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

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk about watches and wonders, AGS Conclave,

and a lab-grown factory visit.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPCK and J-CK Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles,

and I'm with.

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

Hi.

How's going?

Hey.

Good.

I just got back from Austin, Texas. Yeah, like literally last night. Yes. And I had a, as I was, as we were discussing, I had a little bit of a travel mishap on, on the way. What happened? Yes. So I feel weird like discussing this on the podcast because I feel I'm always admitting stupid things on the podcast like last

time I admitted that I didn't know about the eclipse. So this time I'm going to admit that I missed

my plane, which is like probably, I think in like decades of traveling, I don't think I've ever

done that. But I left two and a half hours before.

And there was like a lot of traffic getting to JFK. And then the security line was crazy.

I mean, I got there with like an hour before boarding, really. And the security line, they said it was

25 minutes, but it was 40 minutes.

And I kept asking people, am I going to make it? Am I going to make it? And they all said,

oh, yeah, sure, no problem. And I did not make it. Did not make it. Wait, so let me, two questions.

Do you have TSA pre-check? No, I do not. But I don't, I don't travel that much that I would, I mean,

this is the kind of thing that would make you look into something like that, but I do not have it.

I mean, I blame JFK. I don't think you really messed up, but I think just with JFK,

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