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Doctor, I'm doing better than a thrift store
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Okay. It's a time when good medicine and
health tips are colorfully
presented by my German American actively practicing medical
doctor, doctor Gudrin Reid or Gigi.
Doctor Gigi, as she likes to be called,
is a distinguished scientist. And because of her
research, she holds four DNA technology patents in
her name. She's been a university professor, syndicated
broadcaster, now a newspaper columnist, very good doctor,
and an artist. I mean, you make incredible
art. So all that said,
the list could go on and on. Yeah.
Keep going, please.
You should say quit it some more. Quit
it some more. Yeah. Quit it some more.
What medical marvels do you have for us
today on this week's week's health segment of
MDGG?
Well, as you know, we have been reading
Ron Reel's first book. Ron Reel, the realtor?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right. Mhmm. Overcoming
a lot. Overcoming a lot. And he had
rheumatic fever
twice. When he was young. When he was
young. Yeah. So we thought,
or you thought, what is rheumatic fever? Of
course, we learned it in medical school, but
we really don't see anybody
developing it anymore. So we thought we'll talk
about rheumatic fever. What did he think it
when he first heard the word, he was
like seven years old.
He thought it was romantic fever. Romantic fever.
And he'd see his brothers and his, sister
in law's kissing. So he thought it was
a romantic fever.
Yep. Cute.
It's, but not it's okay.
Rheumatic
fever
sounds like an old fashioned disease from history
books,
but it is still quietly changing
lives today, possibly,
especially when a simple sore throat is ignored.
It begins with an infection by a so
called
group a streptococcal
bacterium.
That is the same bacteria
that causes strep throat.
Oh, really? Okay. So let me get get
on the step. Alright.
Doctor. Yeah. Well Doctor, I do not mean
to embarrass you, but do you know why
diarrhea is classified as an inherited disease?
Why? Because it runs in your genes.
Okay.
Okay. Back to more Risky as I'll tell.
Rheumatic fever. In a small number of people
who have
the rheumatic fever, the immune system
attempts to attack those bacteria, this the group
a strip,
and the the immune bodies misfire and they
start attacking our body's own tissue. We've had
that in the recent past. Right?
EBV virus and, multiple sclerosis, for example. Epstein
vials, that one. Epstein Barr virus. Yeah. Right.
And so if it touches or if it
attacks our own issues, it's usually
coming from the
strep group a strep. It's usually the heart
and the joints. Oh. So weeks after the
sore throat is gone, a child or a
teenager who usually has the strep throat,
may develop fever or painful
swollen knees or ankles,
strange jerky movements Weird. Cinnamam, cook cinnam,
chorea, or shortness of breath or all of
it. So then it's called rheumatic fever. Speaking
of joints, the heart and joints, joints say,
I had to quit smoking marijuana, doctor. Why?
My cholesterol was getting too high.
Hey. Hey. Two cows are grazing on a
hill and one cow says the other, have
you heard of the mad cow disease?
And the other cow says, yeah. But what
do I care? I'm a duck.
Oh, god. Okay, doc. What else? So if
and when the heart is involved in this
misfiring of the autoimmune,
you know, the antibodies now going into the
heart, the heart valves
can be attacked, especially or usually it's the
mitral valve.
And then it can be scarred for life
because
the, the immune
does the immune system that attacks the rheumatic
valve, the mitral valve can then,
get inflammation and the inflammation then becomes
scar tissue as in a scarred mitral valve.
Now did you know
why where the mitral valve is? Now is
it ask you what is the mitral valve?
Is one of the big ones going in
or going out? So the mitral valve lies
between the left atrium, the little chamber, and
the left ventricle, the large chamber. A lot
of doctories there. And it got the name
because of the two leaflets that look like
a bishop's
headdress, which is called a miter. Cute that.
A miter is a praying pose? Oh, like
the hat of the bishop that is very
high up. Funny hats the popes wear.
Okay. Okay. Alright.
People say smoking will give you diseases.
What they don't know is that smoke cures
salmon.
Oh, good. I finally got her to crack
a crack a laugh. Okay. This is good.
This is good.
Okay. So the kidneys can also be involved
with this in the crossfire of the strep
infection
if but not the the antibodies don't attack
the kidneys.
But the streptococcal
parts can interact with the antibodies. That's how
they work. Right? They they try to get
rid of those, but they're so thick that
they actually get caught in the kidneys. And
then it's called the poststreptococcal
glomerulonephritis.
Okay. Nephritis meaning
it is that you have an inflamed kidney.
And so what you have, the immune complexes
get caught and then
you have
you lose your protein in there and then
you can get
because you lose all the protein in the
in the urine, you don't have any protein
left to keep the serum in the blood
vessels. So the blood kind of leaks out
and then you have puffy eyes, you have
puffy legs,
and hopefully,
you get over it. Right. A warning to
people with kidney disease,
urine, trouble.
So,
anyway,
we have now the bacteria causing autoimmune disease,
not just the viruses, even though,
viruses are kind of more known to do
that.
Okay. According to Greek mythology, centaur
was half horse and half man, doctor. Yeah?
He was in charge of the centaur
for infectious diseases.
Oh, boy. Centaur. Oh my god. Centaur.
Well, that one failed. Yeah. Okay. Funny thing
is that you didn't know to get strep
throat diagnosed. You do you use the Centaur
diagnostic points. Oh my gosh. That's funny. It's
spelled a little different, but you didn't know
that. Right. Where are Alright. So we, as
providers,
encounter strep throat very often
because we're going through those Centaur criteria. That's
pretty funny. Anyway, but we don't see a
lot of, rheumatic fever anymore or glomerular
post frequent whole glomerulonephritis.
Why? Because now we're treating with antibiotics.
So in the olden
antibiotics. In the olden days, the antibiotics were
only available usually for people who are rich
enough to go to the doctor or who
could afford the antibiotics.
So a lot of times,
the rheumatic fever is encountered by more poorer
people who didn't do who didn't go that
route. Right. Overcoming all odds again. Yeah. Doctor
Gigi, do you wanna hear my new joke
about Alzheimer's disease?
Sure. Doctor Gigi, do you wanna hear my
new joke about Alzheimer's disease?
Thank you.
Okay. Well, this is basically all I have
to say. Okay. Recognizing
when you have a sore throat and go
to the doctor, the doctor or the provider,
PA, nurse practitioner needs to recognize when it
is actually strep throat with those
Centaur's criteria.
