Men At Work Podcast - 20 Years of Crazy Estate Sale Stories

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

Kyle and Matt are at an estate sale on the Main Line! We talk to John, the owner of estate sale company, who tells us the craziest things people have found from the last two decades, a retired financial advisor who blames young people for not owning a home, a woman who doesn't want to be filmed but sits down anyway, a nurse who tells us about healthcare's biggest problem, and four college students who talk about a special college internship program and we help them get an A on a school project. Shout out to the Blue Collar Babies, Middle Class Mami's, and White Collar Criminals. We love you guys! Filmed on 5/19/24. Check out SalesByHelen.com for more estate sales and ShopSBH.com for more estate products! About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for work? After that the conversation flows from there. We’ve met substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and more. And we’ll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a baseball game, a bar crawl, casino, and more. We like to find out what people do for a living. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedy https://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ Follow Kyle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

About a month ago, a lady comes in, I'm selling the bed, the bed's sold, the owner walks in, my father died in that bed, in front of the lady who was buying it. And she goes, I can't believe I didn't buy the bed. Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. We're here at an estate sale, yes, an estate sale in Devon, PA. I think we're right by the main line, King of Prussia area. It's interesting, folks. It is an interesting, interesting time. I'm Kyle Pagan. This is Matt Peoples.

We want to thank everybody for tuning in. The greatest listeners in the world, the Blue Collars. Maddie. Blue Collar babies. God, every time you do that, it's just so sensual. Can you believe what you're hearing? It tickles my ears, I'll tell you that. And then we have the middle class mummies.

And our favorite, some of our favorite guys, the White Collar Criminals. We love those boys. If you're in the 1%, invest. mummies and our favorite some of our favorite guys the white collar criminals we love those boys please if you're in the 1% invest give us money dude what are you doing

do you not like it like what's going on you're here for real dude you've been listening we're 9 episodes in we've gotta be doing something right

you see I mean we got some people we got some listeners we got some friends out there just give us the fucking money and then we got Cheeto on the cameras some listeners. We got some friends out there. Just give us the fucking money, dude. And then we got Cheeto on the cameras, on the ones and twos.

Cheeto won, dude. Cheeto won, baby. I say we'll address this up top. He's the best. I guess, well, I can't give away his license plate. We'll just say that our friend Cheeto here, Cheeto Vito, the film man extraordinaire, is about to get hit by a car, actually. Yeah, if you see the Cheeto on the roads, you snap a picture for us,

and you send it to us at the Metapod on Instagram. And we can't lie about this. This is our second time we've been at this place. Yes. What? Well, we came yesterday when the estate sale wasn't happening. Oh, my God.

Yeah, you're not kidding there, Kyle Pagan. You are not kidding, dude. We got our wires crossed, and we thought it was May 18th and not May 19th. Turns out it's May 19th. We came here, so we kind of, like, of like you know scope the area out a little bit yeah like you know so you know you knew where to put the position the cameras and everything so you know it wasn't a waste of time I mean I came I woke up at 7 in

the morning came back from the shore and everything but yeah who's complaining you know Matt came from South Jersey who's complaining Cheeto was late both days but who's complaining who's complaining I'll tell you what it's an endearing way to say that you gave me the wrong day to say. We got our wires crossed. I'll tell you what. My wire was taut and straight the whole time. You're the one, like the calling board back in the 1920s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What can you do? We got to. I was okay with that. I like seeing you boys brighten early. I wish we could see you every morning. That's true. You know? So, yes, we're at an estate sale, and we're going to be talking to some people.

I don't know what kind of listeners sale and we're going to be talking to some people. I don't know what kind of listeners or guests we're going to get. I don't think many people come to an estate sale and expect a podcast unless, of course,

you subscribe to the Gary Vee Experience. Yeah, that's true. But, yeah, I mean, this is interesting

and I was a little weary about an estate sale because, like, when you think of estate sales, like, pay your fucking taxes or, you know, or this person. This person is up there at the pearly gates right now about an estate sale because when you think of estate sales, pay your fucking taxes.

Or this person. This person is up there at the pearly gates right now. But we heard... We were reassured, yes. That these people just downsized. That's all. That's all, guys. Relax.

I don't feel dirty anymore. Well, if they're downsizing, it could be an indication of things aren't going exactly according to plan. But we like to assume that it's just we don't want to take care

of a big old abode. So we'll go that way. That's the angle we'll take. Exactly. You did a little bit of research on estate sales, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I found a couple fun boys about it.

What's the point of them? Well, I think it's, I mean, like we talked about, it's people trying to find a way to make a little extra coin for whatever reason. Usually it could be a little more nefarious. Maybe they've kicked the old bucko. But not in every case. Like I think in some cases it's kind of more of a friendly thing I'll tell you what I got five fun facts hey what's one you want to hear a good one do you want to hear a

good one dude yes sorry well they're great do you the estate sale industry largely unregulated what's's that mean uh practically anyone could start an estate sale company without any knowledge of the market so you can just get in the business without really having an idea of anything you're doing i can squat in someone's house and doing a state sale you could squat right now squatting oh my god it's crazy there's so many squatters i don't get it i don't know how that's allowed to keep happening and i don't think well i guess I do know because if somebody

came into my house and they weren't aggressive or violent, I think I would have a hard time getting them out. For real. It says a lot about my character. Like, if they were like,

oh, no, I'm going to sit right here. I'm like, come on. That would be like it. But I think there are some schmoes out there that can just find a way that you buy an LLC or whatever you incorporate

and you just find anything that's foreclosed or a house that's shutting down, and you go, okay, I'll sell your stuff. Any other fun facts about the estate sales? Apparently you can get a liquidator at no cost. So apparently if you reach out to a company that's going to do the estate sale for you, you don't pay them anything.

I think they just take the margins of whatever they're selling. That's my understanding of how this whole business works, is that you don't pay them to come do this. They just say, we'll sell your stuff for you, we'll take a percentage, and we'll send it on your merry way. Not a bad idea. Sign a contract, 10% off the top.

We'll do the work. But this seems like it's a lot of work to not get any kind of up front, especially if it doesn't sell well. That's got to be the scary part, is if you do all this work and then nobody shows up. Here's the man of the hour. How are you? our buddy John all right yeah headphones on and the mic right there all right so this is John sales by Helen comm you've been in the industry for how long the business

has been around for 35 years I've been running it probably for the past 15 20 something like that how's it got again get into estate sales my father was a cop needed a second job like all cops do so my mom and my father started it way back in the 80s and then I was a teacher for 20 years and then I retired from the 20 years in Philly retired from teaching then you know helped out extra money on the weekends and then sort of you know helped my mom took over and after she passed away we you know fully took over the business do you still love it I love it I love it I love we just came back from Brimfield which is the biggest

antique show in in the world I took my whole team up there we shopped for for for three days it was spectacular I love being outside. I love being my own boss. I love wearing shorts and t-shirts. I'm not a company guy. I'm not like a suit. Well, a deadhead would never strike me. I'm not, you know, I don't trust anybody with their shirt tucked in. Let's put it that way. So I like it. It's great. And then you find stuff.

We have these opportunities to find stuff. It's, I don't gamble anymore. I don't drink and I don't gamble anymore. My, this is it. My thrill is buying a piece for $100 and selling it for $10,000. That's the drug. Did you get some of that? We've had some spectacular,000. Yeah. That's the drug for me. Did you get some of that? We've had some spectacular finds.

I mean, it's not uncommon to buy something for $10,000 or $20,000 and sell it for $2,000 or $3,000. And then once a year, we'll have a major score, like a $100,000 painting or a quarter of a million dollar piece of Asian antique. So has anyone ever come to an estate sale and you've labeled something like $10 ended up being like a thousand dollars you know they won't tell me because they never get it again but there's a you know there's people out there who've had some pretty good scores and I've known

so you know they'll dig something out and after they leave we did a sale and and there was a painting and I didn't I didn't realize what it was at the time. And I priced it like $300, and it was like a $6,000 painting. No kidding. The problem is I have a fiduciary duty to these people to get the most money for their stuff. Right. So I have to balance that. I need my customers happy that they're getting a fair shake, and then I also have a fiduciary duty because I can't give it away.

