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Barter Blackjack At 4 A.M.
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A late-night festival story turns into a lesson in barter, showmanship, and why a jar of cicada skins can be priceless when cash is banned. We play Frickfrack Blackjack with vintage bottle caps, thimbles, and a pocket full of zippers, and leave with arms full of absurd winnings.
• how the no-money Frickfrack Blackjack works at festivals
• why unique items beat cash and glow sticks get banned
• building a barter bag with vintage bottle caps and thimbles
• the pocket full of zippers saga and shifting perceived value
• negotiating stakes with toys, guns, and a broken lightsaber
• the cicada jar double down and high–low redemption
• cash guy learns the rules and funds a trade anyway
• morning-after reveal and the story value of weird trophies
• the carnival code of honor, legends, and tattoo side quests
• tips for sourcing small, portable, high-story trade bait
Don’t forget to go to music festivals and enjoy concerts. Live music is the lifeblood of you
Late-Night Festival Setup
SPEAKER_02Top Shelf Stories with Jay, Chris, and Tony.
SPEAKER_00First, they're gonna do demonetize us.
SPEAKER_05Demonetize. Maybe we'll get attention for doing the wrong thing. Like being easy. Are you gonna start saying the N-word again?
SPEAKER_0217 seconds. Alright, everybody. I'm gonna tell you about a little tale of gambling for non-monetary goods. Alright, so you guys know I go to this music festival, right? Like every weekend, every Memorial Day weekend, year after year. I've gone down to southern Illinois to a four-day camp in music festival. A camp in music festival means you camp right near the stages. There are places where you should not camp and cannot camp because it's the stage. Otherwise, camp there. I mean, it sounds fun. I would do it. It is phenomenal. Yeah. Don't wear shoes, listen to music all day, hang out. Why don't you wear shoes? It's just it feels great, man. It feels good.
SPEAKER_05I don't like grass.
What Is Frickfrack Blackjack
SPEAKER_02I'm very fine, then wear your fucking shoes. I don't care. Sorry. So everyone's having a great time, right? But one of my favorite things at this music festival, and one of the stories I'm gonna tell you today, is about this thing called Frickfrack Blackjack. Frickfrack Blackjack is a bunch of carnies that go from festival to festival, street festival to street festival, music festival to music festival, with a little caravan full of random goods. Random goods acquired from patrons. From other festivals. From other festivals. And what you do there is you bring random goods and things to the table.
SPEAKER_05So it's not like a lost and found, and you they're using lost and found items probably is a little bit of that, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_02I'm sure if you found something along the path at the music festival and you're like, oh dang, that is a button that says butt drugs. I'm gonna put that in my pocket and gamble it away.
SPEAKER_00I feel like you came up with that because you have a button that says butt drugs.
SPEAKER_02No, that they exist. They are out there. I've seen them. He won one. But you could, for example, at Frickfrack Blackjack, they do not accept the American dollar, the Canadian dollar, any type of Euro or Deutsch, Meyer, Mark, or anything. Zimbabwe dollar, whatever you got, they ain't taking it. No stock certificates. Nothing. It's all trading. It's all trading.
SPEAKER_05Like it used to be. It should be now.
The Bag Of Barter Goods
SPEAKER_02So how it works is you go up and this is a carney tent caravan across the country that has behind it it you picture this. You're at a music festival, it's four in the morning, the music has stopped. You go to your tent to get your bag of goods that you want to gamble away at Frick Frack Blackjack. This story is about me. I had a bunch of vintage, unused bottle caps from old sodas.
SPEAKER_05Can I ask you one really quick? Sure. Uh so this is actual blackjack with cards?
SPEAKER_02Yes. Okay. So I'm at my tent, I grabbed my bag. My bag contains unused bottle caps from vintage sodas and drinks. How did you find them unused? Uh my great-grandmother, my grand my wife's grandmother actually went to a store and had them for crafting. She gave me this bag. Actually, it started as a big box of crap and I shrunk it down to a little bag of crap.
SPEAKER_05You lost it all at the frickfrack blackjack.
