 Hello everybody, welcome in. I'm here on this momentous occasion. This is the bunker and We are live folks and today we have a very special topic and it's so monumental And it's so important that I couldn't do it alone, right? I had to have some help and So I called in the world's expert on Opening a brand-new CRT shop like the genius of them all. I hope you all will give a huge welcome to my good friend Mr. Zez retro himself Louis Yes, I am the expert. Thank you for that accurate description Steve 100% in line with my experiences in life. I've run numerous CRT shops before big ones to multi-level ones So I'm gonna hear and give you my experience from just years in the trade mate years in the trade Yes, there you here folks. So Welcome in today and please look, you know that you know you all out there. You know the routine Do me a huge favor if you're coming in and you're just getting started on the show Do us all a favor and hit the like button. I'm always blown away by how many likes this show gets it is so awesome You know every like to turns into like 10 views on average on this live show, so It's it's always balances out and I always love the fact that people React to it and if they enjoy it, you know, if it sucks you can hit the down great man Every day you're doing this is not every day, but you're doing this so often consistency This is my this is my rule for any artist consistency, right? And that's what you've been doing and you're seeing like it's not there's not a special like formula This just do it all the time and you'll get better and you'll get more followers. It's exactly what's happened to you Steve good work. Oh, thanks. Well, I hope I bring something unique to the table for this illustrious 11 a.m. You know Middle of the day time slot that every you know media company, I mean You know, we'll make this show last longer than the Ellen DeGeneres show, baby There we go, so I look you're on the air and Drew Barrymore isn't all right, so who's the biggest star? Yes, of course from a joke poor Jew. All right guys, so I do want to do some shout outs to some people first off I have like the most special shout out to give and It's to the my my good friend. You see him there with the wrench by his name Mr. Belmont, I have to say huge absolutely monumental. Thank you to Belmont he sent me a care package that arrived yesterday. That was just awesome and It was this Super Famicom Nintendo that he had fully Recapped and it's Unbelievable like how beautiful this thing is it's the cleanest retro console I have and I think he got a super deal on it He's like I don't need it and I would love to send it to you and I said awesome because I don't have one and That's so nice. So that's that's a Japanese one. Is it? Yes, it is the Japanese one. Thankfully, so that's the good one too So that's actually what's hooked up over here And I give you all a lovely shot of what that looks like. Let me make sure I hit the shot that by the way Steve just throwing some low-key shade on pal there by the way. Oh, no NTSC. That's the good one There we go. There we go. So yeah, everybody give Belmont a high five in the chat. He's there Everybody Hold up one second. I will get the aforementioned pal. Let's have a little bit of a comparison. Okay, cool. Yeah, so again Yeah, thanks everybody who's coming in today. You're looking at that amazing thing and look this is actually running an NTSC What you see on your screen right now is running an NTSC. Hang on Lewis. I'm running it on. I've got the PVM going Oh, go go. Yes. Yes. Yes, you could see it on on your screen live That is actually NTSC video in Composite because this PVM only does composite. So that's a good example. Let's take a look at what Lewis has found in his Weirs of wonders on my shelf. I've got a pal Super Nintendo. So it's you know, it's hard to do a little Okay, so yeah, basically the same so I think it doesn't say you have Super Nintendo You have that same writing there. No, it says Nintendo and then Super Famicom Okay, so that's really the only difference. It looks like right. Yeah I've got pal version written on there and then I mean the plugs are the same although I think actually when I say the plugs are the same I actually think the power from memory the power cable is different For the power and a TSC one. So you got to watch a you got to watch the firebrand ex power supply page You'll give you all that info. But yes, this is what I grew up with. This is what well I did what my friend had, you know that thing always with your buddy had one you wish you did my buddy had one of these beautiful rounded edges and That's also what the Japanese grow. So what's your what's your opinion Steve now? You finally seen one in the flesh I mean, I absolutely love it like the design of it And it's it's almost like a mix between what we got with that later console, which I use now that little mini Like you can see cold cold back here Anyway, I got this, you know, it's a mix between that and the regular like original one to me. I love the bigger buttons I love that it has the built-in power LED light and it just It feels like a perfect console from that era and I'm not happy to finally get one Very nice actually and Belmont was asking me about this one. Where did I get this one? This one actually is an og from my friend my friend Tim He's this big Irish guy lives here in Thailand. He's a good buddy of mine and He this is his one back of the day in Ireland that he had and he brought it over for me and donated to me And I think back there where I'm kind of pointing up on the shelf. There's a copy of Return of the Jedi Boxed his original boxed copy. So I appreciate my friend donating to excellent Cool, so we got Whoops, so yeah, then we got the Super Nintendo's slash Super Faby Cubs going. Sorry about that folks, baby and So first off, yeah yesterday's stream before we get too far into this stuff and we get into our main topic Because hey, you guys know how it goes. We got to let that fire burn. We got to let the show get going So people realize it's on, you know, normally I'm on Mondays or Tuesdays and then Thursdays Well, it's Wednesday, so it's a different day, but thank you everybody for coming in please continue to hit the like button so the more people get notifications and As we get ready to talk about the CRT shop that's going to be open this weekend and the plan going forward We need to we need to talk about some house cleaning stuff. Maybe a little bit so yesterday I did a crazy stream on a Toshiba and it really just became an old angry man yelling at a Toshiba with a generic remote and So I felt like it was a little bit of a low-quality stream. I don't think the audience did I think a lot of people were just laughing at me and thought that was fun. So I that's what it was I I'm totally cool with that So, you know, I never really know how this show goes sometimes But I wanted to give everybody the idea that I didn't you know, that was that was really a live show And and also my daughter I did, you know, why if she got I got the call that she was sick But thankfully she's doing better. It was just a small thing and so but anyway, it was live So just to give a little housekeeping on that, but beyond that I Want to say where what's been up with this? Let's let's hear a story Let's hear a story from Zez. I'd like to hear where he's been and I also like to hear He says he has a good story for me. So let's let's let's let's let's let the audience get warmed up with some good stuff here Okay, let's I'm gonna put it out to an audience vote first. So in the chat, please write in the chat I have two stories. I can tell today Do you want to hear the story about how Lewis bought and hold the wrong extra on scale it back from Japan? Do you want to hear the extra on scale story or do you want to hear about how I got scammed on Facebook marketplace today? Put your comments Yeah, like While people are let's let some comments come in I'm gonna do some shout-outs of people early in the chat because I always like to do that for some people. So While we do that, please answer which one you hear. I know which one I would hear pick out of the two I'm not gonna influence it though. I'm gonna let you guys Drop that in the chat. What would you just write scam or extra on? Whatever you want, you could write type extra on or scan or if you just want the extra You can type it X. Okay, if you really just have the ability to only type one letter All right, so mega cards Pesadillo. Thank you for coming in P in DPX. Hello, self-elected. Welcome back Brian Harman Welcome back. Also. Hey, Tony Escobar. Welcome back to Stupid stupid ugly. There we go Dwight Dixon. There we go. We're getting them right. We're getting better. Wags Mike Welcome in roll Pats always good to see you here back. He had my six four four welcome in today Jimmy Joe McGraw and We're almost caught up and snuffer-stuffer zero sleep We got the usual crowd of amazing people here Belmont. Thank you again and thank you for being here in the chat Keep the things down held down Daniel Gonzalez. Welcome in and Let's see if we got any votes mark subtle welcome in Shane. Hey, how you doing and Bucky Hama already got you. All right. Abe's gates Abe's games and skates wake up Unlucky mick hyper Sam Shane. I think I got demon 20 child. Yeah, we got it We got everybody just about co-professor womb. He says been watching the videos on demand for a while This is the first live stream. So that's awesome We'd love to have a good chat going. Well, what Steve Steve? It's professor. Hmm. Who I'm professor I was like, holy Gotcha That's what I do all the time. I can't remember. There was somebody that I was like be you know It was really bad have the way I put it So I wouldn't I wouldn't even remind everybody but I've done some really bad Name shout outs before thankfully nothing really bad like Ron Burgundy style But I don't read everything on the teleprompter here But anyway, so I just got I just got a vote for the scam from Abe So no one else is trying it in on that one, but let's know I saw quite there's quite a bit Oh, yeah, scams scam scam. Oh, yeah, I hear it. I'm scams. Yeah Steve's just Steve's just used to seeing scams scams scams any time We're trying to sell shit online scams scams scams That's if anybody just showed up to the stream about and