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MIKE: Hey, you want
one of these things?

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ROBBIE: What do you got,
your finger in your mouth?

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MIKE: No, I got this.

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ROBBIE: What
the hell's that?

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MIKE: It's one of those, you
know, what do they call it,

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the flossing thing.

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ROBBIE: I don't need
that damn thing, man.

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MIKE: Oral health is connected
to your overall health.

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ROBBIE: Dude, I
brush my teeth.

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MIKE: I know, but if
you don't floss...

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ROBBIE: Yeah?

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MIKE: Then how are you going
to take care of your gums?

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ROBBIE: Dude, if you press hard
enough, and you're bleeding,

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you know they're clean.

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MIKE: You're a yuck mouth.

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ROBBIE: I'm not
a yuck mouth.

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MIKE: If you don't
do the flossing,

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you don't scrape your tongue,
then you're a yuck mouth.

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ROBBIE: Tongue...

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MIKE: Scrape your tongue.

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ROBBIE: ...scraper.

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MIKE: Scrape your tongue.

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ROBBIE: I don't think I
need to scrape my tongue.

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My gums are fine.

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MIKE: Yeah, you're always
flapping your gums.

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ROBBIE: Yeah, I know.

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MIKE: Well, start thinking
about taking care of them.

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ROBBIE: Alright.

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♪ ♪ ♪

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[phone ringing]

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ROBBIE: Dani
D, what's up?

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DANIELLE: Good morning, guys,
how are you doing today?

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ROBBIE: I don't know,

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I'm getting a third
grade education here.

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MIKE: Do
you floss?

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DANIELLE:
Do I floss? Of course.

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MIKE: Okay, so
end of story.

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DANIELLE:
[chuckles]

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MIKE: What's going on?
What do you got?

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ROBBIE: Agh.

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DANIELLE: Okay,
I got you a lead.

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I'm going to send
you to meet Rick.

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So Rick is a transplant
from California.

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But he moved back
to Wisconsin after

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his Uncle Butch
passed away.

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Rick and his Uncle
Butch were super close,

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and Butch was a big collector
- petroliana, gas pumps,

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vintage signs -
he's got the works.

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MIKE: So is he
a collector too?

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DANIELLE: So I've been
talking to his girlfriend,

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and apparently, the longer that
man stays, the more he loves it.

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MIKE: So he is interested
in selling, maybe.

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DANIELLE: Oh I mean,
he's selling as long as

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he doesn't love it
more than you do.

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Mike: [laughs]
I get you. Alright, girl.

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ROBBIE: Alright.

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MIKE: Thank
you so much.

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ROBBIE: Send us
the coordinates.

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DANIELLE: It's on its
way. Hey Robbie?

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ROBBIE: What?

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DANIELLE: Just remember,
don't be a yuck mouth.

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ROBBIE: You guys
are friggin' crazy.

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MIKE: Haha!

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ROBBIE:
Whatever.

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MIKE: This is
it right here.

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ROBBIE: I think
it's right here.

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MIKE: I got it.

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ROBBIE: Yeah
right here.

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MIKE: I'm looking,
I know, I know.

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ROBBIE: Yeah I
got it, yeah.

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MIKE: I know,
settle down.

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I know they said petroliana,
so you're freaking.

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ROBIE: I'm not
freaking out.

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I'm calm, cool
and collective.

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MIKE: Yeah... hey,
how're you doing?

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FELICE: Hello.

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MIKE: You Felice?

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FELICE: Yes.

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MIKE: Hey, I'm Mike.

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FELICE: Nice
to meet you.

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ROBBIE: How're
you doing?

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MIKE: That's my
brother, Robbie.

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FELICE:
Hi Robbie.

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ROBBIE: How
are you?

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MIKE: Give her the flyer.

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ROBBIE: Good
to meet you.

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FELICE: Hi. Well, you
came to the right place.

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MIKE: I know, well.

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ROBBIE: Yeah?

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MIKE: Yeah, Dani
said you called.

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FELICE: You may not
know, but there's a lot

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of stuff hidden in these
barns, this place.

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MIKE: [chuckles]

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ROBBIE: Yeah.

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MIKE: So you guys moved
here from California?

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FELICE: Yes.

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MIKE: How long
have you been here?

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FELICE: He passed
away 2 years ago.

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MIKE: So you've
been here 2 years?

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FELICE: Yep.

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MIKE: Well looks like
all the barns got new

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roofs on them
and stuff.

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FELICE: Yeah.

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ROBBIE: Yeah.

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FELICE: The
Amish did that.

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MIKE: Nice. Which way
are we going?

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FELICE: We're going
to sneak away,

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we're going to
go over here.

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Here, there he is,
he's out here, mowing.

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ROBBIE: He's got a good
tractor to mow with.

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MIKE: I love the fact that Rick
has embraced his new lifestyle.

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A guy coming from
California, into Wisconsin,

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he's got a brand
new John Deere,

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and he's already
working the land.

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FELICE: Hi.

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MIKE: Hey-hey!

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My name is Mike, this
is my brother, Robbie.

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ROBBIE: How're
you doing?

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MIKE: You guys
called Dani.

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RICK: Nice to
meet you guys.

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ROBBIE: How're you doing?
Nice to meet you.

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MIKE: Nice
to meet you.

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RICK: Yeah.

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MIKE: Yeah.

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So she was just telling me
you hadn't experienced

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a Wisconsin
winter yet.

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Felice: [laughs]

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RICK: No,
we haven't.

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MIKE: No.

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RICK: We've been out
here a couple of years,

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we've been going back
home to California.

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FELICE: We
sneak away.

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MIKE: Oh you sneak
back, okay I gotcha.

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ROBBIE: Ah yeah...

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FELICE: Yeah,
we sneak away.

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MIKE: This is like
Green Acres, man.

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RICK: Yeah,
I love it.

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RICK: Butch
was my uncle.

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He was a hard working guy,
just a, you know, regular guy.

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He painted cars, and
this is his farm.

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He passed away
last year.

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And I ended up coming
out to help the family.

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MIKE: So you guys are
just up kind of...

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maintaining
everything.

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FELICE:
Yeah, yeah.

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RICK: Yeah, we working into
how we could possibly put up

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a house, a new
house out here.

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MIKE: Okay.

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FELICE: Yeah.

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RICK: And that's
what he wanted to do.

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RICK: We knew for sure he
wanted to put up a house,

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keep the property in
the family's hands,

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and build something out here
and let the future generatins

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have a place to
come and visit.

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FELICE: There's
almost 10 acres,

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so you've got
lots of space.

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MIKE: No kidding, so he
talked to you about that?

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RICK: Yeah, and I
also house hunted.

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MIKE: I think it's great
that they want to honor

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his uncle's dream to build
a house on the property.

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When you inherit a
collector's space,

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you also inherit
their projects,

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things that they
were working on.

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If you really want to
get to know the person,

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then you try to finish
these things for them.

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MIKE: This is awesome, man,
what a beautiful place.

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FELICE: Well, have
fun... in there.

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MIKE: Alright, come
check on us later.

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FELICE: Take
a pie, maybe.

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MIKE: Alright.
ROBBIE: Take a pie.

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FELICE: Yeah.
ROBBIE: Thank you.

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FELICE: Right.
MIKE: Okay.

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RICK: Sure.
ROBBIE: Alright.

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FELICE: Okay. [laughs]
MIKE: Thanks, man.

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RICK: Butch was
intensely private.

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So I didnt know how much stuff
he had accumulated till I came

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out here a couple of years
ago, and I was like, whoa!

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RICK: This is Butch's shop
when I was a little guy.

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He'd have me come
out here with him,

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he worked out here
all the times.

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RICK: He left a cloud of
mystery around himself

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that created
an intrigue.

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Even with the
people in town here.

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There's a lot of people
that just don't know

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exactly what he had.

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RICK: And even had a
peephole on this door.

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I guess if he didn't want-

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Mike: [laughs]

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ROBBIE: Oh right there?

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RICK: -to let you know
he was in there, yeah.

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MIKE: Did he really?

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RICK: He- he'd lock it
and then peephole it.

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RICK: He wasn't
insane, by any means.

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I thought he was
cool as hell.

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ROBBIE: Wow.

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MIKE: Nice.

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RICK: My great-uncle
bought this place

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for Butch in
his early 20s,

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because he had gotten in a
little trouble in Fond du Lac.

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RICK: My great-uncle
didn't like that so much.

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So he put him out here just to-
to give him a little something

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to do and just keep him out
of trouble, basically I think.

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[laughs]

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RICK: He was working
on this Cushman here.

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MIKE: Yeah.

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RICK: And I think it's
one of the last things

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he was getting
ready to do...

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MIKE: He was
wrenching on.

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RICK: ...'cause I found
all the Cushman books.

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MIKE & ROBBIE: Yeah.

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RICK: By his chair inside.

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RICK: Butch started out as
an auto body man very early.

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He trained a little bit at a
local dealership here in

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Fond du Lac, got some
experience, and then once

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he got the farm out here,
he just transferred what

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he learned and he started
doing it for himself.

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RICK: When I was younger,
that- there used to be 2 cars

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in here at a time, that
he was either in the

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process of sanding and
masked up, or...

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and then he would
paint cars right here.

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MIKE: Oh he did
everything in here.

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ROBBIE: Yeah.
RICK: Yes.

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ROBBIE: All
the body work.

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MIKE: He was pulling
engines in here, everything.

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ROBBIE: Yeah.
RICK: Everything.

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ROBBIE: Wow.
MIKE: Wow.

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RICK: There was, he was
making money, you know.

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MIKE: Oh.

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RICK: 'Cause he
was self-employed.

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RICK: Butch, when I was young,
was always out in the shop.

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You hardly ever caught him at
home, it was only to sleep.

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Had a little bit of
a Type A personality.

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So I think he very much
just kept himself going,

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all of the time.

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MIKE: So when did
he stop doing that?

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RICK: When his
body, I don't think,

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physically could
do it anymore,

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which would have been
about his mid-60s.

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He died at 75.

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And that's...

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MIKE: Okay.

243
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ROBBIE: So the last...
10 years of his life.

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RICK: That's when he- then he
went, you know, onto the pumps.

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RICK: My uncle, after he put
down working on cars so much,

246
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was going to
restore the pumps.

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MIKE: This is a great pump.
This is a Fry.

248
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This is called
a Mae West.

249
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MIKE: When you're
a car collector,

250
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you don't just
collect cars.

251
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You collect anything
related to cars,

252
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whether it's a gas pump,
an old sign, an oil can.

253
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It goes on
and on and on.

254
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MIKE: This is the original
glass, and it's a 5-gallon,

255
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not a 10-gallon, which
is more desirable.

256
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MIKE: He could look
around at any point

257
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in time in the
room and go,

258
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there's my gas
pump, you know,

259
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there's my
Cushman scooter.

260
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These were all things that he
was going to get to some day.

261
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MIKE: Yeah,
you can see...

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how it was stored, you can see
some original paint on the top.

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RICK: Uh-huh.

264
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MIKE: And then,
and then it's,

265
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and then it doesn't have any
paint on the bottom.

266
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MIKE: Now we're looking at
them the same way,

267
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with a passionate eye
and with the same idea.

268
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MIKE: When we walked
in here, I saw 3 pumps.

269
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You got the 2 clock face there,
actually 3 clock face there.

270
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And then you've
got this Fry.

271
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You know, let's look at
those 2 and see kind of...

272
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RICK: Let me see
what's over here.

273
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ROBBIE: This is
an 850 right here.

274
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RICK: That's
the Tokheim 850.

275
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ROBBIE: Yep, that's
the Tokheim 850.

276
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RICK: Is this
after-market?

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ROBBIE: Yep.

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RICK: Yeah.

279
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ROBBIE: Yeah.

280
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MIKE: Yeah.

281
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ROBBIE: If
that was real?

282
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MIKE: Oh man.

283
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ROBBIE: Yeah.

284
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RICK: 20 grand
or something?

285
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MIKE: Crazy.

286
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ROBBIE: These...

287
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yeah, I've only seen
a few of those sell.

288
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MIKE: This looks real.

289
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ROBBIE: Yeah, but those
don't even bring any,

290
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I mean it's not...

291
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MIKE: No I know,
that's a...

292
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that's about a what,
a $400 globe?

293
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ROBBIE: Yeah.

294
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RICK: A guy said, he-
I think a guy said

295
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he would give me 25
for that, actually.

296
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MIKE: Yeah, that's what
I was thinking, was 25.

297
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RICK: Yeah.

298
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MIKE: And then I
was thinking...

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you know like uh...

300
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RICK: Mae West, what
does she mean to you?

301
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MIKE: Like 20-
28 for that one.

302
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So that would
be what, 53?

303
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RICK: 40, 53, yeah.

304
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MIKE: 5,300.

305
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RICK: Why
don't we do it?

306
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MIKE: You
want to do it?

307
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RICK: That seems
like a lot to me.

308
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MIKE: Let's do it.

309
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RICK: I just didn't see that
we needed that many here.

310
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MIKE: I know my brother's going
to ask about that Case sign.

311
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ROBBIE: Yeah.

312
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RICK: Yeah?

313
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ROBBIE: You know,
we're from Iowa,

314
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so we're down in that
area, that region.

315
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ROBBIE: We live in an area
that is farm driven.

316
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We had John Deere, we
had J. I. Case,

317
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and we had
International Harvester.

318
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All the Big 3 were
right in our town.

319
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So when you find advertising
pieces like this,

320
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you've got to
bring them home.

321
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ROBBIE: Yeah, look at
the bottom of that thing.

322
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Yeah, it's not in
the greatest shape.

323
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But it's got the eagle
on it, it's embossed.

324
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ROBBIE: Case advertising was
all about the eagle.

325
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The eagle sitting
on the world.

326
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What's it got?

327
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It's got everything.

328
00:08:07,888 --> 00:08:08,753
ROBBIE: This looks,
it's about a 1952,

329
00:08:08,956 --> 00:08:10,354
should have '52
marked down in there.

330
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RICK: It does.

331
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ROBBIE: Yeah.

332
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RICK: G-52.

333
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ROBBIE: Yeah. 425.

334
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That's leaving a
little meat left on it.

335
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That work?

