- All right, nice
Here we go. And how much money?
$300.
What about 3 and 1/4? 325?
Going twice.
3 and 1/4.
75.
[auctioneer chant]
$400, going once?
Four there.
[auctioneer chant]
450 against you.
475.
[auctioneer chant]
This is great.
Nabila and Balelo are going at it,
and I've got a front row seat.
I've got $500.
5 and 1/4.
525, and you're out.
I've got 5 and 1/4.
5 and 1/2.
575.
550 against you.
575 to you.
[auctioneer chant]
I've got 575, going once.
Sure, the guy with the purse will
go up to a grand on this one.
Going once.
At 600, 600, 600 going now.
Yep.
I've got $600.
6 and 1/4, 625.
6 and 1/2. What about 650?
Mark? Going once.
625. 650.
675. I've got 650.
675. Now 7.
Are you 7?
[auctioneer chant]
I've got 675, going twice.
All in, all through?
All through, we're all done or not?
Sold it your way.
675, Nabila.
Woo!
All right.
I really didn't want this.
I was running them up, and got stuck with it.
Let's go.
So I called in my brother, Nabil,
to help me with that locker that got dropped on me.
He's kind of like my lucky charm.
What does it say?
Invitation to the ball.
141 of 650.
Normally, I would get anywhere from 300 to 500.
So let's say 300.
$300.
Shopping bags.
Shopping bags?
Well, these are good, though, for the store, for sure.
Get a buck apiece for them.
About 160 there.
OK.
So there's 160 of our money back.
All right.
Let's see what this is.
Nothing.
Yeah, empty, empty.
Nothing in here.
$25.
Whatever.
Pillows.
Purses.
Shoes.
$30, $40.
Oh, these are nicer clothes.
Another $100.
Hey. - Hmm?
There's a trunk back here.
Let me get it.
I'm going to let you open it.
Oh-- a little doll.
No.
It's a puppet.
That's awesome.
That is so cool.
Look.
Hi, Nabila.
[laughs]
That might get us out of the red and into the green.
And you always liked dolls, too.
I like these kind of dolls.
The dolls that make money?
Yeah.
I definitely have to get this checked out.
I'm going to pull some strings and get my ventriloquist
friend to look at the dummy.
Didn't think you're going to find this back here.
Not at all.
Not in the rummage bags.
[laughter]
Hey.
Nabila, how are you?
Oh, hey, Jeff.
How are you?
You've obviously been working out.
That looks really heavy.
Can I get that for you?
It's not, but thank you so much.
Come on in.
Let's take a look at what you got.
Yeah, my ventriloquist friend is Jeff Dunham.
Let's see what we got.
Oh, that's great.
You know who that is?
That's Willie Talk.
Is that who that is?
A ventriloquist dummy from somewhere
between 1925 and 1945.
The fact that you have the hat, and that's
in really good shape, and the fact that you have the tie--
those are the two things that always go first.
And then he only has one shoe, and that's
actually a joke in my act.
I go-- Peanut is my character.
I say, Peanut, you lost a shoe.
And he goes, no, I found one.
Thank you.
Anyway, so this is basically a toy.
- You mean for children? - Oh, yeah.
Sure. This is pretty much a doll.
The kid would sit down, put him on his knee,
and then you'd just reach back here and work him like this.
Oh, OK.
Hi, Nabila.
Thanks for finding me.
They had three different sizes of Willie Talk.
This was the smallest one.
Guess how much he was in 1938?
$8.00?
$1.35.
Wow.
Right.
Now, would someone restore this?
My opinion is if you're not going to use it, there's just
some kind of charm to having all that original stuff,
even though it's kind of a mess.
How much is something like this worth?
I think we should ask him.
[laughs]
OK.
I'm afraid he's going to tell me.
Yeah.
Well, I think I'm worth, actually, a lot.
You do?
Yes.
I'm not sure about that.
What's wrong?
Well, you're not in the perfect shape.
Neither are you.
Your face is a little off.
So is yours.
In this shape, especially with the head like that, I think--
$80, $85.
That's OK.
It's still a nice find.
No, he's lying to you.
No.
No?
I'm so sad.
85 is good.
Yeah, whatever.
I can pay my parking ticket now.
He's great.
I would love to give him to you.
Oh, no.
You can't do that.
- Yes, I can. - Really?
Yes.
It worked.
Yeah, I know.
He's no dummy.
Yeah.