And I take that very seriously so we research everything we look everything up and make sure it's priced but again at the end of the day I don't want this stuff in my house my wife doesn't want this stuff in the house so I'm going to sell it do you have to take all this to a storage locker no so we we don't so at the end of the day that's the toughest part of our business is like what happens like you know after the sales over what happens to this stuff you know and unfortunately the cost of labor I treat my employees well I treat my employees are real on the books there's no weekend warriors there's no cash under the table

everybody's on the books liability insurance workers comp paid vacations bonuses so it's a it's a real deal company and and and I I'm one of those guys who feel that treating your employees properly and appropriately and that means paying them a living wage. So everybody gets paid a living wage. So I was saying you can have those three things in business. You can treat your employees right, you can have cheap prices, you can give the stuff away, you can have a work-life balance.

Anybody who knows me knows that I work 10, 12, 14 hours a day. And I choose that to have my employees be happy and I want to keep the prices appropriate. So you're always on TikTok. I love TikTok, man. TikTok is great. Has it changed the game? It's changed my business. So we have an online store. So we don't do a lot of these in-person estate sales, these experiential estate sales. We used to do 100 a year. The real estate market has gone sort of sideways since the pandemic. So it's been kind of complicated. There's a lot of houses pre-sold.

During the pandemic, we were selling, we were doing two or three sales a week. So then what happened was we went to an online store model. So we do virtual sales. It's better for me it's better for my sanity that way I can go to a concert the night before yeah you know like my daughter wanted to go to Morgan Wallen last night but I was here so I couldn't go to it so it's kind of a tough deal like being here so we do them online it's great we were hyper local free delivery within 20 miles of Bryn Mawr Philly you, you know, Bucks County, we deliver all

over for free. But then TikTok came and I said, you know what, I'm going to try to, let's expand this a little bit. Let's ship more. So I hired Courtney. She's my shipper. We went on TikTok and now about 10%, 20% of our items get shipped. So when they buy from us, we're shipping all over the country, all over the world. No kidding. And that's that TikTok audience. Something will be in my store for a month. Nobody buys it. I'll put it on TikTok

and three people will add it to their cart and it'll sell. Wow. So yeah, TikTok has really changed. You know, we go live on TikTok so people can sort of see us at the markets and walk around. I'll go to other estate sales.

Yeah. I'm a big proponent of like the vintage community i love so i go spotlight other other estate sale companies i'll go to other state sale companies a third of my tiktoks are about other companies antique stores jinxed in philly thunderbird salvage auction houses and guys are always hey why are you promoting this other it's your competitor a rising tide raises all boats you know it's big so we need you know we really it's important to me like if everybody buys secondhand and vintage and used then they'll come to my store and the people who can't come to an estate sale run by gunning or or one of the other companies they'll just go to my store yeah sure you know the third of my sales happen between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. wrap

your head around that yeah that's when the online store couple drinks you know it's the key is the QVC of the present day yeah husband never lets me buy anything I'm grabbing this I'm ordering oh we got a lot of that little notes in there please don't tell please deliver this put this on the back door say you know say this is medicine say don't say well at deliver this. Put this on the back door. Say, you know, say this is medicine. Say don't say this is that. Well, at least they can sell it. Like, well, it's free delivery.

It's free delivery within 20 miles. We did. So we had to adjust from a business perspective. You know, I call it the Uber Eats generation, the Uber Eats kids. $50. My daughter orders Playa Bowls, you know, and it's like $28. But you don't even know. She puts it on the Uber Eats, clicks the button.

That's why they give you chips at a casino and you don't gamble with real money right because it so these people at certain Price point it's nothing to them $50 $100 so they just click it buy free delivery Apple pay it's nothing even if they don't like it Just they don't even call me if they don't like it and I stand behind everything I sell return it bring it back We'll pick it up you buy a rug for me if you hate it bring it back You buy artwork for me. i want you to be happy i want you to be a lifelong customer but at a certain point fifty dollars it's not worth their time like they're just like whatever they just click it and that's why we have venmo no charge i don't i don't do the surcharge for credit cards i don't get

involved in all that nonsense scan the qr code you saw the people there scan the card check out they're gone yeah and it's coming from like a pool of money that they got paid back for a bachelorette party or they got paid back for dinner last night and not even real money and they didn't hit their account so that's awesome there's uh yeah there's a psychology and i love that i love marketing i love branding um i love antiques i like vintage i like artwork um and i like, and I like that everybody feels that they got a fair shake. Got it.

Sure. When I started buying artwork for my house, it's like these guys in bow ties in these art galleries, and I felt like I was getting scammed. I was in the business, and I'm like, I think this guy's getting over on me. I never wanted to be that way. I wanted to be very transparent. You the stuff stand behind it let's get original artwork let's get nice handmade handmade rugs into people's houses and I uh I think we're doing a good job of that how's our generation with the state sales do we like them they love them so they love them

so there's a couple there's twofold there's number one they love the experiential they love coming out they love it it's just something to do you know it's like when they go to the Italian market festival they go to you know one of these markets or the flea market at prison so they love it they also like you know the competition so they love getting in there is a competitive nature there's only one I only had one of those tables you know if you wanted it you got to be here so it's a little bit of this competitive. Yeah, you got to line out the door. Line out the door.

It's not, we've had, we've done sales where there have been four or 500 people in line. Some of our bigger estate sales with really nice stuff that come from all over the East Coast. So there's competitive. And then they like that they have something that nobody else has. Something that they have a piece of furniture.

Everybody has a t-shirt that you bought from, you know, anthropology or you bought from you know urban outfitters you know everybody can get that but if you have something unique something vintage you know a nice Jane's Addiction concert shirt from you know from the 90s do you have that plus I'll be honest with you our our generation like our parents kind of screwed everybody now you can't buy a house so now you're buying financial advisor that was on about 30 minutes earlier basically our fault for buying uber eats it also helps John when we are $50 uber eats

when we can't afford our houses and they foreclose on them next time I do it I sound like this is for John there ever any any any fights so when my mom so my mom was hardcore my mom Helen started this with my father my mom was hardcore. My mom, Helen, started this with my father. My mom was hardcore and she would get a little aggressive. If people were... Nobody messed with my mom. My mom's been dead for three years. I'm still scared of her.

You understand? This is what we're talking about here. My mom would have to grab people and she'd pull people off and she'd separate between them. I'm the good cop. I don't get involved in it. Sure.

I mean, every once in a while I've had to, you know. Any specific item that people go nuts about? Asian antiques. Really? Because that's where the upside is. That's where the upside is. You know, I bought an Asian vase at another company's estate sale, and I paid $100, and I sold it for $35,000. Woo!

So, you know. Jeez. Maybe Gary Vee was on to something. Yeah, you know, maybe Gary Vee was on to something. Yeah, right. No, Gary Vee's on to something. But, you know, so for that level, you know, listen, maybe I'll throw a little bit of elbows in a little bit. Really?

So that type of stuff, the Asian antiques is the upside. You know, mid-century modern furniture is another one, you know, and now it's clothing, like vintage clothing. If I had a house full of vintage Levi's up up at brimfield they were selling they were selling levi's for gotta get the orange tab yeah people beat down your door for vintage i would i'll tell you what he loves a good eight dollar thrift we went to uh we went to dinner with these guys that that that do vintage you know clothing sure and they were involved with the twenty thousand dollar levi's at eighteen hundred oh yeah so these guys they know their stuff. They're selling

camo pants. The guy sold four pairs of camo pants for $1,400 this weekend. It's crazy. So vintage clothing is a little aggressive. But yeah, just, you know, there's not a lot of fights, you know, it used to be, but it's kind of, everybody's kind of mellow now. Yeah. I would think the people that are really into the vintage clothing probably don't put up a good fight anyway. No. Probably working with some weak bones. I judge who I can take by the shoes that they wear. I look at the shoes, and if you're wearing on clouds, I can take it.

On clouds, Birkenstocks. I can take it. There's not even a question about it. John's saying the Swedes have no fighting ability. I love it. But then there's other shoes I go, hey. A pair of Jordans walk in. Yeah, you got problems there with the Jordans.