336
00:08:19,433 --> 00:08:21,299
MIKE: What's- what's the
retail number on it, Robbie?

337
00:08:21,501 --> 00:08:22,968
ROBBIE: Maybe 6.

338
00:08:23,036 --> 00:08:28,372
MIKE: How about this
one? Like 175. 2 bills?

339
00:08:28,441 --> 00:08:28,907
Alright, 200.

340
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Very cool.
I love it.

341
00:08:31,979 --> 00:08:32,777
RICK: I don't know if you
guys have ever seen

342
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a hoist like that,
but... jacked up...

343
00:08:34,380 --> 00:08:35,180
MIKE: No.

344
00:08:35,382 --> 00:08:36,181
ROBBIE: I've never
seen a hoist like that.

345
00:08:36,249 --> 00:08:36,915
RICK: Yeah, it's got
an air tank on it.

346
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I don't know, he
let it down with...

347
00:08:38,585 --> 00:08:39,651
ROBBIE: Big
air tank.

348
00:08:39,719 --> 00:08:40,918
RICK: And he
let it down...

349
00:08:40,987 --> 00:08:42,988
MIKE: Oh my, look at
this! It's sitting on it.

350
00:08:43,323 --> 00:08:44,990
Ugh!

351
00:08:46,593 --> 00:08:47,525
MIKE: Is
that real?

352
00:08:47,594 --> 00:08:48,059
Where's the
plug at?

353
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ROBBIE:
Right there.

354
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MIKE:
Right here.

355
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ROBBIE:
Here, Mike.

356
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ROBBIE: In the advertising
world, Ford is king.

357
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So this is a neon clock
with Ford advertising in it.

358
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I mean, if this thing said
Chevy or Dodge on it...

359
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ROBBIE: Alright.

360
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RICK: Zap.

361
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ROBBIE: I wouldn't even be
getting excited about it.

362
00:09:00,807 --> 00:09:01,740
MIKE: Oh there
it is. Look at that.

363
00:09:01,942 --> 00:09:03,341
ROBBIE: Is the second...
oh it is moving.

364
00:09:03,543 --> 00:09:04,276
MIKE: Shheewww...

365
00:09:04,478 --> 00:09:05,276
ROBBIE: Wow.

366
00:09:05,345 --> 00:09:06,544
MIKE: Wow.

367
00:09:06,613 --> 00:09:10,147
RICK: Some guys refaced these
and have done work to them,

368
00:09:10,216 --> 00:09:12,984
but I don't think anything's
ever been done to this one.

369
00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:14,619
ROBBIE: It looks real.

370
00:09:14,688 --> 00:09:15,153
MIKE: I don't
know, Robbie.

371
00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:16,354
It might
have been.

372
00:09:16,422 --> 00:09:20,225
Look at that, that screw's
painted, that screw's not.

373
00:09:20,293 --> 00:09:22,294
And then if you look at, look
at, look at see the paint on it.

374
00:09:22,496 --> 00:09:23,428
I don't know.

375
00:09:23,497 --> 00:09:24,896
ROBBIE: It's faded.

376
00:09:24,964 --> 00:09:26,298
You can see the fade,
fade in the paint.

377
00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:27,298
See right there.

378
00:09:27,367 --> 00:09:28,299
MIKE: Yeah.

379
00:09:28,368 --> 00:09:29,300
ROBBIE: It's fading
out. See right there?

380
00:09:29,369 --> 00:09:30,302
See that?

381
00:09:30,504 --> 00:09:32,103
RICK: Usually when I do it,
what I was going to say,

382
00:09:32,171 --> 00:09:33,972
they put a new, they have
this replacement glass too.

383
00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,974
MIKE: Yeah, that's the
original glass for sure.

384
00:09:36,042 --> 00:09:37,775
See right here, but
that one's- both, yeah.

385
00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:38,709
ROBBIE: That- those,
both of those,

386
00:09:38,778 --> 00:09:40,177
and then this
one and this one.

387
00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:41,446
MIKE: Here, let's look at the
back of it, here unplug it.

388
00:09:41,515 --> 00:09:42,714
ROBBIE: Unplug that.

389
00:09:42,916 --> 00:09:43,848
RICK: It's got-
it's got symmetry,

390
00:09:43,916 --> 00:09:44,983
they did white on the
sides, for some reason.

391
00:09:45,185 --> 00:09:48,519
ROBBIE: It's got the freakin'
tag on it right there.

392
00:09:48,722 --> 00:09:51,723
Knot Neon Products
out of Ohio.

393
00:09:51,791 --> 00:09:55,059
The neon is
original for sure.

394
00:09:55,128 --> 00:09:57,595
MIKE: You know, it's obviously
an original neon clock.

395
00:09:57,664 --> 00:09:58,863
There's no
disputing that.

396
00:09:59,066 --> 00:10:00,599
What we're just talking
about is that face.

397
00:10:00,801 --> 00:10:02,601
MIKE: The face
is really clean.

398
00:10:02,803 --> 00:10:03,868
And the hands
are super clean.

399
00:10:03,936 --> 00:10:06,203
MIKE: It's so clean
and it's so crisp,

400
00:10:06,272 --> 00:10:07,806
which wouldn't be unusual if
this thing really never hung in

401
00:10:08,008 --> 00:10:10,875
the sunlight or maybe
never hung at all,

402
00:10:11,078 --> 00:10:11,676
it could have been in a
box in a dealership

403
00:10:11,745 --> 00:10:13,344
and they just
never put it up.

404
00:10:13,413 --> 00:10:14,545
Who knows?

405
00:10:14,615 --> 00:10:17,348
MIKE: God, I mean it's got,
this is a very expensive clock.

406
00:10:17,417 --> 00:10:18,282
RICK: I know.

407
00:10:18,352 --> 00:10:19,350
MIKE: Yeah.

408
00:10:19,419 --> 00:10:20,218
RICK: He had... just so
for point of reference,

409
00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:22,354
he had this with that
clock in the box.

410
00:10:23,090 --> 00:10:26,424
RICK: I had researched
just recently finding out

411
00:10:26,493 --> 00:10:27,625
the rarity of that.

412
00:10:27,694 --> 00:10:29,694
There's- there's really not
very many of them out there.

413
00:10:29,896 --> 00:10:31,296
MIKE: Isn't that
Auction Action News?

414
00:10:31,498 --> 00:10:32,096
ROBBIE: Yeah.

415
00:10:32,165 --> 00:10:32,564
MIKE: That's a
Wisconsin paper.

416
00:10:32,632 --> 00:10:33,498
ROBBIE: Right.

417
00:10:33,566 --> 00:10:34,298
RICK: Yeah, so he...

418
00:10:34,368 --> 00:10:35,166
MIKE: Yeah right
there, what's it say?

419
00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:37,635
ROBBIE: Yeah. It says...
this is Matthews,

420
00:10:37,704 --> 00:10:38,569
that's yeah,
I know Dan.

421
00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:39,970
That's Matthews
Auctions.

422
00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:41,972
And this was probably, he
doesn't own this auction

423
00:10:42,042 --> 00:10:44,508
company anymore, this was
probably 10 years ago.

424
00:10:44,577 --> 00:10:45,843
RICK: He would have...

425
00:10:45,912 --> 00:10:46,978
MIKE: I wonder if he
bought this there.

426
00:10:47,046 --> 00:10:49,914
ROBBIE: Well it says the
thing sold for $6,490.

427
00:10:49,983 --> 00:10:51,850
'Ford Sales and Service
octagon neon clock,

428
00:10:52,052 --> 00:10:56,588
rated 9 out of 10
with original cord, 6,490.'

429
00:10:56,656 --> 00:10:57,655
The cord
looks original.

430
00:10:57,724 --> 00:10:58,789
Would he...
would he have...

431
00:10:58,858 --> 00:11:01,726
he have bought
something at an auction?

432
00:11:01,795 --> 00:11:04,129
RICK: Yeah. I
don't know that...

433
00:11:04,331 --> 00:11:05,863
MIKE: Is that the same, do you
think it's the same one, Robbie?

434
00:11:05,932 --> 00:11:07,732
ROBBIE: Yeah it's... it's
exactly the same.

435
00:11:07,801 --> 00:11:09,133
I mean, looking
at the wording.

436
00:11:09,202 --> 00:11:10,402
MIKE: You can't tell if it's
the one from the auction though.

437
00:11:10,604 --> 00:11:12,136
ROBBIE:
No. No.

438
00:11:12,205 --> 00:11:15,206
MIKE: When we first started
doing this 35, 40 years ago,

439
00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:17,876
to look at a clock like this,
you wouldn't even question it.

440
00:11:18,078 --> 00:11:19,744
Not that there weren't
reproductions back then,

441
00:11:19,813 --> 00:11:22,080
but not nearly
what there is now.

442
00:11:22,148 --> 00:11:25,817
The hobby is over-run with
reproduction advertising.

443
00:11:25,886 --> 00:11:29,020
And guys are like,
getting brand new signs,

444
00:11:29,088 --> 00:11:31,889
burying them in the
ground, chipping the edges.

445
00:11:31,958 --> 00:11:32,757
I mean, they're getting
really good at it.

446
00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,826
MIKE: I don't know, Robbie,
would you- on a scale of

447
00:11:35,028 --> 00:11:35,994
1 to 10, do you think
this thing is real?

448
00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:39,164
The face here,
touch it.

449
00:11:39,232 --> 00:11:40,999
I mean, what would you feel
comfortable selling it for?

450
00:11:44,036 --> 00:11:45,303
RICK: Well, the range is
3 to 6, we kind of know.

451
00:11:45,372 --> 00:11:46,837
And then...

452
00:11:46,906 --> 00:11:47,972
MIKE: I know, it's
all over the place.

453
00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:48,707
RICK: Will you do 4 on
it, and I'd be happy.

454
00:11:48,909 --> 00:11:50,975
MIKE: He had a
reference point from

455
00:11:51,178 --> 00:11:52,643
an old auction of like, what
it- what- what a clock

456
00:11:52,713 --> 00:11:54,645
like this brought
at auction.

457
00:11:54,715 --> 00:11:56,014
RICK: I- it's
a good piece.

458
00:12:02,789 --> 00:12:04,989
MIKE: That's if
the face is real.

459
00:12:13,066 --> 00:12:15,266
RICK: Well, the range is
3 to 6, we kind of know.

460
00:12:15,468 --> 00:12:16,267
And then...

461
00:12:16,335 --> 00:12:17,201
MIKE: I know, it's
all over the place.

462
00:12:17,270 --> 00:12:18,536
RICK: Will you do 4 on
it, and I'd be happy.

463
00:12:18,604 --> 00:12:19,337
I- it's a good piece.

464
00:12:19,406 --> 00:12:20,805
I think it should
leave you some room.

465
00:12:20,874 --> 00:12:22,873
MIKE: And you think
it's real, Robbie?

466
00:12:22,942 --> 00:12:25,943
It's- it's Robbie's,
it's Robbie's baby.

467
00:12:26,012 --> 00:12:27,945
MIKE: What we're thinking
about here is like,

468
00:12:28,014 --> 00:12:30,014
hey did someone take this
clock apart and put

469
00:12:30,083 --> 00:12:32,984
this face on this clock and
put it back together.

470
00:12:33,686 --> 00:12:34,986
MIKE: Is the
face real?

471
00:12:38,625 --> 00:12:39,624
ROBBIE: I'm
saying yes.

472
00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:40,759
MIKE: Robbie and I are
going back and forth.

473
00:12:40,961 --> 00:12:42,827
I want to be able to say
that he was the

474
00:12:42,896 --> 00:12:46,030
one who made the decision
that it was real.

475
00:12:46,098 --> 00:12:48,633
Not me, you know, [laughs] I
think it's real too,

476
00:12:48,835 --> 00:12:51,369
but... he's the
deciding factor.

477
00:12:52,104 --> 00:12:53,171
MIKE: Alright, he said-
Rob Wolfe's saying yes.

478
00:12:53,373 --> 00:12:55,373
ROBBIE: I'm saying yes, because
I'm looking at the screws,

479
00:12:55,442 --> 00:12:56,908
and the screws...

480
00:12:57,110 --> 00:12:58,309
they never, they never
put primer on the screws.

481
00:12:58,378 --> 00:12:59,310
MIKE: Yeah.

482
00:12:59,512 --> 00:13:00,578
ROBBIE: So that was the
area that lost most...

483
00:13:00,646 --> 00:13:01,379
MIKE: Alright, 4 grand?

484
00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:02,379
RICK: I think you'll
be alright on it.

485
00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:03,314
MIKE: Alright.

486
00:13:03,516 --> 00:13:04,916
RICK: I know it.

487
00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:06,117
RICK: That's got to be
reasonable for a clock.

488
00:13:06,319 --> 00:13:07,919
MIKE: That's the most expensive
clock I've ever bought.

489
00:13:07,988 --> 00:13:09,387
RICK: You know, we got to
get back to basics here.

490
00:13:09,455 --> 00:13:10,188
It's a clock.

491
00:13:10,257 --> 00:13:11,656
[laughs]

492
00:13:11,725 --> 00:13:12,724
RICK: You got to
check this out.

493
00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:15,126
He put a bunch
of stuff up here.

494
00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:19,664
And I'm not sure quite how,
quite sure he got it up here.

495
00:13:19,733 --> 00:13:20,931
But you got to
check this out.

496
00:13:21,268 --> 00:13:22,333
MIKE: What do you mean, he's
got stuff bigger than this-

497
00:13:22,402 --> 00:13:23,267
this hole is?

498
00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:25,003
RICK: Yes.

499
00:13:25,071 --> 00:13:26,003
RICK: You know, nobody
could ever figure out how

500
00:13:26,072 --> 00:13:28,873
the heck or why you'd want
to go through a hole

501
00:13:28,941 --> 00:13:32,010
to get to all that
stuff. But you know,

502
00:13:32,212 --> 00:13:34,478
he just made it a lot more
difficult to get up there.

503
00:13:34,881 --> 00:13:35,680
MIKE: You getting
the ladder, Robbie?

504
00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:36,347
ROBBIE: I got
the ladder.

505
00:13:36,416 --> 00:13:37,415
MIKE: Alright...

