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Brad reports to Rich and me about his experience at a smaller card show a couple of hours away - different from the huge big city shows we had experienced the week before.

A brief recap of the past four weeks of daily episodes - please send your episode ideas to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks!

I am frequently about factors that could impact the investability of sports cards - here is a rather apochalyptic view presented on the exact 20th anniversary of 9/11 - I intend to be sobering but not depressing - but remember there are no sure things.

Kevin Sullivan and Monica Paul asked me to guest on their Dallas Sports Commission weekly podcast, Mic Drop - here are the sports cards excerpts.

Ben Ecklar, a stalwart at Panini, was a dear friend to many of us - his untimely death was shockingly unexpected - he made lasting contributions to our great hobby and will be greatly missed.

James Perez of Elite Hunters does not like the lack of respect for the word investment as it applies to baseball cards - is this a semantic issue? - does it depend on your definition of investment or alternative investment?

Victor Roman had a question for our group - whether parallel cards "should" be rookie cards, or only the base version? We spent significant time on the overabundance of parallels with apparently no end in sight.

Another volley of six listener questions coming from a variety of sources - send your questions to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com or leave a question/comment.

Multi-talented Andy has a wide array of notable talents and interests but his first and enduring love perhaps has been drawing baseball cards and taking inspiration from them.

Andy tells us about his involvement as artist and curator for Topps Spotlight 70 - worth checking out as well as Andy's other eclectic works.

Our ice-breaker at the second content creators dinner at Watters Creek involved brief self-intros of who was there and their take on the stickiness of their content.

Adam and I fielded questions from each other solely on basketball cards - he's the fanatic for good reason! Thanks Adam, and check out Adam's outstanding digital magazine regularly for a fabulous read.

Our recent Content Creator dinner's attendees voted to tackle this issue second and we heard the various content creator voices give their considered opinions. Thanks to all who attended.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-8vpty-10b4325 Listener Corey Barnes suggested Rich and I discuss notable non-rookie cards over the decades - we start with 1952 Topps and work our way up - more to come.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-danfr-10cbbc6 Our group of hobby content creators discussed the future of card manufacturers and how we think the recent Fanatics news might affect them and others in the hobby ecosystem.

The final part of my dueling questions with super collector and now managing owner and CEO of Collectors Universe and PSA.

Another six questions from listeners answered - email your question(s) to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thank you!

Corey and John continue with their questions on the live show, centering on how to collect and how I have collected over the years.

I was honored to be a guest on the debut episode of John Newman's monthly live show Breaking Cardboard along with Corey of YamWax fame. They took turns asking me questions about the good old days.

Rich and I go down memory lane with our friend and hobby veteran Bob Brill, who has worn about as many hobby hats as Rich and I have.

Dan Ertle, senior grader of comic books for CBCS, a division of Beckett Media, discusses the differences and similarities of collecting and grading comic books versus sports cards.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-c5g88-10bfe3c Kyle's Wax Museum podcast is one of my favorite regular listens - here Kyle and I bounce basketball hobby questions off each other.

The most recent Hobby Hotline focused on the big news of Fanatics supplanting Topps as the exclusive baseball card licensee in 2025 - with nine other co-hosts and numerous live questions, the discussion was robust.

Nat is a very high profile collector, but most recently has made an even bigger splash leading the investment group that acquired PSA, and he is now CEO of Collectors Universe/PSA. Congrats Nat!