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Boston Card Hunter (Nick Andrews) Talks Evolving As A Hobby Creator (Meet A Content Creator) · Sports Card Clubhouse

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Hey, it is Mike. Thanks everybody for tuning in.
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This is. Meet a content creator and today
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I'm joined by Nick, also known as Boston Card Hunter, both on
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YouTube but also mostly on Instagram.
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Nick, thanks for joining me. Thanks, Mike.
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I like the the backdrop for those on audio.
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If you're not, you know, watching this, he's got the
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green monster color and you know, one of the strikeout
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sheets from from family, which is pretty sweet.
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Thank you. Yeah, it's Pedro strikeout sheet
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in fact from the late 90s that's.
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Awesome, you got to get that signed by him man.
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I would love to. I would love to.
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I used to have one that Wei mailed to me at my dorm room
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back in the late 90s. I used to do that.
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In my dorm too. At some point I got rid of it
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and then I just bought one on eBay.
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When I moved into this office few months ago, I was like, I
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got to have one of those things again and I haven't put anything
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else up on the walls. Obviously not much anyway, but
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getting there. Love it.
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So anyway, Nick, thanks for joining you.
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Are you kind of just appeared what, maybe two years ago on
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Instagram? And I can't, I don't open
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Instagram a lot, maybe three times a week, very, very
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briefly. And you're always right at the
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top of my feed. Do you have a, a reel?
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Is that what they're called Reels?
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Yeah, the videos are called Reels.
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And you, it feels like you've kind of mastered the medium of
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creating a quick reel. I don't know, are they all a
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minute or less or something? They're most of them are under
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15 seconds under. 15 seconds and most.
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People's attention span for a video in America is 8 seconds. 8
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seconds. So you have studied, you can in
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fact see in your background if anybody's on video, the YouTube
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formula is a book that you have there, which is interesting
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because I also, I love studying up on how can I get more views
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in a respectable ethical way. Of course, where some people
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aren't necessarily that way, but the, the algorithm, the formula
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is really interesting. Tell me about how did you get
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into this in the 1st place and how long ago was it?
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Well, you know, I I'm a collector 1st and I my Instagram
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used to be called 1986 Fleer NBA that.
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Very boring. You're not going to get many
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people watching. Yeah.
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Right, it's boring and I I only did that.
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To be clear, I love 86 Fleer. It's not boring to me, but it's
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going to get a very small audience.
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God. If anybody wants any man, this
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is. I started a second autograph set
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and I gave up. I've been selling these like hot
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kicks, man. So I, I was building the first
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autograph set and Instagram is a must for networking to get these
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hard cards. And so was the Facebook group
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for 86 flair with like 7000 people in it.
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That's the only reason I had it was to just take pictures of the
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TTMS, you know, stuff I'd get through the mail and those cards
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and I don't know what happened. I think maybe one day I got
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angry about something. I still remember the first time
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my face was on Instagram. I was cracking a slab in 20
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seconds or something like that. And it was the first time I ever
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like had the camera on me. And then there was sort of an
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evolution where I thought like, hey, something's bother me in
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the hobby and some things are interesting.
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Like I have a business background, so I find a lot of
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the movements of the the hobby business is fun and interesting.
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And I started to get a following that way just organically.
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I didn't really read any books or anything like that at the
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time. I was just kind of messing
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around. OK.
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And how long have you been doing this regularly?
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Regularly, I'm going to say probably a couple of years.
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So I had podcast for a while, Sports Car Madness, but it, it
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got to be too much work. And then I started kind of
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ramping up. I guess cat scanning was sort of
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the big thing that put me on the scene.
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That's when most people Remember Me.
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I, I was one of the first people that reached out to that
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company. I was like, what is, what is
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this like real? And then I had the interview
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with them where I had to retract some of the video, which is just
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crazy. And why don't you?
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Retract some of the video. Because I was asked to by the
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company and I have to respect the person I'm interviewing's
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wishes. You know, I think as, as an
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interviewer, if they tell you to take something away, it's very
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wrong to not do that. So I, I did.
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And also the reason was we had linked the CAT scanning 99.5% to
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particular breaking company, but it wasn't 100, didn't have like
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a video of the person doing it. And you know, this isn't a court
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of law. It's like a hobby.
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And I decided that was me and my decision.
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Well, and Larry too, he's part of the, you know, the pod.
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We decided like, if it's not 100%, we're not going to air
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that. So it is still still out there.
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Everybody has already drawn their own conclusions anyway, of
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course. I have some assumptions, yeah.
