This episode brings the madness! Joe Bodnar and the team share the highs and lows of auction life, including scoring a suitcase of silver coins, surviving a bedpan fight, and dealing with the rollercoaster of post-pandemic antique and art sales.

You’ll hear the real, behind-the-scenes stories of how auctions survive when the market shifts, what happens when customers lose their minds, and the most outrageous dumpster finds we've ever had.

🔥 Topics Covered:

• Selling a Blue Comet Lionel train set and rare coins

• How a suitcase of pirate silver made it to auction

• The time a bedpan became a weapon during an auction fight 🤯

• Why art and antiques are a totally different game post-pandemic

• Tips on how to avoid losing money on collectibles

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This isn’t your average episode—Kevin Smith, creator of Clerks, Mallrats, and Jay and Silent Bob, joins the crew to talk about fandom, nostalgia, and the crazy world of collecting.

We relive the auction that changed everything—when Kevin unearthed a forgotten binder of comic art and partnered with Bodnar’s for a six-figure auction. He shares his honest reaction, what it was like seeing Joe in action for the first time, and how that moment inspired him to put Joe in a future film!

🔥 Topics Covered:

• Kevin’s secret stash: how one dusty binder brought in over $100K

• Why “loving what you love” can lead to unexpected success

• SMarction: the Kevin Smith auction event at Smodcastle

• The art of auctioneering—and why Joe’s voice is movie-worthy

• Collecting as passion vs. profit: where does the heart lead?

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In this episode, we go deep into the wild world of auctions—featuring smutty comic books that sold for thousands, a $5,000 Star Wars box lost and found a year later, and the team’s honest thoughts on online trolls, negative reviews, and shipping disasters.

The crew also opens up about the stress of packing giant pop culture sales, why photographing toys is a nightmare, and how it felt when one of their podcast clips went mini-viral.

🔥 Topics Covered:

• How "smut sells" dominated the latest comic book sale

• A shipping horror story from Australia—featuring crushed boxes and happy endings

• A peek behind the curtain: responding to negative Google reviews & trolls

• The difficulty of photographing reflective toys and handling angry bidders

• Why some buyers don’t want others to know about Bodnar’s… and how that affects reviews

• What’s coming in the final installment of the McFarlane Toys collection sale

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