Kicker: The painkiller

NICK EICHER, HOST: There’s a nondescript building tucked away on a nondescript street in Delaware.

Its exact location, we can’t disclose.

The building would be easy to miss if you happened not to spot the razor wire and armed guards surrounding it.

The safe inside is state of the art. The building itself has seismic motion detectors, in case someone tried to jackhammer one of the walls.

You may think I’m describing Fort Knox, but I’m not. That’s in Kentucky anyway. But this place does hold stuff that’s good as gold:

Things like a Pikachu trading card, very rare. And a pair of sneakers once worn by the late NBA superstar Kobe Bryant. There’s also a mint-condition Mickey Mantle baseball card.

In all, it holds more than $200 million worth of valuables—not so much for collectors, but for people wanting to protect assets they intend one day to trade. You don’t want to lose this stuff—you can imagine the pain. That’s why the owner of the facility calls the place “the painkiller.”

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