"Collecting What You Love" w/ Paulie Campione E365

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Sports Guard Nations Hobby It's the people weekly news and interviews.

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It's your number one soul sports Garnation. Hobby is the people.

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Sports Guardation. What is up?

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Everybody? Welcome to episode three sixty five of Sports Coordination.

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As always, glad to be back. I hope everyone had

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a great Thanksgiving spent hopefully with some family and friends

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and some good food and some football. Maybe even like

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I do, but no, I'll kidneside. I hope your Holly

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was good. We just did a Thanksgiving episode for Hobby

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Quick Hits earlier this week. Check that out if you

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haven't yet. We kind of give some Hobby thanks for

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the year that was twenty twenty five, but on that episode,

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doing on this episode as well. I want to thank

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you out there who listen to the content we create,

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no matter where it is right the gym, the car,

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the commute to work at home, doesn't matter every other episode,

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every episode. The fact that you take time out of

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your day and devote a little bit to us, I

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sincerely appreciate that. So thank you since it's that time

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of year, although I feel that way every day and

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every week, So thank you. Got a great guest on

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today's show, is on his show podcast What Do You Collect?

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A great guy hails from Brooklyn like myself, so right

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there some bonus points if you will, and his show

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What Do You Collect? Right, I love a show because

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he has all sorts of collectors. It's not just sports cards,

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it's not just NFTs, although that's a lot of what

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he does. It encompasses that collecting gene. Right, if you

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collect something, you could potentially be on that show. He's

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had some great guests on that show. And you know

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now kind of a home and home. So he is

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on this show today. Who am I speaking of? Paully

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Can't Be Owned again from Brooklyn, New York. And we

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chop up some hobby, we chop up some NFT stuff.

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We you know, we just have a good time. It's

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always a fun interview and I think you forget that

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you're even recording and we had a blast. We'll have

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to do it again. Well this is actually part one.

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Part two will be next week, so in a sense

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we'll do it again, but we'll have him back on

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Chop Up some more sometime soon as well. So here

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is part one of my interview with Polly Can't Be Owned?

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All right, Happy to have the next gentlemen on Sports Cardination.

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I was on his podcast a little time back and

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figured we do a home and home and and have

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him uh here on sports Carnation. I like him already,

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but being a fellow New Yorker, I like him. I

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like him all the all the more so, without further ado,

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Paul Paul Campio, Welcome to Sports Cardination. Thank you, John.

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I appreciate it.

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I love being here.

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I love the podcast.

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Big fan of yours, obviously, which is why I couldn't

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wait to get you on a podcast. So I'm happy

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to be here chatting again with you, and just love

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doing anything together.

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Uh.

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Just a couple of New Yorkers over here.

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After that epic introduction, Now, I love it and it's great.

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I felt like Ben hur was coming out here and

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all of a sudden, it's just met.

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It's dope for Brooklyn over here.

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But hey, listen, I'll take it. Anytime I'm on your show,

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You're gonna get better looking. That's also a perk for

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the host of any show that I might be a

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guests done, so.

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It don't matter to better looking. I think the two

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of us together could go out, you know.

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I mean, like like in tandem over here, the two

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of us, I think, you know, two tap of guys

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from from Brooklyn.

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I mean, it doesn't.

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Matter who looks who looks better, it's just a matter

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of how the.

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Two of us operate.

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That's right, That's right. We we got we got some game,

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uh in other in other areas, right, and uh, I

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love you know, it's funny anyone because I'm in Syracuse

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now and and most people know me, know where I'm

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originally from, and They're like, you talk about it a lot,

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and I'm like, I'm very proud of where I'm from.

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I love it. I love coming back. I love visiting family,

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I love going to sporting events. Like it's in the

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way I explain, it's in my blood, Like even when

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even though I don't live there anymore, it's like it's

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always I'm always Brooklyn, right, I know, I know you

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get that being from there, like you know and enough

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what made you know, PAULI, let's talk about like growing

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up you know in Brooklyn kind of like for you

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what it was like, what teams you're gravitated for and

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even where the collecting bugs started? For you? What was it?

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What did you do all that good stuff. Go ahead,

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and I'll stop talking.

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You gotta well first to agree with you.

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I mean, why you're tied to your roots, why you're

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tied to Brooklyn and you're a collector, man.

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I get it.

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It's the same thing here.

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I mean, we like the past. We like collecting the

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old vintage cards and stuff, don't we. I mean, it's

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the same thing. I want to tie back to that youth.

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I want to tie back to those you know, original

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days of you know, nostalgia. I mean, and I think

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that's the same reason. You know, I feel the same

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way because, as you know, some of those memories of

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things that in a way don't exist anymore in a

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place that we grew up because it was just ever

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changing and at a rapid pace.

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You know. It's like you meet a.

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Couple generations, you know, earlier than us. You have the

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Brooklyn Dodger fans, and then they're talking about, Oh, I

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used to go see games at Ebitts Field. I was

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just chatting with a neighbor a couple of days ago

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who was telling me these stories, you know, of going

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there as a kid. You know, her brother liked the

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New York Giants, so he would want to go see

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Willie Mays play, but she liked the Dodgers, so they

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would both go to every time the Giants and the

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Dodgers played. I mean, these two teams don't exist anymore

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in this city, so of course we're tied to it

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because if you were a fan of something or somebody

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you know is in love with some of those original,

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you know, baseball teams, it's gone.

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It's that nostalgia where it's like you want a piece

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of it. And that's why I think a lot of

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people gravitate towards like a Jackie Robinson or a Willie

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Mays because it's.

