Dec. 19, 2025

Paul Lesko "The Hobby Lawyer" Pt.1 "Dude,Where's My Honus" E367

Paul Lesko "The Hobby Lawyer" Pt.1 "Dude,Where's My Honus" E367
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"The Hobby Lawyer" Paul Lesko "Dude. Where's My Honus??"


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Sports Guard Nations.

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Hobby is the People weekly news and interviews.

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It's your number one soul sports Guarnation.

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Hobby is the People.

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Sports Guardation. What us up, everybody? Welcome to Episode three

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sixty seven Sports Cardination. My guest this week has been

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on the show before. He'll be on the show again.

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He'll be on the show the next four episodes. They

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are smaller episodes, so don't panic. That's why we recorded

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one long conversation. But I'm gonna make four episodes out

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of them this week. In the next three I think

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you'll find them. The episodes very interesting, to say the least.

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My guests the Hobby lawyer Paul LESCo, and we're gonna

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talk about some of the litigation going on currently in

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the Hobby pertaining to the hobby. And Paul is obviously

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a lawyer. We don't you just don't call yourself the

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Hobby lawyer and not be a lawyer, just like I'm

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not Doctor Newman, MD, because I'm not. But he is

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a practicing attorney, a very smart and knowledgeable one and

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a great guy and always love having him on. And

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so in the next four weeks again, the episodes are

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gonna range fifteen to twenty two minutes. We're gonna chop

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up some of these cases and what it might mean

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for the hobby, and some of these cases you may

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be very familiar with and others maybe not as much.

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Some of the cases we're not gonna all talk about

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him on this particular episode. Some of the case you

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can hear about is, hey, where's my honus Wagner PSA

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damaged my Kobe card, LOLCNA versus up Panini versus Fanatics,

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wild Card versus Panini, my PSA nine I want to

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be PSA ten's in the Spiegel Golden Case. So, you know,

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you may not realize a lot of litigation hobby wise

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going on in courthouses around the country. And while you

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may not be into that stuff, and I get it,

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I get it. You know, has nothing to do with

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your card collection directly per se, but it does have

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a direct correlation on the hobby and what might happen

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in the future and what these companies may or may

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may not be able to do in the future based

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on the outcomes of these court cases. Right, So we're

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gonna chop up some of these each week the next

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four weeks, starting with today and I'm calling today's episode, dude,

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where's my hous And I think you'll find it very

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interesting and uh, you know, I'll say this at the

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end too, but let me let me know what you

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think about today's topic of litigation, and I'll just tease

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you with that. It's definitely a very very interesting case.

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And when I learned all the details about it, uh,

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it was why did someone wait that long to follow it?

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That's that's as much of a tease as I'm gonna

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give you. So, Uh, we're gonna get Paul LESCo on

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and we wanna chop up that case.

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Thanks everybody enjoyed the show.

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I always love having the next Gentleman on this podcast.

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He is a multi time alumnus of the show, and

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it's been a bit since we've had him on again,

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and there's a lot of new stuff to to bat

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around here, and uh, we know him and and love

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him as the hobby lawyer. Paul Esco, welcome back as always.

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Well, thanks for having me back on, John. It's it's

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it's been.

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Too lot, Yeah it has, and that's my fault. So

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I'll I'll tell I'll fall.

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On the We're all, we're all, We're all to and uh,

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you know, obviously we call him the hobby Lawyer, and

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uh he's he's obviously a lawyer and a hobbyist, and

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he loves to really break down some of the ongoing.

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Litigation going on when it pertains uh to the hobby.

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And you know, like I spoke to him before we're recording,

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whether you're into this stuff or not, right it, this

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still is important to present toense of the hobby and

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in the future of the hobby. So while some may

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have more of an interest in these kinds of conversations,

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that doesn't diminish the importance of these cases and decisions

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when they come uh involving this case, Uh, these cases

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and so uh, like I said, it's been a bit

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so we definitely got some stuff too to toss around. Uh,

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and uh I love I love Paul because he makes

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it easy to understand, right. I think sometimes when we

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get into like legal ease and litigation, people can be

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intimidated and like I'm not gonna understand it or what

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the deck's going on or what does this mean? But

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you have a wonderful way of sort of making that

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consumable even in your your social media. You're very detailed

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and and and obviously for both wise even even more so.

