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The Most Valuable Thing You Take Home Isn’t a Card
After my first 24 hours at The National, I returned to my hotel with more energy than I had when the day began. It wasn’t because of a card, a sale, or a booth. It cam...
Hobby Jobs: Passion is the Entry Fee with Chris McGill of Card Ladder
Passion gets you into sports cards. It does not build a product people trust.Brett sits down with Card Ladder co-founder Chris McGill at The National to discuss the wo...
Passion to Profession: From College Football Cards to Working at Card Collector 2 with Gabe (@gabeycardstacks)
Gabe did not follow a career path into sports cards.He created one.His interest in college football led him to Bowman University, player research, value boxes, and con...
Hobby Jobs: When the Collection Becomes Capital Building + Hiring, and Serving Collectors Steve Sloan of Heystack
What happens when a collector starts looking at cards as a source of funding for a business?Brett examines the tension between the collector who wants to keep the card...
Booked to Last: Why Wrestling Cards Have Never Felt Bigger
Adam is joined by Brett for a collector-focused conversation during the biggest week of the year.They discuss why Fanatics Fest increased their confidence in wrestling...
The Football Card Podcast #58: What Changes for Collectors When Football Returns?
Football season reconnects cards to the games, players, and moments that made collectors care in the first place.Pack and Brett examine what changes when the NFL retur...
Collect the Card, Not the Stamp: Understanding One-of-One Culture
More collectors are moving away from quantity and toward concentration.Brett is one of them.One-of-one cards offer something most cards cannot. Finality. There is no ...
When One Card Creates a New Standard
Some cards enter your collection.Other cards change how you see everything you own.Brett explores what happens after a major acquisition raises the standard for your c...
Shrink the Hobby Sea: Why Collectors Need Rooms of Their Own
The National shows you how large the hobby has become. It can also make you feel lost inside it.This episode explores why collectors gain clarity when they narrow thei...
Passion to Profession: From One Million Cubs to a Full-Time Card Business with Beau Thompson
Beau Thompson started One Million Cubs with a goal: trade one million non-Cubs cards for one million Cubs cards.The project took seven and a half years. It also create...
Hobby Jobs: The Hobby Cannot Grow Without Collector Trust
The National brings the sports card industry under one roof.For collectors, the week centers on cards. For people working in the industry, it offers access to the comp...
Booked to Last: A Wrestling Collector's Guide to The National 2026
The National can overwhelm you before you make it through the first aisle.Adam and Ryan are joined by Bryan (@thzsportscard) and Brett to help wrestling card collector...
The Football Card Podcast #57: Private Sales, 1/1 Pressure, and the Football Card Market at The National
What happens to football card market data when the biggest deals happen away from public marketplaces?Pack and Brett discuss whether collectors should report private s...
Built for the Hobby: Hobby Tech Takes the Main Stage at The National with Scott Lock (InfernoRed Technology)
The tools required to build a product have become available to everyone.That does not mean every product needs to exist.Scott Lock, CEO of InfernoRed Technology, joins...
Don’t Let the Show Choose Your Collection
The National is here. Six hundred dealers. Five hundred thousand square feet. Thirty-six hours of show floor time.That level of choice can make every card feel importa...
The WNBA Card Podcast: Building Around Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings with Jason (@notjasondardick)
What happens when opening boxes leads to becoming a fan?This week, Katelyn is joined by Jason (@notjasondardic), a longtime collector whose path into the WNBA started ...
Passion to Profession: The Future of Collecting Starts with Community with Evan Parker of ONIT Athlete
What does building Xbox, NASCAR, The Athletic, Mantle, and ONIT Athlete have in common?Community.This week on Passion to Profession, brought to you by eBay, Brett sits...
Hobby Jobs: Why the Best Hobby Businesses Teach, Not Hype
Fanatics Fest is built on excitement.Big pulls. Big personalities. Big moments.That energy matters. It brings people into the hobby.But what happens after the exciteme...
Booked to Last: The GOAT Market Is Here. Are Wrestling Card Collectors Ready?
Record sales continue to reshape the wrestling card market.Adam and Ryan break down the Rock and Stone Cold dual Superfractor sale, Bianca Belair's WrestleMania Patch ...
The Football Card Podcast #56: The International Legends of Football Cards
Every collector has cards they understand immediately.Then there are the cards that take years to appreciate.Pack and Brett explore why some football cards become hobb...