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EP 27 - Hobby Heat: Card shows keep getting bigger and better!
May 5, 2026
44m 46s
EP 26 - Finding Your Niche as a Collector: What are the cards that matter to you?
Apr 21, 2026
37m 56s
EP 25 – The Price Is Right: The fine art of pricing cards.
Apr 1, 2026
35m 44s
EP 24 – Pulling the Trigger: Stop researching cards and start buying!
Mar 17, 2026
36m 52s
EP 23 - The Whales Of The Hobby: those at the top of the cardboard mountain. Love them or hate them?
Mar 2, 2026
36m 00s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/5/26 | EP 27 - Hobby Heat: Card shows keep getting bigger and better! | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss the boom we have seen in card shows. There has been an explosion in the number and size of card shows in Australia over the last few years... and we love it. We chat about our recent experience at the Hobby Hangout XL in Melbourne, one of the biggest shows of the year. We chat about all that we love about it, from meeting our fans, to hunting for cards. Mick chats about his latest Gold Prizm (yep, of course he found one). Hank di... | 44m 46s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | EP 26 - Finding Your Niche as a Collector: What are the cards that matter to you? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss the concept of finding your niche as a collector. The trading card market is a huge sea of cardboard - from sports cards to TCG, vintage cards to modern... and within each of these are more sets, inserts, players and characters that your mere mortal mind can comprehend. So how do we shrink the sea? How do we find the cards that matter to us? Hank discusses his move from 80s Fleer Jordans when he first got back into the hobby in 2... | 37m 56s | ||||||
| 4/1/26 | EP 25 – The Price Is Right: The fine art of pricing cards. | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank and Mick discuss everything there is to discuss (within half an hour) about pricing cards. From overpriced cards at card shows, to stores not even putting a price sticker on anything in their display cabinets, we chat about what we love and hate about the fine art of pricing cards. Hank discusses what constitutes a fair price. Is taking an average of the last 3 or 5 sales a good start? Mick often has trouble finding recent or relative comps for many of t... | 35m 44s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | EP 24 – Pulling the Trigger: Stop researching cards and start buying! | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick chat about pulling the trigger on a new purchase. It could be another card for our main PC, or a new player or set. We spend so much time doing research on cards, players and sets we are interested in - but do we back it up enough? Hank feels like he is caught in a trap, where the cards he wants are now too expensive. Mick discusses how sometimes he will buy a card on impulse, but the real question is, will these card stick in his PC long-term... | 36m 52s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | EP 23 - The Whales Of The Hobby: those at the top of the cardboard mountain. Love them or hate them? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank and Mick discuss the Whales of The Hobby. The pinnacle of collectors and their monumental collections. How do we mere minnows feel about it? If often blows us away at how ridiculous these collections are. They feel so unattainable and out of reach. Are we inspired to grow our collections, in the hope of one day joining them... or are they so untouchable that we switch off completely? One thing we both are positive about, is when we discuss a few key figu... | 36m 00s | ||||||
| 2/15/26 | EP 22 - Trading And Grading - NBA Trades and PSA prike hikes. Does it affect our collecting plans for 2026? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss a couple of hot topics and look at how they possibly affect our collecting approach for the year. We start by discussing the second PSA price hike in the last few months. With grading prices going up and turnaround times getting longer - is it starting to feel like 2020/21 all over again? We also discuss the big NBA trades that recently happened. With two of Micks side PC players being traded (Harden & AD)... we discuss what this m... | 29m 51s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | EP 21 - The $1000 Question: What sports cards would we buy if we had $1k to spend? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick put each other on the spot, and discuss what cards they would purchase if they had $1000 to spend this week. The rules are pretty simple... we can buy one card or multiple cards, on any sales platform... but the cards must be held in our collection for the next 5 years. In a space where flipping cards is almost the norm, this helps to narrow our focus to cards we believe in long-term. Cards that we would want as part of our personal coll... | 38m 54s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | EP 20 - New Year Collecting Resolutions: Whats on the cards for 2026? | Send us Fan Mail In our 20th Episode, Hank and Mick discuss their hobby plans for 2026. We chat about whether we will continue to hunt for big cards to add to our collections this year. Is the Sports Card market going to have another huge year like 2025... or is it going to cool off or go sideways for a while? We discuss the recent acquisition of Beckett by Collectors, and if we intend to grade with Beckett this year? Is the One Piece boom going to keep exploding, and will Pokemon cool off a ... | 35m 51s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | EP 19 - Cardboard Chaos: As Scandals stack up, is the Hobby Healthy? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss the various scandals and headaches that have hit the Hobby in recent months. We chat about the PSA debacle, where a selection of PSA 9s magically were re-labelled PSA 10s. We talk about SNYPE and the monumental disaster that unfolded during its inaugural auction. We also hit on the Patrick Ryan shill bidding nightmare, where he live-streamed bidding on his own card, then had a discussion with Dr Beckett about defensive shill bidd... | 36m 42s | ||||||
| 11/24/25 | EP 18 - Are We There Yet? Is the Top of the Sport Card Market In... we think so! | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss their belief that we are at the Top of the current cycle of the Sports Card Market. We discuss how the last couple of months of each year are usually buying months, with prices and sales volumes slightly dipping. Has the Pokemon and TCG boom of 2025 been the driving force behind the market uptick? We chat about whether Bitcoin and other alternative assets are actually correlated with price moments in trading cards. And both of us, expl... | 35m 32s | ||||||
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| 11/5/25 | EP 17 - Out with the Old, In with the New: Is chasing fresh cards or players a smart play? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank and Mick chat about the pressure to chase new players and new cards in the hobby. Is it really a smart move? Is it important to keep adding new, fresh things to your collection?... or can your improve your collection by focusing on getting better grades of the cards you love and already own. New is not necessarily better, especially in a hobby with deep veins in history, legacy and vintage cards. We chat about Wemby, Zion and Cooper Flagg. We touch... | 38m 01s | ||||||
| 10/21/25 | EP 16 - Topps Returns and the Panini Era ends: What it means for Collectors? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank and Mick do a deep dive on the handover of the NBA Trading card licence from Panini (who have had the NBA licence for the last 13 years) to Topps (via Fanatics) who will be exclusively be printing NBA trading cards for the foreseeable future. We discuss in detail the first Topps NBA licensed product to hit the market this week: Topps 2025-26 NBA Basketball. We dig into the details of the 18 page pack-odds document that Topps have posted, chatting a... | 36m 52s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 | EP 15 Kaboom! The Market keeps on pumping and sets more record prices. | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick have a ramble about Kabooms!... and the crazy price moves and sales these cards have had recently. With record prices constantly being set for these inserts, is it a good sign that the market is over heated? We also chat about the wash-up from our trip to LA for the West Coast Card Show, and the joys of finding something at the show, or afterwards, that you werent expecting. Hank also laments never having enough cash at card shows... and Mick ... | 37m 57s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 | EP 14 - Big Moves - Are huge picks ups, pivots and consolidation the best play? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss Big Moves in the hobby. With high profile podcasters such as Chris HOJ & Cajun Cardboard recently making moves into 1/1 Jordans and major consolidation... we chat about our thoughts about making similar moves and pivots. Is now the best time to take a different direction, or is the market too hot? Mick has made his own strategic move, hunting apex cards for key players. Meanwhile, Hank is sticking to his Jordan lane and sitting on ... | 36m 36s | ||||||
| 8/21/25 | EP 13 - Hot Card Markets - how to avoid being burnt | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Hank & Mick discuss the current state of the market - which is scorching hot! We discuss our tactics and thoughts of collecting through a bull market, from consolidation to fewer but more significant cards, pivoting to cheaper and more attainable side PCs, and selling into the hot market. With every up, there must come a down. So try not to lose your head. Stay calm and focused... and warm up by the fire, but dont get burnt! | 39m 37s | ||||||
| 7/27/25 | EP 12 - Ten Commandments of The Hobby - Our Top 10 collecting rules. | Send us Fan Mail In our biggest and best episode yet, Hank & Mick get out a pair of stone tablets, and chisel our 10 Commandments for The Hobby. From tips such as avoiding the hype, embracing selling cards, and adding cornerstone cards, we dig deep on the most important guidelines for our current collecting journey. So lace up, grab a ball and bumper bowl your way to hobby happiness! | 47m 21s | ||||||
