October 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Dan Tortora returns this week for Part 2 of our conversation.
Talking points on this episode may include:
*Sports kid to sports broadcaster, when he knew.
*Starting your own company without a comma in your bank account.
*When the hobby started for him, why, who and how.
*The Birth of this show and why he deserves credit.
*Returning to cards.
*Setting up at shows and trade nights.
*Covering pro sports and collecting the players you cover.
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Talking points on this episode may include:
*Sports kid to sports broadcaster, when he knew.
*Starting your own company without a comma in your bank account.
*When the hobby started for him, why, who and how.
*The Birth of this show and why he deserves credit.
*Returning to cards.
*Setting up at shows and trade nights.
*Covering pro sports and collecting the players you cover.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports Guardination Hobby is the people weely news and interviews.
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Sports guy Nation. What is up? Everyone?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome to episode three fifty six of Sportscardination, Part two
of my fun and great conversation with my friend and pal,
Dan Tatra And like you heard last week if you
listened to last week's show, he's one of the big
reasons that sports Cardination exists, and we might talk a
(00:43):
little bit more about it in part two, but in
part two we're really gonna chop up a little more
Hobby get into doing shows and what he does and
how he got to the point that he's at in
his car journey as well. If you didn't catch the
first part, make sure you do that. It's a if
you ever wondered, how did's you know? Where did sports
(01:06):
Carnation come from? Why is it here? All the kind
of the behind the music, if you will, the backstory, Uh,
that's all explained in the first episode, and today's guest
is a big reason uh for all for all of that.
So with that being said, let's get to the conclusion
(01:27):
of our interview with Dan Totura. Here's the conclusion of
the interview I did with Dan Tatur, my good friend
from Dan to Tour Broadcast Media.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So let's talk about enough.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You know, uh again, we're here, like you know, the
show and if you would have told me where we'd
be now when I first started, I think you crazy.
I'm sure you probably would say that with Dan Tour
Broadcast as well, like it's okay to think big, but
you know, there's always that that doubt in everyone's mind, right,
that that that you played tuggle or in your mind.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So here we are.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But you know, obviously we we we chopped up some cards,
talking about them, you had some and now we're now
we're doing shows together, maybe not right next to each other,
but we're setting up at shows. Kind of talk about
you got back into cards in a in a big way,
you know, talk about that evolution as well. You've always
(02:23):
collected cards, but now coming back sort of full full force,
full circle, and then the decision to hey, I can
set up and and you know, and I don't want
to speak for you, but probably like me, right, a
lot of times, the money you might make at a
show or selling the card, you're putting it right back
into the hobby and and and transacting kind of you know,
(02:46):
ramping up your hobby experience, if you will.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, I mean I always collected and I've traded for
I mean pretty much. If I started collecting at like
six or seven, I started trading at like eight or nine.
And so I mean I've been I've been training for
a long time in this world. I mean selling was
the newest.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Part of it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And yeah, I mean I just kind of was like,
you know, I'll give it a shot. I'll go out
and I'll see. And I never had any like graded cards.
And then I got some graded cards because Brendan Murphy
like him and I did trade night a Gigi cards
and brakes, and he had all these graded cards.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I remember, not to cut you up, Dan, I remember
even going on your show for this Friday Morning thing
explaining what grading was and what it meant and how
it worked and why you should do it or why
it's a good thing. And so here we are, go ahead.
I don't mean to I wanted to just throw that
little Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
No, I mean I didn't know anything about it, like, so,
you know, doing this show and I and a bunch
of people came up to you know, Brendan and he
had a bunch of higher end stuff two hundred dollars
this and a hundred dollar of that and three hundred
dollars or whatever, and you know, I just kind of
brought out what I had and I just kind of
like showed what I had and doing that, you know,
to me, it was just one of those things where
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I just kind of thought to myself that, you know,
it was it was fun. I mean, I just kind
of took a shot and did the trade night, and
I was like, oh, this is cool to like see
that people care about it and people are in the
hobby and and so that was nice to see it.
And then I was like, oh'll do another one. I mean,
I liked the GG cards. It breaks guys. I love
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Josh and Anthony and the team, and so I just
kind of started doing it with them. And I thought
to myself, I have so many cards I can part
with some of these, you know, they're collecting dust, they're
sitting here, Like if I make money, it's it's found money.
And so I just started doing it. Then I started
getting some graded cards. Then I did my first cards
that I sent, and I got nine tens and three
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nines and I got very spoiled, and I was told
by the guys that GG cards and breaks that they
do not give a ten from PSA to clear cards.
And I had a ever Lawrence Rookie card that was
like his body and then it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Was see through.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And it was the first card that I had had
in the grading and it got a ten. And I
had a Blake Bortles that Josh thought would get a ten,
a draft picks of Blake from UCF that was a
refractor and that.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Got a ten.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
So like those will always be with me, and yeah,
I mean, I just I started just getting into trade nights.
And then Brendan and I did a show out in
Philadelphia and I did really well at the show, and
then we came back and a Fishtown card show and
one of the guys was like, dude, he said, I
love that you have like a variety and you're always
really fair on your prices. And then I kind of
(05:42):
went through being around some people that took it way
too seriously and they made it not fun and it
kind of made me like, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I don't really want to be like around this.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And people just critiquing everything that people do and how
they do it and what they do and what they
price and YadA, YadA, YadA. So I took a little
break and then I just kind of casually stayed with
the trade nights at Gigi cards and breaks, and I
used it to meet people and promote my.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Business and promote my show.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
And now I've kind of gotten back into the shows
and back into just being happy to be there.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
And you know, I had I did a show.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I did it, you know, the Collector Fest, and I
was across from you and I was there by myself
with two tables, and I had a record day. And
I think it's because I genuinely went there to promote
my show, meet people, shake hands, and I had I
was like, hey, if I make any money, it's gravy.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
And I had like the best day that I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I got to do so many cool things and
got to see stuff go home to people. And I
try to do like little things that I feel like
Georgie's did when I was a kid and Twilight. So
like one kid came up to me and he said
how much for this? And what can I change you
for this? And I looked around and I said, hey,
I was like, don't tell anybody, but I don't want
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anything from you. And I handed it to him and
he's like really, and I said yeah. And I'm just
hoping that, like that's his nine year old memory, and
that when he's thirty nine like me right now, then
thirty years later, he'll go do something for somebody.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I just I like, I just I liked seeing the
passion in other people and then trying to be what
George was at George's to me because I will always
remember that he would know exactly what I wanted. He
knew my favorite teams. He was good to my mom,
he was good to me. And I would take a
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bag from him and I know the cards I bought
and I couldn't even wait, and I'd get to the
car to look at the cards that I just handed
him just because I wanted to see them, and there
would be like another two or three cards in there
that he snuck in there that I didn't know about,
and you know, gg cards and breaks. I tell Josh
all the time, I never thought somebody would make me
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feel like George did. And Josh and Anthony definitely brought
me back home to the hobby so it's again. I mean,
you gave me credit for your show, and I give
it back to you. You talk to me about collecting
cards and doing shows, and I would give it to
Josh and Ana.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
No, don you mentioned George georgiad back and Dad. I'm
not sure where he is today. Dan, but he he
did something that was crazy at the time, and I
don't know how well it did well it did in
the over he opened. He did a twenty four hour
card store. I don't know if that's done anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well have a card shop. Yeah, So he actually blended
sports and entertainment. I do a wake up call and
start pop and just with Dan. So he was a
pioneer way back then to do both, don't you And
like one room was cards and one room was comic books.
And I think that even he would like say to me, like,
I think I'm nuts, but like looking at like in
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twenty twenty five, I wish people did what what he
did now, Like he did this over two decades ago,
and I wish people would do it now.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I remember I had my store at the time with
my partner Angelo, and I remember when he announced, like
and we knew each other. We were friendly, I would
buy stuff for him. I know he bought stuff for me.
And I remember when he said that he was going
to go and stay open, and that's just a crazy premise,
but he.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Thought outside the box.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That was what George did, And I'm like, I could
never do that, And I don't know to this day,
if there's one out there, somebody who's listening, if you
know of a card store that's opened twenty four hours
a day, let me know, because I like to give
credit where credits do. But it was the only one
I've ever heard of then, and since then, I've never
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heard of I've heard of, you know, people doing like
a live stream or something for twenty four hours, but
I never heard of a store that operated twenty four
seven like that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I thought that was.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Pretty zany but also interesting too, right to do something
that no one else is trying or doing. I don't know,
you know how many sales you're getting at three thirty
in the morning. Only only he would can answer that.
But the fact that you could, you know, you can't sleep,
or you wake up and you can use the restroom
and you're like, I want to open some cards up
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and you can jump in your car or walk down
the street depending on where you reside and go to
a card store at that time of day or night
really and and be able to buy cards.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Right, it was just pretty Uh, you couldn't fathom it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, I remember he had a picture and he signed
it for me and there's somebody else under two. I
forget who it was, but you know, I mean, George,
wherever you are, man like I will always always always
have you be part of my story of my passion
and my love, like I wanted to go to yours
every day, and I love how you treated my family,
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not just me. And like George is like he was
just he was just so good man. I just I
people like him and there's certain people that just stick
out to you and they always will and he does
for sure, And you know I love him like he
just treated me just some kind of way and I'm
(11:13):
just so great, Like I would have done anything to
see him succeed. Like I had one of his shirts,
polo shirts, I had the autograph thing and all of
that for you know, he just he just you know,
he knew customer service, he knew how to treat you
just genuine and you know, wherever you are, George, Just
know that the little kid in me thanks you, and
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the way that you treated me is something that I've
never forgotten. And it's because of nice people and nice
gestures from people like you that I'm reminded that this
world is a lot warmer.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Than we Yeah, well said, all right, going back to
your card collecting, right, you're obviously covering these sports. You're
covering these athletes, and in many cases, you're covering these
athletes on both levels. Right there, I say amateur in
coeg with the nil.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Now I almost kind of catch myself. But you're covering some.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Of these guys not only when they're in college, and
then as they get drafted the pros and then you're
seeing them you get to know them on a personal level,
and then you're seeing them on a cardboard and chrome level.
How has covering sports and collecting cards? How has the
covering sports aspect and getting to know these people on
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an individual personal level like influence how you collect cards?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
It helps me get an autograph.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So many times I wanted to have one in my
pocket and just go, hey, Trevor, can you sign this
jersey on? But yeah, no, I man, it's so much fun.
You know, it's it's so cool to like, I mean,
and this was the crazy thing. So the first I
had never gone to an NFL game in my life,
and the first time I went to an NFL game
was twenty ten and I was covering the game. So
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my first experience of going to an NFL game was
me getting to cover the Jaguars, my favorite team, going
for free, getting a parking pass because I'm in the
press box, and then I get to go in the
locker room and interview the people whose cards I collect.
It was right after my favorite Jaguar of all time left,
Fred Taylor, which was like really sad, but it was
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so wild to me, and it didn't really hit me
until it hit me that I'm standing and like I
didn't even think about it, but after the game, I
was like, holy crap, I get to go in the
locker room and then I'm standing in the locker room
and I'm like, I get to talk to these people
who I collect, and you know that that was just
so wild. That my first NFL experience was as a
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professional working for my own show, which was The Dan
Torture Show on ESPN ten eighty. The team in Orlando
at the time and yeah, so I mean that was
just wild, but I dude, I love it, like I
it's so much fun to do it and to like
lean in and tell the guys like, oh, I got
one of your cards, Like Trent Dilfer, I found his
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ninety four rookie card and him and I are we
have like a friendship now and I cover him. I
cover Uab inside of the American. So we were sitting
doing an interview and I said, dude, I have your
rookie card. I said, will you sign it for me?
Just because like we both believe in God. We have
a strong faith. Like we talk about everything outside of football.
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We talk like seventy outside and thirty percent football when
we talk. I said, I just he's like, of course, man,
I signed that for you.
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Speaker 1 (15:02):
You are listening to the Sports Card Nation podcast.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
So to me, it's like collecting your car, like collecting
cards as a kid. I guess the best story is
Damon Sotomore, like collecting him at age nine, writing him
a letter before social media, trying to find his address somewhere,
and then sending it to one of the nine addresses
he had, hoping one of them was right, sending him
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a letter with my mom, never hearing back from him.
And then you fast forward to I'm in my thirties
and I'm covering the ACC and I'm covering really all
of college basketball, and I've covered all different conferences, and
I've covered the NCAA Tournament, and I've been there, and
we've gone coast to coast, north, north to south. And
Damon sotomar can get hired at one of any of
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the three hundred and sixty plus schools in Division one
men's basketball, and he gets hired to Georgia Tech, and
Georgia Tech happens to be a team I've covered for
over a decade. Buddie Ross, who's a brother to me,
sends me a message and he says, Damon Satomira gets
hired at Georgia Tech. I jumped so high in my
kitchen that I almost hit my head on my ceiling.
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I was so excited, and I looked up at God
and I said, hey, like, as long as I'm alive,
a few months from now, I'm actually going to get
to talk to the person who is my favorite player.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Like I'm actually going to get to.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Cross paths with Damon Sodomaire and I've waited twenty nine
years at the time to do it. And I said,
no matter what, I'm going to get to do it.
And then the Diamondbacks made the World Series. I was
down in Charlotte doing the ACC Opera ACC tip Off,
interviewing all the basketball teams, and I said to my dad,
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if the Diamondbacks make it, we're going. And they won,
and my dad said, look up tickets. So I looked
up tickets that night. It was right around my birthday.
The Diamondbacks make the World Series, and I knew that
the next morning I was going to get to talk
to Damon. I interviewed Damon and the TV asked him
a couple questions. Then I walked outside of the room,
and I said to Damon in the Hilton Charlotte Uptown.
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I said, hey, Damon, just want to say I appreciate you,
my favorite player growing up. He shook my hand, he
gave me a hug, shook my hand multiple times, gave
me a couple hugs. Then he did a one on
one with me on camera together, and then we ended
up talking last year and last year he gave such
a long answer to me that everybody in the room
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he was literally just looking at me, and we were
talking in this TV room and at the end of it,
the moderator was like, all right, Damon, you're done.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Like they just kind of laughed, like you just literally
had a one on one with that guy, and now
now you're all done.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
And so I mean to be collecting cards at nine
years old of your favorite player and you want to
grow up and he's number twenty on the Raptors and
you want to be number twenty one. He's five ten,
you're five eight. You want to play next to this guy,
and you wait almost three decades and you get to
shake hands and hug him and tell the person that
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you talked everyone's ear off about, including you know, your
grandma's and your mom and your dad, and now you
get to actually talk to him man to man and
get to meet him and give him a hug and
thank him like that. Honestly, that full circle moment is
one of the wildest moments of my life.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
And I still don't even believe that.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
How well, how hard was it not the fanboy like,
obviously you have a job to do, and you know,
talk about the difficulty to keep it professional, but at
the same time, let him know what he meant to you,
you know, growing up as as a collector and as
a as a sports fan in your favorite player.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I think it was it was like finding a way
to tell him I own two hundred and twenty plus
of your cards without him thinking like I was crazy, like.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The cable guy.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, like like just being like, dude, I really just
loved watching you play, and you're He's the reason why
I'm a raptor for and I always will be so
because he came in in their inaugural year and he
was Rookie of the Year that year. I mean, I
mean I had a plack up of him in my
room right by my bed, and it reminded me, like
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you can make it.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
You can do it. You can do whatever you set
your mind to.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You know, he was mighty mouse, and he's not a
tall guy, and I'm not a tall guy, and so yeah,
I mean I think just talking with him, it was
like how do you pack twenty nine years of just
appreciating this man from Afar to like getting to talk
to him and asking him if he can spend a.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Couple of minutes with you.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
So, I mean, I don't really get like stars struck,
And it was more to me, like I just hope
that he lets me talk to him for a few minutes,
and I hope Georgia Tech lets me do it, because
you never know what sid you're dealing with. And some
people must have been bullied in school because they're really weird.
And so like the guy was nice and Damon was
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nice and shout out to Georgia Tech. And yeah, I
mean it really wasn't like a like a fanboy moment.
It was like I want to tell him that I
collected his cards as a young kid, with him fully
knowing that I'm a normal human being because I very much,
like you know, am not like the guy in Happy
Gilmore that put the lipstick on and is like crossing
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names out. So like I just was like, I want
to tell him because I feel like my grandmother and
my mom would be like, you better tell him that
you spend a lot of our money on that guy.
So it was just it was just finding a way
to tell him that way. Yeah, I mean it was
a great conversation, and I mean I would like to
have a friendship with him and get to actually get
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to know him as a man. So I'm hoping that,
you know, as God crossed our paths in a miraculous way,
I'm hoping that, you know, there will be a time
where maybe in a few months or in a month,
I should say that him and I can you know,
just kind of sit and talk and I can just
kind of pick his brain and get to know who
he is as.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
A Yeah, that's awesome. It's every not everyone gets to
meet their heroes. And but that you know, you've done
this long enough, you know how to keep it a profession.
I'm kind of like you, Dan, I've met some folks
along the way doing this and even just going to
spoiling events and spring training. You know, someone asked me
if if there is anyone like I would meet that
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would like, you know, lead me in all or be.
The only one that first comes to mind from would
be Michael Jordan, like if ever I got to meet
him and me in the.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Same room with him literally walking like being he walked
like right behind my back. It's Orlando Pro Summer League.
And then in a Orlando Magic game he walked right
toward me with his girlfriend at the time. And I
mean I've been in the room with him, Larry Bird,
I've interviewed Patrick Ewing, like I it's it's been really
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crazy to be like I'm sitting in a room with
the like the greatest of the greats and like these
dream team players.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
But I mean, yeah, I've been.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I was like my producer called me at the time,
Nicholas Cicero, and he was like, Michael Jordan's there, and
I'm like, no, he's not. Actually I would know if
he's there, Like as I'm talking to him, Michael Jordan
is walking right behind my back, and everything inside of
me was like fall backwards so that he can.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Catch you fake fake like a medical.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Like either he's gonna help you and he's gonna get
to know you, or he's gonna walk by you. But yeah,
I mean I did get to see him twice and
Larry Bird, I mean I was armed arm with him
and Patrick Ewing, and I mean I got to interview
Patrick Ewing, which is wild. And I will tell you
that the Syracuse Georgetown rivalry will never die. I talked
to Patrick Ewing about a year after Pearl Washington passed away,
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and Patrick I asked him about Pearl and he gave
a backhanded compliment about Pearl. And I'm looking at him,
going like he's dead now, and he still couldn't.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Just be nice.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
He had to be like kind of nice, but I
hate you at the same time, like Syracuse Georgetown will
never die.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
No, and as it shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Hopefully it continues and they get to play each other.
I know they're not in the same conference anymore, but.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
It's still the biggest rivalry. Searcher says, Yep.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well, Dan, this is fun man. I'm glad we finally
got to do it again. You wouldn't have got to
do this show if it wasn't for you, so I've
never got to tell the guests that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So I get to tell you, if.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It wasn't for you, you wouldn't be on this show because
the show wouldn't exist for you to be on. So
I appreciate you what we'll have to do it again
just the same as well.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, no, I mean again I appreciate your kind words.
And you know, I think again the credit goes to
you and your hard work and your dedication and your
belief in yourself. I mean, I saw something in you
and I wanted you to be a part of it,
and I saw value in you. But maybe you didn't yet,
but all that you've done.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
That you know.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I mean I wanted you to know that I valued
you everything that you did to make your own brand,
like I would never take any of that away from anybody.
It wouldn't anybody take away from me. So I give
you the credit again for doing this show.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, I was hoping you would just say that without
John Newman it would be no Danta Tour broadcast.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I would I would say, you know, to me, without
John Newman, there there would be a lot colder of
a of an environment in this in this media world.
You know, I I try to help everyone. I you know,
I'm absolutely here to do that. I would love to
and so I mean, you're just one of the people
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that I reached out to and you said yes, and
it meant a lot to me. It continues to mean
a lot to me. You know, I consider Jordan a
little brother. Whether I've seen him in three years or like,
I still consider him family and I consider you family.
And you know, there's very very few people that have
a reoccurring place on my show, and that's because I'm very,
(25:12):
very very like like, when I make a decision and
what I'm doing, it does it comes with a lot
of thought and just paying attention and praying about it
and caring about people. So I mean, to me, you
give me the credit, but the credit goes to you
because I saw something in you and I saw something
(25:33):
in Jordan, and you know, I just I really appreciate
the kindness, the generosity, the kind words. But I like
to think that God brought us together. I like to
think that God brought us back together, and I'd like
to think that God will keep us together. You know,
I love I love what you're doing. I love that
(25:53):
you're enjoying it. And again, like dude, I'm so I'm
so proud of you and I'm happy for you, and
I love seeing it. I love seeing you having fun.
I love seeing you being successful and just going out
and just paving your own way. Like it's it's so
important to me. And like I said, I love seeing
other people win. And there's a certain type of character people,
(26:17):
and there's a way that people are and I just
feel like you care about people, you do things the
right way, you have morals and values, you believe in God,
and you're just you know, you're good to other people.
And I think if you're a good person and you
believe in God and you work hard and you chase
your dreams, you're gonna catch it. You're never gonna fail.
And you know, I just I love that I'm here.
(26:38):
I love that I get to be in this studio,
and I love I get I love that I get
to see it. I'm really honored that I got asked
to do it. I think it's a privilege to be.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
On the show.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
And you know, I just it means the world to
me that like you would even want me to be here.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
So I mean, dude, I'm here anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Me to be.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
But I can't say enough about the fact that I
want to make a difference this world.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
And I see you you.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Kudos to you, you know for seven time seven for
your keep God first, keep being good at people.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
You know that I'm always cheering you on. And I'm
right down the.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Road right man, I don't know how. I don't know
what to say after that. Thank you, Dan, and we
will do it again, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Thank you of course, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That was great having Dan on. And like I said,
the program you're listening to right now doesn't exist really
without his inspiration. And if you you missed the first
part one from last week previous, uh check that out.
But uh, glad to finally have him one. I know
I've talked about him on the show about what he
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meant to the show, but kind of to come full
circle and have him on the actual show was really
a fun blast. And I know he had fun as well.
And I see Dan all the time at shows at
card stores and uh, you know, loves loves the hobby,
loves sports, love he does, loves life, loves. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He's a great guy. So I hope you enjoyed both
part one and part two.
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Sports guy Nation. What is up? Everyone?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome to episode three fifty six of Sportscardination, Part two
of my fun and great conversation with my friend and pal,
Dan Tatra And like you heard last week if you
listened to last week's show, he's one of the big
reasons that sports Cardination exists, and we might talk a
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little bit more about it in part two, but in
part two we're really gonna chop up a little more
Hobby get into doing shows and what he does and
how he got to the point that he's at in
his car journey as well. If you didn't catch the
first part, make sure you do that. It's a if
you ever wondered, how did's you know? Where did sports
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Carnation come from? Why is it here? All the kind
of the behind the music, if you will, the backstory, Uh,
that's all explained in the first episode, and today's guest
is a big reason uh for all for all of that.
So with that being said, let's get to the conclusion
(01:27):
of our interview with Dan Totura. Here's the conclusion of
the interview I did with Dan Tatur, my good friend
from Dan to Tour Broadcast Media.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So let's talk about enough.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You know, uh again, we're here, like you know, the
show and if you would have told me where we'd
be now when I first started, I think you crazy.
I'm sure you probably would say that with Dan Tour
Broadcast as well, like it's okay to think big, but
you know, there's always that that doubt in everyone's mind, right,
that that that you played tuggle or in your mind.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So here we are.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But you know, obviously we we we chopped up some cards,
talking about them, you had some and now we're now
we're doing shows together, maybe not right next to each other,
but we're setting up at shows. Kind of talk about
you got back into cards in a in a big way,
you know, talk about that evolution as well. You've always
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collected cards, but now coming back sort of full full force,
full circle, and then the decision to hey, I can
set up and and you know, and I don't want
to speak for you, but probably like me, right, a
lot of times, the money you might make at a
show or selling the card, you're putting it right back
into the hobby and and and transacting kind of you know,
(02:46):
ramping up your hobby experience, if you will.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, I mean I always collected and I've traded for
I mean pretty much. If I started collecting at like
six or seven, I started trading at like eight or nine.
And so I mean I've been I've been training for
a long time in this world. I mean selling was
the newest.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Part of it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And yeah, I mean I just kind of was like,
you know, I'll give it a shot. I'll go out
and I'll see. And I never had any like graded cards.
And then I got some graded cards because Brendan Murphy
like him and I did trade night a Gigi cards
and brakes, and he had all these graded cards.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I remember, not to cut you up, Dan, I remember
even going on your show for this Friday Morning thing
explaining what grading was and what it meant and how
it worked and why you should do it or why
it's a good thing. And so here we are, go ahead.
I don't mean to I wanted to just throw that
little Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
No, I mean I didn't know anything about it, like, so,
you know, doing this show and I and a bunch
of people came up to you know, Brendan and he
had a bunch of higher end stuff two hundred dollars
this and a hundred dollar of that and three hundred
dollars or whatever, and you know, I just kind of
brought out what I had and I just kind of
like showed what I had and doing that, you know,
to me, it was just one of those things where
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I just kind of thought to myself that, you know,
it was it was fun. I mean, I just kind
of took a shot and did the trade night, and
I was like, oh, this is cool to like see
that people care about it and people are in the
hobby and and so that was nice to see it.
And then I was like, oh'll do another one. I mean,
I liked the GG cards. It breaks guys. I love
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Josh and Anthony and the team, and so I just
kind of started doing it with them. And I thought
to myself, I have so many cards I can part
with some of these, you know, they're collecting dust, they're
sitting here, Like if I make money, it's it's found money.
And so I just started doing it. Then I started
getting some graded cards. Then I did my first cards
that I sent, and I got nine tens and three
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nines and I got very spoiled, and I was told
by the guys that GG cards and breaks that they
do not give a ten from PSA to clear cards.
And I had a ever Lawrence Rookie card that was
like his body and then it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Was see through.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And it was the first card that I had had
in the grading and it got a ten. And I
had a Blake Bortles that Josh thought would get a ten,
a draft picks of Blake from UCF that was a
refractor and that.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Got a ten.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
So like those will always be with me, and yeah,
I mean, I just I started just getting into trade nights.
And then Brendan and I did a show out in
Philadelphia and I did really well at the show, and
then we came back and a Fishtown card show and
one of the guys was like, dude, he said, I
love that you have like a variety and you're always
really fair on your prices. And then I kind of
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went through being around some people that took it way
too seriously and they made it not fun and it
kind of made me like, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I don't really want to be like around this.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And people just critiquing everything that people do and how
they do it and what they do and what they
price and YadA, YadA, YadA. So I took a little
break and then I just kind of casually stayed with
the trade nights at Gigi cards and breaks, and I
used it to meet people and promote my.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Business and promote my show.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
And now I've kind of gotten back into the shows
and back into just being happy to be there.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
And you know, I had I did a show.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I did it, you know, the Collector Fest, and I
was across from you and I was there by myself
with two tables, and I had a record day. And
I think it's because I genuinely went there to promote
my show, meet people, shake hands, and I had I
was like, hey, if I make any money, it's gravy.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
And I had like the best day that I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I got to do so many cool things and
got to see stuff go home to people. And I
try to do like little things that I feel like
Georgie's did when I was a kid and Twilight. So
like one kid came up to me and he said
how much for this? And what can I change you
for this? And I looked around and I said, hey,
I was like, don't tell anybody, but I don't want
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anything from you. And I handed it to him and
he's like really, and I said yeah. And I'm just
hoping that, like that's his nine year old memory, and
that when he's thirty nine like me right now, then
thirty years later, he'll go do something for somebody.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I just I like, I just I liked seeing the
passion in other people and then trying to be what
George was at George's to me because I will always
remember that he would know exactly what I wanted. He
knew my favorite teams. He was good to my mom,
he was good to me. And I would take a
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bag from him and I know the cards I bought
and I couldn't even wait, and I'd get to the
car to look at the cards that I just handed
him just because I wanted to see them, and there
would be like another two or three cards in there
that he snuck in there that I didn't know about,
and you know, gg cards and breaks. I tell Josh
all the time, I never thought somebody would make me
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feel like George did. And Josh and Anthony definitely brought
me back home to the hobby so it's again. I mean,
you gave me credit for your show, and I give
it back to you. You talk to me about collecting
cards and doing shows, and I would give it to
Josh and Ana.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
No, don you mentioned George georgiad back and Dad. I'm
not sure where he is today. Dan, but he he
did something that was crazy at the time, and I
don't know how well it did well it did in
the over he opened. He did a twenty four hour
card store. I don't know if that's done anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well have a card shop. Yeah, So he actually blended
sports and entertainment. I do a wake up call and
start pop and just with Dan. So he was a
pioneer way back then to do both, don't you And
like one room was cards and one room was comic books.
And I think that even he would like say to me, like,
I think I'm nuts, but like looking at like in
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twenty twenty five, I wish people did what what he
did now, Like he did this over two decades ago,
and I wish people would do it now.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I remember I had my store at the time with
my partner Angelo, and I remember when he announced, like
and we knew each other. We were friendly, I would
buy stuff for him. I know he bought stuff for me.
And I remember when he said that he was going
to go and stay open, and that's just a crazy premise,
but he.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Thought outside the box.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That was what George did, And I'm like, I could
never do that, And I don't know to this day,
if there's one out there, somebody who's listening, if you
know of a card store that's opened twenty four hours
a day, let me know, because I like to give
credit where credits do. But it was the only one
I've ever heard of then, and since then, I've never
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heard of I've heard of, you know, people doing like
a live stream or something for twenty four hours, but
I never heard of a store that operated twenty four
seven like that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I thought that was.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Pretty zany but also interesting too, right to do something
that no one else is trying or doing. I don't know,
you know how many sales you're getting at three thirty
in the morning. Only only he would can answer that.
But the fact that you could, you know, you can't sleep,
or you wake up and you can use the restroom
and you're like, I want to open some cards up
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and you can jump in your car or walk down
the street depending on where you reside and go to
a card store at that time of day or night
really and and be able to buy cards.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Right, it was just pretty Uh, you couldn't fathom it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, I remember he had a picture and he signed
it for me and there's somebody else under two. I
forget who it was, but you know, I mean, George,
wherever you are, man like I will always always always
have you be part of my story of my passion
and my love, like I wanted to go to yours
every day, and I love how you treated my family,
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not just me. And like George is like he was
just he was just so good man. I just I
people like him and there's certain people that just stick
out to you and they always will and he does
for sure, And you know I love him like he
just treated me just some kind of way and I'm
(11:13):
just so great, Like I would have done anything to
see him succeed. Like I had one of his shirts,
polo shirts, I had the autograph thing and all of
that for you know, he just he just you know,
he knew customer service, he knew how to treat you
just genuine and you know, wherever you are, George, Just
know that the little kid in me thanks you, and
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the way that you treated me is something that I've
never forgotten. And it's because of nice people and nice
gestures from people like you that I'm reminded that this
world is a lot warmer.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Than we Yeah, well said, all right, going back to
your card collecting, right, you're obviously covering these sports. You're
covering these athletes, and in many cases, you're covering these
athletes on both levels. Right there, I say amateur in
coeg with the nil.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Now I almost kind of catch myself. But you're covering some.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Of these guys not only when they're in college, and
then as they get drafted the pros and then you're
seeing them you get to know them on a personal level,
and then you're seeing them on a cardboard and chrome level.
How has covering sports and collecting cards? How has the
covering sports aspect and getting to know these people on
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an individual personal level like influence how you collect cards?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
It helps me get an autograph.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So many times I wanted to have one in my
pocket and just go, hey, Trevor, can you sign this
jersey on? But yeah, no, I man, it's so much fun.
You know, it's it's so cool to like, I mean,
and this was the crazy thing. So the first I
had never gone to an NFL game in my life,
and the first time I went to an NFL game
was twenty ten and I was covering the game. So
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my first experience of going to an NFL game was
me getting to cover the Jaguars, my favorite team, going
for free, getting a parking pass because I'm in the
press box, and then I get to go in the
locker room and interview the people whose cards I collect.
It was right after my favorite Jaguar of all time left,
Fred Taylor, which was like really sad, but it was
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so wild to me, and it didn't really hit me
until it hit me that I'm standing and like I
didn't even think about it, but after the game, I
was like, holy crap, I get to go in the
locker room and then I'm standing in the locker room
and I'm like, I get to talk to these people
who I collect, and you know that that was just
so wild. That my first NFL experience was as a
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professional working for my own show, which was The Dan
Torture Show on ESPN ten eighty. The team in Orlando
at the time and yeah, so I mean that was
just wild, but I dude, I love it, like I
it's so much fun to do it and to like
lean in and tell the guys like, oh, I got
one of your cards, Like Trent Dilfer, I found his
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ninety four rookie card and him and I are we
have like a friendship now and I cover him. I
cover Uab inside of the American. So we were sitting
doing an interview and I said, dude, I have your
rookie card. I said, will you sign it for me?
Just because like we both believe in God. We have
a strong faith. Like we talk about everything outside of football.
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We talk like seventy outside and thirty percent football when
we talk. I said, I just he's like, of course, man,
I signed that for you.
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You are listening to the Sports Card Nation podcast.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
So to me, it's like collecting your car, like collecting
cards as a kid. I guess the best story is
Damon Sotomore, like collecting him at age nine, writing him
a letter before social media, trying to find his address somewhere,
and then sending it to one of the nine addresses
he had, hoping one of them was right, sending him
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a letter with my mom, never hearing back from him.
And then you fast forward to I'm in my thirties
and I'm covering the ACC and I'm covering really all
of college basketball, and I've covered all different conferences, and
I've covered the NCAA Tournament, and I've been there, and
we've gone coast to coast, north, north to south. And
Damon sotomar can get hired at one of any of
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the three hundred and sixty plus schools in Division one
men's basketball, and he gets hired to Georgia Tech, and
Georgia Tech happens to be a team I've covered for
over a decade. Buddie Ross, who's a brother to me,
sends me a message and he says, Damon Satomira gets
hired at Georgia Tech. I jumped so high in my
kitchen that I almost hit my head on my ceiling.
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I was so excited, and I looked up at God
and I said, hey, like, as long as I'm alive,
a few months from now, I'm actually going to get
to talk to the person who is my favorite player.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Like I'm actually going to get to.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Cross paths with Damon Sodomaire and I've waited twenty nine
years at the time to do it. And I said,
no matter what, I'm going to get to do it.
And then the Diamondbacks made the World Series. I was
down in Charlotte doing the ACC Opera ACC tip Off,
interviewing all the basketball teams, and I said to my dad,
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if the Diamondbacks make it, we're going. And they won,
and my dad said, look up tickets. So I looked
up tickets that night. It was right around my birthday.
The Diamondbacks make the World Series, and I knew that
the next morning I was going to get to talk
to Damon. I interviewed Damon and the TV asked him
a couple questions. Then I walked outside of the room,
and I said to Damon in the Hilton Charlotte Uptown.
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I said, hey, Damon, just want to say I appreciate you,
my favorite player growing up. He shook my hand, he
gave me a hug, shook my hand multiple times, gave
me a couple hugs. Then he did a one on
one with me on camera together, and then we ended
up talking last year and last year he gave such
a long answer to me that everybody in the room
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he was literally just looking at me, and we were
talking in this TV room and at the end of it,
the moderator was like, all right, Damon, you're done.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Like they just kind of laughed, like you just literally
had a one on one with that guy, and now
now you're all done.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
And so I mean to be collecting cards at nine
years old of your favorite player and you want to
grow up and he's number twenty on the Raptors and
you want to be number twenty one. He's five ten,
you're five eight. You want to play next to this guy,
and you wait almost three decades and you get to
shake hands and hug him and tell the person that
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you talked everyone's ear off about, including you know, your
grandma's and your mom and your dad, and now you
get to actually talk to him man to man and
get to meet him and give him a hug and
thank him like that. Honestly, that full circle moment is
one of the wildest moments of my life.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
And I still don't even believe that.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
How well, how hard was it not the fanboy like,
obviously you have a job to do, and you know,
talk about the difficulty to keep it professional, but at
the same time, let him know what he meant to you,
you know, growing up as as a collector and as
a as a sports fan in your favorite player.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I think it was it was like finding a way
to tell him I own two hundred and twenty plus
of your cards without him thinking like I was crazy, like.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The cable guy.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, like like just being like, dude, I really just
loved watching you play, and you're He's the reason why
I'm a raptor for and I always will be so
because he came in in their inaugural year and he
was Rookie of the Year that year. I mean, I
mean I had a plack up of him in my
room right by my bed, and it reminded me, like
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you can make it.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
You can do it. You can do whatever you set
your mind to.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You know, he was mighty mouse, and he's not a
tall guy, and I'm not a tall guy, and so yeah,
I mean I think just talking with him, it was
like how do you pack twenty nine years of just
appreciating this man from Afar to like getting to talk
to him and asking him if he can spend a.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Couple of minutes with you.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
So, I mean, I don't really get like stars struck,
And it was more to me, like I just hope
that he lets me talk to him for a few minutes,
and I hope Georgia Tech lets me do it, because
you never know what sid you're dealing with. And some
people must have been bullied in school because they're really weird.
And so like the guy was nice and Damon was
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nice and shout out to Georgia Tech. And yeah, I
mean it really wasn't like a like a fanboy moment.
It was like I want to tell him that I
collected his cards as a young kid, with him fully
knowing that I'm a normal human being because I very much,
like you know, am not like the guy in Happy
Gilmore that put the lipstick on and is like crossing
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names out. So like I just was like, I want
to tell him because I feel like my grandmother and
my mom would be like, you better tell him that
you spend a lot of our money on that guy.
So it was just it was just finding a way
to tell him that way. Yeah, I mean it was
a great conversation, and I mean I would like to
have a friendship with him and get to actually get
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to know him as a man. So I'm hoping that,
you know, as God crossed our paths in a miraculous way,
I'm hoping that, you know, there will be a time
where maybe in a few months or in a month,
I should say that him and I can you know,
just kind of sit and talk and I can just
kind of pick his brain and get to know who
he is as.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
A Yeah, that's awesome. It's every not everyone gets to
meet their heroes. And but that you know, you've done
this long enough, you know how to keep it a profession.
I'm kind of like you, Dan, I've met some folks
along the way doing this and even just going to
spoiling events and spring training. You know, someone asked me
if if there is anyone like I would meet that
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would like, you know, lead me in all or be.
The only one that first comes to mind from would
be Michael Jordan, like if ever I got to meet
him and me in the.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Same room with him literally walking like being he walked
like right behind my back. It's Orlando Pro Summer League.
And then in a Orlando Magic game he walked right
toward me with his girlfriend at the time. And I
mean I've been in the room with him, Larry Bird,
I've interviewed Patrick Ewing, like I it's it's been really
(21:53):
crazy to be like I'm sitting in a room with
the like the greatest of the greats and like these
dream team players.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
But I mean, yeah, I've been.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I was like my producer called me at the time,
Nicholas Cicero, and he was like, Michael Jordan's there, and
I'm like, no, he's not. Actually I would know if
he's there, Like as I'm talking to him, Michael Jordan
is walking right behind my back, and everything inside of
me was like fall backwards so that he can.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Catch you fake fake like a medical.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Like either he's gonna help you and he's gonna get
to know you, or he's gonna walk by you. But yeah,
I mean I did get to see him twice and
Larry Bird, I mean I was armed arm with him
and Patrick Ewing, and I mean I got to interview
Patrick Ewing, which is wild. And I will tell you
that the Syracuse Georgetown rivalry will never die. I talked
to Patrick Ewing about a year after Pearl Washington passed away,
(22:47):
and Patrick I asked him about Pearl and he gave
a backhanded compliment about Pearl. And I'm looking at him,
going like he's dead now, and he still couldn't.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Just be nice.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
He had to be like kind of nice, but I
hate you at the same time, like Syracuse Georgetown will
never die.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
No, and as it shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Hopefully it continues and they get to play each other.
I know they're not in the same conference anymore, but.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
It's still the biggest rivalry. Searcher says, Yep.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well, Dan, this is fun man. I'm glad we finally
got to do it again. You wouldn't have got to
do this show if it wasn't for you, so I've
never got to tell the guests that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So I get to tell you, if.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It wasn't for you, you wouldn't be on this show because
the show wouldn't exist for you to be on. So
I appreciate you what we'll have to do it again
just the same as well.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, no, I mean again I appreciate your kind words.
And you know, I think again the credit goes to
you and your hard work and your dedication and your
belief in yourself. I mean, I saw something in you
and I wanted you to be a part of it,
and I saw value in you. But maybe you didn't yet,
but all that you've done.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
That you know.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I mean I wanted you to know that I valued
you everything that you did to make your own brand,
like I would never take any of that away from anybody.
It wouldn't anybody take away from me. So I give
you the credit again for doing this show.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, I was hoping you would just say that without
John Newman it would be no Danta Tour broadcast.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I would I would say, you know, to me, without
John Newman, there there would be a lot colder of
a of an environment in this in this media world.
You know, I I try to help everyone. I you know,
I'm absolutely here to do that. I would love to
and so I mean, you're just one of the people
(24:48):
that I reached out to and you said yes, and
it meant a lot to me. It continues to mean
a lot to me. You know, I consider Jordan a
little brother. Whether I've seen him in three years or like,
I still consider him family and I consider you family.
And you know, there's very very few people that have
a reoccurring place on my show, and that's because I'm very,
(25:12):
very very like like, when I make a decision and
what I'm doing, it does it comes with a lot
of thought and just paying attention and praying about it
and caring about people. So I mean, to me, you
give me the credit, but the credit goes to you
because I saw something in you and I saw something
(25:33):
in Jordan, and you know, I just I really appreciate
the kindness, the generosity, the kind words. But I like
to think that God brought us together. I like to
think that God brought us back together, and I'd like
to think that God will keep us together. You know,
I love I love what you're doing. I love that
(25:53):
you're enjoying it. And again, like dude, I'm so I'm
so proud of you and I'm happy for you, and
I love seeing it. I love seeing you having fun.
I love seeing you being successful and just going out
and just paving your own way. Like it's it's so
important to me. And like I said, I love seeing
other people win. And there's a certain type of character people,
(26:17):
and there's a way that people are and I just
feel like you care about people, you do things the
right way, you have morals and values, you believe in God,
and you're just you know, you're good to other people.
And I think if you're a good person and you
believe in God and you work hard and you chase
your dreams, you're gonna catch it. You're never gonna fail.
And you know, I just I love that I'm here.
(26:38):
I love that I get to be in this studio,
and I love I get I love that I get
to see it. I'm really honored that I got asked
to do it. I think it's a privilege to be.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
On the show.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
And you know, I just it means the world to
me that like you would even want me to be here.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
So I mean, dude, I'm here anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Me to be.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
But I can't say enough about the fact that I
want to make a difference this world.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
And I see you you.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Kudos to you, you know for seven time seven for
your keep God first, keep being good at people.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
You know that I'm always cheering you on. And I'm
right down the.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Road right man, I don't know how. I don't know
what to say after that. Thank you, Dan, and we
will do it again, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Thank you of course, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That was great having Dan on. And like I said,
the program you're listening to right now doesn't exist really
without his inspiration. And if you you missed the first
part one from last week previous, uh check that out.
But uh, glad to finally have him one. I know
I've talked about him on the show about what he
(27:41):
meant to the show, but kind of to come full
circle and have him on the actual show was really
a fun blast. And I know he had fun as well.
And I see Dan all the time at shows at
card stores and uh, you know, loves loves the hobby,
loves sports, love he does, loves life, loves. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He's a great guy. So I hope you enjoyed both
part one and part two.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Time for our Hobby is the people announcer of the week.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
This is Dan tortre of wake Up Call, which you
can watch and listen to worldwide Monday through Friday from
nine am to eleven am Eastern time, if not longer,
on dot com and Facebook dot com, both backslash Wakeup
Call DT and on Wakeupcall t dot Podbean dot com
and all the time go to Wakeup Call DT dot.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
This is my guy, John Newman and you need to
support him. The sports Car Nation pod cast, where you
know I don't need to tell you, but I will.
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