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Sports Card Collecting Stories Matter!! · Sports Card Clubhouse

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And Greg of Midlife Cards. And while distance may separate
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them, here is where they come together to talk cards.
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What? Is up.
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I am Mike. I'm joined by famous author Greg
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of Midlife Cards. Breaking news here, Greg.
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Well, I wouldn't certainly wouldn't say famous author.
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Maybe if anybody watched my episode what will be yesterday
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February 27th, then yes I did share some what I consider big
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news for me. You wrote a book and and I've I
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have written two books. I've never published one, but
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I've, I've written two books and then I chickened out.
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I, I became a coward and I was like, I can't do anything.
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I know how difficult it is. It is extremely difficult to
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complete a book. How long?
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First of all, what's it called? Tell me about the book.
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Well, the book is I have it right here.
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I can hold it up. Well, this is a this is a proof
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that it this it's called midlife Card Collecting stories.
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And it's, well, yeah, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but
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it's 20 different stories of card collecting events, true
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stories from my experiences in card collecting over the last 40
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years and or experiences with my brother and or with my dad and
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or with all of us. And which chapter am I in?
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I'm trying to think you might be in it that I there are a couple
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of chapters that have several Youtubers mentioned and the
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intro or the about the author at the beginning it it it does
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shout out sports Card clubhouse. It says Greg is also the Co
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founder of the Sports Card Clubhouse, YouTube channel,
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podcast network and website. Nice.
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That's all in there. Yeah, so.
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So that sounds really good. I have not I I've purchased one.
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I haven't seen it yet. I am looking forward to
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receiving it in strong dependence right.
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Yeah, so the deal is this I, you know, people want to buy it.
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It's it's available starting. Well, this will post on February
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28th and, and by the way, I feel like I should back up what will
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be yesterday, but as we record, this is tomorrow, the day that I
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release this information on my channel.
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It's also Mookie Chilson's birthday.
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Oh, Mookie, Happy birthday. February 27th is Mookie's
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birthday, so I'm I'm excited to let him know that I care about
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him tomorrow. But yeah, the so so it goes on
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sale March 1st and on Amazon. But I being just how I'm wired,
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I would love to be able to hand copies of the book to people
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instead of them just receive it in the mail and some cardboard
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box. And so at Strongsville at the
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four Collectors trade night, which is April 11th, Saturday,
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April 11th, I'm going to be doing like a delivery slash
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signing slash whatever at the four collectors trade night.
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I'll have a table set up and people can pre-order the book.
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And in fact, what I'll do is down below in the description of
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this episode, I will put a link if people are interested.
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But this only works if you're going to be at Strongsville.
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If you're not going to be at Strongsville, you got to buy it
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through Amazon. If you're going to be at
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Strongsville, you can order it. I can get a little bit of a
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cheaper rate on it because I can get a bowl discount and I will
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bring them, I will have them delivered.
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I will have them with me at Strongsville.
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It would bring me great joy to hand the book to people instead
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of have it just be mailed and. You're going to autograph them,
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the ones that are at. If that's what would bring
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people joy, I would love to be able to sign, inscribe,
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personalize, whatever people would like.
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So. At the trade night, yeah.
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There is. As you know, there is a big
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movement in unique fun inscriptions where it can really
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increase the value of it. And so I'm thinking about resale
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here. I got to think about how do I
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sell this book after I buy it from you and get an autograph
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from you. It has to be something super
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unique that I have you inscribe and so I'm thinking about that.
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Like you let me know. I mean that would be a good one.
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I don't want to give up anything to other people though 'cause
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I'm going to sell mine for the most it's going to go on.
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Card Ladder is the highest selling Greg Miller book ever.
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I mean, it makes sense. It makes sense.
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You, you, you definitely are always looking for a way to get
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an advantage. So yeah, anything people want as
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long as it's, you know, appropriate.
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Walk the plank is pretty good, though.
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I'm open to people, you know, having an inscription that is a
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one of one subscription inscription.
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So if you want to claim, walk the plank right now and.
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I'm claiming it. It's mine.
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OK, so there there will be no other walk the plank
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inscriptions, so I will put a a specific one if people want.
