June 15, 2026

Q & A Episode Hobby Quick Hits E231

Q & A Episode Hobby Quick Hits E231
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We are back with regular programming and we had some questions in the que so why not a Q and A Episode.


Keep your questions coming!


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Hobby Got Quick Kids delivering that breaking hobby newsreaders.

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You want to know those Joshott's hard Shop shop. You've

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got your your host, John new name name.

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Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hobby Quick Kits

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number two thirty one to be exact. And we haven't

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missed any shows, but you know we're every other Monday,

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and the last three every other Mondays. We did our

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uh NFL Football Draft breakdown with my friend and Tutorrah

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and actually that was his audio. I was on his

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show and he let me have the audio to use

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for Hobby Quickets. So the last regular Hobby Quick Hits

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we did was April twentieth, so it's been a couple

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of months since we did regular Hobby Quick Hits Contact,

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But we're back on the regular content horse today with

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our Q and A another Q and A episode. So

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again I've been saving these questions. These questions come into

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me and then I answer them right away to the

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person directly that either dms me or emails me the

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question itself. But I also ask him, had I love

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the question? Can I use this on a future Hobbyquick

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Quick Hits Q and A episode? And with permission, I

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air these sometimes they say, just use my first name,

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and actually I just use first names just you know,

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so we don't you know, I don't know, just be

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I'm careful with using last names of somebody else unless

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they say it's more than fine. And sometimes they say, hey,

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I don't really want to be identified. Just say it's

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an you know, just use the content anonymously, and I

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respect that as well. So with that being said, by

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by all means keep the questions coming on you and

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if you may hear it on the air, with your permission.

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So with that being said, uh, let's let's get this

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show rolling.

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Okay. Now a quick word from our great sponsor, followed

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by the new product release schedule. Then we'll go around

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the hobby verse to tell you all the latest hobby

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happenings and news. Then we'll tackle today's topic of discussion. Hi,

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All right, time for the new release schedule for the

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next couple weeks. Let's start with June seventeenth. We've got

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twenty twenty six Leaf Spectacular Football twenty twenty five, Slash

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twenty six, Pannini Origins EuroLeague Basketball, Hobby twenty twenty six,

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Panini Select Racing twenty twenty six, Top Chrome, Disney Blasters,

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Hobby and Megas twenty twenty five, Tops Dynasty Baseball twenty

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twenty five, Tops Inception Baseball. Let's go to the next day,

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June eighteenth, twenty twenty five, Slash twenty six, Tops YUWIFA

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Women's Champions League, Chrome Soccer Blaster and Hobbies. Now to

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the nineteenth, twenty twenty six Leaf Metal Independence Day, Founding Fathers,

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Version and Hobby Pokemon First Partner Illustration Collection Series two

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Pokemon Mega Lucario X League Battle Deck twenty twenty five,

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Slash twenty six Tops Chrome Cactus Jack Baseball twenty twenty

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five Tops Cosmic Chrome Football going to the twenty third

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now twenty twenty five, twenty six Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Hockey.

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We've got twenty twenty six Keepsake Michael Jackson Bad World

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Tour Premiere Mini going to the twenty fourth. Now we

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have twenty twenty six Top Series two Baseball. We have

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twenty twenty six Tops Tier one Baseball, twenty twenty five,

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Slash twenty six Upper Deck sp Authentic Hockey going to

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the twenty fifth now twenty twenty five. Slash twenty six

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Tops YUIFA Club Competition's Finest Soccer to d twenty sixth.

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I don't know much about this product, but it's on

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the release schedule c c ZX Jurassic Park. I don't

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know what that is, but it's a Jurassic Park release

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twenty twenty five. Slash twenty six Panini Origins EuroLeague Basketball

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h two twenty twenty five, Slash twenty six Panini Pitchkings

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Soccer Hobby International twenty twenty six Panini Prison World Cup Soccer,

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twenty twenty five, Slash twenty six Top SHUWIFA Club Competition's

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Chrome Soccer Sapphire still on the twenty sixth, twenty twenty

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six tops UFC Knockout, and twenty twenty six Leaf Electum

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Baseball Hobby.

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So that is.

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Your next two weeks of product releases. Lots of stuff

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coming out, so choose your product and happy ripping.

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Let's go round the hobby verse and catch up on

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this week's hobby news.

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And find out.

