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Important Hobby Sets & Questioning Recent Purchases!! · Sports Card Clubhouse

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In our massive country, there are card collectors throughout
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the land participating in the hobby.
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There's Mike of Junk Wax Hero and Greg of Midlife Cards, and
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while distance may separate them, here is where they come
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together to talk cards. Hey buddy, how are you doing
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today on this? Fine, we're recording this on
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Thursday, January 29th. Great.
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It's warmed up here in Maine. It's 20°, which yeah, it's it's
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kind of nice out. Let.
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Me see what it is outside for us it is currently.
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I went to it 60° sixty. It's a little I'm actually cool
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out there. It's also, and this is weird,
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but it's actually 3 hours later here than where you are.
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I didn't know this until just recently, but yeah.
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It it is three hours earlier. It's three hours earlier.
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What are you talking about? Later.
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Oh, later at night. Three hours.
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No, where I am, it's three hours later because it's. 16 it's
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earlier. It's earlier, which makes it
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later in time. Oh man, you just blew my mind.
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You, you had January 29th half start before me, so you're
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technically earlier than me. But because you're earlier than
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me, you have made it later in the day right now than it is in
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the day for me. Man, this is this is some
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highbrow conversation here. It is incredible and what we
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were just talking about a second ago, it was about your stream
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yard glitching. My goodness.
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Yeah, so I'm on video calls all day for work.
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It was 0 problems whatsoever except in stream yard.
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It doesn't matter where in the house I am, it's stream yard
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will just go fuzzy. It'll go out on me for like 6 or
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7 seconds randomly every, I don't know, half hour of a of a
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video. So I expect it to happen.
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It just happened to us before we started here and you said.
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I said well you need to hard wire it and you said I can't and
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I said you can. So our modem is upstairs on the
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other side of the house, so it would need to, we'd have to have
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an Ethernet cable and I know they'd make them because my kids
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have my kids are both hard wired and that it would go through the
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basement, up the stairs, and then all the way over into the
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far corner. I'm going to show you something.
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Oh, hardwired. I'm hardwired right now into two
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rooms away. But Greg, the problem isn't me.
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It's Stream Yard. I keep telling my I keep trying
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to tell my wife the same thing. The problem isn't me, honey.
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The problem isn't me. All right, well, enough of this
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nonsense. We have a couple things to talk
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about. You have a topic.
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I have a better topic. We, we can ask.
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We can ask everybody out there down below who had a better
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topic. But we should, you know, we
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should also talk about the AI version of us that Brendan Ryan.
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On Brutal, brutal. Brendan Ryan on Instagram
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creates these hobby lores and tales, I think is what it's
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called, AI art, like comic book covers, and they're very cool.
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And today he had one that was of us.
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And let me, let me do it with me.
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Yeah. And so yours, though that was
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pretty rough. I'm not a thin guy anymore.
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It's funny because I was like, I was like, I was a petite kid and
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I'm not going to get into everything, but I'm not as
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petite anymore. But that thing, it was, it was
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AI mean. I don't know.
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I mean, I'm here to tell you, Greg, that that is not a
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flattering image of you. You do not look like that.
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Do you know, did did you ever hear of the website
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hotornot.com? Yes.
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And what hotornot.com was is you could upload a picture of
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yourself and then and then what would happen is people could
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vote hot or not. And then what would happen is
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after hundreds and thousands and thousands of votes, you would,
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you know, you'd have a score of what percentage said you were
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hot. And it was sort of like this
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idea of you could find out like, 'cause you know, you like, you
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know, your, your mom is like, well, you're so cute, honey,
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you're such a sweet, you're handsome.
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You know, grandma says that. But it was like, we can actually
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find out, you know, and, and so AII think is is really kind of
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tipping their hand to me on, on whether or not I'm fat.
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I thought mine was really good, but I looked at yours and I was
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like, oh, that doesn't look like Greg.
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Yeah, it's a little harsh, but it's OK.
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It's OK. All right, well, why don't you
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go first and then we'll we'll pick up steam with mine after
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yours. Wow, so you did a great video
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this week where you did the what was the most.
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Important. The most?
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Yes, the most important card in the history of the hobby.
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What is the most important card? Not the most beautiful, not your
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favorite, not the most iconic, but the most important.
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Yeah, really good. And you know your your viewers
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had as you talked about the top four or five were mentioned a
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lot, but then a lot of really good ones after that.
