VeeFriends Comic + Trading Cards Market Update | Collectibles News You Need

Welcome to the Trading Cards and Collectibles Podcast on the Radcast Network. From Chasing Grails to Colin Bluffs, I'm going inside the hobby. Are you ready to collect? Let's get at it. Here is your host, Ryan Alford. Welcome to Trading Cards and Collectibles. Today is a loaded episode, Jam Packed. We've got a special announcement, special interview here on Trading Cards and Collectibles. V-Friends has a huge announcement just telling you one of the biggest names and retails picking them up. Got a great collaboration. Talk to Andy Cranack, the president of V-Friends. Talked all about that announcement. It's a big one. Then of course, Ryan and Ryan, Ludden. Yes, Lud X. The Lud X segment of the week, Brian and I break it down. Got into all the hot cards, Major League Baseball, huge announcements and giveaways. 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. Do 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. V happy. We got the president of V-Friends, Andy Cranack. What's up, brother? Hey, you all right. How did you be here? Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. Hey, we get, if I get an email, it says, hey, exclusive announcement. You want in? I'm in. I'm in. I love the, you know, I've got four boys. Gary's been on my show a couple of times. The business show and this show. And a few other, you know, running into him. And I love what he's done with V-Friends. What you guys are doing, you know, your leadership, his creativity. Hey, Matt, it's made in heaven. And it's just the messages of positivity. And there's so much negative shit out there that I'd 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. And I love that you mentioned your four boys too. I think V-Friends has been really successful today because of the authenticity. And I think authenticity comes from Gary. It's a combination of everything he loves. You know, we have the messages and values of these characters and what they represent. Whether it's empathy, love, failure, or balance, speed, or flexing thoughts. But also it's a culture, it's collectibles, it's storytelling. And we're doing it in really fun and innovative ways. And I think our partners and our exclusive partners at New York Comic Con this year recognize that. Yeah, man. You know, 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 V-Friends who sort of, yeah, you're taking advantage of that, but you have your own momentum and energy that are this 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 V-Friends 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, I mean, and we say brick by brick at V-Friends because that's how we think about building this IP long term every day. You know, the announcement with Walmart today is just another stepping stone into creating what we started to be with this IP. But with the release of our top chrome V-Friends product in May, I think we've really got 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 just so V-Friends or familiar with the brand at all. But outside of the hobby we've been building a very, very passionate community of collectors and fans that really love this IP and these characters and I think that came to life coming in when our first ever chrome product was released, which is really exciting and it's been an extremely successful one. I think we're just continuing to build up that whole mechanism. Yeah, man, we got mangoes at the house. I'm just saying. That's all you will. That's all from chrome to our super-sugar product that includes autographs, vice-sectories. Yeah. I'm super proud of that and I think when I look back, I have my time at V-Friends that until box I have my super-sugar featuring the greatest shooter of all time or I always have a special place. Yeah, man. So 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. So we launched top chrome, you know, 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? I'm like, they're like Gary's on your side. Can you get? Gary can't even get any. Gary's got his, you know, coffers stuff with his own, but he's like, I can't, you know, and 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 know, you get the stickers, the greatest shooter on earth. Like you said, my kids love stuff, Curry. We do have the sticker collection at the house. And now, Walmart distribution. Let's spell that for everyone exactly what it is, what that means. Yeah. So at New York Comic Con next week, at the Walmart booth, booth 2821, Walmart is going to be giving a free bundle of defense comic, which is almost sort of like a prequel. It's a special story edition A, we're calling it, which is the lead up story to the first ever defense comic book. And inside of that comic book is a defense mini sticker. It's a smaller sticker of the super sticker, which we first released actually in collaboration with the restaurant. You could get that sticker in the happy bills of purchases. It's going to be at the Walmart, but with where also going to be doing a live stream with Gary, where those not in attendance are going to be able to join Gary and the French team on Walmart live and try to snack one of 300 CEC graded comic books. And really exciting. I think this is the first phase of what will hopefully be a long trip partnership with Beat Friends, as we bring a wider audience and awareness to our characters in our IP and hopefully for Walmart, bringing a lot of innovation and excitement inside and out around the collectibles and generally are our business act. You made us how we think about ordering new collectors into this phase and hobby. A lot to unpack there. I think it's one of the blending like comics need a little revival in my work. In my mind, like in the mainstream. I'm thinking everyone's fine. Yeah. I've been going to