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Card Mensches E8 "Things we've change our mind about"

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Transcript


Hey, I'm getting one.
And I'm John Newman.
Welcome.
To Card Manchys.
Well, happy Friday.
It's a card meant Friday.
How you doing, John?
Good.
It's been a week.
What's going on?
Oh, wait.
That's the regular rotation.
It's been two weeks.
I know.
That's what I meant.
Exactly.
We've got a big week ahead.
I want to thank our sponsors as always as GC, Wax, Dad.
And as always, my favorite card scanning app Center.
Center, Change HQ.
I want to give them a compliment because they've become a verb.
People were saying center stage at the last show.
Is that so?
Yeah.
Anytime.
Yeah.
Well, I don't want to say anytime.
Most times you become a verb.
It's pretty good.
Not all the time.
[Laughs]
You know, if you're a baseball player and you're a buck nerd to ball, that's, you know,
that's not a verb.
You want to be, you know, have a.
I heard he at Bill Buckner were so upset after the world series.
He went right into what was going to go right into traffic.
Carl went between his legs.
So even in desk, he's still getting picked up.
Uh, no.
He was.
He's Bill Buckner was an underrated player and all.
He was.
He was.
Yes.
He was.
And actually, that was one of the things that I didn't realize when I was younger, that I learned
when I was older and changed my mind.
And that's what we're talking about today or things in the hobby where we've changed our minds.
Yeah.
And the first thing I want to say is it's okay to change your mind.
I think that sometimes people are so kind of stuck in the mud.
And, you know, I could qualify with this as certain things.
But it's okay to, you know, as you mature or things change in the world or in the hobby to have
a different approach.
And so tonight show is obviously going to be happy related, not politics or anything else.
Going to be hobby stuff that we've done a 180 on.
We've kind of each picked three things that we've sort of did an about face on on how we feel
about it in approach.
I will start out by saying this, NFTs are not did not make the list.
They still feel the same about it today as I did when they came out.
Maybe even more so.
So sorry NFTs, you did not make today show.
That's funny.
I think you also six months ago said to me, Danny, what's dibs?
So.
Hips is what you call like next game.
Like I got dibs on next game, you know, which is I'm sure where I'm sure where they
came up with the name as well from.
But you won't be here or net, shortly, at least pertaining to the business side of it.
Any more say announced they were going to fuck.
So you can say I got dibs on next game now and not be talking about a business.
So, okay, so we said we've changed our mind on things.
Let's talk about stuff that's not necessarily one our list.
Okay, I just think general, I've changed my mind on things as a sports fan.
And maybe it's technology.
I don't feel the need to go to as many games in person as I used to when I was young.
When I was younger, you know, I felt I couldn't miss any games in maybe now.
I've kids on the little bit older.
I enjoy a game on TV.
Maybe they're quality of the picture.
So that's something I've changed my mind on probably base cards.
That's something that I didn't use to enjoy maybe quite as much.
But those are just some general ideas of things that we might be talking about tonight.
So if anybody has stuff in the comments, dad, and we definitely wanted to throw
to those throughout the year.
And no doubt, if you, we care about what you guys feel and think.
So put in the chat room.
And even if you're listening to this after we're done being live, put it on the comments.
Things you've done, you know, 180 on that.
Maybe even you never thought you yourself would do, but yet there you are, right?
It's a mid and where human and we have emotions and feelings and those feelings and emotions
can change whenever the mood strikes us and hits us.
And again, we're going to talk about three things each for us.
And this is everyone's show.
So we care about, you know, or even if you agree or disagree with some of our opinions as well.
Well, who do you want to kick it off here?
You want to go first or you?
Yeah, I can go first.
So I'll try to go in sort of a crescendo order of, you know, least shocking to more shocking
if you will.
None of these are really shocking.
I know of this claim or there.
But for me, not sports stuff.
And like I've never really was sort of a non sports guy.
It was always sort of baseball football, basketball hockey in my collecting even in selling.
Even as a dealer, I didn't really veer off that path too much.
Some of that, I think the main crux of why is frankly, I didn't know enough of non sports.