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So U let's start No, you're you're welcome. It's true.

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Let's start off with a question. You know, AI is

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a huge topic across many, uh many different facets and

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and and topics and and and different things. Right, it's huge, right,

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and it's it's got its good points and it's bad

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points both. And I just you know, we uh we

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got you know, people can cheat with chat gtph GPT

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on like school work or course work. You can almost

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you can do like like these fake videos that almost

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looked real.

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Uh.

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I got to ask you, Paul, please tell me there's

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no lawyer GPT or lawyer AI to replace one Paul

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LESCo and other lawyers who did their their work and

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got their law degrees, uh and and and things like that.

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Well, luckily at this time no, and some there have

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been actually some cases where people have argued that chat

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GPT is my lawyer. I'm relying on chat peet chat

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GPT for what I'm doing. And there was a recent

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decision that came down where a judge said, no lawyers

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are licensed.

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Lawyers go to law school, they're taking the bar exam.

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Chat geep, so chat GPT, at least as of now,

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is not a lawyer. However, too many people are relying

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on chat g as their lawyer and it's starting to

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affect the hobby litigation.

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In the hobby Now when that's when that ruling comes down,

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where judge says, listen, you you chat GDP is not

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official you know license legal attorney can't be used. Does

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that set the precedence where that that speaks for the

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like that ends that that as a potential down the

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line or not necessarily.

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It's you know, it's it's already been a standard rule

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that in order to represent somebody else in court you

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have to be a license, you have to have passed

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a bar exam.

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So that's always been the rule. So when people are.

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Trying to rely on ai uh, that's where that rule

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comes in. So it's really just judges clarifying that no,

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chat gd is not a substitute for an attorney. And

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you know, part of the reason isn't just because it's

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not a person. It hasn't gone a little, but it

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also goes It makes a lot of missing, gets a lot.

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Of people no that the attorney themselves is not taking

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that case for a client like that that chat GDP

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can be officially viewed as legal. I would hope not.

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They're kind of they're practicing against their own profession if

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they would represent someone that's claiming that or you trying

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to use them.

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Yeah, no, And it happens a lot on both sides

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of the fence. So there's there's a couple of cases

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out there right now currently having to do with trading

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cards where you have pro SA plaintiffs. Those are plaintiffs

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that are in court without lawyers. They're representing themselves, and

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it appears that they are using chat GPT to generate

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their plans, to generate their argument, and it's getting them,

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it's getting them into a little bit of trouble in

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their cases. But also there is at least one example

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where lawyers were using chat cheep to make their workload

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lighter and they got caught during doing it because the

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chat GBT created made up precedent and the lawyers did

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go back, they didn't check up on it.

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And it's fascinating.

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It was actually a case against Panini and the lawyers

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on the other side filed a brief and in the

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brief was a bunch of case slam and Panini's response

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to that brief was, your honor, I think we think

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AI wrote this because none of these cases exist.

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We looked them up, they don't exist, and they cited

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them to us.

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And in that case, the judge actually reprimanded the lawyers

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on the other side. So so it's not just people

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without attorneys relying on chat, GPT or other AI. There

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are some lawyers out there that are doing it too,

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and at least as of now, probably don't want to do.

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I was gonna that was my next question. Yeah, and

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you mentioned like the judge, you know, sort of scolded

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the lawyers for using that tactic. Can can there be

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harsher Obviously you're not gonna get this barred. That's harsh.

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There be like a financial fine or can.

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There there there has been? There were two cases. There's

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multiple cases that are out there. The Pinini case that

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one by itself, the judge not only reprimanded the lawyers,

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he required them to report it to the bar, So

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they had to tell the bar that they, yeah, yeah,

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that they relied on on chat cheap, they got case

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law that didn't exist, and they relied in case law

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that didn't exist. But beyond that, and I follow this

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because it's fascinating. It seems like every day there are

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lawyers and other types of litigation that are getting sanctioned.

