Aug 27, 2026
When Collecting Gets Overwhelming + Buying Cards Just Because They’re Beautiful + Is Hockey Still Undervalued?
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But the there's so many layers to Mickey Mouse where you know, Joe, you said like you didn't really watch very many Mickey Mouse cartoons as a kid, right? But I bet you saw the Disney movies. I bet you watched Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio. And before every one of those movies has the Disney with the castle, right? With literally every single movie. And that probably brings a little bit of nostalgia in your childhood. I don't know any kid that did not like any kind of Disney movie growing up. And that feeling that you did get when you did go to Disney, one of the Disney theme parks for your first time, that's memories. That is the reason why when I went to that D23 Disney convention, they're all adults because they're still reminiscing that time when they were. I probably said that word wrong. But at that time when, when they were seven years old and they went with their parents to Disneyland and it was like the greatest day of their lives, you know. And that's what Mickey represents. It's not just the cartoon, it's the memories from all. From every Disney movie from the theme parks, from you having a stuffed animal of Goofy growing up. Right. There's so many layers to Mickey Mouse. That's on top of every other cultural fictional character, in my opinion. And I, Joe, I think you were really just, you're, you're probing, you know, it's not. Yu-Gi-Oh And these are, I think just answers to the probe. More, more than anything. But any. And Josh, what. What do you think about like historical figures and non athletes and do you collect any of that stuff? Do you think it's cool? Where do you fall? And then Joe, I want. We'll get you to wrap up all of it. I don't collect any of that stuff. Thank you. Thank you, Joshua Adams. Appreciate it. Joe, let's go back to you, buddy. No, it's just, it's, it's. I'm asking the question that I ask myself out loud to everybody because I've, I've been on the fence, as you guys know, of like, hey, should I push into this? Should I push into that, you know, Superman, Batman, Mickey Mouse, you know, going over to, you know, the side of the Beatles or you know, Bob Dylan and some of them I do and some of my, some of them I don't. And sometimes that just depends on like the opportunity that presents itself. But it's, it's, it's always a little unclear in my mind because where, where would I draw the line, you know, would I draw the line at, you know, I'm going to collect just musicians. Oh, well, wait, then there's these movie stars. Oh wait, then there's these non fictional characters. There's the modern tropes. The more, you know, vintage tropes. Like it just keeps, you know, historical figures, Thomas Edison pirates, you know, living pirates that have sort of a fictionalized, romanticized, you know, kind of story behind them, like a Blackbeard with. But also we're living, breathing, you know, villains. So I asked this question partly just to sort of think about it myself and kind of hear what you guys think. How much of it needs to be like a direct heart kind of connection, we might say. And how much of it is more thinking analytically about what's truly important. Like a character that comes to my mind. You know, it's like Bob Marley. You know, like, how often do you hear Bob Marley playing in people's, you know, cars and, and around the way? And it's like I, I've seen his cards. I've never bought a Bob Marley card, but, you know, maybe I will someday. I have a feeling they're, they're, they're probably a little higher than they were, you know, a year ago. Well, thanks, Joe. We're now all priced out of Bob Marley cards. Yu-Gi-Oh I don't have any, but I don't either. I don't have them, but I'd love to add a Bob Marley card too. I mean, grew up listening to Bob Marley, you know. I don't have a Led Zeppelin card. I'd love to have a Led Zeppelin card. There's so many, so. But you're right, Joe. It just goes on and on and on. And I was, I mean, I've. I've. There's some, some like, non sports cards that I've been just going down these rabbit holes lately. And just the art and the, Yu-Gi-Oh it's, it's, it's crazy. It's crazy how deep you can go. I mean, we talk about drawing lines like no sticker autograph or, you know, no non playing days. Do we need to draw some boundaries for, you know, non sports cards? And, or like, just in general. Like, at a certain point it might be kinder to ourselves because I get, I get like, vertigo going well, when I think about all the possibilities. And that's a little bit what I've been wrestling with lately, you know, with FOMO up and so many opportunities. I haven't bought any non sports cards recently, but I might. And I just, I asked myself, would I enjoy the hobby more if I draw a few firm lines? Like, David, you, you really don't do modern. Or, you know, much less ultra modern. I mean, occasionally here and there, maybe. And that's probably helpful because it, it minimizes the intellectual task of evaluating what cards you want to go after. If it's just a completely wide open field, it's, it's mentally exhausting at some point, David. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, I, I completely understand where you're coming from in that. But at the same time, I don't draw a line, you know, Like, I am not saying I will not ever buy a modern card, and I'm not. It's just I don't. They don't resonate with me. Right. That's the only reason why I'm not into modern cards. These vintage. And if these vintage cards, like, for you, aren't resonating with you, then definitely don't go for it. Because of fomo. Right. It has to, like, come from a place where it's exciting for you, not stressful for you. Right. Where it's like. Like, for me, it's fun to go down the rabbit hole. And the vortex of trying to figure out a cartoon character or a TV show or a movie or a rock band. Right. That. That I want to, like, explore their cards of. That's fun for me. But if it's becoming overwhelming, then, you know, I don't know if you need to make a rule, but just, you know, you're definitely more passionate about some things more than others, Joe. Right. I know, like, you have a band, you. That is probably your favorite band or your top three bands of all time. It's a lot easier if you did want to go down that rabbit hole to go for, like, one of those bands than to just be thinking of the top 100 bands of all time, which might be overwhelming. Right? Yu-Gi-Oh Just a thought. Totally. Josh, want to chime in, or. Josh, about. About what? I don't know. Who's your favorite band, Josh? I. I like Bob Dylan. I like Pink Floyd, and, you know, Grateful Dead's pretty good. You ever hear Joe Russo's Almost Dead? They're very good. They're very good. So my friend turned me on to him, but. Yu-Gi-Oh What about Josh? What about Rem. Not the biggest fan, are you? Okay. Not the biggest fan of Aria. Oh, Ron Figs. Fish. You're a fish fan, right, Josh? I like fish. I've seen him play a few times. Yu-Gi-Oh I've never been to a fish show, people. Yu-Gi-Oh Never got to a fish show. I've been to many. You know. You know what the fish fan said as soon as the drugs wore off? Yu-Gi-Oh this music stinks. So, Joe. Joe, were you gonna jump in? Just. Could I ask Josh one more question? Yu-Gi-Oh Josh, how do you. How do you like Willie Nelson? I love Willie Nelson. And, Josh, if you ever saw a very cool Bob Dylan card, would you ever venture into that? Probably not. Yu-Gi-Oh So when I was talking about rabbit holes, here's a card that I. I bid on. So I'm going to show you guys the card. It's on Fanatics. It ends tomorrow. I. I'm gonna show it to you. So I'm now Probably not gonna be able to buy it. But this is a card that I knew nothing about the price on Fanatics. When I put in my bid, I think it was like $8. And I put in a bid of a hundred because I'm just like, I'm. Because I'm gonna be on vacation tomorrow. I'm gonna buy it. If I one-of-one it, I one-of-one it. I'm willing to pay up to 100. Did not check comps. Didn't check anything. I know nothing about this card except it's freaking beautiful. I love it. And I don't even know much about the character that is portrayed. And this is a fictional character. Not even David knows what card I'm about to show you guys. Yu-Gi-Oh So let me, let me show you this card I've now. And, and the best part is I've been up. And what I did know is it's a pop one in the grade, none graded higher. But before I show you that card, I'm going to show you. No, I'll show you it first. Here it is. 1933 John Player and Sons. Don Quixote. Characters from fiction and in a PSA9. And just look at how awesome this card looks. Look at Don Quixote Player cigarettes across the top. Look at the beautiful majestic horse, the landscape, the, the. The sunlit sky, the sand. I fell in love with it. And I never saw this until whatever. Whatever it was last night or the night before. Never even seen this card before. But it. But I bid a hundred. I don't know if the comps are 25. I bid a hundred and wouldn't you know it. Wouldn't you know it? I've been out bid. I've been outbid already. Someone else probably. I don't even know how many bids there were. 14. I can't see the. I can't tell like how many it took