Have you ever thought up a question you needed to find the answer to, but didn’t know where to start or didn’t have the time to go down all the rabbit holes to get to the answer? This podcast is meant to be the destination hub of all those rabbit holes…Welcome to Wonderland
Deep Dive is my scalable response to curiosity, both mine and yours. Yes, the hosts are AI; but the subject material is research done using dozens and dozens of sources. Think of it like a research paper that references many other works to explore a critical concept.
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Deep Dive 1: How Is The Hobby Changing?
Mar 12, 2026
Deep Dive 1: How Is The Hobby Changing? Sports cards from disposable toys to an $11.5B asset class. The junk wax bubble, manufactured scarcity, and the grading industrial complex.
Listen to Full Episode →Deep Dive 2: How Did Grading Turn The Hobby Into An Institutionalized Asset Class?
Mar 12, 2026How sports cards evolved from cigarette pack stiffeners into a $15B institutionalized asset class. Covers grading infrastructure, Fanatics monopoly, and antitrust fallout.
Listen to Full Episode →Deep Dive 3: How Are Pokemon and One Piece Similar/Different as Markets?
Mar 12, 2026The financial battle between Pokemon and One Piece TCGs as alternative asset classes. One Piece explosive growth, arbitrage packaging, and Sony/Bandai transmedia flywheel.
Listen to Full Episode →Deep Dive 4: How Did the Baseball Card Market Evolve?
Mar 18, 2026Trace the evolution of baseball cards from 1880s tobacco stiffeners to a $12.6M Mickey Mantle sale. T206 Wagner fraud, junk wax collapse, PSA grading, and fractional ownership explained.
Listen to Full Episode →Deep Dive 5: How Did the Football Card Market Evolve?
Mar 18, 2026Explore football card history from 1888 tobacco stiffeners to a $4.3M Patrick Mahomes. Topps vs Bowman, ProSet's collapse, PSA grading, and the Fanatics takeover explained.
Listen to Full Episode →Deep Dive 6: How Did the Basketball Card Market Evolve?
Mar 18, 2026Map the 80-year evolution of basketball cards from 1948 Bowman gum inserts to blockchain-backed NBA Top Shot. Junk wax, manufactured scarcity, and digital burning explained.
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