March 13, 2026

Tim McEnery "Grinding to Hobby Success" E379

Tim McEnery "Grinding to Hobby Success" E379
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Tim McEnery of BCW Supplies joins us this week on the podcast.  


Talking points on this episode potentially include:


*Where it all started

*Collecting where you're from

*What do you collect

*Grinding your way to success 

*The Evolution of Slabstrong

*Hobby Traveling

*Hobby "Magic Wand"


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Sports guard Nations hobby is the people Wheely News and Interviews.

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Sports Gardation. What is up? Everybody? Welcome to episode three

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seventy nine Sports Cardination. So the last two weeks you

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heard Tim wermerline on the program. Great, great guy, hopefully

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great conversation in your opinion, in mind it already was.

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But well, next two weeks another Tim, and we'll talking

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about grinders. Right, this guy you look up grinder in

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the dictionary. This guy's picture is gonna be next to

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This guy has worked hard for everything he's earned and gotten,

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and he's doing very well for himself. And he's a

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super nice guy, and so you always root for nice

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guys to win and do well. And he's a new

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dad as well, so congrats to that to him. Who

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am I talking about? Tim mckenary from slab Bumpers. You

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might remember him as slab Strong, but working with BCW

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now as well, we're gonna learn kind of where it

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all started, how he grinded, how he got what he got,

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and love those kind of those stories. Right, people put

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their nose to the grindstone and make it happen, so

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Tim this week and next week, so four weeks in

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a row of Tim's if you're keeping track at home.

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I want to thank our sponsors as always, Iron sports Cards,

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with that being said, let's start the program. Excited to

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talk to my next guest on the Sportscardination guest. He's

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been on my content before and I didn't realize it

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was on the Hobby Quick Hits episode, which is a

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little as most people know, it's a little shorter version.

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But definitely wanted to have him on Sports Cardination and

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talk to him at a little bit longer length. This

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will be as most no, I do the two parts now,

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but at least we'll get to talk to him for

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a longer length of time. But I almost want to say,

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a man that doesn't need an introduction. You might recognize

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him with that hat. He's hard to miss. But Tim McHenry,

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welcome to the Sports Cardination slav Strong BCW you kind

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of uh, you know, man of Man of many hats,

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although you wear one big one.

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Yeah exactly. Yeah. Also, I sort and I'm on you

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know eBay Live, Fanax Live with sportscard consons as well,

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So yeah, definitely many hats.

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Yeah, like I said, you almost don't need an introduction.

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You kind of speak for yourself and and and whatnot.

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But I always love cutting it up with you, whether

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it's in person or this way. Man, You're you're you're,

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you know, an enthusiastic, passionate hobby guy. Right. We need

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more of that or as much of that as we

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can get, uh in in the hobby. Uh, you're a

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busy guy. Kind of before we kind of get where

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it's you know, started for you, I want to congratulate you.

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You're a new dad. Yeah, I'm an old dad, so

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you're a new dad. I mean, congratulations there. I'll let

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you kind of speak, you know, and share only what

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you you kind of want to share here with with

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the public as far as that.

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Goes, Yeah, definitely. I mean, from you know, from the

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pandemic to starting a business to you know, i'll say,

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marrying my wife and having now we have a five

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month old baby, little baby, little girl, two best things

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in my life right behind that has been a part

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of this hobby. So yeah, she's awesome. She's basically sitting

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up at the moment she kind of tips over, but yeah,

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she's doing great at five months, five months yesterday.

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Actually, well, congratulations, listen, I have a Actually I think

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I said twenty five before we started recording. This is

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how old I am, and he is. My son's twenty six.

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So you blink, you blink, dude, and like the thing happens.

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It's funny because my dad, my dad said when my

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wife was pregnant with my son, he said, John, when

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your son is born, time's gonna fly. And I just said,

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pop says, just like a saying on a wood plaque game.

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He goes, oh, you'll see. And here we are, what

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twenty six years later, and my dad's still around, thankfully.

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And you know, I tell them like, yeah, you weren't

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kidding when you when you said that, So time will

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time will fly. But congratulations, man, this, like you said,

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very few things can can if anything can match you know,

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being a dad. I'm sure mom as well, and you

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know it changes your life, usually for the better, and

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and that sort of thing. We'll get into some of

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your your travel schedule as we as we talk here.

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You're obviously not new to the hobby, but for you,

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when did the hobby start, So.

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For sure, I remember vividly opening nineteen ninety so I'm

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forty three, so at eight years old, vividly remember opening

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up Flare basketball. You know, the blue border, the blue

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border on the side one and uh man, that was great.

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That was an ugly year, though at the time we

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didn't we didn't think it, but later on like like

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that was not my favorite year, but I get it.

