This Past Weekend with Theo Von - E345 Male Auctioneers

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00:00:40.980 Today's guests are, you know, they're those frontline tongue ninjas, baby. You know what 1.00

00:00:45.640 I'm saying? I mean, these guys are, you know, they're the senseis of selling. They're a father

00:00:54.160 and son duo from San Marcos, Texas. They work in a business that I know nothing about,

00:01:01.180 but I'm very curious to learn. Today's guests, we are very honored to have in studio. It is Cameron

00:01:06.760 and his father, Spanky Nichols, and they are auctioneers.

00:01:11.420 Spanky Nichols, and they are auctioneers.

00:01:16.080 Shine that light on me. I'll sit and tell you my stories. Shine on me. And I will find a song I've been singing just before.

00:01:37.080 Nashville is a cool spot, man. First time here.

00:01:46.080 Is it your first time here?

00:01:46.920 Yeah.

00:01:47.240 Yeah.

00:01:47.660 My first time, too.

00:01:48.740 Okay.

00:01:49.120 Very cool spot.

00:01:49.960 And you've been sober ever since?

00:01:51.660 No, I haven't been sober ever since. I've had a couple relapses here and there.

00:01:55.120 Well, every day is a work in progress.

00:01:57.980 Yeah, it really is, dude. I'm grateful to just have each new day, you know, and just try to have a good attitude when I get up.

00:02:03.140 Right, yeah.

00:02:03.760 If I can start out decent, I usually do pretty well.

00:02:06.880 Yeah.

00:02:07.400 It's when I start out.

00:02:08.360 It's a trick, yeah.

00:02:08.720 So you don't want to go have a drink with me later?

00:02:10.380 Probably not, man. I'll watch you drink, dude. Hell, I'll buy you some steroids, dude, if you want.

00:02:16.080 We used to do a good bit of, you know, one of my buddies, one night, I was doing some touring somewhere, and he's like 3 a.m.

00:02:24.360 He's like, hey, man, I'm going to get some drugs, you know? Give me some money.

00:02:27.760 And I was like, all right, you know, I'm not going out there to get them, but I'll, you know what I'm saying, I'll be a part of it.

00:02:32.860 Fiscally, I'll be involved, yeah.

00:02:34.680 Fiscally, right, right.

00:02:35.420 So I give him some money, and then he comes back like two hours later, man.

00:02:38.260 He had steroids on him.

00:02:39.640 He's like, let's party.

00:02:41.780 And he had injectable steroids, man.

00:02:43.720 I said, well, it takes two weeks to get in your system.

00:02:46.900 Yeah.

00:02:47.260 So even if we do them right now, we got to, you know what I'm saying, I got to get a gym membership, and then you and I got to meet back up in a couple weeks.

00:02:54.380 This wasn't a good idea.

00:02:55.460 So we decided not to.

00:02:56.840 Funny story, though.

00:02:57.340 I'm sitting here with Cam and Spanky, and you guys are auctioneer men, right?

00:03:02.040 That is correct.

00:03:03.040 And is that a safe term?

00:03:04.260 What is the term to reference somebody that does auction?

00:03:09.000 Auctioneer.

00:03:09.580 That's it.

00:03:10.120 Yes, sir.

00:03:10.640 The old school term would be colonel.

00:03:12.640 Colonel.

00:03:13.100 Really?

00:03:13.980 In World War I, all the colonels, when they got done with all the equipment, they were the ones that sold the equipment.

00:03:21.560 So they labeled auctioneers as colonels.

00:03:23.820 Horses, too.

00:03:24.420 Oh, really?

00:03:24.900 They had to get them to listen to them, so they gave them the title colonel.

00:03:29.000 Just to get the men to listen to them.

00:03:31.280 They gave them the title colonel, so then the men had to listen.

00:03:33.240 And so at the end of like a battle or something or a war, the colonel would auction off the gear?

00:03:38.240 I think so.

00:03:38.680 To my understanding, yes.

00:03:39.760 Horses and gear?

00:03:40.680 Yeah.

00:03:40.860 So technically, we are colonels.

00:03:43.380 Okay.

00:03:44.340 And so-

00:03:44.880 I think technically.

00:03:45.720 And you guys-

00:03:46.740 So Spanky, you got into it first. 1.00

00:03:49.220 Yes, sir.

00:03:49.980 Okay.

00:03:50.660 And so how did that occur?

00:03:51.720 How did you just-

00:03:52.980 How did someone become an auctioneer?

00:03:55.800 It's really a family pass-down trait.

00:04:00.680 I mean-

00:04:01.240 It's tough to get into.

00:04:01.920 It's really, really tough to break into.

00:04:04.040 Like they'll tell you 5% of every graduating auctioneer class, only 5% ever pursue it and

00:04:12.000 make a living at doing it.

00:04:14.360 And is it because it's a family business?

00:04:17.020 It's not necessarily a family business, but it's more so of, with anything, it's who

00:04:23.820 you know versus what you know.

00:04:26.140 Yeah, and that's everything.

00:04:27.020 I mean, and even actually in, I know in Louisiana, there's a lot of barge captains and stuff like

00:04:31.900 that, and that business, tugboat captains, and that is a familial business.

00:04:37.420 I mean, if your grandfather, you can literally get grandfathered into it.

00:04:40.520 Right.

00:04:40.940 You know, and that's, and they're always going to court over that, over trying to like adjust

00:04:45.820 the way people can get into that.

00:04:47.800 So Spanky, take me into how you get into it. 1.00

00:04:50.340 So-

00:04:50.940 My father graduated Missouri Auction School in 1974.

00:04:55.120 Oh, wow.

00:04:55.580 And he's had auto auctions my whole life, owned auto auctions my whole life.

00:05:00.360 And so, I mean, I was working the ring, which they say the ring is the floor taking bids.

00:05:07.000 Yep, yep, yep, yep.

00:05:08.340 The floor bidders.

00:05:09.720 Okay.

00:05:10.020 I mean, I was working the ring as young as 10, 11, 12 years old.

00:05:13.500 Okay.

00:05:13.860 And when you're in the ring, what is that?

00:05:15.580 So the ring is the floor where-

00:05:17.880 The arena and working the crowd.

00:05:20.620 Okay.

00:05:20.980 Working the people that are attending the auction there, buying and bidding.

00:05:25.440 You're taking their bids and turning them into the auctioneer.

00:05:28.960 The auctioneer's up on a block.

00:05:30.220 Okay.

00:05:30.780 At that time, would have been my dad.

00:05:32.840 I mean, we've done anything from tool sales to car sales.

00:05:35.940 Mainly, my dad has owned car auto auctions my whole life.

00:05:39.600 Wow.

00:05:40.880 So do you remember, like, as a ring person, were there some, like, was that kind of, was

00:05:47.580 that harder than being actually the big boss?

00:05:49.680 No.

00:05:50.540 Not at all.

00:05:51.480 You don't have to count.

00:05:52.220 You just have to count.

00:05:52.580 You don't have to count.

00:05:53.460 You just got to turn bids in.

00:05:54.820 I mean, yep, yep, yep, yep.

00:05:57.160 And every time you yep, I mean, you're going up, the auctioneer's going up 100 or whatever

00:06:02.140 increments he's counting.

00:06:04.220 Okay.

00:06:04.560 So what determines, and what determines how you count?

00:06:08.820 Like, how the auctioneer sets the, like, the increments?

00:06:11.760 How fast the crowd is bidding.

00:06:13.420 Right.

00:06:13.940 And also, there's a floor.

00:06:15.320 So, like, there's a reserve.

00:06:17.200 So if you're, like, 10,000 bucks, you know, you count in two fifties or hundreds.

00:06:21.200 And if you're, like, in two or three hundred bucks, it's fifties sometimes.

00:06:25.460 Okay.

00:06:25.960 Whatever the crowd will allow you to do.

00:06:27.980 Right.

00:06:28.160 Okay.

00:06:28.900 And what are some of the things as you're, okay, so you get out of the ring, and you

00:06:36.200 end up becoming the auctioneer.

00:06:38.040 So did you have to go to school for that?

00:06:40.020 Like, and you went to Missouri?

00:06:42.320 Auction school.

00:06:43.020 Missouri Auction School.

00:06:43.860 The same one you went to, Cam?

00:06:44.800 Yes, sir.

00:06:45.200 Okay.

00:06:45.440 Same one my dad went to.

00:06:46.380 Okay.

00:06:47.080 And how many, like, is there, like, how big was your class?

00:06:51.680 I think there was, like, 50 of us.

00:06:53.800 Yeah, for that year.

00:06:54.740 And is that pretty competitive?

00:06:55.860 I mean, that seems like a competitive, like, you're just sharpening your tongue before class.

00:07:01.060 Like, it's.

00:07:01.420 Yeah, the business is.

00:07:02.460 The school.

00:07:02.920 You don't come out of auction school as an auctioneer.

00:07:05.680 No.

00:07:05.980 You come out of auction school with the ability to practice and learn to become an auctioneer.

00:07:11.440 Takes years after school to actually get it.

00:07:12.460 Takes years after.

00:07:13.380 I will say that he, Cameron, has become the fastest auction, not just because of my son, but it comes natural to him.

00:07:21.180 Right.

00:07:21.360 I have to work a lot harder at it.

00:07:22.900 He, he's, he's a lot more natural at it, really, than a lot of people I've ever seen.

00:07:29.680 And what do you, what makes him, what are some of those kind of natural abilities that make someone have an easier walk with auctioneering?

00:07:35.940 Just breathing, it just, it just came real natural to him, breathing.

00:07:40.600 He learned counting.

00:07:42.740 And he's a real sharp guy on top of, aside from auctioneering.

00:07:47.580 And that's, memory is a lot of, of, of auctioneering.

00:07:51.620 I mean, you got to, you know, stay on track with your numbers and not, not miss numbers.

00:07:56.140 And, and, and counting that at that rapid speed, it takes, it takes a good memory.

00:08:01.620 Wow.

00:08:01.820 And he has that.

00:08:03.380 What do you think, like, there's some of, because I, I can almost relate to you there, Spanky, when you're saying, like, I don't know, the pressure would max me out, dude.

00:08:11.660 You know what I'm saying?

00:08:12.260 I'd be on the law audit or something.

00:08:13.600 I'd be on, you know what I'm saying?

00:08:14.760 I'd be calling Big Pharma.

00:08:15.980 I would need, like, I think the pressure, like, even just in the moment of the, like, you know, and keeping the tablature in my head, worried I was going to upset people.

00:08:23.920 Well, there's, there's, there's a lot going on when you're up there auctioneering and selling cars at 30, 40 seconds, every car.

00:08:30.760 I mean, you're, you're, you're, and nowadays with COVID, you know, you, you don't have a guy sitting over here talking to you necessarily, or sometimes you do.

00:08:38.680 That's a luxury.

00:08:39.660 Sometimes he's in the computer.

00:08:41.220 And so you're watching the computer, you're watching the crowd, you're watching another screen for online bidders.

00:08:48.120 So you're, you're watching everything at the same time.

00:08:51.040 Wow.

00:08:51.400 And you, and you, you're trying not to piss off eight or 10 people at one time and keep the whole entire crowd happy.

00:08:58.240 And I mean, there's a lot going on when you're up there.

00:09:00.660 Right.

00:09:01.720 Cam, what would you say is, is there a moment in the bidding, like in the bidding process when, what's the toughest moment for an auctioneer as the bidding really gets heightened out?

00:09:11.740 You know, like, or is it in the beginning?

00:09:13.140 Like, what in the beginning?

00:09:14.320 Take me on some of the journey through when you start an item.

00:09:17.440 So the car rolls in or the item or whatever you're selling.

00:09:20.820 And who brings it in?

00:09:21.840 Is it women usually? 1.00

00:09:23.480 Yeah, usually.

00:09:24.700 No, it's just random people.

00:09:26.140 They just get these drivers in. 1.00

00:09:27.580 Oh, damn. 0.99

00:09:28.100 I feel like you put a, you know, you put a beautiful little bird up next to a blender, I'll buy it. 1.00

00:09:33.060 You know?

00:09:33.560 Yeah.

00:09:33.940 Oh, absolutely.

00:09:35.100 For sure.

00:09:35.620 It will help.

00:09:35.960 I'll buy a used vacuum if she's nice. 1.00

00:09:38.040 You know what I'm saying?

00:09:38.560 But that's gone by the wayside.

00:09:39.880 Really?

00:09:40.640 Yeah, they're all temp drivers.

00:09:41.920 Well, you got to be politically correct nowadays and give everybody an opportunity.

00:09:46.340 Right.

00:09:46.980 But if some man walks out there with a blender, dude, he can keep it.

00:09:50.120 Yeah.

00:09:50.480 I'm not interested.

00:09:51.140 You know what I'm saying?

00:09:51.620 Like, so, yeah, you're giving people opportunity, but you're not giving, you're not really, you know, you're not going to push my buttons, I don't think, as well.

00:09:57.800 Like, my mom, when I was growing up, my mom used to deliver these magazines called News on Wheels, and it was a magazine that had pictures of, like, women, like, semi-lewd women kind of laying on the hood of the, it was usually like a, not T-Mobile, what am I thinking of?

00:10:13.840 Prime Co? 0.81

00:10:14.960 It's like a T-Mobile, a T-top car.

00:10:18.060 Oh, there you go.

00:10:18.600 Yeah.

00:10:19.060 And so, like, a Corvette or something, you know, something that had a pack of Winstons in the dashboard.

00:10:24.780 You know what I'm saying?

00:10:25.360 Yeah.

00:10:25.540 Like, something like that.

00:10:26.280 Yeah, some old, like, and so.

00:10:28.120 They would always have some lady laying on the front. 1.00

00:10:30.260 Oh, yeah.

00:10:30.760 And it would just be, and that would help sell the car.

00:10:33.100 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:10:34.260 That's advertising, marketing.

00:10:35.260 Yeah, it was advertising.

00:10:36.580 Yeah.

00:10:37.240 But, yeah, that's kind of sexist now. 0.99

00:10:39.780 Damn, that's crazy, dude. 0.99

00:10:41.920 I mean, I get it, but also, man. 0.99

00:10:43.420 We used to have, like, Hooters girls come and serve wings and stuff at our auction. 1.00

00:10:47.380 Okay, so there's a little bit of, like, catering to the men.

00:10:49.160 It used to be, back in the day.

00:10:50.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:10:51.760 Right.

00:10:52.820 Okay, so take me, I'm sorry to interrupt you, Cam, so take me through some of that.

00:10:55.600 What's that like, man?

00:10:56.260 Once you get the items.

00:10:57.020 So they kind of, do they always wheel the item out?

00:10:59.600 Yeah, the car will come in, so it's like a huge barn with, like, big bay doors.

00:11:04.080 And there's 18 lanes.

00:11:05.700 There's four to 18 lanes, depending on what auction we're working.

00:11:08.600 And they just drive the cars through.

00:11:10.380 The car sits there for-

00:11:11.340 Now, lanes, when you say that, what does that mean?

00:11:12.520 I know a lane is a straight.

00:11:13.400 Like a bay.

00:11:14.160 Okay.

00:11:14.600 So, like, a big garage.

00:11:15.840 Okay.

00:11:16.200 So, like, if you were to take this garage door and open it up over here, it just goes

00:11:19.400 through.

00:11:19.660 Okay.

00:11:19.800 Auctioneer's in the middle, and you got the ring right there.

00:11:21.880 Okay.

00:11:22.140 And the car will roll up, and it sits there for pretty much until we find money on it,

00:11:27.020 which is basically you get a bid.

00:11:28.700 Okay.

00:11:29.280 I'd say the toughest part is probably just finding the money, but it's also the easiest,

00:11:32.560 too, because you can just drop it really low and go.

00:11:34.660 Okay.

00:11:35.060 So, a car rolls in, right?

00:11:36.520 Mm-hmm.

00:11:37.560 And do you start the bidding, or the audience starts the bidding?

00:11:41.900 We start the bidding.

00:11:42.700 So, we look at our computer, or if we have a rep next to us, there'll be a reserve or

00:11:47.460 a floor with that dealer needs for that car.

00:11:50.740 Okay.

00:11:50.960 So, we usually start it around there, give or take.

00:11:53.520 And then from there, we find the money, and then we go up and get some excitement, and bids

00:11:57.380 roll in.

00:11:58.400 Now, usually in that beginning moment, do you see people kind of talk to their friend?

00:12:01.660 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:12:02.280 We read people.

00:12:03.100 We read people.

