Hobby Quick Hits Ep.155 The Bushido Code of the Hobby

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SPEAKER 2: Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 1 55 of Hobby Quicks here on this Monday for listening to us on Release Day.

SPEAKER 2: I hope, all the fathers out there had a great Father's Day. Spent some time with family. I hope you got, maybe, maybe, part of the hobby was part of your Father's Day. Maybe your family, got your card. Hopefully it was, a great Father's Day, for you. All right. Not a long episode today, but a little different one.

SPEAKER 2: It's about hobby bashi now, for those that don't know, Bohio is the Japanese samurai code based on morals and honor. And I'm teaching it in who I was teaching it, about a month ago in high school, where I work.

SPEAKER 2: And I thought, man, you know, a lot of these, as we went through these with the class, a lot of these could apply to modern times and then I took it even a step further and said, not just modern times, but we can apply it. Hobby specific, specific.

SPEAKER 2: And that's where this episode was born from.

SPEAKER 2: And we're gonna kind of go through each of these Bushido codes from samurai times, but modernize them and apply the hobby to them. And I think you'll find it interesting.

SPEAKER 2: I had fun doing it.

SPEAKER 2: And so without further ado, let's get to the releases, the news and then hobby Basto code.

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SPEAKER 5: And on the 25th, we have 2023 wild card aluminum illumination draft football, 2022 23 tops UEFA club competitions, chrome soccer.

SPEAKER 5: And on 28th we have 2022. Panini chronicles football 2022 male soccer. 2022 23 Panne.

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SPEAKER 2: This week's hobby news, semi busy news cycle this week. Let's start out with, unfortunately, a very sad story.

SPEAKER 2: Nine people were apprehended in Pennsylvania for stealing, memorabilia, notably Yogi Berra World Series and other award rings. About 17 total, an award awards, plaques, Roger Marris's MVP award as well.

SPEAKER 2: The sad part is not that, that they got caught that that part's good. The sad part. Well, it's two sad parts, right? The fact that they, these nine people, this ring, committed these crimes.

SPEAKER 2: But the, the really terrible part is they took these medals from the Rings and awards and melted them down and sold the medal. So they, they really weren't looking to resell the awards in their form that they stole them in their original form.

SPEAKER 2: They were just taking it for the melt value. And so these pieces of history are now lost forever. These original pieces of history are, are gone. They're, they've been melted down for the gold or the copper, maybe some silver, I'm not sure, but for sure.

SPEAKER 2: Gold and copper and, you know, we're, we're melted down into brick and, and this form, the report says, and unfortunately, they'll, they'll never be recovered in that original form again.

SPEAKER 2: Various charges to these nine folks. I'm not going to name them, although their names are now known. I'm not gonna give them any, any gloss by naming them.

SPEAKER 2: And one of the charges I'm glad to see is kind of destruction to curated history, which is, you know, hopefully that packs on some extra prison time, we'll see what the outcome is for the nine involved. But glad they caught him, said that these pieces of baseball history are lost forever. All right, ebay.

SPEAKER 2: Vetting Breakers. Well, not really vetting, they're, they're to sell any kind of break spots on ebay. You have to be approved.

SPEAKER 2: They've already sent emails to those they approved. I like this and I don't like this and let me explain what I mean by that. I don't like it or I do like it because they're, they're, you know, they're vetting Breakers.

SPEAKER 2: So, if some, one of those approved Breakers does something, you know, not, not good or shady, someone can bring it to ebay's attention and they can take action whether that's, a temporary suspension or a permanent ban. Right.

SPEAKER 2: The problem I have with this. So, initially when I heard it I was all too thumbs up and, and, and excited about it or happy about it.

SPEAKER 2: And then when I look further into it, this is where my opinion kind of changed. If you weren't an approved breaker and didn't get the email, you can't get your, your breaks or your spots listed on the auction site at all. There's no application process.

SPEAKER 2: So you, if you've been approved, you're, if you've been approved, you're good, but they will not take any new ones and that I don't like, I think anybody should be able to apply whatever that process would look like and then get approved.

