Darren Rovell on the world's rarest collectibles: Warren Buffett autographs, a $50M Mickey Mantle card, and why size determines value

Speaker 2: Darren is back on the show. Third, fourth time. I lost track. Darius. Good to see you. How you how you doing? Happy Halloween.

Speaker 1: How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 5: So you guys got dressed up for like, it took six or seven hours.

Speaker 2: Yep.... Put on a...

Speaker 5: I just had to put on a pair of headphones and I could be Nathan Fielder.

Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You're Nathan Fielder. There you go. There you go. That's a great Halloween costume.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Are you you you truthful right now with me?

Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1: Okay. Why would we deceive Slow

Speaker 5: zoom in. Why would I deceive? Yes.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Why why would I deceive you?

Speaker 3: How do you

Speaker 1: how do you rank how do you rank... Honestly, John,

Speaker 3: He was looking like Mitch and then all of a sudden he started looking like Mitch McConnell to me a little bit.

Speaker 1: Nah. But I still I still... When

Speaker 3: he leans back like this.

Speaker 2: Warren, I don't want to hear that.

Speaker 5: When he leans You back it's guys you look you guys look great. I mean this is this is an a plus effort from from the entire staff including the Berkshire Hathaway hanging sign.

Speaker 1: What do think about what do you think about our friend Tyler over here?

Speaker 2: Greg, he

Speaker 1: shot at Tyler?

Speaker 3: Can you recognize me?

Speaker 5: Amazing. I

Speaker 1: don't... I was thinking do you think anyone has ever done this level of a Greg Abel costume?

Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's done this much. We weren't Buffett. People have done it.

Speaker 5: Greg Abel is called not Warren. Yeah. Like you know, this is the first ever Greg Abel

Speaker 2: comes But we're putting him on the map today. We're putting him on the map. Everyone's gonna know Greg Abel after this stuff. Yeah. Let's do it. Do you

Speaker 5: you guys don't have a Becky Quick in the office?

Speaker 2: No. No. We should we should... We we... Maybe dressing up as the CNBC anchors next year would be Get you in the full Kramer. That could be really good.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Full Kramer.

Speaker 2: Full Kramer would be pretty

Speaker 1: would be crazy.

Speaker 2: There's a lot of there's a lot of places you can go. It's fun that it only comes up once a year because you can go really really big. We got it. We got a bunch

Speaker 1: of And we could only really do this once a year.

Speaker 2: It's a lot.

Speaker 1: It is It's a lot.

Speaker 5: I feel like you feel the the weight of everything on your face.

Speaker 2: 100%. And what were you

Speaker 3: doing there with your mouth?

Speaker 2: I'm just trying to stretch out all the prosthetics that are on my mouth. It's rough. But

Speaker 1: The crazy thing is the process starts months before Halloween. So we had locked in the costumes.

Speaker 2: Three d scan of the face, all this stuff. Basically in summer. Yeah. Real artists on...

Speaker 5: I did this once actually when I was at pep... I I did something for Pepsi for Kyrie when... Wait. You

Speaker 1: dressed up as Kyrie Irving?

Speaker 5: No. No. No. No. He was Kyrie. He was... We were talking about Uncle Drew. And so I got dressed up as an old journalist. We called my... Me Doctor Hookshot. He didn't know I was dressed up at first. Stand by. It took forever.

Speaker 1: Yeah. I honestly, I could go out in the real world and especially if I had a pair of sunglasses on, like you would not be able to tell Yeah. That you you would just assume that's Warren Buffett. He's at Air Of course, Warren Buffett at Air One.

Speaker 2: Yeah. You know,

Speaker 1: grabbing a smoothie or something.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Can do some... But anyways, we wanted you to come on specifically because of of your collection that you've been building for so long. So maybe introduce yourself even though it's your third or fourth time on the show and then talk about

Speaker 2: The

Speaker 1: collection. The Berkshire universe.

Speaker 5: So yeah, so I I I love to have great collectibles like collect Apple stuff, I collect business collectibles, sports collectibles, and about you know ten years ago, I just thought that Warren in particular and Berkshire Hathaway were so under collected.

