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It works. Today's episode brought to you by liquid death. God kill it. Today's guests are, you know, they're those front line tongue ninjas.
Maybe you know what I'm saying. Oh, I mean, these guys are, you know, the, uh, the, the, the, the, the since days of selling, they're a father and son duo from San Marcos, Texas. They work in a business that I know nothing about, but I'm very curious to learn. Today's guests.
We are very honored to have in studio. It is Cameron and his father, spanking nickels and they are auctioneers. Seven, right. I'm 59.
That was a cool spot, man. First time here is your first time here. Yeah. Yeah.
My first time to. Okay. Very cool spot. And you've been sober ever since.
No, I haven't been sober ever since. I've had a couple of relapses here and there. Oh, but. Every day's a working proctor.
Yeah. It really is. Dude. I'm grateful to have each new day.
You know, just try to have a good attitude when I get up. Right. Yeah. If I can start out decent, I usually do pretty well.
Yeah. It's when I start. Yeah. So you don't want to go have a drink with me later?
Not really not, man. I'll watch you drink, dude. I'll buy you some steroids, dude. If you want to do a good bit of a, you know, one of my buddies one night, we were, I was doing some touring somewhere and, um, he's like, it's like 3 a.m.
He's like, Hey, man, I'm going to get some drugs, you know, give me some money. And I was like, all right, you know, I'm not going out there to get them. But I'll, you know what I'm saying? I'll be a part of it fiscally.
I'll be off the ball. Yeah. Right. So I give him some money and then he come back like two hours later, man.
He had steroids on him. He's like, let's order. And he had injectable steroids, man. I said, well, it takes two weeks to get in your system.
Yeah. So even if we do them right now, we got to, you know, I got to get a gym membership and then you and I'll be back up in a couple of weeks. So it's not a good idea. So we decided not to.
I'm sitting here with Cam and Spanky and you guys are auctioneer men, right? That is correct. And is that a safe term? What is the term to reference that somebody that does auction?
Auctioneer. It's it. Yes, sir. The old school term would be Colonel.
Colonel. Really? And where were one of the all the, the, the kernels when they got done with all the equipment, they were the ones that sold the equipment. So they labeled auctioneers as Colonel horses to really had to give them to listen to them.
So they gave them the title, Colonel, just to get them in to listen to them. They gave them a title, Colonel to them and had to listen. And so at the end of like a battle or something or a war, something that the Colonel would auction off a gear. I think so.
To my understanding, yeah. Yeah. So technically we are kernels. OK.
And so technically. And you guys, so, Frankie, you got into it first. Yes, sir. OK.
And so how did that occur? How do you, how do you just, how did someone become an auctioneer? It's really a it's a family pass down trait. I mean, it's tough to get it.
It's really, really tough to break into like, like they'll tell you 5% of every graduating auctioneer class, only 5% ever pursue it and make a living at doing it. And is that a, is it because it's a family business? Like it's hard. It's not necessarily a family business, but it's more so of with anything.
It's who you know versus what you know. Correct. Yeah. And then you get to get to a large, large captains and stuff like that.
And that business it tugboat captains. Yeah, and that is a familial business. I mean, if your grandfather, you can literally get grandfathered into it. Right.
You know, and that's. And they're always going to court over that or trying to like adjust the way people can get into that. So you, Frankie, take me into how you get into it. So my father graduated Missouri Auction School in 1974.
Oh wow. And he's he's had auto auctions my whole life owned auto auctions my whole life. And so I mean, I was working the ring, which they say the ring is the floor. Taking bids.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bitters.
The floor bitters. OK. I mean, I was working the ring as young as 10, 11, 12 years old. Okay.
And when you're in the ring, what is that? Like, so the ring is the floor where? The arena and work in the crowd. Okay.
Working the people that are attending the auction there buying and bidding. You're taking their bids and turning them into the auctioneer. I actually don't want to block. Okay.
