Episode 36: Bubbles
You Look Nice Today
You Look Nice Today
4.7 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2010
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Bankruptcy Liquidation Auction
Beginning @ 9:00 AM-85 Herston Rd.
Long Beach, CA
Feb 8, 2010
Registration 7:30-10:00 A.M.
Auction With Reserve Will Be Conducted By:
Leroy D. Plaavs, III, License #KCL6232
Notice:
- LIQUIDATION OF THEIR 15’ x 25’ EXECUTIVE STORAGE UNIT WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 7:30
- ALL ITEMS SOLD AS-IS
- ORIGINAL OWNERS WILL LIKELY BE PRESENT, DISGUISED AS POTENTIAL BUYERS
Summary:
Sellers are forced, after years of negative cash flow, to liquidate their storage locker as a condition of their bankruptcy claim. Sellers identify themselves as “We Look Nice,” an internet group. Items for sale include memorabilia and other items related to the sellers’ childhoods, including:
- Butterfly knives
- Player piano rolls
- Several boxes of generic LEGO clone called MARGO
- Autographed photo of Ira Glass
- Autographed photo of Pete Rose (same signature as above)
- Museum-quality collection of antique popcorn poppers
- Nail parings
- Inspirational poster, “CHANGE”
- 250 copies of self-published book, “The Annotated Penthouse Letters”
- …and much more
PAYMENT MAY BE MADE IN THE FORM OF DOLLARS, YUAN, FLOOZ, OR COMPLIMENTS THAT SOUND LIKE YOU MEAN IT.
DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH SELLERS, THEY’RE STILL PRETTY SAD ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING
Photo: Boxed-in, by patries71
TLJ Bizcard by JasPer
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know this Skinner thing? Did you read about this? The Skinner thing, it was apparently very overstated. |
| 0:04.3 | Did you know that? Skinner didn't actually keep his kids in like a dog crate like people thought. |
| 0:10.8 | Who's Skinner? BF Skinner was a behavioral psychologist and there's his famous life magazine article about him in the 40s that kind of ruin his life. |
| 0:18.0 | Where he did do these kind of like self-experiments and these experiments on his family and he was a famous |
| 0:25.8 | photograph you can find it of his daughter in what looks like a large aquarium. |
| 0:32.4 | And you know Skinner is the guy who's famous for doing all this stuff |
| 0:34.4 | whatever with pigeons or whatever and so the implication was that he keeps his |
| 0:37.6 | daughter in like this air-proof anti-love chamber or something to like screw |
| 0:41.8 | with her. |
| 0:42.6 | But it turns out he was trying to make like a baby incubator |
| 0:45.0 | and have her be comfortable, but, you know, |
| 0:47.6 | it didn't look that way in life. |
| 0:49.5 | I think a lot of things are like that. |
| 0:51.4 | Musolini. things are like that. Mousselini. You look nice. |
| 0:53.0 | You look nice. |
| 0:57.0 | You look nice today a journal of emotional hygiene. You sound a little like you got a little |
| 1:08.8 | Kathleen Turner going on. Yeah I was going for Brenda Vocaro. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah. going for Brenda Vocaro. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, there's people that I only know from ads and she's a lady when I was growing up there. |
| 1:19.0 | I only know from Tampon ants. |
| 1:20.0 | And I guess she was in movies and stuff, but like to me she's always going to be |
| 1:23.3 | the like overnight protection I used to have a career and that that's so weird and |
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