00:12:03.980 Okay, we read, yes.

00:12:04.300 Yeah.

00:12:04.560 So, if you see somebody-

00:12:05.860 And I didn't mean to interrupt, but they're waiting for you to drop back, back, back,

00:12:09.200 back, back, back, back.

00:12:10.420 Okay.

00:12:10.460 And so, you're fishing for money.

00:12:12.920 I see.

00:12:13.760 So, you just drop down in numbers.

00:12:16.580 So, who are you working for, the seller or the bidders, or are you working for both?

00:12:19.900 We're working for the auction, but we really work for the seller.

00:12:22.200 Okay.

00:12:22.420 In this, because we're selling his merchandise, his inventory.

00:12:26.260 Do you get a percentage of the sale of what's sold?

00:12:28.880 We wish.

00:12:29.560 We wish.

00:12:30.120 We get flat rate day labor, pretty much.

00:12:32.580 Okay.

00:12:32.920 Flat rate.

00:12:34.240 Now, if you were to put on the auction, like my grandpa owned the auction, of course,

00:12:38.200 he got a percent, a buy fee, and a sale fee.

00:12:40.400 Right.

00:12:41.060 So, yeah, he would get percent.

00:12:42.760 Okay.

00:12:43.060 But as an auctioneer, we're just independent contractors.

00:12:45.300 Man, because that makes you really wonder if you had like Bruce Buffer or something in

00:12:48.520 there from UFC or something where you had, you know, it's tough, you know?

00:12:52.480 Yeah.

00:12:52.700 Like, if you had somebody that had that golden throat on them, it might be-

00:12:55.720 Oh, yeah.

00:12:56.400 Golden throat.

00:12:56.920 Would they get a little extra?

00:12:58.420 That's passion.

00:12:59.440 Yeah.

00:12:59.780 That's what I call passion.

00:13:00.880 I mean, that's what I do every day because I'm passionate about what I do.

00:13:05.160 And yes, I get paid well for doing it, but I do it for the- I mean, I do it because I

00:13:11.200 love to do it and it's fun to me.

00:13:12.680 It's fun.

00:13:12.960 It's never the same.

00:13:13.900 Really?

00:13:14.320 Yeah.

00:13:14.540 It's different every day.

00:13:15.660 Yeah.

00:13:16.020 Okay.

00:13:16.320 So, that item gets up there.

00:13:17.500 You got the item going now.

00:13:18.620 You started to kind of lower the money enough and monitor the crowd where I guess you're

00:13:22.020 taking this- you get a vibe of an audience.

00:13:24.340 Same as a comedian.

00:13:25.180 After a while, you can kind of tell where things are happening.

00:13:27.420 Oh, yeah.

00:13:27.720 You're reading people.

00:13:28.300 You really can, man.

00:13:29.120 And it's weird, you can almost read a group of people.

00:13:31.560 Right.

00:13:32.140 You can almost feel little things of energy.

00:13:34.200 Oh, yeah.

00:13:34.780 So, you're reading people.

00:13:35.820 You get a bid, right?

00:13:36.780 Right.

00:13:37.140 All right.

00:13:37.360 You get that first bid.

00:13:38.320 Then where do you go from there?

00:13:39.500 You start going up.

00:13:40.480 Okay.

00:13:40.820 Yeah.

00:13:40.960 You look for the second one.

00:13:42.800 You know?

00:13:43.060 And now, what if people- do you notice if people are feeling too pressure?

00:13:45.920 Like, I'm a nervous bidder, you know?

00:13:47.580 So, I would probably-

00:13:48.280 Oh, yeah.

00:13:48.660 We read you.

00:13:49.400 It would be hard for me to, like, make that choice.

00:13:51.360 Do you slow down the verbiage and slow it down?

00:13:54.720 Yeah.

00:13:54.860 Or speed it up and then they get nervous and bid.

00:13:56.580 Oh, yeah.

00:13:59.580 Yeah.

00:13:59.940 Don't do that, bro.

00:14:01.040 Yeah. 0.99

00:14:01.380 Don't be crazy, man. 1.00

00:14:02.660 I'll lose a damn wife like that. 1.00

00:14:05.540 Have you seen somebody make a bid and you always felt bad for them? 1.00

00:14:08.480 Oh, yeah.

00:14:09.260 Most definitely.

00:14:10.000 Most definitely.

00:14:10.520 Yeah.

00:14:11.200 But we're not there to babysit.

00:14:12.660 Yeah.

00:14:12.960 We're there to sell the cars.

00:14:14.000 We're there to sell cars.

00:14:15.100 And-

00:14:15.300 We want to make sure everyone's happy, but, you know, I feel like if you don't piss somebody

00:14:18.800 off, you're probably not doing a good job.

00:14:21.040 Yeah.

00:14:21.460 Didn't have a good auction.

00:14:22.580 Yeah.

00:14:22.900 Wow.

00:14:23.140 If someone's not upset, you didn't have a good auction.

00:14:25.680 Really?

00:14:26.340 From one side, you know.

00:14:27.600 Right.

00:14:27.980 Or the other.

00:14:28.280 One side or the other.

00:14:28.940 Yeah.

00:14:29.160 Yeah.

00:14:30.720 What is the schooling like?

00:14:32.220 Take me through some of the auctioneer schooling and what do you do in there?

00:14:35.440 Is there like-

00:14:36.540 You go in there and chant every day, Betty Butter bought some butter, but she said this

00:14:39.560 butter's bitter.

00:14:40.320 Tongue twisters.

00:14:41.120 If I had a bitter batter in my-

00:14:42.160 I mean, just tongue twisters all day long for 10 hours a day.

00:14:44.980 Learn how to breathe.

00:14:45.460 Learn how to breathe.

00:14:45.480 Learn how to breathe.

00:14:46.820 That would be a hard one, man.

00:14:47.920 Yeah.

00:14:48.240 For 10 hours a day for 10 days.

00:14:50.040 So it's not too bad.

00:14:50.820 Well, I've breathed my whole life, but I couldn't imagine if I had to really section it off

00:14:54.040 like that, it might get a little hairy.

00:14:56.480 But what about, take me through a couple of those.

00:14:59.420 Yeah.

00:15:00.320 Because everybody knew that growing up like sea sails, sea sails by the seashore.

00:15:03.940 Yeah.

00:15:04.240 Yeah.

00:15:04.660 So you try to get your brain to think-

00:15:08.280 Think before you speak.

00:15:09.220 Before you speak, which is, you think that's normal, but when you're going that fast, that's

00:15:14.200 what the school really does.

00:15:15.400 It's like teach your brain to get up to that speed, essentially.

00:15:19.340 Okay.

00:15:19.700 Along with your mouth, but-

00:15:21.340 So take me through one of them, if you remember them.

00:15:24.420 Betty Botner bought some butter, but she said this is butter bitter.

00:15:26.300 If I put it in my batter, it'll make my batter bitter.

00:15:27.860 So she bought a bit of better butter, put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter, batter

00:15:30.340 better, so it's better.

00:15:32.040 Betty Botner bought a bit of better butter.

00:15:34.080 Dang.

00:15:35.560 I used to be able to do it a lot faster, but I don't practice the tongue twisters anymore.

00:15:39.080 Right.

00:15:39.600 You're past that.

00:15:40.340 Yeah.

00:15:40.660 In school, man, you could fly through it.

00:15:43.980 And so you take the, you get these lessons, then you go back to class, and are you doing

00:15:47.740 them in front of the other students?

00:15:49.320 Yeah, we do them as a group, so everyone would stand up.

00:15:51.780 Let's do Betty Botner, and we'd do that.

00:15:53.600 Yeah, let's do Tommy Atatomus.

00:15:54.960 Yeah.

00:15:55.340 Climb two trees.

00:15:56.120 Tommy Atatomus.

00:15:56.960 I don't even remember.

00:15:57.480 Yeah, something like that.

00:15:58.300 Tommy Atatomus took two T's.

00:16:01.200 Climb to the top of two tall trees.

00:16:02.840 Something along those lines.

00:16:04.180 And then rubber baby buggy bumper.

00:16:06.400 Oh, yeah, rubber baby buggy bumpers, yeah.

00:16:07.800 That one's tough.

00:16:08.680 I don't care who you are.

00:16:10.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:10.520 I don't know.

00:16:10.980 Now, is there a type, do some people put a little oil in their mouth or something before

00:16:16.940 they do it?

00:16:17.480 Cough drops.

00:16:19.760 Cough drop.

00:16:20.360 Grease that wand. 0.98

00:16:21.260 Do you know what I'm saying?

00:16:21.800 I'm a big cough drop guy.

00:16:22.640 Oh, you are?

00:16:23.360 Yeah.

00:16:23.900 Okay, so you'll ride that lozenge, daddy.

00:16:25.420 I feel that.

00:16:26.160 Yeah.

00:16:26.960 Because I'm wondering what I-

00:16:27.960 But it clears your nasal out, you know what I mean?

00:16:29.780 It helps you breathe.

00:16:30.480 Yeah.

00:16:31.260 I do like that.

00:16:32.480 And keeps your throat slick.

00:16:33.820 Yeah.

00:16:34.000 Yeah, I like that.

00:16:34.800 Slick throat.

00:16:35.680 That's key, huh?

00:16:36.900 Is it?

00:16:37.380 Yeah, absolutely.

00:16:38.020 When I go to work, in my bag is my microphone and about eight or ten cough drops.

00:16:42.460 I about lost my voice on Tuesday.

00:16:44.020 Yeah?

00:16:44.440 Yeah.

00:16:44.740 What were you guys selling?

00:16:45.600 Cars.

00:16:46.220 Okay.

00:16:46.700 Yeah.

00:16:47.040 We primarily do cars every day.

00:16:48.800 Yeah.

00:16:48.920 I mean, that's-

00:16:50.120 And that world's growing.

00:16:51.240 I mean, I feel like the car auction, like I have friends, like I don't know if I just

00:16:54.520 have friends that have some money now or something, but I got friends sometimes.

00:16:57.060 Then like, I'll go over to their house, like, yeah, just buying a car on my phone.

00:17:00.460 Oh, yeah.

00:17:00.720 Sight unseen.

00:17:01.960 I see a lot of people buying stuff online.

00:17:04.100 Has the online business diminished you guys' business?

00:17:07.340 It's on its way.

00:17:08.120 It's working on it.

00:17:09.100 Yeah.

00:17:10.180 For sure.

00:17:10.880 There's these-

00:17:11.560 Luckily, though, there's enough independent owners that we work for that believe in the

00:17:18.660 old-fashioned, the touch it, feel it, smell it, come put your hands on it, cater, service,

00:17:26.520 Hooter girls, food trucks, stuff like that, that will keep the business alive. 1.00

00:17:33.360 Right.

00:17:33.540 The experience.

00:17:34.400 Yeah.

00:17:34.640 Yeah.

00:17:34.820 You're like independent-

00:17:35.740 Right.

00:17:36.060 The independent owners.

00:17:36.800 Mom and pop sales, potentially, you know, smaller ones, but they're still pretty big.

00:17:40.600 And then you have the big corporate sales, you know, that's, I think that's the way that

00:17:45.580 they're going, though.

00:17:46.680 And so do you guys get, is there another, what's kind of like out to pasture for an auctioneer?

00:17:52.640 Because if you're a comedian, sometimes you end up doing, you'll see a comedian end up

00:17:56.680 doing a little magic, you know?

00:17:58.240 And we're not saying that they put them out to pasture, but that's kind of like, you know,

00:18:02.100 it's kind of the, it's the elevator down kind of from the career a little bit.

00:18:06.540 Oh, he's doing magic over there, you know?

00:18:08.500 Which is fine.

00:18:09.280 No, I mean, magicians are a comedian's arch nemesis.

00:18:12.360 That's always been the thing.

00:18:13.380 Right. 0.99

00:18:13.640 Like, you know, you'll see them talk shit a lot and really hate each other as much as 0.99

00:18:16.620 they can, but not say it. 0.99

00:18:18.600 But, but is there a, is there a side hustle that the skill of auctioneering kind of like

00:18:25.640 lends itself to afterwards or alongside of it?

00:18:29.280 Well, in my, my deal and his deal, he, he does real estate on the side and I play with

00:18:36.100 cars.

00:18:37.180 I mean, I, if, if I have a lot of free time after these auctions too, we get done.

00:18:40.360 So we started like nine, we get done at like 1130 or noon.

00:18:44.020 So we have the rest of the day.

00:18:46.620 Okay.

00:18:47.060 Oh, wow.

00:18:47.380 We work three to four days a week and that's it.

00:18:49.280 And then we have just a ton of extra time.

00:18:51.240 And is there reasons that auctions take place in the morning?

00:18:53.940 Is there something to that?

00:18:55.100 Because the dealers have other things to do in the afternoons.

00:18:57.620 Right.

00:18:58.040 Now there are other auctions that take place in the afternoons and at night.

00:19:02.640 You know, there's some night auctions that cater to the, the mom 0.99

00:19:06.400 and pop car dealers, the note dealers that, that can't be there in the

00:19:09.660 morning because they're attending to their car lots.

00:19:12.500 And so they'll have a night sale and they're usually a smaller and they're

00:19:16.640 usually a more fun atmosphere, you know, they'll have, they'll have coolers

00:19:22.980 full of beer out there for them. 0.97

00:19:24.320 And then they, you know, they get drunk and buy shit that they, you know, 0.99

00:19:27.580 they're like, I bought that. 0.99

00:19:28.440 They didn't even buy. 0.99

00:19:29.520 And they'll sell shit too that they, like I sold that. 0.99

00:19:32.440 That's cheap. 1.00

00:19:33.460 Damn. 1.00

00:19:33.780 Oh, that's fun. 1.00

00:19:35.240 Oh yeah.

00:19:36.020 Yeah.

00:19:36.220 I can see that.

00:19:36.840 Yeah.

00:19:36.940 It's funny when you put a little bit of liquor in there, the difference is

00:19:39.380 going to happen.

00:19:39.740 Even I've just been to like, you know, sometimes somebody take you to a golf

00:19:43.060 dinner or one of those things where rich people are playing golf and then

00:19:46.640 they buy, you buy, you know, Drew Brees signed football or something.

00:19:50.080 Oh yeah. 0.98

00:19:50.600 Or they got some damn Reggie Wayne, like cooking, you know, utensils or something 0.99

00:19:54.560 and people will buy them. 0.99

00:19:55.560 For 10, five.

00:19:56.420 Yeah.

00:19:56.660 Yeah.

00:19:56.900 It's crazy, but it's fine.

00:19:57.800 10,000 bucks.

00:19:58.460 It's fine.

00:19:59.060 See, yeah.

00:19:59.940 Sometimes it's just rich people trying to show off.

00:20:02.080 Oh yeah.

00:20:02.540 Yeah, we do some gales.

00:20:04.080 Yeah.

00:20:04.540 And that's a tax deduction too.

00:20:05.820 Yeah.

00:20:06.040 We do some gales.

00:20:06.820 Oh, it's true.

00:20:07.580 That's what they're doing.

00:20:08.340 They're donating.

00:20:09.060 I see.

00:20:10.160 So what type of event, what type of, what do you do to prepare before an

00:20:16.860 auction?

00:20:17.260 Like, is there kind of a series of things you go through or at this point,

00:20:20.200 is it kind of just by rote kind of?

00:20:22.320 At this point, it's really, really natural for me and probably him too.

00:20:25.960 I mean, he's been doing it 10 years and I've been at three to six auto auctions

00:20:30.620 a week for the last 25 years of my life.

00:20:33.000 Okay.

00:20:33.380 Every week.

00:20:34.300 So it's pretty natural.

00:20:37.240 Yeah.

00:20:37.420 We just kind of show up.

00:20:38.480 We don't know what the inventory is until it kind of rolls through the door.

00:20:41.360 We show up, we have a meeting and then with the auction crew and the staff and

00:20:45.820 then we check our sound system and that's pretty much it.

00:20:48.900 Yeah.

00:20:49.200 Like a sound check kind of.

00:20:50.220 Yeah.

00:20:50.380 Sound check.

00:20:50.920 And then the cars roll through and everything we need is on the screen and

00:20:53.620 we just sell them.

00:20:55.240 Now, do you get a lot of, who are the type of people that buy a lot of things?

00:20:58.940 Is it a lot of like, do you see a lot of the same type of collectors go to

00:21:02.600 different events?

00:21:03.480 Do you see, is it a lot of like celebrities and rich people?

00:21:07.080 Is it just the lovers of automobiles?

