Jan. 9, 2026

Spiegel .vs Goldin. PSA 9's to 10's Paul Lesko explains E370

Spiegel .vs Goldin. PSA 9's to 10's Paul Lesko explains E370
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What is up? Everybody? Welcome to episode three seventy of

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Sports Cardination, Part four. I don't like calling them parts

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because you don't have to listen to him in order.

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But the fourth installment of our Hobby legal series with

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Attorney Paul LESCo and friend and a Great Guy breaks

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it down for us in simple terms. This is the

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fourth installment of the previous three were the previous three weeks,

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so this will wrap it up for now with Paul

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and a couple of cases. On today's episode, we're gonna

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talk about the Spiegel versus Golden case, which involves a

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lebron RPA and dispute over the patch, whether it's real

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or not, and the value that was affected by it.

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And we've mostly have probably heard about the PSA nines

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magically turning into PSA ten, so we're going to touch

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on that. It's not in the court case at least

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not at this point, but we're going to kind of

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talk about maybe some of the legal ramifications of that,

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the optics of it and all that good stuff so

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always fun, you know, and these cases are current, right

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and relative, so very important. I want to thank my sponsors,

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All right, here is the last installment of our Hobby

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Legal series with attorney Paul LESCo, and we're gonna start

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off talking about something that actually isn't in court yet.

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I say, yeah, but we'll see how this plays out.

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But we probably most of you have probably heard about

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the PSA controversy of them buying back cards and they

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miraculously go from nine to ten. So we're talking about that,

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maybe potentially seeing litigation or how the optics of it.

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You know, we're not done with with PSA just yet, Paul.

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We're not letting them go like this one's really well listen,

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you know, maybe they're picking out of themselves.

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Yeah, I mean that's really the problem. You become the

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big guy out there, you're gonna.

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Make some people.

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Yeah.

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So the this is really fresh and ongoing, right, We've

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got now you even alerted me to the fact that

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another person has alleged to this right that they had

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their cards graded they got some nines, they sold them

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to PSA, and those nines with the same certain number,

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and again, correct me if any of this is inaccurate,

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the same certain number miraculously became up got upgraded the

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tens now that PSA is in possession of them and

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reselling them. If this is true, I'm not I have

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friends that work at PSA. I've used them. I used

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them sometimes even now. If this is true, you know,

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there's always that thing, right, I'm sure you've heard it, like,

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how would it PSA ever get knocked off? Like the

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number one line in the grading. I think it's a

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story potentially like this. I'm not saying it is. I'm

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not making that prediction, but it's something like this where

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all integrity potentially is lost and they're looked at as

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a true evil umpire. If this, if these allegations in

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fact turn to be correct and accurate, this, what do

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you There's no really reasonable explanation. You've already It's not

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like they sent that to another grading company and got there.

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They just changed it in house. It's like, you know,

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I mean, I know, I just threw a lot at

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you at one time, but but go ahead, you know,

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way in.

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Here and and I'll start I am very cynical when

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it comes to subjective grading.

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I can't tell a nine from it. I cannot. So

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whenever I have the.

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Option, if there's a card out there, if the ten

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is out of reach and the nine is less than

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a raw card, I'm buying a nine. It's pretty me

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And given the fact that it's no secret, if you

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get a bunch of ninees back, you know a lot

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of people will crack them and just reset them back

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in and they'll get some ten. I think subjective grading

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is you know, I think it's something that everybody accepts,

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and I don't think we should. But I think the

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reason it happens is because people aren't smitty cards to

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be graded because they want a third party to say

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your card is pretty. They want the ten so they

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can sell the card and make more money. So if

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you're doing business with somebody who gives tens and they're

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the most expensive.

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Ten, I e would go, Paul, I would go a

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step further. You hit the nail right in the head.

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But even people who aren't selling it right at the moment,

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they still want the ten. Whether it's an ego thing

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or the fact that maybe they're gonna sell it, not

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this year, not next year, but five years from now

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we're ten year. You still want that ten right for

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more than just financial reason. But financial reasons lead obviously

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lead lead the way, but go ahead. I just had

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to exactly to just try. I'm in there a little bit, but.

