April 10, 2026

Adam Romero/Captain Romero Sports Cards "Going Full-Time" E383

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Adam Romero gave up a career in law enforcement to go full-time in the hobby and he's wasting no time doing big things. He's our guest on this week's episode.


Talking points on this episode potentially include:


*Where it all started

*Doings show & being Dad

*Grading discussion

*Price or not to price

*Acquiring new inventory

*Being a show promoter

*From law enforcement to the hobby


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Sports Guard Nations, Hobby is the People, Wheely News and Interviews.

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It's you on number one Soul Sports Garnation, Honey is

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the People, Sports Guy Nation.

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Everybody. Welcome to episode three eighty three of Sportscardination. And

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just got back from Florida. It was there eight days

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in the Disney World, me and my wife. Kind of

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I don't want to call a second honeymoon, but that's

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where we went on our first honeymoon. I don't even

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think we went for eight days when we did it

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the first time, so I guess you could call it

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second honeymoon. Great weather, eighty degrees, not even too hot,

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had a little breeze, sun, very little rain, and enjoyed

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all the parks and spending time together. Much needed sort

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of you know, husband wife trip, if you will. Here's

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the problem I got back. When I got out of

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the plane in Orlando it was eighty six when I

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got off the plane, and Syracuse it was forty six,

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so I lost forty degrees. I lost definitely a lot

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of sun, and I got a cold. So dealing with that,

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but fighting through it. We'll be all right. And I

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have a great guest on today's show. And you know,

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eight out of ten times the guest before I have

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someone on the show, I generally know him in some

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form or capacity, not all the time, and this is

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one of those cases where it's not all the time.

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I did not know my guest, Adam Romero of Romero

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Sports Card, but I read I can't even remember where

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I read where he did a little mini interview with

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a card public and a very interesting guy, kind of

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a man that wears some different hats. He was a

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law enforcement officer who gave that up, retired from that

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to go full time in cards. Probably a little safer, definitely,

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i'd say, And I love you know, you know me,

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I've said it before, right when someone takes the deep

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dive in the going full time, I always I love

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to know the dynamics and the dichotomy of that. And

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so when I read the little article and interview with

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him in written for him, I'm like, I gotta have

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this gentleman on the show. And so that's the case

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today and next week will be part two. But Anam

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Romero a very interesting guy, great guy, doing some stuff

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and doing it quickly. That's I think to me sort

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of The amazing part is how fast he's getting stuff done.

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And I don't want to give that away. We'll save

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that for the interview itself. But as always, we thank

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our sponsors. Iired Sports Cards, Sports Collector's Digest, Hobby Highlight,

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and Upper Deck. So, without further ado, let's get the

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show started, all right, real excited to talk to my

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next guest on the Sports Cardination guest line. He like myself.

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He's a man of many hats hobby and outside the hobby,

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and a full disclosure, I'd never met him. I just

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read an article about him. Super interesting guy, and I said, man,

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he said, you know what, we like people we like

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to talk to on this program. I'm like, he checks

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all those boxes and then some. So, without further ado,

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I'd like to welcome Adam from Captain Romero Sports Card Welcome.

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Hey, thank you very much. It's nice to meet you,

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and I'm very excited to have this conversation.

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Yeah. Likewise, well, Adam, letting you know, I know it's

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kind of the standard fare on a lot of podcasts,

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especially the first time someone's one, kind of like, well,

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for you, when did the hobby start? Like where take

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us back to the beginning you begin?

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Yeah, like a lot of people just right when COVID started, Uh,

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basically when everything was shut down, nobody knew what was

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going on and kind of figuring out what to do, uh,

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cooped up at the job at home. And then someone

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just kind of said, hey, you're you're so into sports,

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but have you ever gave sports cards a thought? And

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I really I knew that sports cards existed, but I

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didn't know that there was a business or a financial

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way about it during that time. And it literally once

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I got started in it, it was just one foot

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or one door led to it another and it just

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kind of got me to where I'm at today. But

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basically the general just was is COVID and it just

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took off from there.

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How like did did you get Like where did you start?

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Like did you say, I mean you didn't become obviously

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didn't become a dealer right away. You had to get

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into like build an inventory. So what did you target?

