Speaker 1: Good morning, hobby friends. Welcome to Hobby Hotline. This is
episode three twelve of Hobby Hotline. I'm your host, Logan Ward,
and with me today is the man who needs no
introduction whatsoever.
Speaker 2: He is also the han solo of the Hobby Uncle
Rich Klein. How are you doing? Uncle Riches?
Speaker 3: And we're still waiting for our third But until our
third shows up, if somebody wants to come join us,
if Logan wants to put the thing in the stream work,
we are happy to have pop in today. We'd love
to hear from not just in the chat, but actually
hear from you live and in person. And if you
don't watch your face shown, we'll just do audio.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I just putting the link into the comments right now.
So if anybody wants to call in, feel free to
call in. We would love to have you on the show.
So so Rich, I guess you're doing okay. I am
personally still trying to get over covid. You may hear
that in my voice just a little bit. I picked
up covid at the work, which is the worst pickup
you can have.
Speaker 2: I think it's a national but like I said, wasn't.
Speaker 3: Quite as popular an acquisition is in twenty twenty two,
but apparently it was a very popular acquisition this year
as well.
Speaker 2: It was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was strange because I felt fine coming home Sunday.
In fact, I woke up Monday morning and I was fine,
and then I started developing a sore throat and a
headache and I started sneezing and I thought, oh no,
this is not good and sure enough and ended up
being COVID.
Speaker 2: But I'm getting over it.
Speaker 1: It's been almost two weeks, so it's I'm on the
tail end of it right now. So let me check
out some comments real quick. Good morning for Man City Brew,
Good morning fal Ball, Good morning for Steven, Philly Joe,
Good morning, Happy Saturday, everybody. Abel says good morning. Rex
says good morning. We're on the big screens in the shops.
Speaker 2: Thanks Rex. We appreciate that a whole bunch. So we've
got Mike Petty.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, All twenty two TVs at the Petty House
are turned in to see Rich Klin. I should hop on,
but I'm getting coffee. Oh yeah, you should get on,
Mike Petty.
Speaker 2: But hey, by all.
Speaker 3: Means get on, mister Petty. I mean you got a
racing guy here in logan. I mean, you want to
talk to anybody named Petty?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And let's see.
Speaker 1: Abel says it's free yet costly. Yes, I agree. Uh,
it's a free pickup, but it's it's been very costly.
Speaker 2: Now we got three b collection.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Great to see y'all.
Speaker 2: So all right, rich, I want to.
Speaker 1: Start out with something that we I don't think we
really even talked about before the show.
Speaker 2: The Olympics is going on right now.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you knew this or not,
but breakers or breaking is a sport in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Did you know that.
Speaker 3: Yes, however, that's a slightly different type of breaking. It's
called breakdancing, not quite breakers. It would be great. Could
you imagine breakers as a competition?
Speaker 2: Uh? That would be crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, could you is it the most card you do?
Is it the best card you pulled? Is it the
most you pull I mean, what would be the competition
for breakers? The most people who sign up for your breaks?
I mean that think about it. That's really a cool
That would be a cool concept. Could think about a fanatics,
which is very forward thinking. You know, that's one thing
they probably didn't even think about, Hey, wait a second,
let's make breaking the sport.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you know, I think Iceland they sit
in a contingent of people to do breaking, and they're
also they're known as the ice breaker.
Speaker 2: And you know, uh, we're all week okay.
Speaker 1: Pakistan also has a team and they're the pack breakers.
Go figure on that one, right, And and there's one more.
You gotta you gotta, you gotta check out this one.
Thailand's got a breaking team.
Speaker 3: And they're the tiebreakers.
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, cool man, all right, So
but that's.
Speaker 3: Actually a good topic. There was an Olympic tops did
issue an Olympic set like they have for many years.
And Olympic cards are interesting because you have the it
lasts a little longer, but there's a limited time frame
for how long you can really sell Olympic cards for it.
And it's the same trouble a lot of other sports happened.
When I say other sports, we're talking golf, we're talking tennis,
We're talking a lot of other sports. One of the issues,
and I wrote about this many years ago when I
was writing for GTS in Klein's Corner. One of the
issues you have with that stuff is that you're at
the Olympics for two weeks and maybe it was three
weeks total, because they do a little before, maybe even
something a day or two after the closing ceremonies, but
usually a closing ceremony said there you go, there you go.
He sold out. Good job, res that's cool, but you
have a limited timeframe to sell them because a month
from now you're onto the football season and the Olympics
don't last, and then after the dopamine high it goes away.
Golf you're at a location for one week, Tennis the
Grand Slams, maybe two and a half, three weeks in
New York or Wimbledon or Paris or Australia, but that's it.
And then the rest of the time there are four
or five days at any location. And that's the biggest
difference between the team sports baseball, the football, the basketball,
the hockey, even the soccers and those type of sports
is you don't have a season for people to follow
the whole thing. NASCAR is an exception on that, but
that may be one reason the cards aren't just popular
because it's the same thing. You're at a location for
a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never thought about it that way, but they
could be very well true.
Speaker 3: But they have the big trailers. So you're a fan,
you go and you get your mini trucks or whatever
they call it, you know, or the decals or whatever
it is relating to your favorite driver. But unless the
drivers actually unless they're actually selling the cards or the
players there, you have to go to the fan shop.
And Rex is right to tops got the timing perfect.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 1: I went to Target earlier this week and sure enough
there's blaster boxes of twenty twenty four Olympic cards and
I'll probably end up buying one just for the heck
of it.
Speaker 2: Just have some physique.
Speaker 1: Chris Ramsey says, hello, all right, so let's let's get
into some of the topic that we want to talk
about today.
Speaker 2: Rich.
Speaker 1: The first thing is Marvin Harrison Marvus excusing Marvin Harrison
Junior in his autographs. This is a topic that you
brought up that we could talk about, so I'm going
to let you start off with that.
Speaker 3: Well, he says, basically, his dad signed a contract and
I don't know what the legal ramifications of all this are,
but I wonder if this is going to be a
continuing issue with Nil, because what is the age where
people can sign their own contracts and all of that,
and it's certainly going to be an issue. And then
in this case, you have the son of a Hall
of Famer who is a very high round draft pick
himself saying no, it's not me, it's daddy. So I'm
not And so Fanatics has how to pull the uniforms.