for that person to catch me, but they are at 105. Now this is an example of that topic. Buying something you know nothing about. Trusting myself, even though. But it's only 100 bucks for me. I'm willing to. To gamble a hundred bucks. What's the gamble? The, the, the, the. The. The. The worst case scenario is that I love the card and it's worth zero for 100 bucks. I'll take that chance. The best case scenario is I love the card and it's worth More than 100 bucks. Josh, what were you going to jump in with there? Are they selling the windmill card there too? Or is just a Don Quixote Is there another card from the set called the Windmill card you don't get? Yes. Never mind. You don't get. I don't like. I don't know much about Don Quixote, but I did look at the back. I did look at the back of the card, and it's like, it's in English. And I did read it, so I know a bit more about him after I read the back of the card. But I still don't know a lot about Don Quixote. I know that I've heard of him. I think there's tequila named after him. Like, I kind of, you know. But my point is that I loved. I have no nostalgia for Don Quixote, but I love this card. That's it. David, what do you think? I mean. Oh, wait, who. Someone. Someone else had their hand up. Oh, go, David. What do you think? I mean, you should have told me. I bet 125 on that card. Jeremy. No, I think it's a cool card. I. You know, I mean, I do these kind of things all the time. I was thinking of another card that you ended up doing this with, which is your. That oversized card you wanted, that CIA auction, that baseball card that you've never seen before until you actually saw it. And you bid on that card and one-of-one it, too, right? Very similar situation. I bid on that card because it was beautiful. And it's also from 1882, which I thought was just cool in and of itself. And just in that collector investor auctions, they had, like, several cards from that set. And the batsman was the one that I one-of-one was kind of, I realized, was the. The best card, if you will. It wasn't the first baseman, the second baseman, the left fielder, the right fielder, the catcher. It was. It was the batsman. And to me, that was special. So, Yu-Gi-Oh I knew nothing about it, and I bought. I didn't pay a lot for it, and I. I was definitely happy with that. Brad's vintage asked Jay Lee, if you one-of-one do you read the novel? Honestly, Brad, probably not. I don't. I don't think I'm gonna read the novel, but I would read the Wikipedia on him. I would learn about him, but I don't think it would be through. I would read the. I. I'd read the. The Cliff Notes on it sort of thing. I just want to shoot before we leave from here. I. I want to show you that. That. Here's that. That Isaiah Thomas card that I was talking about earlier that I did bid on, I guess. But I. I've Never seen this before. As far as a Zebra fractured 2007 tops Letterman, Isaiah Thomas. I don't even know if it's called the Superfractor, but it sure looks like one with the background there. And it's. I mean, I look at this, I feel like I've never seen one before, so. But that's another one that I did bid on, I think. And then I realized, then I zoomed on. Wait a second. That's a sticker. Hopefully I don't one-of-one it and I guess I. I'm not winning it now, so. But that's still a pretty cool. Damn cool card for what it is. It's got a lot, lot going on, including the one of one, you know, print run. So Josh is the man. Absolutely. He is. The Merchant of cool says that Josh's disdain for the joy others take in collecting non sports cards is lame. Dude. Oh, I didn't even read this before. Josh, dude sucks. Go ahead and ban My House attitude sucks. Josh, do you. I swear, I didn't read that until I started. Until I started reading it. Would you like to respond to that at all? So, Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, I have no disdain for people for what they collect what you like. I'm not gonna criticize what you like. I. It's not for me. Like David said, people like it. Go ahead, do what you like. Supposed to be fun. I just. It's not for me. That's. I have no disdain. But I didn't think you did. I didn't think you did. Joe. I wanted to give you the chance to address that. I am lame, though. So he is right on. You know, he's betting 500, so it's okay. I am lame, though, and situational says in quotes, go ahead and ban me. Is that like announcing you're leaving a Facebook group? No, but it means that you don't. It does. It might mean that you just don't, you know, you don't need. You don't care about being a part of the. The Saturday nights here on sports. And that's fine too. That's fine too. That's the