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But I think Jordan had three cards in that I

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want to say for sure he had two at least,

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but that was just at a time when like there's

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no autographs, right. A hobby box I think was probably

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what like forty dollars maybe fifty dollars, and I got

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a ton of packs, and I just remember just every Jordan,

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no matter what, goes right in the top lead. No Pennalsley,

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but at that time, I don't even know if they

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were around then, to be honest with you, but right

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in top loaders, that was a fun time. Now, my

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brother's three years older than me, and my dad collected baseball,

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so for sure there was collecting going on. I just

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don't really remember before eight years old, but yeah, vivid memory,

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and I still have that player set that same one

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from when I was eight years old.

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Wow, that's cool. I love hearing that because you can't

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replace it for me, Tim, And I'll make this story

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a lot short than it is. There was a seventy

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nine Reggie Jackson card opening that first pack of seventy

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nine tops. I'm fifty three, so I got ten years

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on Yeah, and you know that's that first pack, Like

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the fourth or fifth card in was the Reggie. I'm

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a New York City kid. I'm not a huge Reggie

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guy per se, but you know, if you're seventy nine

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in New York, Reggie Jackson could have ran for mayor. Yeah,

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and pulling that card was the start for me. I

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don't Unfortunately I don't have the original card. Well, what

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I did go back and buy like a P. S

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A eight. It's on the wall over there, and it's

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just there to remind me sort of where it all began.

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Right.

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It wasn't about dollar signs or that sort of thing.

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It was about the love of baseball. Uh and and

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then the card started and Reggie and the toast of

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New York especially at that time. And it's just a

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reminder when I when I glanced over there too, you know,

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always remember how you know what it's all about and

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where it all started. So that's cool here and you

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say that you still have that that Fleer set as

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a reminder to you kind to where it all began.

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Obviously you have more income as an adult than maybe

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in ninety two ninety three kind of when you know,

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you travel out with shows and events and different things.

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You know, when you look to add to your PC,

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are you what are you looking at? Or do you

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kind of just whatever kind of moves your met or

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do you have sort of a plan.

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I definitely have a plan. I actually got a grail

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of mine at this past national so don't get me wrong.

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I would love PSA tens SGC ten CGC tens. It

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doesn't matter back at ten's right, or nine fives actually

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because those are cool two, So that part doesn't matter

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to me. It's because my favorite number is five, so

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I collect PSA fives. It just so happens that a

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PSA five and a nineteen sixty one Lenny Wilkins is

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not a bad grade, right because it's a sixty one though,

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But I but I had just got a PSA five

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Lenny Wilkins, so the grade in the card is one

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of the grails that I was searching for for years.

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Finally found a good copy, like a good five at

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the National. But there was a point too, Like you said,

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there's a few cards that I sold years and years

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ago that for example, nineteen eighty six Dominique Wilkins. My

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father gave me eighty six Wilkins and the first Becket

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on my tenth birthday. I ended up selling. I still

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have the Beckett, but I ended up selling the Dominique

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at some point, and it wasn't even that much either,

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but it was during the pandemic and you know, just

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a little extra money, so I got that back. I

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have a nineteen seventy nine SGC five Julius Irving when

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he was playing for the Nets from the ABA, so

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I got that back because I ended up selling that.

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There's one card that I so the biggest card I've

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ever pulled out of a pack. At the time, it

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wasn't worth what it is now. But I pulled a

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legacy collection ninety six ninety seven rookie Steph Mowberry and

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I'm a massive surprise. Even though I'm from New England,

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I'm a Minnesota Timberwolves fan, and so that's the one

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I'm looking to get back as well, but those are

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just more expensive now, especially being from that Flare showcase

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ninety six ninety seven, which that's got to be one

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of my, if not one, number two favorite sets. But

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in general, so you can see right there, you see Providence.

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You would notice all of my room, all these slabs

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you see, they're or Rhode Island related. So I'm a massive,

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just in general Rhode Island fan. And that's everything from

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I have a nineteen thirty six post serial King Philip

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card so Indian chewing gum, everything from even like four

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episodes of X Files were shot in Rhode Island. X

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Files has a set from that year. I mean, anything

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you can think of Rhode Island related I collect. And

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then on top of that, my favorite basketball player of

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all the time is Isaiah Ryder from the Timbles, which

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people always think is random. I'm a massive Braves fan,

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so I collected a ton of Brave stuff.

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So I gotta ask you, I gotta ask you, tim

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and I love that. Do you have that hometown pride, Providence?

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Why not the Celtics or what was the what was

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the Tamy just mentioned the Braves. Yeah, how how are

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you not a Red Sox and a Celtics.

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It's not that I'm not a fan, and I appreciate

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when New England's jumping, the teams are winning, right, and

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it's a fun atmosphere. We got the praise and everything

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and just in general, right, I am a Patriots fan.

