Episode 24 How to Understand Changing Markets Ft. Ryan Alford

Released: September 30, 2025 | Duration: 31:50 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Ryan Alford runs a podcast network with 40-plus shows, built multiple companies, and has a contact list that gets Gary Vee on a call. He got back into trading cards through a Walmart pack rip with his four sons. That contrast is the … Read more

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Episode 23 Huge New Comp, Bubbles, and a Cheatsheet on 2014 Prizm Pricing

Released: September 26, 2025 | Duration: 37:11 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The first dominos started falling in the 2014 Prizm World Cup set. A Messi-Ronaldo Matchups red out of 149 sold for $30,300. A Messi blue PSA 10 moved at $24,700. The Matchups silver has three PSA 10s in the world and one was … Read more

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Episode 22 Creating Hobby Content Ft. Stockn_trade

Released: September 23, 2025 | Duration: 33:37 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The best hobby content doesn’t look like content. It looks like someone actually doing the thing, talking about what they noticed, and not overthinking whether it’s going to perform. Raul Bustamante (known as Stockn_trade on Instagram) came to that realization by accident. A … Read more

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Episode 21 Elite Collecting Moves Ft. RodmanPC

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

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Episode 20 Investing vs. Collecting Ft. Jeremy Lee of Sports Cards Live

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

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Episode 19 Explaining Alpha and the 82.5% Gain in Soccer Card Market

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

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Episode 18 Compounding Secrets Every Card Collector Misses Ft. Iowa Dave

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

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Episode 17 Scouting Card Prospects Ft. Cajun Cardboard

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

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Episode 16 Flipping Fundamentals Ft. Ryan from Cardboard Profit

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

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Episode 15 Slabnomics Deep Dive: How to Value Messi With Brady

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

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