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: There weren't many things out there. The biggest thing that was out there was for charities, he would sign uncut, uncirculated dollar bills in blocks of six, eight, and 10 usually. And those sold on the market, you know, put... He he autographed it in Sharpie. Those sold on the market for like 2 to $3 for a while. And in the past five years, it went up to like 10 or 15. Then last year, one sold for 24.

Speaker 1: Woah. Okay.

Speaker 5: And so I think...

Speaker 2: And what's the break up value? Like if you sold it as cash, it's worth a couple... A dollar... They're dollars. Oh, they're dollars. Okay. Okay.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Literal dollars.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 3: So so those have been... So I have... This is the... This is $12,345.67. These are...

Speaker 5: This is $16. And that signature of Buffett is a foot and a half long.

Speaker 2: A huge signature. That's amazing....

Speaker 5: Largest Warren Buffett in the world. So Wow. Ken Griffin or whoever wants to, you know, be like Goodfin and be, oh, that's me grabbing the bulls by the horn. Whoever in your office, who's ever watching right now, this will one day be available so you could say you have the largest. But.

Speaker 2: That's really cool.

Speaker 1: Isn't your favorite holding period forever? Are you are you are you...

Speaker 3: I would say I'm a... You like

Speaker 1: to collect but you don't like to adopt their principles, is that what you're saying?

Speaker 5: No. I would... No. No. I would... Hey, collect what you like. Invest in what you like, right? Mhmm. And I I do I do sell. I do sell. I'm willing to sell. So that that will be on that will be on the market Order at some

Speaker 2: in bound.

Speaker 5: This might be my favorite. This is the Woodrow Wilson 1947 high school yearbook.

Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.

Speaker 5: Have you guys ever seen this?

Speaker 2: No. Never. Please. Wow. So there's

Speaker 5: Warren in the upper right quadrant. Wow. And is... See if I can...

Speaker 2: Buffett. Oh, there you go. Warren Buffett. A

Speaker 1: sportsman. Basketball and golf. The favorites likes math. A future stock broker.

Speaker 2: Wow. A future stock broker. That's incredible.

Speaker 5: Yeah. And and the girl the girl next to him wanted to be referred to as piglet. What? Right there. Burton. I I think that's a 1947 thing. I'd like to know how the other three

Speaker 2: That's remarkable.

Speaker 5: Fared in this box. But...

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where are they now? So Yeah. What is the... Is there is there a second layer to collecting where you're off the internet and you're trying to grab Buffett at a public event, go to a Hathaway meeting, Berkshire Hathaway meeting, meet... Get signatures on that?

Speaker 5: Haven't I have never I've been with Warren twice.

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: Never, but in a CNBC capacity. Sure. He did not ask for an autograph.

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: And I've never never asked for an autograph. Over time, I've probably had maybe eight to 10 of them. Mhmm. He has not signed in a while. He used to sign in and around Omaha Mhmm. So you could get him. And he used to sign by mail, which he hasn't signed in pretty much ten years.

Speaker 2: Oh, interesting.

Speaker 3: Now, one

Speaker 5: thing that's interesting is there were a bunch of Buffett's that started coming up three or four years ago and the authenticators, JSA and PSA started failing them. And I went to them and I said, is there really people doing a Warren? And and one of the authenticators said, there is in New York a fake Warren Buffett autograph ring.

Speaker 2: Someone is impersonating Warren Buffett. That would... I can't believe that would happen. That's that that's so disrespectful.

Speaker 1: It's only when PSA comes in that you see who's swimming naked. Yeah.

Speaker 3: And then and then so there's so there's and there's so there's

Speaker 5: not much. There's a couple things you can get and then Mhmm. So the other things you can get are the passes are each year.

Speaker 3: Yep. So I I have

Speaker 5: every pass... I think they started in '97.

Speaker 3: Woah.

Speaker 5: I have I have every pass since '97. That's incredible.

Speaker 2: Woah. The pass spread. That's better than the money spread.

Speaker 3: And they're

Speaker 5: not they're not they're not hard They're to cool, you know. They're, you know, so if anyone wants to, you know, collect them

Speaker 2: Yeah. They're they're

Speaker 5: doable. Munger Munger actually, you know, is Yeah. A tougher... Has been a tougher signature because people haven't collected him.

Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm sure. Can you explain to me the the etiquette and the anatomy of pursuing a signature of someone? I've seen some... I've celebrities do these videos where they they don't want to sign it anonymously, so they'll they'll write t o to immediately. Oh, who should I make it out to? And they kind of force the the the collector to, you know, say their name or say a name.

Speaker 5: So I saw this firsthand. Yeah. I saw this firsthand in 2001 when Jerry Colangelo, the owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, told the players they had to sign. So Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling had to sign on a Monday. Mhmm. Luis Gonzalez had to sign on a Tuesday, whatever. Now, they also had autograph deals. So if they had autograph deals, they had to either have a different signature or devalue it in some And the t... The devaluing it was the two. Now the issue is a real autograph guy says, my name's Ed, my name's Jim

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: My name's... You know, two or three letters.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 5: If you can get to a sharpie with rubbing alcohol in five seconds Mhmm. You could pretty much take it off anything.

Speaker 2: Got it.

Speaker 5: So so... But that but that is the how do we Not to

Speaker 1: not to.

Speaker 2: Devalue it. By

Speaker 5: having by having the two, and you know, then the only person you can sell it to is another Mike, another Ed, another Jim.

Speaker 2: Yep. That makes sense.

Speaker 5: They cut... People can cut around it too. Sure. So it, you know, it depends.

Speaker 2: What about the color of the pen, the method of the instrument? You only have some BIC on you. You see someone, you wanna get a you wanna get a signature. What's the tier list or, like, ranking for the the priority? If you have your pick of the litter, what instrument are you going with for the signature? Does it matter on the material?

Speaker 5: Depends on the material. Depends on the material. If it's a shiny material, you'd like to try to get some baby powder on it or wipe it off with a shirt or something like that. That actually does make a difference. All else being equal, you want a a black sharpie. If it is, you know, some sort of surface that you think will hold that sharpie. Mhmm. If if it is on a piece of paper, I would rather even a pencil, I swear, than than a sharpie because it's gonna bleed through and it has xylene in it, means that it will turn yellow in a couple years.

Speaker 2: Oh,

Speaker 5: interesting. Don't don't go too crazy with the pens. Mhmm. You know, that's where people really really Yeah. And then there's some people who sign who just... Like Marilyn Monroe, I don't think she ever picked up a pen that worked. Look at all her signatures, they're Yeah. You know, so it's like, I think because of the slant or whatever it is, lefties obviously, JFK has a tough signature like Mhmm. So you know, signatures are amazing. And I also love the intricacies of the rarries as a signature. Like Paul Revere is rare because he was never a politician. Mhmm. He was just a silversmith.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 5: So so he's much more rare than George Washington.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 5: You know, and for my JFK collection, have an Abraham Zapruder signature, which is like the guy was a tailor

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 5: And he shot the video, and then he didn't like that he shot the video and he became a recluse even more. Interesting. And then he died before autograph collecting was... So the nuances of who has, you know, the most interesting autograph.

Speaker 2: Mhmm. Yeah. We saw...

Speaker 1: That PSA heist last week. Mhmm. I immediately clocked it as as foul play. I I was making things up on the spot, but I'm never wrong.

Speaker 5: I I did I did see that. I clipped your clip on my Instagram. I believe that's true. Mhmm. If... Listen. Some... It's an inside job. It's gotta be a FedEx inside job.

Speaker 1: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: I don't know. They they do have to figure out how to not have $17,000,000 cards on one, you know...

Speaker 1: Feels like if you're transporting $17,000,000 of merchandise, should transport it yourself or work with like a Brink's, you know? A style service.

Speaker 5: By the way, when I've had some really valuable stuff to PSA, I've flown from New York, I've gotten it graded on the site and I've flown back.

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: What what is really interesting and this is an interesting business story is that FedEx is now cheaper to send something than UPS, than than USPS, than the postal service.

Speaker 2: Wow.