What about a Bir sauce guy burger stocks most of them could take it if you could deal with the smell if you could deal with the armpit and so yeah not a lot of fights but it's fun yes fun does it ever feel a little dirty doing it? If it's like this house wasn't foreclosed on and this house wasn't like, you know, someone's childhood home wasn't being, you know, ransacked. But does it ever feel like a little bit dirty profiteering off of closed homes? You know, you can look at it that way, but I look at it, we're doing a service. Most people, when they hear my sales pitch and what we're going to they there's a there's a visible their shoulders relax a sigh of relief

when my mom died I didn't do this I had my team do it I couldn't even go in there oh yeah you know there's a new Zac Brown so a Zac Bryan song that just came out called eulogy that's literally it's a dead song hits deep sorry that's what we do that's what we go through and we do that stuff and it's difficult it's emotional I say i'm part salesman i'm part a therapist i'm part like marketing so so if people who view us as a service very happy very very happy because they took what they want they walk away we handle the rest and sometimes there's like you got to throw my kids drawings out wink wink you know i can't

do it but you do it you're just some jerk off yeah so like you throw it out yeah so so when like i said when my mom died i just had i went in there i told the nieces and nephews and grandkids i said take what you want everything else we're going to try to monetize whatever we don't monetize we're going to donate whatever we can't donate we're going to dispose of so when they pick out the stuff are they showing it to you are you with them as they're picking out the things they want to sell or is, no. Or is it something they'll just kind of put it all? Put it all on the side. Half of the basement is just stuff they're keeping. So they went through the house.

They put all the stuff they're keeping in half of the basement. Now, are the families ever present at the estate sale? No. Not often? Yeah. We actually have a line in our contract that they can't be here. I would think that makes sense. Yeah.

We had one about a month ago. A lady comes in. I'm selling the bed. The bed's sold. The lady owner walks in. My father died in that bed. Oh, boy. I said, what are you doing?

I can't sell the bed now. The guy's not going to buy a bed somebody died in. I had to sell it. Was that in front of the? In front of the lady who was buying it. I said, stop. Oh, my God. What are you doing?

And she goes, I can't believe I didn't buy the bed. I go, I can't believe the lady burst into tears and run out the front door. What are you talking about? My bed's haunted. What are you talking about? So it's really like I tell them not to be here. And then what happens is the friend, the neighbors, come on, there's Jeannie. She'll just give the stuff to them.

So, you know, again, my mom, God rest her soul, she would like, she would walk out. If the owners were here, she'd be like, forget about it. But I'm a little bit not impactful can you please Lee you know that's what I have Courtney for she's the hammer she's the muscle yeah she's she's Helen so yeah suppose your mom Helen my mom was home my mom was I was like when I was talking to you the guy's name's John but sales by Helen just doesn't know what you did after the job I grappled with changing the name it's tough like it's tough because she has a name and a reputation 35 years and people really respect her sure I know it

so we started the shop SBH which shop sales by Helen to sort of push to the online store so people shop SBH we're still with the sales by Helen you know that's still sort of how it operates. But it's tough because she's so respected. People still come up to me. I was in an estate sale yesterday. Guy walks up, you know, how's Helen doing? Like people still ask for it.

She's not doing that great, by the way. Yeah, bad news. Just saying. I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Sit down. Oh, I've devastated a lot of people. There's a lady that calls every week and argues. She called me last week.

I was up in my daughter's... And she was telling me, she goes, I work out with Helen. So she was calling me. I said, no, you don't. It's fine. It's fine. She said, no, I just worked out with her. I'm like, listen. That prompts. Yeah. Can you get me the password for the Citibank? Because I can't get in that account. So I think there might be

10 racks of me if I can just get in there. But they'll argue with you. They'll still call up and they'll say that they talked to Allen. We didn't help Blake Bridge the other day. Yeah, no, they'll die on that hill. Man, I'm like, no, you didn't, but it's okay. One more question, at least from my end. So, you know, a lot of times you go to those fancy stores in New York,

and they'll give you, like, a glass of champagne as you walk in. What do you think is the appropriate drink? If you were to give out a drink, I'm sure that's not something you're going to do. What's the appropriate drink to walk around at a state sale with? Jameson. You've got to bang Jameson. Yeah, you've got to go all in. You need something hardcore.

Take the smell out of it, you know, the smell out of the air. You've got to, yeah. So there's always like these that people say who like swam competitively. They like still smell chlorine on their body for like 18 years after. Do you just have old people smelling on your body? smell like mold and yeah old people yeah i'll get a whiff sometime and it's just yeah it sends me to a yeah asbestos tiles you catch them in a basement don't start stamping on them brother oh my god i broke the tiles yeah no i think it's a yeah you're good you're gonna have to sign a waiver once you leave here. Don't call me in 20 years. Yeah, I'll throw these shoes out.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'll be the Camp Lejeune. We should have signed beforehand. Nothing fun in the South. We should have brought our attorneys out here. We do find some great stuff. A guy asked me, what do you find? The most common thing we find, not asbestos, is human remains.

Human remains are pervasive in this business. What? It's a lot of doctors. So you remember, we're doing big houses three four million dollar houses they're doctors and then the old houses over by like lincoln hospital those big mansions yeah all the doctors so that's who and doctors tend to collect stuff you know like femurs feet skulls so we do get a lot of human remains we do sell those we do we do sell those depending on the documentation we do sell they we do sell those is that a hard regulation process it's that's not as hard no it's not as hard as like ivory ivory is difficult to say it's not like it's the guy's first

wife and it's like yeah yeah no most of them are medical so they'll come to documentation and these guys this is stuff is right so uh we actually up at brimfield we met with the guy mike from oddities he runs that show oddities okay it was a tv show was great tv show and he sold like crazy stuff like you know like like a pen holder made out of a swan's foot or whatever nonsense so he was like you know we're having dinner and he comes pulls me aside he goes listen I really need wets the fuck is it sorry what the fuck's a wet he goes well that's the stuff inside like fetuses in a jar you know like you see like in the movies he goes I'm really into wets now like you know they call hand or eyeballs or something like that I was like yo cuz was like, yo, cuz, this is like, wow, relax, bro.

Yeah, I haven't liked that one bit. We were told baby teeth is very big in purses. Baby teeth. That's what we're told. Teeth are big. Teeth are big. The thing that I love are prosthetic eyeballs. When we get optometrists or whichever one's the eye doctor,

sometimes they'll have this set of fake eyes. They'll have this whole set, and you can pick the right eye and the right color those are fire i love those glass eyes do you own any of your bottom no i listen i'm married i'm married i don't own nothing i own pottery barn my wife doesn't even buy rugs from me she don't buy you know she she don't want anything that i have she wants nothing that she wants nothing to do with this business restoration hardware you know that we don't have any stuff i I got an office that's full of my junk, but I'm not allowed to bring,

imagine I come home with teeth. Come on, man. Well, you got to send somebody to restoration hardware with her, and she likes the couch. You'll be like, I think a guy died in there. You got to do the same thing they did to you. Exactly. You got to get them back.

My wife is like, where do you get that? We wholesale a lot from Indonesia and China, furniture and stuff. So my wife's like, I see this. Get it here. You know know show up oh so she likes it when it when it's good for the exactly i like that yeah so 50 price point exactly i like that yeah i like that you got anything else uh i don't know i mean thanks

for having us yeah absolutely anytime they're fun they're nice all right they're good deal and where can people find you uh you go to salesbyhelen.com. It has a link to our online store, shopsbh.com. All the socials, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter. But salesbyhelen.com has links to everything. Get drunk and buy an Armoire. There you go. On TikTok. Go birds.

Go birds. Yeah, I love that. Thank you, John. You want to come on and talk about it? We'd love to see what you got. Let's go. This is a good one? Yeah, come on in.

Please. So, hey, what's your name? Eileen. Eileen. And you're a veteran of the estate sale? Sadly so, yeah. What do you mean sadly so? No, because I actually had to tell my husband I was somewhere else, Clover Market.

And I know he won't watch this podcast because I need to purge. It's an addiction. It is. So you've got to hide it from the guy? You're out there too often? Well, I'm getting older. My kids are gone. We're trying to clear our house out.

