Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. Today, Rob Bates and Victoria

Gimelski talk about their impressions of the JCPay show. Then you'll hear some attending interviews

and presentation clips,

all recorded live from the show floor.

Hey everyone, welcome to the jewelry district.

This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay

and JCP onlineK Online.com.

I'm here back home in L.A., and I'm with...

Rob Bates, news director of J-CK and J-C-KOnline.com, and I'm back in New York City.

I mean, I just got back from Vegas yesterday, so mind you, that was one solid week in Las Vegas,

which was, you know, kind of bewildering on any level in any year, but extra bewildering in

2021 after not having anything of the sort for more or less two years. So I'm not recovered yet.

I don't know if you are. You got back on like Sunday night, right?

I'm still, I'm getting there. But yeah, I got there late Sunday night and I'm trying my best to

recover. Let's put it that way. For those of you who weren't there, you know, the show, the series of

shows kicked off on Tuesday, August 24th. That was when luxury opened. Then JCPay, Las Vegas

opened to all buyers on Friday, August 27th. And then all the shows. And then mind you,

Couture was ongoing at the win across the street from the Sands Expo in Venetian. That went from

the 24th to the 26th. And then everything, all the shows ended by Monday, August 30th. So it was a stretch like

a typical year other than the fact that it was in August. And boy, did I feel that it was in

August. I had dinner outside one night, literally 100 degrees. It was 108 during the day.

During the day and it was 100 at night.

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