sending you to a gal named kim.
Mike: What's she got?
Danielle: Okay, so here's the thing - her late husband,
bill, was the collector to end all collectors.
This man had it all.
You know how sometimes we'll go out on a pick and they
have like these little towns or whatever behind their house?
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: Bill built one of those towns...
Inside his house!
Mike: Dang!
Danielle: He's got a train depot,
he's got a gas station, he's got a general store.
I mean, he- he's got so much, it's crazy.
Mike: [chuckles] god dang!
Robbie: Freakin'... Mike: [laughs]
danielle: You're excited!
Robbie: This house has to be huge!
Danielle: I mean, it's something alright.
Mike: [chuckles] wooh!
Danielle: So unfortunately, bill passed away last year.
And as you can imagine, kim's pretty overwhelmed.
But she did her research, and from being with bill for so
long, she really already knew quite a bit of it.
Mike: Awesome.
Danielle: I think you guys are going to have a great day.
Mike: Thanks, honey.
Danielle: Bye.
Mike: Bye.
♪♪
mike: This is the house, look at the addition on it.
Robbie: Looks like the guy built a house on top of a house.
Mike: That's what I'm saying.
Oh they already got stuff out in the driveway.
Mike: You know it's going to be a good day when there's so much
stuff in the house, that it's spilling out into the driveway.
Mike: Look at that van, that's awesome, man.
I love that.
Robbie: That thing's cool.
Mike: Hey!
Robbie: Hey, how're you doing?
Richard: Hey, how's it going?
Mike: Hey man, I'm mike.
This is my brother, robbie.
Richard: I'm richard.
Mike: Hey, how's it going?
Richard: Nice to meet you.
Robbie: Look like you're cleaning stuff out already.
Richard: Yeah a little bit.
Mike: You guys getting this running?
I see the battery charger on it.
Richard: Trying to get it going.
It's been a minute since it ran.
Mike: Hey, you must be kim.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Hey I'm mike.
Kim: Hi mike.
Mike: You talked to dani on the phone?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: This is my brother, robbie.
Kim: Hi robbie.
Robbie: How're you doing?
Nice to see you.
Kim: Fine, how are you?
Mike: I'm giving you a flyer just to kind of...
Break something loose.
I know she kind of went over some of this stuff.
Kim: You know what, I think I have everything on here.
[group laughing]
kim: Bill bragg was my husband of almost 20 years.
A big kid at heart.
I think he was born old.
Bill loved anything from the '30s, '40s, '50s,
especially music.
Kim: Come on in.
Mike: Alright cool.
Robbie: Wow!
Mike: Oh wow yeah!
Mike: This is like no other garage we've been in before.
Most guys hang a couple of signs on the wall,
park their old car in the garage -
boom, they're done.
That's not what happened here.
He's taken this to the next level.
Kim: Doesn't everybody want to put a truck on a wall?
Mike: Is that you?
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Kim: Yeah, that's me, and that's my grandmother, and that's bill.
[group laughing]
mike: That's awesome.
Mike: He actually customized the house to create
these moments inside.
So from the exterior of the house,
you're looking at it and you're like,
that looks like a house on top of a house,
and it's very odd.
But when you walk inside, from a collector's standpoint,
I'm like, this is brilliant!
Mike: He was outside at a gas station inside the garage.
Kim: Yep.
Mike: You're surrounded by petroliana.
And then your eyes cast up, and he's got a display window
from like a general store with appliances in it.
Mike: What's the significance of "kimbill general store"?
What was that to him?
Kim: That was my first name and his name.
So he made it for our town.
Robbie: Kim and bill.
Mike: Oh okay.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Now how often would he change this out?
Richard: He wanted a christmas display,
was what he wanted.
Kim: Got it up there, and it- and it stayed that way.
Mike: Oh so always christmas.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Ooh I like this guy.
Robbie: Yeah.
Richard: [laughs] kim: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: That's cool.
Mike: We just walked into the garage.
And all of this is happening.
I mean it's...
It's overwhelming.
Mike: So where would he buy stuff,
was he buying everything local or would you guys travel?
Kim: A lot of it bill collected since he was a kid. He-
mike: Did he grow up in texas?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: Yeah, born and raised in dallas.
He used to get his toys and trade them for antiques.
His first antique, I still have, a little telegraph,
sending messages.
Mike: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kim: How many kids do you know that would trade
their toys for an antique?
Kim: Exactly.
Mike: I was doing that. I would buy,
I would buy new comic books,
and I had one friend, he must have had- remember adam?
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Mike: And- and he must had have an older brother and I would
trade my brand new comic books for his brother's old, old ones.
They were all ripped up, missing pages,
no cover, but I wanted the old ones, you know.
I think a lot of us are just, you know,
born with an old soul.
Robbie: Yeah. Kim: Exactly.
Kim: He started out as a radio dj on a country station,
and then he went into television and he ran
the master control at the tv station.
He did that for years.
Kim: And he had a museum, national museum.
Mike: Oh he had a museum.
Kim: Yeah, national museum of communications.
And they had even filmed movies there.
Silkwood, and there was um...
Mike: I've seen that movie, I think.
Was that meryl streep?
Kim: Yeah cher, meryl streep.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: And then he got to meet cher and all them,
they had you know, just had nice parties and stuff, you know.
Mike: That's cool. Richard: [laughs]
mike: Wow yeah. Kim: Yeah.
Mike: So were you around in those days?
Kim: No. I wasn't born then!
Mike: Okay.
[group laughing]
mike: Well I don't know, I mean...
Kim: No.
I was 20 years younger than he was.
Mike: Okay hey, good for him.
Robbie: Yeah, yeah.
Kim: Yeah. So.
He started the museum, and then he had gotten cancer,
colon cancer.
Then he beat it.
And then he decided just to bring everything home.
That's why we have a house upstairs.
This collection ran us out.
Robbie: Okay.
Kim: So we built on and then built one to do some remodeling.
Mike: Yeah. Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: And he called richard in to do something real minor...
Richard: Yes.
Kim: And 6 years later, richard's still here.
Mike: Oh you built this place.
Richard: Yes. Most of it, yes.
Kim: Yeah, all- most of the stuff down here, yes.
Mike: Wow. No kidding.
