1 00:00:01,835 --> 00:00:02,636 JERSEY JON: What! ROBBIE: Jersey. 2 00:00:02,736 --> 00:00:03,704 MIKE: It's amazing, it's incredible! 3 00:00:03,871 --> 00:00:06,073 JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah. I love that, it's so cool. 4 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,941 DONICK: There's no telling what we'll find in here. 5 00:00:08,108 --> 00:00:10,344 ROBBIE: Mom? Yeah, I'm in Detroit now, okay. 6 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:11,545 MIKE: Simpsons, man. 7 00:00:11,712 --> 00:00:13,280 DONICK: I was there Season 7 to 11. 8 00:00:13,380 --> 00:00:14,348 Here's what's gonna blow your mind. 9 00:00:14,514 --> 00:00:15,716 DONICK: These are pencil sketches. 10 00:00:15,816 --> 00:00:17,918 MIKE: So this is original art. Wow! 11 00:00:18,018 --> 00:00:19,586 DONICK: These are storyboards. 12 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:20,787 MIKE: These are epic! 13 00:00:20,954 --> 00:00:22,189 DONICK: What would you be interested in? 14 00:00:22,289 --> 00:00:23,724 MIKE: Oh, my gosh, I'm just blown away. 15 00:00:28,061 --> 00:00:30,697 (upbeat music) 16 00:00:36,270 --> 00:00:37,771 (phone ringing) 17 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:40,007 MIKE: Dani D, what am I doing in this neighborhood? 18 00:00:40,107 --> 00:00:43,277 There's no junkyards, no alleys to pick through. 19 00:00:43,377 --> 00:00:44,411 What you got, girl? 20 00:00:44,511 --> 00:00:45,646 DANIELLE: So I've been in contact 21 00:00:45,746 --> 00:00:47,981 with this dude by the name of Donick Cary. 22 00:00:48,148 --> 00:00:50,951 Donick has been in TV pretty much his entire life. 23 00:00:51,118 --> 00:00:53,554 He's a writer for TV, and I'm talking about some pretty big shows. 24 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,657 This dude wrote for New Girl, the Simpsons, 25 00:00:56,823 --> 00:00:58,392 for freakin' Letterman, man. 26 00:00:58,558 --> 00:00:59,526 MIKE: No kidding?! 27 00:00:59,626 --> 00:01:01,194 DANIELLE: This dude has insane 28 00:01:01,295 --> 00:01:02,596 entertainment memorabilia, 29 00:01:02,696 --> 00:01:05,299 punk and ska, like really good stuff. 30 00:01:05,465 --> 00:01:06,900 MIKE: Okay, so let me guess, 31 00:01:07,034 --> 00:01:09,269 I'm just going to throw something out there, 32 00:01:09,436 --> 00:01:11,805 you want me to pick up something for you. 33 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:14,241 DANIELLE: Yes indeed. 34 00:01:14,341 --> 00:01:16,877 In fact, he has a really cool piece 35 00:01:16,977 --> 00:01:20,314 of rock 'n roll memorabilia, and the even better news 36 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,716 is that it's already paid for. I just need you to pick it up. 37 00:01:22,883 --> 00:01:25,752 But, he also has a ton of other really cool stuff to look at. 38 00:01:25,852 --> 00:01:27,921 MIKE: So is this a lead for us or what's going on? 39 00:01:28,021 --> 00:01:30,023 DANIELLE: Okay, I'm going to say probable lead, 40 00:01:30,190 --> 00:01:32,960 it's kind of more of a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend situation, 41 00:01:33,060 --> 00:01:34,394 but you're also helping out a friend. 42 00:01:34,494 --> 00:01:35,862 MIKE: So it's a friend-of-a-friend, 43 00:01:36,029 --> 00:01:39,232 it's your cousin's hairdresser's kid, possible lead. 44 00:01:39,399 --> 00:01:42,402 DANIELLE: You're going to be blown away, this dude has amazing killer stuff. 45 00:01:42,502 --> 00:01:44,204 MIKE: Alright, send me the address. 46 00:01:44,304 --> 00:01:45,672 DANIELLE: Thank you, thank you, thank you. 47 00:01:45,839 --> 00:01:48,241 You are so good to me and I appreciate you so much. 48 00:01:48,342 --> 00:01:49,710 I love Mike Wolfe. 49 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:51,078 I'm so excited! Thank you. 50 00:01:51,178 --> 00:01:52,746 MIKE: Bye. DANIELLE: Love you, bye. 51 00:01:52,913 --> 00:01:54,514 MIKE: I love digging around LA. 52 00:01:54,614 --> 00:01:58,018 This has always been the epicenter for creativity. 53 00:01:58,185 --> 00:02:01,054 So much of the stuff out here is directly connected 54 00:02:01,221 --> 00:02:02,789 to the entertainment industry, 55 00:02:02,956 --> 00:02:04,925 whether it was what they were doing for a living, 56 00:02:05,025 --> 00:02:07,794 or what they were collecting to inspire them. 57 00:02:14,267 --> 00:02:15,369 MIKE: Hey, you Donick? 58 00:02:15,469 --> 00:02:16,603 DONICK: Hey. Yeah. MIKE: Hey, I'm Mike. 59 00:02:16,703 --> 00:02:18,372 DONICK: Mike, nice to meet you. MIKE: You talked to Dani? 60 00:02:18,472 --> 00:02:19,806 DONICK: Dani, right, right. MIKE: I'm gonna hit you 61 00:02:19,906 --> 00:02:21,541 with one of these, I mean, just because 62 00:02:21,708 --> 00:02:22,743 she said you had other stuff. 63 00:02:22,909 --> 00:02:24,311 DONICK: Absolutely. Love it, yeah. Punk rock posters, 64 00:02:24,478 --> 00:02:26,346 all sorts of stuff. MIKE: Yeah. So what's up, Simpsons, man? 65 00:02:26,513 --> 00:02:28,515 DONICK: Simpsons, great run of the Simpsons. Super fun. 66 00:02:28,682 --> 00:02:29,783 MIKE: No kidding, how many years? 67 00:02:29,950 --> 00:02:32,319 DONICK: I was there Season 7 to 11. So almost five years. 68 00:02:32,419 --> 00:02:33,353 MIKE: Get outta here. 69 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:34,855 DONICK: I'm a writer-producer-director 70 00:02:35,022 --> 00:02:36,823 working in Hollywood. 71 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:38,392 I've done a little bit of everything, you know, 72 00:02:38,492 --> 00:02:40,127 I got my start on the David Letterman Show, 73 00:02:40,227 --> 00:02:42,229 worked there for a long time; then I went to the Simpsons, 74 00:02:42,396 --> 00:02:44,865 worked on shows like Parks & Recreation, New Girl, 75 00:02:45,032 --> 00:02:48,068 Silicon Valley, Bored to Death. So a little bit of everything. 76 00:02:48,235 --> 00:02:50,570 DONICK: It's super fun. I love music of all kinds, 77 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:52,639 I love art and rock posters 78 00:02:52,806 --> 00:02:54,641 is where it all sort of collides. And so... 79 00:02:54,741 --> 00:02:57,244 I got a bit of a situation here. A lot of art prints. 80 00:02:57,344 --> 00:02:59,112 MIKE: So this looks like one of those gas station 81 00:02:59,279 --> 00:03:00,947 setups in Tijuana. 82 00:03:01,114 --> 00:03:03,183 DONICK: Yes exactly. Or some sort of weird 83 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:04,818 magic trick I'm about to do. 84 00:03:04,985 --> 00:03:07,020 Um, a lot of these were on the wall of my last office, 85 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:09,990 and we took those down. And I don't have room for all this stuff. So... 86 00:03:10,090 --> 00:03:12,192 MIKE: Yeah, I'd say. DONICK: A lot of art prints here. 87 00:03:12,292 --> 00:03:14,227 MIKE: You a Raiders fan, huh. Where's this from, what's this? 88 00:03:14,327 --> 00:03:16,496 DONICK: So this is the Banana Disco Teque. 89 00:03:16,663 --> 00:03:18,498 I found a guy in Koreatown. 90 00:03:18,665 --> 00:03:20,067 I was like, that's crazy, what is that? 91 00:03:20,233 --> 00:03:21,835 (Mike laughs) DONICK: He's like, if you want it, take it. 92 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:23,270 MIKE: Really. DONICK: Yeah, I think I want it. 93 00:03:23,437 --> 00:03:26,573 DONICK: I like finding weird things that you didn't know existed. 94 00:03:26,673 --> 00:03:29,276 Design and art are exciting. 95 00:03:29,376 --> 00:03:30,844 It's fun to have things that you love. 96 00:03:30,944 --> 00:03:32,546 So I collect all sorts of stuff. 97 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:34,147 MIKE: What did Dani buy from ya? 98 00:03:34,314 --> 00:03:35,782 DONICK: So she let me know she's a huge fan 99 00:03:35,949 --> 00:03:37,818 of the Flaming Lips band from Oklahoma. 100 00:03:37,984 --> 00:03:40,520 DONICK: Great albums, love the Flaming Lips. 101 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:43,623 I have a handwritten copy of the lyrics to 102 00:03:43,790 --> 00:03:46,359 "Do You Realize??" one of their amazing songs. 103 00:03:46,460 --> 00:03:48,095 Handwritten by Wayne Coyne, lead singer. 104 00:03:48,261 --> 00:03:49,830 MIKE: Wow. DONICK: I love it, 105 00:03:49,930 --> 00:03:51,631 but she was like, look I'll do you right. 106 00:03:51,798 --> 00:03:53,700 DONICK: Get you some money. MIKE: Okay. So she's already 107 00:03:53,867 --> 00:03:55,402 paid you and everything. DONICK: Yes. 108 00:03:55,502 --> 00:03:57,671 DONICK: The Flaming Lips are like this really interesting 109 00:03:57,838 --> 00:04:00,107 indy rock band. "Do You Realize??" 110 00:04:00,273 --> 00:04:03,877 is a timeless song about the meaning of it all. 111 00:04:03,977 --> 00:04:05,645 The lyrics are, "everyone you know, 112 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:08,248 someday, will die." But it's not a sad song, 113 00:04:08,348 --> 00:04:11,585 it's a joyous song about, once you realize that, 114 00:04:11,752 --> 00:04:14,988 what do you do with that? It's undeniably a great song. 115 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:17,057 DONICK: Wayne signed it, he wrote it all out. 116 00:04:17,224 --> 00:04:18,592 There you go. MIKE: Very cool. 117 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:19,993 MIKE: For as long as I've known Danielle, 118 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,695 she's always been a punk rock chick. 119 00:04:21,862 --> 00:04:23,430 I'm talking cranking Dead Kennedys, 120 00:04:23,530 --> 00:04:26,233 skateboarding downtown, roller derby, 121 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:29,436 all her wild beautiful dreams with her businesses. 122 00:04:29,536 --> 00:04:31,705 I could totally see how her and Donick connected. 123 00:04:31,872 --> 00:04:33,406 MIKE: Alright, so this is what I'm picking up. 124 00:04:33,507 --> 00:04:34,808 DONICK: You're picking that up. MIKE: Okay. 125 00:04:34,908 --> 00:04:36,076 DONICK: Yeah, anything else you're interested in too, 126 00:04:36,243 --> 00:04:38,478 like just, just shout. MIKE: Well, she was saying that... 127 00:04:38,645 --> 00:04:39,880 DONICK: There's all sorts of stuff. 128 00:04:39,980 --> 00:04:41,281 MIKE: Okay wow, look at that. 129 00:04:41,381 --> 00:04:42,916 DONICK: So this is this guy, Frank Kozik, 130 00:04:43,083 --> 00:04:45,619 who made a lot of poster art in the late '80s 131 00:04:45,786 --> 00:04:48,455 through the '90s, he made graphics in this style. 132 00:04:48,622 --> 00:04:50,457 DONICK: This is an original Frank Kozik painting. 133 00:04:50,624 --> 00:04:53,026 MIKE: No way. DONICK: A friend of mine ran a gallery 134 00:04:53,193 --> 00:04:54,461 and showed a bunch of his stuff. 135 00:04:54,628 --> 00:04:57,030 DONICK: And then donated a few of these for us to sell 136 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:58,832 for our charity. So that's here... 137 00:04:58,999 --> 00:05:00,367 MIKE: So what charity are you talking about? 138 00:05:00,467 --> 00:05:03,804 DONICK: So this is, it's called Musack. M-U-S-A-C-K-dot-org. 139 00:05:03,904 --> 00:05:06,640 DONICK: We support kids music programs. And it came out of, 140 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:09,075 I grew up in a small town. A lot of teen suicide there, 141 00:05:09,176 --> 00:05:11,144 a lot of desperation, a lot of kids not sure what to do. 142 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:13,847 And we found that the music program was under-funded, 143 00:05:13,947 --> 00:05:17,150 so we started this program that originally started funding 144 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:19,352 that program, but then spread quickly to go like, 145 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:20,820 oh, all these public schools-- 146 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:22,722 MIKE: So it's something that can be plugged in anywhere. 147 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:24,124 DONICK: It can be plugged in anywhere. 148 00:05:24,224 --> 00:05:25,792 MIKE: Okay. DONICK: Could be instruments, could be extra hours 149 00:05:25,892 --> 00:05:27,527 for teachers, could be whatever. 150 00:05:27,661 --> 00:05:29,396 DONICK: And then a lot of people, you know, 151 00:05:29,496 --> 00:05:31,498 have come and done shows for us. Rancid has placed here, 152 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:33,233 Childish Gambino's played here. MIKE: Really. 153 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:34,834 DONICK: Weird Al Yankovic has played here. 154 00:05:34,935 --> 00:05:36,369 MIKE: No kidding... DONICK: And then these artists 155 00:05:36,469 --> 00:05:38,004 also donate, like our friend 156 00:05:38,104 --> 00:05:39,573 who had this piece was like, 157 00:05:39,673 --> 00:05:42,475 if you want to sell Frank's pieces for charity, 158 00:05:42,576 --> 00:05:43,643 like, great. MIKE: Yeah. 159 00:05:43,743 --> 00:05:45,512 MIKE: Donick has obviously done well for himself. 