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And it seems like the standard is about fifteen hundred

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dollars lawyers getting sanctioned for inventing cases or relying on

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AI that invented cases. So, yeah, there's been a lot

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of lawyers and sanctioned relying on AI.

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And so those sanctions would come from the bar itself

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that would be.

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There the lawyers themselves or the law firm itself will

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have to pay that.

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Yeah, can the bar, like you you mentioned like they

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have to self report they're indiscretion to the bar. What

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can the can the bar do? Obviously, if it's the

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first time offence, maybe a slap on the wrist, like

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you're you're better than that, don't don't. But if if,

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if this, if a lawyer an attorney becomes sort of

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a repeat offender, can there be even more serious repercussions?

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There could be because the one the number one thing

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that the bar is looking at is are you zealously

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representing your clients? Because not when a lawyer is relying

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on case. While that's been fabricated or you know, it

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doesn't exist. They're hurting their client's case. So maybe in

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an instance where it was a motion that didn't really

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matter that much to the case, it's more embarrassing than

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anything else. That'll be something where the bar exam says, okay,

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you know, just this is this is your your one strike.

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You know, you know we're we're gonna watch you. Now,

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if it was done in an instance where it really

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hurt a client's case, uh, you know, a bar, the

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bar might look at it a little bit more different.

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But at least as of now, and I'm not ultimately

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current on this, I don't think anybody has yet.

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Been disbarred for relying on AI.

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But it's only been around for a couple of years

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right now, so it's only you know, i'd say mainstream

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use for the last you know, year and a half

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two years, especially in the legal field.

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Legal field is very late to adopt a lot of technologies.

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So it wouldn't shock me within the next year if

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we don't start seeing people if it already hasn't happened.

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See some lawyers as marred due to their reliance on

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a especially if they're repeat defenders.

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How easy is it to tell? Like I've used it

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for some like social media, like making graphics and stuff,

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not so much for writing, but like like if something

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crosses your desk. I mean, how easy do you think

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it is necessarily to tell? Or I guess it depends

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on every situation is different to you. You think it's good?

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Yeah, no, I see it actually quite a bit.

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And so for some of my clients, what I do

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is I represent copyright holders like artists, and invariably there

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are a lot of infringers that are that are out there.

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Some are you know, small infringers on eBay or other

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places like that.

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So you know, part of my job is to shut.

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Them down, get into communication with them, and you know,

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explain to them that you're you know, you're ripping off

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my client's rights.

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Need to stop.

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I'd say probably one out of every three tries to

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respond to you with chat gee some type of response

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like that.

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So I've gotten pretty.

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Attuned to seeing what a chat GPT response is. And

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you could tell because as a lawyer, you're taught to

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You're taught to, you know, point to the statute you're

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relying on, point to the case law that you're relying

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on point to the specific facts that are in your favor.

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A chat GPT response is more going.

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To be along the lines of, well, as everybody knows,

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there's this general this, this this, and you can really

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quickly get to the point that they're using the AI

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and get around it by saying, Okay, I need you

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decide to a case to me, I need you decide

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to the facts that actually support you here, because you

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really you're you're regurgitating a lot of stuff that sounds

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like you know what you're talking about, which you're not

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saying anything. And then when you get to the point

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of where they have to specifically identify case law and

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their support, the support the position or facts, they normally

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can't do that, and that's the point when they settle.

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Yeah, so you can't fool Paul LESCo folks. Time, all right,

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let's listen. Let's before we get into litigation, which I

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enjoy and I know quite a bit of people do.

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I know a lot of your personal collection comes off

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of some of this litigation without you know, when we

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can cover some of these cases, But has there been

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any new PC items you know on the target lists

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as a result, Well, some of these.

