Wall Streeter Jason Granet has concerns about our hobby and our need and opportunity to regulate ourselves before other entities decide to do so for us.
Young Jacob and I continue asking each other questions about the hobby we both love - looking forward to meeting Jacob at the next National! Check out his podcast, Sports Cards Second.
Robin Pauls has done extensive research on this very challenging set from almost 50 years ago - he literally wrote the book on these cards and how they were distributed and why some of the cards and panels are so scarce. Thanks Robin.
Jesse Craig, Director of Business Development, discusses the latest at PWCC as they are sharpening their auction platform in this dynamic sports card hobby/industry.
Rich and I riff on words beginning with E that contribute to a memorable podcast: energy, emotion, engagement, efficiency, experience, enthusiasm, etc.
My German collecting friend Torsten Bauer and I discussed the esoteric parallels between the distribution and inequality of income and card values - Torsten's graphs show how the inequality of both has similarly increased over the past two years of COVID...
I got a call from a private equity group inquiring about the investibility of our sports card hobby - as I am a pro bono consultant, I was happy to oblige - here is my half of the conversation.
Jason and I wanted to talk about regulation and aspect of chance and skill-based gambling, but our conversation meandered based on his Wall Street experience. Thanks Jason!
I drove over to Mike's house and he gave me the grand tour of his baseball card collection and "The Beast." Thanks Mike, look forward to having you over here soon.
I was a guest on Brenn's Cloud 259 podcast. Brenn's a collector and has hopes that track cards can really catch on. These are excerpts from his podcast where he is asking me fresh questions from his unique perspective.
Pacific's Founder Mike Cramer shared with Rich and me the actual production summary spreadsheets for these three baseball card products - very interesting!
Brad Bethune and Jeff Dinson were my co-hosts on Hobby Hotline this month and one of the questions was about the hopefully positive impact of kid's getting COVID vaccinations.
Actually a continuation of the basketball-related questions that Kyle and I started last week - check out Kyle's Wax Museum podcast for all things basketball.
Will track and field cards ever be mainstream? That's how Brenn and I started and we took off from there with what it would take for that to happen in this new dynamic collecting environment.
John sent me some questions ahead plus he had a few spontaneous questions as well for us to discuss - enjoyed the interaction with a guy who really loves the baseball card hobby - especially the '70's.
Here's a few players and the process I go through when rifling quickly through a football dollar box - the better the player, the more lenient I am, with what I would take. Doing this episode helped me realize I should be more conservative with certain ...
Steve and I both had a few more questions left and so we tackled them - your questions for me or others, just send to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks!
John had a number of eclectic questions for me about collecting in the seventies for his excellent topical podcast - his specialty - distant memories were retrieved.