Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to Hobby Hotline, episode three hundred and ninety three.
Speaker 1: We are once again the interactive call in show that
Speaker 1: you can participate if you want to. I threw that
Speaker 1: link right in the chat. If anyone wants to join
Speaker 1: in and talk with us directly on screen, you are
Speaker 1: always welcome. I've got a couple of great co panelists
Speaker 1: here with me, Orlando a Collector's Dream. Hello Orlando.
Speaker 2: Hey John, good to be back.
Speaker 1: Then. Oh yeah, the kid with as well, Welcome.
Speaker 3: What's up John? What's up everybody? Only a month out
Speaker 3: from the Nationals getting close that.
Speaker 1: People are starting to get national fever, aren't they? And
Speaker 1: I have a feeling those folks that you know might
Speaker 1: be saying, oh, I'm burned out on going to the
Speaker 1: National I might start to get foamo here eventually. But
Speaker 1: yeah that we've already got a few folks here in
Speaker 1: the chat are slowly rolling in. It's early for us
Speaker 1: those on the West Coast like myself, but we got
Speaker 1: Stukes Good morning from Minnesota. We got Mad City Brew,
Speaker 1: We've got Upstate sports cards, yank Bee card, Steve from Tucson.
Speaker 1: I was actually in Phoenix this week for work. But
Speaker 1: it is hot down there. I am. I am happy
Speaker 1: to get off the plane in Portland and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can go outside and not just in starts sweating.
Speaker 1: Good morning from sunny Cape Cod We've got upstate sports
Speaker 1: cards Albany. Is that New Jersey? New York? It was
Speaker 1: a typo. I thought all it would be in New York,
Speaker 1: but uh, we have got someone who is experiencing tonight
Speaker 1: in Tokyo. Welcome from the other side of the world.
Speaker 1: So all right, before we get rolling into the topics,
Speaker 1: you guys got anything you want to bring up? First,
Speaker 1: I have to bring up a big shout out to
Speaker 1: my boy THEO. I'm sure if you're watching this you've
Speaker 1: probably seen it. He's got thousands of views wrapped up
Speaker 1: on the video where he put I quit on the thumbnail,
Speaker 1: and what he did was quit his day job and
Speaker 1: went full time in the hobby. So big congrats to
Speaker 1: THEO for following his dream and seeking happiness over the
Speaker 1: corporate grind. So congratulations to THEO, who is working for
Speaker 1: Collector Investor Auctions, which might be a sponsor for a
Speaker 1: program on this channel when we do our Sunday closing shows.
Speaker 1: We've got one coming up July twelfth because their auction
Speaker 1: did just open up again for July. So lots of
Speaker 1: good stuff in their auctions every time. And well, the
Speaker 1: thing that's great about them is that feel like they
Speaker 1: hit every price point for any level of collector. So
Speaker 1: you've got your big comma stuff at the front end
Speaker 1: of the auction, but then they've got just depth all
Speaker 1: the way through for you know, bargain collectors, you know,
Speaker 1: and everything in between. So yeah, okay, Orlando.
Speaker 2: You got any Yeah, definitely auction. I just send some
Speaker 2: cards on Monday. Unfortunately they didn't get there in time
Speaker 2: for this auction, but they'll be there in the August auction.
Speaker 2: But they're a great auction house. It's the one I've been.
Speaker 2: This will be my fifth time sending cards over there,
Speaker 2: and you know, I especially love that they pay you
Speaker 2: immediately because they sell them. But yeah, what I've got
Speaker 2: going is I'll be at a card show next week.
Speaker 2: You know, I attend card shows pretty much every month,
Speaker 2: maybe twice a month. There aren't as many here in
Speaker 2: South Florida as there are in other places, but I
Speaker 2: do try to go to all of them. And I've
Speaker 2: got a new podcast that's coming out actually today. We
Speaker 2: recorded it yesterday with Sammy Thunder and it pertained to
Speaker 2: card shows. It's called Card Show Culture, and we recorded
Speaker 2: it yesterday. I'm going to post it today after we
Speaker 2: do this hobby hotline, so we'd be able to look
Speaker 2: out for that, and it'll also be some of it
Speaker 2: will also appear on the Sports Card Clubhouse. So Sammy
Speaker 2: and I are thinking of doing it once a month.
Speaker 2: We both do a lot of card shows, just going
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about what's happening out there
Speaker 2: at the card shows. And it's crazy already that we're
Speaker 2: having the National again, and he's like yesterday that we
Speaker 2: were at Strongsville, you know, and oh yeah, it kind
Speaker 2: of seems like yesterday that Brody was a kid, and Brody's.
Speaker 4: Not a kid anymore.
Speaker 2: So I'm flive. So back to you, Brody, what do
Speaker 2: you got going on?
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for the National, but I think as well,
Speaker 3: something good to mention is to shout out my man
Speaker 3: Tim at signatures for soldiers he's doing. Obviously, we're close
Speaker 3: to July fourth, and he's not going to be getting
Speaker 3: as much that he would be during the summer. So
Speaker 3: if you want to look at his Twitter is he's
Speaker 3: on District, He's on eBay.
Speaker 5: Maybe go look at the stuff.
Speaker 3: He's got great organization there, see if you can donate.
Speaker 1: So well, that's a great lead in. Because I got
Speaker 1: the schedule out or ready to go. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be notifying all the folks who are going to be
Speaker 1: hosting shows on the upcoming hobby Polooza number seven. This
Speaker 1: is going to be starting Friday, July seventeenth, all day
Speaker 1: Saturday the eighteenth, all day Sunday the nineteenth, and throughout
Speaker 1: the show we're going to be asking for donations from
Speaker 1: signatures for Soldiers. The main point of the event is
Speaker 1: a fundraiser for them. We were able to give them
Speaker 1: eighty five hundred dollars last year around hobby Palooza. So
Speaker 1: the goal for this year is let's hit that ten K.
Speaker 1: That's a magic number. We want to want to try
Speaker 1: to hit that one this year, and I think we
Speaker 1: can do it. We have got a ton of great
Speaker 1: people lined up. I know there's many out you out
Speaker 1: there who might not have been able to get a chance.
Speaker 1: We only had twenty nine spots to fill and there's
Speaker 1: so many awesome creators in the community. But it should
Speaker 1: be a great event again for those three days. But
Speaker 1: once again, if you didn't hear that, mark your calendars
Speaker 1: July seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth. So starting Friday evening, the
Speaker 1: first show is going to be seven pm Eastern four Pacific,
Speaker 1: and once again leading things off for us as a
Speaker 1: host was going to be silver Jackafi and they always
Speaker 1: put together a great show and all kinds of you know,
Speaker 1: you think of one of the big creators in our
Speaker 1: little hobby space and they're going to be a part
Speaker 1: of this, So it should be a fun event. And
Speaker 1: just back on your you know linkage with Sammy Thunder Orlando's.