Richard: I'm helping kim sorting everything,
so I've got a lot of things to do,
I'm going to...
Robbie: Yeah.
Richard: ...Go ahead and get started.
Y'all can do what you're going to do.
Mike: Well hey, it was so nice to meet you,
man, appreciate you.
Richard: Very nice to meet you.
Good to meet you.
Mike: Yeah, awesome.
Kim: Bill passed away last year, and I'm just selling because the
house and the collection is just too much for me.
Kim: This house is too big for me,
and I don't need to move with a bunch of stuff
and have this anywhere else.
Mike: Oh so you're selling the house.
Kim: Yeah, I'm going to, yeah.
Robbie: Wow. Mike: Okay.
Kim: Yeah, I don't know when, but...
Mike: So you're downsizing to do that, okay.
Kim: Yeah. Definitely.
Kim: I'd love to find everything a good home.
We don't have any children to leave anything to.
I have 2 cats but they could care less.
Kim: There are a few reproduction
things in here, but...
Most of the stuff's...
Robbie: Yeah, I say that.
Mike: Yeah, I saw...
Was this has got a pinto engine?
Kim: Yeah. It's a 1929 model.
Robbie: Yeah. Mike: Yeah.
Kim: Yeah. I think it's a '74 and he's had it
since way before I got here.
Mike: This car is from the mind of harry shay.
He built a reproduction model a that was licensed by ford,
sold by ford dealerships.
Mike: Here robbie, look at that.
Pinto engine in there.
Mike: This was a 1974 pinto chassis,
engine, everything, boom drops a fiberglass
model a body on there.
So you've got the luxury of a modern car,
but driving something that looks old.
Mike: Wow, how fast will this cruise?
Kim: Oh I think a '74...
Mike: Have you guys had this on the highway?
Kim: Yeah, like 65 miles-per-hour.
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Mike: Really, and were like, how is that keeping up with us?
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: Oh you should see the looks.
Mike: This is the sleeper.
Kim: Yeah.
And he was 6'5", and he could climb into that thing to drive.
Mike: Really!
Kim: Yeah.
Robbie: He could still drive it with the top on it?
Kim: Yeah.
He would get in and- and like a snake to get inside there.
Mike: I'm going to see if I can climb in here.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: I'm 6-foot. Ugh!
Robbie: See, look at your head.
Mike: I know.
Kim: And he'd have to drive like this.
That's why we have these mirrors,
'cause he couldn't see with that little mirror...
Mike: [laughs]
robbie: Your head is on the wood.
Mike: Well I know, but my knees are...
Mike: Every once in a while, we'll come across one of these,
and if you don't know what you're looking at,
you know, you're like ooh that's cool that's a model a,
is that restored?
But then you, then you really get into and you're like,
no this is a shay model a.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: What about the air station,
is that something you'd sell?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Okay so basically...
This piece, the base has been marriaged to this.
This- this- this head...
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: ...Was- was put on this base.
It wasn't designed to go on the base.
Kim: Oh okay.
Robbie: Yeah.
Mike: So you can see how they've done that over here.
Mike: The fluted post was probably for a
light pole at a service station.
And then someone had ingeniously marriaged
these 2 pieces together.
They've welded a metal plate on the bottom of
the air box to join it to the pole.
Mike: This could be a wall mount or it could be on a base.
I mean, the nice thing is, is that this is fluted,
you know, so it- it has a good appearance to it.
But the head itself is really the value of it.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: Retail on this head is 1,200 bucks.
I'd be interested for...
Like 750.
You know, I think that- that the head is the benefit on it all.
Kim: How about 8?
Mike: Alright, I'll do it.
Kim: Alright.
Mike: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Kim: You're welcome.
Robbie: Hey, let me see that battery sign you
got back in there, mike.
Mike: Oh this?
Robbie: Yeah.
Robbie: This sidewalk sign is one of the earliest interstate
battery signs produced.
I've never seen one before, I've only seen photos of it.
Mike: I like- I like the little dude.
Robbie: It's got a great look.
It's got the little guy on it.
Robbie: "ibsa" - interstate battery systems of america.
They started in 1952 here in texas.
Robbie: Based out of dallas if I remember correctly.
Kim: I think so.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: I think it's dallas.
Funny story about that, bill had it out on the driveway one day,
and there's an interstate shop way down the road from us.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: And the owner saw it in the driveway,
stopped, came back and tried to buy it from
bill and bill said, "uh-uh."
robbie: No, I'm keeping that.
Kim: Bill didn't like to sell anything.
Yeah... Unless...
Mike: He never sold anything.
Kim: Nope.
Unless he had doubles.
Then he would trade or sell.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: And then he would keep the best of what he had.
Mike: Of course.
Kim: He knew how to wheel and deal.
Kim: Bill can talk the pants off of anybody.
Something that you know, you may never want to sell,
he'd talk you out of it.
He was so persuasive.
Robbie: It's probably about a $650 sign.
Kim: Okay.
Robbie: Retail-wise.
Kim: Um-hm.
Robbie: Uh...
I'd like to be into it for about 400.
Kim: How about 425?
I like the 25s.
Mike: [chuckles] robbie: You like 25s?
Kim: Yeah. Robbie: Oh.
Kim: So I'm going to add 25 to everything you
tell me if not more.
[group laughing]
robbie: I like that. That's- that's pretty good.
Kim: I don't know where the 25 number came from,
maybe bill sent it to me, who knows.
Robbie: 425.
Kim: Alright.
Robbie: Thank you.
Kim: You're welcome.
Robbie: Thank you.
Mike: Have- have you sold anything since bill passed?
Kim: No.
Kim: Some of the stuff hit me hard because it was...
[starts to cry] sorry.
There... For somebody who loses somebody,
you don't think of something and then you'll see something
and- and it'll just jar memories, you know.
It's just...
Kim: It's just hard, because he always wanted to keep things.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: And I just want to make sure that I'm going to sell it
to somebody who's going to appreciate it, and...
Robbie: ...Yeah. 100%.
Kim: ...You know, and take care of it,
and go to find somebody else...
Mike: Yeah.
Kim: ...I know you guys sell.
Mike: Well a lot of times, when there's big collections like
this, all of these things gets pushed back out into the hobby.
Remember how excited bill was about finding that or this.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: Yeah, yeah exactly.