And antibiotics at that time is
the most powerful form of heart and kidney
protection we have because anybody who has heart
disease at 30 most likely had an undiagnosed
strep throat in the youth. Wow. Too bad.
Yeah. I I used to have strep throat.
My my glands, the lymph nodes in your
neck would be real swollen. Right. It hasn't
happened in, I mean, since I was a
kid, so it hasn't happened in the past
fifteen years.
So
Hey, did you hear about that new popular
online disease, doctor? No. It went viral.
Okay. Are we there? Okay. Yeah. We're still
there. Thank you. Doctor Gigi for talking about
romantic disease.
Now we know all about it. And hello
to Montreal if you're listening. Yeah. If you
wanna ever wanna witness the true meaning of
controlled chaos, pure joy, and competitive
treasure hunting, Don't wait or bother with weekend
garage sales. Just GPS yourself straight into the
Del Norte
Thrift Store in Crescent City, California.
It's not too distant from Walmart, just over
the freeway, close to the DMV. And once
you find it, you'll know,
it from all the cars that are parked
in front. It's open five days a week
from nine to four, Monday through Friday. The
rumor has it that the parking lot starts
filling up sometime just before nine with people
practicing deep breathing
exercises and ready to dive in for great
bargains the moment the doors unlock.
Every day, and I will vouch for this,
hundreds of people march in with that special
glint in their eyes, the look of someone
who believes deep down that today
maybe the day they'll find a $5 lamp
just like the one they saw in Antiques
Roadshow
or just the perfect holiday themed gifts or
maybe a small sofa set.
Steering this magnificent
ship of discounts at Destiny are true heroes
of bargains,
Ashley Cuevas and Mark Dufour.
Alright.
Ashley is the heartbeat of the operation manager
and part ringmaster, part therapist, and part fairy
godmother with a pricing gun.
She looks busy because she is, but she
knows most of the folks that come in
and out on a regular basis that is
always willing and is always willing to help.
She never laughs too much
when you buy your fourth armchair for the
quote that that guest room that you actually
don't have.
And then there's Mark, always attentive, constant as
an atomic clock. When I asked him his
name the first time several years ago, he
told me his name was, hey, bud.
Hey, bud.
His name's Mark. He's friendly and knowledgeable and
a kind of a MacGyver with knowing
whether something is a butcher block or a
kitchen table. I've also found him to be
a
a book reader and bonsai and fuchsia, flower
affectionato and in general and all around good
guy. And, oh, yes, when you do come,
please bring quarters because he loves quarters.
Success to that man.
Oh, god. I have to throw that in.
Mark,
once, he identified
oh, well, Mark once had identified a mysterious
metal contraption as a potato ricer or possibly
a doorstop or even a possibly a medieval
weapon
depending on how you were to hold it.
The store itself is a wonderland.
Paintings of people no one knows, frames that
still hold other family school portrait, rocks of
racks of clothing that span every decade since
the fifties, all serenaded
by the of conversation and the occasional creak
of a shopping cart carrying a disco ball
and a taxidermied mad cow duck.
A mad cow duck? Okay. And me, I'm
there almost every day. Sure. I tell myself
it's for the bric a brac or a
nice painting, but really it's because the place
has great vibes and makes me smile and
really feel human. And doctor Gigi, on her
days off, right, Thursday and Friday, together. We
go together and we always have a fun.
Where else after all can you buy a
velvet Elvis or possibly a picture of,
Ray Simon in velvet maybe?
Or a perfect perfectly
functional blender for $5,
and a bit of hope for under $10.
You could buy lots of things. So today,
it's launch off
with we're gonna launch off with two lovely
wine glasses right here
that I bought,
six for a dollar recently.
Welcome, Ashley Cuevas and Mark Dufour from the
Del Norte tour.
Both of you, welcome to the Doc and
Jacques Radio Variety Show. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Hi.
Thank you. Alright. Thank you for coming. Very
fun. And, yes, we do spend a lot
of time there.
Oh, it's we have fun. We do. Good
vibes.
We only get what we really need. Right?
Yep. We're moving now, so I think we're
gonna be dropping things off. Yeah. But we'll
get to that in a minute. Find out
more about thrift stores. Alright. Starting with Ashley.
Ashley, where were you born and raised?
In Balfour, California.
Balfour?
Balfour.
Balfour. Balfour. Southern California? Southern California.
Okay. How long have you lived in this
area and what brought you here? I've been
here for about
eighteen years on and off since I was
15. Wow. Very oh, I'm just gonna say
since you were five.
Okay. Well, alright. Let's move to Mark then.
She's gotta she's gotta say that one thing.
We just found out. How many children do
you have? I have six. Wow.
Really young for six kids. Oh, that's I
know. 15. Oh, my. Six six six. And
five boys, one girl. Five boys and one
girl. Yes. And she's the baby. And she's
the baby. Oh, she might be spoiled. She
might be spoiled. And I work in the
perfect place for them. Yeah. They're Oh, they
come and play? No. I mean, they get
a bargain there. Yeah. They got the bargain.
Alright. Mark, where were you born and raised?
I was born in Portland, Oregon, and then
I lived for a few years in Beaverton,
Oregon. I lived in Beaverton. Moved to Crescent
City, and I lived here till about 1981.
And then my family moved to Southern California
to Ventura County. Oh, wrong way to move.
Yeah. Kind of. And then in 2001, we
moved back. So I lived about twenty years
in Southern California, and then I've spent most
of my life in Crescent City. Right. Cool.
Very cool. Very good. Alright. What's your title?
Ashley, start with you. Title and position? I'm
general manager.
And what do you do?
Managing general manager.
I run the store. I run the food
bank.
Ah. Which we found out is on the
side. Both it's done. Right. Mark, what is
your title and position? I would say I'm
a cashier. Clerk. Yeah. Clerk. Yeah. Kind of
process stuff. Jack of all trades? Jack of
all trades. Yeah. Yeah. And you're,
you you know basically all
the thrift that is there. Right? I kind
of know that. I don't know, like, the
administrative part, which is what Ashley kinda does.
Ah, you do something else and managing your
She does all all the thrift stuff and
then, like, the computer stuff and the food
bank and stuff like that. And you're in
that little room where it says open slowly
and Yes. Yes. You know the I usually
just leave it open.
Yeah. We see we see it. You're usually
on the phone. You're busy, busy, busy. How
long has the Del Norte thrift store been
open?
Well,
it was formed in the late
seventies.
And
in
early two thousands, they went into that building.