You know, I don't like this stuff thing that I don't, I can't talk about or explain to a potential buyer.
That was definitely a reason I never, like, had it as a show in Tory.
But even as a collector, I just never really, you know, maybe when I was a kid, I know some of the first cards I had were not the 79 big.
I remember, I don't remember, open in packs.
So some of them must have gave them to me, but the jaws card made by top spec day.
I had some of those that I think someone just said, hey, you want these and I'm like, okay, and I, you know, I had them.
So, but that's not really collecting them. I didn't have a set.
I wasn't going out looking for, hey, where can I get more of these?
It just someone gave them to me.
I thought they were kind of neat and that was the end of it.
So that's my first thing.
I've sort of changed my mind.
I'm not sports as some have seen what my social media.
I've really acquired some, you know, Grails, I acquired Billy Jules,
and Amy Sticker, I just acquired Al Pacino's first appearance on any kind of trading card collected both a Spanish release,
1976, brand called Fans, FA and AS.
I've got Lady Gaga's first card, yes, I'm a, you know, I'm a Lady Gaga fan to truth come doubt
I've already kind of announced that.
I'm trying to think what is there any truth to the room where you're going to start tonight's show in a name?
And if anything, I'd have a meat suit on before I come out of the name.
Because then I could put those on the grill and it's like multi purpose.
Like it could be an outfit and dinner at the same time.
The egg is just a prop and then what do you do with it?
Takes up space in the corner of your room.
At least the meat suit.
I could fire up and we have dinner for like the next three or four, the next three or four days.
And I want to give a shout out, one of the reasons I think I've gotten more not sports
because I feel like I'm more knowledgeable and a chair, Darth Brizzo, from from Instagram.
I really picked his brain on researching a lot of the stuff before I bought it.
So, you know, without probably some of his guidance,
I may have not have jumped in the non sports pool in the way I did.
So, and now I'm looking for more stuff.
There's Christopher Walkins first card, which by the way is a 1953,
get ready moment. That's right, Bowman, Bowman, baseball, but it's not baseball.
They did a TV stars addition in 1953.
And he was known as Ronnie Walkin, which is his actual given his real name is Ronnie,
Christopher Walkin. He then changed it to Christopher.
But on this card, it's Ronnie Walkin and he's a 12 year old kid.
And if you didn't know, you might not know now, you know.
So, I've gotten it. Not sports is not sports is, that's my new rap song.
I was not saying now, I'm not sure what I know, but I didn't know before now, I know it.
So, not sports is something I've sort of done at 180 on.
And I'm not regretting it. I honestly wish I did it sooner, because somebody's cards that I've had to acquire would have been a lot cheaper
and I've done it soon, but let's never too late, right? And so that's the first one I'm going to talk about my list.
So, what, what, what, what's one you're going to throw out there for yourself?
Well, for me, and I want to make sure I'm clear about this. I've always liked autographs,
but I never used to get autographs actually on baseball cards.
For some reason, I don't know, mentally I didn't like having the autograph on the card.
I came from the manufacturer. I've turned to total 180 on that. I love autographs now. I love people who do a TTM.
I absolutely will buy slabs autograph cards and thoroughly enjoy it.
That is something where I've pulled a full 180.
I think the combination of the appreciation for the card itself plus the athlete and the autograph.
To me, just, it's a better package than I used to give a card at four. I think before I felt it was taken away from the card maybe.
And now I feel different. Now I do the whole package better. And a lot of times I like the autograph card more than maybe a generic autograph baseball.
That's not from the time period where we're a player play. You know, having a guy from the 50 sign a ball with commissioner ceiling on it.
It loses something, but having them sign their actual baseball card is a little bit more personal for me.
So that's one where I've pulled a 180.
Yeah. Yeah. And so I haven't changed because I don't have a problem with sign baseball cards, but piggyback and off that day.
And I will say this back in the day. It was kind of sacrilegious. Now it's like a huge deal as you very well know.
But back in the day, it was sacrilegious to get a rookie card sign. It was almost considered ruining the rookie card.
You're writing on the rookie card. If you grade it, it's going to, you know, get ding for having pen or Sharpie on it. And now we know that's a big business now is graded signed rookie cards, right?
