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Here is your host, Ryan Allford. Welcome to Trading Cards and Collectibles. Today is a loaded episode, Jam-Packed. We got a special announcement, special interview here on Trading Cards and Collectibles. Vee VeeFriends has a huge announcement. Just telling you, one of the biggest names in retail is picking them up. Got a great collaboration. Talked to Andy Cranack, the President of VeeFriends. Talked all about that announcement. It's a big one. Then, of course, Ryan and Brian, Ludden. Yes, Luddex. The Luddex segment of the week, Brian and I break it down. Got into all the hot cards, Major League Base, huge announcements and give away. You don't want to miss that one bit on today's Trading Cards and Collectibles. All right, guys, what's up? We're breaking in here. Hey, we've got a special release, if you want to call it. I didn't know we were going to get into the late-breaking news here on Trading Cards and collectibles. But you know what? We got friends in good places, and we like to support good people doing good things. Hey, don't worry. Vee Happy. We got the President of Vee Friends, Andy Cranack. What's up, brother?

How are you doing, Ryan? Happy to be here. Thanks for having me up.

Yeah, man. Hey, if I get an email Well, it says, Hey, exclusive announcement, you want in? I'm in. I'm in. I've got four boys. Gary has been on my show a couple of times, the business show and this show and a few other Running into him. I love what he's done with ZeeFriends, what you guys are doing, your leadership, his creativity, what a match made in heaven. It's just the messages of positivity. There's so much negative shit out there that I love what you guys are doing, having four boys, getting positive messages. And you know what? The big boys are paying attention, it sounds like. Absolutely.

I love that you mentioned your four boys, too. I think VeeFriends has been really successful today because of the authenticity. I think the authenticity comes from Gary. It's a combination of everything he loves. We have the messages and values of these characters and what they represent, whether it's empathy yellow fan or Balanced Beatle or flexing thoughts, but also it's culture, it's collectibles, it's storytelling, and we're doing it in really fun and innovative ways. I think our partners and our exclusive partners at New York Comicon this year recognize that.

Yeah, man. You can feel It's interesting when there's momentum behind a brand and something, and you've got... So you got a few ground... You got the whole hobby momentum that's going on right now. And then you've got VeeFriends who's, yeah, you're taking advantage of that, but you have your own momentum and energy that are just groundswell. And it's funny how you see it because I know it when it's hitting my feed, people that maybe don't normally talk about it, bring it up, they're going, this VeeFriends, or I see somebody opening a pack at a store, and I'm like, you can just almost... I don't know. It's so funny how momentum you feel. I'm sure it's feeling that way internally.

Yeah. We say brick by brick at VeeFrance because that's how we think about building this IP long term every day. The announcement with Walmart today is just another stepping stone into creating what we aspire to be with this IP. But with the release of our tops Chrome VeeFrance product in May, I think we've really caught people by surprise because there's a lot of people in the hobby that might be familiar with Gary, but I've never really tapped in on this so to be friends or were familiar with the brand at all. But outside of the hobby, we've been building a very passionate community of collectors and fans that really love IP and these characters. I think that came to life come May when our first ever Chrome product was released, which is really exciting and it's been extremely successful, and I think we're just continuing to build off that element.

Yeah, man. We got mangas at the house, I'm just saying. Just saying. The fast follow from Chrome to our Super Sticker product that includes autogravs by Steph Curry.

I'm super proud of that. I think when I look I have my time at VeeFrance. That unsealed box I have monogamous Super Stickers, featuring the greatest shooter of all time. Always have a special place.

Yeah, man. I want to put a big exclamation point on this announcement because it's a big freaking deal, and I want to spell it out for our listeners. We launched Top Chrome, sold out everything. Nobody can get enough. I know dealers. I'm on the ground floor with dealers locally, nationally talking to them. They're like, Yeah, can you get any? They're like, Gary's on your side. Can you get? I'm like, No, Gary can't even get me. Gary's got his coffer stuff with his own, but he's like, I can't. He's like, I told him to make more. It's like, Well, hey, so scarcity isn't a terrible thing if you leverage it right. But then you get the stickers, the greatest shooter on Earth, like you said, my kids love Steph Curry. We do have the sticker collection at the house. Now, Walmart, distribution. Let's spell that for everyone exactly what it is, what that means.

