Hobby Quick Hits Ep.150 Springfield,Mass Trip Review

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Hobby Quick Hits, delivering that breaking
hobby numbers. You want to know those

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high shops, card shops. We've
got your help, your host John new

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Name. Hello, everyone, that's
another episode of Hobby Quick Hits, Episode

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one fifty. To be exactly,
holy smoked. Even when I think about,

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you know, the combined shows,
right Sports Carnation, we're in the

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high two twenties and this one one
fifty. That's you know, almost four

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hundred episodes, uh combined. Where
does the time go? Well, I'm

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speaking of time. I just returned
from a weekend trip Friday, Saturday,

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left this morning Sunday. Just got
back and recording this episode. I went

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to Springfield, Massachusetts for a card
show and hobby panel at the Basketball Hall

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of Fame, the Naysmith Basketball Hall
of Fame. First time there, invited

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by Rob Gerard sportscar Therapists, and
had a great time. So this show

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was going to talk about that trip
and chronicle logical order, not gonna be,

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not gonna make it any longer than
it has to be, just cover

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the main crux of kind of how
the trip went, what I did,

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and all that and entailed. But
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Helmet and The fourteen three of twenty twenty

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two, twenty three, Vivid Leaf
Vivid Basketball twenty twenty two, twenty three,

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Pine Down on A Soccer twenty twenty
two, twenty three, Panini Playbook

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Football, Pokemon twenty three, Minia
Portfolio twenty twenty two, Tops Dynasty Baseball

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and The nineteen twenty twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, PINEI Prison w

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W Undercard twenty twenty two, twenty
three, Panini Revolutions Basketball twenty twenty two,

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twenty three, Pine Select Loud League
Guy Soccer twenty twenty three, Super

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Break of the Pieces of the Past. Art in Music twenty twenty, twenty

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twenty three, Super Glow one Time
Edition Series one, twenty twenty two,

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Tops Metta Zoo Chrome twenty twenty two, Upper Deck a e W LUP Wrestling

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twenty twenty two, Upper Deck AE
W Skybox Medal Universe twenty twenty one,

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twenty two, Upper Deck Credidentials Hockey, twenty twenty one, twenty two,

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Upper Deck sp Authentic Hockey, and
twenty First We Have twenty twenty one,

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twenty three, twenty two, twenty
three, Leave Opt to Chrome Basketball,

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twenty twenty two, Pannini Clearly Doners
Football, twenty twenty one, twenty two

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Panini Flawless Basketball, and last but
not least, twenty twenty three Wild Card

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Automania rook in Prospects Edition Baseball.
Have a great day. Congratulations to the

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Goucher family if they prepare to open
up their second location LCS. Their Originals

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in New Buffalo mission going very strong, and they are working on opening up

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their Valparaiso, Indiana shop, and
I saw some picks. It's going to

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be very nice as their first shop
is too, So congratulations to the Gocher

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family. Let's go around the hobby
verse and catch up on this week's hobby

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news. Yep, it's the same
old story, same old song and dance

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my friends. As Steven Tyler so
elegantly said, what am I talking about?

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Beckett once again happened at the Mint. Now you gotta remember we do

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Hobby quick hits every other week now, so we have to cover two weeks

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of hobby news in each episode.
So I know this is not new news.

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It happened at the Mint, but
I wanted to give my take and

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report it on this show. And
at the Mint, Beckett, who was

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there, announced a new gem mint
grading scale. The first mistake to happen

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was they their scale was wrong that
they had up on the mint wall to

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what they announced, so they had
to put duct tape or some kind of

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tape over one part of it so
that looked not so hot. And then

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the grading scale announcement was met with
a lot of resistance and uproar and people

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in the hobby not happening happy about
it. And then the next day and

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then they had made this announcement on
April first, and then the next day

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they said never mind, after people
complaining, we're we'll forget forget what we

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said. And again it was another
instance of Beckett shooting itself in the foot

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and another bad look. And this
company just continue used to be unable to

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get out of its own way and
kind of self inflicted wounds here and don't

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know what direction they're going in.
I'm not sure they do either, but

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once again, you know, each
each of these mistakes just kind of compounds

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and that window of opportunity closes for
them to be really viable in the grading

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space against as they once were.
And I think they're tackling issues, you

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know, Danny Black said this on
on Hobby Hotline. I believe. I