00:21:09.760 What type of people are bidding on?

00:21:11.340 Normal dealers.

00:21:12.300 Just car dealers.

00:21:13.140 We mainly work dealer only auto auctions.

00:21:16.180 Oh, really?

00:21:16.960 So we see the same dealers.

00:21:18.520 So we see the same dealers.

00:21:19.700 So like I could show you video clips in my phone that were, I'm calling out people

00:21:24.180 by name.

00:21:24.720 Hey, Glenn, do you need this?

00:21:25.940 Hey, hey, Hector.

00:21:26.980 Hey, hey, this, that, and the other.

00:21:28.380 Because we've known them for so long and we build relationships with these people

00:21:32.540 because we see them week after week after week. 1.00

00:21:34.720 Talk a lot of shit to them too. 1.00

00:21:36.060 Yeah. 1.00

00:21:36.260 That's the best thing.

00:21:36.940 Yeah, we do.

00:21:37.640 That's fun.

00:21:38.540 Oh, yeah.

00:21:39.040 It's a lot of fun. 1.00

00:21:39.600 We just talk shit. 1.00

00:21:40.680 And we, you know, we talk shit because we learn people's buying habits and we know 1.00

00:21:44.680 what they're going to do. 0.99

00:21:45.500 Oh.

00:21:46.080 So when something comes in that we know they have to have it.

00:21:49.940 Yeah.

00:21:50.300 You know what I mean?

00:21:50.780 It's right up their alley.

00:21:51.560 Yeah.

00:21:51.860 We'll, you know, we'll, we'll, we have fun with it.

00:21:54.260 Oh, yeah.

00:21:54.700 We make it fun.

00:21:55.900 Oh, interesting.

00:21:56.840 So if I go to like a used car lot or any type of car lot.

00:21:59.900 Right.

00:21:59.920 Probably bought it at an auction.

00:22:01.240 They probably bought it at an auction.

00:22:02.520 Potentially.

00:22:03.260 Because I remember when I was growing up, my mom used to go to the police auction sometimes.

00:22:06.760 She was dating a man that ran, that owned a car wash.

00:22:10.220 And, and she would go over there sometimes, a lot of times.

00:22:15.260 And one time, I think we almost had a police car for a little while, like a used police car.

00:22:21.680 And they got it at the police auction.

00:22:23.560 That was always a big thing, the police auction.

00:22:25.660 Yeah.

00:22:26.180 You know, you'd always hear about that.

00:22:27.260 And I guess that was cars that had been impounded or something.

00:22:29.340 And they were getting rid of them.

00:22:30.180 A lot of auctioneers drive those cars because they, they can go fast.

00:22:33.380 Because we travel a lot.

00:22:34.580 That's the main part of the job is travel.

00:22:36.920 Really?

00:22:37.320 That's the hardest part of our job.

00:22:38.540 Yeah, it's getting to the job.

00:22:39.460 It's getting to them.

00:22:40.000 Yeah.

00:22:40.600 And are they in big cities, small towns?

00:22:42.440 Where are they?

00:22:42.880 Usually big cities, you know, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, you know, there's a ton here

00:22:47.880 in Nashville.

00:22:48.400 I'm sure there's probably five or 10, you know, in this area.

00:22:52.160 Memphis has a bunch.

00:22:53.300 Every big city probably has a couple auto auctions.

00:22:56.100 All right.

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00:26:03.160 Let's get a question right here that came in for you guys.

00:26:06.180 Oh, that's Anthony.

00:26:08.120 You know him?

00:26:08.700 Yeah.

00:26:10.400 Hey, how's it going?

00:26:11.460 My name is Anthony out of San Antonio.

00:26:13.480 And the question for the auctioneers I had was, what's the craziest thing that y'all have auctioned off?

00:26:19.400 And how much was it?

00:26:21.260 Gang, gang.

00:26:22.660 Gang, Anthony, thank you, bro, for the question, man.

00:26:25.100 Now, that's a good one.

00:26:27.020 Yeah, where does that land?

00:26:28.280 Vasectomy.

00:26:29.420 Really?

00:26:29.940 Yeah.

00:26:31.040 That clip, huh?

00:26:31.940 Yeah.

00:26:32.740 And how did somebody have a free when they had a gift card?

00:26:34.700 Yeah, so it was at a gala event.

00:26:37.240 Oh, yeah.

00:26:37.780 And that was just one of those items that they put up there.

00:26:41.680 I don't remember what it sold for.

00:26:42.740 I'm sure it was like $10,000 or so.

00:26:44.640 But that was the craziest thing, for sure. 0.99

00:26:47.140 Just the back story of some wife and husband sitting there bidding on a damn, I don't want anymore. 0.98

00:26:53.280 She's raising the bid, you know, and he's wondering what in the hell's going on. 0.96

00:26:57.040 She knows she's planning on maybe divorcing down the line, so she's trying to, you know, limit the inheritance. 1.00

00:27:03.980 Damn. 0.99

00:27:04.540 Crazy cars, too, but mastectomy was definitely the craziest thing. 1.00

00:27:07.720 For me, I think the one time, I think me and him were working together, and I think we sold a yellow lab puppy for like $60,000.

00:27:15.720 Oh, yeah.

00:27:16.840 Absolutely.

00:27:17.660 No way.

00:27:18.900 Was that Seabiscuit or whatever? 1.00

00:27:20.320 Damn. 0.99

00:27:20.580 It was an event. 1.00

00:27:22.040 It was a fundraiser for a medical group, and, I mean, it was crazy.

00:27:27.580 Yeah.

00:27:28.020 It was crazy.

00:27:28.760 Sell those dogs.

00:27:29.500 Dogs go crazy at those events.

00:27:30.820 It was a puppy.

00:27:31.640 I bet.

00:27:32.400 Especially labs.

00:27:33.580 Maybe it was like a sounder part of it.

00:27:35.280 You know what I'm saying?

00:27:35.820 Remember that famous dog that had died in that movie, Sounder? 0.99

00:27:39.040 But, damn, $60,000. 0.98

00:27:41.880 I think the highest priced car I've ever sold was, I wasn't actually auctioneering. 0.99

00:27:45.960 I was working the ring in Houston, Texas, and it was a Bentley for $330,000.

00:27:53.100 There was a, I worked in auction in Amelia Island, Florida, a classic car sale, and it was a car that I think Porsche and Ferrari,

00:28:02.460 one of those types of cars, they built, like, two of these cars together.

00:28:06.420 This was one.

00:28:07.060 It was literally a rust bucket, $950,000 is what it sold for.

00:28:12.740 And I was working the floor, the ring, like he was.

00:28:14.940 And why, why, why that money?

00:28:16.480 I think it was just collector.

00:28:17.220 It was a collector.

00:28:17.940 I mean, they were so rare.

00:28:18.960 There was only a couple of them.

00:28:20.060 I don't know if that was.

00:28:20.460 And you want to refurbish it or whatever?

00:28:21.560 I guess.

00:28:22.260 I don't know.

00:28:22.840 I have no idea.

00:28:23.860 Well, in my situation, that $330,000 Bentley was, in my mind, at dealer cost, and they were going to go sell it for $550,000.

00:28:31.540 Retail, yeah.

00:28:33.240 Man.

00:28:34.040 And we're talking about this happening, somebody spending $330,000 in a matter of 25 to 45 seconds.

00:28:41.340 Mm-hmm.

00:28:41.600 Man.

00:28:42.560 And so if that bidding starts out at $10,000 or something, like, how quick, like, how do you know when to differentiate between a bid you're seeing on the floor

00:28:50.600 and a bid that you are getting sent up to you from the ring?

00:28:54.260 I mean, you're both seeing the same thing.

00:28:58.800 Mm-hmm.

00:28:58.960 So you're both on the same wavelength.

00:29:01.280 And if the bid – let's say the bid starts at $10,000 and there's eight people down there just bidding, bidding, bidding.

00:29:07.460 You'll go from $10,000, $1,000, $2,000, $2,500, $5,000.

00:29:09.960 You'll jump it up to $2,500, $5,000, $7,500, $11, $11, $2,500, $5,000, $5,000, $7,500, $12,000.

00:29:15.640 I mean, you know, you read the crowd like that, just like you do.

00:29:20.160 It gets exciting, huh?

00:29:21.160 It's very exciting.

00:29:22.300 It's fast-paced, too.

00:29:23.640 I think people like just hearing people count. 0.56

00:29:25.500 Remember they had that – you know, especially where I'm from, dude, if somebody could count high, you would thought they were doing damn magic, you know?

00:29:33.140 I mean, half my day probably couldn't count. 0.60

00:29:35.020 You know what I'm saying? 0.98

00:29:35.760 We had people – you told them about 11, they fucking didn't know what you were talking about. 0.98

00:29:39.100 You know what I'm saying? 0.99

00:29:40.140 Yeah.

00:29:40.460 Like, after 10, they thought it had something to do with Satan, you know?

00:29:43.000 It was real, just kind of novice numerical types, you know?

00:29:47.040 Oh, yeah.

00:29:47.520 What is – take me through some of that bidding.

00:29:52.140 Like, give me – show me a little bit of that magic, you know?

00:29:54.480 You want some magic?

00:29:55.280 Yeah, like if we're bidding on something, you know?

00:29:57.740 How do you know – like, what are some bids people do?

00:30:00.420 Do people still do the thing, like they touch their face, wink?

00:30:02.640 They'll wink, and then – like, some people will turn away from you and, like, tap their leg or tap their foot.

00:30:08.480 Or shake their head no and then wink at you?

00:30:09.480 Yeah, shake their head no, wink at you.

00:30:10.820 And wink at you.

00:30:11.520 And they hide from each other.

00:30:12.900 Yeah.

00:30:13.100 They play games with each other.

00:30:14.160 Oh, yeah.

00:30:14.480 Really?

00:30:14.960 Oh, yeah.

00:30:15.320 Yeah, it's fun.

00:30:16.400 And you're sitting up here, so you see all the games.

00:30:20.080 That's so weird.

00:30:21.460 Oh, they mess with each other, yeah. 0.89

00:30:23.240 But you get involved with the games with them.

00:30:25.280 Totally.

00:30:25.980 Yeah, there's some rivalries out there.

00:30:27.960 And, you know, there'll be people, where's the money?

00:30:30.360 Where's the money?

00:30:30.940 And you're like, I'm fixing to show you.

00:30:33.140 I got it.

00:30:33.620 Wow.

00:30:34.380 So, you'll know.

00:30:35.460 You'll know.

00:30:35.960 And sometimes the audience won't know.

00:30:37.040 They're like, who's doing it?

00:30:37.840 What's going on?

00:30:38.540 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:38.560 And guys over there in the corner just –

00:30:40.000 Oh, they play with each other so much.

00:30:42.620 And it's more so the experienced and the skilled dealers versus the younger newcomers that don't know.

00:30:52.360 Because there's always a new dealer that comes into the auction and doesn't have a clue as to what's going on.

00:30:58.040 Wow.

00:30:58.340 And he's just standing out front like this.

00:30:59.860 Yeah.

00:31:00.280 And, you know, the first two or three months are an education or an exit.

00:31:05.160 Yeah.

00:31:05.320 Oh, because he could be spending too much.

00:31:06.980 Oh, yeah.

00:31:07.520 Yeah.

00:31:08.000 I mean, he can't get them sold.

00:31:08.880 If he doesn't get it figured out, I mean, he's going to exit the business because he owes a bunch of money.

00:31:13.840 Yeah.

00:31:14.540 And how much of it – I know in Texas, so many things are kind of like – is there any demographic to the business, to that whole bidding world?

00:31:22.140 Is it predominantly white?

00:31:23.360 Is it mixed?

00:31:24.120 Is it Latino? 0.53

00:31:25.080 We have a lot of Middle Eastern.

00:31:26.540 It's very mixed.

00:31:27.120 Middle Eastern, too.

00:31:28.060 There's a lot of Middle Eastern.

00:31:29.500 And it also depends on the city you're working in, too.

00:31:32.000 Right.

00:31:32.200 Like in the Valley, obviously, lots of Latino people.

00:31:36.760 We work in San Antonio twice a week.

00:31:38.500 Lots of Latino people.

00:31:39.020 Tuesday and Wednesday.

00:31:39.820 And then when I get done there, I drive to McAllen, Texas, and spend the night and work an auction there on Thursday morning.

00:31:49.020 And it's mostly Hispanic.

00:31:52.400 I mean, there's some white people there.

00:31:54.380 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:55.000 But it's really close to the border.

00:31:57.320 Does it – is it part of – what kind of culture do you feel like?

00:32:01.400 Is it part of Southern culture?

00:32:03.160 Is it part of auto culture?

00:32:05.160 Is it part of livestock culture?

00:32:07.000 Like, where does kind of auctioneering, where does some of that roots come from?

00:32:10.820 I know you talked about the colonels, you know, in the military.

00:32:13.980 And that's sort of where that – the name of that position kind of came from.

00:32:17.820 But can you tell me any more about how that – the fast talking and then separately, like, do you know – can you feel at all where that tradition kind of came out of?

00:32:27.880 You know, I mean, I know over there, like in – across the pond in England, they do it slow.

00:32:32.680 Oh.

00:32:33.000 They do it really slow, like art auctions and stuff.

00:32:35.360 It's a slow process.

00:32:36.480 Yeah, you'll fall asleep.

00:32:38.160 But I think the Latin root for auction is action.

00:32:42.520 So it's, like, all about action.

00:32:44.380 So it's just a way to sell a lot of items really quickly.

00:32:48.200 I see.

00:32:48.840 And competitive bidding matter.

00:32:50.800 So, like, it's really a good way to get a train ride evaluation, pretty much, of what that product's worth.

00:32:58.620 Interesting.

00:32:59.160 Because you've got a bunch of people there, and they're bidding on it.

00:33:01.080 So you'll get an appraisal for that vehicle.

00:33:03.260 In my mind, it's a southern culture.

00:33:04.920 But, you know, there's auctions all over the world and all over the United States.

00:33:09.960 New York, everywhere.

00:33:11.000 You know, I guess because I was raised southern.

00:33:14.460 Right.

00:33:15.080 Right.

00:33:15.640 For me, it's southern culture.

00:33:17.620 It's a southern thing, yeah.

00:33:18.820 Yeah, it's interesting because I started thinking about it.

00:33:21.140 Like, I feel like there's, like, a book with Mark Twain where they talk about there's an auction or something in one of those stories.

00:33:28.600 I'm just trying to think of where I first kind of learned about auctioning or heard about it.

00:33:34.240 And I can't really remember.

00:33:35.480 So then I'm trying to think, well, what?

00:33:37.420 Yeah, is there a culture that it fits in with?

00:33:39.800 And then, yeah, it's a business.

00:33:41.200 It's a way of getting people to do business.

00:33:42.820 It is interesting to know that you could immediately kind of get an idea of a product.

00:33:46.840 It could almost be anything.

00:33:48.140 Right.

00:33:48.420 If you got the right crowd there, too.

00:33:50.460 Can you start to know a little bit?

00:33:52.300 Could you guess, almost like guessing somebody's weighted affair, like that guy gets used to knowing the scale and knowing the people?

00:33:58.280 Most definitely.

00:33:59.220 Oh, yeah.

00:33:59.940 Guess what someone's going to bid for?

00:34:01.780 Oh, yeah.

00:34:02.180 Because we know what they did the week prior.

00:34:04.160 Yeah.

00:34:04.600 And we pretty much know the car market.

00:34:07.100 Yeah, we know what things are worth.

00:34:08.120 But, you know, that being said, you know, paying attention to what's going on and knowing the car market and remembering what that car brought the week prior, knowing who bought it the week prior, it sets a stage.

00:34:23.060 You see what I'm saying?

00:34:23.920 And so we kind of – we can tell you, you know, what you're driving out there.

00:34:28.120 We have no idea what it is.

00:34:29.260 But if we went out there and walked around it, we could give you a really good idea of what it was worth.

00:34:34.280 Oh, okay.

00:34:35.560 Dang.

00:34:36.480 As long as there's nothing crazy exotic.

00:34:38.320 Right.

00:34:38.640 Yeah, it is not, man.

00:34:39.500 It's a 2019 Ford Ranger.

00:34:41.120 Perfect.

00:34:42.780 Here's a fellow right here that had an inquiry.

00:34:46.560 What's up, Theo?

00:34:47.680 It's your boy, Stane, here in Louisville, Kentucky.

00:34:50.700 A beautiful little evening.

00:34:53.020 I'm calling in to ask a question to your auctioneer, buddy.