It's had many locations in Crescent City between
Northcrest
and,
I wanna say, like, Front Street area. I'm
not sure of that one. But in about
2008, it
is moved into the location it's at now,
and we've been there ever since. And
So it was called something else. Right? What
happened?
It was called Saint Vincent de Paul, and
we call. Yeah. The board changed the name,
to Downarts Community Thrift Store because we wanna
be able to help the community more.
And switching over, we're kinda stepping away from
the whole religious name to kinda benefit the
community.
Okay. So everything stayed but the name, the
Yes. Employees, the And it changed about a
year ago or so? About a year ago.
Yes. We're still a nonprofit,
five zero one three c Yeah. Based off
donations, local donations. So we don't get a
truck. We don't get, you know, people coming
from different states and towns. Everything's from Crescent
City, the residents in Crescent City. And it's
always dropped off?
You're like, you don't you don't have a
truck that goes out? No. Go and get
it. Give me your stuff.
We used to have a truck, but we
just had so many problems with it that
we we sold it and we just stopped
going out Yeah. Pick things up. Yeah. I
mean, you You're moving, to Brookings here. And
do you still have the truck? No. Sorry
about that. Darn it.
Mark, what are the hours of operation every
day? The store is open from nine to
four, Monday through Friday.
Donations is nine to three, Monday through Thursday.
And then the food bank
itself is open nine to two, Monday through
Friday. Right on. And you can buy I've
got you don't have to buy anything in
the food bank. It's free. Just come in
and Yes. Claim whatever food you might go
get or merchandise that's ready to go out.
Yeah. Yeah. No cost. Right? And so how
do you how are you eligible to go
to the food bank? Do you have to
show something?
No. We just kinda get basic information,
name, date of birth.
We give clothing vouchers, you know, a sack
lunch,
all that free stuff that you see inside
the the free room that has been pulled
from the store because it sat there for
so long. Or like I said, it has
a chip or, you know, maybe something needs
to be fixed or it's missing, you know.
Yeah. Do you serve out lunches?
We do kind of like a sack lunch.
So it's a loaf of bread Right. A
jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly,
and they can get that once a week.
You know, we
give out sleeping bags, tents,
tarps, blankets. You know, it gets a little
cold. Now that it's cold, remember it's getting
warmer. Thank goodness. Wow. Hopefully. So that's different
from that
on Thursdays,
the on Pacific?
Where? The food food Oh, there is a
food bank. That's also a food bank? Yeah.
Pacific. The Thursday and Friday. Pacific. Yeah. Oh,
so it's a different entity. Yes. I like
I like every time, you have excess food.
I mean, I like that, right as you
walk out the door or when you walk
in, just to your left. But you have
things oftentimes a basket with apples in it.
I always grab an apple. Oh, yeah. And
they're the yummy apples too. Yeah.
Alright.
What items do you not
accept?
They don't take paint.
Paint because it's got chemicals and Chemicals. Yeah.
And then, you know, by the time we
get it, it's usually dry.
Oh, yeah. You're right. Dried out and It's
been sitting in Ray Simon's garage too long.
For fifteen years. Yeah. Right.
And paint, what else should she take? We
don't take hide to beds.
We don't have
because they have a mattress, we don't take
mattresses, box rings, hide to beds. Because they
we don't have the equipment to keep it
California sanitized,
we can't accept that. Oh, that's my pet
peeve.
I was an auctioneer all my life and
appraiser of fine art and antiquities, and I
would used to get these
stupid laws where they come in and say
Yeah. You cannot sell a bed. You can't
sell a perfectly good bed. It was from
an old lady's house and her guests slept
on it one time. Brand new. I could
sell it. Nope. You cannot do it. I'd
say, you're not gonna let me sell what
happens when you go to a motel? Mhmm.
You sleep in in a bed that's had
3,000 people in it and
I bring home a friend, a bed bug.
Yeah. Right.
A bed bug.
Alright. So paint,
well, you will take food items as long
as it's in Not expired. Yeah. Yeah. Not
expired. Yes. K. So when people drop something
off, is always some somebody there to receive
it, or can they just drop it off
and then you don't see it and then
you cannot what do you do?
Or is it do do don't you have,
like, this big container? We have a, in
the back of our Yeah. In the back
of our store, we have a warehouse. And
so we have somebody in donations, and they
kinda sort through it, and we put it
in bins. And
Okay. So all the The overflow goes into
the Conics. And then when we have an
employee on that department
to pull that, they pull from the Conics,
and then we price it, put it out.
You rotate you rotate a lot of your
people too because I will go out there
and see let's say, Kim out there one
day, and then I'll see her inside. You
work the outside too? Yeah. I do a
little bit here and there. Yeah. So is
there any shout outs? So it's there's Kim.
Who are some of the big players there?
Bobby. Fabi. Fantel.
Santi.
Santi. Yeah.
Okay.
We have two new people that have been
working out. I think pretty good, Vero
and also Rita. Yeah. Rita. Okay. And who
who are the people in the back that
I never see on the floor? Are they
just the Pricers?
They're they're volunteers and our board members. Oh.
We're lucky. Right. Hey. I love the love
that. What are the three most things that
people donate?
You know what to say? Clothes, I guess.
Clothing.
Oh, the number one. Clothing, probably
household, like, dishes and and Plates. Yeah. Coffee
cups, lots and pans. Like, that's pretty cool.
Glasses. I would say children's toys.
Oh, yeah. Children's toys. A lot of toys
and a lot of bags in person. So
do you guys ever go through the merchandise
first, or does somebody come up and say,
oh my gosh. I found this thing that's
really cool. Do you wanna look at it?
Or
how does it work?
Everything gets dropped off? It gets everything sorted.
Yeah. Yeah. Sorted in a department. Now do
you go and say, I really look for
a velvet dress or something like that, and
then they look out for it? Or is
it just happens?
Because you know what's on there, Mark. You
know where everything is. Right?
I feel like it's kinda hard to remember
where anything's at. It's like You know? It's
hard to remember. Like,
there's so much, you might say, churn
in the store. It's hard to remember
where something is. Yeah. We try to do
we we'll help people, take them to the
right rack. Yeah. Yeah. And when we ask
you, you always said, I think it's over
there somewhere. And Yeah. Yeah. It's like if
it's a men's garment, it's easier because we
don't get that much for men. Yeah. So
we have, like, one rack for guys that
has
coats, sweaters, pants,
whereas we have, like, a whole 10 racks
of women too. We have a lot for
for women and and for kids. Yeah. You
got the craft section? You wear yarn to
paint. So Oh my gosh. We take that
kind of yarn. You took except the little
craft pants and brushes, and you bought a
lot of your yarn. Lots of yarn there.