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So that that's when things kind of took off.
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And then then I just started calling things out that I didn't
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like. I would look at how repacks work
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and how people just getting away with murder on on whatnot.
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I would look at some of the behavior on Whatnot and some of
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the stuff they condoned with that platform that I did not
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love. I would also save people, you
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know, gosh, I've probably recovered hundreds of thousands
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of dollars of cards for people just by using the might of
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social media. You know, it's kind of like a
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watchdog with teeth and, you know, they lose a card.
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And then I'd get debut sports to admit like, yeah, we, we shipped
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a card with like chips all over it and they give them the money
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back within seconds. And I did that a lot and and
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just small cards or another great example, 2 fake Jordans
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hit the market by this guy trying to pump the market
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earlier this year. The Jordan 86 flare and 86 flare
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sticker that was signed. He bullied them through PSA.
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That's a fact because of how much volume he does in Jordan
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memorabilia and autographs. And I didn't like that.
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So I did a video that got 100,000 views and PSA
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decertified it within 5 minutes of the video.
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So I can make impacts like that. The problem, the problem was
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it's a very thankless job. I'm not, I wasn't getting, I'm
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semi retired, you know, I retired at 40 as an
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entrepreneur. I'm not getting paid for this,
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you know what I mean? And then, you know, I thought
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about the idea of like like a debt collector, you know,
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collecting a percentage, but it just didn't, it just didn't
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work. And then I decided that a lot of
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that is negative, you know, a lot of it is like takedowns and
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pressure. And I, I, I'm not that kind of
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person. Like I'm more of a positive.
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Kind of like listen to reggae, pretty chilled dude, you know,
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And I didn't like the the person I was sort of becoming or it
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even actually became hard to understand who I was, you know,
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when I woke up or, and I would get 3 to 400 DMS, you know, with
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people asking for help. I tried to filter it with like a
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subscription and people had an issue with that.
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So I got rid of that. And in the end I just said I
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don't care anymore. Like let the hobby have its
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chaos and fun and maybe somebody else would do it.
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And I still do some that really matter to me, like this Pokémon
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guy that just keeps ripping people off for hundreds of
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thousands of dollars. I'll never let him go the pokey
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fist guy cards and positivity. So I'll do a few like if they
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really matter and they're really, you know, earth
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shattering. But for now, I I guess it's been
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more about collecting, which I do a lot of.
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I'm an actual collector. Like I collect a lot of I'm like
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an NBA hoops guy, autographed guy.
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That matters a lot to me. And now I also break down the
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business side of things too. You know, I'll look at how Arena
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Club really works, how the repack value chain works, and
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but every now and then I'll get ticked off like I was with eBay
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over the last 48 hours with something they did to me on
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their authenticity program and I let them have it.
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So sometimes it will happen, but that's just me being pissed off.
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You know, do you ever hear from PSA, specifically PSA, when you
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do a takedown video on something from PSA and they then react by
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deactivating the certification, do you hear from them too?
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I don't hear as a reaction, but I will say this.
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I have a good relationship with Nat.
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We do e-mail now and then. He's been on my old show a
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couple times and I like and respect Nat a lot.
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I push psaa lot, but I like and respect him.
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Ryan, who's the president? Yeah, Ryan Hogue.
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He and I talk a lot, too. He's never been on my show.
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PR probably won't let him. They never respond critically,
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but I will. I want to give them credit.
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Nat has done a few things. Like there's actually been some
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videos that never aired because I would go to Nat and he took
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care of it, or Ryan and he took care of it.
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So many, many times they just take care of it and you never
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see the video. And you know, I'm thankful for
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that. So I still have a pretty good
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relationship. It's a balance, right?
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Like I want the relationships with people like the leaders in
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the space, but I also want to make sure everything's fair and
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I I want to be able to critique them as well.
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So I'm not just like like a big cheerleader or whatever.
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So the feedback loops there. I've done content with Ryan
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where we submitted a star Jordan 101 I bought at the national
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raw. It's a big gamble.
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And I submitted it with the four hour service through him and it
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passed and we did like a cool video about that that went that
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went viral and stuff. And, you know, I'll give him
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advice too on things that I feel like I know more about than
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maybe their own authenticators, which is like certain 86 Fleer
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autographs just 'cause I'm such a hound with those.
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And he, he takes my advice into account and, and puts me in
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touch with like the right people there.
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So it's been actually a good relationship, but they never
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have responded to like, like, here's a video.