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And that got me thinking. And I think there's a lot of
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overlap, but what are the top? What is the most important sets
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of all time? And there was one that I don't
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think was mentioned on there, which would be, I would say, and
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it's not #1 but one that didn't get mentioned, as far as I know
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was the 1993 tops finest set. Yeah, that I, I mean so OK, so
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I've we've mentioned several times iconic Al and high pop
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professor Brian and the brothers duo show.
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I'm a a big fan of both those guys.
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And if you ask those guys, they would say that the 1993 tops
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finest refractor series that's set is, is the 52 tops of modern
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is, is what they would say. And, and I can't disagree.
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I mean, it is it, it changed things.
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It, it, it was like a, it was like this much same with 89.
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I mean, it's OK, we'll, we'll get right into it. 89 upper deck
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is on the list. It is 90.
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The 93 finest, though there isn't really an iconic card in
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the set. You could say Griffey, sure,
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Griffey Refractor, but I don't think so.
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I don't think there's really a it's it's the entire set.
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The first chromium set of course upper deck started with the
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premium cards in 1989 and I'm I'm throwing up air quotes here
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for premium, but the 93 tops finest was game changing for the
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for the industry. Without question.
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And, and it was sort of like one of the cards that was the most
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important that was mentioned was that Reggie Jackson auto card,
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because it was the first time an auto card was inserted into a
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pack And that is a game changer. And that was revolutionary like
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the refractors in the 93 finest. But, but if we're talking
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vintage, because most of the people that are listening to us
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aren't, aren't collecting 93 finest, but, but it's definitely
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on the I mean 89 upper deck, 93 finest refractors, 93 finest
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that those two are definitely in the conversation without
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question. But we can kick around a few
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others and, and I have some opinions on this.
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I have some fairly strong opinions.
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Obviously 52 tops is in there 4849 leaf.
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You know, is is definitely in there 52 tops because it was the
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first top set. It's one of the most beautiful
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top sets. It's there's a reason that Topps
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basically buried Bowman after that because it was such a great
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set. The leaf set is one of the it's
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the first wide release set that had black players on it and it's
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a beautiful set and it's a set that has some important rookie
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cards. T2O633, Gowdy, all of those are
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in the conversation. So those are easy ones.
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So I want to not go with the low hanging fruit.
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I want to point out a couple of sets that I think are really
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important for some other reasons.
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So I I want to I want to go next level.
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I don't want to go with the easy ones.
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OK, let's do it. So I'm I'm going to say 57 tops.
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OK, and this is this is exactly what I was thinking too.
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Why 57 tops? Let's see if we have the same
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reason. There's several reasons.
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First, it's, it's pictures instead of portraits for like
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pretty much the first time. So that makes it really
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important that tops went to pictures in 57 tops #2 I mean,
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I'm, I'm even going to mention what I'm mentioning by not
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mentioning, but the all the, all the Hall of Fame rookie cards.
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That's that's part of it. But the the second top set, the
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first time that tops started doing multiplayer cards, there
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was the 54 O'Brien set had the O'Brien brothers.
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But other than that, it's the first time that tops started
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mainstreaming multiplayers into onto a card, which to me they
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just went with after that. And then last but not least is
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the first set that standardized the size.
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That's right. I mean, it's got, I mean that's
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a lot of check marks right there.
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Yeah, for me, the most important one is the standardized size and
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why it it. It really tips over the edge of
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most important. Why?
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Why? Why does that matter?
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Because every card other than 89 Bowman, every card since then
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has been that size. You have to obviously exclude
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the T2O6, not remakes, but whatever the tops.
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Yeah, every card since then has been that size.
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And that is important that it was kind of this became a
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universal card size in 1957. Do you remember the Tops bigs
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cards? The tops Big.
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Yeah, I have some. Yeah, those cards and I mean,
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I'm just the reason I'm bringing this up is because I actually
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have a fun story about the tops big set.
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So, so Tops big are what was that like 8889, something like
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that. I could Google it real.
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Quick, yeah, I think 80. Yeah, I would say 88 or 89 too.
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88 so 88 tops big. OK, now these are were they,
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they kind of look like the 55 and 56 tops cards, but and, and
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they were this, they were a little oversized like the 5556
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tops cards. So we went into the local card
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shop. I was probably 8, no more than
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that. I was 9 or 10 and my brother
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bought 2 packs of Topps big carts.
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OK. And if the card shop was called
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cards and cards. So he goes into cards and cards,
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he buys 2 packs and he opens up and he gets he gets some good
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players. I'll make the players out.
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Conseco and McGuire and and then some other stuff.
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MM Greenwell sure. And so he, he has these three
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cards and, and he says, you know, would you to the shop,
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would you buy these off of me And can I sell them?