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I do have quite a bit actually so, but this

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is my current pride and joy. So I picked this

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one up the National this year. I chase this card

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since twenty eleven. So it is a card that was

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involved in a lawsuit that was brought against Tops by

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a form Pops employee saying you utilized my image on

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cards without my permission. And why it was so difficult

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for me to get that card is because there were

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only five of those cards that were made and back

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in twenty eleven. The card popped up right when the

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lawsuit was and it was on eBay, And at that

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point I hadn't spent even close to one hundred dollars

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on a card. I was, you know, just I wasn't

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spending much money on collecting and it was back in

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the good old days where you didn't have to really

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spend that much money to get good cards.

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So I saw the card.

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It was on eBay and it was going for two

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hundred dollars, and in my head, I'm like, I can't

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justify spending two hundred dollars for this card.

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It's numbered out of five.

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It might take a while another one will pop up

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on the guarantee. Well, no, I was wrong. Another one

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never never popped up again. And the only reason I

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got this card is because every year before the national

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I whined and I whined and complained about, Hey, this

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is like my white whale.

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I can't find this card. Does anybody have aids on it?

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And somebody reached out and said he'd seen my posts,

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you know, for a few years, and you know, and

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he finally said, okay, you know what, you know this card.

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I can get this card to a good person, you know,

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somebody who's actually going to enjoy the card and actually

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love the card more than I would. So we were

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actually able to put together a trade and get it done.

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So that is that is the glowing part of my

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collection right now. It is it was my white whale.

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I was able to cure it. And really since that,

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I have this like profound sense of finality where I'm

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not on eBay every day. Now I've got what I need,

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you know. So so I really need to have that

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next lawsuit that comes up with an obtainable card, you know,

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something I can add to the collection, because I think

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a couple of the cases we're going to talk about

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today they're not obtainable cards because the cards are you know,

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several million dollars worth. That's that will never get into

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my collection. However, if you have a card that's worth

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you know, a couple hundred dollars and there's only one

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or five of those that are out there.

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I think that'll be a good card to add as

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a few.

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And I remember when you posted about finally getting it.

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That's awesome and the search is over, as Survivor saying

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in one of their songs, right, And but like you said,

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you know, stuff was maybe a little bit. Certain things

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are a little cheaper eleven years ago than they are today.

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So whatever the next you know, Paul Lasco target card

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is probably going to be maybe a little bit more

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than that one. You never know, you know, unfortunately, every

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situation is different.

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We back.

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Well, let me ask you this, I'll acqusk to you.

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You're you're giving of your time of show. Where do

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you want to start off here? Litigation wise?

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What do you know?

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Let's let's let's continue with that AI topic, because there's

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a couple of pro say cases that are out there,

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actually more than one of three prose's that are out

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there that I am not one certain that they're AI cases,

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but I believe that they are AI cases, or that

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the plaintiffs in those cases, who don't have lawyers who

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are representing themselves, are relying on chat G or.

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Another AI, and I don't think it's it's helping them much.

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So the first case I want to talk about is

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the case that I've called that Beckett lost my T

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two O six Honus Wagner twelve years ago. And this

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is a case where The plaintiff alleges that twelve years

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ago he had car, he bought some cards, and I

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don't exactly remember where he got the cards, but he

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within the cards that he had, one of them was

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a T two O six Honus Wagner. And so he

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submitted that card with a bunch of other cards to

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Beckett to get graded and to get authenticated, and he

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didn't get the Honus Wagner. He alleges he never got

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the Honus Wagner back, and he just assumed that if

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he didn't get it back, it wasn't authentic, and he

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just forgot about for twelve years until he logged into his.

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I Gotta stop you, p I gotta stop you even

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twelve years ago. Like, I know that card has went

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more in receives than and past you, but that car

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didn't sneak up on anyone like that car. And I

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know you're gonna get into the nuts and bolts, but

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that's not a card. When it doesn't come back, you

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don't say, hey, where's my Honus Wagner card, or you

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at least would ask an explanation even if you thought, well,

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it was obviously fake. And that's what they like you

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would still question like, all right, where is it? And frankly,

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I still want it back. I still want like it's

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my card, fake or legit like and then like you

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said to all these double digit years later, that just

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to me, again, I'm not a lawyer, That's why you're here,

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But to me, I would like that shouldn't even like

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why are you waiting that long to like now bring

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it to litigation? But good, I just wanted to chime

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into because here and you say that, that's how my

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mind works, like, yeah, where you've been, Like have you

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been in a coma? Yeah, I mean you woke up

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and said, oh I meant to do this.