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But that's because in ninety six we went to the

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Super Bowl. Somewhat fourteen years old at that time, right,

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so you're still like in it. But so my grandfather,

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massive Warren spawn fan, and we used to go to

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the card shows in the nineties. I remember one time

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Warren Spawd, Mickey Mantle, and Eddie Matthews were all signing

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autographs at the same table. This is to think about

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having those three together just at one table signing is crazy. Now.

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I played third base, so I'm Masterchip Chipper Jones fan.

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And in nineteen ninety what was it, I forget what year,

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but I won like it was like a little League game, right,

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and they gave me MVP of like one particular game.

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And in that game, I actually, actually I don't have

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it displayed. I was given it was made in nineteen

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ninety one. It was like one of those commemorative plates.

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It was Tom Glavin and it's like beautiful. I still

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I actually got that signed by him like months ago.

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So it just all happened naturally. And then, like I said,

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Chipper Jones joins the team. I'm already playing third base.

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Andrew Jones is my second favorite player. I get to

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meet him in a few weeks. And the Timberwolves thing was,

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it was ninety two or ninety four when Isaiah Ryder

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does the first time I see through the legs in

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the dunk contest, right, So I'm a young, impressionable I've

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always had love for the New Land teams. But so

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it was Isaiah Rider that got me involved with the Timberwolves.

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And now after that, you know, they got Garnett and Marburry,

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so I just stick with that team. But yeah, the

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Braves is like my grandfather loved Warren Spond. My father

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would always talk about it, and then obviously they were

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also amazing in the nineties, so you got to just

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pick up on it. But I'm a Celtics fan. I'm

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a Bulls fan from the nineties, like those teams are amazing.

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I collect Jordan's Robin Pippen, but yeah, like it just

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kind of all happened naturally to.

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You, sort of inherited the love that your grandfather. You

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just sort of continue the tradition. Nothing wrong with that.

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I appreciate. I didn't ask you, like in a negative way.

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I always love when someone's from an area and they're

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they're maybe not that their their first team is not

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what you would think of. So for example, and I'll

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make this story shorter, I'm a New York City kid.

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I'm now in Syracuse, but I was a Steelers fan

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from a very young age at seven in New York

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and all my friends like beat me up about it,

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and how how do you like the Steelers new men?

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Uh?

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This is Jets or Giants country? And it was the

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mean Joe Green Co commercial with the kid in the

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jersey that kid out of resemblance to me at the

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time we were actually the age, and I just said

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I didn't like the Jets or Giants had like, no,

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there's no players that moved the meet for me. And

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I just said, I'm a Steeler fan. And that was

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like nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight, and I never waivered.

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And in the eighties and yes, they were went in

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the Steel Curtain. It was a Super Bowl error for them,

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but they had some really lean years in the eighties

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and I never jumped ship. I stayed with him until

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the whole time.

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I also started like when I got older, right, let

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me talk about you having more money. Plus eBay's around.

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I know eBay was around years ago, but it's different now.

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So I have I try to collect off of how

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I felt as a kid in terms of the nostalgia, right,

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so I collect You should know this name. I think

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my only Pittsburgh collector the collection is Greg Lloyd. I

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love Greg Lloyd, like I just remember there was a

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there was a game and they did an interview with

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him and they were talking about his his tolerance for pain,

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and I remember this. I should look up on YouTube.

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I haven't seen it well. And I just came a

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massive Greg Lloyd fan. But like I also collected guys

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like Jesse Tuggle down in Atlanta, Tim Jwa who was Atlanta.

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I'm trying to think the bigger guys from like the nineties,

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but yeah, there's I always I just think back to

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like when I was watching like these guys are so

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like awesome and yees. So I still have a Greg

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Lloyd collection now from from your Steelers.

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Yeah, very underrated player for the Steelers, Like people don't

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talk about him enough, but when he was when he played,

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like you said in the Midnight, he was dominating and

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and you know, as as a lot of NFL careers

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are there, not as long as other sports baseball, basketball,

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So that's the trade off you sort of make. But

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he has nothing to apologize. He Steeler fans are very

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fond of him, Like when he does appearances, there is

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a very long line for Greg Lloyd, who can Stealer

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fans appreciate him because they watched him week in, uh

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and week out. And it's funny here and you say

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that not necessarily being a Steeler fan, but knowing about

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him and appreciating how he played in the motor that

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he had. But yeah, definitely, he's definitely a Steeler Hall

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of Famer, not quite a you know, you have to

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look at the stats. He's probably a borderline even NFL

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Hall of Famer. You could make a case. I think

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his career might be a little too short. But the

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years he played, he was a dominating defensive player who

