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Released: October 7, 2025 | Duration: 12:59 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Liquidity is one of those words the hobby throws around without fully explaining. Most people use it to describe how fast something sells. That’s half the definition. The other half is how many buyers exist for what you’re selling – and those two … Read more

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

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

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

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