619 - Thanksgiving with Mike Fruitman and Rob Veres
Today on Thanksgiving - Just an overheard conversation among friends about the many things we are thankful for in this dynamic year of our sports card hobby -- listen in!
Today on Thanksgiving - Just an overheard conversation among friends about the many things we are thankful for in this dynamic year of our sports card hobby -- listen in!
John Newman, Rich Klein, and I had a substantive conversation on Hobby Hotline about security measures in our sports cards hobby, especially preventative.
The second part of my excerpted comments from Radar, Evan Toth's music podcast - - News Flash: I love music, but I love sports cards even more.
My German collecting friend Torsten Bauer and I discuss the coming wave of soccer card enthusiasm, already happening, worldwide?
Sports Card Therapist, Rob Girard, had some interesting (mostly hobby) questions for me and I returned the favor with asking him some of his own questions.
I guested on Radar with Evan Toth and we discussed parallels between sports cards collecting and investing and music, vinyl, records, etc.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-avmz4-1129f65 My baseball card vintage discussion with Mike turned toward our opinions on the Hall of Fame prospects of Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, and others.
My German friend Torsten and I got a little into higher level mathematics and economics with our discussion of the Pareto Principle - as a way of understanding value and scarcity in our sports card hobby. Thanks Torsten.
Rob had some hobby and life questions for me but I turned some of them back around him - not something you can typically or easily do with a trained counselor or psychologist. Thanks Rob!
Robin had more stories about the intricacies of this fascinating football card set and so did I. Thanks Robin, for freely sharing your knowledge.
The second part of my interview with Jesse - what key roles he plays at PWCC and where they are going - thanks Jesse!
Jeremy was a hard working man at the recent Dallas-area Watters Creek show - working four side gigs with key industry players - thanks Jeremy for sharing what you're working on.
Brad asked me to be a guest on his show Card Time, and I was happy to oblige - here are some out-takes I thought you'd enjoy - thanks Brad!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-hs9vj-1129f55 Guest appearing at Mike Moynihan's house for his YT channel - here are some excerpts of our vintage baseball card conversation.
Wall Streeter Jason Granet and I discuss some of the financial aspects of our great hobby - we agree it would be better for the hobby to regulate itself before the government does.
Young Jacob and I continued with a second round of sports card hobby questions for each other - thanks Jacob, we need more young collectors like you!
Post Cereal Football expert Robin Pauls joins for a pleasant dissection of this iconic set which I collected when it came out - a challenge to complete to say the least!
Rich and I discuss other E words (besides educate and entertain), pertinent to this and other sports card hobby podcasts - thanks Rich!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-hikbm-111f764 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.
A brief summary of each of the past 20-plus episodes over the four weeks preceding - adding a few insights and reflecting back - thanks for listening.
Applying the Gini Coefficient to sports cards instead of National economies and wealth/income distribution was interesting to Torsten and me - listen in on our dive into it - thanks for listening.
This episodes relates only half of a conversation I had with some private equity folks - you don't hear the questions or know who is asking - only my responses.
Hobby Hotline is always a fun show - here the conversation turned to whether we thought Dak Prescott (and others) were top-tier quarterbacks.
Using a very broad definition of hobby vault for storing cards - Rich and I explore all the options, currently and historically.