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kind of wrecked the game, changed the game for the

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opposing offense, so I won't get any argument from me

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on Greg Lloyd. One of my it's funny. I don't

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know if you remember. It's funny here in Saint Greg

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Lloyd because Rebock back then made a reversible jersey, so

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it was the home It was the home Steeler jersey

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and the vis away steel jersey. It's the same jersey,

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just turned it inside out depending on what color you

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wanted to wear. It was really cool. I'm surprised they

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really haven't, like a lot of things kind of come

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back and fashion, they haven't brought that one back yet,

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but in the nine they did. And I left that

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at someone's house and I never saw it again. But

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it was a Greg Mine was mine was a Greg

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Lloyd reversible jerseys. So uh, and I almost until you

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said Greg Lloyd, I almost forgot about it. Brought the

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jersey back up.

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His p s a ten rookies like forty dollars.

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Yeah, he's criminally undervalue and Pittsburgh Steeler fans know about him.

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People who are football fans like die Hard, Uh, die

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in the wool, like like yourself. Yeah, uh, he didn't

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slip by you, but some other people don't realize, you know,

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the greatness of Greg Lloyd and really started that that

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linebacker tradition and ket like you said, Kevin Green and

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and then so on and so forth. So yeah, I

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love those stories right that you don't have to like

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just the people from your hometown. Like I get the

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there there's a you know, a pride in where you're from.

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I'm a big Brooklyn guy, So someone's from Brooklyn, maybe

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you take a little bit extra pride. I get that.

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Even growing up in New York and I know he

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was a Red Sox, but I was a big fan

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of Kargastrabs. He was also from Long Island, so that

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had something to do with it. But you know he's

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still you know, he still played for the rival Red

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Sox and but he was just such a great player.

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You know, I was a big Tony Gwynn fan. He

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was a West Coast guys as most know, but just

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such a great player and hit her. Just went about

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his business, not a trash talker. And you know, so

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you just gravitate too different things.

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And what have you.

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And you know, when I think when you, when I

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think of Providence being I've been in Syracuse a while

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now to Tim and I think back to the old

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Big East days, right with Syracuse and Providence and Saint

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John's Villanova. And it's sad sometimes when I think about that,

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because it'll never be like that again, right. You know,

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ESPN did a great show. I'm assuming you probably saw

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it require him for the Big East, and it was.

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And that's the thing, though, Dave Garrett's Gather is our guy.

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So there's a lot of pride. I have a lot

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of I have a lot of Rhode Island pride, a

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lot of Providence pro I didn't go to Providence College.

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I'm from East Providence, Hode Island. You know, I was

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a big fan of Actually had a my coach for

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baseball and basketball. His name is Steve McDonald, on the radio.

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He goes by Jim Shorts on sports where he was

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the voice of URI and at that time he would

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take us to like the team to the games. And

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I actually that was like the Catino mobile Tyson Wheelers

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years all the way up until Lamar Autumn left. And

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so like I have just a massive college Province college fan.

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But just like like I said, anything Rhode Island, anything

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that can connect me back. And the good thing about

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Rhode Island is obviously it's an old state. You know,

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blah blah blah, some great vintage stuff. You know, we

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used to have a pro baseball team, the Providence Grays.

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We used to have the Providence Steamrollers. That was there

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wasn't NBA but pro basketball. And so I've been able

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to collect the eight guys from Rhoe Island and the

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two six set, the five guys from the forty eight

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bowmen basketball set from Rodine. So it's it's honestly been

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just a ton of fun to try to collect these

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things too. Like it's just and yeah, I was gonna say,

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like I'm missing one Cogan's chip. If you don't know,

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the people out there know the Colgan chips are there

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from like nineteen ten to nineteen twelve.

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But it's like the road out there, you never you

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never know someone might have it listening, and yeah, you

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find the needle in the haystack. Which one is it?

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So it's cold it's actually part of the Cold and

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Chip set, but it was the tin tops, which is

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the rarest of the set. And it's a guy Perry.

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There's one on eBay. The guy's asking it's like a

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SGC three, which is a good grade for that. The

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guy's asking twenty two hundred out of my budget. I'm

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always trying to find it in the wild, and every

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time I talk to a vintage guy that knows what

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it is, they're like, buddy, that's like the most rare one.

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I'm like, that's part of the fun, right, Like, once

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I have it, what's you know? What am I going

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to do? But yeah, that's so that's part of the fun.

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That and the other reason why I travel so much day.

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Yeah, the chase to chase the journey, right, That's that's

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one that I think the best bet is like to

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find it ungraded and then purchase it at a more

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reasonable price and then you know, if you want to

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get it graded yourself or if you want to keep

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it and then you know the way you bought it.