I don't. I think they can still sell the cards
because he'll once he becomes a member of the NFLPA.
I think you'll be able to sell his cards. But
failing that, everything else is up in the air. But
it's just interesting. It shows one of the perils today
of doing business.
Speaker 1: Right now, from what I read this, they're saying att
at least Marvin Harrison Junior's camp is saying, this is
not a legally binding contract. It's basically an intent to
sign a contract or something to that effect. So I mean, again,
I'm not a legal guy. We don't have we should
have Paul LESCo on here, but you know, I don't
even know if this is even a binding contract. Fanatics
says that it is. Marvin Harrison Junior, he says no, So.
Speaker 3: He also said his dad signed it, So that's that
makes it that gives you a double.
Speaker 2: That's that's very true. So if he has some.
Speaker 3: Time with the NFLPA, yeah, he made and that's happened
in the past. That's why Earl Campbell had no cards
during his playing career after nineteen seventy nine. Eric Dickerson
was also infamous for not having cards for a lot
of his career because he where it was very careful
about his licensing and in the early nineties of the
overproduced era, Michael Dean Perry was another one who took
a few years to get his cards and always players
like that, even in days I mean baseball going back
to the sixties. I don't think people want to hear
about the Dinosaur era, you know, the fame Maury Wolves
guys in the sixty seven set as well, and I
should really dig in and see how many of they're
truly are the only two the only other two I
remember off the top of my head were more obscure
players and Arnold Early and Doug Clemens, and they both
and Doug Clemens had a decent major league career, and
Arnold Early should have had some cards too along the way,
and they finally got cards in sixty seven, when Marvin
Miller finally started getting Tops to do a better job
for the players. You know, it wasn't just the five
dollars anymore. It was it became real money for people
in those days. Especially a few hundred dollars was real
money for the players to be on the card.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because salaries.
Speaker 3: Only seventy five hundred or seven thousand and sixty seven.
So if you're a second year player, five hundred dollars
on top of seven thousands a significant boost to your income.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've heard stories about TOPS used to have
like a catalog of things that you could get, like
a blender or a mixer or different thing or like a.
Speaker 2: Like a transistor radio.
Speaker 1: There were things that they had little incentives that you
could get when you signed with them.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's really crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's really I mean Cyberger's talked about that,
but you know, yes, I mean yeah, and you could
sometimes if you built it up for a couple of years,
get a really good item too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you could carry those over. Yeah,
and you can get something even bigger. So times have
really changed. So let me ask you this. As you know,
I don't think you're You're not really much of a
football collector, are you a little?
Speaker 3: But I like old football, I like vintage football. I'm
pretty good pre nineteen eighty, but modern football. The only
reason I know anything about modern football is I get
stuff in donations, but I don't go and buy.
Speaker 2: Any Yeah, I'm sure you see someone Cam see too.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: So I mean, how does this affect the collectors going forward?
I mean I know that he was what like the
fourth pick in the in the NFL draft I think
this year or something, if I'm not mistaken, So I
know people want to collect and people want his cards,
you know, him holding out?
Speaker 2: Is that a disservice to his fans?
Speaker 3: You know? If I say yes and no, that sounds
like I'm waffling, But I'm really not right. And the
reason I say that is that you have to think
about yourself and you have to be comfortable with what
you're doing and you're still providing you're still playing the game.
As long as you sign your contract and you play
your sport, then you're doing what you're necessarily having to
do for your fans in terms of the ancillary stuff
that's up to you, and that really is up to you.
I mean, do you want to sign a lot, do
you want to do commercials if on your off day,
or do you want to just hang out at home,
or do you want to work out extra or do
you want to study film? Whatever you do on your
off day is up to you. So that's what I
mean by as I'm going to digress here, so please
forgive me. I'm going on a digression. Earlier this week,
Dwayne Thomas passed away at almost I think he was
seventy five seventy six, and he had a lot of
problems during his NFL career. He was he was a
great player for a couple of years, a decent player
after some hiccups, and then we probably retired too early.
He really didn't get hurt because he didn't play long enough.
Twenty nineteen, he signed to the Dallas card shows. His
table was ten feet away from me, fifteen feet away
from me, and I know some people, some of my
friends were originally a little afraid to go get autographs
or talk to him, and they told me how charming
he was. His family was there, his daughters were there
who loved him. I think his wife was there. I'm
not positive about that. But it was a great experience
and I had friends, and I said, one of the
things with Dwayne Thomas at that point is his battles
are done. He's not battling anymore. He's satisfied with whatever
happened in his life. He made decisions not to talk
to the media in the early seventies. Let his playing
on the field show what he was. And you're also
dealing with racial strife. You're dealing in Dallas in nineteen
seventy one, and let's just face it, it's not exactly
the most cosmopolitan area in the world in nineteen seventy one,
so you're having some problems. He's not talking to the media.
The story goes that they took away the MVP of
the Super Bowl from him, and he really was the MVP,
to give it to Roger Staubach because they were afraid
of how he was going to react during the banquet
when they gave him his car. But as I said,
almost fifty years later, he was great Marvin Harrison, and
I'm not trying to conflate that type of issue. What
I'm trying to say is Marvin Harrison Junior is making
a decision as to how he wants his stuff to go,
and that's his business. That's really not our business. So yes,
it'd be nice to have cards of him. Yes, it'd
be nice to have sign cards of him in the pack.
But if he's pleasant to his fans, if he signed
in person, if he does stuff, then that's all you
can ask for, you know, if he if he gives
you one hundred percent on the field, then you know,
is a great receiver. Is there anything more you have
to ask for him out of it?
Speaker 2: No? I think everything else is a bonus at that point.
Speaker 3: I mean, logan, you're a racing card guy, right, You're
a racing guy with one or two exceptions. Aren't racers?
Aren't the auto racers basically the nicest group of athletes
out there?
Speaker 2: I would have to say.
Speaker 1: So, you know, I've dealt with all kinds of stick
and ball athletes trying to you know, just to say hi,
get an autograph, whatever, and I'll have to say that
the NASCAR guys by far are the nicest, most most
approachable athletes out there. And that's one of the reasons
I don't understand why people don't collect more NASCAR because
you know, they are so approachable except for some of
the you know, the higher up drivers like Dalor Hard Junior.
