Keep, Sell, or Trade? Cards Getting Hot Before The National

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Brian, are you going to be trading, buying, or selling any cards? I'll have some stuff with me. I'll be selling. I got a couple of ohtanis that I think I need to let go of. You're at the National. Come say hello. We'd love to talk to you. And we will be on stage in the VIP lounge. That's right. So if you're in the VIP lounge, come see us. Yeah. Welcome to the collector Nation. Podcast here on the Collector Nation Network. Whether you're chasing grails or calling bluffs, we take you inside the hobby. Here are your hosts, Ryan Alford and Brian Ludd. What's up, guys? Welcome to Collector Nation. Ryan, Brian, and the lovely Bella. Hello. Who is looking lovely today? She looks like a Bella today. Brian, you all. You and I always look the same. You know, we're just kind of. Brian and Ryan. Yeah. I should dress up as one of you one day and just wear, like, a snapback and. Yeah, that would. It's easy. You get up, put a hat on. It's one good thing. You know, you're an executive, but I guess depending on the meetings you have or don't have, you're in. You're in the card business. I mean, you can wear the sports gear and the hat, right? Yeah, it's like when the V. Like the venture capitalists come in or like, then I'm like, I go to the bathroom and, you know, get my hair all nice. Put a. Put a button down shirt on, and then as soon as it's over, I take it off. But, yeah, it's many hats. Many hats. Or no hat. Yeah, exactly. We appreciate everyone for listening. If you're not. If you're. If you haven't checked it out on YouTube, go check out the YouTube page. You get to see what we're talking about. I'm rocking my camo collector station hat. I can't even tell. Brian's got a dark hat on. Maybe. Oh, there we go. Soccer. All that matters. My favorite one. Nike. That's cool. I haven't seen that one. Lettuce. It's an og. He's got the og And Bella's just. I don't do hats. Yeah, no hats. No hats. My hair is too, Too good. Yeah. Too pretty to mess it up with a hat. The. I will start. And I've admitted that I'm not the big. The world's greatest soccer fan or knowledge base. But, you know, it's. The World cup is in the United States, so I'm not, like, complete immune to it. And it has been exciting. I have caught and watched games that did not have the U.S. i did not think I would do that. But it gets compelling in, like, the last 20 minutes, I'll say that. So full disclosure. DoorDash has a deal going on where? At the bottom, before the World cup started, if you picked whatever team you thought was going to win, and then they have, like, a pool of money and they're splitting it amongst whatever team Wins and whatever. People picked that team. So I picked Argentina to win because I just guessed and I was like, you know what? That seems like a reasonable guess. Yeah. You know, from the outside, reasonable. Um, so yesterday we record these on. On Wednesday. So yesterday when I was watching the Argentina, Egypt game, Argentina's down 0 to 2 against Egypt, I was like, damn it. Like, this really sucks. Like, I want my doordash credit. It's probably going to be like a dollar, but, you know. Yeah, I take it. And that, I think, was one of the most electric comebacks I have seen from our. From any sports game ever. Three points in, like 15 minutes. It was insane. Yeah. That's what the US couldn't do. No. Yeah. Because we don't have Messi. They needed that. Yeah. They needed that bad on Monday night. And yes, it was exciting. I caught. I caught the tail end of that, which was. Wow. That's what makes it interesting. Yep. And Bella team's still alive. I mean, the funny thing about the US Game, and, you know, I think everyone knows my stance on soccer, but when you're. When you're down goals and you only have one shot on goal, like, they don't shoot the. They don't shoot the ball. I'm like, how are you going to come back? They're like 40ft away from the goal. I'm like, kick it. Like, see what happens. Like, it might. It might get a ricochet. It might, like, take a crazy bounce. But if you're down three goals and you don't shoot the ball, you'll never. And the math I'm doing is that you'll never come back. You miss 100 of the shots you don't take. No, I agree, Brian. I watch it and I watched the US trying to come back and I stopped watching. Like, the last five, they're not scoring. Then you got completely out of hand. But it was like, yes, kick it. Like, they're trying to set up the perfect play. I could tell what they were trying to do. I got it. I get this. I'm not an idiot. I can see the strategies that are going on here. But at a certain point, you just gotta start firing that baby. When we opened the card shop, one of the biggest things we had to figure out was how to make the buying process easy. Because in a business like this, people are not always shopping the same way. 