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Like that was it. It doesn't exist no more.

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There's never going to be another one of those guys

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on those teams in Brooklyn. Like it's just, uh, it's

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just something how that you know is gone. And that's

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why I think the collecting part of it just ties to.

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Who we are and and growing up, you know, in

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New York. Obviously, I'm born in the.

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Early eighties, so my earliest days.

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Made me a fan since the Don Mattingly days, I

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mean that was I don't know. My dad was a

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Yankee fan, so obviously those games were on a lot,

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so I gravitated towards the Yankees, even though I had,

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you know, our vague memories of the Mets winning the

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World Series, but I don't know the pinstripes.

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I think for me, we did.

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It was this one Don Mattingly poster the hit Man,

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where he's there in the pinstripe.

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Suit, where he just looked like a mobster or something.

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He reminded me of like al Capone or something.

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I said, that's it. I don't know. This guy's someone

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from the neighborhood. Meanwhile, he ain't Italian at all, but

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I don't know that that suit, that poster. I said,

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that's it. I'm a Yankee fan.

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And uh ever since that, I think that's what drove

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me to be, uh you know, the fan that I

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am and still to today, like in the Yankee and

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then the Giants. Obviously football for me, I became a

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fan a little bit later my my my dad used

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to play semi professional bowl, so I was more into

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baseball as a kid. And obviously baseball cards always had

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the top drawer, uh, compared to football or basketball. At

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the time when I'm growing up, it was just baseball,

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like very rarely people collected the other sports until for me,

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I'd say the nineties, Uh where where people would buy

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packs you know, basketball and and football.

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But uh, that's when I got to be a Giants fan.

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Uh you know, I remember that that Super Bowl and

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you know the.

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Mix Miss kick, the Norwood kick against the Bills. That

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was that.

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That was when I became a Giant fan watching that

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when I was little and ever since then, you know,

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like the Giants and I still have some of my

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original collectibles. I got my maddingly rookie card. I got,

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you know, all my mini helmet back here Phil Simms

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autographing it after I stalked them at a charity basketball

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event game. I mean, I've been collecting since I was

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a kid, so that those were my two teams. Obviously,

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Knicks came around in the mid mid nineties, so that

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was my you know, basketball love, along with the Rangers

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in hockey, them winning a Cup of ninety four. So

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for as a kid, you know, it was fantastic. If

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you saw the Giants winning that Super Bowl, then you

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saw the Rangers winning in ninety four. You had the

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Knicks in the mix of it almost there if it

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wasn't for Reggie Miller and keem Elijah One just stopping

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them every time.

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And then the Yankees went on a never ending run

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in the late nineties.

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So I mean that's those were my teams and every

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was booming during those.

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Yeah, that was the hey that was the hey Day.

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And I'm a I'm a fellow Ranger fan as well.

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And I remember at ninety four Cup, I'm twenty two

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years old at the time and just went, uh, you know,

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Mark Messi guaranteeing uh, the victory, not only guaranteeing it,

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then going out and having the game of his life

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and putting the team on his back. And then, you know,

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as a Ranger fan, and you probably know this, you

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were a younger Ranger than I was in ninety four,

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but you know, you really started to question, will we

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will they win a Cup in my lifetime? Will it

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ever happen? And and you you sense like it's either

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gonna happen now or we may have to be resigned

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to the fate that it never will. And then we

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got it done beating Vancouver, and I just remember my

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buddy was at my house and we were, you know,

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we had a few beers and then when that clock,

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you know, had the zeros and we knew we had

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won the Stanley Cup. We were just pouring beers. We

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were pouring beers all over each other in the living room.

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We didn't and we didn't even care. We're like, we'll

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clean up the Mets. It's worth the mess we're gonna

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make for this feeling. And you know, you I even

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remember saying that this who knows when this will will

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happen in and here we are. Listen, it's twenty twenty five,

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and it hasn't happened. Yeah again, and even in years

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where they won the President's Trophy and at the most

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points in the in the regular season, well we didn't

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hoist the cup. So when you again, that was a

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great period, right for for all New York fans, between

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the Yankees, the Knicks runs, the Yankees World Series, the

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Mets had a World Series in eighty six, and we're

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still competing in the nineties and uh, you know the

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Giants with the Super Bowls and you know that doesn't

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and and we've seen the opposite of that, right too.

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So when you're living in that time period, you really

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got to ride that wave because that wave can like

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fizzle out and you don't know when the next big

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wave might come. And so yeah, here we are. Yeah yeah,

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So so I get it. And sometimes it's sad that

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they like when you think, when you're talking about collecting

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and and those days, right, sometimes it's sad when you like,

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you know, you realize you can't go back and like

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the Dolorean then back to freutures not real you know,

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you wish you wish it was, but you know it's great, right.

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And I tell this the people who grew up in

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that around that era. And again you're a little bit

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younger than I am. I was born in seventy two,

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but I think when you're from that, I think we

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were sports fans first and then we were collector second.

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When we've realized like, hey there's cards of our teams

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and favored athletes, then we we took notice and started collecting.

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Where in today's day and age. I'm not going to

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speak for everybody, but I think sometimes I don't even know.