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I mean, you know, that'll be a choice you have

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to make when when your fake you know, cross that

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bridge when you get there. But uh, you know, listen,

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you get around more than I do as far as

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shows and traveling, so at some point you're gonna you're

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gonna run into it. Maybe if someone's listening, uh today

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and here's that. Uh you know, I'll have you at

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the end. You'll give out where and get a hold

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of it. Maybe there'll be something along those lines too,

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so uh but uh, you know, and then when you

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get it right, you know, for me it was the

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Jackie rookie and just the journey to once you acquire

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it and you think back of how you know, it's

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the stories right behind the cards and behind the items.

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The items are great in their own right, but I

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think sometimes it's the stories of how we got it,

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how the whole thing went down, someone heard you needed it, uh,

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you know, or or even the negotiation itself is fun

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and story uh in itself. So I think sometimes we

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we blue sighted at or don't always think about about that.

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But so let's go, let's get tim his uh his

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last one there on on the Colgans and uh put

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that chapter to to the rest. But I love all joking,

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you know, I love when someone takes pride where they're from, right,

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I think, you know, we just we just got done

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watching the Olympics, right, and we're all, I don't care

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where in the US you're from, West coast, east coast, midwest,

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right for that that almost two weeks, we're most likely

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all cheering on, you know, the USA teams or athletes

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to get go, you know, to perform. Well, we've just

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seen listen, you know, the men and women's hockey team

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taking the gold down both games against Canada, which would

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frank uh, well, the US women were the favorite, but

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the Canadian men were the favorite on that side of

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the thing. And so uh, I don't believe it's ever

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happened before where they've won, uh in the same year,

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and women's hockey sort of a newer entrant into the sports.

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So uh, you know, who knows, if, if it when

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it will happen again. It's not easy to do. And

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uh so you take a lot of pride right in

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your country, the region you're from. I do it with

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New York City as well, and so nothing to apologize

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for it. I always appreciate hearing those uh hearing those stories.

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So you know, going into many know you you you

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invented the slab strongs, the the you know, the rubber

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protectors that protect the slabs that we we love and

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care about kind of talk about. And I know you've

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probably talked about this at Nauledge and Timber for those

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that don't know kind of where that all started and

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the evolution of the product, and and you know where

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it is today, what you're doing sort of today, maybe

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even because of it.

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Yeah, I would say, so, I don't mean this. I

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don't think anyone will take this disrespectfully. You know, during

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the pandemic, I didn't lose anybody, so I don't mean

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to discount it. But I lost my job March fifteenth,

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twenty twenty. And honestly, without that happening, I wouldn't I

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wouldn't be sitting in front of you right now. I

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was managing restaurants for pretty much my entire adult life

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and then so obviously the restaurant business got really hurt,

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and so like so March fifteenth, I lose my job.

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00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:35.519
I was actually supposed to go to New York City

465
00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.559
that two days after that because Providence was playing in

466
00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.039
the Big East Tournament and so we didn't we didn't

467
00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:44.960
get to go visit. So Providence Saint John's was actually

468
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.359
there were a few games happening Providence Saint John's. They

469
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.359
ended at halftime. I don't know if many people know

470
00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:52.440
what games are playing at the time, So Providence Saint

471
00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.119
john was cut at halftime. And that's when it was like, oh,

472
00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.039
this is like getting real type of thing, right. But

473
00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:01.880
so after that was like, okay, let's make a little

474
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.160
extra money besides what we're getting from the government. And

475
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.079
so I just went to start selling all the stuff

476
00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:10.359
in my collection that didn't mean anything to me, right,

477
00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:12.960
So you know, I sat there for like a week.

478
00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:14.920
I got like four or five hundred. This is before

479
00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.200
scanners and everything, well not before scanners, but before like

480
00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:19.079
people had all these new apps. And so I had

481
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:21.160
about five hundred cards up on eBay and I was

482
00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.680
making good money, right, people were spending money and that

483
00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:25.920
was cool. And then I was sitting next to my

484
00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:28.960
wife one day and she had the cricket machine and

485
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:31.160
I had an old screw down and the old screw

486
00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:34.400
downs are about the same size as a slab, right,

487
00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:37.640
So I just wanted to I thought to myself, how

488
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.640
do I make the slabs look cool? It had nothing

489
00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:43.079
to do with protection at that time. I just wanted

490
00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:46.920
to like color coordinate and make them look cooler. So

491
00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:50.079
I took my wife's cricket sticker things and cut it

492
00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:52.720
up and made which I have it. I still have

493
00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:55.599
that piece somewhere in here. And I was like, oh,

494
00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:57.799
this is a cool idea, right, and I, like my

495
00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.240
wife was like, yeah, it seems like a cool idea. Yeah.