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With Shopify, nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So get out there and make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com collectornation Start your free trial at shopify dot com collectornation@shopify.com collectornation when you're a maintenance engineer in a beverage manufacturing plant, you keep production lines moving and quality on track because there is no room for slowdowns. With Grainger's vast selection of high quality motors, sensors, belts and hard to find parts, you can get what you need fast and all in one place. So nothing gets in the way of getting the job done. Call 1-800-GRAINGER clickranger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done. Well, as far as cards go for, for Messi, he's, he's had some crazy upsides. You know, some of his cards are up 40%, some are up 80%. He has, you know, one of his 2006 Panini World Cup Germany stickers is going for $575 and up 80%. So he, he deserves it. Yeah, he does. He's currently in the top contender for the, the, the Golden Boot. Yes. Golden Boot. The Golden Boot. What's it all about? I'm personally hoping that Holland wins the Golden Boot. I think he's just the funniest character. Okay. From Norway. Yeah. All right. And I, I've recently found out that I'm like 50 Norwegian, so gotta go back to my 50. Blonde hair. That's. Yeah, that's where that comes from. That's not a bottle, is it? No, not anymore. Starting to come in there. Yeah. But his, his cards have seen an 170% increase. Geez. I mean, I'm just amazed at it all and proud to be an American even Though we lost. Yeah. I like the videos where, like, they apologize to the US and they're like, I'm, you know, we. We are so sorry. We. We. We were talking so much about you in the US and how dangerous it is, and people are blah, blah, blah. And they're like, this is the most fun country I've ever been in. Most beautiful country, the friendliest country. I'm like, don't read. Don't read the media, man. Don't read the. The newspapers. Like, come to America and check it out. And they did. It was pretty cool. Yeah, that's. That is cool. I saw that. And it's like, come on. Like, people believe. Like, there's been this sentiment, I think, you know, with politics and everything else. I think outside of America that, like, oh, my God, you know, and you just don't watch the news, come experience it yourself, and then struggle. Like, they're like, you're not surprised you don't get shot every day in Chicago. It's so bad. I'm like, no, it's not. I'm. I'm living. I'm doing it. I walked around for two days in Chicago and. And have multiple, like, hundreds of times lived there for eight months many years ago. But let me just tell you, there, Chicago is not unsafe. Okay. Y' all also have big, scary man privilege maybe, but I don't know. Chicago's not scary to me. Yeah. I'm sure there's a couple streets here and there, but not, I don't know, the main drag. I hope that stands true at our Airbnb. For the National. Oh, yeah, for the National. Yeah. You guys should send me that address just to make sure. Yeah. Oh, it's. No backing out. Yeah. You know, we'll send extra security over. We'll hire a security guard over there. I. I don't think it's a bad area. No, no. I'm just messing. But one last thing about the. The World Cup, I have to say, and then we can. We can move on. I, as much as the rest of the world, has had fallen in love with Cape Verde and their goalie. It. That that story just really warmed my heart, and I. I felt bad that they didn't. Even though I was kind of pulling for Argentina because I wanted them to continue, I felt bad that Kate Verde didn't win. I was really hoping. I watched that game. So I watched the last. I don't know, 30, 40 minutes, maybe hour. I don't know. I was in watching it. You can't go up into the Crowds, the reason they lost is they celebrated the win in the sixth inning. Baseball people out there listening will understand what that means. Or in the third quarter of a football game, they were celebrating like they had won when they tied it and all that. And I get it, this is upset and you're excited and you are in it and he's up in the crowd kissing babies. His girlfriend, I think he proposed and then she broke it off. All because they lost. But this, you can't. You don't win until the game's over and they lost. And I said, I forget whether it was my son or my wife sitting there. I was like. When he was in the stand, I was like, oh, that's the kiss of death right there. It definitely going to lose. And they did. So it's a great story, but you don't celebrate to your end. Yeah, but I mean 40 year old keeper. The ties of wins in soccer make it make sense along with the tie. Not in the knockout rounds. Not in the knockout rounds. I don't know. I don't know. But they do the penalty kicks. Yeah, but I'm interested to see. Cause he's in talks with Inter Miami. So I'm interested to see if that actually happens and how that will go. But I think it's been a successful World cup and brought the world together. You could take a trip over to Cape Veriea. Yeah, it's gorgeous. Yeah, it should be tiny little island, you know. Yeah. 500,000 people. Yeah. Granger knows. When you're a procurement manager for an office park, you're not managing one building, you're managing all of them. And to stay ahead, you need to see through walls and around corners. Lights about to fail, filters ready to clog H Vac on its last leg. If you wait until something breaks, you're already behind. Count on Grainger for quality products, easy reordering and 24. 