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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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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
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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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you know looking at these now I mean the
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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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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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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,
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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from him. Um so definitely plugging
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that. Um if you want to go get order an
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8x10 or something like that of a larger
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size, then you can do it directly from
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his website. Dude's a really nice guy,
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really cool to his fans. So highly
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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
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folded because my envelope wasn't big
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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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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
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Fortuna in Star Wars uh both Return of
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the Jedi and I think uh what was it
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episode one? And um you can see that he
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signed three cards for me. Um two of
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them came out pretty smudge. This one
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came out nice, nice and clean. But these
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two didn't quite make it in shipping
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very well, but that's okay. You know,
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two out of three ain't so bad. Um
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yeah, I use I just have these two like
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little top loading um card protectors
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here. put some painters tape around
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them, stick them together, and they do,
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you know, it prevents them from bending,
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prevents the signer from signing on any
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kind of sleeve or protector that you
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have. Um, but you know, I guess, uh,
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sometimes you run the risk of getting
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your autograph smudged up like this.
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Normally that doesn't happen, though.
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there's really no perfect way. A lot of
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times if you send something inside a
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protector, um, you know, that'll keep
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the card safe from being bent, but
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sometimes people just don't take it out
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and they sign the protector and not the
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card. And, um, I'd rather have a card
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with a little bit of smudge than a
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signed protector. So, uh, you know, you
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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
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really happy to get. This one is from
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Phil Hardage. He was the writer at Dee,
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which you may know as the animation
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studio who made all the old Nintendo
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animations. Uh Super Mario Brothers,
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Super Super Mario Brothers 3, uh Super
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Mario Brothers World, and uh you Super
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Mario Brothers Super Show, Legend of
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Zelda, Captain N, like all those things.
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They, you know, made Captain Planet 2,
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um all kinds of shows. Inspector Gadget,
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uh Sailor Moon even was from them. Um,
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so he was the writer on all those shows.
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Um, but yeah, I was really interested in
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the Nintendo stuff in particular, and he
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agreed to an interview with me, which
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you can find on tailscollection.com/ins.
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Uh, it was a really in-depth uh,
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interview. Talked to him for about an
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hour on the phone, and um, he signed
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these vintage trading cards for me. Uh,
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these were from like, uh, kind of like
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old trick-or-treating card packs. You
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give those out as treats instead of
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candy. And these were like some
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collectible stickers that they had from
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I think Topps made those. So, um yeah, I
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got all three all four of those signed
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by him and it was very cool. So, thank
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you very much, Bill. All right, here we
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go. Another cool Star Wars success also
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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.
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Of course, as you can tell from the
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uniform, he signed one, two, three,
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three out of three cards for me. Uh very
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kind of him. Of course, he's also well
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known for his role on Cheers. So, um, if
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you're bit of an old-timer, a little bit
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older than myself even, you'll probably
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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
18:27
YouTube, so we're just going to stick to
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the photos for now. Um you know, if you
18:31
guys really miss seeing the index cards
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and who else was signing through the
18:34
mail, uh you can let me know in the
18:36
comments. And uh maybe I'll make another
18:38
video including them or just including
18:39
them in the next video that I have. But
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I really appreciate you guys sticking
18:43
around to see which celebrities are
18:45
actually signing through the mail right
18:46
now and the kind of stuff that you can
18:48
actually get if you take the time to
18:49
write. So appreciate you guys. If you
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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
