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Save time and maximize efficiency with adjustable shelving customized to your business's needs. Shop and save on pro grade storage at the Home Depot. How Pros get more done. Hey all right guys, we're back. It's day two, so technically day one of the National Thursday is kind of the main opening day almost always. I'm going to start off with the dumbest, stupidest, cliche crap we've ever said. I said this leading up to that. We weren't going to do this dumb content and we're going to start our first official podcast from the show with it. It's the biggest show ever. I know everybody's gonna say that and it's dumb in the lines. Just to put in perspective, me and dad got out yesterday just to walk in on Wednesday. Wednesday used to be like our day. It was the vendor day. Some VIPs came in, but it was just like the vet set up. Hang around like do nothing special and just kind of make some deals with vendors. Half a mile line out the door like just to get in. Absolutely ridiculous. Again, this is not even a real day. Wednesday was a nothing thing. We had the booth out there, we've got 10 tables. There was not a minute from 2 o' clock to 8 o'. Clock. That wasn't absolutely full. It was ridiculous. We had a ton of highlights, obviously some, some buying, some selling, trading transactions, cool stories, all that stuff. We're going to start off though, because we're going to do one of these every day. It's a special week for us At SCN number one. Really just want to thank you guys, the audience. We don't do that enough and we, we BS and we're sarcastic and I make fun of everybody under the sun and I will do that after. I will degrade everybody, I promise later on. But sincerely, like a thank you. We have an awesome setup here. The content's been amazing. We have a full camera team. You never see me on camera cuz I'm an idiot and we don't ever pay for the stuff. We went all out this year because you guys in the audience have been crazy supportive. So I mean it, Zebra appreciative for that. Having said that, the room was still full of plenty of dummies yesterday. We're going to release some reels and some side skits and stuff of just some of the worst things we've ever seen. Some of the most egregious pricing and some of the biggest sloths under the sun sitting there who Goldin you know, utter a sentence but have a half a million dollars worth of cards on the table. We didn't kind of want to pull the curtain back and give you a glimpse though again, some of the transactions, you'll see all that stuff. Absolute highlight for me. The the 2001 sign of the times. Terrell Davis had a guy, a Peyton Manning collector, the guy name was Drake, walked up to me within the first hour of the show and handed me the Terrell Davis card. Again, that seems insignificant. It's $100 card. I have been chasing that thing for nine years, never seen it. This guy who I don't even know came walking up, listener to the podcast. So I bought the card, he got the bounty that we talked about. It set the tone for the whole day though. We were able to sell a ton of stuff at the booth. Again, the buying, the selling, that's going to happen every day. You'll also see in some of the other footage it's not going to be released on this two pretty amazing shop stories. We talked with one kid Brady, two ends of the spectrum by the way. Brady, 19 year old shop owner, literally opened a shop before his 20th birthday. So kid has millions of dollars worth of cards, wax a shop and everything. He cannot legally drink. It was a wild story. And then Jean, 60 year old woman, retired Navy vet who also just opened a shop in the last couple of months. So we were really trying to like focus on some of the actual collectors and the stories that got people here and brought them into the hobby and. But it's been an Amazing start to the show. I have a feeling this weekend is going to be absolutely insane. And so we're going to add some people in. We're going to talk to Dalen from Junk Wax. Vintage. Had an awesome time, dude. Dylan is the most energetic off the charts wacko in the hobby and we freaking love him. We're going to kind of do a little bit of a recap and look back with him for a few minutes. And then we're going to get Doug in here from Mojo Breaks. Doug has been a veteran in this thing for years, so we'll kind of get some of his perspective this year and looking forward. So we'll jump to those two guys and we'll wrap it up. Dalen, welcome in. First of all, dude, studio's freaking amazing. Incredible. Yu-Gi-Oh I am absolutely blown away. This entire thing's amazing. You know, our SCN corporate area is nuts. Yu-Gi-Oh we're corporate now. We're total corporate sellouts. And