Yeah. At New York Comicon next week at the Walmart booth, 2821, Walmart is going to be giving a free bundle, a VeeFriends comic, which is almost like a prequel. It's a special story edition A, we're calling it, which is the lead-up story to the first ever VeeFriends comic book. And inside of that comic book is a Meaths Meaths mini sticker. It's a smaller sticker of the Super Sticker, which we first released actually in collaboration with a restaurant. You could get that sticker in the Happy Meals of Herges. It's going to be at the Walmart, but we're also going to be doing a livestream with Gary, where those not in attendance are going to be able to join Gary and the Meaths Meaths team on Walmart Live and try to snack one of 300 CGC-grade comic books. And really Really exciting. I think this is the first phase of what will hopefully be a long-term partnership with Beat Friends as we bring a wider audience and awareness to our characters and our IP, and hopefully to Walmart, bringing a lot of innovation and excitement and excitement around the collectibles And generally, our business acumen is how we think about onboarding new collectors into the space and hobby.

A lot to unpack there. I love the blending. Like, comics need a little revival in my mind, in the mainstream.

I'm thinking everyone's fine. I've been diving more into the comic books. I attended San Diego Promenade for the first year this year. I think everyone is ready for innovation and taking more contemporary takes on storytelling within comics because it has that history of really being the cornerstone of collectibles for a very, very long time.

I'm going to first give our listeners the cliff notes. What Andy just described, I'm going to tell you the meaning and the real meaning. Hidden meaning, go buy more VeeFriends products because Walmart's about to want them, and they're about to get that much more demand. Anything you have or you can get your hands on, go get your hands on it and put it in the collection, and thank me and Andy later. Now, number two, okay, it's still a big deal, but I love the integration of cards, the stickers into the comics, leaning into things that are working, the scarcity, the parallels, all that thing into the comics. That's where we need to see it go. I think, look, there's a huge gap in storytelling happening right now. It seems like a huge opportunity. So much so few printed materials these days that are worth getting your hands on.

Absolutely. It's really fun It's been interesting for VeeFrance for a lot of reasons, we're very unique, but our characters really have this built-in collectability. The first time the IP was ever created or seen to the world was as an NFT, a digital collectible. I think from the onset, collectability was built into the brand. But we have yet to really tell the stories of these characters, and that has always been the goal and aspirations of Gary, the founder and creator. He has very specific vision for who Motivated Monster is and Motivated Monsters, or story of comic debut is also coming out at New York Common Con. But I think we are going to turn some of our biggest fans into character maxis, as we call them, of different characters, because they're going to learn for the first time ever where Optimistic Otter is coming from and what he's about and who the villain is. I think we're going to see some shakeups, not just in a new fandom, but existing fandom around who's everyone's favorite defunders.

Yeah, I love it, the storytelling. The funny thing is, you had wild success without... Other cards, people have stories around the players because they watch them play, they know them like person or someone. Deference took off without anybody really having those back stories. Now you get the story in there. Hello. I don't know, man. You can look at this a lot of ways. It's just how can you argue with, number one, the creativity that's here, the art, the thought and care that's gone into the design. But the positive, I mean, let's have some positivity in this world.

