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

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

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

On today's episode of Collected Nation, Ryan and I dive into the latest on the LuddX app. Collection Management 2.0? Yes, it's coming. And it's on the Lodex app coming over the next 30 days. We dove in to talk about all the newest features. Plus, we talked about Kevin O'Leer making a big splash again in the hobby. We're in the card as the necklace, 19.5 mil folks. Fun discussion around that.

We dove into the card show that we went to this weekend at Haywood Mall, all the highlights from that show. And again, all the latest, the greatest, the newest, here on Collector Nation. In business, you have competition, especially within the tech world, because tech has got diluted so much with these AI agents. So what you have to do is separate yourself other ways. And this is one way is that if you could get the best inventory management system and you have people's collections, you're going to win.

There's always something physical about the cars themselves, but it's maximizing the digital tools that we have. It's really trading enablement. That's what this is. Trading and collecting enablement. The new term of the day for the hobby, it's collection enablement. Every other news outlet has a headline that says Kevin O'Leary turns heads by having that necklace. And it's about the necklace, but it's not. It's about playing brand, playing attention game. Welcome to the Collector Nation podcast here on the Collector Nation Network. Whether you're chasing grails or calling bluffs, you take you inside the hobby. Here are your host, Ryan Alford and Brian Lutton.

What's up guys? Welcome to Collector Nation. It's Friday, March 6, 2026 here in the studios of lovely, easily South Carolina and Chicago, Illinois. You got Brian Ludd and Ryan Offord. Always hear your humble servants in the hobby here to bring you the latest news, latest gossip and you never know what else we might get into other than being sunny and 78 here Brian what's the forecast in Chicago it's cloudy 38 here right we got a little north wind so yeah so it's beautiful beautiful oh man I can't wait to get outside after this but uh not there

no rubbing it in a little but you know that's why you live in south carolina you get this weather you know we don't have the hustle bustle of Chicago there's a little there's some commerce going on big business brian's running a big CEO company i can't do that here you know but uh we do get the weather that's the one thing we get here it easily that's the beautiful part of it i know i'm in i'm in your lovely collector station studio we'd love to have you in at some point uh our store is hustling and bustling we welcome if you ever hit the south Carolina area and you're listening. Hey, it's a flagship store. You're going to stop in. It's like a, I've said this many times, but it's a man cave, meets a card shop, meets a studio.

Many times we're sitting here and talking to the celebrity, Ludden, and my customers walk in and they go, Ah, LuddX, Lion, Lutton. No, but in all seriousness, it's fun because it's right in the center of the store. So we'd love for you to stop in. And if we were to be recording, you can say hello to Brian. And of course, our lovely producer, Bella, who is with us today. Hey, everyone. Hi, Bella. Bella should have your camera on for like that, you know, like she, we actually got Bella. We, we unbanished her from non-camera land.

No longer the basement girl. Yeah. Yeah, she's an AI robot, so we don't want. I've tried her pretty good, right, Brian. Wouldn't you admit? She sounds like human, like she responds to anything you ask. Yeah, she seems great. I'll just take over the world real quick.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I may this be this kind of scary. It's good. Yeah, your shop is looking awesome, dude. Thank you,

brother. It's coming together. It's fun. And it's been, I mean, it's been great meeting people. Maybe we've had, we got regulars already,

Brian. Let me just say that. Like, the true junkies, we know, I'm one of them. So, I mean,

you know, I'm sitting here and dudes coming back. I've been over like three weeks. and some guys have been here about five times. United in the chase, baby. That's what this industry is about, though. You know, like, it's cool. It is cool.

In all seriousness, we'd welcome you here in South Carolina if you get through there. Stop in, you'll see us, and we'll save some cards, baby. We've got a good selection, actually, good stuff. Actually, brought it to that in. I'm just going to bring it right up. But, you know, the show was this weekend. We did a show at Haywood Mall and bought a lot of cards and I've been buying a lot of stuff this week. Got some cool stuff here.

The show, hey, a tiny Aces card. You seen those? Ace of Diamond, all Aces, tops. Yeah, those are a fun card. Probably sending that one for grading. Got this Fleer net effect, Kobe. It's like a die cut. That's cool.