7 support. Call 1-800-Grainger click granger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done. I do want to bring out a couple cards that I pulled this week and I'm. And one of them is not like actually that big of a card but Cactus Jack, that's Travis Scott's sub brand with tops. They came out with football, cactus or basketball. Excuse me? Cactus Jack, Basketball. And Nash and I opened Box Hobby box of that last night. Had to sell a kidney for that. But I guess I can't sell a kidney. I only have one little. Hey, there's a trivia fact for you. I do There you go. Everybody learned something today. But I will say these are cool cards. Fun rip I got this is just a base. It has kind of a black and white look to it but that's the base card. Yeah, that's a base Cooper. Yeah Cooper flag base card. That's their base and the base should look like that and be made of gold price of them. But so yeah pulled Cooper we didn't pull anything that great. He was the most normal. But I I I really like what they did. Yeah it's like 50 bucks for the base card. Something like that. 40 or 50. Now this on the other hand top signature basketball which a lot of people it's been a polarizing some people like some people haven't. It's been really good to the offereds particularly this guy. Very good. Every I've opened a couple two hobby boxes now they have two autos guaranteed and the the first one got the Magic Johnson on card and the another big player can't remember the name of but got a lot of we got like 23 $3,300 worth of cards and a $600 box. That's a win. Well the second one was opened on the boat this weekend. I do have video of that by the way of this poll that we will be sharing. I'll put that up for the team to have while I'm talking about this very thing. On card Cooper flag auto. Oh wow. On card Cooper flag auto about and it looks really clean. 1500. Yeah yeah. Like it looks yeah. So score you'd get a graded. I don't know. I might. I mean even the auto like it looks pretty centered. It looks like a clean auto like yeah, it could be a solid 10 on the auto and I'm going to guess a 9. It's hard to get a 10. Probably a 10 9. Speaking of it's going for about 13. 1500. Yeah it's just a base. It's a base. On card we have I have about three of these so I'm going to take one. Trevor Lawrence PSA 10 silver rookie card. That's the the home run that goes for 1600 two grand. I think he's going to have a big season so that would be a good pickup for you. It probably will be a little overpriced because I like Trevor Lawrence. I got a downtown Cam Ward PSA 10 that will be available. I am taking it just to see I had I did last year at Fanatics Fest. I got this autographed. It's before Jackson darted played A single down. But I was. I had already bought this card before the season began for the hype train even started. It is an out of 10 Bowman U 9 out of 10 Perfect 10 Jim Mint 10 Auto by Jackson Dart. So big card, big card, 9 out of 10 Perfect 10 and autographed with verification on the back. We do have that JSA certification and I have the picture in my phone that I will text you where he signed it when he was signing it in his hand. So you have all the validity that you need behind the providence of that autograph. And an out of 50 gold jersey match number two out of 50 perfect 10 Cooper flag. That's a big card too. Those are just a few that I will have. They these will be for sale or trade at the national end. What would you be trading for? Like what would you. I'm looking for Bo Jackson's Michael Jordans, Ken Griffey Jr. I want to. I. My goal is to walk with a 89 Griffey Jr. PSA 10. So and I've got, I mean one. A couple of these card. One of these cards might be worth that. You know some of them are but then we could get creative. So if you see us at the national number one, if you see me, Bella or Brian, come say hello. We would love to talk to you. Yes, we would. We would love it. And I'd love to trade with you if you want. If you have interest in any of these. Brian, are you going to be trading, buying or selling any cards? I'll have some stuff with me. Yeah, I'll be selling. I got. I got a couple of otanis that I, I think I need to let go of but part ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got some V Friends wax that I, I think I'm going to let my fly. But yeah, we'll see. Before we get back to the show, I want to thank one of our reoccurring partners, Pristine Auction. If you've listened to Collector Nation for any amount of time, you know we're collectors first. That's one of the reasons we like working with Pristine Auction. It's a real auction built for collectors with thousands of items ending every day across sports cards, autograph memorabilia, entertainment, collectibles and more. One thing I always tell people is to check out their daily auctions and live streams. 