dude you banned earlier. He created a new account. Maybe, Maybe. Who knows? Who knows what? Any other topics on anybody's mind? I mean, Joe, I think you were. Did you want to jump in with something from few minutes ago? I don't want to forget. No, I. I'm enjoying our. Our sort of, you know, maybe kind of like just discussion around what. What we're sort of. This, this is exaggerating the conversation and I think we all know that this is a ridiculous statement that I'm about to say, but what we're allowed to collect. And, and maybe this is. Maybe, maybe we've beaten this around above and beyond the, the need. I mean, I, I don't think this is the only moment that we've talked about this. I've heard other people talking about it, but I, I do find it interesting, not so much from, like, a external community conversation, but an internal conversation. Like, what. What is it that makes you kind of compelled to go after something? And, and, and what's the, you know, is it impulse? Is it, you know, research and analysis? And I think every collector is different, right? There's going to be some combination, your own personal experiences, you know, like, for instance, my dad was a huge boxing fan, and when I was growing up, Muhammad Ali, like, if there was an Ali fight in the 70s, my dad was going to be watching. That's back when you didn't have to do Pay per View. It was on abc. Howard Cosell and I would watch boxing matches with my dad. And for that reason, even though I'm not a, A boxing fan per se, just like Muhammad Ali is like a deep. Like. And I don't actually. I think I have one Ali card, but I, I probably should get some more Ali cards because as David Chase said, they would probably. It would feel really good to bring those into my collection because there's some deep connections to my own personal world with, you know, watching boxing matches, you know, with, with my dad, you know, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier. But then there's other things that, that I do buy, and, and I don't actually have a direct connection, but I just think they're cool because I have an awareness of pop culture, so. Just thinking about that out loud. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh lots there. David, do you have a. Do you have any thoughts? No, unlike Josh, that was. I mean, I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh I, I love that we all have nostalgia with different parts of the hobby. Right. And we resonate with some things and you go down different lanes based on that. Right. Like with you just saying that. Joe, how many Muhammad Ali cards do you have in your collection? I might have one. I, I don't even know if I have one. I, I've been keeping my eyes on them, but as we know, they, they, they're not exactly cheap, like, significant ones. You say that, but you also just bought a 33 Gouty Ruth and a Ty Cob. Right. Like, you know, when you're saying that they're expensive, they're not that expensive, even for his most expensive card. So is, is that something that would go higher up on your list of needs or is it still tamed because you have so many cards that are above that? I, I think I, I think I still have. And maybe this is me, Josh. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I, I do still kind of adhere to, like, the idea that I'm mostly entirely a baseball and basketball card collector. I collect a little football, but. But those are the two sports. And so like anything outside of that, I, I dabble. But I don't necessarily identify myself as, like, I got an, I got an Erlene Holland card recently because I enjoyed watching him in the World Cup. I'm not a, I'm not a soccer card collector. You know, I, I had an experience enjoying Erling Holland. So am I a boxing card collector or am I a Muhammad Ali collector? Am I a goat collector? Muhammad Ali is definitely a goat. But I, I think I, I try to maybe reconcile the fact that I can't have it all by identifying myself as having a few different areas that I'm. It's not, I'm. I'm not entirely beholden to it. It's not an Absolute. But I mostly, if I'm collecting vintage. I'm probably mostly collecting vintage baseball. I'm probably mostly, at this point, actually collecting pre war vintage baseball. So because you're also a big basketball fan, there's very little vintage basketball even on the menu. You're not a hockey fan, so that wouldn't fit your. Your for you one-of-one And football, I mean, there is some, but not a lot like baseball just has the deepest library and assortment of, of offerings. So that makes sense to me. And you know, the fact that your dad was a Muhammad Ali fan, like that. I could see you one day