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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know?

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Speaker 1: From House stoff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Yes, it's about antiques on Josh Clark. There's

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Speaker 1: a very eager, strangely eager Charles W. Chuck Bryant, uh,

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Speaker 1: and this is stuff you should know. The podcast, the

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Speaker 1: hundred year old podcast at least makes us an antique.

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Speaker 1: Do you can tell though from the hair in my

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Speaker 1: That's That's the joke about man, right, is that hair

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Speaker 1: leaves the places you want it and accumulates where you

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Speaker 1: don't want so, Chuck Um, you know how you think

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Speaker 1: about certain things, and uh, you come across like a

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Speaker 1: old stuff. That's my definition. But I think it's pretty

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Speaker 1: much dead on um And you think this has always

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Speaker 1: not true. So when did it start? And I am

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Speaker 1: very gratified to say we know when the popular obsession

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Speaker 1: the other one recording today, Volcanos. So here's a little

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Speaker 1: piece of trivia for you that will eventually appear on

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Speaker 1: a quiz. How are antiques and the volcanoes podcast related?

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Speaker 1: Strange glue Herculaneum and Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius binds these two, right,

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Speaker 1: So tell them about it, Chuckers. Well, there was a

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Speaker 1: big old eruption in seventy nine, a d of Vesuvius,

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Speaker 1: Herculaneum between about twenty ft of junk of ash. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that in the vault, which is not

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Speaker 1: you know, that's a bad thing for all the people there,

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Speaker 1: but the bad thing who died screaming, but it preserved

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Speaker 1: them dying screaming. I used to be so obsessed with that,

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Speaker 1: with national anything I could get my hands on, and

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Speaker 1: I loved it. So uh many years after that, Charles

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Speaker 1: old stuff is cool. Right, So these two entire cities

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Speaker 1: the neo classical period or movement, I guess in Europe,

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Speaker 1: and that was like the antiques right, and then in America.

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Speaker 1: It's it's I love this very cool. Once again, our

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Speaker 1: our seventeen seventy six. You know, America is a young,

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Speaker 1: We've got a hundred years worth of stuff we've been

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Speaker 1: making and let's let's showcase this. And all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden people were like the same thing, like wow, this

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Speaker 1: and it became a commodity. Right. So, Um, the the

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Speaker 1: can't remember he was. He's a one hit guy. Well, Chuck, yes, Uh,

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Speaker 1: specifically in this one, a guy named Paul Brown who

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Speaker 1: a Gallery sixty three which is literally just up the

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Speaker 1: You not? Did you buy a cow? I'm just a

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Speaker 1: do you want to check out beforehand? Know exactly what

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Speaker 1: you want, what you're willing to pay, and don't get

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Speaker 1: caught up in the auction fever because, as Paul pointed out,

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Speaker 1: and as anyone knows, something is worth what someone's gonna

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Speaker 1: pay for it. And and if you've got all these

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Speaker 1: people bidden on, it's just like eBay, it's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You get all these I never understood the eBay people

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Speaker 1: that you know in an auctions for like a week

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Speaker 1: and on day one they start throwing bids in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've never understood anything. Well. Sellers love it because it

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Speaker 1: just drives up the price. But I mean as a

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Speaker 1: as a buyer, it doesn't make none at all. On eBay.

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Speaker 1: I go in the last like second and a half

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Speaker 1: my first bid, right and we we also talked to

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Speaker 1: Paul about um, you know what what you should buy

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Speaker 1: or if there's something in your home, and he was

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Speaker 1: saying like it's very surprising how something that seems like

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Speaker 1: it would never sell, or something you take his ordinary

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Speaker 1: commonplace because you grew up around it and it's now

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Speaker 1: in your home and you walk past it every day,

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Speaker 1: that that suddenly takes on value when a guy like

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Speaker 1: him creates a market by taking a seller and putting

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Speaker 1: them together and putting his stuff in front of buyers. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: so you're absolutely right. I mean, like there, things do

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Speaker 1: have value even if they don't seem like they have value.

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Speaker 1: And you can make some dough it in auction, or

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Speaker 1: you can spend a bunch of dough it in auction.

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Speaker 1: You can also do an internet auction, which requires a

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Speaker 1: tremendous amount of faith. Yeah, I mean eBay has their

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Speaker 1: little rules of you gotta be on the upend up,

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Speaker 1: but you can really kind of do anything on there

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Speaker 1: if you want. Yeah, there's antique shows that are you know,

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Speaker 1: like this weekend and North Georgia there's a show and

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Speaker 1: the Georgia Mountain fair Grounds. It's a big deal. Everyone

456
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Speaker 1: brings their stuff and from them once a year and

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Speaker 1: not just made it up. And obviously a state sales.

