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modern maker podcast. I'm Chris Salimony from Four Eyes Furniture and with me as always

Mike Montgomery from Modern Builds. Hey everybody.

And Ben Uweda from Homemade Modern.

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Today is Thursday, August 17th, otherwise known as National Thrift Shop Day.

You guys do any thrift shopping?

I used to back in the day I used to get crazy cool hats thrift shopping.

Yeah, you know I went through a phase like in the, I don't know, 2003-ish probably wear all of my shirts, all of all my t-shirts I'd get like a lot of old

elementary school t-shirts and just like weird stuff yeah that's like what thrift stores I think are

are made for just finding a weird thing.

Yeah back when I was in high school they didn't have like American apparel so they

didn't have like a lot of the 50-50 really soft t-shirt blends so the only way to get like the really soft worn- t-shirts was finding them used at

Let somebody else wear it out for you.

Right, because all new t-shirts were all like the really thick

100% cotton Haines ones that were like stiff as a board.

So me and my buddies would always scour to thrift shops looking for those those vintage

feel t-shirts that are now so common.

Yeah, it's funny I actually still have a few of my t-shirts and like I just can't bring myself to throw them away and I bought them for like 50 cents probably, but they're just so weird like I have this one, it's got a basketball hoop on the front of you know

ball like swishing through a hoop and it says Optimus Prime so it must have been like

it was an inside joke somewhere but we don't hear it yeah it must have been like I'm

figuring it's like some kids basketball team and they named

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