SPEAKER 2: But now it's kind of like you're either in or you're out and there's no way to get in if you're not in, in that part, I don't agree with so good on one hand, bad on the other. All right, let's talk about some auction news that, that, happened recently.

SPEAKER 2: One item I would have loved to own, but not in the budget. Wayne Gretzky's final game Worn Jersey as a New York Ranger, went for $715,000 at Gray flannel auctions, the buyer was a, former sports car nation guest.

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SPEAKER 2: He bought that, he also bought from another auction, a Kobe Bryant Jersey for 462 k great item here. Wilt Chamberlain's rookie jersey and shorts that he wore in every home game during his rookie season at SCP auctions brought in a $1.79 million.

SPEAKER 2: And I mean, that's, that's AAA crazy part of history right there.

SPEAKER 2: Will rookie jersey and shorts from the whole, the whole season, right when they wore like one uni for all year, Jordan flu game shoes that he gave to a Utah jazz ball boy went in Golden's auction for $1.38 million. Great part of history there too. We all remember the Jordan flu game.

SPEAKER 2: How about this for Ro I, the cons designer who wasn't the, I don't, the, the Utah ball ball boy. He, he wound up selling the shoes.

SPEAKER 2: And the cons designer who paid 100 $4000 for them, made out like abandon, right? Paid 100 4 K sold it for $1.38 million. Not, not a bad Oorro, I if you can get it. So there's, there's kind of the news for the, the last couple of weeks now. Our feature presentation.

SPEAKER 2: You know, sometimes we take inspirations for hobby content from our real life jobs. Right. Or, or say real life, like, hobby is not real life. I always do that. I apologize. But from our real jobs. Right. Our, our 9 to 5, if you will.

SPEAKER 2: And I've done that a couple of times with content creation and today is going to be another one of those times I'm doing it with in school. Recently we learn about the Japanese code of Bushido and some people know about it.

SPEAKER 2: Some people may not and in teaching the class and talking with the class about the codes of Bushido, it dawned on me, it struck me like some of these can apply to real life and in modern times, right, the code of Bushido is from the age of the samurais and way back when, but we can apply it to now and we can also, I sat there and I thought, you know, these can cross over into the hobby and have a hobby version as well and that's what this episode is exactly gonna be.

SPEAKER 2: I'm gonna go over the seven codes of Shido and, and, and kind of apply them, to the hops, not gonna be a long episode, but we're gonna, we're gonna kind of crossover edition, the Bushido crossover edition. So, these are not in any kind of order just in the order that I wrote them down in a sense. Ok. So, let's start with the first Bohio. I'm gonna talk about first code of, you know, integrity.

SPEAKER 2: Right. We all know kind of integrity. I've heard people call it like what you do when no one's looking, that sort of thing. Right. And integrity in the hobby just comes from, you know, doing the right thing, when no one's looking right.

SPEAKER 2: Whether you're a store that's not Wayne Pack, if you're a seller online that's selling, you know, sending what someone paid for or traded for and quickly and, you know, doing the right thing, right. Being above board all the time. Right.

SPEAKER 2: Not just when someone's looking, but when someone's not look integrity in the hobby and that's something, you know, I'm gonna to pride myself on my integrity, from starting, even as a young hobbyist, and as a young show dealer, I've always tried to do it the right way.

SPEAKER 2: Not take advantage of anybody when I had my store, you know, you open a box of pack and that was it. We weren't gonna search him, we weren't gonna weigh them and I wasn't gonna let anyone else come in. You know, there'd be kind of people come in and, hey, can I, you know, can I pick my pack?

SPEAKER 2: Sure you can pick it but you're not gonna feel them all up and then pick, right. Just go ahead and pick whatever one you want.

SPEAKER 2: You know, even in boxes back in the day, some boxes, you know, ran sequentially like, for example, if my memory serves me correctly, there was, you know, one scoring king a box and it was in a certain pack in, in the back. And when we open that box, if, if it wasn't gonna be a box that we opened for ourselves, we kind of moved all the packs around.

