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Welcome to garage sales 
Unhinged. 

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Where the characters are as 
quirky as the vines. 

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I'm Julie. 
And I'm Jake. 

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Join us as we dive into the wild
world of garage sales, yard 

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sales, estate sales and anywhere
second hand sales are happening.

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From bizarre bargains to 
hilarious haggles. 

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You won't believe the stories 
we've got lined up. 

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Let's get unhinged. 
What's your favorite holiday? 

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I want to say Halloween, but I 
wish it was colder. 

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I think we've had this 
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where we live in Texas, it is 
never cold on Halloween. 

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Yeah, like I, you know, I like 
the whole feeling around 

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Halloween. 
A lot of people do. 

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It's gotten more popular, it's 
got more, it's got more 

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mainstream. 
But yeah, I think that's it. 

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Not much. 
I don't care much about the 

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candy. 
I just like seeing all the the. 

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You just like all the Pagan 
stuff. 

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Yeah. 
Pretty much even. 

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OK, so like that is a 
traditional holiday. 

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Do you have a favorite made-up 
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Made-up holiday. 
Are we like, are we talking like

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National Donut day, stuff like 
that? 

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No, no, because like those 
things are fake. 

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I don't really think about it. 
Maybe Secretary's Day. 

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I don't know, like 
administrative assistant Day. 

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What? 
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those much thought. 
Do people have favorite made-up 

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holidays? 
I don't know. 

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Well, mine's not made-up. 
My favorite holiday is my 

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birthday. 
And I don't care if other people

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celebrate it or not. 
But like, I love my birthday 

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because it is like the middle 
finger to death. 

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I have escaped death for one 
more year. 

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Let's try to do it again. 
Like, that is exciting to me. 

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But as I was getting ready for 
today's podcast and going, OK, 

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what can I talk about? 
Jacob, there is a National 

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Garage Sale Day. 
What I know. 

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OK, so the reason I want to talk
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though this episode's coming out
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somewhere, probably end of 
March, National Garage Sale Day 

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is the 2nd Saturday in August 
and it says it's the perfect 

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time to sell, you know, used 
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You think about it, second 
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usually don't have big chance of
rainstorms or snowstorms or 

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anything like that. 
However, what I the reason it 

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came up in my research is that 
there are some municipalities 

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that they don't require a permit
for that day to do a garage 

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sale. 
That's how they are. 

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It's a holiday from bureaucracy.
It is a holiday from red tape, 

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but I also thought like, you 
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thing and I and I wish more 
cities and municipalities did 

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something like that to where 
one, it brings attention to the 

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second hand sales market. 
Two, you don't have to pull a 

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permit, but it encourages 
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complexes, churches, things like
that of like if you have a 

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weekend where you were doing a 
garage sell, a second hand sell 

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and you know a lot of your 
neighbors are doing it too, that

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that is a great way to get in 
some potential more potential 

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buyers into your neighborhood 
without you having to go solo to

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promote your cell that maybe is 
in a desert of other garage 

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sales. 
So the second Saturday in 

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August. 
So for the year of 2026, let's 

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find out what the second 
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don't know that off the top of 
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So that date is going to be 
August 8th, 2026. 

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So August 1st is the first 
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second Saturday of. 
And so they're saying National 

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Garage Sale Day, which I'm sure 
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I don't think that it's a 
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was, it's on the weekend. 
So most people don't work on the

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weekend. 
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interested in hosting their own 
garage sale, yard sale, whatever

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it may be, check with your 
municipality, check with your 

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city to see if they are doing 
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If if your city or municipality 
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doing free permitting that 
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one because of the National 
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You know in like and in 
preparation for National Garage 

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Sale Day, you need to make make 
sure you leave out, you know 

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some random screws and buttons 
and some direct to DVD Val 

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Kilmer movies for its equivalent
of Santa Claus. 

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Well, and this will also be the 
25th year that National Garage 

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Sale Day is observed. 
It was created in 2001, so it's 

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created by a person named C 
Daniel Rhodes of Alabama after 

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they saw their neighbors having 
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Rhodes thought that coordinating
cells on the same weekend would 

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be more convenient. 
He's also this person is also 

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the founder of Mulligan Day and 
Brothers Day. 

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This guy just making up days. 
He's a Time Lord, he gets to 

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make up holidays. 
It's also one of those things 

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that even if you don't want to 
have your own garage sale, it's 

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a good reminder to get out there
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on August 8th. 
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but you can start saving up your
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go after it so. 
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there just like shooting from 
the hip, making holidays that we

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all are now burdened with. 
What's it take to do that? 

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I mean do. 
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Have to go post office, what do 
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No, I think I looked it up 
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these different websites that 
you can submit of, hey, I want 

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to do a a national day of this, 
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And there's there's no like 
vetting process. 