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But I mean so twelve years ago, I mean I'm

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pretty sure twelve years ago that's when the Mastro trial

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was ongoing, and part of that was, you know, there

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was a lot of talk about did he know, did

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he trim or did he not trim a Honus Wagner card.

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So I mean even back then, it was still the

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and I'm not sure when ps and that was the

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number one card, the first card that PSA grated if

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I remember correctly, So it's yeah, that car is not

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sneaking up on anything.

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That's that's a well known card.

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But he the plaintiff alleges that twelve years later he

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logged into his Beckett account and he says that the

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Becket account said that the card was authenticate. That act

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that Beckett said it was authentic. So at that point

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he contacted Beckett. He says, hey, where's my card? I

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want my card back? And Beckett says, well, it was

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not authenticated. We couldn't authenticate it. We didn't think it

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was real. And if it didn't get back to you,

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well it got lost in the mail. And because it

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happened so long ago, we don't have paperwork about it.

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That ax doesn't have any paper work about it or

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whatever currier, nobody has a new paperwork about it. So

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that didn't make the plantiff happy. So he sued Beckett

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over the card and that lawsuit is what's going on.

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I mean, and you kind of hit the nail on

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the head. There's there's a defense. There's a legal defense

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out there called the statute alimitate. You have to bring

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a lawsuit within a certain time pier and the reason

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those exist is because judges want issues before them that

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have that are ripe, where you have like the most

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materials are available, witnesses are still alive, documents still exist,

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it's so fresh in everybody's head. As time goes on,

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you lose documents, people pass away, people's memories. So that's

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why you have the statute of limitation built in. And

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as you can imagine, that's what Beckett has been pounding

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the whole time, you know, regardless as to what the

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merits are. You know, first of all, we deny everything

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that the plaintiff is a llegend. However, he's out a time.

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Because he's out of time, we should win. And that's

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been a real fight and the case has been kind

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of a fun one to watch too, because the plaintiff

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in that case, since he's not a lawyer, is unfamiliar

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with the legal system. He's been making he's been rather

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aggressive and has actually filed five motion sanction in the case.

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It's only been pending for six months I think six

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total months, and he's brought five motions for sanction. To

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put that in the perspective, twenty five years I've been

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practicing law, I've only filed two motions for sage, so

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he's more than double. He's lapped me. And then it's

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halfway to lapping me again with the number of emotions

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for sanctions that he's filed for and the judges denied

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them up. But what was interesting is we had an

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order come down yesterday where a lot of the motions

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for sanction he's alleging, Hey, beckettsecivenmini documents, they're destroying evidence,

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blah blah blah, all these other The judges pretty much said, hey,

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we'll get to it in the case. We'll get to

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it in the case you need to talk to them.

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But one thing that the judge said is, I do

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want some documents that have to in particular, I want

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to see the you know, I want to see where

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this card was, who had the card, who was in

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possession of the card. I want to see the chain

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of custod from both sides. Now, normally with a motion

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to dismiss the statute limitations, you don't get any The

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cases ends really quickly. So I thought it was pretty

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interesting that the judge at least wanted the parties to

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exchange that type of document before he rules on the motion.

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But I think ultimately, too much time has spent twelve

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years of best there's very very few, if any claims

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out there that would survive twelve years. So I think

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that's I think the case. Ultimately, I think Beckett will

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win the case. But to go along the AI side,

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at some point, Beckett did argue that some of the

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cases that the plaintiff argued are cases that don't exist.

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So because of that, they're alleging he's relying on AI

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in generating the plant. If denies it. But I think

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it ties in together with this whole AI, you know,

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in the hobby, and I think we're gonna start seeing

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a lot More's a couple of cases on going in

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with it right now.