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No, no, So I mean, thank you, I mean, but

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it really is. It's just like that the PSA ten

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is what everybody wants. It is that's the high dollar

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mark for everything. So until people's believe that there's another

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company who's ten is better, everyone's gonna still keep going

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back to PSA and here. So I used to be

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a defense attorney. I started off my career from my

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first five years, I worked for a large defense so

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I actually represented the large companies and you would see,

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you know, not in this area, but you would see

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cases kind of like this, and invariably the way that

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I always always looked at it is sometimes stupidity looks

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like evil intent from the outside. And that's like when

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it comes to like fraud cases. That's one of the

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biggest defenses to fraud cases is we're not evil, we're stupid.

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And that's kind of like you know potentially. You know,

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I always try to look at things from both sides,

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and when I look at it here, it's like, well,

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if you if I'm getting it right? What PSA says

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that they did as these cards went for a second

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internal review, and in that second internal review somebody graded

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I guess three of them or three out of the

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ten they were nines and became tens. Well, I think

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we all know nines and ten's are pretty interchangeable, and

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depending on if the greater head you know, had an

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extra cup of coffee and feels good, he's going to

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give more tens than nine because they all look the same. So,

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you know, I don't really see this as like a

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critique on PSA.

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Doing anything bad or doing anything evil.

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I see it as a critique on people got to

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get over this big gap between nines and tens.

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I think nines and tens.

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Should be a lot closer in value than they are,

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and not like this because they are interchangeable, and so

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I think this is just one of those insid that

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shows nine and tens should be closer. They shouldn't be

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this far. For me, I don't think it's really evilness.

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I just see because when you're gambling with stuff that's

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so close looking at a nine, looking at ten. And

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that's why I joked about it like three months ago.

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I think at the National we need to have a

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game shift where each grading company puts three of their

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graders up and they all grade the same card, and

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we'll see when it comes up, and then we'll send

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the second you send the card through again and see

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if they, you know, see if those same graders can't

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get the same grades. I guarantee it's all going to

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be a complete out there for that. So I think

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it's I think it's more of a commentary, not necessarily

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on PSA doing anything, you know, evil or shenanigans. It's

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just that nines and tens should not be so far

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apart from each when it comes to them, because they're

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not very.

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Differct no, and we I know, we talked a little

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bit before hitting record, like, I agree, I agree with

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that you and listen, I've graded cards for thirty years now,

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I've had them next to each other most times, I

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won't say, you know, across the board. Most times the

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difference is very indiscernible between a nine and ten, So

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you're right, and when it comes to I've bought plenty

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of nines and very happy with the amount less I

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had to pay in relation to paying four ten. But

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if that's the case, let's you know, and again this

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is just an opinion here, or not so much a

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quarter of pedce. But if they're purchasing a card they

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were already graded and then reholdering it and with the

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same certain number, just isn't that sort of like it

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just it just feels sort of sleazy.

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Yeah, it does. It looks bad.

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I mean it does. It has the appearance of impropriety.

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But again you could see how the mistakes if there

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is this second layer of review, this unfortunate second layer

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of review, where something can change in between the submitter

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of the card to saying, oh easier what I got? Okay,

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I don't want to deal with them, you know, you

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can buy them back from us or what are the

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proper terminology? And then it turns out that they should

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have been if you wanted to sell them back, they

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should have been sold back for more.

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That looks bad. That looks bad.

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Yeah, the optics are really bad. Well, like, I just like,

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I'm not condoning illegal actions and whatnot. I'm just speaking

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and like like like why are you using the same

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shirt number? Like at that, like you're just yeah, this

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is why we're at where again, I'm not trying to

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say you do that in the first place, but if

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you're doing that, you're using the cert the same CIRT

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cert number. Now what goes from like you're you're just

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like you stepped in it yourself.

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And yeah, I'm unclear as to why there is a

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secondary review. I mean it just seems like, Okay, you've

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had the review for the car that's isn't it.

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Aren't you done? Aren't you done? At that point? I

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mean I could see if somebody's you know.

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In a way, you're throwing yourself under the bus, like

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our graders didn't grade that well, so we're doing it again.

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You're you're saying, what the standards the standard? You prop

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yourself up on your like undercutting yourself if if that's

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the case, so like it'll be interesting. Now are these

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going to court? These are Are these just people screaming

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from the mountaintop?

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Yeah?

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These are these are people just screaming from the mountaintops.

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Because I believe at least the first uh, you know,

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the first person I think he's been made whole or something.

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I think uh PSA has made him right somehow. I

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don't know if there's a confidentiality agreement or something there.

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It was.

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There's some funny tweets out there about it, so I

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think that one's been resolved. H So, you know, I

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don't know if there will be a court case. It's

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It's one of those things that will be difficult to

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show because I think he just got lucky with looking

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at certain numbers later seeing with certain numbers popped up

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with with higher grades. Not many people are gonna do that,

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you know, most people.