it says should I open a CRT shop? That's so awesome. They're like I do I do this guy was a scammer What can I say you caught me today We got it. We got it. Okay. We'll do this story happened to me just today. I I posted on Twitter a couple days ago. I love light guns. I really really. Oh, I like any control Like I like weed controllers like big controllers. I love fight sticks. I really love Light guns and I'm almost complete with my light gun Collection of like all the relevant light guns that you can have and there were two I was testing out also testing like CRT light guns on the Saturn But also looking at how the Wii works and the PlayStation 3 with their like motion control adapters And there's two controllers. I don't have for the ps3. One is the sharp shooter, which is like a big gun like it it Seems like a weapon and you mount the ps move controller, you know the yeah control. That's the one that looks like a vibrator It's got the ball the ball on the end. Yeah So the sharp shooter is you actually I think it was gray in North America You put the move controller into it and then you can you know hold it like that and it looks super dope The power one is red. So I was keen to do that Also, there's another light gun which can be used on ps3. I know only ps4. I think which is the aim That's the big white one. That's sort of this white triangle and it's got a move built into it So you don't have to plug the move in It's a whole unit and I think it's basically it's got the dual shock mechanics in there as well and I wanted to get this because I got House of the Dead remake on PlayStation 4 and I was trying to use the move controller and it's dog shit. It's really bad. The move controller is great on ps3 Really bad on ps4. I think it's not doing the right thing and I got some info I read some stuff that maybe this aim controller the big white aim Controller would be better. So I want to get this stuff. So there's not that many here locally. I found a guy Who on the marketplace had a bunch of stuff and he had both of these 35 euros each and that's like a reasonable price each. So it wasn't like super low So I wrote to Facebook marketplace Said I'll have both of them. Can you put it in the parcel delivery? It's very normal So in Estonia a small country we all trust one another So it's really normal that you the guy just gives you his bank account His name and you just do a direct deposit like we don't have Venmo. We're too small for that and I Told him to send it to my local packet Mapasal automat automachine like just in the shopping center across the road in the mall across the road It's really normal. That is how most Facebook Transactions go around here unless you're meeting them real normal stuff. So I got it. I paid him yesterday I got my SMS. I'm gonna make a delivery and I got the package Package that I got from the guy Yeah, a little bit smaller than I expected but not too small. So I'm like, what's up Open it up and there's stuff inside right and I'm a bit confused at first. So There's a place I didn't order this there's a place Controller I'm like, okay, and that's a real one. That's genuine cool It's a PlayStation 3 games tables What wait wait wait a second was that hockey manual just late or that hockey like Label for that hockey game just later there, too. You're right. You're right. Right. Right. It's um, it's without Wait What's in here is a whole fucking PlayStation 3 It's not in the best condition. I'll give you that look at this Yeah, you sure you didn't enter like a loot box for this that's what Belmont's thinking did you pay for a draw? This is so so it's pretty Oh that panel that must be that panel there, okay, and this is I Mean it's pretty rough shape, but I haven't fired it up yet. Holy shit. So I immediately thought like it's packed Well, my first thought is if you're gonna do a scam. Why are you even sending me something? Just no, no, that's so awesome Like I'll do anything I Can't first off that's incredible So you open it up, and you're like what did you try to message the guy back? So I messaged the guy back and I go there and it says message not sending message Blocked me of course. So he knew what he was doing. I'm blocked on his Facebook I asked my friend I said hey, can you check this profile not blocked so the dude just sends you some random shit and then blocks you Yeah, I don't understand. What is it? Why even send? Wow that why even said anything. I Have no idea. That's why I thought it was a mistake. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna mistake I probably lives like 20 minutes 25 20 25 minutes to drive probably to get there So I'm like, ah, I'm gonna have to drive out seeing you know fucking return it, but all right. How much was it? Well all up 84 euros Because it was two controllers, and then I ordered a random bits and pieces that he had and then four for the So it's like on that amount of money that I'm annoyed like I'm not yeah gonna die, but I'm a bit annoyed It's a little bit more than throw away money, but still not the worst So This is blocked me and now I don't know what to do I'm thinking of what my options are so here's what I know about the guy I know the suburb he lives in Okay, I could see where the package was sent from I don't see his phone number I know his name and I know his bank account Number and the reason I know it's his Actual name is because like that's the name on the bank account in Estonia to make a transfer To a bank account. You need the number and the person's name otherwise doesn't go through So this has to be the dude's name Then oh, yeah, the guy the guy's name is call it shook. Oh Yeah Well Yeah, I don't know like I'm a little bit torn with this because he put some effort But it is a weird scam Yeah, don't worry guys. We haven't gotten to the main topic. We're still burning a little time here in the front end So but yeah, I'm not good So I'm thinking of what to do I've got now with my new job where I'm working with members of the military Also working with former police officers of members of the police force So I will turn to some of my buddies and just ask hey what's up because the thing is Estonia is too small I know guys name. I can basically work out his family tree from his name I can certainly go down to the local police station in that suburb and be like yo This guy like he's not like a random person that they can punch his name in and see everything about him So I'm still not sure what I'm gonna do I should probably fire up the PlayStation see if it works or not at least you want to do that now or soon Now you don't have to do it right now, but that's Yeah, that's I don't have one of these late. Oh my gosh. That thing is so rough It looks like he probably took something out of it or tried to take it apart. Yeah, is there a hard disc? so Here's here's what this actually got me thinking how awesome would this be an idea for this What if there was like a shitty gift box idea where you could send people like The like it was advertised as a loot craze and it came like this like you got a box full like how funny would that kind of be if You weren't if it was kind of expected to do that So it's got and It doesn't want to track. There you go, but it's that's certainly not the original. That's a Western digital baby. It's a WD 363 30 wait, I can't even God I don't even see what size this is I presume it's only like oh 250 gigabytes. Okay, so it's got a Western digital 250 gigabytes Driving there certainly not SSD, but okay at least he didn't take that out I Mean the real seal the real deals is that you got that amazing hockey game, right? Not even a plastic case like this guy just literally toss tossed a bunch of crap from a PlayStation 3 Bundley got yeah, I called the shit crate. There you go. What are you guys thinking the chat? What should I do? Should I I mean if I go to the police? I'm gonna drive The police it's probably living with his grandma Hey, what if the disc had like millions of crypto on it, that's hilarious seriously that would be oh My gosh This is just like an onion you pull back a layer and it's like whoa smelly and more interesting So I don't know what do you reckon in the chat? Let's say it's gonna take me three hours of my time by the time you know what I drive out there Whatever you wait the police station. No way is it worth three hours of my time to go and report this dude What do you think in the chat sound off? Yeah, what do you think of the chat? I'm gonna say no way because like At least you got something if it was nothing you got nothing I might be more pissed about it But the whole funny thing about it lightens the scam a little bit and The idea of going and spending like hours of effort to try to do what recover an $84 transaction is Is now at 84 euros, which is about a hundred bucks probably it's about the same now what professor womb whom says I like guns, which is an excellent point. I just want the light gun. That's true. I suspect he doesn't have them Yeah, he's he's running some he's running some third level Freakin mind game a light gun scam out on the internet and he's he got busted on his honey hole You're right. So now the next question then becomes if I die if I can't be screwed doing three hours You know of all that what can I do to mess with this guy? And this is where my police friends are gonna come in Oh, I'll ask them a little bit. You know, what can we do? What can I do to mess with him? What can I do to sort of make him think like something's up? So I'll give you the updates in the next stream. What what advice I get excellent. Yeah Well, yeah, I I like that story. That's not that's not the worst game I could give you a good a good little story to go with that about about about not getting what you're expecting in a box One of the crazy get when I was when I was in high school. We've talked about some of this. There's Everybody wants you to troll him. So Anyway Yeah, so There was a guy at a shoe store. I worked at this was a big shoe store in like the 90s It was in the United States. It was called just for feet so inventive, right a gigantic warehouse style Shoe store and their big claim to fame when you walked in there was always a half court basketball court inside the store so there would just be people you go in there and play basketball if you wanted get some shoes