 Hi, I'm Sean Bonner and I am a collector. This is something that I've only recently come to terms with, although the evidence has been piling up my whole life. I have these huge boxes of things around my house that through different cycles and different times in my life I've been obsessed with and done research on and piled them up and then gotten bored with them and stuck them someplace else or sold them off to buy the next things that I was interested in and I have a very complicated relationship with stuff, it turns out. I'd really hate having it around, I feel cluttered, but then as soon as I clear a space I'm like oh I need something to go there and so then I start researching and finding new stuff to stick in that spot. But it turns out that when I look at this what's exciting is not really the stuff, it's the thrill of hunting for it and so the thrill of the hunt is what I've realized just this year mostly is what really gets me excited and helps me find stuff and there's a few things that make that possible. So whatever this object is I have to be able to know everything about it. It can't be something infinite like wine that's continuing to grow or whatever. It has to be a finite amount of information that I can learn the entire thing from start to finish. The stuff that was made I have to be able to get it. So it can't be stuff that maybe they made two or three of, it's out in the world, I have no chance of ever getting it. I ask mass produce enough that I can actually track it down and I can complete this collection and then also it can't be something like Ferraris because there's no way I have that kind of expendable income. So the absolute top tier of whatever this thing is has to sort of be in my reach plausibly even if I don't actually go for it and then if I'm really honest if all my friends are into it and I go to their house and everybody has the same stuff around then it's boring and I don't get excited about it anymore. So all those things come together and then I end up finding stuff that I have to research. This is my kid and he's in all of the exciting world around him and so in my efforts to constantly blow his mind I pulled out my record collection and started playing him records mostly because I wanted him to hear different songs and music and stuff but you know it also the physical aspect of playing records turned out to be pretty cool but I let him loose on and I said you just pick stuff go through it and find stuff and he starts picking stuff not by context or by genre but just by record covers and he ended up picking out a lot of jazz records that I had around just by covers which isn't really surprising because that's actually how I got these records myself too. I would go to a record store and I was struck by these amazing covers and I would say hey I want to grab these and so he's playing them I'm looking at him again and then you know I started I started doing research and it turns out that Blue Note jazz records are an incredibly huge black hole for collector nerds and I fell into it earlier this year forget what my next slide is yeah can we just leave that one on forever okay so for any for any record that Blue Note released there there's probably 30 different versions of it and they sort of took the let's just copy of VHS tape a hundred times approach to it so every version that they released is worse than the one before it so people want to get the early versions not because they want oh I got the first but because it actually sounds way better than the stuff they made later sometimes they would just took a cast of a record and then use that to make masters of them but any any Blue Note record that you pick up there's like 20 different things that can all vary at any different point to tell you exactly what year that record was made and then you can sort of look up to figure out like what what the sound quality on it's going to be and so the early stuff very desirable but even the holy grails of this stuff the very first pressings from early 60s of some of this stuff you can still track it down and it's still sort of within reach so it's not like you need to you know sell your car or mortgage or house or anything if if that's what you're going to do not that I'm going to do that but if you are but I also found this weird little black hole or this little loophole in this and that Blue Note licensed out their stuff to other countries to make and in Japan they were incredibly anal about it and they wouldn't take any of the existing masters and they made their own masters off of original tapes and so the Japanese pressings actually sound way better than any of the US pressings past a certain date of course there's also a bunch of versions for the Japanese pressings and similar things happen but that ends up making things like this incredibly exciting for me and I can lose a whole afternoon stumbling across one of these places now hoping to find one of these little gems and then that made me try to figure out why is this so exciting to me in this this little bit of research why am I all obsessed about it now and that's how I came up with these four things and and it seemed this seems to hit on them and so if anybody has any old jazz records around you should give them to me thanks