At that time, would have been my dad. I mean, we've done anything from tool sales to car sales. Mainly, my dad has owned car auto auctions my whole life. Wow.
So do you remember, like, as a ring person, were there some like, was that kind of, was that harder than being actually the big boss? No, not at all. You don't have to count. You just have to count.
You just got to turn bids in. I mean, yep, yep, yep, yep. And every time you, yep. I mean, we're going up the auctioneer is going up 100 or whatever increments he's counting.
Okay. So what determines, and what determines how you count, like how the auctioneer sets the, like, the increments. How fast the crowd is bidding. Right.
And also there's a floor. So like, there's a reserve. So if you're like 10,000 bucks, you know, you count them to 50s or hundreds. And if you're like in 200 or 300 bucks, it's 50s sometimes.
Okay. Whatever the crowd will allow you to do. Right. Okay.
And what are some of the things as you're, okay, so you get out of the ring and you end up becoming the auctioneer. So did you have to go to school for that? Like, and you went to Missouri. Auction school.
Missouri auction school. Same one you went to. Yes, sir. Okay.
Same one my dad went to. Okay. And how many like, is there like a, how big is it? Is your, your class?
I think there was like 50 of us. Yeah. For that year. And is that pretty competitive?
I mean, that seems like a competitive, like you just. The business is. Starping your tongue before class. Like it's.
Yeah, the business is the school. You don't come out of auction school as an auctioneer. No. You come out of auction school with the, with the, with the ability to practice and learn to become an auctioneer.
Takes years after. Takes years after. I will say that he Cameron has become the fastest auction, not just because of my son, but it comes natural to him. I have to work a lot harder at it.
He's, he's a lot more natural at it. Really than a lot of people I've ever seen. And what do you, what makes him, what are some of those kind of natural abilities that makes someone have an easier walk with auction? Just breathing.
It just, he just came real natural to him breathing. He learned counting and he's a real sharp guy on, on top of, aside from auctioneering. And that's memory is a lot of, of, of auctioneering. I mean, you got to, you know, stay on track with your numbers and not, not miss numbers and counting that, that, at that rapid speed, it takes, it takes a good memory.
And he has that. What do you think like, there's some of, because I can almost relate to you there. It's spanking when you're saying like, I don't know the pressure would match me out. You know what I'm saying?
I'd be on the law or something. I'd be on, you know what I'm saying? I'd be calling big farm. I would need like, I think the pressure, like even just in the moment of like, it's like, like, deep in the tablature in my head, worried I was going to upset people.
Well, there's, there's a lot going on when you're up there auctioneering and selling cars at 30, 40 seconds every car. I mean, you're, you're, you're in nowadays with COVID, you know, you don't have a guy sitting over here talking to you necessarily, or sometimes you do, that's a luxury. Sometimes he's in the computer. And for online bidders, so you're watching everything at the same time.
And you're trying not to piss off eight or 10 people at one time and keep the whole entire crowd happy. And I mean, there's a lot going on when you're up there. Oh, Cam, what would you say is, um, is there a moment in the bidding, like in the bidding process when, what's the toughest moment for auctioneer at the bin really gets heightened out? You know, like, or is it in the beginning, like, what's the beginning finding money?
The journey through when you start an item. So you call rolls in or the item or whatever you're selling. And who brings it in? Is it women usually?
Yeah, usually. No, just random people. They just get these drivers in. Oh, damn, I'm like, you put a bet, you know, put a bird on a blender.
I'll buy it. Yeah. Absolutely. For sure.
It will. I buy you's vacuum. She's not going to say. That's gone by the way, son.
Really? Because it's all drivers. Well, you got to be politically correct nowadays and give everybody an opportunity. Right.
But if some man walks out there with a blender, dude, he can keep it. I'm not a true. You know, I'm saying, like, so, you know, you're giving people opportunity, but you're not giving, you're not really, you know, you're not going to push my buttons. I don't think as well, like, my mom, when I was growing up, my mom used to live her these magazines called News on Wheels.
