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

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk with Holly Weshie, owner of Weshie Jewelers.

Okay. Olly Weshie, owner of Weshie Jewelers. Hey, everyone.

Welcome to the Jewelry District.

This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of J-CK and J-CK Online.com.

And I'm calling in from Los Angeles, as always, and I'm with.

Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-CK Online.com.

As usual, these days, I'm calling in from New York City.

Everything's good with you?

Yeah, everything's good.

You know, apart from the world blowing up, I woke up to the very sad ways that Russia did

make good on its threats and invade Ukraine.

So I don't know.

I don't know how much that will affect us other than rising gas prices, but it certainly is not good news.

Yeah, and it could certainly affect the diamond industry, but that's probably a little

bit down the road, and I'm sure we'll be talking about that at some point. Now we have good news, though. Here's something good. What's that? Our guest. Oh, of course. Oh, my goodness. Yes, no. That was so implicit. I didn't even know. But yes, we have a guest who I don't believe I've ever had the pleasure of meeting in person.

I'm trying to rack my brain over the years.

But of course, her name precedes her. Her name is Holly Weshie. She is the owner of Weshie Jewelers in Melbourne, Florida. It's on the central Florida coast, on the Atlantic side, not far outside of Orlando. And it sounds just like a beautiful place to be. It's just down the road from Cape Canaveral. And we were chatting before we started recording about what it's like to watch those amazing rocket launches and what it was like to watch the shuttle depart in the middle of the night. Anyways, Holly, welcome. It's so nice to have you. Hey, thank you. I'm glad to be here. And do you get very close to the

rockets when you see them take off? How close are you? Well, when the shuttle used to launch out at the

Cape, there were certain areas of the community that you can go, some of our causeways. There are certain

public places that you could go and watch it. But to see a night launch was really, really spectacular.

I mean, the shuttle when it would go to take off would light up the whole sky.

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