Speaker 1: To me, it's very synergistic because you guys started almost
Speaker 1: around the same time. You guys both blew up as
Speaker 1: far as channels with doing exactly what you're talking with,
Speaker 1: walking through shows and giving us great looks at you know,
Speaker 1: the folks like me on the West Coast that have
Speaker 1: a dearth of card shows. I get to see and
Speaker 1: be jealous of you guys over to the East Coast
Speaker 1: what you have access to on a regular basis. So yeah,
Speaker 1: to your show.
Speaker 2: I'm a little jealous. Of course, he's got shows every weekend,
Speaker 2: but yeah, Sammy and I our channels are very very similar.
Speaker 2: We do card shows and we show cards, and we
Speaker 2: started around the same time. We've been doing YouTube now
Speaker 2: for almost five years, and we actually collaboration. We're both
Speaker 2: hitting two thousand subscribers at the same time, so I
Speaker 2: remember that we did that and had gave away some
Speaker 2: prizes on that, and you know, now we're both over
Speaker 2: four thousand subscribers. And again it's been almost five years,
Speaker 2: and we both were inducted into the YouTube Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame the same year also, so it.
Speaker 1: Was been on a parallel course with him up in
Speaker 1: the Northeast and you down in Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Sammy and I have become really good friends
Speaker 2: because of all of that, and of course, you know,
Speaker 2: we see each other we go to the big shows.
Speaker 2: But I think it was a great idea. Sammy came
Speaker 2: up with it and said, you know, there aren't any
Speaker 2: podcast out there on card shows and what's actually happening
Speaker 2: at shows, So you know, he said, hey, let's do it.
Speaker 2: I said, we're gonna do it. So we're gonna do
Speaker 2: once a month, and you know, who knows, if it
Speaker 2: becomes popular, maybe we'll do even even more often. We'll
Speaker 2: see how it goes.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, sounds good. Speaking of shows, now let's
Speaker 1: get into the topic of what is coming only one
Speaker 1: month away. It's starting to be the buzz across many
Speaker 1: conversations on channels, the national is coming. We what it's
Speaker 1: one month and what two days would be the start
Speaker 1: of it now? So it seems to be on fire
Speaker 1: again as we can see. Let me show my screen
Speaker 1: real quick. Here we go, boom. It's already sold out
Speaker 1: for the VIP packages, So those of you out there,
Speaker 1: if you don't have your tickets, you might want to
Speaker 1: buy that five day early entry pass now before those
Speaker 1: sell out as well, because I do remember last year
Speaker 1: they sold out before the show as well. So, but
Speaker 1: is there any stopping this train of the hobby right
Speaker 1: now of just being on fire? And what are your thoughts, Orlando.
Speaker 2: No, they'll stopping it now. I think it's supposedly they
Speaker 2: say that this is going to be the biggest show ever.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest has been back when they had
Speaker 2: that Anaheim show, and this is supposed to be the
Speaker 2: biggest one. I mean, yeah, those VIP tickets have been
Speaker 2: sold out for a while and the five day early
Speaker 2: access if you don't get your tickets this week, you
Speaker 2: may miss out, because I remember last year they did
Speaker 2: sell out. And if you've got to go with the daily.
Speaker 1: Passes, it takes a while to get in the building
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, if you remember, John, the line was seemed
Speaker 2: like it was over a mile long outside, you know,
Speaker 2: and they had to literally go outside and put the
Speaker 2: wristbands on people out there because the line went all
Speaker 2: the way way out into the street, and it took
Speaker 2: those guys just over an hour just to get in.
Speaker 2: So you don't want to do the daily pass unless
Speaker 2: you're only gonna go there one day. But if you're
Speaker 2: gonna be there more than, you know, two or three days,
Speaker 2: you got to get the five day, the early pass
Speaker 2: and get in before all those crowds. If not, you're
Speaker 2: gonna be stuck out there in the heat and the
Speaker 2: crowd for long long to the hall.
Speaker 1: All right, it looks like we're on the big screens
Speaker 1: at the sports card shop. So hello, everyone's shopping at
Speaker 1: the sports card shop.
Speaker 5: But this is gonna be the biggest show. I'm so
Speaker 5: excited for it.
Speaker 3: I love that the upstairs is gonna be bigger because
Speaker 3: I think all of us that went upstairs last year.
Speaker 3: Knew that that was not the best design ever, but
Speaker 3: it's I mean, it's the buzz every year, and I'm
Speaker 3: really excited for it. I can't wait to see everybody.
Speaker 3: I think that's the best part about the nationals, being
Speaker 3: able to see all the people were talking to here
Speaker 3: and YouTube channels on Twitter, on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the upstairs, I did also pull up
Speaker 1: the interactive map and let me zoom in. It looks
Speaker 1: like the upstairs is now not a second class citizen anymore.
Speaker 1: So it appears to be much better when they've actually
Speaker 1: got you know, corporate things upstairs and real aisles. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that being a usable space as
Speaker 1: opposed to the nightmare it was last year, so you
Speaker 1: could once it got past the early morning, you could
Speaker 1: not squeeze hardly past those aisles without colliding with everyone,
Speaker 1: So that as much much better. I mean, you've got
Speaker 1: eBay has booths up there, so it's definitely going to
Speaker 1: be laid out better.
Speaker 5: Yeah's TikTok doing up there?
Speaker 2: I do not know.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, what is TikTok's involvement with the sports card
Speaker 1: hobby at this point? That is weird? Like even Fanatics
Speaker 1: has a smaller booth upstairs in addition to the big
Speaker 1: one they have downstairs.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I heard a lot of people do
Speaker 2: sell card to talk. Now I don't have TikTok, but
Speaker 2: that's kind of what I've heard. So that's gotta be
Speaker 2: something they want to promote a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's a question pre national commercial. Where is the
Speaker 1: West Coast card show commercial? It's coming up before the
Speaker 1: national I think what it amounts to is that the
Speaker 1: majority of our community is Midwest and Northeast based, is
Speaker 1: what it amounts to. I mean, that's even the prevalence
Speaker 1: of If you look at that card show map website, dang,
Speaker 1: the little pins are just like everywhere in the Midway,
Speaker 1: like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York. It's insane how many pins
Speaker 1: are on that map for card shows in those states.