My favorite thing, probably on Earth at Beat Friends, is seeing tweets of parents that have not been in the hobby for decades. Basically, they last opened a pack of cards when they were 14, and now they're not just reconnecting with the hobby by opening Beat Friends first, but they're reconnecting with their kids, and they're talking about these traits and values that the Beat and forever is with their kids while collecting cards and getting affirmations of positive sentiment from either new fans or collectors or people that are old in the hobby. Honestly, people that might have feelings about Gary and his provado, looking this real a little bit and recognizing that we have been extremely thoughtful and we're thinking about building this IP and the collectability of our characters and cars and products for a very long time. It's just exciting to see. As you said, I think now more than ever, I don't know more than ever, but positivity, accountability, happiness, balance, these are the things that VeeFrance represents, and I think the world could definitely use some of that.

A hundred 100 %. I told Gary this when I talked to him. I was like, if you've been paying attention, obviously, to Gary, this content for 10 years, you've seen it. I always could see what Gary was building and doing because I'm a marketer, but at the same time, always like, his heart's in the right place. Then this brand is the manifestation of what I felt like I knew about Gary. It came, it brought it to life.

There's a character called Cynical Cat in VeeFrance. I think cynicism is not a good trait. I actually think it's very easy. It's easier to be cynical, especially around someone like Gary, who's trying to do two things at once, which is... At times, and I think in the world, we've been told that they're contradictory, which is building big businesses, being an entrepreneur, being a mobile while while also doing the right thing by people, while trying to be a good leader, while trying to teach values. And Gary believes, and I believe in it, it's what me represents, that you be both at the same time. You can be a kind warrior, and you can also be practical Peacock and optimistic Otter.

Yeah. There's a lot of broken people out there doing broken shit. And they point the fingers in the wrong direction, and they focus outward instead of inward. And that's what I love about VeeFriends, is it's really about inward, making yourself inwardly better because you're taken from these characteristics. And it's not like pointing outward. All of these characters are talking about themselves, but not because they're self-centered, but because these are the attributes that we should all strive to have inside of us.

Brilliant. I appreciate it. Accountability is the unlock to happiness. A fun thing, with over 250 characters at VeeFrance, a lot of people just joining. I always want to know, who's the most popular one? How do I think about collecting them? Obviously, our logo character, the very, very, very, very lucky black hat, is the Holy Grail, the most collectible character in all of VeeFrance. But aside from that, it's really related to the trait, and that's true. Accountability from Gary's content, and in general, is such a big and important word, I think, cited there. It's why Accountable Anne is one of the most popular and collectible VeeFriends characters. Because as you said, accountability really starts with pointing the thumb back at yourself and recognizing that you have a lot of control over your future and pointing fingers, blaming others. Ultimately, it's just going to meet you in your place.

Yeah. The irony of accountability is it's about counting, but there's really only one, and it's you. I like that. It's just so true. Andy, I know you're a busy man. We got the big release. Talk to Let's talk to the audience. Okay, next week's release, what does it mean for the audience? What can they get their hands on? Where is it going to be? Any of the logistical things? I like that. Yeah.

Well, if you are coming to New York Comicon, good news. We have a lot of event exclusives outside of just what we're releasing with Walmart. A lot of them, honestly, they're free giveaways. You can come to our booth. We're going to be right by Funco's booth. We're having a Funco pop again for the second year. Or come by Walmart's booth. Gary is going to be doing a signing of this giveaway, which will be awesome. Besides that, if you're not going to New York, Hong Kong, hit someone else up who is so that you can make sure you get some of these exclusive VeeFriends collectibles. Otherwise, two weeks, Walmart Live. I think Walmart recognizes, again, the industry of not just collectibles, but retail is really evolving and it is coming in the form of live shopping. We are going to be going live on Walmart Live with Gary, which I believe is going to be Thursday, October ninth at 1: 00 PM on Walmart Live, which It should be available to anyone who wants to check in on a live. We're going to have 300 of those created exclusive comics available. Honestly, I think it'll be a really good time to just hang out, learn more about the product, see Gary and his element at New York on the live stream.

It should be a good time.

We'll have all of that in the show notes that will be linked here. We'll link it this week and next week's release. We really support what Andy, Gary, and the whole VeeFriends team is doing. Positive message. He nailed it, man. It's about business. But look, we can do it in a positive way, and we could share what matters in this world in ways that collects and brings great values, both inside and maybe to your wallet.