I'm good with that. We've got the whole time, dude camera crew. We have like four camera guys. Two in here, two out there. It's pretty wild. I kind of want to get your perspective. I kind of did the cliche, hey, biggest show of all time. This is unbelievable type thing. This is your third national. Correct. So, like, talk. Talk me through it. Like, I don't just want to talk. Like, how does it stack up? For real? Yu-Gi-Oh absolutely. So Cleveland, I think we learned really quickly, like, outgrew that venue. Oh, like, we can't go back to Cleveland, unfortunately. Yu-Gi-Oh Which I freaking love Cleveland, by the way. Right. Most underrated Downtown city you hear nothing good about. Spot on, my friend. It's brand new. Could not agree more. Yu-Gi-Oh Could not agree more. Almost lost Papa Gio in Downtown Cleveland. A couple easy to do, my friend. There's some bars and casinos, so we dragged them. It's all right. No, Yu-Gi-Oh he's. I don't think he's drinking yet, actually. He's sitting behind the camera. We'll get him in here. Indeed. Okay. Sorry, go ahead. Yu-Gi-Oh This has been absolutely incredible. So last year. I'll share with you. Obviously. You saw here last year, right? They had the entire upstairs open. Yep. But they had it closed half of it off. Right. And if you remember, I hear a rumor that they did that intentionally and they actually narrowed the aisles last year because they were afraid that it was going to look sparse. Yu-Gi-Oh that was the biggest complaint, right? Oh, no, my dear friends, that was not an issue. So last year it was incredible. This year, they Opened up the entire upstairs. And not only did they do that, they put our wonderful SC and corporate area up here. They've got a main stage up here where it sounds like Jesse might be doing something special with a couple of Paul and Gary. Gary veteran. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh exactly. Pervert stuff. Some flying lizards. Yu-Gi-Oh Flying lizards. That's right, brother. So there is nothing like the National. Yu-Gi-Oh Period. Dot. Yep. There just isn't. Like, I hate to do this, too, like, to oversimplify it, but I do. Like, some people, like, is a hobby really growing or they're just like, venture money. I'm like, dude, there's like 200,000 wackos in here. Like, and the other thing I noticed yesterday, and you were set up, you guys did way more transacting. You guys were fricking busy. The amount of end users, that's another complaint you hear, like, oh, everybody's buying a flip. Or these wackos are at fricking Target putting kids to scout Pokemon. The amount of guys here, especially yesterday I saw who were like, hey, I'm looking for this card because I don't sell whoever. You saw that, too. Totally. Okay. Yu-Gi-Oh It was astonishing, actually. There were so many people that came up that had lists, like, they had spreadsheets of what they were missing from sets, the different parallels. They were missing what they were looking for. You know, I sold half of my 1986 FLIR PSA. Oh. That people were selling. I thought you were buying that. No, no, no. We sold all of it, which was incredible. Nice. But, Yu-Gi-Oh And then the. The kids that came up yesterday. You know what I mean? Excitement in their eyes. It is so neat to see the enthusiasm. And there were so many people. It's that very first national. Yu-Gi-Oh Like, absolutely incredible. That is correct. And then we actually. The biggest surprise is I have to go buy now because. Yu-Gi-Oh You didn't leave the booth, dude. I thought that we would have enough to get through the days. I was so wrong. Yu-Gi-Oh Because I would have to go out and buy because we have an ebay show on Saturday and I have very little inventory now thanks to yesterday, so. Dang. Okay. Yu-Gi-Oh Speaking. So speaking. It's a good segue. We did the ebay live thing, so Junk Wax Vintage was live on ebay. We did, like, a live watch party with me and Jesse, which I told the ebay people ahead of time. I thought was going to be kind of like, not going to work. I was like, this might be kind of dumb. Right, Right. Not your end. I was like, them walking the Fleer Is cool. And buying. So basically you and Amanda walked the Fleer bought cards. Correct. And then we auctioned them. You auctioned them live. Right. On ebay. Live. And it actually was pretty cool, dude. The stands around the thing, we've heard like 30 or 40 people, like a bunch of weirdo 14 year old bears fans screaming for Caleb. But dude, they were pretty into it and like ebay was throwing out a bunch of stuff. Ebay is obviously a sponsor of ours, but they are all over this building. Like that is correct. The branding is nuts. Ebay is here, full effect. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh it's been pretty wild cuz that was my goal too. Like I, I mean you know this. Like if we sell on live, you have to source singles. Dude, it was tough to leave the booth. So today I'm actually that's my strategy today I'm not putting out nearly as much. I'm like, hey, I just. The stuff I don't. And, and everything I've bought except for one otani I just put away. Like I told dad, I was like, dude, put in the Zion. I don't even want it out cuz it's going to sell. So Yu-Gi-Oh I agree. The PSA thing, you just, you just mentioned this. I actually had not even heard this. So like let them know psa. I can't substantiate this but I've seen several articles from really dependable sources that have said that PSA has closed down the lowest tier option. I think that was like the 230 option, something like that. Okay. The rumor is that they received more submissions yesterday in just yesterday than they did for the entire national last year in this same building. So now I think you've only got the highest tier and the mid tier options available for the 600 bucks. I believe the mid tier is around 400. I think the high tier is 800. Dang. So kudos to you if you have a card that can sustain that. Yu-Gi-Oh but Yu-Gi-Oh it's absolutely incredible to see the volume that just happened yesterday on day one and we didn't even open until two yesterday. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Well I was saying too like Wednesday I said this already but like Wednesday was just our day before. Like vendors come in, hang out, walk around, shake hands, like just catch up with. Yu-Gi-Oh exactly. Rubbing shoulders with the people that you see. Yu-Gi-Oh A few months. And now it's like, dude, if you leave the booth you get guys like wait. I actually appreciate how aggressive the buyers were because I made that thing last week. I was like, if you're a vendor, be at your table. Don't be over here shoving hot dogs down your throat and walking around like an idiot. Do your job. Yep. And a couple times people like gave me that wave and then dad was, he was like, hey, dummy, get over and do your job. It has been pretty cool too. The national hooked us up with an awesome setup the studio. But right across we've got the transaction booth. Yes. My favorite part is watching Gio and David throw people off that thing. We left that open intentionally because you've never seen like an angry Californian, like a midget Italian halfway drinking guy. It was pretty funny. Some of the card guys did not know what they were supposed to do with that. So. Right. Papa Gio is the real MVP in my humble opinion. He's held it down here. He holds a money bag. Right? Right. Yu-Gi-Oh Nobody's gonna mess with him. So the cool thing here in our sports cards nonsense area, specifically we have the all star SCN team. It's pretty cool. Yu-Gi-Oh There's around horn here so you can see all of us in one spot. It's your one stop shop for the best content creators the entire hobby, in my humble opinion. And of course the best podcast in the entire hobby. Nice, my brother. I appreciate it. Yu-Gi-Oh So we got Mojo break set up today. We got Gordy Bong because you can't. I'm pointing like you can see but it's all. It's literally just a horseshoe outside. So Mojo, Gordy, Dalen, Amanda up front. I think Chris Thomas Attaboy Cars is going to set up. Yep. We got the ball card guys. We got Clever Cuban, we got Jesse. We're going to jump across the way today. So Yu-Gi-Oh it's been a pretty awesome setup. Last question. Goal for the show like remaining show you like a card, a box, you're trying to buy a thing you're trying to do whatever. Like what's like the one. Yu-Gi-Oh So eBay is doing something really, really cool. So they're doing. They're trying to promote the buy it now feature. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh If we do a seller suite on Saturday from 3pm to 6pm Central Standard Time, Shameless plug during that. If you take a buy it now down, you will automatically get an ebay Certified repack for free. Is a gift with. So my goal today is going out and finding some really, really special buy it now options for our audience to buy for a Saturday show. There was some shame. That was not shameless. There was a little bit of shame in that plug. So dude, hey, if you haven't checked him out. This is a shameless plug, dude. I. I don't say this about many people. Dylan is a freaking. I said this. The perfect wacko in this industry. It is beautiful. Like the most positive, like, happy dude who's a psychopath. Occasionally he cusses off camera. It's the weirdest frigging thing to see. I. I'm not going to repeat nothing crazy, but he swore yesterday and I was like, I don't even know who I'm talking to. Yu-Gi-Oh