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I think we're gonna see a lot more of these.

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I don't know if you can answer this question, Paul,

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Do you know did Beckett offer, like anything can out

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of court settlement, like hey, we'll give you this and

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let's move on. Do you know if like do are

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you privy to that information? Or is Beckett saying we'll

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see you in court. We're not giving you not and

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it's been twelve years, like this is ridiculous.

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Yeah, we haven't seen anything.

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Normally, settlement communications are kept secret between the parties, so

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if there was something out there, we haven't seen it yet.

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00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:40.720
But I imagine here if I was, if I was

477
00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.599
a defense attorney in a case like this with a

478
00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:45.400
statute of limitations that was that long, I would say,

479
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.000
let's fight the statute of limitations. Let's see what happens

480
00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:50.160
is you don't need to make a settlement offer. If

481
00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:54.039
somehow they survive that, well, then let's talk. But given

482
00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:58.480
that you know this case is a Honus Wagner settlement negotiations,

483
00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:00.839
I don't think de sides are in are going to

484
00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:04.279
meet anywhere near them because I don't about what the

485
00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:08.759
current sales h Honus Wagners are. But I guarantee either

486
00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:11.440
in the seven or eight million dollars range. And I

487
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:13.519
don't think anybody for a lawsuit that they think is

488
00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:14.759
frivolous will pay any.

489
00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:17.960
Well, again, I'll reiterate, reiterate, how do you forget that

490
00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:20.640
card yourself? Right? Number one? Yeah?

491
00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:20.920
Right?

492
00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:23.880
But I want to ask this. Let's just hypothetically say,

493
00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:28.559
say the plaintiff wins the case against Beckett, what is

494
00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:32.359
he entitled to what the price of the card twelve

495
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:35.160
years ago or the price of the card now, like,

496
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:38.160
how does that? You know? Obviously, then there's court fees

497
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.240
and and like you can, you can and damages above

498
00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:44.480
the price of the card. But just speaking to the

499
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.920
card itself, if if the plaintiff was to win the case,

500
00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.119
what what where? What would he be you know, price

501
00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.799
twelve years ago or current market price.

502
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.160
And that's what's We really don't have any cases out

503
00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.680
there that have gotten to that have gotten that far.

504
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.279
We'll talk about one a little bit later that might

505
00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:05.880
get us there, but most cases settle, and as you

506
00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.920
can imagine, the plaintiffs are arguing whatever value is the highest.

507
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:10.880
If it was higher back then, if it's higher now,

508
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:12.960
that's what it'd be. And the defendants are obviously going

509
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:15.359
to argue the other. So when you're like, if you're

510
00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:20.160
talking modern wax, you know Zion Williamson Williamson PSA ten

511
00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.160
way back in the day, it was worth a lot

512
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:25.039
more then than it was now. So you know, you

513
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:28.079
could see how each side will pick their pick what

514
00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:31.519
value that they want. But also it depends on your

515
00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:35.720
state law. Some states do not allow will not allow

516
00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:40.799
what's in a breach of contract action what's called consequential damage,

517
00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:44.079
which is an increase in value. So if you had

518
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:47.960
a contract for ten bucks and ultimately the product ten

519
00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:50.160
years later is worth fifty bucks. If you're in one

520
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:52.279
of those states that does not allow you for a

521
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.759
contract action to see consequential damages, you're stuck with that

522
00:27:55.839 --> 00:28:00.359
initial ten buck. Now, So so that was the big ends.

523
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:02.759
It depends on what state you're in, and it depends

524
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:05.319
which side you're on. And you know, we don't have

525
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:08.079
a judge has come in chimed in yet to say

526
00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:10.680
what controls, so we'll just have to wait and see.

527
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:13.759
Yeah, thats definitely interesting to see how that turns out.

528
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:18.000
One last question pertaining to that. If a judge feels

529
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.039
like he's going to rule in the plaintiff's favor, how

530
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:24.720
does he, like, does he determine the amount or does

531
00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:27.759
he go to beck and then say I'm about to

532
00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:30.839
rule against you. You may want to like try to settle.