It's huge.
It's huge.
There's dealers at shows that that's all there inventory is. But back in the day, I remember even when I was going to the ball park to get like autograph card sign.
Unless it was a rookie that that was the only card they had at the moment. I would always go with a second year card to get signed. So if they're rookie was 89, I would bring 1990 edition cards.
If it was 89 and that was all they had, then yes, I would have rookie card sign.
I wonder if that's, you know, you and I collected it and started young not too far apart. I wonder if that was a generational thing.
I've heard his funny buddy else who's older than they want to admit a group thinking you don't sign rookie cards. You don't sign cards as much.
Well, I can tell you in the high be back then. I'm not talking now. So if anyone's listening, remember we're going back to the 80s here.
I made the ladies and I'm not saying people didn't do it.
It was just sort of frowned upon like, oh man, don't get to your rookie card, what are you doing?
And now I see huge market and I think rightfully so it's kind of cool now when you think about it.
But back then it's a lot of things when you compare errors to, right?
Back then if you would have told me, you know, 20 years later, 30 years later, you would be paying someone else to open your pack on screen.
Green for you, right?
And then to have the card set to you, I would have thought you're crazy.
Heck, I didn't even want my friends open in my packs that were mine right next to me.
Like get your own packs, right?
Get off my lawn, get off my packs by your own.
Or you opened all yours.
I just haven't finished opening mine.
You opened them too quick.
But you know, that same person has bought into breaks and what someone else opened, you know, packs on screen.
Where I'm, you know, I might get someone else card.
You would have told me then that that would have been would be a thing 30 years and now I thought I would have thought you crazy.
Another thing I've already changed my mind on is grading itself when grading first came out.
Dan Abs had this on my show.
I thought it was the money grab and a gimmick.
It's probably some people still would say that for some companies.
I'm not one of them anymore.
I've done a complete one.
But that's not a recent one.
So that's why I mentioned it, but it's not one of my three because it's,
I've changed quite a bit of go.
So that's not a new revelation, but that's your.
You know, that's just an example of changing your mind.
Okay, little housekeeping here.
I want to thank everybody who is tuning in from a fairly Dickinson upsetting Purdue.
That's a final 16 over one in the NCAA tournament.
We are live every other Friday night.
We got a hello from contender sports cards, evening fellas.
We also have a hello from a league of her own.
Hello.
Hello.
And I just want to thank you.
Hello John and Danny.
Hello back at you.
And then actually I thought this was an interesting comment for decades card designs included
effects in the list signature.
So apparently designer slash producers of cards thought the cards look better with an autograph
on it.
Well, I'll say I thought some years looked better than others.
I didn't think it was consistently good or bad.
I always thought it was, it had to do it more with the overall estate.
But that's a great.
Yeah, that was from do effects of life.
Yeah.
I made to get signed.
Right.
I mean that's that's sort of one of the intense.
Right.
I mean my dad, you know, told me stories back where he was going to be.
I mean, my Dad, you know, told me stories back where he was going to be.
I mean, he would day with some sometimes the cards would get a sign.
That in the same probably way today where you go to a game.
Right.
And the autographs, they got like books with the cards.
Or they just pulled out a page and it's all that one guy in the hand, the guy in the book.
A lot of times a player will say, listen, I'm only signing one of these.
I got to get everybody, right?
But they least try, right?
It's a different ever when it comes to autographs.
I mean, back in the 40s and 50s autographs were like, hey, I this is my favorite player.
This is my favorite team.
This is for me.
Now we know some of there was no eBay in, you know, 1956.
So we'll do that.
It's a different ever.
I was going to say that's called a professional tease.
John, do you have anything else on your list of things that have changed your mind?
Yeah.
So listen, you know, love me or don't love me.
You know, I'm a straight shooter.
I'm an honest guy.
And this one might shock somebody, right?
Most people have heard me talk about PWCC at different times on the show with some of the alleged past
discretion and things that happened, right?
And I think I, I may have even said, you know, they'll never be someone I do business with.
But I had just to crack on the show about a year and a half ago, two years ago.