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Speaker 1: Keep your eyes peeled in the newspaper and Craigslist and

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Speaker 1: stuff for state sales, you get some good fine and

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Speaker 1: the cool thing about the state sales, especially if you

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Speaker 1: if you find an estate sale and the sign for

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Speaker 1: it is on like a piece of poster board with

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Speaker 1: black sharpie, that means it's a yard sale. That means

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Speaker 1: that it's well, it could be there. There could be

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Speaker 1: some really great stuff there, and it's being sold by

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Speaker 1: people who don't know anything, and there's probably no reserve price,

467
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Speaker 1: which is the minimum bid that will be accepted. Um.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, state sales can be treasure troves, especially if

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Speaker 1: you like stuff that smell like um that elderly. Right,

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Speaker 1: let me say that, I think so mothballs. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: If you're checking things out at these places, look for

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Speaker 1: a signature of the maker to help authenticate it. That's

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Speaker 1: kind of a dead giveaway. If you see like a

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Speaker 1: brand on furniture like on the underside, or um on

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Speaker 1: glassware and ceramics is usually on the on the bottom.

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Speaker 1: What else. Well, yeah, that's a that's a good point

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Speaker 1: that there's there should be a signature there because the difference,

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Speaker 1: the only difference really between a reproduction and a counterfeit, uh,

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Speaker 1: is the stamp of the craftsman. Right, the mark of

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Speaker 1: the craftsman saying like I made this in. I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to pass it off as something made in. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: sometimes there's other documentation too that someone will include, like

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Speaker 1: this is uh a photo of my great great grandmother

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Speaker 1: with this chest of drawers or chiffer robe, and um,

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Speaker 1: here's a and then here's it's included in the ill

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Speaker 1: from too. And there's a letter um from my great

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Speaker 1: grandfather to my great grandmother about the chiff robe. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you all this saying bust up that

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Speaker 1: chiffer robe to help to help document that it is

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Speaker 1: in fact. Yes, and if you have that much documentation,

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Speaker 1: you're in like full in because apparently being able to

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Speaker 1: prove providence, especially famous providence, can apparently just drive the

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Speaker 1: price up. There's a story in this article about a

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Speaker 1: person who attended the two thousand to Tucson Antiques roadshow

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Speaker 1: of it and showed up with a you first phase

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Speaker 1: chief's blanket, which is rare enough, like this thing was

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Speaker 1: appraised that three and fifty five hundred thousand dollars, but

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Speaker 1: the person said that it once belonged to Kick Carson,

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Speaker 1: but couldn't prove it, but had he or she proven it,

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Speaker 1: then it would have increased the value by another hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty grand just because Kick Carson slept in it

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Speaker 1: for a while. Al Right, pretty sweet. Huh. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: I look at a lot of Craigslist guitars, you know,

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Speaker 1: just I'm not in the market, but I always just look,

505
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Speaker 1: and there's always every day there's always some two that

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Speaker 1: has a really cheap CREDI guitar and he's like it

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Speaker 1: was signed by the Kip Winger and there's just the

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Speaker 1: scrawl and sharpie on it. And you know, there're as

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Speaker 1: some like five hundred bucks for hundred dollar guitar with

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Speaker 1: Inger maybe don doc into Uh what else can you

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00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: look for, Josh? If you have a CT scan in

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Speaker 1: your house, or an X ray machine or infrared analysis

513
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: or ultra violet analysis, you can do it that way, Yes,

514
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Speaker 1: if you're so lucky to have those kind of things

515
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: in your home or your medical clinic. Or look at

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Speaker 1: the antique dealer. If they're on the up and up,

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Speaker 1: they're probably a member of one of the professional associations.

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00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: And then also if you follow Paul Brown's advice and

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00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: buy what you like, and you're you're pretty much buying

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Speaker 1: for yourself. Uh, then you may end up using your antiques,

521
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: displaying it, keeping it out in the opening your normal house.

522
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: And if you do that, you're gonna want to keep

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Speaker 1: up with it. Right, So if you have an antique clock,

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00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to wind it regularly. Uh. If you

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Speaker 1: have a rug or blanket or something like that, maybe

526
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: up on the walls better place than on the floor, right. Um.

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00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: And uh then other uh kind of more fragile stuff

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00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: like books, sheet music, manuscripts. Um, you wanna store these

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00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: upright out of the sun. Yeah, we want to make

530
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Speaker 1: sure there's no newspaper pressing between them. Highly acidic, bad

531
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: for an antique book. Probably not in the basement or

532
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: the attic. You want a good neutral temperature. Your books

533
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: want to be in the same climate you're in. Yeah.

534
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: Did you like that it's a T shirt right there.