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Because I don't, I don't want these cards.
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I don't, I don't like the A's. We'll say it was.
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But he, he basically says, can I sell some of these cards back?
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And they go, well, I'll tell you what we'll do for those 3 cards.
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We'll give you 2 more packs instead of buying them, we'll
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trade you for 2 packs. And he goes, OK, so then he
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opens those two packs and he pulls out three or four cards
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and goes, what about these? And they go, we'll trade you
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those for two more packs. And my brother goes, OK, and
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then he gets two more packs and he pulls out a couple of cards
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and he gets two more packs before we're done.
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I swear to you, my brother opened almost the whole box and
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my brother had about 2/3 of the cards and the shop had 1/3 of
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the cards. And all that my brother
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originally did was buy 2 packs and he just kept trading the
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cards, some of the cards, some of the cards for more packs.
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And my brother bought 2 packs, ended up opening almost the
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whole box, getting to keep about 2/3 of the cards.
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And I remember we were walking from the door of the shop.
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I wonder if my dad remembers this story.
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We're walking from the car to from the door of the card shop
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to the car. We get in the car and my
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brother's like that was unbelievable.
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And my dad goes, they're not going to stay in business for
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very long. And like 6 months later, the
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place was closed down. So there's my tops big story
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that I don't, I mean, weird. I I was trying to find, I was
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trying to find how you weren't right by saying that cards were
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standardized. I was, I was trying to find how
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is there some other set? But anyways, yes, so 57 top
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we're back to 57 tops. What do you think about multi me
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mentioning the multiplayers in that set as a reason why it was
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groundbreaking too? Is that groundbreaking?
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Yeah, sure, it's important. I just don't think it's as
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important as standardizing the What about the first action
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cards in action? It it is the first, well, what
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year, what year would you say are the 1st in action cards?
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1971. OK, yeah, I, I, I see why you'd
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say that. And then, you know, Mike would
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say your your boy Mike baseball collector would say no.
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The 53 Bowman has the first action shot the Pee Wee Reese.
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Oh, Mike froze. Oh, he's back.
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He's back. It was perfect timing.
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You talked. I didn't hear a word.
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I tell you what I said. You didn't.
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Hear a word of it, but I'm guessing.
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I'm guessing you pointed out the fake in action shot of of Pee
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Wee Reese in 1953. Fake or staged?
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Staged. Staged.
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Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I did. And no, you're right, 71 top and
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and some of those are beautiful action shots.
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The Nolan Ryan, the Bob Gibson, the the Thurman Munson, there
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are some beautiful in action shots in the 71.
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The 71 top set, the 71 top sets definitely got it's got to be on
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the list. It's got to be on the list of of
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the most important for sure. OK, so we got 71 tops.
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We got 57 tops. We have 33 Gaudi T2 O 652 tops.
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We have 89 upper deck. We have 93 finest.
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Is there anything? We're two O 6 right 33.
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Yeah, so is there and then we and then 4849 Leaf.
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So, so somebody out there is listening and they're trying to
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find a rotten tomato to throw at the the screen right now.
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What are they thinking? What are the, what is the next
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one that we haven't mentioned that everybody is screaming
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right now about? There's got to be 1, right?
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I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I don't know, like a the first
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prism set something stupid. One year and I can't remember
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what it is. I I could Google it I guess and
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cheat and act like I knew it but I can't remember.
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I think it was in the early 70's the first set that didn't have
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series because remember cards were released in series forever
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and then 70. 3. That's my that's what I was
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going to say. First set, first baseball cards,
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not in series. Somebody out there is going how?
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I can't believe they didn't know that.
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Yeah. Yeah, well, I know.
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Yeah, it gave me 8. Google.
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Google is not helping me right now.
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I I probably didn't put in a good enough thing.
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I don't remember somebody out there tell us in the comments
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down below because I can't remember off the top of my head.
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I did an episode one time talking about it not released in
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series. I guess I could say this is.
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Gripping. It's really good airwave stuff
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that we're doing right now. I don't know.
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I give up, I pull the RIP cord, they win, I lose, whatever.
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That would be kind of interesting.
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Is it even interesting? I don't, I don't really even
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know. OK, so I mean, is there anything
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else to talk about with this? Is there any other?
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I mean, I love the 54 top set and then I know a lot of people
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love the 55 and 56 top set, but that's the most.
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Important 1887, Old Judge. OK, so we could start getting in
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the 1800s for sure now. We didn't.
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We also didn't you didn't specify baseball or sports
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cards. So we could go down the rabbit
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hole of 61 fleers really important for basketball, 86
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fleers really important for basketball.