160 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:48,281 And he's paying it forward with this charity. 161 00:05:48,381 --> 00:05:50,283 And in the end, that's what it's all about. 162 00:05:50,417 --> 00:05:52,285 I mean, we're all here to take care of each other. 163 00:05:52,385 --> 00:05:53,787 MIKE: Look at this. Pennsylvania. 164 00:05:53,954 --> 00:05:55,755 DONICK: Oh, that Dickie Bird, isn't that weird? 165 00:05:55,856 --> 00:05:57,390 MIKE: That's cool. Is this a period piece? 166 00:05:57,490 --> 00:06:00,460 DONICK: Yeah, that's vintage. Late '60s, I think. 167 00:06:00,627 --> 00:06:03,029 DONICK: I've always been fascinated by Richard Nixon 168 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:06,633 and how weird that moment in American history was. 169 00:06:06,733 --> 00:06:09,035 Dick Nixon was so corrupt and breaking in and doing this, 170 00:06:09,135 --> 00:06:10,670 but he's also like, a Quaker, 171 00:06:10,837 --> 00:06:13,773 and he's paranoid and he's got three TVs in his office 172 00:06:13,874 --> 00:06:16,643 so he can watch football games. Like, he's the weirdest character. 173 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:18,278 MIKE: I like it. DONICK: Oh, yeah. 174 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:20,480 MIKE: For as long as there's been politicians in America, 175 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:22,115 there's been political satire. 176 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:24,951 I love this poster because he's sitting on a motorcycle. 177 00:06:25,118 --> 00:06:27,387 And it's satire. It all ties in. 178 00:06:27,554 --> 00:06:28,989 MIKE: What are you thinking on that? 179 00:06:30,357 --> 00:06:32,359 DONICK: Oh, it's got to be around 100, 150, 180 00:06:32,459 --> 00:06:34,294 something like that? It's... MIKE: Yeah, it's framed, 181 00:06:34,461 --> 00:06:36,463 so that adds value to it. DONICK: Oh, yeah, I probably... 182 00:06:36,630 --> 00:06:40,233 I forgot about that, I probably spent 100 bucks on framing. 183 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,371 DONICK: I'm going to say 150 and it all goes to charity. 184 00:06:44,471 --> 00:06:45,672 MIKE: Alright, let's do it. DONICK: Alright. 185 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,141 You got yourself a Dick Nixon on a motorcycle. 186 00:06:48,308 --> 00:06:49,910 MIKE: And on his knuckles, "Love Dick." 187 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:52,345 (laughs) MIKE: Thank you, my friend. 188 00:06:52,512 --> 00:06:54,347 (upbeat music) 189 00:06:58,451 --> 00:07:00,553 DANIELLE: You guys be careful out there, have fun. 190 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,355 ROBBIE: Thank you, Dani D... JERSEY JON: Thank you. 191 00:07:02,455 --> 00:07:03,590 ROBBIE: Appreciate ya. DANIELLE: Bye. 192 00:07:03,690 --> 00:07:04,858 ROBBIE: Jersey and I are on our way 193 00:07:05,025 --> 00:07:06,359 to see a guy named Tony. 194 00:07:06,459 --> 00:07:09,195 He just inherited a massive collection from his Uncle Mac. 195 00:07:09,296 --> 00:07:10,897 And now he's trying to clear it out. 196 00:07:11,064 --> 00:07:13,433 It sounds like he's got a lot of good stuff. 197 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,770 JERSEY JON: Get a flyer. Ooh. Hey. 198 00:07:16,870 --> 00:07:17,871 TONY: Hey. ROBBIE: You Tony? 199 00:07:18,038 --> 00:07:19,506 TONY: Hey guys, yes sir. JERSEY JON: How are ya? 200 00:07:19,673 --> 00:07:20,674 ROBBIE: Talked to Danielle on the phone? 201 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,875 TONY: I did. JERSEY JON: I'm Jon. 202 00:07:22,042 --> 00:07:23,043 TONY: Jon, thank you for coming. 203 00:07:23,143 --> 00:07:24,411 JERSEY JON: This is stuff we're looking for. 204 00:07:24,511 --> 00:07:26,112 You talked to Dani, right? TONY: I did, yeah. 205 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:27,914 Okay, I think we got some of this stuff right inside. 206 00:07:28,081 --> 00:07:29,282 ROBBIE: Radios? TONY: Yeah. 207 00:07:29,382 --> 00:07:30,817 ROBBIE: Transmitters? JERSEY JON: Got any old motorcycles? 208 00:07:30,984 --> 00:07:32,919 TONY: Uh no, probably not, but we got radios. 209 00:07:33,019 --> 00:07:34,220 JERSEY JON: Radios? Okay cool. ROBBIE: Alright. 210 00:07:34,387 --> 00:07:35,588 TONY: You guys want to take a look-- 211 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:37,057 JERSEY JON: Wait, wait ,wait, I want... this chair. 212 00:07:37,223 --> 00:07:38,858 What's going on with this thing? You're taking this thing out? 213 00:07:39,025 --> 00:07:41,461 TONY: Yeah, I was just moving some of the stuff out so we have a pathway. 214 00:07:41,628 --> 00:07:43,163 JERSEY JON: You wanna sell this chair? TONY: Absolutely. 215 00:07:43,263 --> 00:07:45,799 JERSEY JON: Mid-century modern chair. This is cool. 216 00:07:45,899 --> 00:07:48,034 JERSEY JON: This is a really great mid-century chair. 217 00:07:48,201 --> 00:07:50,170 You know, mid-century furniture is really hot now. 218 00:07:50,270 --> 00:07:53,807 It's the perfect furniture for industrial interior design. 219 00:07:53,907 --> 00:07:55,241 It's a really nice piece. 220 00:07:55,342 --> 00:07:57,010 JERSEY JON: 50 bucks. TONY: Sold. 221 00:07:57,110 --> 00:07:58,244 JERSEY JON: Sold? Beautiful. TONY: Yeah. 222 00:07:58,345 --> 00:07:59,946 JERSEY JON: I'm on it, man. Thank you so much. 223 00:08:00,113 --> 00:08:00,947 Alrighty. 224 00:08:01,114 --> 00:08:02,515 ROBBIE: What's up with the tube stuff? 225 00:08:02,615 --> 00:08:05,018 TONY: My Uncle Mac worked on electronics equipment. 226 00:08:05,185 --> 00:08:06,586 JERSEY JON: What time period are we talking about? 227 00:08:06,753 --> 00:08:08,455 TONY: After he graduated high school, he went to work 228 00:08:08,621 --> 00:08:11,958 in Fort Bragg, and he worked on electronics for the army. 229 00:08:12,058 --> 00:08:13,593 ROBBIE: Wow. TONY: He was working on it 230 00:08:13,693 --> 00:08:16,396 in the mid-'50s up until 1988 231 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:18,164 when he retired as a civil servant. 232 00:08:18,264 --> 00:08:20,100 JERSEY JON: Oh, look at these, Robbie, tubes. 233 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:22,235 You got more of these? TONY: Yeah, there's plenty more of those, 234 00:08:22,335 --> 00:08:24,237 in the building or in the house there's more. 235 00:08:24,337 --> 00:08:25,605 It's all for sale, you know. ROBBIE: Yeah? 236 00:08:25,705 --> 00:08:26,906 JERSEY JON: Show us around, man. TONY: Absolutely. 237 00:08:27,073 --> 00:08:28,675 JERSEY JON: Let's see what you got going on here, 238 00:08:28,775 --> 00:08:31,077 because you got some cool stuff out here, you gotta have cool stuff in there. 239 00:08:31,177 --> 00:08:33,646 TONY: Come on in. JERSEY JON: So this was a repair shack or this was...? 240 00:08:33,747 --> 00:08:35,915 TONY: This was his shack where he did repairing, 241 00:08:36,016 --> 00:08:37,617 also has a recording studio. 242 00:08:37,784 --> 00:08:40,220 JERSEY JON: Wow, this is cool. Oh, yeah. 243 00:08:40,387 --> 00:08:42,188 ROBBIE: Man, you got some stuff in here. 244 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:43,523 TONY: Uncle Mac was a collector 245 00:08:43,623 --> 00:08:46,026 of just about anything old and unique. 246 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:47,327 He was a civil servant, 247 00:08:47,427 --> 00:08:50,764 so he had a nice long retirement till 87 when he passed. 248 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:53,833 So, he really had time to work on electronics. 249 00:08:53,967 --> 00:08:56,036 He was always tinkering for sure 250 00:08:56,136 --> 00:08:57,837 on a TV, a radio. 251 00:08:57,937 --> 00:09:00,640 If he had a spare moment, he wanted to be constructive. 252 00:09:00,740 --> 00:09:01,875 ROBBIE: This was called The Shack? 253 00:09:02,042 --> 00:09:03,143 TONY: Yeah. ROBBIE: Look at that. 254 00:09:03,309 --> 00:09:04,477 TONY: There you go, it lights up. 255 00:09:04,644 --> 00:09:05,512 JERSEY JON: Oh! 256 00:09:05,678 --> 00:09:06,813 JERSEY JON: This shack is amazing. 257 00:09:06,913 --> 00:09:07,947 It looks like the back room 258 00:09:08,114 --> 00:09:09,315 of a Radio Shack from the '50s 259 00:09:09,482 --> 00:09:11,284 when they were bringing stuff in there and repairing it. 260 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:13,319 I'm going wild right away, I mean, my eyes see 261 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:15,388 all kinds of electronic equipment. 262 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:16,756 ROBBIE: Oh, look at this, Jersey. 263 00:09:16,856 --> 00:09:18,858 JERSEY JON: Oh, that's cool. ROBBIE: Microphone. 264 00:09:19,025 --> 00:09:20,393 JERSEY JON: That got a stand, Robbie? 265 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:23,363 ROBBIE: These microphones, they're the early days of recording. 266 00:09:23,463 --> 00:09:25,064 JERSEY JON: Whoa, how many you got in there, Robbie? 267 00:09:25,231 --> 00:09:26,566 ROBBIE: There's a whole pile of them, dude. 268 00:09:26,666 --> 00:09:27,867 TONY: I didn't even know those were there. 269 00:09:27,967 --> 00:09:29,235 JERSEY JON: This is cool. Look at that, 270 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:30,703 that's like Buck Rogers, you know. 271 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:32,205 ROBBIE: Look at that one, wow. 272 00:09:32,305 --> 00:09:34,474 JERSEY JON: These microphones, they're amazing things. 273 00:09:34,641 --> 00:09:36,609 Some are from the '30s, some are from the '40s, 274 00:09:36,709 --> 00:09:37,710 some are from the '50s. 275 00:09:37,877 --> 00:09:39,446 The early ones are really fascinating, 276 00:09:39,546 --> 00:09:41,381 'cause they have that art deco case on them. 277 00:09:41,548 --> 00:09:43,149 JERSEY JON: I just love the design of these things. 278 00:09:43,316 --> 00:09:45,485 JERSEY JON: There's something about an art deco microphone 279 00:09:45,585 --> 00:09:47,320 that just evokes, you know, Elvis Presley 280 00:09:47,420 --> 00:09:49,622 sitting at Sun Studios, man, and cutting a record. 281 00:09:49,789 --> 00:09:51,825 Or Hank Williams, like, singing into this thing 282 00:09:51,991 --> 00:09:53,193 and pouring his heart out. 283 00:09:53,293 --> 00:09:55,395 You know, it all went through these microphones. 284 00:09:55,495 --> 00:09:57,197 JERSEY JON: So this is cool he must have been repairing 285 00:09:57,297 --> 00:09:58,965 these microphones. I mean... TONY: That's Uncle Mac. 286 00:09:59,065 --> 00:10:01,000 Whenever he bought one, if he was using them, 287 00:10:01,134 --> 00:10:02,902 he would buy three or four and have spares, right? 288 00:10:03,069 --> 00:10:04,804 JERSEY JON: I'd be interested in buying this as a lot, 289 00:10:04,904 --> 00:10:07,040 you know. The heads, they're exciting to me, 290 00:10:07,140 --> 00:10:09,676 I love them, they're a wonderful piece of art deco history. 291 00:10:09,776 --> 00:10:11,678 But the thing is, we have to buy these things as relics. 292 00:10:11,778 --> 00:10:14,214 It's a decorator item. It's sitting on a shelf because-- 293 00:10:14,314 --> 00:10:15,715 TONY: Sure. JERSEY JON: ...these are probably empty shells. 294 00:10:15,882 --> 00:10:17,317 I don't think there's any electronics in them anymore. 295 00:10:17,417 --> 00:10:18,952 And if they are, they're not working. 296 00:10:19,118 --> 00:10:21,821 For the lot of them, I'm thinking like 350. 297 00:10:21,988 --> 00:10:24,124 The winners are up top there, I love these things. 298 00:10:24,224 --> 00:10:25,959 I mean, I love those aluminum castings on them, 299 00:10:26,059 --> 00:10:27,260 it's got the art deco look. TONY: Right. 300 00:10:27,427 --> 00:10:28,361 JERSEY JON: But these three, 301 00:10:28,461 --> 00:10:30,663 I think are worth more than these three. 302 00:10:30,830 --> 00:10:33,166 TONY: 475? JERSEY JON: Um... 303 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:35,301 how about 400? 304 00:10:35,468 --> 00:10:36,703 TONY: Okay. JERSEY JON: You'll do 400? 305 00:10:36,870 --> 00:10:38,705 TONY: Yep. JERSEY JON: That's appreciated. I love it. 306 00:10:38,872 --> 00:10:40,673 ROBBIE: I'm gonna get in the rest of these cabinets here. 307 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:41,875 JERSEY JON: I'm liking your Uncle, man. 308 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:43,142 This guy has got it going on. 309 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:45,712 TONY: Oh, yeah, he was one-of-a-kind, that's for sure. 310 00:10:51,518 --> 00:10:53,019 MIKE: So this was all in your office. 311 00:10:53,186 --> 00:10:55,355 DONICK: Oh, yeah. One of my favorite bands ever. 312 00:10:55,455 --> 00:10:56,856 When I was 16, I heard the Specials. 313 00:10:57,023 --> 00:10:58,191 MIKE: Oh, man, I know, me too. 314 00:10:58,291 --> 00:10:59,592 DONICK: I got to know Horace Panter, 315 00:10:59,759 --> 00:11:00,660 the bass player for the Specials. 