comic books. I attended San Diego Comic Con 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 or very, very long time. So I'm going to first give like our listeners the Cliffs Notes. What Andy just described, I'm going to tell you that the hidden meaning and the real meaning, hidden meaning go buy more Beat Friends products because Walmart's got to want to come and they're about to get that much more demand. So 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, like all that sort of thing, into the comics, that's where we need to see it go. And I think, look, there's a huge gap in storytelling, you know, like happening right now. It seems like a huge opportunity. It's so huge printed materials these days that are worth getting your hands on. Absolutely. You know, it's really fun and interesting for Beat Friends. For a lot of reasons, we're very unique, but our characters really have this built-in collectability. The first time that IP was ever created or seen to the world was as an NFT, a digital collectible. So 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, of a very specific vision for who motivated monsters and motivated monsters, or just story and comic theory was also coming out at your comic home. But I think we are going to determine 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 God is coming from and what he's about and who the villain is. And I think we're going to see some shakeups, not just in new fandom, but existing fandom around who's everyone's favorite dish like this. Yeah, I love it, the storytelling. And the funny thing is, you had walled success without, you know, other cards, people have stories around the players, because they watched them play. They know them, you know, like person on someone. Beat Friends took off without anybody really having those back stories. Now you get a story in there. Hello, and I don't know, man, it's... 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, like, you know, 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 up in a pack of cards when they were 14. And now they're not just reconnecting with the hobby by opening Beat Friends phones where they're reconnecting with their kids. And they're talking about these traits and values at the Beat Friends forever set with their kids while collecting cards and getting affirmations of this element from either new fans or collectors or people that are old in the hobby. And honestly, people that might not have feelings about Gary and his provado and recognizing that like we have been extremely thoughtful and we're thinking about building this IP in the collectibility of our characters and cards and products for a very long time. And it's just exciting to see. And 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 he's trying to represent. And I think the world definitely used to that. 100%. And I told Gary this when I talked to him. I was like, you know, if you've been paying attention obviously to Gary and his content ten years, like you've seen it and I always could see what Gary was building and doing. I mean, I'm a marker. But at the same time, I always, like, I, his heart's in the right place. You know, and then this is the, this brand is the manifestation of what I felt like I knew about Gary. Yeah. I mean, it brought it to life. There's a character called Synical Cat in D-France. And I think cynicism is not a good trait. No. It's very easy. It's easier to be cynical, especially on someone like Gary, who was trying to do two things at once, which is, and 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 mogul, while also doing the right thing about people, while trying to be a good leader, watch, while trying to teach values, and Gary believes, and I believe, and it's what we, from represents, they be both at the same time. You know, you can be a kind warrior, and you can also be, you know, practical peacock or not the mystic otter. Yeah. There's a lot of broken people out there doing broken shit, you know, like, and it's, they point the fingers at the wrong direction, and they focus outwards to inward. And that's what I love about D-France is it's really about inward, like, making yourself inwardly better, because you're taking from these characteristics, and it's not like pointing outward, all of these characters are talking about themselves, but not because they're still centered, but because these are the attributes that we should all strive to have inside of us. Show me a present. Accountability is the unlock to happiness. And fun thing, with over 250 characters at D-France, a lot of people just joining, always want to know, like, who's the most popular one? How do I think about collecting them? Obviously, our logo character, the very, very, very, very, very, very, very, fluffy black hat, is a holy grail, the most collectible character in all of D-France. But aside from that, it's really related to the trait and attitude, you know, accountability from Gary's content, and in generally, it's such a big and important word, I think, side of it. And it's why Accountable Ant is one of the most popular, it's like, well, D-France 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, always, and we're just going to meet you in place. Yeah. The irony of Accountability is it's about counting, but there's really only one. And it's you. I like that. Yeah. And it's just so true. Andy, I know you're a busy man. We got the big release. Talk to me. Let's talk to the audience. Okay. Next week's release. What does it mean to the audience? What can they, you know, get their hands on? Where's it going to be? Any of the logistical things? I like that. Yeah. Well, if you are coming to New York, coming, good news. We have a lot of event exclusives outside of this world. We're releasing with Walmart. A lot of them, honestly, they're