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I mean, but if you think about it like there's certain baseball, certain baseball records that will never be broken. Yeah. But the home run one is they could break. Someone could break that. Yeah. And I think it'll be him. If it's anyone. I feel like he's too old. Yeah, there's, there's going to be a. I don't know, I feel like there's this swelling of suddenly the, the balls. I don't know what they're going to do. I don't know if it's going to happen or it's just the players getting stronger. You're going to have just. There's going to be a year that comes up where they're just flying out of the park like it's coming. Yep. You're starting to see the numbers creep up a little bit more. I don't know if they've changed the bats, the balls. I don't follow the tech enough. I know they dialed it back because so many too much of that was happening. And I think they've maybe reduced it, but I think the players are getting bigger, stronger, healthier, just based on modern standards. Right. You play longer. I mean the one that will, I mean one of many that will never get broken is 7 no hitters by Nolan Ryan. Did you see that Marlins pitcher? He had a perfect game and he had 90 pitches in the seventh inning. And the manager goes out there and it's like, what are you doing? Like, how do you do that? How do you take him? It's not the World Series. It's like a fricking. You're the Miami Marlins or whatever you are and you're 500 team. I don't even know maybe. And you're like, let the kid get fricking Into a Hall of Fame with a perfect game. Let him lose it. But no 70 hitters will never be broken. They can't even frickin do a perfect game. Exactly. That's crazy. The all star game, the 14th, that's coming up that next next week, right? Yeah. Oh my gosh, time is flying. That's a week from yesterday. Oh gosh, Monday. That's Monday. And the year's already over in my head. Tuesday. Yeah, next Tuesday. So I you know I, the Braves are slumping. It's every time I turn on and I, that's one baseball team that I really follow and grew up watching World Series, you know all the way from Dale Murphy and Bob Horner and Rafael Ramirez to Chipper Jones and Dave justice and Smoltz and Glavin. Yeah, I'm name dropping but that's now I, I don't have enough time like I did when I was a kid but when I go and watch they're, they had the best record in baseball but they've been losing like two out of every three the last couple weeks. So I got to get it back together. That's all I got to say. You gotta give them go down give him a speech. I know. I think you're gonna have to, I'm have to pump these guys up. You're sucking. Do better. I know the pitching is not great. Last night was terrible. It's like 12 to 3 or something. I mean this is terrible. Pittsburgh, hey at least it's not the Mets. No, they beat the Mets. The only series I think they've won and I don't know if they won that one. It was that division's not, that division's not as good as we people thought. No, the Mets are their manager got fired in the first like 30, 40 games. Like I thought they were going to be like division leader and they're like. And not, not great. So free agency in basketball has been crazy. Yeah. What I, I, I'm curious. What are yalls thoughts about LeBron not going back to the Lakers? Where do you think he's going to go? How do you think it's going to impact his Cards? Cards very little I don't think. I think he has chance to go up like if he were to just have look he's played like a top 15 player in the league last year as a 40. 41 year old. 40 year old like which is pretty incredible if he plays as good as he did last and I don't his efficiency wasn't if you look at Some of the numbers wasn't as good as it really appeared to be, but it was still elite, especially at his age. If he can have another season like that, a year older for another team, he might get help another team, get to the playoffs, if not win, if it's the right team, and his cards could go up. I don't see him going down. I mean, I just think. What? Oh, he 41. He has a slump year. Okay, all right. He retired. Like, give me a break. What do you think, Brian? I mean, I. I just. I don't know why he'd want to leave one. I mean, he's going to chase a championship, obviously. That's what he's trying to do. So New York becomes a pretty logical move for him. I don't know what the salary cap has to do with it, but, like, he's not going to San Antonio. Like, he's not going to go from LA to San Antonio and hang out there. Speculated that he's going to go to the heat or the 76ers or back to the Cleveland. Yeah, like, I root against him. Like, that's why I don't. Like, I. I don't love LeBron James. I mean, like, stay where you are and. And fight it out, but, like, he's going to go somewhere and, like, they're going to talk about it, and it's going to be all this pressure and he can win a world championship, but at the same point, like, just stop. Yeah. I don't know. I need to know more about if you felt pushed out. If, like, the Lakers were. I don't know what the. You never know what the politics and all that were. I mean, I think he got along with the players. I think him and Don actually got along. I think him and Reeves are actually buddies. So, I mean, I think he was trying to be