Speaker 1: But they are spreading everywhere. I mean, we've got the
Speaker 1: front Row Show is starting to do regular quarterly shows
Speaker 1: at our large convention center as opposed to the dying
Speaker 1: pathetic mall that we were getting little tiny card shows at.
Speaker 1: So unfortunately they are more than half pokemon, but it
Speaker 1: is what it is. So but that looks to night,
Speaker 1: you know, any other thoughts on the whole card show front,
Speaker 1: and you know, beyond just the National, how crazy it
Speaker 1: is getting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely getting crazy. We'll see last year there
Speaker 2: weren't as many Pokemon dealers at the National as there
Speaker 2: are in regular card shows, where you know, you've got
Speaker 2: fifty to sixty seventy of the show is poke them on.
Speaker 2: But I hear there's going to be more Pokemon and
Speaker 2: you know maybe in the second floor. You know last
Speaker 2: year that place huge up up in the second floor,
Speaker 2: but it was all crammed in section, So hopefully they'll
Speaker 2: expand all that out, and that's where probably a lot
Speaker 2: of the newer deaders located. Because the way they do
Speaker 2: the National, the kind of the people have been to
Speaker 2: the longest get to pick their spot and pick their
Speaker 2: booth and those get in and then the ones that
Speaker 2: the new guys there get whatever's left over. So that's
Speaker 2: probably going to be the second floor guys. And I
Speaker 2: would imagine the Pokemon are going to be more up there.
Speaker 2: But it looks like they're going to have bigger aisles,
Speaker 2: which is great because upstairs before, I mean you couldn't
Speaker 2: fit two people in one Aisle, so hopefully it'll get better.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm expecting to be the biggest national ever
Speaker 2: based on all the hype and everything that's going on,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be just the area where all
Speaker 2: the corporates are going to be. That's going to be crazy.
Speaker 2: If you saw last year, it was loud.
Speaker 3: And I think it'll be interesting with the second floor
Speaker 3: from that map, like that almost looks like its own show,
Speaker 3: Like that's crazy. I think you might even see it
Speaker 3: at the regular show. Maybe it'll be a little less
Speaker 3: crowded down there because you've got a lot of people
Speaker 3: going up there, especially like you said, if it's a
Speaker 3: lot of Pokemon people, there might be a lot of
Speaker 3: people up there instead of downstairs. But again, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's the biggest show of the year and I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Oh. I mean, we've got people commenting all over the
Speaker 1: place that there's just tons of shows like popping up
Speaker 1: in where they live here with what was it? I
Speaker 1: saw one comment saying, okay, see as three to four
Speaker 1: options every weekend right here, So I mean, it doesn't
Speaker 1: it seems like this is just becoming a more mainstream hobby.
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. You know, being someone who
Speaker 1: in the junk wacks era, I was finishing high school
Speaker 1: when you know, the bottom fell out of the thing before,
Speaker 1: so I left because I was going to be going
Speaker 1: to college. And you know, Orlando, you were around. I mean,
Speaker 1: was it was it because all the kids fled before
Speaker 1: or was it you know what happened between the was
Speaker 1: the spread different then as far as kids versus or.
Speaker 2: You know, it was different but very similar. I mean
Speaker 2: what happened was you know, back in the eighties and nineties,
Speaker 2: I was doing card shows as a dealer, and you know,
Speaker 2: that was the junk wax era. But you know, we
Speaker 2: didn't know that unk wax era. When we were in
Speaker 2: the junk wax era, people were actually thinking that they
Speaker 2: would buy cases of these you know, eighty seven tops
Speaker 2: cards and save them and that that would pay for
Speaker 2: your college education. So you know, we didn't know how
Speaker 2: much overproduction there was going on at the time because
Speaker 2: of course we didn't have YouTube, we didn't have any
Speaker 2: social media and stuff, so it was very speculative at
Speaker 2: the time. A lot of people got into the hobby
Speaker 2: and then eventually people realize that, hey, you know what
Speaker 2: these cards are being way overproduced, and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's a similar to what's happening today in the
Speaker 2: Pokemon where everybody's getting into Pokemon and buying a lot
Speaker 2: of these you know, boxes and unopened boxes in this
Speaker 2: and they don't realize that last year they produced one
Speaker 2: billion to be one billion Pokemon. So you see all
Speaker 2: these people that are coming in where you know, the
Speaker 2: same thing back in the day, you know PSA Now,
Speaker 2: I think seventy percent of their cards being graded are
Speaker 2: Pokemon cards. You know, they literally open a pack of
Speaker 2: cards and they submit almost every card is the PSA
Speaker 2: to get you know graded, And back in those days,
Speaker 2: that's kind of what what you thought. You thought all
Speaker 2: the cards were going to be worth money. And then eventually,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, reality sat in. People that came
Speaker 2: in as investor typee they kind of got out of
Speaker 2: the hobby. And that's what happened back back in those days.
Speaker 2: You had the big bunch of people coming in, but
Speaker 2: then you had a bunch of people going out once
Speaker 2: they realize that that it wasn't an investment. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of similar to what's happening today, and you see
Speaker 2: all these new all the new money that's coming in
Speaker 2: through the market right now. But you know, most of
Speaker 2: the stuff, especially a lot of the modern right now,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not going to be worth what people think,
Speaker 2: you know, years from now. I mean, think about all
Speaker 2: the Zion cards and stuff that were graded and all
Speaker 2: those type of cards that a lot of them are
Speaker 2: are worthless right now. They're not worth the slab that
Speaker 2: the slab is worth more than the card itself. So
Speaker 2: you know, that's what that's what's what I see happening.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing, I think, because a lot of
Speaker 2: people are getting in and a lot of people are
Speaker 2: going to stay in the hobby, but you're going to
Speaker 2: have people eventually are going to be leaving the hobby
Speaker 2: because they either get disappointed or because it just wasn't
Speaker 2: you know. They're not collectors per se, they're more because
Speaker 2: of the investment, uh part of the hobby opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so as far as okay, see Bill, yeah the question.
Speaker 1: I am fifty two, so I was a ninety two
Speaker 1: high school graduate, and so on that front, I mean,
Speaker 1: when I was doing it, it was like in the eighties,
Speaker 1: all the kids in your class, you were the odd
Speaker 1: kid if you didn't collect sports cards. So that's where
Speaker 1: I'm wondering now in this new generation, like Brody, are
Speaker 1: you the odd one because you do? Or is there
Speaker 1: is it become popular with the younger kids.