And it was a magazine that had pictures of like women, like semi-lude women kind of laying on the hood of the, it was usually like a, not T-Mobile, what am I thinking of? Bronco. It's like a T-Mobile, T-Top Car. And so we like a Corvette or something, you know, something that had a pack of Winstons in the dashboard, you know what I'm saying?
Like something like that. Yeah, some old guy, like, and so they would always have some ladies laying on the front. Oh, yeah. And it would just be, and that would help sell the car.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's advertising. Yeah, it was advertising. Yeah.
But yeah, that's kind of sexist now. Damn, it's crazy, dude. I mean, I get it, but also. Like, Cooners girls come and serve wings and stuff at our auction.
Okay. So there's a little bit of like, a used to be. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Right.
Okay. So take me, I'm starting to interrupt you, Kim. So take me out through some of that. What's that like, man?
Once you get the item, so they kind of, do they always wheel the item out? Yeah, the car will come in. So it's like a huge barn with like, big bay doors and there's 18 lanes. There's four to 18 lanes depending on what auction we're working.
And they just drive the cars through the car sits there. When you say that, what does it mean? I know what it's like a bay. Okay.
So like a big garage. Okay. So like if you were to take this garage door and open it up over here, it just goes through auctioners in the middle and you got the ring right there. Okay.
I'd say the toughest part is probably just finding the money, but it's also the easiest too, because you can just drop it really low and go. Okay. So a car rolls in, right? And you, do you start the bidding or the audience starts the bidding?
We start the bidding. So we look at our computer or if we have a rep next to us, there'll be a reserve or a floor with that dealer needs for that car. So we usually started around there, give or take. And then from there, we find the money and then we go up and get some excitement and bids rolling.
Now using that, we get them on with DC people kind of talk that are friends. Oh, yeah. We read people. We read people for it.
Yeah. So if you see somebody and I didn't mean to interrupt, but they're waiting for you to drop back, back, back, back, your fish. They want to send you money. I see.
And so you just drop down in numbers. So who are you working for the seller or the bidders or you're working for both? We work for the auction, but we really work for the seller in this because we're selling his merchandise inventory. Do you get a percentage of the sale of what's sold?
We wish. We wish. We get flat rate. They labor pretty much.
Okay. Flat rate. Now, if you were to put on the auction, like my grandpa owned the auction, of course, he got a buy fee and a selfie. Right.
So yeah, he would get percent. But as an auctioneer, we're just independent contractors. That makes you really wonder if you had like Bruce Buff or something there from UFC or something you had, you know, it's tough. You know, like if you had somebody that gold and throw it on them, it might be gold.
Would they get a little extra? That's passion. Yeah. That's what I call passion.
I mean, that's what I do every day because I'm passionate about what I do. Yeah. And yes, I get paid well for doing it. But I do it for the, I mean, I do it because I love to do it.
And it's funny. It's funny. It's never the same. Really?
Yeah. It's a different everyday. Yeah. Okay.
So that item gets up there. You got the item going now. You started to kind of lower the money enough and monitor the crowd where I guess you're taking this. You get a vibe of an audience.
Same as a comedian after a while. You're right. Tell where things are happening. Oh, you're reading people.
You really can. And it's weird. You can almost read a group of people. Right.
It's you can almost feel little things of energy. Oh, yeah. So you're reading people, you get a bid, right? All right.
You get that first bid. Then where do you go from there? You start going up. Okay.
Now you look for the second one, you know. And now what if people, do you notice that people are feeling too pressure? Like I'm a nervous bidder, you know, so all the problems. Oh, yeah.
We read you. It would be hard for me to like make that choice. Do you slow down the verbage and slow it down? Yeah, we're speed it up and then they get nervous and bid.
Yeah. Do that, bro. Yeah. I'll be crazy, man.
I'll lose it down white like that. Oh, you seen somebody make a bid and you always feel bad for them. Oh, yeah. Most definitely.
But we're not there to babysit. Yeah, we're there to sell cars. We're there to sell cars. And we want to make sure everyone's happy.
