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Rare Tiger Woods Promo, Kevin O’Leary’s $19M Card & Ludex Collection Management

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On today's episode of Collector Nation, Brian and I dive into the latest on the Ludx app, Collection Management 2.0. Yes, it's coming and it's on the Ludx app coming. Over the next 30 days, we dove in to talk about all the newest features. Plus, we talked about Kevin o' Leary making a big splash again in the hobby, wearing the card as the necklace. 19.5 mil, folks. Fun discussion around that. We dove into the card show that we went to this weekend at Haywood Mall. All the highlights from that show. And again, again, all the latest, the greatest, the newest here on Collector Nation. In business, you have competition, especially within the tech world, because tech has got diluted so much with these AI agents. So what you have to do is separate yourself other ways. And this is one way is that if you could get the best inventory management system and you have people's collections, you're going to win. There's always something physical about the cars themselves, but it's maximizing the digital tools that we have. It's really trading enablement. That's what this is, trading and collecting enablement. The new term of the day for the hobby, it's collection enablement. Every other news outlet has a headline that says, kevin o' Leary turns heads by having that necklace. And it's about the necklace, but it's not about playing brand, playing attention, game. 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 L. What's up, guys? Welcome to Collector Nation. It's Friday, March 6, 2026, here in the studios of lovely Easley, South Carolina, and Chicago, Illinois. You got Brian Ludden, Ryan Alford always here. Your humble servants in the hobby, here to bring you the latest news, the latest gossip, and you never know what else we might get into other than being sunny in 78 here. Brian, what's the forecast in Chicago? It's cloudy, 38 here, Ryan. We got a little north wind, so. Yeah, so it's beautiful. Beautiful. Oh, man, I can't wait to get outside after this. But not there. No rubbing it in a little. But, you know, that's why you live in South Carolina. You get this weather. You know, we don't have to hustle. Bustle of Chicago. There's. There's some commerce going on. Big business. Brian's running a big CEO company. I can't do that here, you know, but we do get the weather that's the one thing we get here at Easley. That's the beautiful part of it. I know. I mean, I'm in your lovely collector station studio. We'd love to have you in at some point. Our store is hustling and bustling. We welcome you if you ever hit the South Carolina area and you're listening, you got. Hey, it's a flagship store. You got to stop in. It's like a. I've said this many times, but it's a man cave meets a card shop meets a studio. Many times we're sitting here and talking to the celebrity ludden and my customers walk in and they go, ah, Ludx, Lion, London. Nah. But in all seriousness, they. It's fun because it's right in the center of the store. So we'd love for you to stop in and if we were to be recording, you can say hello to Brian and of course our lovely producer Bella, who is with us today. Hey, everyone. Hi, Bella. Bella should have your camera on for like that, you know, like she. We actually got Bella, you know, we, we, we unbanished her from non camera land. But no longer the basement girl. Yeah, yeah, she's a, she's an AI robot, so we don't want. I've trained her pretty good, right, Brian, wouldn't you admit, I mean, she sounds like human, like she responds to anything you ask. Yeah, she seems great. I'll just take over the world real quick. Yeah, exactly. I've been using AI this week. This kind of scary. It's good. Yeah. Your shop is looking awesome, dude. Thank you, brother. It's coming together. It's fun and it's been. I mean, it's been great meeting people. Maybe we've had. We got regulars already, Brian. Let me just say that, like the true junkies we know, I'm one of them. So I mean, you know, I'm sitting here and dudes coming back in saying, you know, we've been open like three weeks and some guys have been here about five times. United in the chase, baby. That's. That's what this industry is about, though, you know, like, it's cool. It is cool. In all seriousness, we'd welcome you here in South Carolina. If you get through there, stop in, you'll see us and we'll save some cards, baby. We got a good selection actually. Good stuff. Actually brought it to that end. I'm just gonna bring it right up. And you know, the show was this weekend. We did a show at Heywood Mall and bought a lot of cards. And I've been buying a lot of stuff this week. Got some cool stuff here. The Shohei Atani aces card. You seen those? Ace of diamond, all aces tops. Yeah. Fun card price. Sending that one for grading. Got this flir net effect. Kobe, it's like a die cut. That's cool. Yep. What year was that? 1990. 