Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk about sustainability and watches, the hard rock summit, and the Pandora papers.

Okay. sustainability and watches, the Hard Rock Summit, and the Pandora Papers. Hey, everyone.

Welcome to the Jewelry District.

This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPK and JCPOnline.com, calling in from Los Angeles.

And I'm with?

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

My goodness, it's fall.

How's your fall started?

How's life looks at?

It's all right.

It's, you know, it's getting career.

You're starting to feel it. It's getting darker earlier and all that good stuff.

And do the streets kind of feel bustling or is the city feeling more or less back to its normal pace?

I wouldn't say it's a normal pace, but Susan, my wife takes the subway.

She says it's pretty crowded.

It's getting crowded. So I don't think it's back to normal place, but it's getting there.

I mean, you know, all the masks are back.

It was like three blessed weeks when people were starting to lose them and, you know, people

were feeling more confident with all the vaccines and stuff.

And then Delta came and definitely all the masks are back and, you know,

people are taking precautions again. And you don't forget that you're in this nightmarish

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