Mike: Well, there's going to be hundreds of people...
Kim: Yes.
Mike: ...Now they're getting that excited
because he saved it.
Kim: Yes exactly. Yeah.
Mike: You know, and I- and I...
And I understand that.
I understand completely.
Mike: I feel like I need to just put my arms around kim with my
words and just remind her how excited bill was.
Kim: This is a good beginning to get me moving,
to get me motivated, to see that there is value in-
in these items, and that other people will want them.
It's like the dam, like I think like the dam broke so
now I can get the stuff another life.
Robbie: This was a curb sign, it's missing the base,
but it still has the frame which is even harder to find.
Kim: Um-hm.
Robbie: I'd want to be around 900.
Kim: Give me 1,000?
Robbie: Alright.
Mike: Ooh... See this, robbie?
Robbie: The battery.
Mike: Magic marxie.
Robbie: Look at the cars that are on it.
Mike: Oh it's marx- it's a marx toy battery.
Robbie: The graphics are mind-blowing.
That's what people want for their collections.
Robbie: 60 bucks.
Kim: I'll keep it for 60.
How about 100?
Robbie: I'll do the hundred.
Robbie: For any collector, this is going to be an
awesome piece to put up on a shelf.
Mike: The delco sign's basically mint,
other than one little whammy inside the "o".
I'd be interested in the delco for...
Like 7 and the coke button for a grand.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: So 17 for the pair.
Kim: How about...
11 for that.
Mike: I'll do 11 for that.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: And then I know you like the 25...
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: ...So 725.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: [laughs] alright.
Kim: [laughs]
mike: I can tell that she is enjoying the
process of the negotiation.
Robbie: Well I'm anxious to see what's
behind those doors over there.
Kim: Well good, I'm anxious to show you.
Robbie: Alright.
Mike: You'll have to keep up with me, robbie.
Oh my gosh!
Robbie: What!?
Robbie: ♪♪ aboard! What, wh
robbie: Well I'm anxious to see what's behind those
doors over there.
Kim: Well good, I'm anxious to show you.
Robbie: Alright.
Mike: You'll have to keep up with me, robbie.
Oh my gosh!
Robbie: What!
Mike: Wow!
Kim: Yeah the-
robbie: You have a train inside your house!
Kim: Yeah.
Doesn't everybody have a train?
Mike: [laughing] no way.
Mike: I thought the garage was wild,
but walking into this next room,
it takes it to the next level of...
Wow, this is crazy!
Mike: What do you fit in this?
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: I'm pretty sure bill was willy wonka, [laughing]
in a previous life.
Mike: Robbie's 6-foot.
Kim: Yeah it can hold 6 adults or 12 children.
Robbie: 6 adults.
Robbie: Listen, when somebody has a train in their house,
you definitely want to see where the tracks are going.
Mike & kim: [laughs]
robbie: What's up! Choo-choo!
I mean, look at this thing.
Kim: And pull- pull the cord.
Robbie: Pull this?
Kim: Yeah.
[bell rings]
mike: How, how does he get it to go, will it go?
Kim: Oh yeah.
Keep hands and feet and head in the door at all time...
Robbie: Okay.
Kim: ...Because if not you're going to get
your head knocked off on the shelf.
Mike: [laughs]
robbie: Okay... All aboard!
What, whoa!
[laughing & ringing bell]
whoa, whoa, whoa! What the heck!
Mike: [laughs]
robbie: Hands and feet in!
Robbie: This is like taking a ride through bill's mind.
Kim: Ha! Robbie was funny riding the train
and hitting the bell and he wore the hat.
Robbie: Coming into the station!
Mike: This is one of those moments that reminds me of
him as a little boy, man, and how he has not changed at all.
Robbie: How do you stop this thing?
Kim: You mean stop it here?
Robbie: Are you kidding me?
Mike: No, keep going.
Kim: Let it go? Okay.
Robbie: So do you say stop and it stops?
Mike: [laughs]
robbie: How do you get off this thing?
Mike: You getting dizzy? [laughs]
robbie: Hey, stop this thing!
Mike: This is awesome!
Robbie: Hello! Can you guys hear me?
Hey, you got to stop this thing!
Kim: Do you think I should let him out yet?
Mike: No, no, leave him... [laughing]
robbie: Hey! How do you get off?
Mike: Kim, what do you want for this?
Kim, how much is this?
Kim: [laughs]
robbie: You got to be kidding me.
Kim: I don't know how many times we sent poor robbie around.
Robbie: What are you guys doing?
Mike & kim: [laughing]
mike: I'm totally having a frankie flashback because
this is exactly the kind of stuff that I used to do to him.
Mike: Let me help you out here.
Now grab it.
Frank: I don't want to grab.
Mike: No grab it!
Frank: How do I look?
Mike: You look really good.
Frank: How do you open it up, I'm sweating in here!
Mike: Let me see if he can figure it out.
Contributor: [laughs]
mike: Seriously.
Frank: I'm not doing that!
Mike: You ready?
Frank: No!
Contributor2: ...For your back.
Mike: [laughing] frank: No, no!
Frank: I'm sweating... I'm dying here.
Contributor: Oh actually, you locked the door.
Frank: Alright, how's that?
Contributor: You locked, you locked yourself in.
Frank: I'm dying.
Robbie: Hey, stop this train!
Kim: Say please!
Robbie: Oh please! Oh is that the magic word?
Kim: Yes, please.
Robbie: Please stop.
Mike: [laughs] robbie: Alright.
Mike: Are you dizzy?
Robbie: No.
Mike: The fact that they didn't have any kids and he wanted to
create a room like this, speaks volumes to his heart.
Kim: Everything kind of fell into place.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Kim: You know, like these display areas up here...
Mike: Uh-huh.
Kim: They just thought one day, why don't we just
open it up for display.
Mike: I saw that.
Kim: Everything just kind of just...
Mike: I saw the clothing, yeah.
Kim: That was bill's hat when he did big tex,
a big 5-gallon hat.
Robbie: Big tex.
Mike: Okay I'm going to ask ya.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Because we're- you got to remember, we're from iowa.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: Who was big tex?
Kim: Big tex is the mascot of the state fair of texas.
I describe him as mickey mouse for texas.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: Anybody outside of texas like a northerner like
me had no idea what a big tex was.