He's he's he's just hard to get to. Chase Elliott
the same way. He's just hard to get to as well.
But I mean they'll sign if you come to him,
they'll side and they'll say hi. There, they're cordial to me.
You can't be so okay, So let's let's move on
from Marvin Harrison and let's talk about something that happened
at the National.
Speaker 2: There was a theft in the parking.
Speaker 1: Lot of the twenty twenty four National in Cleveland, and
apparently somebody broke into a vehicle. And I've heard different
conflicting reports. I've heard that it was cash and cards. Cash,
so I'm not exactly sure what was stolen. But the
last report that I heard was like two hundred and
seventy five thousand dollars in cash.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of cash to be carrying with
you and leaving in the car. Why leaving that much
cash in a car?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would never do that, That would be with me
at all times. I would never let that out of
my sight period.
Speaker 3: You know, one thing about Alan Rosen you know when
he famously carried cash to a has deals. But unless
he really knew you, he never went alone anywhere. Somebody
was always with him when he had his cash. Yes,
now this is this is a security issue at the
IX Center. This is not something the promoters of the
national can really deal with. I don't think they can
deal with the parking lot. I think that becomes the
IX Center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with that. But but where where
do you draw the line?
Speaker 3: But here, here's where I'm going to go with this.
One of the issues I'm hearing and it popped up
a little this year, and they fix some of it.
And one of the things that I'm hearing about next year,
and believe it or not, this is related to this,
is they want to reduce to just be very strict
about the number of badges per table. And I understand
their logic within and they also want to be strict
about you know, table sharing or whatever. And again I
understand the logic and the reason I'm going somewhere with
that is that if I only have two badges for
my booth, I'm carrying stuff in and out and somebody's
at by booth. If I have three badges, which I think,
I think one should have. And this is a personal opinion,
but there are you get three tables with a booth,
one badge per table at a boost, so three badges
per booth. And if you get three badges per booth,
then somebody can always be staying with your cash while
somebody can always be staying at the table while somebody's
loading the card.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I And that's and so I think, and I understand,
and I understand where Jimmy and Joe and their teams
are coming from. That so I don't want to sound
like them, but there are practical reasons to allow the
extra badge per table. This to me is a practical
reason to allow the extra badge per table, just to
allow for help and somebody's staying pay Oh, somebody's at
the car. They do not break into that car.
Speaker 1: So so Mike Petty is saying that lots of theft
in Cleveland. You know, I didn't hear of any stories
of people stealing cards.
Speaker 2: I did off table.
Speaker 3: A thirty boy big BOYD Sports Cards said he he
lost a I guess a hand truck load of cards,
and he did, he detailed what it was he lost,
like a hand truck load of cards.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I had not heard about I.
Speaker 3: Did read that. I don't know about other ones. They
are always understand there are always going to be especially
at a show that big, with that many people, there's
always going to be thefts. Oh just want to mitigate
and reduce the amount of thefts out there. But if
you're carrying that much cash, that's why I want a
third person. Just hey, somebody stays with the cash. And
I can tell a funny story about mister Rosen and
his friends with money because he at one point he
was living maybe ten minutes away from me, So we
went to some of the same places at different times.
And actually I only ran into him once or twice
outside of card shows, but i'd see him occasionally. And
one time he went somewhere after finishing a deal, like
at midnight, and he was with one of his friends,
you know, and one of our mutual friends. And this is,
you know, midnight, and it's either a convenience store or
a supermarket that was still open. It was something and
he wanted to get a couple of sodas and maybe
a little snack, and all he had was one hundred
dollars bills, and he was gonna start pulling out his stack,
and Al, I have this. I have a twenty. It's
a lot easier. Let me pay for this.
Speaker 2: She just paid me back later, exactly.
Speaker 3: He never carried anything less than one hundred with him,
so so you had to remember, Al, think about where
you are. Always try to carry at least a couple
of twenties with you for things like that.
Speaker 1: Well, you know Al Rosen, he came to town here in Memphis.
This has been back in the eighties now. A dealer
friend of mine was selling him some cards and he
had dinner at his house and I got invited over
there as well, So I got to have dinner and
and Al was he was super cordial, very nice guy.
The thing that I take away from from that dinner
was he was like me.
Speaker 2: He didn't like his food to touch.
Speaker 1: So he had he had a plate that was just
sectioned off, and he had had his food in all
the different you know, little places on the plate, none
of it touched. And I'm like, I like this guy
because I don't like that either. So I thought that
was that was pretty neat.
Speaker 3: But next to him three straight years flying home from
the National eighty five, eighty six, and eighty seven. Oh wow,
literally sitting next to him and I and I know
we were only going to show certain cards here earlier,
but since I brought them.
Speaker 1: In, that's really cool, right there, Rich, I like that card,
right that's an Al Rosen.
Speaker 3: This is a nineteen ninety okay, nineteen ninety five National
thing he promoted himself on him. It's assigned Al Rosen piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, so real quick, getting back to the theft
at the National.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know that same dealer friend of mine that I
was telling you about. I used to go to shows
with him, and you know, this reminded me of this.
Mike Petty says. He agrees, you need some muscle to
handle that much green, preferably packing a gun. Uh in
a gun or packing a gun or gun free state. Okay,
So I used to go to shows with my buddy
and he he carried I'll say this, he carried some
pretty hefty amounts of cash, especially back you know in
the eighties. You know we're we're talking, you know, tens
of thousands of dollars in the eighties. And I was
basically there just to kind of watch the money and
and make sure everything was okay.
Speaker 2: Uh, so you know that I was.
Speaker 1: I guess in a way, I was kind of the
security guard or the muscle or whatever you want to
call it. But I got to go up to all
these shows all over the country for free, didn't cost
me anything, and I had a great time.
Speaker 2: Some of the best days of my life.
Speaker 3: Right, And that's the point. You have to be careful
with the cash. And that's why I was saying, that's
why I was advocating for an extra badge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I agree.
Speaker 1: But but do you think that the show promoters are
going to have to start hiring their own security to
patrol these parking lots as well, because you know, I
worried about that.