Sure. And I donate all the time to places. And he left me. Trying to clear our house out and then go to the estate sale. Yeah, he left me. He goes, so you just donated to lots of thrift shops and some charities. And then he looks at me and goes, well, you're bringing more in too. And I'm like, I don't know.

Because, you know. You're like a Ponzi scheme of secondhand stuff. You just bring more and get rid of it. And my daughter just bought a home, so I'm always trying to find her stuff. Sure. She never really ever wants it, though. Could you believe how much stuff was in there? I've seen a bit bigger, but that was good. That was a nice one.

The people hung on to their stuff. It's nice. I think our generation, we kind of just get rid of stuff. That's exactly right. My 29-year-old puts their hands up to bring it in because she's, you know, their minimalism and all that and keeping the house clean does make sense. They't want it they don't want to have this for their true heirs you know but is that like a nice way to like keep

buying this office you're like I'm getting for the kids I'll just pick it up and then I find someone who wants things like I really enjoy finding things for people like I've sell it on eBay I always get these nice stories like oh I've been trying to find this matching of that, or I replaced my mother's that I lost in a move. So every once in a while you find something someone's been looking for, and it kind of feels good. What did you grab today?

I got a bunch of vintage dresses. Ooh, I think we saw a couple. Yeah, sleeveless with a matching jacket. Did you get the University of Penn? I didn't, I didn't. That was cool. Yeah, but I left that for the serious buyers. There's some serious guys who have antique stores.

There's women in there that have shops. Really? So this is kind of just like a person's consignment shop for another thrift? It's sort of a sourcing for like, in fact, today I think downtown, there's about 10 different vintage events, Rittenhouse Square and all, and people put out beautiful displays, and the younger people want to have vintage pieces in their home. They get stuff from this type of stuff and

they'll pay higher for like the University of Penn or the furniture right because they know they have a store brick and mortar stores that they can unload it but um yeah he was right yeah I think Gary Vee was right we got to go the Gary Vaynerchuk way it's a big business guy that just says go to yard sales and just buy stuff and resell it yeah this is how this business started yeah it's not the worst idea I thought a couple things like that he's a big business guy that just says go to yard sales and just buy stuff and resell it. And I think it's not. Yeah, this is how this business started. Yeah, it's not the worst idea. I've done a couple things like that. I used to sell used sneakers.

It keeps it from a landfill. Yeah. True. It's a win-win. You find things for people. Yeah. And they're thrilled. Yeah.

You're keeping the planet a little healthier without landfills. Love it. Especially clothing. Yeah, true. Did you see that documentary? No. Tell me more. Brandy Hellville.

I've heard of it. I have not. Can you give us a little synopsis? It's just about fast fashion, how they import it from overseas and it's made cheaply. And the girls wear it and they discard it. And then they show this. We ship it or something like it's shipped to some other country. Yeah.

And it literally is like washing up on the beaches. Wow. Because they're dumping it in the oceans. And so then they're like, at the end of the message of the whole documentary is try to buy second hand like try to recycle and it's kind of interesting because kids my daughter's friends they do now go to thrift shops and they do go to repurpose places or they repurpose i have friends who repurpose clothing yeah wow jeans yeah yeah so that's all nice now that it's caught on to the younger generation because eventually it's just less waste.

Yeah. All the Super Bowl shirts washing up in the Philippines. Yeah, true. Yeah, watch that documentary. At the very end, you'll be, like, speechless what you see. The beautiful beach is what they look like. Wow. So our podcast originally is about, like, what people do for a living.

You just came to a state sale. What do you do for a living just came to a sale do you well I'm retired so like you know as I said I was a financial advisor years ago years ago raise my kids and you financially advise people come to estate sales when they're trying to get stuff in them bring stuff back no no no I was more like get ready for retirement save now Social Security's not gonna be there all that type of fun stuff but um no the retirement hobby was like you know go to these things and find something and then I couldn't have room for it and

then somebody my cousin would have like a big garage sale and I'd sell it there so it started to be like oh this is something you can do where you know it's extra pocket change I'm not on Social Security or nothing and at this point but um it's great for people that are retired collect Social Security and making extra like vacation money yeah busy. It keeps you busy. Yeah, it makes sense. One thing I do want to ask, because before we knew what happened with this family, we were kind of like, oh, this kind of feels weird. Yeah, sometimes it's sad. You know, people's broken childhood home is getting ransacked and stuff.

This one, not so much. But does it ever feel dirty going in there and like getting stuff from people? Well, usually the companies do a good job keeping it clean. They're not dirty. It's and like getting stuff from people well usually the companies do a good job keeping it clean like you know um it's more like sad and actually i was at a really interesting one in balakin two weeks ago it's like a history lesson the woman was the third of ever named female hot air balloonist third in the country and uh genius worked down at the planetarium really and just like all her interesting stuff is just like going to a museum for the day. But it's all for sale. The family's already taken what they want.

They want to see if people want parts of it. So it's sort of like educational and it's like sharing the interest of the family. I don't know. It's like an extended family. I barely see them being ransacked because it's usually a good estate company. It's already removed what's considered trash now are the families ever at the estate sale rarely and if they are I wonder how that would no you're getting like you're getting a

big there Bernstein Bears but my mother used to read that to me it's too painful usually but I did see one that was up not old time it was family relocating, so everything was brand new and beautiful. What do you call it? All the video game sets were starting. So one of the sons was there because it was a big sale, and I guess for questions. It's the first time I ever saw it, but it wasn't old, and I don't think they've been deceased. I think they've just moved. Got it.

Right. It's a good thing. They've elevated in life. It's not a sad thing. Usually the sad ones are when people have gone away and you're attached to them. Sure. So you're a regular. So what would you say the craziest thing you found and picked up is?

Sometimes you find a purse and then inside is it like baby teeth. Or one time it was, I know, they just forgot. Nobody saw it. A gold tooth. Really? Yeah, somebody went to the dentist, and I guess they said, I don't want that thrown out. And then they saved it somewhere, and it was in there.

A lot of people find money, but I've never done that. Do the couch cushions. Before we let you go, you're a financial advisor. Or I was. Was a financial advisor, excuse me. What's the best, like, you wouldn't tell it if you're in an actual meeting but what's the best advice you can give to somebody like I was always like start early and a little bit like young people have all these bills at college loans they have mortgages big car payments yeah they just

don't put anything away and not look at it like in a 401k they hate funding their 401ks my daughter went to a meeting and she said she was one of the few hands up. We made her join the 401k. So early and small amounts that you don't feel today and diversify. And then when the market is down, people go, I'm losing money. And they pull their money out, never. And when the market's down, buy. It's just typical.

The market's up right now. So you wouldn't want to invest in stock or a mutual fund. Good mutual fund like Vanguard or Fidelity and get a nice blended fund and go small amounts higher in stocks for your age because you have time to ride out the yeah when the market falls not to ever like my friends who go I got to get out and go into a money market and then they captured their loss you just ride out the down part stay the course but the biggest thing is to not uh put it into your higher car payments and put some away for down the road nobody your age likes to do that that's very true it's painful but it is painful when you have a nice chunk of it

when you're 40 something that's gonna you know help you out when your social security check isn't what you thought it was gonna be so people in their 20s ever be able to own a home again, do you think? Some. The ones who actually don't have to have it all now. Yeah. You know, the ones who have to pay themselves first. So do you think it's more, it kind of falls back on them, on the 20-year-olds, or is it a little bit like systemically things have changed?

It does. It does because, like, you guys have nice stuff at young ages, and you guys do nice things. You guys do more vacations. You travel a lot. Yeah. So you guys enjoy life now, but you've got to kind of look at, like, maybe I don't do the two weeks in Italy.

Maybe I do the special. Maybe I do the special they're having for Costa Rica for just a week. Like, you kind of have to think about paying yourself now because it's big-time growth. It's the compounding dollar. Yeah, I did sign up for DoorDash Pass last night, so this is making me realize I'm not my best financial. That's another thing you guys do. They get delivery for everything.

It's an immediate need thing. It was after a couple of libations. My son's ridiculous. It was a responsible decision. I don't think my son has cooked a meal in five years. I'm right there with him. And it's like— We're losing recipes.

