The National 2026 Day 2

Welcome to the Sports Card Lessons Podcast with your host, Big Ken. A retired teacher bringing you lessons each week. He's learned in the hobby by taking you behind the table and inside the mind of a dealer and a collector. Sit back and relax. There one-of-one be a test. The only thing being graded here is the cards. Welcome to the Sports Card Lessons podcast. I'm your host, Big Ken. Whether you're watching on YouTube or listening on a streaming service, please, like, subscribe. Hit that notification bell so you'll be notified whenever I drop any new content. What is going on? Day two of the National. I got my man here, Carmine, at Carmine's Cards. How was day two? I thought it was pretty good. We kept living up to our motto, one-of-one the day, which you definitely did more than me. I started off so hot, Ken. I had a $1500.50 sale for 17 different cards before the show, even before I even put my cards, I was trying to put my cards out. You're like, in the showcase, I mean, the guy was like, sorry to disturb you guys. Can I go through your box? So I'm like, Yu-Gi-Oh sure. And then I sold a Barry Bonds autograph, 2000 SPX, PSA 9, which is really nice for 850. And then after that was definitely slower. So close to 4,000 in sales for me yesterday was 7,000. So not as good, but took the opportunity to buy some also. So, Yu-Gi-Oh it was definitely same foot traffic. It was crazy. Again, I go back on everything I said about I didn't think I was going to be able to buy at the national, like I thought. And we look around from where we're sitting, any direction we look, buying strong, paying cash money on people's thing. Like, you have everything. Sports card lessons, obviously. And some people have. We buy cards or, you know, paying 100. That's it. Paying cash. Yu-Gi-Oh And I never thought. And all of a sudden, like, people are just keep coming up to the table with cards. Yu-Gi-Oh And we just keep buying. So. So I was. I'm completely wrong. I'll admit it. Like, it was. It's just unbelievable. And. And I think it gets to a point too, where, you know, they're even. The lines to go to some of these buying stations are too long. People are just like, forget it. I'm just gonna go from table to table, and if someone says they're buying, I'll see what they want. And I think it was another great day buying the. The, you know, the recap of the day for me is that the singles. Yu-Gi-Oh All Those cards in, one touches, the RPAs, the autos, the numbered cards, the patches. This is what everybody wants. Yu-Gi-Oh In the boxes specifically. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, we've got cases of cards of graded cards, and they come up and they're buying the one touched cards out of the case. And those boxes we have, they are, they're, Yu-Gi-Oh You know, fighting through ten fingers into that thing. Just coming out stacks at a time. Yu-Gi-Oh Just, just, Yu-Gi-Oh And, and pings to me what I feel ping strong. Yu-Gi-Oh Like, you know, everything I priced in there, like we always do, like 10 above, you know, whatever. And, and either paying exactly at that 10 or just saying, you know what, I'll just pay what your sticker is because I think, I think you're fair. Because all I hear is how everybody is, you know, 50 to 80% over sticker price on so much stuff. And by the time people come and they look and they see something 10, all of a sudden they're rolling their eyes. I'm like, Yu-Gi-Oh what's going on? I mean, I think the last one sold at that price, you know, and I think people are, are, are, are fighting with, with dealers because of pricing and how much stuff is overpriced. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh that's what we've heard in general. And maybe that's part of our problem too. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I know our stuff is, is priced pretty good in the showcases. I'm probably a little higher on the stuff in the showcases compared to the stuff in the boxes, so maybe. But I think once we see tomorrow and Saturday being the two biggest days. Yep. We'll hopefully see more money coming to our tables in that, you know, few hundred dollar to a thousand range to try and buy, you know, some bigger cards. Because we have seen the guys next to us with the money counter. It's just going off and off and off, but they're, you know, know several thousand to five figure, you know, 20,000 or more cards. So that's a big gap between what we're doing. But I'll be interested to see if the showcase stuff picks up soon. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, honestly, these first couple days I expected repackers and obviously the opportunists, I mean, we've seen tons of them coming in and even saying like, hey, like, I want to buy this, but when I go to sell it, I, I, I need some buffer in there to make money. Oh, you had a great line to somebody today. I told him, that's my job, that's my, that's my job. I'm here to make the money. No, but then you gave him the, the deal he wanted. He was happy after that too. Yu-Gi-Oh I'm a nice guy. Yu-Gi-Oh Can I say I'm a good guy. Which, which segues into your story about how that was taking advantage of you a little bit. What a great story I had today. I had a lady come up to the table, decked out in WNBA stuff, and I'm sitting on a ton of wnba, and I figured, this is great, this is what she wants. And, and she says, are you trading? And I said, sure. And she pulls out an Otani card. It was the last sale on The Otani was $136. And on eBay there's 129. Buy it now. So I said to her, look, I could give you, you know. She said, what can you give me on trade value? I said, give you $110 on trade value. She goes, well, I was looking for 120 to 130 in the card. And I, I explained to her, look, the last one sold, you know, here I can buy, you know, there's one for sale. Buy it now. I said, I think I'm being kind of generous. I said, but let's not get stuck on that because you may like a card that I got some room on and we could just, we could work out a deal. So she pulls out a whole bunch of cards out of the case and, and we're going over it and, and there was a guy standing next to her and he puts his hand up and he says, I'll pay more for the Otani. And I thought, I'm like, what is going on right now? I'm like, it's not like it's a five or six hundred dollar card. Not like it's a thousand dollar card. Yu-Gi-Oh you know, Yu-Gi-Oh it's a hundred and twenty dollars card. I offered one hundred and ten dollars on him. He's, you know, being bad card, show etiquette. Bad card, show etiquette. So in her mind, I think she's getting paid way above top. So she tells the, she tells me, I'm gonna hold off on this for now. And she turns to him and he looks at me and he. She really doesn't want to walk anywhere, right? She wants to get this deal done. So they're going back and forth on the card, and then he says, I'll give you $115 for it. I started laughing. I'm like, all that for $5. So she agrees to do the deal. They're trying to do the deal. And then she turns to me because she doesn't have change. She says, you have change for a 20? And I said, you said, after all that, after all that, you're asking me for days for a 20? Yu-Gi-Oh And of course, like, I, I, it's comical at this point. So being a good guy, I am, I'm reaching in my Beckett to give her change for 20. And what did she say? Well, you said, Yu-Gi-Oh after all that, you're gonna ask me for change? She goes, well, if you don't want to change my 20, anybody would change my 20. I, I could go somewhere else and get change for my 20. As if you're doing her a favor after she screwed you over with the deal. You know, not a major deal. But then she comes back. I mean, the attitude was, was, was you didn't mean adding to it. And to compound it, while all this is going on, there's another kid at the table who's trying to do something with another person's fanny there. And he says to me, do you have a coin? And I'm like, Yu-Gi-Oh I have a quarter that I keep in my bag for a coin flip. Yu-Gi-Oh So I hand him the quarter. He does the coin flip with his kid. I'm watching her, I'm watching him. So I don't know who one-of-one the deal, but he Beckett the quarter up and they walked away. I'm like, I lost the deal. I lost my quarter. I'm. What happened? I'm like, all this just happened, like, immediately in one. Yu-Gi-Oh it was, it was a comical day. That. That was good. That was funny. I had a funny story also with this guy who was probably in his early 20s, I would say, and his girlfriend. And they were looking at this Paul Pierce autograph. It was nice. It was a viewpoint. Signatures numbered out of five on card autograph. But I had it 175. And I could tell he's, like, agonizing over it. So I said, what do you think on that? You know, I had a little room on it. He said, well, I could do 140. He said, I, I didn't come here for this, but I'll do 140. And so I said, well, okay, what about 150? And I look over at him. I thought, you know, meaning between 175, 140, 150 would get it done. And his girlfriend looks at him. She goes, she kind of did the same thing as the guy did. Covered her mouth a little bit, as if you can't see Five. Five feet away. You can clearly hear everything. And she goes, she goes, offering 145. And she, like, I was like, I was like, I'll do 145. Just because she was patient and gave you the, you know, kick in the pants to do it. He said, all right, let's do it. So that was good. It added a good, good feeling. And then when I, when she saw me say that to him, she really felt like she was involved in it. She got the one-of-one It was. Yu-Gi-Oh everybody one-of-one We one-of-one the day. She looked at him like, she was like, I got this done for you. But I know that was brownie points for him too. So it was good. Yu-Gi-Oh good motion there. And we kind of talked a little bit today. And you had another guy, you know, that came to your table like, like sometimes like you, you get set on a price on a card, you know, like you're 150 or 140 or whatever, but then somebody just says something or they come, they. They say something funny or they're. They're very personable. Yu-Gi-Oh And you're just like, Yu-Gi-Oh I'm gonna give that to you. Like the guy today that we, we got, he got talking like, he's like, how I'm just trying to make $20 on this card, right. Like this whole thing. And I mean, it just got to a point where I'm like, look, I'll give you the deal. Because obviously that meant a lot more to him, but it was just being very personable. Yu-Gi-Oh And you, you had the customer come up and said, I'll slip you and see. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I was telling you, I said, you know what, it's kind of weird, like that extra thing, you know, with the girlfriend being involved. The 145 to meet in the middle of $5, that adds a little something to it. And one time a few months ago, a guy said, Yu-Gi-Oh I think I had a card priced at 120. He said, well, what if I slide you a slick C note for that? And I'm like, you know what, sir? Usually I would say 110 to me in the middle. But the way you phrase that, I'm gonna give it to you. So. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh If you have a little personality to it, sometimes just bring in some, you know, some. Something extra to the table. Yu-Gi-Oh right. Yu-Gi-Oh it's worth the $10. Like instead of asking for 10 more dollars, like, sometimes you give $10 off if it's, if it's definitely worth it. We, we had an 11 year old kid Come to our table today, had what maybe over $50,000 worth of. Well, you had that Justin Herbert Gold Kaboom. BGS95. That was a big one. Yu-Gi-Oh Nice kid. We're talking to him. He was Zebra personable. He pulled out a couple cards and then all of a sudden he comps it and he's. He's giving me a comp price of a card. Like, I know I price my card, so I know the last sale and I just. Card price at 300. I know the last sale was 295. And he's like, well, what can you do on this? I got the last sale here was 132. And he's holding his phone up. I'm like, wait, what did it just sell in like the last day or two? How did this happen? And he's like, no, that was. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh that was October 2024. And I'm like, okay. But there was a sale like three months ago. Go. Yu-Gi-Oh And I said, no wonder why you got 50k worth of cards in that. Yu-Gi-Oh In that case, using those comps, right? Yu-Gi-Oh he knows what he's talking about or how to tip the scale. But he was good. I mean, he was 11 years old. That kid was sharp. He knew what he was doing. Yu-Gi-Oh he did. He had some good stuff also. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh And. And I know we have to bring it up. We have to say it. Trade night. Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh What a crap show. Yu-Gi-Oh We Goldin get in. Yu-Gi-Oh it was, it was to capacity when we got to the escalators. So I know a ton of people and you know who you are have been messaging me for this last week. How do we get into trade night? You knew what was going on last year. You know, how do we do it this year? And, and there was stuff that came up that said, all you need is your pass, you know, your. Your five day or your VIP or your wrist, the band get in for the day. And then all of a sudden there was a second part of that email that, that directed to the website that said, oh, it's going to be easier to get wristbands this year. And even up to Tuesday, we were down at card ladders booth who was sponsoring one of them and they had no idea. We were trying to ask Chris and Christina. They got like, you know, where, where are the trade. Like I. People are asking me and I had no idea what's going on with that. Right. And it was, it was kept very secret what was going on. And then all of a sudden, today, tonight's the first trade night, they were opening up something up up upstairs around 1 o'. Clock. People were lined up to get band, you know, bands wristbands to get in there. And they were supposed to be limited to get in. And then next thing you know, you know, we all get a wristband, figure we're going to get into trade night. And then when we showed up there were, you know, first of all, security was like, you're never getting it. Like we, so we went, we went home, we Tribute our stuff off. Right. We go back, you know, we gotta roll our stuff back to the room, drop it off. We walk back to the thing and they're like, Yu-Gi-Oh no, you're not getting it. He said it was at capacity for 45 minutes. Yu-Gi-Oh already. And he said, well, you can go around that way and get in, you can get in the line. And we're like, okay, so we'll just walk over to that side. And then we got in the door. I don't know, 7, 800 people. Would you say more? That line was at least. Yu-Gi-Oh like 250. And then people were aligned with their stuff out displayed and cards everywhere, which was a good way to circumvent the process. But Yu-Gi-Oh And that, that lineup, their escalator was not moving. No. And they were waiting, they were waiting for somebody to come down the stairs. One person out, one person in type of thing. And nobody was getting into it. I mean, they really, somehow they need to fix this. They need to figure something out. You know, obviously the, the attendance this year, we can see that by the, the, the foot traffic yesterday on the Wednesday was like a Friday, today was like a Saturday. I mean, I can't even imagine what the next two days are going to look like. Yu-Gi-Oh You know, here and, and they have two more trade nights. I mean, nobody's getting into these trade nights. I don't know how many people they let in, but even the people that we knew, our friends