SPEAKER_02Well, no, so I didn't want to carry a bunch of crap to the frickfrack blackjack. I just had a little pouch in my music festival bag full of random things for frickfrack blackjack, and it contained unused bottle caps from vintage sodas, even with cork tops and shit. They were great. Little thumb uh thimble nail protectors from funeral homes from probably like the 20s, the 30s, 40s, right?
SPEAKER_05Are these prized possessions? I have these are frick fracking.
First Hands And Odd Wagers
SPEAKER_02These are frickfrack blackjack possessions because I noticed from my years of experience that people bring a lot of unique things there, and the unique is what they want. They want the unique, right? I had a pocket, a jeans pocket that you would sew on to jeans full of zippers, which I thought would be of great value. I had to say a pocket frack of black jack. Right? It's a pocket from jeans, but not attached to jeans that you would sew on to jeans full of zippers that you would use to replace zippers on clothing if you had a bad zipper. Okay. So you carry around zippers? I had this bag of goods and I took it to the Frick Frack Blackjack, and inside of it was a bunch of other goodies. Right? Little tiny bag about the size of a lunch bag, like you would take like a like a lunch bag. Okay. Yeah. Frick frack blackjack. It's four in the morning. I've been drinking for a day and a half, partying at a music festival, and before bed I decided I'm gonna go gamble away my wares and see what I can get. When you approach the tables, it's kind of intimidating because there's all this action, people are yelling and screaming. Behind you, you see shelves and shelves of various goods, kind of like the bottom shelves, kind of junk, like stuffed animals and random crap.
SPEAKER_00Like the next device pockets full of zippers.
SPEAKER_02The next levels, like pictures and like random the most random shit you could ever imagine in your entire life is inside this tent, and you sit down at the table, and there's like 20 seats at this table for one game of blackjack. And how it works is you place your goods, and in my case, I used my first gamble was three bottle caps and two thimbles. Who decides the so as the carney comes around, they come to you and they say, Oh wow, what have you got here? And of course, I'm like, I have vintage, never before seen, never used bottle caps and thimbles from funeral homes across the country. And I'm offering a few of them up here for for for gambling. And so okay, let's see. So he had the the carney turned around and he looks back at the shelf of like pawn stars today.
SPEAKER_00He's like, I gotta bring an expert in.
SPEAKER_02Well, there are they no, they will, they have. I what their story continues. There is an expert that comes into this story.
SPEAKER_05I mean, there could be something expensive. I wouldn't doubt it if you had all those people there, especially those hippies.
SPEAKER_02Remember the just remind I'll remind you of the pocketful zippers. It comes up later.
SPEAKER_00This is a cash map from a 1972 Dodge Charger.
SPEAKER_02Exactly, dude. So you come to this place, you put your bet down, and they come around in their carny ways, and they're like pirates, like steampunk. Like, yeah, I've seen that. And they're like, hey, what do you got here? I got these fucking bottle caps and these vintage symbols, and they come to you and they're all right, one second. And they turn around and they go through their fucking pile of shit and they come back and they're like, You want to gamble it for this sticker with a r with a with a don with a dinosaur on it? And I'm like, no, fuck your zipper or fuck your sticker. I don't want that shit. And then they turn around and they go back and they look, and then the guy came with like a little fidget spinner thing, looks like a Nintendo, right? I'm like, all right, let's fucking bet. And he puts it down, and that's our bet. So you're one one your dealer versus five or six of us were there at the time. So, but then how do you who you're playing against the dealer? That's how blackjack works.
SPEAKER_05Okay, so if the dealers I understand that, but we don't have money here. Do you though?
SPEAKER_02No, you don't have money. So then you can't, you the dealer came to me and he offered me a sticker first, and I said, Fuck your sticker. I don't want that shit. So that's not a fair trade. He said, Hold on, I'll get something better. And he went back to his shelf and he brought back a fidget spinner of a little bit of a little bit of a couple to each player. Yes. And then so everyone's what I want to know.
SPEAKER_00I thought it's like an hour 20 per hand.