| 7/13/25 | BONUS EP 02 - The Grading Game: PSA vs BGS | Send us Fan Mail In this second part of our ongoing Grading discussion, Hank & Mick chat who we grade with - for us, its a choice between PSA and BGS. BGS has sub grades, half grades and a sturdier slab, where PSA is the industry leader and PSA 10s are getting harder to land. We discuss the key differences between the two, regrading cards across each grading company and preparing cards for grading. Modern cards are virtually worthless unless they hit a PSA 10. For 90s cards a PSA 10 means... | 39m 25s | ||||||
| 6/24/25 | BONUS EP 01 - Grading: An ongoing discussion. It begins in the '90s. | Send us Fan Mail In this Bonus Episode, Hank and Mick begin a multi-part discussion about all things Grading. This episode is all about the beginnings of grading in the 1990s. We reminisce about how when we ran our cards store in 1993, grading was purely subjective: it was up to us to decide the grade of a card. Beckett magazine was our price guide and hobby bible. PSA changed the game in 1991, but it wasn't until later in the '90s when the hobby got on board the grading train. Mick thinks gr... | 37m 25s | ||||||
| 6/11/25 | EP 09 - Vintage vs Modern: What has better long term value? | Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Hank & Mick discuss collecting Vintage vs Modern cards, and which has the better long term value. Vintage cards are all about condition: centering, corners, registration, surface etc... In 1986 Fleer, there were approximately 3 Jordan rookies in each box. They aren't rare cards - but their value is all tied up in condition. In Modern collecting, the most valuable cards are the scarce parallel cards and inserts. Hank thinks these scarce modern cards ... | 39m 33s | ||||||
| 5/26/25 | EP 08 - Inserts and Parallel cards: all you need to know | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Hank and Mick discuss everything to do with inserts and parallel cards. We kick-off sorting out what actually is an SSP, and then deep-dive about how inserts shaped the 90s era and how parallels have dominated the modern era. Hank thinks inserts have been killed by the hunt for serial cards like the gold/10 and Black 1/1s parallels. Mick has other thoughts and discusses how certain modern inserts like Color Blasts, Downtowns and Kabooms! still have huge deman... | 37m 46s | ||||||
| 5/11/25 | EP 07 - The Big Show: Card Shows in Australia and Overseas | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Hank and Mick are excited to discuss Card Shows in Australia and Overseas. We chat about the upcoming Hobby Hangout XL show in Melbourne, Collect Fest in July and The Oz National in September. We talk about buzz of attending these card shows, connecting with other collectors in-person, and what we have learnt buying and selling at these shows over the last couple of years. We also discuss the anticipation of attending larger scale international shows like the... | 36m 41s | ||||||
| 4/28/25 | EP 06 - The Big Sell: How, where and why we sell our cards | Send us Fan Mail In this episode Hank & Mick discuss selling cards and the variety of platforms we use in Australia and overseas. From everything from Ebay, Fanatics Collect, Alt, Consignment services, FaceBook Marketplace and selling at Card Shows - we cover it all. We also discuss the benefits of selling buy-it-now versus Auction. Selling cards is an important step for most of us in building our collections, and its a tricky space for us in Australia as we lack the auction sites and eba... | 36m 10s | ||||||
| 4/13/25 | EP 05 - Our biggest hobby mistakes in the last 5 years | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Hank and Mick take a good, hard look at their biggest mistakes collecting sports cards and TCG the last 5 years. They discuss buying Pokemon cards at the top of the market (in the covid boom), buying the wrong NBA player at the wrong time (yes, thats you Kawhi), buying too many base Prizm cards (again Kawhi), thinking that 2nd year cards were actually a thing (once again, Kawhi), and selling some things too early (Evolving Skies booster boxes), and other thin... | 37m 23s | ||||||
| 3/30/25 | EP 04 - Sports Card Market vs Pokemon TCG Market | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Hank and Mick dive into a discussion about the Sports Card Market versus the Pokemon/TCG Market. We discuss the current state of the Pokemon market, and our strategy for buying and selling in a hot market. We compare the size of the Pokemon market against that of the Sports Card Market. We chat about pop counts, sealed box prices, nostalgia and vintage versus modern TCG collecting. Is Charizard Michael Jordan? Is Umbreon Lebron? Is Greninja SGA? Will Pokemon ... | 43m 39s | ||||||
| 3/16/25 | EP 03 - Consolidation: Is less actually better than more? | Send us Fan Mail In this third episode, Hank and Mick discuss their experience and thoughts about consolidating down to bigger and better cards. How many cards is too many? How many cards are too few? Is there a perfect balance? Hank evaluates a recent trade from another collector posted on instagram, where a huge PSA 10 Jordan insert collection was traded for a 1997 Jordan Red PMG. Mick dives into his thoughts on consolidating down to Kryie's best card. Enjoy! | 36m 59s | ||||||
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