I'm going to make sure I try to get you a newer Comicon comic bundle. So we're releasing comicon. I need it.

That's all I'm going to say, Andy. It will sit right here every week.

We're going to be a bundle to the South Carolina for you because I think you and the boys will like it. I'll give you a taste of the future of our storytelling and IP and our character shit on.

Andy, brilliant. I love what you're doing. I really appreciate you for stopping in. I know you're busy. This is an important announcement. It's big news for you guys. Congratulations.

I appreciate it so much. Thank you for the opportunity. I really value and appreciate the support.

Hey, guys, you know where to find us. You know where it is. Collectibles. Show. We'll have all the links to everything Andy mentioned. Of course, more in today's episode.

Collecting's Americana. Honestly, getting in this industry, people collect something. It's just part of our culture. It could be like freaking stickers or stamps or whatever it is, but everyone has something they like.

I remember you talking about the braided Lover that's got like 39,000 different cards or something like that?

His collection was like a million bucks. He walked up to meet the National. He looks like he jumped off a bus. He's like, Hey, I'm so-and-so. I got 39,000 Tom braided cards, and here's my collection. I'm like, holy crap.

You got somebody that's got 40,000 of them, and he keeps rescanning them or something because he's like, It's got to be worth more than that. And I've done that myself. I've rescand a few cards on that. I was like, Maybe the valuation would go higher if I scanned it more. That's funny. What's up, guys? Welcome to Trading Cards and Collectibles Powered by Ludex. Brian, what's up, brother?

How are you doing, my man?

Week two. I know. Week two, Brian and Ryan coming to you. Look, we're sporting our hats. Brian's got the jerseys in the background. He's got the White Sox jersey. He's got earl locker. I mean, he's got the winners behind him. I don't know what I call on your jersey, man. I don't hate the White Sox or anything, man, but that's a tough road to go.

Yeah, I guess it's one of those things where I get excited for playoff baseball, and I have no rooted interest ever. But this is the old White Sox Jersey, no big whup, World Series '05. So with playoff baseball, I like to represent the White Sox. Put it away for next year. No, they did have a bad year, though, right? They actually were the number right behind the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays had 20 wins, differential from 24 to 25. The White Sox had 19. That's a pretty jump. Now, the White Sox went from 40 to... Or 41 to 60, so you got to see.

So you got to say... Baby steps. By this time. The White Sox fans hate... Do you have to hate the Cubs if you're a Sox fan?

I mean, some would say yes, absolutely. I mean, I'm from the south side, so I had no choice. I'm a White Sox fan. The Cubs fans don't hate the White Sox as much as the White Sox fans hate the Cubs. It's jealousy. It's like they got a great stadium. They keep winning.

All I think about with the White Sox is it brings me back to the nostalgia of Frank Thomas. When his cards were the hottest thing on... Lee Frank Thomas, when I was a kid, was the hottest card right after... I think it was right after Griffy Jr. Frank Yeah, it's like Frank Thomas, hot. Dude, it reminds me like Aaron Judges now. Big dude. Looks like almost like you'd swear he'd belong on a football field or a baseball field. And he was so hot. And that leaf card, as a kid, I was like, I don't know how packs of leaves never open a damn one to fat him in it, though. That's what I think the white talk, that's what I think of, the big hurt.

He's actually got an interesting air card. So his tops has a no-name. I think it's his picture from Auburn University, and it's a no-name. And it's a very valuable card. Obviously, really rare. But yeah, the Big Hurt's amazing. In-person, you're like, Wow, that dude's a beast. And imagine if he took steroids.

Exactly. I did live in New York. I've got my Yankees hat on. I want to put an asterisk. I'm a Southern guy. I grew up a Braves fan, and still am. But lived in Manhattan for six years and adopted the the Yankees, because I'm not that guy that's like the Cowboys, Yankees, and whatever else guy. I lived there. I lived in Manhattan, went to the games, embraced them. And yeah, it's not a hard living because they win a lot. But Yeah, they lost last night, though. Damn, they blew their bullpins. Sucks.