Speaker 5: And... But the issue is you... For... If you say you have a collectible, you can only get $1,500 of insurance. So let's say I show up to FedEx with a $30,000 item. Mhmm. Am I gonna tell them it's a collectible? No, because it is a max of 1,500. So what happens if I say it's something else? Well what happens if it gets lost? And now I've I've I've I've... It's like they don't even know the class of what it is. And what happens if I say it's $30,000? The most likely thing is for someone in the store to steal it.

Speaker 2: Sure.

Speaker 5: So it's very hard for collectors now given the price of everything To really...

Speaker 1: How the watch world solved this?

Speaker 5: I don't... Well, the watch world solves it in a way because the people who originally received the watches fly to places to their dealer, you know, at least originally.

Speaker 2: Pick them up on sites. Yeah.

Speaker 5: Secondary, you know, I know a guy here in New Jersey who flies to, you know, Saint Louis because he's one of five guys on the Rolex list and he has to buy another $100,000 in jewelry every time, but at least he's flying. Mhmm. But there there is so much money going on these things and there really is no solution. I mean, theft is theft, but like lack of insurance and not understand like it's it's it's hard for a collector now.

Speaker 2: Yeah. We saw a bunch of the tech leaders sign autographs at one of these White House dinners. They're kinda all over the place. Jensen has like a fantastic beautiful signature. Greg Brockman just signed some initials in No, no, cursive. Yeah. Some people are all over the place.

Speaker 1: That's gonna be one of the most rare pulls that you can get.

Speaker 2: The GDB? Twenty fifty. The GDB. It's GDB original? GDB. Reaction to the wide variety? If you imagine yourself, if you're manifesting becoming the type of tech leader that signs autographs all the time, where do you want your signature to go to be interesting to a collector? Do you want something cursive, iconic, flowery, huge? Do you want something more unique?

Speaker 5: How do think about... Honestly, I think they're pretty... They're all pretty similar. You know, if you look if you look... I'm I'm not Yeah. Getting political here, but Trump is very similar to Mussolini.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 5: You know, these these guys, they're probably either gonna have something very large Yeah. Which is, you know, typical of ego. Sure. Or something crazy, which is typical of being all over the place and being ADHD.

Speaker 2: Okay. So you can read into the person's psyche Yeah. Whatever. Signature. It's a window to the soul.

Speaker 5: Donald Trump is a like Sure. A complete heartbeat, you know, up and

Speaker 2: down. Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 5: But but Elon's interesting. So I stayed away from collecting Elon Mhmm. Because I think he'd be crazy enough to maybe have an autograph signing one day.

Speaker 2: Oh, interesting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you come to the Tesla launch or something, I'll just sign everything. And that would devalue everything.

Speaker 5: Bezos. Bezos, once he... The day I bought a piece of his, the day he was done at Amazon, I'm like Mhmm. This guy is gonna go from private plane to private island. Yep. You're never gonna find him.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. That's been the case.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. Just have... You you have to figure out who you want. But it's it's... And Jobs obviously has gone like, it's been unbelievable, his his rise. Because he almost didn't sign anything. Yeah. So now that all these checks came out... Let me just tell you this quick one. His the... So there were 50 checks that came out, like the initial Apple checks.

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: They found them. They had a... They found a desk in the original garage, and they found the checks in the drawer. Those checks, the 50 combined are gonna be worth about 3,800,000.

Speaker 2: Wow. Woah. That's crazy. With with some of these tech leaders, is there more value to getting them to sign their product? Like, do you want Steve Jobs to sign the iPhone or Yes. An iPod or... I mean, but at a certain point, like, if I have a Elon Musk signed Cybertruck, it's like it's a truck.

Speaker 5: He signs... He does sign mini Teslas

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 5: That go

Speaker 2: for it. Mini Teslas. That's insane.

Speaker 5: 8 to $10, like a die cast Tesla.

Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. But at a certain point, like like a like a a signed rocket fuselage by Elon is just gonna be so inconvenient that a collector is gonna say, what am I gonna do with that? Right?

Speaker 3: No. You put it on the wall.

Speaker 5: The size could be

Speaker 1: a problem.

Speaker 2: Size could be a problem. Could be a benefit. Yeah.