Yep. What year was that? 1990 1994 maybe I don't know Cole what year's this Fleer Kobe 90 something mid 90s

yeah yeah say hello to Cole if you come into the store too Cole manages the store here keeps me sane and does a great job and one of the nicest guys in the hobby um Julia serving kaboom

that is a cool card I like it I like it Brian and his I think pulled a bird in this Kaboom and we got the Irving. I bought the Irving. I'm not as lucky as them. So I have to buy my singles. But that was a good pickup. And then Randy Moss

the greatest retrievers all the time on the Kaboom. So had a good card show, Brian. I mean, we sold some stuff, man. But I was buying. That was buying, baby. Always be buying. A.B. Well, yeah, I mean, that's how you make your money, right? It's like you got to buy. You know where you're going to sell it. You got to sell it at

comps are right around there. So every buy matters. It's interesting. The card showed lots of deals being had. We're going to have some footage from that. We had Cal and our main guy filming everything, setting things up, doing deals. We're going to have some good footage from that. So check out the socials. I mean, you know, we probably don't plug that enough. Look, if you're not already, go follow LUDEX, LUDX, on the app store. And of course, in social media. If you just search Luttex, Luddx will come up in Instagram, Facebook, et cetera. Go follow Collector Nation, collector station, either one of those. So give us some love there.

And we'll have all of the footage there. And we'll do some of the videos for some of the products and everything for LuddX and lots of cross-pollination here as we, you know, we're living and breathing this thing, baby. I got a card that was so interesting. So some guy, you know, whoever, he came in. to, he came to my house because I, my dad's friend, and he has his Tiger Woods card that I have no idea. I've never seen it. Um, Mike Baker's like, I don't think I've ever seen it. And it's a promo card from a Toronto show. So I'll show this like really quickly, but we'll get a better picture. Yes. Huh. Okay. Who is that? Tiger. Oh, yeah. Okay. Never seen that. Okay. And then

the back is like, It's out of 20. Who makes it? Some dude in his basement, probably. But I paid $40 for it. And there was a letter that was like, listen, this is a promo from the 2000 Expo, Toronto Expo Card Show. It's called The Year of the Tiger. There were 500 printed, like their 500 base.

And then this is a platinum of 20. And if you bought a base, you got to, chance to open up a pack to see if you got this card in there. And this is a promo card called The Year of the Tiger. It's 2000. And I have no idea what it's worth. I pay 40 bucks for it. I'll give you 50.

Done. It's immediate 25% profit. If it's not worth $40, then we both need to go get out of this game. Okay. But then I thought to myself, my buddy at work is like, oh, that's fake. It's promo. doing a fake car. Don't number them to 20. Yeah. Like, or you number 20 and print 2000, but, you know, it could be fake. It could be. But even if it is, good story. Yeah.

What's new? Let's give, give us the Luddex CEO update, the things you can share. Like, what's happening on the Luddx front from a company standpoint? I think the biggest thing is rolling out this collection inventory management. part of the app. It should be in the app within the month. Way more robust, searching, filtering, sorting, and really the industry needs

inventory management, collection management platform, and that's really what we're doing. We've been working on that for like a year. I mean, the utility that Luddux has is like scan a card, but like we want it to be like all encompassing. Because in business, you have competition, especially in the tech world, because tech has got diluted so much with these AI agents. So what you have to do is separate yourself other ways. And this is one way is that if you could get the best inventory management system and you have people's collections, you're going to win.

And that's what we've been working on. We've been rolling that out on the web version. But within the month, we'll have it. you'll start to see it migrate towards the app. So that's super exciting. Our tech team's been working really hard at it. I love it. I've seen it. You've seen it.

Yeah, it's slick, really slick. I mean, we need, the hobby needs one, or at least two really good ones. Let's start with one really good one because I don't know that one great one exist yet. You know, this is going to be the first one, I think. that's truly like really exceptional. Yeah, I mean, car lighter does a really good job. I do.

I love their indexes and stuff. Yeah, I mean, I like that. I like the indexes. It's just the UI of the collection management is not like wonderful. Let's be honest. I like the substance of what they have there, but I kind of want like either me or someone creative to get a hold of the UI.