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You know, if.

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There's a lot of this, you know that you're the

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hobby lawyer. There's a lot of hobby detectives. Let me

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put this way, there's there's probably more habby detectives than

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heavy lawyers, without a doubt.

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So maybe the the hobby detectives have been We'll see

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what else out there.

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You know, I don't know how much time you want

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to spend on as we can do kind of the

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cliff notes version. I know you've been on a bit,

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you know, and this is not necessary. I don't believe

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I don't know as much about this as as the

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other ones, you know, self disclosure, but the Spiegeles versus

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Golden and the Lebron r PA. Again, I'm going to

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acquiesce to your time here, but we'll kind of close

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on this case, you know, just kind of fill in

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I know a little bit, but in comparison to these

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other cases, not as much.

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And this is this is another case that really interests

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me as a as a trial attorney, because this is

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one of those ones that it will turn on a witness.

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So this case is about a Golden Well. The Spiegels

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consigned a Lebron RPA with Golden auction, and during the auction,

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card Porn and some other people had brought up issued

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the card.

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They alleged that the patch in the card was not authentic.

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Some of these issues had been out there beforehand, but

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nobody really you know, it wasn't to the point of, hey,

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we're not gonna sell the card.

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So the Spiegels, who.

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Are the people that consigned the card with the Goldens,

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they had a letter of I'm gonna call it a

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letter of authenticity from Upper Deck saying that the card

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is legitimate. Well, during the auction itself, the Goldens alleged

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that they talked to a Upper Deck employee and that

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individual said, hey, I'm the one that wrote the letter.

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That letter actually only authenticated the card, not the patch itself,

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So that way I cannot stand behind the patch.

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Because of that, Golden says, because of that, I ended

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the The Spiegels, on the other hand, are saying, well,

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this is nonsense because during the course of this case,

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we deposed Upper Deck and Upper Decks still says they

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stand behind the original letter of authenticity. Now they didn't

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do anything else to investigate the card or anything it appears,

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but they're still standing behind the letter of authenticity.

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So the case turns, it's really.

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Going to turn on you know, is you know, not

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only is the card authentic or is the patch of

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the card authentic or not, but when the original upper

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Deck letter was created, was written by this upper Deck employee,

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what did he say was authentic?

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What is you know?

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And what currently is he saying is authentic? And what

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it's Upper Deck saying. So this is an entire case

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that's going to turn on that witness's testimon and that's

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the greatest type of case to not be involved with

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to actually watch because it's gonna be a nerve wrecking case.

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You never know what the other side is going to say.

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But yeah, if.

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They could live stream that case, if they could put

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it live on YouTube, paper.

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Yeah exactly, I mean, really that's what they should put.

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You know, the Goldens and the Spiegels should pay for

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this trial to be televised, and then they cut the

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money in half and it'll probably make up for you know,

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there are disputes in the case, but it'll be.

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Some phenomenal I think.

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I'm looking forward to the lawyers on both sides, the

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ones that are going to try and build them up

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as a witness and the ones that go try and

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tear him down.

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It's going to be phenomenal lawyer play. And then so.

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Where the cases right now is the judges deciding is

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there sufficient facts in dispute that it should go to trial.

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That's where we are right now. The judge is getting

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ready to say are we going to have a trial

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or not. And I think because there's so many facts

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that are in dispute, and only the jury can determine

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credibility of witnesses, and if there's a factual dispute, which

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side wins, I think this case is ripe to go

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to the jury. And I really really hope we have

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a jury trial for this.

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So Golden ended the auction and then sent the card

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back to Spiegels, so they they have the card. They're

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just mad that they are auction didn't go to full term.

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Correct, And they're also alleging that when the auction, So

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when the auction ended, Ken posted on Instagram that you know,

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he's ending the auction, and he thanked card Porn and

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other people for pointing out that there were issues with

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the card.

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They were alleging that that act the.

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Cancelation of the auction, and then the Instagram posts have

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forever damaged the value of the car. So basically, this card,

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no matter what, has an asterisk. It's why Mary Bonds

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and Mark McGuire are not going to get into the

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Hall of Fame anytime, so they have asterisks. This card

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has an asterisk. So Goldens needs to pay us the

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difference in the value. And then the Goldens have a

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kind of have a counter lawsuit saying, hey, you knew

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there were issues with this card, you didn't tell us

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about it. We wasted all this time on this auction.