and I worked there as a high school student and I remember coming in and one of the old veteran guys which he was like 18 leaving and he was like the cool guy at the shoes place and Well, he I didn't we didn't find this out. So he we I was getting trained I met this guy then I worked there for a while then he left and We would still see him because he was cool. We thought we'd see him out at the town you know hang out drink a couple beers and he'd tell us these stories because we were still working at the shoe store and He's like so it's anybody found a shit box yet and we were like What the hell is a shit box and he's like, oh, I guess nobody's found one of my shit boxes And I say we're like, oh god. No, please Casey. What the hell is a shit box? And he says well You know that week before I got really mad that week before I left They kind of treated me wrong and treated me like a jerk And we see yeah, we remember and they said well, I went around every time I had to take a crap I went in the back warehouse and I took a dump in a shoebox on top of a pair of shoes Put the shoebox back and put it in the back in its spot and It was like he would pick random shoes that people normally would not buy So here's the thing with just for feet It had like you would walk in and there will be one shoe on the wall of no joke at least 500 shoes Okay, but out of all those 500 shoes Maybe 10 of them were people with shoes people wanted like they were either common or they were the ones people bought They were the ones people bought the other 90% were just basically filler crap that one person out of 1,000 would come in and ask for and then the funny thing was too is you never had the people's size in anything You'd come in there and I so I don't have your size in that whatever you want And then they then that's when they'd go to the selection of 90% other and say give me that one in my size And that's what you might get hit with a turd box So I mean we never like I Personally never got hit with a turd box But I did have one of the three friends of ours did grab a shoe box and thankfully he was like this lady had asked for Three shoes we finally had one in her size and it was this like goofy ass new balance wide-foot shoe That was like one that had been sitting there for three years untouched And he said I look I take it out He said I didn't even open it first that I opened it and it was like this decayed Like cigar turned on the shoes And he say just put it back and he said sorry, man We don't actually have that size in stock and And he just played it off because he knew about the turd story, but you know there was turds there and look you know It didn't so the reason it wouldn't smell is it was a gigantic gigantic warehouse So imagine taking a shit and it put it in a shoe box and putting it in the back of a warehouse Nothing smelled because like you would literally have to take a shit on the floor in the middle And it might smell for a while, but it's so large it would dissipate Anyway, I hope we didn't just like luredly run off everybody in the audience there with my This is great. I've got a few more questions if we could still go on with a poop topic Yeah Was he he was opening a box was he pooping directly into the shoe box or pooping somewhere else and then adding the poop in No, no, it was pooping directly into the box Of course directly and all right. I hope he wasn't wiping his bum with that like tissue paper. That's in there. Oh, yeah, right now My gosh science, baby. That's right. Zero sleep Name of science. Well, so there was another I could tell you another really quick story so I didn't I worked there a couple years and Eventually all my buddies we kind of fell out of love with the place And you know you worked there a couple while with your friends You're like let's get the hell out of here. We went to a sub shop and all works there So we yeah, but yeah, it was kind of like that. It was called Jersey Mike's which is similar to that but when we were like when we were leaving There it was this very old computer system because this is the late 1990s and Like they had this whole inventory system, but it's run from a 90s computer, right tower computer hooked up to a Telephone internet and there's one fat like this one guy was such a dick and a weirdo he was chubby and He was like always a creep to everybody and his job was like the warehouse manager He would sit back there in this office and he said he was like checking inventory on his computer Well, he apparently we get back there and start looking at early 90s porn And he downloaded this crazy virus that infected every computer on the freaking Just for feet The whole the whole building like all of them even like the the ones that were running the cashiers and freaked out and like He basically got busted in his story before when they were trying to when they were telling him he was fired He said that me and this other guy who worked there who he hated like we stood like busted chops because he couldn't fire us but he was such a dick and we didn't really care about the job that we would always just make fun of him and He really get hated the both of us so he said that we scaled a wall in the warehouse Broke through event came down into his office and downloaded the porn on to his computer to sabotage him The only way we do about this is because the general manager was thought it was so funny that he had to entertain the guy and Asked him to come and asked us to come up and just told us asked us straight up He told us that story and asked us yes or no if we did it and we were just like No, we didn't do that and he was like okay and that was it and they like they like took the guy He was gone as last time I saw him Hey, you know those other two guys. They're secretly navy seals. Just want to let you know don't know if you know They're secretly able to pull up black ops operations. They go it in through there. Yeah Bruce Willis. Yeah a couple teenagers We are yeah The funny thing was is the guy the other guy who was was actually accused did go over to Iraq It was like a hardcore Marine for a long time and so and he actually rebuilds engines. That's pretty funny. All right Well guys, we've been going for a while. I mean we got 30 minutes in sorry to stall everybody That's a little longer than usual I think we probably got the max amount of people here But if not and you have not already, please do us a favor hit the like button Because we're doing great. It will help listen to the story I haven't caught up for a while. So we got a you know, let it out Yeah, we kind of just jumped on here together. It's been such a long time Lewis with his new amazing business He's been building but you know when you build things new like that. It takes a lot of time and dedication and that's good So That time so I'm happy. I don't care. We do it on my channel your channel I don't care where we are as long as we talk. So let's do it. Okay, so now we're gonna get into the main topics This is the main topic. I will put a timestamp below for anybody who comes in and it's like, where's the main topic? it'll be timestamps below as usual and it's about 31 minutes into the stream and the main topic is my CRT store idea my CRT store that's coming and Should I open it and what? What do you guys think what is list think and So we kind of go from there. I Think steeper. Okay. First of all, you need to explain your idea. Okay. We've fallen for the clickbait Walk us through well concept is yeah, I could give you my idea because it's actually happening this weekend I'm getting ready to leave For an expo it's the music city multicon. It's the one I've done just about every year where I give a present only one I give a presentation on and I'm going there and you know, they really Help will hook me up with anything I want so they said now I could get a booth in the CRT area, right? Which I had last year you saw the videos of that where I had the CRT paradise. Those are those videos and So this year I was like I'm trying to clear up some more space in this shop and get rid of things that have just been sitting Here like personal items that are CRTs That I don't really use that Would be better off going to somebody in a better home I clean them up and I was like so this is what I'm gonna try to do I'm gonna go to this show normally I just sit there and it's more like a promotional thing I don't actually try to sell anything. I try to relax and I'll have CRTs there But I'll also give the presentation and do more like awareness stuff, you know raise awareness and but this year I'm like I'm bringing these five CRTs that I've worked on and I'm going to set them up to sell At this show and so I'm gonna have literally the booth from selling CRTs And so that's what like the temporary thing is happening but That's pretty much the one-time deal So I want to see how I'm gonna get some idea of exactly how that works out if that's worth anything right away this weekend Okay, so you're hoping that at the expo at the convention you can shift a couple of sets Get some idea about how people are buying them So that's because that's a thing that people are coming there and then they're gonna walk home with that set Which is a little bit of a different idea. Is that have I understood correctly? Yeah, and kind of to make it easier all the sets. There's I think there's three or yeah There's three 13 inch sets the biggest one is a JVC 20 inch D series And that's obviously the nicest one and then there's one eight inch, which is this this PVM right here And just to give you an idea This PVM is actually gonna be It's eight inch PVM. It's actually got the high-resolution tube on it So this is like the 400 plus line tube on the eight inch PVM. It looks amazing here on your screen and it's again this composite video you're seeing this and This is gonna get sent away to somebody. I mean somebody's gonna get this for ten dollars And what I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna I'm just gonna have a I'm gonna have a raffle for it where I'm just gonna sell tickets for ten dollars And I'm gonna have a limited number of raffle tickets and hopefully that Will get some hype as the weekend goes to finish off with a drawing where somebody will get this PVM for ten dollars You know with a power cord with the inputs it needs to