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Sometimes I think people do cards for the financial aspect

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and not so much like hey I'm collecting my favorite player,

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I'm collecting my favorite team, and that doesn't make them

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bad people, but it's just a different Like you said,

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the generations change, times change, and that sort of thing. Well,

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I wish I was younger. I also don't regret like

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growing up in the times that we did, Paul, but

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even even before cell phones and social media, right because

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I think we appreciate I think we appreciated that technology

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even more because we know what it's like without it,

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and we know what it's like with it. And I

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think for the younger generation, they don't know, you know,

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the you know, the times without I was at my

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friend's house, real quick story, and as a daughter is

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about twelve when an old movie came out. When I

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say old movie, probably from the eighties, late eighties, early nineties,

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before cell phones and and all the stuff we're used

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to now, and you know, on on the movie or

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the show, but I can't remember what it was. The

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person on screen answered it. It was like an old road,

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you know, the old rotary phone. Oh no, there's no

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caller ID. You had to say hello, who is this?

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Or who you know? And and his daughter asked him like,

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how do you not how do you answer the phone

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and not know who it is first, yeah, and it's like,

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that's that's the that's the way it was. Then you

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you answer the phone and and then figured out who

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it was, and it was it was completely like mind numbing.

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It was daughter that you could answer the phone without

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some semblance of who who was calling you?

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Yeah, And then today today it's crazy, but it's like

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you got people are complaining about the cell phone and

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not having great reception. I was happy just if you

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could find a working pay phone back.

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In the day.

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I mean, you remember how many times you have to

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try one payphone and all the one where is it? Let

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me go down the block the seven corner to eat

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your corner when the.

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Phone's missing from the payphone itself.

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How many times you go there there is no phone,

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it's just a booth, and you were like, oh, I

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gotta gut in touch with someone.

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Now it's like, oh, my service isn't working perfectly.

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Yeah, well guess what, it's in your pocket. Move to

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the left. It's gonna work.

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I mean, uh, at least you got that going for

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you back when we started with trying to make a

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phone call.

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Forget it.

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You ain't home and you can't get to a payphone.

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And they sat out the search patrol. That was it.

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It's funny. Every once in a while, it's a very

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it's like anito, a run into a payphone that didn't

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get taken away or taken down, and it's like a

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dining it's like finding a fossil. I take a picture.

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I take a picture because just to show you know,

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I'm a teaching assistant, just to show kids, Hey, this

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is how we used to make fun in a booth

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with a We put a quarter in and down the number,

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and and and make a phone call. And kids, when

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I show it to them, they're like, that's crazy. And

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I another reason I take the picture is like, how

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is that still state? How did no one take that

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away yet? You know, I don't know, miss it is

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it not on anyone's radar? What's what's going I know

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what's going on.

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I don't know.

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I don't know how they're still out there, but there's

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people that must use them.

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I mean, it's got to be a need for it.

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I mean, you never know.

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Your phone, your batter.

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The phone dies, Yeah, you know, maybe you're out.

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There looking for a pay phone one day.

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I don't know it's true, but it's kind of like

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you know, listen, they're collectible items too.

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Now. I mean you never know. But back to you know, collecting.

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That's something from the past where it's just like, you know,

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what with draws you to being a collector. And I

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think it's just, uh, you know, you're just kind of

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when you're introduced to something that you enjoy and you

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and and you want a piece of it. I think,

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you know, the many people you meet and collected as

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you meet, everyone has a different story. But I don't

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know if it's something that's just in your blood and

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it just doesn't know until you hit that moment that

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you just all of a sudden like realized, this is

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what I want to collect. You were, you were tuned

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and you were geared that way for a long time,

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but you just needed that spark.

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I mean, yeah, and let growing up in New York,

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we had some like Big you mentioned some we had

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some great athletes right during during our errors. And you know,

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for me again, I'm a little older, so I grew

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up with the Reggie era, Thurman months and Greg and

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I was a Yankee fan as a young kid. And

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then the long story I've talked about it on this show.

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I won't go back. But Steinbrenner sort of ruined that

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for me, and then I kind of switched over, uh

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to the Mets. But I don't hate the Yankees, and

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just Steinbrenner, the original George, you know, kind of turned

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me off to how he did things and you know,

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the game's over. Instead of the players being at the

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podium to talk about what just happened, he was always

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up there. And I'm like, he didn't even play, Like

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I don't I'm tired of hearing this guy just he

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just loved the spotlight, you know, So he kind of

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turned me off and I switched to the Mets. Pot

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It was still a great error with some some big

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names obviously, and when missedter October, Reggie Jackson, I was

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a Thurman months and guy, uh that's who I loved

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and and that's how I learned what death was. Unfortunately,

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with his untimely passing. And you know, I told the story, Paul,

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I might even told it on your podcast, like you

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know when his when that news broke in and said

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we have bad news to report tonight. You know, Thurman

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months in legendary Yankees camp and is gone. You know,

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I think that's even how it was kind of worded

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is gone. I didn't know what that really meant. I

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was raised by my grandparents, so I asked my grandfather, like,

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does that mean he's not playing for the Yankees anymore?

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Like I had no semblent of the finality of death

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and that he actually said at me down and explained

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to me like he's gone to heaven. And you know,

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the stuff you would tell a six is the way

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you would explain it to a six to seven year

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old kid. And it hit me like a ton of bricks.

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And here I am crying for man I never met

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in person. I've been in the stadium when he was playing,

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but he don't I don't know him personally. He doesn't

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know who the heck I was. And the first person

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I cried over when they passed away and how I

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learned what passing away really met? And you know, so uh,

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you know again, it's just a great era, especially in

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New York. I mean it was a great error in general,

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but especially in New York. Not that particular moment, but

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we had some legendary guys come through, and the Mets

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in the late eighties with Good and Strawberry. We didn't

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know yet what was to happen evally right, and so yeah,

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I think that collecting gene you know, you know, I

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guess it depends where you're from. But it also doesn't

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matter where you're from, right. We hear these stories from

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other parts of the country, the world, Uh, with their

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their whatever their team was, whether it's Saint Louis and

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the Cardinals, you know, or California in one of the

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California teams.

