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I Wrote to Celebrities for Autographs – Here’s Who Actually Signed | 2025 TTM Fan Mail Success
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Jul 31, 2025
I’m excited to share the through-the-mail (TTM) autographs I’ve received over the past few months. This haul includes stars from Final Fantasy, Stranger Things, Ghostbusters, WWE, Star Wars, and more—plus signed playbills, personal notes, and even a surprise doodle from a video game legend! Here’s the full breakdown with timestamps so you can skip to your favorites: ⏱️ Time Stamps 00:25 – Boy George (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) 01:15 – Jesse Corti (Beauty and the Beast) 01:48 – Katsura Sunshine (Rakugo Performer, Off-Broadway) 02:35 – Kendal Grey (WWE Performance Center) 03:00 – Rosemary Harris (Spider-Man Aunt May) 03:38 – Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens Producer) 04:22 – Erica Lindbeck (Persona 5, Cyberpunk 2077) 04:51 – Eurydice Cast (Playbill missing Maya Hawke) 05:35 – Annie Potts (Ghostbusters) – Ongoing multi-signed piece 06:50 – Alyssa Milano (Studio Fan Mail pre-print) 08:02 – Boop! The Musical Cast (Signed Playbill) 08:33 – Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy Creator – 3 signed art cards + doodles!) 09:35 – John Proctor is the Villain Cast incl. Sadie Sink 10:50 – Good Night, and Good Luck Cast incl. George Clooney 12:20 – Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (Royalty by mail!)
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Hello and welcome to another episode of
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Tales from the Collection. Today I'm
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going to be showing you some of the
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recent successes that I've gotten over
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the last couple of months and apologies
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for it being such a delay in my latest
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video. Uh I've got a lot going on, but
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I'm here back and I'm ready to show you
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some of the great actors, athletes,
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public figures who've responded to fan
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mail and send me autographs, personal
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notes, and responded to interview
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questions. So, let's go ahead and get
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into it. All right. First up, I've got
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this great success from Boy George. I
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wrote to him via Mulan Rouge the M
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musical. This is a Broadway play that he
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was on and he was doing really good
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signing for people. He signed two 8x10
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photos for me. I saw that he signed even
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uh more multiples of photos for other
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people like up to four uh for some
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people who sent that many. Um he signed
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really nice signature. It's big black.
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Takes up the whole photo. Like you don't
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really see signatures that big, but I
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think it looks uh really cool on these
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photos. Uh this one from him back in the
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80s. This one a more modern photo. Um,
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but here you got the love love boy
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George there. Pretty cool. Pretty cool.
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All right. Next up, we've got Jesse
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Cordy. He was also on Broadway, so I
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took advantage of that and wrote to him
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and uh requested that he signed two 8x10
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photos for me of Leaf Foy, who was in uh
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Beauty and the Beast, of course. And um
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I sent him the two 8x10s, but he also
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sent me two of his own photos. Um you
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know, these are larger than 5x7s.
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um signed these all the best Leaf Foy
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Jesse Lordi and uh signed two of those
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and then I sent him this photo all the
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best and then this one as well with him
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and Gaston. So I guess I need to get
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Gaston's voice actor. I got to figure
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out who that is and maybe send this off.
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We'll see. All right, next one. We're
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going into another Broadway special.
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This one is actually um off Broadway
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play. Uh this one was from Katsura
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Sunshine and uh this was sent to me by
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the cast. They sent me this nice um you
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know show program. So it's not quite a
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play bill. Um so some of the off
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Broadway ones don't have actual play
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bills. They just have these uh you know
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whatever program that they have. Also
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sent this nice gift. Um anyone who is
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particularly familiar with Japanese
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culture, please let me know what this is
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called, what exactly it's used for. Um I
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don't I also got a Daruma here. Um,
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yeah. What are these used for? Let me
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know in the comments, please. Thank you.
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And, uh, thank you for Katsura Sunshine.
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I really appreciate you guys. Um, thank
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you so much. So, I've had some really
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great successes by writing to wrestlers
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via the WWE Performance Center, and
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here's a really good example of one of
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those. This one is from Kendall Gray.