I should have worn my sweater. Yeah. No.
Of course. And guess what happened? I I
got got it dirty today.
Yeah. So, I made a sweater out of
the yarn that I got there. Cool. Awesome.
Really, really nice. But that was he wanted
it really big for when he was big
and now he's lost 60 pounds. So it's
like Yeah. So, yeah. Swim home. That was
just I use it as a tent.
That's why you got it dirty.
Alright. So we definitely know that a lot
of people will give
you the pan covers or the lid. Lids.
So you've got a
big bed full of them, right?
But you also get big things like every
once in a while you get a big
piano. Now
I remember some of the pianos have sat
there for a while. Yes. Maybe a month
or two before they finally sold. But
do you take some a piano in good
condition? You'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. We you
know, we try to bring in as much
as we can.
Cool. People are interested in something like that.
It's just moving it. Yeah. Exactly. That's the
thing. I think they would move a lot
quicker in terms of selling, but it's like
you have to have maybe, like, a six
person crew and a big truck Yeah. To
get it to go. I think it took,
like, seven of us to move the last
piano. Big entertainment centers are the same thing.
Like, that we've stopped basically taking entertainment centers
because people have flat screen TVs. Oh, yeah.
Like, you're talking about a big hutch? Yeah.
Like, any of this. I we went on
a delivery one time. This is long a
lot of years ago, and it took, like,
six of us,
I think, at least. And we had to
go up, like, part of a flight of
stairs with this huge entertainment center. Wow. Man.
So
A lot of, a lot of work. You'll
have a lot a lot a lot of,
what's it called? You know, for,
for
Christmas, for Easter, for Thanksgiving, you have where
are those stored, The holiday items?
In that big warehouse upstairs. Yeah. So you
wait. You got an upstairs? I don't know.
Yeah. In that sorting area outside, there's an
upstairs loft. Yeah. I've never seen that up
there. I know you have a big, like,
cargo container. Right?
Three of them. Shipping. Three of them? Yeah.
We got three. We have three.
Do you rent the place? The the the
or no. The board owns it. We're run
by a board of directors. Nice. And they
own the whole place. Well Yeah. How many
people are on the board? Do you know?
We have about four board members. Yeah. We
had one that passed away this last year.
Oh, yes. She was one of our most,
oh, yes. Yeah. We had a couple. Jerry
Jerry
Stafford? Yes. She was basically there from the
beginning almost. Seventies?
Wow. Right? I I was a long time
ago. I they would tell a lot of
really great stories. They didn't get so many
donations in the past like we do now.
So they would take a piece of clothing
and, like, wash it, steam
it, iron it, hang it up, and make
it look really great because they didn't get
a whole lot of donations
like we do now. We're very lucky now.
Right? Do you get do you get only
donations as in what you sell? Do you
get money donations or
donations? We get we have volunteers, volunteers. And,
you know, every once in a while, we
get a, you know, cash donation check. Okay.
People have sent us checks in the mail.
And I think some people have given,
like, in their estate,
they left some money to us. How cool.
Well, it's a nonprofit and it's good or
a good cause. Right? And you really
I I think it it warrants a deeper
look. When you walk in, sometimes you walk
in and see a bunch of toys and
but as you go back towards the back,
that's my favorite area. Man, I turn that
corner and it's like I'm gold eyes. He's
still like, what have I gotta find?
What have I got? When we come together,
he always goes, you know, I go maybe
to the glasses or to the toys or
whatever, and he's, like, already looking through all
this stuff. And so I'm just starting to
look in that area, and he said, look.
Gigi, look here. Okay. Go over there. No.
Look there. Look there. I wanna have my
own time looking. Darn it. Shoot.
Now if that's the way we find out
our truths,
she tells me on the air. I didn't
know that.
I said, I wanna look on my own.
Yeah. I'm Because there's so many If you
don't grab it,
chances are there's so many people that come
in and out of there. We got this
chair and there were two Oh, chair. And
but, you know, chairs, you don't just get
chairs.
They're they're kind of bigger chairs.
Anyway, so he texted me with a picture
saying, should I get it? Because we weren't
thinking of moving. We didn't have a house
then. And so then I said and then
he said, there's two. And so then I
said, oh, yeah. They're cool. And so he
went back and the second one was already
gone. And I think it was done right
when I walked in. And it was that
green swivel Swivel one. Abdominal. Like the sixties.
Yeah. Yeah. Totally. That's now our of course,
she's she's modified it in a wonderful way.
Alright, folks. We have the mid break time
here where,
time flies when you're having fun and that's
for certain with, Ashley
Cuevas and Mark Dufour from the Del Norte,
thrift store in Crescent City and serving on
a huge swath of area.
It's already that mid break time on the
Doc Ajak Show proudly broadcasting from the KCIW
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she's also the acting
hospice
doctor. So she's
that's an emotional ride that one is. And
lastly, my dear, co host Doctor. Gigi Reed
MD and yours Oh my gosh. Yours truly,
Jacques. Yeah. On behalf of KCIW,
thanks to all of you. Okay. Alright. Would
you ask him the question? I was gonna
ask him. That's gonna be one of my
favorite ones. You know where we're at? Yeah.
That's the one. Should I ask him? Yeah.
What are some of the strangest
or most unusual things that have ever been
donated? That's his favorite each other. They're they're
looking at each other. That's his favorite because
that's
that's him, you know, that's the auctioneer
in him. He wants, you know, what is
the most unusual thing that he ever auctioned
off. So he wants to know that one.
Unusual,
biggest, smallest. I don't know. It could be
sexy. It could be it could be scary.
It could be lots of weird things. Okay.
Mhmm. I don't I don't think I've for
me, I guess I don't know. I don't
think I've seen anything strange.
We had an artist who donated quite a
few carved pieces a few years ago, and
we he one of them was Jesus Christ
that we kept on the wall, but he
had some unused Oh, the one one, the
crumbs? Yeah. Yeah. That's the crew. We won.
I had a bunch of stuff, but there
was, like, aliens.
There was, like, a Santa Claus. Woah. There
was
there was All carved. We had yeah. We
had one a few years ago that was
almost like a
really strange thing that you hung clothes on.
It was like African art or you remember
that thing? That was just really unusual.