just put in composite everything it needs to go It's been serviced. It's not been recapped. It's been serviced though and like calibrated runs for hours has no problems low hours It's just older Can you tell us can you tell us what is the original cost of that unit? Well, this one would have been the more expensive unit But it's from 1988 and this was like as good of an input as they had really in 1988 for the most on the standard on these so It would be really a guess it's about six hundred dollars or normal back in that day period so five hundred six hundred dollars Because it's someone here on the chat earlier was asking how much about do these eight inches go for he was saying he's looking for a deal So it just kind of ties into this so let's say I wanted to get that like also I'm getting for you selling me that ten bucks a ticket. How many tickets do you have to buy to make it worth your while? Right, so my idea is I hope I can at least sell 20 tickets and then like if I hit 20 really fast I probably will then cap it like limit it to maybe a maximum of 30 total tickets and Unless I come up with like a charity idea that it goes over that and give it away or something if it really took off or something and So I But that's that's the one thing this ten dollars again It's so here's the cool thing about this one actually Lewis. This one is It has the same tube that goes in those other eight inch ones So if you literally found a eight zero four four or the one of the high resolution PVMs that's later on down the line Like that has a screen burned in you can usually find those with a bad tube or screen burned in in America for cheaper less than a hundred dollars and You could put this tube in there if you wanted to and you would have a fully functional like $800 eight inch PVM. That's the best that there is because it has the higher line tube count And it's the same too So that's really the biggest sacrifice for me is I've got a working PVM here, but I've also got a tube that's Worth more in parts than really the monitor almost is the tube is it's funny so So this is the first so you're going to do this raffle at the thing and this generates a bit of a Publicity for retro tech as well. So there's a certain value in you doing that as well So I imagine like if you can what break even make a little extra have a nut We all have a nice time. So that would be the raffle thing. Yeah, is that your intent? yeah, and then at the conference and to do that and then I'll have that go off and then The others like I said, I'll have the others all set up there Doing running at the booth and I will have price tags on each one of those and you know, we're talking 180 to like That's what I'm thinking is like 180 on these service sets to about 200 bucks for the 13 inch ones And then the I'm not quite sure you don't think a 270 to 300 for the JVC if it sits longer I'd obviously drop the price down but that's kind of another thing I wanted to see what people in the chat can obviously chime in and don't feel any pressure on anything But what do you guys feel and I don't I don't want like some bs. So I love your stuff kind of answer I mean, what do you feel like I don't I would like wonder if what you think if you walked in And what would seem like a price at a show that seems kind of fair on some of uh, like if you actually did see a crt Set up because I wait to break down the models first then this is what's important So the 20 years to jvc. That's a consumer set, right? They're all so here's the thing They're all consumer sets except for this one except for this one They're all consumer sets And obviously they're the one so one of them is the one I showed yesterday, which was the Toshiba 13 inch another one is a magnavox 13 inch with a flat screen And like those are really late models in the 2000s. They've been serviced The magnavox is actually mod modifiable very easily like to add Very simple mod. You can actually add component and s video to it So I don't have time to do it before the show. So if it comes back and I don't sell it I can redo that some point too. So that's not too bad One of them is the old white sony kv, which is from the 90s Oh, that thing's beautiful, right? But that's that's not modifiable, but it's going to be all original. It's super clean like amazing I've cleaned it up. I've got the original remote with it Works perfectly. So that one will be there and then And then this one and then the jvc like I said the d-series Yeah, like that snuffer stuffer. That's what the most expensive one that I would sell would be that serviced Jvcd series which is from the mid 2000s with the remote control looks great. It's been adjusted And serviced and that's 20 inch and that's 20 inch Looks like a brand new tube And like I think that three hundred dollars is probably fair on that But that would be like the max I would never really want to go over that But again, it's 20 inches. It's got it's got everything you want to write built into it component s video composite rf And it has an amazing menu and service menu and it has like the flop down door That's on there. It's got full. Um, it actually has a really interesting Set up that you could do with just the speakers on it some high-end speakers on it so I I I have to say I think it's good and I think those would be interesting to hear from everybody in the chat how you perceive because My european perception of price is very different to everyone else But if I just abstract away and say, okay, here's a high quality item. It's been serviced by a technician There's this history. You've already, you know, you told me what this stuff is uh I think that sounds reasonable given that Someone can come and just buy it there and then they don't have to ship They don't have to deal with that you came to their town And you brought them a set so all these little things add up that that sounds like a reasonable amount because i'm at this expo selling this so Yeah, let's let's sound off. We're seeing a few 20 people solid 300 is definitely fair 20 Because right it's not just 300 for any old consumer set steve's looked over at steve's You know and some of those options you've said the component sv Yeah, that's awesome, bro. Well, and that's kind of so here's my idea with this thing I mean, I do have some cost in it. So i'm just trying to What i'm trying to do is just go and basically say, okay I have to spend two to three hours on average in each one of these sets to go in and i mean clean them all up And and and check everything out and then I get into them and I service them individually make the screens look good If there was a bad part in any of them, I would change it out Right, but I go in there and I give it an overall good Inspection and if there's nothing wrong with it and like a lot of these they're in good shape They don't have a lot of hours on them for consumer sets. You know, they were just kind of Parked somewhere they're 13 inches people back in the day didn't like live on their 13 inch TV they had bigger ones they lived on so The majority of them is those I feel like that would be cool Then somebody could literally pick one up and go carry it around with them and use it in the show I think people that are selling stuff at a booth would probably come and buy one early on if they really wanted it Set it up in their booth. I mean, that's a smart idea to Add something you could draw a little bit more attention to I feel like so I don't we'll see It could be just for the chat to Dwight Dixon. Yeah, we're talking about at the conference not talking about shipping these No, these are you would go to the conference and Steve would be there and you would physically haul it away from the From the event Yeah, just like anything you go to the convention you go to a booth and you buy something from a creator or a Uh merchant, right? so you're gonna go in you grab it and So that's uh, but again What were the other prices? Sorry you had yeah, and the other ones were between 150 to possibly 200 for those 14 inch sets depending on the model and uh You know, there's no way any of them would be over 200 bucks I don't think and again. They all do come with working remotes that come with them That's huge. That's great, man working remotes And if anything often I imagine at those conferences smaller ones might also sell because hey I can actually carry a 14 inch 20 starting well, you know, I could break my back and You know what I mean? Like the smaller ones are actually manageable Yeah, and I think that there's going to be a situation too where a lot of these people don't live around And were they like I've been looking forever for crt and the only one I find is either too big It's dirty. I got to go to some creeps house And Do this yeah, everybody they keep people keep asking it has been Uh like serviced This does not include Any recapping service because that would blow the price out of really a lot of people's budgets There's really no point in me like completely recapping these sets and then bringing them to the show and charging $500 Which is what I'd have to charge for them. So Um, just if your case if that's what you're thinking Then just kind of drop that from your head I might bring one like depending on the success of this maybe next year I'd bring one that's like fully serviced fully recapped that way somebody could buy that Okay So I think we've talked a lot about this on the podcast that the amount of work that goes into doing a cap service is very difficult to justify for a consumer set and What I also take away from that That if you've done the you haven't replaced the caps, but you've done the visual inspections You've looked inside you've looked at the geometry Everything looks good. There's no bulging caps. Nothing's leaking These are late model sets Yeah in the 2000s. So we're already it's not like some 80s thing that's got 20 years on it already Well, like these these are sorry these there's a couple but those have been more checked with like deeper component checks with like tools and stuff And you know, it's all and then there's more cleaning involved like on some of them than others So, yeah, right. Sorry, but just to add so if you like this, uh It's a bit of a misconception almost that the cap replacement Like it'll like fix everything apparently, you know, it makes you see