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Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski discussed Stephen Kaiser's passing, the one-of-a-kind collection watch event at London's Design Museum, De Beers Tracer blockchain platform, recycled gold, and the JCPay Show.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay andCK Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with. Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-C-K-Online.com calling in from New York City. How you doing, okay? Yeah, I'm hanging. Getting ready. Getting ready. It's... For the chaos, the excitement. Getting ready for the chaos, the excitement. Placing, yeah, got a schedule, long schedule in the works. He's starting to fill up. It is. Yeah. For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, which I assume most of you do. Of course, we're talking about Jason K Las Vegas. We are recording this right after Memorial Day weekend. Traditionally, we'd be heading to Vegas today or tomorrow, but given the slight push in this

year's schedule due to the Jewish holiday that comes up every few years, I always forget what

it is. Is it Chavut? I think so, yeah. I'm not sure.

Gosh, we should know this by now. It is a holiday that tends to fall every few years right when

Vegas is happening right after Memorial Day weekend. And of course, this year that happened.

So the show has been pushed. Luxury opens on Wednesday, June 8th. JCPA opens on Friday, June 10th.

We will get to that because that is going to be a big part of today's episode. But prior to getting to that,

we have to acknowledge our deepest condolences to of today's episode. But prior to getting to that, we have to acknowledge our deepest

condolences to Stephen Kaiser's family. Now, Rob, you reported that story, this industry Titan

passed away just a week ago, and it's still really quite shocking to think that he's no longer

with us. Tell us a little bit about, gosh, what is some of the reaction you've you've heard? I mean, I think everybody's very shocked. I mean, just like you, we all saw him a 24-carat weekend where, you know, it was amazing, actually, because he got this great award from the JVC, the Stanley Shetra Award. So he gave a nice talk there. He was elected as chairman of the dual security alliance, and he gave a nice talk there.

And it was kind of like a Stephen Kaiser weekend.

And, you know, nobody figured this would be the last time you would see the guy.

But amazing career.

I mean, you know, he took over the company that was kind of started by his father to promote

Baumersier in the United States. And then, uh, he left after a while. And what's interesting is he

became a consultant. And you know, usually sometimes you become a consultant. It's not, you know,

they're consultants and there are consultants. There are consultants that really make a difference.

And there are consultants who just kind of call themselves consultants because they're looking for something. And he really, you know, I think he made his consultancy into a powerhouse, you know, it was a great source of what's going on and he was going to goes in touch with everybody. He always couldn't make things happen. He knew everybody. He was good of smoothing over situations. There was one time where a company was, there was a report that a company was nearly going bankrupt, I believe, and they wanted to get the crisis PR firm to respond to it. And Stephen called me out. He said, look, you know, why don't you just talk with the CEO, find out what's going on? And we did. I talked with the CEO, found out what was going on. And it was much better than some crazy comment from the crisis PR firm and stuff like that. So he was good, very good to smoothing things over at making connections. And what really impressed me, actually, when I wrote his obit was all the time he gave to industry

organizations. I mean, he was involved with a lot of them. And, you know, it's not easy to give

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