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I don't.

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I don't think it matters.

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Sports Combnation has returns.

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You mentioned maddeningly who who else? Was a guy you

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grab it towards, gravitated towards when it came to like

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collecting cards.

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Collecting cards.

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I honestly, my dad's favorite play was was Mantle, so

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it was a lot I mean, it was a lot

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a lot more hard to collect, to collect the mantles

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in my time than it wasn't his time. But like

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I did go through that whole reprint set, uh in

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the nineties, that Tops Mantle reprint, which they did the

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chrome version and they did the regular uh uh regular

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base Tops and they did every Mantle card that was

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produced by Tops the reprints. So I did that and

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then eventually, as I you know, for years of collecting,

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was able to get you know, a sixty seven Mantle

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which which I have behind me.

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Actually let me see.

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If yeah, this one here, uh, this was the uh,

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the first like actual Mantle card that I said that,

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you know, that's one.

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Of my and I'm not just saying this, that's what

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I know. It's towards the end of his career at

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sixty Yeah, the last card. But I love the sixth.

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I love that car, big face, yeah, big face close up.

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Of I think that I just wanted one car, you know,

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I just wanted as a kid, I wanted like just

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one original card. And this's just the way it was,

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like it's just like it's like a perfect like portrait,

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you know kind of It's.

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It's just that well most of them are like with

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a badness hand or in a batting stance, or from

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a little bit of a distance. Yeah, you know, and

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that one just was like the mick here I am,

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you know.

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I mean, so for me it was it was like

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the it was my dad's you.

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Know, maddingly and so to me that was my second,

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you know, biggest big collector, I say, a Yankee, uh,

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you know, as a Yankee fan. I mean, there really

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wasn't much until then the mid nineties came, so I

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mean in in chronological order, it was maddingly. Then the

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Mantle stuff that, you know, the reprints, whatever I could get, uh,

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and then when the nineties started, obviously the Derek cheter

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age came. So that was I remember, you know, being there.

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It was the end of the ninety five seasons, so

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he was just coming up as a rookie. I remember

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seeing a couple of games of him playing, and at

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that time you're looking for any spark of somebody that

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was good. So I actually brought like all my cards,

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like all my all my Yankee cards with me and

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hopes to run down and try to get an autograph.

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So where excuse me, I reached in Uh had this

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rookie card in a stack of cards, I you know,

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as a kid, I get down to the to the

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dugout and he comes out and he wasn't playing that day,

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but obviously I knew who he was. So this was

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before his ninety you know, ninety six season where he

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you know, obviously claimed.

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That spot every day.

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So I just throw him this card and I'm like, hey,

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could you sign this?

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So I throw it.

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At him and it goes on top of the dugout.

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He reaches, he grabs it, signs it, and I still

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got it.

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So that was it.

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I just couldn't believe he actually took the time came

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out to talk, you know, with a couple of the

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kids just standing you know, behind the dugout before the

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game started.

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But at the time I was thrilled.

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And as he started playing, you know, it was just

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even more of a you know, a piece that no

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matter what I'm you know, I wouldn't sell. It's just

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something that I love it. It's your idol at the

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time you meet him. And then from there obviously collected

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tons more of jeetas stuff. And then another ten years

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later I got Aaron judged, and then I started going

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for his stuff again.

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So then I got his rookie autograph, but that was purchased. Obviously,

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it was okay, here comes another Yankee. So it's kind

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00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:46.119
of nice in the sense that regardless of championships or whatever.

485
00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:48.799
You know, if you can get one, you're you're lucky

486
00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:50.759
as heck. If you can get three or four, you're

487
00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:51.640
really spoiled.

488
00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:55.920
But just to have like that one I guess icon

489
00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:58.480
on your team, which is I think every team tries

490
00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:01.519
to have that one guy because you want to sell

491
00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:05.240
obviously jerseys, you want to you want to create you know, uh,

492
00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:06.680
excitement and fandom.

493
00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:08.559
So having that one guy.

494
00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.240
Every ten to twelve years on a team, you know,

495
00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:14.400
it kind of it's nice when they can lock them

496
00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.759
in and they stay on that team, which you know,

497
00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.440
to me, it's something when they also they play their

498
00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:20.519
entire career.

499
00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:21.960
On that you know, one team.

500
00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:24.440
I don't know, it just kind of has a whole

501
00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:28.960
nother feeling when you collect their stuff because honestly, I

502
00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:32.039
hate having a card of someone that's on the team

503
00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:34.319
before they come to my team.

504
00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:38.359
And I'm like, ah, it's autographed, it's it's it's.

505
00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.440
Them with the other team's logo on it. I'm like, okay,

506
00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:43.160
but now I got to get another one.

507
00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:47.079
Like I'm not content with just that one autograph card.

508
00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:49.920
When they're wearing a helmet or a hat from some

509
00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:52.319
other team, I'm like, this is not my team. So

510
00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.799
I'm root for the guy. But it's something.

