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Released: January 13, 2026 | Duration: 24:23 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The Problem/Question: You’ve been told PSA 9 is a solid grade. Safe. Respectable. But in modern and ultra-modern cards, that PSA 9 is increasingly selling for less than a raw copy fresh out of the pack. The grading explosion of the last five … Read more

Released: January 5, 2026 | Duration: 27:36 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The Problem/Question: Most collectors assume a bull market means everything goes up. But demand doesn’t work like a tide – it works like a current. It has a direction, a velocity, and a target. When capital enters the sports card market, it flows … Read more

Released: December 30, 2025 | Duration: 31:06 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Everyone said 2025 was just 2021 again. They were wrong – and if you positioned like it was, you likely got hurt. This is the State of the Hobby episode: a full equity-analyst treatment of the 2025 bull market, built from PSA SEC … Read more

Released: December 15, 2025 | Duration: 16:08 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode PSA has officially acquired Beckett – and combined with their earlier purchase of SGC, all three major grading companies now operate under one roof. This isn’t breaking news. It’s a structural event, and it tells us exactly where we are in the market … Read more

Released: December 9, 2025 | Duration: 1:01:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Tyler "TPott" Nethercott is Senior VP of Product at Sports Card Investor and one of the architects of Market Movers – the most comprehensive card data platform in the hobby, tracking 6.1 million cards across 11 auction houses. His background is as unlikely … Read more

Released: December 2, 2025 | Duration: 33:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is a slower episode than most, deliberately. After several episodes reviewing a full year of buying, selling, and grading data, this one steps back and asks a harder question: what does time actually do to a sports card? Not in terms of … Read more

Released: November 24, 2025 | Duration: 27:51 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode One thousand one hundred and twenty-seven cards graded. Over twenty thousand dollars in fees and shipping across PSA and SGC. Looking back at those submissions with a year of hard-won calibration, only about twenty-one percent of the PSA cards and seventeen percent of … Read more

Released: November 18, 2025 | Duration: 31:37 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Ninety-eight thousand dollars in eBay sales over a first year. The number sounds like a good result, but the honest accounting of how it happened is more useful than the headline. The first dozen sales came from asking friends to buy worthless cards … Read more

Released: November 11, 2025 | Duration: 29:59 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The buying decision is the one that determines whether you ever get to celebrate a sell. Most people figure this out the hard way – after sitting on inventory that will not move at any price, after eating grading fees on cards that … Read more

Released: November 4, 2025 | Duration: 45:58 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode A year into the hobby, after passing on a Messi rookie at a Barcelona flea market because he did not fully understand what he was looking at, the host went back. This time with a thesis, a local network, a Facebook ad targeting … Read more