And I've gotten to know him, a metamorphone, talking about person.
Really good guy.
And so I've softened my stance in a couple weeks ago as you well know, Danny.
I made a purchase on a PWCC auction.
And I didn't have the, I've only bought one card.
I wanted you know, the sound like a lawyer defending myself here.
I only bought one card.
It was a griffy hot gloves from back in the, the ultra day.
So when it was 90 inserts, cuff inserts in.
I didn't want to, you know, but when only own in one card, I didn't want to deal with all the
the pay to ship it.
I didn't, I didn't necessarily need this.
Not a card.
That's going to go out my showcase necessarily.
So I have a PWCC.
See, vault.
I guess now.
Wow.
Does it even tell me that?
Oh, this one with this one card in it.
So listen, nothing's come.
I'll say this, you know, it's been years since we've heard anything negative.
Everything else prior while I may believe it to be some truths.
Where does, you know, where does smoke this fire that sort of thing?
They've apparently, you know, whether it's scared straight or whatever the case may be.
They've cleaned up their rack.
I haven't heard anything even in the whispers that don't always make it to airwaves.
I haven't heard any more negative stuff.
And so, you know, if the feds are not going to charge them and they've cleaned up their rack.
And I've gotten to know someone who's very high up there who actually,
frankly, was hired after those things apparently or allegedly went down.
I'm going to turn the page and I did buy something on the PWC.
I want to read that, John Miles.
Yeah, contenders fourth cards and Instagram.
He says, I change my mind on selling cards raw as opposed to grading them first to resell.
Yeah, and listen, I'll back that I've, I've sell both graded in raw cards.
The only, the only bad, don't want to say bad.
Maybe that's not the right terminology.
The only rescue take with selling a raw card, right?
If it's not in person, obviously, is the old switch arousey, right?
You said, I'm just going to make up a card, right?
You sell a Steve Garvey rookie that's very good excellent and you, someone buys it and you send it to them.
And they have a beat up Steve Garvey and they keep yours that you send them and they try to tell.
eBay or whatever selling platform, hey, this is what he sent me.
Look at this is not the card in the photo, right?
What way to upgrade their raw card and get it for free, right?
And listen, most people don't do that.
I'm not trying to do that.
Uncle John is not coming over to tell bedtime stories.
Yeah, so, but it has happened.
It's happened.
It's happened to me.
But you know, I want to get that.
That's exactly why the next one on my list is I liked the online marketplaces now.
For the authenticity guaranteed, is that make you feel any better?
Sure, but it's not foolproof.
I think we've seen one that we've seen some stories where even the eBay authenticity has
authenticated something that turned out not to be the genuine artifact too.
So, it's not 100% foolproof.
We've seen listen, we all know this, right?
We've seen graded card companies, grades, stuff that wasn't either the real
McCoy or turned out to be altered or doctored or trimmed or rolled or vice,
or whatever that was done to it.
We've seen autograph authenticators there.
They're usually pretty good.
What we've even seen them, you know, certify something that turned out to be maybe a
clubby signature or not even authentic.
So, it's remember, people are human.
Okay, so let me go to that disclaimer too.
The stakes will happen nothing is a hundred percent full proven.
I know I'm actually in the switch of Rusky, you know, 99% of people would not do that sort of thing.
Right, but there is that one percent that's out there that if you cross paths,
that's where you can get burned on a raw transaction.
I sell raw cards too, contenders for it.
So, I'm not saying you're wrong or it can't be done.
I do it.
But I'm saying that's the risk you're willing to take when when you do that.
But I'm going to agree with you and say it's come so far in the last couple of years that I now
feel much more comfortable that I have some sort of support behind me.
I remember when PayPal dictated, you know, every eBay transaction,
you know, you could just void it on PayPal and as a seller you'd really be really be screwed.
And that didn't make me feel comfortable in either direction.
And I didn't feel good as a buyer and I didn't feel good as a seller.
So, one of the changes for me, one of the things that has changed my mind is I will now buy much more comfortably
one online marketplaces that offer some sort of confidence.
The quality of the images have gotten so much better.
I think some of this is the technology.