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believe they're tackling issues that aren't the
biggest one. They've got to get their

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priorities in order. They need to
get cards sent to them that you rarely

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see Beckett reveal videos on YouTube now
with graded unboxings, and their name is

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just not talked about in the grading
space like it used to be, and

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they need That's number one. They've
got to try to get back on that

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ledge that they've fallen off. How
do you do that? If you ask

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me, you got I know they
don't like to do this when it comes

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to margins in ry, but they
got to lower their sub prices. They've

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got to get people sending in cards
just because they're at ten to twelve bucks

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and get their name on YouTube like
it used to be, rather than worry

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too much about a scale they've had
for a while and not too many complaints

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about it before, so they got
to get the priority straight. You know,

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I don't know who's calling the shots
if it's multiple people. And again

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you know Keystone capers, but not
a good look. So and then that's

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not the biggest story of the week. The biggest story of the week is

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Fanatic slash Panini. You might remember
some months back that Panini was rumored to

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be soon to be acquired by Fanatics. You know, if you listen to

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certain people, it was all but
done, all but announced, and then

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it kind of went dormant, went
quiet, right, we didn't hear anymore

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about that, and like what happened, right, but kind of just the

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story just sort of went away.
So what I believe happened was I believe

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where there were smoked, there was
fired. But I think the Fanatics offered

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to Panini was too low. They
said, thanks, but no thanks,

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We're not selling to you for that
price. You're not acquiring us for that

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price. And if you know anything
about Michael Rubin and his Fanatics team,

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they are you know, cutthroat and
very strategic. Right, nothing illegal here,

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but you know they ain't messing around. So at the Mint collective.

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It's been reported they made several offers
to several top and important key COG executives

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at the Mint collectives of Panini.
A majority of those offers were accepted,

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and when the show was over and
the Panini staff got back to the building

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on Monday, they turned in their
resignations and announced they were taking their talents

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to the Fanatics side. And we're
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this was like a major direct hit. You know, I use an analogy,

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right, It's like a battleship,
right, and the torpedo hits right

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right in the engine room, right
where all the gears and you know,

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everything gets that ship going right to
right to the center of the ship.

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And so what do you think the
goal is? Right? I mean,

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it's obvious, right, Fanatics wants
to weekend Panini to a point where they

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have no choice but to sell to
Fanatics, much like what they did with

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Tops, where they undermined Tops just
before the spack was to go public and

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sunk that ship and all the stock
potential stock value with it and then acquire

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Tops. Right, very strategic.
Some might call it, you know,

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a little low blow or dirty pool, but it's not illegal, all above

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board as far as UH financial laws
go, and so I think it'll be

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very soon we hear Panini, uh
you know, sell to Fanatics. However,

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it's been reported on LinkedIn that uh
you know, one of the higher

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ups at state at Panini has listed
those positions as available as looking to fill

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them rather quickly. So Panini's trying
to the hustle and survive and keep their

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head above water. Let me go
over some of the names that are going

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to Fanatics from Panini. VP of
Product Developed, Product Development Nick Majevic,

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Actor of Football Product Development, Rob
Springs, Brand managers Tim Yoda and Adam

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Johnson, Tim Trout, Keith Howard
as well. We'll be joining U Fanatics

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and h There's probably more that we
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half of the acquisitions department of Panini
are joining Fanatics. So a big blow

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with let's let's be frank folks,
right. The goal of this is to

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get the licensings in for basketball and
football sooner than twenty twenty six. That's

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the strategic goal here. Uh.
Stay tuned to see how the Fanatics turns

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or how this how this winds up. Also at the Mint Fanatics Slash Tops

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announced their Major League debut patches.
Every debut rookie debut and they may leagues

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this year. That player will have
a MLB debut patch on his shoulder sleep

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just the right size for a one
of one card to be produced with that

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patch. No word on what product
these patch cards will be put in,

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no word of you know, how
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will be redemption although we know Fanatics
does not like redemptions. We're not

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sure if there'll be rpas or just
the patch, but they will be one

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on one to have announced that they're
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multiple pieces. It will be the
whole patch. It will be one of

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one card. And it's going to
be interesting to see how these are distributed.

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And you know what these things go
for once they're live on the secondary

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market. Right you got you know
Anthony Volpi Yankees rookie start shortstop. You

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know, often compared to Derek Jeter, although it's very early for those comparisons.

