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

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamowski talk about takeaways and trends from Tucson, updates on tariffs, and appears in the diamond market.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and J-C-K-C-K Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with...

Rob Bates, news director for the time being of J-C-K and J-CKOnline.com, calling in from the world headquarters of J-CK in New York City.

Oh, my goodness, for the time being, Rob, I know you shared this

news with me fairly recently, but we haven't shared it with the wider JCPK community. So please

tell us what that means. And I'm going to try to blot my tears over here. So after 28 years, it'll be 28 years, I think, in like two weeks from now, you know,

that have been great and have been amazing experience to work with JCP.

I've kind of decided that I want to do something a little different, you know, more of a kind of a different

kind of news presentation and explore different avenues. I know it seems that like I'm,

that it seems like the kind of thing that people say when they're being let go, which I am not.

But I just want to say that, you know, I just kind of made the decision that I think I wanted

to try something new. I've been at JCK for a long, long time, and it's been great, and you've been

fantastic to work with. I know I've told you that many times, but I'll tell it to you again,

and Sarah Bachman has been great, and Randy Goertz has been great.

But, you know, I think at some point, you know, I could keep doing what I'm doing and,

or I could try something new.

So I'm going to be trying something new.

I'm not going to announce it yet, but it'll, it'll come out soon.

And I just want to, I've been very, very lucky to have had such steady employment

that's such a good employer.

So I'm just very grateful and I'm leaving hopefully on great terms.

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