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You actually owe us money for it. So that's why

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I called the case Spiegels versus the Goldens versus this.

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Yeah, it'll be interesting to see, you know what happens

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in the You know, carr Porn had other issues post

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that as well. That doesn't bode well for them. But

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that's a show in itself, so we won't get in.

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We won't get into that. But Paul I appreciate I

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always appreciate you coming on. I always learned something always,

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and I feel like I even know more about a

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lot of these cases. And again, you know, I sound

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like a broken record here, but it's true, right, regardless

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of how in the litigation you are or aren't, right,

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these are important cases to the hobby for in the

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moment and for what happens you know, next year, five years,

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ten years, twenty years from now. One one last kind

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of question. Not a litigation with Fanatics taking over a

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majority of the licensing here, now, do you think we'll

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see you think that bodes for more gation or not

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or not necessarily, just as it is.

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I think the bigger you are, the more successful you are,

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the bigger of a target you have on you. So

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it's just, you know, it's just how the game is played.

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So I hope Fanatics is continually and seeing their litigation

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department's budget because they're they're just gonna need it because

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no matter what when, Because you know, I mean training cards.

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The value of the market for training cards has just skyroll.

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It keeps going up. There's so much money involved. When

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you have this much money involved, some people are going

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to just naturally be hurt. They're gonna look for somebody

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to blame, and Fanatics has the biggest dollar sign attached,

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so I think, uh, yeah, whoever was in charge of everything,

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if this was Panini, you could see them getting forward.

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But just just because they're the biggest ones out there,

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if whatever goes wrong, oh it's Fanatics.

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Fault, we should bring a loss.

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So yeah, well listen, well we won't wait as long

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between having you on, and at this rate with court cases,

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we probably wouldn't be able to uh wait that long

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even if we wanted to again. Uh, you know, I'll

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put Paul's social media handles in the show notes. He

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breaks this. You know, it's one thing to hear it, uh,

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you know, verbally, but he does a great job even

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on social media, uh, breaking it down and in terms

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that layman like myself can understand, uh and get the

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gist of what's at stake and what's going on, and

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how how this tends to work, and the fact that

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you're you're in that profess and you know how this

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works or what options each side may have or not

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have any long I think that's uh, that's a great

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aspect and a great thing you bring Uh to that.

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And so if you're not following Paul already, uh go

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do that especially be like this sort of thing as

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I do. Uh. And again I'm very appreciate Paul. You

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you're sharing some of those insight and knowledge and uh

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uh you know, letting people know what's what's going on

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sort of behind closed doors, if you will, of the hobby,

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not on the show floor necessarily, but in the back rooms.

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As I say, I always give. I always give the

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guests kind of the last word. Give out those social

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medias too for those listening or anything else you want

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to share.

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Go sure, yeah no, And you know it's every day

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before I start my work, I check all the dockets

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that are out there for the hobby, and I always

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tweet about it. I try to make it easily understandable

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and I at least try to make it funny. So

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if you're if you're on the twitters, I'm at Paul underscore, lescou.

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Give me a follow.

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Uh hopefully you know, learn something new, but at a minimum,

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you'll see lawyers in a different life.

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Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And uh uh so there

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you go. Thanks Paul, as always.

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Thanks John for having me on This is fun.

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That wraps up our legal series with Paul LESCo. Always

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great having them money breaks it down in ways that

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you know everybody can understand rather than having to speak

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legal ease. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but

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you know, not everyone does. And again, whether these cases

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you know you're halfway interested or not, right, they do

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have a bear a direct bearing on what the future

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of the hobby might entail, and I think they were

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very important. I did them in foreign installments just to

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keep the length short. So even if it wasn't your

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cup of tea at the length that each episode was,

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I think it made it more consumable. Let me know

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what you think. We're gonna have Paul back on somewhere

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down the line, maybe with some new cases and updates.

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And you know, I joked with him when I was younger,

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I wanted to be a lawyer, and then I heard

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how long you got to go to school for it

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and so much for that. So you get me on

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this podcast instead, and my kids get me in the

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class room, uh instead, But I'll jogg and decide. Let

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me know what you thought of the four installments and

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what you thought of it, and uh, you know, we'll

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do them again down the line, uh somewhere. So let's

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let's get to the Hobby's the People Announcer of the

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Week and wrap up this week's episode.

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Time for our Hobby is the People Announcer of the Week.

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