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We could do that. Yeah. 57 tops for basketball.
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I mean, if you go into football, I mean, we could, we could go,
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you know, but it but is but is it even interesting?
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Is that interesting or are we? Well, you said you had a better
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topic, so. Well, I do, so no, not really.
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Actually, that ended up being kind.
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Of I think. I think you tanked that topic on
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purpose. Did I tanked it?
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I thought, I thought. I thought it was OK.
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I thought it actually turned out better than I was expecting.
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OK, a lot of people talk about why cards, the card values don't
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matter. And you, you we've talked a
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little bit about why we disagree with that.
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And card values do matter to us and they do matter to a lot of
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people. And but then there are some
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people that are just adamantly say card values don't matter.
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Well, until they sell cards. They they say that they don't
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matter and then they go and they sell their cards and if they
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don't matter then just give them away.
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There are quite a few people who have said to me that card values
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don't matter, and then they've sold cards, right?
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For sure. But here's my thing.
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I think what they're saying, I think what they're saying
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though, Greg, is similar to what we say, which is I don't give a
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lot of thought to card value. I buy a card.
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Once I've bought that card, I'm not, I don't care about the
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value of it. I want it to go up.
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There's no doubt that I want my cards to go up in value.
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But I could own a card for five years and not once think about
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what it's worth. And then all of a sudden I look
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it up and it's worth five times what I paid for it.
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And it's like, oh wow, that's amazing.
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But I think that's what people are saying when they say they
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don't care about values. Yeah, I, I think that's what
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they're saying too. I agree with you.
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I think that's what they're saying is I buy them not because
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I care what they're worth or what they will be worth.
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I buy them 'cause I like them and I'm planning on keeping them
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and then maybe they don't. But something happened this
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week. A couple of things have actually
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happened. My month of January of buying
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has been and we're we're at the end of January here and the
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month of January, my buying has been unlike any month since I
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started my channel. It's been a very weird month of
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buying cards and, and it's made me a little bit uncomfortable
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And, and I'm going to tell you why.
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And it ties into do the card values matter?
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And, and so I haven't really even shared my topic yet.
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My my topic is card values do matter and and it's that's not
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the topic. I don't even know what the topic
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is. So I can't win here.
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But here's what has happened. Here's what has happened, Mike,
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and why it has made me kind of spin a little bit this month.
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OK, so I got a a text message from my buddy Rob Cash cards.
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Great guy and I don't think you've met Rob, but you'll meet
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him at the Strongsville or whatever they call it show he's
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a great guy. He was on my channel with Darren
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on off topic this month. He texts me and he says look
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what I found and it's a picture of my former student Matt
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Manning's tops Chrome super factor Otto.
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This would be Matt's number one tops card.
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Now you can make the argument that his first Bowman Otto, one
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of one super fractor, would be better.
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So this is either Matt's number one best card or #2 best card in
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the world. And it is.
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It is his best tops card without question.
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It's his best tops card. And I'm like, what's the guy
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want? I like I said, I need it.
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And he goes, he wants 400 bucks and I'm like 400 bucks.
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He knows you're out there. And I'm like, but, but I do know
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that there's also this thing where some people just collect
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one of one super factor and base cards and one of one super
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factor auto rookies. It's like a thing.
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So there is some demand and if it, it's a guy that nobody's
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ever heard of or will ever heard about.
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And Matt has had a decent career.
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He just signed, he's going to play this year in Korea.
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Hopefully he'll come back. But he was in the majors for
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like 4 straight years and he had a lot of good starts.
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He was, he was part of a no hitter.
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He started a game that they had a no hitter.
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And he he's not a total common, but he's a common for most
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people. But anyway, so I'm like, man, I,
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I just don't think I can do it. And, and so Rob, yeah, Rob
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started talking to the guy and he's like, come on, like come
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down a little bit. And he goes, 350 is my absolute
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bottom, 350 is less than I paid, blah, blah, blah.
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It's not what? And, and he said it's not yet.
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And I and he said, what do you want to do?
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And I go, I just don't think I can do it now.
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I want the card like I want the card.
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I don't think I can do it, man. So a couple days later, Rob
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texted me. He goes, come on man, you got to
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you got to do something. And I go, I don't know.
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And he goes, let me see if I can get him down more.
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So he texts him and he messages him through Facebook because he
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found the guy on Facebook or something.
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And he said I 300 that's it, 300 shipped.
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And I go, all right, fine, I'm going to do it.