Exactly. But you almost have to like it. You know, go to these vintage kitchens and look at the cool little couldn't i'm sorry you couldn't pay me to take half that stuff yeah it's uh i mean sometimes chefs will find a unique thing that they've been looking for stuff that's made in like germany that they don't make quality today so some people will want all right well-made stuff and put up with the what you're talking about like the old look yeah yeah I need to get some fine China iron iron coming back oh it's been back yeah you gotta cook the minerals physically the iron helps with the food is a whole yeah the whole science behind

it yeah they're not all just people in there just curious to see what the house look like there's a lot of people here who have a have a purpose to what they're doing here i like that well eileen thank you so much for really really appreciate it yeah it was fun good pleasure goodbye she blamed us for the housing market i was hoping that i could get a little bit absolved of that and she was like no you guys just got to stop buying everything you see it is fair it's kind of like some tough love from the financial advisor and And financial advisors are really good at that where they will give you tough love and be like, hey, listen,

did you really have to get the DoorDash pass? Did you really have to fly and go on your second vacation in six months? It's fair. It is. Like when I'm spending $30

for two pints of ice cream on GoPuff because of delivery fees and everything and I can't like, I don't have the wherewithal to say no. Yeah.

I guess when you look at that, like, okay. okay yeah but they weren't traveling because 90 of the world was communist or fascist so they had nowhere to go they had to stay here there was there was a cold war going on they had nowhere to go they're like we went to arkansas they're a little too liberal for our liking so all right that is true that is true we go Yeah. Back when, like, you know, they would go to, like, Acapulco, like the drug cartels were, like, all over that place. So it's like, sorry that we're just a progressive world right now. Yeah, man. You can go to Italy.

Eileen, shout out Eileen. She's great. First estate sale? First, I can't say estate sale. First estate sale? It is. I never even knew that that was a thing. It's like a yard sale inside.

We're a big yard sale family growing up. We did one about once a fall, and all I knew is that I had to wake up at 630 and go to my aunt's house. Yeah, they're like yard sales if you didn't pay your taxes. Yeah. Also, my family probably wasn't paying their taxes, so it's like a yard sale. Yeah. Yeah, I mean. Yard sales were tough in the household.

Mom was always just like, get your shit and put it on the curb. Yeah. Put it on the curb. We're selling all this shit. I'd find half the stuff out there and I'd be like, I don't want this. This is like my foosball table.

I love this thing. Or like, this is like Madden 2004. What are we doing here, mom? You just bought me this for Christmas last year. There's a new one. Ray Lewis is on the cover.

I mean, I'm sure that's got to be a tough one to lose. I mean, your mom is technically unhoarding you, but didn't you think you had the cool stuff like the one you did want to sell hey folks how are you hey guys we do a podcast we'd love to talk to you about

what you got the estate sale if you're interested any any interest yeah i love it oh you bought the chessboard wow here take the mic and you can sit down down. Take a load off. You just worked hard. My husband's going to kill me. Hi, Helen. We come to see John all the time. He does fabulous estate sales. Okay, so John is the guy who works for salesbyHelen.com, and he runs a lot of the estate sales around the area. He's the man.

So you're a regular. All the time. Wow. Love John. Best place to come ever. So we want to—oh, don't. Not on film please um i don't want the um been looking for a chess set because we love it but then my six-year-old grandson is into it now

so we're in california he had his little plastic set we were playing so he's coming this summer so oh what a nice what a great gift gotta get the chest set and play with the kid. And you got him a marble one. Well you know. A grandma. That's amazing. Well you know if John had had a plastic one I probably would have bought the plastic one you know but I got the alabaster one for the same price as plastic. Can we ask how much it went for? Ten bucks. Damn. You cannot. What a steal. That's John. He does it every time. Always come. See you later. Alright, appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you so much. My favorite thing is when they come on and they don't think they're being recorded. Yeah. And it's not just old people. It's young people too.

Yeah, I know. I wonder if that is like an indictment on our appearance that people see us and they're like, well, there's no way these guys would let themselves look like this on camera. Yeah. So when they first sit down, they think they're safe. It's also just beingment on our appearance that people see us and they're like, well, there's no way these guys would let themselves look like this on camera. Yeah. So when they first sit down, they think they're safe. It's also just being on camera, dude. Not that big of a deal.

Yeah. We got to something with the old sea technology and they just flinch. They get scared. They're like Dracula when he sees garlic or a cross. It's like it's just a camera. I guess when you grew up at a time where all the technology was a nuclear bomb, you'd probably get a little scared. That's true. When the camera was just one picture every hour and smoke would pop out the top of it, I guess that's kind of crazy. Yeah. Once they saw talking movies, they were like, I'm out. I don't like this at all.

How are you? We'd love to talk about what you got. Oh, let's hear the story. Here, have a seat. Put some headphones on. Got a mic. Who are we here with? My name's Beth. Beth. Hi. How are you? Are you a regular? No, this is my first estate sale since I moved to the city.

So I'm really excited about it. It's very well organized. Very nice. Good. Good. What'd you get? It's my job to rescue all textiles because I like to make things. Got it.

So I got these potholders that somebody worked very, very hard on. And then I found an entire bag of gloves. Look at that. Leather gloves and silk gloves. These are fancy schmancy. These are super fancy schmancy. And you guys, I mean, I just paid $5 for all of this. Wow.

And I'm just going to run home and pretend. The whole thing was five beads? Five bucks, man. That's it. No kidding. Sweet. So you said your job is to rescue textiles. Is that a self-imposed job?

Yes. No, I do not get paid for that. I get paid to do other stuff. Got to cover all our bases. Yeah, for sure. For sure. People have weird jobs now. Yeah, I know.

But trust me, if I could get paid for it, I'd be into it. What do you do for a living now? That is what our product is. I'm a registered nurse. Oh, nice. I love the nurses. I work for Nemours Children in Paoli. No kidding.

This is awesome. This is not too far. You should just move to the city. About a year and a half ago. Wow, how are you enjoying it? You guys can't drive. Don't look at me. I'm a New Jersey guy.

I'm right there with you. And neither can you. All right, now I don't like it. Now I'm out of it guy. I'm right there with you. And neither can you. All right, now I don't like it. Now I'm getting the text out for myself. It's funny because you talk to any person your age, you're scared of the city, and you're moving back into the city. I love it. We lived in Minnesota for 30 years,

and we needed to move back east because my folks live near here. Got it. Okay. So you're from here originally? From, born in New York. Okay. Lived in Jersey, New York, D.C. Wow. Yeah. A lot of moving. A lot of moving. Yeah, absolutely. Definitely. Cool. here originally uh from uh born in new york okay okay lived in jersey new york dc wow yeah a lot of moving a lot of moving yeah absolutely definitely cool how's the rn business oh it

pays well here yeah yeah oh yeah we are like a city of like us in like boston like the nurse capital of like the country big money so yeah we like it busy though huh probably some wild stories going on there you know the thing is is that actually this area is short of practitioners in general, like doctors, nurses, everything. Like, you try to make an appointment, it's really, really difficult to get health care in this area. So we're light on doctors? Oh yeah, we are light on

doctors in this area. I can't get an appointment worth a darn. I got a fiance now, but I feel like when I was on Hinge and Bumble, everybody was a nurse. Everyone was a doctor. Well, you know, it's good money, don't't get me wrong but the way that it's organized here in the way that there are um the big corporations who own it so you think they're not hiring enough i yeah i think they're trying to make money oh so you think there's enough doctors there's just enough doctors and there's just enough spaces for it, but the way that the clinics

and all of that are organized is to make money. That feels dirty. Yeah, that feels awful. It is what it is. It is what it is. Everybody's got to earn a living. Sure. I mean, we're not England. It's not run by the government. Wow. I would have never thought that. The NHS is run by the government?

Yeah, you work for the government if you work for the NHS. Wow. That's such an American thing to just make money off of healthcare. Yeah, looking at the profit margins of how can we save people's lives. Looking at the black and the red. Okay, you guys, my old man's over there and he's going to... Look, he's getting more stuff. Well, that's fine.

But I got to roll. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Beth. Goddamn healthcare industry making money off my grandmother. I thought for a second that it was just we don't have enough docs, which I'm like, yeah, dude, make the school shorter.

