Dec. 5, 2025

"Collecting What You Love" w/ Paulie Campione E365

"Collecting What You Love" w/ Paulie Campione E365
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My friend and fellow NYCer Paulie Campione from the "What Do You Collect" podcast joins the show for the first time.


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*Favorite athletes them and now.

*Growing up in NYC during a magic time in sports.


*What Do You Collect.

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*Digital over Cardboard and if so why.



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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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You know.

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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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Of remembering the Yankees.

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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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And I said, this, this is the guy that I like.

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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

476
00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:20.720
matter what I'm you know, I wouldn't sell. It's just

477
00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:24.680
something that I love it. It's your idol at the

478
00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:27.799
time you meet him. And then from there obviously collected

479
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:31.279
tons more of jeetas stuff. And then another ten years

480
00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:33.960
later I got Aaron judged, and then I started going

481
00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:34.880
for his stuff again.

482
00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:39.079
So then I got his rookie autograph, but that was purchased. Obviously,

483
00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:42.359
it was okay, here comes another Yankee. So it's kind

484
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,

512
00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:01.119
that's something you'll never forget right to get in you

513
00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:03.880
and you still have the card. I'm sure you look

514
00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:06.519
at that card and like that Derek Jeter had that

515
00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:09.000
in his hand and then they handed it back to

516
00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:12.319
me and then the autograph to boot obviously probably the

517
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:16.079
most important part, but the whole moment in itself, right,

518
00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:19.279
and the timing of it right, wasn't in trench yet

519
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.319
as the everyday starter or the legend he would wind

520
00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.279
up becoming in Hall of Famer. Right, there was a prospect,

521
00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.519
but you know how prospects go, right, it's no guarantees.

522
00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:35.039
And the fact that you still have that card, you know,

523
00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:39.279
twenty nine years lay there, right, I mean that what

524
00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:40.640
else do you need to say?

525
00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:40.920
Right?

526
00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:44.519
I think that says it in itself, and you know,

527
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.640
we truly can't go back, Like I said that DeLorean

528
00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.599
is not a genuine artifact. But that's how we do

529
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:53.960
go back, right, is when you look at that card,

530
00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.839
or I look at something that fits that bill for me,

531
00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.359
or those out there listening have something in there hand

532
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.119
or looking at something on their wall or what have you.

533
00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:06.680
That's how we go back. And that this you know,

534
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.640
that nostalgic trip and uh uh you know, and that's

535
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:14.720
great too. It's not the same exactly, but it's it's

536
00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.200
it's the next best thing, and it's onny way where

537
00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:21.279
we can. And so I like to do that from

538
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:23.880
time to time, just kind of take a deep breath

539
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:26.400
and and look at some of the stuff around me

540
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.680
and remember different days in different years and and different moments,

541
00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.160
uh in my life. And that's you know, that's what's

542
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:38.000
awesome about uh, collectibles and and that sort.

543
00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:40.319
Of thing, you know, Paul, It takes you to that

544
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:43.000
moment and and something too, like I mean, aside from

545
00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:46.039
from car collecting, I have also like have a bunch

546
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:46.759
of old.

547
00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:48.440
Vinyls vinyl records.

548
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:50.039
You know, it's the same thing, you know when you

549
00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:52.880
bought that record, where you are when you got it,

550
00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.160
all the times you listen to that album.

551
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.640
Because even if you even if there was.

552
00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:58.319
Only one good song on that you were listening to

553
00:27:58.359 --> 00:27:59.960
the whole thing. You like, I paid for this thing,

554
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.160
I'm gonna listen to it.

555
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.200
I'm gonna look at the cover. I'm gonna read who

556
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.119
composed this thing?

557
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.599
Because I got this and I got nothing else to do,

558
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.079
Like it was like listening to an album. Uh kind

559
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.359
of takes me to that same feeling of like collecting

560
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:14.000
the card, like or how you got.

561
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:16.839
It, And you know that that's lost today in today's

562
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:20.680
digital age where someone and I don't want to say

563
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.599
just kids, with anyone today that's a fan, they just

564
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:26.720
can buy the song they want or just you know,

565
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:31.359
pay their monthly Spotify or Amazon Music fee and have

566
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:33.319
all the songs at their fingers. They don't even have

567
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.039
to buy albums. They just play individuals. People don't even

568
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.480
really truly know what albums are anymore, not in the

569
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.359
way we not in the way we do. If he did,

570
00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:47.400
you know, and my son, who's obviously younger than me

571
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:51.559
at twenty five, he collects final and he didn't grow up.

