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Podcast nation. Before I get you into today's podcast, big announcement. As you probably heard at this point, because I had John from Stan on the show, I am an investor advisor to an incredible startup called Stan. Stan Store. I'm sending you right now to GaryVee.com, garyVee.com Stan, go check this out. We've done a GaryVee Stan store challenge, which actually has a weekly call with me. This is built for everyone who's been affected honestly by my overall content. The tech stack, all these features, and the minimal costs per month that Stan Store has built is really the tool that was needed for this world that I envisioned when I wrote Crush it. When I wrote Crushing It. And this overall thing I'm thinking a lot about lately, which is the individual empire, right? This creator entrepreneur slash entrepreneur creator economy that I think is gonna eat up the oxygen. Very honestly. The thing that so many of you want in your life and the reason so many of you are not there yet, is you've got the strategy for. You've got the ambition within yourself, but you don't have the tools for you to fully maximize it. And I believe you can find that at Stan Store. Stan Store. But specifically, I want you to sign up for it through my challenge because I want to get access with you. And plus, there's a bunch of cool things. So if you want to go see those cool things, go to garyvee.com Stan S T A N Now to the podcast. This is the Garyvee Audio Experience. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to episode 88. I want to start with my first question from Pablo, and then we're going to get into a very special guest for a question here on tea with GaryVee in a second, but let's go with Pablo first. What do you got?
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Let's warm me up in Astrano asks Gary at the national in Chicago. You are actively chasing rare fictional character cards. Could you elaborate why you believe this specific niche in collecting will keep growing?
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I don't know if I'm ready for this question. I don't. I don't know if I'm ready for it. You know, I feel like I'm ready for every question. For everybody who didn't understand the question. Fictional characters, Batman, Santa Claus, Cinderella, Betty Boop, Alf, robocop, the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shrek, Buzz Lightyear, Cartman at, you know, from South Park, I am incredibly bullish. Sports cards, obviously, it's been in the news recently. Mr. Wonderful and Shine and a couple of masters spent a Lot of money on a very high end. Jordan, Kobe, I think dual card. I'm always looking for things that people don't see. I have a very big thesis that the comic con crew is about to smash into the national and fanatics fest crew. So I kind of think where nerd culture has been is, you know, when you're a Harry Potter collector, you collect the first edition book. When you're a Spider man collector, you collect Spider man comic books and figures. What? You know, I, I kind of, you know, when you're a Star wars big time collector, you collect the action figures. I kind of think that the trading card world is getting so big that Superman, Batman, Spider man and all the other characters I met, their rookie cards are going to go big. So yes, whoever asked that question clearly was paying attention to what I was doing at the sports card national. When I was running around the show and not behind the veefriends booth with my son. I was picking up stuff for him. But then for myself, I was stopping by where I saw people had Fred Flintstone's rookie or Tweety bird's rookie or Mrs. Miss Piggy's rookie or Wolverine's rookie or Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Tony the Tiger from the serial. I think there's something there, there. And so that's what I'm collecting these days. And I think you're seeing a huge burst, right? I bought a Ronaldo rookie a couple years ago. Then it went crashing down, right. Rips. We were like feeling all sad about ourselves. And then yesterday it went for a lot more. And I think when you have patience in what you collect, and I hope that's what I achieve for everybody with vee friends as we build out our collectible. When you have patience with collectibles and you see something, you know, oftentimes it works out if you're looking for a quick flip, you know, sometimes it works out tremendous and sometimes it works out terrible. If I had bought that Ronaldo and sold it when the market was soft and liquidated, I would have lost half my money. Now I'm at 6x or yeah, 6x my investment on that card. So, you know, that's the answer. Looking for angles. Michael Chair now. Let's get him up here. He collects. This man collects accolades for how good looking he is. You look great, brother. How are you?