316 00:11:00,827 --> 00:11:01,995 He makes these prints. 317 00:11:02,162 --> 00:11:04,030 He made a limited edition of their cassette. 318 00:11:04,130 --> 00:11:06,799 MIKE: Oh, wow... DONICK: Music for me is super important. 319 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:08,668 Bands like the Specials and the Clash, 320 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:11,471 and the Foo Fighters saved my life over and over. 321 00:11:11,638 --> 00:11:13,640 And their songs, they're there for you like, 322 00:11:13,806 --> 00:11:14,707 we'll get through this. 323 00:11:14,874 --> 00:11:16,643 So, it's always meant a lot to me. 324 00:11:16,743 --> 00:11:18,144 DONICK: This is another one of his, 325 00:11:18,311 --> 00:11:20,613 this is a piece he did with Nan Coffey. 326 00:11:20,713 --> 00:11:22,081 She does this sort of like... MIKE: Oh, wow... 327 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:24,384 Oh, the Clash... DONICK: ...graffiti stuff around the edges. 328 00:11:24,551 --> 00:11:26,753 MIKE: Dang. Love the Clash. 329 00:11:26,853 --> 00:11:28,354 DONICK: It's hard in this world, right? 330 00:11:28,454 --> 00:11:29,589 Like how do we all connect? 331 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:30,657 MIKE: Oh, that's a Ramones. 332 00:11:30,823 --> 00:11:32,825 DONICK: I think there's something about finding 333 00:11:32,992 --> 00:11:34,627 shared things that we enjoy. 334 00:11:34,794 --> 00:11:35,962 That's a cool thing. 335 00:11:36,062 --> 00:11:38,765 And the more obscure they are, the more special it is, 336 00:11:38,865 --> 00:11:40,767 that you're like, "Oh, my God, you know that band too!" 337 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:43,369 You know, it's great. MIKE: Remember King Biscuit Flower Hour? 338 00:11:43,469 --> 00:11:44,904 DONICK: Yeah. MIKE: Listening to that late at night. 339 00:11:45,071 --> 00:11:46,239 One of the bands I heard on there 340 00:11:46,406 --> 00:11:48,041 that was epic for me back then 341 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:50,109 was, the Tubes, the Tubes live. DONICK: Tubes, right, yeah. 342 00:11:50,276 --> 00:11:52,011 MIKE: You would sit there and just wait for it 343 00:11:52,111 --> 00:11:53,613 to come on and hit record, you know. 344 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:54,881 DONICK: Yeah, right, right, right. 345 00:11:54,981 --> 00:11:56,716 DONICK: You're like, how else would you find these bands? 346 00:11:56,816 --> 00:11:58,184 MIKE: Oh, never. DONICK: The Specials were like that, 347 00:11:58,351 --> 00:12:00,220 Madness was like that... MIKE: Yeah, yeah. Gang of Four. 348 00:12:00,386 --> 00:12:02,021 DONICK: Gang of Four, yeah, yeah, yeah. 349 00:12:02,188 --> 00:12:03,122 MIKE: It's insane. 350 00:12:03,222 --> 00:12:05,024 MIKE: This is all taking me back to 1979 351 00:12:05,191 --> 00:12:06,526 when I was a freshman in high school, 352 00:12:06,626 --> 00:12:08,928 riding in my friend's jacked up Nova, 353 00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:12,799 cranking the crap out of the Clash and Devo. 354 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:14,834 I can remember there was a small radio station, 355 00:12:14,934 --> 00:12:17,637 and late at night, the DJ would play music 356 00:12:17,804 --> 00:12:20,640 we have never heard before. And it resonated with you, 357 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:22,875 and then it was gone. And then you went on a quest 358 00:12:22,976 --> 00:12:25,478 to find that album, searching out these bands. 359 00:12:25,645 --> 00:12:27,413 And that was the journey with this music, 360 00:12:27,513 --> 00:12:29,349 I mean, that's what was special then. 361 00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:31,150 Now I can find music on the internet, 362 00:12:31,317 --> 00:12:33,987 but back then, it was so epic. 363 00:12:34,153 --> 00:12:35,989 DONICK: We got a music room in here, and... 364 00:12:36,089 --> 00:12:37,790 let me show you some guitars. MIKE: Okay. 365 00:12:37,957 --> 00:12:39,325 DONICK: Yeah. Um... MIKE: Oh, yeah, 366 00:12:39,425 --> 00:12:40,526 it's got a good vibe to it. 367 00:12:40,627 --> 00:12:42,161 DONICK: We got lots of stuff in here, 368 00:12:42,262 --> 00:12:43,596 a lot of signed guitars. 369 00:12:43,696 --> 00:12:45,431 MIKE: Wow... gosh... 370 00:12:45,531 --> 00:12:46,766 MIKE: There's walls full of art, 371 00:12:46,866 --> 00:12:49,802 the ceiling is full of art, there's guitars everywhere. 372 00:12:49,902 --> 00:12:52,071 DONICK: Ceiling is this guy Steve Keen, he painted these. 373 00:12:52,238 --> 00:12:53,439 He did some album covers, 374 00:12:53,539 --> 00:12:55,041 and I would buy these panels from him. 375 00:12:55,141 --> 00:12:57,543 DONICK: I'm like, oh, that's cool, a Pavement album, a Modern Lovers album. 376 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,278 MIKE: And all of a sudden, you had this many. 377 00:12:59,445 --> 00:13:00,546 DONICK: Yeah. MIKE: Very cool, man. 378 00:13:00,713 --> 00:13:03,149 MIKE: This room is obviously inspirational to him. 379 00:13:03,316 --> 00:13:05,818 I mean, Donick is a music guy just like I'm a motorcycle guy. 380 00:13:05,985 --> 00:13:08,187 When you walk into my house, I've got you know, 381 00:13:08,354 --> 00:13:10,390 12 motorcycles are in the foyer, 382 00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:12,158 they're in the dining room, they're everywhere, 383 00:13:12,258 --> 00:13:14,394 because that's what feeds my soul. 384 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,162 MIKE: Love that Clash album. DONICK: Isn't that great? 385 00:13:16,262 --> 00:13:17,430 MIKE: Yeah, man. DONICK: Yeah. 386 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:19,465 MIKE: Sandinista! That was one of my favorite albums. 387 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:23,302 I mean, the Clash really flexed that creative muscle there. 388 00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:24,971 They were more than just a punk band. 389 00:13:25,071 --> 00:13:26,773 Mick Jones, Joe Strummer. 390 00:13:26,873 --> 00:13:28,875 This was their opus, man, this was it. 391 00:13:29,042 --> 00:13:31,210 DONICK: So yes, some great signed guitars on the walls. 392 00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:32,679 DONICK: This is like one of my favorite things. 393 00:13:32,845 --> 00:13:34,747 MIKE: No way, Mick Jones? DONICK: Mick Jones from the Clash there. 394 00:13:34,914 --> 00:13:36,582 MIKE: Ah! DONICK: Elvis Costello here. 395 00:13:36,749 --> 00:13:39,485 MIKE: Oh, wow... DONICK: This is one of my prized pieces, 396 00:13:39,585 --> 00:13:41,120 I did a cartoon called Lil' Bush, 397 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:42,622 where we shrank George Bush down. 398 00:13:42,789 --> 00:13:45,224 DONICK: And... Iggy Pop played the voice of Little Rumsfeld, 399 00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:46,926 so Iggy would either fly out here, 400 00:13:47,026 --> 00:13:49,095 I'd go down to Miami and record with him. 401 00:13:49,262 --> 00:13:51,164 And he graciously signed a guitar for me. 402 00:13:51,264 --> 00:13:53,099 MIKE: "Throw them to the lions..." Oh, my gosh, man. 403 00:13:53,266 --> 00:13:54,434 DONICK: Let me pull this out for you. 404 00:13:54,534 --> 00:13:55,535 MIKE: Yeah, what do you got here? 405 00:13:55,635 --> 00:13:57,203 DONICK: This is-- MIKE: This must be the best one, 406 00:13:57,303 --> 00:14:00,239 you got it in a glass case. DONICK: This is a John Lee Hooker guitar, signed. 407 00:14:00,406 --> 00:14:01,874 MIKE: No kidding. DONICK: He signed this, 408 00:14:02,041 --> 00:14:03,609 he passed away probably 15 years ago, 409 00:14:03,710 --> 00:14:05,712 I'm not even sure. But, I luckily 410 00:14:05,878 --> 00:14:07,613 stumbled upon this at one point. 411 00:14:07,714 --> 00:14:09,549 DONICK: John Lee Hooker was a blues legend, 412 00:14:09,716 --> 00:14:11,984 songs like "Boom Boom". They're part of the DNA 413 00:14:12,151 --> 00:14:14,420 of every rock song that came after it. 414 00:14:14,587 --> 00:14:17,190 This is a replica of the guitar he played by Epiphone. 415 00:14:17,356 --> 00:14:19,726 So the guitar's not super valuable itself, 416 00:14:19,826 --> 00:14:21,961 but the fact that he signed it is great. 417 00:14:22,061 --> 00:14:23,830 MIKE: Would you sell that? 418 00:14:23,930 --> 00:14:25,998 DONICK: That's one... I could let go for sure. 419 00:14:26,099 --> 00:14:27,433 MIKE: No kidding. 420 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:28,835 MIKE: You don't need to know the complete history 421 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:31,204 of Blues to know names like B.B. King, 422 00:14:31,304 --> 00:14:33,906 Robert Johnson, and John Lee Hooker. 423 00:14:34,073 --> 00:14:35,908 This really isn't about the quality of the guitar, 424 00:14:36,075 --> 00:14:39,078 it's more about the signature and the way it's presented. 425 00:14:50,757 --> 00:14:52,125 MIKE: So what are you thinking on that? 426 00:14:52,225 --> 00:14:55,061 DONICK: I assume something like this is around 1,500 bucks. 427 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:56,496 DONICK: You know, like at auction 428 00:14:56,662 --> 00:14:58,197 and you find the right fan for it. 429 00:14:58,297 --> 00:15:00,633 MIKE: Mm-hmm. DONICK: Would you do like, 430 00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:03,669 $1,000- 1,200 or something on something like this or... 431 00:15:03,836 --> 00:15:05,571 I mean, I'd love for it to have a good home. 432 00:15:05,671 --> 00:15:07,240 MIKE: We have a store in Nashville. This would obviously 433 00:15:07,340 --> 00:15:09,342 be something easy to sell there. 434 00:15:09,509 --> 00:15:11,010 We're also close enough to Memphis. 435 00:15:11,110 --> 00:15:12,278 DONICK: Yeah. MIKE: Where a lot of people 436 00:15:12,378 --> 00:15:14,147 are traveling the Americana Music Triangle, you know... 437 00:15:14,313 --> 00:15:15,982 MIKE: So they'll hit all of that. So... 438 00:15:16,149 --> 00:15:17,483 I'll tell you what, I mean, if it's going 439 00:15:17,617 --> 00:15:20,420 towards a charity, if you do... 1,200 on it, I'd do it. 440 00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:22,955 DONICK: Great. I'll do it. MIKE: Alright, thank you. 441 00:15:23,055 --> 00:15:24,657 DONICK: Alright. Find a good home, John Lee. 442 00:15:24,824 --> 00:15:26,058 MIKE: So, so cool. 443 00:15:26,225 --> 00:15:27,393 DONICK: As much as I love that, 444 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,196 I've enjoyed it, and I have 25 other guitars now 445 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:32,165 that I've accumulated. So he'll find a good home 446 00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:34,400 for it, all good. I got plenty to share. 447 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:36,836 MIKE: Would it be weird if I asked if you had 448 00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:39,572 anything at all that's Simpsons-related? 449 00:15:39,672 --> 00:15:40,907 You know what I mean, like anything-- 450 00:15:41,073 --> 00:15:42,241 DONICK: It's not weird. You know-- 451 00:15:42,408 --> 00:15:44,143 MIKE: Even the toys, the toys that were limited edition, 452 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:45,478 you know, back then. 453 00:15:45,645 --> 00:15:47,079 MIKE: We're getting to know each other a little bit, 454 00:15:47,246 --> 00:15:49,882 we've got a rapport. I've been wanting to ask, 455 00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:51,551 can I see some Simpsons stuff? 456 00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:53,352 DONICK: I do in the basement, there's a couple of boxes 457 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:55,755 of like old scripts and storyboards and stuff that, 458 00:15:55,855 --> 00:15:57,190 I, like, I honestly haven't looked at. 459 00:15:57,356 --> 00:15:58,825 MIKE: Can I see any of that stuff? 460 00:15:58,991 --> 00:16:00,059 DONICK: Yeah, we could dig some out. 461 00:16:00,226 --> 00:16:02,128 DONICK: Why not? See if I can find you a box. 462 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,801 TONY: I'll take you over to the pool house, 463 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,203 and we'll go check out some more stuff. 464 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:12,004 JERSEY JON: The pool house? TONY: Yeah, used to have 465 00:16:12,104 --> 00:16:14,674 an above-ground pool over here with a picnic area. 466 00:16:14,841 --> 00:16:17,743 ROBBIE: Really. TONY: And he also had a basketball court here. 467 00:16:17,910 --> 00:16:19,412 He had it for the community, these. 