kind of the. As much as you can when you're LeBron James, be the. The senior leader and all that sort of thing. I. I didn't think it made a lot of sense. I agree with you, Brian. If there's not something else linked, you know, a reason, or if he got sort of pushed out silently, which I have a hard time believing, then I agree. He should have just stayed there. The Lakers, I mean, la, like, finish it out. It's not like they're a train wreck. They weren't that far away. They picked up a couple pieces. Your son's still there. Yeah. I feel like there's something we don't know. Does his son go with him, like, in his gym bag and he's like, oh, by the way, you got Bronnie too. Well, and Bronnie is probably a really great G league player in borderline NBA play. He's not a terrible. I mean, he's a good kid. I think he's talented, but I don't know if he's NBA material. But honestly, you know, if I'm LeBron, I'm not saying anybody deserves it, but. And I'm not a gigantic. I'm a Jordan guy. I mean, I. I'm not a LeBron guy. But if anybody's earned it, I. If he's. If your son truly is borderline, I'm okay with a little bit of nepotism in that case, because I have four boys and if I was one of the Goats or considered on that list. Not me personally thinking that, but a lot of people do I near my son's borderline at all. And he's not hurting the team. He's not a distraction. He's not like, you know, getting into trouble. He's actually, you know, doing the, you know, running the laps, doing the stuff. I don't mind a little bit of favorite. I. I think you've earned it. Maybe I'm okay with that. What about you okay with that, Brian? Yeah, I think that's. Yeah, I like that perspective. Yeah. But I still think he should have stayed in LA too. I just think there's something we don't know for why he isn't. Cause chasing the championship. LA was in the playoffs. They won the first series. I mean, weren't. They've picked up a couple pieces. But if he is chasing it and he just thinks Luka's never going to win one, I don't know. Yeah. Lucas games and I love Luke. I do. I enjoy watching him, but I'm not. Is he going to win a title? I don't know. I think if he has the right guys around him, we'll see. But I think. But then so many other things. Jalen Brown going to 76ers. I mean, if. If they got Jalen Brown and LeBron with it, B and B can stayed healthy. They're suddenly, I think, the front runners in the East. I still think all things run through San Antonio. Yeah, Wendy's Reach can't really be beat right now, but from the east perspective, I mean, New York's not worse, but I think the 76ers got markedly better. Jalen Brown's the truth. He kind of annoys the out of me, but he's a legit player. It'll be interesting. I want to see the Celtic. I'm kind of like a still Celtics like closet Celtics fan because just grew up with Bird, McHale and Parrish and all those guys. Doc. Was it Doc Rivers that played? Doc Rivers played for the Celtics. Yeah. And Danny Ainge. I'm aging myself here. But you know, like I, I still have the nostalgia and I and I like Tatum as a guy. I think he's got a lot to still prove to be like trooper upper echelon and coming back from that injury. But be interesting where they go. Donovan Mitchell just got really, really rich. Yeah. Richer 270 million over four years. I think that's what I saw. I changed teams too. Like, All right. Switching lanes a little bit. Football preseason's coming up. It's going to be here before you blink an eye. Minus, you know, Trevor Lawrence and Josh Allen. What. What quarterbacks are we buying? What quarterbacks are we looking for? Which ones are we holding? Which ones are we selling? I do like the ones you have on the screen here. Jaden Daniels and Drake May. I think Drake Mays got upside still. Even though he's pretty high right now. A lot of his is baked in Jaden's. There's actually a card we had in the store I meant to take out of the cabinet that got sold last week. It was a Pandora out of 25. Jaden Daniels is a sick card. And I was. I've been eyeing it for months going, I'm going to just take that. I'm going to keep that this and it. Someone else beat me to it. Mind you, we haven't like singles, we don't sell nearly as much as sealed packs. So the fact that it sold right before you were going to take it out of the case, I knew I left it too long. I've been eyeing it every time I walk by it. Yeah, this down is like Herbert like and Burrow, they're down a little bit. Right. I'd be buying Burrow. I think Burrow's gonna have a bounce back here. I think he's. He's always popular, so I don't think he's like that much lower than where he should be, but he's lower than he should be. And I think he's gonna have a bounce back because receivers are healthy. He's healthy. I It is one of those teams though that just seems a little snake bit that I've go. You know, the Bengals like things like they can't get it all together at once, but they made Some they picked up Dexter Lawrence on the defensive line. My boy from Clemson, he is the truth. He's gonna plug the middle. That's the first like superstar. I mean they've had other guys, but they got Hendrickson. They had Hendrickson, Yeah. So