The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Exploring Collectible Exchange and Sports Memorabilia with Brandon Steiner

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Starting point is 00:00:33 Now, here's your host, Chris Voss. Hi folks, it's Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. Beautiful, beautiful. Ladies and gentlemen, they are at the thing that makes official welcome to the big show for over 16 years, 2,400 episodes of reading the Chris Foss show. And we've been sharing with you all the amazing stories, the journeys of people's lives, the lessons you can learn from them, et cetera, et cetera.

Starting point is 00:01:01 Today we have another amazing young man on the show. We're going to be talking to him about his insights, a lot of the business he's created and some of the interesting things he's doing. We have Brandon Steiner on the show. He is a negotiation virtuoso who transformed a mere $4,000 investment into a sports memorabilia empire. His extraordinary negotiation skills and innovative vision make him a perfect match for a show focused on the art of negotiation Center secured groundbreaking partnerships with iconic sports institutions

Starting point is 00:01:34 negotiated exclusive deals with major athlete athletes like Derek Jeter Jeter and Demonstrated creative deal making that goes beyond traditional boundaries. Welcome to the show, Brandon. How are you? Phenomenal. Thanks for having me. And I'm sure that this entrepreneurial journey won't bore you for the next 30 minutes as we, I've been all over the place in my career and not traditional places either. So give us dot coms. Where do you want people to find you on the interwebs?

Starting point is 00:02:01 I'm at collectible exchange.com or you know just to make it easy cx stuff .com what's interesting is collectible exchange is really a much tighter version even though we're partnered up with eBay it's a place where if you have a bunch of collectibles cards any kind of art coins we help you verify authent and sell them. These days if you have collectibles that have been left to you, you've been sitting with and they're not authenticated, it's going to be very hard to sell. So we help you do it. We take your collectibles, we have a vault. If you have a bunch of stuff that's been left, we can help you take it off your hands and then you give it to us and we help you sell it. And everything's transparent. So

Starting point is 00:02:43 it's hard to find people in this space. You see some of it on TV that you can trust. Most people know me from Steiner sports was a company around 35 years that I began started and built to a $50 million company with 4,000 bucks. But now collectible exchange is really a company that helps people trade their stuff in. Or if you're tired of a player, which sometimes happens, you can trade that in and trade it up kind of thing. So there's 150,000 items on collectiblexchange.com. So it's not lacking for any creative, cool sports memorabilia if you're looking for it.

Starting point is 00:03:19 This collective exchange is pretty cool. You've got baseball, basketball, football, hockey, entertainment, trading cards, exclusives, and upcoming signings and stuff. So, what made you want to start this and get involved with this? What was the proponent behind it? I'm sure you relate to this. Everything starts with my wife. I'm just an assistant here, frankly. And one night, I'm a crazy collector, obviously I've had a huge amount of stuff one night I was sitting on the couch and my wife said, you know, what are we doing all this? I know it's my sports room And I said, you know the husband in the honest person I am like you mean if I die what should you do it all?

Starting point is 00:03:59 Wow, and she said yeah. Yeah, I mean there's I mean I had about seven or eight thousand items And most people have no of me know me that I'm a crazy collector and I said, yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean, I had about seven or eight thousand items. And most people that know of me know me that I'm a crazy collector. And I said, you know, it's a legitimate point. I don't even have an inventory of all this. I mean, I'm just a crazy collector as I was building out these companies that would just save stuff and get stuff. So I said, you know, I bet you there's a lot of people that have a problem like this. And so I organized it took me several months as I go and help people with their collections. It's not like an overnight, which is why people

Starting point is 00:04:29 don't want to deal with it. And then that's where I kind of got the impetus to build collective exchange. The other thing is there's a lot of colleges and schools and leagues that don't do collectibles. Like we're doing the Savannah banana collectibles, which has really been hot. I mean, I love this opportunity. Jesse Cole, who owns the bananas, is creating a whole thing. He's brilliant. It's the greatest show on earth. We do live golf collectibles. There's never been golf collectibles been created with PGA or live. So we're doing that. And then we're doing a couple of schools like Michigan, Ohio State, Villanova, Syracuse. So we're going to a bunch of different platforms and helping them create their collectibles.

