Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast

80's and 90's Shiznit: Collector Advice for Xennials

• Dani & Katie • Season 1 • Episode 43

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Are you fluent in Furbish? Does fan art of Selena, Aaliyah or Kurt Cobain bring back a rush of nostalgia?

If you are curious about the value of those 30-year-old Pogs sitting in your mom's basement, you might be a Xennial. And today's special guests cater to Xennial culture.

A big thanks to our guests Patrick and Deena of the retro collecting brand Shiznit for bringing some of their favorite finds to the studio. You can find Shiznit on Etsy and at the America's Antique Mall in Melbourne, Florida. Follow Shiznit on
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Dani Combs:

Do you love when you're out thrifting and you find treasures like Simpsons figurines, bedazzled jean shorts, retro Happy Meal boxes and spud Mackenzie muscle tanks? Do you ever wish you still had your neon translucent landline phone, your Backstreet Boys collector cards, or your bright purple caboodle if you ever wanted to wear geometric print parachute pants again, then you might be a zennial or have a love for 80s, 90s culture, like our special guest today. Hi everyone. I'm Danny, I'm Katie, and you're listening to generation in between, a zennial podcast where we revisit, remember, and most of the time, relearn all kinds of things from our 80s childhoods and 90s teen young adulthoods. And today, we are so excited. We are two special guests. Oh, my big deal. We've never had two guests at the same time yet. So woo for us. We cannot wait to introduce you, because we have our OG male Jennifer himself, Patrick and his beautiful wife, Dina, say hello to everyone. Hello. Yeah, we're so excited. Y'all are here, of course, of course. This has been so exciting. I'm so glad that y'all said yes. Patrick gave us an enthusiastic Yes, and we asked him to find Dina was a little more reluctant, so I'm so glad he convinced you.

Deena Phillips:

Yeah, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, it's just podcasts are scary.

Dani Combs:

No scariness, no scariness. Okay, so before we get going and we talk to them about all the fun things, we do have some circle backs and shout outs to get to. So Katie, we have a very important one first, yes, okay, so listeners, hopefully we are a little easier on your ears. This time around. If you listen to our summertime memories or Dawsons Creek episode nine, they were a little poppy, a little crazy, you probably heard us breathing. God is like driving me freaking crazy. We had some output problems, but my husband Brandt is a sound engineer, and he spent all of yesterday afternoon here in our studio trying to get to the bottom of the problem, and we actually think we've set up an even better recording system as a result. So big shout out, yes, and for saving your ears to your listeners, yeah, so hopefully it sounds great this time. Yes, thank Brant. We love you and appreciate you. Can do it without you for real, I'm telling you, Katie and her husband do all the hard stuff related to this podcast. I just show up. I do research and show up. That's pretty much it all, right. So we do have one more circle, actually, two. Our friend Carlos loves to correct us. We decided we're just gonna start calling his things Carlos corrections, yeah, or correct. Because for today's Carlos correct, I know. Go ahead. Oh, my first one. Okay, here we go. I'll do the first one. Oh, I suppose, see, I can't when I write stuff down, I try so hard. Patrick ADINA, are here, and I'm going to show you. I try to highlight it so I know that is for Katie to say, and not me. And I still mess it up, even though,

Patrick Phillips:

like, you know, not to say probably,

Dani Combs:

probably, that's probably a better it's a good idea. Okay, I'm gonna try that next time. All right, if it doesn't work, then I'll let you know. So our first one, yes, I have to do this first one, because it's my fault. It was the mess up that we did. So for those of y'all who listened to our episode on the Bratz documentary, our little intro, the first little question was a shout out to the Breakfast Club, and I wrote it wrong. And instead of saying the word basket case, I typed the word athlete twice, and Katie, because she's a great teleprompt reader, and it was highlighted in yellow. So it was my line. She had a Ron bargaining moment where she just read what was in front of her, and we didn't even notice. Like, we did not even, yeah, take it. So it's like, when they list all the different types of people in the Breakfast Club, right? So what is it? Athletes? Princess, yeah, all the things, one of the brain should have been basket case, but instead, I said, like, athlete, princess, blah blah, blah, blah athlete. And then kept going, and we didn't know till we listened to it. And Danny noticed it right away. She's like, Oh, you know, we did that twice. Did that twice. I'm like, Oh, whoops. And then I know Carlos. We're like, take it out and fix it. And Katie's like, let's see. I bet Carlos will fix that. And sure enough, the second he listened, he was like, and okay, so that was my fault. My bad. Sorry. I am terrible at obviously following my own your idea to fruition. Oh, yeah, and I'm great at reading scripts. Little shout out to myself. If you have a script you like Word, Word, I will do it. Nobody's gonna call me. Thanks, Katie. Appreciate that. Obviously, I'm good at reading scripts. I. Right. There you go. There you go. Okay, so the second one, okay, so the second one, and this will only be for people who are patrons of ours in Patreon. This was an after show. Yeah, we did after the Bratz documentary episode, and we said Emilio Estevez and Martin, not Martin. Charlie. I read it, right? You guys, I did it. I changed it. Okay? We said Emilio Estevez and Charlie Charlie Sheen, who are the sons of Martin Sheen, were half brothers, incorrect. They are fuller biological brothers. Yes, it's just that their father goes by the stage name Martin Sheen, which is what Charlie followed, whereas Emilio went with their real last name in real life, yeah. Estevez, yeah. Martin Sheen's file, like birth given name is Ramon Estevez. I did not know that. Did y'all know that? Yeah, Ramon Estevez, and he changed it so he came to Martin Sheen to get more roles on Hollywood, yeah, which is a summer, I know. So, I mean, that makes me happy that Emilio has sort of reclaimed it my own generation. And was like, No, I'm gonna use my real name and you're gonna cast me. And people did. But also Charlie Sheen, yeah, it's also cast a lot, so I know, but Charlie Chapman, like, I'm not doing that. And he also got cast, yeah, so, you know, whatever. But they are full fledged brothers, yes. So we messed that up, sons of Martin Sheen and someone, yeah, who has a name also that's not in here. Their mother who, oh, like, What are you talking about? The way that was also my error. I said that too. So it's just all the corrections that Carlos had to fix for me. Okay. Well, this, this has been corrections with Carlos, even though he's not here, brought to you by generation in between. Yeah, all Danny, but if you would like to sponsor corrections by Carlos, let's ask money, not him. Anyway. He does it for free anyway. Okay, so that was all we got to do. So now we get down to fun. Are y'all Okay? Y'all are sitting? Do y'all want to move? Yeah, you can. You want to move the table? If you don't need the table, just give up idea. Poor Patrick and Dina, they're like sharing a microphone, and 10 feet away, they are married. Here, listeners, I'm gonna just take their pictures. Katie's taking a really cute picture. So they weren't they were trying to share a mic, and there was a table in between them, so they're, like, both, like, leaning over and, like, leaning towards each other. It was very, very awkward. So, yeah, is that better?

Unknown:

Okay, yeah.

Dani Combs:

So we've said you're here, but we haven't really said, like, why? Yeah, who you

Patrick Phillips:

are pertains to us. Because, what was it the last podcast you said, you know, anybody can come on, but like, you need to have a purpose, yeah, being here, yeah. So

Dani Combs:

what's your breath and

Patrick Phillips:

Dina, what is our purpose? Well, well, so we own a little side hustle that we do. It started on Etsy. It's called shiznit, yes,

Unknown:

needed a second hand rose. Shout out to our our people that had us at that

Patrick Phillips:

point in time, yeah, about three years ago. But we sell vintage clothing collectibles, all things from like 80s, 90s, 2000s you know, all the fun stuff we have our online store. But we also recently did a in person option for what is it? America's antique?

Dani Combs:

Yeah? So local people, local people,

Unknown:

for sure. Oh, yeah.

Patrick Phillips:

Oh no, Brian, Brian, I'm talking to you. Please share,

Unknown:

Hey, Brian. Hey, hey.

Dani Combs:

What little shout you out to anytime American antique mall on what? Where's the where are they at

Unknown:

Sarno, Sarno road. All right, okay,

Dani Combs:

in Melbourne, Florida, on Sarno. Now, was it like a pop up situation? Are you always there? Do you have a booth?

