Ep.296 w/ Doctor Collectible Part II

0:00 Sports Guardations, Hobbies, the People, Wheely News and Interviews. It's your number. One soul Sportscarnations hobby is the people. Sports Guardation. What is up everybody? Welcome to episode two ninety six. Hope if you went to the National, Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you had safe travels. Hope you didn't get COVID. We had a few people that was in our group that unfortunately got it, but they're doing okay, thankfully.

0:41 And I know I've heard some other people who got COVID from the show, and that's the thing. COVID is going to be unfortunately, kind of a strain of the flu probably from now on, right, but thankfully not to the pandemic proportions it once was. So hopefully you're doing well. Hopefully you got some nice cards to add to your collection from the show, and maybe you met this gentlemen, we're back on the air with for this episode at the National. That's Doctor Collectible aka Daryl Gardner. And this is the conclusion of the conversation we had originally. So this is part two. We had Part two one last week, and so this is the continuation and conclusion of that conversation, So you can listen to this and if you missed the first part, go back or vice versa. A great guy doing great ambassador ship in the hobby and we're happy to have them as part as a guest on this show. So we're gonna take a quick thirty second break and then be back with the conclusion of the Daryl Gardner aka Doctor Collectible conversation.

2:01 Hobby News Daily is your homepage of the Hobby, providing original writing, exclusive gem rate data, a daily morning minute podcast, and some of the best content creators in the hobby. Remember Hobbynewsdaily dot com and at hobby news Daily on social Happy Collecting. Now to the conclusion of our conversation with Daryl Garner, Doctor Collectible. How many weekends of the year, you know, there's fifty two weeks in the year. You know, how many weekends would you say at least one of the day's if not both, you're you're at a show somewhere, even if it's in Atlanta or somewhere even closer to home, but where you're not, you know, just at home kind of re you know, refreshing or you know, decompressing. Out of fifty two weeks, how many would you say our hobby, you're working in the hobby in some form or fashion.

2:56 I can say last year, no exaggeration, no, no, And I wish I could tally up how many flights I took last year, how many trips I took on the road. I can tell you last year I went. I had an opportunity to go home. Opportunity to go home last year in December, and for the first time in my life, I paid my mom bill. And she has a great husband as well, Tim great individual God look as a step father. Done nothing but right by me and my mother and my sister and my family. But I spent a December with them, a little bit of November. So I want to say for four weeks, six and most I didn't do nothing for six weeks. Out of them fifty we say fifty. We say fifty four weeks, if I'm not mistaken, fifty four to fifty six. So in that timeframe I got a chance to be with my mom for the month December, I was still working. That's when I first started getting in with Fanatics Live Things that Nature had started a partnership deal with them to start doing content for their platform, but still though I was still able to be at home during that time.

4:12 But yeah, at least I want to say six weeks out of that year, I wasn't doing nothing hobby six weeks at least that And that's what I and I can I can say, that's that's what I can remember. Every week was dedicated to the hobby I made. I made amends with myself. Let me tell you what I said. At the beginning of the year. I had a very interesting conversation with prison guard at Coach Collision, and I remember he had his first year doing a Card Star game and I remember doing the content things that nature. This is one of my first card shows that I haven't went to as well years back, and he remembered me and things of that nature throughout the years doing He said, hey, you keep doing what you're doing, you might end up in this game next year. And you got guys like Mojo, Kinker cards, Roth cards in this game, Mama breaks, uh see Blaze and I and I could keep on. But for me, when he told me that, that's when I dedicated the year. I say, you know what, so and so they've been on tops card. I want to do that, but I need to outgrind everyone. I have to outgrind. I have to drop content every single day.

5:27 I maybe didn't put nothing on my page that year for maybe like I would say a week a week loan full of days where like I just didn't be putting none up, or I was dealing with family, or it was a holiday, something like that. But I can literally tell you out of the whole year, maybe there was about a week full where I just didn't do anything. That's sporadically throughout the year of the time frame I can. I can say it was a week worth where I didn't do anything. So I made sure that I was at the Men Collector, I was at coaching, I wanted to go to every show, and then on top of that, for three years I watched everyone make content. So for me, the biggest thing for me, even in that standpoint is all that traveling and all that stuff I'm doing, is because I know there's someone there's some kid at home, there's some adult at home that did not make it to this show, and they're watching the show my content.