who were in the trade night who were messaging us saying, this room is so full, there's nowhere to sit. You can't even move in this room. Much different than what we, we experienced last year at the trade night, which was you were able to walk around, see everybody's stuff and things like that. So. Yu-Gi-Oh So maybe they need to limit it more. Right. Would you say, well, find a bigger room. Yu-Gi-Oh Or expand it to other local ballrooms, hotels or. Yu-Gi-Oh Multiple part trade night. Yu-Gi-Oh Or pass that portion off, Give that off to somebody, you know, that says, look, I, I can fix this you know, and I'm not saying it's me or you or anybody else, but I'm sure somebody will be able to fix this and say, you know what, let's. Let's take a bigger look at this and figure out how we're going to put all these people, you know, who want to go to trade night and, and get that done. Because I know the VIP room during the day these last two days, right? Everybody says been great. It's been. It was like what the trade nights look like last year, but come trade night, I mean, there's just so many people. Let's face it, we're at a card show, right? There were just tons of people here. That's what they want to do. They don't, you know, know nothing else but the, you know, be buying and selling and trading cards. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh It's a good point. So, Yu-Gi-Oh definitely something, something they have to fix. The one thing, and I have to say this too, that it's not because I'm old, right? It is so loud in there. There's so many people talking and working deals and chatting and. And we have that stage to our left that probably for about two hours today, it was like the peanuts. It was just like, I never understood one word that was being, but it was just hitting me. Yu-Gi-Oh And. And by the end of the day, people are like making offers on cards and I'm like, wait, what? How much? Yu-Gi-Oh cupping your ears. Your ears are ringing. It's so loud in this, this place. Yu-Gi-Oh End of day two, we're tired. Like, it's a long day. It's a long day. Eight to six. Yu-Gi-Oh And then right back to going to the trade night or waiting in line and just constant interacting. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, somebody, somebody called me on the phone. I'm like, I've got 30 seconds to talk and I gotta hang up. So whatever it is, give me the important stuff, I gotta hang up. Like I. Hello? Get to the point. Okay, thank you. I have time to talk. There's so many people here. And then I'm talking to other people here, set up. I'm like, what are you doing later? And they're like, I'm going to bed. I'm so tired. I'm just going to bed. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh So singles are still boss, right? Slabs are. Slabs are slow. And, and, and I think that probably will change a little bit. I think, you know, twofold with that. Like, I, we watch. I watch some of the, the whatnotters and the repackers come through, buying all the low end slabs. Right. And I think those, those slabs from you know, say 100 to 500 are probably in the wheelhouse of most people are looking for those 600 and up slabs. Those are tough. Those are people looking for deals like, like hey, I see you have 750. The last one sold at 680. Can you do 550? You know, like that type of thing. Opportunists, they're like, look, you know, if I say this enough, somebody's going to say yes and make the sale and I can move that slab somewhere else. But I think we're going to see that change as you know, for us anyways. I think we're going to see that tomorrow and Saturday. I, I, I do, I think the, the pricing of the singles from the 20 to 200 in that area has been the, the prime thing. So yes, so I think we're gonna see that also with the, the slabs moving forward. I, I just can't see that being the thing that's been, you know, that that's only going to sell this year. And I'm not saying people aren't selling slab, obviously people are selling slabs, but I think they're just more difficult. So many offers on slabs that I've said no to and so many deals on singles that, happy to make those deals that the deals were so much better with the singles than, than the slabs. Yu-Gi-Oh I have too. I hope the showcase stuff picks up. That would be great. Yep. So pickups along the way. Sophie Cunningham is still boss. Every time someone comes up. Any cars I can find, I buy. This is the only out of, out of the five I bought today, this is the only one I have left. This is the auto, this is the signature series. Auto number to 49. I'll hold that up. This is the only one. I bought this late in the day with three others. The, the other three have sold. This is the last one I have left of her. I Beckett up Dominique Malanga. I, I told a funny story on this. This is the Prizm water of 49. Oh, that's nice. I bought, I bought this card Zebra cheap months ago and I went to a card show and somebody came up to my table and they had that same card and they said, you know, are you buying yet? They gave me the card and I said to myself, I just bought this card. So on ebay, I was the last ebay sale and I bought this card. I forget what I bought it for, but it was under a hundred dollars