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Uh, unfortunately, she did not uh,
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respond to my interview questions, but
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she did sign both of my 8x10 photos. Uh,
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one from her Instagram right here. this
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this shot and then uh just one standard
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studio shot here. She signed both of
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them beautifully in silver Sharpie. So,
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thank you so much, Kendall. Really
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appreciate the response. All right. Now,
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we got one from Rosemary Harris. Uh she
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played Aunt May in uh the original
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Spider-Man movies. And um yeah, this one
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was really cool. I really wanted this
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one. Uh so, I was super happy to get it
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back. She signed two photos for me. This
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one kind of like a behind thescenes
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shot. And then this one um from a
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different movie, Rosemary Harris. Pretty
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cool. Uh couldn't find it was really
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hard actually finding good quality
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photos to get her to sign. Um really
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wish I could have had something a little
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bit better for second Spider-Man shot,
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but uh this one was good quality, so I
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sent it to her and I think it came out
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pretty good. And now we have one from
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Gail Herd. She's a very famous producer,
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of course, having worked on Terminator
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and many other big blockbuster films.
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She signed two out of two 8x10 photos
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for me. Uh here's the other one. Um
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couldn't find a again like a really
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great photo. This one I actually had to
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do some editing in Canva to like make it
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fit into an 8x10 format. I had to move
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her she was like off frame. I had to
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move her over and like do some editing
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magic. So this is not like the actual
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original photo. It's a little bit
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doctorred, but like it came out like
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really good. So I'm super happy with it.
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Uh fit great into an 8x10 photo now. And
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uh I can't tell the difference. Looks
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great. So little bit proud of myself for
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that one. So So anyway, thank you very
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much. So here's one for the video game
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fans like myself. Uh we got one from
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Erica Lindbeck. Of course, she played
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Futaba in Persona 5 and was also in
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Cyberpunk 2077.
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Both like super fantastic, incredible
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games. Uh so I was really happy to get a
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response back from Erica. Um, loved both
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of them a lot and uh, yeah, these ones
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are going to be making a great addition
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to my collection. So, thank you very
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much, Miss Linbeck. This is from Urice.
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Now, of course, the big star from this
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play was Maya Hawk. She, of course, is
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the daughter of Ethan Hawk and Uma
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Thurman and well known for her role in
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uh, Stranger Things and Get Revenge and
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all kinds of other good stuff. So, uh,
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pretty big actress and, uh, also a
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musician as well. Uh, so I've gotten
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some autographs from her from her music
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shop over the years, but uh, I wanted to
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write to her via the play. Uh,
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unfortunately I got the play bill back.
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It looks like it's signed by the entire
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cast minus my hawk, unfortunately. And
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of course, that was the one who I really
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wanted an autograph from. Um, but hey,
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that's okay. She did sign for some
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people that did see that, but um, I
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guess I wasn't lucky this time, but
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that's okay. All right, here's a cool
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success. This one is from Annie Pototts.
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You can see that she signed both of
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these Ghostbusters 8 by10s. Uh she
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signed them right here. You also noticed
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that there's some other signatures on
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here. I've been working on these photos
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for I don't know maybe 3 4 months or so.
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I've been sending them out and uh
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getting signatures and then sending them
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back out for other people to sign. So
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this is my third signature on these
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photos. Um, this one is signed by
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Sheldon Khan and then this one by Roa
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Jimmy Johnny. Um, I think I probably
6:10
butchered that last name, but um, yeah,
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three Ghostbusters actors uh, on these
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photos here and I'm going to send them
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out uh, for more. I think William
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Athetherton is going to be the next
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person I'm requesting from. And uh, you
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know, every time you send these out like
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you cross your fingers and you kind of
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hope that you're going to get them back,
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but there's like no guarantee that that
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will happen. So, you know, fingers
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crossed that we get them back, but every
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time I send them out, that might be the
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last time that I ever see them. So, you
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know, you're really kind of uh rolling
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the dice each time you do that. Um, but,
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you know, it's also fun and doing
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getting like a multi-piece, multi-
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signature piece from uh through the
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mail, from the comfort of your own home.
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Um, it's cool. It's a good time. All
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right. Those familiar with studio fan
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mail will probably recognize this photo.