it jump up and down and you know, give you a blow jump at the end of the night Like apparently apparently that's what a cap kit does just everyone's really focused on Oh replace the caps where I just I agree for the Amount of money it takes to do it the time compared to for a 2000s consumer set Really not needed unless there's really obvious Capacitive bulging going on Yeah, and like I said, I've inspected two the tubes and they're so it's it's stuff that hasn't got a lot of hours on it And the other thing about the consumer sets is they're they're spread out. They're not compact usually like pvm. So there's a lot more air Flow through there. They don't tend to get as hot As others that people weren't Like again these smaller ones people don't just leave them on these things were left on running left on left on and so That's that's kind of the idea for this shop and I feel like People, you know in the chat are telling me most part that they feel like those aren't bad prices at all Most people try to charge more Than that for something that or about that much for something that's not even been looked at You know nowadays, which I feel like is kind of true Hmm So so this is step one that's step one is we're at the conference We're gonna see if we can shift a few consumer sets do the little raffle get a little notoriety get a little publicity for us If let's say things go okay one or even two of the sets move This is great success. You've sold a few of them. We got happy customers. Oh, by the way before we move on Thank you to uh, jesus the head Hey, suce rentrea. Thank you for this five dollars two. Oh, I'm having my tongues tied five dollars super chat. Keep it up Thank you very much Thank you very much for that So if that goes well, what's the next steps of the plan? Yes, so this is awesome. I've been talking This kind of hit me in the head a couple years back when I had a good conversation with um I stopped back in Nashville for a trip and I met up with the displaced gamer Chris because we're buddies I went over to his house and his family was in town And his dad was in town from texas and I just loved his dad. He's like the old school guy hilarious great personality and um, we were talking about stuff and his like retirement side job hobby was he had numerous uh, two or three flea market booths Where he sold sporting cards and collectibles, okay And so in these booths, it's not a situation where you even have to be there daily, okay This is the way that these things work is there's you go into a section They're in these markets. They're either called antique markets or their farmers markets. They're open Not all the time You go in past a cashier and a main Uh a main Desk that you get checked out at and then there's probably anywhere from 20 to 50 individual smaller sized booths each booth Has a number and all the inventory on the items are numbered and your price right there And like if you find something you want and it's in a case You go and you tell the person at the front. Hey, I look I want to go buy this Or if it's if it's something that's just out that you buy you go pick it up And you take it to the cashier and you pay for it and then that's part of your rent They take a small portion they take And charge you rent for the spot, right? And he was just like look this has always been great for me at sports cards, you know, it's a niche thing But um, I go there and I set up like walls or cards and set it up and it just looks real cool and there's Uh luis there's like 50 of those places in my town And of these farmers market. Yeah, that's you that are that are similar to this So I started thinking well, I have Like I honestly have a couple of boxes of stuff that I just don't even use they just sitting there Collected us and I could really go and heck even just having them out of this area and having them set up At prices just in a store They might move a lot of them They might not right or whatever I don't know how it's going to go But I got enough inventory for sure to open up one right not and that's the other key for this other thing is It's not just crts. It will also have video games Gaming stuff that's extra here specialty stuff. Maybe some analog hardware analog media And then the crts also in there running and then someone could buy those two that's really Kind of the idea on the store because there's no The overhead is extremely low And It would kind of I think I think it would be something that could pay for itself and actually maybe make a little bit more money And if it rose really well I mean it would be fun to like film stuff from it to right film little things promotional stuff Uh be there sometimes and have people come in I could offer an opportunity for people locally to like sell CRTs that are small. I wouldn't pay them a lot, but it's like hey get rid of your crts safely and don't You know get a little money get rid of it now something uh Pound cables there you go 8 bit 8 bit s squares in here talking about more scams It's always the lawyers doing the scams right because they know the way to to get around it So I'm in a I'm in a college town too So I feel like there would be a lot of people in the college town that would be really into coming by and Like buying 13 inch tubes and some games and setting up a little retro thing It's not a completely dead space of kids and young people. Thankfully. It's like a pretty lively little town uh But that's That's kind of that would be step two is going in and actually doing that Okay, so This is okay. Let's start with this. Let's try and break this down So you said there's a bunch of these market type things Is there one that's already in your mind that's maybe better has similar kind of things or in a good location How would you pick the market? I would say yeah, that's the important thing finding out which ones because look all right We never talk about this stuff because there's a reason we don't talk about this stuff But there's no real reason for us to get in here. We're not a political show, okay But I like there's there's it is whatever. I don't care about what you think Again, this is not political show. We're not talking about politics But I don't like I don't think that kids are going to be hanging out so much at the like extremely ones markets where you've got like You know what cornhole is Do you know what that is like bag throw toss until like a board and you try to get in the hole Well, then so like one of the marketplaces will have All these cornhole things that are homemade set up made out of this high quality wood and they'll have like a big trump With like a machine gun on a tank going like mom, man, you know, like it's like I don't think that It's just like, you know, it's just a little too Right too to right. I'm not going right or left here. I'm trying to get more people here to come to guy, you know So I'm like I might stay away from that location So that's like the scouting of the locations. I want to find which ones kids will actually go to There's one really popular one in town Uh But they don't do like the I would have to basically open up a whole store In that one. It's not as much and it's open But it's not like the antique thing. It would be Okay, it's really worked. That might be step three Okay, like if step two worked and it's like, wow, this is really moving. I'm getting stuff in and out I need to have a store that's open Then we would move to this nicest place. So this is awesome There's like a chance to do all this right and eventually I could make it It's like we still have a crappy 90s style mall Like here and I can eventually move to the mall Right if this really goes well, so Okay, but that's uh So the idea would be to find one of those that's more gets a lot of people because I've been in a lot of them And there's a lack of this in the marketplace I feel like if people knew it was there and like again You're what happens is you're getting a bunch of kids that are going out with their family while they're in town They're getting dragged to these marketplaces in town by their parents if there was a place in there They're like, holy shit. There's a game store in here full of all these cool collectibles. It would it would spread around Word of mouth would go quick I think and I could do I could do events on campus show them Okay, so the What would you expect if you pick the market that you think would be the most appropriate? You're either going to get people who are just coming through as you say They're already coming to the market and they think that's a thing or Then they're coming to the market Specifically because they want to come and see your thing which means you've done some marketing You've got the word out maybe you can through your channel and what you do So which one of those two do you expect the most? Do you expect people of your demographic to just be walking there? Or do you expect to Your own channels to educate them so then they will specifically go to that market for you Well, that's that's kind of like the hard thing to really nail down I think anytime is like what's the actual marketplace like what's actually out there? Who's the actual buyers in this? Are they spending money? There is like another video game store in town And a couple other places however, I'm also thinking that This could turn into some kind of a community thing Where you would end up with a lot of regulars who are in this town who are into this kind of thing And if there was like a hangout spot like when I was growing up there was like a you know a comic shop Or you know you'd go down there and you'd hang out and that but there'd have to be more space for that And that becomes a full retail place then Um, so it's an interesting thought. I do think that since it's something also that's so unique You would never know exactly what I had in inventory. That's going to be something that's going to make a lot of people really um Want to check it out because it'd be different inventory all the time And what will you explain again the concept that you don't need to be there all the time that the stuff can be on display And someone could just take it will that Work first of all, how do they do it like if you're selling a game How do they do it that i'm not going to steal it because usually a game is in a cabinet Well, so you're