Unknown:

No, this is a very recent thing. We're in month two for having our own booth. I love that, wow, book events, things like that, that we felt like are curated for our vibe. And so we did the 90s fest that we saw. Y'all Yes, things like that. We definitely have done the pop up. But as far as having, like, a permanent space, a structure for people just to leisurely, yeah, this is monk too.

Dani Combs:

I love it, yeah,

Patrick Phillips:

and it's, it's definitely a lot less stress, because, like, you know, you get a sale on Etsy, and it's like, oh no, now I have to go print the label, then I have to pack it up, and I have to weigh it, then I have to go just, yeah, we usually do, like, personalized letters. It says, Thank you so much for buying this. So, like, we don't have to do that anymore, right? It's a shame, but it's definitely more convenient, because the antique mall, like, takes care of staff

Unknown:

there, and we know them, and

Dani Combs:

it's, yeah, fantastic, yeah, it's fun, too. I like, I like to touch things when I buy. Like, online shopping is great for convenience, but when you're. Trying to find, like, something cool and vintage, and I want to see it in person, like I want to touch it. I want to feel it. I want to be excited about it, because sometimes it's hard to translate on the internet. That's why thrifting is so fun. Exactly. So let me I forgot to say how I know Patrick and Dina. Oh, well, real quick, quick question. You still have the Etsy shop too, or only in person? Now, oh, that's a good question for our listeners who are not local. So we

Unknown:

do have the Etsy store on up and running, but we are starting to fade it out. We think that if this is successful, we'd like to transition and pivot, or our business to be more in person, or Yeah, so plus with Etsy, like, it's a hit or miss, like, you have months that are, like, fantastic. You're like, oh yeah, we're doing it. We're killing it. And then there's like, these dry periods on Etsy for some reason or another. Plus, it's really pivoted towards handmade, yeah, yeah. It's maybe not our home anymore,

Dani Combs:

right? Because

Patrick Phillips:

we're considering, I guess all the kids are going to a website called Depop.

Unknown:

Oh yeah,

Patrick Phillips:

there's vintage clothing on there. Like, even Gen Z like, like, younger than us are doing it on that website. Okay, that's something we're considering, like, looking into in the future. Okay, exciting.

Dani Combs:

Sounds good. Okay, so we should probably say you guys are not zennials. I know, like we should have said that. So they are not they. They are affinity. They like the zennial culture. They do, but you guys are millennials, yes, 93 and 9493 and 94 Yeah, okay. Could almost be their parents. Think so. Almost triggered. I love why you just gotta put try it. Throw Troy good and try Good. Look at that. Yes, yes. Oh, my gosh, I'm being so loud. See, looking, are you looking at my mic? Levels? No, you're well, you're talking. Wait, talk.

Unknown:

Hello, louder out there.

Dani Combs:

Yeah, no, no, you're good. You did. Okay, get out. We're good. We gotta, I can see it. We're trying to get this sorted with all the mike situation. But okay, so I met Patrick and Dina, and I did you see my shirt I wore today? This is why I wore it so. And I know Patrick would not even address this and say this, unless I mention it, because I met them when Patrick and I were both performers. What. Aha and our mutual friend op Garza is amazing project called scream land, which we did in October of what year was that? 2022, and crazy, wild, right? Two years ago. So I met them there. By the way, Patrick is an amazing actor, but he doesn't like to do it because it makes him nervous. But he's amazing. Guys go, go look for him on YouTube and see the video content these two make. Oh, my God, it's so good, we can link to it. Yeah, link out show notes. Show Notes. Sweating y'all because Dina is also, by the way, an amazing performer. You're not safe. Nobody's safe. You come on here. We let all your performer secrets out. Okay, it's gonna happen. So that's where we met. We got to just do fun. We did this. It was a dark How do you know, explain what it was? Patrick, like,

Patrick Phillips:

a haunted museum gallery kind of thing. Like interactive, like, you're walking around looking at the local art from like, Was it like a galleons? Yeah, and, but there's live actors in there who go with the different themes. Yes, that would just like, interact and like, play with you for Yeah, it was basically, it was really fun. It

Dani Combs:

was an immersive event. This was all improv. We each had our characters, so you never knew what you're gonna do. It was a blast. That was my first foray back into performing after like, decades away. Wow. So it was so much fun. And Dina was there. You were just like the the one, like the right hand man for everything. She did tickets, she did entry, she did promo. What I mean? I don't know you did everything, sure. Yeah. Thank God it gave her the t shirt. So, yeah, blast. It was so much fun. It was a great time. So that's how I met them. And shout out to op for including me in that fun project. He's awesome. We're gonna have him on in October. Yeah, I cannot wait. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he told me, yes. So now it's on there and y'all heard it. So he's better coming. And listeners, you can hold us all to it, yeah, and op, so that's how I met, that's how I met Patrick and Dina, and then Patrick's amazing, and has been listening to our podcast on the reg. I think you were one of our first listeners. Yeah, it was like, That's Patrick, for like, Patrick, and we have one download. It was Patrick, and then another one was my own husband. So there you go. Two downloads, no. So now we have like, 10s of listeners, at least. Well, we're getting there, hundreds of downloads now, yeah, we're getting there. Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting there. I'd say hundreds of people will listen to this. Yay alarm we feel over time, maybe 1000s. Oh, yeah, you guys are gonna get all this. You're gonna be flooded at the Antique Mall. It's gonna be great. So, Patrick, Gina, y'all are more. Millennials. So tell me y'all were born in the 90s. Okay, so you miss a lot of the stuff that we like in person, most of it, yeah, you miss it. Miss A lot of what we talked about in person. How did you say we have first hand account? Yeah? Oh, yeah. So, so Patrick. God love Patrick. What is such a great fan sharing us on Facebook. Yeah, you guys have to listen, these are first

Unknown:

hand. And

Dani Combs:

I was like, were we on the Titanic play?

Patrick Phillips:

Like, I don't know. Like, we're on a safari. I love it. Y'all are, like, rare. They really lived in the early

Dani Combs:

80s. You guys even 80s. But you know, what's so fun about you guys is, like, you know, I have like, random stupid pictures of, like, us on bikes, and y'all are like, Oh my god, that was so cool. You actually did that. Because I forget, like they were kind of like the last generation that had that four things, you know, with technology and everything. So tell us, you guys, what is it about, like the 80s, 90s time period that you're so drawn to? And you probably have multiple, multiple answers for this.

Unknown:

Yeah, definitely you

Patrick Phillips:

want to go first for me, or, well,

Unknown:

I think for me, that the anchor of the the vibes for the 80s and 90s would have to be nostalgia. You think about it. I personally don't feel like the 80s truly ended, you know, in 89 it leads into the next, you know, the early 90s. Go with it, yeah, raised by, you know, 80s people, yeah, you know. So why not have that, you know, nostalgia tied to it for me. So it's super nostalgic to be like, Oh my gosh, yeah, that was a cool outfit, mom, that you wore. Oh my gosh, I remember, like, at my parking back on birthday pictures, videos, or whatever the case is, I'm like, she killed it. Shout out, mom.

Patrick Phillips:

Yeah, I definitely have to agree with that. There's something very powerful about nostalgia. And when you become an adult and you have an like, adult money now, yes, like, oh my gosh, I did want that toy when I was younger. Yeah, I can have that right now. Right now. I can choose to like fill, because we have a game room. It started out as just video games, but it has slowly turned into, what an end all be, all of just all 80s, 90s, 2000 stuff. It's

Dani Combs:

like a museum, kind of, it kind of,

Patrick Phillips:

we did bring a couple things from we will be showing,

Dani Combs:

telling, yay, cannot wait. I can't wait for that. So excited. Yeah, it's, it's,

Patrick Phillips:

it's just cooler. It's got, like, such a big vibe. I mean, I'm just like, staring at your bag,