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All right, it's been a bit since we did a

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news segment, so I can't catch up on everything. Let's

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talk about some of the biggest stories since the last

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time we did a new segment.

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It's not new new.

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News, but PSA is pausing their value their value bulk,

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their value plus and their value max levels. They're saying

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they're hoping it's only for four months. There's a report

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that their backlog fourteen million cards. So if you do

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want to sub still to PSA, the cheapest way you're

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going to do it is seventy four ninety nine on

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their regular service, which is a approximate fifty day turnaround.

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So it's going to cost you more money as they

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try to catch up. Last time this happened was during

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the COVID crescendo. If you remember that, Bobby Witt Junior

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has an exclusive deal with Pannini and.

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Under Armour when it comes to some cards.

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When you buy cleats, He's got a new pair of

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cleats called the Dream Pool made by under Armor. So

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at most of your big sporting good store and every

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pair of cleats in the box will have a Panini

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Bobby Junior card, either a Sneaker Spotlight card or a

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color Blast cards. So you buy a pair of stream

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Bull cleats and you get a exclusive card produced by Pannini.

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Speaking of Panini, they have a new deal multi year

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deal with Pathway Sports and Entertainment, who specialize in the

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NIL to produce athletes in various college sports football, volleyball, soccer,

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and basketball, and et cetera, featuring you know, Notre Dame, Michigan,

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the USC, and Texas Tech. So Panini prepares for life

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after licensing with all these NIL deals. Bruce Buffer, the

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guy that bring announce there from UFC that trademark his

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coined his trademark phrase right, it's time I didn't do that.

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I sounded like Liam Cohen trying to do the Duval chant.

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But you know the one he's opening up an LCS.

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It's called It's Time Sports Cards. It's in Agora Hills, California,

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eight thousand square feet of cards. Store, has a lounge,

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a lot of his artwork is there. They're going to

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carry off sports and nonsports. So check that place out

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to pick made it look pretty cool. So you know,

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we think of police officers as protect and serve, and

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ninety nine percent of them do that. Well, let's talk

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about one that didn't do that, and that his name

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is Brian Casey from Grand Rapperts, mich Michigan, former police officer.

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I might add now, as he was relieved of his duties.

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He was relieved of his duties because he robbed a

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Grand Rapperts card store, crashed his truck, found drunk in

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his truck with the cards that he stole from that

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Grand Rapperts card store.

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But then they later.

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Linked him to another robbery two months earlier in another

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part of Michigan, not in Grant's effort. He was still

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active on the force when he robbed that store. He

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wore the same clothing and both robberies, which made it

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easier really to attribute him to both cases. So police

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officer who robbed cards and lost the job. Oh, we're

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not done with bad crime stories in the hobby. You

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know that seems like every week, every day. Right, Not

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a police officer this time, but Paul Randall from Orange, California,

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Brace yourselves two hundred and seventy million dollars of medicaid fraud.

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He was bilking the California Medicaid with all these prescription

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orders to be filled and paid two hundred and seventy

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million dollars. So you're like, John, where's the card relation

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to this? This sounds like I'm medical and law story. Well,

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you wouldn't be wrong, but he has over a million

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dollars in cards that he bought with his fraudulent received money,

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including multiple Manal Rookies, multiple Jackie Robinson Rookies in pretty

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decent grade. He also bought a ten bedroom, eight bathroom mansion,

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numerous Ferraris and Lamborghinis, and he's facing thirty years in prison.

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He's sixty six years old, so it's probably safe to

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say his life on the outside world is most likely

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over if he's convicted and a lot of evidence there.

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Everything he purchased with the stolen fraudulent money will be

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going up for auction via a government auction, so be

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on the lookout for that. And some over million dollars

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worth of cards, including some high grade Robinson and man

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Or rookies. That's that's gonna be the news. You know,

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we'll keep it short and sweet. This has actually been

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quite a quiet news cycle comparably speaking.

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So there you go, and no feature.

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All right, let's get to the Q and A episode.

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Let me preface this by saying, keep those questions coming, uh,

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whether it be via private message, direct message, email, whatever

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the router delivery is fine. Always know I answer them

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as fast as I can directly, and then I may

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ask you, you know, can we use this on a

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future Q and A episode? These questions I all got

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permission for. I only use first names. And if someone

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ever says, hey, I don't want you to use my

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name at all, but you can use who's it without

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my name attached, we can do that too. So again,

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keep any questions you have for myself. They can even

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be a little off topic if you will. Let's start

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out with probably the big hot topic in the hobby

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and a question that comes from junior. Junior asks, you know,

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what do you think the effects of the PSA pause

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on the lower levels will have across the grading board.