Speaker 3: In Chicago, they're in the hotels or something. I mean,
that's that that's not there necessarily their responsibility. That has
because we're you know, you and I go to Chicago.
When you were in the same hotel in Chicago last year,
and you were very gracious and you would drive us
and then we would just walk, you know, across the thing.
I mean, you didn't have anything in your vent. If
somebody brought into the van, what would they get? Some
chick fil a you know, iced tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they get some, they get some sweet tea.
Speaker 2: But you know.
Speaker 3: So I wasn't worried for you. But some people do
carry things, or you do store things, and I think
as long as they have cameras and as long as
they have people around, those are good situations. The IX Center,
from what I remember, and I haven't been there since
twenty eighteen, and I did not go this year, so
I cannot. I know that the parking lots were very crowded,
and it was it was a real pain. But I
don't think there was any cameras or security the last
time I was in the IX Center. I do not
know if it changed in six years and if there
was no security or cameras. So that's something that needs
to be rectified, not just for sports cards but for everything.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I agree. But you know, we checked
out of our hotel Sunday morning. All of our stuff
was in my son's truck, you or his suv. Yeah,
And I was the whole time we went in for
like two three hours Sunday.
Speaker 2: Then we'd left.
Speaker 1: But that whole time I was in there, I was
thinking about and you know, kind of sort of worrying
about okay, is our stuff okay? Because yeah, all the
cards and things that I had picked up at the
show were out there in the in his truck. And
you know, I'm thinking, man, I hope nobody breaks into
this truck and they're going to give off.
Speaker 3: On one thing. And that began at twenty twenty three.
It began last year at twenty twenty three, I believe
is and I think they kept it up this year too.
The last couple of days of the National there's a
check in station for bags in the lobby.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you can bring your bag.
Speaker 3: With you check it in. So and I understand legally
that it's not responsibility, but at least you know where
your bag is. It's not sitting in a truck. It's
sitting I mean, if you have to go in a hurry,
you just pick it up. It's in a much more
secure location.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And and Stukes makes a good point.
Speaker 1: Chicago, you can go through the Hamster tubes and if
you've got a hotel that connects to the the Donald E.
Stephens Center, you can just take your stuff back to
the room. Yes, it's easy peasy, And that's one of
the things I do love about that, so you don't have.
Speaker 3: To worry about Chicago's in today's world. Chicago's where the
National should be every year. There are certain other locations
where the National has been over the years that I'm
a big fan of. Saint Louis, Baltimore and Anaheim. All
those had enough hotels that you could walk to from
the shop. Yeah, I went those are Those are why
the infrastructure in those areas are very good. Cleveland's infrastructure
is not as good. And this year, I don't think
anybody was ready for the overwhelming amount of people. And
that's nothing that could really have been helped necessarily. I
don't you want to promote a big show. Some point
you have to say, well, maybe we can't have that
many people. Maybe we just have to say stop. And
I mean it kind of s because you want to
make as much money as possible. So again we were
talking about this with Marvin Harrison Junior earlier. There comes
some point where you just have to say, you know,
where do I stop? I run a show now, my
show now at my local synagogue that I run for
my brotherhood. I used to have a bigger room than
I had. I used to have forty five tables in
the room. I now have twenty one tables in the room.
It's a small it's a much smaller room. It's comfortable,
but if it's twenty one tables. I've drawn a hundred,
approximately one hundred people of the last couple shows on
Sundays and Monday because it's Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends.
So if you're in the Dallas area on Labor Day weekend,
come to my show. If I draw, if I draw
one hundred and fifty people for the two days, I'm
actually over. I'm overpacking the room, and I have to
be very careful. I don't know if I want a
hundred I know this sounds weird to say. I don't
know if I want that many more people in the room.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it becomes a security concern at that
point because it's so crowded people are their attention is
being diverted.
Speaker 1: It's easy to pick things up and walk out the
door with them. And I'm sure a lot, like I said,
I'm sure a lot of that happened at the National
this year.
Speaker 2: Likes I just didn't hear much about it.
Speaker 3: No, it's been quieter. I don't think there was anything
as blatant other than the one hand truck in this thing.
But obviously things disappear at a show. Obviously. Well, thank you.
I appreciate that stuke. It is a fun show. I
keep it. It's an old school show. I try to
keep it with the old school flavor because I'm not trying.
I don't have to pay for the room in a sense.
I'm paying for it when I pay my synagogue dues.
But I don't have to physically pay for the room.
I can keep the cost reasonable. I can get collector
dealers to set up it's you know, everything is reasonable
at that show. I don't have to charge five dollars
to get in the door. You know, we have we
provide lunch. When I say we provide lunch, we have
hot dogs, chips and soda for three dollars. This year,
we'll also be selling some pop Boy Scout popcorn. One
of our Brotherhood board members his sons and the Boy Scouts,
and we do and heat and they do pop they do.
They sell popcorn as a fundraiser and we you know,
but I keep But the hot Bok, SCHIPs and soda
is Sam's Club price. It's three dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't three dollars.
Speaker 3: I mean, I could charge more, but it's three dollars.
That's that's our that's our price points. It's a price
point that works. I even bring in bagels, cream, cheese,
and coffee in the morning for the vendors. There's also religion,
there's also dietary reasons that our synagogue to do that.
But but I bring those in for the vendors on
Sunday morning because, as I said, but it also is
a nice courtesy and that somebody thought. One of my
vendors says, oh, that's great, You're spending hundreds of dollars,
and I said, well, I'd love to thank you, duke.
I'm glad you think I'm spending hundreds of dollars. I'm
actually spending sixty for everything I bring in on Sunday morning.
Oh we're spending sixty? Is that all it is? Yeah?
And it's like amazing. You would wonder why more promoters
don't do things like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering, Rich, when are you gonna add a
breaker's pavilion to your show?
Speaker 3: I could, I mean, I could put them in a
side room. I probably do have a room I could
put them in. But I I could put a breaker in,
it would have to be somebody I know and approve of,
so to speak. But I really don't want breakers at
my show like the modern breakers. You know, if I'm
gonna call out a good breaker just as an example,
and this is not slagging on anybody who's not a
good breaker, but if Mojo Brakes lived in the area
and they wanted to set up at my show, they'd
be welcome to and the figure out how to get
them in. You know, you know, a really experienced long
term breaker there would know, Hey, come to my show
and you can people can watch you do a live break. Wonderful. Yeah,
And as I said, I'm just using them as example.