506
00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:38,349
Rick: [laughs]

507
00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:39,350
MIKE: Wow...

508
00:13:39,752 --> 00:13:40,618
ROBBIE: Wow, you
weren't kidding.

509
00:13:40,687 --> 00:13:42,153
He did have some
stuff up here.

510
00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:44,689
RICK: It's a beautiful space,
you know, once you're up there.

511
00:13:44,891 --> 00:13:45,890
MIKE: I've never
seen a set of these.

512
00:13:45,959 --> 00:13:47,892
That doesn't mean that
others don't exist,

513
00:13:47,961 --> 00:13:52,162
but this is the front
piece to an andiron.

514
00:13:52,232 --> 00:13:53,898
Okay, so there would have been
arms that came off the back

515
00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,302
here, and that's what the
logs would have been on.

516
00:13:57,370 --> 00:13:58,369
Nautical.

517
00:13:58,437 --> 00:14:00,305
Imagine the house that these
would have been in.

518
00:14:00,507 --> 00:14:01,973
Stone fireplace.

519
00:14:02,042 --> 00:14:03,507
ROBBIE: Oh it had to be
a big fireplace too, man.

520
00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:04,842
MIKE: I know, yeah...

521
00:14:04,911 --> 00:14:05,910
ROBBIE: That thing's,
those are cool.

522
00:14:05,979 --> 00:14:07,244
MIKE: Glass of rye
whiskey and you just...

523
00:14:07,313 --> 00:14:09,046
wooh!

524
00:14:09,115 --> 00:14:10,849
MIKE: For just a brief second,
we were all having that-

525
00:14:11,051 --> 00:14:12,717
that same moment, man,
with the rye whiskey

526
00:14:12,919 --> 00:14:14,786
and the sitting in
front of the fire.

527
00:14:14,854 --> 00:14:16,855
MIKE: Dreaming
about the open sea.

528
00:14:17,057 --> 00:14:17,789
MIKE: All of us imagining
together where these

529
00:14:17,991 --> 00:14:19,590
would have been, and
what that fireplace

530
00:14:19,659 --> 00:14:21,459
would have
looked like.

531
00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:23,661
These are just part of
what they used to be,

532
00:14:23,730 --> 00:14:25,530
but they're
still incredible.

533
00:14:25,732 --> 00:14:27,198
They're very
decorative.

534
00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,266
MIKE: 2- 200.

535
00:14:28,335 --> 00:14:29,267
RICK: 200.

536
00:14:29,469 --> 00:14:30,401
MIKE: Yeah.

537
00:14:30,469 --> 00:14:31,269
Because they, I mean,
they're just missing...

538
00:14:31,471 --> 00:14:32,469
RICK: Okay.

539
00:14:32,538 --> 00:14:33,338
MIKE: ...everything else.
But the money shot's there.

540
00:14:33,406 --> 00:14:34,338
RICK: You're arguing
with yourself.

541
00:14:34,407 --> 00:14:35,406
MIKE: Shake his hand,
shake his hand, Robbie.

542
00:14:35,475 --> 00:14:36,007
RICK: You're...

543
00:14:36,075 --> 00:14:36,341
MIKE: My hands are full.

544
00:14:36,543 --> 00:14:37,007
ROBBIE: Yeah.

545
00:14:37,076 --> 00:14:37,475
Mike: [laughs] Alright.

546
00:14:37,543 --> 00:14:38,742
ROBBIE: Alright.

547
00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:40,011
MIKE: Let's see
what else we got.

548
00:14:40,614 --> 00:14:41,746
The ultimate garbage can.

549
00:14:41,814 --> 00:14:42,346
RICK: Sea bag, is
that what it is?

550
00:14:42,415 --> 00:14:43,481
MIKE: Yeah.

551
00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:44,615
MIKE: Once you get upstairs
into this attic space,

552
00:14:44,684 --> 00:14:47,218
[laughing] it's crazy, man!

553
00:14:47,286 --> 00:14:50,622
The amount of effort it took him
to get all of these things up.

554
00:14:50,824 --> 00:14:53,290
And some of them
are pretty large.

555
00:14:53,826 --> 00:14:54,692
And you're looking
at them like,

556
00:14:54,761 --> 00:14:56,995
did that really fit
through that little hole.

557
00:14:57,630 --> 00:14:58,363
ROBBIE: Look at that.

558
00:14:58,565 --> 00:14:59,764
MIKE: I could see this
in- in your house,

559
00:14:59,832 --> 00:15:01,632
Robbie, with some
pumpkins on it.

560
00:15:01,701 --> 00:15:03,301
A 'live laugh
love' pillow.

561
00:15:03,503 --> 00:15:04,568
Robbie: [laughs]

562
00:15:04,638 --> 00:15:05,770
MIKE: It's
almost like...

563
00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:06,704
he wanted to put
the stuff in here,

564
00:15:06,773 --> 00:15:09,007
not to be tempted
to get rid of it.

565
00:15:09,442 --> 00:15:10,908
ROBBIE: 175.

566
00:15:10,977 --> 00:15:12,376
RICK: I was going to
say 2, so we're there.

567
00:15:12,445 --> 00:15:13,978
ROBBIE: Alright.

568
00:15:14,047 --> 00:15:14,913
MIKE: You know, and then
you- you walk into this

569
00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:17,382
room and it's pretty much
like 90% petroliana.

570
00:15:17,450 --> 00:15:19,116
MIKE: Whoa!

571
00:15:19,185 --> 00:15:21,452
MIKE: This is some of his best
stuff that I've seen so far.

572
00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:23,054
RICK: That has the box.

573
00:15:23,256 --> 00:15:25,723
ROBBIE: Is the- what's the
box say on it, any advertise-

574
00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:26,790
RICK: It would have
been the gas...

575
00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:27,591
ROBBIE: Yeah, see
Skelly Oil Company.

576
00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:28,326
MIKE: Skelly
Oil Company.

577
00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:28,793
ROBBIE: Yeah.

578
00:15:28,995 --> 00:15:30,061
MIKE: Right there.

579
00:15:30,129 --> 00:15:31,729
MIKE: Skelly is one of those
large American brands

580
00:15:31,798 --> 00:15:32,997
that grew to be
a household name.

581
00:15:33,066 --> 00:15:36,067
This is a brand that's been
around since the 'teens.

582
00:15:36,135 --> 00:15:38,602
When you look at this globe,
it's never been mounted,

583
00:15:38,672 --> 00:15:41,539
it's always been
in this box.

584
00:15:41,607 --> 00:15:43,207
That's incredible to me.

585
00:15:43,276 --> 00:15:44,275
RICK: So is that new-old stock,
is that what you call that?

586
00:15:44,477 --> 00:15:45,676
MIKE: Yeah.

587
00:15:45,745 --> 00:15:46,677
ROBBIE: I'd call
it new-old stock.

588
00:15:46,746 --> 00:15:47,344
MIKE: It's dead
stock, yeah.

589
00:15:47,413 --> 00:15:48,412
RICK: Yeah.

590
00:15:48,481 --> 00:15:48,813
MIKE: The only thing that
hurts it a little bit is,

591
00:15:49,015 --> 00:15:50,081
that it's Skelly.

592
00:15:50,149 --> 00:15:51,682
They're a large company,
they made a lot of product,

593
00:15:51,751 --> 00:15:53,350
so they made a
lot of globes.

594
00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:55,420
MIKE: $1,000.

595
00:15:55,488 --> 00:15:56,988
RICK: I'll do 12.

596
00:15:57,424 --> 00:15:58,356
MIKE: 11.

597
00:15:58,425 --> 00:15:59,357
RICK:
Okay.

598
00:15:59,559 --> 00:15:59,957
ROBBIE:
Alright.

599
00:16:00,026 --> 00:16:00,625
MIKE: We'll
do 11?

600
00:16:00,693 --> 00:16:02,159
Okay. Thank
you, man.

601
00:16:02,228 --> 00:16:04,629
ROBBIE: Any type of globe in
today's market is a commodity.

602
00:16:04,697 --> 00:16:05,696
ROBBIE: So
Zephyr Gasoline?

603
00:16:05,765 --> 00:16:07,765
ROBBIE: Basically
you're investing.

604
00:16:07,834 --> 00:16:08,699
You're hoping that
5 years from now,

605
00:16:08,768 --> 00:16:10,901
it doubles and
triples in money.

606
00:16:10,971 --> 00:16:13,504
ROBBIE: Got a milk glass
body on it, real lenses,

607
00:16:13,573 --> 00:16:15,172
15-and-a-half inches.

608
00:16:15,241 --> 00:16:17,041
ROBBIE: That's what's going on
across the industry right now.

609
00:16:17,110 --> 00:16:20,310
ROBBIE: There's no damage
on the- on the body itself.

610
00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:21,078
900 bucks.

611
00:16:22,382 --> 00:16:23,714
ROBBIE: Butch amassed a pretty
good collection of globes here,

612
00:16:23,783 --> 00:16:24,915
but none of them
are big money.

613
00:16:24,985 --> 00:16:27,918
This is a pretty plain
-jane globe in itself,

614
00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:30,388
but it is red-white-and-
blue - America, baby.

615
00:16:30,457 --> 00:16:31,255
ROBBIE: That work?

616
00:16:31,458 --> 00:16:32,590
RICK: Yeah.

617
00:16:32,792 --> 00:16:33,457
ROBBIE: Alright,
appreciate it.

618
00:16:33,526 --> 00:16:34,324
RICK: I was going
to tell you 1,000,

619
00:16:34,394 --> 00:16:35,059
I didn't feel like
messing with you.

620
00:16:35,128 --> 00:16:35,860
ROBBIE: [laughs]
I got to ask...

621
00:16:35,928 --> 00:16:36,927
RICK: You give
me that look.

622
00:16:36,997 --> 00:16:38,328
ROBBIE: Rick, I got to
ask about the rocker can.

623
00:16:38,398 --> 00:16:40,131
RICK: Okay.

624
00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:41,332
ROBBIE: This is an NOS- I call
it an NOS rocker can, okay.

625
00:16:41,401 --> 00:16:42,133
RICK: Really.

626
00:16:42,202 --> 00:16:42,733
ROBBIE: New-old
stock, because...

627
00:16:42,802 --> 00:16:43,935
RICK: It's that good?

628
00:16:44,137 --> 00:16:45,669
ROBBIE: ...it doesn't
look, well it doesn't look

629
00:16:45,738 --> 00:16:46,738
like it's ever
had oil in it.

630
00:16:46,940 --> 00:16:47,405
ROBBIE: Typically
you find these cans,

631
00:16:47,607 --> 00:16:48,272
they're all beat up.

632
00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,340
Oil has been dripped
all over them.

633
00:16:49,408 --> 00:16:52,009
This can looks like it's
never even been used.

634
00:16:52,078 --> 00:16:54,344
ROBBIE: This was basically
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

635
00:16:54,414 --> 00:16:55,013
RICK: Yeah.

636
00:16:55,215 --> 00:16:56,947
ROBBIE: Connor
Oil Corporation.

637
00:16:57,017 --> 00:16:59,283
RICK: O'Connor, that's
still, that's still here.

638
00:16:59,486 --> 00:16:59,684
ROBBIE: Okay.

639
00:16:59,886 --> 00:17:00,952
RICK: Yeah.

640
00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:01,819
ROBBIE: So that was an
independent company that

641
00:17:01,888 --> 00:17:03,821
basically used this
oil in their cans.

642
00:17:03,890 --> 00:17:05,489
ROBBIE: One thing
about gas and oil is,

643
00:17:05,558 --> 00:17:07,091
in the collector field,

644
00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,027
it's about the independent
companies that were out there.

645
00:17:09,229 --> 00:17:12,029
There was hundreds of them
all over the United States.

646
00:17:12,098 --> 00:17:16,100
Small mom-and-pop outfits,
2 gas stations they had.

647
00:17:16,169 --> 00:17:18,902
ROBBIE: It's got the lid,
even still has the cork in it.

648
00:17:18,971 --> 00:17:19,970
RICK: Cork, yeah that
looked pretty good.

649
00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:22,506
ROBBIE: Condition on this
one's incredible though.

650
00:17:22,575 --> 00:17:24,108
RICK: Cuz it's local.

651
00:17:24,177 --> 00:17:25,709
If I ever want to sell it,
I think I could get 8 or 9.

652
00:17:25,778 --> 00:17:27,578
So if you're not
in that area...

653
00:17:27,780 --> 00:17:29,981
I probably
wouldn't sell it.

654
00:17:30,183 --> 00:17:31,049
ROBBIE: When you find a can
like this, that was an

655
00:17:31,251 --> 00:17:34,651
independent oil company,
and it's in perfect shape,

656
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:35,653
you have to
try and buy it.

657
00:17:35,722 --> 00:17:37,321
ROBBIE: I was
going to say 700.

658
00:17:37,524 --> 00:17:37,788
RICK: You were?

659
00:17:37,857 --> 00:17:38,655
ROBBIE: Yeah.

660
00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:39,323
RICK: Could
you do 8 on it?

661
00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:40,258
ROBBIE: 750.

662
00:17:40,460 --> 00:17:41,392
RICK: Okay.

663
00:17:41,460 --> 00:17:42,260
ROBBIE: Do it?

664
00:17:42,462 --> 00:17:42,860
RICK: Yeah.

665
00:17:42,928 --> 00:17:43,327
ROBBIE: That work?

666
00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:44,328
RICK: Yeah.

667
00:17:44,396 --> 00:17:44,996
ROBBIE: Alright, thank
man, appreciate it.

668
00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:47,999
MIKE: That's pretty cool.

669
00:17:49,536 --> 00:17:50,801
ROBBIE: Sea Wolf.

670
00:17:50,870 --> 00:17:51,669
MIKE: Oh there you
go, you need that.

671
00:17:51,738 --> 00:17:52,336
ROBBIE: Check
that out, dude.

672
00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:53,404
RICK: There's-

673
00:17:53,472 --> 00:17:54,205
MIKE: Robbie.

674
00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:55,339
ROBBIE: It's like
new-old stock, Mike.

675
00:17:55,542 --> 00:17:57,741
RICK: A high-end toy for kids
at Christmas in the '50s,

676
00:17:57,810 --> 00:17:58,876
or what was the
deal with this?

