Nov. 18, 2024
Hobby Quick Hits Ep.192 Q & A
Been a while since we did a Q & A episode, had some questions so here we are. Keep those questions coming! Also: *New Product Release Schedule *Hobby News Follow us on Social Media: Website: https://www.sportscardnationpodcast.com...
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hobby quick
hits delivering that breaking hobby
news direct me to your
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ear you want to know those hot drops
from the car shop we've got you covered
with your
host John
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Newman hello everyone time for another
episode of hobby quick hits this one
episode 192 we haven't done one of these
in a bit and I actually didn't even ask
for any questions but they do come in
periodically uh each week a few it it
seems to be even even unall for which is
awesome much appreciated so I've been
saving some of these questions uh I have
obviously answered them directly uh to
the person who asked me and then asked
permission to use their first names uh
on the show and to do these uh publicly
as live Q&A segments so today is a Q&A
episode I haven't done it in a while so
uh thought it was time after I got some
of these questions sort of built up but
uh that being said uh by all means if
you have a question for me hobby off
topic whatever it may be I'm pretty
open book transparent I'll uh you know
long as you keep it clean uh I'll answer
these and uh I'll answer them to you uh
directly and then ask you if we can make
you know put it on a Q&A show so that's
today's episode let's hear from uh our
sponsor and get the show uh
underway okay now a quick word from our
great sponsor followed by the new
product release schedule then we'll go
around the hobby verse to tell you all
the latest hobby happenings and news
then we'll tackle today's topic of
discussion hi this is Pat Hughes Cubs
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this week's hobby wax releases take it
away Owen hey guys it's Owen from sports
car shop let's go over the week releases
uh starting off for the 20th we have
upper deck ingrained hockey um Upper
Deck Marvel studi Series 2 cinematic
Upper Deck series 1 hockey bra tail 10
and then going to the 22nd we have Leaf
Trinity
Football uh Panini donr football
Winterton penini 3 count w
WWE tops chrum Formula 1 racing tops
chrum Formula 1 racing Blaster um tops
guilded collection baseball true mystery
going for gold buyback Edition tops
UFA Euro Chrome soccer Sapphire that
would be on the 26th now moving to the
27th we have Bowman Chrome University
football Blaster Bowman Chrome
University football Hobby and jumbo um
Bowman Chrome University the football
Breakers Delight P certified football
Panini Mosaic football PS Premier
Football super break football Edition
super break signed jersey
Edition and then we have uh also on the
27th Upper Deck aew Black Diamond
wrestling Upper Deck artifacts hockey
and then to the 29th we have Leaf metal
woman of sport onx rips baseball
collection trar Hidden Treasures
football autograph full-sized helmet
season Edition and decision 2024 trading
cards that's it guys see you let's Go
Round The Hobby verse and catch up on
this week's hobby
news and find
out all right the big news uh and it's a
bounty uh new tops Chrome uh update is
out and uh featuring the uh some of the
major league debut patches that Topps is
now famous for and I I love these items
uh uh let's be real it's a great piece
of History well the Pittsburgh Pirates
themselves the team notorious for not
spending money on the team wants to buy
the Paul SK debut patch card and I'm
going to assume display it at PNC Park I
mean what other reason uh would they
have for for wanting to to purchase it
um and let let's talk about what they're
offering so they're offering two uh
season tickets behind home plate for the
next 30 Years a softball game for you
and 30 of your friends at the stadium
and coaching from Pirates alumni so for
former pirates of the past a spring
training experience which includes a
private tour of pirates City in leeon
park meet and greet with Paul SK himself
two Paul skes autograph jerseys take
batting practice and warm up with the
team and all and and more they they've
said and more whatever more would mean
and then Livy Dunn Paul sk's girlfriend
added to that Bounty and said you can
watch a game with her right next to her
uh in the uh Suite itself so uh pretty
big Bounty but now the question question
is i i w I won't argue that it's not a
great offer but what's worth more right
not to make it all about dollar signs
only but what's what's worth more all
that pirates offer or what the puller of
that card would get via an auction
versus an auction house or private sale
so that's the that's the the million
dooll question if you will what would
you do if you pulled that card you know
especially if you're not a pirates fan
and all that pirate stuff might not you
know knock your socks off uh that much
so uh but if a pirat p if a pirates fan
does happen to pull that uh card uh they
got a uh interesting dilemma uh to to to
uh go over but I think if it's a
non-pirated fan I'd be surprised they
take that offer but hey who knows I mean
it is a pretty cool offer either way
whoever gets that card is a winner in
some form or or fashion I'll for you all
right we didn't talk about it on this
show uh but the winner of the 1979 Upper
Deck uh OPI hockey case featuring grety
rookies that went for $3.7 to million on
Heritage never made the payment uh they
uh failed to to purchase it um and
Heritage said rather than get in into
you know legal you know file legal
action uh the auction's going to be
relisted uh the case is going to be
relisted with a
$750,000 opening bid so the uh Gretzky
hockey case is back on the market if
you're in that space and want to uh be
the owner of it uh let's talk about
speaking of of hockey and Canada and and
Gretzky the the Canada Post is on strike
at least at the time of the recording
that's the equivalent if you're in the
states of the United States Postal
Service Canada Post uh is on strike
55,000 workers are not going to work
it's obviously going to cause problems
with if you're in Canada or expecting
things from Canada so this is not just
in Canada but if you're expecting
letters packages from Canada to here in
the States or elsewhere it's going to
create uh issues whether you get get
that on time how long it takes you to
get or whether you get it at all so it's
not necessarily uh card news directly I
think it's important uh to to talk about
um is is the you know fractional share
market in trouble well it's the end of
collectible Inc the fractional sh share
company they sent emails out to all
their uh participants myself included
saying December 13th Would be their last
day of existence to get your funds out