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This one is from Alyssa Milano. I did
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write to her um not via the studio fan
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mail address, but my letter got
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forwarded there anyway. And I got this
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preprinted autograph from Studio Fan
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mail uh with a faux signature by Alyssa
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Milano. So, uh you know, it's a nice
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photo. Some people just throw these in
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the trash. I collect them. You know, I
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think they're still kind of cool little,
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you know, souvenir type deals. Like
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they're collectible in their own right,
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even though they're not authentic
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autographs. Um I still think they're
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cool. And I mean, at least, you know,
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hey, Melissa Milano, Alyssa Milano, she
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uh she paid for this out of her own
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pocket, right? Uh she paid the company
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to ship it. She paid for the photo. Um
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you know, so she's still doing something
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for her fans. I'll take this any day
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over just not getting anything back in
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response. Like, at least it shows some
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level of care. You know, not everybody
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can respond to every letter. Um I think
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it's something that's kind of cool.
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though. Um, you know, leave in the
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comments what you do with your
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preprinted or secretarial, etc. Uh, what
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do you do? Throw them out, keep them,
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let me know. All right, here's a signed
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play bill. This one from Boop the
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Musical. Uh, it's got the whole cast
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here. It wasn't like incredibly
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prominent actors in this play. Um, but I
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thought it was pretty cool. Um, and I
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actually waited like I don't know,
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probably like two maybe 3 months to get
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this response, so I didn't think it was
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coming back. Um, but I'm happy that it
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did come. Um, everything was signed very
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nice. Nothing, none of the signatures
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smudged or anything. Came out looking
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great. So, thank you very much to the
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cast and crew of Boob the Musical. All
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right, this one is probably the one that
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I am most excited about. I think you can
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probably tell from the smile on my face.
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This is coming from Honobu Sakaguchi,
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who is of course the creator of Final
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Fantasy, the from the very beginning,
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he's the dude who came up with the games
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over there at Square. So, uh, I sent to
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him three of these little mini postcard
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things that came packed in with Final
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Fantasy 10 for the PS VA. I saw that
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someone had gotten a success from him
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and immediately like had to jump on it.
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I was like, "Oh my goodness, this guy's
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signing." Um, I love the Final Fantasy
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series, so I just I kind of grabbed what
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I could get and sent it out as soon as I
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could. I didn't want to miss that train.
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So, uh, I found these in one of my old,
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um, PS VA games, as I mentioned, and I
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sent all three of them, and he signed
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all three, even with these cool Chocobo
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doodles. Like, it's sick. It's super
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sick, guys. So, uh, thank you very much,
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Honobu. Totally appreciate that. You're
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awesome. Thank you. All right, here's a
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great Broadway success. This one coming
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from Satie Sync and the rest of the cast
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at John Proctor is the Villain. Uh, she
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signed two photos or I'm sorry, she
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signed two play bills, one for me and
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one for my son. Um, this one, um, and
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there are two different variants of the
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play bill. Uh, this one kind of
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featuring the whole cast. This was the
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original one. They kind of moved to this
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one a little bit later on. Um, both
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signed by Satie Sync. Um
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although
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you know looking at these now I mean the
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the signatures
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you know those are quite different. So I
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wonder if we got a secretarial on one of
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these. Um
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I don't know. What do you guys think?
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Let me know. Uh I'll do some research on
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my end after the video. Uh but let me
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know which which one of these looks good
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to you. Do any look good to you? Sync.
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What do you think?
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Now, these uh the two Tim and the two
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Owen, those look like the same
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handwriting, but the signatures look
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totally different. So, they could have
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had a secretary doing the dedications
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after she had signed. Um, that's
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possible. But yeah, that's Let's figure
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this one out, guys. What do you think?
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All right, we got two play bills here
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signed by George Clooney and the rest of
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the cast of Good Night and Good Luck.
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Now, if you can probably find the George
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Clooney autograph on both of these
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fairly easy because it's the most messed
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up one, unfortunately, it's like totally
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destroyed. A lot of these signatures,
11:08
man, they they must have just signed
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these wet and just threw them on top of
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each other. Like, I don't know what they
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were thinking. But here, the worst one,
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absolute worst one, except for maybe
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this one is right here. George Clooney.