1994 maybe. I don't know. Cole years is Flir Kobe 90 something. Mid 90s. Yeah. Yeah. Say hello to Cole if you come into the store too. Cole manages the story here, keeps me sane and does a great job. And one of the nicest guys in the hobby. Julius Irving. Kaboom. That is a cool card. I like it, I like it. Brian and his son I think pulled a bird in this kaboom. And we got the Irving. I bought the Irving. I. We're not. So I'm not as lucky as them. So I, I had to buy my singles, but that was a good pickup. And then Randy Moss, the greatest receivers of all time on the kaboom. So had a good card show. Brian. I mean we sold some stuff, man, but I, I was buying, I was buying, baby. Always be buying a B B. Well yeah, I mean that's, that's how you make your money, right? It's like you gotta buy, you know where you're gonna sell it. You gotta sell it at comps or right around there. So every buy matters. It's interesting. The card showed lots of deals being had. We're gonna have some footage from that. We had Callan, our main guy filming everything, setting things up, doing deals. We're gonna have some good footage for that. So check out the socials. You know, we probably don't plug that enough. Look, if you're not already, go follow L U D E X Ludx on the app Store. And of course in social media, if you just search Ludx, Ludx will come up in Instagram, Facebook, etc, go follow Collector Nation, Collector Station, either one of those. So give us some love there and we'll have all of the footage there and we're doing some cool videos for some of the products, newer things for Ludx and lots of cross pollination here as we, you know, we're living and breathing this thing, baby. I, I got a card that was so interesting. So some guy, you know, whoever, he came in, he came to my house because my dad's friend and he has his Tiger woods card that I have no idea, I've never seen it. Mike Baker's like, I don't think I'VE ever seen it. And it's a promo card from a Toronto show. So I'll show this, like, really quickly, but we'll get a better picture. Yes. Huh. Okay. Who is that tiger? Oh, yeah. Okay. Never seen that. Okay. And then the back is like, it's out of 20. Who makes it? Some dude in his basement probably. But I paid $40 for it. And there was a letter that was like, listen, this is a promo from the 2000 Expo, Toronto Expo card show. It's called the Year of the tiger. There were 500 printed like they're 500 base. And then this is a platinum of 20. And if you bought an A base, you got a chance to open up a pack to see if you got this card in there. And this is a promo card called the Year of the tiger. It's 2000 and I have no idea what it's worth. I paid 40 bucks for it. I'll give you 50. Done. 25% profit. If it's not worth $40, then we both to go get out of this game. Okay. But then, but then I, I thought to myself, my buddy at work is like, oh, that's fake. It's promo. I'm like, if you're doing a fake card, don't number them to 20. Yeah. Like, or you number 20 and print 2000. But you know, it could be fake. It could be. But even if it is, good story. Yeah. What's new? Let's get. Give us the Ludx CEO update. The things you can share. Like, what's happening on the Ludox front. The company standpoint, I think the biggest thing is rolling out this collection, inventory management part of the app. It should be in the app within the month. Way more robust. Searching, filtering, sorting. And really the industry needs an inventory management, collection management platform. And that's really what we're doing. We've been working on that for like a year. I mean, the, the utility that Ludo has is like, scan a card. But, like, we want it to be like, all encompassing because in business you have competition, especially with, in the tech world, because tech has got diluted so much with these AI agents. So what you have to do is separate yourself other ways. And this is one way is that if you could get the best inventory management system and you have people's collections, you're going to win. And that's what we've been working on. We've been rolling that out on the web version, but within the month we'll have it. You'll start to see it Migrate towards the app. So that's super exciting. Our tech team's been working really hard at it. I love it. I've seen it. You've seen it? Yeah, it's slick. Really slick. I mean, we need the, the hobby needs one or at least two really good ones. Let's start with one really good one because I don't know that one great one exists yet. You know, this is going to be