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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- December 10, 2025 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on, everybody? All right, It is Wednesday,
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Wednesday's Q&A day. Sorry about the Monday thing.
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You guys know, I normally do my typical Monday to all of you or
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ask you a question and then I share the responses, but I was
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gone all weekend. I got home late Saturday night,
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was in Los Angeles, but I hope that you enjoyed that episode.
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I had such a great weekend. Despite the loss for Lucy's
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team. I got to surround myself with
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some really good hobby friends, my buddy Dave and his wife Barb
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Fantastic people. They don't come any better than
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those two and I got to spend a couple of days with Mr. Mike
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Petty and we had so much fun. That guy is fun on steroids.
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If you had, if you could inject fun, first of all, I would do it
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and secondly, it would be Mike Petty.
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It would be Mike Petty. Mike Petty is fun injected
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directly into my bones. So that was a great time.
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I hope you enjoyed that video Monday.
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If you haven't seen Monday's video, you've got to go back and
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check that out. Such a fun one.
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All right, this week we have Q&A.
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We have 5 great questions. We have so much going on.
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Later in the week, I'm going to share my pickups from November.
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I've been waiting because I had a card at PSA Authentication and
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you know what that means? That means that if you buy a
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card that gets authenticated, it's a fairly big card.
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So I got one fairly big card. Couple other smaller things last
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month. Couple of them I've already
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teased on the channel a little bit.
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So later in the week, look forward to that.
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It might even be tomorrow, I don't know, Either Thursday,
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Friday or Saturday, One of those two.
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I've got 2 videos coming up still this week.
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Going to be a couple of videos I think you'll like a lot, but
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remember if you have a question for an upcoming episode down
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below in the comments just type out your question.
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Always looking for new questions.
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I've got 5 great ones this week and here's the first one.
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Given the recent news about Snipe, do you feel it's still OK
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to do business with Probstein? Should collectors still consign
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with him? What about bidding on items he
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has consigned on eBay? I always enjoy hearing your
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opinions on these kind of hobby news topics.
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Man I love direct questions. This is a very direct question.
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First off, let me just say this on Saturday, well, let me even
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back up from that. On Friday, I was in the airport,
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literally sitting in the airport and I recorded my weekly podcast
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episode with my buddy Mike Junk Wax Hero for our podcast and
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there was some noise and things going on around us.
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But this topic came up in that episode.
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I was not expecting this to come up and to be honest with you,
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Well, I'll get to that in a second.
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Anyway, I shared some of my initial thoughts on this exact
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topic. Now, remember the podcast always
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drops on Saturday mornings and Thursday morning.
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So tomorrow the video episode of that will post.
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So you can kind of hear a little bit more of my thoughts and Mike
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and I kind of talk about this and is that OK?
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Is it not OK? What's right, what's wrong?
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Is there a morality to it? I definitely shared some
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thoughts and, and I was, I was, you know, I had a lot going on.
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I was my, my flight was about to board and, and I had a lot of
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distractions. No excuses.
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But when I got done with that episode, I said, I think I'm
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going to get cancelled over this one.
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And the, and it wasn't really like there was something that I
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said where I'm like, I'm going to get cancelled because I said
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anything overly egregious, but there were a couple of things
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that I said in the discussion that I, I kind of had a little
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bit of a stomach ache about. So I want to talk about my
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response here. And then I want to talk about
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what I said, which again, will air on YouTube tomorrow.
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And some things that I kind of felt like was that that's not
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really the right wording anyway. So what do I think I'm One of
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the things I described in that episode was I am kind of
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forgiving to a fault. And in a lot of ways, I think
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I'm a bit naive. I can be hard on people at
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times. I can be hard on society at
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times. But one of the things that being
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a teacher that has been a teacher, this is I'm in my 23rd
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year as a high school teacher that I've gotten to at this
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point is I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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I tend to say, until you prove to me that you're bad, I'm going
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to assume that you're good. Which is also interesting
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because in a lot of cases, I I tend to be a glass is half empty
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type of person. And one of the things I was
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describing when I answered this to Mike when we were having this
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discussion is I, I kind of want to know for sure that somebody
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is guilty of something before I want to lock them.