468 00:16:19,512 --> 00:16:21,080 JON: How cool. ROBBIE: So kids would just come 469 00:16:21,180 --> 00:16:23,149 by here and play basketball? TONY: Yeah, they could flip the lights on, 470 00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:24,817 pay a quarter per hour and... 471 00:16:24,984 --> 00:16:26,819 JERSEY JON: He would charge a quarter per hour? 472 00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:28,087 ROBBIE: And people actually paid? 473 00:16:28,187 --> 00:16:29,388 TONY: Hey, that was pretty reasonable. 474 00:16:29,555 --> 00:16:30,790 JERSEY JON: What, they flicked the lights off 475 00:16:30,957 --> 00:16:32,425 when your quarter's up? TONY: Actually, you got 476 00:16:32,592 --> 00:16:34,627 a warning light, flick, flick. 477 00:16:34,794 --> 00:16:36,062 ROBBIE: Oh, you got 10 minutes left. 478 00:16:36,229 --> 00:16:37,830 TONY: You have 10 minutes left, the lights are going out. 479 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:39,565 JERSEY JON: I love that, it's so cool. 480 00:16:39,665 --> 00:16:41,267 JERSEY JON: There's no vending machine for light. 481 00:16:41,434 --> 00:16:43,035 And Uncle Mac figured it out. 482 00:16:43,135 --> 00:16:44,570 TONY: To the right is the old house that 483 00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:46,706 used to sit out by the highway. 484 00:16:46,873 --> 00:16:48,674 Uncle Mac had it moved 485 00:16:48,841 --> 00:16:51,143 just to avoid paying city taxes when he got annexed. 486 00:16:51,310 --> 00:16:52,411 JERSEY JON: What? TONY: Yeah. 487 00:16:52,512 --> 00:16:54,347 JERSEY JON: So he moved it 100 feet to avoid the taxes? 488 00:16:54,514 --> 00:16:56,182 TONY: Yes. (group laughing) 489 00:16:56,349 --> 00:16:58,584 JERSEY JON: Like how much taxes did he save? 490 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:01,153 TONY: The big issue though is... when he set it back down, 491 00:17:01,254 --> 00:17:03,456 the termites got in it and it's really... fallen... 492 00:17:03,623 --> 00:17:05,224 JERSEY JON: So that's what happened, it started dilapidating. 493 00:17:05,391 --> 00:17:07,193 TONY: Yeah. TONY: So it's kind of falling down. 494 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:08,928 ROBBIE: Yeah. TONY: So we can come inside 495 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:12,031 and take a peek. There's some other things to look at in here. 496 00:17:12,131 --> 00:17:14,033 JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah. ROBBIE: Look at that. 497 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,502 ROBBIE: There's a room full of Victrolas. 498 00:17:16,669 --> 00:17:18,504 TONY: Some of this was moved from the house, 499 00:17:18,671 --> 00:17:20,873 because the house was getting in such bad shape. 500 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:22,074 JERSEY JON: Wow. 501 00:17:22,241 --> 00:17:23,442 JERSEY JON: These are all wind-up phonographs, 502 00:17:23,542 --> 00:17:24,911 spring-wound like a clock. 503 00:17:25,077 --> 00:17:27,647 Way before electricity was used in a phonograph, 504 00:17:27,747 --> 00:17:29,482 you would wind them up and listen to an album, 505 00:17:29,582 --> 00:17:30,917 a 78 on it. 506 00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:45,431 TONY: I don't what his interest in these were. 507 00:17:45,598 --> 00:17:48,401 He didn't leave any specific information about them. 508 00:17:48,568 --> 00:17:50,636 JERSEY JON: These things are inside horn Victrolas. 509 00:17:50,803 --> 00:17:53,439 That's a horn for an outside horn Victrola. 510 00:17:53,606 --> 00:17:55,708 There's not one of those here that I can see. 511 00:17:55,875 --> 00:17:56,943 ROBBIE: I don't see one here. 512 00:17:57,109 --> 00:17:58,477 JERSEY JON: These are later Victors. This is from... 513 00:17:58,578 --> 00:18:01,247 That would be from 1909, 1910, '11. 514 00:18:01,347 --> 00:18:03,115 And then you get into these things. This is like later, 515 00:18:03,215 --> 00:18:04,717 this is in the '20s. 516 00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:06,319 And the reason why you could tell, is like, 517 00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:08,955 this is where the speaker is. And that's not outside horn, 518 00:18:09,055 --> 00:18:11,624 it's inside horn. These are more valuable 519 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:13,125 than what these are. 520 00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:15,161 I mean, if you had an outside horn one, you're looking at, 521 00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:16,762 you know, a grand, maybe 1,500. 522 00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:18,431 The inside horn ones, it's just like, 523 00:18:18,598 --> 00:18:20,600 maybe 150 to $200 thing. ROBBIE: Yeah. 524 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:22,034 JERSEY JON: I mean, these are really cool. 525 00:18:22,201 --> 00:18:24,637 I wouldn't really be interested in any of the inside horn Victrolas. 526 00:18:24,737 --> 00:18:26,439 But I could hook you up with guys you can contact 527 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,674 to do something with. They're beautiful cabinets. 528 00:18:28,841 --> 00:18:30,142 ROBBIE: Oh, yeah. JERSEY JON: I'm a furniture guy 529 00:18:30,309 --> 00:18:32,945 and I love all the veneers, I mean, this is gorgeous stuff. 530 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:35,748 And you know, I'm hopeful this all is going to come back. 531 00:18:35,915 --> 00:18:36,949 TONY: Okay. 532 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:38,284 TONY: It's been a little overwhelming 533 00:18:38,384 --> 00:18:40,353 to deal with Uncle Mac's stuff. 534 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:42,355 It's something you don't want to have to do, 535 00:18:42,521 --> 00:18:44,056 so I was pleasantly surprised 536 00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:47,193 with Jersey's points about the phonographs. 537 00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:48,561 We'll do something with them. 538 00:18:48,661 --> 00:18:50,363 ROBBIE: I got to ask... JERSEY JON: Whoa... 539 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:52,398 TONY: There might be coins in that. 540 00:18:52,498 --> 00:18:53,766 ROBBIE: This is a payphone. 541 00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:55,835 I grew up in a time where I used a payphone. 542 00:18:56,002 --> 00:18:58,304 We didn't have cellphones. That's how I called my mom, 543 00:18:58,471 --> 00:18:59,705 to tell her where I was. 544 00:18:59,872 --> 00:19:01,774 ROBBIE: Mom, yeah, I'm in Detroit now, okay. 545 00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:03,342 I remember trying to call her. 546 00:19:03,509 --> 00:19:05,878 ROBBIE: Payphone in general have gone to the wayside. 547 00:19:06,045 --> 00:19:07,813 But they are so cool. 548 00:19:07,913 --> 00:19:10,383 And there's guys out there that will want these. 549 00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:12,385 JERSEY JON: Pretty cool, Robbie. ROBBIE: Is this something you wanna sell? 550 00:19:12,551 --> 00:19:14,353 TONY: Yeah. ROBBIE: 125 bucks. 551 00:19:15,354 --> 00:19:17,123 TONY: I'll take 175. 552 00:19:17,690 --> 00:19:18,991 ROBBIE: 160 bucks. 553 00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:22,228 TONY: Deal. ROBBIE: That works. 554 00:19:22,395 --> 00:19:24,397 ROBBIE: Shake his hand, Jersey. JERSEY JON: Thank you. 555 00:19:24,497 --> 00:19:26,032 ROBBIE: I'll tell you what they're gonna do with this, 556 00:19:26,132 --> 00:19:27,900 they rewire them so they actually can work again. 557 00:19:28,034 --> 00:19:29,835 TONY: Oh, yeah? JERSEY JON: You can put them on a landline. 558 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:31,637 TONY: What about this? It's kind of... 559 00:19:31,804 --> 00:19:33,272 ROBBIE: Oh, that's cool. JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah, that's cool. 560 00:19:33,439 --> 00:19:34,640 TONY: Yeah? He loved radios. 561 00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:36,075 JERSEY JON: Yeah, let me see that thing. Yeah. 562 00:19:36,242 --> 00:19:37,643 JERSEY JON: That's got the look. ROBBIE: Actually, 563 00:19:37,743 --> 00:19:39,311 you got a great look to it, Jersey. 564 00:19:39,478 --> 00:19:41,814 JERSEY JON: Radios like this have a really great visual impact. 565 00:19:41,914 --> 00:19:43,282 I love this kind of stuff. 566 00:19:43,382 --> 00:19:45,351 I mean, your basic mid-century radio. 567 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:46,552 And what's cool about these things 568 00:19:46,719 --> 00:19:48,521 is that you can take the tube set out of it 569 00:19:48,621 --> 00:19:50,956 very carefully, and you can put a Bluetooth speaker in it 570 00:19:51,057 --> 00:19:52,825 and you have a really cool radio on your table 571 00:19:52,992 --> 00:19:54,427 with sound coming out of it. 572 00:19:54,593 --> 00:19:56,962 TONY: Here's another... modern color looking anyway. 573 00:19:57,063 --> 00:19:58,364 ROBBIE: Oh, yeah. JERSEY JON: Wow. 574 00:19:58,464 --> 00:19:59,565 That's something like I Love Lucy. 575 00:19:59,665 --> 00:20:01,634 (laughs) ROBBIE: I Love Lucy. 576 00:20:01,801 --> 00:20:02,968 TONY: Motorola. ROBBIE: Oh, yeah. 577 00:20:03,069 --> 00:20:05,638 Even the back's still on it. These are always broken. 578 00:20:05,805 --> 00:20:07,573 JERSEY JON: 75 bucks for both of them. 579 00:20:07,673 --> 00:20:09,241 TONY: Ooh... JERSEY JON: Yeah. 580 00:20:09,408 --> 00:20:11,343 This is a plastic case radio. 581 00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:14,080 They're not super valuable, but they do have the look. 582 00:20:14,246 --> 00:20:15,347 And this has got that mid-century look, 583 00:20:15,514 --> 00:20:16,716 this has got the mid-century look as well. 584 00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,217 TONY: Uh... okay. I'll take it. 585 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:19,718 JERSEY JON: You'll take it? Thanks, buddy. 586 00:20:19,819 --> 00:20:21,754 TONY: Yeah. ROBBIE: Alright. See, I'm plugging this thing in. 587 00:20:21,921 --> 00:20:23,622 JERSEY JON: Yeah no, don't plug them in, dude. 588 00:20:23,789 --> 00:20:26,058 They're not going to work. The color is really cool on that, I mean... 589 00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:27,259 JERSEY JON: Robin's egg blue is... 590 00:20:27,426 --> 00:20:28,728 ROBBIE: Yeah. JERSEY JON: ...it's neat. Thank you. 591 00:20:37,470 --> 00:20:40,239 DONICK: This is the library. MIKE: Oh, man... 592 00:20:40,406 --> 00:20:41,640 DONICK: There's lots of fun stuff-- 593 00:20:41,740 --> 00:20:42,975 MIKE: You got a Lambretta in your library! 594 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:44,243 DONICK: And enjoy the Lambretta. 595 00:20:44,343 --> 00:20:46,045 MIKE: TV-175, nice. 596 00:20:46,145 --> 00:20:48,280 MIKE: I love the fact that Donick has his scooter 597 00:20:48,447 --> 00:20:51,350 in the house. It shows that he's looking at it 598 00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:53,686 as a piece of art. That's the way I look at it too. 599 00:20:53,786 --> 00:20:54,920 DONICK: '63, I think. 600 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:55,955 MIKE: Did you have this restored? 601 00:20:56,122 --> 00:20:57,523 DONICK: No. You know, this is one of those 602 00:20:57,623 --> 00:20:59,191 Vietnamese like... project. 603 00:20:59,358 --> 00:21:00,760 MIKE: Oh, you bought this overseas? DONICK: Oh, yeah. 604 00:21:00,860 --> 00:21:02,194 MIKE: So did you commission this? 605 00:21:02,294 --> 00:21:04,096 DONICK: No, that was on there. MIKE: No kidding, they did that. 606 00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:05,798 DONICK: I was like, that's coming back to LA. 607 00:21:05,898 --> 00:21:07,967 It used to be a daily rider, I'd ride it all the time. 608 00:21:08,067 --> 00:21:09,935 MIKE: Oh, my-- Really. DONICK: Done with mirrors like Quadrophenia-style. 609 00:21:10,035 --> 00:21:12,304 MIKE: Yeah, yeah, that's what I was gonna ask, you if you were into that. 610 00:21:12,471 --> 00:21:13,806 Dude, that was my album. That was my jam. 611 00:21:13,906 --> 00:21:15,708 MIKE: Quadrophenia. So this is a great scooter, 612 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:17,910 the 175, man. That thing will haul ass. 613 00:21:18,077 --> 00:21:19,278 DONICK: Well, don't even try to buy that. 614 00:21:19,378 --> 00:21:21,080 MIKE: Dude, it's so cool! DONICK: It found a place 615 00:21:21,180 --> 00:21:22,715 to park in our house and for now, it's here. 616 00:21:22,882 --> 00:21:24,383 MIKE: Oh, my God, no, it's perfect, it's brilliant. 617 00:21:24,550 --> 00:21:25,951 DONICK: One day, I'll ride it again. 618 00:21:26,051 --> 00:21:28,120 I got some Simpsons stuff. This is the box, 619 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:30,022 got a couple of them, let's see what this is. 620 00:21:30,189 --> 00:21:31,524 MIKE: Okay, it looks like it, yeah. 621 00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:33,259 DONICK: I was there Season 7 through 11. 