Starting point is 00:05:08 You know, it's just something I created about 20 years ago doing these team partnerships. And you know, when you're a crazy Michigan fan or a crazy fan of your school or team, you should have some collectible concept along with it. And that's something I specialize in. And you do music, movies and TV as well, right? Yeah. I mean, I wish I did more music. It's just really hard. You know, the musicians are very touchy. They're very sensitive. They're starting to do a little bit more, but most of them feel like it's a sellout. I think it's a shame because I love my bands, I love my music, and I would love to have an album signed, a CD signed or a poster signed, but they're

Starting point is 00:05:50 not so... A lot of the great artists don't want to do it. Really? That's unfortunate. And one of the problems you have in the community of autographs, and I imagine it goes to Sports Meal Million and everything else. You know, I'm thinking of just some music bands that I really love is, you know, authenticity and knowing that, you know, for example, I'm in a music, a rush Facebook group and they con people constantly post, Hey, I'm looking to buy this to these signatures look real or, you know, some poor guy, Hey, I just paid 800 bucks for this. These signatures look real. You know, everyone's dude, you got, you got played, man. You got played.

Starting point is 00:06:29 I've done over 35. I think it's an extremely valid point. Matter of fact, it's, it's the core of all collectibles is, is the stuff real. And unfortunately there are some people doing some bad things out there to create confusion. My authentication has been a little bit of a state of the art, you know, back with Steiner Sports. It was the, if you go back and you look around all my Steiner stuff that created about 35 million autographs later. And so my authentication with collectible changes is the same thing, very important. There is no gray area in this Chris. It's like you're on one way or you're on the wrong way. Now, unfortunately, some people don't take that as seriously as they should and there is no room for gray. But anyway, I'm never going to stop trying to go get some of these bands, especially some of

Starting point is 00:07:13 my favorite bands are getting older now. Like I was trying to get on the band, you know, Steven Tyler, because he can't sing anymore. Hey, let's go create some collectibles like that. Yeah. How great is that band? Pete Slauson Yeah, I mean, dude, I was, I think I had a ticket to go. And I was so excited. I'd never seen Aerosmiths in my life. I loved them since I was 10 years old or 12 years old. The first time I heard the song Dream On, and I was just, you know, I was just like, holy shit. And I've loved them and I just have never gotten to go. I just, I don't know. It's always something I, and I realized in my older age now that I've got to do more to get on these

Starting point is 00:07:50 bands. Like I was going to go see REO Speedwagon too. They might have been on the same ticket, but and then REO Speedwagon broke up and they're not, you know, it's, it's, it's kind of the band still, but I'm going to go see them, I think in June or sometime this year. But yeah, I've kind of realized a lot of these bands that, you know, the guys are dying off. My, my, my favorite band Rush, Neil Peart died in 2020 and the guys are looking really old and haggard and I'm starting to freak out about, you know, I need to buy everything Rush before the prices go through the roof if something happens to them. But yeah, there's, there are a lot of like my band rush. They're just kind of, they're just they're

Starting point is 00:08:28 doing all sorts of endorsement deals like they endorse beer and cheese and I think, but getting Lee is like a big baseball collector. Like he is insanely crazy. I mean, he has baby Bruce balls and something like that. So maybe they should reach out to him I'm not trying to push my personal interests on I'm gonna You know because some of those guys that you know, they want to trade in trucks on the all my brothers You know the guitar player huge collector. He lives down in Jacksonville and I'm a huge all my brothers fan. He's so good He's so talented. Oh, yeah, I miss the brothers of that They did get together at the garden a couple of weeks ago with a brother type of Auburn brother kind of reunion kind of thing. But it's hard to imagine without

Starting point is 00:09:11 Alman, but still, you know, like Dicky bats still around, still kicking. You know, listen, I mean, a lot of bands, musicians, they love to be an athlete. A lot of the athletes who love to be in a band. So sometimes the connection can be made. Pete Slauson Oh, maybe come out and play. But yeah, I mean, a lot of these older folks, they're not traveling as much or touring as much. Sometimes they just kind of go off into the ether when they get older. I mean, can't blame them. They've