511
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:57.960
But I mean, and going back to that cheater moment, right,51200:25:58.039 --> 00:26:01.119



that's something you'll never forget right to get in you51300:26:01.359 --> 00:26:03.880



and you still have the card. I'm sure you look51400:26:03.920 --> 00:26:06.519



at that card and like that Derek Jeter had that51500:26:06.599 --> 00:26:09.000



in his hand and then they handed it back to51600:26:09.079 --> 00:26:12.319



me and then the autograph to boot obviously probably the51700:26:12.319 --> 00:26:16.079



most important part, but the whole moment in itself, right,51800:26:16.119 --> 00:26:19.279



and the timing of it right, wasn't in trench yet51900:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.319



as the everyday starter or the legend he would wind52000:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.279



up becoming in Hall of Famer. Right, there was a prospect,52100:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.519



but you know how prospects go, right, it's no guarantees.52200:26:30.759 --> 00:26:35.039



And the fact that you still have that card, you know,52300:26:35.119 --> 00:26:39.279



twenty nine years lay there, right, I mean that what52400:26:39.400 --> 00:26:40.640



else do you need to say?52500:26:40.759 --> 00:26:40.920



Right?52600:26:40.960 --> 00:26:44.519



I think that says it in itself, and you know,52700:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.640



we truly can't go back, Like I said that DeLorean52800:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.599



is not a genuine artifact. But that's how we do52900:26:51.720 --> 00:26:53.960



go back, right, is when you look at that card,53000:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.839



or I look at something that fits that bill for me,53100:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.359



or those out there listening have something in there hand53200:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.119



or looking at something on their wall or what have you.53300:27:04.119 --> 00:27:06.680



That's how we go back. And that this you know,53400:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.640



that nostalgic trip and uh uh you know, and that's53500:27:11.680 --> 00:27:14.720



great too. It's not the same exactly, but it's it's53600:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.200



it's the next best thing, and it's onny way where53700:27:18.359 --> 00:27:21.279



we can. And so I like to do that from53800:27:21.279 --> 00:27:23.880



time to time, just kind of take a deep breath53900:27:23.920 --> 00:27:26.400



and and look at some of the stuff around me54000:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.680



and remember different days in different years and and different moments,54100:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.160



uh in my life. And that's you know, that's what's54200:27:34.200 --> 00:27:38.000



awesome about uh, collectibles and and that sort.54300:27:37.799 --> 00:27:40.319



Of thing, you know, Paul, It takes you to that54400:27:40.359 --> 00:27:43.000



moment and and something too, like I mean, aside from54500:27:43.079 --> 00:27:46.039



from car collecting, I have also like have a bunch54600:27:46.079 --> 00:27:46.759



of old.54700:27:46.920 --> 00:27:48.440



Vinyls vinyl records.54800:27:48.440 --> 00:27:50.039



You know, it's the same thing, you know when you54900:27:50.119 --> 00:27:52.880



bought that record, where you are when you got it,55000:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.160



all the times you listen to that album.55100:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.640



Because even if you even if there was.55200:27:56.640 --> 00:27:58.319



Only one good song on that you were listening to55300:27:58.359 --> 00:27:59.960



the whole thing. You like, I paid for this thing,55400:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.160



I'm gonna listen to it.55500:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.200



I'm gonna look at the cover. I'm gonna read who55600:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.119



composed this thing?55700:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.599



Because I got this and I got nothing else to do,55800:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.079



Like it was like listening to an album. Uh kind55900:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.359



of takes me to that same feeling of like collecting56000:28:12.359 --> 00:28:14.000



the card, like or how you got.56100:28:13.759 --> 00:28:16.839



It, And you know that that's lost today in today's56200:28:16.880 --> 00:28:20.680



digital age where someone and I don't want to say56300:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.599



just kids, with anyone today that's a fan, they just56400:28:23.680 --> 00:28:26.720



can buy the song they want or just you know,56500:28:26.880 --> 00:28:31.359



pay their monthly Spotify or Amazon Music fee and have56600:28:31.480 --> 00:28:33.319



all the songs at their fingers. They don't even have56700:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.039



to buy albums. They just play individuals. People don't even56800:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.480



really truly know what albums are anymore, not in the56900:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.359



way we not in the way we do. If he did,57000:28:43.559 --> 00:28:47.400



you know, and my son, who's obviously younger than me57100:28:47.440 --> 00:28:51.559



at twenty five, he collects final and he didn't grow up.57200:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.000



He maybe grew up sort on the edge, but he57300:28:54.079 --> 00:28:57.599



was too young to remember that. But he's still he57400:28:57.759 --> 00:29:00.960



has that old soul in him. Right. He loves you know,57500:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.640



the vinyl and putting it on the record player, like57600:29:03.680 --> 00:29:08.079



you said, reading the liner notes and who who who57700:29:08.079 --> 00:29:12.720



collaborated on this album or even this individual song or57800:29:12.759 --> 00:29:15.640



what have you. But that's sort of getting lost in57900:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.839



today's day and age, and it makes me say it58000:29:18.920 --> 00:29:21.920



a little bit. But what you know, it is what58100:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.359



it is. That's why I say, well, I wish I58200:29:24.519 --> 00:29:28.079



maybe was, you know, twenty two instead of fifty two.58300:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.559



I wouldn't change really the error I grew up in Paul,58400:29:31.799 --> 00:29:35.880



because I think we appreciate that stuff because we know58500:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.279



what it's all about. And we I think we I58600:29:39.279 --> 00:29:42.279



think knowledge wise too not to you know, I think58700:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.720



we know a lot more about the artists that we like.58800:29:46.200 --> 00:29:48.480