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But what does that card of him
bring once it's you know, pulled

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or acquired. So it's going to
be interesting to say the lead Babe Ruth

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bat photo matched to being used at
the Polo Grounds has set the new record

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for most money at auction from a
game used bat. Babe Ruth brought this

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bat brought almost two million dollars one
million, eight hundred and fifty k.

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The seller, Justin Cornett, bought
that bat in February of twenty eighteen for

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four hundred thousand dollars. So it's
always nice when you can always almost five

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times your money, especially when it's
five times almost five times four hundred k.

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And what made the difference that went
in the Hunts auctions, what made

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the difference in the jumping value is
the authentication of that bat to when it

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was used in photo met So congratulations
to Justin Cornette. Robert Edward Auctions is

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rolling out their spring auction, highlighted
by a PSA nine Roberto clement A nineteen

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fifty five top. Some other notables
say, Jackie Robinson, I know a

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guy that likes him nineteen forty nine
Bowman PSA nine, that's a beautiful card.

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PSA nine, nineteen fifty five top, Sandy Kofax Rookie, I have

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half of the nine have a four
point five sgc Cofax workie. But they're

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gonna have a nine Bill Russell nineteen
fifty seven Tops Rookie PSA seven point five

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and a Jim Brown Tops Rookie SGC
eight and a half will be some of

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the highlights. Babe Ruth baseball single
signed rated eight and a half by PSA

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with a Mint nine signature, and
a nineteen twenty one Christy Matthison baseball dating

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to nineteen twenty one, also at
the Polo Grounds in a nineteen forties Josh

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Gibson Type one photo and nineteen thirteen
Type one Joe Jackson photo by Charles Conlins.

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So many, many great items are
rolling out in the area spring Auction.

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Head over to area to check that
out and bid if you're registered already

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or if not, register to bid
so if you're of the reading persuasion.

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Check out my monthly column at Sports
Collectors Digest. Sports Collectors Digest dot Com

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I did a feature on Nick Brower, who recently opened up a new card

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store in New Hartford, New York
and is doing very well. Checked the

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Hobby is the People column out on
Sports Collectors Digest dot com. Our feature

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presentation, Let's talk about this Springfield, Massachusetts weekend trip. First off,

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thanks to Rob Gerard, sportscard therapist
reached out to me about a month ago,

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maybe six weeks ago, you know, said hey, I'd love to

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have you come to the show set
up there and be part of the hobby

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panel that I'll be moderating on the
Hall of Fame Basketball Hall of Fame main

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stage. Check mysel you know,
anytime you get an offer like that,

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that's a wonderful opportunity. Checked my
schedule and made it happen. Happen to

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have the week off from school spring
break. So I left on Friday morning

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and no events scheduled for Friday officially, so I came a day early to

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check out the Hall of Fame,
the Nay Smith Basketball Hall of Fame in

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Springfield, mass left my house around
sixty five, got there about slightly after

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the Hall of Fame opened, around
ten to fifteen. It opens at ten

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and uh, you know, spent
a few hours checking the Hall of Fame

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out. It's the third Hall of
Fame I've been to. We've been to

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Cooperstown for baseball and Canton for football, but this was my first time in

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the basketball Hall of Fame. Really
nice place. It's kind of a a

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dome building in the middle of sort
of a plaza mall, like a strip

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mall, but smaller scale. And
it's not a huge place. But you

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know, they have a basketball court
in the center. I heard one guy

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complaining, you know, the one
thing I was a little bit disappointed with

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the basketball halls. They don't have
plaques or bus as the Baseball and Football

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Hall of Fame. They have kind
of class panels with each year's inductions class

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etched in the paneling, probably because
of room. I'm told this is a

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newer version of the Basketball Hall of
Fame, that it was in a different

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building, and they did things a
little differently in the original building than they

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do here. The only other thing
I mean that's, you know, it

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is what it is. Still a
beautiful place, still a hall of fame

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to pay your respects to the greats
of the game. Lots of displays.

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The only other complaint that I can
complain about or notice was not every piece

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of memory bill in the glass displays
had a description out of it on it.