677
00:17:58,945 --> 00:17:59,410
ROBBIE: Yeah, it's-
it's battery-operated.

678
00:17:59,478 --> 00:18:00,878
RICK: Oh okay.

679
00:18:00,946 --> 00:18:01,345
And then you could
put it in the water?

680
00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:01,812
ROBBIE: Yep.

681
00:18:01,881 --> 00:18:02,946
RICK: Got the box.

682
00:18:03,015 --> 00:18:04,749
ROBBIE: That's one thing
that I love about it,

683
00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:06,283
is 'cause it does
have the box.

684
00:18:06,352 --> 00:18:08,286
100 bucks.

685
00:18:08,488 --> 00:18:10,020
It's in the box.

686
00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,755
RICK: I'm not going to
shake 'cause you'll drop it.

687
00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:13,758
ROBBIE: I- I won't
drop it. Alright.

688
00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:14,758
RICK: I thought it
was high, actually.

689
00:18:14,828 --> 00:18:16,694
I didn't even know
what it was worth.

690
00:18:16,896 --> 00:18:18,162
MIKE: What do you
think on this, RJ?

691
00:18:18,364 --> 00:18:19,430
Ugh...

692
00:18:19,499 --> 00:18:20,431
ROBBIE: It's in good shape,
it's got the original hangers

693
00:18:20,633 --> 00:18:21,566
on it, watch those legs.

694
00:18:21,634 --> 00:18:22,567
RICK: Was
that Texaco?

695
00:18:22,769 --> 00:18:23,501
ROBBIE: No,
Mobil Pegasus.

696
00:18:23,703 --> 00:18:24,701
RICK: Mobil, that's right.

697
00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,637
ROBBIE: Yeah. The
Pegasus horse.

698
00:18:26,706 --> 00:18:28,038
That got touch
-up on it, Mike?

699
00:18:28,107 --> 00:18:29,907
MIKE: Yeah, it looks like...
doesn't it, right there?

700
00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:30,774
ROBBIE: That's what I was
thinking, right there.

701
00:18:30,844 --> 00:18:32,777
A high retail on
that's like 3 grand.

702
00:18:32,845 --> 00:18:35,913
MIKE: How about
uh... 22 on it?

703
00:18:36,249 --> 00:18:37,047
RICK: I- I was feeling good
about the prices up there.

704
00:18:37,117 --> 00:18:40,384
You know, this porcelain
stuff for collectors

705
00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:41,452
is off the charts.

706
00:18:41,521 --> 00:18:42,986
RICK: I guess 22's fine.

707
00:18:43,055 --> 00:18:44,522
MIKE: Well, there's a
little bit of damage here.

708
00:18:44,590 --> 00:18:46,057
RICK: Yeah, I can see.

709
00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:47,658
MIKE: I mean, the guys at the
end of the rainbow want...

710
00:18:47,727 --> 00:18:48,458
RICK: 3 grand,
I heard him say.

711
00:18:48,528 --> 00:18:49,326
MIKE: This- this...

712
00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:50,061
ROBBIE: Yeah.

713
00:18:50,263 --> 00:18:51,262
MIKE: ...I'd be
at 22 on this.

714
00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:52,797
RICK: Okay.

715
00:18:52,865 --> 00:18:53,531
MIKE: What about
the Iso-Vis, Robbie?

716
00:18:53,733 --> 00:18:55,733
MIKE: Petroliana
is so hot.

717
00:18:55,802 --> 00:18:57,802
All of this stuff
is being swept up.

718
00:18:58,004 --> 00:19:01,472
MIKE: For this, and
the Pegasus - 2,800.

719
00:19:01,541 --> 00:19:02,339
RICK: Yeah, let's do it.

720
00:19:02,408 --> 00:19:03,474
MIKE: Okay, alright,
appreciate it.

721
00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:05,676
I know Robbie's bird-dogging
you on that Red Crown.

722
00:19:05,878 --> 00:19:06,944
ROBBIE: If I
remember correctly,

723
00:19:07,012 --> 00:19:08,345
there's 5 different
versions of this sign.

724
00:19:08,414 --> 00:19:10,014
RICK: Um-hm.

725
00:19:10,082 --> 00:19:10,681
ROBBIE: The plus is, it's
got a thermometer in it.

726
00:19:10,750 --> 00:19:12,416
Somebody redid
the frame on it.

727
00:19:12,484 --> 00:19:13,684
Not a big deal.

728
00:19:13,886 --> 00:19:15,153
I mean, it looks
good. I would do...

729
00:19:15,355 --> 00:19:17,421
1,600.

730
00:19:17,624 --> 00:19:19,022
RICK: That seems fair.

731
00:19:19,091 --> 00:19:21,024
RICK: I have a feeling that
the guys that collect

732
00:19:21,093 --> 00:19:22,994
porcelain are used to seeing
these kind of numbers.

733
00:19:32,505 --> 00:19:34,371
MIKE: Alright, here's
the Coke section.

734
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:35,239
ROBBIE: Yeah.

735
00:19:35,308 --> 00:19:35,973
RICK: Well, there's
some pieces of it.

736
00:19:36,042 --> 00:19:36,774
MIKE: Oh yeah,
I see that.

737
00:19:36,976 --> 00:19:38,375
Oh he does have a
lot of stuff. So...

738
00:19:38,444 --> 00:19:40,110
ROBBIE: Ah he...

739
00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:41,645
MIKE: Wow. Check out the clock
face, Robbie, over there.

740
00:19:41,714 --> 00:19:43,314
And he's got the
Coke machine.

741
00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:44,448
What about this?

742
00:19:44,516 --> 00:19:46,317
This is Model 33.

743
00:19:46,385 --> 00:19:47,785
The vendo.

744
00:19:47,854 --> 00:19:50,254
Let's see... can we
open it up here...

745
00:19:50,723 --> 00:19:52,857
ah see, the
barrel's missing.

746
00:19:52,925 --> 00:19:56,661
How about... the
machine and the cooler,

747
00:19:56,863 --> 00:19:57,995
I'd do the both of
them for 750.

748
00:19:58,598 --> 00:19:59,596
RICK:
That's fine.

749
00:19:59,665 --> 00:20:00,798
MIKE: Okay.
Thanks, man.

750
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:01,932
RICK: I'll do it. I was
going to say 8...

751
00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:03,333
MIKE: You'll get me on
something else, I'm sure.

752
00:20:03,402 --> 00:20:03,801
RICK: Yeah.

753
00:20:03,869 --> 00:20:05,402
Mike: [laughs]

754
00:20:05,471 --> 00:20:06,404
RICK: That's fine.

755
00:20:06,606 --> 00:20:07,070
MIKE: So he was collecting
a lot of stuff other

756
00:20:07,139 --> 00:20:07,605
than just
petroliana.

757
00:20:07,807 --> 00:20:09,006
Robbie, look
at these.

758
00:20:09,074 --> 00:20:11,142
ROBBIE: Did this property
have a windmill on it?

759
00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:12,276
RICK: Well if they did, it
would have been for feeding.

760
00:20:12,345 --> 00:20:14,478
Didn't they use that to
bring water up to the cattle?

761
00:20:14,547 --> 00:20:15,880
ROBBIE: Right, right.

762
00:20:16,082 --> 00:20:18,282
So you've got the head
to the windmill there.

763
00:20:18,484 --> 00:20:19,417
RICK: Uh-huh.

764
00:20:19,485 --> 00:20:22,086
ROBBIE: These are the
blades. There's your 3.

765
00:20:22,154 --> 00:20:23,887
And actually, he's got some
extra blades down here.

766
00:20:23,956 --> 00:20:26,556
So here's the piece to
the tail right here.

767
00:20:26,626 --> 00:20:28,292
All the pieces
are here.

768
00:20:28,494 --> 00:20:29,226
That's even...

769
00:20:29,295 --> 00:20:30,227
MIKE: It- it was
probably on the property

770
00:20:30,296 --> 00:20:32,696
and he took down what
he could to save it.

771
00:20:32,765 --> 00:20:33,964
ROBBIE: We're from
the Midwest.

772
00:20:34,033 --> 00:20:36,968
There are plenty of windmill
still up in the air.

773
00:20:37,170 --> 00:20:37,968
And typically when you find
them and the guy wants

774
00:20:38,037 --> 00:20:40,771
to sell them, you got to
take the thing down.

775
00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:42,706
This one's already
on the ground,

776
00:20:42,775 --> 00:20:44,008
all the work's
been done for me.

777
00:20:46,045 --> 00:20:47,110
RICK: Just missing the
tower, like you said.

778
00:20:47,179 --> 00:20:49,580
ROBBIE: A lot of these had
better advertising on them.

779
00:20:49,649 --> 00:20:50,981
Where's Atwater,
Wisconsin?

780
00:20:51,050 --> 00:20:53,317
RICK: There's an Atwater
Race Track, it's not far.

781
00:20:53,386 --> 00:20:54,918
ROBBIE: Okay.

782
00:20:54,988 --> 00:20:57,054
ROBBIE: People love the
windmill for decoration.

783
00:20:57,123 --> 00:20:59,724
You want the one that's
straight, that's not beat up,

784
00:20:59,792 --> 00:21:00,924
that's got good
patina to it.

785
00:21:00,994 --> 00:21:03,861
ROBBIE: A complete
windmill, about 2,500 bucks,

786
00:21:03,930 --> 00:21:06,263
that's what it's going
to bring, complete.

787
00:21:06,332 --> 00:21:07,331
2,000.

788
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:07,865
MIKE: That's something that
needs to be re- totally

789
00:21:07,933 --> 00:21:08,598
re-conditioned.

790
00:21:08,668 --> 00:21:09,533
ROBBIE: Re
-done. Yeah, so.

791
00:21:09,736 --> 00:21:10,534
RICK: Right,
understood.

792
00:21:10,603 --> 00:21:11,335
And this would have to be
put back together,

793
00:21:11,404 --> 00:21:12,202
and there's...
there's labor too.

794
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:13,070
ROBBIE: Right, and
re-conditioned if

795
00:21:13,138 --> 00:21:14,205
I- ifI find a tower to
put it up on.

796
00:21:14,407 --> 00:21:16,874
RICK: I saw the fans, I guess,
and maybe I saw part of it,

797
00:21:17,076 --> 00:21:18,142
but I never really put it
together and Robbie

798
00:21:18,210 --> 00:21:22,413
instantly knew what it was
and what it would sell for.

799
00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:23,547
ROBBIE: So um...

800
00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:24,982
I'd want to be at 750 on it.

801
00:21:26,085 --> 00:21:27,285
RICK: I think I'm going
to take it, that's fine.

802
00:21:27,487 --> 00:21:28,285
ROBBIE: Alright.

803
00:21:28,354 --> 00:21:28,819
RICK: Yeah.

804
00:21:28,888 --> 00:21:29,486
MIKE: Alright, yeah.

805
00:21:29,555 --> 00:21:30,821
RICK: I don't know who...

806
00:21:30,890 --> 00:21:31,956
I'd like to see it
get put back together.

807
00:21:32,158 --> 00:21:33,691
RICK: I imagine somebody
had put that back together,

808
00:21:33,893 --> 00:21:35,826
that really gives
me a good feeling.

809
00:21:35,895 --> 00:21:37,494
MIKE: Look at the
size of that gig, man.

810
00:21:37,563 --> 00:21:38,628
RICK: He
speared uh...

811
00:21:38,698 --> 00:21:39,763
MIKE: Look at
that thing!

812
00:21:39,832 --> 00:21:40,965
ROBBIE: What the heck would
you be spearing with that?

813
00:21:41,033 --> 00:21:41,565
RICK: He speared carp
or whatever they are.

814
00:21:41,634 --> 00:21:42,366
MIKE: This is a metal rod.

815
00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:43,834
ROBBIE: Carp?

816
00:21:43,903 --> 00:21:44,435
MIKE: Okay, he speared
carp with this.

817
00:21:44,504 --> 00:21:45,969
RICK: Off a bridge.

818
00:21:46,038 --> 00:21:46,237
MIKE: I was going to say,
this ain't a frog gig.

819
00:21:46,439 --> 00:21:46,771
RICK: No.

820
00:21:46,973 --> 00:21:47,905
ROBBIE: He threw it.

821
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:48,773
RICK: When he grew
up, he lived on the...

822
00:21:48,975 --> 00:21:50,975
a little stream over
at the other farm.

823
00:21:51,043 --> 00:21:51,842
MIKE: Oh he was on the
bridge throwing this?

824
00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:52,710
RICK: So, so he was
always on the bridge,

825
00:21:52,778 --> 00:21:55,112
and he would get
a lot of fish.

826
00:21:55,181 --> 00:21:57,048
MIKE: Growing up along the
mighty Mississippi River as a

827
00:21:57,250 --> 00:22:00,184
kid, you hear tons of fishing
lore stories, you know.

828
00:22:00,252 --> 00:22:03,186
Fish in the river that are,
like as large as a Volkswagen

829
00:22:03,255 --> 00:22:06,991
and 6, 7, 800 pounds, swimming
around through the Big Muddy.

830
00:22:07,059 --> 00:22:08,793
MIKE: You know, so this
gig is what you would

831
00:22:08,995 --> 00:22:11,595
need if you ran into
something like that.

832
00:22:11,998 --> 00:22:13,330
MIKE: That thing's got
some weight to it, man.

833
00:22:13,399 --> 00:22:14,198
RICK: Yeah.

834
00:22:14,267 --> 00:22:14,931
And you-

835
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:15,599
MIKE: Would
you sell this?

836
00:22:15,668 --> 00:22:16,400
RICK: Yeah,
I'd sell it.

837
00:22:16,469 --> 00:22:17,534
MIKE: 50 bucks.

838
00:22:17,603 --> 00:22:18,469
RICK: Would
you do 75?

839
00:22:18,538 --> 00:22:20,270
MIKE: Absolutely not.

840
00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:21,405
RICK: No?

841
00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:22,339
Mike: [laughs]

842
00:22:22,408 --> 00:22:23,340
RICK: Alright.

843
00:22:23,409 --> 00:22:23,740
MIKE: I'll tell you
what, I'd do 60 bucks.