not you. There's some awesome people here. Yu-Gi-Oh like I said, I know you're going to. And last thing, too. When you're here, I know you're going to hear some of this stupid negativity. If people are not here, they're the one-of-one losers who are at home making stupid content about it. If you came here yesterday or if you're not come here one of the next few days, it is unreal. So I would encourage anybody to be here. So if I may, I'm going to hop on my soapbox for just one moment, please. So there's a lot. No cussing here. Dude, chill out. Of course. All right. You can mute me if we need to. Right? Complete me out. Yu-Gi-Oh you're. Yu-Gi-Oh you're. You're the real worry here. So there's a lot of. As Mike just said, it feels like if people aren't here that they're going to hate. That's their first reaction. Of course. I completely understand that. That gets clicks. Right. And if they're doing it for that, more power to you. That's just not my style. The fact of the matter is, this is not my opinion. This is a fact. Our hobby is growing almost at an unbelievable rate. And there's a lot of people out there. This is going to be a hot take. A lot of people out there think that there is a chance that our car hobby could fluctuate and go down. Of course. I've been in this hobby since I was almost 7 years old. I turned 44 a couple of weeks ago. I've watched this card market go up and down. What I think we're looking at is a new normal. Okay, really, let me interrupt you real quick. So singles. Because I actually am one of those people. I think the next three to six months, we see something leveling off you things. Really. Okay. And I'll tell you why. Please. Yu-Gi-Oh I like these. Sure. So there has never been. So there's a few nevers. Okay. Number one, there has never been a company like Fanatics that has dumped almost an unfathomable amount of money into this hobby fair. Their goal is to 10x the hobby and they've done that through education and exposure. And I think that is incredibly intelligent. And marketing. And marketing, by the way. Tons of marketing. Shameless at times with tons of marketing. Okay. Exactly right. So I only interrupt one more time. So you're good. I'll put myself, brother. I welcome it. So Fanatics is amazing. Nobody has ever injected that much funding into the hobby. Number two, there's an infrastructure. Okay. Through Fanatics and through the distributor program and they've got breaker allocations and things like that. There are so many independent businesses within this hobby. I'm not going to say it's too big to fail because I don't believe that. But there are so many people that have a vested interest in this hobby continuing. It would be really hard for me to believe that it goes backwards. Barring some kind of like economical event or something. Exactly. Okay. You know what I mean? A cosmic impact or something like that. You know. Alien invasion. That's correct. So I think we're looking at a new normal. Because there has never been the amount of collectors that are new to the hobby as there has been in the last couple of years especially. I've talked to literally thousands of them that have just gotten into the hobby in the last few weeks or the last few months. Incredible to hear. And again I've got to give it all the Fanatics. I know Fanatics gets a lot of hate. I am not sponsored by Fanatics at all. I have. I am. Yu-Gi-Oh No elevation. Nothing. Yu-Gi-Oh Correct. But I have to be honest. And they're doing the right thing. So that is my hot take. My brother. I don't think this hobby is going anywhere. At least for a while. There will always be ups and downs. Especially player specific. Sure. Sports specific. When you come in and out of season totally normal. But as far as like some kind of a crash. Like a 2023 event. You don't think it goes like that. Pros trust the Home Depot for heavy duty storage solutions for any job site or garage. Right now get up to 15% off select stor storage and organization. Impact and water resistant totes and shelving built to hold up to £2,500. Storage systems have space for all your tools and protect them in the garage, on the job site and everywhere in between. Save time and maximize efficiency with adjustable shelving customized to your business's needs. Shop and save on pro grade storage at the Home Depot. How pros get More done. This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50 page restoration block. Or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it, ready to make anything online make sense. There's no place like Chrome. Check responses set up, required compatibility and availability varies. 