00:34:56.620 Mr. Auctioneer, I want to know if you think you have what it takes to make it in the freestyle rap game.

00:35:03.400 I know a lot of times auctioneers, they can thank real fast, talk real fast.

00:35:08.140 I think it makes a lot of sense that you could potentially be freestyling over some instrumental.

00:35:13.520 If so, do you think you have what it takes in that game?

00:35:18.080 Gang, gang.

00:35:18.900 Dang, baby.

00:35:19.660 That's a good question, yeah.

00:35:21.040 I love old school rap.

00:35:22.660 Yeah.

00:35:23.220 And I practice in the mirror and absolutely no.

00:35:26.620 No, me neither.

00:35:27.540 I can count fast.

00:35:29.140 That's it.

00:35:30.060 If the song was about numbers, yeah.

00:35:32.560 Right.

00:35:32.980 You can put it over a beat, but other than that, no.

00:35:35.320 You ever dress up like that Sesame Street guy, The Count?

00:35:38.180 No.

00:35:38.820 That Twister song.

00:35:40.160 There was a Twister song that came out a while back.

00:35:43.860 I used to be able to basically go along with that song for like 30 seconds.

00:35:49.220 Oh, really?

00:35:49.800 Yeah.

00:35:50.020 I thought it was cool.

00:35:50.900 Oh, yeah.

00:35:51.200 I could see that.

00:35:51.720 I can pretty much sing my posses on Broadway.

00:35:54.680 Yeah?

00:35:55.080 But, you know, I got to have that song playing with me.

00:35:57.540 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:58.140 I'll tell you who doesn't.

00:36:00.700 What about the – is there like a – do people use an uppers and drugs and stuff like that to get that, you know, to stay fluid out there on the count course?

00:36:09.220 You notice, you know, when they're out there.

00:36:11.320 Is there people using uppers?

00:36:12.500 No, not in my world.

00:36:15.480 It's a pretty clean-cut world.

00:36:18.740 I mean, you know, your mind's got to be sharp.

00:36:21.120 You've got to be sharp.

00:36:21.700 Yeah.

00:36:21.960 Your mind's got to be sharp.

00:36:23.400 Absolutely.

00:36:24.260 You can't go in there, you know, foggy and continue to maintain work.

00:36:31.860 You know what I mean?

00:36:32.380 You've got to be sharp and on your game.

00:36:34.940 What's a mistake that you can make as an auctioneer?

00:36:37.220 Like, what's a –

00:36:37.720 Sell it for the wrong low, the wrong floor.

00:36:41.100 Miss a bid.

00:36:41.760 Yeah, miss a bid.

00:36:42.980 Yeah, there's a lot of mistakes, for sure.

00:36:44.840 You can make a ton of mistakes.

00:36:46.100 And it's a split –

00:36:47.180 Yeah, it's fast.

00:36:49.440 Decision second that you've got to make.

00:36:51.500 And once you make it, you've got to live with it and back yourself.

00:36:54.260 As soon as you say sold, I mean, it's done.

00:36:56.100 It's a legal binding contract.

00:36:57.580 Once you say sold, you know, and like I said earlier, you know, you're looking into the – you're waiting for the online rep to tell you it's okay to sell it.

00:37:04.820 And you've got a guy on the floor right here, and you're watching him, and you're watching the computer, and you're going back and forth.

00:37:09.840 And the seller's kind of hesitant, and you're watching – you're waiting and waiting, and you're wanting to sell it, and you're waiting and waiting and waiting.

00:37:16.060 And then, boom, sold.

00:37:17.500 And then all of a sudden, the internet starts flashing.

00:37:19.740 Yeah.

00:37:20.140 Well, you forgot to look back up there.

00:37:22.140 And I mean, but you've got to live with it.

00:37:23.900 Yeah.

00:37:24.540 It happens.

00:37:25.140 Let's hear a little bit of that lingo, man.

00:37:28.920 So, how do you start it?

00:37:30.420 Say it's like something starts at $30, you know?

00:37:33.640 Or is that a regular thing, like $30?

00:37:35.520 Yeah.

00:37:36.020 We usually start at thousands.

00:37:38.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:37:39.880 Cars.

00:37:40.640 I obviously bid on something up.

00:37:42.700 You bought that blender.

00:37:44.300 That girl was selling. 1.00

00:37:45.300 Look, I bid on a couple of Beanie Babies before.

00:37:47.600 So, you know what I'm saying?

00:37:48.300 I bought some real low-market stuff.

00:37:50.060 We'll start something at $1,000.

00:37:51.580 Yeah, $1,000.

00:37:52.260 11.

00:37:52.600 12.

00:37:53.280 13.

00:37:53.620 13.

00:37:54.440 14.

00:37:54.840 15.

00:37:55.300 16.

00:37:56.020 $17.

00:37:56.880 18.

00:37:57.460 18.

00:37:58.080 19.

00:37:58.400 Now, $2,000.

00:37:59.260 You're out, Theo.

00:38:00.640 Yep, $2,000.

00:38:01.820 Sean's out.

00:38:02.420 21.

00:38:02.900 Now, one.

00:38:03.620 Sean, you're out.

00:38:04.220 Now, two.

00:38:04.700 Two, two, two. 0.90

00:38:05.400 Back it up.

00:38:05.680 I got a 23.

00:38:06.480 Yep, four.

00:38:07.040 Back it up.

00:38:07.320 I got a 24.

00:38:07.900 Theo, five.

00:38:08.660 Back it up.

00:38:08.880 I got a $2,500.

00:38:09.720 Now, five, five, five.

00:38:10.660 Back it up.

00:38:10.940 I got all in.

00:38:11.440 All done.

00:38:11.820 I have sold $2,400 to buy our number.

00:38:13.800 Sean.

00:38:14.720 See someone else trying to buy.

00:38:15.800 Too late, sir.

00:38:16.480 You're out.

00:38:18.220 And so, is the sound that you're making, Spanky, is that the ring guy?

00:38:22.980 Is that the guy in the ring?

00:38:23.720 Yes.

00:38:24.180 Okay.

00:38:24.540 Yes.

00:38:25.120 So, he's just telling him another bid has come in?

00:38:26.780 Yes.

00:38:27.360 Okay.

00:38:27.960 Yeah, so we just go up every time I hear him yell.

00:38:30.980 Wow.

00:38:31.400 I don't even have to see him.

00:38:32.220 And it's exciting for the crowd.

00:38:33.780 You know, you got some guy down here yelling, what the hell is he doing?

00:38:35.960 Yeah.

00:38:36.660 Totally.

00:38:37.160 I want to hear him yell again.

00:38:38.820 Yeah.

00:38:39.540 Yeah.

00:38:40.020 Working the ring is a lot of fun.

00:38:40.860 If I bid, he's going to yell again.

00:38:42.080 Do some men bring a woman with him who grudges him into it and that wrecks it?

00:38:47.360 Yes.

00:38:48.600 Dang.

00:38:50.560 Yeah.

00:38:52.740 I can see it already, man.

00:38:54.400 I mean, look, it does everything.

00:38:56.780 Right. 0.98

00:38:56.880 You know, if I'm with a gal, I get the damn artichoke dip or something, and I wasn't planning 0.99

00:39:00.240 on doing that. 0.98

00:39:01.760 You know, I was just going for a couple mains and necks, and you know we're sitting there

00:39:04.880 doing artichoke dip.

00:39:06.360 Yeah.

00:39:06.720 Now we're having, you know, now it's, you know, who knows what's going on.

00:39:10.120 And so I feel you, yeah, it's interesting how that'll get a man to freaking.

00:39:14.360 Every car dealer likes to walk in nice shoes.

00:39:16.760 Oh, yeah, they do, huh?

00:39:18.120 Part of that culture, huh?

00:39:19.080 It is that culture.

00:39:20.260 Yeah.

00:39:22.020 Now, is there like a lot of babies out there on the lot?

00:39:24.500 Is there like a lot of like, you know, is there like.

00:39:40.120 For the door, you know?

00:39:43.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:39:43.900 But is there any of that?

00:39:44.860 Is there any like kind of ladies out there, any freaking wager thoughts or anything like 1.00

00:39:48.480 that that are running around?

00:39:49.480 You know, I will say that most of the ladies that are in the industry have my utmost respect

00:39:56.360 because they are very professional.

00:39:58.440 And they, you know, they learn the business just like a man. 0.88

00:40:01.520 And they buy cars and sell cars just like the men do. 0.76

00:40:04.980 Right.

00:40:05.480 And they're very respected and they're very respectful to us.

00:40:08.700 But is there any like, are there ladies that come just to try and get onto the, or are there 1.00

00:40:13.820 men that try to come and just attach onto the ladies, not the actual bidders, but is there

00:40:18.040 like a.

00:40:19.000 Not really.

00:40:19.780 Not really.

00:40:20.260 Not really.

00:40:21.140 And most of the ladies that are, that are there and most of the ladies that come and buy, 0.90

00:40:26.080 not, not a hundred percent, but most of them are, are married into the business and

00:40:30.160 they're there with their husband.

00:40:31.360 Okay.

00:40:31.660 And they're there buying cars and it's a family business and they're buying and selling,

00:40:36.280 you know, for their, for their lots.

00:40:38.580 I see.

00:40:39.160 So you don't really have these ladies that are just kind of waiting around trying to 1.00

00:40:41.900 like hit on the men or anything like that.

00:40:43.580 Not really.

00:40:44.180 Like you would at maybe.

00:40:45.300 No, they won't last long.

00:40:46.200 Right.

00:40:47.080 Yeah.

00:40:47.780 The men will take them.

00:40:48.860 Yeah.

00:40:49.660 Quick.

00:40:50.440 Oh, really?

00:40:50.940 Yeah, I guess.

00:40:51.720 I mean, I don't know.

00:40:53.100 I'm trying to think of what else I would like to learn about that culture, you know?

00:40:56.600 What did you have that came in, Sean?

00:40:59.560 Hey man, gang.

00:41:01.660 Luke Wheaton, Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:41:04.080 Out of every 10 words, how many of them are an actual word?

00:41:12.340 That's a good question.

00:41:13.280 Like, you know, like, is there, is some of that actual words, is it?

00:41:17.440 It started off.

00:41:18.420 It started off as real words or actual words.

00:41:21.700 You know, you start off with a basic chant and then it kind of translates into something

00:41:25.920 much faster and you kind of shorten it and you just kind of make it your sound.

00:41:30.600 Okay.

00:41:30.960 Your chant.

00:41:31.560 So, my chant started at, would he give?

00:41:35.480 Okay.

00:41:35.680 Would he give?

00:41:36.660 Would he give?

00:41:37.680 Would he give?

00:41:38.020 Would he give?

00:41:38.740 Two grand been on, 21, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5.

00:41:43.220 Now, 500 of the man, but I bid it now.

00:41:44.720 500 of the man, now 600 of the man, now 700 of the man, but I bid it now.

00:41:47.260 7, 7, 7.

00:41:48.140 Would he give?

00:41:48.600 Would he give?

00:41:49.060 Would he give?

00:41:49.700 Would he give?

00:41:49.740 But it just, it speeds up over time and practice.

00:41:54.180 Interesting.

00:41:54.760 Mine started off as, bid him and get him and get him and bid him.

00:41:57.920 Wow.

00:41:58.540 Which was heavy out the gate.

00:41:59.920 Which was my father's chant.

00:42:01.440 Oh, really?

00:42:02.240 My father's chant was, bid him and get him and get him and bid him and bid him and get him.

00:42:05.620 I practiced a lot with him, with my grandpa.

00:42:08.140 Yeah?

00:42:08.720 When I was younger.

00:42:09.860 So, I'd go over there and we'd sit in his shed and we'd have fake auctions.

00:42:13.820 Oh, that's good.

00:42:14.160 Until I figured it out.

00:42:16.160 That's why.

00:42:16.540 And so, I got his chant.

00:42:17.980 No, he's alive and well.

00:42:19.620 Alive and well.

00:42:20.900 I'm glad he's still alive.

00:42:22.460 He's a.

00:42:23.040 Does he miss it?

00:42:24.240 Oh, yeah.

00:42:25.060 He calls every week.

00:42:26.000 How was the sale?

00:42:26.440 How was the sale?

00:42:27.120 How was the sale?

00:42:28.000 Checking.

00:42:28.620 How was the market?

00:42:29.400 I mean, every day.

00:42:30.220 He just can't help it.

00:42:31.540 It's so funny.

00:42:32.060 How was the market?

00:42:33.140 And he's 80 years old and I have an eight-year-old and a three-year-old.

00:42:38.800 Oh, wow.

00:42:39.700 And yeah, I'm a late brother.

00:42:41.340 He's active.

00:42:42.160 Is he?

00:42:42.540 Yeah.

00:42:42.760 Yeah.

00:42:42.900 And so.

00:42:43.940 Get out there.

00:42:44.980 My mom still works at one of the auctions that I work at to this day.

00:42:48.660 Oh, that's cool.

00:42:49.200 She's a title clerk.

00:42:50.080 And yeah, he watches my eight-year-old and three-year-old every day while I'm at work.

00:42:55.440 So they keep him busy.

00:42:56.820 Yeah, I bet.

00:42:57.440 That'll keep him young for sure.

00:42:58.700 Right.

00:42:59.100 It's really one of the blessings.

00:43:00.000 I feel like I'm having grandchildren like that is if your parents are into it, if the grandparents

00:43:04.320 are into it, it really gives them a whole new life as they get older.

00:43:08.200 Yeah.

00:43:08.800 My three-year-old and my father are best friends.

00:43:11.480 Oh, that's cute.

00:43:12.160 It's a really great relationship to have.

00:43:15.080 That's cool.

00:43:15.720 Very blessed and fortunate to have that.

00:43:17.620 Amen, bro. 0.98

00:43:19.040 Bit him and get him and get him and bit him. 0.99

00:43:20.820 Yep. 0.93

00:43:21.360 Bit him and get him and get him and bit him. 0.95

00:43:22.860 Bit him and get him and get him. 0.70

00:43:23.500 Now it sounds nothing like that.

00:43:25.060 No, it didn't.

00:43:25.960 Well, I mean, you heard his chant.

00:43:27.160 I mean, that's what he's saying.

00:43:28.300 So it eventually evolves.

00:43:29.500 So they get you with that intonation there.

00:43:31.520 What is that called?

00:43:32.440 Your chant.

00:43:32.880 Chant.

00:43:33.720 Now, it's almost interesting you had your grandfather's chant.

00:43:35.540 It's almost like a Native American type of thing where, you know, a song or a tone would

00:43:41.520 be passed around through a culture.

00:43:43.540 Right.

00:43:44.200 He's actually from Missouri.

00:43:46.220 And that's, I mean, he went to school there and he started working car auctions in 1974.

00:43:52.120 Selling tools and whatever he could sell.

00:43:53.960 I mean, we, you know, as a young kid, 10, 12 years old, I can remember traveling around

00:43:59.480 in the summers when I wasn't in school, setting up tool auctions.

00:44:03.400 Wow.

00:44:03.840 And we would, we would sell tools, cheap.

00:44:06.540 I mean, China made tools that he, he would go buy in Houston and we'd go sell them in

00:44:11.900 all these rural cities.

00:44:13.320 And I mean.

00:44:13.860 That was eBay.

00:44:14.620 I mean, that was the original eBay.

00:44:16.200 Yeah.

00:44:16.220 Right.

00:44:16.560 Exactly.

00:44:16.920 Right.

00:44:17.120 Exactly.

00:44:18.180 You know, I'm a, I'm in some ways I'm a traditionalist, you know, I'm a begrudging

00:44:21.980 someone begrudgingly moving into like the modern world.

00:44:25.820 I feel like sometimes because my dad was so old when I was young.

00:44:29.420 And so I think I was just enamored with like older practices and stuff, you know, and slower

00:44:36.360 ways of life.

00:44:37.560 And I really, it's so nice because everybody kind of had a purpose.

00:44:42.200 There was so many more things you could find that you could actually do.

00:44:45.000 Whereas now things get, with things getting automated, it's harder to, it's just harder

00:44:49.960 to find some of those spaces, but it's good to see you guys still are.

00:44:52.880 And maybe hopefully do you feel like there could be a rebirth of like, of the business

00:44:57.600 kind of, do you feel like there's something new going on or what do you feel like?

00:45:00.900 Like where's the future of auctioning kind of?

00:45:02.640 Uh, I hope they realize, uh, uh, you know, the importance of, of what we do, you know,

00:45:09.580 the, the, the computer can't do what we do.