free. You can come to our booth. We're going to be right by Funko booth. We're having a Funko pop again to the second year. Or come by Walmart booth. Gary's going to be doing a signing of this giveaway, which will be awesome. Besides that, if you're not going to New York Crown Crown, kid, someone else up who is so they can make sure you get some of these exclusive be friends collectibles. Otherwise, to make Walmart live, I think Walmart recognizes again the industry of not just collectibles but retail is really evolving into this coming in the form of life shopping. And we're going to be going live on Walmart live with Gary, which I believe is going to be Thursday. I'll terminate that one pion on Walmart live, which should be available to anyone who wants to check in all the live. We're going to have 300 of those created exclusive comics available. And honestly, I think it'll be a really good time to just hang out, learn more about the product, see Gary, and his album at New York Crown on the lab show. 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 V friends team is doing positive message. They nailed it, man. That'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. Right. I'm going to make sure I try to get you a New York comic, comic bundle. So we're releasing comic books. I need it. That's all you have to say. Andy, it will sit right here. We're going to be going to be a bundle of the South Carolina Creek, because I think your voice will like it. And we'll give you a taste of the future of our storytelling, and IP, and our character sharing. Andy, brilliance. I love what you're doing. I really appreciate you for stopping in. Know you're busy. This is important announcement. It's big news for you guys. Congratulations. I appreciate it so much. Thank you for the opportunity. And you're really a guy who appreciates. 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 is Americana. Honestly getting this industry. People collect something. It's just part of our culture. It could be like frickin' stickers or stamps or whatever it is. But everyone has something they like. You're talking about the Brady Lover that's got like 39,000 different cards or something like that. His collection is almost like a million bucks. He walked up to be the national. He looks like he jumped off a bus. He's like, hey, I'm so-and-so. I got 39,000 Tom Brady cards. And here's my collection. I'm like, oh crap. You got like somebody that's got 40,000 of them. And he keeps re-scanning them or something because he's like, it's got to be worth more than that. And I've done that myself. I've re-scaned a few cards on that. I was like, maybe the valuation would go higher if I scanned it more. That's funny. Yeah. What's up, guys? Welcome to Trading Cards and Collectibles powered by LudEx. Brian, what's up, brother? How 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 socks jerseys. He's got Earl Walker. 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 socks or anything, man. That's a tough road to have. Yeah. I guess it's like one of those things where I get excited for playoff baseball. And I have no rooting interest ever. But this is a, you know, the old white socks jerseys, no big wolf world series, 05. So with playoff baseball, I like to represent the white socks. Put it away for next year. But the white socks did have a bad year, though, right? Yeah. They actually were the number right behind the blue jays. The blue jays had 20 wins differential from 24 to 25. Yeah. The white socks had 19. No. The white socks went from 40 to 41 to 60. So that's it. Baby steps. Yeah. This time. Yeah. Do you have to hate the cubs if you're a socks fan? I mean, some would say yes, absolutely. I mean, I'm a, I'm from the south side. So like, I had no choice. I'm a white socks fan. Yeah. The cubs fans don't hate the white socks as much as the white socks fans hate the cubs. It's jealousy. It's like, you know, they got a great stadium. They make, you know, they keep winning. I don't know. All I think about with the white socks is it brings me back to the nostalgia of Frank Thomas. When his cards were the hottest thing on leaf Frank Thomas when I was a kid. It was like the hottest card, you know, right after a group. I think it was right after Griffey Jr. Yeah. Like Frank. Yeah. It's like Frank Thomas. Hot. You know, dude reminds me like Aaron Judge now. Big dude. Looks like kind of almost like you'd be going on a football field or a baseball field. And he was so hot in that leaf card as a kid. I was hoping. I don't know how many packs of leaves never open the damn bond. I mean, that's what I think the white socks that's about thinking of the big hurt. He's actually got an interesting error 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 hurts amazing in person. He's like, you're like, wow, that dude's a beast. And imagine if he took steroids. Exactly. You know, 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 in Braves fan and still am. But you know, lived in Manhattan for six years and adopted 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 they lost last night though. They're bullpened socks. Yeah. That was, I mean, it's a crazy. I mean, you got division rivals and they all play in each other with. I know it's weird. It's weird a little bit. I mean, it's like it's cool. But God, the energy is like, it feels like a world series almost because it's just so energized. It's just like, I'm like, whoa, I kind of need like, like, ease my way into the playoffs. And it's like, I don't know, the energy last night was crazy. But they believe you have to get your playoff mojo on. So, yes, but it's a one. We'll see where it goes. They're going to have to get more out of the bullpen. And you know, you don't have to worry about the white talks. No, there's no pressure. 