Hi. Like, they got the data. You know, they got the indexes. I like that. But I need art to meet science. Yeah. And I mean, it's a smaller ecosystem so they could, you know, they price things well. But yes. But it's hard to get cards onto that platform. And it's not like super scalable. Yeah. But that's why I love about what I'm seeing and what I've witnessed with the Lodex is it was already good. but now with the updates it feels exceptional. It's a, and like, you know, everything's going to have, get better over time,

but it feels like a real leap forward. I mean, you in tech, it's like every three years, four years, you have to like redesign it. Like, you have to put money into it and back into tech. And you got to make it more relevant. And you got to skin it better and you got to market it better. And it's got to look better.

because if not you're stuck with, you know, a ComC or eBay or, you know, card ladder. It's just not, it doesn't migrate to like the modern day. So, but it's very expensive to do that. It's really expensive. So put your CEO hat on for the audience, like, not that you didn't already have it on, put it, put it on a little tighter. And give the audience like, okay, what they can expect with this new. at like what does it's collection management but like give me the elevator pitch the 30 second on the new features what people could expect from it well the thing that i like the best about it is that

um it's stackable search right so if i wanted to um check out my jordan collection i could say Michael Jordan, cards equal or greater than $1,000 from 1990 to 1995. And then all that search stacks on each other, and you'll get that component. You'll just get those cards that meet that criteria. Then I could take those cards, and if you want to look at them, I could send them to you. I could start sharing the collection. So you and I, even that tiger card, I could be like, hey, I'll scan it in there. I'll send it to you.

But it's the stackable search that's really cool for me. And then taking that on the social aspect of it and then sharing that with other people. Yeah. So the collector station app that's about one, one millionth of the capability of LuddX, but we'll eventually probably migrate to what the LuddX is once this gets commercially available and I can, you know, beg Brian for it to allow me to use it. No, he's letting me use it. But I can actually roll it out with my whole store.

Basically, what I think is cool, Brian, I'd share like a feature that's on our really stupid app that's not as pretty as yours is I allow people to build a collection and then they can share what they want. with the store so that I can make offers on their cards. So that way they get the collection management for free, but I can see what their cards are if they agree to share them. Yep, yeah, public. That's all. Yeah. And then like, think about that, how it, what you're thinking about is what the capabilities that will have. So if, if a shop has their cards on there, I could go to the kiosk, like you guys have a kiosk. Yeah. And I could sort through that kiosk. to get the cards that I want. Exactly.

And then those cards that I want might be on the floor or they might be in a storage unit behind the store. And so that's what I think would be really cool is that when people come in, they can find what they want. And that gives them time to then, you know, buy some wax or, you know, break something or whatever. And then it's a card show. It honestly turns into, it could turn into a 365, 24-7.

virtual card show. It never has to stop. Yeah, hey, man, lots of cool features. And look, that's stack. Look, I'll say this. I go to an e-commerce website. Like you said, stacking the search capabilities. That's what makes a break a really good site is how much you can sort of slice and dice the inventory or what's there. And the same thing with your own collection when you're trying to put a deal together or you're trying to know what you have or like, especially if you've got thousands of cards in your collection. All right, how many, you know, baseball cards do I have that are over $50?

Because maybe you're doing a deal to move some baseball cards because you're more of a basketball guy. But you aren't necessarily looking for a player. You just want to know what your high value baseball cards are. Being able to slice and dice that data the way you need to, that's next level. And that's true empowerment to the collector with managing the collection. That is the, I think it's the, I think it's the, it just hit me, Brian, what you guys are doing. It's really what digital unlocked, right, because in the analog world, is finally coming to this industry. Like, because all these things,

all these cards belong in, they're in binders and they're in top load or sitting in closets or they're in a beautiful case in your house. But what collection, digital collection management was supposed to unlock was this ability to have knowledge and data and to slice and parse and know what you have at the most intricate level, which is what digital sort of unlocked for every other industry the last 15 years. Yeah, and think about this.

Like, the power, it's really our database, right? It's like we have 400 million cards in our database. And those cars belong to people. Yeah. That's the searchable function of it. Every card that's probably been printed, we probably have, you know,

95% of them, 98% of them. So all we're doing is going through our own database with all that data. And we're sharing it. And that's it. If you want to find a card, go find a card. And you know what? I could put in exactly the card I want. And we could say, hey, Ryan Alford has that card.

We'll be like, cool. I'm going to go on Discord and I'm going to reach out to Ryan and see if he'll sell. I'm going to go to his house, you know, when he's eating kids. When he's having dinner with his kids. Hey man, I saw you that Michael George card on that Bo Jackson card on Ludex.