Speaker 3: It's definitely getting popular. I'd say it's pretty split like
Speaker 3: it used to be, like I was the only now
Speaker 3: I think it. You know, it depends on who you're
Speaker 3: hating out with. But I there's there's the chase factor.
Speaker 3: And I was just talking about this with my friends
Speaker 3: and my dad the other day. You know, and those
Speaker 3: eighty Tops packs there's nothing worth anything, But in twenty years,
Speaker 3: you know, there might not be anything from a Tops
Speaker 3: Chrome set that's worth much. But I guarantee you that
Speaker 3: Paul Schemes one on one with his debut patch is
Speaker 3: still gonna.
Speaker 5: Be worth one hundred of thousands of dollars. And that's
Speaker 5: the difference that I see.
Speaker 3: Is it a junk parallel era, Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 3: eighty plus hundreds parallels in every set. But I think
Speaker 3: some of these cards, especially Fanatics, I mean Fanatics has
Speaker 3: the like, the resources and the money for so much
Speaker 3: stuff that I think this is this train will keep going.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see how many people hop off.
Speaker 1: We have actually got a call in on our call
Speaker 1: in show here from the other side of the world.
Speaker 1: We have got Carl from OZ. Welcome to Hobby Hotline.
Speaker 4: Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Hey, good evening to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good, it is. Indeed, it's one twenty four.
Speaker 4: I am I'm sitting up in bed. I've just locked
Speaker 4: my cat out of the bedroom. She's bogging at me.
Speaker 4: Just wanted to join in this. This is quite fun.
Speaker 4: I love this and I yell you. You're talking earlier, John, Sorry,
Speaker 4: you're talking earlier about being jelous about the lack of
Speaker 4: couch shows anything. Seriously, you got rebell. Not this year.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to the National. This year's found that overwhelming.
Speaker 4: Last year for me, I loved it. It was great fun.
Speaker 4: But now I'm I'm I'm locked into Strongsville next year.
Speaker 4: That's that's the next big one for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be tough for you. It's a
Speaker 2: two day traveling to get to the National.
Speaker 4: It can be Orlando, yes, it can. Indeed. I'm coming
Speaker 4: over again, coming over to the States late October and
Speaker 4: hoping to catch up with a few people. My my
Speaker 4: son in law is running in the New York Marathon,
Speaker 4: so I'm going to be over for that, but that's
Speaker 4: that'll be the next time I'm over there.
Speaker 2: Coral tell us about the hobby. That's how it's like
Speaker 2: over there. And are there card shows over there?
Speaker 4: There are, but they're they're they're overwhelmed by Pokemon, I
Speaker 4: have to say, and which which tends to deter me.
Speaker 4: What I've found is that there is a significant interest
Speaker 4: in basketball and soccer, uh English football Australians sports. We
Speaker 4: have our local football league is called the AFL Australian
Speaker 4: Football League. Its cards are very popular locally, obviously not internationally.
Speaker 4: Cricket's very popular, but Pokemon has just swamped card shows generally, which,
Speaker 4: as I say, makes it less than totally attractive for me.
Speaker 4: There was a guy came out from the States to
Speaker 4: a big show in Sydney a few weeks ago. I
Speaker 4: can't remember his name, but he did a good video
Speaker 4: on the show up there, and I think there's a
Speaker 4: few additional shows in Sydney compared to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: And where are you? What city are you in?
Speaker 4: I'm in Melbourne, WHI she's down the southern part of
Speaker 4: the country on the east coast, still southeast coast. Melbourne's
Speaker 4: the second largest city in Australia, soon to be the largest.
Speaker 4: We're catching up to Sydney population wide. Sydney's got about
Speaker 4: five and a half million. We've got about five In Australia.
Speaker 4: The population has concentrated significantly on the coast. There's hardly
Speaker 4: any population in the interior. In terms of numerically, there's
Speaker 4: very large cattle ranchers and what you guys would good
Speaker 4: ranchers like there's I think there's one in I think
Speaker 4: it's in Western Australia. That's the size of Belgium or
Speaker 4: something like that. I mean, the acreage of some of
Speaker 4: these places are staggering, but there's pretty poor, poor country
Speaker 4: in terms of utility in the ground. But I'm getting
Speaker 4: jealous about not being out of course, but you know,
Speaker 4: you can't, you can't do absolutely everything. And I JT
Speaker 4: has invited me to be the umpire in one of
Speaker 4: his one of his shows in the next few weeks.
Speaker 4: So I had arrived yesterday a National League umpire's hat
Speaker 4: and I've bought a whistle to bring catch bring people
Speaker 4: into line, and I intend to have the tiebreaker questions
Speaker 4: based on Australian here so just to pivot up participants.
Speaker 4: Happened to me if.
Speaker 1: Anyone referring to JT's Vintage Card Round and has a
Speaker 1: new show called pre War Card Clash, which is basically, uh,
Speaker 1: admittedly a rip showcase showdown completely war.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, as I say, it's a complete rip off, that's it.
Speaker 4: I don't think. I don't think Mike and Chris mind
Speaker 4: that much.
Speaker 1: They got their blessing, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: I think you've got a lot of card shops down
Speaker 3: there too, not that many.
Speaker 4: There's more and more coming on, but again it's it's
Speaker 4: all Pokemon based primarily, and they usually have a smattering
Speaker 4: of modern sports. I have very very little, very little
Speaker 4: into mean, I would would not I would not keep them,
Speaker 4: keep them profitable, that's for sure, because it's just hardly
Speaker 4: anything there. But unfortunately by are A A and c
Speaker 4: I A options have got me somewhat hooked at the moment,
Speaker 4: so we will have limited funds, no idea.
Speaker 1: Closing show. There's a stack of Carl from OZ wins.
Speaker 4: Well they one day for the next few months, John,
Speaker 4: because I do have to sign for shrugs.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, Brody, Carl was asking where you're from. Yeah,
Speaker 2: talk about this. Tell us about the card shows in
Speaker 2: your area. What are what are they and how are
Speaker 2: they doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm actually only about thirty five forty minutes from
Speaker 3: Rosemont from the convention centers.
Speaker 5: They usually do.
Speaker 3: A couple, usually do two smaller ones there called the
Speaker 3: Chicago Sports Spectacular, and I think it's usually in the
Speaker 3: upstairs part that they're using for the National It's a
Speaker 3: pretty decent show. A lot of autographed guests there as
Speaker 3: well too. And then recently, in like the past year
Speaker 3: year and a half, there's a lot of just random
Speaker 3: shows and small towns popping up.
Speaker 5: A lot of Pokemon too.