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OK, $300.00 for this card. Now I don't regret it, but I'm
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struggling with spending $300 on this card and, and I've been
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trying to figure out why am I struggling with spending $300 on
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the card. And I think that it's this.
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When you, when you buy a card normally you can usually get 80
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to 90% of your money back if you decide you made a mistake.
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And I don't think that's the case with this card normally.
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I think values matter some because you, if you buy the card
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and the value is, you know, if you buy a card that the value
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is, it's a good value, you bought it at a good price.
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The you, you got a good deal, the card isn't going to plummet.
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Then you can get your money back because you've bought an asset,
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right? You bought an asset in the card.
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And so I've always felt more comfortable if I buy a Jackie
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Robinson card today, I could probably get at least 80 to 90%
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of my money back tomorrow if I decide I made a mistake.
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But that card, that Matt Manning card, I don't think I can get 80
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to 90% of my money back because the whole market for that card
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just bought it. Now where?
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Where would be the best place to sell cards if you were going to
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sell cards? If I were going to sell cards,
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it would be with Chris Sewell. Chris Sewell, baseball card
26:33
collector, investor, dealer, in that order, is trustworthy.
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He's a great guy. He's our friend and he is trying
26:44
to buy collections out there for fair prices and we definitely
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endorse him. We definitely trust him and we
26:54
think you should consider selling your cards to Chris
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Sewell. If you would like to get in
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touch with Chris Sewell, if you go over to Sports Car Clubhouse
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and you go to Partners, the Partners link, there will be
27:06
more information about Chris. I don't remember Chris's e-mail
27:11
address. I should know it by now.
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What is it? Sewell Sports?
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I'm not going to screw it up. You tell me, Mike.
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Sewellsportscards@gmail.com. He, he really is a great guy and
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I, I, there have been very few things that Chris has ever been
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associated with that I didn't genuinely truly enjoy.
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That's the truth. That's the truth.
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But yes, but now. They have a competing podcast
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and I'm not sure we can be friends with them anymore.
27:37
Competing. Come on.
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I mean, those guys aren't. Those guys aren't competing with
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us. OK, sure.
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Actually, it's a lot of fun and I, I have been enjoying
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listening to it. Yeah.
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So what do you think about that? Sometimes when you buy a card
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and the value isn't really there, then I struggle more with
28:04
making the purchase because I've always felt like I'm bailed out
28:09
by, well, I can always sell it, but this card, I don't think I
28:13
can really do that. Fun fact, Matt Manning's
28:16
birthday was yesterday really. And I think that seller got
28:24
lucky to find you. And that's that's the only way
28:29
you're going to sell that card for $300 or close to it is
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finding the right buyer. Unlike a Jackie Robinson where
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it's liquid, you could put it out there and somebody's going
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to buy it. A Matt Manning, rookie Refractor
28:45
auto, Super Refractor auto has a extremely limited audience at
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$300, now $50. You could find a buyer pretty
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quickly I think. Oh I think I would sell it today
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at 50 bucks. Right.
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But for $300, yeah, I think you're going to have a pretty
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difficult time finding a buyer. And that's that's my point.
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But why? Why do you care?
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It's a cool card of somebody you had as a student.
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I you can show it to him, you can gift it to him.
29:17
You can. It's a cool story and I think
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there's a lot of value in that. 100% agree.
29:25
And the card is not for sale and I'm not planning on ever selling
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the card. I don't I can't.
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I mean, I mean, he'd have to turn into Tarek Scubal for me to
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sell the card. You know, if it was, if it got
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to the point where he turned resurrected his career and just
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went on a tear and I, it was worth so much money that I, I
29:48
had to sell it, then I would sell it.
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But otherwise I'm not planning on selling this card.
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But, and, and, and that's kind of the point.
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And, and again, I don't really know what my question is more
29:58
than topic, which is the discussion of why, if I know I'm
30:04
not going to sell this card, but the fact that I couldn't sell
30:10
the card has made it harder for me to buy the card.
30:15
I've I am a very safe person with money I don't make.
30:20
I don't take a lot of risk. Whenever I buy any card, I don't
30:25
really worry about spending money on the card because I feel
30:31
like I have this built in safety net.
30:33
But this is a different thing. Again, I'm not going to sell it,
30:38
but the fact that normally I can sell it makes me feel a lot more
30:45
at ease about buying a card. Am I the only person that feels
30:49
that way? That sometimes when I buy a
30:52
card, knowing that I could sell it if something happened makes
30:59
it a little bit easier for me to fork over the money?
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Is that a unusual thing? Is that a normal thing?
