Whatnot

And so he's like, oh, you got some Transformers.

He's like, are you going to be selling those? I was like, yeah, I'll be selling them on Whatnot.

I was like, flips and giggles if you want to check it out.

So keep an eye on that.

Follow me.

And yeah, I'll be selling those on Whatnot.

He's like, oh, okay.

It's like...

Um, by the way, I did that.

I don't know if you knew this, Broski, but I did a Whatnot where I did personalized inscriptions for all my figures.

Who told you to do that?

Brian did.

Mark, come on.

[laughs] You did tell me that.

Are you less scared of Whatnot than you've been in the past?

No, I'm not, I mean, I'm whatever.

We're actually gonna look at start doing some live streaming, maybe not, like, podcast format, but we're gonna do some, uh, live stream stuff on different, uh, platforms to see how that goes.

Like Whatnot and stuff?

Yeah, well, yeah, maybe Whatnot.

Maybe live streaming even on just, like, TikTok and Instagram.

Yeah.

So jorts-

I wore my Whatnot purchase, and you can wear some jorts next week.

I'll wear my jorts next week for the show.

[laughs]

I can't wait.

Oh, yeah? How is your Whatnot purchase?

I mean, I wore it just for Dale.

Oh, that's when you came in today.

It just came out yesterday.

We were ripping it on whatnot, on just baseball rips.

A ton of fun there last night.

I was jumping into as many breaks as I could, trying to get the royal spot.

So this first article is from CNBC, and it's entitled, Livestream Shopping is Gaining Steam in the U.S.

Thanks to Apps Like TikTok and Whatnot.

Now, guys, if on the Weekly Buzz I had a dollar for every time we had an article like this over the last two years, I would be a rich person right now because they... always keep saying, hey, is live stream taking? And until now, the answer has been no, not yet.

But let's take a look at what this article says.

And this one is all about ownership of the audience.

Now, what we're seeing is through things like Whatnot and Kickstarter and Indiegogo, what they're doing is they're building up an audience, an audience that they connect to directly instead of going through distributors and a distribution network.

And in some cases, yeah, bypassing the local comic shop.

It's all about recreating a direct connection to the audience and growing the IP.

We're going to talk a lot about live selling, I believe.

One, how did eBay Live stack up to Whatnot Live? And then also, are you just tired of lives? Is everybody tired of live? Is the seller or the buyers? But in reading a little bit about maybe just that thing so we definitely want to get into that but first where's everybody from see there's my computer

if Stephen randomly disconnects it's because his computer is floating in the Oklahoma River right that one runs it that one runs it flows into the Colorado

Of course.

And I think it's good to be in kind of early on that thing because they are really trying to push people to go there, and they're trying to give you a leg up.

So that was cool.

I feel like they need to be more discerning than Whatnot.

Don't let it become the Wild West like Whatnot has.