There's no way you need to be in school for seven years. Change bedpans. I had buddies changing bedpans just to get a doctorate. What are we doing? I mean, I'm going to tell you this right now, unpopular opinion, you could become a doctor in a four-year undergrad degree. I hope so. I don't know what it is. Doctors, if you're watching that, I'm not scared of you, dude. I know you could become a doctor in a four-year undergrad degree. I hope so. I don't know what he's a doctor.

I don't know what he is. Doctors, if you're watching that, I'm not scared of you, dude. I know you guys are faking it. Okay, I'll do a complete opposite so we don't alienate the doctors. I think you guys should be paid for your residency. I think that's bullshit. People are paid for an internship. Why can't you be paid for a residency?

You work just as much. You work probably longer. You're not. We're speaking the same language. I don't know. Four years in undergrad, and then you can get paid for being a doctor. How about that, dude? I can use Google, too, guys. Come on. same, you're not, we're speaking the same language. I don't know. Four years in undergrad and then you can get paid for being a doctor. How about that, dude? I can use Google too, guys.

Come on. Yeah, right? I mean, actually, like, how many doctors do you actually think, like, do Google before a surgery? Like, probably a handful, a good amount of people.

I would say every single one. Yeah. There's no way you wouldn't. I mean, the idea of just knowing how to do, like, a minor ACL tear repair. I never understood that. You gotta look at the textbooks.

Like, a heart valve thing valve thing like i'm just like the older i get and the more i realize people are idiots yeah i'm trusting some random i don't want to say joe schmo now i'm alienating the doctors i'm trusting i'm trusting some random joe schmo to fix my third chamber of my artery in my heart and hope i wake up. I mean, it's not good. I'm telling you, sometimes you will see them Googling, which the alternative is worse. They'll be going to a textbook. My dad told me he's seen some of them go back to the textbook,

and then they'll come back, and they're like, all right, you're going to drink a fifth of Jack Daniels, and we're going to saw your leg off. Have you seen, sometimes, I have a couple of buddies who work in medical sales. Yeah. They will give them the doctor's recommendations. Yeah, you have to.

Why is the kid with the marketing degree giving the doctor who went to school for 10-plus years recommendations on how to tinker with my heart? That's the thing. The doctors know how to do the procedure, but the actual screws and nuts and bolts, you basically have a product specialist where you have the guy who's the technician, that's the big doc who should have gone to school for four years, and then you have the med device salesman who went to school for marketing for a year and a half and now makes $500,000 a year. Who who got an alpha chi and got hammered on the

weekends yeah smoked way too much weed now he's like you should put that screw in his ankle because whatever no they do not have a couple buddies yeah they uh that's crazy and it bothers you when they surprise you with actually good information like a couple my friends who are just dunces will tell me something interesting and i was like don't do that I clean up oh my god it's crazy up how are you okay come talk about it later you let me know okay yeah sounds good she's never coming back how are you I'd love to talk to you about what you got just five minutes three minutes you got a big fragile box we've so if you want to if you want to tag-team it yeah yeah this is my Any interest? Just hop on for a little bit. Just five minutes, three minutes. You got a big, fragile box. We have two mics.

You guys want to both hop on? So if you want to tag team it. Yeah. Yeah. This is my house. I'm just kidding. That's not my house. Could you imagine that? Me showing up to my own estate sale?

The podcaster cannot afford this house, yeah. Would you feel dirty? Would you feel dirty taking my childhood stuff? No. I like that. Sit down. Let's talk. You're fun.

I don't know. Why? It's a good time. All right. No worries, dude. Have fun. I like that sit down let's talk you're fun I don't know why? I'm sorry alright have fun what? I just enjoyed that interaction

yeah would you feel bad if you took my stuff from me? no I don't know I don't think so. Hey, how you doing? We just asked people what they do for a living.

If you want to hop on. Yeah. Talk about the estate sale. We won't hold you up too long. Did you find any baby teeth in there? I didn't know that. Okay, because some woman said they found baby teeth in a purse before. Yeah, I don't want that to happen. Someone else found a gold tooth and money sometimes, too.

Money I would take. Yeah. Who were you with? Myself. Is this your first estate sale? One of the first, yeah. Yeah? Oh, really?

What did you think? It was interesting. But you left with something. I did. I got a purse. What did you like about this purse? I just like the color of it. I feel like it's very in this like cherry deep red okay okay yeah

I try to learn the different types of purses my girlfriend has like a big one and then a bit size yeah I guess it's like a clutch yeah the big ones are like the totes do you just play is it just like a Russian doll where you just put smaller purses and the bigger ones and just keep putting it in there? Kind of. It's a similar situation. That's what it seems like. I just keep seeing like a wallet comes out and then inside of the wallet is another bag.

Yeah, it's like never-ending purses, you know? That's awesome. What do you do for a living? I'm actually a resident physician. Okay, well, you had an RN earlier, but you're a resident physician. Are those two different? Yeah, an RN's like the people we work with, nurses.

A resident physician is are those two different yeah on our ends like the people we work with nurses um the resident physician is the person who just graduated med school matched and then now our baby doctors we were just we were just talking about doctors it's funny this is pretty unbelievable we truly just worked so he says no my friend tell her one of my friends has this opinion that i was like you, you're a dope. He said that you could become a doctor in four years of undergrad. Is there any truth to that? In four years of undergrad? Do you think you could school? I know you do three years after, I guess.

If you went hard four years. Do you think it's doable? They threw you right into the deep end. I mean, here? Anywhere. Yeah. here anywhere yeah i think like outside of the u.s the actual way that you like become a physician is that you go you don't necessarily have to do like undergrad first okay you might be onto something yeah i think my friend is onto something yeah yeah yeah but

like here i think like the structure is like you have to do undergrad then you go to med school but you personally you just did it do you think you could do four years like if i just went straight to med school i feel like probably maybe yeah because like what walk us walk us through it so like do you like i was in marketing so you take the bullshit if you couldn't tell we do a podcast you're obviously more so i obviously didn't know what i wanted to do with my life um but like we did two years like bullshit classes that like looking back on it was like why did i have to go to english 101 when i was like in english for first 12 years of schooling and stuff yeah you guys have to do that in um nursing where you have to go to like bullshit classes or well i went to like a liberal arts undergraduate so it's very

like well-rounded so we had to do like literature science history everything yeah so like i guess my history classes maybe weren't yeah as beneficial so well so this is always i kind of wondered this from like a doctor's perspective one of my cousins is a doctor and it felt like once she did the whole like finishing med school everybody kind of acts a little different around her i think there's just an air that you guys are like brilliant and we don't know how to approach you at least i I see her at Christmas and I'm like nine Miller lights deep. And I'm like, so did you ever save anybody? So I wonder. And she's like, yeah.

She's like, yeah, it's just kind of my thing. It's like the whole thing. Do you notice anybody change up a little bit or give you like a higher respect or anything now that you're wrapping it up? I don't think so. I think, I don't know. I feel like I'm a very approachable person. Absolutely. I don't feel like many people have like switched up,

but I guess we'll see. I'm still like a baby doctor. So maybe once I get higher in the ranks, then maybe people start. Well, one more before we let you go. Yeah. You guys should be paid for residencies. We are paid during residency. You know nothing about the doctors. I'm the doctor. Not as med students, but as residents we are, I mean, very minimum, but we technically are paid. Is it similar hours to what you'd be doing if you were a full-time doctor, or is it a little more scaled back until you're? No, it's pretty, yeah, we work like 80 hours a week. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah. So back to the medical student one, that's the one you guys don't get paid? Mm-hmm. But that's a residency technically, or no, what's that called? No, it's still technically schooling. That's stupid. Yeah, but when you do like clinicals as a medical student yeah that's where it is that's like the third fourth year where you're like in the hospital doing kind of what you would anticipate doing as a resident but you don't get paid how many hours are you clocking

i don't remember how many hours it's insane yeah you're kind of just hanging out with the other residents waiting to go home. All right. Doctors, it's all the same job. We all just have a job that we're waiting to get home from. It's good to hear that. What's your specialty, if you don't mind me asking? Internal medicine. What's that do? Just everything, like all general medicine. And then you can do fellowship afterwards and do like cardiology, GI, endocrine. Do you know what you want to do? Not quite sure yet. Okay sure yet yeah do you have anything you're you're you're down to maybe like hematology or oncology but oncology is cancer yeah hematology

is like anything blood blood related related yeah it's scary spooky spooky stuff spooky stuff can we ever make the shots not hurt um no they'll for, like, a couple seconds while you're getting it. No, but I mean, like, can we develop technology where, like, I don't have to get stabbed with a needle? Yeah, that's my idea. I don't know, maybe in the future. I've always wondered why. I don't know. Can you look into that?