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But this is only for Strongsville and then if you
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claim it, nobody else can claim it.
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So walk the Plank is officially taken.
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It will be the only walk the plank inscription.
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Why am I struggling with that word today?
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It's a tough one. It's been a rough day.
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It's been a rough day. Go ahead.
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How long did you spend writing the book?
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I am really one of my big see, I can't even, I can't just give
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you a straight answer. I have to give a full
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explanation, which is really what the book is.
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It's not just, you know, to the point stories.
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It's what was happening in my life at the time.
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Why was this particular event important and what happened?
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It's got a lot of memoir type things tied into each story
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about what was happening in my dad's life, what was happening
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in my life. Why was this an important
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purchase or event at that time? A lot of anecdotal stuff.
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I started it over the summer because I can't sit still.
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It's a sickness that I have see, I have the summers off.
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And so it was like June or July. I could, I could go back and
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look to see when I wrote Chapter 1, but it was June or July.
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I have, you know, part of, I have June off.
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I have July off and I've part of August off as a teacher.
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And so, you know, making 3 or 4 YouTube videos per week and then
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starting up sports car clubhouse with you wasn't enough.
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I said I, I have like a couple of extra, you know, hours in the
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week. So I decided I wanted to do it
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and, and I, I feel like writing a book is kind of presumptuous.
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It's like, well, I'm going to write information because other
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people, you know, would love to hear from what I have to say.
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Like it's it's kind of a, it can be a little bit of an
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egotistical thing. And so I felt for a while like I
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didn't, I wasn't sure if I wanted to write it and then keep
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it myself like you just described, or if I wanted to
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publish it. But it's sort of like a YouTube
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video. When you publish it, it's there
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forever. And when it's there forever,
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then people that you care about can always get it.
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And that to me was important because, you know, our time on
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earth is short. And this could be a way that my
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grandkids or my kids or my friends or whoever that want to
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get insight into my life and why this was a big part of it.
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And, and the how it impacted me. It, it, it's something that
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becomes like, it's, it's like a, it's like a lock box, wasn't it?
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What was it? Al Gore said in the debate.
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A lock box will put the Social Security money in a lock box, he
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said. It's like a time capsule, you
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know, it's, it's like you can freeze the memories before
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they're lost. And that was important to me.
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Does your money appreciate in a lock box?
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I'm. You don't remember that?
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There was no recollection of that.
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Oh, I remember weird stuff. There were all sorts of things
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and debates that I remember. George Bush and Al Gore were
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going back and forth and George Bush was calling everything
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fuzzy mass that Al Gore would say.
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And Al Gore would say, yeah, I'm going to put that, that those
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funds are going to go in a lock box where they can't be touched
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from, you know, we can't dip into those for other things.
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It's only set aside for that. I don't know why I remember
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that. But I do.
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So you wrote this book. It's called Collecting Stories.
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Midlife card collecting stories? Yeah.
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Awesome. Midlife card collecting stories,
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because that's what it is, is it's, it's 20 stories and it
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starts at the very beginning of me discovering cards and, and
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how that all happened. And it goes all the way to a
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couple of the most recent stories were like, I mean, one
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of them was like 3 months ago. One of the one of the stories
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happened while I was writing the book.
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Chapter 19 happened like two or three months ago chapter.
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It's not 100% in order. Chapter 20 is about two years
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old, but it's it's somewhat chronological, but it's in an
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order that makes sense and is mostly chronological.
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Nice. Yeah, that's cool.
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I'm excited for it. I'll read it on the plane.
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It's on the on the way home you mean?
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Of course I wouldn't get to read it on the way there.
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Since well, that's, that's why I was saying, I mean, I could send
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you the PDF if you really wanted to.
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But yeah, I, I'm, I'm really excited about it.
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I, I genuinely think that if people are into cards and they
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have any positive feelings towards me, then they would
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enjoy it. If they don't like cards, they
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might enjoy it. If they don't like me, they
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might not enjoy it. But it, it, it's, it's fun and
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it's a super light read. It's not like, I mean, it's
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storytelling. It's, it's basically me telling
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stories. And then I got a lot of help.