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Come of it, you can tell
without a description, right, A

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lot of a lot of things didn't, and you kind of had to let

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your you know, mind think to
what that might be or try to put

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two and two together. So I
don't know if it's maybe a work in

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progress there, but I really had
a good time. I spent a couple

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hours there. That's kind of all
it took to go through, grab some

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lunch, and headed to Enfield,
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That's where my hotel and where I
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Enfield and made the trek, the
long trek of seven miles to Springfield.

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But after the Hall of Fame,
grabbed grabbed a quick bite to eat,

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and then headed to my hotel room
to check in, get get my stuff.

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All situated, kind of relaxed,
uh you know, watched a little

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TV unwound, and then had made
plans to go to dinner with Ken Carnes.

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Ken Carnes as the host of the
Sports Card Lessons podcasts, and I've

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gotten to know Ken a little bit
more and and talking to him and conversating

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with him, and he was excited
to hear I was making the trip.

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He also was serving on the discussion
panel on Saturday night, and he said,

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hey, man, uh, you
know, I got some things to

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do earlier in the day, but
how about Friday night, we grabbed some

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dinner, you know, an Enfield
and we went to a Longhorn steakhouse right

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near my hotel and a couple hours
spent with Ken over some steaks and and

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uh rip by and it was a
great, great conversation, great camaraderie.

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You know, uh talked, talked
hobby, talked content creation and uh uh

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talk life as well. And really
we probably could have talked a lot longer,

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but uh, you know, a
couple of hours and then uh,

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you know, he was tired,
I was tired, and it was time

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to get ready for the show the
next day, right, and uh,

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especially I'm a guy likes to get
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this was uncharted territory for me.
Right, this was my first show out

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of state and I think double digit
years. I used to do them all

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the time and then kind of stayed
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I want to thank Prime Time Sports
John for the hospitality and allowing me to

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set up at the Springfield show on
Saturday. And you know I set up.

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I was kind of in a block
with three or four other folks.

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Got to know them throughout the day
and talking to them and I will say

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that the locals were very friendly,
very helpful. One gentleman said, hey,

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before you leave, go to the
Country Diner in Enfield. It's one

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of the best diners you can ever
go to. Get some breakfast there before

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you head back to Syracuse. And
I did listen to him. So Sunday

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morning, I did go to the
diner and uh for breakfast, and it

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was very very good. So he
was right on point with that. Uh.

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The show was okay, you know, financially like for how I did

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it was it was okay. I
thought I would do a little bit better.

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Um, a lot of hockey.
Uh, And I didn't bring a

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lot of hockey, so sort of
guests wrong. So I'll blame myself more

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than than anyone else there. And
a lot of times with a local show,

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sometimes the clientele, right, the
consumers have their dealers, they're sort

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of loyal and fond of and I
kind of saw a little bit of that,

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and I'm the new guy, and
uh, you know, I don't

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know if that was an X factor
or not, but I'm sure it didn't.

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You know, it didn't help,
But people were great. I saw

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some people from Central New York who
came up to my table and talked to

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me, Hey, you know,
it's weird seeing you here, but knew

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I was there, so that those
uh, those are great conversation. Asan

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had a few other gentlemen who were
fans of the show but didn't realize I

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was going to be fans of the
podcast Sports Carnation, didn't realize I was

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going to be set up there,
and shook my hand. Was glad to

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meet me in person for the first
time, and that's always obviously a good

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feeling. J SA was on site
doing authentication and I have a Steph Curry

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personalized jersey that says to John,
thanks boss on one letter and he signed

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it on the other letter. I
won't say who gave that to me,

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but it's from a hobby dignitary that
unfortunately friends with who was nice enough to

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give that to me. And I
brought that with me knowing that JSA was

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going to be there, and I
got that authenticated. I gave them the

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providence and let them know how it
was obtained and why and all that,

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and uh, you know, in
about three hours they came back to my

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table said it was done and I'll
get the I get the letter in card

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in the mail, but they put
the JSA sticker as they do in any

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authenticated jersey, So it's going to
stay in my personal collection. It's not

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a for sale item, but I
still wanted to get you know, that

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authenticated as genuine, which I already
knew it was from where who it came

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from and where it's the providence of
it. So the show, uh,

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you know, it was ten to
five. It was longer than my home

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shows here in Syracuse, which are
nine to three. Um, I'll say

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this about one o'clock. It really
seemed to slow down as far as spending

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goes. And uh, I know
there was a Mohegan Sun show like a

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week or two before that, and
so maybe people had spent some of their

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money there. But still fun doing
a show and seeing fresh faces, right

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people, you know, and I
love all my regular faces too, don't

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get me wrong, but always different
perspective, right. And the other thing

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I noticed doing the show is and
I'm it gave me the idea to convert.