I can look into that, but, you know, I'm not really big on research, so maybe you should talk to the researchers. I think you need to be big on research. Now, this is one last dumb guy question. How come shots can't be pills? It's just the components of them. Okay. Yeah. That's fair.

What's the components? She's like, I'm not talking to any anathons about this. It's a lot. A lot of different things go in. She came to an estate sale, and she was like, I'm doing four years of college, and I should be paid for this interview. Yeah, there's a bunch of different things. But, again, that's what I'm doing four years of college, and I should be paid for this interview. Yeah, there's a bunch of different things. But again, that's what I'm saying. Like, the research that has to go into all of that, I'm more of, like, the clinical component of medicine versus the research. And, like, actually figuring out where all the—

Gotcha. Everything has to go. And, like, it's all thoroughly studied. So the shots go into the bloodstream or the veins? They go into the muscle. They go into the muscle. Yeah. They go into your deltoid right here.

Got it. So when you're working out, that's the muscle it goes into. Nice of you to assume that we work out. So if you work on your deltoids more, do you feel like the shots will hurt less? I have no clue. I'm such a baby. I hate needles.

I'll just take, like, a friend with you. I'll go with you. Hey, bud, you want to come get my shot with me? It's 7.30 in the morning. Wake up. Yeah, just take like a friend with you. I'll go with you. Hey, bud, you want to come get my shot with me at 730 in the morning? Wake up. Yeah, just take a friend. Yeah, we'll go. Or your mom.

You get fun Band-Aids when you're done. That's always a good time. Daffy Duck on a Band-Aid. And if you fake like you passed out, they give you juice and cookies. That is true. They will give you some juice and cookies. I appreciate you coming here. Maggie, you should have got paid for this, but you know what?

I should have. Suck it. We were going to treat you like a medical student. I wasn you coming. You should have got paid for this, but you know what? I should have. Suck it. We were going to treat you like a medical student. I wasn't expecting to do medicine on my day off. Well, we're sorry to bring you back in, but we do appreciate it. No worries. Enjoy the purse. Okay, hopefully I don't find any baby teeth.

Okay, yeah. Keep us posted. Sometimes the Lord works in incredible ways. Those were good dumb guy questions, though. I thought so. Actually, that just came to me now. Why can't shots be pills? And I'm not going to lie to you.

I think she was befuddled for a second. I need three minutes of your time. If you don't mind. If you don't mind. We just asked what you got at the estate sale. We got... We can tag team this. Yeah, please.

All right, cool, cool, cool. Come on over. If you want to take the mic for me. Maybe like seeing people's wares. Take the mic for me. Name. Ingrid. Ooh.

I'm Lola. Oh, my God. All right, so two incredible names. I'm Lola. Oh, my God. All right, so two incredible names. I'm Madeline. Okay. What's happening? I'm Anna. No, I like Anna.

I've never met an Anna I didn't like. But those are some amazing names. Thank you. Well, we have probably the most generic Irish Catholic names of all time. Yeah, it's Matt and Kyle. We have cousins named Matt and Kyle. We do. Are you guys all related?

No. Just me and her. We're sisters. Sweet. Oh, fantastic. Well, I'll ask you first. What do you do for a living? I'm a college student.

How's it going? It's going good. Yeah. I have an internship lined up, so that's what I will be doing for a living. Where are you at? It's for a UX internship. I don't honestly know what I will be doing for a living. Where are you at? It's for a UX internship. I don't honestly know what the firm is called but yeah. Sweet. Do you know what UX is? I have no idea. User experience interaction design like web design. Oh sweet. I made you look like an

idiot. I had no idea what it was. Lola are you a college student? I'm also a college student but I have a job at a cookie bakery. Whoa that's good. You like it? I love also a college student, but I have a job at a cookie bakery. Whoa, that's good. You like it? I love it. It's great. Free cookies all the time. Yeah, that rolls. What's your favorite cookie?

We have a chocolate chip walnut. That's really good. It's a classic. Sick. Anna? I'm also a college student, but I work at a bagel place. Liza, like it? I do like it.

What are your thoughts on the scooped bagel? I just don't want to be a hater. So I'm not going to say something negative about it. I think that answers the question. You have our answer to the scoop bagel mess. I am also a college student studying computer science. Wow. OK, all right. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I have no questions for the computer science.

It is above my pay grade. So the Rodin Museum. Looks like you got a couple books. Yeah, I got these two to make collages out of. Got it. And then a purse and these two cups. I needed a new wallet, and then I got these little glasses. We both got these because I really like making cocktails,

and I think that these are going to be great for that. And then I got this little, like, child's cardigan, but it somehow fits. What sweater do you have on right now? I know, you can tell I have a color, can't you and I think that these are going to be great for that. And then I got this little like child's cardigan, but it somehow fits. Which kind of looks like the sweater you have on right now. I know, you can tell I have a color, can't you? I love that. Yeah, full screen. What's the go-to cocktail you make? Well, these I'm going to have to make a Cosmo. Beautiful.

Yeah, I love good Cosmo. Cosmo's back? Oh, Cosmo's been back, brother. What the heck are you talking about? Anna, what'd you grab? I got this camera, which I don't know anything about cameras, but... Can you open it up for us? Yeah.

I have a friend who, like, knows about cameras, and she has one like this. Wow. And she takes really cool pictures. Oh, I think Cheeto, our cameraman, wanted that. Aw, yeah. Sorry. I wanted that in my collection. He would probably do something so much better with it.

I can promise you. This is what he does with his, so it's not much. He literally just has him point at us. What'd you get? I got this giant suitcase. Yeah, let's see that. You are like Madeline

in that cartoon. This, I mean, yeah, it's beautiful, so I had to have it, but it's kind of heavy, so I think I'll mostly use it for like storage, kind of have it sitting around.

Then I got this little stool. It's just sort of a little stool. It's kind of cool. Just sort of a little stool. I like that. Then I got this little stool. It's just sort of a little stool. It's kind of cool. Just sort of a little stool. I like that. Then I got these two purses, and then in one of these purses is like a pink decanter and like four pink shot glasses. Wow. But they're wrapped, so I can't pull them up. No baby teeth.

Okay. Alright, good. This is a good estate sale. No baby teeth. I will say, I have found baby teeth at an estate sale before. That's not that uncommon. Thank you. Because people keep them keep them like from their kids and grandkids and you'll find them in like closets and stuff i did not find it in a purse but yeah but aren't the parents the ones who like do the whole hide the tooth under the pillow what are the grandparents why are they being laundered i think maybe the grandparents keep them afterwards. You think it's the grandparents' baby teeth? I feel sentimental. Make a necklace? Oh, I don't like that a single bit.

That scares me. Oh, my goodness. So how's college nowadays? Fun. Yeah? Yeah. We're all at Drexel, so. Oh, shout out to the Dragons.

Yeah. We're all at Dragons. Yeah. You were a Templeman, right? I was a Temple guy. Yep. Is there any beef or anything? Any unknown beef?

Not really. I feel like we're pretty peaceful. I mean, I couldn't get into Drexel, but I would kill to see Temple's campus moved over to where Drexel was. It's not in North Philly. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. Are you guys, how far along are you? They're all freshmen, and then I'm in my third year. Wow. Sick. Yeah. How are you enjoying it? Honestly, pretty. No complaints, really. Yeah?

Yeah, no, it's been good so far. So you guys do the co-op program, so you're not done until June when all your friends are going to be done in probably the next week, right? We're never done. We are year-round. I mean, they get a summer for the first year, but after that, you never get a summer. Oh, because you do the co-op program. Yeah.

Okay, so you're working when you're not. Six months class, six months co-op. Got it. Rinse and repeat. So much fun. So you're going to work for six months. Oh, my God, that sounds awful. It's awesome.