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This is why we did it. But you see the things happen,
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you know? Yeah, So Nat and Ryan always
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ignore me. I'll message them and say, hey,
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can you tell me why you did this or why did this get certified?
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And they will completely ignore me both on Instagram and
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Twitter. And then I'll put the video out
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and they will decertify within an hour of me posting the video
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and going on Twitter. And they'll never say a word
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about it. And it's bizarre.
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Whereas like I'll have issues with Golden and they'll respond
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to me and they'll, you know, they want to smooth it over.
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I'll have issues with some other companies.
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I won't have them, but I'll, I'll go to them and be like,
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hey, help me understand this. And PSA just never responds to
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any of it. They will decertify in almost
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every case. There's one card that they will
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not decertify even though there's clear evidence that it's
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trimmed. The 1st T2O6.
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Just kidding. We know that one is they offered
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to buy it back. No, this is a Independence Day,
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Shohei Otani that is numbered and clearly trimmed.
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I mean. There's a there's a reason for
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that, right? Like the PR team has trained
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executives of this multi billion dollar company, anything that
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they say in the DM or respond to can be held against them for a
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decade. Like Nat not liking up charges
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12 years ago. That was not 12 years ago.
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He created his account 12 years ago.
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That was from 2019. OK, so the.
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Dates. The dates confuse a lot of
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people because it says member since 2013, but above that is
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the date of the. Post which was just.
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Six years ago and it was that was.
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On blow off and he'll never live it down like I did a post about
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it. I was new to me this year.
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It was new to me a month ago. Exactly.
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So it's, that's the problem. It's it's high risk.
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There has to be a level of trust there.
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I would never like I would never air Adm.
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No no no. Actually I think that probably
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violates doxing laws in Massachusetts to be honest.
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But I would never on principle ever air something that was
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shared like through text or DM, and I never have without their.
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Permission, right? Yeah, no, unless, yeah, unless
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they say yes, you can share this or you can share this
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anonymously and then I'll clip it.
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I've done that many times. But I'll never just like share
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Adm without without that, because you have to have trust
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with people in the space. You're never going to like get
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things done or have productive relationships, you know?
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Yeah, agreed. So do you, and I know you just
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worked out a relationship with Hollywood Joe as that wasn't Joe
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Hollywood. Joe Hollywood.
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Yeah, I mean, this is, this is amazing.
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Like I was a punk'd in it. You raised over $100,000 for
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Boston Children's. Hospital in 2 1/2 hours.
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I I I told the team at Children's.
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I said my goal is 10 grand because I had a box of two. 2012
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Prism basketball and Joe did the sky box, the row one, I forget
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the name of the the box. And you know, I thought like
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maybe 20 if we get like some really happy people tipping and
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stuff like that. And we had a representative
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there that was very important. I wanted to know, make sure
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people knew that this was on the up and up.
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And I, I shared the document on my Instagrams, you know, saying
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we're all registered and everything.
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And I just couldn't believe, you know, like, yeah, I've got an
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Instagram audience. But Joe has, you know, he just
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turns it on and there's, there's 1200 people in that room from
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Australia to New Zealand to, you know, Canada.
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And, you know, they're just watching this come through.
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We, we didn't even start opening packs and we had like $5000
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raised and they were getting the cards.
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Like me and Joe bought the cards of their own money.
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We spent all the money on the wax.
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And I had some of my friends bring stuff for the giveaways
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and it just people were just like really generous.
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It was, it was probably one of the most meaningful nights of my
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life. Like up there with like children
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and being born and like, like, 'cause this, this hospital
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matters a lot to my family. I won't get into the details,
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but it does. And like having a Rep there, She
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so like, she's like, all right, sports cards sounds cool.
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna hang out for like 15 minutes and then I'm
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gonna go, you know, and then she didn't leave, you know, she and,
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and so we started racking it up and we're doing it at card
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Vault, which is half owned by Tom Brady, Chris Costa, the
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owner of Facetimes me. He's like, let's give away a
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meet and greet with Brady and, and, and sign something of your
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choice. And that went for like 10,500
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bucks. And so we had, we had raised
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like 40 grand by the two hour mark.
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And then a donor popped into the chat.
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It was like, we're just gonna, we're gonna write a check for 50
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grand and is. This a person public.
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Yeah, yeah, it's a, it's a fund. Gosh, I wish I had his name off
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the top of my head. It's it's it's named after him
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and his wife. He's never donated this much
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before, but he he donates a lot on Joe's shows.
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And Babe BB Beatrice, who was the Rep, she was just moved to
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tears, you know, and that brought us to 90.