and, and I said, I said to the. The person I said, look, I see the last sale on ebay is here. And they're like, oh, that sale never got paid for. And I'm like, hold on, let me pull it out of my case. There's the car. I paid for it. I definitely paid for that card. So, Yu-Gi-Oh you know, it's not an expensive card of a player who's a great player. And it's number to 49, right? A rookie card, purple. It's a 49. Yu-Gi-Oh She just did that on that dunk in the all star game. That was nice. Y. I Beckett up this Kiki airfriend. My guy Rob, my. My listener who buys all my Kiki airfriend thinking of you. And I Beckett up this R Red Auto to 99. When it came to the table, I said, even if I do nothing with it, I know somebody who would want this card. And my favorite pickup to the of the day PC card. Something you probably. I even surprised this guy when I bought this card. But it's a John Calpieri auto number to. What's that number? 15. 25. Number to 25 gold. Gold to 25. That's nice. So this will sit on my shelf in my. In my office. Zebra happy to have it. And a few other cards that I Beckett up today just sold, like bought them, put them in the case and sold them. And sometimes those are the cars when you know. Right when you know what's selling and you know what to buy. Like the Sophie to buy them, drop them in there and they can sell them right out. Yu-Gi-Oh that was good. I was a little jealous of that Calipari. That was pretty cool. So I got. I dabbled into your lane, Ken. I buying a WNBA here. Beckett up some wnba. Not from me, though. No, from somebody else. Yes. Well, I think I have a little more leverage with somebody walking up to the table. No, I'm sure you would give me a good deal on certain stuff. This is Caitlyn Clark and fuego Insert from select rookie PSA 10 in the fever jersey pop 118, which is not like Zebra low, but is not crazy high either for her rookie stuff. So that was kind of cool. Yu-Gi-Oh And select, believe it or not, that's those. Those select cards, they graded very well that year. Out of her rookie year, the Prizm cards were terrible. But the select cards graded well. So. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh this is. And it's just a cool design with the color navy and orange. It goes well with the fever jersey. Then I got this Paige Beckers from the Same guy. This is a 20, 24 Prizm draft picks PSA 10 penmanship, silver in the Yukon jersey. And it's only a pop 31 in the PSA 10. So that was cool. I think I paid around 800 total between the two. Can we talk about his labeling? I mean, is this the best labeling? It takes him so long to put these labels on, but is it the best labeling ever? I mean, I gotta hire this guy just to do the labeling. Because of the handwriting? Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh the handwriting's good. And I like to, just to break it down, if you can't see it, I put on there RC, like all different stickers, you know, handwritten RC pop 31 silver champ. And then the price, which is 620 champ was the most important one. She's a champ. She's a champ. I don't put that on everyone. They have to one-of-one a national championship or you know, the championship of their league. Not everyone just gets a champ. So those are those two. Then I got. This is kind of an interesting Shador Sanders National Treasures RPA numbered out of 25 with a two color patch. Nice auto. And this was a cheap 230. The last one was like 250. So I paid pretty strong on this. But if he becomes a starter or you know, he's, he's got a it factor that some people like. So that was kind of cool. And then my two favorite card pickups from the day I got from a dealer two booths down from us, both Flawless. One is Eli Manning, the champions set, which has both of his Zebra Bowls the logos on there. So I really like the Zebra bowl set. Yu-Gi-Oh I should have put champ on this one, but I put Zebra Bowl. I was just, I was about to say how come he's not a champ? He was a champ. He was. Yu-Gi-Oh And he's got two. I should put champ and then another champ times two X. Yu-Gi-Oh so I got this one, which is cool. I basically paid the last sale at 350 for it. And then I got this Ray Lewis, another Flawless. This is the dual vertical patch, auto player worn, but it's out of 10 and it was stickered at 500. I thought that was pretty low. So I got a 750 sticker on it now, but paid 800 for both of those. So I thought that was pretty good. And then shout out to our, our guy Howie. And he's been organized how he's been clutch. He's been clutch and he's been pulling the strings behind the scenes and not Always fully appreciated for everything he does. Makes the reservations, like at Gibson's, adds me onto the reservation. He's the type of guy that calls you and says, the wristband's ready for the trade night, get in line before everybody. And he lets you know. I'm like, howie, how did you find? He's like, oh, Yu-Gi-Oh just go over there. You know, he has the inside info and he's always looking out and, you know, gets the Uber to and from the pizza place to pick up our pizza. We orders it, he picks it up. So he's doing the X factor things that make everything go smooth. So how he gets a shout out, big shout out to Howie. And I got, let's see, three, five