Speaker 3: The couple I've been to recently, i'd say probably like
Speaker 3: sixty seventy percent Pokemon. But yeah, it's pretty crazy because
Speaker 3: a lot of these towns are really small, but.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of people there. It's crazy to see
Speaker 5: how many people are going to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that's happening here too. We
Speaker 2: had a small show and really a small little I
Speaker 2: guess you call her a town, even though we're here
Speaker 2: in Fort Lauderdale area in Cooper City, which you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of a real small, you know, area,
Speaker 2: and they did their first card show in Cooper City
Speaker 2: here recent and stookes from it was here, you know,
Speaker 2: in the area. He was staying in Best Palm and
Speaker 2: we met up at the show and I got to
Speaker 2: tell you, you know, it was at one of these veteran
Speaker 2: halls type where it's pretty small, but it was packed.
Speaker 2: It was the first show there, and it was like
Speaker 2: crazy packed, all of the full of the dealers and
Speaker 2: you could barely walk on, you know, in the halls,
Speaker 2: I mean during the aisles, and I did a video.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. For the first show there. It
Speaker 2: was packed and really a small little city and you
Speaker 2: wouldn't expect that much out of that. So I think that, yeah,
Speaker 2: not only are the shows coming up in the big
Speaker 2: areas here like Miami and Fort Lauderdale, but you see
Speaker 2: small shows coming up in places like Cooper City, which
Speaker 2: is kind of a little little town. So I'm seeing
Speaker 2: more shows opening in places where you would have never
Speaker 2: expect to have shows at all.
Speaker 4: And Orlando, the people attending them and that primarily young people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a lot of young people, a lot of
Speaker 2: modern a couple of vintage dealers, but the majority, again,
Speaker 2: the majority were modern and Pokemon cards is what you
Speaker 2: see in these shows. And and this the guy the
Speaker 2: promoter was kind of a new promoter who had never
Speaker 2: seen before, so I think this was probably his first show.
Speaker 2: And he was a fairly young guy. So at a
Speaker 2: lot of shows coming A.
Speaker 4: Couple of vintage dealers were thy busy.
Speaker 2: Yes, they were busy. The whole show was busy. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody was selling them. The dealers that I spoke to,
Speaker 2: everybody looked like they were having a good.
Speaker 4: Show, good interesting.
Speaker 2: And it was just a one day show. It went
Speaker 2: a two day show.
Speaker 1: All right, yep, all right? Can we talk about backpacks
Speaker 1: at shows? What's our opinion? I wear one nine sign
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and I hate it because I'm
Speaker 1: bumping and getting bumped. It's because those card shows are
Speaker 1: so popular and are packed full of people.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, for me, Phil, I have a
Speaker 2: small backpack that I carry with me when I go
Speaker 2: to the National, when I go to Strongsville, you know,
Speaker 2: when I go to the local shows, I don't I'll
Speaker 2: bring it, but I have a like I wouldn't even
Speaker 2: consider it a backpack. It's it was a little thing
Speaker 2: they gave away at a Disney World. So it's kind
Speaker 2: of like a little that I got a Disney World cruise.
Speaker 2: When I went to a Disney cruise, it's a small
Speaker 2: little backpack that I just kind of carry with me.
Speaker 2: But those big backpacks are terrible, especially they cram them
Speaker 2: with boxes and boxes stuff. I mean, you're just bumping
Speaker 2: into people constantly with that. So I try to bring
Speaker 2: just a small, you know thing. It's bigger than a
Speaker 2: fanny pack, but it's smaller than a regular backpack. But
Speaker 2: you got to have something to carry your cards and
Speaker 2: you know, and when I go to the National or
Speaker 2: a bigger show, I usually bring some cards who sell
Speaker 2: or trade too, So I gotta have something to carry
Speaker 2: it with. Yeah, more like a satchel.
Speaker 1: Type satchel for your satchel exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you taking much to the National Landa to try.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take some. Yeah, I've sent some cards
Speaker 2: to CIA, but I'm also going to take some cards.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily am I going to trade or sell them
Speaker 2: if I don't have to, But if I find something
Speaker 2: I really want, then you know, I'll have some trade
Speaker 2: bait with me just in case. But you know, the
Speaker 2: stuff that i'm looking to sell, I'm trying to sell
Speaker 2: it before the national send it over to CIA and
Speaker 2: get rid of that. Or I always contact the doll
Speaker 2: they're going to be there, you know, like a Garrett
Speaker 2: or stuff like that from ball park memories, and you know,
Speaker 2: let him know what I've got and if he's interested,
Speaker 2: then I'll bring some of that stuff. But for the
Speaker 2: most part, I'll bring some cards that if I have
Speaker 2: to sell, I will, but you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: stuff that if I if I don't sell it, I
Speaker 2: don't trade it. You know. If I don't find anything
Speaker 2: I really want, I'm good. But if I need some cash,
Speaker 2: it's always good to bring some trade bait.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it depends too on what you're looking to buy.
Speaker 3: I mean, some people go and buy cases of stuff
Speaker 3: for you know, five boxes or something kind of carry it,
Speaker 3: you know, and if you're like you said, if you're
Speaker 3: bringing stuff to trade, then sell you gotta put it somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. It was a slow hobby news week,
Speaker 1: so scraping around for something. Did see the fact that
Speaker 1: a article came out this week in ESPN, which you know,
Speaker 1: when they're gonna talk sports, they're generally probably months behind
Speaker 1: our conversations generally so, but the fact that it's might
Speaker 1: get that many eyeballs being on that major of a
Speaker 1: site still makes it intriguing. And that is this article here,
Speaker 1: Uh there we go. Could box breaking be considered gambling
Speaker 1: or lottery? Is there any chance that the sports card
Speaker 1: industry is ever going to get any kind of regulation?
Speaker 1: I personally, I don't think we're a big enough fish
Speaker 1: to matter still, But any thoughts, uh, Orlando.
Speaker 2: I think they've tried to have some you know, we've
Speaker 2: had a few lawsuits by there, but it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: You know, the government's too busy trying to get their
Speaker 2: act together. So I cannot see any regulation coming down
Speaker 2: as far as breakers and things like that. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, the hobby is going to have to police ourselves.