572
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.000
He maybe grew up sort on the edge, but he

573
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:57.599
was too young to remember that. But he's still he

574
00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:00.960
has that old soul in him. Right. He loves you know,

575
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.640
the vinyl and putting it on the record player, like

576
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:08.079
you said, reading the liner notes and who who who

577
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:12.720
collaborated on this album or even this individual song or

578
00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:15.640
what have you. But that's sort of getting lost in

579
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.839
today's day and age, and it makes me say it

580
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:21.920
a little bit. But what you know, it is what

581
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.359
it is. That's why I say, well, I wish I

582
00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:28.079
maybe was, you know, twenty two instead of fifty two.

583
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.559
I wouldn't change really the error I grew up in Paul,

584
00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:35.880
because I think we appreciate that stuff because we know

585
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.279
what it's all about. And we I think we I

586
00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:42.279
think knowledge wise too not to you know, I think

587
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.720
we know a lot more about the artists that we like.

588
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:48.480
We can tell, you know, we can talk about where

589
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:51.000
they're from, or what was their first hit, or what

590
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:54.200
was their first album, or what was different about this

591
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:58.839
album compared to this previous one. And and today it's

592
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.400
just like, hey, like this song, you want to hear it?

593
00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:03.680
You know, yeah, one song?

594
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.359
You know, it's after that into the abyss of a

595
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.279
thousand songs on your iPod or your phone or whatever

596
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:12.480
you're even off of. But I know, I love I

597
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:16.920
love the I love the age and the advancement, and

598
00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.799
then just how from what we know and you know,

599
00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:22.599
I honestly would go back even further. I love the

600
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.279
older time even more, even though I was not even there.

601
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.680
But you give me like some nineteen twenties music, You

602
00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:30.319
give me some big bands, swing era. If I could

603
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:32.519
have been in the Roaring twenties, put me right back

604
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.799
to that great Gatsby time.

605
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.720
But I mean, unfortunately I would.

606
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:37.039
I would.

607
00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:38.839
If I would have known that, then I you know,

608
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.000
i'd be collecting a lot of those Babe Ruth cards

609
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.440
that were just getting thrown around and say, oh boxes,

610
00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.480
if only, if only I was found a door.

611
00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:50.480
But if we ever, if we ever could create time travel,

612
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:53.359
I think we know where we're going. So yeah, save me,

613
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.720
save me a seat. Listen, we'll both go, I know.

614
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.599
But as as I do like I do like the

615
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.680
evolution though in today's time, which like as we were saying,

616
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.160
like something's like believe it or not, something's on the

617
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.240
digital side. Like I I like the music, you lose

618
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.839
that experience, I like I were talking about, you know,

619
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.319
you don't have the album, you didn't have to go out,

620
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.160
you know, wait at the line, it's Sam Goodie. When

621
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.480
the you know, when the new CD was even coming out,

622
00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:23.039
even CDs were you know, had that same feeling. It

623
00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.079
was like, I'm buying you know, twenty dollars CD. It's

624
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:28.519
brand new, it's it. I'm paying the most you know

625
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:31.400
for it because it's a new release and I'm gonna

626
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.559
listen to every song on that.

627
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:37.319
But I do like the digital collectibles, you know, as yeah.

628
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:39.799
Let's go, let's go, let's like pivot right into that

629
00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:42.799
because this is your rally more. Let's be real, like

630
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:45.160
we talked about when I was on your show, this

631
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.279
is more your forte than mine. I have a few

632
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.680
I have a few things, but you know, full transparency,

633
00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:54.720
they were either gifted to me or coded to me.

634
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:58.480
I'm maybe it's my age, you know, Like I said,

635
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:01.960
I'm older than you and have established that I grew

636
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:05.160
up like with like you either had something or you didn't,

637
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.279
you know what I mean. And so I never really

638
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.640
got into like the digital cards when I think about

639
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.519
them now, while I haven't really got into them, still

640
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.319
I don't. I don't want to say disliked, it might

641
00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.880
be too strong of a term, but I get it.

642
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.599
I maybe I'll say it like this, PAULI I get

643
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.799
them a little bit more now than I did initially,

644
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.279
And I think that just comes from knowing more about him,

645
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:34.160
learning more about him. For you, who who who did

646
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.039
grow up in a similar where like you either had

647
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.680
something or you didn't. How did you make that transition

648
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:46.720
right into digital digital collectibles? And what was it that

649
00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.079
drew you drew your interest in to begin with?

650
00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:52.880
Well, I mean, first I got I was turned on

651
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.720
during the pandemic. So this is a this is a

652
00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:58.640
time in history where we all had nothing but time.

653
00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:03.359
So let me uh able it was. Let it enabled

654
00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:03.720
me to.

655
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.640
Research and kind of figure out exactly what it was.