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Was it favorite teams, favorite players, just people athletes performing? Well?

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Like where did you start?

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So basically I was kind of one of the guys.

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Now I didn't go as too crazy as camping out

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at Walmart's or targets, but I was it was during

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that time where packs and blasters and megas were selling

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for astronomical prices. So I kind of start when I

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started getting in, it was kind of buying the boxes

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at Walmart, and I was ripping them all didn't matter

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what product. I didn't know what a parallel was. I

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didn't know what that there was, numbered and audits. I

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was just ripping cards, looking them all up on eBay,

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and then the.

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Ones that were doing pretty decent, I would sell.

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Them, and then it kind of transferred into well, I

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saw what the boxes were selling for a seal, So

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after I ripped a lot of boxes, I started selling

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the boxes. And then again this was during COVID, so

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a lot of things were inflated during that time. But

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again it went from ripping to or I'm sorry, it

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went from uh yeah, ripping to then selling the boxes.

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Then I learned about grading, so then I started grading

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cards and that was back. I remember to this day.

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I sold a don'rous bas paper of Mac Jones and

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during that year, and I sold it for like sixty bucks,

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and to me, I was just like one.

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Card sixty bucks, Like there's this business side to it.

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Then that led to the next step and led to

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the next step, and then of course dealing vending local shows,

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then bigger shows than bigger shows, and bigger shows then then.

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Taking up all my weekends.

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And then I was a cop at the time, so

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I was like then adjusting and using PTO to go

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to shows, so and again.

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Then it led to.

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Kind of what I do now as I bend all

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over the country and then I have five shows on

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my own that I run on the East Coast.

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Yeah, that's amazing. From that first pack you ripped to

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the first show you set up as a vendor, Like,

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how long was that? What was man?

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I want to say probably six months. I didn't know

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that card shows existed. I didn't know what they were.

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It was literally I was learning on the fly. Every week.

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I was learning something new about all this stuff. And

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finally I found a show that for years apparently was

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down the road for me, fifteen minutes down the road,

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and finally I kept trying to get into that show

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and message the promoter, and for the first few months

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they were just sold out, sold out. Finally I got

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in there and then I did my first show. I

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think I sold like two cards. But I didn't give up.

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I just I just got drawn in and liked it.

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You know, I was doing the eBay, I was doing stuff.

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I kind of started the Instagram and every time it

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seemed like every week I did something new within the

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hobby was create a logo, create an Instagram. Oh there's

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stuff on Twitter, and there's stuff on Facebook, and then

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TikTok and there was all these avenues that it was

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so much information that I was just taking in really weekly.

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But I think it's about six months before I did

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like just bought my first pack and looked at sports

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cards to when I set up.

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Now, you mentioned being a sports fan. You know a

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lot of the stories we hear Adam are you know, Hey,

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I collected as a kid, and then you know I

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got out and I came back. You didn't even you

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didn't even collect as a kid, like you're kind of

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the or am I wrong?

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No?

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So I had sports cards as a kid, just randomly.

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It was not something that I was like going to

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a store or my local shop. It was just like

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here and there packs. Yet I was very much a

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sports fanatic. I grew up in New York, so like

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I went to Yankees games all the time. I went

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you know, followed the Knicks, and I was very athletics.

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I I played all kinds of sports of school, and

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then sports cards were never a priority or a thing.

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I probably looked at comics and Marvel stuff more back

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then that I did sports cards, and then that there

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was a huge gap where I had never even heard

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about sports cards through my teenage and young adult years.

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And it wasn't again, it wasn't until COVID that, you know,

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I was just kind of introduced to, Yeah, there's sports

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cards and there's this. To me, what was like an

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underground of like this is going on, and this is happening,

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and cards are selling for what and you could do that?

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And there's shows all over. I would have never heard

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of a show until my first show. I didn't know

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that there was shows all over. So again, the same

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thing as I was learning each week, there was just

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new information coming in left and right about all it.

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To me, it was just like a wow factor of like,

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all this has been going on for years and I'm

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a very much sportsperson.

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How have I never heard of this?

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How daunting was that sort of to kind of come

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in almost cold, if you will, you know, and then

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learn obviously you learned on the fly, you learn quickly.