Yeah, man, I'll see you at the show on Saturday. No. You're right about that. It's getting a massive database and then making it into this searchable virtual world. Exactly. There's always something physical

about the cars themselves, but it's maximizing the digital tools that we have to innate it's really trading enablement. That's what this is. Trading and collecting enablement. The new term of the day for the hobby. It's collection enablement. I'm an enabler. You are, Brian.

You are the chief enablement officer. That's the CEO. That's all you are, is an enabler. You enable these wonderful things to happen with our digital collection management. Oh, man. We have fun even while we're working. So big things coming with collection management and Lodax. Should be out this month, Brian?

Is that for the masses? Yeah, I would say that it's, you know, we are trying to release like two different features a week. and so it's going to migrate towards the finished product. It is software, so it's never truly finished. But the functionality of it will be that we've talked about here today will be 30 days. Our big reveal is going to be the national. That's really what we're shooting for. And so, you know, we kind of have those bookends today is one bookend and the national

as the other to make it really functional and really cool. Keep your eyes peeled. Stay in touch with the Luttex social, Instagram, all that. You'll see the updates. You'll see the releases and all that. Ludex.com. We'll always have the most up-to-date information, of course. And, of course, come see me and Brian at the National.

We'll be there. Who knows what it'll be up to by then? We'll have Collector Nation on display. Ryan's going to have all the goodies. I mean, the, the booth, you guys did it right. I mean, you guys had a nice booth last year. I mean, it felt swanky a little, you know, walk around. It's like, whoa, I'm at CES suddenly.

Yeah, it's gotten pretty big. It has. I mean, but it's, but everything kind of still felt like a big, okay, a table with a bunch of cards on it or, you know, I mean, I thought the, uh, digital pack opening guys, you know, I won't name names or several of them. They did pretty good because it's, they didn't, they're selling the tag. of that but you definitely guys had the white and the blue the braining that I love and felt elevated the LuddX booth and I'm sure that will only the surprises and delights will only increase this year that's what we hope for so come see us at the national that will be in late July first week of August it's like the 31st first second somewhere in all in that

neighborhood I don't have my calendar in front of me but Hey, I got the RV wagon coming hard. More news on that. I'll share more. That's just a teaser for now, folks. Let's just say it's coming along. Very nice. Kevin O'Leary turned heads at the 26 Saga Awards by wearing that Michael Jordan,

Kobe Bryant card that he paid him and a couple of investors paid 13.5. And I guess it's already up to 19.5. know if that was because what was around the necklace was worth that or if the card had actually jumped, you know, 40% says they bought it, probably, who knows? Part of me rolls my eyes, but part of me goes, yeah, it's kind of a baller to wear that card around your neck. You know, even if Logan Paul did it first, I'm okay with it. Yeah, I mean, I think, like, I think that's cool. Like, I don't know if I would do it. Yeah. I would.

I'm also buying a $13.5. But yeah, you would. I'm not buying a $13.5 million card either. Like I would know, like, you know, a thousand bucks or something. So, but I think when you have it, like, that just shows, like, it is art, right? It is art.

It is collecting. It's unique. I just hope you don't get, like, mugged. Yeah. You think that you had to add, like, extra protection insurance for that day. Had to it, right? Lloyd's in London. Yeah. Total had a side policy, probably 10 grand or more. I mean, maybe more than that. I don't know. Bro, if it was, if I had partner and I was, I was like, he's like, this is what I want to do. Yeah. And I third of that or half of that, I'd be like,

whoa, no, no, no, no, like get insurance. Even that insurance is like. But here's the thing. And look, everybody, bear with me. I know you're here for the cards and the hobby, but you're always going to get a little slice of business for me, at least marketing. And if you don't know, right about now, it's the number one business and marketing show on Apple. It's been for three years. That's my other show. I don't ever plug it, but I'm going to plug it right now. Kevin O'Leary knows something that very few business people get. He understands brand. He's playing the brand game. He understands the attention game, the media game. He knows how to make headlines. Look, our little show here, you know, maybe we're top five.

sports and Apple, but it's our little show, our little slice. But we're talking about it. And so is CNN. And so is Drudge Report. And so is every other news outlet has a headline that says Kevin O'Leary turns heads by having that necklace. And it's about the necklace, but it's not. It's about playing brand, playing attention game.