00:45:11.700 I mean, the computer can count, but they, they, they can't, they can't make relationships

00:45:16.140 like we do and make people, uh, feel comfortable and warmed and welcomed.

00:45:20.480 And, and, you know, it, it, it goes back.

00:45:23.540 That computer is not going to say, Hey, Billy, do you looking for this Mercedes today?

00:45:26.520 Right.

00:45:26.860 You know what I mean?

00:45:27.440 And, and Billy likes to hear his name called over that microphone.

00:45:30.300 You know what I mean?

00:45:31.380 Billy likes for the auctioneer to say hi to him.

00:45:33.440 Yeah.

00:45:33.900 You know?

00:45:34.420 And, uh, I, I, I hope that it continues in that direction to where they see that, that

00:45:41.700 we are a, a warming touch to the business.

00:45:44.680 Yeah.

00:45:45.660 If that makes sense.

00:45:46.940 No, I think it makes perfect sense, man.

00:45:48.840 It's like, I think we all are trying to figure out ways to, you know, to make what the skills

00:45:55.140 that we have, uh, still have value.

00:45:57.660 Right.

00:45:58.060 In a time of, you know, when electronica, you know, really.

00:46:01.780 Yep.

00:46:02.280 And that's okay.

00:46:02.880 It's just what's going on, you know?

00:46:04.420 Right.

00:46:05.040 Um, do you have to go with that being said, my, my, uh, I took my dad, my 80 year old

00:46:10.900 father into McDonald's probably a year ago.

00:46:14.400 And he, he said, Hey, what is that?

00:46:16.860 I said, that's a kiosk where you can go order your food and you just, you just pay for it

00:46:21.560 right there.

00:46:22.560 And you don't need to talk to nobody.

00:46:24.040 He said, if I worked here, I'd pour Coca-Cola thing every day, try to fry it.

00:46:29.760 Yeah.

00:46:30.080 They just, I just saw an article last week where they're trying to do automated through

00:46:32.800 the drive through, you know, which is kind of crazy.

00:46:35.500 I mean, part of the fun of even driving.

00:46:37.300 Oh, I think it said like 20% gets placed or like 20% of the order.

00:46:41.460 I think I saw an article, uh, actually it's correct right now.

00:46:44.040 Yeah.

00:46:44.140 That's what they said.

00:46:44.760 Yeah.

00:46:44.780 Just mystery.

00:46:46.200 Yeah.

00:46:46.540 Just, which is what you kind of get anyway.

00:46:48.340 Um, we got another good question that came in, Sean.

00:46:51.600 Hey Theo, this is Kevin from Sacramento.

00:46:53.960 What's up, Kev?

00:46:54.420 Um, this is not a hostage situation.

00:46:56.700 I'm actually just in my bedroom.

00:46:58.560 Um, I saw your post about having the auctioneers there in the studio.

00:47:03.940 I do have a couple questions, um, for the lovely guests you have there.

00:47:08.800 Um, have you ever had to use your, your skills outside of the job?

00:47:13.920 For instance, have you been at the bar?

00:47:16.680 Have you been at the grocery store?

00:47:18.500 Have you been buying a vehicle and it's just come in handy to have that slick speak?

00:47:24.160 Dang.

00:47:25.220 Yeah.

00:47:25.580 What's it?

00:47:25.860 Yeah.

00:47:26.040 When is it, when else does it come in handy?

00:47:27.380 Do people just want to see it and hear it?

00:47:29.280 We get asked all the time.

00:47:30.360 I'll chant for a lady at the bar tonight. 1.00

00:47:32.180 Yeah.

00:47:34.660 Oh yeah.

00:47:35.240 At the bar, especially, you know, friends, uh, you know, you're like the original

00:47:39.240 warbler.

00:47:39.780 You're like the original woodpecker, like a nightingale.

00:47:41.680 Yeah.

00:47:42.080 Anytime you say I'm an auctioneer.

00:47:43.460 The next question.

00:47:44.400 Oh really?

00:47:45.080 You talk fast?

00:47:45.800 Yeah.

00:47:46.000 You're a fast talker.

00:47:47.320 Yeah.

00:47:47.720 I guess.

00:47:48.220 They want to hear it, huh?

00:47:48.440 Oh yeah.

00:47:48.720 They want to hear it.

00:47:49.260 And then I'm sure a lot of the ladies, it probably leads them into wanting to kiss, 1.00

00:47:52.460 get a little French action, you know, a little tongue action.

00:47:54.820 Is that a, do people want to test drive it a little?

00:47:58.100 We're going to see tonight.

00:47:59.180 There you go. 1.00

00:48:00.140 Damn. 1.00

00:48:00.700 All you guys are going to. 1.00

00:48:01.180 You got the fast tongues.

00:48:02.420 Yeah.

00:48:02.800 Somebody's not married.

00:48:03.720 I'm guessing.

00:48:03.960 It's the fastest tongue in the South right there.

00:48:05.240 Is it really?

00:48:06.280 Is that what they call it?

00:48:06.820 I wouldn't say that, but I try. 0.97

00:48:09.900 But damn, I bet you could put a Werther's down in a couple seconds, couldn't you? 1.00

00:48:13.120 I can do my magic on a cough drop, yes, sir. 0.99

00:48:15.360 There we go.

00:48:16.280 Dang, baby. 0.98

00:48:17.120 Female cough drops only in this man's mouth, boy. 1.00

00:48:21.720 Yeah. 0.99

00:48:22.140 Someone is not married.

00:48:23.420 Amen.

00:48:23.600 Or soon to be not married.

00:48:24.620 Oh, really?

00:48:25.220 Yes.

00:48:25.560 You're going through divorce, huh?

00:48:26.460 Yes, sir.

00:48:26.880 Oh, man.

00:48:28.700 I'm sorry.

00:48:29.440 I have not been good in relationships.

00:48:31.000 Me, man.

00:48:31.480 I've struggled.

00:48:32.080 Me neither.

00:48:32.540 Really?

00:48:33.200 I'm a bad picker when it comes to that.

00:48:35.320 I'm the bad person.

00:48:36.300 I think I'm just not good at it.

00:48:38.420 I keep picking myself to put in them.

00:48:40.600 Try to find a bad pick tonight.

00:48:42.380 Oh, yeah.

00:48:42.880 There you go.

00:48:43.540 Let's do it.

00:48:45.400 Might as well.

00:48:46.080 Look, there's a lot of ladies in this town. 1.00

00:48:48.280 Spank me right there. 1.00

00:48:49.460 That's what they call them?

00:48:50.000 Spank me? 0.97

00:48:50.380 No.

00:48:50.980 Spank me. 0.96

00:48:51.140 That's not why. 0.55

00:48:52.020 Spanky.

00:48:52.460 I got that nickname when I was probably in third or fourth grade because I looked just

00:48:58.040 like Spanky, the little rascal.

00:48:59.660 Oh, yeah.

00:49:00.300 I love the little rascals.

00:49:02.500 That's how I got that nickname.

00:49:03.960 It stuck.

00:49:04.660 Dude, I'll tell you this story.

00:49:05.860 So I was a huge fan growing up of Nickelodeon, Nick at Night, those type of television, black 1.00

00:49:10.780 and white television.

00:49:14.900 So I was a huge fan of Jerry Mathers.

00:49:17.740 Leave it to Beaver was the man, right?

00:49:19.400 Mm-hmm.

00:49:19.920 So one time I got to play in this poker card tournament in Oklahoma.

00:49:25.120 And it was like in rural Oklahoma at a casino.

00:49:28.040 So I get there and Jerry Mathers there.

00:49:30.420 And I mean, I had pictures of him on my wall growing up.

00:49:33.040 And he was way before my time.

00:49:35.260 But I just, for some reason, I like his name was Theodore in the show Theodore Cleaver.

00:49:38.400 And that was my name.

00:49:39.260 So there he is right there.

00:49:40.980 Oh, yeah.

00:49:41.260 And I said, hey, you know, and I was so fired up, man.

00:49:45.140 I mean, it looks just like the kid still.

00:49:47.820 It's pretty crazy.

00:49:49.500 And I said, hey, I live at, he said, I said, hey, you know, I'm a big fan.

00:49:56.240 You know, I was like, where are you?

00:49:57.620 He's like, I live in California.

00:49:58.480 I was like, oh, I used to live in Santa Monica. 0.99

00:50:00.260 And this is a little bit vulgar, but he goes, I used to go get some pussy in Santa Monica. 1.00

00:50:04.960 And I was like, what? 0.99

00:50:06.600 Like of all the things, I'd seen this man only as a kid.

00:50:10.340 And then he just hits you.

00:50:11.120 He was the perfect role model growing up.

00:50:13.040 I mean, he was the perfect kid.

00:50:15.320 He was the perfect one.

00:50:16.740 And then he hit me with that.

00:50:17.920 And I was like, oh, man.

00:50:19.740 Just ruined it.

00:50:21.040 Yeah, it's just crazy when you always want your heroes to kind of be a certain way.

00:50:24.300 And then they're just mortals, you know, or immortals.

00:50:26.740 I don't know which one is what.

00:50:28.700 But I look just like Spanky as a kid growing up.

00:50:32.220 I could see that a little bit, to be honest with you.

00:50:33.620 That's where I got that nickname.

00:50:34.660 I could see it.

00:50:35.820 But you look pretty young, though.

00:50:37.520 You feel pretty young?

00:50:38.080 Thank you.

00:50:38.380 I feel great.

00:50:39.300 Yeah.

00:50:39.460 And did you know that Cam was going to be your son who was going to be able to have that ability?

00:50:45.020 Was there any other children you had that you saw that could have that possession?

00:50:50.680 I have another 18-year-old that has no interest in it at all.

00:50:55.120 He's more of a hands-on guy.

00:50:56.960 Yeah.

00:50:57.840 He would rather tear something apart and build it back up.

00:51:01.880 But Cameron took a lot of interest in it at a very young age, you know, 14, 15.

00:51:07.480 And that was a lot.

00:51:08.340 But, you know, back then, you know, the scare of the Internet taking over wasn't there at all.

00:51:15.120 Yeah.

00:51:15.580 So he had a lot of interest in it, and I knew that I could help him, you know, and he would have a good career in it.

00:51:22.100 Right.

00:51:22.360 And so the day he graduated high school on a Saturday, and on the next Tuesday, he was on a flight to Missouri, going to Missouri Auction School.

00:51:32.620 Wow.

00:51:32.920 Were you really?

00:51:33.500 Mm-hmm.

00:51:34.000 So no doubt.

00:51:35.080 No doubt.

00:51:35.960 And you knew even young.

00:51:37.180 You knew when you were young, huh?

00:51:38.360 Yeah.

00:51:38.560 I'd say I really got interested.

00:51:40.360 You know, I was working at my grandpa's auto auction, picking up trash and doing whatever they wanted me to do, jumping cars, you know, jumpstart the battery, parking cars, whatever.

00:51:50.880 And then I think, like, probably 14 years old, he sat me down.

00:51:54.800 He said, hey, you want to start working the ring?

00:51:58.080 And so he kind of trained me up on it and threw me in the ring, and we started working, you know, every Tuesday and Thursday.

00:52:05.680 In high school, I would actually leave class early.

00:52:08.680 I'd leave at noon on Tuesdays and go to the auction.

00:52:11.540 I had a couple teachers that would let me do it.

00:52:15.240 Oh, nice.

00:52:15.840 Yeah.

00:52:16.040 So, I mean, at a young age, for sure, I took an interest to it.

00:52:20.160 Very interested.

00:52:21.360 What is the course?

00:52:22.380 How do you graduate the auction school?

00:52:25.120 There's really no test, but after you go to school.

00:52:27.760 And then you get a certification, essentially, and then you have to take a state test to be licensed through the state.

00:52:34.740 Yeah, every state is different.

00:52:36.020 Yeah.

00:52:36.440 And, you know, is that a morning you show up and you've got to be able to really rattle?

00:52:39.900 No, it's actually a written test.

00:52:40.940 It's a written test. 1.00

00:52:41.720 Oh, damn. 0.99

00:52:41.940 Yeah, so your certification is for school. 0.99

00:52:44.340 It basically lets you have the ability to take the test.

00:52:49.280 Until 10 years ago, you didn't even have to go to school.

00:52:51.620 But now most states have required that you have 80 hours of schooling before you're eligible for the test.

00:52:58.620 Okay.

00:52:58.900 Is there something, is there any, like, dark arts kind of involved out there with auctioning, like, where people are, like, putting products up there?

00:53:08.460 Like, any kind of dirty business that kind of comes through that you're able to see that you keep an eye on or anything that's happened over the years?

00:53:14.020 Not that you guys are pushing.

00:53:15.600 Yeah.

00:53:15.880 There's bad apples in every business.

00:53:17.160 Yeah, there's some.

00:53:17.580 Of course.

00:53:17.860 I've seen a lot of stuff.

00:53:18.880 There's some janky stuff.

00:53:20.220 I've seen people break hood release and dump ice down in the dash to make it look like the air was cold. 0.99

00:53:27.020 Damn. 0.99

00:53:27.520 Put a radio, picture of a radio. 1.00

00:53:31.660 In the hole.

00:53:32.600 Where the hole is.

00:53:33.520 And sell it so that, you know, when you look it through the window, it looks all good.

00:53:36.800 It looks like the radio's there.

00:53:37.780 It was a picture of a radio.

00:53:39.120 Dang, and you get in there, it's just a hole through it.

00:53:41.100 Yeah, there's some shady stuff going on every once in a while.

00:53:45.040 Yeah, for sure.

00:53:46.740 I could see that, man.

00:53:47.700 I could see that.

00:53:49.100 I'm trying to feel like, you know, there's dealers that will go out and, you know, unplug some stuff, you know, unhook a spark plug so where it comes in, it's running rough.

00:53:58.360 And, you know.

00:53:58.740 And they'll buy it.

00:53:59.480 Whoever buys it usually did it.

00:54:00.980 Usually whoever's the one bidding hot and heavy on it is the guy that did it.

00:54:04.240 That's awesome.

00:54:06.560 Is there ever, like, has there ever been, like, a guy who was coming up who was, like, a great auctioneer and then something happened to him?

00:54:14.400 Like, is there any, like, good lore or anything in the auctioneer industry?

00:54:17.520 Are you like that?

00:54:18.860 We have a good friend that, you know, was awesome auctioneer, been an awesome, awesome, awesome auctioneer for years and years and years and just couldn't get off the bottle.

00:54:31.240 Yeah.

00:54:31.460 Yeah, it happens, man.

00:54:34.080 He was great, too, man.

00:54:35.140 One of the best to listen to.

00:54:36.660 One of the best.

00:54:37.460 Had a good, fast chant.

00:54:40.060 I mean, just really, really good and just, I mean, just couldn't get off the bottle.

00:54:45.220 Yeah.

00:54:46.460 It's heavy, man.

00:54:47.280 I had a friend who drowned, like, who drowned last week, actually.

00:54:50.020 He was on drugs and he tried to hide from the police and he hid underwater.

00:54:54.540 Wow.

00:54:55.740 And you can't do that.

00:54:56.580 I mean, you can do it, but it's a limited time space.

00:54:59.900 And so he died.

00:55:00.840 But, yeah, it's wild.

00:55:04.280 And so that man passed away?

00:55:06.080 No.

00:55:06.380 No, he's still alive, but he's not working.

00:55:08.240 He's just not working.

00:55:09.000 Man.

00:55:09.200 Doesn't have any jobs.

00:55:10.260 Yeah.

00:55:11.200 It's tough to see that kind of thing.

00:55:12.660 Oh, yeah.

00:55:12.980 Very tough.

00:55:13.600 I hid in the water once from cops.

00:55:15.460 Did you?

00:55:16.160 Yeah.

00:55:16.580 I thought I was going to get away, but I didn't. 0.99

00:55:18.740 Damn. 0.99

00:55:19.760 And what did you do to put your lips out of it? 1.00

00:55:21.440 Nah, me and some friends of mine, we wahooed some beer.

00:55:24.520 I don't know if you know what that means.

00:55:25.360 Yeah, yeah.

00:55:26.080 And this is, you know, I was probably 19, 20 years old, many, many years ago.

00:55:30.700 And so the cops show up and I go back to the apartment and I said, man, I'm just going

00:55:34.860 to get in the pool and hang out here until they leave.

00:55:36.760 And so I hung out in the pool and this is in January.

00:55:42.380 And that's a weird choice when the cops come out and see the pool when somebody's at it?