656
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:09.680
You know, I do like things that a little bit

657
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.960
more technical. Uh, you know, I work as an audio engineer.

658
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.160
I'm kind of I like how things work. So for me,

659
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.279
it's this had a whole other aspect to collecting. So

660
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.440
uh one second, let me show you. I'll go through

661
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.599
a little a little a little timeline in a sense.

662
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:27.759
So my my my way of collecting obviously started with

663
00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:30.759
all physical I still collect physical behind me. I got,

664
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.279
you know, a Jackson Dart autograph, a cam scattabo card

665
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.359
I mean, this is my my my new giantsy of

666
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.240
rookies that I like, I want.

667
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:42.519
So yeah you yeah, you still you still you still

668
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.960
do it and appreciate it. And I think that's a

669
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:46.960
good point to make typical ahead.

670
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.759
Then then I also like, back back in the day,

671
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:51.880
there were these things. I pulled it up because I said,

672
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.279
these things are just like it's uh.

673
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.200
They were top.

674
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:58.799
Screenplays that you bought a canister, and there was also

675
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.839
a bunch of other of these motion things so you know,

676
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.119
you turn it, the cards move, you.

677
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:05.279
See the guy at bat.

678
00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:09.119
Once I started seeing this these type of hologram you

679
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:12.519
get a play, Kodak came out with some football ones

680
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.079
at the time that were licensed by the NFL. I

681
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:18.920
collected all those. I like things that have motion, that move,

682
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.159
that do things. You know, it's even like if I'm

683
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.719
buying I don't know, like holiday.

684
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:25.159
Ornaments or something.

685
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.159
If it sings and dances and lights up, it's entertaining.

686
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:30.039
I like it, you know what I mean, Like I

687
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:31.599
still my favorite player.

688
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.880
I want, you know, I want to collect Like I said,

689
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:38.280
I got a physical, you know, Giants autograph on a

690
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:41.559
card of the new rookie quarterback, and I also got

691
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:45.880
you know, the digital version a rare rookie card where.

692
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:48.119
It does something more like like this you.

693
00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.239
Know where so now I got the physical But then

694
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:55.440
this is also say an NFL All Day Jackson dark

695
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:59.039
rare rookie, which is you know, play from his early

696
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:03.639
game here him scoring the touchdown, and it's tied to

697
00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:08.440
a blockchain, which is all basically like there's a transaction

698
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:10.880
history and everything is traced.

699
00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:12.159
So there's no yes.

700
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.800
This is say, if someone could say I got a video,

701
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:15.960
I could put it on anything.

702
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:17.440
I can put it on my phone and I could

703
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:17.840
watch it.

704
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:22.039
But for me, as liking you know, collectibles, I say,

705
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.639
this is something though that that is in a way

706
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:28.800
it's digital, but it's tangible because it's it ties to

707
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:30.360
something that's directly minted.

708
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:33.800
It shows me how many there are and I know.

709
00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:38.639
Exactly, you know, when when this rookie moment was and

710
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:40.800
I could see who else owned it or was it

711
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.679
pulled from a pack.

712
00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:44.559
The whole transaction history gets logged, so.

713
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.760
As well as the NBA I got my knicks, you

714
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:49.760
know as well.

715
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:51.360
Play as that I enjoy.

716
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:53.599
But what's fun about it is to me it gives

717
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.480
there's a utility with these and a community that I

718
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.440
didn't have with the physical stuff as much physic as

719
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.840
I collected. Like for me, if I go to a show,

720
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if I talk to you, if I talk to somebody

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who's a big collector, we'll talk for hours.

722
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So it's perfect. But if I'm by myself, what am

723
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:11.840
I doing with these things?

724
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I look at them once sometimes then days go by,

725
00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:15.880
I don't even know they're there.

726
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So with the.

727
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Constant community with the digital I since I've started, I

728
00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:25.559
believe I've almost chatted either in a discord, a Twitter group,

729
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:31.159
social posts almost daily in some aspect to the digital collecting,

730
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.480
because you become part of the community, and that to

731
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.320
me is where it's something that it's just it attracted

732
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.159
me to say, hold on, like I got you know,

733
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:44.280
they're giving out tickets to say Knicks games, you can

734
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.360
go to a local football game, and now the collectors

735
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.920
you know, also are going to be at this event.

736
00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.840
Like so it becomes in real life event tied to

737
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.119
your daily say just messaging and building a digital you know,

738
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.760
virtual commun unity. So along with that you're able to

739
00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:06.079
connect them both ways, you know. So it's that to me,

740
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.480
had that added feature where I said. Collecting these also

741
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:12.039
comes along with Now I'm at a watch party.