Or my friends at Triple Cards if they have a
breaking office that they if they say, rich, we want
to have a rich We want to have somebody break
at your show, just just for fun. Okay, I know
where I can put you. You can. You can set
up in this room. We have an av just set
up and you do. And if somebody wants to drop
in and say hi or pick up their stuff in person,
that's great. You know, things like that I'd be fine with.
But I want to be very controlled over letting any
breaker in right now.
Speaker 2: Gotcha? All right?
Speaker 1: So I think we let's move on to our next topic.
I'm gonna show this picture real quick. Chris Carlon was
on Facebook and he uh, he showed a picture of
him at the National getting Kit Young's autograph on Kit
Young's trading card.
Speaker 2: And uh, for.
Speaker 1: Those of you who may not know who Kit Young is,
he's a longtime collector dealer.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He's the one who did the industry Summit shows in Hawaii. Uh.
Speaker 2: He's definitely an icon of the hobby.
Speaker 1: So this got me to thinking about, you know what
other cards of hobby icons are out there?
Speaker 2: Do you have any in your collection? Uh? And I
figured that I knew Rich probably had some.
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a
little bit of show and tell, and I'm gonna let
Rich start out with some of his cards of some
of the uh the hobby icons so to speak, and
hobby goats.
Speaker 3: Okay, first, I think this, I have like four of them,
and I and I and I, so I should actually
know if I do know, this is a very rare card.
This is the pack pulled ops fan favorite Jim Beckett
signed card. Oh wow, and I know it's pat Poll
because of that on the back.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, is he got something on the
back and it does. See I've never seen.
Speaker 3: One card to this, for example.
Speaker 2: Which is which is an in person did you give?
Speaker 3: Which is an in person seeking?
Speaker 1: So you know, doctor Beckett, He's on a whole bunch
of cards. Yeah, I've got one that he signed for
me right here. So I've got that from from tops that.
Like I said, that's a pack issue card right there.
Speaker 3: He did that for when we had a Content Creator dinner.
He personalized all of those he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I got it at the Content Creator dinner. Okay.
Speaker 3: One of my sign cards from this set recently sold
for one hundred dollars on eBay. It was signed to
a friend of mine who's no longer with us, named Ted,
and one of my hobby friends named Ted bought the
card and was happy with paying over one hundred dollars
was shipping for it. That was my card. This is
from the ninety two set.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I've got one here too. I've got an
Al Rosen car did all show real quick? It's an
autographed Al Rosing card it says mister Mint. And uh
since Al was say Al Rosen mister mint, but he
was always he doesn't.
Speaker 3: And here's somebody who doesn't quite fit into that collection,
right Bo. I'm teasing because Bo just posted yeah, best
I've had all summer.
Speaker 2: Bow needs to send me one of those cards. I
don't have. I don't. I do not have one. I
would I would love to have one.
Speaker 3: Yes, So Bo, thank you for this. Again, I was teasing,
but it's you're part of my collection, well, you know,
and I really do collect hobby. It's my last collection
is hobby related signed cards. I even have one of you, Logan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we had the Hobby hotline set that we
that we did.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is not a sign card, but this
is I had to show this once. I think when
Bo had the Couch People Christmas party a couple of
years ago. This is a sample of when Beckett Grading
first began and these were the samples of how they
did the how they did the how they did the things,
and and Logan said this was rare because these were
given to the employees at Beckett for I think Merry
Christmas two thousand CLA dressed up as Santa.
Speaker 2: Claus that I love that.
Speaker 3: That is so cool, And as it turns out, I
have two of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm calling Dibbs. You got it. I'm calling Dibbs.
Speaker 1: I did pick up a card recently that I was
very proud to get. In fact, it got it got
lost in the ups USPS black hole.
Speaker 2: For like I don't know, almost three months.
Speaker 1: But it finally showed up at my door and it's
from the Industry Summit and it's got Doctor Beckett.
Speaker 2: It's signed by doctor Beckett. So I was I was
really happy that to get that card.
Speaker 3: I want to show this only because this is a
card that can't be signs, but I'm happy to have
it in my collection. One of my for Beckat teammates
went to Pannini or donn Resleief playoff at the time
became Betini, sadly passed away way too young, eight kids,
wonderful person, and his wife recently posted she still had
some of his cards. I didn't ask her to sign that.
I probably should have said, Nicole, can you sign one
for me? Yeah, but this is a card you can't
get signed anymore. But I still miss him.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's nice yes.
Speaker 3: And his name was Ben Eckler, really sharp guy. Came
to Becket as a minor league specialist, became a very
high up in the Panini and sadly, as I said,
we lost in the COVID I think in twenty twenty
one in September. And I remember that because it happened
on Friday afternoon of the Dallas card Show, and a
couple of my Beckett former teammates, Joe White and Dave,
slipped over there and they just came to my table
and we just chatted for the rest of the afternoon,
and I didn't care whether I made any I didn't
think people walked by and I think I said hi,
I told Hie, you can look, but I didn't for
the rest of the afternoon. And I know you're supposed
to try to make money the card show, but that
was one of the situations. I didn't care if I
sold a freaking card. The rest of the day, we
were just chatting. We were sort of you know, it
was like it was like a pre funeral, you know,
and it was like good, good to just talk and
we talked about the old times and it was a
lot of fun. And I said today I'll sell cards tomorrow.
Today is today is for that. So I'm glad I
got a chance to show these some of these t y'all,
if you ever come down to Texas, come visit and
we'll they'll do something.
Speaker 1: Well, here, I do want to show one card, this
one right here, This is of course Jefferson Verdict, And
of course everybody knows he's the what's considering, he's the
father of the Hobby's, he created the American Car. Matter
of fact, I've actually got a copy of one of
one of the American card catalogs.
Speaker 2: It's an oldie, see, but that's.
Speaker 3: Those who don't know and don't know. Logan and I
were talking before the show, and I have to be
careful because there were some cards from my younger days
of young ladies not wearing very many clothes that I
also have signed cards. So I have to be about
which cards I pull out to show, because otherwise we
would be Hobby Hotline after Dark or Hobby hot Line tender.