Starting point is 00:09:39 spent years and thousands of cities and tours. But yeah, if you could figure a way to tap that, you know, I'll never be able to go see an Aerosmith and probably see even Tyler ever again, which is a huge disappointment, but maybe I could have an autograph signing meetup, you know? I mean, bands finally years ago when in the concerts in the nineties and the twenties, there was a couple of bands like my band Metallica that started realizing, I think it was Madonna too who realized how much reselling was going on of their wares and they would just buy the first 20 rows. And I remember seeing VIP first emerge back then and I was like, God damn, why aren't most bands doing this? Let's do a meet and greet. Let's do a, you know, take some photos,

Starting point is 00:10:25 get some signatures, you know, backstage, you're there, you know, killing time, you know, I don't know, doing blow. Security, security is an issue. Security is an issue. Yeah, yeah. You get some people that are wackos. And by the way, oh, that guy, I'm sorry.

Starting point is 00:10:43 Some guy's gonna pay $2,000 or $1,000 for meet and greet. Probably. I mean, he might not be a wacko. I don't know. I suppose I met some people with money that are wackos. I guess I took the Metallica, you know, they had the Mariana Rivera song, you know, the Mariana walk in and we did stuff. So we did some stuff on Metallica. We always had Mariano, who's the greatest closer of all time, signed some of those record albums and CDs. And when Metallica played, when they had a farewell from Mariano, they were goo-goo-ga-go over Mariano.

Starting point is 00:11:15 We finally doing some autograph swapping. And you know, Metallica is one of the big bands in this country, no doubt. Oh, yeah. And they're still alive. So that's, that's what I want to do with the bands is I want the music. I want to have some of the artists rewrite the music that they've written. That'd be interesting. And then sell the originals if he's kind enough to write a couple originals,

Starting point is 00:11:38 but those would go for a lot of money and then sell replicas that the artist signs because you know, like our house, Crosby stills and Nash. Like I would love, I would have loved Crosby, Stills and Nash. Like I would love, I would have loved him to write that out, sign it. I mean, that's such a great song, you know, there's so many great songs when you think about the make the fabric of a little bit of who you are, you know, you got your five, five, five, 10 songs you always listen to a couple of your artists that you just love when you want to work out or get going.

Starting point is 00:12:04 And it'd be really cool to have something special around those songs that the artist is able to do and autograph or maybe articulate what they were thinking when they wrote the song. And that's the kind of stuff you want to hang it up in your office, I think. Pete Slauson Yeah. I mean, definitely collectibles. So, how does the system work? How do people submit their collectibles? How do they know if something they have is value? And now when you say it's an exchange, how does the exchange work? Does someone is it like eBay where they can just post stuff? Do they have to send it to you? You could post it or how's it work? But Chris, let's be real here. I mean, and I'm assuming you're a very energetic guy and

Starting point is 00:12:42 you're not afraid to get work done, but I'm not. I mean, when my wife said, you know, what are you doing? All this stuff is I'm not doing anything. I'm not going to go stop putting that up on eBay. I mean, so like, you know, I called a couple of my workers, they came in, they inventoryed it, we boxed it up and we took it and they, they shot it. Cause there's a lot of work to put some stuff if you have two or three things. So what you do is you call us up, we come like we're 1-800 junk and we come to your house. We actually will take inventory of all your stuff, catalog it right there. And then we go to work, you know, we just, we know what we're taking. And then we go and verify, authenticate, give you the comparable prices of what you have,

Starting point is 00:13:21 what it's worth, which we're a lot of people are dying to find out. That's why you see those shows on TV. But a lot of people have stuff they just don't know what it's worth. And the problem is when they have a lot of trading cards, this is what's really screwed up, is you have a lot of trading cards, you have to go through them because they're diamonds in the rough. You can have 10,000 trading cards and 9,990 you can just toss in the garbage and then you may have 10 cards that we were $20,000, which is my case. I used to open up packs of cards doing athlete's signing. So they give me cases of cards with my kids.

Starting point is 00:13:54 The cards were everywhere except I found a Brady rookie card. I found a cream Abdul-Jabbar rookie card that I had for 30 years. Wow. It was worth $40,000. But I threw away hundreds and several thousand cards that were worth nothing. But you had to go through all these cards. And that's the problem that people have is they have a lot of these cards they don't know.

