Peep Show: Raiders of the Big Light!

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Dave and Chuck the Freak talk about the incredible effort Dave made to find a big light that his wife wants for their new house. He made contact with the manufacturer, which is located in Morocco, to get the light for a quarter of the price.

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00:00i um did something crazy what'd you do i was telling chuck about it the other day so amber

00:13as we're building a house you know amber's looking for all the stuff we need

00:16so she fell in love with this gigantic light from a really fancy store yeah that was way

00:23too expensive okay as they are right yeah so i'm like we're not paying that for a light babe

00:28sorry um you know i work in radio yeah well you know dave listen at least you know dave

00:36dave's not gonna like just give up on this light much much like when he was trying to get like

00:43biscoff cookies yeah you know and he was like oh man you know you just can't get them the way i want

00:48them i guess i'll just reach out to biscoff corporate case before biscoff cookies were sold

00:54to the public i got a case of biscoff cookies yes anyway so here i did a deep dive i'm like

01:02i did image searches all sorts of stuff wow your dedicated husband he is after hours of research

01:09i found these lights are actually made in morocco okay yeah so i reached out to the moroccan

01:16moroccan manufacturer oh my goodness wow and commissioned the same light at a quarter of

01:24the price yeah yeah i hope i get it oh you i thought you this update was gonna be that you

01:31well i've been chatting with a lovely name guy named ahmed okay and he sent pictures of the light

01:38yesterday okay that they're making so this is like a chandelier it's like a dude it's like a

01:4560 inch wide dining room light like amber wanted a gigantic light yeah so are you gonna have to go

01:52to morocco to no they're shipping it oh that's nice yeah they're shipping it but um that's never

01:59getting to you i know i just i took a big risk no i maybe it will i took a big risk

02:05ahmed said light is good on the way oh nice there you go hopefully it's like all good when

02:11it gets here exactly yeah in good shape it's like it was hand it was custom made that's right

02:17everything's good because that thing they're gonna that's no just normal ups that thing is gonna have

02:23to be like a wooden crate like uh like if it works out i'll be incredibly proud of myself of course

02:29if it's a failure i will be very upset with you took it to morocco dude i mean no one else has

02:35i'm surprised they made that for you the only two people i ever knew that had business with morocco now

02:41are indiana jones and dave yeah yeah pretty similar yep he just like lands in a plane in the desert yeah

02:49i'm here for the light

02:51taken by camel to the village

02:54the hunt for the giant golden light

02:57i don't know what they don't they wouldn't call you a senior dave i don't know what they would call you

03:01i don't know but it's a next it's a home decorating adventure

03:05dave gets off a camel

03:07dr dave dr dave

03:09takes off all his like his like desert garb

03:12oh yeah that's a good price on this

03:15it's got a big wrap

03:16that's what motivated it

03:19a real good discount

03:22they expect to see a tall moroccan man take off this big scarf thing and no it's dave

03:29he wanted to save a few bucks

03:32yeah

03:33someone said hope you deliver it to the right place and not to a neighbor in florida

03:40oh god you can't screw that up days

03:43wouldn't it be nice when you get to a point in life where you just don't care about this stuff anymore

03:47and you can just be like you know how old people have like the same

03:50oh yeah they just stop

03:51i'm there

03:51trust me

03:53you're not there

03:53you're ordering

03:54morocco lighted

03:56i am there

03:56well

03:57i am fine with whatever we had before

03:59oh

03:59i didn't want to change anything

04:01yeah

04:01literally the house stuff we had when we moved into our old house i'm like perfect

04:05yeah

04:05it'll be perfect forever

04:06i like this right like this

04:08my wife

04:10it doesn't

04:11yeah

04:11different

04:11that doesn't

04:12isn't the way it happens

04:13she gets bored with stuff

04:13easily

04:14when she gets older

04:15dave has to go get the rest of his house stuff at like some moroccan bazaar

04:19yeah

04:21it's true

04:22and they're like

04:23dad dad dad

04:25because he's bought so much moroccan merchandise

04:28if this works out

04:32if this works out

04:34dave is going to be a moroccan shopping fool

04:37importer exporter

04:38yeah

04:39oh my god

04:39new business

04:40hey man start undercutting these light people

04:42he goes into a tent

04:44there's a dude smoking a hookah

04:45and then he's like

04:46unveils like an lg washer

04:48oh yeah

04:49doctor's dead

04:52we got it

04:52yes

04:54now one quarter of the price

05:00they loaded up on a two camels

05:03yeah

05:05there's like a

05:06the 20 guys have it like on their shoulders or whatever

05:10i would say the giant light fixture is going to roll down the hill like the giant rock

05:14i'll be outrunning it

05:16quit getting

05:17it's very possible

05:18it's very possible

05:19it was very cheap

05:19he sits down to some crazy dinner with him where they open a snake's belly

05:24oh that's right

05:25you're eating out of a monkey's car

05:27that was a good price

05:30i mean i had to do a bunch of crazy things to get it but

05:34yeah so i was super nervous so again still still don't have it

05:37still not plugged in and working

05:39no

05:39can't wait to hear the update

05:41i hope that all works out

05:42i do too

05:43because then you'll think

05:44oh i should have just paid full price

05:45and it would have been easier

05:46yeah

05:47no i've thought that many many times since then

05:49because ahmed has reached out a lot

05:51oh boy

05:52he's giving you a lot of heads up

05:53i can't wait to wait

05:54basically you're fueling ahmed's life

05:56is he that manufacturer of the expensive store

05:59yes

05:59like his

06:00so you went

06:01who does that

06:02usually they do bulk

06:03you know like they don't have like one person coming to them

06:06i don't even know how you found them

06:07that's pretty good

06:08i don't even think i could do that

06:09no

06:09it was an investigation

06:10that's an investigation

06:10yeah that's crazy

06:12deep dive

06:13it's like me wanting a guitar

06:15and i realize like this

06:17that you know like say jackson guitar makes their guitars in korea

06:21so i call korea

06:22and i find out who the factory is

06:25and then i talk to one of the guys who makes one of the guitars on the line

06:28and i'm like

06:29how much how much for you to just

06:31grab one of those things and just give it to me

06:34yeah i don't know a hundred bucks

06:36kind of

06:38yeah that's what dave has done

06:40and ahmed is now his friend

06:42that's true

06:44yes

06:44ahmed has

06:45texted you quite a bit

06:46yeah he's reached out a lot

06:48yeah

06:48yeah he's probably not very busy

06:51no

06:52no i guess not what i mean

06:53i don't know

06:54unless he's like

06:55every couple of weeks

06:56americans come here

06:58to get the life

06:59everyone will try it now that dave has done it

07:04we talked about it though

07:06i was like you know

07:06there are some stores that are

07:09that's all they do

07:10what light

07:11it's just lights

07:11yeah light

07:12oh yeah you know

07:13and uh

07:14you know you go into these light stores

07:16and you're like

07:17it costs what

07:18it's like three wires

07:20and a

07:20and a little bit of

07:22whatever

07:23and it's unbelievable how much they want to charge

07:26so i understand going to morocco

07:27i do

07:29yeah even with shipping and everything

07:31it's a quarter of the price

07:32this

07:32yeah that's crazy

07:33yeah

07:34so

07:35well again

07:36we'll see

07:37how it all

07:37it is crazy

07:38yeah yeah

07:38there's no guarantees

07:39i'm not counting my chickens before they're hatched

07:40i'm shopping

07:41i'm on the line with the ambassador

07:43hold on

07:43exactly

07:44dr dead

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