18 plus. Correct. Yu-Gi-Oh I think we're probably somewhere in the middle. Like, I do think, like, especially now I've done the single side so much, but I could see that coming down. But either way, I do think there's like growth. And honestly, I think again, we've been working with the national. Now, I was crazy critical of the national a few years ago. The job they've done here, you've got hundreds of new vendors who are on the list. They're actually trying to open that up. You're letting new blood come in the building. They're doing the thing where you can get one table, not a whole booth, because it was pricing people out. Like, again, I'm not saying everything is perfect here. Everything is perfect with Fanatics, but at least it feels like we have people trying, so. That's right. It's very clear that they're trying to do the right thing. And it's very recognizable. There you go. VIP is opening now. That's our cue to get out of here. So we're gonna get Doug in here real fast and we'll wrap it up. All right, guys, second guess of the day. Kind of want to do like the. The look back with Dalen. He was here yesterday. I know Doug in the group got here a little bit later in the day yesterday. But Doug from Mojo Breaks, which you guys know, I just want to get right into it. How many nationals have you been to? 13. Okay. I was more. I mean that you're actually talking. I was like, I think he's been like eight or nine. But Yu-Gi-Oh so 13, I think nine. Chicago. Oh, really? Yu-Gi-Oh We were counting them yesterday. Nine. Chicago. So Chicago, Cleveland, AC. What? Anybody? We just missed Baltimore. Baltimore was like in 2012. The first one was 2013 and no California. Then it was already done. No. Yu-Gi-Oh Okay. I wish. So I am Zebra curious then kind of walk me through. What was the first one? I don't know, 13 years ago. What do you remember about the first one? Oh, man. You know, it was a couple of us friends just kind of soaking it in. It was obviously overwhelming because you know, we hadn't even had like, I don't even think we had been to a show card show at all. Even in California at the time. Never. Never. So I love the freaking Mojo breaks, by the way. They sell like billions of dollars of stuff. You guys do your own thing though. I've always liked that. I don't. I. I hate these guys that have to be at everything. No one. Dude, that's awesome. Okay. Yu-Gi-Oh So we're like car show. It was like crazy. And then it was right when 12, 13 National Treasures Tribute the same week we're at the national. So we broke a little bit in our hotel room. Okay. And then Rich Layton was like, hey, you want to come break with us? We went to his hotel room, broke some National Treasures. Dang. If you remember, that was a double rookie class. I was like, Kawhi Kyrie ad crazy load class play. Thompson RPAs were 199 then. Yep, that's right. Okay. By the way, what does breaking look like back then? You guys are live from what you're not doing it from like an iPhone, obviously. So what do you know? What are your breaks? You're on in 20. We were on Blog TV for the live, which became Breakers TV eventually. Yep. And you would record on a separate camera to upload to YouTube. So you have like two cameras going, oh, really? All right. And then with the Internet, you know, you'd be uploading like 10 minute videos. It might take all nights to get up on there. And you're collected payments. It's not like auto payout to the. Or was it. What was. What was blog? How would you get money in? You wouldn't. You would have to do you have to do with your website. Dang. Okay, so we had a website back then, like little. A lot of people don't know. We were actually the first breakers with a website. Okay. I actually remember you saying that. I was curious. I forgot about that. So the website even worked through breakers and Blog tv, you just Tribute the link. And then, you know, people went, oh Yu-Gi-Oh There was no way to like buy on there. They were just literally allowing people to stream. Okay. And there was no recording capabilities. So none of the streams were saved or anything like that. So, you know, if a guy missed the break, you have to have a recording. So it'd just be uploaded to YouTube. Oh, okay. So that's a YouTube. Okay. All right. And it would be different angles. Right. So you'd have it like so. So people would watch on YouTube and they're like, why do you have the card off center? Because you have two cameras right there. So you're, like, trying to, like, get it in both. Yu-Gi-Oh So wild times. The good old days. Okay, so what. What do you remember about the night your first show. Gotta be kind of overwhelmed. Like, what's the crowd size? What's the atmosphere like, what's the buzz at that point? We were young. Yes. There was. Everybody was a lot older than us. So that's where