SPEAKER 2: And so if someone came in knowing that sequence and thought they were going to be slick and, and pick that pack, you know, they probably weren't going to get, that scoring king, you know, that to be fair to everyone. So, integrity is that sort of of thing to me. I, I pride on it, not on just hobby stuff but across, across the board.

SPEAKER 2: All right, let's go to bashi code number two. Respect, right? And respect is, is earned, not given, right. Respect is sort of doing the right thing and helping others and, you know, being an advocate and an ambassador and a hobby and then you, you know, people will respect. So respect comes from other people. You can't give it to yourself.

SPEAKER 2: You can do things to earn it from other people, but it's bestowed on you by other people. And, it's a process, right? It doesn't necessarily happen overnight and it only, you know, you can lose it quickly, meaning if you have it, but go fall off the rails or come off track. Right. You can lose respect quick when you have it. You want to keep it, you earned it, but you don't want to lose it.

SPEAKER 2: Right. The third Shido is heroic. Courage. Right. And that one's a tough one to really cross over in hobby terms. Right. I mean, none of us are necessarily doing anything who wrote heroic, but I'll, I'll, I'll use it in this terms. Right. We've seen many folks, I've done a few things my self where you give to charities.

SPEAKER 2: Right. We have Gala Ao Children Hospital here in S, I've donated cards to now. Believe me, that's not heroic. It might be generous or nice. But it's probably, you know, we've seen other people, someone in the hobby's been sick or there's been a death unfortunately, in the hobby rallies together to help that, either that person or the family that lost a loved one.

SPEAKER 2: You know, that's, you know, maybe it's not heroic, but it's probably the closest to hobby heroic that we can do. And I've been involved in some of those efforts. I've spearheaded some as well and I think it's important. Right. This hobby, you know, when we band together and come together as one big community, you can, you can do a lot of things.

SPEAKER 2: You know, the saying is you can move mouths a little, little bit too extreme there, but we can do a lot of good individually. We can do a lot more good collectively so that I'll put that under the bashi code of heroic with courage. Right. The fourth Shido code honor. Right. Sort of similar to respect, right. Honor.

SPEAKER 2: When I think about honor in the hobby, it's about, you know, I, I did AAA piece for sports collectors died. Just my first piece. They wanted me to do, introduce myself. Right. And I, I don't always like doing a whole piece talking about just me. So I made that piece about my journey all along the way in 30 plus years of the hobby.

SPEAKER 2: So I spoke about my grand father and the first packs. I got, I spoke about Rudy Baste, the first store owner that put me to work and, and taught me business and the ropes and doing shows. I talked about my dad bringing me to shows when I started doing at 15. I couldn't legally drive yet. And he, he was my transportation there and I've talked about things since then, right?

SPEAKER 2: People that have helped me get to where I am on this hobby journey today. It's not done by yourself. It's involving yourself, but there are many people along the way to help you on the journey. Even this show, right? This is Abby Quick. It, but even Sports Card Nation, we've had almost 200 guests, right? That's a guest driven show.

SPEAKER 2: I might be the host, but it's all those people on that show that make that show what it is and without them, Sports Card Nation probably doesn't exist. And even if it does, it's not what it, what it really is today. And I thank all those people, every single one of them. Right. And, so honor, right to me, honor is honoring the people that got you where you are.

SPEAKER 2: Don't, don't neglect that. Don't take them for granted. Don't be embarrassed mention in them. There's, there's no shame in that. And I, I, you know, I've heard some people sort of fail to mention people because I think they don't want to like, hurt other people's feelings as silly as that may sound. I'll talk about anyone along the way who's, who's helped me.

SPEAKER 2: You know, and, and no shame in that and it shouldn't be if I'm, if I don't want to mention someone like that, they shouldn't have helped me and I appreciate any help I've gotten along the way and I'll never forget it as long as I can remember it. And, and, and that's, that's important. All right, let's talk about the Fifth Basto Code.

SPEAKER 2: Compassion. Right. Again, that those two a words I like to use advocate and ambassador, right? You know, looking out for your fellow hobbyists, right? Caring. You know, like I mentioned someone gets sick or they had their collection shin stolen or they had a fire in their house and lost their collection donating cards, helping their cars out.

SPEAKER 2: Right. Being compassionate, you've built a nice collection, a nice Arseo card. It won't hurt you to give some of it up to someone less fortunate fortunate or who had a tragedy, against them where they've lost some of their, you know, collection they built right. That compassion in the hobby again goes a long way, especially when we come together again.

SPEAKER 2: As a community, you're going to hear that kind of and thread here. Six Basto Code, honesty and sincerity. Again, some of these are so similar, right? Honesty is just again doing the right thing. I think honesty and content creation is something I, another thing I take pride in is saying, hey, I don't know the answer to that.

SPEAKER 2: Let me look into it or, you know, I got to research it and not just being phony baloney or faking your way through a conversation. I don't, I don't do that. People are pretty smart and keen when you're, if you did that to, to out, believe me, I've had conversations with folk and it didn't take me long to figure out they were sort of baloney, throwing their way through something, right?

SPEAKER 2: I respect someone more for saying, hey, you know, John, I don't know. You know, and I do the same thing, hey, folk, I don't know or I'm not sure. Right. Nothing wrong with that sincerity, right? Being in yourself. Not a phony shtick, not a front doing things at face value. Right.

SPEAKER 2: What you see is what you get is being sincere. And the, again, these are all things I tried to be and do and be an example with, ok, and the last two scio codes, duty and loyalty, right? Duty. You know, duty again is, is, is doing the right thing helping your fellow collector out. You know, we don't have a duty per se. It's not a job, right.

SPEAKER 2: I know some people want to claim they're the hobby watchdogs and, and, and, you know, I'll never make that claim, but I will come on any of my content if I can, helps them avoid a prat fall or a scam or something else. Right. It's, it's sort of my, I don't want to say it really is my duty, but I feel sort of an obligation to share that knowledge, help others. Right?

SPEAKER 2: And loyalty kind of goes back with honor. Right? Loyalty is, remember who got you somewhere, right? Even if maybe you're not as close to them as you used to be. Ok. For example, you know, I mentioned Rudy Baste, the owner of Seventh And Stretch who hired me as a 13 year old kid to work in the store. I haven't spoken with that gentleman.

SPEAKER 2: Unfortunately, in 20 years, nothing bad. We just sort of lost, you know, I moved and we've lost touch and he was an older gentleman. My fear is, he's no longer with us. I kind of did a search. I didn't find an obit to be more, you know, morbid curiosity. So, I hope he's still among the living. I have tried to find him to no avail.

SPEAKER 2: So, but I'll talk about him, you know, and what he meant to me along my hobby journey and how I probably wouldn't be here without what he did. Right. And that's without talking to him for 20 years or maybe not that long, but a good amount of time and not even knowing whether he's hearing me, whether he's still, you know, living or, or passed away, hopefully living.

SPEAKER 2: I still will give him his, his just deserves and due respect and credit whether he hears it or not, doesn't matter that I do it. Right. It's because it's the right thing to do and it's because I appreciate it and I know I'm not here without him. He might even say you're giving me too much credit, John, but I'll beg to diff so loyalty is honoring those and putting respect on those who helped you along the way.

SPEAKER 2: And I don't care who you are. I don't care how expensive or not expensive your collection is. I don't care if you do a podcast or don't do a podcast, right? Someone has helped you in the hobby, in some form of fashion, right.

SPEAKER 2: If you start when you were a kid, maybe it was your parents who bought your packs or boxes or drove you to the card store or gave you an allowance to start your hobby journey. Right. Or maybe it's that L CS owner who gave you a break or really looked out for you. I mean, there's so many way I could do a show just on, on how people may have helped you.

SPEAKER 2: Right. But, loyalty is not being ashamed to talk about those folks and putting proper respect on them for what they did for you. And if you do a good job, someone will do the same for you when you pay it forward as well. So there is my version of the hobby Bushido. I hope you enjoyed it. Something a little different, right?

SPEAKER 2: Than, than the typical in the norm, maybe what you get. And, we try to do that here. So with that being said, we're gonna bid you a do. Thanks for listening to Hobby Quick Hits. We'll talk to you soon.

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