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Like you said, each week, did you have moments where

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you're like, what did I get myself into here? Like nuts?

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No, I didn't feel that.

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What I felt was nuts was and I'm not trying

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to brag here, but like I was, I was very

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shocked at how successful I was doing this as a

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side piece, very quickly, and it was it was overwhelming

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in a good way because I was like, all these

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cards were selling on eBay, and then I learned about

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grading and I was getting good at that, and and

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then going to shows and having the right image. It

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just it it was overwhelming in a positive way. But

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then again too, a lot of this was COVID, so

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there was a recorrection of the market and kind of

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how things were. And back then it was cool and

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profitable to grade base cards. Now you know, not so much.

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And then pop and then like again population counts and

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learning parallels, and when I started to learn products like opticing,

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prism or kind of the top of the line opposed

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to I was buying all these other score and rookies

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and stars, and it's kind of like, hey, people don't

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really want that stuff too much. So again there was

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like I've already said, learning every week and then this

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and that, then knowing what to buy, and then getting

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good in that space. That that was the overwhelming part

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of like, wow, there's a lot to learn, but I'm

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also like just doing well and I was, and then

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I eventually.

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Got to that point where I was like, I think

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I might want to do this full time.

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So here's my thing you mentioned grading, and we'll get

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to the full I definitely want to touch on the

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full time thing, you know. I remember when I first

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started grading cards. There was a long time ago. I'm

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old at them, so one of the mistakes I made

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was I don't do it anymore. But as a as

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a new person who at the time, I would look

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at my cards and sort of give myself a pass

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where a grading company or greater isn't going to do that,

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so I'd look at that's a little thing, no big deal.

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Now they won't care about that too much. How was

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that like when you first started grading, did you fall

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in any of those praftfalls or not? Not? Really? You

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kind of did your homework before you know, you submitted cards.

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In the very beginning, like I'm talking to very like

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first few submissions.

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I really didn't know what I was doing.

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I just knew that, like if I send my card

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off and it just gets a good grade, there's a

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profit margin there.

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That seems to be the way to go.

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But it wasn't until a while that I believe that

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I got okay. Now I know what I'm actually looking for,

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a corner surface, this, that and the other. You know,

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again with the whole like there there was that time

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of bass cards for certain players were doing great, but

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then there was the autos, and then there's the thicker

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cards and eights and certain cards are okay, but eights

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and other cards are not okay, and then factoring in

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your mailing your weight time. And then during that time

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PSA had just shut down. But then again, at that time,

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I didn't know that there was really a difference between PSA, BGS, SGC.

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I didn't know there was there was profit different chant. Actually,

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the only one that was really taking some missions at

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that time was HGA, and I'm sure you're familiar with HDA.

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They did the color labels, and that was that was

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kind of popular at the moment one because they were

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the only ones taking one in. And then they had

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this new thing where they're like, we can color match

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your cards and people in the beginning like that, and

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then if you're familiar with HGA, they kind of went

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away now, But that was that was who I started with.

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I sent a ton of cards to HGA and then

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they ended up getting shut down or paused, and man,

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they had I lost so much money because they ket

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my cards for like eight months.

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They I wasn't a fan of them, Adam, because they

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would like misspell players names on the flips and just

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make a lot of mistakes like that. I'm like, how

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can I take them seriously if they can't even get like,

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you know, they can't even spell the guy's name right,

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And then they're gonna tell me what the card like,

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the condition of the card, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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So that was that was my thing. They're the owner,

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the original owner. They've been so like two or three

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times since, but the original owner. I'm trying to think

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of the word that when you just sort of ecentric

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and the kind of a character and was going on

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over the place doing interviews and just off the wall

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and kind of zany, and I just know this, these guys,

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you know, aren't gonna make it I just you know,

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I hate like I'm not rooting against people, but it

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just grew off that sort of vibe.

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Uh.

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And so early on I thought that I thought they

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had a halfway decent idea with like the color matching

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of the flips. I just think, you know, they didn't

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get a lot of the other stuff right, and it

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kind of hurt them. Uh. In the end, I think

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they've been uh they were purchased not once but even twice.

