Sideshow #66 -Al The Toy Man

Published: April 5, 2021, 4:01 a.m.

b'Make the calls. Make the calls. Make the calls.\\n\\n\\nThis week Biff and Jacques welcome longtime friend Al to chat his decades long career of selling happiness.\\xa0 Al is the quintessential, old school sales guy whose products and work ethics turned out to be recession proof and even covid proof.\\xa0 He specialized in selling licensed character goods to the party stores and dollar tree type stores.\\n\\n\\nAl talks his biggest sellers, the can\\u2019t miss products that did miss and the \\u201cwho would by this junk\\u201d that flew off the shelves.\\n\\n\\nAl liked his profession.\\xa0 He liked who he worked with and for \\u2026 sure curve balls now and then \\u2026 but overall, this chat exemplifies how if you like what you do for a living, life ain\\u2019t all that bad.\\n\\n\\nPersonal note: It\\u2019s pals like Al and talks like this that make me super home sick for So. Cal and FNH.\\n\\n\\nCP: Twitter:\\xa0https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast\\n\\n\\nFacebook:\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\nBiff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey\\n\\n\\nJacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\nOpening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id\\n\\n\\nClosing Clips of \\u201cDicky Fox\\u201d from the movie Jerry Maguire'