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My daughter is an avid reader. She's a college student and she
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helped me with the editing process.
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She helped me with the publication process.
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And so I worked out a financial agreement with her on on her
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getting some financial reward from it so to incentivize her,
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but she'd have done it for free because she's a good kid.
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Of course, Speaking of financial arrangements, if you want to
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sell your card collection, Greg, where would you go?
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I would go to Chris Sewell, collector, investor, dealer, in
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that order. Chris Sewell is the best guy,
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the most trustworthy guy that I would probably go to if I was
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going to sell a collection. He's looking to buy large
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collections. In fact, I was just listening to
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him today on the way home after I finished your episode, Your
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mail Day. By the way, I listened to Chris
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on Theo Clemente Collectors channel talking about how he
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buys large collections, whether the market is hot, whether the
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market is cold, whether the market is flat.
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So again, Chris Sewell at Collector investor dealer, in
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that order. Again, he is a partner of the
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Sports Car Clubhouse. You can find information about
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him on our link on our website, but also on his website,
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collectorinvestordealer.com. Again, you and I go back and
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forth on this, but his website sayschris@collectorinvestordealer.com
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is where you could e-mail him, but there's another one you
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share the other place that he could be emailed.
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It's chris@sewellsportscards.com.
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That's right. And again, if you go to the
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Sports Card Clubhouse web page, which I'll pull up right here,
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and you go to Partners, again, if you're watching, you could be
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following along. There is Chris himself and a
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link to his website, the one I was just showing.
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So yes. And Greg, you mentioned when you
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were talking about your book, people that don't like you might
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not like the book, but I can't imagine nobody liking you or
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somebody not how is. It possible that?
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Someone might not like you. It seemed unimaginable.
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Really. Until this.
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Week and I, I have to say first of all, let's let's skip past
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that for just a moment and I wanted to congratulate because
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you did win an award. I did win an impressive award.
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I won an award from the Misfits. So those of you out there who
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are not familiar with the Misfits, there is a group of
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Youtubers, but also just card collectors of guys that John
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Mangini is one of the leaders of.
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I guess you could say he does a lot of their videos and their
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live streams and things and, and our buddy Rick vintage oddball
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cards and, and you know, there's, there's several of
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them. Lou Rock was on the episode
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where they were presenting the awards, and the award that I won
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was the most diarrhea of the mouth.
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And there were there were, I think there were three nominees,
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but it was really, it was really going to be between me and
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Dylan. Double D vintage baseball cards.
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Yeah, and Dylan, probably. He probably cried himself asleep
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when he didn't win it. I.
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Mean he's probably talking to himself all the time the whole
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way to bed. That is a prestigious award.
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I'm pretty excited. About it you should be.
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Yeah, I I was just happy to come away with an award yesterday.
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It is the consolation prize because you did not get into the
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YouTube sports card Hall of Fame, which I have to be honest,
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if you had told me two weeks ago that you weren't going to get
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in, I would have speculated that you had done something very
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illegal or offensive. But no, I I've gone through,
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I've watched your videos, you have not done or said anything
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offensive and yet you still what place did you come in?
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Top five make it in. Were you 6th or no?
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No. Theo was sixth.
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I should be in. Why is Theo not in?
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I, my understanding is I was 7th.
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My understanding is Theo. Theo missed by like 2 votes and
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I missed by three or four I think.
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And then I don't know what place.
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What place did you finish in? I think I was after you and so I
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slipped from 6th to 8th at least.
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But what? How is it possible that you
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don't get into you? You've created a nation, you've
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built a community, you're friends with all these
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Youtubers. How does this happen, Greg?
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Well, the first thing I would say is the IT would be
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presumptuous for me or anybody to think that one is more
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deserving than another. I mean, there are, there are
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five channels that did, did get in.
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And then another channel, another channel Theo who who was
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finished with more votes than me.
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And to say, well, I should have gotten in or you should have
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gotten in or anybody. That's to assume that that our
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channels, my channel, your channel is better than the five
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that got in. And and I don't think that that
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is something that could just be said.
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I think that there are a lot of great channels in the community.