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And yeah, like you said, now you don't I'm not

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even sure they operating. If let me put this way,

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if they are at them there, they can't be doing

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too well because no one's talking about them at this point.

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Uh anymore, someone's at my door. I've got to get

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that be right back.

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Guarding is when your first For those who get into

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it at the start, it can be daunting. And you know,

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I remember, you know, back when I started, I would

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have a stack of forty cards that I were candidates,

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and I'd probably send in thirty six thirty eight of them.

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And now if I start with a candidate stack of

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like forty cards, I do two things. I do the

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just a regular eye test with no magnification, and then

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eliminate some from that just by if I can see

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it with my naked eye, then you know what I mean,

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it's not a good candidate. And then so let's say

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that I go from forty with the naked eye test

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to twenty eight. Let's say then I'll put I have

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magnification like jeweler's glasses with the magnification flips down, and

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then I'll go through that twenty eight and eliminate what now,

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because they're gonna look at it what ten times too,

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Miles will do the same thing they are. So from

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where I'm going with this, it's from that original stack

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of forty cards. At the end, I may sub eighteen cards,

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twenty cards after it passes the regular eye tests, and

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then magnification. Where when I first started, I was literally

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sending everything and saying whatever they'll they're not gonna notice that,

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or they're not gonna care about that. It was foolish,

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but you learn by trial and error, So I learned

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by a lot of errors. You mentioned, you know, now

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you're full time. You know you wear in law enforce. Obviously,

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thank you for your service, thank your community, and obviously

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it's a dangerous job and there's dangerous with it. You know.

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How tough of a decision was it to give up

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that career to go to the hobby full time?

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So in some ways it was initially tough. So I

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wanted to be a cop basically from my teenage years

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up all the way up until I was an adult,

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and I started kind of late. I became a cop

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in my late twenties and went to the academy. There

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was a bunch of people that were like nineteen twenty

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in the academy, and I think I was like twenty

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seven or something like that. But I went through it,

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and then it was a big personal achievement in my

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life because it was something that I wanted to do

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so bad. No cops in my family, no real friend.

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It was just something that I've always wanted to do.

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I grew up in New York. I watched cops on

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TV like all the time in New York. You know,

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the cops were very personal wle back, not that they're

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not now, but they obviously it's a different time back then,

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but like it's just the whole idea of being a

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cop and the action and the thrill. And I did

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that and I finally accomplished that, and it got to

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a point where I started dabbling into sports cards. There

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was COVID, there was my daughter had just turned five

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and she was gonna be entering school. I didn't want

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to be the dad that missed things. And obviously with

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you know, I've missed dates and other things and just

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plans and always, hey, I'm not gonna be It's obviously

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not the type of job that you could just be like, uh, yeah,

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I'm not gonna stay late tonight. No, that doesn't fly.

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So there was that in my personal life. I was

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I was with someone at the time, and that was

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just there was the writing on the wall that that

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was ending.

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So all that at that.

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Time, I was like, I really was at a point

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after doing just close to ten years, I just wasn't

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happy where my career was going. And I'm not going

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to get into the political side, but there was a

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political side of you know, when you're in law enforcement

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and laws change and they're not helping you and benefiting you,

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what am I doing here? And not to say the

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cops are more important than anybody else, but there is

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a risk of putting your life every day.

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And I'm just like, and.

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I'll say it for you. I'll say it for you, Adam.

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I know where you get, Like when a new law

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makes your put your life in more jeopardy than prior, right,

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that's not that's not right. And that's as a dad,

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as a human, you don't have to you don't have

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to apologize for that.

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Like yeah, Like.

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Kind of an example, without trying to make a political

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when you arrest someone for a very serious crime and

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they are out on the street before you get back

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to your station, it's like, what am I doing here?

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Like there's a lot of work that goes into taking

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that person and and reports and evidence and time and interview,

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and you take a person to jail, especially for some

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of these serious crimes, and then you get back an

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hour or two later you have to face that family

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and say, hey, I didn't release them, you know, I

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take them to jail.

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But then they're on the street walking beside their victims

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the very next hour day. So all that put together,

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that's when I was taking PTO to go to card

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shows and doing Actually, I'll tell you a funny story.

