TGI – Episode 722 “Brave New World: Part 1"

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Tom Bogert 0:00
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Daniel Alarcón 0:04
The World Cup is underway and it's been incredible. On our podcast, The Away End, with Daniel Alarcón and John Green, we're talking about the games that have delighted us, the teams that have inspired us, what we're loving and what surprised us, all through the lens of being massive fans of the world's most beautiful game.
Ryder Strong 0:19
Daniel, this tournament has been magical so far. There's so much to love, and I can hardly believe the drama that the group stage brought us. And now it's time for us to talk about the teams that are left as the field is whittled down to one World Cup champion on July 19th.
Daniel Alarcón 0:33
Listen to The Away End with Aniel Alarcón and John Green on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Ryder Strong 1:00
Do you guys like auctions?
No. It's so weird you say this. Why?
Ryder Strong 1:07
Well, because I found Heritage Auctions online, which has some of the coolest things for sale. Really? I probably shouldn't be telling Danielle this. This is probably not a smart thing. You're right. But you can pinpoint... what you want to bid on, meaning like you can do comics, you can do animation cells, you can do cards.
Danielle Fishel 1:28
Right, your specific interests.
Ryder Strong 1:29
Yes.
Danielle Fishel 1:30
So Ryder, for the first... First edition books.
Ryder Strong 1:34
No. Oh, yes, you can. Magic the Gathering cards. For $52,000. That's the first opening bid. They have a signed Christopher Rush Black Lotus. Whoa. Alpha edition. So it's like it gets so specific of the things that you can bid on, and I still don't know how to use the site, and I'm kind of thankful that I've tried to create my own page a hundred times.
Danielle Fishel 2:02
Parentage auctions, you said?
Ryder Strong 2:03
Yes.
Yes.
Ryder Strong 2:05
And so, yeah, there's so that now right now, like the thing that got me into it was I saw an email just like a mass email saying they're selling Matthew Perry's estate is being auctioned off like all of his stuff. And he was a big Batman fan. like a huge Batman fan. So I wanted something Matthew Perry that was Batman related. And there's a couple of things I was going to bid on and I couldn't make it work. I was so pissed. I couldn't make it work.
Danielle Fishel 2:32
Just call me, you know, I've tried.
Ryder Strong 2:34
Um, so yeah, I just, I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to put that on y'all's radar, which might not be the smartest thing to do for Danielle, especially. Yeah. I don't, I don't need to buy more stuff. They have signed first edition books. I stopped buying first edition books when I was 18. So I still have, I just don't... I don't know. Like, I got... I realized that wanting to own those books... it was like a way to sort of like, I don't know. It just, it just didn't, I, it felt like what I was actually wanting was like sort of like an authority over being a fan of something. Like I was like, Oh, I'm the biggest fan of this Faulkner book. That's why I have the first edition. And I was like, but if I just like the book, it's just the writing and it's the text.
Ryder Strong 3:22
It's not the physical object itself. And so it felt stupid to like spend a thousand dollars or whatever on, you know, The object. But now I'm kind of proud that I have some of them. Exactly. I know. I know because they've been with me for so long and they actually have increased in value. So I know.
Danielle Fishel 3:40
How about a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night?
Ryder Strong 3:46
I love that book. God, that's a good book. I got to reread that. How much is it?
Danielle Fishel 3:50
It is. Well, it's so it's up for auction right now. The estimate is that it'll go for eight to twelve thousand dollars somewhere in there. Wow. But let me see if it has already been like when the auction starts. It's open. It's open. The starting bid. No one's placed a bid yet. This is on Sotheby's. This is not Heritage. The starting bid is fifty five hundred dollars. A lot closes tomorrow at twelve forty seven p.m. So you could have it for fifty five hundred dollars.
Ryder Strong 4:20
There you go. I had a dog chew up my first edition T.S. Eliot. Yeah. Which dog, was it Gordy? No, it was a dog that we were watching. It was a dog that we were considering adopting and then we didn't. Yeah, this is in 2003-ish. Yeah. So I have a tooth punctured copy of Proof Rock and other poems.

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