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U And at this point and the allegations against Rick
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Probstein, as far as I know, are allegations.
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Now, I will also admit that I am not, I have not, I don't watch a
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ton of hobby news videos. And then after a lot of the
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drama that has happened over the last month with shill bidding
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with the doctor Beckett discussions and the P Ryan
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discussions, I kind of was like at my limit with negativity.
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So for the last couple of weeks, I have paid less attention to
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that stuff as normal. So it's very possible that there
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are facts out there that I don't know are facts and I'm thinking
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that they are allegations. But I also believe that, you
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know, we should assume that somebody is innocent until
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they're proven guilty. That said, if there are facts
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about the Probstein situation that are actual facts, then then
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absolutely that would adjust it. So I am a little bit out of the
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loop on this one as I was on Friday when I talked about it.
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That said, I would say and one of the things I said in that
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topic and in that conversation when I talked about this was
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when there is a fairly serious allegation.
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I think this first step is kind of distance yourself from the
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situation. So if you know, you find out
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that your next door neighbor is has been accused of Grand Theft,
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probably not a good night to go over and invite him over for a
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beer. It's probably a night that you
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just say, I'm not going to invite him over for a beer for a
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little while until I figure out what the heck's going on.
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So step one, I think is you, you do you kind of distance yourself
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from a situation. The allegations against
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Probstein, as far as I know, are that number 1.
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He, you know, he, he started his own auction site.
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It crashed. Apparently there was some access
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to a lot of personal financial information.
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I I think that's a fact. That's bad.
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That's not good that that has happened which appears to have
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happened. I haven't seen any for sure 100%
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facts that there is data out there.
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I know there was some talk about on on Christmas Day, there was
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going to be some data was going to be released or something by
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somebody who had the data. Again, I don't know a ton about
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it. And then I, I also think though,
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that, you know, you distance yourself and then once you know
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that something is, is, has happened, then then at that
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point you, you sever ties it depending on what obviously what
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it is. If my understanding is part of
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the data and part of the investigation that hackers or
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computer people have been able to determine is that there were
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allegedly some accounts that were set up that we're doing
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tons and tons of bids. And those tons and tons of bids
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were shell bidding. I, I believe in theory, I, I,
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again, I don't know for sure if this happened, but in theory
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there were some fake accounts that were shell bidding items up
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and those accounts had ties to Probstein himself.
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Now, again, I don't know if that's a fact.
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If that's a fact, then I will never do business with Probstein
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again. If that's a fact, I don't know
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that to be a fact. I, my, I am currently under the
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impression that that is an allegation.
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If it's an allegation, then I think you distance yourself from
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someone. Now, when I talked about this
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topic, one of the things that in retrospect I look back on that I
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said I I kind of jokingly said at the end of the discussion,
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again, you'll see it tomorrow. You can listen to it right now
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on the Sports Card Clubhouse Podcast Network, the Surface
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issues episode that posted on Saturday.
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At the end of it, I kind of jokingly said, well, I mean, if
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it's a really rare card or a card that doesn't come up very
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often, then maybe I would bid. That probably wasn't the most
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appropriate joke given the allegations.
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So I do, I do apologize for that joke.
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But that said, would I right now?
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Would I right now? Because in the in the episode we
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end up talking about Bill Cosby and whether we'd associate with
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Bill Cosby and Roger Clemens. Things got a little bit out of
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hand. It was a it was an entertaining
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conversation, though. Again, check it out tomorrow
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sports car clubhouse YouTube channel and you'll see me
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sitting in the airport. I think right now I probably I
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probably wouldn't bid on a Probstein item on eBay.
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Does that mean that it's wrong to do it?
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I think because there we're talking about allegations.
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I don't think it's I don't think it's wrong.
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I think it's very much a Gray area.
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And if, if, if these weren't allegations and these are known
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to be facts, then I wouldn't do it.
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I I wouldn't like I just said I wouldn't go along with the
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Probstein business. But if there, if there
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allegations, again, I try to tend to distance myself.
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So is it wrong to bid on an eBay item right now?