Unknown:

oh yeah,

Patrick Phillips:

personality, so it

Unknown:

was very saturated, I

Dani Combs:

you know. And I think too, like, even though you weren't part of, like, our generation, you're able to look back on the things that we look back on it with fondness and be like, Man, I wish I had that. Like, we didn't have cell phones, and so we were almost grown adults like that. They weren't even a thing the internet. Like, I remember the first time we had dial up, like, I use it, and I used to type papers on a typewriter, like, yeah, and I think that like we were the last people who did that, like we really were, we really were. And so I think maybe, like, even though y'all weren't there, you can appreciate, I think it's almost like this is really gonna age me. Oh, is like, when we looked back on our parents generation, like this, like, you know, the hip, like, 69 and stuff, yeah, like, man, like that. They were the last people for that kind of vibe. So I know my parents still tell stories of when they would hitchhike everywhere, yeah, say my dad, early 70s, like, all across the country and just whatever. And, no, I don't want to go out and, like, hitchhike. I think that's a terrible idea. I value my personal safety, but correct. But it is that idea of just like, wow, you were, like, young adults, and you weren't like, Oh, I gotta go college. I gotta whatever. You were just like, let's just see where the road takes us, you know. And again, it's not like I really, actually want to go do that, or that I did want to do that as a young adult, but they though the things they did there, yeah, I can have a nostalgia for that, even though I didn't do it, yeah, you know. And appreciate it and want to know more about it, you know. Anyway, I also love that the two you love, the esthetic from the 80s and 90s. Yes, because that, as you can see, looking around our little space here, especially me, like, I never left the 80s. I just stayed there. Just stay there. I mean, like, I mean my bag, my hair, my Yeah, nail everything. And you guys appreciate it, like Patrick and Dina, let me just tell y'all and you've met them a few times now. Do they always look so hip and always look great, always great and thoughtful. I feel like I'm not a thoughtful Oh my God. They are user Yes, like, but it's effortless. They just put stuff on and y'all look so cute, thoughtful, but not pretentious. Yes, the difference, it's not but yeah, for anybody who's listening that knows Patrick and Dina in real life, you're gonna be. They're gonna be like, yes, absolutely. So like, right now, Dina has on a really cool Sailor Moon shirt, little crop top, and it's like a tie dye effect tube. But then it's got the earrings, so dangle with the star and the bunny and the banana and the glasses, and we've got a gecko. Oh, my God, oh Hawaii that Patrick's wearing, and jean shorts and like us, space a it's geometric. He's geometric. Yeah, I love it. Love it on his apple watch or smart watch. So it's just like, yeah. I mean, look at your glasses. How cute are their glasses are so cute. Like, I feel like I couldn't get my contacts in. So I just can we come back? Just come on our podcast for us to talk to you about how wonderful you are. Wonderful you are important to say that because you guys don't just appreciate like you, like, live it like you. Live it like you. Have rooms in your house. Let's like your business they do have like, unfortunately, we have to have, like, full time real people jobs like, uh, so hopefully, one day, your hobby can become your your your passion can become your job, agree, which is what? Katie has 1500 jobs so she could do that. So eventually, hopefully just the ones I like, so maybe eight of them, right? I can do 15 or whatever, that's my goal. But you do like you lit like you are a walking advertisement before fun vintage things, 100% like, literally, and I think too, like that draws people. I noticed this at 90s fest. Yeah, there were a lot of people set up, and some of them were really great. Some were like, and some of them just like, didn't seem to have a passion for what, yeah, just stuff. Like, it was just like stuff. And it's like, maybe it was cool stuff. Maybe you buy something, maybe you wouldn't, but you guys, it was, like, a whole vibe, yeah, and I'm guessing where your booth is now, it's that way too. So when you come in, it's not just like, let's look at the stuff and this is cool stuff, but it's like, I want to be part of this situation. We definitely,

Patrick Phillips:

like, took the extra thought in preparing our booth, because you walk around an antique mall, yeah? White peg board, yes.

Unknown:

We love our neighbors, yeah. We're like, uh,

Patrick Phillips:

let's paint it yellow and purple right now. And it's, it stands out. You can't,

Unknown:

right? Love it. When we were painting, it was like, the day that people can come in and just restart, yeah, you know, customers around and they would all stop, and they'd be like, That's a loud color. And we're like,

Patrick Phillips:

that's the point. Yeah, like,

Unknown:

we're noticing. Yeah, I love it. I

Dani Combs:

love that so much. Okay, that's great. So Do y'all want to wait till we're done chat chatting to do show and tell, or do you want to do it as we're chatting? It's up to you. It'd

Patrick Phillips:

be a nice little thing to end it, okay, I

Dani Combs:

don't want to skip over it. Yeah. So while we're talking about like, all the things that you like to find when you go thrifting for stuff in your business or just for yourself, tell us some of your favorite things to like find. Like, what are you like? Are there certain toys you're always looking for, their TV shows or clothes? Like, what are some of your favorite things when you're out and you find it and you're like, Oh, yes,

Patrick Phillips:

okay, oh, you're gonna hear that, aren't you? Well,

Dani Combs:

we we think Brant fixed it so that we won't hear

Unknown:

it. That's okay. Either are the clicking and popping. Yes,

Dani Combs:

if it's clicking and popping, we can blame them this time.

Patrick Phillips:

A huge benefit for us when we go thrifting is that, because we are millennials and we have lived a little less life, there are so many things when it comes to like pop culture or toys or clothing that, like, we don't know about. So half of the fun is definitely the research and the discovery. Oh, okay, if we're just like, walking around, you know, a random thrift store, when I find this toy that's, like, in the box and I have no idea about it, obviously, I'm gonna pick it up and I'm gonna start inspecting a bit. Gosh, this came out in like, 1987 What is this? You know, like, I dive into a whole of, like, learning about this thing and truly appreciating it that way. Yeah. So we definitely have, like, some go to things. But I think my favorite thing is not knowing what we're kind and then just circling back and be like, Oh my God, look

Unknown:

what I found. Yeah, great, really good answer. Sorry. Like, she's

Dani Combs:

like, well, now what she's like, I know, if you just have, like, a one word answer, like, I get excited when I find popples. That's okay with that.

Unknown:

That's a fantastic answer. So like, for you, the favorite would be, like, discovering the discovery of that time period, or whatever the history is of that item. So that's a really good answer. Mine is, uh, coochie sweaters. Oh,

Dani Combs:

yeah, I would say, so tell our listeners what that is, for those that don't know,

Unknown:

yeah. So Coogee sweaters were a very, very popular sweater when, I guess, Notorious BIG came out. He was very famous for them. Yeah, he made them popular. They were already existing at the time. But obviously. Someone with a big name and big movement, you know, he made it popular. So, but a lot of people, the reason why I love finding them is because a lot of people these stores, goodwill, don't go to Goodwill, these other places, thrift stores and things like that. They will just mark it as a regular sweater they had. You're like, you don't know, especially when it's like, 50% off, yeah, what have you. So I'll pull up a sweater and like, yo go.

Patrick Phillips:

Found it out in the wild a few times, which really, that's one of our our Grails, that we're like, there's no way we'll ever find that. And we found it multiple box house. We're like, Okay, we like this. So tell

Dani Combs:

people how much an OG one of these would cost. It varies too, because there's, there's an estimated range, yeah,

Unknown:

so there's a lot of, like, neutral colored ones. Maybe people thought that was, like, more of a professional, like, but yet, cool style. But then there's the loud colored ones. Those ones go for, I would say two to three more.

Patrick Phillips:

Yeah. I'd say the range is more like two to even, like, $1,000

Unknown:

No, for real,

Patrick Phillips:

depending on like, the quality of it, if it's any specific pattern or stock, dead stock. Yes, that's a term if you have old clothing from back in the day, but it has brand new tags on it, and it was never worn. That's called dead stock. Oh, and we do have a dead stock, kind of Gucci sweater

Dani Combs:

sell. How the spell this? Spell it? Because I'm gonna pull it up gi sweater. I'm just pulling it up so I can show Katie. Yeah, that's what I was envisioning in my head. And I was, like, trying to make sure, just so we have, yeah, that's what I was envisioning, too. Okay, okay,

Unknown:

so, like, I have an example. She just pulled it up on her computer. There's one for 600 here. That's more colorful, yeah? It's more neutral. That's 261

Dani Combs:

that's real expensive. Yeah, like, yeah, when you find

Unknown:

them for two or $4 right?

Dani Combs:

Say, how much did you spend? So

Patrick Phillips:

the Disney coo Gee sweater that was dead stock we found at a thrift store, and I all the oxygen just went out on my list. Usually our plan of attack and we go to thrift stores, is that we will enter and we will split up. Oh, okay, we can cover more ground, divide and conquer Exactly. Yeah, I had found this just inconspicuously hanging on a rack, and I believe it was marked for 27 but the store was having like a half off sale. So I walked up and I was just like, I think I even I was like, just go. Freak out.