different tickets from him, which is really cool because it's from his dad's collection that was in his nightstand. He said, For 50 years, almost especially. Well, I'll save the 50 year old ones for a second, but this is the ticket to the first interleague matchup Sepia series between the Yankees and the Mets, which was June 16, 1997. So I got three tickets to that, which is really cool, kind of a historic thing and pertaining to New York City. And I'm from Westchester County, New York. And then these two are really incredible. Two tickets to full tickets, not stubs. Two tickets to the 1997 World Series, Game 6, in which Reggie Jackson hit those three home runs and clinched the World Series for the Yankees. I could put champ on these also. You could, Yu-Gi-Oh But that's times, right? Didn't he have more than one? Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh And then for the three home runs that he hit in there, I mean, that's an iconic game, you know, and to clinch the World Series. So these two tickets are really cool. They're raw right now. Maybe when PSA opens back up, I'll submit them because I'm a pretty, you know, decent ticket collector. I like those historic items. I think the market is just so undervalued. Of course, enough people have to be interested in it, want to put their money in it. Yu-Gi-Oh it's more difficult to transport. It's not as transactable as cards. There's not a, a buy and sell type of market like that. But I just think if enough people get behind, could really explode. And plus, it's a cool history piece. Yu-Gi-Oh that's it. Nobody has tickets anymore. Everything's electro. So, Yu-Gi-Oh that stuff's anything in the past and that for the value of what you can get for a card versus a ticket, it's incomparable to me. But you know, there's not the same support for it, so. But I mean, that's a really cool, you know, I mean, it's literally a piece of history here. Yu-Gi-Oh Of an all time great World Series game and performance and, and a clinching one-of-one So those are cool. Happy to get those. And speaking of PSA. Right. The morning of the second day of the National. No more submissions for the 230 submission. No more. We're done. Yu-Gi-Oh we're over. We're over Max. We can't take any more. I mean, in the morning, I. People were complaining first thing this morning that it was shut down, that, Yu-Gi-Oh they Goldin accept anymore after, after day one. And then that was from. That was the. The two to eight. That's crazy. They were over. Overwhelmed with, with submissions. So if anyone thinks we're going back to bulk, you could think again. I don't think we're ever going to see bulk pricing again. Not from psa. No. Really? Never again? I don't think so. Even after, like another six months? I don't think so. I mean, I could be wrong. That'll totally change the hobby if it never comes back. How's it going to change the hobby? Because you can submit. They'll give you somewhere to submit it. But it's not going to be to them, I'm sure. Who knows? I mean, they own Collector's Universe has that. All three. You know, maybe. Maybe they'll tell you to go to beach. Maybe they're going to force you to bgs. These are the cheap graders, these are the middle graders and the PSAs. That'll be interesting to see it by this time next year. Like what the grading landscape looks like for them. Yu-Gi-Oh So that's it. That's day two, the recap of day two. And hey, shout out again. So many listeners coming to say hello, please, if you're here, if you're at the national, come find me. Table 2,0007 upstairs. Come by, say hello, introduce yourself. No matter where I go, I'm running into people who are stopping me. And, and I completely appreciate it. And I was saying to Carmine, and I was saying to my wife too, if I ever thought that I could stop doing this, I can't. You know, there's so many people, like when I'm on my end all the time, you know, doing this, and it's nice to come out to this, you know, the big, this big stage and it's so many people be so appreciative and not, not Just say, hey, I listen to it. But hey, I listen to you on the way to work. I'll listen to you when I'm running. Yes. You know, it just. It becomes more. More personal. Yu-Gi-Oh And. And I just appreciate. At least a couple dozen people have said that over the two days. And also people have come up and said to you, I listened to the recap of day one last night. I can't wait for tonight's recap. Which then you tell them, I'm gonna definitely do it. You know, you're keeping me going. And then. And then the first thing also people say to you is, you know, after they say they're a listener, how's it going? How are you doing? You know, did it. And they really want to check in. Yu-Gi-Oh And it's very nice to Sepia. Here it is, day two of the National. Almost midnight. Yu-Gi-Oh Right. We're. We're recording, and we have to be back there tomorrow morning at 8:00am so. Yu-Gi-Oh but happy to do this. Happy to put this out to you guys. So, Yu-Gi-Oh we're gonna. We're gonna stop it here. And we'll be back tomorrow with. With a day three recap. Yep. So, look, I want to thank everybody for tuning in. Until next time, take care of yourselves and everyone around you say, peace. Peace. It.