I mean, you know, when you and I were doing shows, I mean, you know,
there was barely an internet much less a high resolution image that you could call up quickly.
So, that's something I've definitely changed my mind on.
And even though I go to as many card shows as I can as many, you know,
card shops as I can, the vast majority of my transactions are still online.
Yeah, and one, one pro tip to one taking pictures of your cards, folks, leave your feet out of it.
They have nothing to do with the player depicted on the card.
And believe me, it's not enhancing how good your card is or.
And unless you're selling a restaurant in which case.
Yeah, we're talking about restaurant and then that.
But you know what, from a bottom or even fair, I'm not, you know.
Another good one from a contender sports card changed my mind on reputable groups of matters as well.
Used to think that used to think some of them switched down the grades, but hasn't been the case to this point.
Yeah, no absolutely just, you know, having somebody you trust and having that relationship.
I think I think I think absolutely does that and then.
Branden Ryan PWCC BBC's e excuse me, a lot of letters there.
Just a name a few acronyms that have shady dealings and are probably counting on people for getting about the past.
Golden has made a career.
Why?
I'm laughing because he hit like the trifecta of doom right there, you know, with gomen,
P. don't you see and I don't know who I don't think anyone got left out there.
I think that was like that was like the Billy Joe we didn't start to fire like the whole.
Just burned down the whole thing with that one.
No, and he and Brendan's right, right, you know, listen, I bought a card up.
And like, you know, I'm maning up to say, hey, I cross that line right I moon like,
Graham that right member of field.
I mean, you can't go back across that line and it's it's over.
So I did that with PWCC, I've never won a golden auction.
I think when I was trying to get my leaf Jackie, I did it out of few there,
but didn't win it there.
And be don't get me started with BBC.
That's I just when you when you make some mistakes, they have it's, you know,
I just don't know, you know, it's sort of, I guess a crap.
Shoot, you know, like what is I have some boxes, Danny, have some boxes over there that are
rep, I BBC. So I'm not being a hypocrite here, like does that wrapping and
certification mean what it used to now boxes I have or not, I just.
Yeah, so yeah, sure.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, you know, but, but you know, I mean, what, you know, I don't know, just a
definitely egg under face more than once.
So, but you're right, but you're 100% right. I mean, part of this is reputation for
every company, but, you know, like you said before, everybody's made mistakes.
So the question is, is how many mistakes, what kind of mistakes and how do you handle
those mistakes when it happens? And I think that's really what we're talking about.
Like you said, PWCC, when they left eBay, you had a lot of new management,
really came in and, you know, listen, I've just heard you say that with you and
talk a lot of questions head on directly about the situation. So, and I know what
wasn't just with you, you know, he's been consistent about that.
And for full disclosure, I was more comfortable with PWCC before you were.
And for even more full disclosure, you have lost more PWCC options in the last couple
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We're wearing here.
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We got new protocols.
You know, won't happen.
It didn't happen the first time.
And it's never going to happen again.
You know, so I could take that side of the coin.
But yeah, it takes some of the heat off.
You know, do do effects of like, so Gerado Gerado Gerado Gerado still get a
Corado.
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I haven't seen him much lately.
So I don't know how much work he's been.
I think he's in the vault himself for it.
Yeah, I'm not saying he isn't working.
But he's nowhere in prime time.
Like he used to be.
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Oh, that was good.
Nice call.
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Okay.
So we're here.
New management of BGS hasn't seemed changing.
Well, I'm just going to leave.
I'm just going to leave that at.
Let's see where the hobby is after the mid-collective.
I think a lot of companies.
Yeah, there's going to be a lot of announcements.
People are saving up some of the stuff they've already made decisions on for that event.
And that's become, you know, I've never been.
Yeah, at this point, but that's become sort of, you know, kind of like a mini national.
And we're a lot of corporate, a lot of networking and a lot of announcements during that event.
Well, I was looking forward to going.
I don't have airfare right now.
So I've got to go find me page.
If anybody wants to send me the biggest.
Okay.
So do you have anything else in your list?
Yeah.
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I don't want to go to shows.
I don't want to travel to country and go to show.