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And this was all the time as I was doing

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so well with eBay, I was taking a tote to

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work every day full of all my sports cards, graded, wax, everything,

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and I'd put it in the back of my patrol car.

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Because I was selling so much that I was like,

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I want to keep my rating high and my shipping right.

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So I would ship throughout the day and stop at

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the post office and a big tote of cards in

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my back. Sometimes I'd arrest people before I put them

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in the car and be like, hey.

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Let me.

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Go move.

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You could be arresting someone for a thief and there

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you got your your inventory, like potentially obviously, like you said,

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you moved it out, but yeah, yeah.

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Over they sit down and a lot of them will

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be like, well, what's all this stuff, and I'll be like, oh,

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it's just stuff.

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You know.

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I'm talking to them while taking them to like, you

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know what my grandpa or.

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They'd be like, oh, my grandpa has all this stuff here.

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Maybe I'll call you. I'm like, well, no, I'm not

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gonna do business with you.

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But it did generate some some fun conversations. But that's

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how that's how serious I was. You know, I had

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a house, I have a daughter, and I'm just like,

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can I really leave a sure thing, a sure paycheck,

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medical and sell sports cards full time?

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It was.

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It was nuts my you know, there was many days

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that I was driving to work coming home and thinking

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about it like it was. It wasn't something I did

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a whim. It took months and months to see the

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result of my end financially to say, hey, can I

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do this full time and leave this, you know, of

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invested in a pension. I wanted to be a cop

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the whole time forever, and I'm just gonna now, you know,

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maybe I was like a year into it, I'm just

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gonna do sports cards, and I was like yeah, yeah.

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And then I opened up a store in my town,

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a retail store, so I kind of went all in

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and didn't look back, and and and for a few

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months I was running my retail store while being a

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cop full time. So so again the cop, my life

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direction changes, my daughter, everything went into doing that, and.

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Then very quickly I was just happy in my soul.

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And so although there was fear at the initial part,

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it very quickly went away once I had this like

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monkey off my back and I'm like, no, I'm just

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following my heart. Whether whether the numbers are a little

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bit less than when I was making a cop or more,

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if I could just be happy that that meant a

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lot more than the actual zeros on the paycheck.

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Yeah, no doubt, you only lived once. I will say

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this without it's nothing. The hobby's a little bit a

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safer profession. I think it's safe to say that when

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compared to law enforcement. And so at first you were

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still working as a law enforcement officer and had a store.

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How like talk about like how did you and your dad,

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Like how did you balance all that out? Like how

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difficult was that?

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Yeah?

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It was difficult, But I so I have a I

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have sleep AFNA and insomnia that I got from the military,

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and so I get very little sleep still to this day.

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And there was times where I would like, if I

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worked a five to five, I would come home at

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five am, try to sleep till maybe like nine, get up,

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open my store at ten, run the store from ten

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to four, and then drive to the.

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Town that I worked in.

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And there was many a days ago there were some

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days where I had court, so I would get off

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at five am, run to court, which was about twenty

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minutes from the town that I worked in. Then I

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wouldn't get home till nine am. I either just stayed

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up or I snoozed and then went and ran my store.

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So there were sometimes that there was sometimes that I

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was I was going twenty four hours without sleep straight

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into which is probably not what people wanted to hear,

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or some people would want to hear. But again, you

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gotta do what you gotta do when you're when you're

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chasing your dream or something like that, and I and

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I did that.

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Quite a bit.

478
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So I got to ask this question just that's not

479
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my mind words. Did anyone ever come into your retail

480
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establishment that you had familiarity with on the law enforcement side?

481
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Uh?

482
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Maybe not of the good variety. Did that? Did your

483
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paths ever cross in that fashion.

484
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Or Yes, so at that time the place that I

485
00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:56.960
worked for, First of all, I got a take home car,

486
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so a lot of the times I just drove home

487
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to my house and then I would drive from my

488
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house to the shop, work till I close my shop,

489
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and then drive from my shop to work. So my

490
00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:09.720
a lot of times my patrol car was there in

491
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the lot. And then in my town that we live in,

492
00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:17.839
we have a Walmart or super Walmart where the town

493
00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:20.519
that I worked in there wasn't a super Warmart, so

494
00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:23.200
a lot of people from where I worked came to

495
00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:25.519
the Walmart in that area, and then they would come

496
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:28.960
to the sports car shop. So yes, I did run

497
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:33.799
into a variety of people that I've met along the

498
00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.359
way in my law enforcement journey, good and bad.