the first one I think that's truly like really exceptional. Yeah, I mean, car lighter does a really good job. I do love, I love their indexes and stuff. I mean, I like that. I like the indexes. It's just the UI of the collection management is not like wonderful, let's be honest. I like the substance of what they have there, but I kind of want like either me or someone creative to get a hold of ui. Like they got the data, you know, they got the indexes. I like that. But I need art to meet science. Yeah. And I mean it's a small, smaller ecosystem so they could, you know, they price things well. But yes, it's hard to get cards onto that platform and it's not like super scalable. Yeah, but, but that's what I love about what I'm seeing and what I've witnessed with the LUD X is it was already good, but now with the updates, it feels exceptional. It's. And like, you know, everything's going to have get better over time, but it feels like a real leap forward. I mean, you and tech, every, it's like every three years, four years, you have to like redesign it. Like you have to put money into it, back into tech and you got to make it more relevant and you got to, you got to skin it better and you got to market it better and it's got to look better because if not, you're stuck with you know, a Com C or ebay or you know, card ladder. It's just not. Doesn't migrate to like the modern day. So. But it's very expensive to do that. It's really expensive. So put your CEO hat on for the audience. Like not that you didn't already have it on. Put it, put it on a little tighter and give the audience like, okay, what they can expect with this new app. Like what does it's collection management, but like give me the elevator pitch the 32nd on the new features, what people could expect from it. Well, the thing that I like the best about it is that it's stackable search. Right. So if I wanted to check out My Jordan collection, I could say Michael Jordan cards equal or greater than x $1,000 from 1990, 1990 to 1995. And then all that search stacks on each other and you'll get that component. You'll just get those cards that meet that criteria. Then I could take those cards and if you want to look at them, I could send them to you. I could start sharing the collection. So you and I, even that Tiger card, I could be like, hey, I'll scan it in there, I'll send it to you. But it's the stackable search that's really cool for me. And then taking that on the social aspect of it and then sharing that with other people. Yeah. So the collector station app, that's about 1, 1 millionth of the capability of LudX. But we'll eventually probably migrate to what the LUD X is once this gets commercially available. And I can, you know, beg Brian for it to allow me to use it. Now he's letting me use it, but I, when I could actually roll it out with my whole store, the basically what I think is cool, Brian, I'll go ahead and share like a feature that's on our really stupid Apple that's not as pretty as yours is. I allow people to build a collection and then they can share what they want with the store so that I can make offers on their cards. So that way they get the collection management for free. But I can see what their cards are if they agree to share them. Yep, yep. Public. That's all. Yeah. And then like, think about that, how it, what you're thinking about is what the capabilities that we'll have. So if a shop has their cards on there, I could go to the kiosk, like you guys have a kiosk, and I could sort through that kiosk to get the cards that I want. Exactly. And then those cards that I want might be on the floor or they might be in a storage unit behind the store. And so that's what I think would be really cool is that when people come in, they can find what they want. And that gives them time to then, you know, buy some wax or, you know, break something or whatever. And then it's a card show. It's. It's honestly turns into, it could turn into a 365, 24. 7 card virtual card show. It never has to stop. Yeah. Hey, man. Lots of cool features. And look, that stack, Look, I'll say this. I go to an e commerce website like you said, stacking the search capabilities that's what makes or break a really good site is how, how much you can sort of slice and dice the inventory or what's there. And the same thing with your own collection when you're trying to put a deal together or you're trying to know what you have or like, especially if you've got thousands of cards in your collection. All right, how many, you know, baseball cards do I have that are over $50? Because maybe you're doing a deal to move some baseball cards because you're more of a basketball guy, but you aren't necessarily looking for a player. Just want to know what your high value baseball