it was like, you know, you walk in and you see the vintage and you're like, Yu-Gi-Oh this is crazy. All these jerseys, all these, you know, 62s. Or one guy had a whole set of 62s, you know, PSA, 67s. And just a lot of vintage at first and, you know, not a lot of modern back then, really. All vintage. All these guys that have been, what, the national, like, what year? 45 now. Yu-Gi-Oh something. Yu-Gi-Oh Like those guys. You know, one thing the national has done is they've given the loyalty to these guys. Yu-Gi-Oh Them have their same spot. Right. Or table. You walk in as the same dudes who were here 42 years ago. Yep. Yep. Okay, what's crowd size? What are we talking? Maybe a tenth of what we're seeing. Was it here in this building back there? It was. Okay. No upstairs. No upstairs and not half the downstairs. Like that horseshoe. Right. Dang. Okay, what's like. And again, I don't know if you can look back to, like, what was like, the hot item. I'm trying to think 2012. I know 2012, basketball got crazy. Hut. But it took a little time. Football. Oh, football was. Yu-Gi-Oh it was RG3. Russell Wilson. That's right. Andrew. Okay, so that was kind of like the early heyday for breaking. Because we started in 10 with Strasberg. Strasberg was kind of like what got us into break and what ruined pitchers for Everybody until Paul Sk. Yep, 100%. You had that, you know, that paper auto they. They. They shoved in there. And I think somebody pulled the one one. And okay. Brian Gray wound up having it in a repack later or something like that. He probably still bragging about it. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh still bragging about it. And then 11, you had Harper. So it was. It was pretty. Baseball dominant. I mean, okay, football, you had like, Sam Bradford had a little buzz. And then, you know, 11 was Newton. Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh Cam Newton. Von Miller came out hot. Kaepernick a little bit later. Yu-Gi-Oh that. That's right. But then 12, it was just with the. With luck and RG3, it was just like A lot of people came in then. Okay. And then 13 did just the opposite. EJ freaking manual and Gino Smith. If you can fast forward like so that's 2012 national. So give me like 2019 or 2018. What's a national? Right before COVID you kind of remember and kind of. What's, what's it look like? You know, really just the emergence for us as like the breakup pavilion. Right. And oh yes, that wasn't around original. It was like, I want to say it was like 16 or 17. It started and we were a little apprehensive to even. Okay. Even get into it. And I'm still honestly to this day, they've done a great job down there with the, with the pavilion. But like to me, if you're at the national, you're looking at singles, you're meeting athlete. I guess there's some dude break cards for you. And I don't want to be on camera like I did it the one year, the first year we ever set up was in Cleveland. Yu-Gi-Oh So 2017 maybe. By the way, Cleveland back then was great. We freaking drove my Chevy Avalanche across the Fleer Yu-Gi-Oh And they're like, just drive it in. They're like, here union guys to start my car, you have to pay somebody in friggin Chicago. Cleveland. They're like, dude, just pull up, you're fine. Yu-Gi-Oh you're good. My dad's walking around 7am Drinking beer, helped me set up a table. But we broke there. It was cool for like an hour because some of your people are there. But then you're like, I'm sitting by a booth like an idiot. Like I would at home. Like I want to be out. So. Yu-Gi-Oh that's what I'm saying. It's like you go to Disneyland, does somebody ride the ride for you? Yu-Gi-Oh you watch them, you want, you want to experience, you want to see all this stuff. And if you're sitting there watching a breaker break. To me, break is when you're at home, you're. You have a hard day, you put the kids to bed. Exactly. You know, you get into a break, you have some entertainment evening, you know, so, so crowd size even then. So like at the very beginning, tiny 20, 18, 19 before COVID compared to now. What 10 is like you're saying, or a slight growth from 13, but still just around the same. And, and still the. Generally an older crowd. Yu-Gi-Oh you know the vintage. Yu-Gi-Oh a ton of vintage still. And you know, kids were here with their parents, but they weren't, you know, like we See now with the zion cases. Yu-Gi-Oh $50,000 on a 10 year dude. I had a 11 year old kid yesterday, I think his name was Brady. Walked up, said hey, are you buying? Pulls out his iPhone. He's like, I Goldin bring it. My dad said to leave the hotel. It's a, it's the Kobe Jordan. Dual patch auto out of sb, Authentic Jordan, the Wizards. I was just like, what is that