533
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.160
Is that is that how that works?

534
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.480
Or no, it'll it'll most most times people select a

535
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:39.720
jury for it, so the jury will decide which party

536
00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:43.000
wins the case, and then they'll decide if the plaintiff wins.

537
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.960
Who's entitled to what value, So it won't be the judge.

538
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:50.599
So the judge really just decides is there sufficient facts?

539
00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:54.200
Does the law exist to allow a jury to decide

540
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:56.759
and if there is sufficient law, if the law is

541
00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.279
actually supporting the plaintiff, and if there are sufficient facts

542
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.079
that are in dispute, then they'll.

543
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:02.640
Give it to the jury.

544
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:05.880
But it'll be the jury that'll decide who wins, who loses,

545
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:09.240
and if the plaintive wins, how much money they okay.

546
00:29:09.319 --> 00:29:13.160
And that's I mean, obviously there's a potentially appeals processes

547
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:15.880
and whatnot. So if that was if a jury did

548
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:20.480
decide in favor of the gentleman who claims his wagner

549
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:25.960
never got returned, it would probably be moove Becke to Obviously,

550
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:28.359
they're either gonna appeal or they're gonna try maybe to

551
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.880
be get out on the low end of things if possible.

552
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:33.359
Yeah, if possible.

553
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:35.200
But I think for a case like this, it's I

554
00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:37.720
don't remember what he's asking for, but I think he's

555
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:40.319
asking for somewhere between twenty to twenty five millions, So

556
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:42.400
I think I think when you get to that point,

557
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:44.160
I don't think there's gonna be a middle.

558
00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:45.200
Ground for that one.

559
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:49.039
Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. And like Paul, I'm a bulk

560
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:53.680
supper for SGC, right, I got I got fifty dollars

561
00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:55.920
cards that people are calling me every week like are

562
00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:59.160
they back yet? Are they back yet? You know, like

563
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.279
this is a a icond of historic car to the hobby.

564
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:06.359
Like I didn't forget that for twelve years, and like

565
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:09.359
that's to me, that's I don't know, I just can't fathom.

566
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:12.720
But I had a twenty dollars card that bounced all

567
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:15.599
over the coast for a month before it showed up.

568
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:17.319
And even that caused me a little apprehension.

569
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.960
Yeah, yeah, it makes it's it's kind of goofy, it's

570
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.960
you know, but we'll see how that How how long

571
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.759
will something like that potentially could be in in litigation?

572
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.599
Like how long could something like that drag out for.

573
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:35.720
I would call this a simple case. There's not very

574
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:37.440
many issues that are here.

575
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.039
I could see this a case like this lasting year

576
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:43.640
to fifteen months, depending on what depending on what happens.

577
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.039
Cases do not move quickly in the court system, And

578
00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.359
that'll be just getting a jury trial. If there's gonna

579
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:51.599
be an appeal process, we'll add another year year and

580
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:52.559
a half on top of that.

581
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:57.200
Yeah, all right, hope you enjoyed Part one of four

582
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:01.519
with mister Paul LESCo. The hobby Law and the next

583
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:05.400
three episodes we're gonna chop up some more hobby litigation.

584
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:08.680
And again, uh, while you may not it may not

585
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.240
directly affect you, it directly affects the hobby, right, and

586
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:15.920
it's very important to note that.

587
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:17.039
So uh.

588
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:20.960
And it's just interesting to learn sort of how you

589
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.000
know the law works and how these cases are decided

590
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:28.480
and who might have the edge in them. So again,

591
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:33.279
I always love having Paul on to to dissect these cases,

592
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.480
make it easier to understand if you're not a lawyer

593
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.240
like most of us. And hope you hope you enjoyed it.

594
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:45.079
Three more the next three fridays. All right, now we're

595
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gonna hear from our Hobby is the People an now

596
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:49.720
through the week and wrap up this week's.

597
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Show time for all the people announcer of the week. Hey,

598
00:31:58.160 --> 00:31:58.920
what's up your boy?

599
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.319
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600
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:03.359
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601
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