Speaker 5: The size could be a problem which which was this week when the the dinosaur at Sotheby's sold. Mhmm. It was a nano Tyrannosaurus.

Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.

Speaker 5: And the nano part of it is why it sold for 47,000,000 even though the estimate was 7. Sure. Why? Because you could fit it in a normal room. Yeah. You don't have to build a room around it. And that's why things... Sometimes the reason why cards are more valuable than jerseys Mhmm. It's totally a size thing. You can carry it around.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. No. That makes a lot of sense. It's very good.

Speaker 1: Any any success stories you've heard of people financing dinosaur explorations? Mhmm. So, you know, I I imagine like... So... I I imagine if I wanted to spend $30,000,000, I could probably find a nano Tyrannosaurus. True

Speaker 5: or The issue is the issue is domain who owns what. Oh yeah. And whether you have right...

Speaker 1: Countries they'll just... You could dig it up but they're like that's ours. Thank you.

Speaker 5: Even in The United States, in Montana and Utah and it is not clear.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 5: And so so the guy who dug up the the Nanotyrannosaurus, that that actually happened to be his right. But but in a lot of places, I would say Where was that dug up? That a backyard? Me find my own cheaper. It's... It it gets very complicated.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting.

Speaker 5: And then by the way, then you need to have what percentage of real bone is it when you build the skeleton. That's how you analyze a dinosaur....

Speaker 1: Are LARPing. They got like some scraps of bones and they string them together and they're like, look, I got a dinosaur. And it's only like 10% dino.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Most most of the ones that you see that are great, the best of the best are like 70%.

Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah. That makes sense. How are you thinking about collectibles in the context of these new up and coming sports leagues? You... Just yesterday, we talked to Ice Cube about the big three, three on three basketball. We talked about the curling league. There's people doing pickleball, Padel, slam balls coming back, the XFL. Like, everyone has a play. They're all real small scale right now. But is that... Does that actually mean there's some optionality there if you have the storage and you can, you know, pay a dollar for something and throw it

Speaker 5: in storage? So my company, Collect, helps teams, leagues, brands do this type of stuff. So we are we are like going into these leagues and like helping them build things that look professional for collectors. Yeah. Even though there's not, you know, because if someone doesn't want a licensing deal, do it yourself.

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: Right? Store all this stuff yourself. I couldn't believe when I went to Dude Perfect and I said to them, hey, where's all your record breaking balls? And they go, we put them all back on the ball rack. That's Really?

Speaker 2: Even like... Even the ghinnom ones? That's crazy. Everything.

Speaker 5: You have so many subscribers.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 5: Just put each one in a bag Yeah. And give... This is the one where we hit the biggest shot.

Speaker 2: This is one... You can go watch the video.

Speaker 5: Yeah. I was really surprised about that. So I think storage is certainly something that a lot of brands and teams don't think about and...

Speaker 1: Well isn't it isn't it people are either like collectors or not? Like on our like Dylan has been building out the Museum of Business. He's obsessed with collecting. Yeah. I don't get very attached to things at all even though I love things. Right? But I just don't have that.

Speaker 2: I don't

Speaker 1: have the bug. Yeah. Dylan. And so there's like organizations out there where people just don't realize the opportunity.

Speaker 5: When you see that the ticket to UFC number one this week went for $82,000. Right? I mean, a comp ticket from 1993 went for $82,000. I think even if you're not a collector at this point, if you're a business person, you do wanna start saving things.

Speaker 1: Where does collecting cross the line though? Like, does anyone have like blood... The bloody canvas from the first, UFC event? Like, at what point is it like... At what point are you saying you've gone too far? Like, did you ever try to pinch a hair off of Warren's...

Speaker 5: I I I bid on Ty Cobb's dentures.

Speaker 2: Woah. Okay.

Speaker 5: I didn't win. Yeah. I didn't win.

Speaker 1: That's my line.

Speaker 2: No dentures.

Speaker 5: No. Don't I don't bid on hair. There's a there's a guy who's the largest hair collector in the world.

Speaker 2: That's weird. Yeah. I'm not into that.

Speaker 5: Yeah. Yep. He he has folders and folders and folders of hair.