Speaker 2: We're the ones that are going to have to, you know,
Speaker 2: look at these bad guys, you know, and we warn
Speaker 2: another you know, our own community or YouTube community or
Speaker 2: or publications are going to have to do our own
Speaker 2: plumbs down to you know, the bad guys or stuff
Speaker 2: that's happening. Like you know, recently, a UPS worker was
Speaker 2: literally stealing cards right from the post office and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. And those are things that we need to
Speaker 2: make people aware of. But as far as the government
Speaker 2: coming down, unless it's some huge thing, which you know
Speaker 2: there was. I mean I heard that there was one
Speaker 2: guy that was doing healthcare fraud and when they went
Speaker 2: to investigate, they had bought millions of dollars of cards
Speaker 2: and fancy cars and houses with the money that they
Speaker 2: ripped off the government. So the FBI did get involved
Speaker 2: in that and they found you know, cards, mantle to
Speaker 2: mantles and leaf jackies or a bunch of those he
Speaker 2: had bought the funds that they stole. But other than that,
Speaker 2: I don't see the government involved in any any regular
Speaker 2: at all. I think it's gonna be up to us
Speaker 2: and up to some of the companies like Whatnot, because
Speaker 2: a lot of it have to be happening and whatnot.
Speaker 2: I think they need to get involved and crack down
Speaker 2: on it. But what's happening now we're looking at eBay Live.
Speaker 2: We're competing against whatnot and eBay live more strict and
Speaker 2: they're the ones that are actually picking up certain people
Speaker 2: breakers that they want on their site instead of a
Speaker 2: whatnot who's taking whoever wants to come in and do
Speaker 2: it does it good or bad? You know it's it's
Speaker 2: it's gonna be up to us to police our hobby
Speaker 2: and let everyone know what's happening and who the bad
Speaker 2: guys are, who the good guys are my opinion, I
Speaker 2: have decided.
Speaker 1: Sorry, go ahead, Carl.
Speaker 4: I know what I was going to say was I
Speaker 4: found e Bay auction quite good to deal with the
Speaker 4: I've made this complaint numerous times before. The only problem
Speaker 4: I have with eBay is the horrendously expensive shipping costs,
Speaker 4: particularly to get to hear any. A single card that
Speaker 4: I buy that cost twenty bucks is going to cost
Speaker 4: me more than twenty bucks to get here, which I
Speaker 4: can't control obviously. And as you're undoubtedly where eBay basically banned,
Speaker 4: you're having direct negotiations with the seller. So unless you
Speaker 4: can work out nefarious ways of in code telling you
Speaker 4: and telling them you want to talk to them directly,
Speaker 4: it's fairly difficult. And in fact, ninety nine percent of them,
Speaker 4: if they realize that you want to talk to them directly,
Speaker 4: they will talk to you. But it's a bit tricky.
Speaker 4: But the other thing I was just going to mention,
Speaker 4: someone just put up a question asking me whether I
Speaker 4: was going to be going to the NFL game that's
Speaker 4: going to be played in Melbourne in September, and I
Speaker 4: most definitely am it's it's at the Cricket Ground in Melbourne.
Speaker 4: That's the largest part of me. The largest stadium we've
Speaker 4: got here holds just on one hundred thousand. And I'm
Speaker 4: a member of the club that runs that. And in
Speaker 4: saying I'm a member of the club that runs it,
Speaker 4: the club has one hundred thousand exclusive club at all
Speaker 4: and the NFL gave club members are first crack at tickets.
Speaker 4: You still have to buy them. But yeah, definitely going
Speaker 4: to that. That's going to be on our date September
Speaker 4: the eleventh, so it'll be the tenth you audate, which
Speaker 4: will be a Thursday, I think over there. No, it's
Speaker 4: getting a lot of buzz, a lot of.
Speaker 3: Football game's going down there and expanding internationally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had how long ago with it. It was about
Speaker 4: twelve ten or twelve years ago. The Dodgers and the
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks had their opening series in the baseball the Sydney
Speaker 4: Cricket Ground and my son and I went to that
Speaker 4: and it was hugely successful as well. I mean Australians
Speaker 4: will go to any international sport that comes. We are
Speaker 4: somewhat of sport's nut country. Now rugby is big over there.
Speaker 4: You have a rugby, there's a rugby. There's two forms
Speaker 4: of rugby Orlando, there's union, which traditionally came out of
Speaker 4: the public what we call public but win in fact
Speaker 4: private school system in England back in the nineteenth century.
Speaker 4: Union is considered gentleman's rugby rugby league which grew out
Speaker 4: of and it's a very similar game to rugby union.
Speaker 4: Not quite as brutish, I have to say, because reunion's
Speaker 4: pretty rough physically. But rugby league grew out of the
Speaker 4: mining towns in northern England originally and came to Australia
Speaker 4: in the late nineties. And rugby is extremely popular in
Speaker 4: the Northern States, Queensland and New South Wales. Not so
Speaker 4: much in Melbourne because Australian rules football grew out of
Speaker 4: a hybrid of rugby and soccer in Melbourne during the
Speaker 4: gold Rush period in the eighteen fifties, and even now,
Speaker 4: crazily Melbourne has this I'm trying to think. I think
Speaker 4: there's seventeen teams in our Australian Football League and it's
Speaker 4: a national but twelve of those teams are based in Melbourne,
Speaker 4: so it's incredibly It's still incredibly local in Melbourne but
Speaker 4: gets massive crowds. I mean every weekend at the cricket
Speaker 4: ground there's eighty thousand of the game. It doesn't matter
Speaker 4: who's playing. And they have games starting similar to what
Speaker 4: you guys have with your football now Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday,
Speaker 4: Saturday afternoon Saturday night. And because there's teams now, there's
Speaker 4: two Australian Football League teams in Sydney, two in Brisbane,
Speaker 4: two in Adelaide, two in Perth, and twelve or thirteen
Speaker 4: in Melbourne. And there's a new one about to begin.
Speaker 4: It'll be the nineteenth team based in Tasmania, the island
Speaker 4: state below us. It's very popular in the Northern States,
Speaker 4: Atlanta particularly.
Speaker 2: I know you mentioned basketball is popular over there. Do
Speaker 2: you think that bringing American football to Australia will help
Speaker 2: the American football cards?
Speaker 4: Yes, doubt of it. I know you collect that football cards, Yep,
Speaker 4: yep again vintage. I love the nineteenth and fifties US
Speaker 4: football cards. I think they're just pieces of art to
Speaker 4: be honest, But funnily enough, one of my grandsons, whose
Speaker 4: dad is the one running in the New York Marathon.
Speaker 4: He long story. He one played for an American football
Speaker 4: under sixteen team in his local city, Geelong, which is
Speaker 4: the nearest big city to Melbourne, and they actually won
Speaker 4: the National underage Gridiron Championship. He played in the Victorian team,
Speaker 4: and let me say, it's a fairly low level of
Speaker 4: entry in terms of quality of the game. But of
Speaker 4: course he was delighted to win. And I had said
Speaker 4: to him months before that if they won the tournament,
Speaker 4: I'd take him to the US on a American football tour.