And I do think
people like the unusual stuff. Yeah. Even if
it isn't necessarily
very expensive, they like something that's a little
bit different. Yeah. And so we sold the
stuff pretty quick, but like the Jesus on
the wall, we kept that. Yes. And it
says not for sale on Yeah. Because people
I thought that would came with the territory
as Saint Vincent de Paul when they were
still The carving on the wall as you
go past like, you go through the arch,
that's Saint Vincent. He's like, as you go
into the store on the right hand, that's
I feel like a lot of people thought
that's Jesus, and a lot of people wanted
to buy that. I mean, a lot of
people have wanted to buy that carving, but
not yet. Oh, really important. I would say
at least once a week someone offers to
buy it. I would
say the most unusual thing that I
I did not process this item. There was
a woman named Chelsea who used to work
at the store, and her family had,
like, sheep and goats. They had a miniature
donkey and stuff. And she opened up a
bag,
and somebody had sheared a sheep, and they
had put this raw wool,
washed raw wool in this bag. And she
opened up the bag, and I guess, like,
quite a smell
came out of the bag. I I think
and I didn't deal with it, but I
I thought that's a pretty Yeah. That was
her last day at the job, by the
way. Yeah. So it's pretty meaning will to
make. Then that's really cool. Will. Yeah. Yeah.
That that could work. Cool. That could work.
You told me there's somebody brought in recently,
like,
a tarantula not a tarantula, but a scorpion
and a belt buckle. Oh, yeah. That was
unusual. Like, with resin.
Like, it was made. Oh. Yeah. That's nice.
We put, like, $10 on it. And, I
don't know. Within a week, yeah, it was
nice. It went fast. I think it went
the same day because I I Maybe. You
said, hey. You just missed out on something.
Darn it. I I like not I don't
like to do that because it just frustrates
people. Yeah. That's I'll pitch it. But, I
mean, why get people
upset Yeah. Right. By the way. I think.
About a month ago, I'm I'm checking out,
buying something. I think, Kim was waiting on
me. I'm checking out, and here comes Mark
behind me carrying those barbells.
Yeah. Weight lifting set. An older classic set.
Yeah. And I I couldn't turn around and
say, wow. We're kinda looking for something like
that because I'm losing weight. And I got
he he says, here, you can buy them.
I was so weak. Oh, and I said
gonna take them? You were gonna Yeah. Yeah.
I thought it's not a big deal. And
then well, that's what he said. Not a
big deal. So I said, no. No. No.
But I really wanna buy one.
I didn't need two. I just wanna buy
one. Yeah. No. You wanna buy two.
But I said, nope. Not not my That's
true. So wait. Hold on. So he we
put down underneath the back on the shelf
and the next day I came in after
she chastised me. Why did you buy two
of them, you idiot?
I was not
I was nicer than that. Well, you didn't
call me idiot.
But so thank you. It was still very
so we think of you every time I
did So, yeah. We have both of them.
When you're working out? Think about it this
way. When you bought only one and there
were two, it's like the person who bought
just one chair before. Yeah. There were actually
two. Two. So
You mean you're gonna return that one? They
missed like a Karma thing.
I speak out of Karma. There's a new
restaurant in town,
called Karma.
You there's no menu. You just get what
you deserve.
Cool.
Okay, doctor Ledoff. How are things Okay. No.
You said you priced it at $10. How
does the pricing go? Who prices things?
I think every much everybody pretty much does.
We have a standard price for clothes even
when some like, if we feel like something's
a little bit nicer, we'll mark it up.
But we don't have the like, we can't
wash a lot of clothes the same way
we can't this is a $2 sweater. This
is a $2.10
sweater. We just it's $2.50.
That's it. Yeah. And, we a lot of
us will
price like a household. We rotate through that.
Like, CDs are just a buck 50. Uh-huh.
But we have bins in the back where
we think, hey. This is something unusual.
Hey. This is a really old comic, but
we'll put that in the bin.
And then people with phones,
they'll go through that bin, and they'll look
stuff up, and that puts the price on
it. So what do you mean? They're looking
up a price pricing apps? They're they're looking
up with, like, eBay and Google and stuff
like that. And we don't stuff that is,
like, unique or eye catching. We're like, wait.
This kinda looks like it has value.
Let's see if it's worth anything. We have
some people too. Like, certain board members, they're
very specialized in training, and they, like, will
price a particular thing. And so they really
know
their stuff Right. On on
like, they're real experts in that one thing.
And I think At least. Yeah. Paintings and
things like that are tough because Yes. Mhmm.
You know, you don't know and you're just
taking We bought one, a really nice one
from you guys. It's the Saint George Reef
Lighthouse painting. Oh, one of our favorites. So
yeah. So we we have it hanging up.
It's really, really cool. And then we looked
up. You asked actually, we had we know
the
okay.
Saint George Reef
Lighthouse
Preservation
Society
president. He's a friend of ours. So,
and he said, yeah. They have several, you
know, people who draw it. And we asked
him if he knew the painter, and he
said, yes. She's a really known one. And
so Harry a local one. Barrymore, something like
that. So,
yeah, we got a good find, and we
love that picture. Yeah. That's a cool picture.
Yeah. One of our very, very favorites.
So that's how things are priced. Everybody just
kind of you're ramped into clothing, sweaters or
this, coats or this, pants or this, shoes
or that. Yeah. Unless it's upscale.
I gotta say the amazing,
deals that you have, really, truly, if you
really look look close, there's really good good
deals. People are walking out there very happy.
So how many employees do you have?
Eight.
Eight employees. And how many volunteers? We have
about
I'd say maybe 10.
10 volunteers? We have 10 volunteers, but we
a lot of them are groups. We work
with, like, the day programs,
you know, Glen Haven, the TPP program from
the high school,
the PIP program. There's a lot of Yeah.
Programs Yeah. That, you know oh, so they
have there's, like, a group of people, and
then they send,
like, one
once a day or or once a week.
Or five of them come in at the
same time. Oh, wow.
Okay. Oh. The board are also volunteers. That's
for me too. They do a lot. Yeah.
We wouldn't be able to do it without
our board and our volunteers. Absolutely. We couldn't
make it work. How do you get on
the board?
It's an election, usually. Yeah. I have people
Oh, it's an election? Yeah. We have four
on our board here at the KCOW.
There's four of us on the or not
me. I'm not on it, but there's, I
think, four and sometimes five. But nice boards,
good boards are usually a lot more. Like,
at the art gallery in Crescent City, we
have 15.