cards are. Being able to slice and dice that data the way you need to. That's next level. And that, that's true empowerment to the collector with managing the collection. That is the. I think that it just hit me, Brian, what you guys are doing. It's really what digital unlocked. Right. Because in the analog world is finally coming to this industry. Like, because all these things, all these cards belong in. They're in binders and they're in top loaders sitting in closets or they're in a beautiful case in your house. But what collection, digital collection management was supposed to unlock was this ability to have knowledge and data and to slice and parse and know what you have at the most intricate level, which is what digital sort of unlocked for every other industry. Yeah. The last 15 years. Yeah. And think about this. Like, like the power. It's really our database. Right. It's like we have 400 million cards in our database and those cards belong to people. Yeah, those, that, that's the searchable function of it. Every card that's probably been printed, we probably have, you know, 95% of them, 98% of them. So all we're doing is going through our own database with that. Not that all that data and we're sharing it and that's it. If you want to find a card, go find a card. And you know what? I could put in exactly the card I want and we could say, hey, Ryan Alford has that card. We'll be like, cool. I'm going to go go on Discord and I'm going to reach out to Ryan and see if he'll sell. I'm going to go to his house, you know, when he's eating kids, he's having dinner with his kids. Hey man, I saw, yeah, that, that Michael Jordan card on that Bo Jackson card on Ludx. Yeah, man, I'll see at the show on Saturday. No, you're right about that. Like it's all. It's getting a massive database and then making it into this like searchable virtual world. Exactly. There's always something physical about the cars themselves, but it's maximizing the digital tools that we have to innate. It's really trading enablement. That's what this is, trading and collecting enablement. The new term of the day for the hobby. It's collection enablement. I'm an enabler. You are, Brian. That's a. You are the chief enablement officer, that's the CEO. That's all you are is your enabler. You enable these wonderful things to happen with our digital collection management. Oh man, we have fun even while we're working. So big things coming with collection management and Ludx should be out this month. Brian, is that for the masses? Yeah, I would say that it's, you know, we are trying to release like two different features a week and so it's going to migrate towards the finished product. It is software, so it's never truly finished, but the functionality of it will be that we've talked about here. Today will be 30 days. Our big reveal is going to be in the national. That's what really what we're shooting for. And so, you know, we kind of have those bookends. Today is one bookend and the nationals the other to make it really functional and really cool. Keep your eyes peeled, stay in touch with the Ludx, social, Instagram, all that. You'll see the updates, you'll see the releases and all that. Ludx.com will always have the most up to date information, of course. And of course come see me and Brian at the national. We'll be there. Logan. Dudes, who knows what we'll be up to by then. Like we're gonna, we'll have Collector Nation on display. Brian's gonna have all the goodies. I mean the, the booth, you guys did it, right? I mean you guys had a nice booth last year. I mean it feels swanky. A little, you know, walk around. It's like, whoa, I'm at CES suddenly. Yeah, yeah. The competition gotten pretty big. It has, I mean, but it's. But everything kind of still felt like a big. Okay, a table with a bunch of cards on it or, you know, I mean I thought the digital pack opening guys, you know, I won't name names or several of them, they did pretty good because if they're selling the tack of that. But you definitely guys had the white and the blue. The branding that I love. I felt elevated the Ludex booth. And I'm sure that will. The surprises and delights will only increase this year. That's what we hope for. So come see us at the National. That will be in late July, first week of August. It's like the 31st, first, second somewhere in all in that neighborhood. I don't have my calendar in front of me, but, hey, I got the. I got the. The RV wagon coming hard. More news on that. I'll share more. That's just a teaser for now, folks. Let's just say it's coming along. Very nice. Kevin O' Leary turned heads at the 2026 SAG Awards by wearing that Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant card that he paid him and a couple other investors paid 13.5. And I