Yeah, it's a crazy... You got division rivals, and they all playing each other with Cleveland, Detroit.

I know, it's weird. It's weird a little bit. It's cool, but God, the energy, it feels like a World Series almost because it's just so energized. I'm like, whoa, I need to ease my way into the play. And it's like, I don't know, the energy last night was crazy, but they You got to get your play off mojo on, dude. I know. So yes, but it's 0-1. We'll see where it goes. They're going to have to get more out of the bullpen. You don't have to worry about the white talks.

No, there's no pressure on I mean, there's no energy here that I have to worry about and manage.

Collectibles. Show is where you'll find all of the channels and learn more about what we're doing. And ultimately, hey, we want to hear from You do casehits@collectibles. Show. I want you to send in your favorite pulls of the week. And here's the difference. This isn't about just value. Hey, we want to see some $10,000 hits. Had a couple of those myself a few months back, but it's not just about the value, it's about what you're collecting. What means something to you? Share a story, share a video of you holding up the card that you hit last week that was your favorite player, and you nailed it. So case hits at collectibles. Show. Send in those videos. I want to know the stories. We're going to bring them to life here on the show. We're going to a segment each week once we get rolling and get some videos in where we share that on the show with us. We want to feature you on Collectibles Show. We had a lot of big releases, though, this week, being in the card game with the boys in the opening side and selling. We've gone through our fair share of Bowman Chrome, which came out.

And then, I got to go there. This is all collectibles, Brian, and I know how much this gets to play in the Ludex app. But Pokémon, mega evolution came out. I got a variation of each of the packs here. That's been hot. I mean, it's just funny when you see, at least around here, you go to a Walmart, good luck finding any product, any retail product of Pokémon or something. But it's like, grown men fighting one another.

Yeah. Now that said, it's crazy because we'll be like, Pokémon will sit here like this, and then the release comes out and you just see it pop by 20% scan.

You all have seen it pop the in the last few days or weekend or whatever?

Yeah, in a month, the month when there's a release, we'll scan about 3 million Pokémon, and that's a release month. Without a release, it's about 2. 2 million a month. So it's definitely a big bump.

Does Lodex, like you're scanning, do you have to train it on every new set that comes out? Or is it like you all have AI or something? Is it everything new? If it comes out, you got to retrain it? No.

I mean, we have some proprietary models that take a lot of the left out. It would just be too hard to keep up with them.

But that's a big...

It was a big piece of technology that we had to build. To get relevant cards in.

And that's the thing. I'll say this, so plug for our team here. But I'm just saying, all the scanning card apps struggle with certain things, and none One of them are perfect, but Lodex is the best. But Pokémon, they are absolutely, undoubtedly the world champion. I get 9. 5 out of 10 with Pokémon with you guys. I love it. Thank you. I don't know what it is, but you all have got the Pokémon down.

There's not as many parallels. I mean, honestly, that's the big thing, the parallels in baseball. If you could figure out baseball parallels, you got everything else.

What's hot?

I mean, you got the play-offs, you got these releases going on? What's popping on the charts?

Well, I think just on some interesting data that we like to bring every week to you guys, the number one in the last five days is Chapman. Chapman scans are up almost 100 % from week to week. And then you have a cub, Nico Horner. And these are all... We take the working cards in PSA 10. Nico Horner is up 86 %. And then, I mean, like an O'Tani is like... O'tani is already high, so he's not going to... He's only up 4 %. But yeah, I mean, those are the big ones. And Jose Ramirez is up 41 %, which is weird, but maybe someone just really has a liking to Jose Ramirez. But those are the three big ones for sure.