And Kevin makes his own brand, his own assets and his own business is more valuable because he generates headlines. so you can hate the game all you want but don't hate the player. That's some sage advice. That's awesome. Kylo Murray got released from the Cardinals. Does this feel like a story that's been coming for six years? I like, it's like, I don't know what to make a Kyleo Murray.

Like, badass in college, had moments in the pros. I like him. I like his game. but it's like it's never, I feel like you're always like one, you're always waiting for one more dollar turn that just doesn't seem to ever come. Yeah, I mean,

it really sets your franchise back. You know, like, they paid him a lot of money and he just didn't deliver. And that hurts. You know, the Vikings, I can see the Vikings picking them up as a veteran to go against JJ.

I think if Kyler Murray matures and gets, in, really commits to the craft. I think he has crazy potential, but it's got to happen like this year, right? It's so weird too because he's never been a guy that's in the headlines. Like, he's not Mansell.

You know, it's not like, and I like Johnny. I'm not busted on you, Johnny. I'm just saying, but let's be honest. And you even said it yourself, totally mature, like in trouble all the time. That's not Kyler. He seems like put together. But all you hear is this same thing, this maturity. this discipline like and it's like it's hard to put get your head around it he had to put a clause in

his contract to not play like PlayStation or Xbox or something like like that was in his contract you could only play X amount of hours of Xbox or like like a child yeah never heard of such in a professional contract right and there's been some dudes there's been some dudes that like if they were going to have that clause or have the no stupid goofing off clause, it would have been before Kyler, because he don't, again, Kyle's just under the, he's just behind the same. I guess he's like, you know,

what's the kid that never grew up? It's like Webster or something? Like, you know? Are you talk about Peter Pan? Maybe, but remember Webster? Like, wouldn't he like a kid that like always was a kid? I don't know. Webster just physically didn't grow.

I don't, you know. Okay, maybe. I thought he was always kind of acting like a kid too. Yeah, I think, And same guy from different strokes, Arnold. Yeah, exactly. I think they just stopped growing. I don't know if they mature.

I was talking about more maturity than their, like, physical side. But Collar, I mean, he's not the biggest guy, but he's bigger than those guys. I mean, he's an NFL quarterback. I thought, I've been more like, like, they're always a kid. I guess it's kind of like Michael Jackson. Like Michael Jackson, they say never really grew up because he just never, like, got a chance to live. he's on the road all the time. Then when he finally, like had a little bit of time of money, he's like,

I'm going to stay a kid, you know? Anyway, I digress. Bella's right. Peter Pan's complex. Yeah, Peter Pan Complex. That's what it is. Not Webster. You know, I am showing my knowledge of the 80s.

Silver Spoons. Remember that movie? Silver Spoons? Silver Spoon. The kid had the train and, you know, they drove through. Whole house? Secret passages? Great house.

It was a great house. I forever wanted secret. passages in my house because of that show. Way different than my house. I grew up in. Was it all open no doors or something? It was like lived in the train. Oh, okay. Box?

No. In fact, Mary Frances Ludden turns 80. She turned 80 yesterday. So, a mom, thank you for raising four boys. So, yeah, So shout out to Mary Francis Luddden. Hey, I'm thankful for Mary Frances Ludden for having Brian.

You know, I don't even know her, but I love her because she had Brian. So we do give her shout out. Ato, it's a good one. Yeah. Is she good? Health's good? Yeah, she's doing okay. They're down in Marco Island, Florida, doing their thing.

Okay. So, yeah. That's cool. Retired. doing their thing. I talked to my mom this morning for about 30 minutes

and she just told me how happy she was like 30 minutes. She's living her best life. That's great. You know, I'm like, if I'm 74

and as happy as she is, I'm good, you know? I will say that. I have my parents, I have happy parents, you know, like,

I think that's a big deal, like, as far as how you grow up and stuff. Like, I don't know. Like, it makes a difference. My mom was always happy. Yeah, it does.

You know, like, my mom was always happy. My dad was in the military, so he had to add in him, but he was generally always happy. It was no, no, we did, we were blessed tonight because, you know, a lot of tends to have mental health issues, things that are just natural or just out of control. And I, you know, not having to grow around that. It's like, I like be around happy people. You're not, not because we're like, I don't know, Cinderella, like, you think everything. Oh, you know, like Pollyanna. I think that's the right analogy.

there on Mike Webster. The, not Pollyannish, but you know, like, it's just not a time like this. Let's, let's just be happy, you know, trying to figure this out. Anyway, I'm happy that Brian Ludden is my friend and that we get to do this show. Any final, any, go ahead, brother. What did you say? Same exact thing to you, man. What, uh, any final thoughts, Bella, did we leave anything out here on the March

sixth, 2026 edition of Pletcher Nation. Only thing is that today the U.S. plays Brazil in the World Baseball Classic, which is super exciting. And we lost last time to Japan in

2023. So, hopefully this year we can have a comeback moment. Yay. Yeah. That'd be awesome. That's exciting stuff. Exactly. We're right around the corner from opening day. We talk about that more as it comes.