guess it's already up to 19.5. I don't know if that was because what was around the necklace was worth that or if the card had actually jumped, you know, 40% since they bought it. Probably. Who knows? Part of me rolls my eyes, but part of me goes, yeah, it's kind of baller to wear that card around your neck, you know? Like, I don't. Even if Logan Paul did it first, I'm okay with it. Yeah. I mean, I. I think, like, I think that's cool. Like, I don't know if I would do it. Yeah, I would. I'm also buying a third, but. Yeah, you would. I'm not buying a thirteen half million dollars card either. Like, I would like a thousand bucks or something, so. But I think when you have it like, that just shows like, it is art, right? It is art. It is collecting. It's unique. Just hope you don't get, like, mugged. Yeah. You. You think that he had to add, like, extra protection insurance for that day. Had to have. Right. Lloyd's in London. Yeah. Total had a side policy, probably 10 grand or more. I mean, maybe more than that. I don't know, bro. If it was. If I had partner and I would. I was like. He's like, this is what I want to do. Yeah. And I. Third of that or half of that. I'd be like, whoa, no, no, no, no. Like, get. Get insurance. Even that insurance is like. But. But here's the thing. And look, everybody bear with me. I know you're here for the cards and the hobby, but you're always going to get a little slice of business from me. At least marketing. And if you don't know, right about now is the number one business and marketing show on Apple. It's been for three years. That's my other show. I don't ever plug it, but I'm going to plug it right now. Kevin o' Leary knows something that very few business people get. He understands brand. He's playing the brand game. He's. He understands the attention game, the media game. He knows how to make headlines that he made. Look, our little show here, you know, maybe we're top five sports and Apple, but it's our little show, our little slice. But we're talking about it. And so is cnn, and so is Drudge Report, and so is every other news outlet has a headline that says, kevin o' Leary turns heads by having that necklace. And it's about the necklace, but it's not. It's about playing brand, playing attention game. And Kevin makes his own brand, his own assets and his own businesses more valuable because he generates headlines. So you can hate the game all you want, but don't hate the player. That's some. That's some sage advice. That's awesome. Kyler Murray got released from the Cardinals. This. Does this feel like a story that's been coming for six years? I like is like, I don't know what to make a Kyler Murray, like, badass in college. Had moments in the pros. I like him. I like his game. But it's like, it's never. I feel like you're always like, one. You're always waiting for one more dial turn that just doesn't seem to ever come. Yeah, I mean, it really sets your franchise back, you know, like, they get. They paid him a lot of money and he just didn't deliver. And that's. That hurts, you know, the Vikings. I could see the Vikings picking him up as a veteran to go against jj. I think if Kyler Murray matures and gets and really commits to the craft, I think he has crazy potential. But it's got to happen, like, this year, right? It's so weird, too, because he's never been the guy that's in the headlines. Like, he's not Manziel. You know, it's not like. And I like Johnny. I'm not busting on you, Johnny. I'm just saying. But let's be honest. And you've even said it yourself, totally immature, like, in trouble all the time. That's not Kyler. He seems, like, put together, but all you hear is this same thing. This maturity, this discipline. Like, it's like, it's hard to put. Get your head around it. He had to put a clause in his contract to not play like PlayStation or Xbox or something like. Like, that was in his contract. You could only play X amount of hours of Xbox a week, like. Like a child. Yeah. Never heard of such in a professional contract. Right. And there's some dudes. There's been some dudes that, like, if they were gonna have that clause or have the no stupid goofing off clause, it would have been before Kyler, because you don't. Again, Kyler's just under the. He's just behind the scenes, I guess. He's like, you know, what's. The kid that never grew up? It's like Webster or something. Like, you know, talk about Peter Pan, maybe. But remember Webster? Like, wasn't he, like, a kid that, like, always was a kid? I don't know. Webster just physically didn't grow. I don't know. Maybe I thought he was always kind of acting like a kid, too. Yeah. And same with the guy from Different Strokes, Arnold. Yeah, exactly. I think they just stopped growing. I don't know. I didn't mean, like. I