But you know, I feel like if you don't piss somebody off, you're probably not doing a good job. Yeah. Didn't have a good auction. Yeah.
Wow. So you're not upset. You didn't have a good auction. Really?
From one side. Yeah. Right. One side or the other.
Yeah. What is the schooling like? Take me through some of the auctioneer schooling. And what do you do in there?
Is there a you go in there and chant every day? Betty bought her but she said this better, better, better, better. I mean, just tongue twisters all day. They're not a breeze.
They're not a breeze. That would be a hard one. Yeah. For 10 hours a day for 10 days.
So it's not too bad. I'll breathe my whole life. But I could imagine if I had to really section it off like that, it might get little hairy. But what about, take me through a couple of those.
Yeah. Because everybody knew they're growing up like she sells sea cells by the sea shore. Yeah. So you try to get your brain to think, think before you speak before you speak, which is you think that's normal.
But when you're going that fast, you know, that's what the school really does. It's like teacher brain to get up to that speed essentially, along with your mouth. But so take me through one of them, if you remember them. Betty bought her but she says better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, so it's better.
Betty bought her about a bit of better, better, better, better. I used to be able to do it a lot faster, but I don't practice the tongue twisters anymore. Right. Right.
It's yeah, in school, man, you can fly through it. And so you take that you get these lessons, then you go back to class and are you doing them in front of the other students? Yeah, we do them as a group. So everyone you stand up, let's do Betty Bonner and we do that.
Yeah, I'm assuming Thomas, yeah, I'm going to Thomas, I don't mean Thomas, I'm going to Thomas, I'm going to Thomas, I'm going to stick to T's, I'm going to climb to the top of two tall trees along those lines and then a rubber baby buggy, buggy, buggy, that one's tough. I don't care who you are. Oh, yeah, I don't know. Now, is there a type do some people oil in their mouth or something before to deal?
I'm cough drops. Greet that wand. You're a big cough drop guy. Oh, you are.
Yeah. Okay. So ride that laws and that. Yeah.
I feel that because I wonder what I but it clears your nasal out. You know, helps you breathe. Yeah. I can breathe and keeps your throat sleep.
Yeah, I like that slick throat. That's key, huh? Yeah. My bag is my microphone and about eight or 10 cough drops.
I lost my voice on Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah. What were you guys selling?
Of course. Okay. Yeah. We primarily do cars every day.
Yeah. And that's in that world's growing. I mean, I feel like the car auction, like, I have friends, like, I don't know if I'd have some money now or something, but I got friends sometimes and like, I'll go over their house like, yeah, there's buying a car on my phone. It's like unseen.
See, a lot of people buying stuff online has the online business diminished. You guys is, uh, it's on its way working on it. Yeah, for sure. There's these.
Luckily though, there's, there's enough independent owners that we work for that believe in the old fashion, the touch it, feel it, smell it, come put your hands on it, cater service, hooter girls, food trucks, stuff like that, that, that will keep the business alive. Right. The experience. Yeah.
Like independent, right. The independent mom and pop sales, potentially, you know, smaller ones, but they're still pretty big. And then you have the big corporate sales. You know, that's, I think that's the way that they're going though.
And so, do you guys get, is there another, what's kind of like out to pastor for auction here? Because if you're a comedian, sometimes you end up doing, you'll see a comedian end up doing a little magic, you know, and we're not saying that they put him out to pastor, but that's kind of like, you know, it's kind of the, uh, it's the elevator down kind of from the career a little bit. Oh, you're doing magic over there, you know, which is fine. No, I mean, magicians are comedians, arch nemesis.
That's always been a thing. Right. You know, you're seeing them talk shit a lot and really hate each other as much as they can, but not say it. But, um, but is there a, is there a side hustle that the skill of auctioneering kind of like lends itself to afterwards or alongside of it?
