And my wife was that years ago, right?

So, the kid's school, they do an auction once a year, blah, blah, blah.

And there was this one particular painting, and it's a good-looking painting, and it is a reasonable size. Okay, so the way it works, you hold up your car, but also you stand up from the table. So people are bidding, and the price creep is going up and up and up. and my wife, and I can tell, I can see her face, her arms are folded, so I'm not even going to say

anything. She's been, and I can tell, I can see her face, her arms are folded, so I'm not

going to say anything.

She's been, people start sitting down. Well, it comes down to her and one other lady. Okay. And so now the auctioneer, I mean, basically, he's just ping pong and back and forth. You're going to meet that. And they, she will not sit down. Now, it is getting absurd, at least in my opinion.

And I'll explain why in a moment.

Finally, my wife ends up winning the bidding war. sit down. Now, it is getting absurd, at least in my opinion. And I'll explain why in a moment.

Finally, my wife ends up winning the bidding war. You know, the other woman finally just conceded like Jesus. All right, I'm not spending more than this. Crowd breaks into applause. All the dads at the table are kind of ribbing me like, wow, man, it's a lot of money, but we could tell by her face, like she's buying that thing and I said I'm gonna tell you why I'm upset fellas

she's the that thing.

And I said, and I'm going to tell you why I'm upset, fellas.

She's the one who painted it for less money than she just bought it.

So $100 worth of materials to create this wonderful painting.

It was a very cool painting.

She just spent considerably more than that on something that I know she can do again. So in the end, and she can see this. I don't know if she was happy about it, but I said, hey, man, we're just going to give it to this other lady that bit on him because this other lady was going through some bad medical stuff, and it was Mother's Day. So we spent an S ton of money on this, but we ended up giving it to this other woman.

And we got a picture.

She's in tears. She was so happy. And I'm like, are you insane? You painted it. You can recreate this for like a hundred bucks worth of the material, man. I could not believe you're bidding on your own thing. It's better than the other way around, though. What do you mean? The first auction that I did was my big time auction.

It was also the worst auction I had ever done for a handful of different reasons. But this one in particular, this one item is going to do really, really well. This is a high-profile client with the company that I work for. And so this is my big moment here. And we got this really good item. And I hate when they bring art into the auctions. I really do because artists objective. And they always tell me, it's going to do great. This is a...

They... got this really good item and I hate when they bring art into the auctions. I really do because art is subjective. Yes, it is always tell me it's going to do great. This is a, they tell me this is an up and coming artist in the area. We've gotten a lot of questions about this one. Everybody's interested in this one. This one's going to do really, really well. Like they sold another piece over at this show or whatever and they made a lot of money. They're going to be in the room. They're going to be sitting right there. And we're going to do really well on this item.

I am begging for a $100 opening bid on this dog-on thing, and I can't find anything.

And the artist is sitting. And he's sitting right there in front. Getting his feeling, sir. Yeah. The art sucks, dude. Oh. In a disturbing case in the U.K., a surgeon who carried out hundreds of amputations, the one who does

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