buying one. Problem is they've gotten expensive and you have higher priorities for yourself, I think. But I do appreciate you sharing that, that story and that insight into who Joe Perot is. Josh Adams. Well, I collect stuff that I have a nostalgic kind of connection to. Right. So, like, I like, you know, I collect White Sox stuff, Blackhawk stuff, Frank Thomas, Michael Jordan. I collect also, you know, vintage football and baseball because I like the history of the sports. There's a lot of pre NFL football things to collect, like photos, matchbooks, postcards. There's a ton of things. So, Yu-Gi-Oh that's what I gravitate towards. Stuff that I have like a nostalgic connection to or some sort of historical connection because I do like history and research and old black and white photos. So Yu-Gi-Oh it does it for me. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Again clock whatever you want talk about it. Will deal here says keep talking Mickey up and Mr. Wonderful will be walking around with one hanging from his neck. I don't know if Mr. Wonderful has caught on to sports cards live yet. If he hasn't, he's obviously missing out. Lindsay come showcase says I can't stand the non sports push into sports card channels. I hear you Tim Lincecum showcase. That's gotta, that, that is tough. The one thing I do I'll just share with you is that when I like and I, I subscribe to lots of YouTube channels as a consumer of of of hobby content and it's the easiest thing in the world to do is when I'm listening to a video, I'm watching a video and they start talking about anything I'm not interested in. I either skip ahead or I just turn it off. Like it's so easy. So don't. All I'm saying to Tim Lince fan is try not to be anywhere you don't want to be. Like it's really easy to just go out, go somewhere else. The one of the problems might be though that you know, content itself I feel is, is there's a, there's a lot of just rehashed content out there lately and I'm finding it harder and harder to. To find content that I can. That I really want to watch. I've got my favorites. I've had my favorites for a long time and I watch my share of content. I find I'm actually enjoying a lot of pot like audio podcasts. I've been doing that for, for a couple years now. But I just whenever if I'm listening to a podcast that I really enjoy and they start talking about a topic I'm not interested in, I just skip the rest of that episode and wait till the next one comes out. It's Zebra like I just recognize just, just that that's a. Probably a good way to save yourself some time so you don't get frustrated as well. Chrissy says yep, just turn it off. It's really that. That simple I would say. Philippelli, what's going on? Says hello. Jeremy Lee, Joshua Adams, Joe Perot and David Chase enjoying show. Thank you. Jeremy Filipelli. Always a Pulsar to see your friendly face in our chat but we are coming up to the end here guys. We are gonna wrap up. This is usually when we wrap up. We did miss the first hour tonight because I wasn't able to start on time, but I'm willing like, listen, is there anything else anybody does want to talk about before we end this episode? So, Josh, is there anything on your mind, anything you'd like to let the people know you. Josh owns. There's a partner in owning 90s auctions. Josh, why don't you let people know about the upcoming auction and when the preview goes live? Preview is live right now. I was working on it all week. We put it up about an hour ago. 90s auctions.com it's up there on the. This banner starts a week from Monday, August 31st and September 13th, 12th, whatever that Sunday is.90sauts.com 90sauctions.com Go check that out. Please help support our good buddy Joshua Adams. He's building himself a nice sort of niche auction house focusing on cards from the 90s and players who played in the 90s. Any, any change to that, Josh, or is that still the. The play right now for you guys? That's it. That's the lane we're going in. We might expand it later, but we're getting some good traction on that. So. So it'll be fun. This is a pretty good one. It's. And worked really hard on it with my partner John, so it'll be a big, good time. Nice. And you can follow the same account on Instagram as well as following Josh at Midwest Vintage Cards on Instagram. You can also follow 90s auctions on Instagram. Joe Perot, how about you? Any sort of final thoughts, comments, questions, anything? Yu-Gi-Oh not really. Just, you know, enjoyed always being on the show. And, you know, David did a nice collab with Greg the other day. The NBA sticker analysis was like, I learned a lot. You got into like, the real depth around a subject that