00:55:45.520 No, they never even came to the pool because they didn't even think to look in the pool

00:55:49.280 in January.

00:55:49.700 So I go walking back to my apartment thinking I'm in the clear and there I go and they're

00:55:54.960 like, hey, get on the ground.

00:55:56.060 I'm like, what, man?

00:55:57.340 I've been at the pool. 1.00

00:55:58.600 And they're like, it's January, you idiot. 1.00

00:56:00.960 Get on the ground. 1.00

00:56:03.760 Yeah, man.

00:56:04.280 I'm trying to think if I had some good ones with cops, man.

00:56:06.860 I had a friend whose car, something had happened to it, speaking of autos, and there was some

00:56:11.960 kind of deficiency or something under the hood.

00:56:14.040 And when they rebuilt it, they built the seats backwards, right?

00:56:18.280 So the seats, the backwards was the front of the car.

00:56:21.940 And so he'd get pulled over all the time.

00:56:23.860 You know, cops was like, oh, you're driving backwards.

00:56:25.480 And he's like, well, I'm not.

00:56:26.560 You know, it's just the way this car, they put the, you know, they, whenever they redid

00:56:30.620 it, they kind of did it messed up or whatever.

00:56:33.160 And he'd always get pulled over and bust a dude, DUI, or like, they would breathalyze

00:56:38.060 him all the time.

00:56:38.860 Yeah.

00:56:39.220 You know, but people just couldn't get it in their head that a man's driving a backwards 1.00

00:56:42.280 car.

00:56:42.940 Yeah.

00:56:43.400 Not necessarily driving backwards.

00:56:44.940 Right.

00:56:45.200 So, but it's pretty keen to see visually.

00:56:47.820 So what's something over the years that's kind of like, is there discrepancies down there

00:56:51.620 in the pit?

00:56:52.000 Oh, it's a big piss in the ring.

00:56:53.360 Yeah.

00:56:53.620 Very much so. 0.96

00:56:54.380 Always bumping chest and talking trash. 0.98

00:56:57.000 Yeah. 0.82

00:56:57.060 Car dealers getting upset with each other.

00:56:59.520 I mean, I've seen one car dealer get mad at another one.

00:57:03.840 And the one, the, the, had a flashlight, you know, them big mag lights, you know, and then 0.92

00:57:08.960 this guy was going to beat the shit out of him with his flashlight. 0.84

00:57:12.040 Right. And the other dealer, he took the flashlight away from the guy and beat the shit out of 0.99

00:57:16.780 him with the flashlight. 1.00

00:57:17.780 Oh, damn, boy. 0.99

00:57:18.780 I've also seen another auctioneer get upset with a dealer and I didn't actually see it. 0.99

00:57:24.440 I wasn't there, but it's been a well-known story for years and years.

00:57:29.060 And, and car dealer flipped the auctioneer off and the auctioneer came off the block.

00:57:33.120 No.

00:57:33.440 That's a fight.

00:57:34.040 By the time he got down there, the guy had a knife and put it to his throat and said,

00:57:37.640 come on, big boy. 1.00

00:57:38.620 Damn. 0.99

00:57:39.180 Like I'm backing up now. 1.00

00:57:40.060 I'm going back up to my block.

00:57:41.120 Yeah.

00:57:41.700 Yeah.

00:57:42.340 Wow.

00:57:43.180 I mean, it used to get pretty Western, you know, back in the day.

00:57:46.160 I'm sure.

00:57:47.060 But now there's cameras and everything.

00:57:48.400 Everywhere.

00:57:48.620 You know, and everybody's calmed down now.

00:57:50.360 Oh, yeah.

00:57:50.700 It's much calmer.

00:57:51.260 Yeah.

00:57:51.500 It's much calmer.

00:57:53.100 Yeah.

00:57:53.540 You kind of missed that road, you know, when it was a little bit of a rockier road.

00:57:56.780 Mm-hmm.

00:57:57.720 It was fun.

00:57:58.900 Easier times, though.

00:58:00.380 That's true.

00:58:01.280 Rockier road, but easier times.

00:58:03.040 It's always, it's always the good old days.

00:58:05.020 It always is, huh?

00:58:05.940 When you're in it.

00:58:06.600 Yeah.

00:58:07.260 Yeah.

00:58:07.780 Yeah.

00:58:08.120 It really is.

00:58:08.460 Isn't that weird?

00:58:09.840 Did you meet your wife at an auction?

00:58:11.540 I did not.

00:58:12.380 I met my wife in San Marcos.

00:58:14.420 Not at an auction.

00:58:15.420 Okay.

00:58:16.020 And that's where you guys are based out of, San Marcos, right?

00:58:17.660 Yeah.

00:58:17.980 New Braunfels, San Marcos.

00:58:19.140 Oh, yeah.

00:58:19.460 New Braunfels.

00:58:19.940 I've heard really cool things about my friend.

00:58:21.580 Oh, yeah.

00:58:21.740 Steve Trevino is a comedian down there in New Braunfels.

00:58:24.060 It's great.

00:58:24.420 Yeah.

00:58:24.740 And he's a great dude, and he loves it down there.

00:58:27.640 Beautiful.

00:58:27.960 I love it there.

00:58:28.600 It's great.

00:58:29.260 Rivers, it's awesome.

00:58:30.120 It's a beautiful place.

00:58:30.840 Is it?

00:58:31.180 You ought to come visit us.

00:58:32.120 Yeah, I'm going to come visit.

00:58:33.060 I'll probably have to come down there and do a show at some point.

00:58:35.700 You know, sometimes I have trouble sleeping and focusing and acting right, which is everything.

00:58:40.940 That's everything you can do.

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01:00:55.900 Sean, let's get to one more question that came in from someone.

01:00:59.380 Hola, senor Vaughn.

01:01:01.380 This is a question for the auctioneers.

01:01:04.240 I'm just wondering if there is, like, a need to practice this.

01:01:07.540 Is there any application to the bedroom?

01:01:10.420 You know, like, quick, quick, quick, in the bed, in the bed, in the bed, quick, with the tank and off the pants.

01:01:13.320 We go to the underweights.

01:01:14.820 You know what I'm saying?

01:01:15.500 Like, I just need to understand if it's applicable, and, like, how do you guys do it?

01:01:19.340 Gang, gang.

01:01:20.300 Yeah, when do, yeah, do women, we kind of touched on it, but, yeah, I guess women want to see the action a little bit, huh? 1.00

01:01:26.240 They, you know, women like fast talkers. 1.00

01:01:30.920 Yeah, they do, huh?

01:01:31.900 Yeah.

01:01:32.240 It's kind of hard to, yeah.

01:01:33.600 Is it a fast, is it, what are ways that you feel like the ability to do auctioneering correlates into other type of, like, uses in life?

01:01:47.120 Is there any, is there any times you can notice?

01:01:49.120 Yeah, it's like, it's so fast-paced, like, it slows things down, like, everything else is kind of like.

01:01:55.500 And it's just the opposite for me.

01:01:57.240 It's made me very OCD.

01:01:59.980 I mean, everything has got to be just, I mean, everything has got to be just absolutely perfect in my world, or I'm just in a, like, for instance, he was telling me they'd rather us be late today than be early.

01:02:13.860 And at 12.45, I'm telling him, hey, we've got to get an Uber.

01:02:17.000 You know, we've got to go.

01:02:17.940 We've got to go.

01:02:18.500 And then we're in the Uber at 1.20, just leaving the hotel.

01:02:20.600 And I'm like, man, I feel so awful.

01:02:22.520 We're going to be late.

01:02:23.400 Oh, yeah.

01:02:24.060 He's doing math in his head.

01:02:25.140 He's like, oh, if we get there in seven minutes.

01:02:26.560 You know, and I mean, that's just my world.

01:02:29.700 I mean, everything, before I go to bed at night, everything is laid out and ready for the next day.

01:02:36.320 And, I mean, my schedule's set, and, I mean, everything's just got to be boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, perfect.

01:02:41.500 And was your dad that way?

01:02:42.620 Not at all.

01:02:43.220 Where do you get it from?

01:02:44.100 I don't know.

01:02:45.340 I'm not that way.

01:02:46.180 Because it's interesting that two different types of people then could both do this job, you know?

01:02:49.740 So it's not really like in the per.

01:02:51.800 That's just me.

01:02:52.860 Right.

01:02:53.220 You know what I mean?

01:02:54.120 That's just me.

01:02:55.220 And, you know, in reality, you know, my mother is a lot of the same way.

01:03:00.900 So I think I get some of that from my mother.

01:03:03.460 But I think a lot of it comes with, you know, just being up there and being in control of everything.

01:03:09.140 Oh, yeah.

01:03:09.720 At, you know, so many days a week.

01:03:11.880 You know what I mean?

01:03:12.060 Yeah, I can see that.

01:03:12.820 Yeah.

01:03:13.740 That control is a big thing, man.

01:03:15.480 Yeah.

01:03:16.000 Managing it and just.

01:03:18.420 Just making sure everything's perfect.

01:03:20.040 Yeah.

01:03:20.200 For everybody involved.

01:03:21.240 Right.

01:03:21.640 You know what I mean?

01:03:22.740 And that's the kind of way I live my life.

01:03:24.700 Yeah.

01:03:25.620 Running smooth.

01:03:26.480 Is there, what are, how long is the experience when you're up there on stage?

01:03:33.640 You're doing an auction, right?

01:03:34.820 And you said it's in the morning, starts usually around nine.

01:03:38.260 Yeah.

01:03:38.520 And then how long is the action?

01:03:40.060 And is it just straight action the whole time?

01:03:41.860 Are there breaks?

01:03:42.480 What's that?

01:03:42.980 Pretty straight action.

01:03:44.040 Usually, it depends on how many cars you have.

01:03:46.640 You know, different lanes will shut down at different times because like one lane will have 100 cars and the next lane will have, you know, 200 cars.

01:03:53.680 Okay.

01:03:53.800 So, it just depends.

01:03:54.660 But yeah, it's straight action for two hours, give or take.

01:03:57.560 Two to three hours.

01:03:58.340 Yeah.

01:03:58.660 And do you ever auction more than one item at the same time or no?

01:04:01.140 No.

01:04:01.580 No.

01:04:02.280 There's different.

01:04:03.120 So, like, there'll be like on Wednesday, there's 18 of us.

01:04:05.800 Okay.

01:04:06.300 And we all have our own lane and we go and we start the sale.

01:04:09.160 So, there's 18 of them.

01:04:09.900 So, there's a lot of dealers are running from lane to lane, like coming in late, trying to bid, throwing paper, flicking us off and cursing at us.

01:04:18.860 It's fun.

01:04:19.680 But yeah, it's fast.

01:04:20.980 It's real fast.

01:04:21.700 Yeah, people are just running lane to lane trying to bid on cars.

01:04:24.940 And some lanes, there's, at some auctions, there's two lanes in one lane.

01:04:30.620 Like in the front of the barn, there'll be one lane and then in the back of the barn, there'll be another lane.

01:04:36.320 So, you'll have like, let's say, you'll have a lane five car come in the front and lane six in the back and then they both leave at the same time and then two more cars come in.

01:04:45.700 Oh, wow.

01:04:46.600 So, it's a lot of volume.

01:04:48.720 A lot of volume.

01:04:49.360 How many items are you kind of auctioning?

01:04:50.740 We'll go through an auction and one of those morning auctions.

01:04:53.900 On Wednesday, we had, what did we have?

01:04:56.760 1,600, 1,800 cars?

01:04:58.080 Yeah.

01:04:58.400 No.

01:04:59.320 On Tuesday, we probably had 800 to 1,000.

01:05:02.020 Yeah, 800-ish.

01:05:03.120 What?

01:05:03.860 Yeah.

01:05:04.940 Wow.

01:05:05.940 And we're in that ring bidding.

01:05:08.320 Oh, man, there's tons.

01:05:09.480 Yeah.

01:05:09.860 Especially on Tuesday, there's a ton.

01:05:11.240 And on Wednesday, there's a lot too.

01:05:11.580 And there's online bidding too.

01:05:12.780 Right.

01:05:12.980 Yeah, there's like each lane.

01:05:14.800 Like I think on Wednesday, my lane, I think I had 120 people online.

01:05:18.580 And then in lane, you know.

01:05:21.140 80 to 100 to 200 to 300 people.

01:05:23.380 Yeah.

01:05:24.320 Yeah.

01:05:24.680 Quite a bit of folks.

01:05:26.380 Dang.

01:05:26.800 And is there like a food truck out there or anything sometimes?

01:05:29.300 Yeah, most of them.

01:05:29.620 Sometimes I have food trucks.

01:05:30.640 It's a little bit of a deal.

01:05:31.520 Yeah.

01:05:31.720 Yeah, yeah.

01:05:32.060 People come out.

01:05:33.080 Yeah, there used to be a cafe.

01:05:33.860 People get hungry.

01:05:35.080 Yeah.

01:05:35.440 So, they have food there to keep them there.

01:05:37.020 Yeah.

01:05:37.280 We want to keep them there until the sale's over.

01:05:39.080 That's a trick.

01:05:39.900 Yeah, that's wild, man.

01:05:42.160 That's wild, dude.

01:05:43.760 Is he ever walking off anything real wild?

01:05:46.440 Anybody selling coffins or anything like that?

01:05:48.880 Anything like any like a treasure?

01:05:51.920 I know one car dealer that sells headstones at his car lot.

01:05:57.000 And has a car lot.

01:05:58.480 Oh, never mind.

01:05:58.860 And sells headstones on the same property. 1.00

01:06:03.100 Damn. 1.00

01:06:03.860 That's pretty cool. 0.99

01:06:04.800 Yeah.

01:06:05.960 That's pretty cool.

01:06:06.760 One-stop shop.

01:06:07.700 Well, especially if he cuts the brake cords on his cars, dude.

01:06:10.660 Yeah.

01:06:11.100 You know what I'm saying?

01:06:11.920 That's repeat business.

01:06:12.520 We'll give you a deal.

01:06:13.220 We'll give you a deal.

01:06:13.880 They're going to need a headstone.

01:06:15.040 Yeah.

01:06:16.800 Okay, cool.

01:06:17.500 Let's get into a couple more of these questions, man.

01:06:19.460 People were really intrigued.

01:06:20.660 And so, you know, I was just driving through town about a month ago.

01:06:23.480 And I drove by.

01:06:24.180 It said auction.

01:06:25.280 Auctioneer on the sign.

01:06:26.360 And I was like, oh, my God.

01:06:28.480 I was like, where are these people?

01:06:31.460 Yeah, where are they?

01:06:32.580 What are they doing?

01:06:33.960 Yeah, we're here.

01:06:34.660 So, this is real fascinating, man, just to hear about it.

01:06:36.760 Nathiel, my question is for the father-son auctioneer duo.

01:06:42.380 My question is, can you guys read really fast?

01:06:45.080 I'm not a good reader.

01:06:46.280 I can barely read.

01:06:47.620 But I'm not a great talker either.

01:06:49.380 So, I figure if I could talk that fast, I could probably read fast.

01:06:53.060 Thanks, guys.

01:06:53.840 Gang, gang.

01:06:54.460 Gang, baby, that's a good question. 0.91

01:06:55.660 Yeah.

01:06:56.040 Not at all.

01:06:56.780 Not at all.

01:06:57.440 I've gotten faster at reading.

01:06:59.060 But, no.

01:07:01.680 For me, the faster you read, the less you take in.

01:07:04.140 Yeah.

01:07:04.620 For me.

01:07:05.680 Huh.

01:07:06.140 I just learned how to read.

01:07:06.940 Oh, yeah.

01:07:07.240 I'm a slow reader.

01:07:08.040 You see what I'm saying?

01:07:08.120 Yeah, I'm a slow reader, too.

01:07:09.040 The faster you read or the faster you try to get through it, the less you get out of it.

01:07:13.180 Right.

01:07:14.720 Yeah.

01:07:15.040 That's kind of how I am, I think, man.

01:07:16.420 Yeah.

01:07:16.540 It's like, I've got to read it a couple times.

01:07:18.580 Yeah, for sure.

01:07:19.560 If you read it too fast, you've got to go back.

01:07:21.280 Right.

01:07:21.960 No, I don't think that really equates.

01:07:23.620 If you lose your track, you're running a bid, right?

01:07:26.980 Mm-hmm.

01:07:27.820 Every time you lose your track, it's just.

01:07:29.840 Oh, yeah.

01:07:30.360 So, what do you do?