it's like I think they could make a run this year. They got a tough division though. So I think Jaden's gonna bounce back if he stay healthy. And I'm gonna make Brian happy. He's not surprised at this. But I'm holding every Caleb Williams, I gotta tell you that right now, like he's a superstar. There's a rumor that he's opening up some card show card stores here in Chicago. I might know that. I might. I like them even of that rumor. But yeah, I like him. As I would be buying Caleb Williams, I would be buying Jaden Drake. May. I think the value's kind of in. I would at least hold. I don't think I. The only reason I'd be selling that I think Bo Nicks is a guy and I think his coach is legit. You got Sean Payton there. You've got a lot of support around him. They're going to be in it. Jackson dart. It's kind of why I'm taking. Yeah, I don't give away my hand here. He has. I was going to say it, but I didn't want you to feel bad. Yeah, no, that's what I'm taking. That's why it may or may not be for sale at the National. Now I'm undervaluing my own card, but very speculative market, like every rookie quarterback. But I think Cam Ward is a better prospect and a better. And has better upside and showed a little bit more. And Jackson's exciting and he did a few things and he got hit really hard on the sidelines and he seems like a really cool kid. I could say that because I'm 20 years older than him, but I hadn't seen enough to warrant holding him. You know what, Ryan? There's always these year two quarterbacks. The year two quarterbacks, there's always half or a third of them that just never ever hit their rookie. And maybe they get scouted, maybe the defenses get smarter, maybe they don't work as hard. And like I don't know what it is but the. Some make adjustments into the professional life and some like a shooting star and then. And then fizzle out and it just happens all the time. And I wonder if that's work ethic. I mean, what do you think it takes to be an NFL quarterback. But do you see the same thing? I see the same thing. And the only asterisk I'm putting on this, I want to save this because I know I'll either get. If he were to have a great year, somebody will replay this for me. But I'm going to put this aster. The only reason I hold out a maybe in a hope. He's got talent. Everybody's got talent in the NFL. John Harbaugh's his coach now, and John Harbaugh is a hell of a coach and he's going to put him in the best system for success. He's going to support him. You got Scatterbo coming back, who I like, who's tough as nails. And if he stays healthy, they're gonna. John's not gonna let him throw it 70 times a game. John doesn't play that way. John doesn't like blow games, you know, with. Because you think you have a bad team or something. Let your quarterback throw 70 times. He keeps his teams in. In games with good defense and running the ball and not putting his quarterback out to dry. If that's they're just not talented enough. He wins games where they're the less talented team. Sometimes that would be the only thing I think that can help. That that's going to help, but we'll see. I just hadn't seen enough to warrant the values there are now, which I think that's what we agree on. Brian. Yep. Agreed. It's time for this week's ONIT segment of the week. Hey, everyone, what's up? It is Bella, back with the on it segment of the week. I'm here with the one, the only, Leonard Berry, who is the digital marketing so specialist at onit athlete Leonard. What is up? What's up? Bella, it's good to see you again. It's been a busy month, but things are finally kind of, kind of slowing down, I guess, for me. But things are ramping up here, obviously, as we go into this summer season. Yeah, I mean, big, big MLB draft prospects that y' all have. Can. Can you kind of give us a little bit of an insight into what that's looking like on. On its end? Yeah. As folks know, we've been talking about Gravity Baseball for the past couple of weeks. We got plenty of draft prospects in there. And with the MLB draft coming up this weekend, really excited to see potentially some of our names get called. Rock Chalowski, we've talked about him quite a lot, but there's a very high chance that he's going to end up being the number one overall pick. You got Drew Burris and Von Lackey potentially going in the top 10 there as well. Sawyer, Stroh Snyder, Liam Peterson, Chris Akopian, Ace Reese, Kaden Sorrell, tons of names. Ryder Helfrich is a name that's getting a lot of love right now out of Arkansas. Jared Avanchula as well from Georgia Tech is a guy who folks have been kind of his draft stock rose throughout the course of the year. And just another one, potentially three Georgia Tech guys who get drafted this weekend, all who signed with us. So that would be really cool to see from our Georgia Tech team set. But I'm just really looking forward to seeing if Rock can hold on to that number one overall pick spot because Grady Emerson, the high school kid, has been generating a lot of buzz recently. So it'll be interesting to see. That would be insane. I can't even imagine being like 18 years old, just going right into the MLB. But I