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I'm paraphrasing, but wanted to know my opinion on how

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this affects not only PSA but degrading terrain.

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As a whole.

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Since Collectors owns three of the Big Four. As they say,

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I don't think it's good. I understand, you know their

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reasonings and why they did it. You know, I don't

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think it's good. It gives people, you know, less options

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if you will. You know, I see it as a

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door opening for CGC if they can make some right calls.

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But I'm pretty sure.

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I just saw they sort of raise prices too, so

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you know, it's it's it really, you know, if you

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want to have one of the Big Four grade your cards,

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it's gonna be tricky. And I think what will happen

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is we're gonna see less lesser cards, if you will,

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And I hate that word lesser, but lesser valued, lesser

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big you know, you know, cards that move my meters

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I like to say being sucked, you know, at a

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lower price.

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Level.

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You know, you're gonna see more cards being you know graded,

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that's just at anything lesser price, more people going to

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buy something if you will. I just did a show

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where I took sh see cards that did not affect

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my intake there, and there's a I would even venture

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to say that I think I got even some more

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because that's you know, eighteen dollars a card, So I

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think SGC is going to see an increase. They're turnaround

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times at about sixty days so to between two and

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three months. But at eight, you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,

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eighteen dollars, it's still in that lesser you know, cost range.

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So hopefully PSA catches up, we'll see. But right now,

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that's that's kind of my take on the whole thing.

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So all right, our next question comes from Allen who

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says our garbage kids a fat, garbage, pale kids are

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fad I think he meant to say. Now, I think

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they're just another niche of the non sports high hobby,

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right like Pokemon or Magic to Gathering or you know,

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movie cards or Disney. I think they have their own fandom,

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And well, I'm not really buying any any new ones

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like I grew up with garbage pail kids and wacky packages,

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and so what did we know, right, Trading cards has

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a nostalgia factor. So I'm sure many people who were

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fans of them like me when they were younger, maybe

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got back.

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In, you know, or bought some of the new ones.

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So and not even just the nostalgia factor, right, even

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new collectors are like stuff like that. So now I

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don't I don't think it's a fad that's obviously not

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going to be on the same level as like a Pokemon.

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But don't you know, garbage pail kids will have their

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own niche part of hobby. People collect them, you know,

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some people, Yeah, I will admit it. It's not a secret.

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I'm a big Lady Ga got Billy Joe fans, so

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they did some cards of them, and I bought the singles.

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So me saying I'm not buying them isn't one hundred

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per I'm not buying wax or boxes, but I am

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buying some singles that I like just to have them,

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not for value or I think they're gonna go up,

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just being fans of an artist in my case, Lady

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Gaga in Billy Joe.

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So that's my take there, all right.

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Next question comes from Chris. He asked, do you see

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any of the sets from nineteen eighty to two thousand

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taking off? You know, sometimes called the junk wack era.

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I don't know if taking off. I think we're too late.

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You know, people know what they know. But I still

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there's great sets be in those twenty years that you

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mentioned right one that I'm particularly fond of the eighty

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four Flare Update set with all those rookies in it. Now,

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that could have been a bigger set had you know,

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things went differently for Dwight Gooden and Daryl Strawberry. But

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it's still a great set with Pucket again, Clemens is

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in there. Another another's bad ending story, if you will.

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But Pucket's rookie, Eater's Pete Rose, you know. So it's

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still an iconic sept because it's it's not a lot

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of them to go round. I think, you know, see

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what we've seen sealed eighty nine upper deck sets rise

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for obvious reasons right to Griffy, And you know, it's

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funny looking at the eighty nine design even to this day,

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like it's really it really stands out even all these

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years later all those, you know, I think we're seeing

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sort of a rise in some of these small regional

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and sets, and again not you can't always look at

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things at dollars and cents, but like you know, Kmart

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did a hot Rookie set for some rookies and I

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think eighty nine. You know, you got some of the

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donors the rookie sets, some of the smaller sets that

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maybe don't take up a bunch of space where you know,

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the stars per per population are at a higher rate

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with a smaller set like a Donorus the rookies. You know,

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we've seen a lot of like one off sets start

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to rise and when people figure out there's just not

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a million of these, like the regular flagship stuff, I

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think we're seeing a return to popularity and in some

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cases more than they were when they came out. Some

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of these sets that have picked up steam now weren't

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super popular when they first came out. Things I used

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to collect, like the discs sets in the in the

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eighties and nineties from like beef jerky tins. I think

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we're seeing an increase in demand for some obscure stuff.

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So that's if anything, I think from the eighties nineteen

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eighties to the two thousands. It's going to be some

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of those smaller obscure sets that they're just you know,

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didn't you know, print the heck out of And they exist,

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they're they're out there. So there's my answer there. Okay,

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a couple more next one from James who says, what

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are your thoughts on printing plates with autos?

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Yeah, I don't. I don't have a problem with them.

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I own I own some one that comes to mind

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I'm looking at right now in my case a joke

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me and Joe Green. So I have a mean Joe

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Green one on one printing plate with an auto. You know,

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I think they have again, they have a place in

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the hobbies. Like some people may not like them some.

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You know, I hear.

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I guess you didn't say in your email, but I'm

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guessing you mean, like, you know, is there four one

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on ones? Because of the four colors, it's not a

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true one to one. I think we'll printing plates. They're

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in a quiet taste, right so I think that's what

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they are for me. I'm a big mean Joe Green guy.

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Got a nice deal on a one on one signed

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printing plate, and I bought. It doesn't bother me that

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there's three other different colored one on ones.

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Let's say I, you know, I just wanted that one.

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You know, player collectors are gonna want those cards. And listen,

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if you're opening a product, right, uh you, and you

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pull a one on one printing plate signed, you're probably

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gonna be ecstatic about it, even if it may be

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is not the greatest player in the world that that

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signed it.

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So you know I don't have it.

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I don't have an issue with them. And you know,

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I've pulled a couple in my day and and you know,

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you still get that adrenaline rush, So uh yeah, I

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think I think, you know, certain people going to still

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want them, get them, buy them, purchase them, trade them,

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so they don't bother me.

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All right. One last question.

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This one comes from Jesse and it's sort of in

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line with the one on one printing plate. Auto is

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leaf ruining celebrity autos by the amount they're producing. No again,

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it's another niche of the hobby, right, nonsports autos and those.

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You know, I've seen a lot of ripping of those

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celebrity products in person at a store I go to,

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so it is very popular.

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Are they killing it?

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I think it's some I can make a counterpoint, right,

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some of the autographs they have are from celebrities that

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normally are not big signers. But Leaf is bucking up,

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you know, I don't there's probably not a lot of

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hairs and for autos and you know, things like that.

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But gives you an opportunity, right to get an autograph

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of someone that you probably wouldn't be able to get

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in person or another way. So it all comes down

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to the price point, right, what are you willing to

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pay for an individual card or a wax box or case? Right,

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So I don't think they're killing their root, you know

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the word you use, we're ruining celebrity autos. I think

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it's just another vessel to acquire. And I again, I

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own some some Leaf autos, not a ton, but I

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do have. I do have a a couple of people

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that I like that are you know, non athletes. I

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think it's a great opportunity, you know, to get non

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athlete autos. And again it comes down the price point.

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You know, I've seen Harrison Fords bring big money, but

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for someone who's a huge Harrison Ford fan, not me,

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but someone might be willing to buck up. You know,

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I don't believe he signs very much in person, doesn't

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respond to TTM. So it's a way where if you're

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maybe you're a Star Wars collector maybe you're just a

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Harrison Ford super fan, it's a it's a way to

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honor and still and get the autograph of that person

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where maybe you wouldn't be before. So actually I think

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the opposite, you know, maybe you know, maybe you're just

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not a fan of Leaf and I get that they've

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they have their warts so like a lot of companies do.

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But I don't think they're ruining celebrity audises, which is

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how it's worthed. So just another niche if that's a

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lane you collected. So and again, I have a few

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of those printing plates, like if you see my PC,

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it's a little bit of it's pretty eclectic and a

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little bit of everything.

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So uh so, there you go.

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So there's our questions for for this week's Q and A. Again,

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I'm gonna shameless plug keep those questions coming, whatever they

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may be, you know, even if you want to know

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what my favorite food is. Whatever, they can be a

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little off off topic. We have fun here and I

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want to have want you to have fun too. So

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with that being said, we are going to wrap up

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this segment. Thanks everybody,