Well, in my, my deal and his deal, he does real estate on the side and I play with cars. I mean, I, I have a lot of free time after these auctions too. We get done. So we started like nine, we get done like 11 30 or noon.
So we have the rest of the day. Okay. We work three to four days a week. That's it.
And then we have just a ton of extra time. And is there reasons that auctions take place in the morning? Is there something to that? Because the dealers have other things to do in the afternoons.
Right. Now there are other auctions in the afternoons and at night, uh, uh, you know, there's some night auctions that cater to the, the mom and pop car dealers, the note dealers that can't be there in the morning, right? Because they're attending to their car lots. Uh, and so they'll have a night sale.
Oh, yeah. They're usually a smaller and they're usually a more fun atmosphere. You know, they'll have, they'll have coolers full of beer out there for them. And then they, you know, they get drunk and buy shit that they, you know, they're like, I bought it.
And they'll sell shit too. They like, I sold that. That's cheap. Damn.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's funny. You put a little bit of liquor in there.
Oh, yeah. Even I've just been like, uh, you know, some of them, somebody take you to a golf dinner, one of those things where rich people are playing golf and then they buy, you know, Drew Brees, son football or something. Oh, yeah. And then some of them read you Wayne, like cooking, you know, utensils or something people buy them for 10, five.
Yeah. It's crazy. But it's like, it's like, yeah, it's just rich people trying to show off. Oh, yeah.
We do some games. Yeah. That's a tax deduction too. Yeah.
We do some, they're donating. I see. So what type of event, um, what type of, what, uh, what do you do to prepare before an auction? Like, is there kind of a series of things you go through or at this point is it kind of just by rope kind of?
At this point, it's really, really natural for me and probably him too. I mean, he's been doing it 10 years and I've been at three to six auto auctions a week for the last 25 years of my life every week. So it's, it's pretty, pretty natural. Yeah.
We just got to show up. We don't know what the inventory is until it kind of rolls through the door. We show up, we have a meeting and then with the auction crew and the staff and then we check our sound system. That's pretty much it.
Yeah. Like a sound check on a sound check and then the car stroll through and everything we need on the screen and we just sell them. Now, do you get a lot of, who are the type of people that buy a lot of things? Is it a lot of like, uh, do you see a lot of the same type of collectors go to different events?
Do you see, is it a lot of like celebrities and rich people? Is it just the lovers of automobiles? What type of people are bidding on? Just car dealers, just car dealers.
We mainly work dealer only auto auctions. Oh, it's only the same dealer. So we see the same dealer. So like I could show you video clips in my phone that were, I'm calling out people by name.
Hey, you need this. Hey, Hey, Hector. Hey, Hey, this, that and the other because we've known them for so long and we build relationships with these people because we see them week after week after we can't ship them to you. That's the best thing.
Oh, yeah. We just talk and we, you know, we talk shit because we learn people's buying habits and we know what they're going to do. So, so when something comes in that we know they're, they have to have it. Yeah, you know what I mean?
Right up there, Ali. Yeah, we'll, you know, we'll, we'll have fun with it. Oh, yeah, we make it fun. Oh, interesting.
So if I go to like a used car lot or any type of car lot, right? Probably bought it in an auction. They probably bought it in auction potentially because I remember when I was growing up, my mom used to go to the police auction. Sometimes you was dating a man that ran out of a car wash and, uh, and she would go over there sometimes a lot of times and one time I think we almost had a police car for a little while, like a used police car and they got it at the police auction.
That was always a big thing, the police auction. Yeah. You know, you always hear about that. And I guess that was cars that have been impounded or something and they were, yeah, a lot of auctioners drive those cars because they, they can go fast because we travel a lot.
That's the main part of the job is travel. Really? That's the hardest part of our job. Getting to his job.
Yeah. And are they in big cities? Small towns? Where are they?
Usually big cities, you know, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, you know, there's ton, ton here in Nashville. I'm sure there's probably five or 10, you know, in this area, this has a bunch. Every big city probably has a couple of auto auctions. All right, we got some show announcements here.