Speaker 2: No, we don't want that.
Speaker 1: Rich We're we're on big screens.
Speaker 2: We don't need that.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're on big screens and they're probably kids around,
so we don't need that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I do want to show this copy
of the American Car Catalog that I've got here. I
think this was from back maybe in the thirties. It's
it's an old one.
Speaker 3: If it's from the thirties, that's the first edition in
a great book, a very valuable book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a bit. So yeah, so I do.
Speaker 1: I do collect some of the hobby history, you know,
especially since I mean rich you've been in it longer
than me, you know, because I started in seventy one
and you started back in the late sixties.
Speaker 3: I got to tell you organized hobby in seventy seven,
but my first pack is sixty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, in my first pack was seventy one.
Speaker 1: I think you and I are about the same, aid
we are, so yeah, so we just wanted to show
some of those cards. I thought that was pretty neat.
So moving on to our next subject, I went, of course,
everybody knows I went to the National this year. Of course,
went there primarily for the show, but also in Cleveland,
there is a famous house from a Christmas movie and
it's the A Christmas Story House, and I actually went
to that house. And what a lot of people don't
know is there's a scene in a Christmas story where
Ralphie is laying in his bed.
Speaker 2: He's dreaming about his Red Rider BB.
Speaker 1: Gun And when you see that, and here's the picture,
you can see up over his head there are three
baseball card and those cards have been identified long ago.
In fact, I think Ryan Cracknell did a story a
long time ago for Beckett Talk talking about those cards.
So I actually have actually have those three cards. They
are I'll show you real quick. It's the nineteen forty
playball John Rucker, It's the T six Jimmy Hart and
also a T to six ed rollback card. So I
took those cards to Cleveland just for the express idea
of taking taking them and putting them on Ralphie's bed
and getting a picture. So I actually did do that.
I did take a picture of the cards in front
in front of the house, so you can see that.
I took him front of the house. Then I took
him upstairs and put him on his bed and along
with a picture. And that's also a ticket from you know,
the tour that you can take of the house. But
it was really funny because the guy that was doing
the tour, he said, you can't touch the beds because
they actually this is like an actually an airbnb. People
stay there at night, so you can actually stay there
and sleep in Ralphie's bed and sleep in his room.
So I asked him, I said, hey, listen, I got
these cards. Do you guys might if I take set
them on the bed take a picture? Oh, no problem.
They were really great about it. So, Uh, I had
a blast doing this, as you can see that I
took the cards and stuck them on his bed there.
I just thought, I just thought it was something fun
to do. It's it's card related.
Speaker 2: Uh. We did that before we went to the i
X Center.
Speaker 1: We actually diverted there first when we hit Cleveland, So
it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you have any thoughts about
that Rich at all.
Speaker 3: Well, you are aware that Scott Schwartz, who was in
the movie, is a big baseball card collector.
Speaker 1: Yes, In fact, he's he's signed at some of the shows.
He may have been signing this year. I think at
the National.
Speaker 3: He absolutely there were a couple of years when there
have been celebrity areas at the National. He's coordinated. When
I say he's coordinated, he's brought When I say he's
brought in, he's the one who's made the contacts to
bring in a lot of the celebrities that have come
in over the years.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.
Speaker 1: And there's uh, there's actually a set on the PSA
set registry for these cards, just these three cards.
Speaker 2: It's a three card set.
Speaker 1: And that's the whole reason I've got him now, is
you know, to you know, put him on the set, Registrate.
Speaker 3: Logan, you are where every time I hear the name
Jimmy Hart, I think about Mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you shouldn't even have said that, because when
I was a kid, he's from here.
Speaker 2: He's from here in Memphis, right.
Speaker 1: My sister dated a guy who lived in Raleigh. For
those of you who are from this area know where
that's at. But literally two doors down the street, Jimmy
Hart lived down the street from them. We would go
over and say hi to him and hang out.
Speaker 2: It was it was fun.
Speaker 3: Well. I heard a lot of stories back in the
day where people if they lived here with Philia Zooto
or Yogi bearr lived they were just part of the
neighborhood in those Yeah, and the funny thing about Jimmy Hart,
I am digressing because I love to digress. But Jimmy
Hart was also a in a very popular rock band
before he became the Mouth of the South in wrestling,
he was a group called the Gentries that had a
big Their biggest sip was called keep on Dancing. And yes,
it's the same to me Hart. So I mean, Jimmy
Hart's had an interesting life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see he has.
Speaker 1: You're right, He's definitely the Mouth of the South for sure.
So yeah, I thought that's funny that you brought that up.
But it's really it's really a small world, man, it
really is. Let's see here comments everyday car collector Jason
says hello every year. See Mike Petty he says, uh,
oh okay, he also likes my cars. Thanks Mike, appreciate that.
Speaker 2: So to Stuke, I had. I had a fun time
doing that.
Speaker 1: I also made a stop at the White Castle corporate
headquarters in Columbus, Ohio on the way as well, just
to see what was going on there. They have a
really nice office.
Speaker 3: Oh well, white Castle. Hey, I grew up on white Castles.
I mean they are wonderful. I missed them down here
in Texas. Yeah, but you got to the white castles
are not the same as going and getting them in persons.
Speaker 1: No, if a lot of people don't know this, but
there's no pickles on the frozen white castles because pickles
don't freeze very well at all, So you have to
add your own pickles anyway. All right, so I guess
let's let's move on to our next subject we were
wanting to talk about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, now this is really cool.
Speaker 1: I got an email this week from PSA, and it
was an email saying, hey, you're a Set Rectory member.
Speaker 2: We value.
Speaker 1: We want to help you get some cards graded for
your sets. Cards that probably aren't worth you know, the
grating fees, so to speak, but it is worth for
you to you know, get in your set, put in
your set. So they actually sent out an email to
Set Registry members. I don't know who all got it.
Speaker 2: I know I got it.
Speaker 1: If any of you guys got one of these out
here to let us know in the comments. But I
got an email saying.
Speaker 2: Hey, here's a code you have to h I think
you have to place.
Speaker 1: An order of or submit like twenty cards at value
plus or great or something. I forget exactly what it is.
But if you do that, you get one hundred and
fifty dollars off your order. I mean that's pretty substantial.