The Pocket Full Of Zippers
SPEAKER_02It takes fucking forever, but it's hilarious because everyone's got fucking rubber chickens and fucking glow, like all this other random shit. I get it. I get it. So then he's like, All right, everybody good, everybody good. We start dealing cards, and he deals cards just like you play poker or just like you play blackjack, he draws a 17, I got an 18, I win. I get to keep my bottle caps and my thimbles, and I got the little fidget spinner. So the next hand comes up. I'm like, all right, I'll raise the ante. I keep everything out there, and I go back to my pocket or my my bag of goods. Was there anything you're eyeing up behind him? You're like, I want that. Not really, but it happens. Watch. So then I get this shit. I get this shit. I got this bag, it's second hand. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna put up the bag, the the pocket full of zippers. I think this is gonna go big, I think to myself. And by this time, a friend of mine had come by, I had like three people watching me, so I get start getting rambunctious, and I'm like, here we go, these fucking pocket full of zippers. And the guy comes around again and he's like, What the fuck is this? I'm like, it's a fucking pocket full of zippers, dude. You've never had that coming along, and the first thing you said was, What the fuck is this? It's the most valuable thing that's on the table right now, and there's like fucking Pokemon cards and like I don't even know, butt plugs, all kinds of shit. Anything you could ever imagine. These people are trading up and they're added all up on the table. And he's like, I don't want your fucking pocket full of zippers. This is trash. I'm like, fine, fuck you. And so then I brought out like die cast, vintage, like Luke, Skywalker, and Chewbacca, and I put those down. He's like, ooh, these are fucking pretty good, right here. And he's looking at them, and they're from like the fucking 70s or some shit. I got them in some way. So he goes back behind the wall and he's like, How about this? And he brings me like a soap dispenser with like Baba Fett on it or something. And I'm like, All right, that's fine, but you need fucking more. This is trash. So he comes back and he's like, I got this rubber band gun. I'm like, fucking rubber band gun, it doesn't work, bullshit. And he loads it up, and I'm like, find me a fucking rubber band, and I'll maybe let you put that down on the table. And he's fucking looking around, he finds a rubber band, shoots one of his co-workers, they all fucking have a big laugh about it, puts it down. That's part of the deal. And then I think I was bitching and moaning about something else, and he gave me a lightsaber. It was broken lightsaber thing, right?
SPEAKER_05One of those one of those things you flick out and it gets bigger.
SPEAKER_02So we make a deal. I'm like, all right, fucking great, right? Remember, it's four in the morning, it's been a day and a half. This is the second time they've done this through the night. The guy's like fucking running on E, probably ecstasy, and by E, I mean, and he's fucking doing his thing. And there's like there's like a whole gaggle of carnies that are like switching turns running the blackjack table. There's like a baccarat, there's a Philo shit, like there's a whole bunch of little games, right? So we make the deal, he keeps going around, and like you said, the games take fucking forever because they're fucking joking with you and running the fucking run.
SPEAKER_03He fucking the other girl comes, blah blah blah, fucking time elapses.
Escalation: Toys, Guns, Lightsaber
SPEAKER_02I'm talking to my friend, all of a sudden this woman comes by, she's behind the counter and she's like, Oh, what you got here? Holy shit, you got a lot. I'm like, Yeah, I'm letting it ride. And I turn around and all the shit's still there. That the guy already added to my fucking stack. So I had like all my shit, plus all the shit I agreed to bet with, and she's like, Well, what are we gonna do now? What are you gonna bet with me now? So at this point, I'm like, this girl doesn't realize that all this shit I already made a deal. This isn't all my shit. This is like 50-50 shit right here. But she's like, What the fuck? And so she turns around and she's like, How am I gonna fucking do this? Whatever, whatever. She brings out this jar.
SPEAKER_00This jar is like the human thumb in it.
SPEAKER_02The size of like a softball, or maybe a little bigger, it's got a screw top on it, maybe it had Tootsie Rolls, like 300 of them in it, or something at one point, or something. It's full of cicados. Ew. Like the skins of cicadas, right?
SPEAKER_03I'm like, I'm like.
SPEAKER_02I'm in, bitch. Let's do it.
SPEAKER_00They only come around every nine.