was talking about more maturity, like, than their, like, physical side. But Kyler, I mean, he's not the biggest guy, but he's. He's bigger than those guys. He's an NFL quarterback. I thought. I've been more like. Like, they're always a kid, I guess, kind of like Michael Jackson. Like Michael Jackson, they say. Never really grew up because he just never, like, got a chance to live. He was on the road all the time. Then when he finally, like, had a little bit time of money, he's like, I'm gonna stay, kid. You know? Anyway, I digress. Bella's right. Peter Pan complex. Yeah, Peter Pan complex. That's what it is. Not Webster. You know, I am showing my knowledge of the 80s silver spoons. Remember that movie, that Silver Spoons, Silver Spoon. The kid had the train in the. You know, they drove through whole house, secret passages. Great house. Was a great house always. I forever wanted secret passages in my house because of that show. Way different than where my house I grew up in. Was it all open, no doors or something? It's like, lived in the train. Okay. Box. No. In fact, at my. Mary Frances Ludden turns 80. She turned 80 yesterday. So happy. Mom, thank you for raising four boys. So. Yeah. So shout out to Mary Frances. L. Hey. I'm thankful for Mary Frances Ludden for having Brian. You know, I don't even know her, but I love her because she had Brian. So that's. We do give her a shout out. 8, 0. It's a good one. You know, is she good? Health's good? Yeah, she's doing okay. They're down in Marco Island, Florida, doing their thing. Okay. So. Yeah, that's cool. Retired, doing their thing. I talked to my mom this morning for about 30 minutes, and she just told me how happy she was. Like, 30 minutes. She's living her best life. That's great. You know, I'm like, if I'm 74 and as happy as she is, I'm. I'm good. You know, I will say that I have my parents. I have happy parents. You know, like, that's. I think that's a big deal, like, as far as how you grow up and stuff. Like, I don't know, like, it makes a difference. Mom was always happy. Yeah, it does. You know, like, my mom was always happy that dad was in the military, so he had that in him, but he was generally always happy. Was. No, no, we did. We were breasts tonight because, you know, a lot of times you have mental health issues. Things that. They're just natural or just out of control. Not, you know, not having to go around that. It's like, I like being around happy people. You're not. Not because the. Not because we're like, I don't know, Cinderella. Like, we think everything. Oh. You know, like Pollyanna. I think that's the right analogy there. Unlike Webster. The not Pollyanna. Ish. But, you know, like, just not a time. Like, let's. Let's. Let's just be happy, you know, try to figure this out. Anyway, I'm happy that Brian Ludden is my friend and that we get to do this show. Go ahead, brother. What'd you say? Same exact thing to you, man. What? Any final thoughts, Bella? Did we leave anything out here on the March 6, 2026 edition of Collection? Only thing is that today the US plays Brazil in the World Baseball Classic, which is super exciting. And we lost last time to Japan in 2023, so hopefully this year we can have a comeback moment. Yay. Yeah, that'd be awesome. That's. That's exciting stuff. Exactly. We're right around the corner from opening day. We talk about that more as it comes. I. I did open a box, you know, as we finish here. I don't want to. I talked about how happy the. I opened the tops 2026 Series 1 Hobby Box, and I haven't. And I'm a baseball. I'm a football. Excuse me. Basketball. More of, like, me personally, in PC stuff. I got baseball stuff. We got a ton of baseball in the store. It's freaking card chop. And baseball still rules, but I just. All it did was make me want to open a football box. I don't know. I know people love baseball and I like, I've gotten more into watching baseball again. But the baseball cards, there's so many players. I'm like. I got dizzy trying to, like, get keep up with it. I mean, I felt old. I mean, how many. How many players are on every baseball team? 24. Okay, so it's not my imagine. Well, I know there's a lot of football players, but they don't make football cards for every football player, I don't think. Dude, they got. They got rookie league, they got low A. They got. Yeah, they got double A. They got so many, so many play. And how many teams is it? Same number. 30. Yeah, that's about the same as football and basketball, but, like, that's pretty. 