742
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:13.239
I'm watching Knicks.

743
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.039
Playoff games where people I've made relationships with over the

744
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:20.480
years just talking, you know, by over my phone, texting

745
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.960
with my two thumbs over here, and then now I

746
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.679
can actually go see them live, you know, in person.

747
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:28.880
We're friends, we know what we're talking about. It just

748
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.400
added a whole nother element. And then there's also fun

749
00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:34.519
stuff that goes on where every day with your collection,

750
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:37.920
like on NBA Top Shot, right, you have your collection

751
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:41.480
of players and you can use them in this fast

752
00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:44.559
Break game, which is like a daily prediction. So it's

753
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:47.239
like a fantasy game, but it's not. It's not too complicated.

754
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:50.400
It's just basically like pick your five players and every

755
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.920
day there's a goal, so it's just like, okay, five

756
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:58.280
players to get equal forty rebounds. So they're like, you know,

757
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.360
ten day or nine day runs whatever they set and

758
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.880
in that time period, as many wins as you get,

759
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.079
you could win credit to buy more collectibles, you could

760
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.159
win packs, you could get merchandise. Last year, at one

761
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.159
point they were giving away a Kia Tell your Ride,

762
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:16.199
a car that came along with if you were the

763
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:20.199
number one person playing this type of predictions. So I

764
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.440
mean it's something that now I can use my collection

765
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:26.880
and it gives me some utility and fun and something

766
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:28.559
else to do with it. So that to me, in

767
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.400
the short of it, if not too short of it,

768
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:35.239
was you know why, I just tied into collecting both

769
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.880
digital physical, and I just found it so much fun

770
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.000
to take a look at it and show them off

771
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.000
because you know what, for the newer age that's coming out,

772
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:48.079
if I show the physical card and I show, you know,

773
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:50.719
my little cousin this, he's gonna be staring at this

774
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.719
a lot longer.

775
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:52.440
Than the physical card.

776
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.039
So I mean it's something that I don't I also

777
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.400
see it as you know, a good, you know, good

778
00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:59.639
thing to invest in, a good thing to say, whether

779
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:02.639
or not, even if they go south, collect what you like,

780
00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:06.559
no matter what, I'm gonna want to keep this collectible.

781
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:07.960
You know, like your hat says, over there, what do

782
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.599
you collect?

783
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:11.760
I love that have by the way, but but it's

784
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:13.760
just you just collect what you want and either way

785
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.960
if it tanks, oh well, I got my favorite playce though,

786
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:18.039
like I'm I'm out.

787
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:21.480
Of Yeah, that's a great point, and I like I

788
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.960
like the utility aspect of it, PAULI. Right, it's more

789
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:28.079
to it than just necessarily a video, not that there's

790
00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:31.000
anything wrong with that, but you have that added built

791
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:34.280
in features where you can get into a competition or

792
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.320
a contest where you can win prizes, whether that be

793
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.320
credits or an actual uh digital collectible or even like

794
00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:45.679
you said, a key tell your ide possible if you

795
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:49.079
if you win that competition, right, And it's that that,

796
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.000
like you said, the community, even the community of competition, right.

797
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:56.480
For those of us that play fantasy sports, right, we're

798
00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:59.400
all trying to win our league, but we also love

799
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:04.039
draft I and get showing up if it's in person draft,

800
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.199
having a couple of pops with the nine or or

801
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.440
eleven other owners, you know, talking maybe a little junk

802
00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:14.159
battling it out for for filling out our teams. Right,

803
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.800
you get that a little bit too with this, And listen,

804
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.480
no other thing that I kind of like about takes

805
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:24.320
up a lot less space. Oh yeah, you know, and

806
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.239
I'm in a small room, so at some point I

807
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:32.800
might have no choice to go down that. That concludes

808
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.920
part one of my conversation with Paulie Campion. Hope you enjoyed.

809
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.039
It had a lot of fun. Dude is a fun,

810
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:44.280
great guy who cares about collecting. It's a passion. I

811
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think that came out. So come back next week for

812
00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:51.400
part two with Paulie and again, well you know we'll

813
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.360
have to have him back on as well. So we're

814
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:57.800
gonna hear from our hobbies. The People Announcer of the

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Week and kind of wrap this episode.

816
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Up time for our hobby is the People Announcer of

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the Week.

818
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This is Rob Petrozzo from Rally. Remind you that the

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hobby is the people. It's not any corporations or breaks.

820
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:19.000
It's not even fractional companies, it's not any of that.

821
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It's people and the people that make collecting great and

822
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:22.239
make it what it is.

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If you'd like to be the hobby is the People

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Announcer of the Week to one or MP three file

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