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I love that it's a giant menu. You know, I like going, you
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know, I like in and out. I love in and out out here in
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California. I know they've spread a lot, but
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they have like 3 things on the menu.
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Like 3 things. I know they have the secret
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menu, all that. I know yeah, I I get that.
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But they have a small menu and then there's some restaurants
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you go to and there's like, you know, 100 items.
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Our community has like 100 different things and what I
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bring to the table with my channel and I even think what
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you bring to the community with your channel, they bring certain
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things to the forefront or their menu items that maybe aren't
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appealing necessarily to some of the voters or all of the voters
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or many of the voters. So you know, very deserving
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channels that got in great guys. All of them are really good
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guys. So I'm super happy for all of
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them. Well deserving of the
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admiration, the praise. Some of those guys are some of
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my closest friends in the hobby. Three of them I voted for
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myself. So.
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So yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't know.
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Did I answer the question? What do you think?
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Are you surprised that you didn't get in?
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I mean, I could say the same thing about you.
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You have twice as many subscribers as I have.
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You have like 15,000 subscribers, probably more than
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that, I don't know. And you, you have a very popular
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channel. You're very recognizable guy.
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Were you surprised that you didn't get in?
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At some point a year ago, when I didn't get in the first time and
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I was, I missed by a vote, you said, I think we were on a live
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stream together and you and Dan and Jake said there's no way
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you're not getting in next year. And I said, no, you're wrong.
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I won't get even close next year.
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Because last year was the year I had done a lot.
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I had, I'd made a lot of friends.
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I had really put a lot of effort in.
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I was watching a lot of channels.
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And in 2025, I had to step back from that because of other
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obligations. And so that hurts you as a
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creator. And we had an influx of amazing
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channels that became eligible in the past year.
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And so I felt like I would take a step back, which I'm OK with.
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I am thrilled for these channels that get in.
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I do think, though, that there is a flaw in the voting process
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and I'm part of that flaw. And I, I think, I'm guessing you
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are too. I'd, I'd have to ask you, but I
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believe that most people vote for their friends and, and a lot
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of people would say, well, I'm friends with the people who have
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the best channels. But wouldn't it be a better
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process if we could somehow come up with a way for commenters to
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vote because the commenter should determine.
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I think one of the things I do is I say, well.
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Jeff Wilson isn't going to care about this.
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Card Collector 2 isn't going to care about this.
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I would say Dustin wouldn't care about this, but we know he does.
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And so I don't vote for those bigger channels.
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I'm voting for the smaller ones. I'm voting for my friends.
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And it's it's a flawed process because of that.
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But I don't think the commenters would have that same flaw.
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And I think that you might have some Youtubers who are
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campaigning for their own votes, but I'd be interested in seeing
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what it looks like if we could figure out a way to give one
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vote to each commenter who wants to vote.
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Yeah, I mean that that would definitely change things, I I
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think. Not, not one vote, sorry.
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One ballot, right. Yeah.
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I think one of the things is, is, is what if I were to ask
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you, or let me ask you now, what's the criteria for being a
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Hall of Famer? Like some people would say a
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Hall of Famer is somebody who is, is intelligent about the
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hobby, knows a lot about the hobby, shares that knowledge
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with people. Some people might say that is a
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Hall of Famer, some might say it's a person who has the
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greatest collection and shares that collection and adds to the
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community with their collection. Some would say that it's an
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active person, a person who not only creates videos, but
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comments on videos, is guests on videos.
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So I, I guess I mean, because if you, even if you look at like
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the Baseball Hall of Fame, there are, there are criteria, at
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least some guidelines for what is determined to be a Hall of
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Famer. Now, this is not my brainchild.
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I, I mean, I literally, you know, this, this was around
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before I made my first video. Obviously I've, it's, there are
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many classes to this and I have, you know, was finally eligible
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for this year's class. And and so I don't know, I know
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that the a lot of the original intent was to shout out other
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channels. I also know that a lot of the
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commenters, a lot of the viewers don't necessarily really like
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the whole thing. Like there are a lot of viewers
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that like like when I do did my ballot, it had some of it have
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it was probably the lowest viewed video that I made in six
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months. Yeah, because still don't care.