In texas everybody knows big tex.
Mike: Dani said that he was the voice for him?
Kim: Yes, he did the voice, he did it every day,
10 to 7, every half-hour he spoke for about 2 minutes.
Mike: Like what would he say?
Kim: "howdy folks!
Welcome to the state fair of texas."
kim: He always looked up to tex and always wanted to be him,
and I never thought much about it because
I didn't know what it was.
And it was such a big deal, I had no idea.
Kim: Then he would give what was going on for the day...
Mike: Yeah.
Kim: ...And if there was like concerts and all that.
Mike: Oh that's cool.
Kim: And he always did it live.
They don't do it live now, it's recorded,
but he was so proud that it was always live.
Kim: The statue was 52-feet tall.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: And he burned down in 2000-and-... 12...
Mike: He burned down?
What was he made out of?
Kim: Most of it was just like chicken wire...
Mike: Okay.
Robbie: Okay.
Kim: Just think of that 52-feet high.
People see the statue, they always assume that
the person is inside the statue talking.
But he wasn't, he was in a building away from the fair,
from the statue.
Mike: Oh okay. Robbie: [laughs]
mike: I thought it was like a trojan horse thing or something.
Kim: Yeah, so when it was burning...
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: Bill didn't know it, so he was talking, and...
Robbie: He's talk-
robbie & mike: [laughing]
kim: In 2012, it was like first thing in the morning,
and somebody was pounding on the door,
and he thought maybe it was the lady from the corndog stand.
He finally heard, "big tex is on fire!"
he looked out and saw all these flames.
Bill would say, he was burning as I was talking,
he went down talking.
Mike: [laughs] kim: Yeah.
Mike: So was this guy from the state fair too then?
Kim: Yeah, that was for the 50th birthday of big tex,
of course the fair was much older than that.
Kim: Every night, they would have a parade
that would go through the fairgrounds.
And he was in the parade.
Mike: This guy was on a float.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: I never ar- well I would argue sometimes
when he would buy something.
No matter what I said or did, it was still coming into the house.
Mike: Would you sell this dude?
Kim: Yes. [laughs]
mike: How old is it?
Kim: 18 years old.
Mike: Okay, he's all chicken wire.
Mike: This is a piece of art, you know,
this is like a 12-foot piece of art with dickies on.
Kim: I think the base is heavier than it.
Mike: It's heavy, dude.
Mike: It's unusual, it's different,
and there's also a couple of different
heritage brands going on here.
You got dickies, been in texas forever.
Mike: These boots are, they've got weight in them.
Robbie: Huh.
Mike: It's cool.
Mike: And then you've got big tex,
which is obviously a heritage brand too.
Mike: I see how they put the pants on him,
look it they're velcro-ed right here.
Kim: Um-hm.
Yeah, that's how they did the big statue too,
the 52-foot statue.
Mike: He's so cool.
What are you thinking on him?
Have you had any offers?
Kim: I had a guy want to get him for like 5, $600.
Mike: Yeah?
Kim: And bill wouldn't sell him.
Mike: I love him, man, I think he's cool.
Mike: If you look at the genealogy of texas,
the family tree.
You've got, you know, roy orbison,
yosemite sam, deputy dawg, billy gibbons,
uh beavis and butthead, j.R. Ewing,
walker texas ranger, buford t. Justice,
leatherface, hank hill, the lone ranger,
pecos bill, jimmy neutron, and obviously big tex.
I mean, all of these guys, it's texas, baby!
Mike: $600.
Kim: 650.
Mike: Alright.
Robbie: Man, she's moving up.
She went from 25s, then she went to 50s.
Kim: I know.
Kim: I'm thinking, what am I going to do with this thing?
Who's going to want this?
Mike: I love it, absolutely love it.
Kim: Little did I know that mike wolfe would want it.
And he'd pay for it too! [laughs]
♪♪
mike: Can we go in this room and look?
Kim: Sure.
We have the window of the general store
up in the garage...
Mike: Okay.
Kim: And then we have the general store in the house.
Robbie: Holy cow!
Mike: This is incredible!
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: So he's got the post office...
Kim: Yes.
Mike: ...The general store...
Robbie: The diner.
Mike: ...The diner.
Kim: Diner.
Mike: Is this where you cook?
Kim: Not anymore, but I used to.
Mike: Oh.
Mike: The house and the collection really seemed to
reflect bill's personality, because there
are so many different layers to it.
Robbie: This is awesome.
Kim: In our house, which you can't tell from the outside,
we have a 1940s gas station, a train depot,
general store and post office, a 1950s diner,
a music room, um...
Is that all the rooms...?
Trying to think if there's anything else.
Kim: As each section of the house was done,
he'd end up spending tons of time in there,
sometimes I'd sit in there too, it's like a new experience...
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Kim: ...Every time you go around.
Mike: The objects, the people, the stories - these are the
things that fed his desire, but only for the moment.
And then he went on to the next thing and the next.
It was always a quest, it was always a discovery,
it was always being somewhere else.
That's the mind of a collector, welcome to it. [laughs]
kim: I know it probably might sound funny,
but all these different rooms could be
considered like his children.
You know, he's so proud of everything in each room.
Mike: So he was a romantic, because he was always
romanticizing about a different time period.
Kim: Yeah, exactly. Robbie: Yeah.
Mike: Some of it is the life that he led,
the others are the life that he imagined.
Kim: Bill's idol was thomas edison.
That's why he had so many little odds and
ends of edison things in here.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: Now we're starting to get back into the
catacombs of the collection.
Mike: Uh... Too bad.
Mike: The roots of why bill did what he did.
Kim: I mean, when it came to edison,
he didn't care if it worked or not.
He wanted to put them, yeah.
Mike: Yeah. He just wanted to own it.
I don't blame him.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: So this is a great piece.
This would have been like a general store display
or a feeler display.
And the base is really neat.
This is something that grabs your attention,
all the bulbs lit up, you can turn them on and off,
you know, a lot of them aren't working,
but still it doesn't distract from the graphic.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: Which is really the cool- which was designed
by maxfield parrish.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: Maxfield parrish was an american artist that
had a very distinctive style.
When you see his work, you know it's his.
His work was mass -produced and his most
famous painting was daybreak.