Speaker 4: So literally as he walked off the ground, he said,
Speaker 4: when are we going to the States? And we did
Speaker 4: that last October November, went to games at Texas A
Speaker 4: and M Cowboys games. He has a great, great trip.
Speaker 4: But he answered your question, it's definitely they'll be. There'll
Speaker 4: be a boosting American football for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, it's feeling like we are topic light this week,
Speaker 1: so I am thinking let's just pass it around the
Speaker 1: horn of what we got upcoming, and this just close
Speaker 1: things out rather than drag it out. So yep, Orlando,
Speaker 1: what's up next on deck for you?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll be going to a local card show next weekend,
Speaker 2: the for Lauderdale Card Show. But I think the main
Speaker 2: thing going on with me is what I what I
Speaker 2: talked about earlier is my podcast. I'm very excited to
Speaker 2: do that podcast with Sammy Thunder and Card Card Show Culture,
Speaker 2: and I'll be uploading the video today, so be on
Speaker 2: the lookout for that. But that should be fun. And
Speaker 2: just you know, getting ready for the National, you know,
Speaker 2: looking at my cards and seeing which cards I'm looking
Speaker 2: to take over there and what cards do I really
Speaker 2: love and what cars like. You know, I'm still working
Speaker 2: on consolate dating my collection some I have so many cards,
Speaker 2: you know, over so many years of collecting, that I'm
Speaker 2: getting to a point that really I need to focus
Speaker 2: some cards that I've always wanted, never been able to
Speaker 2: get or never to afford, and use some of my
Speaker 2: card capital to obtain some of those cards at the National.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm working on, and I just can't
Speaker 2: wait to see everybody there. I know Hobby Hotline is
Speaker 2: going to have a dinner that they have every year.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I think that's on a Saturday night. I think
Speaker 2: it is. I probably won't be able to attend that,
Speaker 2: but I'll be at the National Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 2: and I'll be leaving maybe their Saturday morning, but my
Speaker 2: flight leaves Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Well, I think John Newman was talking then he's getting
Speaker 1: a stage time for a hobby hotline even so that'd
Speaker 1: be interesting.
Speaker 2: If he invites me on, I'll be on and tell
Speaker 2: me about that yet, but I'm ready to go. Last
Speaker 2: time I was in the audience did that. I'll always
Speaker 2: be there to watch my so called teammates be there.
Speaker 1: Brody, how about you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing the smart thing and trying to save some
Speaker 3: money up for the Nationals. So I mean, if there's
Speaker 3: a card shop that or a card show that pops up,
Speaker 3: I'll go, but not lounded much.
Speaker 5: Gotta save up for the big show.
Speaker 3: But stay tuned on my socials for I'll be posting
Speaker 3: a ton at the National and different booths to check
Speaker 3: out and events happening.
Speaker 1: All right, and.
Speaker 2: Can we find you on the socials?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm Brody TK on X and Brody the Kid
Speaker 3: one on Instagram.
Speaker 4: You're not on YouTube.
Speaker 5: I do have a YouTube page. It's Brody the Kid
Speaker 5: on YouTube as well.
Speaker 4: OKAYR Well, I'll subscribe as soon as I get off,
Speaker 4: I had a couple of questions for you all and
Speaker 4: I regarding the Semi thunder collaboration. What is that going
Speaker 4: to be hosted off your channel? Or he's how does that?
Speaker 4: How do we found it? Exactly?
Speaker 2: We're going to post on both of our champ all right,
Speaker 2: we'll be on the Lookout and we do a you know,
Speaker 2: it's about an hour show, and then we did a
Speaker 2: fifteen minute kind of an after show which we continue
Speaker 2: the conversation, and that'll be on the Sports on the
Speaker 2: Sports Call sports Car Clubhouse. All right, that'll be probably
Speaker 2: a fifteen to twenty minute kind of after show type
Speaker 2: thing of the hangover. Yeah, and you, Carl, what do
Speaker 2: you got going on?
Speaker 4: Quite so, as I said, I'm going to try and
Speaker 4: pull with regards to buying between now and next April,
Speaker 4: I would like to give a very bridge shoutout, but
Speaker 4: I'm trying to find an economical price. Well, one thing
Speaker 4: certainly won't be an economical price. I would love to
Speaker 4: get hold of a ticket to what was the Tommy
Speaker 4: Burns Jack Johnson fight at Raskas Bay and Sydney backing
Speaker 4: I think nine hundred and eight or nine and ten
Speaker 4: it's it's seemingly almost unobtainable, which which is not totally surprising.
Speaker 4: And and the other one that I'm trying to chase
Speaker 4: is the Babe Dietrixton cards considered Goudy card. I can't
Speaker 4: remember now sports sports teams, that's the one. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: again one does have certain budgetary constraints, so I just
Speaker 4: have to manage that. But other than that, fairly quiet time.
Speaker 4: Our football season is about half over. The team I
Speaker 4: follow in it as on the edge of the playoffs,
Speaker 4: having had a terrible start of the season. Funnily enough,
Speaker 4: the finals will start in Melbourne literally the day after
Speaker 4: the NFL game in Melbourne, so they'll be working twenty
Speaker 4: four hours after the NFL game to reconfigure the stadium.
Speaker 4: But other than that, quiet time will land it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Carl you channel, I thank you, simplical Carl
Speaker 2: from OZ.
Speaker 4: It's funny. My kids, who are both adults, they were
Speaker 4: somewhat amused when I said I was going to start
Speaker 4: this channel, and they said, oh, how often are you
Speaker 4: going to do it? And I said, oh, about once,
Speaker 4: maybe twice a week. And I think I've just repelled that, John,
Speaker 4: I think I've just recorded my seventy fifth video in
Speaker 4: the last five months, so I think I've been a
Speaker 4: bit obsessive. I've forward posted a few for the next
Speaker 4: few weeks, primarily on things that I've picked up, and
Speaker 4: I try and I'm going to try and vary this
Speaker 4: apart from anything else. I think a lot of people
Speaker 4: perhaps take the approach to people showing what they've picked
Speaker 4: up all the time as simply showing off, and I
Speaker 4: don't want to. I sincerely don't want to come across
Speaker 4: that way. The problem I have is that I get
Speaker 4: so excited about some of the stuff that I get
Speaker 4: I like to display it, particularly that mister Murphy card
Speaker 4: that you so kindly Orlando let me have a free
Speaker 4: crackout at the auction two or three weeks ago. We've
Speaker 4: got to do a video about that guy too, because
Speaker 4: he's an amazing character.
