All right, Matt Bell. How much money worth of ancient Egyptian artifacts is sitting on this podcast table right now?

Starting with an easy question. I have no idea. I mean, it's worth whatever you'd be willing to sell it for, right? So, you know, I don't know. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, they've definitely, they've definitely increased in value since I started buying them. I'll put it that way. So, so, so, I mean, I started back in January, 20, 23 and kind of went through, you know, like, crazy person through, you know, like crazy buying spree all through 2023 and then kind of settled down. But in that time, the prices went way up. You know, I mean, they're triple. They're

sometimes quadruple what they would have been a year and a half ago now. So, right. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, there's, you know, it's, uh, some of them like, I wouldn't sell, you know, like some of them

like this guy right here, you know, um, you know, this one with the gold handles. you just there's not a there's not a price that you could even you know

say i know the value is a big question for people but it's just you know it's kind of like anything

like what would what would some what would somebody pay for it you know for people that are

watching this podcast or listening especially people who are listening right now this is going

to be a very visual podcast. We have, what, like

30 ancient Egyptian vases sitting on this table right now that Matt has purchased on the

antiquities market. And we're going to be going through all the stuff and showing this. We got

close-up shots. Steve's got the cameras all dialed in, getting the glamour shots of these vases.

What is the process of buying one of these things?

Yeah, it's kind of, I mean, it's different. There's a couple of different ways. I started when Ben Van Kirk these things, I was like, you know, this is,

it seemed like the best evidence for something really cool happening out there in the world right now.

And there's not a lot that's really cool happening.

So, and how else can you like, you know, get a piece of, get a piece of that, you know, in other ways other than this?

So that's kind of where I got hooked

onto it. Where I got started was from watching Ben and then I had him come on to my podcast,

you know, last year. And we talked about these things. He would have never come and talk to me,

I'm sure, if it wasn't for the bases. But we formed a great friendship. He's a great dude. I'm sure I'll give a handful of shoutouts to bend during this thing.

But yeah, I mean, you can do it through auction houses, you know, or websites, basically.

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