Mike: The colors are still vibrant,
the retail on that's around 700 bucks.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: Would you do 450?
Kim: 475.
Mike: I knew you were going to do that. [laughs]
thank you.
Kim: [laughs]
mike: Alright. I love it, I absolutely love it.
Mike: Look at these.
Kim: Edison standard phonograph.
Mike: Yeah.
Kim: This is 900.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: 1,100.
Mike: Okay.
Kim: And 850 retail.
Mike: This is early american radio and music history.
Mike: What do you know about these 2 right here?
Kim: Okay, this is a victor 3 and that's a victor 5.
Mike: With the blue horn.
Kim: Yes.
Kim: Sometimes you know, you don't realize you pick
up so much over the years.
Kim: Retail I know is about 1,250.
And that is... 1,650.
Kim: You don't think you know anything,
but then when somebody asks you, it's like,
I know that, I didn't realize like...
Back of your mind.
Mike: Do you know anything about this piece?
Kim: This is a model 206 maestrophone.
Mike: It's like the evolution of all of it,
and she wants to sell it.
Kim: The neat thing about this is,
it's a hot air fired motor.
Mike: Really!
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: To be honest with you, she's educating me.
Because she was with bill for so long,
and this was his passion, and she was paying attention.
Mike: And what's the value of something like that?
Kim: Uh, 12 to 15,000.
Mike: Really. Kim: Yeah.
Mike: So that was like his pride and joy,
that was like the one, right?
Kim: Oh yes, yes.
Mike: Can I touch it?
Kim: Sure, but don't breathe on it.
Mike: [laughs] alright, let's see.
Mike: This is where the rubber hits the road,
and all that knowledge becomes really relevant because
she knows prices as well, which is really smart.
Mike: Yeah, I can at least say I've touched one.
Kim: Yeah... Get it.
Mike: That's out of my price range.
This wall I think is more in my price range.
Kim: Alright.
Mike: I'm getting away from the super high-end stuff and
the victrolas, and moving over here to the off-brand models.
Mike: So since these aren't victrolas,
they don't bring as much money.
Something like this, to me, is 5 to 700.
Kim: Um-hm.
How about 375?
Mike: I was going to do 4.
Kim: Okay well I'll do 4, thank you.
Mike: [chuckles] alright.
Kim: Thank you.
Mike: Guess I hit you with 25.
Kim: Yeah, there you go.
Mike: Yeah.
Since they're going to be used for décor,
I want something that's bright, interesting looking.
Like this one here, here's another one.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: That's a standard model a.
400 bucks on that one too.
Kim: Sure.
Mike: This one's kind of got a good look to it.
The harmony.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: Listen to that.
Kim: That sounds like...
Mike: It's got parts floating around in it.
Kim: I don't know what the heck's in there.
Mike: Okay, how about 375 on that one?
Kim: Okay.
Mike: Okay.
Alright. Very cool.
Kim: See I didn't even add 25.
Mike: I know.
Mike: Every time I look at something,
every time I buy something, I'm reminded that
this is one man's life's work.
Mike: I've bought a lot of nippers,
but I've never bought one this size.
4-and-a-quarter.
Kim: Add 25 to it.
Mike: Okay.
Mike: This was his life's collection,
and the ripple effect that this is all going to have when
this is released to the hobby is a big thing.
Mike: The chair, what are you thinking on that?
Kim: Definite 400.
Mike: Alright, I'll do 400.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: I'll do it, I love it.
Mike: So much of this stuff is going to go out and feed other
collectors, younger collectors' passion.
Mike: I absolutely love these curtains.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: You know, they're incredible.
Kim: One of bill's wives put it out for a yard sale.
I thought, he thought he was going to have a heart attack.
Mike: One of them, how many wives did he have?
Kim: 3, I'm the fourth one.
Mike: Oh really.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Well you got the best of him, girl.
Kim: Yeah. [laughing]
yeah I stuck it out.
Mike: [laughs] yeah.
Man, that- how many of these you got?
Kim: Just these 2.
Mike: You got just these 2.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: Would you sell these?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Alright, I mean, I've never bought
any rca curtains, uh...
Kim: You don't see them very often.
Mike: Would these have been like in a listening
booth or something?
Kim: Yes.
They'd be on the wall.
Used to be they'd have the padding and eggshell kind
of things, that was in the '70s and '80s.
Before that, they had this.
Mike: Yeah.
Kim: Hang it up to catch all the sound.
Record stores, I don't even know if there are record stores
anymore, but you used to be able to test your records
out to see if you liked the music or not.
And you'd sit on the chair and it would all be like
in a room like this, all together.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: Imagine if these curtains could talk.
I mean, these were there for that intimate moment you had
with the artist, when you went into the booth to
listen to the record to see if you wanted to buy it.
This is what you were surrounded by.
These are very cool.
Mike: What would you feel comfortable selling them for?
Kim: I'd say uh...
250 each, maybe 500?
Mike: Yeah... Wouldn't do that.
Kim: Is that too much?
Mike: I just...
I mean, for me it is.
I have a store in nashville.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Music city.
Kim: Oh I know.
Mike: You know, so someone could utilize these...
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: ...And- and do something really cool with them.
Kim: Truthfully, I don't even- I don't even know...
Mike: 300 bucks.
Kim: 325.
Mike: [laughs] alright. Kim: [laughs]
mike: Alright, alright.
Mike: Being in nashville, the first place I think of for these
curtains is rca studio a or rca studio b on music row.
These are 2 very historic studios that these would
probably just...
Dovetail right into, man.
♪♪
mike: Ahh... Johnny roventini.
Kim: Oh yeah. Robbie: Johnny.
Mike: This is unusual. This guy in real life was 4-foot tall.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: Alright, he was discovered in a new york city hotel...
Kim: Right.
Mike: And it was always, call for philip morris...
Kim: Philip morris. Mike: ...Call for philip morris.
And he was the only living trademark.
Robbie: Correct.
Mike: I've never seen this piece.
Kim: Good.
Mike: It's really, really cool.
I mean, we bought a 10-foot tall johnny roventini...
Robbie: He's at least 10 foot tall.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: ...That waves like this.
Kim: Ah!
Frank: My arm's hurting now.
Mike: I think this thing's worth like 1,200 bucks.