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And then by the end of the night, we rounded it out.
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We had 100 grand. We actually transferred the
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funds on Wednesday this week at the hospital and we were there
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and people don't even know this week we got like 500 packs from
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junk wax to modern that I'm not going to do it because of an
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autoimmune thing, but Joe's going to hand help hand out to
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the kids who are stuck there long term.
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And they're going to have like Pokémon 2 obviously cause kids
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like Pokémon. And so we did that too to also
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like money's going to research. But now we also have packs for
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kids. But yeah, we raised 100 grand
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basically out of thin air in 2 1/2 hours.
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And we're probably going to do something even bigger like next
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year and try to go for 250 maybe for Children's Hospital,
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whatever. But it was they, they thought I
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was crazy like sports cut what? And I tried to explain breaking
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to them, and they just didn't get it until they saw it.
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And then they were like, whoa, you know?
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So you also had a party at the National and Michael Rubin
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showed up. Tell me about how that came
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about. Yeah, I've been public with,
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with some of this. I, I can't say a lot of it, but
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I was very vocal about fanatics last year and I, you know, I
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didn't like a lot of the things they were doing.
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And eventually Michael Rubin DM Ed me in like January.
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So just come down to New York and just hang out.
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And so I hung out with the leadership team there and then
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it was a good conversation. Like he was kind of like, well,
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what am I doing wrong? You know what?
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Why don't people like fanatics? And I asked him tough questions
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too. I'm like, are you gonna keep
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tops, you know, before, before the IPO, Are you just gonna like
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ditch it? And he said he's gonna die with
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tops. Like he said that to me.
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And I was like, wow, OK. And then I had follow on
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meetings cause not every executive there liked me very
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much at that point in time. But I met with, you know, the
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other leadership like Mike Mahan and others and started to
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developed some chemistry and I ultimately helped them with the
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Museum of Greatness at Fanatics Fest because I have an audience
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and I tapped into that audience to find some cool cards to
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display and show off at that, which I thought was pretty
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awesome. That was kind of like a warm up.
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And then, you know, I don't know, the audience probably
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knows. I was a consultant for a number
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of years from finance to marketing to strategy to
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everything. And they started to see me as a
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valuable resource, not only with the hobby knowledge, but
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business knowledge. And I started doing consulting
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for them. I'm pretty open, but I've
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already said this before, like I've just helped them with
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everything from digital marketing to, you know, new
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customer acquisition initiatives and stuff like that.
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And so Michael and I have been pretty close.
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We still are pretty close. We talk a lot and you know, he
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was kind of down to come to the party, but I, I also, I had some
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meaning behind it too. Like well, we also raised 10
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grand for children's at our party, which was pretty awesome.
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But I had him, I bought a couple of 86 flier packs and we opened
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a box of skybox metal, you know, like a, the big boy, you know,
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like the nice box, the Joaquim shout out to him.
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You know, he was going to open it anyway and he did that at our
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party. So the two 2 packs were duds.
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That was annoying. The skybox metal, you know,
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wasn't, wasn't great, but it was funny for Michael Rubin to see
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the evolution of innovation from 1986 to 1997.
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And then when he was opening the metal, he's like, it's really
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hard to tell what's a good card and not a good card.
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They all look so good, you know, And it was, it was kind of cool
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to get his perspective on the manufacturing and the evolution
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of cards. And then I got him to spill the
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beans on like whether there's a Cooper flag, you know, debut
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patch at the time and stuff like that.
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And it was fun. We hung out.
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It wasn't just him there. Mike Mahan was there, some
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other, you know, the chief PR guy was there, a few other
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people from the leadership team. So it was just like having a
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good time. And then the coolest moment was
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we're going to open a pack of contenders, Brady's rookie year,
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and we were about to crack it. Jason Koontz supplied the pack.
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And Michael goes, we're calling inaudible.
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We're going to have Brady open this tomorrow.
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And then my brother-in-law, Larry, the other half of Sports
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Car Madness, he opened the pack with Brady on stage the next
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day. Of course, we got nothing, but
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we just had horrible luck with packs.
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But it was fun. So yeah, I mean, I'm doing
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things with fanatics and and I'm kind of close to those guys now.
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It's it's kind of a good lesson to it's easy to critique people
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on social media and it's easy to have a comment war and it's easy
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to like think about somebody in the context of like an 8 second
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sound bite. What's hard, and Joe Rogan has
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said this before, what's hard is to sit down with somebody for
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two hours and talk about their hopes and dreams and thoughts
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about the world And most people that you dislike on social
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media. I'm sure a lot of people hate
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me. If you sat down me with a beer
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for a couple hours, we'd be cool and we would find some common
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ground, you know? And that's kind of how I viewed
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the relationship with them. Yeah.