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I have kind of big, heavy
all state aluminum glass cases. Got

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some weight to them. You know, the older I get, the heavier

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those showcases are too log around.
I've seen a good percentage of the dealers

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at the Springfield Show using bulletin board
lockable bulletin board cases like the cases you

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see on a school wall or a
you know, a business wall with the

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like salary requirements and notices, public
notices. And I thought that was really

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interesting. And they look sharp.
They're acrylics, so you cannot you can

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they scratch actually easily, and you
cannot use like windex, which I'm a

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Windex guy in my glass cases.
But I did order a couple of these

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when I got back. I'm going
to convert my all State cases to these

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two instead of the All State travel
A little bit lighter, a little thinner

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there. They are definitely thinner,
but a graded card will fit in it,

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and so look forward to I haven't
got them yet, but I'm going

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to convert over to those. And
I don't know how it is. I

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don't know if it's a Springfield thing
or if this is a trend with shows.

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If you're a dealer and you use
these or you've seen them, let

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me know that this is probably more
than a Springfield thing, and I imagine

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it is. And uh, I
thought it was very cool to see those

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UH in action and very portable,
very light, and I'm trying to get

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more portable, and I'll talk a
little bit about that when I get to

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the Sunday. So the show was
overpacked loading my car up, and uh,

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the panel was an hour the panel
discussion was an hour after the show

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ended, so you had a little
time to kind of pack up, load

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your car. And the Hall of
Fame, where where the Hobby panel talk

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was is about a mile away from
where the show was at the Mass Mutual

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Center, So only took five minutes
eight minutes to get to the Hall of

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Fame. One thing I will say
that's great about the Hall, especially compared

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to other Hall of Fames, the
other two that I've been to, it

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has its own parking lot, you
know, a lot. And the other

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two hall of Fames you got to
try to find a spot on the street,

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which can be difficult at times,
or parking their shuttle shuttle lots which

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are a couple of miles away and
take like a trolley or minibus to the

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hall. But the Basketball Hall of
Fame has their own parking lot. Like

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uh, you know, they were
closed, they were just opened for the

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panel talk and then trade night following
that, and so I got a nice

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close parking spot and went in and
uh. So, well, let's let

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me tell you who was on the
panel. Rob Gerard was the moderator.

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Uh. He asked questions himself and
took questions from the audience. Some good

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questions there. The panel consisted of
myself, uh, Chris Costa of Costa

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Cards. They're opening up multiple retail
locations and even some sports venues. John

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the basketball card guy who's a very
prominent hobby gentleman, Ken Canes. As

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I said earlier, sports card lessons, and MC cards. Mike Knts,

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big consigner, big eBay Selling,
does a lot of shows. He has

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quite uh the inventory. I'm sure
I bought a few cards uh in the

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in the last few years myself from
them. Uh maybe not even realizing it.

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Uh. Jake Jake Roy nineties basketball
cards UH did all the cinematography and

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uh Randy the video and uh also
worked in the audience, taking the audience

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questions and uh. Like I told
Jake he had, he had every right

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to be up on the panel too, but he wanted to do that and

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did a great job. So shout
out to Jake as well. Shout out

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to Rob Uh, you know,
being a panel moderator, you know is

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you know, like I do in
Hobby highline, It's not as easy as

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some people, uh make it look
and did a tremendous job. Uh.

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And we had some great questions from
the audience about a lot of it,

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like where's the hobby going, what's
the future to hobby going? Like?

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Uh, some tips about how can
I be a better seller or how how

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do you adapt? Would it ever
change in how hobby? Rob asked some

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you know, content creator questions as
well, and it was a fun time.

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We all kind of took turns uh
answering and sharing, you know.

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Uh, two guys shared one mike
and when you know, we would just

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pass it to the next guy,
very seamless, no no issues, And

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it was a fun night with stream
done. Uh Rob's ig live and I

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think I'm sure he left it up
for posterity. You might hear it in

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a future audio episode as well.
Uh, if you get a chance,

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take a listen. A lot of
a lot of great information uh came out

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of the event, had a decent
amount of people in the crowd, and

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it was it was fun to do. It was the hour went quick to

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me. Anyway, it seemed like
we it's arted, and it was it

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was time to wrap up, and
that really was the end of my trip.