SPEAKER_02So the whole thing was fucking. I am I am on one at this point. I got a crowd behind me of like three or four people. I know I'm fucking rolling. I skipped a part about the pockets. She was in love with the pockets. The pockets were in the pile. The pocket of zippers, I was arguing with her about she had all this shit out, and I'm like, nah, not just the pocket. I'll give you three fucking zippers.
SPEAKER_03Do you want a long zipper, a medium zipper, a short zipper? She's like, I don't know. I'm like, then take one of each. Fucking throwing them down like they're dollar chips and shit.
SPEAKER_02Like, and then I'm like, you can keep the fucking pocket, but I'm keeping the rest of these zippers. I'll be back next year, whatever. Run the fucking table. She had the fucking. I agreed, all of my shit for this little jar, this fucking softball-sized jar of fucking cicada skins, right? She runs around fucking double down, dude. It was a double down. You know what double down means?
SPEAKER_04We had to fucking figure out how the hell I was gonna match. She was gonna match. What was the number?
SPEAKER_00Next thing you know, all your zippers were on the line.
The Cicada Jar Double Down
SPEAKER_02So then all my zippers were on the line. She had a bunch of other shit on the fucking line she had brought, like all this things. All the more at this table with like a pile. I started with this little baggie with fucking bottle caps and thimbles, and three hands deep. No, I might have skipped a hand. I'm sitting here with this fucking pile of shit in front of me, and we're fucking double down spinning. And I lose. Or maybe it was a draw, but I didn't win, and I didn't really care. And the woman ran away, and the guy comes back, and he's fucking looking at the cards and looking all the shit, and he's like, What happened here? I'm like, Well, me and her fucking drawed, and then I fucking put double down, and then she fucking brought this. He's like, How'd you get the gun? I'm like, I don't know, it's part of the fucking thing. And he's like, All right, high low. He puts down a seven, he puts down a seven, and I'm like, fuck, high, bam, queen. I take all this shit. So I have now I have arms full of shit. Yeah. And this guy and this couple, this beautiful woman and this man come fucking walking in and he throws a 20 down on the table. As I'm talking to my friends with all my shit, trying to fucking hoard it into my pockets. I got fucking a lot to play one more hand to get a bag. I got a lightsaber, I got a fucking hand soap dispenser, I got bag of, I got a jar full of cicada skins, I had fucking like all these stickers, these whatever. The guy throws a 20 down and she's yelling at him. She's like, get the fucking shit out of here. What the fuck is this? And then he's like, Well, I don't understand. I want to fucking buy some things. And she's like, You don't fucking buy shit, yelling at him like fucking Ed Defer. So I'm he goes to me, he's like, dude, let me buy some of your things.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, fuck you, man. I worked hard for this shit, dude. I have been here for 45 minutes.
SPEAKER_02There's no way you're getting any of this shit from me. He's like, Come on, dude, let me just get like let me get that lightsaber for 20 bucks. Give him a cicada.
SPEAKER_05I'm like, go fucking.
SPEAKER_04I think that's what he asked for first.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, fuck off, dude. Like, what's dude? I'm not playing with you. You're look at you. Why don't you gamble that hat? Do you like the hat you were wearing? And he's wearing this really nice, like fitted Yankees hat. It's all fucking brand new. There's not even fuzz on it. The rim's not bent, nothing. He comes up with money. I just got this hat. I'm like, so? And now you want to play to win something. Do you want to play games or do you want to fucking have that hat? And he's like, dude, I can't give up my hat. And she's like, come on, man, sell him one of your things. So finally I'm like, all right. I'll give you the soap dispenser and the lightsaber. Why would you for 20 bucks?
SPEAKER_04You wanted to say kidding skids that bad.
SPEAKER_02So I give him this broken light. You can't give up broken plastic retractable lightsaber with like a flashlight at the bottom end of it with no batteries, right? It was actually a flashlight. Boba Fett soap dispenser with like a broken top, and it doesn't even have any soap in it or nothing. I don't like this game. This dude was so fucking happy.
SPEAKER_03He's like, thanks so much, man. I'm gonna get you back sometime. Don't you worry, dude. Like, this is the best ever.