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Well then, and and that which goes to will Should commenters
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be the voters if the commenters don't care?
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And who are we doing this for to begin with?
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If right, if commenters were involved in the process, they
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might care more. I don't know.
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I don't know. I mean, whatever they decide to
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do, I'm sure will be great. I know that there's a, we're in
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the third, third group of people who are kind of leading it.
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And I know there have been changes over the years.
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It went from 10 people per class to five.
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That changed a few years ago. I think you used to have to, you
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didn't have to have three years of experience to be eligible
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before this year. They had the veterans committee.
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So they're willing to make adjustments and it'll be
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interesting to see what adjustments they continue to
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make to it. But but yeah, so I obviously
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think highly of your channel. You know, you mentioned Dustin.
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I voted for Dustin, I voted for Neo.
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I think that what those guys bring to the community is a lot
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of see for me, my and that's again, I go back to what is the
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criteria. For me, the main criteria is
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effort. It's it's output.
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And I like the channels that have high output because when I
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think of a Hall of Fame, I think of who excels.
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And excel doesn't necessarily mean popular, It means they're
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productive. And so Dustin does lots of
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content. He puts effort into his content.
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And so to me, he's worthy of a Hall of Fame spot.
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But Dustin doesn't leave a ton of comments on other people's
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channels. And and so he's not, he doesn't
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do a lot of cross pollenization. You know, he doesn't come on a
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lot of other people's channels. I don't know if he's not asked
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or what, But so I think maybe if if I were to make a suggestion,
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it might be create some criteria because there are a lot of
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people who are voting who I don't know if they have the same
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criteria as the next guy. So when you say Greg, I'm
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surprised you didn't get in. Well, that's based on your
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criteria, not necessarily based on the average voters criteria,
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because obviously the average voter criteria preferred some
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other. Things, well, you're a Hall of
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Famer in my book, Craig. So are you, my friend?
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Thank you. Yeah.
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So. I think it's a it's a great idea
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at the Hall of Fame. It's fun.
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It's I think that it would, it'll be interesting to see
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because these guys who are running an Alaskani tradition
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being one of them came up with the OG ballot as you alluded to
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veterans committee, I guess. And it'll be interesting to see
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what other changes they might make.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, everything's a work in
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progress, everything including me and you.
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OK, so. Go ahead, Greg.
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I don't know what you're talking.
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About that's that's that might be why you didn't get into the
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Hall of Fame. OK, so we've talked a little bit
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about the YouTube Hall of Fame. That announcement came out
26:06
yesterday. We talked a little bit about my
26:09
book that came out tomorrow as we record this on Thursday the
26:14
26th. I had some other things.
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Are you open to me throwing a couple other topics at you?
26:22
Let's do it. Now on OK, so I want me to give
26:28
you a menu of my my ideas, and then you pick from the menu.
26:32
Yeah, I love it. I was just saying how I like
26:34
menus and I like options. All right, option #1 the current
26:39
status of my SGC order and my thoughts on that status.
26:47
OK, that's one option. By the way, that order was
26:50
mailed off on December 27th. Do I sense a rant?
26:55
I don't know what I don't know. I don't know next one since the
27:03
last time we talked, Teapot released his most recent video
27:07
about the card grading carousel and changes in grades.
27:14
So that was. I'm going to take that one just
27:15
for a moment and and throw a little, not spoiler, but
27:20
advertisement, I guess because I'm having teapot on this week
27:24
in sports cards this week. The episode should release on
27:27
Monday, assuming that everything goes well and we get our
27:30
conversation recorded over the weekend.
27:33
I will be talking to Teapot about that very thing, which I'm
27:36
excited about. I haven't watched the video yet,
27:38
I haven't had any time, but I'm excited to watch it.
27:40
I have to. Watch it before I record with
27:42
him so I've got to find some time.
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It was a good video. It was a really good video.
27:47
So that that's a topic. Another topic is on Sunday, I'm
27:54
releasing my pickups video for the month and I bought a couple
28:00
of modern cards and I've got a couple of big modern cards that
28:06
end in the next couple of days that I'm seriously considering.