I really do. Um...
700 bucks.
I love it.
I'm going to give him a good home.
I'll put him right next to my bed.
It's going to be the first thing I see
when I wake up in the morning,
last thing I see... When I go to bed at night.
Kim: [laughs] 750.
Mike: 750?
Kim: In case you're trying to cut me down
25 bucks since I've been higher than 25.
Mike: Okay 750?
725.
Kim: Okay.
Yeah we'll do 725.
Mike: Alright!
Mike: Sounds like bill is my kind of crazy.
I mean, he's lying awake at night figuring out different
things he can do in the house, handing new plans out
on napkins, you know, constantly just being
driven by your instant, immediate thoughts.
You know, it's like, there's- there's no um...
It's like...
It's like right now I'm trying to find the words
to like even like, like...
Describe myself, I can't...
[laughs] you know it's like...
I'm just driven by passion, fueled by you know,
just an abundant amount of energy.
And you're just so focused on your collection and- and how
that connects with your life and how you want to live with it,
and how it, you know...
Is um you know consistent throughout your thoughts.
It's maybe one of the only thing that's consistent throughout
your thoughts,
I'm... Rambling on, I'm probably...
[laughs] it's all like...
I can't even imagine bill and I talking, you know.
I just, all I know is, I feel like we're kindred spirits.
Robbie: Kim, this is a catalin radio I found up on the shelf.
Catalin was made in the early '30s into the '40s.
These things demand some pretty good money.
Robbie: Catalin radios were the top echelon
when it came to radios.
Robbie: A lot of them did not last because what happened is,
the tubes would actually heat up inside here...
Kim: Oh yeah.
Robbie: And then it cracked the catalin.
Kim: Okay.
It's like a maroon, isn't it, and then...?
Robbie: Well that's maroon and then butterscotch, I call it.
Kim: Okay.
Robbie: With a waterfall front grille.
Kim: Okay.
Robbie: I'd want to be around 750.
Kim: 775.
Robbie: [laughs] I'll do that.
Kim: Alright.
Robbie: Alright, thank you.
Mike: Oh nice! Did you ask about that?
That's the sparton.
Kim: Bill loved that one, yeah.
Mike: Let's see.
Kim: It's a sled, I think is the model.
Robbie: They called it a sled?
Kim: Yes.
'cause if you look, it has rungs like a sled
going up the front, it's wood.
Mike: Yeah.
Robbie: Yeah.
Mike: In the back of it.
Robbie: Yeah.
Kim: Bill absolutely loved it.
It was one of the most beautiful radios
you could get, still is.
Another one of his crown jewels of the collection.
Mike: This radio is made in like, '35...
Kim: Okay.
Mike: 1935.
Kim: It sounded wonderful 'cause I know when we had it,
he played it, and it's just...
Something so old it still sounded so pretty.
Kim: I believe it's called blue mirror.
Mike: Extremely, extremely sought after radio.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: In mint condition, this thing's like 6,500 bucks.
Kim: Wow.
Mike: I'm talking really nice...
Kim: Yes.
Mike: ...Like, you know, pull it out of the box.
Kim: Oh yeah.
Mike: But I mean this one's...
You know, you can see some wear in the,
the mirror of the radio itself.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: A lot of these radio companies in the 1930s were
hiring industrial designers to design their product.
They're so sought after that they reproduce them.
Take a look at it.
Robbie: Holy cow, that thing's heavy.
Mike: I know, isn't it?
I mean, it's made really well.
Kim: Yeah, you can see why this is...
Robbie: Wow...
Kim: Ah he loved that, that was another crown jewel.
Mike: I can't remember the guy's name that designed this radio,
but I know he did uh...
He also did a lot of work for um...
[snaps fingers] kodak!
Mike: This is my opinion, in this condition,
this thing's 3,000 bucks, okay?
In the condition it's in right now.
But um...
You know, if it's something you'd sell,
I'd pay...
I'd pay 2,400 for it.
Kim: You know, I kind of...
And I had this thought like...
I don't know 'cause bill really liked it.
And at wouldn't take, it- it wouldn't take up much room.
And then I saw how much mike really liked it.
Kim: 2,425.
Mike: I would do that.
Kim: Thank you.
Mike: You know, I know how- I know how special it was to him.
Kim: Yeah, oh yeah, it's going to make me tear up, yeah.
Mike: Okay, and it's very special,
it's very special to me too.
Kim: Yeah.
Kim: And I just loved these 2 radios.
Oh I got a tube radio in the other room,
it's called a scott.
It's under that cover, I don't know if you looked at it.
[piano starts to play]
you look at, you turn it
around, they're encased in...
Mike: Did you just do that?
Robbie: Did you start that?
Kim: Um-um. No.
Mike: Did you?
Robbie: I didn't touch anything!
Mike: Wow.
Kim: No. Maybe the...
It got tired of sitting, maybe. Here, no.
There we go. It's right there.
Kim: The dang piano started playing.
And everybody looked at each other like,
"who's playing the piano?"
kim: You know what this song is called?
"ghost in the house."
robbie: [laughs]
mike: Really. Kim: Swear to god.
Mike: That's what the name of that song is.
Kim: Yes, yep.
Look, "ghost in the house."
robbie: Says it right on there, "ghost in the house."
kim: Maybe it's bill.
Mike: Did you turn that on, robbie?
Robbie: I didn't touch it.
Mike: You- you stepped on that.
Kim: No, no that's just the lights.
Robbie: This doesn't touch anything.
Kim: That's just the lights.
Robbie: It's the lights.
Kim: Robbie's standing beside the piano and he said,
"I'm not touching it!"
and we all looked at each other like,
"holy heck, what's going on?"
it's like bill is saying, it's okay.
It was just perfect timing.
Mike: If I wasn't there and experienced it,
I would think it wasn't real.
Kim: I don't think he could have staged that.
I mean, it wasn't staged, I don't think anybody
could have staged that like that.
Mike: Okay wow.
Mike: I totally believe in energy.
It was a moment for me.
Kim: Ghost in the house, we're talking about one
of bill's prized objects.
Mike: I'd like to think that that was bill saying,
"you understand me. My passion,
you understand what this radio is.
Roll with it."
kim: I mean, it gave me goosebumps.
And it's doing it now, you know.