31:06
Do you ever feel that way? Have you bought a card where you
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said, you know what, I'm buying this card, and if I ever tried
31:13
to, if I ever needed to sell it, it ain't happening?
31:17
Or do you feel more comfortable when you buy cards, like when
31:22
you bought your Roberto Clemente rookie at the National?
31:25
You more comfortable, of course. I can't think of a time when I
31:29
bought a card, but I've never been in that type of situation
31:35
where I've never bought a one of one.
31:37
I've never bought a really rare card that I was the sole
31:41
audience for, so I can't say no. My cousin has a card that's out
31:47
there from when he played very briefly on a minor league team.
31:51
And there are three of them that I found all for Sale by the same
31:56
eBay dealer. So I think that they're fake.
31:59
They're not. I don't think they're, I think
32:02
they're just custom. And he has them listed at I
32:05
think $15 each. And I want all three of them,
32:09
but my cousin is making an error in the photo, like he's
32:15
committing an error. And so it's kind of like, do I
32:18
want to pay $15.00 for these? I sent it to him.
32:21
He wasn't even aware of them. And he's like, those are
32:23
definitely not worth $15. Don't buy that.
32:28
But you know, I, I can't think of that would be the most I
32:32
would ever spend. That would be the one example is
32:35
if I were to buy my cousin's card.
32:37
Nobody would ever buy that for $15 except for me.
32:40
Do other people out there, when they buy cards that are very
32:47
niche, do they, do you think that they feel less comfortable
32:54
forking over the money for the card?
32:56
Or do other people, am I unusual for why I feel a little bit
33:03
apprehensive about this purchase or is that something that other
33:06
people go through? Or do other people just when
33:09
they buy stuff, they're happy with the addition, they don't
33:13
second guess it and they just go no, no, no, no, I want this, so
33:17
who cares what it's worth? I don't care if I ever could
33:20
sell it or not. Am I unusual for feeling the way
33:24
that I'm feeling about being uncomfortable buying a card that
33:28
I couldn't sell if I needed to sell it?
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I don't think you're unusual. I think that if you think about,
33:35
let's say, if you were, let's say you were collecting a a rare
33:39
pirate set, correct? Would you?
33:42
Would you? Would you feel uncomfortable
33:45
about buying APSA 5 or an SGC 5 of one of those, knowing that
33:50
the audience of that set is like you and three other people?
33:54
That's a great question. Apparently I do this a lot.
33:57
What is wrong with me? And the audience for For the
34:03
Goonies autographs, by the way, are like you and me and three
34:07
other people. Yeah, one of them is a Boston
34:11
card hunter, apparently. Yeah, he's the one in your in
34:15
your discussion with him, he was saying how he was putting that
34:19
that run together too, and he bought like a, a box of the
34:23
sealed wax. Yeah, I, I, I guess I kind of, I
34:28
mean, all right, I'm going to share another thing I've been
34:30
buying. I wasn't going to share this,
34:32
but I pulled them just in case. So I'm on this stupid kick
34:37
again. All month I've been buying stuff
34:40
that has a very niche market. So in what was it, 2018 tops
34:50
archives, they had an insert set and the insert set are The
34:55
Sandlot players. And in the insert set of that,
35:00
they also had autos of the actors who played The Sandlot
35:05
players. And I just, I've been on a tear
35:09
with them. I mean, I got I got the smalls
35:12
right here. This one is graded.
35:14
Why? I don't know why these were just
35:18
collecting dust on eBay and then I just went and bought a bunch.
35:23
Of what? What did you pay for that one?
35:24
I don't even want to say, 'cause people will make fun of me.
35:28
I got, I got squints here, autoed.
35:32
I've got. I've got.
35:35
I got to watch that movie again, it's been so long.
35:36
We've got Tommy Timmons and I've got Timmy Timmons all.
35:42
Of the greatest, One of the greatest baseball movies of all
35:44
time and one of the greatest coming of age movies of all
35:47
time. Yeah.
35:48
These are these are two of the best baseball brothers of all
35:53
time. Right there I've got and then
35:56
today in the mail, I got Kenny Denunez.
36:00
Wow. So I've got speaking.
36:03
So best of them. Best baseball brothers?
36:05
Not like Jose and Ozzy can say. Go.
36:08
I'm just kidding, you know, Do you know what?
36:10
Baseball Brothers have the most combined home runs in the
36:16
history of baseball. It's going to be something
36:18
stupid like Jose and Ozzy, where one of them have 450 and the
36:22
other has three. Let me think here, who has a lot
36:27
of home runs? Hank Aaron and his brother.