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Ah, that pains me. It looks so bad. It
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looks so so bad. And they they were
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asking if you wanted to get one of
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these, they were asking for a $200
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donation. And this is the kind of
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autograph
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that they sent. Um
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Yeah. Yeah. But uh here's this one. Um
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this one actually looks pretty good. You
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know, this George Pony here, except for
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it's covered by whoever this is with a
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smeared up autograph underneath it. So,
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uh kind of both of these are a little
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bit of failures. Um I mean, I'm happy to
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get them. Like honestly, I'm happy to
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get them. I did make a big donation. So,
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it's not like it was out of my, you
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know, it was completely free or
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anything, but um
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yeah, um very happy I got these, but
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yeah, I wish they would have taken a
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little bit more care, especially for the
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price that they were asking for these
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guys. So, but anyway, you know, you kind
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of roll the dice sometimes and this is
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what I got. But now I got a George
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Clooney in my autograph collection. So,
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uh you know, can't be too mad about it.
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All right, here's a cool one. This one
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is from Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Uh
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don't have a lot of princesses in my
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autograph collection. Um not a whole lot
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of royalty. There's some here and there.
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Um I remember early on getting a
12:32
response from uh the king of Spain and
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then uh last month I got one from uh the
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former queen of Iran. So I mean you know
12:43
there's some in there but uh this is
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pretty cool. This one from Princess
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Stephanie of Monaco, a real life
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princess. you know, probably typically
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more likely to get an autograph from a
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Disney princess or something like that.
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Um, but yeah, who who would have thought
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you could write to a princess and get
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some kind of a response like now, as far
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as the signature goes, like um,
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you know, I'm not sure if it's
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preprinted or if it's an actual Sharpie.
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I got to look at some of the other um,
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responses out there to actually see
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what's up. But it looks like it could be
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a Sharpie. Could also be a preprint. Um,
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kind of hard to tell right now without
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some further examination. So, I don't
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know. Let me know if you guys uh have
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seen other examples and what they look
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like. All right. Now, we got Robert
13:31
England coming up. Of course, he is
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known as Freddy Krueger.
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And um he's got this really cool uh
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stamp that he puts on his stuff with a
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Freddy Krueger claw glove mechanism that
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he's got going on. out these really
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cool, nicely signed and paint pen um
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little photos. And then he has also sent
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some cool stuff that you can get from
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his shop if you want to buy directly
13:56
from him. Um so definitely plugging
13:58
that. Um if you want to go get order an
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8x10 or something like that of a larger
14:02
size, then you can do it directly from
14:04
his website. Dude's a really nice guy,
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really cool to his fans. So highly
14:08
encourage you to do that for sure. All
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right, I got another one coming in from
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Julia Doyle. She is a professional
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soccer player. Uh she signed 1 2 3 four
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cards for me which was very nice of her.
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Uh she wrote me a nice little note and
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she sent her own. Unfortunately got
14:25
folded because my envelope wasn't big
14:26
enough. She sent me my own about 5x7. Um
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she sent her own 5x7 photo. Um so pretty
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cool.
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Okay.
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Not doing that.
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Next up, we have soccer player Julie
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Doyle. She was very kind. She signed
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one, two, three, four trading cards for
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me and wrote this very nice personalized
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note and um super happy to get it. Uh
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really appreciate her taking the time to
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sign for me. Got a cool one here from
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Michael Carter. He of course played Bib
15:02
Fortuna in Star Wars uh both Return of
15:04
the Jedi and I think uh what was it
15:07
episode one? And um you can see that he
15:10
signed three cards for me. Um two of
15:13
them came out pretty smudge. This one
15:15
came out nice, nice and clean. But these
15:17
two didn't quite make it in shipping
15:19
very well, but that's okay. You know,
15:22
two out of three ain't so bad. Um
15:26
yeah, I use I just have these two like
15:28
little top loading um card protectors
15:31
here. put some painters tape around
15:33
them, stick them together, and they do,
15:36
you know, it prevents them from bending,
15:37
prevents the signer from signing on any
15:40
kind of sleeve or protector that you
15:42
have. Um, but you know, I guess, uh,
15:46
sometimes you run the risk of getting
15:48
your autograph smudged up like this.