I think is very confusing. And David, I just want to sort of acknowledge, I think Mike Baker should probably hire you as a sort of decoder of like, what's actually, you know, you would, you would be helpful to their, their dissemination of information because you actually understand it. And I think, you know, 90% of us don't really understand it. So great job on that collab and I'm glad you're on our team because you, you bring a lot of expertise there. Jay Lee, Zebra looking forward to the premiere in a couple weeks. I think next Thursday. So like, coming right up, we got the Sunday, of course, and the hunt. I gotta go catch up with that. I'm a little behind on my content diet, but looking forward to seeing what the premiere brings because you and Adam always knock it out of the park. And that's one of the most exciting nights of the month for me in, in the sports card world. Appreciate it, Joe. I'll just, I'll just let you know and everybody else, if you weren't here at the top of the show. There will not be a weekly show tomorrow or a hunt on Thursday. I am actually heading out on vacation tomorrow morning. I will be driving back home to do the premiere show on Thursday night with. With Adam. But this week I'm taking off everything else to do to have some vacation with the family, so. But I appreciate those comments, Joe, but I will not be there. There are no. No show tomorrow night, buddy. For everybody who does enjoy those. I do apologize that I'm just taking some time with the family and. But I'll be back on Thursday. Now, before we go to David, there is a. There is a question that came that I, I'm just gonna go through a couple quick comments, David and everybody. Brad. Wait, where. Hold on. Where'd it go? Yu-Gi-Oh okay, maybe I'm not gonna do it one-of-one Brad. Good night, everybody. Thanks for hanging. Always appreciate your time. Thank you, Brad. Vintage. We appreciate it. Situational says, great episode pulled together. Thank you. Situational. Oh, there's the question. It comes from Chris C. He says, jeremy, do you think hockey is still undervalued? No. I don't know. Some cards, yes. Some cards, no. I think, I think the, the sport of hockey is widely misunderstood by people south of the 49th parallel, I think we call it, and, and just not enjoyed to its potential. It's. It's an amazing sport to be a fan of, to patch auto Zebra exciting. I'm not, I, I could compare it to other sports and try and say it's. Try and say it's faster, it requires more skill, there's more action. All these different things. I'm not going to say those things, at least not directly, but I think that the sport needs to get more popular in the US before the, the hockey cards can become more popular. Although sometimes you just have to be cards to be popular and you don't have to be the sports that people love. So who knows, maybe that'll change, but I think there's still room for it to grow. I. I don't know. David, what do you think about. About that? Which is interesting, actually. Jeremy and I had a conversation literally last night about this, how we were kind of surprised that when during this boom that we're seeing right now in cards, the gretzky rookie in medium low grades has not really increased in value much over the last couple years, which is very similar. But you can't just say that's a hockey thing because it's also been the same with, like, the Wilt Chamberlain rookie and the Bill Russell rookie. Right? So, like, these, you know, sports that are not vintage baseball, right. Vintage basketball, vintage football and vintage. And some hockey just hasn't increased. Does that mean that they're undervalued? I don't know. You tell us. But at the same time, they obviously have not increased during this frenzy that we're experiencing right now. It just. Their time might not have come yet because we could have. You could have. You could have asked the question six months ago, hey, do you think Disney cards are underpriced? Or Marvel cards or Superman cards? Do you think any of these are undervalued? Still undervalued. And we would have answered the exact same way. It's like. Well, it feels like they. They have potential, and I think hockey has potential. I don't. I'm trying not to say undervalued. Overvalued, underappreciated, over, appreciated. It is what it is in the moment. But I think the way I'm. I'm now starting to really frame it for me, when I do do express my thoughts is using that term potential. I think there's potential for it to become more popular. And if that drives up demand, well, guess what? The prices might move as well if we're talking about potential to go up in value. So. But thanks for the. For the