622 00:21:33,425 --> 00:21:35,261 MIKE: Wow. DONICK: So, this is a long time ago. 623 00:21:35,427 --> 00:21:37,596 So this is what, for whatever reason, I ended up with 624 00:21:37,696 --> 00:21:39,231 having leftover from the Simpsons. 625 00:21:39,331 --> 00:21:40,766 MIKE: Everybody knows the Simpsons. 626 00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:44,103 It is one of the longest running cartoons of all time. 627 00:21:44,270 --> 00:21:47,039 Bart Simpson is definitely up there with Mickey Mouse. 628 00:21:47,206 --> 00:21:49,441 I'm talking cartoon royalty. 629 00:21:59,618 --> 00:22:03,923 MIKE: "Production script number 5F03, Bart's Star." 630 00:22:04,023 --> 00:22:06,725 DONICK: Yeah, so Bart's Star, that's an episode I wrote. 631 00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:08,561 Joe Namath made an appearance in that one. 632 00:22:08,661 --> 00:22:10,529 This is based on, actually, in high school, 633 00:22:10,663 --> 00:22:12,631 I was on the football team, loved playing football. 634 00:22:12,731 --> 00:22:14,466 Our coach made his son the quarterback. 635 00:22:14,633 --> 00:22:15,568 And we're all kind of like... 636 00:22:15,668 --> 00:22:17,570 you're making Scott the quarterback? 637 00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:18,504 DONICK: Scott would agree. 638 00:22:18,671 --> 00:22:19,705 And I thought, what a great idea 639 00:22:19,872 --> 00:22:21,040 for Homer, making Bart... 640 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:22,308 DONICK: He's like, Bart's the quarterback, 641 00:22:22,474 --> 00:22:23,509 even though Nelson's really good. 642 00:22:23,676 --> 00:22:25,611 DONICK: And so we did an episode about that. 643 00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:28,047 MIKE: It's so cool to see that Donick was plugging things 644 00:22:28,147 --> 00:22:31,951 from his life into the show. That's what creative people do. 645 00:22:32,117 --> 00:22:33,419 DONICK: There's one other thing, I didn't really 646 00:22:33,586 --> 00:22:34,620 plow through this, but this is like, 647 00:22:34,787 --> 00:22:36,088 one more box of a few of these things. 648 00:22:36,188 --> 00:22:37,957 DONICK: But these are storyboards. 649 00:22:38,057 --> 00:22:40,125 MIKE: Wow! These are epic! 650 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:46,031 ROBBIE: So, I got to ask, I see a door. 651 00:22:46,131 --> 00:22:47,600 TONY: Oh, yeah, that's the other room, 652 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:49,268 so let's take a peek and see what's in there. 653 00:22:49,435 --> 00:22:50,903 JERSEY JON: Ah cool. ROBBIE: Wow. 654 00:22:51,070 --> 00:22:53,272 Some record-- Holy cow, did he have records. 655 00:22:53,439 --> 00:22:55,274 This must have been his record room. 656 00:22:55,441 --> 00:22:57,309 JERSEY JON: A lot of records. TONY: Yeah, he was a lover 657 00:22:57,476 --> 00:22:59,211 of music, and he would just sit and listen to that. 658 00:22:59,311 --> 00:23:00,880 JERSEY JON: Wow, that's so cool. Look at this, Robbie. 659 00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:04,183 Turntable. Dude, it's a Marantz! That's good. 660 00:23:04,350 --> 00:23:06,352 JERSEY JON: This is like the holy grail of turntables. 661 00:23:06,518 --> 00:23:08,754 It's a Marantz direct drive turntable. 662 00:23:08,854 --> 00:23:10,522 JERSEY JON: There's no belts in this thing, the motor goes 663 00:23:10,623 --> 00:23:12,424 right into the turntable and powers it. 664 00:23:12,591 --> 00:23:13,826 That's a very cool piece. 665 00:23:13,993 --> 00:23:16,228 Some guys will spend the moon for turntables. 666 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:17,763 JERSEY JON: There's nothing better than listening 667 00:23:17,863 --> 00:23:20,599 to an old album on a vintage turntable. 668 00:23:20,699 --> 00:23:23,002 I mean, it's a huge resurgence in vintage vinyl. 669 00:23:23,102 --> 00:23:25,304 It's hot now. I mean, they're repressing records 670 00:23:25,471 --> 00:23:29,441 and remastering originals, Led Zeppelin, Eagles records. 671 00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:31,010 I mean, it's amazing what's available. 672 00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:32,478 You can put an old Led Zeppelin album back 673 00:23:32,578 --> 00:23:34,480 on this thing, and there you are, man, listening to "Kashmir" 674 00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:38,951 on the original turntable that we had in 1973. Really cool. 675 00:23:39,051 --> 00:23:40,920 JERSEY JON: Power button on... 676 00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:43,188 Ugh. It's not working. (sighs) 677 00:23:43,355 --> 00:23:44,790 So, I mean, it's a really cool piece. 678 00:23:44,957 --> 00:23:46,592 But the thing's broken. 679 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:48,260 JERSEY JON: Obviously, this has got a motor issue 680 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:49,261 right off the bat. 681 00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:50,763 They're not a simple thing to fix. 682 00:23:50,863 --> 00:23:52,498 I mean, I've fixed turntables before, 683 00:23:52,665 --> 00:23:54,233 they got to be recapped, there's all kinds of issues 684 00:23:54,333 --> 00:23:55,367 that go with these things. 685 00:23:55,467 --> 00:23:56,602 And it's expensive to do. 686 00:23:56,769 --> 00:23:58,771 But this thing is totally worth saving. 687 00:23:58,871 --> 00:24:00,673 JERSEY JON: Um... man, I've seen these Marantz's 688 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:04,109 go for $1,000. But it's going to need work. 689 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:05,811 TONY: Can you get motors? JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah, no, 690 00:24:05,911 --> 00:24:08,881 these things are well supported. You can find anything for these turntables. 691 00:24:08,981 --> 00:24:10,683 But all that stuff's going to cost money. 692 00:24:10,783 --> 00:24:13,719 For me to take a chance on it, I'd go 200 bucks. 693 00:24:13,819 --> 00:24:16,188 If it was working, yeah I know it'd be a whole different story. 694 00:24:16,355 --> 00:24:18,657 TONY: Oh, yeah, yeah. JERSEY JON: You know, but... I could sell it for parts, 695 00:24:18,824 --> 00:24:20,626 like some guy might need the turn arm, the platter... 696 00:24:20,793 --> 00:24:22,594 TONY: Mm-hmm. JERSEY JON: So, if anything I could sell the parts 697 00:24:22,695 --> 00:24:24,997 for the darn thing for 3 or 400 bucks. 698 00:24:25,097 --> 00:24:26,632 TONY: Can you go 225. 699 00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:30,269 JERSEY JON: Um... yep, absolutely, man. 700 00:24:30,436 --> 00:24:31,804 TONY: Deal. JERSEY JON: I'm in love with it. 701 00:24:31,904 --> 00:24:33,439 (Tony laughs) JERSEY JON: You know, I haven't seen one. 702 00:24:33,605 --> 00:24:34,773 TONY: I'm not gonna do anything with it. 703 00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:36,475 JERSEY JON: Thank you, man. ROBBIE: I gotta ask, though, 704 00:24:36,642 --> 00:24:38,344 this is an early gas globe. 705 00:24:38,510 --> 00:24:40,813 Milk glass body. I mean, I'm a gas-and-oil guy. 706 00:24:40,913 --> 00:24:42,281 Oh, it's broke. JERSEY JON: Oh, it's busted! 707 00:24:42,448 --> 00:24:44,383 ROBBIE: Broke in the back. But the lens actually is in good shape. 708 00:24:44,550 --> 00:24:46,385 Oh, wait a second, there's that crack right through there. 709 00:24:46,552 --> 00:24:49,788 It's probably 650 without the cracks. 200 bucks. 710 00:24:49,955 --> 00:24:51,924 TONY: I'm not even going to argue with you about that. 711 00:24:52,024 --> 00:24:52,925 JERSEY JON: Cool, dude, thank you. 712 00:24:53,025 --> 00:24:54,760 TONY: Those 45s, did you go through those? 713 00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:56,061 ROBBIE: Grab a stack. That's the only way 714 00:24:56,228 --> 00:24:57,196 you're going to look through these, 715 00:24:57,363 --> 00:24:58,430 there's a lot of them here. 716 00:24:58,597 --> 00:24:59,832 ROBBIE: Over the years, I've bought boxes 717 00:24:59,998 --> 00:25:01,233 and boxes of 45s. 718 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,768 It's all about the subject matter. 719 00:25:02,868 --> 00:25:04,303 JERSEY JON: "Beer Barrel Polka." 720 00:25:04,470 --> 00:25:05,838 ROBBIE: There's probably 200 records, 721 00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:07,573 very specific to your uncle. 722 00:25:07,673 --> 00:25:09,108 JERSEY JON: "Orchids in the Moonlight." 723 00:25:09,274 --> 00:25:11,076 ROBBIE: Hey, it's not that I don't like his music taste. 724 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:12,444 (overlapping chatter) ROBBIE: There's some days 725 00:25:12,544 --> 00:25:14,279 that I do that. That's about three times a year. 726 00:25:14,446 --> 00:25:16,348 (group laughing) 727 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:17,483 ROBBIE: 125 bucks. 728 00:25:17,583 --> 00:25:19,018 I might find two records in there, 729 00:25:19,184 --> 00:25:20,319 I might use them on my jukebox. 730 00:25:20,419 --> 00:25:22,020 TONY: I'll take it. ROBBIE: Alright. 731 00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:24,123 Thank you, thank you. JERSEY JON: Awesome. 732 00:25:31,497 --> 00:25:33,565 MIKE: Wow... these are epic! 733 00:25:33,665 --> 00:25:35,334 DONICK: Here's storyboards. But you can really see 734 00:25:35,434 --> 00:25:36,869 how the artists, they get the script 735 00:25:37,036 --> 00:25:38,971 and they go frame by frame... MIKE: Holy crap... 736 00:25:39,071 --> 00:25:40,839 DONICK: ...showing you how the jokes are going to play. 737 00:25:41,006 --> 00:25:42,608 MIKE: And this is the episode you wrote. 738 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:44,510 DONICK: That's one I wrote, yep. MIKE: Wow. 739 00:25:44,676 --> 00:25:47,079 DONICK: The working materials, the scripts, the storyboards. 740 00:25:47,246 --> 00:25:48,881 I put them in a box and filed them away. 741 00:25:48,981 --> 00:25:51,650 And I haven't really thought about them in 20 years. 742 00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:53,152 This is history that's fun to share. 743 00:25:53,318 --> 00:25:54,753 It's fun to look into that stuff, 744 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,155 it definitely is time traveling. 745 00:25:56,255 --> 00:25:58,390 MIKE: To see it broken down like this is incredible. 746 00:25:58,557 --> 00:26:01,060 MIKE: What I love about this stuff is it's his. 747 00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:03,662 I mean, people know him as a writer for the Simpsons. 748 00:26:03,829 --> 00:26:06,832 So even the storyboard alone has the notes on it, 749 00:26:06,932 --> 00:26:09,401 changing things. I mean, they're very personalized, 750 00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:11,770 which is incredible. 751 00:26:11,870 --> 00:26:13,072 DONICK: Here's what's gonna blow your mind, 752 00:26:13,238 --> 00:26:14,640 now I'm seeing this. MIKE: Okay, what is it? 753 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:16,308 DONICK: These are pencil sketches. 754 00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:18,076 MIKE: These are actual sketches, not copies. 755 00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:19,645 DONICK: Yes. MIKE: Oh, wow... 756 00:26:19,745 --> 00:26:21,246 DONICK: And you could see there's a few-- 757 00:26:21,346 --> 00:26:22,681 MIKE: So this is original art. DONICK: Yeah. 758 00:26:22,781 --> 00:26:24,283 This is a scene they gave me afterwards, 759 00:26:24,383 --> 00:26:26,351 because at the time, I was big into collecting 760 00:26:26,518 --> 00:26:28,387 pre-Columbian art. And this is Homer, 761 00:26:28,554 --> 00:26:30,622 the joke was, eBay was a new thing, 762 00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:32,991 and he was buying lots of pre-Columbian art off of eBay. 763 00:26:33,158 --> 00:26:34,660 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. DONICK: Which is like, the craziest thing. 764 00:26:34,827 --> 00:26:36,028 DONICK: It was what I was doing... 765 00:26:36,195 --> 00:26:37,796 (Mike laughing) DONICK: They were making fun of me for it, 766 00:26:37,963 --> 00:26:39,231 'cause I was like, I just got luck-- 767 00:26:39,331 --> 00:26:41,066 You could actually see a few of these pre-Columbian vases here. 768 00:26:41,233 --> 00:26:42,568 I had 100 of these. 769 00:26:42,668 --> 00:26:44,536 And everybody on the Simpsons was making fun of me for it. 770 00:26:44,636 --> 00:26:46,238 We wrote a scene where Homer was like, 771 00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:47,573 "I'm gonna be rich! 772 00:26:47,673 --> 00:26:49,908 I'm spending every cent on eBay buying pre-Columbian art!" 773 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:51,210 DONICK: They're like, you know it's all fake. 774 00:26:51,310 --> 00:26:53,045 So Homer went broke. That's how he lost his money. 