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You know, I, when my channel was small, I used to just say
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whatever I wanted because that was important to me.
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And then I remember what there was a time where I said
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something about somebody and it got back to them and they
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watched. In fact, this happened with you
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one time where I said something fairly innocuous about you and I
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had heard you say something about going to South America.
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Oh yes, on Twitter I saw that and I liked and respected you,
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so I wanted to talk to you about it.
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Yeah, yes. And you reached out to me and
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we, I don't remember what happened, but cleared the air.
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But that was fairly early on in my, I hate to say YouTube
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journey, but I, I learned a lot from that type of thing where
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there were two or three of those where I was like, man, I need to
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be more careful about what I say without giving it some thought
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1st. And I'm much more thoughtful
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when I'm critical of somebody. Now I'm much more thoughtful
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about it than I used to be, partially thanks to you, but
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also there were a couple of other things where I was just
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like, that didn't feel good. That wasn't the best thing I did
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there. And I know you're short on.
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Time here, I don't even exchange DMS that much anymore because so
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many people are just trying to, they're trying to bait me, you
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know, basically whatever I say in Adm now I have to pretend
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it's on like national CNN news. And then if I'm OK with that,
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then I'll send it, yeah. I know you're short on time.
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I appreciate you coming in. Tell me about your collection
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'cause I know you have a massive 86 Fleer too.
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You're working on your second 86 Fleer autograph.
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I was and then I just got like pissed off and how hard it is
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and how high the prices have climbed on the deceased players,
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which I can't do anything about. Dennis Johnson is not gonna
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let's have a, an Ouija board and a Gypsy.
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Like Dennis Johnson's not going to sign my card.
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So like, and there's a lot, there's like 25 deceased player,
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30, you know, deceased players now.
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And they're just so expensive or like people like Andrew Tony who
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are just, they're just never going to sign a card.
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So I looked at it and I'm just like, this is diminishing
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returns. So I'm merging them into what's
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going to be like a really nice. So I have the base and sticker
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set autographed and dual graded in APSA slab.
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The only one that sticks out like a sore thumb is the Jordan
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base, which isn't a Beckett's slab.
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I've tried to cross it didn't work out but yeah, what
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happened? What's that?
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Why didn't it work out? Well, it, it passed Beckett, and
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I know the source is good 'cause I bought like 10 MJ autographs
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off of him. He got him in like 8889 and they
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all pass. But it's sloppy.
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It's it's signed really quick. He had a magazine in one hand
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and was going like this and PSA didn't fail it.
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They just said inconclusive and refunded, you know, which
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thankfully, because it was like an expensive cross.
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So you know, it didn't it didn't.
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I might, I may try again. They have more knowledge, you
23:47
know, their knowledge evolves about you know, Jordan's auto
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database. That's that's probably like my
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favorite thing. I've got the other thing, which
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is nuts. The next project, yeah, 69 tops
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NBA. I've got that whole set
24:01
autograph, man. It's.
24:03
Crazy. Two of them are cuts, Guy Rogers
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and Bill Bridges. I I had the opportunity to buy a
24:08
guy Guy Rogers like a week ago and it was just too much and I
24:12
let my friend have it. I that set has angered me enough
24:17
to put together where I'm probably going to auction it
24:19
off. So just like so mad at it.
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It was not a fun 86 flair. Took me 4 months.
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This is like 2 year, 2 1/2 years and running.
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I mean, half the guys are dead, you know.
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So there's just like sourcing this stuff.
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These are POP1POP0 in some cases cards.
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But I got it done. It's all Beckett and PSA slabbed
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and I got 2 cuts. So that's, that's crazy.
24:46
And then I have a I've been getting into Pokémon with my
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son. I have the 1st edition shadow
24:52
lists. PSA 9 are higher set.
24:56
I've only got like 5 left. I've got the Charizard so that's
25:00
kind of fun. I looked at the Pokémon market
25:03
and I made a good call. Like I bought most of the
25:05
hollows in February and they've they've like doubled since then.
25:09
I'm not selling that though. These are things I'm not they're
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going down in the family to whatever.
25:15
And then one really cool one which you'll like 'cause you're
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a junk wax guy, is I'm building a skybox prototype set because I
25:24
think that's a hidden gem. You mean the first year of
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skybox? No, see, you might not even know
25:29
about this. So I hate to spill the beans,
25:31
but so everybody knows Skybox that's. 1990 was the first year
25:36
of skybox basketball. So they sent out to 2000 card
25:41
shops prototype set. So it's got a red protostripe
25:45
prototype bar across the top, It's MJ, David Robinson, like
25:49
few star players and then a few regular players just where they
25:51
fell on the sheet that got cut and some announcer cards and
25:55
they were just trying to sell Skybox to the shops.
25:58
There are less than less of these than there are star cards.
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And people don't realize it because they think Skybox junk,
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Skybox junk. And I have slowly been building
26:07
the autograph set of these and it's really cool looking so far.
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So I highly recommend people like look at that.
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So that's another thing. I'm an autograph guy.
26:17
Like I have the Goonies set and I'm autographing that 8585
26:21
Goonies. Yeah, I've actually got sealed
26:24
wax right, right above my B right there.
26:27
That's a sealed Goonie 1985 next to the 86 FLIR.
26:31
I love the Goonies cards. I Love Goonies is a top five
26:34
movie of all time for me, and Greg of Greg of Midlife Cards
26:38
has been buying up the autographs of 85 Goonies too,
26:40
and it makes me really want to. But they're surprisingly pricey.
26:44
I've got a few through the mail for free.
26:47
Kelly K Kwan, I got lucky. Chunk does not sign.
26:50
He did like a signing like 10 years ago.
26:52
He's like a very wealthy entertainment attorney, right?
26:55
Some of the gals sign. They're in, like, theater groups
26:58
and stuff like that and go through their agency.
27:01
Sloth's not here anymore. Josh Brolin will sign, you know,
27:04
he charges whatever, 3400 bucks every Comic Con to sign, you
27:08
know, Thanos and like all the other things and he'll sign
27:11
that. And, oh, and, you know, Mikey
27:14
from The Goonies, I had him sign at a comic, you know, Comic Con
27:18
Boston. Like, he'll, you know, Sean
27:20
Astin, like, he'll sign them too.
27:21
So, you know, it's not terrible. Like, you can get it done piece
27:24
by piece, but that's just like a passion project.
27:26
It's not, you know, whatever. But yeah.
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That's a blast. Yeah, I I have a Goonies wax
27:33
wrapper and that's all that's the best I've got from the
27:35
Goonies cuz it just hasn't been a priority for me.
27:38
I know at some point I'm gonna want more Goonies stuff, more
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non sports stuff, but. It's a good movie, man.
27:43
It's a great movie. My kids love it too.
27:46
Yeah, yeah, mine too. Nick, this has been great.
27:50
I appreciate you coming on and giving me a little extra time
27:53
here. Of course, I think that what you
27:56
do is valuable. The, the, the short reels, the
28:01
quick hitters. Every time I told you, every
28:05
time I open Instagram, there's Nick's face and it's easily
28:09
consumed. It's easy to understand.
28:11
And I get a lot of pictures from people asking me, you got to do
28:14
a, a video on this or you have to add this into your Sunday
28:17
clearing the bases episode. And I have to explain to them
28:20
it's this is not easy to understand.
28:22
And if it's not easy for me to understand and I can't explain
28:25
it well and it's going to be a terrible video or a terrible
28:28
piece of video, and I think you've got that down pat, the
28:33
this is easy to understand. I can I can make this simple for
28:37
people which is super important to make it consumable.
28:41
Yeah, in 15 seconds with music and.
28:45
Yeah, and a little B roll too. Yeah, yeah.
28:48
That's true. That's true.
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Yeah. Thanks man.
28:52
Well, this is great. I appreciate talking to you.
28:54
Yeah, where can people find you? Boston Card Hunter on Instagram
28:59
and I've got a YouTube channel now that I'm almost at like 500
29:02
followers in couple of couple of months.
29:05
It's really just five 5-10 minute rants.
29:09
It's like the Instagram is the 10 second version.
29:12
And then a lot of people are like please elaborate.
29:15
So like I'll do like a 5 minute version on the YouTube channel,
29:18
but it's all Boston Card Hunter. I'm on Tiktok too.
29:21
TikTok I have never been on tik. T.O.K, it's just yeah, it's the
29:24
same videos as Instagram so. OK.
29:27
All right, Nick. Thanks everybody.
29:29
Go check out Nick, especially on Instagram, but also on YouTube
29:33
at Boston Card Hunter. Thanks again, Nick.
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I'll see you after we end here.