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It's like, OK, cool, we'll put 
it here if there's no other day 

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that is like that around. 
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right? 
So yeah, all holidays are right.

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So I mean like to some to some 
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to go. 
Well, why not let's. 

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OK, that sounds delicious. 
You know, let's make a day about

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it. 
Why did you? 

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Why were you looking up how to 
make up a holiday? 

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So whenever I used to work in 
corporate America, I was looking

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for a way of like, how can my 
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not around a typical holiday 
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And I was like, well, what if we
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related to our specific niche of
a business? 

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And yeah, I went down that. 
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Also, Jacob, I know a lot of 
random crap, like, why would I 

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not look that up? 
But also in line with National 

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Garage Sale Day, there's also 
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Yeah. 
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it's not like so for National 
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August of second Saturday of 
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National Thrift Shop Day is just
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August 17th every every year. 
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Again, for the companies that 
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do additional deals. 
They may do additional things 

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for people that love to go 
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Especially a lot of my friends, 
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other girlfriends and have 
brunch and they want to go 

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thrift shopping. 
Especially if you're already 

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buzzed because apparently that's
a lot of fun that you can go 

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thrift shopping on August 17th 
and there may be additional 

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deals that are happening at 
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Shops, I just don't want it to 
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want people to remember the 
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it's it's about Jesus. 
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that it's probably about like 
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Christmas, so why not? 
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the Pagan Halloween, and I think
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symbolism in those Pagan, sorry,
I got medicine brain right now. 

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you're saying. 
It's like, yeah, a lot of the a 

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lot of the symbols we use were 
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we're using a different context 
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The Christmas tree was a Pagan 
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Yeah. 
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So yeah, anyway, you have the 

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National garage sale day, you 
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Both of those days are coming up
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People should start saving up 
their monies now to go and get 

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some cool items on those days. 
Or have your own garage sale or 

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start your own thrift shop care.
Just do it. 

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I like this thing in in sales 
market so make that. 

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Happen. 
There's no one way to observe 

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everyone. 
Everyone gets to observe the 

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holiday the way they choose to, 
with their family or not. 

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Actually, I don't want to. 
I kind of want to observe both 

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of those days. 
I'm like, oh, on National Garage

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Sale day, OK, you know, you talk
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right? 
Let's talk about your ideal 

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National Garage Sale Day 
morning, because I know what 

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mine is. 
Mine is I go in, buy myself a 

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cup of coffee at a local like 
coffee shop, get a really 

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delicious hand homemade pastry 
type thing, and then meander 

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around the rich neighborhoods 
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You know, National Garage Sale 
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an excuse it it really should be
like your daily ritual needs to 

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be. 
You know it needs to involve 

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other people's stuff. 
So you're going to have your 

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coffee. 
It's made in this person's 

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coffee machine. 
You want to have the bagel, it's

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made. 
You know it was in this thing 

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over here. 
It really just needs to become 

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an excuse to go live in someone 
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use their stuff. 
Probably. 

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Except they're probably not 
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bathroom. 
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Yeah, I've never been to a 
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someone I was going to let 
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And also, would you, oh, that's 

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a good question. 
Would you ever use a Portage on 

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that was at a garage sale? 
Like what if they were trying to

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sell it and you're like, oh, 
they have a great one that's 

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just here to use. 
One, I, I think I'd be more one,

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I'd be impressed at the 
thoughtfulness of having a porta

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potty at your garage sale. 
Like, wow, that's next level. 

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I, I don't think I've got enough
money to spend here, but I'd be 

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really concerned if they were 
selling it. 

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I think that's more disturbing 
somehow. 

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Yeah, but I also want to see 
this in a sitcom episode. 

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Yeah, no, I think in like, I 
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there. 
You know, we've all like you got

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to do your thing when the going 
is rough, Julie, like any any, 

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any safe port will do so. 
I don't know. 

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Maybe it's more conducive to 
good business that you have a 

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porta potty at your garage sale 
and you're just charging 

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admission. 
Oh yeah, there could be that. 

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Well, you know, maybe that's for
a future episode we talked about

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what do you do when you're 
you're out shopping and you're 

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thrifting your garage selling, 
your yard selling and nature 

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calls. 
Yeah, because you know what 

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happens? 
Like you like the the most 

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expedient route to resolving 
this issue is to ask this 

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person, May I go in your house? 
Here's 20 bucks. 

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Look in the precise place where 
one is supposed to do that. 

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Yes, yeah. 
And if I see a live Laugh Love 

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sign in their bathroom, I'm 
taking it. 

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Yeah, well, anyway, I wanted to 
to make you aware that there's a

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garage National Garage Sale Day 
and a National Thrift Shop Day. 

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So come August, Jake, we're 
we're going shopping. 

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That's right, we will observe. 
All right. 

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Thank you. 
Bye.