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. You do case hits at collectibles.show. What's 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 values 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 do 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 add a lot of big releases though this week. You know, 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, you know, I got to go there. This isn't all collectible, Brian. And I know how much this gets played in the LudEx app. But Pokemon, 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 like, at least around here, you go to a Walmart, good luck finding any product, any retail product of Pokemon or something. But it's like, you know, grown men fighting one another. Yeah. You know, that said is, let's crazy. Because we'll be like Pokemon will sit here like this. And then the release comes out and you just see a pop by 20% scan. You'll be all seen at pop the last few days or weekend or whatever. Yeah. In a month, this, the month when there's a release will get about, we'll scan about three thousand three million Pokemon. And that's a release month without that release. It's about 2.2 million. So a month. So it's definitely a big, big bump. Does LudEx like you're scanning? Do you have to train it on every new set that comes out? Or is it like y'all have AI or something like is it? Everything new. If it comes out, you got to retrain it. No. I mean, we have some proprietary models that kind of take the model left out. All right. 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 of them are perfect, but LudEx is the best. But Pokemon, they are absolutely undoubtedly the world champion. I get like 9.5 out of 10 with Pokemon with you guys. I love it. Thank you. I don't know what it is, but y'all, y'all got the Pokemon 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. Honestly. Yeah. What's hot this, I mean, you know, you got the playoffs, 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's scans are almost 100% from week to week. And then you have a cub, Nico Horner. And these are all we take the working cards and, you know, in PSA 10. Nico Horner is up 86%. And then, I mean, like an Otani's like, Otani's already high. He's not going to like, he's only up for four percent. But yeah, I mean, those are the, those are the big ones. And Jose Ramirez is up 41%, which is kind of weird. But maybe someone just really has a liking to Jose Ramirez. But those are the three big ones for sure. You got like somebody that's got like 40,000 of them. And he's, he won't, he keeps re-scanning them or something like because he's like, it's got to be worth more than that. Those scans, like I and I've done that myself. Like I've re-scaned a few cards on that. He's like, I want that. Maybe the valuation would go higher if I scan it for him. That's funny. Yeah. I mean, there's, I'll get you next week I'm going to get you like, the guys who have the most of certain player. Like maybe we'll do Otani and see like, of the lottox member Susan, the top five. For how many of that? What are you talking about Brady's, the Brady lover that's got like 39,000 different cards or something like that? Yeah. And it's got his collections worth almost like a million bucks. I'm about to say. It's got to be if you got that many. He walked off to be the national. And he's got, I mean, he looks like he jumped off a bus. I mean, and all the things like, hey, I'm so-and-so. I got 39,000 top Brady cards. And here's my collection and like, call it crap. That's just so funny about the hobby. You know, guy will have a million dollar case in his hands. And you know, shower, maybe not. Case, autograph PSA 10. Yeah, absolutely. Got it. Yeah, he got it. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. You know, we all do. We're all junkies in some way or shape or form. Just some, some live it out and smell it out more than others. Yeah. I mean, collect these Americana. Like, honestly, like getting this industry. People collect something. Like, it's just part of our culture. And it could be like frickin' stickers or like, I don't know, stamps or whatever it is. But everyone has something they like. Yeah. And I mean, the boys and I rip a lot of packs and I'm up late at night working. And I'll be working on something. And you know, we saw a lot of cards and move a lot of stuff. Like, to look us up on eBay and or let Xsoon. The, it's, obviously I'm working. And I'll have like random packs that didn't sell or like a box. It's like torn. I can't sell it. Now to start. It's like my little like 15 minute like personal break from like working on a deck or a reporter or something. I'm sitting there just ripping packs of like some random, you know, I call it, hey, call it spillage. You know, it's kind of like breakage in the bar. You know, like, oh, I'm not going to sell that box. It's too dented up. Give me that thing. As you drop it on the floor. Yeah, I kicked it a couple of times. Before I did it. But, you know, it was an accident. That's just awesome, man. You know, I was thinking about something to engage the audience with as we were talking about scans. Yes. 