think that's also something that makes the MLB kind of special and fun. Yeah, I mean having 15 top prospects just as honest athletes is amazing. Um, and yeah, three from Georgia Tech all getting signed in the first round would be pretty cool. Pretty cool. Um, have, has everything with gravity Baseball still been good, Good reception? Yeah, I've seen a seen a couple people submit their hits to us, so that's been pretty cool. Uh, onathlete.com highlights is the place you can go if you want to do that. I've seen some holo forms which is the brand new ins. I've seen some folks with autographs numbered to nine. So been super cool to see the community kind of reception and people getting big hits. You know, as a retail product it's. With no guaranteed autos, it's not always easy to find some of those low numbered autographs so that to see the people out there pulling them in the wild, sending us seven wonders, it's been super cool to see. And like I said, we got quite a few in the draft prospects in that product. Even though it's just limited to 10 teams versus the 21 that we worked with this spring, you still do have Sawyer and Ace Reese and, and Chalowski's in there as well. So nobody sent me the Rock Chalaski 101 auto. Maybe they have it and they're waiting for him to get drafted. Maybe they're waiting for draft day so they can put it up on ebay and say white Sox number one overall pick, you know, But I, I, I Don't know if anybody even has it yet. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, shifting gears a little bit. I know we got like three weeks, just about until the national. What do y' all got going on at the national? I know I've heard some. Some rumblings of some exciting things that y. So let's. Let's fill the audience in and what they can expect. Yeah. So we are going to be back at the national with Once again, we'll have a booth. So for folks that were at the national last year that maybe came by the on it booth, it'll be pretty similar to what you saw last year. We'll be streaming from there once again. So we'll have our live TikTok and whatnot ribbon chips going on there at the national. We'll have the booth set up with a bun on it product as well. Some of the folks, you know who work at the company will all be there at the booth. So if you want to meet, you know, Matt and Kyle from the TikTok and whatnot side, or if you want to, you know, maybe talk to some of our sales reps, if you're a hobby shop or just somebody who's looking to get some distribution or direct account, we'll be there out in force. So for folks that are going that are, you know, in the card space, like, we will definitely have a lot of opportunities for you to get in touch with us out there. And then for just fans and card collectors and stuff, we're going to have some special packs we had last year. We had the silver packs, which everybody seemed to love. There were a ton of huge hits in there for a lot of different schools. The silver packs will be back and with us doing on it Black in a new form this year, we're going to have some on it black packs there as well that are exclusive to the national. So folks can expect to find some never before seen autographs across those new packs, which I think or I hope that collectors will be very excited about. Yeah, that's awesome. And are those only going to be available at the national? Can't get them after that, is correct. Yeah, they are going to be national exclusive. So both the silver packs and the on it black packs are going to be national exclusives. So stop by the on it athlete booth or if you're not at the national, you can also check in on our streams. So I know there's plenty of people who can't make it out to the Chicago area for a variety of reasons, whether it's work or whether, you know, it's just the cost. I mean, the cost to travel is not cheap these days. So you can check in on our streams as well. We'll be running some special promos for folks that can't make it in person but still want to have opportunity to get their hands on them. But it will only run through the duration of the National. So if you hop in after the national ends in August, you're going to be disappointed because you missed out. Leonard, can you drop some of the deets again? Can you drop that link again for people to share the Gravity Baseball hits that they get? Yeah, absolutely. It's on athlete.com highlights. You can submit your Gravity Baseball hits there. But honestly, you can submit anything as well. It's kind of open for submissions. Obviously, we'd love to see folks ripping Gravity Baseball. But if you're going to the national, you know, and you get one of these silver packs or these black packs and you get something big in there, we'd love to see those hits from the national too. Or even if you're just hitting stuff like on streams, you know, with other folks in the community breakers or going out and buying at a hobby shop and opening there, like, we'd love to see anything and everything that folks are there. So on athlete.com highlights is that link. And for you, Bella, you mentioned going to the National. Definitely stop by the booth because the Silver Packs are going