28:10
And am I doing a full pivot into modern?
28:13
Am I now a modern card collector?
28:16
Do am IA shiny card collector because I've been selling some
28:21
of my vintage stuff? Those are those are the topics
28:26
that I've got. Which of those three do you want
28:29
to dive into? If you can guarantee me a rant,
28:33
I want to go into the SGC talk. I can't guarantee a rant, but
28:38
I'm happy to still go there. OK so I OK on December 27th I
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mailed them a priority. Why did I choose priority now?
28:51
I have no idea, but at the time that I did my order it was a 15
28:56
to 20 day turn around on December 27th.
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On December 27th I mailed my order.
29:04
It arrived on December 29th. I know that because one it was 2
29:09
day priority, but also because I looked at the tracking.
29:15
On January 8th it finally said that it had arrived, that they
29:21
had received it. That's when it in their system,
29:24
it said received. In the olden days they would
29:27
have had it graded in in the mail back to you by then.
29:30
Literally. I mean, there were times that
29:32
the cards arrived on Monday and they had been mailed back before
29:35
Friday, like. By the way, that acquisition was
29:38
two years ago this weekend. Yeah, it was.
29:41
It was February 29th. It was Leap Day, right?
29:44
Yeah. So two years ago it could have
29:49
already been back, you know, so, so it, it, it stayed in
29:55
received, received, received, received.
29:58
Now day 15 gone, 1617181920 gone.
30:02
On about day 25 or 20 to 25, they came out and said our turn
30:11
around time is now 40 to 50 days business.
30:14
Days. Business days.
30:17
Now to me that should mean to all cards received at that
30:23
point. It shouldn't mean wait, wait,
30:26
wait, wait, wait, wait. I know I received your card 25
30:30
business days ago, but this is now what we're going to do from
30:34
this point forward or some sort of make good for for missing
30:40
their promised or suggested or estimated times.
30:45
So what they need is a like a dynamic turn around time display
30:49
that says turn around times right now are 17 business days.
30:55
And so when you place your order, you, you know that turn
30:58
around times at the time that you placed them are this the
31:02
problem is that they're telling you that what it appears to you
31:06
as the person who's ordering some graded cards is that the
31:10
turn around time for your order is going to be 10 to 15 business
31:14
days. When it in reality it wasn't
31:16
because they were already behind when you placed that order.
31:21
When I placed the order on the order it was a 15 to 20 day turn
31:27
around time. I mean invoice that by the way,
31:32
I paid them in December of 2025. They've had my money for two
31:38
months and and here we are so so from the time that they actually
31:45
received my cards, I'm on business day 44 right now, OK,
31:52
from when they said that they received it, it's business day
31:56
36. So even even though they had an
32:01
extra week that they built in week and 1/2 that they built in
32:06
there, they built in an extra week and 1/2 and, and even then
32:11
I'm at 36 days from now. Remember again, my invoice said
32:14
15 to 20 day turn around time and, and I'm on day 36 right
32:20
now. So I emailed them last week on
32:24
Friday and I said, Hey, you know, and I didn't, I, I went
32:30
into the customer support thing where you just put it and you
32:33
hit submit and then you, I think I did it right.
32:35
I think they're going to get something.
32:38
I did that on Friday, nothing Friday, nothing Monday, nothing
32:43
Tuesday, nothing Wednesday, Thursday, 5 business days later,
32:48
so the same amount of time that they used to grade and return my
32:52
cards. I finally got an e-mail back and
32:55
the e-mail was 100% of form e-mail response.
33:00
It wasn't even like a personalized thing.
33:03
It was we're overloaded right now.
33:05
I mean I could even pull it up on the screen if you want to see
33:08
it. So it took them five business
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days to send you a form e-mail. 100% It took them five business
33:17
days to let me put it on the screen.
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Alejandro Marquez. I'm sure he's a wonderful
33:25
person. Let's put it on the screen.
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Oh, man, is this going to work? Why did that happen?
33:32
Oh, hold on, hold on. I'm going to have to do this
33:36
again. He it take 5 business days to
33:41
get a form e-mail back. Here it is.