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 Linux bracket. So it necessarily won't be winners or losers. It might predict the winners or losers will find out. But at the end, it'll be really interesting to see what teams end up with it. We see an X World series of scans. Yes, there's a scans. We'll be at the SB's next year. Yes. I love it. No, it's interactive. I love it. And to see the biggest, the photos part is the, is it correlated to the winners, you know? Are your heavy scanners predictive of actual on field? I don't know about that. Be hard to, I don't know the predict. I can go either way on the prediction. And also, I think there's going to be interesting data because like, if you have here, if you have a judge cards, you've probably scanned a lot of your Yankees. But if you have a team that's up and come like the brewers and you're like, Oh, crap, I got a lot of brewer stuff here. I'm going to start scanning those in. So you're going to see like things that 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 know if that's going to show, but we'll, we'll find out. Yeah. It will be. What's happening in Texas? Ultimately 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 this, the series of film in it and get you guys in to see what it's all about. And it'll be a weekly, definitely a weekly update. Right now, it's just kind of vacant and they're cleaning it and ripping stuff apart. So we start with the 5,000 square foot, like open cube. Yeah. That's what it is. It's a blank slate, but the renderings I've seen look amazing. I know that's going to be fun bringing, you know, your baby to life. I got it. I got a proposal for you. All right. Let's, I want to do a giveaway or first giveaway. Yes. We talked about it last week about giving some Linux swag away. So what I did is I called my, my friend Clint Anderson at Zion Cases. He's an Illinois guy. Like this is headed. And I said, can you make a, a lot of ex branded Zion case? And he's like, sure, and he sent a bunch of. And I said, I'm going to give it away to our members of whoever watched the podcast. So then I'm thinking, what's a cool thing to do for the giveaway? And if we're going to use the lot X 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 are scanned into that time during that time? And whoever is the closest wins. A lot of us on case. Look at that beauty. Shiny. Beautiful. Look at my set. Love Zion. What do you think? I think the best cases and that Linux logo is slick. We already know that. What I think is you better start counting whoever's listening. We need to start counting because you want that case. And I'm trying to even do the math my head. You guys get so many freaking scans. Like, I mean, that's a month and a half. And then, I mean, it's two months. How long does the playoffs go? All the October, November. I would say they're probably, yeah, six, seven weeks. And at that point, I mean, there's some cues in here on these. Like, I've given numbers out. Yeah. You can try and check and start adding it up. Get close. So it's a lot of the closest to the total scans that have them from now. Yeah. In baseball only or in or just the baseball. Baseball. Yeah. 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. Uh, Linux, Zion case. Are you kidding me? Yes. I kind of want this one. I know. It's hard to get away. 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 counted and be ready. And then we'll do, I guess, some form of submission of everyone's guesses once the playoffs 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. Linux, Linux employees are exempt. Yeah. No, Linux employees. You have 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, you know, some of these still out of some old man's house that he's now. I ripped someone off. You know what happened though? This is, I know we're running out of time, but I want to tell one story about it because it is. So these, these cards were sitting in this guy's basement for 30 years, right? It's January and Chicago. We're moving these things out. I get them to the storage unit. And one unit is all basketball. One's off football on the other ones like non sports like Marvel. You know, 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. This sprinklers. I get there and I walk in and I'm like, holy crap. I'm like, I pick up a binder. I don't have, 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. And I'm like, man, I guess, 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, you know, hockey. But hockey, you know, it's not like I had an OPG red skis. But I lost 25% of baseball. I stopped looking through it because I'm like, it is what it is. Like, you know, let's just get it cleaned up. But that was, that was not a fun, a fun day. No, yeah. I hope they got insurance. We had 10,000, we maxed it out of 10,000 dollars. We had, we had 10,000, we had 20,000 top loaders. Yeah, that's a thing. Yeah, what I mean. Yeah, I want to see that policy get ridden, you know? Yeah, they take us to court. And I'm like, well, for 10 grand, no one's going to take you to court. And that's kind of how they do it. Self-insured. Self-insured, for sure, is, yeah, got it. First off feeling thing on that wet. Oh, geez. Any other news of the week, Brian, before we get out of here? No, man, I think I have some homework. Yeah. I'm going to get you guys a peek at the, at the storage unit. I'm going to get you guys, we're going to get that bracket going. And I think, well, yeah, I think we're ready to rock and roll. Yeah. We're going to 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. Never week. We'll be bringing up. So you can start to formulate your best guesses at the end of the world series. Brian, brother, always fun. Can't wait till next week. Yeah, man, appreciate it. This is great. And we got some good things coming out. So let's rock and roll. Hey, guys, collectibles.show. That's where you find Brian and I, all the recaps, all the info. And of course, go to that app store. Look for LudEx. You'll thank me later. We appreciate you, Brian, Brian here on TCCC. We've got to get an acronym. TCC sounds cool. TCCC. You know me. You done with TCCC? Yeah. You know me. We'll see you all next week. Thanks for tuning into the show. Don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast platform. And don't miss the full video version on YouTube. You can find us at www.collectibles.show or follow Ryan on Instagram at RyanAlford. Now get out there and collect yours.