844
00:22:23,809 --> 00:22:24,275
RICK: Okay.

845
00:22:24,477 --> 00:22:25,742
$60 is fine.

846
00:22:25,811 --> 00:22:26,944
MIKE: Alright,
cool. Thanks, man.

847
00:22:27,146 --> 00:22:28,078
RICK: I was just testing
you to see if you would...

848
00:22:28,147 --> 00:22:28,812
ROBBIE: That's the biggest
one I've ever seen.

849
00:22:28,881 --> 00:22:30,014
MIKE: I know,
it's a bruiser.

850
00:22:30,216 --> 00:22:31,615
ROBBIE: I mean, these things
are built like a harpoon,

851
00:22:31,684 --> 00:22:33,417
was he gigging
Moby Dick?

852
00:22:33,486 --> 00:22:34,285
MIKE: Hey
Robbie.

853
00:22:34,487 --> 00:22:35,219
ROBBIE: Yeah.

854
00:22:35,421 --> 00:22:35,953
MIKE: Help me pull
this out, help me pull

855
00:22:36,022 --> 00:22:36,687
this table out
right here.

856
00:22:36,955 --> 00:22:40,291
Move this, pull
this back... pull...

857
00:22:40,493 --> 00:22:40,758
ROBBIE: Ohh...

858
00:22:40,827 --> 00:22:41,358
MIKE: ...that...

859
00:22:41,427 --> 00:22:42,159
ROBBIE: ...yeah.

860
00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:43,561
MIKE: Alright, 1, 2,
3. Pull it out.

861
00:22:43,629 --> 00:22:44,495
ROBBIE:
Right there.

862
00:22:44,563 --> 00:22:45,029
MIKE: You
got it?

863
00:22:45,097 --> 00:22:45,495
ROBBIE:
I got it.

864
00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:46,297
MIKE:
You sure?

865
00:22:46,499 --> 00:22:47,097
ROBBIE: Yeah.

866
00:22:47,166 --> 00:22:48,833
MIKE: Alright,
look at that.

867
00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:50,768
That's a cool piece.
This is a cool piece.

868
00:22:50,836 --> 00:22:53,838
ROBBIE: Look at
the bottom of it.

869
00:22:53,906 --> 00:22:55,973
MIKE: Yeah. See the
way this adjusts?

870
00:22:56,042 --> 00:22:58,843
MIKE: The money shot on
this piece is the base.

871
00:22:59,045 --> 00:23:00,978
The way it adjusts,
the size of the knobs,

872
00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:05,049
the arch of the legs, the
round cast iron ball feet.

873
00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:06,049
MIKE: You know, it's
overbuilt, it's heavy-duty.

874
00:23:06,118 --> 00:23:09,120
It's cast iron bracket
that goes into the top.

875
00:23:09,322 --> 00:23:10,454
RICK: Would it- would it have
been a plan desk or something?

876
00:23:10,523 --> 00:23:11,188
MIKE: To me it's...

877
00:23:11,256 --> 00:23:11,922
ROBBIE: It could
have been...

878
00:23:11,991 --> 00:23:12,990
MIKE: ...just
a utility desk.

879
00:23:13,192 --> 00:23:14,058
MIKE: This is the kind of
stuff they reproduce because

880
00:23:14,260 --> 00:23:16,594
designers and decorators
are using them like crazy.

881
00:23:16,796 --> 00:23:18,729
But this is a
real deal piece.

882
00:23:18,931 --> 00:23:20,664
MIKE: Where's it made at?
Does it say?

883
00:23:20,732 --> 00:23:21,999
ROBBIE: Rochester,
New York.

884
00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:23,534
MIKE: Cool. And then this
lowers it, obviously.

885
00:23:23,736 --> 00:23:26,537
ROBBIE: So
does that one.

886
00:23:26,606 --> 00:23:27,137
This one,
there, there.

887
00:23:27,206 --> 00:23:27,605
MIKE: There
we go.

888
00:23:27,673 --> 00:23:28,405
RICK: No way.

889
00:23:28,474 --> 00:23:29,006
ROBBIE: Yeah.

890
00:23:29,208 --> 00:23:29,407
MIKE: Yeah,
there you go.

891
00:23:29,609 --> 00:23:31,409
$100. $100.

892
00:23:31,611 --> 00:23:32,543
RICK: I'll take it.

893
00:23:32,612 --> 00:23:33,744
MIKE: Alright,
thanks.

894
00:23:33,813 --> 00:23:35,212
MIKE: What about the Nehi
piece, man, that's really cool.

895
00:23:35,281 --> 00:23:39,683
MIKE: Nehi Cola was around from
the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.

896
00:23:39,752 --> 00:23:42,887
Then it became
Royal Crown Cola.

897
00:23:43,089 --> 00:23:44,688
MIKE: That looks like
somebody made this top.

898
00:23:44,757 --> 00:23:47,358
Somebody made
this top out of...

899
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,293
out of wood.

900
00:23:49,495 --> 00:23:50,694
RICK: Oh yeah.

901
00:23:50,762 --> 00:23:51,896
MIKE: That's a
piece of wood.

902
00:23:51,964 --> 00:23:52,896
But they did, look how, look
how they did the hinges and

903
00:23:52,965 --> 00:23:54,965
everything, man, they
really overbuilt it.

904
00:23:55,034 --> 00:23:58,502
And then this is, look at
this piece, the handle.

905
00:23:58,571 --> 00:23:59,436
It's like off of a...

906
00:23:59,505 --> 00:23:59,970
RICK: Like a, a...

907
00:24:00,172 --> 00:24:00,971
MIKE: ...off a dresser.

908
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:01,439
MIKE: This cooler's been
altered in a couple

909
00:24:01,641 --> 00:24:02,906
of different ways.

910
00:24:02,975 --> 00:24:05,042
But the paint on it
is really incredible.

911
00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:07,111
MIKE: I don't know, a couple
of hundred bucks the way it is,

912
00:24:07,179 --> 00:24:09,646
without the lid and this,
whatever they've done here.

913
00:24:09,715 --> 00:24:10,314
RICK: I'll take
that, yeah.

914
00:24:10,383 --> 00:24:11,515
MIKE: Okay.

915
00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:12,782
MIKE: This is something that
somebody could still use,

916
00:24:12,852 --> 00:24:14,985
and it's a great
piece of advertising.

917
00:24:16,722 --> 00:24:18,656
MIKE: Ugghh!
Here we go.

918
00:24:18,858 --> 00:24:20,324
Here, let me hand
that out to ya.

919
00:24:20,393 --> 00:24:20,858
ROBBIE: Okay.

920
00:24:20,927 --> 00:24:21,592
MIKE: That's car...

921
00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:22,393
ROBBIE: That's
an early one.

922
00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:23,193
RICK: Speedometers?

923
00:24:23,262 --> 00:24:24,395
ROBBIE:
Speedometers, yeah.

924
00:24:24,597 --> 00:24:26,196
RICK: Yeah, I think it was just
like him to- to stash things

925
00:24:26,265 --> 00:24:30,000
around in a drawer, so that you
know, he knew where they were,

926
00:24:30,069 --> 00:24:31,868
but you didn't necessarily
know where they were.

927
00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:34,338
ROBBIE: Car, car,
car. All those are car.

928
00:24:34,407 --> 00:24:35,672
RICK: Alright.

929
00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:38,475
MIKE: Nines put on
a truck, brand new.

930
00:24:38,544 --> 00:24:40,010
ROBBIE: NOS, yeah.

931
00:24:40,212 --> 00:24:41,745
MIKE: Butch had all of these
auto accessories together

932
00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:44,882
in one drawer, in
a file cabinet.

933
00:24:44,951 --> 00:24:46,884
He thought that much
of every single piece,

934
00:24:46,953 --> 00:24:48,552
and he knew this was
the hard stuff to find.

935
00:24:48,754 --> 00:24:49,753
MIKE: What do
we got here?

936
00:24:49,822 --> 00:24:51,888
So far, I got these
speedometers.

937
00:24:51,957 --> 00:24:55,025
MIKE: There's 2 1935, '36
Ford speedometers.

938
00:24:55,093 --> 00:24:58,896
MIKE: These are '30s Ford,
both 100-mile-an-hour.

939
00:24:58,965 --> 00:25:01,498
MIKE: And the other one is
an early accessory

940
00:25:01,567 --> 00:25:03,033
speedometer for a car.

941
00:25:03,102 --> 00:25:04,301
RICK: And what's the deal
with the brand name on that?

942
00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:05,569
Like Stewart.

943
00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:05,903
MIKE:
Stewart, yeah.

944
00:25:06,105 --> 00:25:06,837
ROBBIE: Yeah.

945
00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:08,305
MIKE: Stewart made a
ton of speedometers.

946
00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,372
ROBBIE: Yeah.

947
00:25:09,441 --> 00:25:09,773
MIKE: This is called a
soup can speedometer.

948
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:10,908
RICK: Okay.

949
00:25:10,976 --> 00:25:12,242
MIKE: I call this the
gingerbread, okay,

950
00:25:12,311 --> 00:25:14,978
because once you have the car,
you want to find those little

951
00:25:15,047 --> 00:25:17,781
special pieces to make
it unique or different.

952
00:25:17,850 --> 00:25:20,050
MIKE: These are what
they call cores.

953
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,185
So basically if anybody's
going to use this in a car,

954
00:25:22,254 --> 00:25:24,054
they would have this rebuilt.
There's guys you can send this

955
00:25:24,123 --> 00:25:26,657
to, there's a guy down in
Texas, you send this to him,

956
00:25:26,726 --> 00:25:27,457
he'll rebuild
this whole thing.

957
00:25:27,527 --> 00:25:29,059
You know, I'd do like...

958
00:25:29,128 --> 00:25:34,999
$100 apiece for those, and
for that soup can speedo...

959
00:25:37,603 --> 00:25:39,537
like 125, you know.

960
00:25:39,739 --> 00:25:41,471
ROBBIE: 3-and-
a-quarter.

961
00:25:41,541 --> 00:25:42,673
RICK:
That's fine.

962
00:25:42,741 --> 00:25:43,274
MIKE: You want
to do that?

963
00:25:43,476 --> 00:25:44,541
RICK: Yeah.

964
00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:45,009
MIKE:
Okay. Whoa.

965
00:25:45,944 --> 00:25:47,545
ROBBIE: I know,
that's what I said.

966
00:25:47,747 --> 00:25:50,414
RICK: 100
bucks, take it.

967
00:25:50,482 --> 00:25:50,814
ROBBIE: Alright.

968
00:25:50,883 --> 00:25:51,549
RICK: It's yours.

969
00:25:51,751 --> 00:25:52,349
ROBBIE: Appreciate
it, man.

970
00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:57,754
MIKE: I can't
wait to hear that.

971
00:25:57,823 --> 00:25:58,355
RICK: Let's go
look up here.

972
00:25:58,424 --> 00:25:59,757
MIKE: Alright.

973
00:25:59,825 --> 00:26:01,625
What kind of stuff
you got up here?

974
00:26:01,694 --> 00:26:02,759
RICK: A couple
of cars up here.

975
00:26:02,828 --> 00:26:03,360
MIKE: Oh this is
where the cars are?

976
00:26:03,428 --> 00:26:04,361
RICK: Yeah.

977
00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:05,229
MIKE: Oh wow.

978
00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:06,697
RICK: So above
where we just where.

979
00:26:06,765 --> 00:26:07,631
MIKE: Yeah,
yeah, absolutely.

980
00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:08,632
RICK: This
opens wide open.

981
00:26:08,834 --> 00:26:09,566
ROBBIE: Oh you
can drive them...

982
00:26:09,635 --> 00:26:12,302
MIKE: Oh wow!
RJ, what!

983
00:26:12,371 --> 00:26:13,904
ROBBIE: Wow.

984
00:26:13,972 --> 00:26:16,040
MIKE: God, I wish I
had this much room!

985
00:26:16,108 --> 00:26:16,773
ROBBIE: Look at that, look
at how they built the

986
00:26:16,842 --> 00:26:17,974
beams in here,
look at all that.

987
00:26:18,043 --> 00:26:20,310
MIKE: So did you play in
here when you were a kid?

988
00:26:20,379 --> 00:26:20,844
RICK: Yeah.

989
00:26:20,912 --> 00:26:21,912
MIKE: Oh my gosh.

990
00:26:21,981 --> 00:26:24,381
RICK: This was full of
cars. So he had it from-

991
00:26:24,450 --> 00:26:25,916
ROBBIE: Full!

992
00:26:25,984 --> 00:26:26,517
RICK: -that side all the
way around this wall

993
00:26:26,719 --> 00:26:27,584
and all around
this side.

994
00:26:27,653 --> 00:26:28,719
ROBBIE: This
whole barn.

995
00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:29,787
RICK: Whole barn
was full of cars.

996
00:26:29,855 --> 00:26:32,055
MIKE: This is
nice. '35 5-window.

997
00:26:32,124 --> 00:26:35,525
RICK: Yeah, this car was in
the movie, Public Enemies.

998
00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:35,926
MIKE & ROBBIE:
Really!

999
00:26:35,995 --> 00:26:36,260
RICK: Yeah.

1000
00:26:36,462 --> 00:26:37,060
MIKE: Wow!

1001
00:26:37,129 --> 00:26:37,728
RICK: He took
it to Chicago.

1002
00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:39,062
MIKE: Did Johnny
Depp drive it?

1003
00:26:39,131 --> 00:26:40,864
RICK: I don't think so, but
I think it was, you know,

1004
00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:42,533
an extra vehicle for
the- for the shot.

1005
00:26:42,735 --> 00:26:43,867
MIKE: Yeah,
absolutely.

1006
00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:46,737
RICK: With the countless
cars that Butch had come

1007
00:26:46,806 --> 00:26:47,871
through this shop
and that he owned,

1008
00:26:48,074 --> 00:26:49,806
there would have been
too numerous to mention.

1009
00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:51,741
That '35 in particular
was in a movie,

1010
00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:53,944
and he was very
fond of that car.

1011
00:26:54,012 --> 00:26:55,546
RICK: If he was going
to town in Oakfield,

1012
00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:56,413
he would
drive this.