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I did go back to my hotel
to get a night's sleep before heading

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back to Syracuse, uh Sunday morning, and I am back now and recording

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this here pretty soon after my return
to get this episode out on Monday,

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as I always do. And again
I want to thank all the powers that

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be. I want to thank Rob
Gerard for the invite John from the New

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England Card Show for his hospitality,
Uh you know, Jake for doing that

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at the Hobby panel, all my
fellow Hobby panelists and uh you know Ken

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for his friendship and uh you know, getting to go to dinner with him

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Friday and uh you know, breaking
the ice and finally meeting him in person.

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Was a great trip, quick three
days, two and a half days

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or whatever it worked out to be, and uh you know, three hours

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and fifteen minute drive so driving when
some went to breakfast at the Country Diner

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and Enfield definitely highly recommended if you're
ever in the air that area. And

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then I got on the road about
seven fifteen and about eight o'clock got on

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the road and made the trek home
three, like I said, a little

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over three hours. And you know, when you drive and you're by yourself,

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right, you think about observations.
And I really thought about you know,

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I got a show coming up here
in Syracuse on the April nineteenth,

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and you know, I saw some
things how people. You know, you

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always take inspiration or ideas from how
other people set up. So, like

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I said, I got two of
these bulletin board typecases coming to replace my

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over twenty year old all State cases, which are still battle tested. They've

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they've got definitely some some war wounds, but it's time to go a little

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bit lighter and a little more modern, i'd say, with these bolton board

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cases, which are not really designed
for cards, but you never know it

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when you see cards in them,
it's it's kind of funny. And so

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I got a couple of those coming. But I'm also going to redo some

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of the way I do by you
know, monster boxes and shoe boxes with

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vintage and by player and by numbered
cards and by variations and game us.

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I'm going to try to streamline it. There's some cards in those boxes that

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frankly probably shouldn't be there anymore.
They're not as highly desirable. So I'm

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going to go through that and sort
of freshen it up, take some stuff

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out, add some stuff to it. So if you're going to the Syracuse

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Fairground Show and on April nineteenth,
you might see. I definitely got some

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new table runners that I had already
received before I did the Springfield Show,

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so they were in action there.
But uh, you know, I only

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had one table at the Springfield Show, so had to sort of condense.

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So when you see me, if
you're familiar with my setup, when you

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see me in April nineteenth, it
will look different of some new cases.

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You know, I'll have some new
shelving that will be actually off the table

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and behind the table with wax that
I have rather than have it on the

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table, and so I'll be doing
some things differently. I'll have a different

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look, and you you take inspiration
sometimes from others. So that's probably as

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far as the show was on Saturday, I think that was the most.

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You know, the thing I got
from it the most is is change it

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up a little bit. Do do
something a little bit different, and refresh

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your boxes, do the shelving behind
the table, new cases and that sort

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of thing. So looking forward to
my home show, right and sort of

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having my client tell that kind of
knows me and it looks for me.

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That's always a nice a nice perk
to have, right, kind of your

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your home field advantage. So that'll
be April nineteenth, and uh, you

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know, I get now, I
got to try to get everything done before

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then. But somehow we'll we'll get
it done. It might be a couple

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of late nights in there, but
we'll make it happen. So with that

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being said, I want again thank
everyone that made the trip fun, made

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it possible. I don't always,
you know, get on the road that

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often. You know, obviously the
National every year, Uh sometimes Dallas.

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I'd like to go to Dallas every
year. It hasn't worked out exactly like

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that, And so when an opportunity
arises to where you can do that,

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it's always fun. Right. You
don't know how many times that opportunity will

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present itself or if it will again, so when it does, it's always

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nice to take advantage. So thanks
to everyone that I met or met for

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the first time and offered hospitality as
well. So we're gonna call that.

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Uh. This week's episode of Hobby
Quick hits. Thank you out there for

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listening. If you enjoy the show. We appreciate great reviews. Uh.

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We appreciate your time. You could
be listening to something else or doing something

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else, and you're here listening to
me, and I appreciate that, and

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I thank you for it. We'll
see you next time.