496
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:02.359
So then I had a three D printed version made

497
00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:05.559
cost me about two hundred dollars and at the time

498
00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:08.079
it actually slid in the top like a top lawyer

499
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:09.960
because a three D printed right the way I have

500
00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:13.519
it now. So after I pay two hundred dollars for

501
00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:17.920
that initial sample, I went to I went down to

502
00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:20.640
about six hundred dollars to my name because my wife

503
00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:23.000
also worked in the restaurant business. So like we were

504
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:25.039
just this is before the check started going out, right,

505
00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:27.880
So yeah, we're kind of just like a little bit

506
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.559
hurting for money, right, But I have a very beautiful,

507
00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:35.279
very awesome wife that like when she saw what I

508
00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:37.240
came up with, what it meant to me. She was like,

509
00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:38.599
go for it, Like what do we got to lose

510
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:42.920
type of things. So I then started the patent process,

511
00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:45.880
which which is crazy to me. I actually got a patent.

512
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:47.359
So you can go to Google patents, type in my

513
00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:49.839
name and I'm it says I'm an inventor. John's insane

514
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:50.839
says I'm an inventor.

515
00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.880
Well, yeah, well listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you

516
00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:56.559
the credit. You're not giving your yourself here, Tim, You

517
00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.200
did invent it, you know what I mean, Like that's

518
00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:01.960
what an inventor does, is in renting. No one did

519
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.359
it before you, you know what I mean. So you

520
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:08.200
took the initiative, you know, uh, you know, maybe it

521
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.880
wasn't the telephone per se, like you know, Alexander Grebell

522
00:28:13.079 --> 00:28:16.799
or you know, but regardless, right, you you made a product,

523
00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:20.319
You came up with the idea. You put your own

524
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:23.359
money up right at risk, like nothing nothing in life's

525
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:28.039
guaranteed except death in Texas. And uh, you know, so

526
00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:31.200
you you took a risk and and you know, as

527
00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:34.240
we as we know today, it turned out to be

528
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:38.240
a good one. But yeah, give you like you are renter.

529
00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:42.799
Like you know, I rented sports cardation podcasts for the

530
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.359
two cents. That's where I didn't invent podcasts in general.

531
00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:50.240
I'm kidding, but no, all joking aside, like that's that's

532
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:53.440
your baby, man. Like you you know, give yourself some creditors.

533
00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:56.400
So I know you're being modest, but I wanted to.

534
00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:59.319
I appreciate it, and it's funny you have that product

535
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:02.319
behind you. So so after not my product, but Corey.

536
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:07.039
So after I started putting in the work, right, I

537
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:09.759
get the patent office, I get all this other stuff right,

538
00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:13.319
But I didn't know, Like I went to card shows

539
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.960
as a kid all through the nineties, I had to

540
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.680
at some point show people what I made.

541
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:18.880
Right.

542
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:21.000
You can't just have this idea keep it to yourself.

543
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:25.119
So I actually reached out over Facebook to Corey from

544
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:29.200
Show your Slabs and I said, look, I'm seeing an

545
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.200
ad for your product all over Facebook ads or whatever.

546
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.519
I think you have a very cool product. Can I

547
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.359
show you my product? And at the time, I was

548
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:39.359
still patent pending, and I had this mind frame like,

549
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:41.119
oh no, everyone's going to try to steal my idea.

550
00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:43.599
So I actually said, hey, do you mind if we

551
00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:45.440
meet up. He was like, come down to Baltimore. So

552
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:47.720
about a week after I talked to him, I drove

553
00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:50.240
down to Baltimore just with a couple of samples and

554
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:52.880
I said, look, this is my product. He thought it

555
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:55.920
was cool. Corey is one of the best people in

556
00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.880
the world. So he at that point says, Hey, there's

557
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.240
this thing called the Dallas Card Show coming up, and

558
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:06.519
now this is the first one that is like when

559
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.839
after the pandemic, this is the first show before the

560
00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:10.640
national I don't know if you remember that the Dallas

561
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:12.880
Card Show was the first show is May twentieth of

562
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:15.839
twenty twenty one. So Corey says, hey, you can come

563
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.920
down and set up at my table. At that point,

564
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.160
first I took the initiative and did it with him.

565
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.480
I only had thirteen total pieces, right because I had

566
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:28.200
some samples made. But what do I do? I go

567
00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:30.680
down there. I met guys like Clint from Zion Cases,

568
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:35.400
Dan from Stand Up Displays, Aaron from slab Stocks, and like,

569
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.799
all those guys had cool products and they were all like, oh,

570
00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.720
this is a good idea, this is school. So that

571
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:43.279
gave me a lot of confidence. Then I walked around

572
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.440
Ryan Johnson put me on one of his YouTube videos.