Unknown:

My heart is. I was like, Yo,

Patrick Phillips:

what did you find? We got to leave. But found there was also, Marketplace is a good place to Oh, really older things. There was a lady who was selling three of them for, like, I don't know, like, $150 but doing the math, I was like, that's still, yeah, we

Unknown:

made our money back on that, and we kept one. The coolest one. Yeah.

Dani Combs:

I was gonna say, Do you ever, do you ever get stuff for your for your store? But then you're like, and, no, I just can't say about my time, yeah. I just can't all the time, because

Unknown:

that's where it kind of started. Was just, yeah, wanting to do this for ourselves. We just love going out and treasure hunting. Yeah, that's

Dani Combs:

like, Troy, he'll, he'll get things. That's how it started for him, too. He just wanted the game right and now, and he actually wants to play them right. Saying some people don't, you know, some people just he did. He did not say that. There are some things he does not that's true. He just got something in the mail the other day. I don't know what it was. He was so excited. He's like, You don't understand? I was like, well, somebody will so, yeah, somebody please understand. Say, ask him today. You'll see him later. So ask him about whatever random book he found. I don't know what it was anyway. Okay, well, those are good answers. That's exciting. Okay, so now I want to know that was one of your favorite finds, but I want y'all to take a second. I'll give you a second. I'll even play some Jeopardy music and think about your all time favorite thing you found since you've had your store.

Unknown:

Okay, I got one. Oh, he

Dani Combs:

already does. Yeah, all right. Oh, I was about to hum Katie, take it away.

Patrick Phillips:

Find that it's impossible for this not to be the answer.

Unknown:

Okay, it might be my answer. Oh, no, I'm gonna be so excited. And

Patrick Phillips:

if it's what you're thinking, you should think of something else. So we do take time sometimes, whenever we're out and about, and there will be like, we haven't thrifted in a long time, and like our stock is depleted. We're like, we need to make this like an all day thing. So like, we will take eight hours on a Saturday to just everything we can find that is so fun, sailing, estate sales, thrift stores, you know, everything. So most of the time we'll be driving down like Babcock, and we'll just see a sign that says, like church rummage sale. And we're like, stop and like we, you know, almost flip the car, trying to go to it as fast as we can. So in this specific, specific moment, we had found one of. Those. And it was just a unassuming church yard sale. And we walk in, and they have everything set up on tables. It's all nice and everything. And we split up, and I go towards the left, she goes towards the right, and I see a Furby that's sitting in the box on a table. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I need that. So then I walk up to it, I grab it, because the first rule of thrifting is, if you don't grab it, Oh, true. Somebody else can take it, yeah, always keep it in your hand. Grab it in your cart. Just hold on to it. So I grabbed it, and I noticed there's another one sitting next to it. There's two inbox Furbies. I was like, This is wild. So I looked at them. I was looking at the prices, and I was like, real quick, trying to do a little side research. This worth it? Are these too expensive? And one of the workers comes up behind me, and she was like, Oh, do you want those? I can set those to the side for you. I was like, Yeah, I think I really do want those. And she said, Well, are you interested in more? And I said, Excuse me, you have more? She was like, Yeah, I have a whole box of herpes. I was like, Oh, cool. And I thought she was talking, like, at her house, yeah, I think we're about to do some kind of a side deal, right? And she was like, no, no, they're right here. And she goes back to the table, lifts up the little tablecloth, and she pulls out a box. She opens it up, and there was, like, eight Furbies that were in the box. These

Dani Combs:

are, like, og Furbies from the 90s, from 1998

Patrick Phillips:

1999 Wow, wow. Box was a shipping box. It was like a dress to target or something. So from like 1999 we still have it was in, yeah, we

Dani Combs:

kept the box. Oh, my God, I

Patrick Phillips:

saw them. And I was completely dumbfounded. And I don't know what came over me, but I was just like, how much do you want

Dani Combs:

for all don't pass out,

Patrick Phillips:

I'm not really sure. And I was like, looking at him, looking at him doing calculations in my head. Yeah. I was like, How about 300 would you take 300 for the whole box? And it was like, very quiet, very quiet. She was thinking about it. I had some other people coming up. Look at like, hurry up, ladies.

Unknown:

Yeah, that

Patrick Phillips:

seems fair. I was like, we paid with a card, got it back in our trunk, and I was like, Oh my gosh, what just happened? So the really cool part about that was there was some average Furbies in there, but there was like, two or three that said, like, limited edition. Oh, Toys R Us version. That's kind of how I became a Furby collector. Okay,

Unknown:

here you go.

Dani Combs:

You got like the Furby collector starter pack there, I'm sure. So how much did like an individual one of those sell for? So

Patrick Phillips:

average Furby, some stats here. Yeah,

Dani Combs:

love we love numbers, Ray Furby, or

Patrick Phillips:

like, the basic one from back in the day, if it's in the box, can go anywhere from like 30 to 50 bucks, really, a loose Furby, maybe about 15 to 30, depending what's,

Dani Combs:

oh, like out of a box. Yeah, he just had a little bit too much fun.

Patrick Phillips:

The limited edition ones there. It's really hard to, like, price them, but if it has a number that says, oh, one of, like, 35 okay, that makes it a little bit easier. Yeah, I have done a little bit of research since that time, too. Oh, I'm sure Furbies. And I'm like, why am I obsessing over this? Like, now I need the special edition kick cuisine Furby from my God, I love 1000s.

Dani Combs:

Okay, did you have a Furby cake? No. I mean, I know what they are, but I know your brothers have one. I think any of us, okay, I had one. Okay. I was older when they came out. But like, I mean, I mean, as we know, if you listen to my podcast, like, I watch cartoons my whole life, like, whatever, obviously I don't grow up. Um, I'm 43 and I still have pink hair. It's fine. Any of the animations on your shirt, literally, right now, it's from a live show, but I have what on your shirt? It's anime. Oh, what's a real person though?

Unknown:

Oh,

Dani Combs:

we'll talk about it later. Okay, so, so you guys probably did have Furbies as kids, because y'all were probably right in that time frame as, like, little kids, yeah, yes, yeah. So explain to us for our listeners, we do have a lot of, like, really young listeners, which is amazing, like, tell them what a Furby is, if they don't know. So

Unknown:

a Furby is a interactive electronic toy that simulates like a robot, in a sense. But yeah, as a child, don't see it that way. You think it's your pet, a pet, yeah? They have their own language that they can communicate. Furbish. I think it is, yep, I love how I'm speaking when. So they it's like this Tamagotchi, but in real life. So you take care of a pet with a Tamagotchi, yeah? You know, digital pet, but this is now physical form of toy. You feed them, you wake them up, you talk to them. If you have multiple they all, like, have a summoning circle of Furbish, like, yeah,

Dani Combs:

oh yeah, I forgot that they could talk to each other. That's right. Learn. They learn. It's crazy. It is a little frightening to think like, a little bit like a. I sort of, kind of, yeah, wow. It was, I remember when they came out? Like, actually, it must have, did they come out in 98 or was it okay? So I was in high I mean, I was a senior in high school in 1998 I still had one because they were so fun. I think I actually had two because I wanted them to talk to each other. Probably, duh. Like, why wouldn't? What's the blame? Yeah, it's like, when I bought my kids lightsabers for Caden, before he had a brother and we were buying a lightsaber, and he's like, Well, I have to have two because I have to be able to fight somebody. It's like, yeah, like, one lightsaber alone is no fun. One Furby without another. Like, that's no fun. Okay, so that was your that was your favorite find. All right, Dina, we're ready for yours. Obviously, that wasn't yours, right? That

Unknown:

sounds really good, though. That was probably a great,

Dani Combs:

great story.

Unknown:

I would say, yeah, that was mine, but I have a different one that would be a good learning that was a good learning opportunity for us very beginning of opening up our store. Um, do you guys remember? I'm sure there's still a lot of artwork that's like this hanging up in your homes right now that who are listening? But it was almost like religious figures on a wood frame with the acrylic overlay, yes, so imagine that. But Selena, okay, he's

Dani Combs:

about to die. Yeah, I'm about to die. Okay, and Carlos is probably about to die too. Carlos is screaming right now. He's gonna be like, do you still have it? It was huge.

