Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by the Debears Institute of Diamonds.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk about a Platinum Guild press trip to Miami, the increasing need for lab-grown diamond detection tools and protocols, and what's in store at the Tucson gem shows.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the jewelry district.

This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and J J-CK Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with.

Rob Bates, news director of J-CK and J-CK Online.com, calling in from New York City.

How you feeling, Rob?

I'm okay.

You know, it's been four years in March, I believe, it'll be four years of COVID, which is really mind-blowing.

And I've never tested positive until last week.

And I had my little COVID spell.

And I'm not a big fan, I got to say.

It was not that fun.

But I'm okay.

I'm sorry to hear you got ill.

I'm sorry to hear, obviously, you're still on the mend, although you sound pretty good. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm sorry to hear you got ill. I'm sorry to hear, obviously, you're still on the mend, although you sound pretty good.

Yeah, I'm okay.

You know, for most of us who've had it, most of us, especially since we've been vaccinated

and boosted and so on.

It's just one of those things you get through.

Yeah, it's like the flu, I guess.

Yeah.

I mean, some people have a much worse experience of the flu.

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