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>>BOB: Let's start right here.
I've had Mr. Stuff Warehouse for 30, 33 years now.
A loooong time.
All kinds of stuff. How many of you people - raise your hands -
you've been to the Mr. Stuff Warehouse at one time or another?
>>Yeaaaah...
>>BOB: Great! Great! All you people that didn't raise your hand...you suck! (laughter)
If you go to Sears today, you can buy this for $39.95.
When they run on sale, it's $19.95.
At Mr. Stuff today, with a slight dent...
TEN BUCKS!
Two dents...
EIGHT BUCKS!
That one's three dollars if anyone wants it.
OK, I want to thank Larry Cohen.
Larry comes in once a week, every Friday when he gets his paycheck.
And he buys his adult diapers.
>>Sit down, Larry. >>(indistinguishable chatter)
>>BOB: On the lighter side... >>Sit down!
>>BOB: on the lighter side at Mr. Stuff
we not only sell all kinds of stuff and crap, whatever we have,
BOB: we actually design stuff. >>Oooh, I like that.
And Marcy's really good, and I'm good, my daughter's good at it.
We designed this bag a year ago - camoflauge tool bag >>(laughter) >>BOB: No, we really did.
We had this bag made, we had tons of them made.
We just about sold out. Marcy designed the label. It says "Sgt. Stuff."
Anything that we make has "Stuff" on it.
So if you see something like the pets, the pet toys and stuff it says "Stuff" on it.
>>OK. >>BOB: So that's one of Marcy's designs. >>OK. I want that, Bob. Yay, Marcy.
[squeaking, honking horn] >>BOB: OK, we just got those in.
Mr. Stuff gets a lot of good stuff, we get a lot of crappy stuff.
This particular company made a metric, uh, excuse me, yeah, metric nut driver set.
They didn't know what to do with it because
it says "standard American sizes," it doesn't say "metric." It's wrong.
Ended up in my place, we made stickers,
we re-labeled it. It's now a "metric" nut driver set.
Here's all the gift cards.
That'll go to the handyman.
And, here's another little, stupid little item I bought.
I bought 80,000 of these things.
It was made for your dog.
They're Altoids for your dog.
It says "dog" uh, what's it say?
>>Dogtoids. >>BOB: Dog, Dogtoids. That's what it's called.
Unfortunately, the company didn't give me the mints.
I just got a stupid empty can.
Seriously, seriously, I bought 70,000 empty cans.
People, the most people put nuts and bolts in 'em,
but most people in our store put their marijuana in it.
Bruce, if you need any, there's 180 in a case,
I'll give you a discount.
I just got in a whole bunch of lighters.
Look, if you want to light your barbeque
a little lighter, like this, kinda cool, flexible neck.
That's like a buck. This one I think you've seen,
it's a moose head. Actually, it's a torch.
Look at this silly thing... this is retarded, but it's pretty cool.
It's a, it's a octopus, all different colors.
>>PEARL: Awwwww. How cute is that... >>BOB: It's cute.
>>JONATHAN: It's farting fire. >>BOB: Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
>>It's farting fire.
>>BOB: OK. Also at Mr. Stuff, you guys don't know this,
we sell lots of CD movies, DVD, CDs, music. 99 cents everything we sell.
This week we have a special on,
this one's pretty good...
this is "Sharone's Greatest Hebrew Hits."
This one's not too bad either,
I actually listened to this. It's pretty good.
Heh, heh, heh, heh...
>>JONATHAN: Oh, sh%#@$t. >>BOB: This one here. You know Jonathan, the attorney here.
This is "Jonathan Leventhal, LIVE!
Open Mike Night at the Macaroni Grill."
This one's pretty good, too.
(indistinguishable chatter)
We've got a new member here, Ann, uh, Andreya, right? >>ANDREA: Yep. Right.
>>BOB: Andrea. Everybody say hello to Andrea over there.
>>Hi, Andrea!!
>>BOB: I told Andrea last week when she joined,
you're gonna love the group.
Stuff's gonna fly all over the place,
and sometimes it's gonna hit you in the face.
It's gonna hit you right now.
>>POW, right in the kisser!
>>BOB: This is "Andrea's Top 10 Greatest Christmas Wrap (Rap) Songs."
Last, but not least...
>>JIM: We're down to 62 members again.
>>BOB: Last, but not least...
Heh, heh, heh... this one's pretty good, too.
An instructional DVD, this is Jim Berry, right here.
"How to Clean Your Ducts 101"
and a bonus, uh, video in here that says,
heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh
"How to Rebuild the, uh, the, uh, uh, the Coil on Your Air Conditioning System."
>>Oh, that's a biggie.
>>BOB: I don't know about that one. Three out of four is good...
That one will be 49 cents.
>>How much is mine? >>BOB: Here's another gift card.
>>99! >>BOB: 99? And I think I'm done with my props, so...