SPEAKER_00Well, considering you gave me$20 for 10 cents worth of goods.
SPEAKER_03$20, dude. So I go back to camp.
High–Low Win And The Payout
SPEAKER_02Everyone's asleep at the camp. It's like 200 yards away, maybe, right? Like from here to the shooting President Trump. Yeah, sniper shot. Sniper shot. Right? I go back to camp at like four in the morning, whatever, five, four thirty, whatever it is now. There's nobody up. The music's like nearly dead. This the birds are chirping and shit. I'm unloading all this shit I got out of my pockets onto like the community table. Like that, like in the center of camp.
SPEAKER_03So I wake up in the morning. And all I hear is, what the fuck happened last night? There's this pile of just fucking gypsy hippie shit all over the table. A jar of bugs, a fucking gun with rubber bands.
SPEAKER_02So I wake up and yeah, I wake up in the morning and I'm like, yeah, dude, I got all these fucking bugs with this gun last night.
SPEAKER_03It was fucking wild. And then everyone's like, not understanding if I'm like on drugs or something, or if I'm what? Then my mom wakes up and she's like, Chris, were you at you at the Frick Frack Blackjack? I was like, yeah, why? She's like, I could hear you cackling and harassing them from the tent last night.
SPEAKER_02Dude.
SPEAKER_05I heard your ass 200 yards away. Frick.
SPEAKER_00You know, you know what's funny about that is a parent can hear their child from everywhere. From anywhere.
The Guy With Cash And The Trade
SPEAKER_02But I was cackling and the angle, the way we were down the hill from it. I could totally understand how she heard me. But dude, that was the most fucking fun over like an hour of 20 minutes that I was completely by myself, completely like off fucking. What? What the hell was I doing? Gambling shit ahead of fucking. Do they only set this up like really late? They yeah, they don't like they're there. It's in like an area that's like the art center where there's a lot of art structures and the festivals.
SPEAKER_00I figured this is like in the middle of the woods.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's kind of, it's like off to the side, and there's like a gypsy home that you can visit during the day, and they like do like meditation sessions and all this other hippie bullshit stuff there. But then at night next to it is this fucking frickfrack blackjack. And yeah, it's open at this festival, it's open from like probably two in the morning till seven in the morning. Jesus. It runs all night long. And there's people, dude. Remember, I told the story once about the guy who got his ass tattooed. Yeah. So he came in while I was gambling, while I was fucking throwing chips or throwing all my shit down. And he's like, he walks in and I'm like, oh, fuck. And I and I announce it. I'm like, everybody, a fucking legend has just entered the fucking tent. And they're like, he goes, he goes, You must have seen my ass, haven't you?
SPEAKER_03And I'm like, you bet your fucking ass I did, dude.
SPEAKER_02He's like, yeah, yeah, that girl's name's still on my fucking ass. For those of you don't know, Three Dimes Reviews did an episode back a few years ago where I told the story about the guy who gambled. He bet that uh if she won the bet, he could tattoo his name on her ass. He was a professional tattoo artist, and the Carney agreed that if she won, he she would get to tattooed his her name on his ass.
SPEAKER_05He's got so many tattoos. What's another one? And he's not a bad thing.
SPEAKER_02And so she won the hand, and later that night he did come around and get his ass tattooed by the fucking Well, yeah. It sounds like Frick Frack Blackjack, your word is your bond. It's absolutely that dude. Or you could never be, yeah. It's so much fun. This year's was a little scaled back, which I'm kind of okay with. Last year they had like a whole stage and a whole act and a whole show.
SPEAKER_05Well, I'd be more impressed if the guy got the tattoo on the penis than the butt. That would have been a better bet. But it'd probably more painful. It would have been a better bet.
SPEAKER_02She doesn't have a penis though, so it's not equal.
