One of One Interviews

Trevor from Crippen Rippen reached out after a couple of recent episodes took aim at 50-box helmet breaks — so we let him come make his case. We get into whether a 50-box break can ever be hobby-friendly, how Suppys (and Suppys for Suppys) turn an $800 team into a $25 buy-in, and what really happened inside his five-month 50-box distributor challenge. Trevor opens the books on margins — the 15.82%...

Japan just launched a government caucus to figure out what to do about Pokémon cards. The country that invented Pikachu had lawmakers sit down, hear from industry and their own trade ministry, and start drafting rules for a market that hit roughly $2.3 billion last year. The reason is real: values have climbed so high that counterfeiting, scalping, and money laundering followed. Logan Paul's Pikac...

Professor Sports Card debated whether the hobby is at its beginning or its end. Wrong question. It's a rebirth. 200,000 people at Fanatics Fest. 400+ athletes and celebrities. Travis Scott performing at a card show. Target announcing $2 billion in investment with trading cards named as a growth category, five years after pulling cards off shelves entirely. And Tom Brady slapping Logan Paul on hobb...

⚠️ DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, and nothing in this video is legal advice. One of One Interviews is not a party to this lawsuit or directly involved in it in any way. Everything discussed in this video - by me and by my guest - is opinion and commentary on ALLEGED claims. All allegations are unproven, all parties are presumed innocent, and nothing stated here has been decided by a court of law....

BREAKING: The Lawsuit That Could Change Everything | Banner Legal vs. Fanatics, TikTok & the NFL Independent breakers are losing their businesses overnight — no warning, no due process, no explanation. Just gone. In this episode, I sit down with the attorneys at Banner Legal Group who are actively litigating a federal antitrust case alleging that Fanatics, TikTok, and the NFL coordinated to sy...

Guest opinions are their own. One of One Interviews is a platform for open discussion, commentary, and consumer education. Viewers should do their own research and form their own conclusions. Rick Lewis from Enigma Trading Co. returns to One of One Interviews and goes straight into the part of the hobby most people avoid. Rick breaks down breaker margins, wholesale pricing, requested hits, custom...

Ryan Durkee of SICK joins One of One Interviews for a real conversation about how to stay alive in sports cards. Ryan runs one of the longer-standing Facebook card rooms and has been around the hobby long enough to see the cycles, the hype, the scams, the fads, and the money shifts. This episode gets into manipulated comps, Whatnot culture, Facebook rooms, repacks, flash lines, card shows, PSA gra...

This episode goes straight into the fallout inside the sports card community: secret chats, admin funds, flash events, broken trust, burnout, group politics, and the line between hobby and casino. Steven sits down with Yoshi Reaux for a long-form conversation about what happened behind the scenes, why people finally started asking questions, and how quickly relationships can change when money, pow...

Dillon Breeze, better known as Big Breeze Breaks, joins One of One Interviews to talk about what it really takes to build a breaking channel on TikTok Live. This episode gets into his start in breaking, how TikTok Live works compared to other platforms, why engagement matters so much, and how gifts, algorithms, personality, and entertainment all shape the way breaks move on TikTok. We also get int...

PSA didn’t shut down. That’s the point. In this episode of One of One Interviews , Steven sits down with Bozz to break down the grading panic, the PSA value-tier pause, Beckett’s possible opening, TAG and CGC hesitation, Pokémon flooding the grading pipeline, and why collectors still chase the slab that brings the highest return. The conversation moves from PSA’s grip on the market to black label...

Enigma Trading Co. is not just a card company anymore. In Part 2 of our conversation with Enigma Trading Co., we get into the bigger business behind the brand — signed memorabilia, custom helmets, repacks, live selling, hobby trust, Whatnot-approved repacks, fake collectibles, brand growth, and what it takes to build something that lasts in today’s collectibles market. This episode goes beyond sur...

When a card gets fed into an AI image editor to build a flash hype post, something happens that most hosts don’t even realize — the card changes. Corners get sharper. Whitening disappears. Scratches soften. The physical card hasn’t changed. But the image promoting it has. This video breaks down exactly how AI flash graphics work, why the “it’s just a hype post” defense doesn’t hold up, and what th...