That's where I've changed.
Probably the last few years where I just don't have any interest in going to a show every weekend.
Even doing the shows I do, I feel it more than I've ever had like the day after the show.
I'm a little beat up and so I'm getting old.
I'm passed by prime.
I give credit to those whether you're a content creator or just going to write a book.
I'm going to create a creator or just going around buying or selling.
You travel more for shows than I do.
I just don't have it in me.
I couldn't do it.
Anyway, I could do that again.
It literally would have to be my job.
When I did that, when I mentioned that time, I did that.
I was full time in the hobby when I was doing.
I'm not now.
I sort of don't want to be.
I never say never.
But I don't.
I don't want to be somewhere else every week.
I want to be home sometimes.
Well, as somebody who works full time in the hobby, I'll pretend not to be insulted by that.
But no, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
That's an awful hand joke, kids.
So I enjoy going to shows even for my downtime.
So maybe that makes me a total card nerd.
But if I wasn't working, I would still look for cards shows.
And as you know, I go to card shops every city.
I'm dealing with some family travel right now.
And any minute I get to a shop.
I try to hit as many local card shops as possible.
So for me, even on my downtime, I would be doing that anyway.
So you and I are a little bit different there.
I get energized walking into a shop.
Now I don't set up as a deal.
Man, that's the different.
It's a whole different type of work.
Setting up as a deal is a long day.
Or is a is a long day.
Or multiple longies.
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And so I don't know that I could do the setup, the breakdown,
and work the table myself all day or much less a multi-day show.
So there is a difference there.
But I can go to, I'll go to as many shows as I get to.
Plus, I don't like listen.
I don't like to drive like I used to.
Like I used to drive like four or five, six hours straight.
Don't even stop to use the restroom or get a drink and just go.
I can't do that anymore, man.
I get, again, I'm past my prime when it comes to certain things.
Right?
I want to have two hours.
You know, I'm like, hey, who's two is taking over.
There's no one else in the car.
Like, oh, you know, it's a trip I'm making by myself without my wife.
So, you know, I just don't have that stamina for driving for traveling.
You know, like I used to.
But I will say this.
I could go to all the details.
I am going out of state for a show in April details details.
Yep.
And as you know, I'm in the middle of driving five or six hours every day.
So, so I'm getting to the place where I'm starting to feel it a little bit.
But, you know, I will give a shout out to new balance.
If they want to send me free sneakers.
I now carry multiple new balances for every, every trip and every show.
So maybe that's my age.
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I know we could probably list a hundred things because I think we had that more or less pretty well.
Yeah, no, that's that.
Those were the three things, you know, that at least are fairly recent.
I mean, we could go back in the archives, like you said, we could do two hours.
But we, we kept it to just sort of recent changes of heart.
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Well, I think the sides are made up by whichever company does the thing.
So maybe I shouldn't have said the right side that was probably terrible.
But I did have bailer also.
I did not have Texas.
I had market.
So maybe this, you know, just showing my age when market was a real powerhouse.
Or if you were a joint weight fan.
But I like bailer market to round out my funnel for.
And my last two.
And I know coach K is not there anymore.
But I like Duke.
I know they're the fifth seed.
I know they're not, you know, traditionally viewed right now.
What they, you know, or they're not viewed right now.
What they're traditionally viewed as when they're in the tournament.
But again, this, this, this, this tournament is so wide open.
That sort of an average Duke team could make the final four.
So they, they're my, my third team.
And then this team at some point, this team's going to win one.
Right.
We did, they're, you know, mid major, but they're always there highly successful.
They just can't get over that final hump.
It could be could this be the year.
I got him in my final four, which they're not strangers to before.
And that's Gonzaga.
So I got Gonzaga, Texas bailer and Duke.
I think I like yours better.
Now that I've heard them.
So listen, this is the year I've watched the least amount.
Maybe that's the trend.
I was better said.
That's the, that's the problem.
Maybe that's the answer.
All right.
Well, then we're not going to put any money on this.
This will just be a handshake.
I live in a legal gambling state.
So it's okay to talk.
Yeah, I do do now.
Yeah, exactly.
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Goodbye.