Speaker 2: Wow. Yep. Future cloning potential.

Speaker 5: No option.

Speaker 2: The option out. Clone everyone maybe. Maybe that's where he's going. What else is up in that Tyrannosaurus, nano Tyrannus territory? Because the only thing I can think that transaction the tens of millions is cars and art, but is there... Are there other collectibles that are starting to try and play in that super super premium crazy category? Because...

Speaker 5: Well, there's a there's a deal in principle on the table for a 1952 Mickey Mantle PSA 10 for $50,000,000.

Speaker 2: Wow.

Speaker 5: You know, there's only three tens, and everyone said no, and one of the three guys died, and his kids, know,

Speaker 2: are... Yeah.

Speaker 5: It's it's up. So I think that's the card thing. I mean, I think dinosaurs are the biggest like, you know, that's the biggest thing going. Obviously, like, there's nothing else.

Speaker 2: Yeah. The

Speaker 5: art has really... Has held, but I can't really think of, know, there's jerseys, game used jerseys are now in the, you know, there was a Jordan jersey that sold for $14,000,000. Yeah.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 5: If anyone wants, I have something in Sotheby's right now that is... Could look beautiful in their house. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah.

Speaker 3: There's so so there's there's there's a

Speaker 5: lot of things. I think big things to rich people are you know, something that's so grand and a piece of something is is where the bragging rights are, where you actually have to build a room to to house it.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's the thing with the the the t rex skeletons. It's like the ultimate statement piece in a house that, you know, you get up past a $100,000,000 house, there's not that much more the house that you can buy. You can only be in one room at a time if you have a 100,000 square feet. You're never going to see the other side of the house. But if there's a t rex...

Speaker 1: I'll show you the outcome.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. That's it. People

Speaker 5: want to build museums in their house for sure.

Speaker 2: Basically. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks so much for coming on the show. Happy Halloween.

Speaker 5: Happy Halloween. Don't eat too much candy.

Speaker 1: Do you... I I don't wanna I don't wanna impose but if you wanna collect the masks, add them to your collection.

Speaker 5: Oh, that

Speaker 2: would Game worn that would

Speaker 5: be great.

Speaker 1: Game worn

Speaker 2: Game worn prosthetics. Yeah. Technology lives

Speaker 1: for prosthetics.

Speaker 2: I'll I'll think

Speaker 5: it goes to Dylan should collect those.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Think we'll we'll leave that with Dylan. Wait. Last question. You can see everything. You dressed up as Nathan Fielder. Give us your review. Out of 10, how'd you like the movie?

Speaker 5: 10 out of 10. Ten Ten. It was it was not only... And you can't give it away because it's so complex, so I couldn't give it away.

Speaker 2: Yep.

Speaker 5: But not only was it brilliant, you know, as a journalist, I'm jealous Mhmm. Of going into the lion's den

Speaker 2: Mhmm.

Speaker 5: And acting the way that Nathan could, right? As you know, totally not you know getting into it, but then obviously he gets into it a little bit. Yeah. I just think the device and the switch that happened midway is what enables someone not to look at their watch when it hits two hours and fifty six minutes. Yeah. I mean, it it it is just so well done. So I'm I'm excited for for what that is. I think it's awesome. It's getting lauded everywhere. And then on Monday, I'm seeing a movie that I'm looking just as forward to.

Speaker 2: What's that?

Speaker 5: Which is I Play Rocky which I'm really...

Speaker 2: I saw a trailer for that today. I... Yeah. That was on the TV. I gotta check that out. Well, thank you so much for coming on

Speaker 1: the show. Great to hang.

Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 1: Thanks for the insights.

Speaker 2: Always great.

Speaker 1: Cheers to you.

Speaker 2: Have a good one.

Speaker 1: Have fun out there.

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Speaker 1: John, take a look at that public ticker. They're calling it out in the chat.

Speaker 2: What we got?

Speaker 1: It's a blood bath out there. Down 2%. Microsoft 2%. Nvidia almost 6%. Amazon almost three. Yeah. Berkshire Hathaway

Speaker 2: on Saturday. Is Berkshire Hathaway not on the ticker yet? Can we

Speaker 1: add Berkshire

Speaker 2: Hathaway to the ticker?

