Sports Cards Live

I sit down with RIchard Pollock who recently wrapped up his 4-year contract as professional scout with the NHL's Florida Panthers to discuss how he went from website and podcaster to pro scout, the differences between a pro and amateur scout, what happens at the draft table and who all those people are, is Canada still the #1 player producing nation, why are goalies so umm "unique", working with e...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guests. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guests are Corey Donovan aka @yamwax and Stamatis Chatzis aka Ralph aka @wraparoundcards for Pokemon Part 2 hobby talk as we continue the discussion on this halloween of 2020.  Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your r...

I sit down with Karn Rai of The Big Three and Corey Donovan aka YamWax on Instagram and YouTube to talk about the recent Pokemon craze and how it parallels sports cards, defining the eras, Corey's inter-genre analogy theory,  cross-polination of concepts between genres, collecting approaches and the future of Pokemon along with Karn's recent sale of a 1st edition box for $375,000 and the importanc...

I sit down with Joel Alpert, 35 year sports card and autograph hobby veteran who has owned hobby stores, represents several professional athletes in marketing including Bobby Hull, Jeremy Roenick, Ed Belfour and Chris Chelios, is an autograph expert and has a ton of interesting industry stories to tell. He is a poker player and we will touch on how poker skills apply to the hobby. He rode the Bean...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guest. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guest is my long-time Expo booth-mate Ameet Acharya to talk about the upcoming Virtual Expo among other things.  Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your regularly scheduled episode of Sports Cards Live)  YouTube.com/c/s...

I sit down with Steve Menzie, owner of the Sport Card Expo in Toronto and Mitch Adelstein, owner of the Chicago Spectacular to discuss the state of the hobby, virtual card shows, and the future of card shows post-pandemic. We will also discuss the Virtual Sports Card Expo that is being held November 21-22 in terms of what we can expect as attendees and vendors. These gentlemen have their fingers o...

Jeremy sits down with Geoff Wilson, founder of the Sports Card Investor YouTube channel and website www.sportscardinvestor.com and the data analytics tool Market Movers for a discussion about building his start-up over the last couple years, the collector/investor dichotomy, his investment pick wins and losses, the state of the hobby and where its going, what we learned at the Industry Summit this...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guest. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guest is Dustin Cooley The Personal Finance Dad. I will be opening a 33 card COMC mailday package too!  Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your regularly scheduled episode of Sports Cards Live)  YouTube.com/c/sportscard...

Jeremy sits down with Irving MInera, one of the first online group breakers to discuss hobby product supply, rookie photo shoots, the history of group breaking and how it has evolved, life as a breaker, sacrifices we make in the hobby, other collectibles, new hobby entrants and hockey in Los Angeles. This will be a fun one so please join us and as always your questions and comments are in play.  S...

Jeremy sits down with Ryan Johnson, aka CardCollector2, the leading Instagram Sports Card Account with almost 40,000 followers, Ohio card shop owner, the organizer of the annual Trade Night at the National and host of Card Talk on One37pm for a discussion about the state of the hobby, volatility in the market, sustainability of current values and volumes, running a card shop through the pandemic,...

Tonight's After Hours Guest is Karn Rai, Pokemon afficionado and the man behind The Big Three Sports Cards. Last night was HUGE in the world of Pokemon as Logan Paul broke an original 1st Edition Base Set Booster Box live in front of 300,000 people and then Iconic Auctions sold a PSA 10 1st Edition Shadowless Charizard for a world record price of over $220,000! So we will break this all down and d...

I sit down with Drew Herdon, a lifelong collector who transitioned into the hobby full time as a buyer/seller as well as one of the leading content creators and collaborators to discuss the hot topics in the hobby today including grading, state of the hobby, fractional ownership, Lebron James, Tyler Herro, The Colorado Avalanche and Brian Gray! Should be a fun one so please join us and as you know...