573
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:48.720
I walked up to Jeff Wilson, I threw it at

574
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.559
his feet, and a few months after that, I end

575
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:57.599
up getting an investment from Jeff Wilson. So now after

576
00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:59.920
having only six hundred dollars to my name taking the

577
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:02.039
chance to go to Dallas, I now get in an

578
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:07.440
investment from Jeff Wilson, and the momentum starts going. You know,

579
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:11.400
obviously with that investment, we're able to print enough to

580
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.240
actually make it affordable for people, but also all these colors, right,

581
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.519
and that's when things get serious, right, because at that point,

582
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:21.920
Jeff Wilson I think he has like probably half the

583
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.079
fillowers he did as he does now. But at that

584
00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:26.960
point it's like, oh, like Jeff Wilson's the face, and

585
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:29.599
I also got buddies at card Ladder, like all these

586
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.160
other people are like just accepting this new product coming in.

587
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:36.400
This guy that talks with the Providence accent, that just

588
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.480
is having fun, just like I just wanted to have

589
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:42.599
fun in the hobby, right, And that leads to I'll

590
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:44.799
say this, just like when you're going to a show

591
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.279
and you're just there to buy cards from vendors there's

592
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.480
nothing like networking in this hobby because obviously, like I

593
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:54.480
had a business, so I need a network in that sense.

594
00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:57.720
But you got you want to be very reliable and

595
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:00.920
trustworthy because you might have a grail that you met

596
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:03.319
a vendor that's gonna call you first before he calls

597
00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:05.000
anyone else. I always tell people it doesn't matter if

598
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.240
you're just buying cars, like just be good to people,

599
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.599
network and keep your words. So and that's what I

600
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.680
started doing. And then I had mentioned this before we

601
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:16.559
started recording, like you know, I just had a baby.

602
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:18.880
She's five months old, my wife, So those are like

603
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:21.000
the two like those are my two top of the

604
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.839
food chain things in my life. But then I get

605
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:27.240
a call from a guy named Jeff Gordon, just like

606
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:29.240
the race car driver, but not the race car driver,

607
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.680
who is the CSO fanatics at that time, and he

608
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:35.200
face times me John and tells me I'm gonna be

609
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.359
on a baseball card and they're gonna put me in

610
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:39.960
twenty twenty three toughs Big League, right, So it's like

611
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.000
mind blown. They let me wear the hat. Actually MLB,

612
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:44.440
if you ever see the car, I have it right there.

613
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.160
But if anyone I see, yeah, I've seen it.

614
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:50.720
Yeah, major League Baseball made them airbrush my original logo off,

615
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:52.160
which was kind of devastating.

616
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.920
Yeah, it was kind of I laughed because I get it,

617
00:32:56.119 --> 00:32:57.799
but you know it's yeah.

618
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.240
But they let me do my own bio. So if

619
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:03.519
you read the back of my card, there's a couple

620
00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:05.839
of little funny jobs I take up of my friends.

621
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:09.039
Right on there. I talk about where I'm from, East Providence,

622
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:11.799
and like, I would have never thought that, man, I

623
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.799
would have never thought that people would take notice enough

624
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.680
to like say, hey, like you deserve to be on

625
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.160
and there's a ton of other people that would have

626
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.759
deserved to be on in the first initial twenty twiny things.

627
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:24.920
Well here you know how this goes. And this isn't

628
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.240
even just a sports card hobby or any time you

629
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.319
accomplished something, right, there's gonna be someone out there that,

630
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:35.559
like we'll say, and I remember when these cards came

631
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:38.799
out and people were like, this person should have been

632
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:41.400
on it before this. You know, it's like lists, right,

633
00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:44.240
the top ten lists. Anytime someone oh, the top ten

634
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:47.440
best quarterbacks, Right, you're gonna have some oh man, this

635
00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:49.440
guy should have been on it, not this guy. Right,

636
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.720
it's the same thing when this card set came out

637
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:56.000
with Big League, like everyone was you know, I get

638
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:59.039
if you want to like nominate someone, but I thought

639
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.680
it got a little bit a little personal with some

640
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:05.279
of the attacks, and like, listen, if someone asked you

641
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:06.519
to be like, hey, do you want to be on

642
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:10.039
a baseball card, everyone's saying yes, Like don't go after

643
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:15.639
a guy or a lady for accepting such an honor,

644
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.519
Like that's you know, that's my that was my issue,

645
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:21.719
and I remember this at the time. It's him like

646
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.800
if you want to say, hey, man, I would have

647
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:27.079
really liked to see so and so in that set.