you're you're basically you renting it. They have cabinets, right? You could say it's different packages It's like, okay. I want to rent that booth I'll take the display cases Over there that you have available so bundle that all together And the only thing that like won't be would be like big items that they can't sneak out with Like a boxed console on you know, but most items probably would be items that they would have to go get for you And again, it's like it's like you're walking into a market And this mark the person who owns a place is the one who has the register and they're just basically facilitating the market They're like saying yeah, all these people paid for their spots. You just go pick if you want one item I have a master key. I go open that display. I pull it out. We go ring you up Okay, this is good. This is good. So, um, we got another super chat from demo Kirby for two bucks. Thank you demo Uh college town consider a buyback biz model. Yeah Absolutely And so that would be another cool thing imagine if it was like, yeah, if you really don't like this crt Somebody was like that you could take it for a couple years and you know, eventually I'd buy it back from you or something If you really didn't like it, you could always sell it back, right? So it's it's got a gamestop style model in there And also I'd be buying things inventory Of course, you'd be out there. Well, people wouldn't that might be a knock on effect people would know you're the guy so Maybe people will come to you more often. You'll be able to schedule something there or like the person Working I could you know, if there's a question they could call me and most of the time if it's daytime I could be there in uh 20 minutes if it's something really important Oh Ape it says goodbye. He says he's it out of lunch time Okay He's got to go back. He's got the tie on he's got some kind of important case probably to take care of And Hey guys, could we just uh, I hate to ask you all if you haven't done so already, please Give us a like for the conversation. I enjoy everybody's input But please if you help us out give us a like and uh We'd keep the conversation going and uh get some more um People coming in as the show rolls on later because If you've missed it so far, we've been talking for a good half an hour about the business model On how to open a successful wonderful CRT business. Hey, look at this. There's great. There's great. I like some of these um, I love some of these Ideas Dwight Dixit said a rental store That's Not even a bad idea in itself. There are situations where I'm sure Promotion imagine that getting promotional companies involved and asking that will be a part of this business model I I feel like having a storefront can really help this grow, right? I mean, there's if if we could do this, right, it's right And then have it's just got to be It adds legitimacy. I need a way to have some way to get more revenue and have people working here Especially if I get some crazy ass job like the museums want me are having me bid for I'm gonna need more help A video game cafe. Yeah, I mean that kind of thing could be in there, too That would obviously be as you grow you have a little bit of an area you'd have some stuff set up like this And then you just like have it all set up when they cut the power on it comes on automatically You don't even have to have anybody there Okay, so I'll present another idea to you Steve just to get us thinking what to as a comparison just to get us thinking What would be the difference If you instead Just set up a really great online catalogue and I don't mean online store I don't mean specifically that I can click and get it shipped But I've just got a great online catalogue You use all your online resources to make sure everyone knows about it And they can come and pick it up from you if they're in your area If they're gonna drive to that they may as well drive to your place or whatever like what would How what would be worse about having an online catalogue with all this info instead Well, I mean this is like So that's that's obviously the less risky way because you're eliminating overhead and you're not Taking a leap But I'm gonna be I don't know man. This just goes back again to that stupid thing. We're all chasing nostalgia and To me I always like being like a broke poor kid From a broken home growing up one of the places I love to go was the Store like this, but it was more of a place that had like arcade games video games Comic books and then like magic the gathering and actually this was right when pokemon cards were starting all this was going on and stuff And that was like a haven like safe spot way running away and I really loved Just that store and I often think how many great memories I have just going in there on the weekend Wasting all the time there and I know it's probably not the best business model right to have people just hang it out in your store like that but I feel like People miss out on a lot of that stuff and I know that for first text like hanging out in With you in the chat is awesome and and even like this experience of us together The live shows There's something so much more special about being able to connect with people personally I mean you could really make people like have friends in real life And like change lives And it says cheesy and stupid and as corny as i'm sounding like right now, which i'm sure somebody's laughing at me Like look at this moron. That's like that's the only thing that will save the future is getting people to come together on something They absolutely love that's not divisive. It's not harmful and it's something they could connect with each other on and like, you know I don't know that's that's my silly rambling Okay, I have a thought for you another way to think about this or an experience from myself So I've talked a lot my still current business what I was previously doing mostly Is promoting stand-up comedy? So we have a group of comedians and people want to come and see them So we book a venue that might be a theater or that might be a cafe or we do it at a pub or something And then if it's a bigger show, we're selling tickets And that's how the money gets right and there's some expenses. Maybe you gotta pay rent Uh, maybe I gotta buy some lights or something, you know, and then there's some expenses then we then the money gets divided up and In Estonia, we've always Found venues. So what's the new cafe that's cool that's got a nice space that's appropriate What's an appropriate theater that holds 50 people hold one second? Sorry. Sorry, Luis. Hold the four down for me I don't know what's going on. I think my daughter turned the water on. I'm gonna go check Of course, and we got a super chat from Robert. I'll talk. I'll talk to you. Thank you very much. Yeah, let me go check Cole's going crazy. Yeah, because I don't know I'll be right back No problems. Robert. Thank you very much For the super chat. Now, Robert, you're in Sweden. Aren't you my friend? I saw over there I'm just down here in Estonia and you said you had a price. I saw there. You said how much the pvm was gonna cost So pvm 604, which is like the small one. Wait, is that the the 604 is the really small one like The I think it's the equivalent of the five inch In America, I've got a I think I've got three or four of those in my storage room And they wanted 800 look I would totally believe that all retro shit is super expensive in Scandinavia I I follow a cup one or two stores in Finland also very very expensive anything in Stockholm super very expensive Uh, so I I can understand why it will be so expensive Right as Robert said the five six inch five to six inch ones the reason we're saying five or six inch is that they're I don't know why but there seems to be a discrepancy in the sizing between NTSC and power let's say American and European units because Steve talks about the 13 inch pvms, but I've got the 14 inch It's the same pvm and steve talks about the eight inch model where I've got the nine and I think in The you're at the American models are called the 8o like it's pvm 8o or bvm 8o and the one that I have the European ones that I have they're 9 9 0 9 0 4 4 d is the one I have So maybe someone in the chat can shed a bit of light on why There's a naming discrepancy took me ages to work out. I was like why is every set One inch smaller in America Uh, I don't know what's up with that Um, Robert. So Robert was saying even the really small one Robert. I'll tell you what mate if you ever come over to Estonia I'll sell you one for 50 bucks or whatever cheap I've got a bunch of them because I'm never I'm never gonna really use a five inch. It's kind of cool It would be quite cool. I was thinking maybe to have a few of them lined up here or something kind of getting that cool effect But I'm not I'll be uh, sometimes we'll play on the nine inch But I don't think I'm really gonna play on the five inch, you know, I'm a six inch one So thank you. Okay. Next up is smasher. Josh with two quid Thank you very much sir thoughts on widescreen crt's. I've got one with a curved screen What sort of thoughts sir, uh, the widescreen Uh crt's it's starting to get into murky territory because they're often HD crt's as well and this is where we need to look very carefully at each particular model. Um, I don't No, Steve will know this better than me, but I'm not sure there there are not many like 15 kilohertz 240p widescreen crt's I think there's not many of those Usually they're able to do a little bit higher as well for 80p 720p And the important thing with those larger ones is you need to find the native Resolution of it, which it may not be it may not say so This comes from investigations that mr. Shank from shank mods was doing where he was trying time sleuth on a hd crt And trying like 480i 480p 720 and he was finding like I forget which one it was 480p Had super low lag 720p lots of lag 1080i lots of lag 240p horrible, but the one resolution that the screen was like native at was actually quite low lag so And then to combine all of that you've got a It's very hard to know without looking at the unit. So you got a whole body thing around the place So it's very the ideal circumstance is to have a time sleuth or some sort of device to measure the lag on the different resolutions So you can