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Hobby Quick Hits, delivering that breaking hobby newsreaders. You want
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to know those hot Josh card shaft shafter You've got
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your coming your host John new Name.
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Hello, everyone, Welcome to episode two seventeen of Hobby Quick Hits.
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And this was a show I thought I did last
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year and then I realized I didn't, and so I'm like,
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I definitely have to do this this year. What am
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I talking about? Well, we just got through with Thanksgiving.
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I hope yours was a great a great one spent
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with family and friends, enjoying the things we should all
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be grateful for, and so I wanted to do an episode.
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We're gonna leave out the new and product release schedule
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on this episode to keep this episode short and sweet.
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And so what is it. It's going to be me
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sort of tipping my cap and giving thanks to a
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bunch of different folks right that have made and I'll
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keep it to the hobby related, not across the board,
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just hobby related people that I'm grateful and thankful for
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to what I get to do. And I wear a
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few hats in the hobby right those mostly you know,
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you know, besides the content creator, I'm a folk suburb
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for SGC. I'm a dealer who's set up at shows
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since the age of fifteen, so thirty seven years that
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shows now and so you know, I want to give
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thanks as a podcaster, as a dealer, and even as
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an administrator with Hobby Hotline, right the third show that
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I'm involved with. So you know, today's my you know,
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tip my cap to and you know, you know we
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even if we I know it's one day a year,
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we should be thankful and grateful every day three hundred
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and sixty five twenty four to seven, and I am.
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But I'm gonna take this episode to to mention some
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folks and and be thankful form and appreciate them. And
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so that's what this episode's gonna be. It's not gonna
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be long. Like I said, we're gonna we took out
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the news segment. We'll catch you up back up with
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that in a couple of weeks. With the next Hobby
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Quick Hits and product release calendar, well, well we'll table
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those for this episode to keep this at a at
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a shorter length. And that being said, so we're gonna
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hear from our great sponsor of this program and then
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give out some thanks and kudos. Uh so stay with us.
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All right, time to give some thanks out. I thought
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I did this kind of show last year. I did it,
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so I definitely wanted to do it this year and
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try to keep bit more hobby. I mean, I could
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thank a lot of people pertaining to my real job
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and which I love, but let's keep it just hobby related.
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And I think you know we should do this. I know.
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Thanksgivings one day a year, but we should be grateful
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throughout the year, if not every day. And so I'm
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gonna kind of do this in sort of a segments, right,
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because I wear different hats in the hobby, right, content
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creator with the podcasting, and then show dealer setting up
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at shows and stuff. So starting on the podcast side, right,
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I want to start off with thanking my wife sharing
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and you know, she's not in the hobby, she doesn't
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know anything about cards, but she gives me the freedoms
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and the supportive that allows me to do stuff pertaining
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to the hobby, whether that's traveling time where I'm not home,
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time when I'm upstairs here in this studio recording and
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doing doing that sort of work, and never really complains
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about it, and uh, you know, and allows me to
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do what I enjoy and I obviously in turn do
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the same. But I want to definitely acknowledge that, right. Uh.
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I say this all the time, and I'll say it
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again on a Thanksgiving episode, right you out there, right,
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we don't exist without you, right, or otherwise I'd be
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talking to myself, which you know, I wouldn't bother me,
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but wouldn't wouldn't be fun, right, So uh. And you
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know even with four years in on this show, uh
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and and almost seven uh no, we are seven years
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into the Sports Cardination podcast like to you know, see
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the growth and and you know every show hits a
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plateau and then you tweak some stuff and so uh
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since the last you know, this year, I went to
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the double episodes on Sports Carnation rather than one big
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long episodes. It was something I was thinking about and
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then some feedback was given to me, like John, your
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episodes are too long, Like I love your show, but
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you know, short episodes please, and between me already kind
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of leaning that way and then getting that feedback, that's
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why we went to the double episodes. So you know,
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our episode's average now thirty to forty five minutes each
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instead of an hour and a half, sometimes even more
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than an hour and a half. And the feedback I've
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gotten from that has been tremendous people, you know, a
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lot of compliments and the numbers and the demographics reports
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I get denote that people are enjoying that too, and
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I probably should have done it sooner, quite frankly. But again,
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they get into the listeners out there not only for listening,
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but for contacting me give me feedback, good bad either way,
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and it makes the show, I believe better. And you know,
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whether you listen to one show, every show just shows
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that interest you doesn't matter. I appreciate all of you
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in the same form and capacity. Sponsors, Right, I didn't
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get it. I didn't start the podcast in twenty eighteen
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to get sponsorships. Right. That wasn't you know, one of
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the goals I set. But it became a part of
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the show. And I want to thank you know, my
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current sponsor, but I want to you know, I think
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all sponsors that have been a part of the show,
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even if they're not any longer, and you know, the
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fact that you thought enough of the show to be
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a part of it. And I call it the Sports
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Carnation family. That means a lot. But let me let
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me thank the current sponsor as well. So the title
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sponsor of this show Sports Card Shop by the Goacher family.
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You know, two locations of Alparaiso in New Buffalo, Michigan,
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in Valparaiso, Indiana. And I've gotten to know Rex and
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his sons, Max and Owen, and just a great family,
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great people who care about the hobby, care about their customers.