It's just... Wow. [laughs]
mike: There's a nice battery display down there,
robbie, did you see that one?
It's got a nice color.
Robbie: Never seen this one before.
Mike: Kim is like a lot of people that we meet.
She's overwhelmed.
Robbie: The front of this, kim, would have flipped up,
and inside would have been all the batteries.
Mike: I mean, this was someone else's life,
this was someone else's passion,
this was someone else's collection.
Mike: Here kim, hand him that.
Kim: Oh here.
Robbie: Oh does that go with it?
Oh look at that, yeah.
Mike: She was living in it, she was enjoying it.
Now that he's passed on,
she wants to move the collection forward.
Robbie: Kim, these 2 pieces together, 3-and-a-quarter.
Kim: 350.
Robbie: God, I added the quarter in there just for you, the 25...
Mike: [laughs]
kim: I know, but I figured you were being slick,
so I added to it.
Robbie: Oh.
Kim: [laughs]
robbie: I'll do it. Thank you.
Kim: I got to learn.
Kim: After he died, he died in- in June.
And in November I went out to california,
I was gone for a month, I drove out and came back home,
and I thought I needed a break.
So I thought it would help.
And then when I came home, it just kind of like,
all closed in on me.
I was kind of like, didn't want to deal with it.
And now the light is on and you know,
I'm just getting things moving.
Robbie: 10, 2, and 4 were time for dr. Pepper.
Probably one of the best dr. Pepper signs ever made.
Robbie: If you drink a dr. Pepper at 10,
one at 2, and one at 4, you'll have energy all day long.
That's what their slogan meant.
Robbie: Whistle flange, the dr. Pepper,
the grapette, the lemon-lime - $1,000 even on all 4.
Kim: You know I'm going to say 1,025.
Robbie: Then throw the bubble up in.
This one right here.
Kim: Sure.
Robbie: Ah thanks.
Mike: Kim cares enough about this collection to find the
right person for each piece, which is not going to be any
small task given the volume here.
Mike: What kind of damage that's done in the past?
Kim: I didn't feel guilty at all selling to mike and robbie,
'cause I know if they don't want the stuff their-selves,
they'll find somebody who will appreciate it,
and to take care of it, and enjoy it.
Mike: I'd do 100.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Alright, very cool.
Kim: So I don't have any seller's remorse at all.
Mike: He had a wide variety of interests.
This is a perfect example of the eye that bill had.
I mean, all collectors are focused or specialize in
something, and they do that really well.
But his eye, his mind was all over the place.
Robbie: Hey kim. Kim: Yes.
Robbie: Blue bell gasoline.
Kim: Yeah. I was afraid I threw it away,
I thought everything was thrown away.
[laughing]
mike: He had incredible instincts.
He was very good at focusing on buying the good stuff.
Meaning like, the good stuff is always going to be good.
Robbie: 675.
Kim: Haven't you learned?
Robbie: No because I can't figured out magic!
Kim: Mike's figured that out.
Robbie: So we're at 700.
Kim: Yes.
Robbie: Okay.
Mike: I mean, yes there's rooms
where there's volume, tons of it.
But there's way more quality than there is quantity.
Mike: Let me show you these amps I found earlier.
So these are mc-30s and
mc-40 mono blocks. Mcintosh.
These are really sought after.
I mean, if this was completely restored,
this would bring a couple of grand.
But we're talking about rechroming everything and going
through every single piece that's electronic.
He kept them back obviously, because he
understood the significance of them.
Kim: Right.
Kim: When bill put them up there,
he said, don't ever throw them away,
'cause they're valuable.
I don't know why he thought I was going to
throw his stuff away.
Mike: They're so beautiful, but they're just all so, so rough.
Kim: Yes.
Mike: You know I mean I know what it takes to go
through these and what guys charge for that.
I mean, it's not cheap, you know.
Kim: Um-hm.
Mike: All of these need to be restored to command the money.
On top of that, just to repair them, is $100-an-hour.
Mike: I'm at 500-a-piece on these and 3-a-piece on these.
Kim: Add $25.
Mike: Alright.
Kim: I get- I can't break my streak.
Mike: Alright.
Mike: Having a shop in music city has definitely
broadened my horizons.
Mike: Who's white suit is that?
Kim: That's bill mack.
Mike: It's made me pay more attention to wardrobe,
equipment, and instruments.
I have an outlet for this stuff now,
and I'm constantly learning.
Mike: And then you've got the red corduroy
bell bottoms suit there.
Hank thompson.
Kim: Yep.
And the jacket, yeah it was hank thompson.
Mike: Okay yeah, I know hank thompson.
Kim: Including the boots, oh and that's his hat too.
Mike: Do you remember where he got that?
Kim: From hank thompson.
Mike: Oh he- he knew him, he was a friend?
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: I'm a hank thompson fan.
"hangover heart," "six pack to go," "wild side of life,"
I love all those old tunes.
I mean, that's the stuff that's playing on the jukebox
when you walk into tootsies on broadway.
Mike: Is that something you'd sell?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Do you have a ladder?
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Alright...
Oh yeah there you go.
Robbie: Oh look at the inside of that. Woo!
Kim: Oh, look at the colors!
Robbie: [wolf whistles] kim: Is that sexy or what?
Mike: Yeah this thing is cool, man.
Mike: It's hank thompson's!
It's very cool.
The boots are there, the hat's there.
This is real deal.
Mike: What are you thinking on that?
Kim: I don't know.
Mike: I was going to say 250.
Kim: Sounds good to me.
Mike: Is that cool?
Kim: Yeah, 'cause I was thinking 100.
[laughs] seriously!
Mike: This will look great in music city.
Mike: Alright, robbie, thanks for holding this ladder, man.
Robbie: Yeah, appreciate ya.
Mike: [laughs]
robbie: When you fall, I'll catch ya.
I'll just grab ya.
Mike: How about the... The ronald mcdonald shoes?
Robbie: Mcdonald, oh those are cool.
Mike: Can I stand on this?
Kim: Yeah, should be alright.
Robbie: Is that a picture of bill right there,
with ronald mcdonald?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: Here, look at this.
Robbie: That's so cool.
"custom-made by willie's of hollywood."
mike: What's this here?
Kim: That was jimmy dean's briefcase.
That's a nudie.