33:43
Right here is my e-mail. Hello Greg, glad to hear from
33:50
you. Oh really?
33:52
Let's read the whole thing for all of those out there
33:54
listening. As a collector myself, I
33:58
understand the imortance of having a reliable turn around
34:01
time to help set the exectations of your order.
34:04
Unfortunately at this time I feel like I'm talking to the
34:07
Moose in front of Wally World. Unfortunately.
34:11
That's a great reference. Unfortunately, at this time we
34:17
are expecting the turn around times to stay around where they
34:21
currently are. I want to assure you that we are
34:26
taking every precaution necessary to ensure that we are
34:29
completing orders as quickly as we can without sacrificing the
34:33
quality that is expected of our team.
34:36
Additionally, I am not sure if you saw there was a recent
34:40
update that came out directly from collectors mentioning how
34:44
we are going to be expanding both our team and our facility
34:48
to accommodate the continued volume that our team is
34:51
processing. This is the same group that used
34:55
to be 5 days, OK, Yeah, before you harvested all of the
34:59
graders. With that said, once our team
35:02
has been able to get through this transitional period and the
35:06
turn around times are back down to the industry leading times
35:09
that SGC has been known for, we will make plenty of
35:13
announcements. On behalf of the SGC team, we do
35:16
appreciate your understanding and continued support.
35:20
If you have any other questions, please let me know, I am happy
35:24
to help. Sincerely Alex.
35:26
It took them five days to give me that form response which made
35:33
absolutely no mention of anything in my comment about my
35:40
exact submission, about the cards in them, about where they
35:46
stand there, there there is. That is complete copy paste.
35:50
It took five days for a copy paste I.
35:53
Don't know. Rant.
35:55
Yeah, it's a great it's a read rant.
35:56
And now I just want to go watch National Lampoon's Vacation.
36:02
I mean, is there anything better than when Clark Griswold just
36:05
just rears up and just punches that moose right in the nose?
36:10
Other than going to Big 5 or whatever a sporting goods store
36:13
and getting the the pellet gun. Does it slightly off topic?
36:19
Does it ruin it for you now when you're watching that movie and
36:22
you know what a colossal jerk Chevy Chase is in real life?
36:27
Now you have to understand something.
36:29
There are a lot of colossal jerks in this world, and Chevy
36:33
Chase is an insanely funny colossal jerk.
36:38
I mean, if you go through the list, I mean, you just go
36:40
through all of the Chevy Chase stuff.
36:42
There are few people on planet Earth that has has more output
36:48
of funny than Chevy Chase. In my eyes.
36:51
Dave Chappelle is above him, but there aren't many.
36:54
And so does that bug me? Not really.
36:58
It doesn't really take away from me.
36:59
I mean, anybody who could say, you know, hey, can I borrow your
37:03
towel? I just hit a water Buffalo just
37:06
on. Spot on.
37:07
I mean, that's just I mean, this, this is just, I mean, it's
37:10
just you could go through the spies like us all that, you
37:13
know, you got John Candy in that movie.
37:15
I mean, the movie is classic. Chevy Chase is classic.
37:18
There are a lot of jerks if we ever get to know each other.
37:21
Maybe, maybe Chevy Chase would have gotten into the YouTube
37:25
Hall of Fame. What do you think?
37:27
You can stop sharing your screen so I can see you see you better.
37:32
Yeah, it does. I don't.
37:34
I can. What is it?
37:36
I guess it's compartmentalize the movies or shows that I'm
37:39
watching and ignore who the people are outside and enjoy
37:44
them for what they are. But yeah, that's SGC sucks.
37:50
And I sent an order of four cards off to CGCJSA this past
37:57
week and they received them. I mailed them on Saturday and I
38:03
got the alert yesterday, Wednesday, that they had
38:06
received them and they were entered into the system three
38:10
business days. I sent 5 cards for grading, 5
38:14
raw cards and 2RE holders and and I'm on day.
38:21
I'm on real day 44, real business day 44.
38:26
Their count is business day 36. It's really discouraging, man.