Yeah. It's different.
Alright. I often see,
people bringing out bags of of clothes and
merchandise from that side thing. So we know
now that that is for the food banks
Mhmm. And needy people or whatever you need,
it's free. There's no charge there. I'll I'll
pop my head in there one day and
see. Clothing vouchers,
markdown items, stuff that's been sitting in the
store for three months.
You know, a lot of people come in.
Those clothing vouchers are to help people find
jobs Yeah. Interviews. Or court appearance. You know,
court appearance. Something like that. Or just to
get some clean clothes on. Oh, yeah. That's
what we're all about. We're about to come
in. Need a fresh shirt or pants. I
see. Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. It's like was
it once a month? They can get a
new voucher. Once a month. Yeah. Yes. What
is the busiest day of the week for
the store?
Tuesday? Tuesdays.
Yeah. I would say
outside in the garage, Monday is probably the
in donations, it's probably the busiest. So it's
the yard sale stuff. Yeah. People are bringing
their yard stuff in. They didn't start You
don't put together stuff over the weekend, and
then Monday is the day
for that. Oh, so Tuesday is pretty busy.
Lots of hits. And then Tuesday, you have
two cashiers. I've seen them Yeah. Multiple times
Yeah. Working.
Right? That's
there's a lot of people And it's busy
when Jackie says
there were no parking spots in the parking
lot.
We have parking in the back too. Yeah.
Usually. So don't get scared. As long as
the side gate is open Yeah. That's right.
Park in the back with us. Didn't happen.
I think it was on Friday. Yeah. It
was a it was so packed. Yeah. But
then it was closed.
So what do you think is the best
in your mind, what is the best part
of your job? What do you like best?
Our growing family at work. Yeah. We wouldn't
be able to, you know, punch it if
we didn't all
come together,
help each other. Come together
right now. Yeah. You guys a good vibe.
How about you, Mark? Yeah. It did. Everything.
Put together things, like, sometimes we'll just have
just the right thing for somebody.
Like, sometimes it's just kinda coincidence. We used
to have a customer named, Myrna,
and she would come in, needed something, and
she'd just find it. Just like a poster
oven or a crock pot. It just it
was amazing. Shower chair? Yeah. Exactly. Hair of
shoes. Yeah. It's just like a serendipity kind
of thing. This is what somebody needs and
then they they come in and then it's
there. So it's kind of interesting. Wow. I've
got a change of subjects real quickly. We
ran into you at the Banzai,
sale or was it at the fairgrounds?
With with with Houston. Houston. I also saw
them at a bonsai one time. Well, I
think you both it was the double whammy.
And at the do you go with the
with the fair and then the bonsais on
one side and the fuchsia? Like, you share
a Do you have fuchsia bonsais? That's one
of the categories in the show. And there's
some species,
that they naturally have a very small leaf
and a very small flower. And so even
though those plants can grow, like, eight feet
tall,
that's the kind that is the best for
making into a bonsai.
And,
maybe you guys will have room for some
plant like that in your new yard. Yeah.
We wanna we wanna get a bonsai fuchsia
people on the show. We also wanna get,
beekeepers.
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Those would be interesting
things. Alright, Ashley. What is your least liked
thing about your job? What did you least
like?
What did you get away with it? Because
maybe the Oh, do oh, she's hiding behind
her jacket.
Say it. Say it. Be brave. I don't
think any of us like sorting underpants.
Sorting?
Yeah. We what what do we call
what do we call the underpants?
Chonies.
Chonies. We we have the name Chonies. What's
the Chonies? That's the underwear. Underwear.
Also I mean, you just made that up?
Yeah. I we had an employee that no.
We had an employee a while back that
used that word and we just kinda stuck.
Choney? Sort the Choney's.
Sort the Choney's.
So you do occasionally get some not claimed,
then that kinda goes into another band called
the garbage bread. Yes. There there's some stuff
that's just like
biohazard
kind of semi biohazard. Wow. And so Wow.
Right. Biohazard.
It's fine. But if you need a clean
pair, we give clothes vouchers out. We we
we have a friend that was out, drifting,
and he found a leather jacket. This was
not here. This is down the Bay Area.
Found this nice leather jacket. He brought it
home, Checked that. He wore it for quite
a while. And one day, he's going he
finds an inner pocket within a pocket, $10,000
Yeah. In there. Have you ever found anything
like that you're willing to accept and say
that?
I
I think I've found some a little bit
of, you know, change, a little bit of
money People. Here and there. Put money in
their shirt. You'd be surprised. You do that's
what you do first thing when they come
in. Right? You have to look if the
if they're Yeah. Making you do.
You don't want tissue Right.
Or even an idea. Yeah. Purses.
You have tons of purses. You got tons
of backpacks. You got tons of carrying things.
All there's a whole racks of those. We
had an employee in the past, and she
was working on purses. She found, like, $700
over a few purses. And it's, yeah. It's
just kind of it's good, but it's also
sad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, it's
not like you can't give them back. You
don't know where they came from. That's true.
Yeah. So you put it in the till.
Right? We have a that's, like, goes more
into, like, feeding people. Yeah. Oh, cool. I
see. Got it. That's good. So have you
ever thought about,
you might one day,
expand into a bigger facility? Because you're
I mean I'd I'd love to. It's not
my call, but it's, like, because they own
the business. Yeah. Oh,
oh, and they deployment. On the location. Why
don't you talk about the expansion that we
did in the past? Yeah. We we expanded.
We've had several expansions. Yeah. So that furniture
area that you see all that furniture,
that was expanded out. Good. Our backroom was
expanded out. So we had more room.
Yes. I would love to go upwards now.
Oh, that'd be cool. With elevators.
Yeah.
It it's like the the garage too that
did a lot of renovation. It used to
be that we had to
put the truck into the garage. Like, I
don't know what the requirement was or something,
and then they built it isn't just we've
had the garage as long as I've worked
there, but then they did a whole upper
floor and, like, a very
it when I would take the holiday stuff
in the past up to the
the attic, the stairs were so steep. It
was kinda semi dangerous because you've got this
big heavy box. Yeah. Sure. And it just
it
was real Yeah. They're Like, very Concentrated.
High angled
stairs. But now we have a real like,
a we have a lift
that, does need some work on the lift,
and then we have a more gradual staircase,
and we have a lot more room upstairs.
Truck anymore either. Right? Yep. That's true. Great.