understand it well So smash is saying the 32 inch variant, right? You'd really need to look at the individual model number to be able to understand What is the different resolutions because there's quite a variance in the hd crt's Excellent thanks for holding it down. Yeah, I was this was so it sound silly you're a man who knows heating oil So I'm in the basement and I've got my 500 gallon heating oil tank right behind me And uh, I'm sitting here the dog sparking when you're talking to me and and then I start sounds like There's a gigantic hose flowing water out the house and it's literally I look out and it's the guy He's pouring, you know gallons of fuel into the tank and that's why it's sloshing and sounded So I had uh, anyway Had to go pay him uh for the heating oil Oh, yeah, but before you do that also to mickey uh in the chat You said you're also it's been made And props for movies and commercials video walls for events Is that something you do mickey? Is that a service that you're offering in sweden? Sorry, I didn't understand from the chat just because i'm really close and I've got a bunch of monitors I would love to do something like that. How do you do it? Who are you marketing to? event companies or production companies If you are doing something like that tell us all about it. So okay steve things are Where we'll go talk about the crt's the shop. Okay Um, I was telling you my analogy of stand-up comedy and that we're a bunch of independent comedians We choose the venue that we want to go to now people then inevitably say hey Why don't you make a comedy club? Why don't you make the club where you can go and You know it's a comedy club like you would know with the brick wall at the background and tables and the whole thing And get the whole experience. Why don't you do that? Why you pay rep? And I said I don't want to do that because what I want to do is sell tickets That's my business telling tickets And when I run a venue, I've got to run a pub basically I've got to pay rent. I got to stock a bar all of a sudden. I'm selling drinks. I'm slinging drinks Uh, maybe I got to sell some food. There's a kitchen. Oh my god. It's a Different business model and I realized I had no love For running a venue if I'm gonna run a venue. I'm gonna run a venue. I'm not gonna try and do both At once and so it was better for me to be more flexible Choose the venue. I want to go From there. So my point to relate it back to you Is I wonder steve rather than making your own market Yeah, one of these Existing if some existing place Was open to you having a corner a place like where you don't need to build the rest of the culture So I'm thinking maybe one of the retro game stores. I know nothing about them. I'm talking about my bum but They maybe they would love to have a bunch of those crt set up people can play them The staff maybe even know a bit about them. You don't have to be there Maybe down there. Maybe they take a commission. Who knows you'd have to work that out or some sort of cafe Pub some sort of place where they could be set up and people can play that my point is to find a place where you can Exhibit your wares and the place is creating more atmosphere. So you don't have to do all of that yourself Yeah, that's well that would be so there's another thing I should tell you there's already a Couple places in town that have a bunch of like arcades in them like these barcade style thingies and So there the thing I'm thinking is is do you're right? I think there would be an opportunity Uh to cross market with them if you open up I feel like if you go it's always like this right if you go, hey, I've got all these things in my garage Or if I go, hey, I got this store Down here at the flea market You know, it's a flea market, but down here at the blank market. I've got a store there Uh, let's do some marketing together or something or I'll show up to your next event with crt's that people come in and do things, uh The only reason they're like the reason I know that the I think that the the thing about the um And that's what I've got to get this priced out But some of these flea markets are these markets that have that I'm talking to you about I I don't see them. They're they're going to start at like 200 dollars which is About twice as much as cost me to have the same size of storage space in town Right, sorry, right. So so now we're talking about the like the overhead costs Right, so this is going to be an easy thing to jump into and again not to have to have a lot overhead And it would also on the flip side if it goes completely awful and nobody ever shows up after a couple months You're not out that much money and you could just close it down. You're not locked into a long lease And you could just say okay that really didn't work or what happened? Why didn't it work? uh You know Hey Oh super guy crt. You got the 1999 super chat. Thank you, buddy. Just received the color watchman. All right. Thank you for sending it in and leave it with me for like Six months. Also. Thank you for the stickers. You're you're welcome. That's like some of the very last few stickers I have left anymore. Unfortunately. I've actually been talking with um Bob's guy Ariel about And I'm gonna meet with him soon after after this convention about merchandise and things uh For more stickers so That'd be cool. I love some of those stickers. So thanks very much super super guy appreciate that 20 bucks That goes a long way. So okay, so The I okay, so if we go to the idea of the market, which okay I'm always searching for what they say is the mvp the minimum viable product What is the least thing that we can do to get it going prove the concept and then iteratively Move forward bit by bit So the markets are good because the rents super low and you were sort of implying that the rent that you'd pay is like Half of storage anyway, so you're sort of offsetting your storage cost to understand that Yeah, uh like That's what I'm saying like the there's so many of those markets around here that um The options are very much I'm gonna very I mean you could pay more to be at a nicer place or again you can Kind of get this started and rely more on grassroots movement marketing and and really cheaping it out And it's literally double the cost of my storage facility. That's the same. It's probably low a smaller Booth inside the storage unit But storage is expensive around here because it's a college town And so that kind of storage space is at a premium whereas There's a lot of antiques and a lot of antique stores in the area, but there's so many of them They're relying on a lot of small business owners like me and there's just You know, it's it's an influx and outflux. I see booths open and all the time available and It's not open every day. They're open like four days a week generally, right because it's again. It's not so it's it's it's but it's Controlled expense I think that with my items I would be putting in there. They're going to be on an average where it would only take two items to move to cover Right like I'm going to bring a lot of like high-end video games that are going to be $100 a piece that are original like game cubes and extra things like that consoles Items are going to be, you know, you might have some small Little things on the shelf, but most items are going to be that higher-end item in there For that simple reason too All right one way so this is good You're investigating that you're looking into that at this stage because you're not committed to anything You can keep looking around looking at the options the other idea that I was talking about where you find Some existing place whether that's a retro store. Whether that's a bar cafe. I don't know. I'm not sure You find some existing place Where you can put your wares into I think that idea possibly has the power to Has the potential to be all powerful only if you find the partner that's super switched on So if you go to the retro game store and they're like, uh, yeah But it's going to cost you a hundred for the wrapped up No, but if you go down to the retro game store and this guy's fuck. Yeah Hell yeah, I want this in my store if he sees the opportunity of having your crt's there He's like I can already see it at the back. We're gonna set them up. Everyone's gonna come in It's gonna be a place. I'm gonna take a little cut But mostly I appreciate you having the set if if he's totally switched on I'd be like, oh, that's the one I want to do but it's real or a cafe owner who sees your vision So this means you've got to hustle a little bit and use that charm I know a bit of networking feelers out if you find that person I mean, maybe maybe not but if you did that would be Straight up the wind Yeah, you're right. And then so the self-elected was asking about inventory There's Surprisingly, you know, it's just if there's a need I can always go find and again My situation is I I would like what am I gonna do? No one's gonna come in in one month and a good month where they can do buy five crt's Yes, they've got plenty of inventory like I would have inventory for like six months without buying another crt And all I would really this is if it got to that point This is what you do. I would literally go in and just add more value to those crt's and increase the cost on them That would just be it it would become a situation where they're fully recapped Brand new caps And here's another thing I know to do we all know this now. It's so cool with modern stuff you can I could put just a little piece of a little note card on top of the monitor or and have a qr code that goes directly to a Website that's a google drive folder. It has all the information about Said crt what's been done to it without even having to be there Right, you just have a little qr code up there to just scan it and they could see everything about it The whole thing would be full of qr codes check out the youtube channel check out the specialist blah blah blah But I also uh, yeah, the thing again is is it's like you say time time to get out there and try to promote this I've already got so much like I I've I've got so many crt jobs in the shop right now It's unreal and the list is At least 20 still it stays around 20 solid people Our crt is waiting to come in and and things like that I mean, I love I love the idea Of the qr code idea