You got somebody that's got 40,000 of them, and he keeps rescanning them or something because he's like, It's got to be worth more than that. I Denial scans. I've done that myself. I've re-scan a few cards on that. I was like, I want that. Maybe the valuation will go higher if I scan it more.

That's funny. Yeah, I mean, I'll get you Next week, I'm going to get you the guys who had the most of certain player. Maybe we'll do O'Tani and see of the Ludox members, who's in the top five for how many they have.

What are you talking about? The braided Lover that's got 39,000 different cards or something like that?

Yeah, and it's got his collection's worth almost like a million bucks.

I was about to say, it's got to be if he got that many.

He walked off to meet the National, and he looks like he jumped off a bus. And all of a sudden, he's like, Hey, I'm so-and-so. I got 39,000 Tom braided cards, and here's my collection. I'm like, Oh, it's crap.

That's what's so funny about the hobby. A guy will have a million dollar case in his hands, and shower Or maybe not. Case, Autograph, PSA10. Yeah, absolutely.

Got it. That's priorities in order.

We all do. We're all junkies in some way, or shape, or form. Just some live it out and smell it out more than others.

Yeah, I mean, collecting is americana. Honestly, getting in this industry, people collect something. It's just part of our culture. It could be freaking stickers or, I don't know, stamps or whatever it is, but everyone has something they like.

Yeah. The boys and I rip a lot of packs, and I'm up late at night working, and I'll be working on something. We sell a lot of cards and move a lot of stuff. The RAD Collective look us up on eBay and/or Ludex soon. I'll be working, and I'll have random packs that didn't sell, or a box that's torn, and I can't sell it. Now, I'll just start as my little 15 minute personal break from working on a deck or a report or something. I'm sitting there just ripping packs of some random... I call it spillage. It's like breakage in the bar. I'm not going to be able to sell that box. It's too dent it up. Give me that thing.

As you drop it on the floor.

Yeah, exactly. I kicked it a couple of times before I did it, but it was an accident.

It just happened, man. I was thinking about something to engage the audience with as we were talking about scans. So talking to my talented team over here, it came up with an idea that I think could be pretty cool. So what I want to do is I want to bracket out the playoffs. And then starting next series, we'll see which team has more scans, and they move on in the Ludex bracket. So it necessarily won't be winners or losers. It might predict the winners or losers. We'll find out. But at the end, it'll be really interesting to see what teams end up with it.

We need to meet. The Bud-X World Series of Scans.

World Series of Scans. We'll be at the ESPES next year.

Yes, I love it. No, it's interactive. I love it. And to see... The funnest part is, is it correlate to the winners. Are your heavy scanners predictive of actual on field? I I don't know. I don't know the predict. I could go either way on the prediction.

And also, I think there's going to be interesting data because if you have Aaron Judge cards, you've probably scanned a lot of your Yankees in. But if you have a team that's up and come, like the brewers, and you're like, holy crap, I got a lot of brewer stuff here. I'm going to start scanning those in. So you're going to see things, anomalies that I don't think are going to make a lot of sense to people. Obviously, there's a population density in New York or the Dodgers, but week to week, I don't if that's going to show, but we'll find out.

Yeah, it will be. What's happening in Texas? Tell me about any updates with the trading card store there or anything you can talk about.

Yeah, so I'm going to head down there in a couple of weeks, and we're going to start the series of filming it and getting you guys in to see what it's all about. And it'll be definitely a weekly update. Right now, it's just vacant, and they're cleaning it and ripping stuff apart. So we start with a 5,000 square foot open cube.

That's what it is. It's a blank slate.

Blank slate.

Yeah, but the renderings I've seen look amazing under That's going to be fun bringing your baby to life.

I got a proposal for you.

All right.

I wanted to do a giveaway, our first giveaway. Yes. We talked about it last week about giving some Ludox swag away. So what I did is I called my friend Clint Anderson at Zion Cases. He's an Illinois guy.

I like where this is headed.