775 00:26:53,145 --> 00:26:54,313 MIKE: There's Marge. DONICK: Marge is like, 776 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,815 "Homer, all of that's a scam, you know." So this-- 777 00:26:56,915 --> 00:26:59,118 MIKE: So this, look, you lay over it where she's like, looking at him. 778 00:26:59,218 --> 00:27:01,587 DONICK: So you start to get a sense of the spacing of the scene. 779 00:27:01,753 --> 00:27:03,555 And this is literally based on my wife's reaction 780 00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:05,090 to me buying pre-Columbian art. 781 00:27:05,224 --> 00:27:07,459 MIKE: He's like, "Oh, my gosh, I made a bad mistake." 782 00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:09,461 DONICK: Yeah. We ended up cutting that scene, 783 00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:10,796 so this is like the remnant of... 784 00:27:10,896 --> 00:27:12,498 MIKE: Wow. DONICK: That's his pre-Columbian vase. 785 00:27:12,664 --> 00:27:14,600 MIKE: So... would you sell any of this? 786 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,169 MIKE: Here I am, holding some of the original 787 00:27:17,269 --> 00:27:20,439 drawings for a series I've watched for decades. 788 00:27:20,539 --> 00:27:22,040 DONICK: It's pretty cool, it really is. 789 00:27:22,207 --> 00:27:24,009 MIKE: It's amazing, it's incredible! 790 00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:26,311 DONICK: Like, what would you be interested in? 791 00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:28,447 MIKE: Oh, my gosh, I mean, anything that's hand-drawn, 792 00:27:28,547 --> 00:27:30,749 a storyboard, a script. 793 00:27:30,916 --> 00:27:33,385 I mean, come on, I mean, it's like I'm blown away. 794 00:27:33,552 --> 00:27:35,087 MIKE: This stuff is highly collectable. 795 00:27:35,187 --> 00:27:37,956 It's very sought after. And to be standing here 796 00:27:38,123 --> 00:27:39,925 with the guy that wrote for the Simpsons, 797 00:27:40,025 --> 00:27:41,260 takes you over the top, man. 798 00:27:41,426 --> 00:27:43,595 DONICK: Um... the only, like, literally here's the only thing 799 00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:45,497 I'm thinking about. My son loves the Simpsons. 800 00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:47,432 DONICK: This is like one of those areas where I'm like, 801 00:27:47,533 --> 00:27:49,601 I'd love to have him get a shot at some of this stuff 802 00:27:49,768 --> 00:27:51,036 and go like, what's meaningful to him. 803 00:27:51,203 --> 00:27:52,771 MIKE: Oh, my gosh, yeah, this was your work. 804 00:27:52,871 --> 00:27:54,406 MIKE: This is a major part of your life's work. 805 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,041 DONICK: Yes. So it's not like, 806 00:27:56,208 --> 00:27:57,809 oh, I want to sell the box of stuff, but... 807 00:27:57,910 --> 00:27:59,711 let's put together like a nice packet. 808 00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:01,914 Like, I think you could take a storyboards for an episode. 809 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,482 This is epic to have. 810 00:28:03,582 --> 00:28:06,285 MIKE: So this is Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. 811 00:28:06,385 --> 00:28:09,888 MIKE: And this is for "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show." 812 00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:11,356 DONICK: Oh, it's one of the best episodes. 813 00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:12,658 MIKE: Oh, is it? DONICK: It's so good. 814 00:28:12,824 --> 00:28:15,194 This is a legendary episode. And it is the writer's room 815 00:28:15,294 --> 00:28:17,663 making fun of the process of TV and what executives want 816 00:28:17,829 --> 00:28:20,065 and why it's all gone wrong. They introduce a character 817 00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:22,200 called Poochie to try and hip up everything. 818 00:28:22,301 --> 00:28:23,602 (Mike laughs) DONICK: So a surfing dog 819 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,270 with sunglasses and a baseball cap 820 00:28:25,437 --> 00:28:27,072 and that's Poochie. So this is a big one 821 00:28:27,239 --> 00:28:29,174 in Simpsons lore and history. MIKE: Okay. 822 00:28:29,274 --> 00:28:31,443 MIKE: And then you have the script for Itchy-Scratchy-Poochie? 823 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,412 DONICK: I don't have a script, I was looking for that script, 824 00:28:33,512 --> 00:28:35,113 'cause I was trying to put them together for you, 825 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,882 but best I could do is like, here's a "Bart's Star". 826 00:28:37,049 --> 00:28:38,951 If it helps having my name and the notes in it, 827 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:40,185 then that's fun. MIKE: Oh, my gosh. 828 00:28:40,352 --> 00:28:41,887 MIKE: Wow. DONICK: We got a couple drawings 829 00:28:41,987 --> 00:28:43,555 from this insane episode 830 00:28:43,655 --> 00:28:45,257 that's really just a burn on me 831 00:28:45,424 --> 00:28:47,326 of using Homer to make fun of me. 832 00:28:47,426 --> 00:28:48,660 DONICK: But that's like a little bit 833 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:51,363 of Simpson history for you to share it with Simpsons world. 834 00:28:51,463 --> 00:28:52,898 MIKE: Are you kidding me? Oh, my gosh. 835 00:28:53,065 --> 00:28:54,666 So what are you thinking on this? 836 00:29:02,608 --> 00:29:05,077 TONY: We can step back to the recording studio, 837 00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:06,545 watch your head. Hehe. 838 00:29:06,712 --> 00:29:08,313 JERSEY JON: Yeah. That door is crazy, 839 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,515 wonder why he did that. Was he a short guy? 840 00:29:10,682 --> 00:29:11,917 TONY: He was about 5'3". 841 00:29:12,017 --> 00:29:13,619 JERSEY JON: Okay, so he fit right through here. 842 00:29:13,785 --> 00:29:15,387 TONY: Yeah. ROBBIE: Oh, wow. What! 843 00:29:15,554 --> 00:29:16,955 JERSEY JON: Ha. TONY: The Shack was the place 844 00:29:17,055 --> 00:29:19,758 Uncle Mac could record people in the community. 845 00:29:19,858 --> 00:29:22,794 He grew up with my grandmother and my grandfather 846 00:29:22,961 --> 00:29:24,196 living in the house there. 847 00:29:24,363 --> 00:29:26,031 And it was his way to get out of the house 848 00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:27,499 and do what he liked. 849 00:29:27,666 --> 00:29:29,434 ROBBIE: What kind of stuff was he recording here? 850 00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:31,770 TONY: Local recording, gospel music. 851 00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:34,072 JERSEY JON: Oh, sure. JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah, a lot of churches around here. 852 00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:35,274 TONY: Absolutely. JERSEY JON: Yeah. 853 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,042 JERSEY JON: Absolutely. ROBBIE: Can you imagine it 854 00:29:37,209 --> 00:29:40,012 back in the day, they're belting out gospel music, 855 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:42,314 Tony's uncle standing on the other side. 856 00:29:42,481 --> 00:29:44,149 You feel it when you walk in that room. 857 00:29:44,316 --> 00:29:45,484 JERSEY JON: What's that stuff, Robbie? 858 00:29:45,584 --> 00:29:47,152 TONY: So that's uniforms, 859 00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:50,789 came from a softball team. It's local to the community. 860 00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:52,724 ROBBIE: Right here, look at that. Early. 861 00:29:52,824 --> 00:29:55,027 JERSEY JON: Those are wool. ROBBIE: Yeah, these are wool. 862 00:29:55,193 --> 00:29:56,428 JERSEY JON: They're not synthetic. 863 00:29:56,595 --> 00:29:57,829 ROBBIE: Can you imagine playing in the day? 864 00:29:57,996 --> 00:29:59,364 TONY: Yeah. JERSEY JON: That's cool. 865 00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:01,700 ROBBIE: These wool baseball uniforms in here, 866 00:30:01,867 --> 00:30:03,201 they are so cool. 867 00:30:03,368 --> 00:30:05,637 They're probably from like the 1930s, 1940s. 868 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:08,440 Well, can you imagine? You're in North Carolina. 869 00:30:08,607 --> 00:30:10,676 It's 115 degrees out. 870 00:30:10,842 --> 00:30:13,345 It's a wool suit. Come on. 871 00:30:13,512 --> 00:30:14,713 ROBBIE: How much is that bad boy? 872 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,748 TONY: Hmm, well actually there's a Bladenboro 873 00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:18,050 Historical Society, 874 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:19,985 and there's been some interest shown on these. 875 00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:21,153 JERSEY JON: Absolutely. ROBBIE: Oh, yeah. 876 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,788 TONY: Those would be a good fit for that. Yeah. 877 00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:24,990 JERSEY JON: Absolutely, it belongs in a historical society, 878 00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:25,957 part of local history. 879 00:30:26,058 --> 00:30:27,125 ROBBIE: I love the fact that Tony 880 00:30:27,225 --> 00:30:28,226 wants to keep these. I mean, 881 00:30:28,393 --> 00:30:30,662 this is a piece of history from the town. 882 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:32,898 And getting them to the local historical society 883 00:30:33,065 --> 00:30:34,466 is absolutely perfect. 884 00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:35,701 ROBBIE: Jersey. JERSEY JON: I know. 885 00:30:35,867 --> 00:30:38,470 I spotted that too, Robbie. Wow. ROBBIE: Ah! Wow! 886 00:30:38,637 --> 00:30:41,573 ROBBIE: I see this gigantic neon sign. 887 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,076 JERSEY JON: That's cool. ROBBIE: See now you've piqued my interest, 888 00:30:44,242 --> 00:30:45,510 because I'm an advertising freak. 889 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:46,545 JERSEY JON: Yeah. TONY: Oh, yeah. 890 00:30:46,712 --> 00:30:48,680 ROBBIE: This is a GE Appliance sign. 891 00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:50,682 It's in great shape, it's porcelain. 892 00:30:50,782 --> 00:30:53,352 And the cool thing about it is, it exists. 893 00:30:53,452 --> 00:30:55,220 Most of the time when they took these signs down, 894 00:30:55,387 --> 00:30:57,489 they got crunched. They didn't care about it. 895 00:30:57,589 --> 00:30:58,924 I mean, this thing survived. 896 00:30:59,024 --> 00:31:01,560 It's like the gods are looking down upon me right now. 897 00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:04,129 ROBBIE: I'm trying to see it, the privilege panel underneath here. 898 00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:05,597 Something Corporation, it says. 899 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,632 Do you know anything about this place? 900 00:31:07,733 --> 00:31:10,168 TONY: It was a hardware-slash-grocery store 901 00:31:10,268 --> 00:31:12,604 that had appliances on the top level. 902 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:14,439 JERSEY JON: This was hanging out in front of it? 903 00:31:14,606 --> 00:31:16,074 TONY: Down in on the side of the building, downtown. 904 00:31:16,241 --> 00:31:18,376 They took it down and Uncle Mac wanted it, that's exactly... 905 00:31:18,477 --> 00:31:19,511 JERSEY JON: That's a big commitment. 906 00:31:19,678 --> 00:31:22,647 ROBBIE: Tony's uncle was not only just the radio guy, 907 00:31:22,748 --> 00:31:24,883 he was saving items from the town. 908 00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:26,618 When guys took these signs down, 909 00:31:26,785 --> 00:31:28,787 they were pretty much going to the scrapyard. 910 00:31:28,954 --> 00:31:30,555 They were replacing it with something else. 911 00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:32,791 Uncle Mac saved this piece. 912 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,560 It's just cool to see it in its setting. 913 00:31:35,660 --> 00:31:37,662 ROBBIE: I have a really early GE piece in my shop 914 00:31:37,829 --> 00:31:40,265 that talks about the 10 best servants. 915 00:31:40,432 --> 00:31:43,468 The 10 best servants in the day were the products that GE made. 916 00:31:43,635 --> 00:31:44,770 TONY: Oh, absolutely. ROBBIE: From the dishwasher, 917 00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:45,904 believe it or not. 918 00:31:46,071 --> 00:31:48,073 ROBBIE: The 10 best home servants, 919 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,975 from your stove to your refrigerator, 920 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:51,877 your washer and your vacuum cleaners, 921 00:31:52,043 --> 00:31:54,746 to an oil furnace, to radios, to clothes iron, 922 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:57,849 lamps, dishwashers, water heaters. 