question. Chris C. Thank you again, Chris. Thank you, Yankees fan Tony. Brad's vintage. David, really quick, in your mind, what is the difference between an NBA 7 with a sticker and a PSA 7.5? I'm gonna ask that question in a different way, which I think is even a better question, because a PSA seven and a half is much better than NBA seven. But I think what you're getting at is how about if it is a PSA 7 with a sticker versus like an NBA 7 and a half, right? Kind of the opposite of what you're saying, because MBA is. Because PSA is worth more than an NBA in today's world. So I think that most people would rather have the PSA with a sticker than an NBA with a higher grade. Like, all else being equal, like, the cards should be the same, right? An NBA was. An NBA 7 with a sticker should present like a PSA 7.5. The problem is there's so much variation in what that means. Like if the centering is off on both of them like all else needs to be equal. Situational. Thank you so much and he's wishing you Joe, good luck with the ups coming school year. Our teachers and admins, other teachers and admins as well. Very nice. Situational. Thank you. Brad's vintage. Thank you Yankees. Thank you. Situational. Thank you. Michael Raider and Tony Yankees fan. Thank you so much. Says always great hosts topics and the best live board. Thanks everybody. Thank you guys. David, Joe, Josh, thank you chat. Thank you. You guys can walk, you guys can listen to these. This show will be chopped up into five podcast probably you can listen to that on Spotify, Apple, wherever you do listen to your podcasts. And again I'll be back on Thursday for the premiere show here and on Fanatics Live. Collect originals with with Adam Gray. And we'll be back Saturday again next Saturday for Sports Cards Live. Oh, there's Double O's Jesse. What's up buddy? Thank you, Chrissy. Thank you, Steve from Fresh Prince of Sports cards. Thank you, Brian. 90740 it's like Brian Austin Green from 90210. Very similar. Yu-Gi-Oh don't you're the only reason why David's laughing is because I know the name Brian Austin Green. He's not laughing because the call. He's laughing because I actually know who Brian Austin Green is. Yu-Gi-Oh I watched Beverly hills. I watched 90210 back in the day, Melrose Place too, David. I did. I, I watched both of those too. Donna Martin graduates. Let's go. Let's go. Thank you, lgj. Thank you, Ken Fickle. Guys with that. Josh, you're going to lead us off with that. Everybody here for August 22, 2026. This episode of Sports Cards live is now over that that way. Oh, oh. By and with that, good night every ba day. Thanks for tuning in and being a part of the Sports Cards Live community. Don't forget to like subscribe and most of all, keep collecting more great content to come. Sports cards is a lifestyle.
Episode summary
How do you decide where your collection ends when there are seemingly endless things you could collect?
Jeremy Lee, David Chase, Joe Poirot and Joshua Adams wrap up Sports Cards Live with a conversation about the collecting rabbit hole and whether having boundaries actually makes the hobby more enjoyable.
Sports cards are only the beginning. Mickey Mouse, Superman, Batman, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe, historical figures, musicians, movie stars and fictional characters can all become entirely new collecting lanes. At some point, does having so many possibilities become mentally exhausting?
The guys discuss nostalgia, personal connections and what actually compels us to add something to our collections. Does there need to be a deep emotional connection, or can appreciating the cultural and historical significance of a person or character be enough?
Jeremy then shares a perfect example of buying purely because you love the card: a beautiful 1933 John Player & Sons Don Quixote card he had never seen before. He knew virtually nothing about the card, didn't check the comps and still threw in a bid.
Why? Because he loved it.
Sometimes the worst-case scenario is simply that you paid $100 for a card you love.
The conversation also turns to whether hockey cards still have significant room to grow. Despite the explosion occurring across many parts of the hobby, cards like the Wayne Gretzky rookie in many grades haven't experienced the same dramatic movement.
Rather than calling hockey "undervalued," Jeremy explains why he prefers another word: potential.
Could greater interest in hockey, particularly in the United States, eventually bring substantially more demand into hockey cards? And could hockey simply be another collecting category whose moment hasn't arrived yet?
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