Unknown:

I don't know how big it definitely traditional, just like it was, yeah, it was big, huge, huge. I immediately saw this. I was like, obviously, you're coming home with Yeah. Plus it was on sales. Like, when? So, like, like, okay, someone's gonna love this. So we posted it on the store. This is when we were only Etsy, okay, maybe first year. And this is before we really understood shipping dimensions. No, so we lost and had to even pay to have this person own it. But in my eyes, I think that was the coolest thing for two reasons. One, it was Selena. Yeah, that's amazing. We learned a lot because of that, yeah, really cool piece, like, probably in their living room right now, true. And someone's like, Yo, you have a Selena XYZ. I don't know what that art style, yeah, I

Dani Combs:

don't know what it is, yeah,

Unknown:

I don't either think it was amazing. Yeah, that would be a good I love what

Dani Combs:

you said about the lesson too. Yeah? Because, like, obviously, we're learning lessons on our podcast and whatever happened with our sound last time, I think now we're going to have even more improved sound over what we had, or, like, even in, like, my studio, like we're trying different things. And sometimes, like, some of our summer camps did amazing, and some didn't, you know, and it's like, okay, well, what's the difference? And just kind of learning from that, but being like, but hey, even though this summer camp only has three people in it, those are three kids that are gonna get to sing and act and blah, blah, blah. Like, you kind of said about that, like, it's not always the profit, especially when you're first getting started, right? There's a lot like important things, especially in these areas where it's not a sure thing. Oh, yeah. Like, yeah,

Patrick Phillips:

I've been since we've opened up physically at our booth, I have been sweating the whole time, because, really, we need to make rent that way we're making profit. Since it's this brand new thing, there's no, we have no data to, like, even support it. So our goal was like, Okay, we're gonna at least try it for the rest of the year. And I'm like, oh, that's quite a bit of money we gotta, we gotta make and move forward with

Unknown:

Yeah. So it's just like, the Selena thing. We'll, we'll learn, and then hopefully will evolve.

Dani Combs:

I found like, when you make that decision, like you just did, like, I just resigned a lease for my studio, and I was more in turmoil when I didn't know what thing I wanted to do than when I was just like, Okay, I'm staying another year. And again, when you add it all up, you're like, Ooh, that's a lot. I got to do this, this and this. But it's also kind of like, I've committed to this and come what may? Yeah, that thing is off my mind now, and we're just gonna do this, you know, and I and if you guys are there, at least till the end of the year now, we have to come. We keep saying we need to make a field trip, and we've had zero time. We Yeah, we have. Our favorite phrase lately has been when school starts, when school starts, when school starts. Like, let's do our website. Yeah, let's do our blah, blah, blah school starts. But we did go thrifting, so we'll just, we should do that again and go there and go there and wherever else.

Unknown:

So excited. You guys can totally make a segment out of it too. Well, finds of like, the 80s, like, that'd be fun. Oh, that'd

Dani Combs:

be so fun. You're

Unknown:

like, a bingo thing that you guys have, like, you know, oh, my god,

Patrick Phillips:

two Cabbage Patch Kids like, yeah, yeah.

Unknown:

How about fun?

Dani Combs:

We should get you guys to make us a bingo. I like that. He would love to do, yeah, okay, do that, and then, and then we'll start when maybe your jobs don't stop when school starts. True. That's true. I actually am very busy when school starts, but then we don't have kids all around and we can go during the day. What time is? What time can we go to your booth?

Patrick Phillips:

I believe they're open from 10am to 530 okay. Oh, Saturdays. It's 12 to five. Okay.

Dani Combs:

You aren't physically there. When do you physically go? We pop to restock, to restock, restock, refresh. Idea. On All right, we'll make it happen. It was gonna make us a big, like

Patrick Phillips:

a real event. This place always does, you know, different kinds of events. Oh, fine. This weekend, they may even have like a car show on Sunday.

Unknown:

Oh yeah, they

Patrick Phillips:

do things constant. That's fun.

Dani Combs:

Oh yeah, I remember y'all did like an 80s saying, yeah, yeah. I remember that too. Like, dang, we, we should you had something so, oh yeah, Patrick, do not have children yet. So that's when they're like, yeah.

Unknown:

Well, I

Dani Combs:

mean, I don't know your future. It might be another it might be fine. I mean, they have fur babies at their house, yeah? But that's why, when they said, Oh yeah, we spent eight hours on a Saturday Katie and never, like, longingly, like, oh, that sounds nice. Eight hours in a row doing anything that's not, not a kid's baseball game. Sounds really nice. Anyways, okay, so those are really fun, like, fines. Those are so cool. And I had thought of a question, and it left me, do you have anything you wanted to ask them? Yeah, I was just gonna say, is there anything you see, um, a lot of like, what is, what are some of the things that the market's saturated with? Like, a person like me might be like, oh, like, Pokemon cards, blah, blah, blah, or Call Me Elmo, oh, and, like, like, unknowingly at a garage sale, like, Oh, this is worth a lot. Like, what are those things that maybe like, aren't that might be from the time period that really aren't worth anything. One

Unknown:

that totally came to mind because you mentioned it earlier. Caboodles. Caboodles are everywhere, everywhere, especially because there was the red redo the reason, yeah, and you could buy them in the store still

Dani Combs:

now, yeah, everywhere.

Unknown:

So I think a lot of people might that are in the thrifting world. They might like, oh my gosh, remember the caboodle? I even feel like we saw like a mother be like, Do you know what this is to their child? And they're just like, so hell. That's cute moment, but

Dani Combs:

those are everywhere, so it's not worth anything. Pay full price. Yeah,

Patrick Phillips:

got it the ultimate answer. Oh, Disney, VHS, tapes. Oh,

Dani Combs:

yeah, which we asked, because we and that's such a good one that you said, Because Katie and I were so excited, and I texted Patrick, and he's like, No, we're good for

Patrick Phillips:

whatever reason, resellers or trolls or somebody was just like, oh, I have a black diamond edition of Beauty and the Beast. Uh, $2,000 like, no, it's, it's like a quarter, like, maybe $1 at best, yeah, calm down. Yeah, relax. Every Disney VHS you find is probably not worth hundreds of 1000s of dollars. Most likely it's gonna be like a couple bucks at

Dani Combs:

best. Yeah, even the cover that has the phallic symbol will

Patrick Phillips:

not be named sale. We did have one of those that one's probably, I don't know, like, 1015

Dani Combs:

which we bought, if it's good. I did buy it for $1 I just bought it just for fun, because I was like, Oh, does it because Katie and I found it, we're like, oh, but does it have it on the cover? And it did. And I was like, oh, then it's coming. Talking about Google, Disney VHS cover, yeah, Little Mermaid, Ariel controversy. Whatever, which we are gonna do a Disney episode real soon on the Disney drama, Disney drama from the Renaissance movies with little what were we what do we say? We're gonna debunk it? Yeah, like, debunk some of the like myths with the

Patrick Phillips:

rescuers. Okay,

Dani Combs:

okay, all right. That one,

Patrick Phillips:

I don't know if you can debunk that one. It happens. Maybe, maybe the

Dani Combs:

Lion King, yeah, yeah, Lion King. We had Lion King Aladdin. There were several from Aladdin. Anyways, we won't say much. We don't say too much. But okay, so listen to that's gonna be, it's gonna be a fun So, okay, I think we're ready for Chantal. Yes, I think so. Unless what else are there anything like, Y'all were like, oh, when we go on the podcast today, we have to talk about this. I

Unknown:

specifically was just so excited to hear what you guys had to actually like, yeah. I was just here, yay. Have anything planned? I was just like, I'm here. I'm ready for that.

Dani Combs:

I love it. I love that too. And we are going to have questions about the things you show us. I'm sure I can't wait. I cannot. I'm

Unknown:

so many. Oh, look at her. She Okay. Y'all. She just, she just yanked the mic back, sorry, since starting your flipping business, Patrick, what is the number one or number two? Number three? What's top three things that you have learned? Love it. All right, you're

Dani Combs:

hired Dana.