And I said, Can you make a Ludox-branded Zion case? And he's like, Sure. And he sent a bunch up. And I said, I'm going to give it away to members of whoever watches the podcast. So then I'm thinking, What's a cool thing to do for the giveaway? And if we're going to the Lodex ecosystem, what I think I want to do is every card that's scanned from today to the final game of the World Series, how many baseball cards were scanned into Lodex during that time? Zion, and whoever is the closest wins the Lodex and Zion case.

Look at that beauty.

Shiny, beautiful.

Look how nice it is.

Love Zion.

What do you think? Zion makes the best case is And that Ludex logo is slick. We already know that. What I think is, you better start counting, whoever's listening. You need to start counting because you want that case. And I'm trying to even do the math in my head. You guys get so many freaking scans. I mean, that's a month and a half. And then, I mean, it's two months. How long is the playoff? They go all the way through October, November.

I would say they're probably six, seven weeks. And at that point, I mean, there's some cues in here on these. I've given numbers out.

Yeah, if you pay attention, start adding it up, get close. So it's a lot of those. The closest to the total scans that have them from now in baseball only or just the...

Baseball only.

Baseball only scans. We're going to get these notes down, and we'll have it in the notes of the show episode. We'll have it on the screen as well. Ludex, Zion case. Are you kidding me?

Yes. I want this one, though.

I know.

It's hard to get away shit that you want.

We'll have all details of that in the show notes each week as we lead up to that. We'll bring it up during this segment. And of course, you got to be counting it and be ready. And then we'll do, I guess, some form of a submission of everyone's guesses once the playoff's end. And we'll... Good luck to you. It's a big number.

It's a big number. Think bigger than you're thinking.

Yes.

A lot of ex-employees are exempt.

Yeah, no lot ex-employees. Give us some feedback. What do you want to see? What do you want to learn? We're going to make it fun around here, letting our hair down. And look, this is all about collecting and what we collect. I mean, you hear Brian's got five million sitting in a... They stole out of some old man's house that he's now...

I ripped someone off and got him. You know what happened, though? I know we're running out of time, but I want to tell one story about it because it raised. So these cards were sitting in this guy's basement for 30 years. It's January in Chicago. We're moving these things out. I get them to the storage unit, and one unit is all basketball, one's all football, and the other one's like non-sports, like Marvel, hockey and baseball. Two days later, my guys are there, and they're like, Brian, You got to see this. This is not good. He goes, There's been a leak. The sprinkler froze. I get there, and I walk in, and I'm like, Holy crap. I'm like, I pick up a binder. Like I said, I don't know what's in here. I pick up a binder, 61 tops set, the whole set just leaking with water. I'm like, Man, I guess that wasn't meant to ever come out of that basement. But I lost probably I would say I lost 25 % of my baseball and hockey, but hockey, it's not like an OPG, bretskies. But I lost 25 % of baseball, and I stopped looking through it because I'm like, It is what it is.

Let's just get it cleaned up. But that was not a fun It was a fun day.

No. You hopefully got insurance.

Yeah. We had 10,000. We maxed it out at $10,000. We had $10,000. We had $20,000 top loaders.

Yeah, I was about to say. I want to see that policy get ridden.

Do I take us to court? And I'm like, Well, for 10 grand, no one's going to take you to court. And that's how they do it. So self-insured.

Self-insured, for sure. God, it hurts my feelings thinking on that wet. Oh, jeez. Any other news of the week, Brian, before we get out of here?

No, man. I think I have some homework. I'm going to get you guys a peek at the storage unit. I'm going to get you guys... We're going to get that bracket going. And I think we're ready to rock and roll.

Yeah. Start counting. Start counting all those scans. Just take it. Hey, pay attention. Go back, listen to last week. We talked a lot of numbers, and every week we'll be bringing up. So you can start to formulate your best guess is at the end of the World Series. Brian, brother, always fun. Can't wait till next This week.

Yeah, man, appreciate it. This is great. And we got some good things coming up, so let's rock and roll.

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