Part Four of an eight part interview with Conrad Hartz.
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Video Transcript:
Since I retired, excuse me, from the
University of South Carolina this past
June but uh right now I’m doing
freelance beginning to take orders
again um a lot of times people
won’t they keep calling you week after
week night after night you know
wondering how figure is looking and
things like that
so but uh other than that uh right now I
have been selling I’m already completely
ready to go
Okay, if somebody
was interested in it though you would
consider still doing a custom job for
them?
Yeah yeah I’ve done so many in the
past that I’ll know whether or not we
can get what they want done you know
okay
What kind of timeline do you
tell them if they’re they’re coming to
you and they want a custom job?
Well generally
um uh probably a
month.
Okay, that’s that’s pretty
impressive because I was going to I was
going to bet it going to be at least two
or three months before you’d even get
started on it.
Well now that could be on
that but um uh once I get going and it’s
generally u i look at the next month and
see you know if I’m can be ready to cut
it out and things like that but
generally I’m month.
The ones that you already have finished I’ve seen
you uh have listed those on Facebook and also World vents um do you list them
anywhere else um your website uh no I
don’t have a website per se okay I I’ve
got one that’s uh handled by somebody
else and uh but I generally list them on
uh Facebook and and uh I used to do eBay
but uh very seldom now yeah yeah well
sometimes eBay will sell it a decent
price and sometimes they want everything
for free of course that’s uh um go ahead
go ahead.
Well the only thing good about
eBay is uh PayPal yes that’s
good so um you still do some shows um oh
yeah okay talk to me a little bit about
the types of shows you do if you don’t
mind oh well I uh one of my first loves
was the circus uh second love and still
is the Ventrilo figures and stuff so
anyway I went off
and when I was in the University South
Carolina Columbia after I was in the
Marine Corps in Vietnam I kind of got a
little burnout with college and I joined
Ringling Brothers
circus and uh I was a clown
and uh had to come back due to a family
illness but uh anyway when I got back I
decided that uh you know I missed it and
things like that and so one of the
things besides learning to carve
ventriloquist
figures uh which was my primary interest
you know with ventriloquism was um the
circus and uh so I decided to make
marionettes that did tricks
and the show I do today sometimes is
half trick marionette and then half
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