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Released: September 21, 2025 | Duration: 34:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Most collectors stack. The best collectors consolidate. RodmanPC, one of the most respected Messi collectors in the world, operating out of Honduras, didn’t build his collection by chasing every card that moved. He built it by mapping how Jordan’s market structure worked and … Read more

Released: September 16, 2025 | Duration: 56:15 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Jeremy Lee has been collecting sports cards since before PSA existed. He opened a card shop in 1991, before grading was a category, back when every dealer was their own grading authority and the internet had not yet made buying sight-unseen a normal … Read more

Released: September 9, 2025 | Duration: 24:38 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode A solo episode and a numbers-heavy one. The starting point is a framework borrowed from professional investing: if the broad market is up, how much of your return is the market giving you and how much is your own edge? That difference is … Read more

Released: September 3, 2025 | Duration: 46:17 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Dave Schwartz hosts The Shallow End podcast, teaches media at a university in Iowa, and has been collecting sports cards since 1983. When he came back into the hobby during COVID, he made the same mistakes most people make: buying unlicensed Panini baseball … Read more

Released: August 26, 2025 | Duration: 48:29 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Brian Denison, better known as Cajun Cardboard, has spent 1,400 YouTube videos in the Michael Jordan insert world after a career coaching elite basketball. His approach to prospect identification came directly from scouting talent for a Nike EYBL program, and the standard he … Read more

Released: August 19, 2025 | Duration: 53:09 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Ryan Seaver wrote the book on sports card flipping strategy, literally. Cardboard Profit is thirty years of trial-and-error compressed into an actual system, and this conversation pulls out the frameworks that most collectors never hear: money velocity, high-upside grading targets, and why the … Read more

Released: August 17, 2025 | Duration: 27:49 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is a show-your-work episode. The framework is Market, Legacy, and Design. The cards are the 2012 Panini Prizm Tom Brady Silver and the 2014 Panini Prizm World Cup Messi Silver. The question is whether the market is pricing these two correctly relative … Read more

Released: August 12, 2025 | Duration: 39:00 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode features Mark Hill, founder and CEO of MyCardPost, discussing one of the most daunting undertakings in any industry: building a marketplace from scratch. Mark shares the origin story of MyCardPost, a subscription-based platform with no seller fees that has grown to … Read more

Released: July 29, 2025 | Duration: 19:02 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is the most personal episode in the early run of Slabnomics: no guest, no structured argument, just a stream of thoughts recorded in the week before the National and the SoKo Expo. It covers three things in roughly equal measure: how to … Read more

Released: July 29, 2025 | Duration: 27:22 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode distills practical buying and selling wisdom from two major card shows: The National and the SoCo Expo. Instead of theory or speculation, this episode delivers actionable secrets that help collectors and dealers win on both sides of the table. These are … Read more