Mike: A nudie?
Oh the guy that made the clothing?
Kim: Uh-huh.
Mike: He made this case?
Kim: Yes.
Mike: So he was friends with jimmy dean too, I take it?
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Nowadays when you say the name "jimmy dean",
what do you think of?
Sausage king.
But before that, he was a huge country star.
"big bad john," "cajun queen," "steelmen,"
those were all huge hits for jimmy dean.
Mike: There's some big deals made in this baby.
Kim: I know.
Robbie: Jimmy dean's case?
Mike: Yeah.
When jimmy dean walked in.
Mike: This briefcase was made by nudie.
Nudie was an american tailor that was the
designer to the country western stars.
Elvis presley, hank williams, porter wagner,
gene autry - everybody, man.
Bright colors, rhinestones, chain stitching, fringe.
Nudie basically married the western style
with that liberace flair.
Mike: I'd do... 60 bucks on the clown shoes,
and 75 on this, the briefcase.
Kim: 100.
Mike: I'll do it.
Kim: Alright.
Mike: Alright, you got it?
Robbie: I got it! Whoa, whoa! Ooh!
Kim: Woof.
Robbie: Got it, boots are coming off. I got it.
Mike: Sure you got it?
Robbie: I- I got it!
Mike: Okay, you got it. Robbie: I got it.
Mike: I kind of like that suit there.
Kim: Bill mack.
Mike: Look at that back of that, dude.
How much for this one?
The whole shooting match there.
125?
Kim: Yeah that's fine.
Mike: Alright.
I got to ask about this microphone.
Are you familiar with this?
Kim: Alright.
Mike: This is 1932, this is a super,
super, super, that's 3 supers...
Rare microphone.
Kim: Rare, yes.
Mike: [wolf whistles] you know, it's so simple it looks like
someone crammed a pill into a coffee can.
Kim: Yeah exactly.
Don't know if it works or not.
Mike: These mics from the 1930s are very iconic microphones.
Mike: The retail on this mic, think about it, 1932,
what comes to mind for me?
'32 ford roadster.
Robbie: '32 ford roadster.
Mike: '32 harley vl.
Robbie: Yeah.
Mike: And the biggie -
an iowa man was president - herbert hoover.
Kim: So you should offer a very good price.
Kim: Bill told me those microphones were valuable.
But I didn't know how valuable they were.
Mike: Retail if it works - 6 grand. 6,500.
Kim: $6,500.
I- I... I was shocked. You know I had no idea.
Mike: You know, there's not a lot of people that will
throw down that much for a mic.
Kim: Right. Robbie: Yeah.
Mike: But being in nashville, I feel like
I got a good chance of finding them.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: You've got the audiophiles,
the guys that still use them, that will rebuild them and
use them because they want a certain sound;
or using an old microphone inspires them.
Mike: Would you sell it?
Kim: For a good price.
Mike: What's a good price?
Kim: Um...
I'd say... At least 5,000, because that's something
I can easily pack up and sell out in california.
I plan on moving out there, hopefully.
Mike: Yeah.
Kim: But I'd say at least 5.
I know you need to make money too,
so I know how, you know...
Mike: The only thing that snags me up on it,
is if it works, you know, having it gone through and rebuilt,
to realize that kind of money you know.
Kim: Right.
Kim: Anything antique is a leap of faith.
He didn't know for sure if it was going to work,
and I didn't know it wasn't going to work.
Kim: Cue the jeopardy music.
[group laughing]
kim: Um...
Robbie: There's a bead of sweat, actually,
starting to form on your forehead.
Kim: Is there?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Robbie: [laughs]
mike: The level of rarity of this microphone is huge.
I mean, usually you see stuff like this in a book or a museum
or it's in the dark catacombs of a collection
and it's not for sale.
So when I see something like this,
I want to get on it, because it's such a
unique opportunity to be able to buy one.
Mike: Mike me feel like I got a good deal.
4,975.
Kim: Okay.
Mike: We're doing that? Kim: Yes.
Mike: Shake her hand, robbie.
Robbie: Alright.
Kim: Yeah.
Mike: Alright, man.
Mike: Kim wanted to make today about bill.
And today was about bill.
But to me, it was also about kim.
Mike: Hand it over, robbie.
Robbie: Yeah, there you go, bro.
Mike: She was his partner throughout the whole crazy ride.
His passions, his collecting, his remodeling,
she was there for all of it.
Mike: We did it!
Mike: Bill has passed her the ball,
but she is the one who is running it
across the finish line.
Mike: Thank you, honey.
Kim: Thank you.
Mike: Appreciate you.
Kim: Thank you so much.
Mike: Good luck with everything and the house.
And california!
Kim: Oh I know, I know.
Mike: Yeah.
Kim: Everything I sold today, I'm so happy,
and I say it from the bottom of my heart,
I am so happy that they're the ones that I sold it to
and they bought it and they wanted it.
'cause I know bill would be happy.
It's like letting him live longer or still live in some
place, if that makes sense.
I think he's probably smiling about it.
Robbie: Thank you. Kim: Thank you.
Mike: Alright.
Robbie: It's been a good day, it's been a good day.
Kim: You too.
Good, I'm glad, I'm glad you guys are going
to get homes for this stuff.
And you know, it's going to a good...
Mike: Yeah.
Robbie: It's going to a good home.
Mike: Come here...
Kim: Yeah. Mike & kim: [chuckles]
mike: Alright.
Kim: That was fun, it was fun the dickering back and forth.
Maybe I got the collecting bug
and I'll start collecting things.
Who knows. [laughs]
[honks horn]
mike: See ya out west!
Kim: Alright! Thank you.
Robbie: Pull this?
[bell ringing]
kim: Yeah.
Mike: How, how does he get it to go? Will it go?
Kim: Oh yeah. Mike: Yeah?
Kim: You want to get in too, mike?
Mike: No, I'm good, I'm good, no.
Kim: Alright.
Robbie: Are you kidding me?
Mike: [laughing hysterically]
mike: What do you know about
these 2, what can you tell me about these 2 pieces?
Kim: That-
mike: Okay, what the hell was that? Alright.
Kim & mike: [chuckles]
[bell ringing]
robbie: What's up! Watch your feet!
Mike: [laughs]
robbie: [laughing]