Speaker 3: Can I ask the really dumb question this PSA is
doing really well. They're grading a million cops a million
cards a month right now? Do they know something we
don't know about their future business and grading? Because if
you're doing that many cards, do you really need to
be doing discounting? Now? Are you just doing discounting ticket
even more cards? And I mean, you know, if I know,
they're getting them out on time. So I'm not trying
to say that, but I am trying to say, is
that at your most successful time? I mean, when we
look at Ryan's gem rate, you know PSA is lacking
the field by a lot. So I mean my question
is what I mean, are they trying to get more people?
Are they trying to get new people into set registry?
Is this or do you have to be an extent
member of the set registry to get this in?
Speaker 2: Well? I mean if you look at look at this
email says uh, thank you for being a set registry.
Speaker 1: Remember, we want to want, we want they want to
help us complete your sets, is basically what it says
up here at the top.
Speaker 2: So I think this is long overdue.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I've been calling for something like this for a while,
you know, like maybe a set registry special or something.
But I do like the idea of just a blanket discount.
I think that's that's pretty good. I definitely will be
sending in at least twenty cards to get my one
hundred and fifty dollars discount.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: You have to do this, I think by September thirtieth
to qualify for this, so you've got you know, six
weeks or more to do it. So I just thought
that this was a great move by PSA to really
help out the people on the set regstorm because you know,
Vau says this a lot. He says that the PSA
Set Registry is the secret sauce for ps and it
really is, in my opinion, because if you're a set builder,
you know, I'm a set builder, I know rich you
like to build sets, you know, not necessarily graded ones,
but but you like to build sets, and as a
set builder, you want to be complete.
Speaker 2: You want to have the best ones that you can.
Speaker 1: But it's gotten to a point where it's not feasible
to or cost effective to, you know, grade common cards
of you know, a common for me, like a race
car driver, it's's not worth it. So this is going
to help off set that, and it's going to help me,
you know, with my sets. It's going to make me
want to collect more sets. So I'm sure they're probably.
Speaker 2: Going to do this in the future. I'm sure this
is not a one off deal.
Speaker 3: As I said, my only issues, but I'm but you're right.
That is something I did not consider when I said that,
you are correct because I and I think I was
basically correct because when everybody was falling away behind on grading,
I said it would eventually fall to about what did
I say, the fifteen to twenty dollars mark for cards?
And I think PSA is what fifteen a card?
Speaker 2: Now it's a little bit more than that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're running a lot of specials, a lot,
running a lot of specials for TCG cards right now.
So if you're a tc if you collect trading card games, man,
it's right now is a good time because they they
have got some great special So let's let's let's.
Speaker 3: Say but let's let's stay with fifteen dollars a card.
Before the pandemic was like eight ten dollars.
Speaker 2: A card, Yeah, something like that. It's like eight bucks
a card, eight bucks card.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a big difference when you're I mean, if
you're doing an overproduced ARA set of seven hundred and
ninety two cards, I don't care if it's eight dollars
or ten dollars. It's still going to cost you a
lot of money to finish your set. But it hurts
a lot less at ten dollars a card than a
twenty dollars a card to do an eighty nine top set.
Speaker 2: Yes, agreed, he likes said there's.
Speaker 3: So in that case, I see where you're coming from
on that one. You know, I still don't understand. But
if you're and I think I understand, they may be
looking long term. Net Turner and his team they're very
data driven, so they may be looking at long term
trends that you and I don't know about either. Plus
the set registry is the thing. I mean, you I'm
sure you went. I'm want to say I'm sure you
want I should never say I'm sure about anything, but
I'm sure you went to the PSA party this year
at the National I did, and I was told it
was going to be in a really nice location. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a place called Trust in downtown Cleveland, and
it was on the ninth floor of this building, and
you had an incredible view of the Cleveland skyline. It
was beautiful during the day and it was even more
stunning at night.
Speaker 3: And having gone with you in twenty twenty two, you
were gracious to drive Go drive a couple of us
to the event. Parking was an interesting experience that, yes
it was, but you were gracious enough to drive us.
One thing I was not worried about with PSA is
the food was going to be good. I'm sure that's
not only the view, but I'm sure the food was
really good.
Speaker 2: To The food was great. The actual awards ceremony was great.
Speaker 1: It was to me the set Registry dinner was probably
the best one that I have attended, and I have
attended I think almost every single one of em except
for one.
Speaker 2: Since two thousand and six, I used to.
Speaker 3: Occasionally go to the lunches, and I will tell you
I really liked the lunches because it got don't laugh
when I say this, It got me off the show floor. Yeah,
and when you're on the show floor like I had
to be, or like I like to be, for a
reason to getting off the show floor is something fun.
And then for a fun thing like a dinner or
a lunch that was really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I did enjoy the lunch and
during you know, during the show on Fridays. But you
know now that it's an offside event, you know, you
can spend all your time at the show.
Speaker 2: Then you can go to this is.
Speaker 1: It's a lot more casual, you get to meet people,
You're not as rushed to try to get back to
the show.
Speaker 2: So I do like the dinner part of it.
Speaker 1: Now. I think that PSA is really really ramped it up.
I I I just can't imagine them toping this. But
I'm sure next year though, we'll probably Chicago.
Speaker 3: There's a ton of nice places in the Chicago. As
long as they bust us at me. As long as
they bust us, it'd be a lot better.
Speaker 2: So foul Ball, he's he's real quick.
Speaker 1: He's asking any thoughts on Burbank sports cars, leaving eBay
Beckett for Fanatics Live.
Speaker 3: Well, Rob did an interview with somebody that I watched,
and Rob's situation is fairly unique. Rob can sell cards
in a lot of places that most stores and most
vendors cannot. And one thing I think he mentioned and
I'm going memory, is the Fanatics has all the team stores.