We can tell, you know, we can talk about where58900:29:48.559 --> 00:29:51.000



they're from, or what was their first hit, or what59000:29:51.160 --> 00:29:54.200



was their first album, or what was different about this59100:29:54.279 --> 00:29:58.839



album compared to this previous one. And and today it's59200:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.400



just like, hey, like this song, you want to hear it?59300:30:01.599 --> 00:30:03.680



You know, yeah, one song?59400:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.359



You know, it's after that into the abyss of a59500:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.279



thousand songs on your iPod or your phone or whatever59600:30:10.480 --> 00:30:12.480



you're even off of. But I know, I love I59700:30:12.480 --> 00:30:16.920



love the I love the age and the advancement, and59800:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.799



then just how from what we know and you know,59900:30:20.119 --> 00:30:22.599



I honestly would go back even further. I love the60000:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.279



older time even more, even though I was not even there.60100:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.680



But you give me like some nineteen twenties music, You60200:30:27.759 --> 00:30:30.319



give me some big bands, swing era. If I could60300:30:30.359 --> 00:30:32.519



have been in the Roaring twenties, put me right back60400:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.799



to that great Gatsby time.60500:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.720



But I mean, unfortunately I would.60600:30:36.720 --> 00:30:37.039



I would.60700:30:37.079 --> 00:30:38.839



If I would have known that, then I you know,60800:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.000



i'd be collecting a lot of those Babe Ruth cards60900:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.440



that were just getting thrown around and say, oh boxes,61000:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.480



if only, if only I was found a door.61100:30:46.920 --> 00:30:50.480



But if we ever, if we ever could create time travel,61200:30:50.480 --> 00:30:53.359



I think we know where we're going. So yeah, save me,61300:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.720



save me a seat. Listen, we'll both go, I know.61400:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.599



But as as I do like I do like the61500:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.680



evolution though in today's time, which like as we were saying,61600:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.160



like something's like believe it or not, something's on the61700:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.240



digital side. Like I I like the music, you lose61800:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.839



that experience, I like I were talking about, you know,61900:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.319



you don't have the album, you didn't have to go out,62000:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.160



you know, wait at the line, it's Sam Goodie. When62100:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.480



the you know, when the new CD was even coming out,62200:31:20.519 --> 00:31:23.039



even CDs were you know, had that same feeling. It62300:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.079



was like, I'm buying you know, twenty dollars CD. It's62400:31:26.079 --> 00:31:28.519



brand new, it's it. I'm paying the most you know62500:31:29.319 --> 00:31:31.400



for it because it's a new release and I'm gonna62600:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.559



listen to every song on that.62700:31:33.079 --> 00:31:37.319



But I do like the digital collectibles, you know, as yeah.62800:31:37.160 --> 00:31:39.799



Let's go, let's go, let's like pivot right into that62900:31:39.880 --> 00:31:42.799



because this is your rally more. Let's be real, like63000:31:42.880 --> 00:31:45.160



we talked about when I was on your show, this63100:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.279



is more your forte than mine. I have a few63200:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.680



I have a few things, but you know, full transparency,63300:31:51.720 --> 00:31:54.720



they were either gifted to me or coded to me.63400:31:55.839 --> 00:31:58.480



I'm maybe it's my age, you know, Like I said,63500:31:58.480 --> 00:32:01.960



I'm older than you and have established that I grew63600:32:02.079 --> 00:32:05.160



up like with like you either had something or you didn't,63700:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.279



you know what I mean. And so I never really63800:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.640



got into like the digital cards when I think about63900:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.519



them now, while I haven't really got into them, still64000:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.319



I don't. I don't want to say disliked, it might64100:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.880



be too strong of a term, but I get it.64200:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.599



I maybe I'll say it like this, PAULI I get64300:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.799



them a little bit more now than I did initially,64400:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.279



And I think that just comes from knowing more about him,64500:32:30.359 --> 00:32:34.160



learning more about him. For you, who who who did64600:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.039



grow up in a similar where like you either had64700:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.680



something or you didn't. How did you make that transition64800:32:40.960 --> 00:32:46.720



right into digital digital collectibles? And what was it that64900:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.079



drew you drew your interest in to begin with?65000:32:50.359 --> 00:32:52.880



Well, I mean, first I got I was turned on65100:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.720



during the pandemic. So this is a this is a65200:32:55.720 --> 00:32:58.640



time in history where we all had nothing but time.65300:32:58.920 --> 00:33:03.359



So let me uh able it was. Let it enabled65400:33:03.400 --> 00:33:03.720



me to.65500:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.640



Research and kind of figure out exactly what it was.65600:33:07.599 --> 00:33:09.680



You know, I do like things that a little bit65700:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.960



more technical. Uh, you know, I work as an audio engineer.65800:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.160



I'm kind of I like how things work. So for me,65900:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.279



it's this had a whole other aspect to collecting. So66000:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.440



uh one second, let me show you. I'll go through66100:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.599



a little a little a little timeline in a sense.66200:33:24.640 --> 00:33:27.759



So my my my way of collecting obviously started with66300:33:27.839 --> 00:33:30.759



all physical I still collect physical behind me. I got,66400:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.279



you know, a Jackson Dart autograph, a cam scattabo card66500:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.359



I mean, this is my my my new giantsy of66600:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.240



rookies that I like, I want.66700:33:39.039 --> 00:33:42.519



So yeah you yeah, you still you still you still66800:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.960



do it and appreciate it. And I think that's a66900:33:45.000 --> 00:33:46.960



good point to make typical ahead.67000:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.759



Then then I also like, back back in the day,67100:33:49.799 --> 00:33:51.880



there were these things. I pulled it up because I said,67200:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.279



these things are just like it's uh.67300:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.200