01:07:31.080 Do you call a timeout?

01:07:31.960 The screen.

01:07:33.420 There's a screen out there that usually helps if we, you know, forget where we're at.

01:07:37.000 But, nowadays, I mean, it's just like, like you said, it's like breathing.

01:07:40.620 It's like second nature to us.

01:07:42.600 You know, you can do it in your sleep, pretty much.

01:07:44.340 But you get to thinking about something else.

01:07:45.920 Yeah, you'll.

01:07:46.240 You know, while you're up there.

01:07:47.260 Yeah, and think about what you're going to have for lunch.

01:07:48.480 You know, there's not a lot of action going on on the floor, you know.

01:07:51.260 And you get to thinking about something, and you're at 28,000.

01:07:54.960 Next thing you say is 18,000.

01:07:56.560 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:07:57.000 Oh, I mean 28.

01:07:57.700 I mean 28,000.

01:07:58.660 You just jump right back.

01:07:59.780 There's a screen, though, that they follow us.

01:08:02.060 Yeah.

01:08:02.260 Okay.

01:08:02.660 And so, like, the last thing we said is usually on the screen.

01:08:05.040 So, you got some support.

01:08:05.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:08:06.420 Just in case.

01:08:07.340 But it happens, for sure.

01:08:08.620 Has any auctioneers ever been killed or anything like that in the line of duty?

01:08:13.320 Not that I know of.

01:08:14.460 Not in the line of duty.

01:08:15.880 Nope.

01:08:17.560 Oh, that's good.

01:08:19.380 That is good.

01:08:20.460 Yeah, let's get to another question from a guest.

01:08:22.060 Probably some car dealers that want to kill some auctioneers. 1.00

01:08:24.440 Oh, really?

01:08:24.920 Oh, yeah.

01:08:25.360 Oh, yeah.

01:08:26.040 Is there some inside work going on?

01:08:27.640 Is there, like, kind of like they'll try and bait you or take you out to dinner or something?

01:08:30.640 No.

01:08:31.580 I mean, we just mess with them so much.

01:08:33.620 You know what I mean?

01:08:34.340 We see them every week.

01:08:35.100 It's salt and the goose, you know?

01:08:35.600 Yeah, we see them every week, and we know their kids' names, and we're all buddies.

01:08:39.260 Right, yeah.

01:08:40.080 But we like to mess with them. 1.00

01:08:41.440 Talk trash. 0.97

01:08:42.040 But when we're up there, it's straight business. 0.98

01:08:44.020 It is.

01:08:44.460 Yeah, absolutely.

01:08:44.980 You know what I mean?

01:08:45.000 It's straight business.

01:08:45.880 And we have a figure we have to get to.

01:08:47.620 They may not like that figure, but we are doing our damnedest to get to that figure.

01:08:51.440 Yeah, right.

01:08:52.060 Our job is to sell the car. 0.77

01:08:53.420 Right.

01:08:54.120 So.

01:08:57.860 Hey, Theo.

01:08:58.720 How you doing?

01:08:59.240 My name is Joe from Rockville, Maryland.

01:09:01.180 I was in a car place.

01:09:01.960 Got a quick question for you and your fast-talking friends.

01:09:05.180 Yeah, how much water do you drink?

01:09:06.700 You must get a sore throat.

01:09:08.760 Hoorah.

01:09:10.240 Amen, brother.

01:09:11.000 Thanks, Joe, man.

01:09:11.700 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:12.160 You got to stay hydrated.

01:09:13.260 I know you can stay in a lot of water.

01:09:14.240 Oh, yeah.

01:09:14.580 Really?

01:09:14.880 That's for sure.

01:09:16.460 And are any of them outdoors?

01:09:17.660 All of them are indoors.

01:09:18.760 The equipment sales, some of them are outdoors.

01:09:20.460 They'll like, the ones I've worked before, they'll be outside, but mainly they're just

01:09:25.000 like big barns.

01:09:26.460 Big shops.

01:09:27.740 And now, what about people that run in livestock?

01:09:30.260 Is that a different type of auction?

01:09:31.560 Have you ever done that?

01:09:32.040 Totally different.

01:09:32.700 Yeah, totally different.

01:09:33.340 You sell them by the pound.

01:09:34.420 Yeah.

01:09:34.640 Okay.

01:09:34.920 Completely different.

01:09:35.400 You sell them the livestock by the pound.

01:09:37.960 It's totally, totally different.

01:09:39.840 And do you all have beef with those people?

01:09:41.060 I mean, literally, almost.

01:09:41.800 No, we have good friends that own livestock auctions.

01:09:47.260 Well, they do both, you know what I mean?

01:09:48.340 And they'll do both.

01:09:49.320 You know, most, there's livestock auctions all throughout the week.

01:09:53.200 But for example, a friend of mine that owns one in Gonzales, Texas, his is on Saturday,

01:10:00.380 and he works three or four sales during the week, car sales during the week, and then

01:10:04.840 does that on the weekend.

01:10:07.600 But that's a totally, totally different.

01:10:09.800 I mean, it's totally different.

01:10:11.840 I don't know this.

01:10:12.460 And that's for mating, you know?

01:10:14.040 You know, like, you know, somebody, you can sell a Dodge Ram and then to sell a Ram if

01:10:16.840 you want.

01:10:17.600 That'd be cool.

01:10:18.200 But I think the benefit of that, why I would like to buy something from there, I think

01:10:22.740 is you can mate it, you know?

01:10:24.880 And not you, but you can have it mate with something else.

01:10:27.800 Like, it'd be cool if you could have a couple cars mate.

01:10:30.000 Yeah.

01:10:30.320 You know, you go park them somewhere in a garage for the weekend, and you come back.

01:10:33.140 A little baby car.

01:10:33.840 Yeah, and a little baby car scoots out.

01:10:35.600 It'd be cool, wouldn't it?

01:10:36.280 I worked a livestock auction with him one time, and so they're kind of, they're up on,

01:10:44.940 he's up on the block, okay?

01:10:46.400 And then the chute is like down around him, like a U-shaped U.

01:10:50.360 Right.

01:10:50.860 And the cattle are coming in, and I'm on the side where the cattle's coming in.

01:10:55.580 Well, this great big Brahma bull, I mean, 1,800, 2,000 pounds.

01:11:01.080 I mean, he's pissed.

01:11:02.320 He wants out of there.

01:11:03.520 And this 70-year-old man is holding up this gate, and I'm like watching, and I'm, you

01:11:08.520 know, I'm not a cowboy in any way, shape, or form.

01:11:11.700 And so I'm watching.

01:11:12.820 I'm like, man, I'm going to watch this old man die right here in front of me. 0.98

01:11:16.040 Well, that old man jumps out of the way, and out comes that bull and takes dead-ass aim 0.98

01:11:21.160 at me.

01:11:22.360 And I'm running through the arena trying to get away from him.

01:11:25.980 All these cowboys are looking at him.

01:11:27.240 Yeah, and I finally got locked up in the office, and them cowboys came and got that cow. 1.00

01:11:31.420 And, man, I was so scared. 1.00

01:11:34.260 God, I mean, he took dead aim for my ass. 0.99

01:11:37.280 That's the worst, when you think somebody else is about to get it, and then suddenly 1.00

01:11:39.880 you're about to get it.

01:11:41.180 That's a big shift.

01:11:42.160 Locked in on them.

01:11:43.460 That's a big shift in the head.

01:11:45.400 Is there any good jokes you use when you're up there?

01:11:47.700 Is it kind of like that, or is it all business?

01:11:49.540 Sometimes you can be a little light.

01:11:50.920 No, we joke around.

01:11:52.080 No, we joke.

01:11:52.680 I joke.

01:11:53.360 All the time.

01:11:54.000 All day.

01:11:55.060 You know, for instance, I had a car dealer that we have a really good relationship with,

01:12:00.080 and, you know, I was selling a car, and it was on a red light, which is as-is, you know?

01:12:06.100 Okay.

01:12:07.180 We had one of those, dude.

01:12:08.640 You know, and I told him, I said, come on, man, take it.

01:12:11.040 We had an as-is.

01:12:11.780 It was missing a passenger seat.

01:12:14.560 I've heard that story.

01:12:15.520 So I told him, I said, come on, man, be like your wife. 1.00

01:12:18.280 Take a chance.

01:12:21.760 That's good, man.

01:12:22.260 Yeah, there's some good jokes.

01:12:23.180 Most of them are just kind of like improv.

01:12:25.440 Yeah, just short.

01:12:26.420 Yeah, short.

01:12:27.180 One-liners.

01:12:27.900 Jabs.

01:12:28.360 Yeah, jabs at the dealers.

01:12:30.360 Dude, my favorite joke I ever heard, it's a little profane, but it's, what's the last 0.99

01:12:36.520 thing you want to hear when you're giving a blowjob to Willie Nelson? 0.99

01:12:40.200 Well, I'm not Willie Nelson. 0.99

01:12:43.780 That's my favorite joke ever.

01:12:44.840 It's not my joke, but God, it's good.

01:12:47.520 I mean, it's just a good joke, man.

01:12:49.620 We got one more that came in for you guys, man.

01:12:53.860 Have you ever been caught raising the bid on an item without any active bidders to reach

01:13:01.680 the reserve?

01:13:03.080 And if so, how did you handle that situation?

01:13:06.680 Because I know it does happen.

01:13:09.460 He's got a little inside track there.

01:13:11.100 Does he?

01:13:11.560 Yes.

01:13:12.140 You know that man?

01:13:13.100 No.

01:13:13.300 No.

01:13:13.460 He's been to the auction, though.

01:13:16.280 Our job is to get it to the reserve.

01:13:18.180 You know?

01:13:18.600 Right.

01:13:18.780 We try to make that look as good as possible.

01:13:20.920 Okay.

01:13:21.320 And what is the reserve?

01:13:22.520 It's like what the seller wants for the vehicle.

01:13:25.800 Okay.

01:13:26.080 Needs for it to actually sell.

01:13:27.520 Okay.

01:13:27.900 So if it doesn't meet the reserve, it doesn't have to sell.

01:13:29.920 Yeah.

01:13:30.200 Correct.

01:13:30.380 We can put it on call or we just no-sell it.

01:13:32.740 Okay.

01:13:33.420 And so, I mean, you know, at the end of the day, our job is to get it to there, right?

01:13:38.680 So the least no-sales you have at the end of the day, the better.

01:13:41.080 Correct.

01:13:41.520 Okay.

01:13:41.940 Yeah.

01:13:42.280 Correct.

01:13:42.560 So sometimes you might let it, you know, let that extra hundred slip up there, huh?

01:13:46.980 Yeah.

01:13:48.240 Sometimes.

01:13:48.840 You got to do what you got to do.

01:13:49.720 Right.

01:13:51.020 But, you know, if something, if they stop bidding or whatever, then we just explain to them,

01:13:54.720 hey, it takes X amount of dollars to get this car bought.

01:13:56.300 Yeah, a lot of times we'll just stop and tell them, hey, this is what it takes to buy it.

01:13:58.860 Yeah, this is what it takes to buy it.

01:13:59.840 And if they can, you know, meet somewhere in the middle or we'll figure it out, get it

01:14:03.600 closer, put it on a call, but really we want to sell it right there.

01:14:06.600 Yeah. 0.97

01:14:06.780 I mean, you can't have a guy have a damn seizure in the front row and he wakes up and owns 0.98

01:14:09.640 four Volkswagens. 0.99

01:14:10.760 You know what I'm saying?

01:14:11.100 Right.

01:14:11.200 You can't.

01:14:11.940 You got to.

01:14:14.260 Let's hear some of your calls, Maggie.

01:14:15.860 Can we hear one?

01:14:16.760 Yeah.

01:14:17.140 Two gram.

01:14:17.560 It's so much better.

01:14:31.160 Like I have videos.

01:14:32.260 If y'all want to watch videos.

01:14:33.980 I mean, to me, it's so much better when it's live and it's.

01:14:37.380 With speakers.

01:14:39.020 Yeah.

01:14:39.240 With speakers.

01:14:40.520 Oh, I bet.

01:14:41.160 Do we have one of those?

01:14:42.360 All right.

01:14:42.620 Here we got a video right here.

01:14:43.460 Let's check this out.

01:14:44.200 So, Cameron, take us into what you're doing here before we start it.

01:14:46.940 So, this was, I think, pre-COVID.

01:14:49.940 No.

01:14:51.240 Yeah.

01:14:51.580 Pre-COVID.

01:14:53.680 And the screen behind you is the picture of the car.

01:14:58.360 The guy to my right is the rep.

01:15:00.080 So, he's going to be representing the seller of the vehicle.

01:15:03.400 Okay.

01:15:04.580 And then that's pretty much it.

01:15:06.160 All right.

01:15:06.640 Let's hear it.

01:15:06.800 And there's a screen.

01:15:07.500 And there's a screen.

01:15:09.800 So, you went from one car and started on another one there?

01:15:27.500 Yeah.

01:15:27.620 I'm right here.

01:15:28.120 Another car.

01:15:30.460 So, go back.

01:15:31.160 When you hit 375, you started on a new car.

01:15:32.700 Yeah, that's, yeah, that 375 was the buyer number.

01:15:35.080 And then I'm on a new one right now.

01:15:36.520 Oh, okay.

01:15:37.580 Yeah.

01:15:37.700 So, I'm announcing the announcements right there.

01:15:51.540 What's wrong with it?

01:15:52.840 Oh, okay.

01:15:53.520 So, you'll say it has this or this.

01:16:00.640 That's awesome, man.

01:16:02.080 So, that's it?

01:16:02.880 You just sit there and keep it cruising, huh?

01:16:04.400 Yeah.

01:16:04.820 Just cruise right along.

01:16:05.400 And with that safety vest on, what do you have to have?

01:16:07.320 Yeah, that's a bigger corporate auction right there.

01:16:11.180 They're big into safety.

01:16:13.000 And so, cars are driving through the lanes.

01:16:15.320 And so, they just don't want anyone to get hit.

01:16:17.140 So, if you work at the auction, if you're an auctioneer, you got to have the safety vest

01:16:20.520 on just in case you get off the block and you're walking, you know, to go to the bathroom.

01:16:24.800 They want the drivers to see you.

01:16:25.600 You're the money mouth.

01:16:26.320 They got to keep you healthy, huh?

01:16:27.420 Yeah.

01:16:27.600 Right.

01:16:28.000 There you go.

01:16:29.080 All right.

01:16:29.340 What do we got here?

01:16:29.940 Here's another video.

01:16:30.640 Now, this section, what's going on here?

01:16:32.660 I'm selling new car trades, new car trade-ins.

01:16:36.520 Okay.

01:16:36.880 Or front-line old-age units.

01:16:39.280 Oh, yeah.

01:16:39.740 Right there.

01:16:40.380 That's my nickname.

01:16:41.140 This is actually in the Valley.

01:16:43.160 This is in McAllen, Texas.

01:16:45.000 Okay.

01:16:45.540 And I can't really tell you until he starts the video.

01:16:48.380 Okay.

01:16:52.160 That's old Jake Long.

01:16:53.380 Shout out.

01:17:06.440 I'm fishing for money.

01:17:07.920 You are.

01:17:08.820 And where are you looking?

01:17:10.260 Where are the people sitting?

01:17:11.940 See all those people right there underneath those flags?

01:17:15.040 Yeah.

01:17:15.300 Those are all car dealers.

01:17:16.820 Those are all buyers.

01:17:18.140 Okay.

01:17:18.700 And when I said Detroit, he's beating up on us today.

01:17:21.660 Those were two corporate buyers for big corporate car lots.

01:17:27.020 And I was joking with them.

01:17:28.840 Right.

01:17:29.140 And I was telling my friend Detroit that the other buyer was beating up on us today.

01:17:35.760 I see.

01:17:36.480 And so these are the different lanes right here I'm seeing?

01:17:38.520 Yeah.

01:17:38.620 Like I'm sitting, like you can see my block right there where that play button is.

01:17:43.920 Right.

01:17:44.040 The car's right in front of me.

01:17:45.560 And then you see another auctioneer right across the other lane.

01:17:48.720 And you see his rep and then the clerk.

01:17:54.680 And the car in front of him.

01:17:55.880 And the car in front of him.

01:17:57.140 So each of you guys, so he does that car, you're doing this car, do you go back and forth?

01:18:01.260 No, we're both going at the same time.

01:18:02.860 Oh, really?

01:18:03.540 Yeah.

01:18:03.760 There's like a sound wall.

01:18:05.020 So it's all loud.