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I can't tell other people what to do, but given what I know,
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which is fairly limited to be honest, I I likely wouldn't bid
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on a probe seat item. Does that mean if you decide to
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bid on a probe seat item that you did something wrong?
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I wouldn't go necessarily that far either.
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I think that there is a huge in this country, we have a
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fundamental belief whether you're a prosecuting attorney,
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whether you're a defense attorney, whether you're a
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citizen, whether you're on trial, whether you are in a
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jury, whether you are just somebody reading the newspaper
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about what's going on. I think that we all agree that a
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person is innocent until proven guilty.
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And once they are proven guilty, then we can make our full
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decisions on how we want to interact with that person or
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with that business. How we decide to do it before
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they're proven to be guilty is kind of up to each individual.
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I'm not going to tell somebody else what they should or
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shouldn't do. I think I lean towards not
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bidding on Probes Teen items. I certainly at this point,
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personally, I wouldn't be submitting things to Probes Teen
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for consignment. I wouldn't do that.
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I likely I, I don't see myself bidding because I see that as
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I'm separate, I'm kind of removing myself.
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But I don't think it's wrong at this point.
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If it comes out that Probstein has a whole shield bidding thing
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and these allegations are are now not just charges, but
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they're, you know, proven in the court of law that at that point,
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then I would say it's it. It's not.
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We shouldn't be doing business with people who are doing
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illegal activities. But, and again, some of you are
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throwing Rotten Tomatoes at the screen right now going it is
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proven. OK, If it's proven, which I
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don't know that to be the case, then I definitely wouldn't be
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doing anything with Probstein. My joke about, well, if it's a
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rare item probably didn't come across good.
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And afterwards, I I texted a bunch of my friends.
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I said, I think I'm going to get cancelled from this episode.
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And, and a lot of the part that was the pit in my stomach was I
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was saying, Oh yeah, you know, if I if it was a rare item, I'd
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still bid on it that that in retrospect wasn't wasn't cool.
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So my apologies. That said, I think everyone has
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to decide for themselves how to interact with a person with a
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business when there are allegations around them.
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But then once they're facts, I think that's a big change in, in
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how we should all interact with somebody, especially in a
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business sense. So I don't know if that's a good
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answer. I don't know if that's a bad
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answer. That's just kind of where I am.
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That's kind of who I am. But again, I'm going to be the
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first person to say I tend to kind of probably because of my,
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my profession, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt
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when it comes to doing an allegation of a situation versus
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an actual fact of what has happened.
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So that's where I'm at. Could I, am I right?
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I don't know, am I wrong? I don't know.
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Should you guys ever listen to me?
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I don't know. I just kind of tell you what I
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think and then I just move along.
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So I hope that that's helpful. Do what your heart tells you.
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What What is your gut say? That's ultimately what you
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should do, but at this point I don't see myself doing business
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with Probstein moving forward. Question.
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I have a stack of cards I've been wanting to send to SGC.
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Not APSA fan, but with all the changes Collectors Inc has made
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to SGC, longer wait times, tougher grades, etcetera, I'm
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not sure if I should still send to them.
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I've heard their customer service is not good anymore
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either. Last month they graded less than
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half the cards of the previous month.
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What is your opinion? This is a question that we could
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get every week and every week. I think your opinion, my
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opinion, my answer, your answer would probably change on this.
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Every time you have a decision on whether or not you want to
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grade cards, and I think that's the first place you have to
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start, is well, look in the mirror.
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Why am I grading these cards? Am I grading these cards to
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protect them? Am I grading them to
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authenticate them? Am I sending them in because I
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want them actually graded and and decided what the quality of
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the card is? Am I doing it to because I think
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it's going to add value? What is the reason?
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It sounds to me like what you are describing in this situation
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is you want to send cards in to a grading company to get graded
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and it sounds to me like you don't like PSA so you're trying
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to figure out if it's still a good idea to send them to SGCI.
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Can't answer that for each individual person.
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Whenever I get just like with the last question, whatever I
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try to do is I try to give my personal opinion on what I would
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do when my daughter says, hey dad, you know, do you think I
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should get a job? I'm like, well, you know, when I
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was your age, I had a job. So if I was you, I guess I would
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get a job because that's what I did.
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So what would I do if I were any situation where I, I was
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probably going to send them to STC.
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But recently the turn around times has gone down.
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The grades have been a little bit harsh or inconsistent.
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Now I don't want to send to PSAI would say, well, what are my
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options now me personally, I sent cards to SGC to get graded
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about two months ago, month and a half ago, two months ago.
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So I I was faced with this exact situation and I said I'm sending
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them in to SGCI would do that again if I had some cards right
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now that I wanted to send in for grading.
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And, and it sounds like my situation is similar to your
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situation. What would I do?
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I would continue to send them to SGC.
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And I know that some people are talking about, oh, the grading
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numbers from SGC keep going down.
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Well, if the restaurant that you like in town, right, you hear
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that they're thinking about closing up shop because they're
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not getting much business anymore.
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You're, you heard that they're on brink, on the brink of
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bankruptcy. Oh my gosh, they might go
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bankrupt. They're struggling.
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They might have to close the doors and lay off their staff,
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which, well, I'm not going to eat there then.
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No, that's when you should eat there.
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You want to give business to businesses that you like when
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the business needs your business the most.
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And in my opinion, we need to show the parent company that
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owns SGC that right now there is still a demand for SGC, There is
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still a demand for that brand. Because if we all say, well, I'm
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not going to send them in because, you know, they might be
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going out of business soon, that's going to put them out of
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business. That's going to make the
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decision for us. So I just sent stuff to SGCA
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couple months ago. So sounds like we're similar in
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our opinions on things and the reasons for grading on things.
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So I would do what I did which is submit cards to SGC for
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grading. Do you think sports card
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collecting is a dying hobby? I only asked this because of the
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money being made in Pokémon compared to all demographics of
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sports card collecting, the number of collectors who
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seemingly overwhelm and saturate the card shows are Pokémon
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collectors. Oh, and supposedly for PSA
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Pokémon card submissions are their bread and butter for
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grading. Do you believe this is true?
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Sports card collecting is a dying breed or is Pokémon just
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on a current tear in the ethos? Can't wait for your opinion.
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I'm trying to stay positive but give it to me straight man.
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I hear you. I hear you.
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And I know a lot of people are talking about sports cards are a
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dying hobby. And you know, once twice a month
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we see my buddy Dustin over sports cart dad or Neo or one of
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these guys do a video on how the hobby is dying or how the hobby
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is booming. And we don't know what to think.
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I want to just let's look at it this way.
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Let's say you're a member of a Country Club.
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OK, so let's all, you know, play the magical music of thought.
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And we're thinking and, and, and we we go, all right, we're a
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member of a Country Club. And let's just say that all of a
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sudden you notice that the tennis courts are packed.
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They are packed. There's a line around the
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corner. The parking lot at the Country
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Club is soon suddenly very full. And there are people hanging out
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over by the tennis courts all the time.
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There's barbecues going. There's tents up and people are
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hanging out waiting in line to play tennis.
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Would you think that the golf course was dead?
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Does that mean because the tennis courts are crowded, does
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that mean that the golf course is dying, that the golfers are
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dying? Well, the tee sheets are the
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same. There's the same number of tee
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times on Saturday and Sunday that there's always been.
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In fact, you can make the argument that there are more tee
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times right now on the golf course.
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But just because the tennis courts are packed and the the
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parking lot is packed for all the people wanting to play
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tennis, that doesn't mean golf is dying.
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They are similar, but they're different.
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They're not the same and the the amount of people that are
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interested in tennis is different than the amount of
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people who are interested in golf.
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What am I talking about? I don't know.
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What I'm talking about is I see Pokémon as tennis and I see
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sports cards as golf. And I think there's been a huge
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rise in TCG and game cards and non sport cards over the last
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two 3-4 years. It's surging.
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That doesn't mean sports cards are dying.
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I would say that when you are, I mean, I was at the national last
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year and the the line was like a half a mile long.
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That doesn't look like that doesn't look like a hobby that's
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dying. I mean, when I was at the
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National two years ago and I was at the National last year, the
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attendance seemed way higher. It seemed way more packed in
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2025 than in 2024. The the number of YouTube
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channels has exploded. The number of people that seem
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to be in the hobby is up. Yes, Pokémon is up.
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Yes, there are Pokémon dealers at shows, There are Pokémon
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collectors at shows. But I don't think that means
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it's sports cards are going away.
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You know, just because there's a sudden rush on Nathan's hot dogs
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at the at the the meat section of the grocery store doesn't
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mean people don't like hamburgers anymore, which just
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means they're really into hot dogs right now.
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I think that Pokémon is surging and I think that Pokémon is
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worldwide, and I think that Pokémon is from young kids to
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old people. And I think right now it's doing
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really well, but I don't have any opinions on sports cards
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doing worse than they did a year ago or the year before.
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Just my take. Q&A question, do you think that
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SGC and PSA should stay away from grading gaming cards like
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Pokémon and Magic the Gathering? I feel as a sports card
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collector that it takes away from the turn around times to
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get your cards graded. I think it would help out the
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turn around times a lot. Just my thought on the situation
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of grading sports cards. Have you ever been to McDonald's
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and been in the drive through? And Greg, are are you talking
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about the McDonald's drive through right now?
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I am, hear me out. Have you ever been in the
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McDonald's drive through and it's the the purse, the car in
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front of you, you're waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting
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and waiting. You're like, what in the heck is
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taking so long? And then finally you see the
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window open and then hand out 1234 Mcflurries.
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You ever had that happen? I've had that happen.
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And you go, oh, that's what took so long.
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There's one Mcflurry machine. They wanted 4 Mcflurries and
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each one takes a few minutes to make it.
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So it took forever. Dang it, that person in front of
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me, they took forever because they ordered Mcflurries.
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They should get rid of Mcflurries.
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No, I don't think they should get rid of Mcflurries just
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because they took a while to prepare it.
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I think that businesses should do what's best for the business.
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Now. Does me, Does for me.
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Is it a little bit annoying that there are times that my turn
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around time has taken longer because of all of the Pokémon
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collectors getting their cards graded?
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Of course that's annoying. Of course it's annoying, just
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like it's annoying when I have to wait at the window extra long
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because the person in front of me just ordered 4 Mcflurries.
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That's annoying. But that doesn't mean that
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McDonald's should get rid of the Mcflurry.
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My goodness, Mcflurries are fantastic.
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They should not get rid of them just because they take a while.
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But there are times that it's a little bit of an annoyance for
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us in our situation because we need to get going.
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We're in a hurry. I think of it that way.
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PSA gets to do what's best for PSA, and if grading game cards
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and Pokémon and Magic the Gathering cards is what's good
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for PSA, they get to do that. But if I then say because you do
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that it takes too long, the turn around time is too long, that
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it's no longer worth it to me, then I get to decide to go
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somewhere else. If I am tired of going to
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McDonald's and waiting for the Mcflurries to be made and handed
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out, I can go to Wendy's next time.
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I can go to Burger King next time.
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I can go to In and Out next time.
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But I chose to go to McDonald's and the deal with McDonald's is
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sometimes there's that Mcflurry order in front of you and when
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you go to PSA, it's taking longer right now, but we get to
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decide whether or not it's worth it.
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So that's part of the equation that you get to make on whether
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or not you want to go to PSAI. Totally understand if you feel
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that the turn around time is so long, it's not worth it anymore.
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I feel that way. I have a lot of cards that I
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would have gotten slabbed at PSA because I have some cards that
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are autographs that I would like to get authenticated and
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slabbed. But I'm like, I don't want my
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cards to be gone for three or four or five months.
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I don't want to deal with it. So I don't order it.
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Just like I wanted to make that late night French fry run and I
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said no, it's not worth it because the last four times I
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got stuck behind the Mcflurry order.
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So I understand the frustration, I share the frustration, but we
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get to decide how we want to handle it.
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I don't blame PSA for grading the Pokémon cards because
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they're making a killing off of it, but it is annoying for me
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and I get to decide whether or not it's worth it or not.
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This one says I love question and answer day.
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Thanks for your opinions, Greg. Here's a new question for next
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week. I know Beckett magazine used to
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have a generic graded card price guide, not sure if they still
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do. Do you think it would be a good
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idea to put together a graded card price guide based on what
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the slab the card is in? In other words, what is the same
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card worth in a BGS versus BBGPSASGC TAG, CGC, or SGC slab?
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Sometimes it's hard to navigate what a card is worth based on
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the slab. It is also hard to know how much
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a cart is worth based on the newer or older slab from that
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company. It would be nice to have a guide
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for these scenarios. Your thoughts?
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So I'm the wrong guy to ask? I'm the wrong guy to ask?
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I am. I am a person who strongly.
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I even kind of enjoy the process of figuring out what I think a
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cart is worth. There are so many
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characteristics to cards. Especially.
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It's one of the things I like about vintage cards.
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Sometimes they're centered, sometimes they're not.
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Sometimes they have rounded cord, honest corners, Mr. Petty.
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Sometimes they have wax on the back.
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Sometimes they have a wrinkle. Sometimes they have print
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defects. Sometimes they have surface
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issues. Surface issues.
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See what I did there tomorrow. Surface issues, drops on the
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Sports Card Clubhouse channel, there are a lot of issues that
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could come up with a card and especially a vintage card.
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Part of the charm, part of what I love.
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And no two cards are the same. And so for me, A7 in APSA versus
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ABVG versus an SGC versus ACGC versus ATAG, whatever it is, it
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doesn't really have. That's not how I comp.
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That's not how I comp cards. I love card ladder promo code
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or a month free. I love researching it.
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And when I go to card ladder, what I'll do is I'll type in the
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card, I'll type in the company that it is slabbed by and I type
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in the grade. That's a starting point.
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That's just a starting point. So then what I do is I go, OK,
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it's APSA 7, the one I'm looking at the case.
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Let's see what PSA sevens go for.
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Let's look at them. Let's look at the centering of
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them. Let's look at the corners on
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them. Let's look at the the picture.
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And really is this one better than that one?
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OK, well, this one seems to be a really strong seven that I'm
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looking at and they're all weak sevens over here.
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Let's look at what some of the eights go for that.
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What is a weaker 8? What is a really strong six?
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And all of that goes into this equation of this mess, this Gray
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haired mess right here, this melon of madness.
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And then I go, I kind of think it's worth this.
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It's just a data point so I can I can look up SGC sevens.
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I go to card ladder, type in SGC 7 of that card and it'll just
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pull up SGC sevens, and then APSA 7 will pull up just PSA
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sevens, BBG, and just BVGTAGCGC. And I can pull them up just like
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exactly like you're describing, but it doesn't give me a value
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and quite frankly I don't want it to give me a value.
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I don't believe that the value of the card is directly tied to
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the grade. I believe that the value of the
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card is a factor of many different factors, and one of
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those is the grade. But it is much more complicated
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than to just look at the grade and the holder to determine what
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the value of the card is, at least to me.
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Now, am I the only person like that?
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I don't think so. And if I am, I'm OK with that.
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But whether or not the SG CS are here and the PS As are here and
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the prices are like this, I might look at all of that.
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And in fact, last week I did a video talking about how do PSA
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values in certain grades compared to SGC right now and
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how has that changed over the last three years.
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And surprisingly, SG CS holding very strong even given all of
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the SGC issues right now. So with that said, I totally
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appreciate what you're saying and I see how many people do
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care about the slab and do care about the grade and that could
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have some helpful, you know, characteristics to it.
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But I'm probably the wrong guy to ask.
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And if I want to see what BB GS sell for in A7, I can, I can put
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that into my search engine in Card Ladder and I can look for
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just that holder in that grade of that card.
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And then I can quickly just go up, change it from BBG to SGC
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and rerun the search and, and see those ones.
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So in a way, I feel like you kind of can do that by looking
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at the sales data from Card Ladder.
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Very, very easy to use interface.
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That's my take, again, if you haven't heard it yet, promo code
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If you have a question, guys for an upcoming episode or gals guys
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or gals question for an upcoming episode down below in the
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comments, simply share your thoughts, ask your question.
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I'd love to hear what you want to talk about.