They were top.67400:33:55.000 --> 00:33:58.799



Screenplays that you bought a canister, and there was also67500:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.839



a bunch of other of these motion things so you know,67600:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.119



you turn it, the cards move, you.67700:34:04.119 --> 00:34:05.279



See the guy at bat.67800:34:05.480 --> 00:34:09.119



Once I started seeing this these type of hologram you67900:34:09.199 --> 00:34:12.519



get a play, Kodak came out with some football ones68000:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.079



at the time that were licensed by the NFL. I68100:34:15.159 --> 00:34:18.920



collected all those. I like things that have motion, that move,68200:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.159



that do things. You know, it's even like if I'm68300:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.719



buying I don't know, like holiday.68400:34:24.199 --> 00:34:25.159



Ornaments or something.68500:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.159



If it sings and dances and lights up, it's entertaining.68600:34:28.639 --> 00:34:30.039



I like it, you know what I mean, Like I68700:34:30.360 --> 00:34:31.599



still my favorite player.68800:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.880



I want, you know, I want to collect Like I said,68900:34:33.880 --> 00:34:38.280



I got a physical, you know, Giants autograph on a69000:34:38.360 --> 00:34:41.559



card of the new rookie quarterback, and I also got69100:34:41.599 --> 00:34:45.880



you know, the digital version a rare rookie card where.69200:34:45.639 --> 00:34:48.119



It does something more like like this you.69300:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.239



Know where so now I got the physical But then69400:34:51.280 --> 00:34:55.440



this is also say an NFL All Day Jackson dark69500:34:55.679 --> 00:34:59.039



rare rookie, which is you know, play from his early69600:34:59.119 --> 00:35:03.639



game here him scoring the touchdown, and it's tied to69700:35:03.719 --> 00:35:08.440



a blockchain, which is all basically like there's a transaction69800:35:08.639 --> 00:35:10.880



history and everything is traced.69900:35:10.679 --> 00:35:12.159



So there's no yes.70000:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.800



This is say, if someone could say I got a video,70100:35:14.960 --> 00:35:15.960



I could put it on anything.70200:35:16.000 --> 00:35:17.440



I can put it on my phone and I could70300:35:17.440 --> 00:35:17.840



watch it.70400:35:18.119 --> 00:35:22.039



But for me, as liking you know, collectibles, I say,70500:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.639



this is something though that that is in a way70600:35:24.679 --> 00:35:28.800



it's digital, but it's tangible because it's it ties to70700:35:28.920 --> 00:35:30.360



something that's directly minted.70800:35:30.519 --> 00:35:33.800



It shows me how many there are and I know.70900:35:34.119 --> 00:35:38.639



Exactly, you know, when when this rookie moment was and71000:35:38.679 --> 00:35:40.800



I could see who else owned it or was it71100:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.679



pulled from a pack.71200:35:41.960 --> 00:35:44.559



The whole transaction history gets logged, so.71300:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.760



As well as the NBA I got my knicks, you71400:35:48.760 --> 00:35:49.760



know as well.71500:35:50.280 --> 00:35:51.360



Play as that I enjoy.71600:35:51.719 --> 00:35:53.599



But what's fun about it is to me it gives71700:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.480



there's a utility with these and a community that I71800:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.440



didn't have with the physical stuff as much physic as71900:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.840



I collected. Like for me, if I go to a show,72000:36:03.280 --> 00:36:05.320



if I talk to you, if I talk to somebody72100:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.639



who's a big collector, we'll talk for hours.72200:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.840



So it's perfect. But if I'm by myself, what am72300:36:10.880 --> 00:36:11.840



I doing with these things?72400:36:11.880 --> 00:36:14.280



I look at them once sometimes then days go by,72500:36:14.679 --> 00:36:15.880



I don't even know they're there.72600:36:16.239 --> 00:36:17.400



So with the.72700:36:17.360 --> 00:36:21.360



Constant community with the digital I since I've started, I72800:36:21.639 --> 00:36:25.559



believe I've almost chatted either in a discord, a Twitter group,72900:36:26.280 --> 00:36:31.159



social posts almost daily in some aspect to the digital collecting,73000:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.480



because you become part of the community, and that to73100:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.320



me is where it's something that it's just it attracted73200:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.159



me to say, hold on, like I got you know,73300:36:40.199 --> 00:36:44.280



they're giving out tickets to say Knicks games, you can73400:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.360



go to a local football game, and now the collectors73500:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.920



you know, also are going to be at this event.73600:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.840



Like so it becomes in real life event tied to73700:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.119



your daily say just messaging and building a digital you know,73800:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.760



virtual commun unity. So along with that you're able to73900:37:03.320 --> 00:37:06.079



connect them both ways, you know. So it's that to me,74000:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.480



had that added feature where I said. Collecting these also74100:37:09.960 --> 00:37:12.039



comes along with Now I'm at a watch party.74200:37:12.159 --> 00:37:13.239



I'm watching Knicks.74300:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.039



Playoff games where people I've made relationships with over the74400:37:16.119 --> 00:37:20.480



years just talking, you know, by over my phone, texting74500:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.960



with my two thumbs over here, and then now I74600:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.679



can actually go see them live, you know, in person.74700:37:25.760 --> 00:37:28.880