01:18:05.720 But once you step into a lane, you can hear primarily that auctioneer.

01:18:08.840 And then behind me, there's two more other lanes going as well.

01:18:13.100 Wow.

01:18:14.360 So there's a sound wall between you and that guy.

01:18:16.260 Yeah.

01:18:16.780 Okay.

01:18:17.180 You see where that, you see where that, where it says caution?

01:18:20.060 Yeah.

01:18:20.240 And like right up above that is a great big wall that separates the two lanes.

01:18:25.420 I see.

01:18:25.880 That's where the speakers are too.

01:18:27.120 They're way up.

01:18:27.420 The speakers are up there.

01:18:28.440 In the rafters.

01:18:29.560 I see.

01:18:29.800 That actually at that auction, that, what that caution sign is hanging on are AC ducks.

01:18:36.500 Amen.

01:18:36.900 Yeah.

01:18:37.780 Yeah.

01:18:38.000 I like that.

01:18:38.420 Cool there.

01:18:40.980 Cool, man.

01:18:41.700 So I'm trying to think if there's anything else, man.

01:18:43.940 I really feel like I understand a little bit more about the world.

01:18:47.200 I understand that some of it's kind of a family, not a family business, but it, or a lot of other people that are in the business.

01:18:52.840 They have a family member in it.

01:18:54.240 Oh, yeah.

01:18:54.560 Oh, yeah.

01:18:54.920 It really is, huh?

01:18:55.820 Yeah.

01:18:56.160 Yeah.

01:18:56.380 Especially in the auto, in the auto side, primarily.

01:18:59.020 Yeah.

01:18:59.260 I would say so.

01:19:01.080 Most definitely.

01:19:02.000 All my auction buddies, like the video he just showed them, Peyton Crowe, his brother's in it, and then you got their dad, theirs in it.

01:19:10.180 Yeah.

01:19:10.240 I mean, it's a.

01:19:11.060 And then that guy that was working the ring for me that he said, Jake Long, his dad is a state world champion auctioneer.

01:19:20.220 Really?

01:19:20.880 Yeah.

01:19:21.540 Now, did any of you guys ever get into the competitions, or what's that like?

01:19:24.560 Not too much, man.

01:19:25.460 I did one time when we were in Waco.

01:19:29.700 I never, I have never, ever, ever had any desire to do any competitions.

01:19:33.920 And what is it like, the competition?

01:19:35.560 Take me through some of it.

01:19:36.800 Yeah.

01:19:36.960 It's not, it's, in my personal opinion, it's not based or judged off what we do on a daily basis.

01:19:44.320 Right.

01:19:44.500 Because you only get three cars, you only get to sell three cars, and I mean, you could get the wrong three cars, you could get the right three cars, you could not be, you know, it takes more than three cars to warm up.

01:20:00.740 Right, so it's too subjective or objective.

01:20:03.000 I don't know which one, but it's the one that's not good.

01:20:05.500 Yeah, that one.

01:20:07.420 Yeah.

01:20:07.940 Yeah.

01:20:08.220 It's just never been for me.

01:20:09.700 Totally.

01:20:10.560 And just so, what is it like, not even that you really, I mean, obviously you just kind of checked it out to see what it was like, but what is that, like, what is it, like, if I'm at that thing, what is it?

01:20:18.540 Yeah, so they have an auctioneer competition.

01:20:20.800 This is for automobiles, but they have other ones too.

01:20:22.760 They have state, and this one would be the world automobile.

01:20:26.860 Automobile auctioneer.

01:20:27.980 Wow.

01:20:28.300 Yeah, deal, and so they have that, and they have a ringman competition. 1.00

01:20:31.940 I was 18, I competed in the ringman, I think I got, like, 11th place.

01:20:36.500 Wow, and so the ringman students are competing with letting the auctioneer know?

01:20:39.840 Yeah, yeah.

01:20:41.300 With the other ringman.

01:20:42.480 Yeah, with the other ringman, and then there's an auctioneer competition.

01:20:45.100 I think it was supposed to be in Texas.

01:20:46.680 Yeah, there's a team deal, too.

01:20:47.560 They're supposed to be in Texas, and then COVID came last year, and I was actually going to compete in it because it was coming to Texas.

01:20:53.880 I think if it comes back to Texas, I'll probably compete, but other than that, I don't know.

01:20:58.440 Is it fun, though?

01:20:59.560 Yeah, it can be.

01:21:00.480 Yeah.

01:21:00.860 Yeah, it's a rush, for sure.

01:21:02.240 Right.

01:21:02.780 Yeah.

01:21:03.080 Yeah.

01:21:03.580 Yeah.

01:21:04.180 I mean, look, a lot of those, a lot of, when you get into a competition, it's the same with stand-up comedy.

01:21:08.500 It's just different, yeah.

01:21:09.400 I have friends that were on Last Comic Standing that are better comedians than the friends that have won it.

01:21:13.440 Right, same deal, yeah.

01:21:14.680 Same deal.

01:21:15.040 It is what it is.

01:21:16.000 Right.

01:21:16.300 It's hard to get into a competition about something like that.

01:21:19.000 Right, right. 0.94

01:21:19.700 Damn, I wonder, has there ever been a movie about auctioneers? 0.98

01:21:22.980 There needs to be. 0.99

01:21:23.960 I think it'd be great.

01:21:25.600 There needs to be a show or something.

01:21:26.780 Who was the fellow that had trouble with the drinking?

01:21:29.520 What was his name?

01:21:31.360 Let's call him John.

01:21:32.600 Okay, that's fine.

01:21:33.760 Yeah, I didn't mean to call him out.

01:21:34.520 I'm just thinking if it's a neat name, you make me think about a movie character.

01:21:37.860 No.

01:21:38.460 But he would be a great movie.

01:21:40.640 Yeah, he really would.

01:21:41.660 You ever seen that movie, The Goods?

01:21:43.600 It's about that car dealer.

01:21:45.920 I think it's, you've seen it, right?

01:21:48.040 Uh-uh.

01:21:48.800 Man, it's good.

01:21:50.020 Yeah, it's a car dealer movie.

01:21:51.700 I mean, this is the type of guy that went to jail on his wedding day.

01:21:54.620 Hey, man.

01:21:55.420 I mean, he got married and went to jail.

01:21:56.980 Yeah, that one right there with that guy. 0.75

01:21:58.560 You want to jail now?

01:21:59.440 Yeah, that's a, he's a car dealer.

01:22:02.640 It's a hilarious.

01:22:03.660 I think I have seen that movie.

01:22:04.880 It's a hilarious movie.

01:22:06.860 Is that Jeremy Piven?

01:22:07.580 Sure is.

01:22:08.060 That's hilarious.

01:22:08.520 I did comedy with him the other night.

01:22:09.760 Really?

01:22:10.380 Yeah.

01:22:10.780 He's funny.

01:22:11.860 He's a talented, talented man.

01:22:14.260 He's funny.

01:22:16.560 Interesting.

01:22:16.980 I'm going to have to see this movie.

01:22:17.900 Yeah, it's good.

01:22:18.520 It's about, it's not about auctions, but it's about car dealers.

01:22:21.840 About selling cars.

01:22:22.880 Yeah, about car dealers.

01:22:23.700 Selling cars.

01:22:24.020 You know what's funny is, he's a, one way I would definitely describe Jeremy is that

01:22:27.400 he's a salesman.

01:22:28.380 Yeah.

01:22:29.360 He did a really good job in that movie, for sure.

01:22:31.280 He's a salesman.

01:22:31.580 I'll check it out.

01:22:32.380 But yeah, there should be an auctioneer movie.

01:22:33.800 That would be funny.

01:22:34.500 Yeah, I feel like it's really missing that.

01:22:35.460 I don't know if it would be funny, but yeah.

01:22:37.000 I feel like we're really missing that.

01:22:38.760 So we do something here.

01:22:40.780 First of all, thank you guys for coming in, man.

01:22:42.320 Absolutely.

01:22:42.520 Thank you for having us.

01:22:43.300 Yeah, thank you.

01:22:43.880 It's really interesting to learn about your trade.

01:22:45.400 And we do a thing here where we do something for single moms, where we reach out to a single

01:22:50.100 mom and just kind of, just grant them a small financial amount to just go do something

01:22:54.000 fun with their kiddo, you know?

01:22:55.980 So we have a woman, you guys have a friend of a friend, right?

01:23:01.080 Right.

01:23:01.980 And she raises her own, she has a child that she raises? 1.00

01:23:05.420 Yeah, two kids.

01:23:06.400 Oh, nice.

01:23:06.820 Two kids in Waxahachie, Texas.

01:23:08.920 Waxahachie, huh? 0.97

01:23:10.080 Yes.

01:23:10.500 Dang.

01:23:11.200 Okay.

01:23:12.240 Well, look, man, I've never had my Hatchie Waxed, but I'd probably be willing to.

01:23:17.920 Oh, that's cool.

01:23:18.740 It just depends.

01:23:21.980 Hey, Amanda. 1.00

01:23:23.920 Yes, sir.

01:23:24.780 How are you today, young lady?

01:23:26.540 Good.

01:23:26.960 How are you?

01:23:27.620 Good.

01:23:27.840 I'm not a creep or anything like that.

01:23:29.300 And so I'm just calling, I work on a podcast.

01:23:33.080 Uh-huh.

01:23:33.520 And we do a thing on our podcast where every now and then we reach out to a single mom

01:23:38.360 and we just do something nice for them.

01:23:40.620 And somebody nominated you.

01:23:42.720 I'm sitting here with two fine gentlemen right here who are auctioneers, actually.

01:23:47.160 Okay.

01:23:47.820 And they're from San Marcos, Texas.

01:23:50.720 Um, and we just wanted to, uh, we wanted to make a, just a financial gift to you so you

01:23:58.000 could go do something fun with your kiddos this summer.

01:24:00.740 Um.

01:24:01.160 What?

01:24:01.840 Yep.

01:24:02.240 That's all we wanted to do.

01:24:03.720 Just let you know that somebody's thinking of you.

01:24:06.520 That's really sweet.

01:24:08.260 Oh, well.

01:24:09.500 You're going to make me cry.

01:24:11.080 Well, I was raised by a single mom and I know sometimes it gets a little tough and not

01:24:14.340 that it gets tough, but just, you know, we all want to know that people are thinking

01:24:17.960 of us sometimes when we don't know that, you know?

01:24:21.420 So, what do your kiddos like to do?

01:24:26.140 Well, my son plays baseball and my, my daughter tries to play on his team too, but we do sports.

01:24:32.580 That's Title IX right there, baby.

01:24:34.960 I know.

01:24:35.860 We do ball a lot.

01:24:36.920 I teach, um, we're always together, um, we try to do things on the weekend, go to my

01:24:44.020 aunts to go swimming, but, um, there's not too much we do just being me, so it's a lot

01:24:50.960 of work.

01:24:51.920 Mm-hmm.

01:24:52.600 Yeah, it is a lot of work sometimes.

01:24:54.240 Well, we want to do something.

01:24:55.900 I'm sitting here with some auctioneers, so I figured I would just kind of like, I'm going

01:25:00.560 to have them just help me raise the amount of money that we give to you so you can go

01:25:03.420 do something fun.

01:25:04.040 So, they're professional, so I'm going to let these dudes start off the bidding, and 0.63

01:25:08.080 then I'll raise it.

01:25:08.820 I'll be the only raiser.

01:25:10.080 Yeah, 100.

01:25:10.820 I got a hundred.

01:25:11.680 I got a hundred.

01:25:11.980 I got a hundred.

01:25:12.260 I got a hundred.

01:25:12.340 I got a hundred.

01:25:12.620 Now two.

01:25:13.140 I got a hundred.

01:25:13.760 I got a hundred.

01:25:13.880 Now two.

01:25:14.460 Now three.

01:25:14.780 Now four.

01:25:15.340 Yeah, four.

01:25:15.860 I got a hundred.

01:25:16.400 Now six.

01:25:17.300 I got a hundred.

01:25:18.460 Yeah.

01:25:18.840 Six.

01:25:19.040 Seven.

01:25:19.680 I got a hundred.

01:25:19.960 I got a seven.

01:25:20.800 I got a hundred.

01:25:21.820 I got a hundred.

01:25:22.080 I got a nine.

01:25:22.820 I got a hundred.

01:25:24.460 Yeah, $1000.

01:25:25.700 1,000, Theo.

01:25:26.580 Make it even.

01:25:27.400 Yeah, $1000.

01:25:28.180 I got a hundred.

01:25:29.060 I got a hundred.

01:25:29.420 I got a hundred.

01:25:30.060 All in.

01:25:30.540 All done.

01:25:31.680 I have.

01:25:32.360 Sold.

01:25:32.580 Sold.

01:25:32.700 Sold.

01:25:33.120 Sold.

01:25:34.220 Sold.

01:25:36.300 Yep.

01:25:36.540 There you go.

01:25:37.280 So, we just did it.

01:25:38.680 Oh my gosh.

01:25:39.260 I'm so thankful.

01:25:40.820 Oh, you're welcome.

01:25:41.800 It's nothing.

01:25:43.020 It's not about the finances or anything.

01:25:44.640 it's really just about we just wanted to let you know that people care about you and that um you

01:25:48.980 know it's nice to know that that's really nice to know that's hard because it's hard for me to take

01:25:55.460 compliments or anything because it's me always putting everything out there it's hard sometimes

01:26:01.580 when we got to do everything you know it's hard it's really hard i know and sometimes when i have

01:26:07.800 to be like that man i feel like and then it's hard for me to accept help from others you know

01:26:11.400 i'm just because i don't want to show that side of myself that shows that i need help you know

01:26:15.460 i really try to be independent but inside i show face but inside it's really hard yeah i don't

01:26:23.160 ask for help and i don't expect any help i try to do everything on my own but it's hard well you're

01:26:30.860 doing a good job you know i want to let you know that and uh yeah just let you know that people love

01:26:35.580 you and are thinking about you behind your back i know sometimes it's you know we don't know that

01:26:39.480 and uh and that's true for you so just wanted to let you know that and and that's it you know and

01:26:45.780 um happy belated mother's day and yeah y'all go do something fun with those rascals you know

01:26:51.020 we will for sure yeah okay thank you so much for your time today have a good day

01:26:56.720 thank you you too thank y'all so much you're welcome you're very welcome thank you okay bye-bye

01:27:02.640 oh that's nice man oh yeah that was nice cool yeah cool stuff yeah man it's uh i don't know

01:27:12.320 there's something that we all want to know that people are thinking about us you know for sure

01:27:15.400 it's important um or at least i want to you know i think we all do in some way oh yeah so thank you

01:27:21.740 guys for nominating her that's awesome she lost you said she lost her husband huh hey i think last

01:27:27.000 year and that's your wife's aunt's sister that's uh no uh ashley's aunt's good friend good friend

01:27:34.060 oh well that's awesome man well yeah we're happy to be able to help out and we're grateful for you

01:27:38.120 guys coming in today man and just being a part of our lives and just learn it helping us learn about

01:27:41.520 auctioning yeah you know if i ever want to get rid of something dude yeah i mean if i want to get rid

01:27:45.500 of someone i'll call a hit man but i want to get rid of something call an auctioneer yeah fast

01:27:49.860 fast baby fast baby yeah that's the kick um cam spanky thank you guys so much thank you thank you

01:27:55.760 for having us yep man you bet let's get one more call on the way out all right all right cam can you

01:28:00.260 take us out yeah 20 grand i get up i get a 20 now to you i get up i get a 20 thousand dollar now

01:28:04.220 two to four i get up i get a six eight i get up i get a 21 thousand dollar 21 yep 21 now to you

01:28:08.480 i get up i get a four six i get up i get a eight i get up i get a 21 eight i get up i get all in all

01:28:12.240 done i have a get up i get a salt 21 six buyer number one two three sold

01:28:16.620 now i'm just floating on the breeze and i feel i'm falling like these leaves i must be

01:28:24.260 cornerstone

01:28:26.460 oh but when i reach that ground i'll share this peace of mind i found i can feel it in my bones

01:28:37.380 but it's gonna take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind

01:28:49.380 shine that light on me i'll sit and tell you my stories shine on me

01:29:04.340 and i will find a song i will sing it just for you

01:29:11.980 now i've been moving way too fast on the runaway train with a heavy load of my

01:29:22.660 hands

01:29:24.380 and these rails that i've been riding on

01:29:29.980 they're worn so thin that they're damn near gone

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - June 17, 2021

E345 Male Auctioneers

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