1013
00:26:56,482 --> 00:26:57,815
MIKE: No kidding.

1014
00:26:57,883 --> 00:26:58,282
RICK: 'Cause he took
me around in it.

1015
00:26:58,484 --> 00:26:59,950
MIKE: Yeah?

1016
00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:00,284
RICK: And he was all,
he was proud of this.

1017
00:27:00,486 --> 00:27:01,217
MIKE: Alright.

1018
00:27:01,286 --> 00:27:02,286
It's got the original
engine in it.

1019
00:27:02,488 --> 00:27:04,154
ROBBIE: Is this something
you guys are going to keep?

1020
00:27:04,223 --> 00:27:05,755
RICK: No, we're going to sell
this one and keep that one.

1021
00:27:05,824 --> 00:27:06,824
RICK: The Model A
is a little truck,

1022
00:27:07,026 --> 00:27:09,092
and it- if you see the
old pictures of it,

1023
00:27:09,161 --> 00:27:11,761
there were times that that
thing looked really rugged.

1024
00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:14,631
So he did a whole,
like a body off

1025
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:15,966
frame restoration
on that car.

1026
00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:18,902
And it took him a lot of
years to put together.

1027
00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:20,304
RICK: He already was
going to sell this.

1028
00:27:20,506 --> 00:27:21,905
ROBBIE: Okay.

1029
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:22,506
RICK: 'Cause I know he,
I'd heard an offer

1030
00:27:22,575 --> 00:27:23,373
he had
gotten on it.

1031
00:27:23,442 --> 00:27:24,708
ROBBIE: Okay.

1032
00:27:24,910 --> 00:27:26,042
RICK: And he turned
the guy down.

1033
00:27:26,111 --> 00:27:27,310
MIKE: What was the offer
for it that he turned down?

1034
00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:30,781
RICK: This one he got an offer
for 25 from a guy from Chicago.

1035
00:27:30,850 --> 00:27:31,515
MIKE: I'll tell
you what, that's...

1036
00:27:31,717 --> 00:27:32,382
that's not
a bad offer.

1037
00:27:32,451 --> 00:27:34,050
ROBBIE: ...yeah.

1038
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,852
MIKE: 1935 was a big year
for Ford because they hadn't

1039
00:27:35,921 --> 00:27:38,655
changed the body style
really, since 1933.

1040
00:27:38,724 --> 00:27:41,859
But in 1935, the
design evolved.

1041
00:27:41,927 --> 00:27:44,595
To me it was like
they took a 1934 Ford,

1042
00:27:44,797 --> 00:27:45,663
hooked a tire
pump up to it,

1043
00:27:45,865 --> 00:27:47,998
and just pumped it
up a little bit.

1044
00:27:48,067 --> 00:27:49,599
MIKE: You know, it was
more plumper, more rounder,

1045
00:27:49,669 --> 00:27:51,801
it didn't have
hard edges.

1046
00:27:51,870 --> 00:27:53,937
It was a bigger,
more comfortable car.

1047
00:27:54,140 --> 00:27:55,805
MIKE: When you look at the
fire wall and the door

1048
00:27:55,874 --> 00:27:56,740
jambs and stuff and
everything in it,

1049
00:27:56,942 --> 00:27:59,076
looks like it's
original paint, man.

1050
00:27:59,144 --> 00:28:01,078
But then you look at the
ceiling here- the- you look

1051
00:28:01,146 --> 00:28:03,413
at the roof, you can see
this has been brushstroked.

1052
00:28:03,482 --> 00:28:05,015
ROBBIE: Like...

1053
00:28:05,217 --> 00:28:06,283
MIKE: You can see right
here, some Bondo in the car.

1054
00:28:06,352 --> 00:28:07,017
RICK: Okay.

1055
00:28:07,219 --> 00:28:07,685
MIKE: Right
there, some Bondo.

1056
00:28:07,887 --> 00:28:08,952
And that would
have been-

1057
00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:09,820
RICK: And that would
have been him, he did it.

1058
00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:11,621
MIKE: Yeah, he would
have been fixing that.

1059
00:28:11,691 --> 00:28:12,890
RICK: Maybe to
get it ready.

1060
00:28:13,092 --> 00:28:13,823
MIKE: Maybe it's like an
older, older restoration.

1061
00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:15,291
Do you think we
could hear this run?

1062
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:16,359
RICK: Yes.

1063
00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:17,894
MIKE: I mean, do you...
let me try to start it.

1064
00:28:17,963 --> 00:28:20,764
ROBBIE: Look it, it's
got reds, Mike, old...

1065
00:28:20,833 --> 00:28:22,232
MIKE: Oh my God,
this seat is like...

1066
00:28:22,301 --> 00:28:23,433
[laughs]

1067
00:28:23,502 --> 00:28:24,167
RICK: He was tall.

1068
00:28:24,236 --> 00:28:25,168
MIKE: This seat
is friggin'...

1069
00:28:25,237 --> 00:28:26,436
ROBBIE: What did you
say, he was 6-foot-4?

1070
00:28:26,505 --> 00:28:27,437
RICK: 6'4", yeah.

1071
00:28:27,506 --> 00:28:29,373
ROBBIE: You didn't turn
it on, did you, Mike?

1072
00:28:29,441 --> 00:28:29,907
MIKE: Yeah.

1073
00:28:29,975 --> 00:28:30,841
ROBBIE:
Go ahead.

1074
00:28:30,910 --> 00:28:32,309
MIKE: Let me see, I'm
going to choke it.

1075
00:28:32,378 --> 00:28:32,776
Here, ready?

1076
00:28:32,845 --> 00:28:33,510
ROBBIE: Yeah.

1077
00:28:33,579 --> 00:28:36,913
[tries to start engine]

1078
00:28:36,982 --> 00:28:38,248
ROBBIE: Don't think
it's getting any fuel.

1079
00:28:38,317 --> 00:28:41,785
ROBBIE: One thing my brother is
good at, turning the ignition.

1080
00:28:41,854 --> 00:28:44,588
He needs me to actually
do all the work.

1081
00:28:44,857 --> 00:28:45,589
ROBBIE: If we add
some starting fluid,

1082
00:28:45,791 --> 00:28:46,656
I'll get this
thing started.

1083
00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:48,592
RICK: I probably
do downstairs.

1084
00:28:48,661 --> 00:28:49,793
You want me to
just get it?

1085
00:28:49,861 --> 00:28:50,660
MIKE: Yeah, yeah you want
to get some starting fluid?

1086
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:51,461
Go grab it, let's
hear it run.

1087
00:28:51,797 --> 00:28:52,796
RICK: I'll grab
some. Okay.

1088
00:28:53,065 --> 00:28:55,666
ROBBIE: Let me ask you
this, you got any gas, Rick?

1089
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:56,733
RICK: Yeah.
I'll bring both.

1090
00:28:56,802 --> 00:28:57,468
ROBBIE: Bring me
a little gas can.

1091
00:28:57,670 --> 00:28:58,268
MIKE: I mean... here...

1092
00:28:58,470 --> 00:28:59,469
ROBBIE: 25.

1093
00:28:59,538 --> 00:29:01,405
MIKE: 25's it on it.

1094
00:29:01,473 --> 00:29:02,339
ROBBIE: Yeah.

1095
00:29:02,408 --> 00:29:03,407
MIKE: You know. I mean,
it's a survivor car.

1096
00:29:03,475 --> 00:29:04,941
It's cool, um...

1097
00:29:05,010 --> 00:29:06,143
ROBBIE: I think you'd
have to be into it...

1098
00:29:06,345 --> 00:29:07,411
MIKE: I tell you what, it's got
$1,500 worth of tires on it.

1099
00:29:07,479 --> 00:29:08,679
ROBBIE: Yeah.

1100
00:29:08,881 --> 00:29:09,746
MIKE: You know,
these are nice.

1101
00:29:09,815 --> 00:29:10,681
And they're really
not that old,

1102
00:29:10,883 --> 00:29:11,948
they're not checked
or anything.

1103
00:29:12,017 --> 00:29:14,618
ROBBIE: These early '30s
Fords are very desirable.

1104
00:29:14,687 --> 00:29:15,885
If you could
find a 3 -window,

1105
00:29:15,954 --> 00:29:18,822
that's like the golden
monkey right there.

1106
00:29:18,891 --> 00:29:20,624
This is a 5-window
and it's still got,

1107
00:29:20,693 --> 00:29:21,691
look at all the
lines on it.

1108
00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:23,493
Ford had it going
on in the '30s.

1109
00:29:23,963 --> 00:29:24,828
MIKE: It's got the
look to it overall.

1110
00:29:24,897 --> 00:29:25,962
I mean, the fact that it
was in the movie,

1111
00:29:26,031 --> 00:29:31,701
you know, kind of sets
it up a little bit. But...

1112
00:29:31,771 --> 00:29:32,969
ROBBIE: Did you
ask for... hey...

1113
00:29:33,038 --> 00:29:34,104
MIKE: ...I think once you
get it out in the light,

1114
00:29:34,173 --> 00:29:35,906
you can really probably start
seeing the imperfections,

1115
00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:39,042
especially like on the
roof line here, you know.

1116
00:29:39,111 --> 00:29:42,012
That's bare met- that's-
that's bare metal right there.

1117
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:47,651
RICK: So here's
gas, Robbie.

1118
00:29:47,986 --> 00:29:49,720
ROBBIE: Alright. Alright,
got some gas, Mike.

1119
00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:50,987
RICK: Good on
unleaded, just...

1120
00:29:51,056 --> 00:29:52,322
ROBBIE: Good unleaded,
yeah, that's all you need.

1121
00:29:52,391 --> 00:29:53,323
RICK: Okay.

1122
00:29:53,391 --> 00:29:55,458
ROBBIE: Get in there,
brother. Hell yeah.

1123
00:29:55,528 --> 00:29:56,660
MIKE: I'm right here.

1124
00:29:56,728 --> 00:29:57,528
ROBBIE: Oh.
Get in there.

1125
00:29:57,730 --> 00:29:58,395
RICK: He's
in the trunk.

1126
00:29:58,463 --> 00:29:59,529
MIKE: You already
put gas in it?

1127
00:29:59,598 --> 00:30:00,264
ROBBIE: I'm going- no I'm
not putting it into the tank,

1128
00:30:00,332 --> 00:30:01,264
I'm putting it
in the carb.

1129
00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:02,866
MIKE: Oh, I thought you
were putting it in...

1130
00:30:02,935 --> 00:30:03,801
ROBBIE: Yeah, I'm not
doing, no hell no.

1131
00:30:04,003 --> 00:30:05,935
MIKE: Alright, alright,
settle down here.

1132
00:30:06,004 --> 00:30:06,737
ROBBIE: I want to see it
firing, dude, hold on.

1133
00:30:06,939 --> 00:30:07,805
MIKE: Alright, don't
start it on fire.

1134
00:30:08,007 --> 00:30:08,605
ROBBIE: I'm not.
So just give me 2 seconds,

1135
00:30:08,674 --> 00:30:11,008
don't be moving
around.

1136
00:30:11,610 --> 00:30:13,410
Don't do anything.

1137
00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:15,011
MIKE: I'm not
doing anything.

1138
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,080
ROBBIE: Now you did that,
you freakin' choked it.

1139
00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:18,415
MIKE: No I- oh, I choked
it, yeah I choked it, sorry.

1140
00:30:18,484 --> 00:30:19,283
ROBBIE: Yeah, God.

1141
00:30:19,485 --> 00:30:20,417
Mike: [laughs]

1142
00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:22,019
RICK: Brothers.

1143
00:30:22,087 --> 00:30:22,419
ROBBIE: It's hard enough
to even look down in here.

1144
00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:23,486
There we go.

1145
00:30:23,556 --> 00:30:24,988
MIKE: [laughing]
Sorry.

1146
00:30:27,493 --> 00:30:27,825
ROBBIE: Okay.

1147
00:30:28,027 --> 00:30:28,992
That's a lot of gas.

1148
00:30:29,961 --> 00:30:30,360
MIKE: Alright, you
want me to start it?

1149
00:30:30,429 --> 00:30:31,829
ROBBIE: Yeah.

1150
00:30:32,031 --> 00:30:32,362
MIKE: Alright, let's
see what happens here.

1151
00:30:32,698 --> 00:30:35,999
[tries to
start engine]

1152
00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:42,439
[engine sputtering]

1153
00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:46,009
[engine starts]

1154
00:30:48,714 --> 00:30:50,013
MIKE: There's no
gas in it...

1155
00:30:53,385 --> 00:30:54,451
Let it die.

1156
00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:55,586
ROBBIE: That's it.

1157
00:30:55,788 --> 00:30:56,853
MIKE: There's
no gas in it.

1158
00:30:56,922 --> 00:30:57,787
You're- it starts,
but it needs gas...

1159
00:30:57,857 --> 00:30:58,788
ROBBIE: Yeah, there's
no gas, I know,

1160
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:00,724
I already knew there
was no gas in it.

1161
00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:01,658
MIKE: I can't
believe that...

1162
00:31:01,727 --> 00:31:02,993
that battery has
lasted this long.

1163
00:31:03,062 --> 00:31:04,795
RICK: Exactly, that's what's
tripping me out, like...

1164
00:31:04,997 --> 00:31:07,998
how, you can't get a
new car to do that.

1165
00:31:08,334 --> 00:31:09,933
RICK: I was surprised it rolled
over even. And then to get,

1166
00:31:10,002 --> 00:31:11,869
you know, to get it going,
that- that was cool.

1167
00:31:12,270 --> 00:31:15,806
MIKE: Man, I think if he had
an offer at 25K on it, I mean,

1168
00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:17,808
to me that's- that's
all the money.

1169
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:18,808
MIKE: This is a
great looking car,

1170
00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:20,744
there's a lot of
original paint on it.

1171
00:31:20,813 --> 00:31:22,011
MIKE: I can make
you an offer on it,

1172
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,881
but it ain't going to be 25K,
'cause I- I need to ship it,

1173
00:31:24,083 --> 00:31:26,349
and then I got to, I mean,
getting it running

1174
00:31:26,418 --> 00:31:27,751
and everything.

1175
00:31:27,953 --> 00:31:29,686
You know, to me it's
an 18- 19,000 car.

