Good morning. It is 949. It is the Kennel and Casey show on 93 WIBC Brian Baker joining us attention my

pretties. So it appears that the wicked witch of the West's iconic hourglass has found a new home. Do you

know what I'm talking about? This is the hourglass that the monkeys and Dorothy looks into it at one

point and she sees the scarecrow and the tin man and the cowardly lion and they're all running out of

time to savor from the wicked witch. Well, this prop has been sold and you're never going to believe for

how much? $495,000. Somebody paid for this. It was listed on heritage auctions and somebody somebody is

willing to drop down nearly half a million dollars for a piece of movie history. I don't I don't get it at all

Brian and you're you're the movie guy. You're the stuntman who's in all the movies. You've got the Hollywood

connections. Please explain this to me. Why would someone pay half a million dollars for one of 17 by

the way? There were many of these that were created. The one that sold is just one that happened to be in

an iconic scene in the movie. And it is that it? Did I answer my own question? Because it's in an iconic scene in

the movie? Yeah, you know, I think there's a lot of bragging rights that goes on with some of this stuff.

But the thing is is that movie prop collecting it's actually become a very big business when I was

beginning collecting movie props. It wasn't really like this. People were into autographs. But you were able to find

cars that were used in movies fairly cheap. You were able to find props. And yeah, there's there's duplicates of

everything, right? Wardrobe. There's usually at least, you know, three to four duplicates on wardrobe. And then

there's one for the stunt people. Same thing with these props. And so the big money like you want the ones that have

actually been there's some distinguishing marking on them. They were able to be identified on screen. Because that is

really the big movie or the big bragging rights there. But I collect stuff Casey, but I don't spend $500,000

for something that was in a movie. You know, I collect cheap crap. Like I've got a floor tile from the

the Blues Brothers Mall that was up in Harvey, Illinois, the Dixie Square Mall. I've got plates from

this great movie with Chevy Chase and Goldie Han called Seems Like Old Times. I've got the license plates

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