Starting point is 00:14:18 And unfortunately, a lot of them are not worth a lot. Some are worth some. And then they got those diamonds in there that are worth a lot. And you got to know what you're doing. And we go in and we try to help people deal with all that. Pete Slauson Now, is there a minimum? Because I'll just, I don't know that my, I think my collection's worth more than a thousand bucks of records and stuff. But let's just say, I mean, is there a minimum for, I mean, for you to send

Starting point is 00:14:41 a crew out and do all that, the value of what the estimated value of my esteemed collection needs to be probably a certain minimum, doesn't it? I mean, you have to look at my $5 records, right? You can ship this stuff to us if you only have five or 10 items, you can ship it to us or you can actually put it up on our site yourself, which most people don't want to do. The cards don't take up a lot of space. You can put them in a box and send them to us. But if you have, if you have more than a hundred items,

Starting point is 00:15:05 sometimes we'll go out to your house and we'll, we'll deal with it and we'll try to get you sorted out. The one thing that's a no, no, just two surprises here, Chris, real quick. One, I can't believe I'm saying this freaking crazy. We love baubles. There's so many baubles in the world, baubles heads. This country has become baubles head obsessive. Yeah. And you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, freaking crazy we love bobbles there's so many bobbles in the world bobbleheads this country's become bobblehead obsessive yeah and you can't collect one or two bottles we go to people's houses they have hundreds I mean because it's

Starting point is 00:15:38 that reoccurring thing you go to these giveaway days and you got your favorite player it's an easy buy it's's 25, 30 bucks. But now, you know, these, this whole Bible craze is 25, 30 years old. So people are collecting these bubbles that you can't find anymore. And then you can't send us cards from the late eighties and nineties. That was a card, but a card dilemma, just a complete bummer. There was an overprinting of cards. So's that's interesting on the cards and the bobbleheads. Yeah, I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm not 65. I'm 65 is gonna turn next week no not 65 anyway I just being funny that's that's interesting on the cards and the bobbleheads yeah yeah I guess there's a couple rush bobbleheads and stuff that I've been trying to get

Starting point is 00:16:35 and they're fucking stupid crazy money and I'm like for some plastic crap from China are you fucking kidding me I can't believe it either. Yeah. I mean, they don't sing though. I mean, at least when I buy a nice box set, I get all these pictures and you know, I just bought like a $500 rush and, and I just bought a book from you should get a hold of Getty Lee. If you watch there's a music channel and the great news man who's semi retired. He interviews rock stars on there. I don't know if you're, I think it's AVA music or something like that. I've seen that.

Starting point is 00:17:10 I've seen that. And he interviewed, he does, and he's such a great interviewer. He reminds me a lot of my great dad, Dan Rather. Dan Rather. I've seen him. He's phenomenal. I mean, Dan Rather is a legend on the news. And the fact he's doing this, it just shows that he's a complete pro. If you haven't watched any of those interviews, you're missing. It's

Starting point is 00:17:29 so good. And there's one where he goes into Getty Lee's baseball library and dude, it's, you got to watch that video. I saw that video. There's a gazillion baseballs out of control. I saw that video. I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Stuff like that. We walk in our houses just like that all the time though, just so you know.

Starting point is 00:17:48 Although that was an incredible interview and it was insane if you can go find that on YouTube because it is insane. And then Rob is a rock star in his own right. But we walk in a house that has 1,000, 1,500. Really? It's crazy. It's probably important to, I would think it's probably important to inventory inventory this stuff.

Starting point is 00:18:07 Cause I need to inventory my record collection because it does have collectibles in it. And I've got a few autograph books and stuff, but, and I don't know if I have autograph records, but this is what, this is the problem. It's not inventory. If there was a fire in the house burnt down, I would have no inventory or record at any of that. Maybe email purchases. Nobody does it. Nobody inventory. And it would be gone, right? Or if it got stolen or it's going to be very hard to convince the insurance company about what you have. I still have my 600 albums that I had in college. Did you really 600 albums and I carried them