Unknown:

I want him to talk about it. Oh, I

Patrick Phillips:

love this. Just want to tell me what it is, so I'll talk. Okay. She's talking about, whenever we're out and about. What can we discern that is because right now, it's very popular for, like, 80s and 90s, so there is definitely going to be some confusion, right? Like, oh, this shirt looks vintage, but is it? It's not, yeah. So definitely one thing to consider when looking at clothing, specifically the shirt. So that you have just like a regular t shirt, it usually has double stitching for new ones. So

Dani Combs:

right now, yeah, we all have on T shirts. Right now, everybody

Patrick Phillips:

look at your shirt and it has double stitch. Yeah? Mine doesn't

Unknown:

look where, yeah. Oh, it

Dani Combs:

does live.

Patrick Phillips:

Yeah. Most 80s and 90s, they'll only have single stitching, and it's definitely a different material. Another common thing would be to always check the tag. So like most tags nowadays are like, just that screen print. Yeah, there is no tag there, yeah. But if it has a tag, it'll usually have some kind of embroidery, or it'll say petite, that's a dead giveaway, or it says made in the USA, so all of those considerations. And then just like, looking at, you know, these defunct brands, like, yeah, pick up a shirt, and it says Blair, yeah, oh yeah. That's from, like, the late 80s. So that's, that's probably, definitely the biggest thing is that we can go to a thrift store now and just scan over the clothing and, like, look at something and be like, Oh, I know that one's one, and you pull it is nice. So just lots of practice with that. Oh, god, are you prompting me for

Dani Combs:

more? That was one. She said, three. Those are great. Those are great.

Unknown:

Yeah, that's great. Because I love hearing you talk about it, because, if anything, we even each other out, because he does so much research, like you think that we're just, you know, thrifting because we are and super fun, but he he's a wealth of knowledge. And sometimes I might pick up a shirt and like, Yo, this is amazing. And he's like, immediately he's analyzing it, like, perfect. And he's like, No, that's not vintage. And I give her a glass, and I'm like, You're right.

Patrick Phillips:

The brand that tricks us constantly is Lula roll,

Unknown:

even though the fabric, if you touch it, you know, you know. But the visual you see this, really,

Dani Combs:

I know the prints right, me too, every time. And I get so pissed when I'm like, Oh my God, I want that. And I'm like, No, I don't, yeah, Lula rose is a good one. That's

Patrick Phillips:

about all. Do you have anything that you've learned that I didn't talk about?

Unknown:

Well, you've done all the learning format,

Dani Combs:

learning brain. I love it. Love that. That's great, because it sounds like y'all are, I mean, now I do know you guys in real life. They are, like, one of the perfect pairs that you know how you meet people sometimes and you're like, oh my god, I can't ever imagine you with anybody else ever in your life, because you all just fit very perfectly. That's how they are. So it doesn't surprise me that you're the same in business together as you are, like in life, right? Because, like some some couples, they're great couples, but they can't work together me and try to be together, and that's okay. There's nothing wrong, no way. But I think, like you guys have that special where, apparently your relationship is great, but then also you can work together. Yeah, you identifying what his strengths are, instead of like, if it was my husband, I'd just be like, Why are you always mansplaining? Leave me alone. I gotta buy this, you know. But you're like, Oh, thank

Unknown:

you for the knowledge. Like, I love how excited he gets about learning about it. Yeah, yeah. Serotonin of either Yeah, seeing it, finding something so cool, or knowing that I'm gonna flip it and I'm gonna be, you know, successful in that sense, to look at him. And he's literally researching, researching. He's like, I can pick up anything in our store currently, and he'd be like, the year is the maker? Is they stopped making? And this is why it's amazing. Like, wow, love that. And I just love watching him do this. Well, that's superpower. That's

Dani Combs:

a gift to your customers. It is, like I said at like, 90s fest. I could be like, this is cool thing. Person. You have that, yeah, do you want to buy it? It's 20 bucks, right? But like, Patrick would be like, oh, yeah, that's from the blah, blah, blah, and that was the year they did this and that. And it does make you more invested in the thing that you're buying. It makes you more like, Yeah, this is cool, not just because I like the way it looks, right, which is a whole thing, and that's fine. You can buy things for that reason. But like, the other side of that, the research side, the nostalgia side, it makes you more invested in the thing you're buying, which I think is really cool. It is cool. That's very cool.

Patrick Phillips:

Like, full circle, because, you know, we started this by saying, Why do you like 80s and stuff, and in terms of, like the business side of things, US liking it and enjoying those different kinds of things makes the product that much better, right?

Unknown:

Care about it. Yeah, exactly,

Patrick Phillips:

I mean. And I feel that way because we curate everything that we sell, we're very much like, Oh, I'm not going to sell this unless I know it's awesome. See,

Dani Combs:

look at that. Well, which we miss a lot of times in our capitalistic culture, had to do it, sir, absolutely. And I said capitalism in a long time. Like, I know the Yeah, I know the record,

Patrick Phillips:

the patriarchy. Like, yeah, I

Dani Combs:

was about to say, Katie, almost. Did I explain it when I said, patriarchy in a while? You haven't I did in real life, though, the other day, like, the other day, how dare you? So? It's about.

Unknown:

Is now, and that's been a short time, short. Oh, my God, so short. Been so advanced. I just want to underline that Yes, from the beginning. I mean, yeah, truly beepers and pagers, those kind of Yeah,

Dani Combs:

but no, you're right. That's, that's the beginning. Here we are just and smartphones. I mean, I know it was a long time ago now, but like, the iPhone was 2007 right? Like it, like you said, in terms of time that's not that long ago for where we are today. I remember Tory getting the first iPhone, and from 2000 back to when that was, think of what a eight or 89 Yeah, eight or 89 to 2007 and we go from that to smartphones, like, basically a computer, wild, yeah, if you don't want to do

Unknown:

anything big,

Dani Combs:

I didn't even bring mine today. I'm reading my notes from it. Normally, I do have my laptop because of your project. You've got our, we've got our big computer, little computer tasks. And reading, reading the podcast script, is usually a big computer task for me, but it's a Saturday, so I didn't bring it with me to my studio, but so I just pulled it up on my phone. Now I have to say this is total side note like, because we our notes and our Google Doc, we put in big fonts, we can see it correct. Have you changed the font on your phone yet? That's how you know your next age, middle age. Mine is pretty big. No, mine's big. Oh, no, that's yes. Okay, yeah, so you're there, yeah. And did it for me, because I struggle so much. I'm not at reading glasses yet, but I'm almost there. And I, like, was doing this. Carlos snatched my phone for me, and was like, let me just fix this. So, bleep, bleep, bleep. And I was like, Oh my God, that's life changing. He's like, I did it for my mom too. I was like, oh my god, I have arrived. I have arrived. And Carlos' case, you're lucky he didn't say grandma facts, because his grandma's young and but it's okay, so, yeah, okay, that's really cool. That was really that was really fun. Thank you for that. That was a

Patrick Phillips:

fun flashback we have here. This was a really special find for us. This wasn't thrifting, but we actually went to a convention a few years ago called Super retro con in Tampa. Everything, whatever your brain just conjured up. Yes, they

Dani Combs:

have that. Oh, I bet Troy would want to go that too. And I do it every year, usually.

Patrick Phillips:

So what we found there was a very nice vendor, and we bought a few things from him, and we made a deal, and we bought this very specific item that he had, and we have since put it in a shadow box, but we're gonna, like, open it up and kind of mess with a little bit, and I'll give a little bit more explanation once you're like, opening it up and you're going through it,

Dani Combs:

okay, oh my gosh, coming out. Oh my god, so exciting, opening up

Unknown:

the box. Yeah, I

Dani Combs:

love seeing so Blockbuster Video, everyone. Okay, I can't wait to see what this is

Patrick Phillips:

here. This man was selling a collection of items that, apparently, back in the 90s. I don't know the date, but it is on the paper. There's a person who was applying for Blockbuster and they got all the kits and everything in the mail, their employee shirt. They got, like, an offer letter and everything, and it's all blockbuster branded. But for whatever reason, they didn't hire them. Oh, but they still have all of this stuff left over. So we have, oh,

Dani Combs:

I had so many of those. Give me take your picture or wait, wait till he's all done. Well, one of the

Unknown:

things that is in here. You said it was an offer letter, but in fact, it was a denial letter. That's right,

Dani Combs:

the denial letter did not, it's

Patrick Phillips:

like we were putting together a story here. Because I think the original, yeah, they have the original, what do you call? It?