923 00:31:57,949 --> 00:31:59,818 Back in the day, GE was basically 924 00:31:59,985 --> 00:32:01,987 in every home in America. 925 00:32:02,154 --> 00:32:03,388 TONY: So I take it you have interest. 926 00:32:03,555 --> 00:32:04,990 ROBBIE: Yeah, I mean, is this something that you're 927 00:32:05,157 --> 00:32:06,792 going to relight it up, you're going to clean it up? 928 00:32:06,892 --> 00:32:08,627 TONY: Oh, no, I'm not. ROBBIE: Yeah. 929 00:32:08,794 --> 00:32:11,029 TONY: No, I don't think there's any opportunity for that. 930 00:32:11,196 --> 00:32:13,832 ROBBIE: The one side here, all the glass is broken. 931 00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:15,600 I was just looking at the overall condition... 932 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:16,868 JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah. TONY: Oh, my gracious. 933 00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:18,236 ROBBIE: There's a broken tube over here, 934 00:32:18,403 --> 00:32:21,306 there's actually two. This side, this is all milked, 935 00:32:21,473 --> 00:32:23,475 this side got the sun baked on it. 936 00:32:23,642 --> 00:32:25,644 And the other side didn't. This side looks beautiful. 937 00:32:25,744 --> 00:32:27,279 The neat thing I love the most about it, 938 00:32:27,379 --> 00:32:28,947 it's got the privilege panel on it. 939 00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:31,149 And you know what the key to this is? Is this. 940 00:32:31,316 --> 00:32:32,951 JERSEY JON: The can. ROBBIE: Everything's here. 941 00:32:33,051 --> 00:32:34,886 ROBBIE: That's called the bullnose on it. 942 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:36,288 ROBBIE: It's a double-sided. 943 00:32:36,388 --> 00:32:37,789 This sign hasn't been jacked with. 944 00:32:37,956 --> 00:32:39,224 ROBBIE: This thing fixed up, 945 00:32:39,391 --> 00:32:40,859 working, polished up, 946 00:32:41,026 --> 00:32:43,061 five grand. But it's going to take some money 947 00:32:43,228 --> 00:32:44,596 to get it there. You're gonna spend at least 948 00:32:44,696 --> 00:32:47,232 $1,600 on the neon tubes. 949 00:32:47,332 --> 00:32:48,633 ROBBIE: $2,800. 950 00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:50,468 TONY: Hmm... 951 00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:53,405 Could you go an even 3? 952 00:32:53,505 --> 00:32:54,906 200 more, right? 953 00:32:56,141 --> 00:32:58,109 I think Uncle Mac would like that. 954 00:33:00,178 --> 00:33:02,047 ROBBIE: I'm so damn sentimental. (Tony laughs) 955 00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:04,049 ROBBIE: I am, when you threw that in, Tony, 956 00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:05,750 I think Uncle Mike would like that. 957 00:33:05,851 --> 00:33:07,786 TONY: Ah, I appreciate it. ROBBIE: You got me right there. 958 00:33:07,953 --> 00:33:09,287 ROBBIE: I love projects like this. 959 00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:11,756 This is what makes me get up in the morning, right here. 960 00:33:11,923 --> 00:33:12,991 TONY: It's definitely one-of-a-kind. 961 00:33:13,158 --> 00:33:14,459 You don't see them every day. That's for sure. 962 00:33:14,626 --> 00:33:15,994 ROBBIE: I won't make a ton on this. 963 00:33:16,161 --> 00:33:17,996 I wanted to give Tony as much as I could. 964 00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,832 Some days, it's just about saving the piece of history. 965 00:33:26,171 --> 00:33:27,839 TONY: There's no telling what we will find in here. 966 00:33:27,939 --> 00:33:30,308 ROBBIE: I know, that's why I'm just like, so amazed. It's cool. 967 00:33:30,475 --> 00:33:32,677 TONY: That's Uncle Mac. I've looked through some stuff, 968 00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:35,547 but a lot of times I'm not even aware of what I'm looking at. 969 00:33:35,714 --> 00:33:37,249 JERSEY JON: Uncle Mac was my kind of guy. 970 00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:39,784 I mean, he was interested in audio and electronics 971 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:41,953 from the '50s and '60s. This guy was inspired. 972 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,555 JERSEY JON: Oh, yeah, it's an old reel-to-reel. 973 00:33:43,722 --> 00:33:45,557 JERSEY JON: This is a different era of electronics. 974 00:33:45,724 --> 00:33:48,226 Back then, there was different romance to it. 975 00:33:48,393 --> 00:33:51,263 JERSEY JON: Look at this, Robbie. It's a Fisher. That's early. 976 00:33:51,429 --> 00:33:52,731 JERSEY JON: The Fisher Company made really 977 00:33:52,831 --> 00:33:54,266 high quality audio stuff. 978 00:33:54,432 --> 00:33:56,401 JERSEY JON: It's a switcher. It's a fader. That's cool. 979 00:33:56,501 --> 00:33:58,203 JERSEY JON: This is not for listening to music, 980 00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,005 it's for making music. It's for mixing 981 00:34:00,105 --> 00:34:03,675 and processing sound. This is professional recording equipment. 982 00:34:03,842 --> 00:34:05,844 And it just has that rich warm-bodied sound 983 00:34:05,944 --> 00:34:08,546 that can't be matched by solid-state electronics. 984 00:34:15,787 --> 00:34:17,822 JERSEY JON: Fisher was doing audiophile stuff. 985 00:34:17,989 --> 00:34:19,558 ROBBIE: Like this? JERSEY JON: Yes, that's cool too. 986 00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:21,192 ROBBIE: ..."loudness, bass, treble." 987 00:34:21,293 --> 00:34:22,928 JERSEY JON: So that would be like an early equalizer. 988 00:34:23,028 --> 00:34:25,230 Tubes in the back? Oh, yeah. This is '60s. 989 00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,432 ROBBIE: Look at the jewels on that, Jersey. 990 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:28,867 JERSEY JON: It's beautifully made. 991 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,835 And look how they did everything. It was really nice quality. 992 00:34:31,002 --> 00:34:33,004 This has got a wonderful maple case around it. 993 00:34:33,171 --> 00:34:34,272 TONY: Again, that was Uncle Mac. 994 00:34:34,439 --> 00:34:35,907 He dealt with high-end stuff. 995 00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:37,642 JERSEY JON: And he's got some nice Fisher pieces here, 996 00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:39,010 which I'm definitely interested in. 997 00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:40,946 So, this piece here, retail on this 998 00:34:41,112 --> 00:34:42,747 is probably like 2-and-a-quarter... 999 00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,116 if it works. And I've got to buy it as a relic. 1000 00:34:45,283 --> 00:34:47,152 I got to go through it, I got to recap it, 1001 00:34:47,252 --> 00:34:48,553 I got to change the potentiometers. 1002 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:50,388 So something like this, I'd do like 100-and-a-quarter. 1003 00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:52,357 JERSEY JON: And that piece there, it's got some damage 1004 00:34:52,457 --> 00:34:54,225 on the knobs, I don't know what's going on with that, 1005 00:34:54,392 --> 00:34:55,994 it's not just dirt. ROBBIE: It's... mold. 1006 00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:57,195 TONY: So there's moisture been in the... 1007 00:34:57,362 --> 00:34:58,630 JERSEY JON: And that's a big problem. 1008 00:34:58,797 --> 00:35:00,265 TONY: Yeah. JERSEY JON: You see there's capacitors in there 1009 00:35:00,432 --> 00:35:02,033 and it gets swollen like a fat tick. 1010 00:35:02,133 --> 00:35:03,668 And then you got to take all that out, 1011 00:35:03,835 --> 00:35:05,136 you got to replace all that stuff. 1012 00:35:05,236 --> 00:35:06,871 And that's money. But that piece is actually 1013 00:35:07,038 --> 00:35:08,306 really good. Retail on that thing, 1014 00:35:08,473 --> 00:35:10,408 with good condition, maybe an $800 piece. 1015 00:35:10,508 --> 00:35:12,010 JERSEY JON & ROBBIE: If it works. 1016 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:14,079 JERSEY JON: For me, I gotta look at it a whole different story. 1017 00:35:14,245 --> 00:35:16,214 'Cause I got to put the time and effort into the darn thing, 1018 00:35:16,314 --> 00:35:17,282 or somebody does. TONY: Right. 1019 00:35:17,382 --> 00:35:19,584 JERSEY JON: So for me, this thing is worth $200. 1020 00:35:19,751 --> 00:35:21,353 TONY: Ooh. JERSEY JON: That's it, dude. 1021 00:35:21,453 --> 00:35:23,221 TONY: Really? ROBBIE: Honestly, we're taking a chance on it. 1022 00:35:23,388 --> 00:35:24,923 JERSEY JON: We're taking a big chance on it. 1023 00:35:25,023 --> 00:35:25,924 ROBBIE: Because of this. 1024 00:35:26,024 --> 00:35:27,392 JERSEY JON: That mold is really scary. 1025 00:35:27,492 --> 00:35:28,593 TONY: Yeah? ROBBIE: That's... 1026 00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:29,928 JERSEY JON: That means there's water somewhere 1027 00:35:30,028 --> 00:35:31,396 with moisture, something. TONY: Well definitely moisture. 1028 00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:33,198 JERSEY JON: Moisture and electronics do not mix. 1029 00:35:33,365 --> 00:35:35,300 TONY: Absolutely. JERSEY JON: So, for both pieces, 1030 00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:36,668 3-and-a-quarter. 1031 00:35:36,835 --> 00:35:38,003 TONY: What about 400? 1032 00:35:38,169 --> 00:35:39,738 JERSEY JON: Um... 1033 00:35:39,838 --> 00:35:41,172 Well, I really like 'em. 1034 00:35:41,272 --> 00:35:43,375 I'll tell you what, remember the box of tubes 1035 00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:44,843 you had outside in that cardboard box? 1036 00:35:45,010 --> 00:35:46,244 TONY: Oh, yeah. JERSEY JON: Throw them in, 1037 00:35:46,344 --> 00:35:47,879 and I'll make it 375. 1038 00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:49,047 JERSEY JON: Tubes are really great. 1039 00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:50,215 Vacuum tubes, I mean, 1040 00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:51,950 they put them in amplifiers. There's vacuum tubes 1041 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,185 in all this vintage audiophile stuff. 1042 00:35:54,352 --> 00:35:56,755 The restoration of this kind of equipment takes tubes. 1043 00:35:56,855 --> 00:35:58,556 And there's a box of tubes in that truck I want. 1044 00:35:58,656 --> 00:36:00,992 TONY: 380. It's 5 bucks. 1045 00:36:01,092 --> 00:36:02,193 JERSEY JON: 380. TONY: Alright. 1046 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,595 JERSEY JON: Alright. TONY: Thank you. 1047 00:36:03,762 --> 00:36:05,597 JERSEY JON: Yeah, I appreciate it, man. Thank you. 1048 00:36:05,697 --> 00:36:07,399 ROBBIE: You get into electronics, it's tough. 1049 00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:09,334 Electronics are like car parts, 1050 00:36:09,434 --> 00:36:11,202 they're very specific to a certain model. 1051 00:36:11,369 --> 00:36:13,038 Thank God I got Jersey with me, 'cause he's the only 1052 00:36:13,204 --> 00:36:15,840 guy I know that can work on a 1910 Harley, 1053 00:36:16,007 --> 00:36:19,044 or fix a 1972 RCA color television. 1054 00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:20,278 He's the guru. 1055 00:36:20,445 --> 00:36:22,047 JERSEY JON: That's an amp. Probably out of something. 1056 00:36:22,147 --> 00:36:23,481 Maybe even out of an early TV. 1057 00:36:23,581 --> 00:36:25,083 JERSEY JON: This is a GE amplifier. 1058 00:36:25,250 --> 00:36:26,384 It's an exposed piece. 1059 00:36:26,551 --> 00:36:28,186 And that's the attractive part of it. 1060 00:36:28,353 --> 00:36:29,954 I like to see how it works. 1061 00:36:30,055 --> 00:36:31,956 The glowing tubes, it brings a different level 1062 00:36:32,057 --> 00:36:34,259 of excitement to processing sound. 1063 00:36:34,426 --> 00:36:36,194 JERSEY JON: With something like this, who knows if it even works, 1064 00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:37,962 but it's got a good look to it. 75 bucks. 1065 00:36:38,063 --> 00:36:39,798 TONY: That sounds good to me. JERSEY JON: Thank you, buddy. 1066 00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:41,399 TONY: Yeah. Thank you. JERSEY JON: Very cool. 1067 00:36:41,499 --> 00:36:42,600 Whoa, whoa-whoa-whoa! TONY: Look at that! 1068 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,069 JERSEY JON: Vacuum tubes. TONY: Wow, look at that. 1069 00:36:44,235 --> 00:36:45,203 JERSEY JON: It's full, Robbie. 1070 00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:46,337 JERSEY JON: Vacuum tubes are designed 1071 00:36:46,471 --> 00:36:48,506 to manipulate electrical energy to amplify sounds. 1072 00:36:48,673 --> 00:36:50,642 They're like the gas pedal for electrical current 1073 00:36:50,809 --> 00:36:53,645 which allows manipulation of volume and power level. 1074 00:36:53,745 --> 00:36:55,880 JERSEY JON: My idea with these things to buy them as a group. 