Starting point is 00:18:41 everywhere and I still have them in my office because my wife said, get this out of the house. the house. I'm like, I'll bring it to my office then. You know, there's nothing like a record album and I'm so happy that they brought record albums back. There's nothing like opening up an album, you know, rolling a joint, having the seeds separate on that album. And then the story about the story about that group and the pictures. I think we, I think it's, I think it's just part of what a record is supposed to be. And we've kind of lost a little of that with Spotify and you know, DVDs and CDs and all that. But I love that. And the problem with the albums are now, do you could go through your 600 albums and the same thing. Half of them could

Starting point is 00:19:21 be just worth a few bucks. There's diamonds in the rough, which you don't even know. So you go out and you're gonna look them up and you got to get into it. Yeah. And yeah, inventory of these things is probably really important as well. Anything more we need to know about collectible exchange before we go? I mean, it's just been amazing. I mean, keep an eye on the site. If you're a Michigan fan, we're about to announce Michigan collectibles.

Starting point is 00:19:44 We've never done, Michigan's never done collectibles before we're announcing it next week but we do UFL, PFL if you're into those sports keep an eye out for the Savannah Bananas if you're into that I know that's probably a little far into you Chris but it's go look that up it's a hot hot new way of doing baseball and fans I I mean, 65,000 people will be down in Nashville this weekend to watch a Savannah, Savannah baseball game. You won't be able to get a ticket. Is that where it's based on? They're based out of Savannah. They have this old school minor league park. It's really awesome. And if you want to get ahold of me, by the way, I'm a big social media guy. I love, I love hearing from people. I answer everything and I'm big on LinkedIn or Facebook or Instagram, but, but

Starting point is 00:20:29 you know, so don't hesitate. If you've got a stupid question, my son always says, there's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people that ask questions. But, but, but on that note, I mean, there is no such thing as a stupid question. Please feel free to come come at me with anything. That's hilarious. That's a line I was used. There's no such thing as a stupid question. Please feel free to Come come at me with anything. That's hilarious. That's a line. I was used. There's no stupid question Or there's there's those there's no stupid questions. The only question is the unasked question That's the office thing. All right, the only stupid question is question, but I like your son's version of it Yeah, when I was I was afraid to type in Savannah bananas. I wasn't sure if I was getting an only fan site. Oh, just had to get that joke in there folks. I wrote it in my head. So there it is. Anyway, that's not funny. Now I'm going to hear from everybody

Starting point is 00:21:13 in Georgia. All right. So you have my email. Have fun with that. What, you know, some of the interesting stories you cited on your thing were pretty interesting and I'm trying to pull those up. There was a story about you and I believe Yankee Stadium or one of the stadiums. Yeah. Well, I've taken down about five stadiums and sold them off the Texas stadium, Massa square garden. The one, the most famous one is Yankee stadium, which I was able to

Starting point is 00:21:40 partner with the Yankees by, and then take it apart and sell it. So that's been a great joy. I'm, I'm working on two other football stadiums that will be taken apart and selling it's a, it's a, it's a selfless act. I just want to tell you, I mean, I, it's not an easy task when you go into these stadiums and take them apart, but they're fun. I know the fans are important to the fans. So I love doing it. The Yankee stadium was, was once in a lifetime. That old stadium was just, you know, that was the cathedral of baseball and to be able to take that apart and sell it inch by inch. I talk a lot about him. I,

Starting point is 00:22:13 you gotta have balls books about how we did that. And it was quite an undertaking. They had, that was my second book. You gotta have balls, which was my mother's favorite line. You gotta have balls. Good sales book. Good book. But there's favorite line. Yeah. Do you want to plug your four books? Give us the title. I'm going to say this. I mean, if you go on collectible exchange, you get, you know, actually send your book free. If you pay for the shipping, there's living on purpose, which is probably my best favorite book, but you got to have balls. My mother's favorite line, which is true, but it is most popular book. And then the, if you're a young entrepreneur or salesperson, the business playbook is my first book that I wrote 20 years ago.

