Blog
Write-ups across all four properties — newest first.
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I'm Gonna Pack It I hope the Post Office doesn't get mad at this one
Two free Ground Advantage boxes joined together to ship a toy Corvette, a six-glass Santa-and-reindeer set with a Mythbusters tangent, and a $300 Civil War chess set packed in a 2D printer box.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 11: Verf — the RuneScape legend hiding in the Netherlands
Three-hour conversation with Verf — Dutch RuneScape YouTuber, 5-year mutual viewer of the channel, 2,000-hour grinder, Bob Ross painter, and the guy who finally taught me how to title a video.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 11: Tennessee Picker — the reseller your mother warned you about
Kevin (Tennessee Picker) sat down with Ryan and me for episode 11 and confessed two of the most diabolical garage-sale schemes I have ever heard. Also: the eBay drop-off store, the Pilot day-job, and the Highway 70 sale where we first met.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 10: Cassandra Soldan went there — the Pegasus Lounge moment, the private source, and the four-million-view chair
Cassandra from Midnight Modern came on the pod a small-potato YouTuber and answered the question Ryan and I were not sure she would touch. The Pegasus Lounge moment is the headline; the rest is the why.
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Lonnie & Ryan Craigslist Hunter Pete on the retirement plan he hasn't announced yet — and the six-figure offer he turned down for the channel
Pete from Craigslist Hunter sat down with us and dropped two pieces of news he hadn't put on his own channel yet — a retirement timeline for the Trading Post, and a YouTube buyout offer he turned down because it wasn't seven figures.
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Lonnie & Ryan Do our wives have beef with each other? Candice and Pam join the podcast
Episode 8 — Candice and Pam came on the show, Rev Resale asked the question the title is about, the internet froze every six minutes, and Pam finally admitted my voice is comforting. 24 years in.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 7: Cincinnati Picker on the YouTube reseller drama, the bashing circle, and the courses that won't die
John from Cincinnati Picker came on the podcast and the title earned itself — opinions on the reseller-course grift, the 2017-era YouTube bashing circle, and which big-name reseller he isn't sure he could talk to for a full hour.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 6: Hot Lunch Reselling surprised us — Chris from the Chicago basement
Chris from Hot Lunch Reselling came on the pod and the surprise was how little he wants to be a YouTuber. He runs his eBay shop out of a basement so low a 6'4' guy can touch the ceiling standing flat — and treats reseller convention as something to test.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 5: Rev. Resale exposes someone who did him wrong (and then exposes me)
Rev. Resale joined Ryan and me for Episode 5 — Pastor D from Porterdale Baptist who resells the rest of the week. The "exposes someone" headline is two stories: Brian at the post office, and a pair of driving shoes I sold him.
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Lonnie & Ryan Did Commonwealth Picker rage quit our podcast? Kevin on hard work, clickbait, and almost — accidentally — walking out
Kevin from Commonwealth Picker showed up on episode 4 unannounced. We talked four channels, the highway-sales playbook, the dirt-cheap rule, the criticism that still gets to him — and the title is about how it ended.
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Lonnie & Ryan Episode 3: We begged Amber Resells to start short form — and now her phone won't stop
Amber's our first guest. Ryan and I had been pushing her for weeks to shut up and post. She finally did, got into Meta's Breakthrough Bonus, and now her brand-new Facebook page is pulling 10K views in 20 minutes.
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Lonnie & Ryan They can't stop talking about us — Trash to Cash named us competition, so we made a guest list
Dave and Kevin called us "competition" on the latest Trash to Cash drop. So Ryan and I spent the episode reading their mentions, our own comments, and building the invite list for our show — including a live voice-message invite to Carey, mid-podcast.