Ever heard someone say “it’s a bull market” and had zero clue what they meant? I’m breaking it down using something every collector actually understands — trading cards. 2020-2021 the hobby went CRAZY. Cards that moved for $200 were suddenly hitting $5,000. PSA slabs that nobody wanted were getting insane money. That was a bull market. Then 2022-2023 hit. Same cards started correcting. Sellers who...

GameStop might try to buy eBay. If that actually happens, the sports card hobby changes fast. Fanatics and Topps already control the front end of the hobby: the product, the licenses, the release calendar, the hype, and the supply. They sell the dream before you ever open the pack. But if GameStop, eBay, PSA, Collectors, vaulting, grading, auctions, authentication, and resale start tightening into...

This video breaks down a pattern that a lot of people in Facebook sports card groups know exists, but almost nobody says out loud. There’s a difference between being in the hobby and being trapped by the cycle of Facebook collecting. A big flash fills. Money lands in PayPal or Venmo. Instead of cashing out, moving it to your bank account, or using it like a real win, that money goes right back int...

Rookie quarterback cards explode in price every year — and then reality hits. Using the 2024 Prizm Silver PSA 10 of Drake Maye as the example, this video breaks down the hype cycle that pushes rookie cards up fast before the market corrects. If the player doesn’t become a superstar, collectors often end up holding the bag. Data used directly from Card Ladder and was accurate at the time of this re...

Ryan Meer from The Card Xchange joins One of One Interviews to break down how Facebook card rooms really operate. We talk about relationship capital in the hobby, managing big card lines and flashes, avoiding scams and hedging, and the role admins and mods play in keeping rooms running smoothly. Ryan also shares advice for collectors on responsible spending, community support, and navigating high-...

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What keeps a big Facebook card room running every single night isn’t luck — it’s process, consistency, and the people doing the unglamorous work behind the scenes. In this episode of One of One Interviews, Steven sits down with Will Overton, Carl Stine, and Richard Dutton — the Scheduling Team that keeps The Collective’s nightly operation moving: building schedules, pairing hosts with members, man...

PSA 6 -> CRACK -> PSA 10 (Is AI grading the way to go?) Or are we always going to allow PSA to treat us the way that they do? Listen to the full interview wherever you like to listen to #podcasts 🎧 Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/5a7ea65e-1af6-4f7b-a9e0-b035349e9052/episodes/01094954-6007-42d1-b580-a6ff71c91179/one-of-one-interviews-one-of-one-interviews-feat-rich-dutton-and-...

PSA will always be King... or will it? In this episode Rich Dutton from The Collectable and Ryan Bozworth of bozzscardshop on eBay join me to discuss the current state of grading, Ai and the future of grading, and why the Hobby will not end their dysfunctional relationship with PSA. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to the Card Collecting World 02:51 Understanding Raw Cards and Grading 05:57 The Hobby...

Flashes are the new version of #auctions, just on steroids . 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-of-one-interviews/id1855678912 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4DFcHjhv5xhnPfCvPXfSIr?si=V0EAuvgYQRKjjAWpMjiGtg 🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@one_of_one_designs?si=5944iDFayPDC3Ft_ 🏈 The Collective: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1MWd6qzWeh/?mibextid=wwXIfr 🎙️ S...

How do you comp Sportscards? Is it different for Facebook groups and how they do things? 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-of-one-interviews/id1855678912 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4DFcHjhv5xhnPfCvPXfSIr?si=V0EAuvgYQRKjjAWpMjiGtg 🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@one_of_one_designs?si=5944iDFayPDC3Ft_ 🏈 The Collective: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1MWd...

🎙️ One of One Interviews — Jared Becker, Founder of PokéDojo In this episode of One of One Interviews , Steven sits down with Jared Becker , founder of the PokéDojo, one of the fastest-growing Pokémon collecting communities online. What starts as a conversation about Pokémon cards quickly becomes a broader discussion on community leadership, ethics in collecting, and why culture matters more than...

Most collectors don’t lose money because of bad taste—they lose it because they don’t understand the economic forces driving sports card prices. The sports card market isn’t just about collecting—it’s a real-time case study in how confidence, liquidity, and risk appetite move money. In this episode, we break down the hidden forces shaping card values and explain why prices surged during the COVID...