Starting point is 00:22:50 My new book coming out in about a month is called the ride alongs of Brandon Steiner, which hasn't come out yet, but you could preorder it on Amazon or whatever. But it's, I spent a year with the NYPD and really studying and trying to understand what's going on with urban policing, which could be a whole nother show, Chris. And I gotta tell you, I don't recommend anybody doing that. It's freaking dangerous. And I learned a lot about what's going on in these neighborhoods. I learned a lot about what it takes to keep us safe. And I learned a lot about the police department. And it's a very complicated issue that we all need to stop paying attention to because safety, I don't care about your freedom if you ain't safe. So no matter how

Starting point is 00:23:29 much money you got, if you're not safe, I thought this was a really interesting journey. If you're interested in going on, you'll love this book. Now, just to clarify for people in the audience who may be wondering, when you say taking apart a stadium, you mean, are you taking the seats and you're selling them as collectible items and, you know, the different, I've seen people, you know, buy rocks from the stadiums and different things like pieces of it. Is that what you meant? Yeah, I was selling the Berlin Wall too, by the way, in the day. But, no, I'm not kidding, that wasn't funny, but it's true. But- No, I think that's amazing.

Starting point is 00:24:00 The seats, the foul pole, the dugout, the carpet, I would cut up and make rugs and car mats out of it. The benches, you know, and the dugout, the black and Yankee stadium, we cut up and had Reggie Jackson sign. We made all kinds of seats, single seats, double seats, office chairs, bar stools. We sold the managers, Joe Tory, his desk. Yeah, I mean, when I take a stadium apart, when you go, let's Tory his desk. Yeah, I mean when I take a statement part when you go What let's not say one thing Chris?

Starting point is 00:24:27 I don't know as much as I don't know what you know as far as podcasting and some of the people you've interviewed But yeah, you're walking to a stadium with me. It's gonna be a different experience I'm not saying it's gonna be a good experience. I'm saying to be different As long as you pay for those hot dogs at one time Dodger Stadium and the hot dogs were like super stupid before they finally, you know, turn it over to a new owner. Beautiful stadium though that in Anaheim to Anaheim is a sleeper. Nobody talks enough about the angels because they suck. It is a beautiful stadium. I mean, it's just great to go play a baseball game They're just beautiful. Yeah, there's something about I grew up the Dodgers fan and

Starting point is 00:25:11 Tommy the sorda and I think he ran for center I don't know if he won yet, but who's the guy I'm thinking of that was the great baseball legend Harvey Steve Garvey Steve Garvey I was a huge Steve Garvey fan. Yeah The the ambiance, what would you put it just going to the Dodger Stadium? was a huge Steve Garvey fan. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Great guy. And the, the ambiance, what would you put it? Just going to the Dodger stadium. Oh yeah. I mean, it hasn't really changed much in all the years.

Starting point is 00:25:32 And so it's just kind of like this beautiful time capsule that you just go, I love this place. Don't change it. I don't know. I agree with you. I hate when the ballparks get all fancy and something, you know, it's okay if you want to make the seats a little bigger, but keep the, you know, it doesn't, something's just need to stay the same.

Starting point is 00:25:49 Kind of, you know, my Raiders fans, Raiders, we go in the dark side now. Yeah, we're going to dark side. I'm a Raiders fan. I just don't know why at this point, but I've done all my life. So it's like a religion, I guess. But I mean, that stadium they had in Oakland was real POS. Oh, terrible. It was a real joke. So I was happy when they got the new stadium, but holy shit, that thing is fancy. State of the art. Oh yeah. Yeah. You gotta have a $400,000 just to walk around in some of the private. It's no joke. But you're in

Starting point is 00:26:20 Vegas. Yeah. Oh yeah. As you got a good point there, you're in Vegas. You're spending money blowing, blowing all your money out your ass and gambling with the kids, college fun. Now John Gruden's open up boxes from UPS from teams, sending him swag. I mean, John Gruden has got to find another job. That's just, he's gotta be doing more than that. He's still getting paid by us. Oh, there's no question.