Jeremy sits down with Ezra Levine, the CEO of Collectable, the online platform to invest in fractional ownership shares of sports cards and memorabilia to discuss his company's  business model, what fractional ownership means, how to buy in, how to sell out, where the items are, the value proposition, transparency, athlete involvement, how Collectable makes money and much more. As always, viewer c...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guest. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guest is the star of the YouTube hit show "Because I'm Carlos" - Carlos!  Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your regularly scheduled episode of Sports Cards Live)  YouTube.com/c/sportscardslive --- Support this podcast...

I sit down with Jake Roy, the go-to guy on the what-is-what with 90's Basketball cards to discuss 90's cards of course as well as the collector/Investor scale, perspectives on the current state of the hobby, changing hobby lanes, doubles management, experience cost, serial numbers, and how we can be better hobbyists....and as always we will be taking questions live so if you are interested in Hoop...

On this 50th episode I will be sitting down with Jordan Hagedorn, to discuss just how amazing this hobby is. It's really as simple as that. Okay, a few details: 90's inserts in all 4 sports will be addressed, the intersection of the hobby and the pandemic, how we as hobbyists can impact the hobby's short and long term future, collecting your client's cards (when you're an NFL player agent) and wha...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guest. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guest is long-time hobbyist and show dealer Colin Murray  Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your regularly scheduled episode of Sports Cards Live)  YouTube.com/c/sportscardslive --- Support this podcast: https://podcas...

I sit down with John Newman who is an old school hobbyist, podcaster and YouTube personality as well as a shop owner , card show vendor and general hobby good guy to talk about all things sports card grading, the old days of eBay, the current state of the market and the new hobby normal, day trading, the explosion of hobby content, and some football players you might want to be looking at and more...

I sit down with Adam again, two and a half months since the last time, for an update on the basketball card market, also, the importance of "Market Capitalization" when investing in sports cards, some really cool updates he has in terms of his foray into the online magazine medium as well as his pioneering podcast and last but not least, the dichotomy between rare cards and commodity cards. You re...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guest. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guest is long-time hobbyist and cards show dealer Ameet Acharya  Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your regularly scheduled episode of Sports Cards Live) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho...

Tonight I sit down with Eric Norton of Beckett Media and Beckett Live Presents and former price guide analyst for a discussion about pricing cards for Beckett Price Guides, the evolution of hobby content, hobby hype, the state of the hobby, the Football market vs. the Basketball market vs. the hockey market and much more so please join us and as always viewer comments and questions will be in play...

I sit down with Dustin Cooley, from the popular YouTube Channel "The Personal Finance Dad" for a discussion about re-entering the hobby, changing your hobby approach strategy, zagging while others are zigging, how nostalgia is the foundation of the hobby, the base card bonanza, Golf cards, and the function of Population Reports. Make yourself some popcorn or if you have a sweet tooth grab some of...

Welcome to Sports Cards Live: "After Hours" for some late night freestyle hobby talk with Jeremy and guest. Join us and see what it's all about!  Tonight's After Hours Guest is none other than Carlos from the hit show "Because I'm Carlos".   Saturday Night at 12:30 am ET, 9:30pm PT (after your regularly scheduled episode of Sports Cards Live) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.co...

I sit down with Chris Carlin, Head of Customer Experience at Upper Deck as well as a mystery guest that even I don't know who it is, Carlin wouldn't tell me, LOL. But he did say I would like it, so this should be fun! There is something specific we will cover with the mystery guest and Chris will tell us all about the many goodwill initiatives that Upper Deck embarks upon including the #UDRAK (Upp...

Please note that during this episode we had to reschedule Stephen as his internet connection was not strong enough to provide good enough video. At around the 0:50:00 minute mark, he left and I reverted to some Q&A and at the 1:25:00 mark Carlos from "Because I'm Carlos" and Bobby Burrell of Vintage Hockey Collector joined me for some freestyle discussion.   Jeremy sits down with Stephen Laroche,...