Good good elevators. Timoo is offering new elevators
to be installed.
Timoo. It's so small, but it's it's good
enough.
Yeah. Where are we? So you are the
only
real thrift store now in Crescent City.
Right? Well, there's other stores that call themselves
thrift store, but they're not they're for profit
businesses. Well, okay. Okay. Keep talking.
Five zero one c three thrift store. That's
your question. Oh, darn it.
Shoot. So this, as you possibly know, is
gonna change soon because hospice wants to open
a thrift store downtown.
You heard this? Never heard. No. No. So
they've already got the location. I think it's
on 3rd. I think it's downtown.
I we know Jamie. She's been on the
show multiple times. The,
president or the CEO of the hospice. Coastal
hospice. Coastal hospice in Crest City. So, yeah,
there's gonna be a new thrift store, and
it's a true 501C3.
Wow. So the more the merrier. Right? It
brings more people to the area. Right. And
that's not like you lose anything. It's more
like thrifters come down here and look for
yeah. So
you you wanna have Here we got Goodwill
and Brookie. Here. So we we don't just
say, yeah. And that's good. Right? You go
from there, you go there because everybody has
a little bit of something different. So that's
good news, I think, that there's gonna be
another Yeah. It always helps people. And then
I know your Eureka has plenty of
them. But for the size, how many people
live in Eureka? A lot of people. Taller
friends that are listening, you know, there. Yeah.
Okay. So the hospice is gonna open. I
think Jamie said it's gonna open fairly soon.
Yeah? I don't know. Uh-huh. Okay. Are there
any changes planned in the near future? What's
the latest thing? Anything
that's gonna be interesting or
no expansion, you said? There's a No expansion.
We kind of finished that up.
It's fairly pretty new and within the last,
I'd say, five years that we expanded, you
know, five years ago. I would say we
did quite a bit of expansion on the
Freeside food bank. It used to be, I
don't know, that three people could get in
there. It's a small room. It was a
real small room. And then when we did
the renovation
to expand the for, like, the furniture area
and the processing area,
they expanded it. And then we the new
board, they expanded it even more. So it's
it's, like, reasonable size, and it's really good.
Like, lights is much more open. It's, you
know, it's just much more welcoming than Right.
Because it used when I first started working,
it just it was small. You had to
kind of It's like a closet. Yeah. Kind
of. Wow. And now it's it's a whole
room. You didn't see it. And the and
the furniture part does not seem to be
an expensive. It's just part of Yeah. Oh,
that's really well done. I did not realize
that. What how long you've been working there,
Mark? Since,
November
2013.
Oh, wow. Wow. Yep. I you know, I
haven't seen anybody I haven't seen a big
change of any of them points. Everybody seems
to be very happy. How about you? How
long you been there? I've been there since
August 2014.
So right behind him. Wow. Behind him. And
are you the two of the longest,
we are. Yes. Yes. I think we're probably
the two longest that have ever worked there.
Probably. Yeah. Well, you all enjoy it, I
gotta say. Really, everybody enjoys it, and everybody
has, always heads up and and nice. That's
my experience.
Yeah. We love it. We love our customers.
We love our people that come to the
free side. We love the people that donate.
You know? It's all about community. It's all
about coming together, helping our community.
And even some
groups have outings to to there. Right? Because
it's a safe place. Yeah. When when you
go around and people say, hello. Hello. Yeah.
Our day program. Are you the day program?
Yeah. Yes. Yes. One of our day programs.
Day programs. We always see the same people.
Yeah. Always happen a good a good time.
Now I'm seeing the same guy in in
Walmart
and I always say I met him at
the thrift store. There's one guy, I don't
need to say his name, but he's an
older guy. He's always pushing around a cart
full of stuff. This guy is coming in
every day, every time I see him. He's
pushing around. I think his car I won't
say his name, but
does that ring a bell to an older
guy? Yeah. So you guys, I appreciate, hey,
Carl wants to know whatever his name is.
How much is this and how much is
that? And everything's priced,
so reasonably.
It's fun to go into this thing. Okay,
Wanna ask the next question? Where do they
see themselves? Okay. Where do you see yourself,
Mark? Where do you see yourself in a
couple years from now? I'm not sure.
I I don't know. Doing the fuchsias or
hanging out at the thrift store?
Probably both. Okay. Good. Yeah. How about you,
Ashley?
I see myself still doing the same thing.
Doing the same thing? Well, you seem like
you're really very, very happy. I love our
store. Yeah. That is cool. You know, when
I leave Crescent City and I go out
of town, I go to thrift stores. You
know? I I love seeing stuff like that.
I'm a collector as well. You know, I
like little knickknacks. I like little things and,
you know, I love our store. Yeah. It's
good to see also what other people are
doing, what ideas they have. Like, we didn't
used to have like, you know how we
have these long racks?
Somebody we bought those from another thrift store.
We used to have just round racks through
the whole store, but those long straight ones
just let us have a lot more in
the store. It's just very much more efficient.
Yeah. We're like You're also very helpful. Today,
I checked out or was it yesterday, I
bought that that figure, really kind of exotic
looking,
resin figure of,
the Ivy lady. And you said, oh, by
the way, her hand is broken. I had
no idea it was broken, but it's hidden.
You can't see it. So Yeah. You always
test it. You always say if it's not
on, it's because then that's very nice. Everybody
misses. Right. Everybody misses. But you do say
it. Even
even small little things. Did you notice there's
a scratch or something? So that's very
nice. It doesn't necessarily stop the sale. No.
People people like to put stuff in their
yard too. Yeah. If it isn't in the
house, they may just, like, hang put dishes
in the yard. Garden. Yeah. So And you
have Yeah. How many how many glasses is
it? Six for a dollar? Five for a
dollar? Six for a dollar. Dollar. Six for
a dollar, folks. Yeah. And all sorts of
glasses.
Vases, glasses. Vases. Plates. Plates. Like, five or
six for a dollar? Six for a dollar.
And you can mix and match. It can
be like two mugs, two glasses, two plates.
Oh, I didn't know that. It doesn't have
don't have to overwhelm yourself with plates. Just
bowls, we don't do it because we don't
get a lot of bowls. Yeah. So we
the bowls is not 6 for a buck.
Right. We never used to have the six
for a dollar.
We did it, like, when stuff got a
little too high. Yeah. But after a certain
point, we just people are so generous. We
get so much dishware that we just kept
it at 6 for a dollar. It's probably
been that way for Couple years now. Quite
Yeah. And that Like four, five. I've picked
out three pieces and it's a dollar 50.