Morning After And Mom’s Callout
SPEAKER_00Maybe I'm one of the tattoo a badge lip. Yeah, on the side of the side's initials on the clit.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, that's the story of Frick Frack Blackjack, man. That shit's fun. Look it up on the internet. Frick Frack. They go around. Blackjack. I can only imagine living. Like as I was sitting there at the table waiting for everyone to like settle their bets and shit. You look around and you see the people behind the counter and they're they're like full-fledged steampunk carnies. They've been going around year after year doing this. They do have an exchange thing where you can like exchange doll excuse me, exchange dollars. It's like a scrap, like a swap meet style thing. So like it exists, but like that dude, I came out of there with$20. I turned some bottle caps into$20 and a jar of fucking cicadas that I'm fucking pretty proud of, actually. So where are the cicadas now? Proudly displayed on my shelf in my bedroom. Perfect. Yeah, probably. They were on the coffee table for a while in like three days, and Katie was like, what the fuck are we doing with this jar of bugs? Let's put them where we have sex.
SPEAKER_05If it's the skin of cicadas, man. Yeah, so that's actually a very common thing. I googled it. How does Frickfrack black not the skin of the skin? That's fucking weird. I was like, how does how does Frick frack black blackjack work? Bet anything barter blackjack game and show, step up and place the bet. There's but there's one catch. There's no money allowed. Frick frack blackjack.
SPEAKER_02Or glow sticks. They will fucking you put a glow stick on the table, they will throw it at you in your face with the force of a hundred men. That's why I don't blame them. Fuck your glow stick.
SPEAKER_05I'd throw that, I'd throw it at you if you weren't frickfrack blackjacking me. Yeah, so this is that's that's really common. There's a lot of stuff. Like there's even images of frickfrack blackjack.
SPEAKER_02It's like a gimmick you can have come to your partying.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, there's this is a huge thing, actually. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Frick frack blackjack Baltimore. At four in the morning Baltimore has their own frick frack blackjack.
SPEAKER_02At four in the morning after two days of music festival partying, it is one of the most fun experiences. I had such a blast making these gambles, and it might have been because I kept winning, but it was so much fucking fun, dude. It's such a blast. Because it takes like the risk out of it, because like you're putting up shit you don't give a shit about. Like that jacket right there, dude. That that jacket that would be like gold for two blocks. You would be third or fourth shelf worth of shit you exchange. You could walk out with like a model car from the 40s.
Legends, Tattoos, And Code Of Honor
SPEAKER_05Alright, Rhymey, next time I go with you to come and stop at Tony's place and grab this Michael Jackson look like jacket. For frickfright. What if I had the what if I had that deer head? What would that get me?
SPEAKER_02That would get you a lot. I remember a couple years ago, the most prized thing everyone wanted was a fucking for some reason there was a light, there was just a license plate. It was random. I forget even what state it was, but everyone wanted that fucking license plate. Dude, the guy who finally went away from the license plate was like hailed, hailed as a champion. Like he fucking negotiated his way up. Could he have sold that to someone else? Like you did to somebody. No, the fact that I came out. The fact that I came out of their money with money.
SPEAKER_00But that was out of desperation, not because he wanted the piece. This can be desperation if it's that sought after.
SPEAKER_02Here's what it was. Here's what it was. So music goes to like four. This was like 4 30 in the morning. There was probably some Molly type rave going on, and this guy had this gal that was way out of his league, and he's like, Oh, I'm gonna go take her to the fucking casino, right? And then he got there and he was fucking broke. No matter how clean his jeans were, no matter how fit his cap was, he didn't have money for that fucking experience. He had to come to some dirty, barefooted fucking hippie with thinning hair in his 40s to fucking man up and buy some fucking trash to play games. That's what it was. It was a fucking complete flip of the switch. That girl probably thought I was a god at that moment. If if she went home with him at the end because of that, he she probably thought I was a god. I for sure for sure. A hippie god, like a like a crystal clear shot of a Yeti.
SPEAKER_05Well, we have a name for that podcast.
SPEAKER_00I would for sure go to this music festival just for this. Sleep all day just so I could be wide awake for frick black jack.