6:24 So I'm out there going interviewing every vendor trying to figure out, you know, what this bus is about, what they do because once again I was that person for two to three years trying to find myself and the hobby creating content, and once again that's what I do it for, just to put that aspect out there. Yeah, that was That was it, I want to say for that timeframe in the year, six weeks where I was at home a week where I literally dedicated nothing but probably to myself or family or something like that. So that's how much I wanted to.

7:05 Oh, no, you know you did. Hey listen, let me let me give you the everyone the shorthand right right, this is one of the hardest working guys in the in the hobby and and self admittingly, you know what I mean, you're you're doing it, and you're you want to do it. Even though it's tiring, it's a grind, you're still enjoying, uh, the process and uh you know that sort of thing when you know, and here's the other thing people think. I know this is not the case, but I think there are people who think, like, hey, you go to the show on Saturday Sunday, Friday Saturday Sunday, and then the rest of the week you can do whatever the heck you want to. That's we both know that's not the case. You're doing stuff on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. It's not just the show on Saturday and Sunday.

7:54 So this is not people who think like, hey, you fly in, you work two days and then you have your party hardy or rest for five days. They're they're they're thinking wrong, because that's not That's not how this goes. So you know, uh, you know, I want to mention that, you know, uh, and others in in in the hobby as well. This is the hobby is not just two days a week, the hobby every day. Yeah, so so let's make that let's I think most people know, but I think some people don't realize that. So for those folks, this is a commitment. Man, this is a grind.

8:35 Uh. You're doing it. You're doing a terrific job of it. But when you're not in the hobby and doing hobby related stuff, is there something that is relaxing, like something you go to you know that you enjoy, whether it be maybe just closing my eyes and put my headphones on, Like what's your like, you know, non hobby thing that you enjoy doing? Uh? They kind of get you refreshed and recharged. Do you have something. Yeah, every time I go home, come back reflect on what's going on, I get away and play video games.

9:15 That's my one getaway. Once again, I told you years ago, I kind of sold my Xbox series as to like focus fully just on being I didn't want no distractions, no nothing. I was on eBay every day, that, this and that. But to get away from just collectibles and the hobby, video games would do it for me. I recently just just got the n c not n Cuba, but EA Sports Football. They just recently came out, just recently been playing like the two k the Kobe version, the Kobe Edition recently just been playing that like I want to say, like three four months ago. So yeah, I just started getting back on the game. So that has been helping me out. But before the game, I want to say, for me listening to music, I love music.

10:07 I collect music as well, but if it's like Vinyls big fan of AMG and what're doing with music collectibles, So for me, I love music. I love listening to music. Once again, that goes back to me being a dancer back in the day, being a choreographer. So music always takes me away, especially when I'm traveling things that nature. It just brings me back to maybe listening to some childhood music or listening to something that's up today. It's just refreshing, especially coming across a lot of people at shows taking pictures, doing content the music. Sometimes even in the show. At a show, I might go away for thirty minutes, sit to myself and listen to music and eat because once again, it just recharges me and then it gets me back going to what what I need to do.

11:01 Yeah, no doubt, And you need that personal time, that personal space, especially you're dealing with people all day and as much fun as that is, so you know, everyone has a limit. Like I just need a break. I need to recharge, get some get some nourishment, uh and and get back get back out there. No one can faulter for that completely. Get that you mentioned your background and dancing and acting. I'll kind of answer this question for you. It's probably made being doctor collectible and being sort of on the front line is probably easier because you sort of used to being in front of people you know, you know, so I you know, speak to kind of the background there and what you do now it's made that transition, I imagine easier to do than if someone wasn't a dancer or an actor. Let's put it that way.

11:54 Yeah, a lot of that has where being in front of the camera, being around people, that nature. It just it kind of rubbed off into creating content. For example, I can be myself and all of a sudden, I can click and be like, hey, what's going on, guys, your boy doctor collectible here, this is sports coordination podcast. You might want to tune in every so and so, so and so. Like I can just click in and it's automatic, Like a lot of people when they figure out my work ethic and they start seeing like me in the aura or what I'm doing, Like I've heard names of one take, Jake and all kinds of stuff because once again, they really truly see when they see me in the act, not what I edit and put it out there, but they see that, oh wow, this guy is really what he is. You know, a lot of my stuff is not sometimes even edited. I might just put up the whole thing captions boom, put it out because the take was is so good. So for me that acting dancing laid off into being able to transition to content creating. I wasn't really talking about businesses or or things of that nature, but I've learned how to transition the business aspect into content creating and just making it what it is for myself. So once again, like I said, I can just click and what's going on?