I go, wait a minute. It's a dollar
$50.50 cents a piece. So buy six of
them. Yeah. And I get so it makes
us hoarders. He did tell me,
he did tell me yesterday when I was
training. I said, by the way, I wanna
make sure that you know, you're broken, Jack.
Okay. That was a joke. I don't get
it. I'm broken. I'm broke. The pieces aren't
broken. I'm broken. Okay. That's not that was
a bad joke. That was super bad. No.
How do people get a hold of you
and where are you located? Tell us your
own directions how to get there. 1440
Parkway Drive in Carson City, across the street
from the DMV, next to the old highway
patrol station, which is now Caltrans.
You know, when you when we're going. Okay,
so we have this little thingy in the
car. It's like a GPS, but it comes
with a car or something. So it it
plots out where you go when you go
there more often. You know? Most frequently. Yeah.
That's interesting. And it says, like,
it always said when now we were going,
it says the what did you say the
fire station, not fire police station. Highway patrol.
Highway patrol, it says. And there is no
highway patrol. That But how's the Department of
Transportation? They were next door. Yeah. And still
on there. We always go out and say,
why why does it say highway patrol? I
didn't know that. So Yeah. They're located now
off Summer Lane at the hospital in Newmark.
Yeah. And then there's you're right across the
street from Adi Midam. Right? Is that and
that's a rest home or a a what
do you call it? Yeah. What do you
Assisted living. Assisted living home. Yeah. Mhmm. So
that's the best way to find it. Have
a website or a phone number? We don't
do Facebook. We used to. We don't do
it anymore.
Yeah. Because once you know it, you know
it, and you don't need any
more advertisement because It may be that we
start something in the future. I don't know.
Okay. Del Norte Thrift Store. Right? Or is
it that's that's Del Norte's community. Community.
Like, we are we are community radio station.
We refer the community. Right off. And the
address once more? 1440 Parkway Drive. Okay. So
when you come off the freeway DMV. Yeah.
Yeah. If you come off the Freeway Washington?
Right. Yeah. You turn off going south, turn
left and then the first right. Left freeway.
Yeah. Instead of turning right to Walmart, you
turn left, go over the freeway, and then
take that first right.
And then usually it's not far. Okay. No
website. No social media. Telephone? Do people call
you? Yeah. 707
Wait a minute. Let me write this down.
You write it down, dear. 707464464.
1322.
Alright. What is it again, doc? (707)
464-1322.
And it's a real person
that answers the phone? Yes. Okay. Awesome.
Press number 2.
Okay. To get the dishes. Both the hash
phones. Ashley and Mark. Thank you. I told
you this hour was gonna go by fast.
Right? We're we're already at this point. We're
out. Thank you for illuminating,
the thrift store that you are both
enjoying your
working at, and you got some great stories.
It's a great thrift store. There are deals
to be had there, like,
no place, that I know of quite quite
as good.
Every day is a good deal. You don't
have, like, the different color days, but you
do have Tuesday clothing. It's all half off.
Yeah. Yeah. And your prices are so reasonable
that people are there to get a good
deal. You We actually do have a color
day. This Yep. Current month, I think our
sale is red. So any clothing that has
a red tag Oh, it wears stuff 50¢.
Oh. It's when you first walk in and
I There's a big deal. Posted on the
far back. Yes. I see that. I see
that. So the color rotates every month. Oh,
okay. Red month. Now we know. Yes. And
then items that we have, we have our
month little white stickers on things. And right
now, our sale month is January.
So January is just half off right now.
Or if you find we try to get
it pulled. Anything January before is half off.
Because it says the date on Yes. We
date the stuff. And Oh, great. It's like,
again, we need to turn it over. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Very cool. Del Norte
Community
thrift store
and Crescent City. 5013C
nonprofit. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. That's so
important. Right? 464-1322.
Alright. But now what is then? We have
fun time. Corner.
Alright. Thank you very much. Now you gotta
listen to a few jokes. And good quotes.
Did you hear about that crazy, crazy guy
who streaked through my church last Sunday, doctor?
I didn't. Yeah. They caught him by the
organ.
Why is that funny? Okay.
German German Trezza. Okay.
Okay. I have a quote. Okay.
Thrift store oriented. Okay. It is not last
season.
It is
archival. It is not secondhand.
It's sustainable.
I like it. Recycling is just totally cool.
Right? I mean, really?
Wow. Okay. What else, dog?
Good things come to those who thrift.
Wow. Nice.
Mhmm. If you if
you if you burn to death, do you
get a discount at the crematorium?
Oh, another bad joke. Okay.
Alright. What else, doc? K. I have a
bumper sticker. I break for thrift stores.
Oh, I like that one. That one is
cool.
Doctor Gigi thinks I'm so weird when I
wear a helmet every time we eat. But
I'm just playing it safe on my new
crash diet.
Cool. K? Alright, doc. Why pay full price
when you can pay thrift prices?
That's true. Right? I mean, seriously,
we should all
shop thrift stores first. Check there first before
you go elsewhere. Right? Right. Yeah.
What's dead and I love this joke. I
keep saying it. What's dead and sits in
a closet? Do either of you know?
It's the,
hide and hide and seek champion from 1995.
Okay.
Okay. Pretty bad. Okay. So Helen Mirren said
some of my favorite pieces are from thrift
shops. If Helen Mirren can do it Yeah.
But who's Mirren? That's at the Helen Mirren?
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. My
whole about Helen Mirren, she's a dame. She
was oh my gosh. Yeah. I know. I
don't know if she was in
movies or, like, miniseries Prime Suspect.
She's pretty They don't have a TV.
Oh, okay. I don't know anymore. Okay. I
don't approve of I don't Bring it up.
I don't approve of political jokes because I've
seen too many of them get elected.
Alrighty.
Well, thank you. Okay. Thank you, Erica. And
you have been listening to the Doc and
Chuck Show on KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We hope you enjoyed our show as much
as we have.
Learning about
the thrift store community thrift store in Crescent
City oh, Del Norte, I mean.
You say indeed. Peace and prosperity.
Peace and prosperity to everyone out there. Thanks
again for Ray Simon and Tony,
Stoddard. Thanks for helping out. And all the
people that make the syndicated show possible to
be aired up and down our beautiful coast.
Alright, doctor. Stay tuned to Oh, stay tuned
for Tony Dorsal. Thanks again, you too. Goodbye.