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Oh, I was saying to me. You know him? Yeah. Hey, how's it going?
My name is Anthony. I had a San Antonio and the question for the auction years I had was what's the craziest thing that you've auctioned off and how much was it? Gang Gang. Gang, Anthony, thank you bro for the question, man.
Now that's a good one. Yeah, where does that land? The Sectomy. Really?
Yeah. That clip. Huh? Yeah.
And how did somebody have a free one? They had a song? Yeah. So was that a Gala event and yeah, it was just one of those items that they put up there.
I don't remember what I sold for. I'm sure it was like $10,000 or so. But that was the craziest thing for sure. Just the backstory of some wife and husband sitting there bidding on a dam.
I don't want any more. She's raising the bid. You know, and he's wondering what the hell's going on. She knows she's playing on maybe divorce and down the line.
So she's trying to you know, limit the inheritance. Yeah. Crazy cars too. But the Sectomy was definitely the for me.
I think that one time I think me and him were working together and I think we sold it a yellow lab puppy for like $60,000. Oh yeah. Absolutely. No way.
Was that seabiscuit or whatever? Damn. It was an event. It was a fundraiser for a medical group and I mean it was yeah, it was in sales dogs go crazy.
It was a puppy. I'm mad. That was a lab's maybe it was like a sounder part of you know what I'm saying about famous dog date died and that sounder but damn $60,000. I think the highest price car I've ever sold was I wasn't actually auctioneer and I was working the ring in Houston, Texas and it was a Bentley for $330,000.
There was a I worked in auction in Amelia Island, Florida, a classic car sale and it was a car that I think Porsche and Ferrari one of those types of cars they built like two of these cars together. This was one it was literally a rust bucket. $950,000 is what it sold for. And I was working the floor the ring like he was and why why why I was a collector.
I mean, it's so rare. There's only a couple of them. I don't know if that's it or whatever. I guess.
I don't know. I have no idea. Well, my situation that $330,000 Bentley was in my mind at dealer cost and they were going to go sell it for five feet retail. Yeah.
Man. And we're talking about this happening. Somebody spending $330,000 in a matter of 25 to 45 seconds. And so if that bid and starts out at 10,000 or something like how quick like how do you know went to differentiate between a bid you're seeing on the floor and a bid that's that you are getting sent up to you from the ring.
It I mean, you're both seeing the same thing. So you're both on the same wavelength. And if the bit let's say the bit starts at 10 grand and there's eight people down there just just bin bin bin you'll go from 10, one, two, two and a half five you'll jump it up to two and a half five seven half 11 11 two and a half five seven half well. I mean, you know, you read you read the crowd like that just like just like you do it gets exciting.
Very exciting. I think people like just hearing people count. Remember they had that um, you know, it's actually where I'm from dude. If somebody could count how you thought they were doing that magic, you know, I mean, half money really couldn't count.
You know what I'm saying? We had people we told them about 11. They fucking didn't know what you're talking about. You know what I'm saying?
Like after 10, they thought it had something to do with Satan, you know, it was real. Just kind of novice numerical types, you know. Oh, yeah. What is a technique through some of that, like give me show me a little bit of that magic, you know, some magic?
Yeah, like if we're bin on something, you know, how do you know like what are some bit people do to people still do the thing like the face wink? No wink. And then like some people will turn away from you and like tap your leg or tap your foot. Yeah, shake your head.
No wink. You get you and they hide from each other. Yeah. Like games with each other.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's fun.
And you and you're sitting up here. Yeah. So you see all the game. That's so that's hilarious.
Yeah. But you get involved with the games with them totally. Yeah, there's some right. And out there, you know, you know, there'll be people where's the money, where's the money?
And you're like, I'm fixing to show you. Wow. And so you'll know, you'll know in some of the audience won't know that like who's doing it. Yeah.
And guys are there in the corner just play with each other so much. And it's more so that the experience and the skilled dealers versus the younger newcomers that don't know because there's always a new dealer that comes into the option and doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. Wow. He just standing out front like this.