Dani Combs:

Classified, classified for a job and classified, I totally do, even after college. Yeah, newspapers, man.

Patrick Phillips:

And I think this is just like a little note that they're writing like that, they said two different things. Oh, my god, yeah. It's like a whole thing

Unknown:

story, okay? It

Dani Combs:

says assistant store managers for a Blockbuster video. I love this. Now. Where does this say I was trying to see growth? Georgia, October.

Patrick Phillips:

Oh, so sorry. Did I talk over No, oh, this is from october 24 1990

Unknown:

Oh, my gosh, that's a denial letter. Oh, wow.

Dani Combs:

Can you imagine getting, like, a denial letter? Normally, they just don't respond. It's like you're not hired for what it

Unknown:

says. Does it say something like, you know, sorry,

Dani Combs:

yeah. It says, After careful consideration, it does not appear that there's a position to match your qualifications with blockbuster at this time, at this time.

Patrick Phillips:

Oh, dear. Well, what's funny is, they still mailed them

Unknown:

to a shirt. Maybe it's like, sorry, oh, my god, that is amazing.

Dani Combs:

And you know what? This is crazy, because as soon as I saw that blockbuster card, I'm remembering it in my wallet. Yep, I'm remembering my friends who worked at Blockbuster wearing this exact shirt before they upgraded to polos. Yeah, they eventually upgraded. But I do remember these T shirts. I worked at a blockbuster, yeah, you did. I mean, it was late in the game. It was 2005 I worked at one in Shelbyville, Indiana when I first got out of college. So I had, like, a day job, you know, me, I know I got off regular work, and I was like, well, I should go. I mean, I live by myself, like, you know, so I worked and I worked there, and I got, like, free rent, and I've always loved movies, yeah, so I was just, like, a way to make friends and stuff. And, yeah, I had to wear a polo that I was in the Polo era. Yeah, that was the blue polo era. So, okay, so you guys were born in the early 90s, so y'all were still part of the, like, the video store. Yeah, I would say was actually, like, one of the pillars when y'all were tiny, yeah, yeah, we all were kids, right? Like, that was, that was, like, still the Hey, VH, I mean, it, it switched to DVD at some point, but it would still go run the DVDs. Yeah, you're young, yeah, in the 90s, yeah, for sure, yeah,

Unknown:

yeah. Blockbuster got popular for the DVDs anyway, yeah,

Dani Combs:

where's the 2000 that was so cool that I know storyline with blockbuster that was fun. I know that was really fun. I love handwritten stuff for

Patrick Phillips:

this one. I just want one of you to open this up and we'll just take the reaction from there. Oh,

Unknown:

dares open up this often. Oh, to coffin. All right, I'll

Dani Combs:

do it. Okay. Did you guys make the coffin? Yeah, did

Unknown:

you I thought you made that? Oh, I

Dani Combs:

can't wait. Okay, it's about to take a time. So it's a black coffin I can hold in my palm of my hand that says rip, and I don't know what's in it. So here we go. Oh, is it gonna pop out? No, I just jumped. She's like, I have oh,

Unknown:

is it pops, yeah.

Dani Combs:

So explain what you're holding in your hand. Okay, so, oh, my god. How does one explain Pogs? So they're, they're like, little, oh, Scooby Doo they're like, little cardboard. They're like, the size of, like, a 50 cent piece coin, poker chip. Like a poker chip. There we go. Who cares? Around 50, they're like this size, if you got some of those in your pockets

Unknown:

anyway, they're cardboard, like

Dani Combs:

poker size chips, and they have different branding on them. So there's, like, a Scooby Doo one, and Papa Smurf. Is that? Papa Smurf? Papa Smurf? It looks like there's some power rangers maybe in here. And so you would get these and collect and trade. And there was a game too, wasn't there? Remember the game the slammer, and it's got like a yin and yang on it, and so it was a game. But also you collected, yeah, for sure. Okay, so I feel like Pogs were, like, I was a little I missed the Pog era. I feel like that was little after me. Was that my brother, who's five years younger than me, was really into hogs, okay, that's how I know, because I kind of liked looking through what he would, what he had. I don't know if I personally owned any. So tell us, Patrick, the year these came out. He knows. I know. You know, that's why early 90s, like 90, yeah, was it really, yeah? So I wasn't. Maybe I just, it was just not in my in my way. I

Patrick Phillips:

think we missed that. Y'all

Dani Combs:

missed it, yeah? So see, like I remember them, but I didn't play maybe because I'm just like, it wasn't, wasn't cartoonian, but it is. But I don't know kind of talks forever. I know there must. I don't know how I missed it, like I remember them, but I feel like, I don't know. Maybe it was just like, that's probably like, middle school when you were they would have been really popular. So you probably just do another sound like it matters. I bought Furbies when I was senior in highs. That's true. Weird pug. You weren't into pugs. I know maybe I bought me. Maybe I should be now, something

Patrick Phillips:

about Furby. Turn it up and take a look. Is

Dani Combs:

he in a Hawaiian shirt? He's so much fun, colored. We match and everything. I love this so much. Okay, hold on one of

Unknown:

the more limited edition version. So, oh, do you know how much he would be. So, my

Patrick Phillips:

God, he's so I acted on impulse when I found this guy, because we were at Goodwill one day and he had a price sticker for $100 and I said, You know what? Yeah, I'm gonna

Dani Combs:

be. I said, I don't care. I love him.

Patrick Phillips:

I looked at fact, and since I'm an avid Furby Collector now, yeah, it was definitely gonna be for me, and he's worth a little bit more than that. But no, he came home. He said, He looks like you, Patrick.

Dani Combs:

I mean, he's gotta, yeah, sure, for sure, Patrick in Furby form and like some little cool little shoot, of course. Yeah, it's so cute. Katie, have you ever, ever held a Furby? I'm not gonna mess with them. I'm not gonna mess Yeah, he doesn't have batteries. I'm not. Oh my gosh, I can still remember what they sound like, too. Oh, y'all need to google it right now. I won't try and do it, because I will mess it up and sound weird. But what's the deal with the eyelashes? Why are they like this thing?

Patrick Phillips:

It was just the design choice, I guess. Why is a Furby anything? Look at this thing.

Unknown:

All the things going on with this, and I'm concerned about. The eyeline, I don't know, like

Dani Combs:

Hello, but Katie

Unknown:

a different version. No,

Patrick Phillips:

no. If the Furbies are way more relevant today than they ever were back in the 90s, if y'all go on the internet for just a little bit, you'll find some creepy Furby stuff, like people take the guts of them, their eyes, their faces, and put them on things, and they look weird and scared long No, well,

Dani Combs:

now I'm gonna do it just to see what happens. Oh my gosh, these are I think they're so funny, okay, but we do know Katie is not a cartoon person, not a huge toy person. So that sense to me that you're like, Yeah, what's up with the eyelashes? And I'm like, oh, colors. I shall never play with this because of the eyelashes. Just kidding. I mean, he is cute. I gotta say. I know the packaging is so fun that's See, that was part of the fun, too, in the in the 80s and 90s, late 80s, early 90s, everything was packaged fun. Like when we did the episode about gem and I was looking up to find a gem doll. I like the box. Was just fun. It was like, and Troy and in Caden, my oldest, they love to keep boxes of stuff, because they just like the box is part of the fun, especially because they're kind of sneaker heads too. So they keep all their shoe boxes and like, anyway, so yeah, the packaging is bright. I was very orange and green. Oh, my God, he's so cute. Okay, wait, hold on. Before we move on, I have to put in what you told me to Google, because now I have to know I can't long Furby. Long Furby

Unknown:

is one of the less demented versions. Okay, oh, let's I'll

Dani Combs:

take everyone. Get out your everyone listening. Everybody's doing it. And look it up. If you're driving now. Oh, people are here. Oh yeah. It's probably,

Unknown:

oh,

Dani Combs:

they're like, stretched out. It's like, saw but Furby creepy. It's like, all these

Unknown:

very cursed, oh, it's cursed. Oh no. Oh, it's

Dani Combs:

automatically terrified. I'm like, Oh, am I like, something's gonna happen to climb out of my sorrow

Patrick Phillips:

has your IP address now

Dani Combs:

they're like, gonna climb out? This podcast is taking a whole different swing. I don't know what's happening, but that is creepy. I'm getting it off my screen right now, and yes, like I said, He's Goodbye, goodbye. Thanks for bringing that to

Patrick Phillips:

my so we have just one more. Okay, one more. We're

Dani Combs:

ready take the floor

Patrick Phillips:

on this one, because it's, it's very itchy, geared towards you. Oh, okay, I

Dani Combs:

can't wait. All right, Dana,

Unknown:

oh, what? I think I know

Dani Combs:

what's gonna happen. Wait, but I know where I open it. You

Unknown:

just gave her a binder. I know, yes, and there's sleeves in it.