1075 00:36:56,047 --> 00:36:57,482 I'm taking a chance on what tubes are good, 1076 00:36:57,649 --> 00:37:00,752 what tube are not good, I'm not testing these. 125 bucks. 1077 00:37:00,852 --> 00:37:02,420 TONY: I'll take it. JERSEY JON: Alright, thank you, 1078 00:37:02,587 --> 00:37:04,355 thank you, thank you, Tony, appreciate it. 1079 00:37:11,196 --> 00:37:13,164 MIKE: So... what are you thinking on this? 1080 00:37:13,264 --> 00:37:15,233 DONICK: Well, I'm wondering... You know, I really 1081 00:37:15,333 --> 00:37:18,603 don't know the Simpsons collectables world and fan... 1082 00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:20,271 I know it's big and I know they love stuff. 1083 00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:22,040 You know, part of what I'm doing is whatever 1084 00:37:22,207 --> 00:37:23,641 you paid for these, taking some of that money, 1085 00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:25,210 putting it back into Musack... MIKE: To charity. 1086 00:37:25,310 --> 00:37:27,378 DONICK: Turning it into guitars and stuff for kids. 1087 00:37:27,479 --> 00:37:30,281 So, I'll throw a big number out, how about like 3,000 bucks? 1088 00:37:33,585 --> 00:37:36,087 MIKE: I mean, the documentation behind any show 1089 00:37:36,187 --> 00:37:39,691 that is successful and has run as long as the Simpsons, 1090 00:37:39,791 --> 00:37:41,793 is epic, because it's touched generations. 1091 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,128 DONICK: Yeah, yeah, yeah. MIKE: You know. 1092 00:37:43,228 --> 00:37:45,930 I'd love to bring this out into the collector hobby, man. 1093 00:37:47,799 --> 00:37:49,067 I'm not even gonna try to talk you down. 1094 00:37:49,234 --> 00:37:52,036 DONICK: I love it. MIKE: If you could sign the acts, 1095 00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:54,172 Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. DONICK: Sure. 1096 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:56,407 MIKE: That would be epic. DONICK: 3,500. No, I'm kidding. 1097 00:37:56,508 --> 00:37:57,776 MIKE: Yeah. (laughs) 1098 00:37:57,876 --> 00:38:00,411 DONICK: I know there's a huge Simpsons fanbase out there 1099 00:38:00,512 --> 00:38:02,113 that loves this stuff. I'm one of them. 1100 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,215 So I know some fans would love these. 1101 00:38:04,315 --> 00:38:05,984 Let's just put it all to Musack 1102 00:38:06,151 --> 00:38:07,318 and make good things happen with it. 1103 00:38:07,485 --> 00:38:08,953 DONICK: You want just a little signature on here? 1104 00:38:09,053 --> 00:38:10,321 MIKE: Yeah, hell yeah. 1105 00:38:10,421 --> 00:38:12,190 MIKE: Donick is a collector of pop culture, 1106 00:38:12,357 --> 00:38:14,926 but he's also somebody that created it. 1107 00:38:15,026 --> 00:38:18,129 And this is a major part of his legacy. 1108 00:38:18,229 --> 00:38:21,132 But he understands pushing it out into the world 1109 00:38:21,266 --> 00:38:23,601 is about all of us, not just him. 1110 00:38:23,768 --> 00:38:25,203 MIKE: What a life, man. DONICK: Ah. 1111 00:38:25,370 --> 00:38:27,238 MIKE: Hey, I love the way you're living, buddy. 1112 00:38:27,405 --> 00:38:29,240 MIKE: There are a lot of creative people that haven't 1113 00:38:29,407 --> 00:38:32,177 had the opportunity that Donick has had. 1114 00:38:32,277 --> 00:38:34,078 And he has taken his success, 1115 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:36,481 and turned it into so much more. 1116 00:38:36,581 --> 00:38:38,349 I love the idea of this charity, 1117 00:38:38,516 --> 00:38:40,919 and how it's touched so many lives. 1118 00:38:41,019 --> 00:38:42,554 MIKE: Thank you, buddy. DONICK: Mike's great. 1119 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:43,955 He didn't walk around in bare feet 1120 00:38:44,055 --> 00:38:46,224 and put his feet on the table. No, he's got a sense of humor, 1121 00:38:46,391 --> 00:38:48,393 he's passionate about lots of different things, 1122 00:38:48,493 --> 00:38:50,461 and he's the kind of people you want to hang out with. 1123 00:38:50,628 --> 00:38:51,763 (honks horn) MIKE: See ya, buddy! 1124 00:38:51,863 --> 00:38:53,331 DONICK: See ya later, man! 1125 00:38:56,834 --> 00:38:58,603 (upbeat music) 1126 00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:02,507 JERSEY JON: There's a lot here to digest. 1127 00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:03,675 TONY: Yeah. JERSEY JON: A lot. 1128 00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:05,009 What about these microphones? 1129 00:39:05,109 --> 00:39:06,444 TONY: Oh, yeah, they're for sale. 1130 00:39:06,544 --> 00:39:08,346 JERSEY JON: Now these got stands on them and everything. 1131 00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:11,716 JERSEY JON: Everything. 1, 2, 3, 4. 6-and-a-quarter? 1132 00:39:11,883 --> 00:39:13,585 TONY: I'll take it. JERSEY JON: Alright. You got it, dude. 1133 00:39:13,751 --> 00:39:15,019 TONY: Thank you. JERSEY JON: More microphones. 1134 00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:16,921 JERSEY JON: We're finding microphones all over the place. 1135 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:18,590 They're jumping out of every hole in this spot. 1136 00:39:18,756 --> 00:39:20,425 JERSEY JON: They're loose, they're shaking in there. 1137 00:39:20,592 --> 00:39:21,793 100 bucks, both heads. 1138 00:39:21,893 --> 00:39:23,361 TONY: 125 and you take them. 1139 00:39:23,461 --> 00:39:25,330 JERSEY JON: 110 bucks. TONY: Alright, I'll take it. 1140 00:39:25,430 --> 00:39:26,598 (laughs) JERSEY JON: Thank you, brother. 1141 00:39:26,764 --> 00:39:28,633 JERSEY JON: It's always a good thing to find microphones, 1142 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:29,834 because they do sell well. 1143 00:39:29,968 --> 00:39:31,803 ROBBIE: 150 for the pair on these. 1144 00:39:31,903 --> 00:39:33,037 TONY: 100 apiece. 1145 00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:34,772 ROBBIE: I'm easier, Jersey, you noticed that? 1146 00:39:34,872 --> 00:39:36,407 JERSEY JON: Yeah right. TONY: Thanks, sir. 1147 00:39:36,507 --> 00:39:38,610 TONY: I was shocked with the number of microphones 1148 00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:40,111 that were in the building. 1149 00:39:40,278 --> 00:39:42,080 TONY: Not interested? JERSEY JON: You know what I'm noticing here, heh, 1150 00:39:42,180 --> 00:39:43,882 elephant in the room. Look at this... 1151 00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:45,850 Is that the match to that chair I bought? 1152 00:39:45,950 --> 00:39:48,152 TONY: I think so. That's the loveseat, yeah. 1153 00:39:48,253 --> 00:39:50,722 JERSEY JON: That is cool... I don't know why I didn't see this. 1154 00:39:50,822 --> 00:39:53,157 (Tony laughs) JERSEY JON: That's cool. 1155 00:39:53,258 --> 00:39:55,226 Look at that, Robbie. ROBBIE: Ohh... 1156 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:56,728 ROBBIE: It doesn't matter where we go, 1157 00:39:56,828 --> 00:39:58,663 Jersey is always going to find 1158 00:39:58,830 --> 00:40:00,231 some type of furniture to buy. 1159 00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,033 JERSEY JON: Mid-century modern is cool. 1160 00:40:02,133 --> 00:40:04,135 JERSEY JON: 1960s. I mean, the cushions need new foam, 1161 00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:06,070 but the covers are still great. 1162 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:08,039 JERSEY JON: It's just got the look, you know. I like it. 1163 00:40:08,206 --> 00:40:10,008 JERSEY JON: This piece is really in nice condition. 1164 00:40:10,108 --> 00:40:11,643 I mean, it's got some scratches and some missing finish, 1165 00:40:11,743 --> 00:40:13,177 and some touch-ups need to be done. 1166 00:40:13,278 --> 00:40:15,146 But what's really cool, is that the fabric is there. 1167 00:40:15,313 --> 00:40:16,614 I mean, the fabric is not ripped, 1168 00:40:16,714 --> 00:40:18,216 I mean, it's good quality furniture. 1169 00:40:18,316 --> 00:40:20,351 JERSEY JON: It's got to be cleaned up and finished a little bit. 1170 00:40:20,518 --> 00:40:21,986 You got a lot of wear on the arms. 1171 00:40:22,153 --> 00:40:23,488 TONY: Yeah, but there's not chunks not there. 1172 00:40:23,588 --> 00:40:24,922 JERSEY JON: No, there's not chunks knocked out. 1173 00:40:25,023 --> 00:40:26,357 I'd go 150 bucks. 1174 00:40:26,457 --> 00:40:28,159 TONY: Hoo, well you gave me 50 for just the chair. 1175 00:40:28,259 --> 00:40:30,995 JERSEY JON: Right. TONY: I think it's worth 250, right? 1176 00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:34,532 JERSEY JON: Ahh... 200. TONY: 200, ugh. 1177 00:40:34,632 --> 00:40:35,900 JERSEY JON: I mean, end-of-the-rainbow thing, 1178 00:40:36,034 --> 00:40:37,268 I'm probably going to turn this around 1179 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,003 after I clean it, put new foam in it. 1180 00:40:39,170 --> 00:40:41,205 I may get 800 bucks for the whole set or something like that. 1181 00:40:41,306 --> 00:40:43,241 TONY: Oh, wow. So that makes it... Huh? 1182 00:40:43,408 --> 00:40:45,243 JERSEY JON: But you gotta clean it, you gotta do the work, 1183 00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:47,045 I gotta get it home. TONY: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1184 00:40:47,211 --> 00:40:49,447 JERSEY JON: I'm a furniture refinisher-restorer for 43 years, dude. 1185 00:40:49,547 --> 00:40:50,848 TONY: 225. 1186 00:40:52,050 --> 00:40:53,484 ROBBIE: He's got ya. TONY: Alright. 1187 00:40:53,584 --> 00:40:55,420 (laughing) JERSEY JON: I like it, man. I like the color. 1188 00:40:55,586 --> 00:40:57,155 This green color is super cool. 1189 00:40:57,255 --> 00:40:58,723 TONY: Oh, that's vintage what year? 1190 00:40:58,823 --> 00:41:00,158 (laughs) JERSEY JON: It's just got the look. 1191 00:41:00,325 --> 00:41:02,060 JERSEY JON: What I like about this piece is the restoration 1192 00:41:02,226 --> 00:41:04,028 is going to be fairly easy. It's gonna be an easy 1193 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:05,563 thing to clean up and retail. 1194 00:41:05,663 --> 00:41:06,731 ROBBIE: All right, grab that, Tony. 1195 00:41:06,831 --> 00:41:07,799 JERSEY JON: Tony is so cool. 1196 00:41:07,899 --> 00:41:09,467 He's taken his uncle's legacy, 1197 00:41:09,634 --> 00:41:11,135 and he's honoring his memory. 1198 00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:12,937 He's not throwing everything in a dumpster. 1199 00:41:13,037 --> 00:41:14,405 He's making sure that he's giving things 1200 00:41:14,505 --> 00:41:16,274 the proper respect and treatment. 1201 00:41:16,441 --> 00:41:18,843 I'm glad that we could show Tony what he's got, 1202 00:41:19,010 --> 00:41:21,746 because we could find homes for a lot of these items. 1203 00:41:21,913 --> 00:41:23,247 JERSEY JON: Dude, those cushions don't even match! 1204 00:41:23,348 --> 00:41:25,483 (Robbie laughs) JERSEY JON: What the heck did I just do? 1205 00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:27,852 ROBBIE: That's up to you. TONY: That's how it works, man. 1206 00:41:27,952 --> 00:41:29,420 ROBBIE: You don't pay attention or what? 1207 00:41:29,587 --> 00:41:31,155 JERSEY JON: (sighs) It's still cool though. 1208 00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:33,358 TONY: There's no returns. JERSEY JON: But I'm never gonna match that fabric. 1209 00:41:33,458 --> 00:41:35,326 TONY: As-is. ROBBIE: Thank you, buddy. 1210 00:41:35,426 --> 00:41:36,861 JERSEY JON: Thank you, man, it's been a pleasure. 1211 00:41:37,028 --> 00:41:38,463 TONY: Yeah, my pleasure too. JERSEY JON: Real pleasure. 1212 00:41:38,629 --> 00:41:40,431 TONY: I was pleasantly surprised, yeah, 1213 00:41:40,598 --> 00:41:43,234 those guys did a pretty good job in covering everything 1214 00:41:43,401 --> 00:41:45,403 that they thought might have some value in. 1215 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:48,306 I think Uncle Mac's looking down, smiling, saying, 1216 00:41:48,473 --> 00:41:50,842 "I knew I kept that stuff for a reason." 1217 00:41:51,008 --> 00:41:52,410 (laughs) Right? 1218 00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:53,444 JERSEY JON: Yo, happy picking! 1219 00:41:53,611 --> 00:41:55,279 (honks horn) TONY: Thank you. 1220 00:41:57,515 --> 00:41:59,183 MIKE: Hey, this is Tom Waits, man, 1221 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:02,387 I heard you wanted to do a cover of my old 55. 1222 00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:04,355 ROBBIE: Here, hold my hand. Please? 1223 00:42:04,455 --> 00:42:05,757 JERSEY JON: What? DONICK: This is a... 1224 00:42:05,923 --> 00:42:07,759 MIKE: Dang, this is sick. DONICK: ...'63 Buick Electra. 1225 00:42:07,925 --> 00:42:09,427 Whoa! MIKE: Okay! 1226 00:42:09,594 --> 00:42:11,062 (laughs) CAMERAMAN: Ah, (bleep!) 1227 00:42:11,229 --> 00:42:14,365 (laughing)