13:18 Guys? Your boy Dot's collected with her we at the National I'm with my people's sports coordination podcast. Like it just rubs off time completely. I don't know why, but I guess that just comes from that work ethic and knowing myself and being truly comfortable with myself as well. That's sometimes I found out being around the content creator. Just be comfortable. It ain't nothing wrong with doing the take two, three four. You want to put the right content out that, but be comfortable with yourself and I think that will make you comfortable in your content, which then it becomes genuine, it becomes you. I'm not getting you know. Once again, people be like, hey, it's doctor collectible, but they also probably will feel like I know, Darryl going in too, because it's just allinanturally, it's truly me. It's not an act at all. So same acting helped me ten times in the space that I'm in now when it comes to content creating, I can definitely tell you that was a plus because I probably wouldn't have enough courage cariage like some of these kids, like Eli, he's doing a great job at a young age, the Blake Down, another kid is doing a great job at a young age creating content. I was not doing that at their age, So kudos to them and their parents and what they're doing with them. But that's why I feel like I am with myself. Man, I feel like I'm a kid

14:48 all over again, and my teenagers creating that content and putting it out to the world in a comfortable way as I can. Yeah, awesome stuff. And like you said, if you're comfortable in your skin, I think that's half the battle right there, right is me go let's do this. And you know so many people aren't at that point. You almost gotta like, I don't want to say trained, but like get there. But for you, it's more of a natural thing. And like you said, between dancing and acting, it makes it easier to be yourself because I always say I'm not a dancer, so I'm not giving any dancing, but I know this much there like if you can dance, if you're a good dancer, you're probably most likely an extrovert because they you know, so there's there's people who are actually good dancers that don't want to do it in front of people, so you're you know, because they feel like people are critiquing them or watching them. But if you're a good dancer and can just do it in front of a group of crowd on stage, like everything else is gonna be probably easier because dancing is probably the most vulnerable you can kind of make make yourself.

16:03 I think, you know, because you know everyone's looking at you because not everyone's dancing. If everyone's dancing, then it's but when there's only a few people, right everyone everyone's watching and you gotta be confident to get to that point. So I could see, you know, the correlation and why you're so natural at at what you do. You know, Now, time to hear from one of our great sponsors. But sports guard Nation will be right back after that. Iron Sports Cards is your number one source for all your PSA and other grading submissions. Their elite status improves turnaround times. Heck, they even provide the card savers their chap rooms provide updates on all your submissions. They also offer wax options and single cards to cover all the bases.

16:52 Check them out on Facebook at iron sports Cards Group, or on the web at Ironsportscards dot com, or even give them a call at one I R O N P S. A. Rob's got you covered. Let's go. You are listening to the Sports Card Nation podcast. I gotta ask you, that's a little funny question here. Has anyone ever come up to you and asked you for medical advice? Hell Loderful? All right, So look, I haven't got the medical advice ship, but I have had people come to me and be like, well, you ain't got no PhD. Dude. I'm like, no, I don't.

17:37 I don't have a PhD. I don't. I wanted to be a doctor growing up. That's something I wanted to do, but no, I don't have a PhD. I've had people come to me about, yeah, my advice on my on on cards because my dad used to clean his cards, you know, how to preserve his cards. So one of my. Biggest thing was like, I want to when I sign my name on like my cars, things that nature I do. Doc RX is to say to medicate the hobby in certain ways. And that's something that I wanted to do was when I first started, I wanted to create a cleaning kit it's like four or five years ago and call it like the Doctor Collectible's kid. It'll come with you know, car sleeve something. I'm not Kurt's card Care or Mister Minty or nothing of that nature. But I wanted to give something to the hobby. What my dad taught me at a young age on how he preserved his cars. He one thing I can say, he kept his cars in brown paper bags, but he had them in the car savers, the sleeves in the booklet and then he have them in like brown paper bags or he have him in boxes. So for that being said, it's like, yeah, I will. I haven't got that, but I have got a lot of jokes throughout the years in recent time where yeah, people do come at meet with the Doctor Joe, and I love it. Like I said, I love it because you know, it's a sense of humor.

19:06 But for you to ask that question that that was very interesting. Like I said, a lot of that has came from people asking me do I have a doctor's degree or a doctor and or something like that. So well, I mean, I'll be here takeing it. I just think sometimes people just think maybe they think you're a doctor like nine to five and then like you're still in the hobby and so, hey, man, I got this ailment. Can you take a look at this? Like what's going on with you know? Uh? I just wondered if you you know, got something like that. But you know what to mention. I have a lot of friends back at home that I helped sell, like a lot of my friends back in East Saint Louis that lives out there. A lot of them have been in situations where they hit me up like, yo, I see what you're doing now? Could you look at my old collection? Like I literally just looked at a friend of mine named Roscoe. He's in a group called the Sports the Sports Way. I've been in this group for like the past like eight or nine years. We all talk about sports. But he recently hit me up. He's the administrator of that group. Never really talked to him.