I've owned Mr. Stuff Warehouse 33 years.
Started it way back when, uh, let's start from the beginning.
Born in New York, moved to California,
in the late '60's, um,
went to Poly High School in Sun Valley,
played lots of football and baseball.
Where'd I go from there? Went to Valley College,
played football and baseball - well, I actually played baseball at Valley College.
When I was 16, I was catcher.
Tried out with the Kansas, uh, uh,
16 I tried out with the Baltimore Orioles, as catcher.
When I was 19, I tried out catcher with the Kansas City Royals.
Also when I was 19, I was sparring partner for the
2-year California Golden Gloves Champion.
The only reason he stopped sparring with me,
I hit him hard here one time here, his mouth blew open,
he never wanted to spar with me again.
It was so funny...anyway...
Anyway...the baseball thing didn't work out,
I played semi-pro football. I was defensive tackle,
on a semi-pro team. That's the guy that's right above the center on defense.
Pretty tough position.
Anyway...left college, opened a restaurant in Canoga Park,
a dive, built it up 14 months, I got married,
built it up 14 months, sold it,
made a lot of money on it, had nothing to do.
That's how I got into this business. I fell into it,
made a couple of deals, I thought, "Hey, that was pretty easy."
Looked for companies that were closing and going out of business,
that's how it all started.
Uh, got 3 daughters, twins Megan and Mariel
Megan works at the store.
She's the cute one at the counter.
Uh, Mariel used to work at the store.
My oldest daughter, Monica, works on TV.
She's on the "Wipeout!" TV show for 6 years, 6 seasons.
She just did a commercial last week, a commercial for
that Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli show, Cleveland or something?
She just worked on that commercial.
Uh, I've been doing this a long time...
Anyway, that's about it for me.
I've been around a long time.
Uh, you're always welcome.
I want to see some of the new faces in there.
That's why I got these gift cards.
C'mon in and spend 'em.
And, uh, anything else? Any questions or anything?
>>JONATHAN: No question. I just want to say
Bob was very, very nice when I went into the store.
He's such a gentleman. Escorted me around,
showed me in the back, he was very, very nice.
Then he picked my pocket.
>>BOB: Yeah, I didn't get anything.
Lots of new people in here don't know,
but I am, I'm legally blind.
I've got retinitis pigmentosa, I've had,
since I got divorced in '91.
(indistinguishable chatter)
>>MARK: Hey, uh, y'know everybody, y'know all these good things said about Bob
and everything, and, uh, so you know, I have to be honest on both ends, too.
So, my dog passed away,
everybody knows my dog passed away last March,
and I have a, I have a new German Shepherd puppy,
and I go in there, and I'm looking around.
He's got everything in there,
and he says, "You wanna see my balls?"
And I said, "Excuuuse me?"
He got these incred..these are, these are incredible.
I want you guys to see these.
At the store, you see these in, um, Petco and everything.
These things are great.
And, they're a little hard,
but they're great. And I asked him
what they're made of.
He goes, "I don't know."
And I said, "OK." So, y'know,
Mr. Stuff, it lists for $1.50.
Beautiful, y'know, I'm a tennis player.
So I know tennis balls.
These are great for the dog, right?
Mr. Stuff...it has little paws on it.
So I got my new little puppy,
I threw the ball down the end of the corner, y'know,
I went and, and brushed my teeth.
And I came back, literally, in about 30 seconds.
My little puppy was choking.
>>BOB: All right, thank you.
>>MARK: I was giving...
I was giving my dog CPR.
>>BOB: It's the only date he can get!
>>MARK: Paramedics came.
And they, as soon as they guy saw it, he said,
"Oh, you must have bought that at Mr. Stuff!"
So, whaddaya got to say, whaddaya got
here? Do you want me to tell people I'm a loser?
>>BOB: He doesn't pay attention.
On the pa...first of all...he tried to return them.
I gave them to him for FREE!
Second of all, there's a picture of a Chihuahua and a Poodle on the wrapper...
he's got a hundred and thirty pound German Shepherd!
I bought a lot of stuff from you, y'know, too.
I got the hat.
>>MARK: You got the hat, yes. It's, it's nice quality hat.
>>BOB: I got this shirt from him.
>>MARK: Better crap than you sell me.
>>BOB: Better quality? >>MARK: Yes.
>>Here, Bob. (indistinguishable chatter)
>>BOB: Here, check the quality.
Oh, man!
Look at that quality!
He's Mark Sterling.
He sells shirts!
>>MARK: FREE BALLS, FREE BALLS!
Here, here...go get 'em - get them shirts!
(indistinguishable chatter)
>>BOB: I take all of his shirts that rip, we sell them as shop rags!
>>MARK: SIT DOWN!!!
>>JIM: Well, if you have any really good business quality clients
you want to bring into the group, you can see me.