36:31
That's that's correct. Tommy Aaron.
36:33
Is that right? Yeah, that's, that's, that is
36:36
it's Tommy Aaron. Tommy has 13.
36:42
Really contributing to that number.
36:43
And Hank has 755. That was good deduction that you
36:48
did there. Greg Nettles, by the way, his
36:51
brother played a little bit of professional baseball.
36:55
So I've been buying stuff all month that like not a lot of
37:01
people want. Which by the way, I have to, I
37:02
have to say this. So the movie was set in 1962,
37:07
which is why it's the 1962 tops design.
37:12
Clever. I've been buying stuff all month
37:16
that nobody wants and except for me.
37:20
See, that's when you wait for an auction to come up.
37:23
I know I should, but I also have, you know, the patience of,
37:30
I don't know, a four year old. Oh man, I have so much patience.
37:35
Really. Yeah, I have so many eBay saved
37:39
searches that are only come up if there's an auction.
37:43
So I've got it saved as this at auction and I just wait and I
37:49
wait and I wait and I wait. The cards are listed $150.00
37:53
when it comes up at auction. I get it for 50.
37:56
I mean, it's smart. It's smart.
37:58
That's not, that's not what I've done.
38:00
I, I don't know. I'm I'm insane.
38:04
It's it's official. I've I've in my month of January
38:08
is absolutely insane and everything is modern.
38:11
Everything that I bought in January is 2018 or newer.
38:15
Wow. I bought 6 cards, these five
38:20
Sandlot cards by the way, one of the guys won't sign anymore.
38:26
He won't. He does not want to be
38:28
associated with it at all. And so of the nine players, you
38:33
can only buy 8 of them. Yeah.
38:39
So 2018 tops archives cards and the the Matt Manning super
38:47
factor from 2020, I think. No, no, no, 2020.
38:52
I don't 2022, I don't even remember.
38:55
So look at me. I'm a modern collector.
38:57
I'm a modern auto collector. That's great to me.
39:04
Well, you asked me. You asked me a couple months ago
39:07
how do I collect modern cards? I know.
39:09
Here you go. Now, I'm a modern collector.
39:12
I mean, why would anybody buy that old stuff that you collect,
39:16
Mike, of the guys who, you know, are all dead and nobody's ever
39:20
heard of. Why would anybody buy those?
39:21
You got to buy the modern stuff. You got to buy the modern cards
39:25
of players that nobody's ever heard of.
39:27
I have that's. What I'm doing?
39:28
I have some mail days coming up that with some pretty big 1980s
39:33
cards, autographs, yeah, Oh yeah, and one of them and a
39:38
little tease for an upcoming mail day, a big mistake I made
39:43
with PSA on on the PSA eBay account.
39:49
I can't wait 'cause I because I know of it.
39:52
I'm especially excited and it is worth tuning in for over at Junk
39:57
Wax Hero on YouTube. Yeah.
40:01
It's great. And my big news that I broke,
40:05
that we talked about last week, nobody cares.
40:08
Nobody cared about my big news that I broke.
40:11
I in fact, there were some people who were upset about it.
40:14
There was a comment that you shouldn't have shared the the
40:18
screenshot of private messages without clearing it with with
40:23
Ryan. And the point that I made is
40:26
you're a YouTube. And this happens all the time.
40:30
Ryan knows you're a YouTube. Ryan knows I'm a YouTube.
40:33
If we're messaging him, we're going to use it on YouTube.
40:37
I don't think Ryan knows I'm a YouTube if I'm being.
40:40
No, he definitely does dude. Definitely does not I am you got
40:44
to you got to remember I'm like I'm like in single a bro.
40:50
I'm like a single a guy. Well, he's a prospector, so he's
40:53
aware of who you are. I, I, yeah, you know, I did
40:57
think about that, you know, and but that person, I'll say this,
41:02
that person is right. It wasn't right for me to do
41:05
that, but I still did it and I I don't regret doing it but but
41:13
that probably wasn't the coolest thing ever for me to do.
41:17
It is typically out of line. I agree with that person.
41:19
Great commenter by the way. True Texan.
41:22
Great great contributor. In this case though, I'm with
41:27
you. I I message people all the time
41:31
and they know I'm putting it on YouTube.
41:33
It's just that's bad unless so like if let's pretend that we're
41:37
journalists for minutes, we're not journalists, honestly, but
41:40
if a journalist. Do we work for?