Speaker 1: Anyone who takes that approach and the comments negatively, I
Speaker 1: hope you are happier in the future, because clearly you're
Speaker 1: not happy right now because you're crapping on somebody who
Speaker 1: loves something and they're just excited to show it to
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: So John, right now, yeah, a little.
Speaker 1: Bit while I'm o I can catch up with the
Speaker 1: chat at the same time. So here, thank you, good
Speaker 1: to see you again, John So. My channel, my personal
Speaker 1: channel's been dormant for about two months, but it's a
Speaker 1: lot of it's been busyness. One thing is organizing hobby puluse.
Speaker 1: Oh so I mentioned that earlier at the show July seventeenth, eighteenth,
Speaker 1: and nineteenth. Starting at Friday night, the seventeenth, seven pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: and the Friday night is ended by Carlos so who
Speaker 1: knows when it ends. It will probably end Saturday morning
Speaker 1: the way those guys go. Uh. And then we're going
Speaker 1: to be all day Saturday, starting at ten am Eastern
Speaker 1: seven am on the West Coast for US, and what's.
Speaker 4: Happening site three am?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, sorry, Carl, I'll be the closing show Saturday
Speaker 1: night at ten pm Eastern is Sports Card Live. Jeremy
Speaker 1: Lee is once again simulcasting on this channel as well
Speaker 1: as his own, and then Sunday kicking off again ten
Speaker 1: am Sunday morning, and then the final show is going
Speaker 1: to be our normal four collectors live stream time slot
Speaker 1: starting at the ninety so yeah, twenty nine different show
Speaker 1: hosts overall.
Speaker 4: So what were those dikes again?
Speaker 1: Join July seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth.
Speaker 4: Okay, so got three weeks. Okay, And remember that streams.
Speaker 1: These are all live streams. I will have created playlists
Speaker 1: for each of the days so that if you just
Speaker 1: want to watch non stop all day long, you just
Speaker 1: fire up that playlist and they'll run the show to
Speaker 1: show to show as the day goes on.
Speaker 2: So remember that it's all frigniture for soldiers. That's what
Speaker 2: it's all about. Guys.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be great to see all the YouTube co
Speaker 2: creators on there. But the key is that we want
Speaker 2: to raise more than the eight thousand dollars that we
Speaker 2: raised last year, so you know, save a little bit
Speaker 2: of money before the National to donate signiture for soldiers.
Speaker 2: It's a great cause. And Brody anything else you need
Speaker 2: to say about that, because I know they're your friends.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Tim's awesome. I like I said too. I
Speaker 3: would make sure you go on check out his eBay
Speaker 3: and follow him on X. He's always posting stuff on
Speaker 3: X and National too. If you see me, say.
Speaker 2: Hi, and he'll have a booth right at the National
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 4: He does not oh he does not this year, Okay,
Speaker 4: help can on don You will.
Speaker 1: Have all that information very clear. This year we're gone.
Speaker 1: I'm not working as an intermediary. I've had enough of
Speaker 1: trying to do that. I know it helps for doing
Speaker 1: real time, same day prize giveaways because then I know
Speaker 1: exactly who's done the charity and I can set up
Speaker 1: those wheels to spin, because the thing we do each
Speaker 1: time is every ten dollars you donate gets you a
Speaker 1: name on the wheel. And so there are various prizes.
Speaker 1: Once again, Scott from Reindeer Studios is generously offering his
Speaker 1: time to create a custom piece of artwork for the show.
Speaker 1: And there'll be various other prizes in the mix that
Speaker 1: are donated by some of our sponsors as well as
Speaker 1: just some folks in the community that generously want to
Speaker 1: throw a prize in the mix. And all that detail
Speaker 1: will be coming soon. I'm trying to put together the
Speaker 1: previews show as one of my four collectors released this
Speaker 1: week midweek, so so all that information should be compiled soon.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: Outside of that, I'm also hosting the live stream tomorrow
Speaker 1: that is nine Eastern. We've got just a group for
Speaker 1: a fun card showing of collectors. The theme for this
Speaker 1: is going to be where all picking our favorites or
Speaker 1: best or however they want to pick it. Card for
Speaker 1: each position major League player, you know, baseball. You know,
Speaker 1: it could be anywhere from a modern card to an
Speaker 1: old pre war card. I mean, I'm thinking about my picks.
Speaker 1: I've got a nineties card, an eighties card in the
Speaker 1: mix as well as going all the way back. So
Speaker 1: it should be a fun card showing. And then so
Speaker 1: like I said, it's my turn also for the pre
Speaker 1: record show, which I will be getting that information out
Speaker 1: this week as far as how the donations will work,
Speaker 1: as well as previewing a bit of who all the
Speaker 1: host lineup is and you know, giving at least the
Speaker 1: preliminary times before maybe people start to beg me to
Speaker 1: ask to switch. That's that's a lot of what I've
Speaker 1: been doing the last month is contacting all these people.
Speaker 1: You know, a few folks are on vacation, so then
Speaker 1: I bring in somebody else into the mix, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bit of work organizing a twenty nine different
Speaker 1: hosts live stream over three days. So but it's all
Speaker 1: for a good cause and I hope you will all
Speaker 1: be donating generously for that. So that's all I've got
Speaker 1: for this week. So thank you once again to the
Speaker 1: chat it's you know, it's not a show without you
Speaker 1: interacting with us. It's always good fun. So thank you.
Speaker 1: We will be back next Saturday again for Hobby Hotline.
Speaker 1: So goodbye for now.
Speaker 4: Thanks for letting me on, John, thank you. Great to
Speaker 4: have you, Carl, thank you, thank you for listening to
Speaker 4: this episode of Hobby Hotline. I just want to remind
Speaker 4: everyone we are a live show every Saturday morning, eleven
Speaker 4: am eastern eight am Pacific on the four Collectors channel
Speaker 4: on YouTube.
Speaker 3: That's the number four, the word Collector's channel on YouTube.
Speaker 4: We hope to see many of you live on a
Speaker 4: future Saturday.
Speaker 3: We have a great interactive chat room and we always
Speaker 3: provide a link for anyone that wants to come on
Speaker 3: the show and chop it up with us.
Speaker 4: So that's a reminder. Every Saturday, eleven am eastern eight
Speaker 4: am Pacific, only four Collectors channel on YouTube. Hope to
Speaker 4: see you on the show.