20:13 Recently hit me up and was like, hey, would you check out my sports cards? And we was on FaceTime for like I want to say, a good hour and I was just scamming through what he had told him, what I felt like could be valuable, and from now hopefully he can help hisself. He's not in the hobby. But that's how we get people interested. You know. That's some different ways, something I don't even talk about on the internet at all. This is my first time actually speaking on this. But once again, that does happen behind closed doors. So I'm kind of glad you brought that up because I do a lot of that behind closed doors while I help people out, especially back at home, where they're like, hey, I got this collection or I got this could you tell me what this could be worth. Yeah, it does happen. It does happen, but it's a lot of it is behind closed doors. A lot of people reaching out to me personally.

21:06 Yeah. Yeah, like you said, you never know, maybe that person catches the bug the itch and then the next thing you know, they're standing next to you at the show with some cards they bought, right and hey, hey thanks doctor collect away after our conversation. I love this stuff, like, I'm getting into this and you never know, it just could be from one one conversation, right, That's all it has to take. And that sort of thing. You know, we're already spoke to. You do a lot of traveling, You go to all these shows. I know you love every show. This is not necessarily a slight. We got the National come, you know this will be out a national, be in the books. But is the National the show for you or not necessarily? Like what's your Do you have one you really really really look forward to maybe over the others? Is it the National? Is it something else? Maybe?

21:59 And and why? Yeah? I do have a few favorites. I couldn't tell, I couldn't pinpoint them, but I would say this, this is how it will break it down for me and for shows and what I have experienced. First off, I'm excited for things that are new, such as Fanatics Fest, what they're doing in New York. I'm excited for that National for me, and my first National was last year. Got a chance to have my dad come out and experience that. It's well in Chicago once again. From East Saint Louis, it's only about three and a half hour drive to Chicago, maybe four, so to experience the National.

22:43 For me, I consider it the super Bowl of sports car shows. This is when you got the college football and You're talking about all the bowls that are going on, but everybody talking about the playoffs. It's the playoffs right here. Who ready to get it in? Who ready to make the big sales? Who raided a network? Some people that you may not ever see in your lifetime will probably be there. Content creators that you may see that you've been watching for the year, for the past years, and people are probably going to be there. For me, the National is once again the super Bowl of all cards shows.

23:25 That's just how I look at it. That's my experience from it. People may not agree, people may think others, but that's for me personally. Now, there are some amazing shows out there. Coach Collition was my first show I attended years back, I want to say, four or five years ago, something like that. I love the Bay Area Card Show. That's another show out there in Florida and the Tampa in the Tampa area more like Clearwater. Amazing show is free to attend. Not on that the owner and what he do. I do nothing but support him. Any time time to come out, I definitely make sure I make it. So that's another great show I can keep going. I want to name a few more. I want to name a few more, Hobby Slam. Hobby Slam is another great show in Miami. I've always come across someone, especially in the Hispanic culture, that say, hey, this is my first show, so I know this diversity going on out there, and we're bringing more people in that show.

24:33 So I'm always grateful to work with them guys. Another show would be The Crown jud and Rhode Island. I've worked within the past couple of years, worked on their first show and it's where their second show. Amazing show. Not one of the biggest shows, but I made it upon me to add them to my role to the national help giving him that promotion because I believe in the people in that show and they have done nothing but treated me good and they also give back to the community. So there are a few shows I wish the Men Collective could come back. I love that whole experience in Vegas networking. But there are, like I said, a lot of shows that I can just keep naming that I've been to the Flip Trade Show and Alabama that just happened this past Saturday. Another great show that's getting bigger and bigger, I.