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And just honored and privilege to have them part of
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this program. And I can't stress that enough now. Just overall,
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you know, Iron Sports Cards one of the one of
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my sort of first sponsor, not the first, but rob
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they're doing BOLK submissions, one of my early sponsors and
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still to this day with US Sports Collectors Digest, I
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get the right for them, I think going on three
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years now. Just an honor and the privilege. And Jeff Owens,
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who's the editor in charge. Just again when we talk
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about great people, Uh, Jeff, Jeff checks those boxes and uh,
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I really appreciate him. And Sports Collectors Digest, who's one
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of the ogs when it comes to online publications. So
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shout out to them. Uh. Upper Deck, you know, they
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let me review some product from time to time and
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again wish they had more licensing like they used to,
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but they make some great, great hockey product. So when
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it comes to making this show possible, right, some of
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that stuff and again with upper Deck, most of that
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stuff I give away to listeners. So it allows listeners
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to get some freebies and it allows me to send
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out some racks. So I appreciate Upper Deck for no
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trusting me and believing in me to to do that.
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I want to thank fellow content creators. Whether I know
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you or I don't know you. I think it's I
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look at to me. I can only speak for myself.
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I look at content create content creators as a fraternity,
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and you know, I like to think we push each other, right,
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I believe we all get ideas for shows from each other.
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To say, you don't, I think SI ingenuous. It's funny
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because I've done shows and where someone hasn't done yet,
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and then lay after that. You know, people tackle that
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topic and I'm okay with that. That that's great. I like,
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you know, if I do that, I tend to give
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credit where I got the idea from most of the time,
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I believe, or at least I try to. But I
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think we're all the same fraternity. We push each other
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to be better. It's not so much to beat somebody,
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but just to make you know, that internal drive to
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be a better content creator. So that's the content creator side.
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Let's go to my my show side, right, And So
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I have a group of friends that I usually set
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up with Chad Alessio and Nick. You know Lessio. I
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went to high school with Chad. Is the godfather of
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my son Jordan. And I've known him for thirty plus years,
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played softball with him for almost that long, if not.
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And and Nick Dio's same thing. I've known him a while,
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and uh, you know, we just have a blast setting
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up at shows together. We're throwing peanuts at each other,
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catching them and them. You know, people think we're nuts,
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but we're really just having having some fun. And and Joe,
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you know, we love doing shows. And I you know,
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I think that comes out with some of our antics
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and most people get us, you know, but uh, you know,
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it's nice because you have someone to talk to you
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or ask for an opinion and they're right there. You
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got to use the restroom or you got to leave
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the table for a bit, they can cover you. And
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you know, with me doing you know, usually two of
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my own tables and then an STC table, that's three tables,
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it's not always easy to walk around or even hit
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the restroom depending on where it is. So uh, and
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not just them, but fellow dealers in general. Right, we
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talk about the fraternity of content creators. Uh, that's the same.
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I look at dealers the same way the promoters. Right,
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The shows don't happen without them, And good promoters make
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these shows happen. Not only make these shows happen, but
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make them successful. And you know my Syracuse ones I've
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done for over twenty years now, they're usually very good
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for me. I'm very blessed. And Lynn Lake on that
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front does a great job with them. Andrew Cross it,
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even though I don't do the Watertown show no more anymore,
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he does a great job in his own right. He
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does some other area shows which I dabble in as well.
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Right to customers, Right, when you're a dealer, you rely
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on great customers, have a great show. Obviously, when you
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set up at a show, you want to make some deals, right,
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whether it be a sale or sale slash trade or
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just a trade only. Right does not happen without the consumer.
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And it's not even just you know, it's not even
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just the transactional, right, it's the conversations you have with
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great people. And you know the SGC table, well, you know,
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and I'm two years into that and it's been a
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blessing in itself. And if you heard the story, almost accidental, right,
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I've gotten to meet some great people at that table,
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and people put the trust in you right, they're handing
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over a Mickey man o' rookie, Jackie Robinson, cards, Ted Williams.
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You know some big, big time ka babe ruth I've
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had babe ruths come true. And the fact that people
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trust me to handle that stuff. I'm very thankful and
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blessed for that. I want to thank them for giving
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me that ability. Thank you SGC. Speaking of sponsors, right,
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they do sponsor the podcast and they allow me to
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be the bulk suburn. You know, I know we hear
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all the doomsday stuff. They are they're still going. I
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just stalked in my rep a day before I recorded this,
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and there's no according to him, there's no plans to
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close up. They are, you know, going, still going and
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plan on still going. So shout out to them on
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two fronts, right, the folks of and the sponsorship of
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the podcasting. And I love them, right, I grade my
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cards there. It's not just a money making vessel for me.
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It's a product and service I believe in. I was
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a user of SGC before they run a sponsor of
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our shows. BCW great affiliate, you know, we having a
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link where people can get ten percent off and then
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I get a percentage of the sales. You know, generally,
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you know, affiliate links work. Well, it's been it's been
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a great partnership with them too. You know, I take
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out any of my affiliate commissions kind of a week
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or two before the National and use that as some
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spending money and that's been tremendous and an asset and
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helps me frankly acquire a couple card. So thanks to them.