1176
00:31:29,955 --> 00:31:30,620
ROBBIE: There's a
little bit left on the

1177
00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:32,356
back side of
that on it.

1178
00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:33,891
MIKE: So...

1179
00:31:34,093 --> 00:31:36,693
RICK: Yeah, I'd like to
just not go below 25.

1180
00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:37,828
MIKE: I don't, hey
I don't blame ya.

1181
00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:39,696
MIKE: The fact that it's
a patina driver,

1182
00:31:39,764 --> 00:31:40,630
and it was in
Public Enemy,

1183
00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:42,766
takes it to
the next level.

1184
00:31:42,835 --> 00:31:44,701
MIKE: If you can
show it in the movie,

1185
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:45,902
then that brings
it up a little bit.

1186
00:31:45,971 --> 00:31:47,304
You know, there's a
guy out there that...

1187
00:31:47,373 --> 00:31:48,839
RICK: Okay.

1188
00:31:49,041 --> 00:31:49,906
MIKE: ...you know, wants
to brag about that.

1189
00:31:49,975 --> 00:31:50,440
MIKE: You know,
but at the end of the day,

1190
00:31:50,642 --> 00:31:51,774
I think it's
still...

1191
00:31:51,843 --> 00:31:54,577
25- $26,000 car, and
he's already got

1192
00:31:54,646 --> 00:31:56,580
an offer on
it for 25.

1193
00:31:56,782 --> 00:31:58,248
MIKE: Alright,
here you go.

1194
00:31:58,317 --> 00:31:59,983
Urgh...

1195
00:32:03,188 --> 00:32:04,254
ROBBIE: Rick, I think it was
pretty dang good that- whoa!

1196
00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:05,521
Dude.

1197
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:06,857
MIKE: Yeah...
[laughs]

1198
00:32:07,059 --> 00:32:07,991
ROBBIE: Trying to, what
are you doing there.

1199
00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:10,527
MIKE: People live as long
as we talk about them,

1200
00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:11,662
and remember
them.

1201
00:32:11,864 --> 00:32:13,863
Butch inspired his
nephew so much

1202
00:32:13,933 --> 00:32:16,866
that he moved from
California to Wisconsin

1203
00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:20,003
to build the home he
never got to start.

1204
00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:21,537
MIKE: You got that?

1205
00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:22,672
ROBBIE:
Ahh... yeah.

1206
00:32:22,741 --> 00:32:23,539
MIKE: You trust
me with that?

1207
00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:24,474
ROBBIE: That's about
it. Right there.

1208
00:32:24,543 --> 00:32:26,009
MIKE: Alright. Okay.

1209
00:32:27,479 --> 00:32:28,678
ROBBIE: Hey.

1210
00:32:28,747 --> 00:32:29,946
RICK: Thank
you, guys. Yeah.

1211
00:32:30,015 --> 00:32:31,615
ROBBIE: Seriously, thanks
for taking the time,

1212
00:32:31,683 --> 00:32:32,348
and showing
us around.

1213
00:32:32,417 --> 00:32:33,750
RICK: Oh yeah.

1214
00:32:33,819 --> 00:32:35,485
RICK: One of my
earliest memories of

1215
00:32:35,553 --> 00:32:36,686
my uncle was like...

1216
00:32:36,755 --> 00:32:40,089
working on a car out here with
him and sanding for him a lot.

1217
00:32:40,158 --> 00:32:43,093
It's just unfortunate I didn't
get enough time with him.

1218
00:32:43,162 --> 00:32:44,494
MIKE: Thank so for sharing
your family's history with us.

1219
00:32:44,563 --> 00:32:45,429
RICK: Of course, yeah.

1220
00:32:45,631 --> 00:32:47,097
MIKE: I appreciate ya.

1221
00:32:47,166 --> 00:32:48,364
RICK: I loved the guy, and I
thought he was cool as hell.

1222
00:32:48,433 --> 00:32:50,834
There's not a lot of people
that will speak about him the

1223
00:32:50,903 --> 00:32:52,769
same way or saw him
the same way as me.

1224
00:32:52,838 --> 00:32:54,838
He didn't get to
know people as well.

1225
00:32:54,907 --> 00:32:56,773
RICK: Alright, you
guys have a good one.

1226
00:32:56,975 --> 00:32:58,108
MIKE: We'll catch
you on the flip side.

1227
00:32:58,310 --> 00:32:59,709
RICK: But every man tries in a
different way in this world,

1228
00:32:59,778 --> 00:33:01,778
and we're not
always perfect.

1229
00:33:01,847 --> 00:33:03,179
But I think he did
the best he could.

1230
00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:05,648
MIKE: Butch left a huge
wake behind him.

1231
00:33:05,718 --> 00:33:07,316
He was a self
-employed guy.

1232
00:33:07,386 --> 00:33:08,184
[honks horn]

1233
00:33:08,253 --> 00:33:09,585
MIKE: And he surrounded
himself with all

1234
00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:10,453
the things that
he loves.

1235
00:33:10,522 --> 00:33:11,454
MIKE: See
ya, buddy!

1236
00:33:11,523 --> 00:33:12,655
RICK: See
ya, Mike.

1237
00:33:12,724 --> 00:33:13,991
MIKE: That, is a
life well lived.

1238
00:33:20,732 --> 00:33:21,931
MIKE: Dani
D, what's up?

1239
00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:23,866
DANIELLE: Hey, I got a
good one for you today.

1240
00:33:23,935 --> 00:33:25,668
Did you get those
coordinates I sent you?

1241
00:33:25,738 --> 00:33:27,804
MIKE: I'm about
15 minutes away.

1242
00:33:27,873 --> 00:33:28,872
DANIELLE: I sent you
some pictures too.

1243
00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:30,874
I figured since Robbie
took the day off,

1244
00:33:30,943 --> 00:33:32,275
I'd send you somewhere
a little different.

1245
00:33:32,478 --> 00:33:33,744
MIKE: Okay.

1246
00:33:33,946 --> 00:33:35,145
DANIELLE: His name
is Matthew Gruber.

1247
00:33:35,213 --> 00:33:37,881
He basically invented the
modern industry of automatons.

1248
00:33:38,083 --> 00:33:40,817
MIKE: Automatons have
always fascinated me.

1249
00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,418
It's almost like, you
know, you're looking

1250
00:33:42,487 --> 00:33:43,886
at a piece of art.

1251
00:33:43,955 --> 00:33:44,554
DANIELLE: I know, that's
why I kept this one

1252
00:33:44,756 --> 00:33:45,889
in my back
pocket for you.

1253
00:33:46,091 --> 00:33:47,824
MIKE: I can't wait to
see some of these pieces.

1254
00:33:47,893 --> 00:33:49,892
They look incredible
in the photographs.

1255
00:33:49,961 --> 00:33:51,227
DANIELLE: I know for
a fact, at one point,

1256
00:33:51,296 --> 00:33:55,766
NBC even hired him to duplicate
the original Howdy Doody puppet.

1257
00:33:55,968 --> 00:33:56,566
MIKE: I know, I can't
wait to see that.

1258
00:33:56,635 --> 00:33:58,568
Howdy Doody
in person!

1259
00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,370
DANIELLE: Okay, let
me tell you the catch.

1260
00:34:00,438 --> 00:34:00,837
MIKE: Okay.

1261
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:01,904
DANIELLE:
You ready?

1262
00:34:01,973 --> 00:34:04,241
I have no idea if he
wants to sell or not.

1263
00:34:04,309 --> 00:34:07,711
He is 97-and-a-half, and these
creations are like his children.

1264
00:34:07,779 --> 00:34:08,979
MIKE: I'm excited
to meet him.

1265
00:34:09,181 --> 00:34:10,647
DANIELLE: You might possibly
come up empty-handed.

1266
00:34:10,716 --> 00:34:12,782
So just be
prepared for that.

1267
00:34:12,851 --> 00:34:13,517
MIKE: Alright, I'll
talk to you soon.

1268
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:14,250
DANIELLE: See
you later.

1269
00:34:14,319 --> 00:34:15,118
MIKE: Bye.

1270
00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:16,987
[knocks on door]

1271
00:34:17,456 --> 00:34:18,522
JANET: Hello.

1272
00:34:18,590 --> 00:34:19,389
MIKE: Are
you Janet?

1273
00:34:19,591 --> 00:34:19,990
JANET:
I'm Janet.

1274
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:20,590
MIKE:
I'm Mike.

1275
00:34:20,792 --> 00:34:21,525
JANET: Come
on in. And...

1276
00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:22,392
MIKE: Hello.
How are you?

1277
00:34:22,461 --> 00:34:23,660
This must be Matt.

1278
00:34:23,862 --> 00:34:24,794
JANET: This is my
dad, Matt Gruber.

1279
00:34:24,863 --> 00:34:27,464
MIKE: Hey Matt
Gruber, how are you?

1280
00:34:27,533 --> 00:34:28,265
MATT: I understand...

1281
00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:28,998
MIKE: Very nice
to meet you.

1282
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:30,734
MATT: My name
is Matt Gruber.

1283
00:34:30,936 --> 00:34:34,871
I was born in the
Bronx 97 years ago.

1284
00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:39,675
I made the first automaton
of the modern era.

1285
00:34:39,944 --> 00:34:41,678
MIKE: I'm a huge fan,
because I used to

1286
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:42,812
collect puppets
when I was a kid.

1287
00:34:42,881 --> 00:34:44,748
MIKE: I was fortunate
enough to grow up

1288
00:34:44,950 --> 00:34:46,749
in a time when there
was a real push

1289
00:34:46,818 --> 00:34:48,818
to make creative
television for kids.

1290
00:34:48,887 --> 00:34:51,621
Shows like Captain
Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers.

1291
00:34:51,690 --> 00:34:52,288
JANET: You're in
the right place.

1292
00:34:52,357 --> 00:34:54,024
MATT: Well.

1293
00:34:54,092 --> 00:34:56,225
MIKE: I watched Lamb Chop,
I watched Sesame Street.

1294
00:34:56,294 --> 00:34:59,629
So one of the first things that
I ever collected were puppets.

1295
00:34:59,698 --> 00:35:01,097
MATT: That's
when it starts.

1296
00:35:01,166 --> 00:35:02,165
MIKE: And so I've always
been fascinated with anything

1297
00:35:02,234 --> 00:35:04,300
related to them, automatons
or ventriloquist dolls.

1298
00:35:04,369 --> 00:35:05,702
MATT: Um-hm.

1299
00:35:05,904 --> 00:35:06,703
MIKE: Can I take a
look at this one?

1300
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:08,004
MATT: Let me put
it on for you.

1301
00:35:10,509 --> 00:35:11,708
Mike: [laughs] Wow.

1302
00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:13,376
JANET: And if he
had a tape inside...

1303
00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:14,777
MIKE: Okay.

1304
00:35:14,846 --> 00:35:15,712
JANET: His mouth
would be moving too.

1305
00:35:15,914 --> 00:35:16,512
MIKE: Okay, so that's
where the voice comes,

1306
00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:17,380
it comes from a tape.

1307
00:35:17,449 --> 00:35:18,381
JANET: It does.

1308
00:35:18,450 --> 00:35:20,249
MIKE: Can I make you
an offer on this one?

1309
00:35:20,318 --> 00:35:21,184
MATT: No.

1310
00:35:21,386 --> 00:35:21,984
MIKE: No.

1311
00:35:22,053 --> 00:35:23,186
Alright, I'm
don't blame ya.

1312
00:35:23,255 --> 00:35:24,988
So was this one something that
you never finished, or...?

1313
00:35:25,057 --> 00:35:28,258
MATT: No, I just exposed
it so someone could see it.

1314
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:29,860
MIKE: Okay.

1315
00:35:30,062 --> 00:35:32,596
MATT: Every automatic
puppet that I produced

1316
00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:35,599
was made
completely by me.

1317
00:35:35,934 --> 00:35:36,866
MIKE: So how old were
you when you first

1318
00:35:36,935 --> 00:35:39,202
started this journey of
making these?

1319
00:35:39,404 --> 00:35:40,403
MATT: 18.

1320
00:35:40,606 --> 00:35:44,006
MATT: The objective was to
create a movable puppet to be

1321
00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:49,679
used as a point-of-purchase
advertising device.

1322
00:35:50,081 --> 00:35:51,814
MIKE: What was she
advertising, the Skamperette?

1323
00:35:51,884 --> 00:35:54,751
MATT: Slips and panties.
Put it on, Janet.

1324
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:55,285
MIKE: Yeah, can
we see that play?

1325
00:35:55,354 --> 00:35:56,353
JANET: Sure.

1326
00:35:56,421 --> 00:35:56,987
MATT: Yeah.

1327
00:35:58,022 --> 00:35:59,823
<i> SKAMPERETTE GIRL:</i>
<i> "...panties to beat</i>

1328
00:35:59,891 --> 00:36:01,958
<i> sensational</i>
<i> Skamperette panties.</i>

1329
00:36:02,027 --> 00:36:07,497
<i> You get a panty to</i>
<i> phonograph record free..."</i>

1330
00:36:07,699 --> 00:36:10,000
MIKE: Wow.
So awesome.

1331
00:36:10,302 --> 00:36:11,301
[laughs]

1332
00:36:11,369 --> 00:36:12,969
JANET: Like they all had
their own personalities.

1333
00:36:13,038 --> 00:36:16,105
MATT: The sound system,
that's the challenge.

1334
00:36:16,175 --> 00:36:19,776
MIKE: The body and the mouth
are in sync with the voice.

1335
00:36:19,978 --> 00:36:22,379
MATT: There's a
magnetic tape machine.

1336
00:36:22,447 --> 00:36:24,046
MIKE: Um-hm.

1337
00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:26,116
MATT: It goes through here,
there's a censor here.

1338
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:30,853
On the tape there's a marking
that opens the mouth.

1339
00:36:30,922 --> 00:36:33,857
MIKE: To actually see an
automaton speak...

1340
00:36:33,925 --> 00:36:34,858
SKAMPERETTE GIRL:
"...Skamperette panties,

1341
00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:38,995
you get a panty to
phonograph record free..."

1342
00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,731
MIKE: That's what Matthew
did that was game changing.