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00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: Photographs you should store in their own individual envelope and

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Speaker 1: then that envelope in a box. Don't like out of

537
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Speaker 1: the sun. Yeah, don't stick them all together and like

538
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,239
Speaker 1: put a brick on top of them. They're gonna end

539
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,239
Speaker 1: up being a goooey mess. It's not a good way

540
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: to store your photos and you're also gonna want to

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Speaker 1: buy a nice pair of cotton gloves when you start

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Speaker 1: collecting antique photographs of any kind, whether it's glass or

543
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: metal degarat type. If you're into Matthew Brady or being

544
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: a mime, remember the Brady Bunch where it turned out

545
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: that Matthew Brady was related to Mr Brady and they

546
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: showed like a picture it was a de Garat type

547
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Speaker 1: of Abraham Lincoln in the background is Mike Brady. Yeah,

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00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: it's a good one. I do remember that. I'm like,

549
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: this is like the second Chris Farley reference. Yeah, we

550
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: did the Chip Indels thing and then like the remember

551
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: when he a text Scorsese. Do you remember you got

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00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: anything else? Set it for auctions and uh antiques and

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00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I think it is. We want

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Speaker 1: to give a hearty thanks to Paul Brown. Congratulations and

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00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: good luck. It's nice to see another Atlanta boy making

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Speaker 1: good that's right, um, And we're gonna drop by Gallery

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Speaker 1: sixty three one day, maybe a good picture made with him.

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00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: How about that he invited us so it wouldn't be

559
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: like stalking, and you know, check out auction Kings obviously

560
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about antiques. You can

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Speaker 1: type word antiques or antiquities is as it's also called

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Speaker 1: antiques is slang for antiquities. You know that that was it? Yeah,

563
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: you can type that into the search bar at how

564
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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com the dusty old search bar and

565
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Speaker 1: needed polishing found in our attic. All right, Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm trying. Now, how does it work? I think

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Speaker 1: it's great that brings up then listener male, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: call this, uh polyamory A polyamorous young lady. Yeah, hello

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Speaker 1: from a polyamoroust. Yeah, hi, guys. Today I was feverishly

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Speaker 1: sewing tiny pieces of silk together and cursing myself for

571
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Speaker 1: attempting such an elaborate Christmas gift for my sister. When

572
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Speaker 1: why would anyone want? Multiple spouses started playing? I put

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Speaker 1: down my thumble and listen even more intently than usual

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Speaker 1: for I myself and a polyamoroust. I'm a twenty one

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Speaker 1: year old female living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which I believe

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Speaker 1: is in America's hat. I've flown over that. I have

577
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Speaker 1: two partners, Jesse and Kumarn, and of two three and

578
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: two years, respectively. Jesse and I lived together. We all

579
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Speaker 1: happened to be humanitarian atheists. Jesse and Komb have been

580
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: friends since well before I met either of them, but

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Speaker 1: they do not have a physical relationship together. Both of

582
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Speaker 1: them are able to pursue relationships with other people, and

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Speaker 1: I have had a lady friend in the last three

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Speaker 1: years to boot as well. To minimize the risk of

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Speaker 1: s t I s, we maintain a fluid bond and

586
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: no one has intercourse with someone outside the bond without

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Speaker 1: an s t I test. Jealousy has never been an issue.

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Speaker 1: For some reason. Jesse actually encouraged me to start dating Komb,

589
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: and when Jesse was dating his lady friend, I was

590
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Speaker 1: really pleased and excited. All of our parents know we

591
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: are out to our co workers and friends. I have

592
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: no desire to get married, but I know of many

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Speaker 1: polyamorous families who do or are. I would say the

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Speaker 1: benefits of polyN me for us, at least, because a

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Speaker 1: twentysomething family with no children boils down to more more

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Speaker 1: people to love, more people to be loved by, more

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Speaker 1: sources of support, more ideas, more perspective or Christmas gifts.

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Speaker 1: The most importantly, more people to gun down, zombies and

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Speaker 1: left for dead. Is that one of the safe places,

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Speaker 1: one of the safe areas in the Zombie Apocalypse Saskatoon. Yeah,

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00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure three shotguns are better than two. I would

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00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: also like to point out that living communally where everyone

603
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: has sexual access quote unquote to everyone else is relatively

604
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Speaker 1: rare in polyamory. More commonly it's just three or four

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Speaker 1: or four person relationships or quote unquote open relationships, or

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Speaker 1: even primary and secondary relationships. So that in tertiary is

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Speaker 1: from lydia Well, thanks a lot, lydia Um is very

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Speaker 1: nice to have that little peek into your life. Thank

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Speaker 1: you up there. Plus also she left out and say

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Speaker 1: s cartoon it gets really cold up there. Yeah, real cold.

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Speaker 1: Imagine a three person snuggle is pretty warm. It's like

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Speaker 1: three dog night, do you know? That's where that came

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Speaker 1: from the Aborigines in Australia. On a particularly cold night,

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Speaker 1: they would sleep with three dogs around him. The three

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Speaker 1: dog night is a really really cold night, and that's

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Speaker 1: where the bank got their name. Yes, okay, if you

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Speaker 1: have any cool interesting stories, we didn't really touch about

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Speaker 1: a touch on it, but if we if you have

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Speaker 1: any cool stories about something that was found in your

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Speaker 1: attic or in your neighbor's attic that turned out to

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Speaker 1: be really valuable and cool. We want to hear about it.

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Speaker 1: And in the meantime, here's a little um watching homework

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Speaker 1: coolest auction movie of all time. You've seen it? Oh, chuck,

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