I did open a box. I mean, you know, as we finish here, I don't want to, I'll talk about all happy. I open the tops, uh, 2026 Series 1 hobby box. And I haven't, and I'm a baseball. I'm a football, excuse me basketball, more of like me personally and PC stuff. I got baseball stuff. We got a ton of baseball in the store. That's freaking card chop and baseball still rules.

But I just, all it did was make me want to open a football box. I don't know. I know people love baseball. And I've gotten more into watching baseball again. But the baseball cards, there's so many players. I'm like, I got dizzy trying to like get heap up with it. I mean, I felt old. I mean, how many players are on every baseball team?

24. Okay. So it's not my imagine. Well, I know there's a lot of football players. But they don't make football cards for every football player, I don't think. Dude, they got rookie league. They got low A. They got double A.

They got triple A. So many. So many play. And how many teams? Is it the same number? 30? Yeah. That's about the same as football and basketball.

But like that's pretty good. Like 720 people are in the major leagues. But in the Meyer leagues, there's like 7,000. I'm just so behind on my names. I got to get better at that. Football guys, I know the offensive linemen for the chiefs. You know, like, but it's, it's getting rough. I got to get up.

I got to, I'm really trying. to get back up to speed but i i'll tell you what like football cards are way more expensive but yeah i feel like you get bigger hits i was just kind of like dying for like a ten dollar card opened in that hobby box yeah i got like one 30 dollar card and that's cool but i'm like i don't know take your feedback anybody out there that wants to learn me on uh uh baseball getting me back up to speed on baseball that's what we say in the south if you want to learn me learn me uh grow up and easy man i got a college degree but i mean let's be honest I grew up right here.

I got to get learned on more baseball. You want to talk basketball? You want to talk Cooper Flagg? You want to talk Wimby? You want to talk Shea Gildress. You want to talk. Who are you? We can go as deep as you want to basketball and football.

But I got to get my baseball thing going because I was just like opening these baseball cards. I believe you could do it. I believe in you. I got a memory for it. I just got to get into it. I did it to open like a banger. box. I'm going to go like jumbo next time, triple jumbo or something. I don't know. Whatever, whatever like the banging box. I need some like, I needed some, you know what it was, Brian? I needed some dopamine. And I wasn't getting it with the, the ace of base I was getting out of that hobby box. Too much base. I mean, the base card stack. I thought they're high when you're in prison football. That baseball card base stack was this high out of that hobby box. Yeah. Enough. Now I'm not going to sell a simple box.

of the store. But, no, I'm saving the good ones for everyone else. Yeah, it's enough Tinder for a day. Oh, God. It's kindling in the South Carolina fire for three years. Light one of those cards up and go. No, I'm trying to learn the names, man. Lots of names.

So bear with me as I get my baseball names from this year. In three or four weeks, I'm going to be quoting the dudes for baseball. I'm committed to it. Man, I've got to put my reps in. I got to open some more and get the boys into baseball more. We've been football basketball family. Even though we own the card store, I got my guys.

They're into baseball. But, man, we got to, I got to get some reps in. I got to rip, like, I got to rip through like 100 grand in baseball to get where I was in football. We got three grand. Yeah, three grand at least. Yeah. Brian, final thoughts today, my friend. I'm all good, my man.

It's always a pleasure to be with you. I enjoy it. Thank you for everything, Bella. Thank you for everything you do. So, yeah, just have a great weekend, everybody. And thanks for watching. Yeah, we appreciate everyone. Like Brian said, we know you got options and we thank you for making us one of them.

If there's something, you got feedback, leaving the comments. I respond to every one of those. Bill and I jump in on those comments on social or on Spotify or YouTube. Keep dropping them. Anything we could talk about. Guess we could bring ideas. Hey, you know, Brian's got access. So we could, you know, what do you want?

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