648
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.199
I get that, But to like kind of put someone

649
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.079
else down in the process, that's where like, don't make

650
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.599
it personal. If you want to you want to politic

651
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:39.880
for someone you were fond of or you know, being worthy,

652
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:43.000
that's that's fine. But you know, don't take a shot

653
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:46.920
at someone else who's grinding and their grind is paid

654
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:51.119
at least this dividend, right, Like who you anyone would

655
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:54.239
have said yes most likely or ninety nine percent right

656
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:57.840
would would say yes. So, uh nothing, you know, but yeah,

657
00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:01.239
I remember that. Finally, some of those the stuff that

658
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:03.559
surrounded them so I.

659
00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:05.559
Don't think many people. Well I don't know why people

660
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:08.639
would know this, but we were supposed to have autographs

661
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.280
in that as well, and so they were supposed to

662
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:14.599
be like I was literally like, you know how Top

663
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:16.559
says it, right, they send you the box, and so

664
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:19.239
Top sent me a hundred cards for friends and family,

665
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.159
but they were supposed to send another fifty for autographs,

666
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:24.360
and I had I had the best plan. Now people

667
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:25.800
do it. Now. I'm not the first person to think this,

668
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.320
but I was gonna shout out all my friends, like,

669
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:31.000
you know, everyone's gonna have one of them. Yeah, everyon's

670
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.679
gonna have like a one of one. But from what

671
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.519
I understand, I haven't confirmed this with my buddy that

672
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:40.079
now works at Tops, but from what I understand, they

673
00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:44.079
were nervous that if, like someone pulled my autograph that

674
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.119
they were like, oh, this is in place of the hit, right,

675
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:49.480
So I don't think they wanted to mess with having

676
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.239
real baseball players autographs and I was, but I ended

677
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.639
up signing all hundred cards, made them all one of one's.

678
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:58.159
They're all completely different, and there's actually one on eBay

679
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:01.320
right now someone's trying to sell my because here's another

680
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:05.360
cool part PSA and Beckett. I don't know if JSA does,

681
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:08.360
but PSA and Beckett will often authenticate my auto. And

682
00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:12.199
I had to sign ten times for Beckett and it's

683
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.239
just it's crazy. And then so uh so.

684
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:18.760
They never took they never took the sign cards from you.

685
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:21.559
No, no, they never said so the hundred they sent

686
00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:24.239
them friends and family, and then I got word like, hey,

687
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:25.519
we're gonna do autographs.

688
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.119
And then they were supposed to send you more. They

689
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.880
was supposed to be distributed in the product, but it

690
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:32.519
just never.

691
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:33.800
Yeah, it just never happened.

692
00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.519
Happened. I was good, I thought you sent them back,

693
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.400
and then they just decided not to do it. And

694
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:43.440
I'm like, well, just put him in another like can

695
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:46.599
still relate, you know, put him in another product, distribute

696
00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:49.119
him that way and and make him in addition, I

697
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:51.960
know you mentioned like maybe p oh I got you know,

698
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.960
uh you know Tim big Hair, Tim Auto, but I

699
00:36:56.079 --> 00:37:00.440
wanted my trout, you know, but do it in addition

700
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:03.320
like that doesn't count as the the if it's a

701
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:05.840
one hip or box or whatever it is, it's in

702
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.159
addition to you know what I mean. That way, no one,

703
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no one gets bent out of shape or that sort.

704
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Of Well, it was cool. Yeah, that that was a

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real fun experience. So yeah, that was kind of my

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hobby journey. And then and kind of end this part

707
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of the question is then, so after all that happens

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for me BCW supplies. I'm sure everyone's heart of BCW supplies.

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Right by the way, s CNP ten percent off BCW supplies,

710
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they end up licensing slab strongs for me. So they're

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called slab bumpers now, right, and that's for kind of

712
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like you know, I forget what they word for it.

713
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It's a basic Google right, Like it makes more sense

714
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to call it slab bumpers because it fits.

715
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Just the cool cat man loved Tim. I've gotten to

716
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know him through the years and he's always been helpful

717
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and friendly, uh to me. And you know again, dude

718
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has worked his butt off to get where he is.

719
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He's still working hard, he's not sitting on his laurels,

720
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and always enjoy chopping it up with him talking to him.

721
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And we're not done. This was part one, as we know,

722
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we do two parts, so we'll be talking with Tim

723
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some more next week as well. So hopefully you come

724
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back and hear the conclusion of our I consider great conversation.

725
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Hopefully you do as well. So we're gonna have our hobbies.

726
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The People Announcer the Week kind of wrap up this

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week's episode.

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Time for our hobby is the People Announcer.

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Of the Week.

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This is your pala vow from Nascard Radio. Never forget

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the hobby is the People.

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If you'd like to be the hobby is the People

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Announcer of the Week. To have one four MP three

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file and send it to Sports gott Nation d See

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at gmail dot com.