Speaker 1: 6% and where's Meta at? Meta is, only 2%. Yeah. They're holding

Speaker 2: up. They're doing well.

Speaker 1: They are holding up. So...

Speaker 2: Yeah. I kinda wanna do a you know, Buffett themed ad reads. Your business is mumbo jumbo. Their business is mumbo jumbo. Their business is securing your mumbo jumbo. CrowdStrike secures mumbo jumbo and stopping breaches. Warren Buffett, we got some breaking news here in Business Insider. This actually dropped today. It's not every day you get some breaking news about the Oracle of Omaha, but we do have one. Warren Buffett hasn't had a glass of water since at least the nineteen seventies. Can you believe this? Is that real? This is real. So so Business Insider is reporting on a conversation that happened between the 96 year old business icon Warren Buffett and Bill Ack Ackman. This is what they what they recall during an episode. So Bill Ackman and Warren Buffett had a conversation a long time ago, and then Bill Ackman brought it up on a podcast and said, oh, remember I talked to Warren, and he said he hadn't had a glass of water since the seventies. So Ackman said that Buffett came over for a dinner at Ackman's house years ago and he'd made sure to stock up on the legendary investor's favorite drink, Cherry Coca Cola. Cherry Coke. The Pershing Square founder, that's Bill Ackman, CEO. Calling

Speaker 1: it Petey. Petey. Yeah.

Speaker 2: Yeah. No. It's true. Once they were sitting at the table, he asked Buffett whether he'd like still or sparkling water. Like I have your cherry coke but do you want still or sparkling before you get into your soda? And Buffett politely declined opting for his preferred soda instead. But I said, you know, don't you drink water? Ackman recalled. And he said, Bill, I haven't had water in forty eight years. That is remarkable. He quipped that in 2025 or 2015, he was one quarter Coca Cola as it accounted for 25% of his daily calories. That is extremely peedy. Not drinking water might sound unbelievable but Buffett who retired as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO after sixty years, Greg Abel took over. Let's cut to Greg. There he Still going strong. Spitting image How over

Speaker 3: do you feel, Greg? I'm feeling great. I'm ready to to be here for another forty years, you know. Mhmm.

Speaker 1: No. But Tyler, on a personal note, how do you feel? Because the last year last year was about one hour in, I felt like the walls were closed. Like, you really feel like you feel there's a lot of layers. That like one of these outfits is like a... It's like a... A lot of pressure. Yeah. They're taking you to deep water here in Hollywood. It's a lot of pressure. It feels very intense. Yeah. I almost I almost had to get up and leave, but then I just powered through.

Speaker 2: At the same time, I feel like the fact that this is round two

Speaker 1: Show business above all else.

Speaker 2: This is round two. I I could wear this every day now. I'm feeling confident.

Speaker 1: No, I know. Know. I'm getting I'm getting I'm getting I'm kind of thinking I got dinner with some friends later. I'm kind of thinking

Speaker 2: Keep it on.

Speaker 1: Why not keep it on?

Speaker 2: Maybe the whole weekend.

Speaker 1: Why not keep it on? That friend did tell me, I FaceTimed him before this, said take it off, do not come to dinner like that. He's testing. You're gonna scare people.

Speaker 2: He's testing.

Speaker 1: He's clearly testing me. So if you're listening out there, I'm not taking it off.

Speaker 2: I'm not taking off. I'm taking

Speaker 1: it off. I'm going out like this.

Speaker 2: We gotta we gotta surprise someone in person. Actually,

Speaker 1: where I wanna go, I wanna go to the val... I wanna go drive over real quickly to the valet at the gym Yeah. And just pull up and just say say what up to the boys.

Speaker 2: For sure.

Speaker 1: Our friends over there. Yeah. I was explaining to him yesterday that we were gonna dress up and he's like, you know.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Special shirt. Yeah. Something. Cool.

Speaker 1: Cool stuff.

Speaker 2: Well, we're a little bit differently around here.

Speaker 1: We are keeping our first guest of the show. We have a little scheduling switch up here. David Senra.