SPEAKER_02Tony, I am telling you, there are people, it's so funny. They come in there, this is their fucking shtick. They love this, right? And they come in there with an old fucking suitcase and they open it up, and like there's things hung on the top part of the suitcase, and they like fucking have a retractable suitcase stand, and they put that motherfucker next to them with all their shit in this suitcase, and they're just like like a prop comic throwing shit up, bringing it back, switching their idea. Dude, it is insanity what people on drugs especially will do playing at Frick Frack Blackjack, dude. It is insanity. It is the most hilarious thing you'll ever experience in your life. I wish more people could experience, but it requires committing to a four-day music festival a lot of the time, which is a big commitment for an hour of fun at the fucking steampunk casino.
Why Barter Play Is So Fun
SPEAKER_05I don't know. It seemed like they were everywhere. It seemed like you didn't have to go to a they do.
SPEAKER_00They'll come to like a state fair or like a county fair or like a Well, uh actually, I I am going to a three-day music festival next month. You should see if Frickfrack Blackjack's going to be.
SPEAKER_02I got a good Frick Frack Blackjack, good right over here. Oh, he's found something here in the shop in the bunker. He's found something he believes would be a good item for Frick Frack Black Blackjack. Number one grandma comb, brush combo with a mirror. Oh yeah, dude. This this this fine piece, oh yeah, with the wrapper, dude. With a coke mirror. With the coke mirror and with the wrapper.
SPEAKER_05It looks like a flip phone comb that opens up that says number one grandma. What why does it say number one grandma?
SPEAKER_00They all do. This would how many do you have? A thousand. You have a thousand of these? I don't personally, but I know how to get at them.
SPEAKER_04But I'm telling you, you could fucking talking about it.
SPEAKER_02You could start banking these up like five five grandma comb bets at a time, dude. Like I can make it to the license plate, you think? You could move your way up with that shit. If you had a thousand, because you could lose a few hands if you got a thousand.
SPEAKER_00Just just the transport gets a little tricky.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that was the thing. So my uh my objective was to have this. I just had a tiny bag, like the size, like I said, like a lunch sandwich bag full of shit.
SPEAKER_05Too bad you weren't using money. You were on a lucky streak. You'd have been coming home with cash on the table instead of fucking fucking bugs.
Sourcing Future Trade Bait
SPEAKER_02There's no amount of money that can move that jar. Hands, dude. I'm not even kidding. I bet you it would take$25,000. You think so? For$25,000, I'd trade my jar of cicadas.
SPEAKER_05If I if I gave you the$100 bill, you'd be like, here you go. No, because then I can't never tell that story with fucking. You can tell the story. You just don't have the bugs.
SPEAKER_02If anyone tells me the story, Narrows, you still have the bugs. This story told on this podcast will be challenged by somebody in the fucking audience, and I will fucking send you a leg of one of these fucking segatas. You say you still have them. I don't see them. I have them. There's no denying this story.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I so I got a cousin. He's actually uh a listener of this fine podcast. Um he's sort of addicted to auctions and something. And uh he bought a box filled with about a thousand of those combs and uh four bucks or something. Also about a thousand bamboo hand back scratchers that telescope out from themselves, uh but they only go about nine inches, so you can't get them far enough reach. It's good enough for me, brother. Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. For sure. But um, yeah, he he was coming to job sites handing them out ten at a time. Like, I got something for you, bro. I'm a big fan of these. You can have that one. I'm gonna take this. It's free, free to take.
SPEAKER_02You're talking about the D. I will find out next Memorial Day weekend if they are at this festival. How much that's worth what this is equal to. I will put just this out there and I will negotiate with that motherfucker, and I will take a picture of the two items, and we will we'll throw fucking dice. I think you're getting a half. Don't mess up my wrapper.
SPEAKER_00I have it. I'm not gonna fucking. Yeah, it has to have the quality control stamp on it, too. You can't put it in a wrapper that didn't come in.
SPEAKER_05That's good. That's good shit. Well, it was$12. Look at pack of 12. All right, well, yeah. So that go ahead, Chris.
SPEAKER_02The top shelf story of playing Frick Frack Black Jack.
SPEAKER_05That could be a good name for our podcast, actually.
SPEAKER_02Thank you for tuning in. Don't forget to go to music festivals and enjoy concerts. Live music is the lifeblood of you. We have the internet now. Pandora. For Chris, Jay, and Tony, we're out.