720 people are in the major leagues, but in the minor leagues, there's like 7,000. I'm just so behind on my names. I gotta get better at that football, guys. I know the offensive lineman for the Chiefs, you know, like. But it's, it's, it's getting rough. I gotta get up. I gotta. I'm really trying to get back up to speed, but I, I'll tell you what. Like, football cards are way more expensive, but yeah, I feel like you get bigger hits. I was just kind of like dying for like a $10 card. Opening that hobby box. Yeah, like one 30 card. And that's cool, but I'm like, I don't know. Take your feedback. Anybody out there that wants to learn me on baseball, get me back up to speed on baseball? That's what we say in the South. If you want to learn me, learn me. Grew up in easy, man. I got a college degree, but, I mean, let's be honest. I grew up right here. I gotta get learned on more baseball. You want to talk basketball? You want to talk Cooper Flag? You want to talk Wimby? You want to talk Shay Gildress? You want to talk. Who are you going to go as deep as you want? A basketball and football? But I got to get my, my baseball thing going because I was just like opening these baseball cards. I. I believe you could do it. I believe in you. I got a memory for it. I just got to get into it. I needed to open like a banger box. I'm going to go like jumbo next time. Triple jumbo or something. I don't know. Whatever, whatever. Like the, the banging box. I need Some. Like, I needed some. You know what it was, Brian? I needed some dopamine, and I wasn't getting it with the. The. The ace of bass I was getting out of that hobby box. Too much bass. I mean, the base card stack, I thought they're high when you press a football. That baseball card base stack was this high out of that hobby box. Yeah. Now, I'm not gonna sell a single box out of this store, but, no, I'm saving the good ones for everyone else. Yeah, it's enough Tinder for a day. Oh, God, it's. It's kindling in. In the South Carolina fire for three years. Light one of those cards up and go. No, I. Trying to learn the names, man. Lots of names. So bear with me as I get my baseball names for this year. I'm. Look, in three or four weeks, I'm going to be quoting the dudes for baseball. I'm committed to it. I'm in. I've got to put my reps in. I got to open some more and get the boys into baseball more. We've been football, basketball, family, even though we own the card store. I got my guys, they're into baseball, but, man, we gotta. I gotta get some reps in. I gotta rip, like. I gotta rip through, like, a hundred grand in. In baseball to get where I was at. Football. You got three grand? Yeah. Three grand. At least. Yeah. Brian, final thoughts today, my friend. I'm all good, my man. It's always a pleasure to be with you. I enjoy it. Thank you for everything. Bella, thank for. Thank you for everything you do. So, yeah, just have a great weekend, everybody, and thanks for watching. Yeah, we appreciate everyone. Like Brian said, we. We know you got options, and we thank you for making us one of them. If there's something you got, feedback, leave in the comments. I respond to every one of those, Bella, and I jump in on those comments on social or on Spotify or YouTube. Keep dropping them. Anything we could talk about? Guess we could bring ideas. Hey, you know, Brian's got access, so we could, you know, what do you want? Well, you know, let us bring you access to what you want, when you want it. And we thank you. Don't forget about Ludx in the App Store. L U D X Go download that app. We talked a lot about it today. Go check it out. For Brian Ludden in Chicago, I'm Ryan Alford. We'll see you next time, Pleasure Nation. Thanks for tuning in to the show. 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Episode summary

In this episode of Collector Nation, Ryan Alford and Brian Ludden talk through what’s happening across the sports card hobby right now — from shop updates and card show pickups to how collectors will manage and share their collections as the hobby becomes more digital Ryan shares recent takeaways from running Collector Station and working local shows, while Brian brings in a unique conversation piece: a Tiger Woods “Year of the Tiger” Toronto Expo promo card numbered to just 20 copies They also dive into Ludex’s upcoming collection management features — including stackable search, advanced filtering, and the bigger vision of making the hobby feel more like a searchable, always-on marketplace for collectors Topics Covered • Ludex collection management tools • Stackable search and card filtering • Tiger Woods Toronto Expo promo (/20) • Kevin O’Leary card necklace moment • Collector Station shop and show insights • Discipline and decision-making in sports and collecting Connect With Guest & Host Brian Ludden Founder — Ludex Website: https://ludex.com App: Search “Ludex” in the App Store Ryan Alford Host — Collector Nation Website: https://thecollectornation.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanalford