Hello and welcome to Is This Good, the show where we boldly, conclusively, and scientifically decide what things in this big wide world are good.

I'm at Austin, and with me as always is

production powerhouse Jason Doyle. Hello. Hi, J.D. lovely to have you with us today. And our guest

is the author of three books, including the forthcoming prehistoric, which chronicles the early

days of the Toronto Raptors. He's a writer with bylines in GQ, the Atlantic, the New York Times. He's a producer and co-hosts of the Raptor show with Will Lou on Sportsnet. And thanks to a feature, he wrote, I learned my old Hot Wheels cars are worth millions, JD. Wow. He's Stephen LeBron on Twitter, but in real life, it's Alex Wong. Alex, welcome to Is This Good. Hey, what's going on, man? Pleasure is all mine.

Like I told you guys before we started rolling, super excited.

Love the concept of this podcast, so excited to dive into it today.

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I was joking, but I was actually really interested in that Hot Wheels article you wrote

because, I mean, I guess I should have just assumed people will collect anything.

But do you think my old Hot Wheels, which I did have a ton of in a very cool carrying case,

most of them are from, I would say, 1987 to 1989. Do you think I should go to North Carolina, visit my

good-for-nothing nephews who didn't give a shit when I gave them to them, and take them

back and sell them? Yeah, no, I think you and anyone else who thinks they collected anything growing

up should go see they're good for nothing nephews, wherever they're located in the world.

Because it seems like now you talk about hot wheels, you talk about, I don't know, sports

cards, you think about just a general trend of vintage, everything old is valuable again. Like, I've been thinking about digging very deep into my parents' basement to just find my old CDs that I used to collect back in the day. Or, like, DVDs, like, these things sound so, like, you know, out of trend now. But I don't know. I feel like everything that we had growing up in the 80s and 90s is just coming back around again. So that's a long way for me to tell you, yes. Yeah, CDs are selling. I don't know if you're like, now that's what I call music volume four. Or let me give you a Canadian throwback, a big shiny tunes. Did you ever have any big shiny tunes? any no I love those no I was a big

hip-hop guy growing up and and you know it's funny because like de la soul recently

that was the biggest news that there's you know their catalog is finally on streaming

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