15:50
Normally that doesn't happen, though.
15:51
Um,
15:53
there's really no perfect way. A lot of
15:55
times if you send something inside a
15:57
protector, um, you know, that'll keep
15:59
the card safe from being bent, but
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sometimes people just don't take it out
16:02
and they sign the protector and not the
16:03
card. And, um, I'd rather have a card
16:07
with a little bit of smudge than a
16:08
signed protector. So, uh, you know, you
16:10
win some, you lose some, but Michael
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signed three out of three, so I really
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appreciate that from him. Thanks,
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Michael. Here's another one that I was
16:18
really happy to get. This one is from
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Phil Hardage. He was the writer at Dee,
16:22
which you may know as the animation
16:24
studio who made all the old Nintendo
16:27
animations. Uh Super Mario Brothers,
16:29
Super Super Mario Brothers 3, uh Super
16:32
Mario Brothers World, and uh you Super
16:34
Mario Brothers Super Show, Legend of
16:36
Zelda, Captain N, like all those things.
16:38
They, you know, made Captain Planet 2,
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um all kinds of shows. Inspector Gadget,
16:44
uh Sailor Moon even was from them. Um,
16:47
so he was the writer on all those shows.
16:50
Um, but yeah, I was really interested in
16:53
the Nintendo stuff in particular, and he
16:55
agreed to an interview with me, which
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you can find on tailscollection.com/ins.
17:00
Uh, it was a really in-depth uh,
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interview. Talked to him for about an
17:03
hour on the phone, and um, he signed
17:06
these vintage trading cards for me. Uh,
17:08
these were from like, uh, kind of like
17:11
old trick-or-treating card packs. You
17:14
give those out as treats instead of
17:16
candy. And these were like some
17:17
collectible stickers that they had from
17:19
I think Topps made those. So, um yeah, I
17:22
got all three all four of those signed
17:24
by him and it was very cool. So, thank
17:25
you very much, Bill. All right, here we
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go. Another cool Star Wars success also
17:29
on training cards. This one from John
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Rasenberger. He played Major Bren Derlin
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and uh this was on Empire Strikes Back.
17:37
Of course, as you can tell from the
17:38
uniform, he signed one, two, three,
17:42
three out of three cards for me. Uh very
17:44
kind of him. Of course, he's also well
17:45
known for his role on Cheers. So, um, if
17:49
you're bit of an old-timer, a little bit
17:51
older than myself even, you'll probably
17:53
recognize him from that role as well.
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But, uh, me as a Star Wars fan, I wrote
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to him strictly for the Star Wars role.
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And, um, yeah, actually had to order
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some of these cards. Uh, didn't have
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them myself, so I had to go to eBay. He
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doesn't really have like trading cards
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that are really featuring his image um
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other than on the trading card uh
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collectible trading card game. So, uh
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these are the ones that I found and uh
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yeah, super happy to have them added to
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my collection. Appreciate him signing
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all three of them. And pretty much there
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you have it. I do have another stack of
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uh index cards that I got signed, but um
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you know, they don't make for as good
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YouTube, so we're just going to stick to
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the photos for now. Um you know, if you
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guys really miss seeing the index cards
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and who else was signing through the
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mail, uh you can let me know in the
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comments. And uh maybe I'll make another
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video including them or just including
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them in the next video that I have. But
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I really appreciate you guys sticking
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around to see which celebrities are
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actually signing through the mail right
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now and the kind of stuff that you can
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actually get if you take the time to
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write. So appreciate you guys. If you
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haven't commented, please comment. If
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you haven't subscribed, click the
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button. It really helps my channel. I'm
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a super small channel. Uh do this
18:58
basically for zero dollars. Um but your
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support does help. Uh, I would really
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love to grow the channel and kind of get
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the word out about the through the mail
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autograph collecting hobby and about
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some of the great interviews and stuff
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that I do. Um, it really helps me to do
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more of this stuff when I have more
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people watching. So, I would really
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appreciate any kind of support that you
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guys could give. Um, but regardless, I'm
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happy that you guys are here and
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sticking around to watch. So, thank you
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so much.
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