1343
00:36:41,799 --> 00:36:43,800
The movement had
been done before.

1344
00:36:44,002 --> 00:36:46,469
MATT: At the time I
went to Walt Disney,

1345
00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:47,937
with the little one.

1346
00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:50,273
MIKE: This one is the one
you brought to Walt Disney?

1347
00:36:50,342 --> 00:36:50,873
MATT: Yes.

1348
00:36:50,942 --> 00:36:52,209
MIKE: The man himself.

1349
00:36:52,411 --> 00:36:53,009
MATT: No.

1350
00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:55,679
I did the New York
representatives.

1351
00:36:55,881 --> 00:36:58,415
I put this on his
desk, and- and...

1352
00:36:58,483 --> 00:36:59,749
MIKE: [laughs]

1353
00:36:59,818 --> 00:37:00,617
MATT: ...it started
to talk to him.

1354
00:37:00,819 --> 00:37:01,618
MIKE: He had to
be blown away.

1355
00:37:01,687 --> 00:37:04,287
MATT: He was
crazy about it.

1356
00:37:04,356 --> 00:37:05,288
MIKE: I bet.

1357
00:37:05,357 --> 00:37:07,957
MATT: Walt Disney raised
this to an art form.

1358
00:37:08,026 --> 00:37:09,759
MIKE: Matthew didn't have
the resources to take

1359
00:37:09,828 --> 00:37:12,762
it to the next level,
the big level.

1360
00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:14,697
But he showed it to
somebody that did.

1361
00:37:14,766 --> 00:37:16,232
JANET: You inspired
Walt Disney.

1362
00:37:16,301 --> 00:37:17,367
[laughs]

1363
00:37:17,436 --> 00:37:18,635
MATT: Could be.

1364
00:37:18,837 --> 00:37:19,302
MIKE: You inspired
Walt Disney.

1365
00:37:19,504 --> 00:37:19,703
MATT: I
hurried him up.

1366
00:37:19,905 --> 00:37:20,637
MIKE: Yeah.

1367
00:37:20,839 --> 00:37:22,305
MATT: That's what
I really did.

1368
00:37:22,374 --> 00:37:23,173
MIKE: Yeah.

1369
00:37:23,375 --> 00:37:24,774
Yeah, you gave him
a kick in the pants.

1370
00:37:24,843 --> 00:37:25,574
MATT: Because that
was inevitable,

1371
00:37:25,644 --> 00:37:26,309
that that
would happen.

1372
00:37:26,378 --> 00:37:34,251
MIKE: Yeah.

1373
00:37:34,453 --> 00:37:35,318
MIKE: Okay.

1374
00:37:35,387 --> 00:37:36,118
MATT: Yeah.

1375
00:37:36,187 --> 00:37:37,120
MIKE: I've seen
Skamperette work.

1376
00:37:37,189 --> 00:37:39,255
Alright, can I make you
an offer on Skamperette?

1377
00:37:39,324 --> 00:37:40,590
MATT: Yes.

1378
00:37:40,659 --> 00:37:42,258
MIKE: $5,000
for Skamperette.

1379
00:37:42,327 --> 00:37:43,793
MATT: No.

1380
00:37:43,861 --> 00:37:46,263
MIKE: Can't do
it? Alright, I know.

1381
00:37:46,465 --> 00:37:47,530
MATT: Okay.

1382
00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:48,931
MIKE: I think I'm probably
the first one that actually

1383
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,801
physically asked him,
'would you sell that?'

1384
00:37:51,869 --> 00:37:53,336
And the answer very
quickly, was no.

1385
00:37:53,672 --> 00:37:54,671
And I can respect that.

1386
00:37:54,873 --> 00:37:56,339
MIKE: Howdy
Doody's incredible.

1387
00:37:56,407 --> 00:37:56,940
MATT: Yes.

1388
00:37:57,142 --> 00:37:57,540
MIKE: Does Howdy
still work?

1389
00:37:57,608 --> 00:37:58,941
JANET: Absolutely.

1390
00:37:59,010 --> 00:38:01,411
MIKE: Howdy Doody is the
most famous marionette

1391
00:38:01,479 --> 00:38:02,745
ever created.

1392
00:38:02,814 --> 00:38:05,014
You got Kermit,
and you got Howdy.

1393
00:38:05,083 --> 00:38:08,285
It really depends on which
generation you talk to.

1394
00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:09,986
MIKE: Alright, let's
see him get down.

1395
00:38:11,022 --> 00:38:13,289
There he goes, [laughing]
that's awesome!

1396
00:38:13,358 --> 00:38:15,291
So awesome.

1397
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:20,830
MATT: I duplicated the original
puppet to operate mechanically.

1398
00:38:20,899 --> 00:38:23,766
MATT: Howdy was
promoting the sponsors

1399
00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:26,702
of the show at
various conventions.

1400
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,640
MIKE: The scale of this piece
is how much larger than Howdy?

1401
00:38:30,709 --> 00:38:32,242
MATT: He's the
original size.

1402
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:34,644
MIKE: Oh that's- that's how
big Howdy's puppet, puppet was.

1403
00:38:34,713 --> 00:38:36,313
JANET: It was
really exact.

1404
00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:38,047
MIKE: Really.

1405
00:38:38,116 --> 00:38:39,582
See I, I had no idea the
original Howdy was that big.

1406
00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:40,717
MATT: As a
matter of fact...

1407
00:38:40,919 --> 00:38:42,719
MATT: I went down to
NBC each morning,

1408
00:38:42,921 --> 00:38:47,123
and I worked with
the original Howdy.

1409
00:38:47,192 --> 00:38:51,327
MIKE: To align yourself with
such a huge brand as this...

1410
00:38:51,396 --> 00:38:52,329
MATT: Hmm.

1411
00:38:52,531 --> 00:38:53,329
MIKE: Incredible.

1412
00:38:53,398 --> 00:38:54,797
MIKE: When I'm looking
at Howdy Doody,

1413
00:38:54,866 --> 00:38:57,666
I'm thinking about
how everything that

1414
00:38:57,736 --> 00:39:00,670
Matthew did
added up to this.

1415
00:39:01,139 --> 00:39:04,007
Out of anybody in the world,
he was the guy that they

1416
00:39:04,075 --> 00:39:07,343
handed over the original
puppet to recreate him.

1417
00:39:07,412 --> 00:39:08,345
That says a lot.

1418
00:39:08,547 --> 00:39:09,945
JANET: It's unbelievable
what he went through to

1419
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:12,615
make that shirt. He
needed the exact plaid,

1420
00:39:12,818 --> 00:39:14,750
and the plaid
didn't exist.

1421
00:39:14,819 --> 00:39:15,819
MATT: Well, it
wasn't unbelievable.

1422
00:39:16,021 --> 00:39:16,619
JANET: Daddy, nobody
would have done that,

1423
00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:18,354
it's amazing
that you did it.

1424
00:39:18,423 --> 00:39:19,956
MATT: Oh well.

1425
00:39:20,158 --> 00:39:22,959
JANET: And he used a
combination of India ink and,

1426
00:39:23,028 --> 00:39:26,696
and an airbrush to create,
to recreate the plaid.

1427
00:39:26,765 --> 00:39:28,631
MIKE: On a project
like this today,

1428
00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,032
you would have
a sculptor,

1429
00:39:30,102 --> 00:39:31,568
you would have a seamstress,
you would have a painter,

1430
00:39:31,770 --> 00:39:33,236
you would have
an engineer.

1431
00:39:33,304 --> 00:39:36,039
You would have a team of people
making something like this,

1432
00:39:36,107 --> 00:39:38,774
because each one specializes
in their own field.

1433
00:39:38,843 --> 00:39:41,845
Matthew specialized
in all of it.

1434
00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:45,715
He made every single
piece on this puppet.

1435
00:39:45,917 --> 00:39:49,652
Even the shirt.
It's unbelievable.

1436
00:39:49,987 --> 00:39:51,521
MIKE: Can I make you
an offer on this one?

1437
00:39:51,589 --> 00:39:52,655
MATT: No, not really.

1438
00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:54,858
The other one
that's in there.

1439
00:39:54,926 --> 00:39:55,258
MIKE: Oh you have
another one of these?

1440
00:39:55,327 --> 00:39:56,993
MATT: Yes.

1441
00:39:57,062 --> 00:39:59,529
JANET: Well, he made- he
made another one afterwards.

1442
00:39:59,598 --> 00:40:01,330
MATT: I'll show it to you.

1443
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:02,332
MIKE: Okay.

1444
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,802
MATT: I had leftover
2 hands and the arms,

1445
00:40:05,870 --> 00:40:09,939
the shirt material,
and the boots.

1446
00:40:10,008 --> 00:40:12,609
I said, well gee, I got
this stuff left over,

1447
00:40:12,677 --> 00:40:15,278
I'll make
another Howdy.

1448
00:40:15,347 --> 00:40:16,078
MIKE: Wow.

1449
00:40:16,148 --> 00:40:18,013
So obviously it's
not as refined.

1450
00:40:18,082 --> 00:40:19,748
When you look at his head,
the way it's painted,

1451
00:40:19,818 --> 00:40:21,684
everything about
that is completely

1452
00:40:21,753 --> 00:40:23,219
different than
the one out there.

1453
00:40:23,288 --> 00:40:24,287
Yeah.

1454
00:40:24,489 --> 00:40:26,956
MATT: Well, that one is 30
years older than this one.

1455
00:40:27,025 --> 00:40:29,225
MIKE: Okay, so you made
this one 30 years later.

1456
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:30,760
MATT: Yes.

1457
00:40:30,828 --> 00:40:31,627
MIKE: I'm a fan
of Howdy Doody's.

1458
00:40:31,696 --> 00:40:32,762
MIKE: What about
this piece?

1459
00:40:32,831 --> 00:40:34,563
This is more kind of
a little bit more

1460
00:40:34,632 --> 00:40:36,298
of a contemporary
piece.

1461
00:40:36,367 --> 00:40:37,099
MATT: Yes.

1462
00:40:37,168 --> 00:40:38,501
MIKE: In the
condition it's in...

1463
00:40:38,569 --> 00:40:41,004
6,000 for
this one.

1464
00:40:42,974 --> 00:40:44,374
MATT: No, I wouldn't
be interested in...

1465
00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:45,508
MIKE: Okay.

1466
00:40:45,577 --> 00:40:46,976
MATT: ...selling that.

1467
00:40:47,178 --> 00:40:48,644
MIKE: I thought for sure I
was going to be able to

1468
00:40:48,713 --> 00:40:49,846
buy that second
Howdy Doody.

1469
00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:52,982
But... he didn't even
want to sell that.

1470
00:40:53,051 --> 00:40:54,517
You know, it was just
too close, it was just...

1471
00:40:54,585 --> 00:40:55,652
it wasn't meant to be.

1472
00:40:55,854 --> 00:40:57,720
MIKE: The Magician
is incredible.

1473
00:40:57,788 --> 00:40:58,388
JANET: Isn't he
cool looking?

1474
00:40:58,456 --> 00:40:59,989
MATT: Yeah...

1475
00:41:00,057 --> 00:41:00,523
MIKE: Yeah, I think he's the
most elaborate one

1476
00:41:00,591 --> 00:41:00,990
I've seen you make.

1477
00:41:01,192 --> 00:41:02,324
MATT: He's the last one.

1478
00:41:02,393 --> 00:41:02,992
MIKE: Okay.

1479
00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:06,796
Oh wow... how about
the Magician,

1480
00:41:06,865 --> 00:41:09,332
can I make you an offer
on the Magician?

1481
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:10,400
JANET: Good luck.

1482
00:41:10,468 --> 00:41:11,334
Mike: [laughs]

1483
00:41:11,402 --> 00:41:12,535
MATT: Yes.

1484
00:41:12,604 --> 00:41:14,003
MIKE: You know, sometimes it's
difficult to be the first guy

1485
00:41:14,071 --> 00:41:15,672
in. You know, they're
thinking about selling,

1486
00:41:15,874 --> 00:41:17,941
and they're toying
with the idea.

1487
00:41:18,143 --> 00:41:19,809
And then when it becomes
real, when the quest- the-

1488
00:41:20,011 --> 00:41:23,546
the word is asked,
'would you sell this?'

1489
00:41:23,748 --> 00:41:24,013
Then, the it's
very real.

1490
00:41:25,417 --> 00:41:26,983
MIKE: $6,000.

1491
00:41:28,954 --> 00:41:32,288
MATT: No, that I would
not be able to...

1492
00:41:32,357 --> 00:41:33,022
MIKE: Okay.

1493
00:41:33,091 --> 00:41:34,290
MATT: ...let
you have it for.

1494
00:41:34,359 --> 00:41:35,425
MIKE: Okay.

1495
00:41:35,627 --> 00:41:37,560
MATT: It's ridiculous to say,
but these things are like

1496
00:41:37,629 --> 00:41:38,694
children of mine.
[laughs]

1497
00:41:38,763 --> 00:41:41,831
Having created
every bit of them,

1498
00:41:42,033 --> 00:41:46,168
they really are an
expression of who I am.

1499
00:41:46,905 --> 00:41:48,771
MIKE: Had you ever
thought before at all

1500
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,441
about putting one
out on the market.

1501
00:41:51,643 --> 00:41:52,308
MATT: No, not really.

1502
00:41:52,377 --> 00:41:54,176
MIKE: Okay.

1503
00:41:54,246 --> 00:41:56,913
MIKE: These will all probably
end up in a museum, you know,

1504
00:41:57,115 --> 00:41:58,848
with a tour guide and a
curator taking everybody

1505
00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:01,850
around and talking
about Matthew's life.

1506
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,653
MIKE: It's a big deal
for me to meet the

1507
00:42:03,721 --> 00:42:06,923
man that created
an industry.

1508
00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:08,858
You, my friend, are the
one that moved the bar.

1509
00:42:08,926 --> 00:42:11,460
MIKE: I got to experience
it first-hand.

1510
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:11,861
MIKE: Bye-bye, guys.

1511
00:42:12,063 --> 00:42:12,662
JANET: Goodbye.

1512
00:42:12,864 --> 00:42:13,997
MIKE: And I got
the private tour.