499
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.640
Yeah, that's funny, and especially depending on the size of

500
00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.559
the city or town. Yeah, maybe it's more likely even

501
00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:50.839
even that happened. So you know what, you have the store? When?

502
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.440
Did you know what? Did the store make it easier

503
00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:56.279
kind of to lead law enforcement?

504
00:26:56.839 --> 00:26:59.480
Yes, because I was like in my head, I was like,

505
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.160
how long could I keep this up? Doing a store

506
00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.480
almost full time, a police officer full time, and a

507
00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.640
dad house. You know, family, chores, all that stuff and

508
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:14.680
no sleep that even though I was used to it,

509
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:18.799
I know it's not good for you. So that that

510
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.119
vision of hey doing the store and doing more shows,

511
00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.319
that made it easier to say, yes, this is my

512
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:29.000
plan and what I what I can do, and here's

513
00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:34.720
the hope and the vision. But again, the happiness was

514
00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:38.640
something at that time that I wasn't I hadn't felt

515
00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:41.119
for a long time, and that was kind of the

516
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:43.440
driving force. I was like, you know, if this fails,

517
00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.240
I'll just be happy that I tried something and I'll

518
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.400
have to go into something else.

519
00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:50.359
But I wasn't happy, and that was like the biggest,

520
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:51.799
the biggest driving force.

521
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:54.599
Yeah, I love hearing you say that, Adam, because that

522
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:59.039
five years ago I made a career change any teaching profession,

523
00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:03.200
which I had done it sooner. Quite frankly, I was

524
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.480
at a job where I was working six am to

525
00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:11.119
six pm, long days, just miserable after work, to the

526
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.079
point my wife would be like, this job has made

527
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:17.759
you like a miserable person. It's making you unhealthy, blah

528
00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:20.960
blah blah, like you know, and that's when I finally

529
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.720
like put out the stuff that I needed to kind

530
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:26.279
of get into the teaching again. Should have done it

531
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.599
sooner hide insight being twenty twenty. But hearing you talk

532
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.119
about that, I fully get it one hundred percent. It

533
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.759
makes all the sense to me. And you can't, you know,

534
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:40.720
while I may make a little bit less with my

535
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:46.680
nine to five job, the healthiness and the looking forward

536
00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:48.680
to going to work and you can't put a price.

537
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:50.559
You can't put a price on it.

538
00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:55.599
Absolutely absolutely priceless, like and still to this day, I

539
00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:57.880
like a lot of people asking all the time, like hey,

540
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:01.079
because they know how much I love law enforcement initially

541
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:04.039
and I was really good at it, and they're just

542
00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:08.359
like any regrets, And I'm like, zero zero percent, not

543
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:12.279
one second for one day do I regret making the change?

544
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.880
Yeah? Well, god, you know, good for you, And I

545
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:19.359
think that's great when you hear stories and and you know,

546
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:21.720
I'm sure you get to even spend more time, like

547
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:25.559
you said, with your daughter as well. Awesome chopping it

548
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:30.240
up with Adam there, really cool dude. I haven't met

549
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.559
him in person yet, planning on doing that at the

550
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:38.720
National Again, this was part one of our two part conversations,

551
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:44.119
So next next episode we will have the conclusion with

552
00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:50.599
Adam and you know, jumped in quick and didn't waste

553
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:53.119
no time. Right. He's a go getter. Yeah, he knows

554
00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:56.599
what to do. So he's got some big things coming

555
00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.920
that he shared off the air too, which well when

556
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:04.799
those become official, well we'll let you in on that,

557
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:10.039
so you know again, come back next week for part two,

558
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:13.440
we're gonna hear from our Hobby is the People Announcer

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00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:17.039
of the Week and wrap up this week's episode.

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Time for our Hobby is the People Announcer of the Week.

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566
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.400
wanted to remind you of a couple of things. First

567
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and foremost, remember the hobby is the people and as always,

568
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:47.839
keep focused, keep positive, and keep collecting.

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