They own the for example, down here, they own the
Dallas Cowboys you know, the you know, the Dallas Cowboys
Pro shop is a Fanatics shot. The Texas Rangers you
know store at the ballpark is a Fanatics shop. Right,
Rob can tailor cards to not just sell through the
Fanatics Live thing, and but he can also now sell
Texas Ranger cards at the ball at the Globelife Field,
and at the Dallas Cowboys stores. He can sell Dallas
Cowboys cards. And so for Rob, with his forty plus
million card inventory, it's a move that makes sense, not
just in terms of and he's taking a leap of faith,
but he knows what he can do on eBay, but
he's taking the chance that he'll do even better with
some in person sales, you know, targeted in person sales
one hundred Dallas Cowboys nine ninety nine, nineteen ninety nine,
twenty nine to ninety nine, you know, whatever price it is,
at the local Pallas Cowboys pro shot. And if rob
is the one doing that, that's inventory he has that
he can sell at the store that he's into, not
for very much money and sells for a really good
profit and has a working arrangement with Fanatics. So Fanatics
also wants to do their Fanatics live. They they've they've
it's been pretty public. They said, we want to basically
control the entire flow of how cards get sold. Well,
that's a pretty good way to get the biggest card
store in the country, the biggest card inventory in the
country on your side. And they've been famously at his store.
There was the famous case where Ruben was Michael Rubin
was there and he saw some young girl looking at
cheap Devin Booker cards and he facetimeed Devin Booker to
have so they could meet it at some at some game.
That was a great move. And we can still talk
about that. But that stuff Fanatics can do that eBay
Beckett can't do. True.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: So Orlando's on here, He's saying, hello everyone, I just
want to let everybody know. I don't know if it's
public knowledge or not, but it's fixing be public knowledge now.
Orlando is going to be joining the Hobby Hotline crew,
so we will be welcoming him.
Speaker 3: Orlando, call in so you can put another call in
time to call in. We can give him a we
can give him a formal welcome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, call in Orlando real quick. Let me let me,
let me grab the link and I will publish it
and he can call in. Put that on the screen
real quick. Right, So, yeah, we want to welcome him
to the Hobby Hotline crew.
Speaker 2: Can't wait for that. That's gonna be gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I know in our chat we had mentioned two
new people were coming and I didn't know who they were.
But I'm glad. I'm really glad Orlando is one of them.
He's he's knowledgeable. I'm old and new, which is great.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and I've heard he has a very extensive
vintage knowledge from what I've heard, so I'm glad to
see that. So looks like, let's see, we'll give We'll
give Orlando a second or two see if he wants
to call in. But Rich, you know, it's been great
having you on the show today. I wish Ris had
joined us. I guess something must have happened. I hope
he's Okay he did since he didn't make the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, we filled an hour without any real news. That's
pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had to do a little digging to find some
some subjects to talk about, but I think I think
it's been a pretty good show.
Speaker 3: Thank you all for thank you all for the great comments.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank thank you to everybody in the chat. We
really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Rich Do you have anything that you want to promote
talk about real quick before we get out.
Speaker 3: I've got my synagogue show at ados Haby coming up
Labor Day, Sunday and Monday. You're welcome to reach out
to me. I'm saber Geek. It all sorts of places
and I'd love to see you. As I said, it's
a nice little show. Don't expect, you know, Pelican cases
or anything like that. It's not a pelican case show.
It's more of an old school show. Come and see
what the hobby has been in the past. And then
I've got several shows in the next month just to attend.
Our friend Kyle Robertson has invested BIA next weekend at
the Dallas Card Show where he at the same place
he has a Dallas card show. He also has that
the week after my show, my Labor Day show, and
then there's a couple other small shows coming up, another
one next weekend in in Frisco, and then one coming
up at the middle of September for way Down. I
don't remember exactly where, but it's a very easy drive.
And so there's a lot going on locally, and I
know com Se is doing We're doing a lot of
shows at com See. I know we're going to be
at both Fanatics Best and the East Coast National next weekend,
and then we'll be at Burbank the weekend following that.
And my Dallas teammates are doing the the criss crossing
the country. I mean, I shut her head us how
exhausted they'll be when they get back to town.
Speaker 2: So Orlando has he has called in, so I'm going
to add him, add him to the to the mix.
Hey Orlando, Hey guys, Hey guys, we welcome to board.
Speaker 3: Orlando. It's great to see you.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's great to be on board. I talked to
John Newman. I'm so excited to have have you guys
Beyond Beyond with you guys. I you know, I listen
to you guys every Saturday morning. So it's just great
to be part of the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're excited to man, where are you at It
looks like you're out having some fun today. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm just outside here, sitting by the lake over here,
and I figured, you know, I'm not gonna go inside,
gonna go ahead, just have a nice view here, just
relaxing watching you guys here sitting by the lake.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, man. Well, we're excited, man, we're glad to
have you on board.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun talking to Rich and you and
just everybody else, John and Danny, and the best part
about it is moving from the chat to being actually
on the video, So that'd be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I know I can speak for Rich probably too,
but he and I both have a have a face
for radio, so I don't know if we necessarily have.
Speaker 3: A face for and we need somebody good looking.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. So we're glad you here, man.
Speaker 3: Welcome aboard. We really are glad to have you, Sonona,
to be on with you, guys, hobby legends.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys. Oh no, you're a hobby legend.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: We're glad to have you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it all Man, Orlando since Logan asked me
wemas and Logan said, what's coming? What's coming up for you?
Uh No, just not much really.
Speaker 4: I'm waiting for the big Fanatics show in Orlando here
at November fourth, I think it is, So I'm going
to be attending that with a bunch of my friends there,
and a lot of YouTubers are going to go there.
So other than that, I just go to all the
local shows in the area, visit some hobby shops, and
just kind of share.
Speaker 3: My collections, still showing some pickups from the National.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still have a little bit of a hangover
from the National myself because I lost a week because
I had COVID and I didn't do anything. So now
it's I'm kind of like a week behind right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I heard a lot of people got COVID. Thankfully I
was great, fine, no problems with me, But yeah, a
few people got sick. I heard. Yeah, it was not
as bad as twenty twenty two in Atlantic City, but
it was definitely a very popular acquisition to the at
the sleveland Nationals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, almost as popular as V Friends anyway.
Speaker 1: So all right, so I guess it's probably time to
close out the show. Could catch me on NASCAR Radio
with with val Mars. We we drop a new episode
every Friday morning Thursday night, so check that out.
Speaker 2: And that's really all that I've got.
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm gonna say from Orlando and for Rich,
I guess we will see you guys next week with
a whole new crew.
Speaker 2: For see you guys.
Speaker 3: Take care you guys.