25:29 Mean, and they're gonna be some new ones they're gonna ben. I don't know how you're gonna fit it in your schedule, but you know just as well as I do. There they're gonna be new ones that will. Yeah, like we're gonna have to make the year longer so you can get all these in uh and get some family time. Uh. And we're gonna have to make where we're gonna you know, we're gonna have to go to like a four hundred day a year calendar to get some of these newer shows that there popping up. So I do want to add I do want to add in there. One thing, Charlie's Collectible Show. They gave me an opportunity to be able to host my own show out here in Atlanta. Look like we might be pushing for September. Promotions would be out soon, but there's not many shows going out here in Atlanta like that Coach Collision. I would say it's probably the biggest show that happens out here sports card related and there are other shows like the George Collectible Show and others, But Charlie's Collectible Show, they have not only just sports card but TCG. Last like two weeks, I was just there and they had the lady I don't know if you watch anime, but I watched dragon ball Z. They had the lady Linda that does the voice of Freezer and dragon ball Z. They are doing signings, talking to people, and I just think it's a dope show. I'm looking

26:59 forward to working with them and give me a great opportunity to help build on the success that they have been talking with this show for the past year and a half when they was just starting to start off. So a year and a half in the making, they're finally doing what they're doing. They just reached out to me and was like, hey, I think it's time. So that's one of the new shows that I think would be great to attend. If you're in Atlanta area, Charlie's Collectible show. There you go and you're you're just your scheduled just if it was even I possible, your schedule just got just got busier. All right, I got I got one more question, darryl U. You know hobby magic wine. It's it's obviously not a real thing, but I don't do what's every guest, but giving it to you a magic wine.

27:47 You got one hobby related wish you can use it on anything. Hobby? Uh you want I give it to you? What are you doing with it? Can I be man? I mean, I wish, I wish, I wish for like world peace or something like that. With this. Hobby piece, it's gotta be hobby related. I like it's hobby related. For me if it wasn't hobby related piece everywhere for me and more of a personal aspect, I've been blessed to, you know, get my own sports card to work with some of the most interesting businesses in this hobby. But for me as a collector, I want every Kobe Bryant one on one. I'm right now, I'm building a pop one collection of every year that he played, an autograph version of the card, and it's a pop one of that year that he played. It's not one on ones.

28:49 We're talking about pop one. So nine times out of ten most of these individuals either got these cards based in nine times ten they got Kobe designed a card where if it was at a game event, something like that. Demo the cars that I've been collecting, because once again I find a base car with the Kobe Brown Auto It's graded P S, A Becky whatever and loans Spot one I'm grabbing it. That's my biggest thing. I would love to finish off this collection. It's been four years in the making. Hormo felt like I was gonna go broke a few times trying to get the collection together. My brother.

29:31 Wine, if this wine was real and you waved it a card would be out in someone's desk one minute and then they turned their head and it's gone. Man, it'd be right in my lap. Bro be right in my lap, Right in my lap, Kobe Brown, be right in my lap. Well, listen, listen, good luck, you know, adding to that impressive collection. I know where we're This will be out after the National is actually done. But I'm looking forward to to seeing you again here in a few days. Uh. You know, at the time of this recording, I don't know where you get your energy. If you bottle and sell it, I'll buy some. But uh, you know, God bless you man. You know one of the artists working guys.

30:20 Uh people in the hobby and uh you know, keep going in and you're doing a great, a great job. And uh you know, like you said, you know whether it inspires an older person a younger person, right, and you have that sort of impact that can't be belittle. That's that's important. Uh. And uh, you know, you never know what what kind of impact you have. And even if it's we know what's more than one. But even if it's one person. Uh, that's quite an in soo uh now, bless you man, keep keep going. I'll see you here uh in a little bit ay. And for everyone want to be viewing it. First off, I want to say for the thank you for reaching out to me. For the people that are seeing this episode, I want you to go out and support this man here.

31:11 He reached out to me. It's a great individual business related I fish. I wish I would have seen your message earlier. I apologize that. Okay, that's all right. Listen, listen. I hope both of us are gonna be doing this a long time. So hey, man, I can't wait. And also, I'm I'm hoping. I'm hoping. I'm not guaranteeing nothing, but I'm gonna make sure that you get that that that pitch that you need in order to get that name in the booklet. Man. Yeah, I think that's just amazing. I did. Yeah. Yeah, Well I'll get you. I'll get you my email. We'll make that happen. So all right, doctor collectible man, hardest working person, one of the hardest working person in the hobby. I don't know, someone can only be tied with you. It ain't beating yourself. Uh and good look to them if they're even trying to try that. So hey, I'll see I'll see you soon.

32:04 Hey see you soon. Bro. All right, Once again, I'd like to thank Darryl for making some time for the show, and especially with his schedule as we talked about during the interview, right, he's got a hectic schedule. He's traveling the country to shows, so check him out at a show near you. A really great guy, really nice guy, and he's enjoying what he's doing so and that's that's important. So once again thanks to Daryl. Time for our hobby is the People Announcer of the week. This is King Nascar from the NASCAR Radio podcast. And remember the hobby is the people.

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