Starting point is 00:26:43 And we're, we're the, we're like, I don't know about any other teams, but we're paying three fired coaches now and the new one, but we'll win. We'll win a game. One of these days. That's how it works. You're hired on collectors exchange. Of course. Ton of men, right? A man with very, and had a great relationship with the great Ken Stabler Oh Good and also was Bubba Smith a Raider. I think he was that sounds familiar

Starting point is 00:27:09 Yeah, one of my favorite favorite he was on the police academy of movies one of my favorite Yeah, Bubba Smith a Raider I believe so yes, he was the football defensive end Okay. Oh, yeah, Michigan state. Yeah. Those guys are brutal man in the seventies. I love the seventies. I, I was like 10 years old when I got my Ken Stabler book that I still have to this day of, you know, the run with them and the, and the super bowls and you know, so I've, I've sadly been a fan all these years and I still hate Brady for stealing the one super bowl from us with that, you know, forward pass crap, but this is what it is. I guess I'm getting his now though.

Starting point is 00:27:49 Yeah. I just wish that I just wish that, you know, the, the Raiders for the longest time, they kept playing seventies football, which was just, you know, they play a game and have three to 400 penalty abuse points because they were still playing elbows and you know, just being shitheads the penalties and you're like, you lost the game by seven points, but you had 400 yards of penalties. I mean, you would have won the game, knock it off, quit playing seventies football. But what I'm trying to remind myself is that it is just a game. Somebody's got

Starting point is 00:28:22 to win. Somebody's going to have to lose. And at the end of the day, it's really not going to make that big a difference in the scheme of everything compared to all the other stuff going on in the world. But enjoy the moment. Yeah. You got to win or lose on any given Sunday. So anything more you want to talk about before we go? Everything's great.

Starting point is 00:28:42 And I've just been rolling. I mean, you know, I, what my message to some of the people that are older is don't age out and don't let, don't let people dictate when your careers to end. You dictate when it ends and you keep going. I mean, I started a brand new company when I was 60 and I feel phenomenal and, and I love my company and it's my, this new company, Collecal Machines is going to be bigger than ever. And when a lot of people told me retire

Starting point is 00:29:05 You have enough money But if you love what you're doing the money is really insignificant And I'm hoping that many people out there listening are finding that opportunity that money isn't a big deal But the cool job that you have you appreciate and are grateful for it It's been exciting and fun and wonderful to have you on the show just the great stories that you have Thank you very much Brandon for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Send me the inventory of your albums and I'll help you out and get the comps. We'll start getting those out of your way. I'm sure your wife's got a bunch of other crap.

Starting point is 00:29:34 No, no, no. See, here's the trick. Here's the trick. I'm not selling them and I don't have a wife. Oh, so you have to keep your shit. I lived in Vegas for 30 years for a reason. There's lots of partying that goes on. I'm, I've never been married, but, but you've reminded me of why I'm not married because no one's getting my shit out of my house. It's in, it's in my house. In fact, if you, I think if you said to me, you know, if you said to me, Hey, Chris, you're going to have to get rid of those rush records or, or, or your huskies or

Starting point is 00:30:04 whatever else you have, I'd be like the doors right there. You can go. I'm keeping the good shit, getting rid of the other shit. Anyway, I'm just teasing. Anyway, guys, that is actually the reason I'm not married. Anyway, guys, so thanks for taking that. And I can't afford the divorces. I'm still saving up for my first divorce. I got about 4 million saves. Is that about, will that cover it or? Yeah. I like the way you're thinking that that really makes a lot of sense. Really plan ahead, plan ahead. I believe that you should have divorce insurance these days where you pay a stipend to your attorney, you know, an entertainer and that way he's ready to go when the time comes. That's

Starting point is 00:30:38 a business. I haven't thought of it like that. Yeah. I mean, every seven, the average marriage last seven years that till death do you apart is like a, they should just do rim shot when they say that part in the wedding. Brian Fries I'm 38 and I'm looking pretty good. Pete Slauson Yeah, you got married in the old world when they don't make those models anymore. So, good for you. Brian Fries Yeah, it's true. Pete Slauson Good for you locking them down. Thank you very

Starting point is 00:30:57 much, Brandon, for coming on the show. Brian Fries You're welcome. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Pete Slauson Be good to each other, my friends and family of the show. Go to linkedin.com, ForchessCrisposs, youtube.com, forches, chrisfoss, chrisfoss1, the tiktokity, and facebook.com, forches, chrisfoss. Be good to each other. See you next time. Take care. And that should have us out.

The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Exploring Collectible Exchange and Sports Memorabilia with Brandon Steiner

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