41:42
Oh boy, let's not get ourselves in trouble if we're independent
41:46
journalists. If a journalist reaches out to
41:48
you, you need to specify yourself this can this stay off
41:55
the record? And then the journalist needs to
41:57
agree to keep it off the record. That is general journalism
42:01
practice. You can't say off the record and
42:04
then say it. That doesn't that doesn't fly.
42:08
The journalist does not need to keep it off the record unless
42:10
they have agreed to it upfront. I had an off the record moment
42:16
in an interview one time. Can I share it?
42:18
Can I break his confidence? When when I was in 8th grade, my
42:24
English teacher was Missus Swank and we had no different Swank.
42:31
I can't what was her first name? Can't remember.
42:34
Lovely lady. And we had to do a report, a big
42:38
project and we had to have a first person reference cited
42:43
interview in our report. And I was doing mine on soccer
42:47
and there was a player from the US Olympic national team who
42:53
lived about 45 minutes away. And his orthodontist was friends
43:01
with my stepdad. Somehow we arranged for me to
43:06
have a conversation with him and I drove the 45 minutes to where
43:11
he lived. And we met at a local like
43:14
coffee shop and I interviewed him when I was in 8th grade and
43:18
he said something to me. I'm taking notes, I'm asking him
43:21
questions, I'm taking notes. His little 8th grade Greg
43:24
student and I, he started saying something, but this has got to
43:28
stay off the record. And I said, oh, OK, so I didn't
43:33
know. I don't know what I'm doing, you
43:35
know, So I, I, I go, OK, so I didn't write it down.
43:39
But what he said was the reason our team, he really said this
43:44
too. The the soccer player's name was
43:46
Troy Dyack. And he was a defender.
43:51
And he said our coach for the national team is terrible.
43:56
If it wasn't for him, I think we were good enough to actually win
44:00
the World Cup. And I'm like, oh, wow, really?
44:03
And he's like, yeah, dude, we, we, we were trash.
44:07
You know, Alexi Lawless was like our our best player, Kobe Jones.
44:11
So but there I am. That's my story.
44:14
I I like you know, I got to share these little tidbits
44:16
because I got to keep these memories alive before my brain
44:20
is complete mush. Yeah, I had a a call with a a
44:25
very, very, very wealthy collector.
44:29
It's probably it was coming up on two years ago.
44:33
It was right around right around this time two years ago.
44:37
Somebody who has mega cards, like the best cards imaginable.
44:43
And he gave me some pretty wild quotes on this phone call.
44:49
And I was like, I can say all these things on a video and he's
44:53
like, Yep, go ahead. And so holy cow.
44:58
So I'm literally, I'm, I'm taking my notes, turning them
45:01
into like video ready notes. And then he called me back and
45:04
said, on second thought, I don't want you to say any of those
45:07
things. And I was like, but you said I
45:11
could. And he's like, I'll trade you
45:14
and I will give you some different information instead.
45:18
And I said OK, I agree. And he?
45:20
Gave us heard of this collector. Yeah.
45:24
Oh wow. Yeah.
45:27
OK, interesting. I can't wait for us to hit Stop
45:30
recording so you can tell me all about it.
45:33
What a tease. Maybe we should say maybe the
45:38
title of this episode should be Mike.
45:44
Mike breaks guidelines and spills the tea.
45:50
No, OK. I still have the page of notes.
45:53
I mean, it is a page of small handwritten notes.
45:57
I still have it. There's a lot this this was a
46:01
fun one. It was a long 146 minutes.
46:04
My gosh. Yeah, I'm going to just say
46:06
this. I'm going to say spare everybody
46:08
the the comments down below. Your topic was probably better
46:11
than mine, but it is a dilemma. It isn't a true dilemma that I
46:15
felt this week as I was buying this car and I'm going what am I
46:19
doing? Nobody else would do this.
46:21
If something happened, I had to sell it.
46:23
I couldn't get my money back and it's an unusual feeling.
46:26
So I just wanted to see, is anybody else ever felt that or
46:30
is it just me? Yeah.
46:33
All right, bud, it was fun as always and anything you want to
46:39
promote or shout out or anything, I, oh, I have a, if
46:42
you're listening to this on the sports card clubhouse podcast
46:46
network on on Monday night. It I have a live stream I'm
46:53
doing which will be fun. Yeah, and you also have a new
46:57
podcast episode out with Ash. That was a fun one.
47:03
Did you like it? I have not listened yet.
47:07
It's on my list. A list to listen to.
47:10
That's cool. Well I listened to yours with
47:12
teapot the other day so. Nice.
47:15
Only a couple weeks late, all. Right bud, Talk to you later.
47:19
I'll see you.