that if you don't have somebody there because ordinarily if there was a shop keep fair all the time They're the ones you'll be like well, you know, let me tell you all about this model and super knowledgeable shopkeeper Can tell you all that but if the model is that that person is going to be around The qr code listening to the document which has got your service history pictures the whole thing This is awesome. This is giving me if I've never heard of steve. I'm like who's this nutter guy sounds weird. What's going on? This gives me some Satisfaction feeling some comfort that this is You know something credible something good that why am I spending a couple hundred and the proof of the service? Which is really your value In this Case So qr codes are great qr codes are great. Yeah, this is a very good thing. Um, yeah, okay, so then Let's take even a few steps back here what Is your intent you're taking a few steps back because As you say your time is valuable. You don't have that much time You need to earn a little bit more find a new income stream find a new revenue stream It's very normal for any business to want to do that and there's always a balance when a business goes into a new area a new income stream that We need to prioritize our time. So of course you want to be doing the thing that makes steve the most money but Any new income stream at first always like at first take some time you got to hustle a bit to get a go Oh, yeah, there's always that balance that I know won't bring me so much at first But I've got this vision. I think we're going somewhere with this that in a year in 18 months in 24 months This then will be a reasonable income stream. So you've got to balance those two off too. Yeah, exactly and then there's um There's other ideas like how to get again Even if i'm charging the money the rate I want to charge and i'm sitting here fixing crt's 40 50 hours a week paid You get to a point where it's like, well, that's just at the end of this time You're still limiting yourself kind of because you can't do all these other things you can't expand And you're hitting the expansion wall. So you do have to find a new way uh, the reason I need new revenues simple as I need to either find a um, okay, well, it's like it's like again the next level of expansion for something is More people working for you having a way, you know that you got to have somebody um to be able to do that and then a space for that kind of right so I don't know that's No, you're any business any business needs to expand and look you got a family families take unlimited amounts of money This day at age. So you've got to look after your family. Yeah, you need to expand a little bit now This is a topic that we've spoken about before and I'm glad we can revisit it again that At the all the the the difficulty with being a specialist like yourself while it's also amazing is that your time is limited And your ability to generate income right now is a factor of your time hours in the day And see what you need to do you need to create a way that it's not so limited to hours in the day So is that hiring someone else? And I know we went through all that in a different conversation. Is that good? Um, or is there some other way if we're selling all right if I can get sets out the door and to to sell them um I I wonder as well um Could the I don't know here the selling of this there's the fixing and the selling and now I've got this idea in my mind They're kind of two separate businesses a little bit Steve is the expert. Steve has the technical knowledge. It'll probably still be you fixing The crts for a while. Yeah, it would have to it would take like literally a Passionate apprentice relationship to be able to get somebody in here. It's like a blacksmith. You know, you got to get Somebody almost to come in here and train under you and learn it and learn these unique It's a unique kind of skill that doesn't right Is it used? Normally, so that that's the tricky part there, but then if we say the crts selling is a separate business now that's something That actually someone could step into right a bit more that it is possible And now whatever that is whether that's online selling whether it's a storefront Whether someone's setting up this amazing U-Haul shipping. No work. I don't know I'm just thinking that the selling of the crts is a business a part of the business where someone else could help you Seems to be Yeah, I would I mean it's It's better to like just to because i'm gonna have to we'll have to round this thing up pretty soon here Uh to kind of give an encompassing like idea. It's it's at least it's better to be In this kind of uh business mode because this is not what most businesses are in right now You know a lot of businesses are struggling at this time at least in like bigger businesses But it i'm i'm glad that i'm at a point where i'm trying to creatively think of Um and have the ability to possibly expand this wild idea Right. I mean it's always going to be unique. It's always going to be different There's always going to be naysayers to it because there always have been But there's also a bunch of surprising people and I don't think it takes as much Uh You know I feel like a lot of times once you get those you know how it is you get that thing built and it starts going And it's like wow it sure Looking back on it. It was a ton of work But now it might be something that you're like holy crap now. It's it's almost its own thing that self sustainability on that end of that business part, right Where it's just it's not it's again. Hopefully it becomes something like that um It's like now i'm not I'm not the kind of guy that has to go out and like promote myself as a crt repair person uh with any kind of anything because It's that's gone to the point where that's Beyond that where I have you know people come to me Uh because I've done that like you say I built that it took five six years to build that and You know I could say you know five years from now you're like wow It was really a risk worth taking that worked out and then what are we thinking about on the next end? so I think having help I think help in the sales. I think there is a potential to have whether that's Frick and mortar whether that's some sort of amazing distribution network that you've got to sell these crt's Uh, I that I think for you the question is how do we bootstrap this? How do I? Get because I think your time is really valuable and I'd be really worried about Taking lots of your time away to develop this other business even though you have to develop some sure Yeah, do that forever But there's still the moment and we've started to make money in this moment as well as building for the future So if there's some way Someone can come on board or somehow someone wants to be associated to help grow that part of the business That would be My first thought about where to look because that could be because I don't think is there a place where like I can buy crt's anywhere in the states Like anywhere. I mean Yeah, I don't know right a couple of maybe but not Not so much Right, there's something there. I'll use you all to say this is the place to come and buy CRT right from this location or we've got these amazing shipping options and here's the thing so Uh, yeah, man. I love it. I love it. There's this potential that there's this, uh Hope These ideas. This is the the stuff that gets me excited. Good man. Thanks. Yeah. Well, the good thing is is we'll get to get some real Live feedback with the first part of all this with my booth that That won't uh That won't cost me anything because I've worked that out and I'll be able to see whether I'll get some ideas from the public who Got a little gas there from my fizzy water but All right guys, I'm getting texts here. I got a I got a round today show up Uh, and I just want to say thanks again zez for coming on and we'll have to come you'll have to come back and we'll Uh We'll talk some more. We'll follow up on this topic. Absolutely as soon as there's some day I'll hang out the stream as much as you'll have me Absolutely, just because it's easier as well. We don't like great. I don't care if we're talking on my stream Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, we'll get back to uh more regular Sightings of zez For the winter. It's just working out the time and that's exactly it as soon as I'm free at the same time You're streaming and I need to take more effort to catch in with you and be like, hey, man Are you streaming today? I need to ask that a bit more, but I'm really happy to be here So many people what have we got 50 50 people watching now? This is awesome. We have a lot of fun You know daytime television, baby. We're bringing it back Bringing it back folks. Lots of good contributions. We really appreciate belmont. Thank you much for helping out as absolutely Lots of good feedback like you guys have been really good with the thoughts today. Absolutely. Yes. Thank you so much everybody I really appreciate you today. Uh go if you I mean, I know probably is but definitely go check out zez We didn't even get to his recent interview It's still like I've started about about 15 minutes in it And so next time I'll catch up on that but yeah, he has a great interview right now brand new over on the channel Do you want to say anything quickly about that before I jump off? Uh just if you're interested in psio if you've got that psio adapter For the original playstation one I had an interview with a guy who made a custom firmware The original the creator of the psio didn't like that sent him legal threats. Whoo Classic retro gaming drama And I do a deep dive podcast hearing the story of the guy who wrote the custom firmware and got the legal Right, so check that out on my channel appreciate that and uh, yeah, thanks everyone. Yeah. Yeah, definitely watch that That's and guess what? You're also going to get two of the most amazing accents on the internet Combining. Okay. That's all I'll tell you All right, everybody. Thank you all so much. I will see you all next time in the bunker Uh, I don't know depending on what happens tomorrow. There may be a thursday episode But I am getting packed up for the show. We'll see what happens Uh, I hope I do get to see you, but everybody. Thank you again. Thanks again says Alrighty