We're friends, we know what we're talking about. It just74800:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.400



added a whole nother element. And then there's also fun74900:37:31.400 --> 00:37:34.519



stuff that goes on where every day with your collection,75000:37:34.679 --> 00:37:37.920



like on NBA Top Shot, right, you have your collection75100:37:38.000 --> 00:37:41.480



of players and you can use them in this fast75200:37:41.480 --> 00:37:44.559



Break game, which is like a daily prediction. So it's75300:37:44.599 --> 00:37:47.239



like a fantasy game, but it's not. It's not too complicated.75400:37:47.280 --> 00:37:50.400



It's just basically like pick your five players and every75500:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.920



day there's a goal, so it's just like, okay, five75600:37:54.000 --> 00:37:58.280



players to get equal forty rebounds. So they're like, you know,75700:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.360



ten day or nine day runs whatever they set and75800:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.880



in that time period, as many wins as you get,75900:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.079



you could win credit to buy more collectibles, you could76000:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.159



win packs, you could get merchandise. Last year, at one76100:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.159



point they were giving away a Kia Tell your Ride,76200:38:13.199 --> 00:38:16.199



a car that came along with if you were the76300:38:16.280 --> 00:38:20.199



number one person playing this type of predictions. So I76400:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.440



mean it's something that now I can use my collection76500:38:24.280 --> 00:38:26.880



and it gives me some utility and fun and something76600:38:26.880 --> 00:38:28.559



else to do with it. So that to me, in76700:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.400



the short of it, if not too short of it,76800:38:31.519 --> 00:38:35.239



was you know why, I just tied into collecting both76900:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.880



digital physical, and I just found it so much fun77000:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.000



to take a look at it and show them off77100:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.000



because you know what, for the newer age that's coming out,77200:38:45.239 --> 00:38:48.079



if I show the physical card and I show, you know,77300:38:48.320 --> 00:38:50.719



my little cousin this, he's gonna be staring at this77400:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.719



a lot longer.77500:38:51.400 --> 00:38:52.440



Than the physical card.77600:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.039



So I mean it's something that I don't I also77700:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.400



see it as you know, a good, you know, good77800:38:57.400 --> 00:38:59.639



thing to invest in, a good thing to say, whether77900:38:59.719 --> 00:39:02.639



or not, even if they go south, collect what you like,78000:39:03.079 --> 00:39:06.559



no matter what, I'm gonna want to keep this collectible.78100:39:06.000 --> 00:39:07.960



You know, like your hat says, over there, what do78200:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.599



you collect?78300:39:08.760 --> 00:39:11.760



I love that have by the way, but but it's78400:39:11.800 --> 00:39:13.760



just you just collect what you want and either way78500:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.960



if it tanks, oh well, I got my favorite playce though,78600:39:17.079 --> 00:39:18.039



like I'm I'm out.78700:39:17.880 --> 00:39:21.480



Of Yeah, that's a great point, and I like I78800:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.960



like the utility aspect of it, PAULI. Right, it's more78900:39:25.000 --> 00:39:28.079



to it than just necessarily a video, not that there's79000:39:28.119 --> 00:39:31.000



anything wrong with that, but you have that added built79100:39:31.039 --> 00:39:34.280



in features where you can get into a competition or79200:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.320



a contest where you can win prizes, whether that be79300:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.320



credits or an actual uh digital collectible or even like79400:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.679



you said, a key tell your ide possible if you79500:39:46.039 --> 00:39:49.079



if you win that competition, right, And it's that that,79600:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.000



like you said, the community, even the community of competition, right.79700:39:53.280 --> 00:39:56.480



For those of us that play fantasy sports, right, we're79800:39:56.480 --> 00:39:59.400



all trying to win our league, but we also love79900:39:59.559 --> 00:40:04.039



draft I and get showing up if it's in person draft,80000:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.199



having a couple of pops with the nine or or80100:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.440



eleven other owners, you know, talking maybe a little junk80200:40:11.199 --> 00:40:14.159



battling it out for for filling out our teams. Right,80300:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.800



you get that a little bit too with this, And listen,80400:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.480



no other thing that I kind of like about takes80500:40:20.559 --> 00:40:24.320



up a lot less space. Oh yeah, you know, and80600:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.239



I'm in a small room, so at some point I80700:40:27.320 --> 00:40:32.800



might have no choice to go down that. That concludes80800:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.920



part one of my conversation with Paulie Campion. Hope you enjoyed.80900:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.039



It had a lot of fun. Dude is a fun,81000:40:39.719 --> 00:40:44.280



great guy who cares about collecting. It's a passion. I81100:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.639



think that came out. So come back next week for81200:40:48.679 --> 00:40:51.400



part two with Paulie and again, well you know we'll81300:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.360



have to have him back on as well. So we're81400:40:55.360 --> 00:40:57.800



gonna hear from our hobbies. The People Announcer of the81500:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.280



Week and kind of wrap this episode.81600:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.960



Up time for our hobby is the People Announcer of81700:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.639



the Week.81800:41:09.920 --> 00:41:12.679



This is Rob Petrozzo from Rally. Remind you that the81900:41:12.760 --> 00:41:16.719



hobby is the people. It's not any corporations or breaks.82000:41:16.760 --> 00:41:19.000



It's not even fractional companies, it's not any of that.82100:41:19.480 --> 00:41:21.519



It's people and the people that make collecting great and82200:41:21.559 --> 00:41:22.239



make it what it is.82300:41:22.840 --> 00:41:25.000



If you'd like to be the hobby is the People82400:41:25.039 --> 00:41:28.599



Announcer of the Week to one or MP three file82500:41:28.760 --> 00:41:34.519



and send it to Sportscard Nation PC at gmail dot com.