to have some women's sports in there. So you might be able to find a little mixture, some gymnastics, some volleyball in there. That's one of the things, obviously, that we work hard on is to get those women's sports representation out there. So getting some softball, some volleyball, some gymnastics in those packs as well. You know, big names, maybe even, I don't know, I can't say for certain, but maybe there'll be some more Jordan Child stuff in there. You've piqued my interest because I actually said I was like, okay, I need to, like, figure out what cards I want to get at the National. I don't like. You know, sports cards aren't huge for me. I'm more of into the Pokemon and gymnastics. So I was like, maybe I can try to find some gymnastics cards. And that's definitely going to be where I'm headed. So shop on itathlete.com use code collector nation at checkout to receive 15% off your first order or go check them out at the National. I'll probably be there ripping some gymnastics packs if I'm lucky, getting that Jordan Childs Auto. If I'm even luckier, maybe that's where my luck will turnaround. Any final thoughts, Leonard? I just appreciate it and looking forward to, I mean, I won't be there, but looking forward to seeing everybody at the national, at least from the on it sense. So hoping to have a great turnout. It was amazing last year and the fan base is only growing this year. So we're looking forward to seeing everybody out there in Rosemont and looking forward to building into 2026. Yep, super excited. Thanks, Leonard. All right, well, is there any final thoughts from, from either of you? Any maybe words of advice for people that are starting to pack for the national and, and what they should bring, what they shouldn't bring? Yeah, if you're not, if you're not in walking distance, make sure you take some more time to get your Uber because maybe reserve your Uber. Yeah, plan ahead. Hire a driver. Yeah, hire a driver. It's. I don't think so. I think I've got some tips and things that we're going to be releasing. They're a little, some tongue in cheek, but a little different. I'll save that for that segment. We'll, we'll link to that when we release it. We did a nice little 10 minute segment where I gave some insights that are a little different than what you normally hear. And I do think it's so overwhelming with how much is there. I think either just embrace that or come focused on whatever you're trying to get done, you know, and have a plan. If your plan is just to be there and absorb it all, great. Absorb it all. Just walk around. Great. If you're there for a day, just soak it all in. There's also the interactive, in the Ludox interactive map that we could show on the screen but that's. Now you can put notes in there on the different tables and the, and the vendors. Uh, something we added this year to the Lux Interactive interactive map is that the vendors get to put a more description of what they have and some of their bigger cards that they want us that they're bringing. So it's a good way to like plan it ahead of time. At least visualize how big this thing is. So yeah, proud of my team. How do we, how do they get to that? Brian, let's drop that for them. That's on the Lux app. Yep. So if you have the Lux app, it's front and center on the landing page or it's on the NSCC website. It's on there also. And it's honestly better to look in the beginning on the web than it is on your phone. But the phone works pretty well during the event. But plan ahead on the web. Exactly. Especially because it's probably going to be very difficult to get a good service. Yeah. I will say this, and I'm glad Brian brought it up. Cause I use it last year. It's really nice, the map. It is necessary. Like I pride myself and not really needing maps and I. You need it and you need to know where the vendors are and that's the value there. So. L U D E X Get that in the App Store. You should get it anyway. Best card scanning app in the store. But that's just another reason. And look, the national doesn't trust anyone to manage something like that. So that should tell you all you need to know. Any other things, Bella? Nope, that's all for me. Thecollectornation.com learn more about what we're doing. Bringing all the hobby together, all the content, working with all the best players. Hey, you got the best players here. You got Brian and Bella already got all the content of Collector Nation there. That and of course the podcast. So there's some cool functionality that's going to be rolling out on the App Store in the coming weeks, probably right around national time. And more announcements to come. And you, if you, hey, if you want to just shop the Collector Station, where we're at here, the collectorstation.com got all our inventory there, all the best products. Yeah. Learn more about the store, what we're doing, events. So if you're in the South Carolina area, you come through. This needs to be on your roadmap for a hobby shop. We are flagship store of South Carolina. I'm just going to say it now, I know it. I've been in them. They're all cool ones. But this is it. 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