Oh, that sounds great. I used to recruit at Comcast for Drexel. Oh, my God, I did two Drexel co-ops at Comcast. Got it. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. I mean, I think it's probably the best program in the city for if you want to get a job after college.

I mean, it's a co-op program. Yeah, yeah you want to get a job after college. It's a lot of program. Yeah. You already have, like, what, 18 months of work that, like, a kid from Temple is, like, farting around at a marketing internship for, like, three weeks. Jeez. That's insane. Like, pressing buttons and doing data and stuff. Like, look at me now. Yeah.

That's unbelievable. Yeah, not quite. I go into estate sales. Yeah, I go into estate sales. You guys always do the amount of estate sales? No, we actually don't. Okay. Yeah, not quite. And going to estate sales. Yeah, going to estate sales. Do you guys always do the amount of estate sales? No, we actually don't. Yeah, we're primarily estate sales. The point of this podcast was, and we kind of just figured it out recently,

and we were like already asked if we could come to their estate sales, so we kind of were like, we should do this. We just ask people what they do for a living. Okay, cool. And then we just kind of go from there because people identify a lot with their jobs and everything. You'll find that out in about two to three years it's brutal yeah that'll be the first couple questions your friend asks you um you know when you meet someone new and everything that'll be the that'll be the uh opener for people that hit on you at parties and stuff what do you do where do you live what do you do what do you major in where'd you work a co-op

yeah and it'll always be bad it'll never be a good conversation for you guys to experience it i don't mean to mansplain getting hit on by them but i'll tell you what i feel so seen yeah there you go i've had some terrible conversations in my day all instituted by me we try our darndest we do have the best intentions yeah some people really think they're killing it five years ago i was i think in the moment yeah in the moment you got to believe you're killing i was killing hindsight is 2020 it is 2020 but confidence is key so there you go yeah i ask you guys a favor yes i have to make a podcast about podcasts that's due tonight can I like can I just interview you guys okay is that a real thing but it's a real request yeah yeah

so convenient yeah okay mine podcast is just about how like the function of podcast is like a form of media is like it creates more community it feels more personal so um what's your podcast called we have the we're the men at work podcast okay okay and i'm matt this is kyle okay i don't know why i'm talking this on a video is it on spotify it's not actually it's on youtube exclusively okay we like it as a visual medium um two strapping young lads like us we want people to be able to experience it but no it's because we have a lot of people that come on um and we think it's like more of a personal connection when you know who is on the other side of the conversation one day when we're not lazy we'll be on spotify and apple um but stay tuned um who do you think mainly listens to your podcast? What do you think your... What's that word?

We're like 18 to 34. We'll get some 34 to 46 year olds in there. YouTube's really good with breaking down the data and stuff. All people from around the area. 99% from the United States. Men. Men love this podcast. The dudes love it. We really want it, but we really need the women to start.

I'll give it a listen. I'll change the stats a little bit. Maybe the women will listen to the Spotify and audio version. That's where I would listen, and I'm not listening to that. These two ugly ghouls. Yeah, maybe they don't want to say yes to it. They don't want to get eyes on us. I can't blame them. Do you think that what you talk about appeals to men,

or is it just that it's called Men at Work Work and men are like, let me listen to that? This is a joke. Men at Work is making fun of us for being this one day probably going to be our job. I'm in content full time, but he's a comedian as well. We do a lot of content and stuff.

Men at Work is a joke that this can be a place of work where we go around and make fools of ourselves at estate sales. We've been to WrestleMania. We've been to outside the Rocky Steps. Nice. We saw an eclipse, if you can call it an eclipse. Yeah.

Yeah. Do you think that your podcast creates, like, a sense of community for people? That's the goal. Yeah. Okay. Because now there's millions of podcasts, so you've got to create a millions of podcasts so you got to create a sense of community if you want to be successful i think it helps too that we bring like the whole

point of the podcast is instead of just him and i sitting and talking and having a guest on in a studio somewhere we go somewhere we're around people so it's like you guys are the featured guests so it kind of creates the community because we're interviewing the people in that community i think yeah and we're dumb and we're dumb, too. And we were just talking to a... She was not a registered nurse. She was a registered physician. That's right. So we've learned that today,

that there's a difference between registered nurses and registered physicians. Okay, okay. And we asked dumb guy questions, but that are actually thoughtful. Mm-hmm. Why do we still have shots?

Why can't we just have pills? Why can't shots be pills? Why do shots have to hurt? Did you get an answer for that? I think she had a hard time dignifying that question with the response literally just had seven years of schooling and we like talked to two tone guys were like hey can we get shots to not hurt but keep the band-aids it's kind of crazy they're teaching podcasts in school like this is like a kind of a yeah well it's about like it's a genre analysis

right um and i chose podcasts because i like them gotcha cool what's your podcast you listen to kind of a school assignment. Well, it's about like, it's a genre analysis. Right. And I chose podcasts because I like them. Gotcha. Cool. What's your podcast you listen to? Oh. You know what podcast that I like that I was thinking kind of gives similar energy in the fact that it's like two guys is Basement Yard.

Do you guys know? I've seen them on TikTok, yes. Yeah. I like theirs. Yeah, they're very funny. Thank you. They're very successful. I appreciate it. Yeah. You know what podcast better than your guys is? I've seen them on TikTok, yes. Yeah, I like theirs. Yeah, they're very funny. And there's this podcast. Thank you, they're very successful. I appreciate it.

You know what podcast better than your guys is? Two guys that do the exact same thing but in a basement. Far better, yeah. You guys are literally in the red because you're driving everywhere. What can you say? Okay. I hope so, too. Thank you.

Absolutely. What's your teacher's name? It's Vargo. Mr. Vargo? Mr. Vargo? I hope I'm saying it right. Give Anna an A. Anna's a great girl.

Great friends. She made a great purchase today. Wait until you see the camera, sir. Or we're going on RateMyProfessor.com and you won't like it. A scathing three-star review. Yes. We're still good people. Do people still use that?

Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Dude, that is one of the worst. I don't think he has any ratings because I looked for it. One of the worst designed websites, so you might have to get one of that. Yeah, that was stupid. But it still works.

It still serves its purpose. And I think it's been around since, like, 2000. Yeah. Do you think it's bad? I use it every time I register. I love it. Maybe the design is upgraded. I'll admit, I haven't been in college for five years.

In one of my classes last quarter, someone redesigned the Write My Professor website, but it's not published, unfortunately. But there is a redesign that someone did out there. Yeah, that's sick. Yeah. Okay. Was that good?

Yeah, I think that was actually awesome. Oh, cool. I feel like I might get a better grade because you said that. The personal address to her. You just got to, yeah, throw out some threats, some loose threats. Threats work. Let them know. Yeah, that's threats threats work when you have the upper hand it works okay yeah of course absolutely yeah take that with me yeah we're gonna mobilize our listenership. Mr. Varga could be... Hey, well, ladies, thank you so much. I really got to drive back to Drexel.

Yeah. Enjoy yourselves. Thank you. Thank you. Great meeting you. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks so much, guys.

I hope she gets an A. She better follow us. Yeah. We just grabbed her at least a B+. Yeah, Mr. or Mrs. Varga. I did not check the on that but uh please we will we will uh update you on the uh on what happens with her grade i'm hoping she follows the pod and then we can reach out to her and professor vargo just just know we

will mobilize the audience we will mobilize the troops for the good or for the bad this is uh take it into consideration when you're grading. It's Kyle's troops. It's K-Anon. That's Kyle's troops. I will organize Kyle's cuties. What's up guys, dude? We're here at an estate sale. We go everywhere.

We go anywhere you have. We're going there. We got an estate sale. I bought $60. So I'm about to clean this place out. My girlfriend had to give it to me, not bragging or anything like that. I Need to get into tea dude. Coffee I think is ruining my entire central nervous system. So we're gonna go full tea We're gonna get real British. The Lord himself couldn't stop me dude. This reminds my parents house if it was bigger and filled with love

How do we look? Not bad after a night out not bad this is how we do it dude by the way 9 30 bright and early here this is the earliest i've been up since i was 16. yeah we're here before everyone is allowed in exclusive access all right let's walk throughout the house