worth? He's like, we're asking 80, we got offered 60. I was like, get away from me. I was like, dude, you're 11 friggin years old. Just, literally just get away from me. We got in the safe at the hotel. The last show in New York that we did, we had a 8 Jordan sitting in the case asking 19, 5, you know, 15,500. And I mean I didn't ask him his age. Looked like maybe 17 years old. He's like, you got, you know, he's bartering, he's like, we guys take 19,000. We're like, sure. Pulls out a bank bag. Freaking bank bag. All money wrapped, everything. Oh my God. This is, this is, this dude. 19. I'm rocking my toot than my 1993 Chevy Lumina Eurosport. Bright blue with the race with the racing stripe. Yu-Gi-Oh Buying like $5 inserts. So when I was 17, I was, well, 18. I was overdrafting in my bank account and I was wondering. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I was wondering how I was going to get a meal, let alone how can I pay 30 bucks for overdraft. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh It's a different world. And, and now it's, it's wild. Like the amount of kids like you can see, even this kid over here we talked to yesterday, as a matter of fact, that any young dude with a fanny pack like that, number one, don't wear fanny packs anymore. But number two, it always means there's like five cards and the average is like 60,000. It's, it's stupid. The fanny packs are coming back and these kids are wearing these like, you know, I don't know if you wore Jenkos in the back. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh dude, the baggy suspect. I know, that's crazy. Yep. Yu-Gi-Oh no, I'm wearing mediums now. That's where I'm to the point I'm trying to keep stuff in. So. Okay, flash forward to today. So like you got a kind of a glimpse of it yesterday. Just to kind of give people. I just want a different perspective. I kind of had said what I thought about it. Like how does this show now stack up Even compared to last year. It's. You just wonder how it. How. You know, last year it's like, can it get bigger? And now it's like, it's bigger. Yu-Gi-Oh right. It's just. There's more people. You see the lines. You see the amount of traffic on a Thursday. Now, I will say people think that Saturday is going to be more busy. I think Friday is the busiest day. I think people are avoiding. Dude, people are already talking about that we're not coming Saturday. But actually, you'll see. I bet you you'll see my prediction. Saturday will be less busy than Friday. Okay. Yu-Gi-Oh I think. I actually think you're probably right about. I think people get in on Wednesday or Thursday, they do their thing, they're out by Friday. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh And the weekend's gonna be a mess. So I've asked Dylan the same thing. Like, you know, goal for either you for Mojo. Like, what's like the one thing? Either the one card, the one opportunity, the one whatever. What's like the 1 goal? If you could hit it this weekend, it's a success. You know, we just. We're doing ebay lives. So we've got two. We're doing. We're doing one today at 1:30 here, doing some. Some hockey. That's why I'm in the garb today is we're doing some 0506 series one, trying to get 0506 series two with Ovechkin, 1516 with McDavid. And we're doing some 2425 cup too on eBay today. Dang. And then tomorrow we're doing with. We. Man, we're doing 0304 chrome pack starting at. I was wondering what we're doing. Am I doing that with you on the main stage? I think so, Yu-Gi-Oh Okay. I'm gonna open some. Oh, three zero four Chrome. Dude, I have not opened hockey in forever. I used to like one box of the cup a year. So you're be open to basketball tomorrow. I'm pumped for basketball. Screw. We're gonna hit that gold LeBron, which I've. Oh, three. I'm sorry, basketball. Damn. Okay, so we're doing by pack at a dollar. So, you know, whoever wins the pack, you know, starting in a dollar, we open it up, maybe they get a gold LeBron. Which I think the last time I checked, the gold LeBron is like freaking a million dollars right now. Stupid. So just dumb, man. Awesome way. That's kind of our show. We want to kind of get a few perspectives. Doug has been. We kind of try to do like the. Hey, the new guy with Dalen's been here a couple years. I've been here five or six years, Doug. Thirteen years. I did not expect that. But Yu-Gi-Oh it's been pretty awesome to see the growth. So, Yu-Gi-Oh if you're in Chicago, if you see this before you leave Rosemont, I would say it's worth coming down for a day. It's like nothing you're going to see anywhere else. There's your show, guys, sports cards. Nonsense. We're going to drop a daily pod all week. 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