Dani Combs:

What could it be? If it's sleeves, it could be Pokemon. Let's open it up. Let's find out. Katie. Thank you. Katie's like, Yay, and her iced coffee is right there. That would have been so sad. Oh my gosh. Okay, so my, my son, who's 17, loved Pokemon, of course, now it's 17. He's like, Yeah, not really into Pokemon, but my youngest, Tegan, is obsessed. In fact, yeah, Danny's husband recently, like that. This was last weekend, yeah, she came over and she told me about Pokemon. He gave her a bunch. He's like, Oh, and, like, one was a rare she's like, Oh, this is a rare rainbow you don't understand between Troy and the two kids. The Pokemon cards we have is ridiculous. And she, like, she has binders. So she came home and she, like, put them in and then, of course, knowing Troy, I gave them to her in cases. Of course, yeah, yeah. She was, she was like, Mr. Troy gave me this so, so I have an attachment to Pokemon, because my kids have been so into it, and it's just fun. So fun. Not to sound old, but like in this digital age where they're always on their screens, but to be that the 50 cent piece I'm like, you just need to give me my blue hair right now. But anyway, um, they it's I like watching them organize and and myself. Now, you know who's too old for Pokemon, but he'll talk with her about it. He'll be like, back to it. That's what, that's what's cute, because it's an excuse for him to participate with her. And so it's, it's like nostalgic to me, just from that, just like watching them, I never collected them and don't, but my brother did. So Pokemon, I love. They're cute and fun and, like, are cute. Um, again, like, it's heavy when our kids first started getting into it, like, Troy kind of missed the Pokemon first time around, because he's older when our kids start getting into it, like, he just seems to, like, just attach on and his his younger brothers, who are around y'all age, he has younger half siblings. They were so into it, like I remember buying them so many Pokemon cards. So when Caden and Cooper got into the Pokemon cards, they were excited, like Uncle Kevin and Uncle Brett. Shout out for all the cards you sent. But the funny thing, well. Eyes. When my kids were younger, and they first started, they didn't know how to play play the game. They just like to collect them. Yeah, still don't know. Oh, you don't. Y'all don't know how to play. Idea so, so Troy, like, they would have all these cars, and Troy's, like, we really need to, like, learn how to play. So they did, and they would have battles and stuff. But the funny thing that they would like, because I didn't want to play, I just want to look at the pictures, because they're cute, they would do this funny thing because they saw this grandma on YouTube who would just make up her own names for Pokemon. So said, Oh, I'll do that. So they would hand me a card and I would just look at and they'd be like, Mom, what would you name that one? I'd be like, Oh, purple wrap mouth. Like, get to do that all the time. So hard shell Turtle guy. I don't know that sounds fun. I would actually enjoy that, yeah, so tell us about your love for Pokemon. Then

Unknown:

that's that's so hard, because I feel like for most of my childhood memory it stems from Pokemon, like, I love that about, like, happy thoughts about childhood, just like Pokemon, yeah, just, I don't know what happened, what took over my brain, but Pokey,

Dani Combs:

Pokey and yeah, which was in the late 90s, right? Yeah, honestly,

Unknown:

like it was a trance, like you guys know, Hocus Pocus, oh, yeah, come Yeah, that was me, yeah, I

Dani Combs:

put a spell on you, yeah, literally, the spell, except Pikachu. So ever,

Unknown:

ever since I can remember, I was collecting these cards, and what you're holding is genuinely, this is your collection. I've never so this was my first, and I love this. Oh, my God, this is literally little dinos entire world. And it's still something I cherish, like I had to take five things out of the house in an emergency. What would that be? Mine? That's one features that would be number one. Yeah, mine, of course. And the Pokemon, yeah. So then, in whatever order, works for you. Okay,

Dani Combs:

what I love too, about this is that it's compact, like, it's not like a bunch of little plastic toys everywhere. It's literally like all the memories, and you turn a page and it's new memories and whatever, but it's like, in a binder, organized, and it's nice organized. And I love like it. Love your old binder to its peak. It's got a little flower zipper, so cute, so cute. Why is there a G on it?

Unknown:

I don't know if it's a G or a six. I don't know. I remember, like, going, like, shopping for school supplies, yeah, and that must have been discounted. Oh, it was like, your name is now, you know, gap, Gina

Dani Combs:

Gianna. Yeah, gonna go by Gina this year, this year. Don't worry about it. I would totally do something. It might be for, like, guests or something. I thought it was a designer binder. Oh, hey, yeah. I

Patrick Phillips:

hope is it worth money? Oh,

Dani Combs:

look at Patrick's brain. Algorithms are going crazy. You can see it. Oh, my God, I love that you guys brought all this stuff. Thank you for sharing all this with us. Yeah, so exciting. Oh, yeah, there's, oh, wait, there's more. Katie,

Patrick Phillips:

there's other cards that are not the oh, wait,

Dani Combs:

wait, hold on. Before we leave, there's a special I don't know why, but it's separated from the Pokemon cards and a orange folder. So I'm excited. What lies and I see a Brandon Frazier. I see some. Is that the mummy? I was like, I see some Brandon Frazier back in his pay day. Oh, my God. Oh,

Unknown:

he's so cute, so special. Oh,

Dani Combs:

my God, the mummy, like, collectible cards, yeah, box. I love I love this. I love that you like hide it like, it's like Dina's secret shame,

Unknown:

if you get to the orange tabs

Patrick Phillips:

the mummy and everything that it stands for. Oh, good.

Dani Combs:

You know what I need to I love when we went and saw that, that the the mummy fractured. Yes, play, oh, God, I should have told you guys just one minute. So cool. But it was a musical. Yes, it was great. I kept thinking of the mummy. Yeah, but about Brendan, it was hilarious anyway. Really good. This was so, so fun. I love that. Y'all guys, I feel like maybe we'll have you guys, well, we'll definitely have you back. Oh yeah, maybe we can, like, see what listeners think too, and have like, a theme, have you bring in everything in a certain theme, or something that would be really fun, maybe close to the holidays, or something. Oh, that'd be so fun. Great idea. Like, different, I don't know, give I love it. And bingo card. Make us a bingo card, and go to the antique mall. I know you will, and he'll come up with something amazing. And y'all seriously, Google their videos, because these two, when they say they are not performers, they're liars. Because yours, they need to be doing that. And when to add that to your repertoire of things you do. And too kind, yeah, hilarious. They're hilarious and so funny and so good, awesome. All right. Well, thank you guys so much. Yay, spending this morning with us, and we will have pictures of them as well as the things they brought in. And as always. Yes, wherever you're listening, leave us a review, please. Five stars for Patrick and Dina. Of course, let other peoples and other peoples, yeah, other peoples let them know about us. That's how they're gonna find us. That's how we're gonna go. That's how we went from one listener who is here right now hundreds of listeners to potentially 1000 down the road. So thank you everybody. And if you want some more bonus content, we're gonna have an after show. Yeah, really, today's episode over on Patreon. Yeah, follow us there as well. So thanks everybody. And before we go, go check out, she's in it at America's antique mall here in Melbourne. So if you're local, take a swing by there. You may see me and Katie on a bingo hunt. So you might, oh, maybe we should post it. And then if people want to do it themselves, they can. We're doing that event. Look at this meet up. We are gonna actually do a meet up sometime in the fall. We're gonna have a whole event here with karaoke and trivia. I know you guys love karaoke. Yeah, Dina, Dina and I sing a solo of Spice Girls. You're

Unknown:

so patient with me.

Dani Combs:

What are you talking about? It was so much fun. We're gonna we may have to relive that. Okay, anyway, stay tuned for that event as well. All right, thanks everybody. Thanks everybody. Next time bye, bye, you.

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