38:34
Yeah. Well, that I mean, but that's so
38:38
that's what you chose over teapot and my modern card
38:42
collecting pivot. That's what we get.
38:44
Well let's talk modern card collecting because I just bought
38:47
2 big refractors this week that I'll get in my mail day next
38:51
week I hope. Define big.
38:57
For me, big the grand total between the two of them, about
39:02
$250. No, see, not that bad.
39:07
I'm glad that we specified. The two cards that I'm looking
39:12
at are big. I can't bring myself to spend
39:18
that much money on modern cards, I know.
39:20
That's why. That's why I probably will
39:22
chicken out. What are they don't tell you
39:25
how? Much.
39:26
How much? What are you talking about?
39:30
$1000 cards. For one card.
39:34
Yeah, let. Me think here I'm going to look
39:37
at my collection. Here I have the most I've ever
39:41
spent on one modern card. What about it is 250?
39:51
I would say and we're talking 2000 and and since then probably
39:58
250 is my guess. I also bought.
40:01
No, no, I'm wrong because I've got the Steph Curry rookie that
40:04
I paid 800 for. Oh yeah, and that's done well.
40:08
It's worth 1800 now. I know, and I think you should
40:11
sell it. And then I also got my Optimus
40:14
Prime rookie in. Me.
40:16
That's great. I love.
40:16
That I mean, I'm a complete degenerate at this point.
40:20
You are. I like modern a lot.
40:23
I like modern a lot and I just feel like I want to I want to
40:29
have more of my childhood athletes represented in my
40:33
collection. I love vintage.
40:36
Obviously that's my main thing, but I'm, I'm like, I'm looking
40:40
and I'm like, OK, I've got multiple Carl Hubble cards, you
40:44
know, right. But I don't have any Ken Griffey
40:49
junior cards other than the 89 upper deck.
40:52
I don't have any Barry Bonds cards.
40:55
I don't have, I don't have some of these Greg Maddox cards.
41:00
I mean, you know, Pedro, you know, so I don't know.
41:10
All right, Well, we're 41 minutes in.
41:14
This is usually about the time we pull the RIP card.
41:16
I got to tell you, though, that card, that Optimus Prime Hasbro
41:21
1985 Hasbro card, 85 per Hasbro card.
41:25
It it brings me a lot. I love it.
41:28
I love looking at it. Are you going to grade it?
41:30
You're going to put in a top loader?
41:31
One. One touch what?
41:33
It's in a top loader right now. I can't probably a probably a
41:38
one touch. Yeah, that's what I do.
41:42
Yeah, that'll be on the pick up video and people are going to
41:44
go, what is what happened to this guy?
41:47
And I'm just, I'm just, I'm just trying to collect differently so
41:50
I can get it back into the Hall of Fame.
41:53
You know, I I'm trying to switch things up.
41:57
So all right, buddy, anything, any closing thoughts about
42:04
anything that we covered today? I don't think so.
42:09
I'm excited to see what these cards are though.
42:11
They they are the modern cards. I I probably will.
42:15
I probably won't win either. There's one that I want, I want
42:19
and I'm willing to go high comp on.
42:22
Is it a Matt Manning card? It's not a Matt Manning card,
42:26
no. But I will say this is my
42:29
closing thought tomorrow. Tomorrow if you are, because
42:36
again, this is going to post on Saturday.
42:38
Tomorrow if you're going to be in Strongsville, I hope that you
42:41
will check out my Sunday video to access the link to be
42:47
actually down below. Now I'll put it down below.
42:49
Down below in today's video, I will post the link.
42:52
If you're going to be in Strongsville and you want to
42:55
have my book delivered to you in Strongsville, the form for that,
43:01
that would be cool. That would make me bring me joy.
43:03
So even if you don't want it and you just want to send $20.00 so
43:07
that I think that you want it, that would be good.
43:08
That would be fine too. Cool.
43:11
All. Right, bud, off we go.
43:14
Another one in the books. We're at like 23 or 24.
43:17
You know, Before you know it, we're going to be at 100.
43:20
Well, we'll be at our silver anniversary soon with 25
43:23
episodes. I'll have to send you a spoon or
43:26
something. See ya, see ya.