Yeah. And you know, the first two or three months or an education or an exit. Oh, because he's going to be spending too much. Oh, yeah.
I mean, he can't get him sold if he doesn't get it figured out. I mean, he's going to exit the business because he owes a bunch of money. Yeah. And how much of it?
I know in Texas, so many things are kind of like a is there any demographic to the business to that whole bidding world? Is it predominantly white? Is it mixed? Is it Latino?
We have a little bit of Middle Eastern too. It's very Middle Eastern too. It also depends on the city you're working in too. Right.
I can the Valley, obviously, lots of Latino people. We work in San Antonio twice a week Tuesday and Wednesday. And then when I get down there, I drop to McAllen, Texas, and spend the night and work an auction there on Thursday morning. And it's mostly Hispanic.
I mean, there's a lot of white people. Yeah. Yeah. But it's really close to the border.
Does it fit? Is it part of what kind of culture do you feel like? Is it part of southern culture? Is it part of auto culture?
Is it part of livestock culture? Like, where does kind of auction nearing? Where does some of that roots come from? I know you talked about the kernels, you know, in the military and that sort of where that the name of that position kind of came from.
But can you tell me any more about how that the fast talking and then separately? Like, do you know, can you feel it all where that tradition kind of came out of? You know, I mean, I know over there like in across the pond and England, they do it slow. They do it really slow.
Like, art auctions and stuff. It's slow process. Yeah, you'll fall asleep. But I think the Latin root for auction is action.
So it's like all about action. So it's just a way to sell a lot of items really quickly. I'll say and competitive bidding matter. So like, it's really a good way to get a train ride valuation, pretty much of what that product's worth.
Interesting. Because you got a bunch of people there and they're bidding on it. So you'll get an appraisal for that. In my mind, it's a southern culture.
But you know, there's auctions all over the world and all over the United States. So you work everywhere. You know, I guess because I was raised southern. Right.
Right. For me, it's it's southern culture. It's a southern thing. Yeah.
Yeah, it's interesting because I started thinking about it. Like, I think I feel like there's like a mark, a book with Mark Twain where they talk, there's an auction or something, one of those stories. I'm just trying to think of where I first kind of learned about auction and I heard about it. And I can't really remember.
So then I'm trying to think, well, what, yeah, is there a culture that it fits in with? And then yeah, it's a business. It's a way of getting people to do business. It is interesting to know that you could immediately kind of get an idea of a product.
Almost it could be anything. Right. If you have to write crowd there too. Can you start to know a little bit?
Could you guess almost like guessing somebody's waited a fair like that guy gets used to knowing the scale and knowing that the people can almost definitely like guess what something to bid for? Oh, yeah. Because we know what they did the week prior. Yeah.
And we pretty much know the car market. Yeah, we know we know where we're. You know, that being said, you know, paying attention to what's going on and knowing the car market and remembering what that car brought the week prior, knowing who bought it the week prior, it sets a stage. You see what I'm saying?
And so we kind of, we can tell you, you know, what you're driving out there. We don't have no idea what it is. But if we went out there and walked around, we could give you a really good idea of what it was worth. Oh, okay.
As long as there's nothing crazy exotic. Right. Yeah, it's not. It's a 2094 Ranger.
Perfect. So here's a fella right here. That had a inquiry. What's up, Theo?
It's your boy, Stane here in Louisville, Kentucky, a beautiful little evening. I'm calling in to ask a question to your auctioneer buddy. Mr. Auctioneer, I want to know if you think you have what it takes to make it in the freestyle rap game.
I know a lot of times, auctioneers, they can think real fast, talk real fast. I think it makes a lot of sense that you could potentially be freestyling over some instrumental. If so, do you think you have what it takes in that game? Dang, dang.
That's a good question. Yeah. I love old school rap and I practice in the mirror and absolutely no. No, me neither.
Not at all. That's it. Like if the song was about numbers, yeah. Right.