cash in your shares as they they they
they use the new buzzword of 2024 when a
business goes out of business with
sunsetting so they're sunsetting
collectible and that's the you know
that's going to be the you know the the
end uh the end for collectible but is it
the end for fractional share market as a
whole
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all right we uh we saw the uh well I
don't know if you had Netflix or you
went to someone's house ah had Netflix
you probably watch the Mike Tyson Logan
Paul fight uh this Friday night if you
want to call it a fight uh was dancing
uh for 16 minutes dancing around not a
lot of punches thrown uh Mike Tyson
looking every bit of 58 uh years old so
uh not not a great uh look I hope you
know they asked Tyson after the fight is
this it which I was hoping he would
definitely say yes and he didn't uh but
it's got to be it I don't you know I I
thought he was going to do a little bit
more I I understand he's 58 years old
and as a fellow 50y old uh you know
things aren't the same at 50 as they are
at 35 and 25 I get that I thought he
he'd show a little more throw a little
more punches uh not very active just
tried to kind of uh survive for 16
minutes you know 2 minute rounds eight
rounds he did that but man talk about a
boring uh fight you could hear the crowd
kind of booing uh even at home and uh
you know uh bad job by by by Netflix
buffering issues uh is you know the the
screen looked like they had you know
1990 cameras I I think they had the same
cameras from when Mike Tyson was in his
Hayday the the film uh the fights a lot
of just uh grainy and and pixelated and
uh not a good look for Netflix first
foray into sports uh if this is
something they're going to do on the on
the regular they're going to have to fix
some things the the announcing was was
brutal uh the the pixelation the
buffering uh it was just not a good look
overall for the night it was
entertaining uh a little bit you know
the undercard was definitely better than
the main Main Event let's be honest in
that baros uh Ramos fight was a war and
a great fight and uh wound up being a
draw I think deservingly so those talk
about not you know we talk about Paul
and and Tyson being boring and inactive
uh the baros Ramos uh was the opposite
of that and the women's fight was as
well a little controversial there not
the the rig losers in this you know it's
not Tyson and Paul they're getting a
Payday but the the how Netflix looked
the gate with their event saw it it's
again on the not there is it the end for
Fanatics Fest Ferrar announced who kind
of spearhead Fanatics Fest
announced love reason alone I'm out I'm
out he's out he's leaving did not in his
uh release he did not me roll or just
said that you know some folks exiting
stage left the addicts rid of them and
save some face the wording of it he will
not be heading F the buzz is that maybe
stepping away from put on I do know a
personal EJ statement will we see
another fanatic St I guess i' say and
now our Feature
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Presentation all right let's tackle some
of these questions uh that have come in
over the last I'd say six8 weeks I
didn't like I mentioned in the intro I
didn't advertise again to do another Q&A
uh I probably should I probably will now
um but these were questions I sort of
came in over six to eight weeks I wrote
them down um have a digital notebook I
use I kind of wrote them down in a file
kept them there put the person's name
that asked it um and uh I've obviously
answered these back to the person
directly but I figured I'd use them to
do today's Q&A uh on the show uh as well
so I think I got about six of them so it
won't be a super long episode but uh
kind of go through them um no no
particular order these are not in the
order that I got them it's just uh you
know however I wrote them down so uh
first one's coming from Steve who says
John uh I've seen you post some of your
stuff on your social media what would
you say is your most unique item not
necessarily your most expensive and so
yeah I was uh it's a good question my
most unique item is definitely not my
most expensive one or at least I I don't
believe so cuz uh I've never seen
another one of these uh to get a kind of
a price on it I know what I paid which
was not a ton of money for it but I have
a
1996 spring training media Badge of
Topps Legend side Burger so it's the
laminated with the little metal clip
that you can put on like your shirt
pocket um or your belt that allows you
access in this case it was for 1996
spring training and uh that badge
allowed him uh onto the field and and
access to all the spring training Parks
I'm I'm assuming uh in Florida and
Arizona so in in talking to players
maybe under tops contract and that sort
of thing um allowed him access to that
players and the fact that he wore it and
fact fact that I can only imagine the
conversations he had while wearing that
media badge had to be uh pretty cool and
who he might have talked to wearing that
media pass and um I saw it wasn't like I
said wasn't a ton of money I bought it
and then I started you know at that
point I I wasn't even search I don't
even know how I found it um I wasn't
searching for it it just came across my
feed and then I you know bought it and
then I started to look for more well how
many of these
are there or how many you know does he
have them from other years you know this
is 96 who has the 95 the 94 and so on
and the ones after that and so I search
numerous auction sites and platforms I
got to say I've never seen another one
for sale now obviously they probably
exist maybe in other people's
collections like this one's in mine uh I
don't put this out for sale it's in my
uh PC but I've never seen one single one
I've I've searched completed listings Uh
current listings I've never I've auction
houses I've never found another one um
that has sold at least where you can
publicly track it you know maybe in a
private sale I that I I don't know so
that's probably one in my in my opinion
one of my coolest and most unique it
items so thank you Steve uh for that
question all right next question comes
from gentleman named Pete uh I know you
set up at shows how many shows do you
set up at per year and obviously that
varies but I can give you a guideline I
average probably 1.5 a month some months
I might have two others I have one so
doing that
1.5 average you know Divi you know times
12 I'm going to say about 15 to 18 is
what I average per per year um you know
there are well now with my monthly Water
Town show I always have one every month
but there was a time before that show
where I wasn't uh I didn't have one
every mon but now I do and sometimes too
so 15 to 18 is is the answer to that
question all right next question comes
from James uh I know you walk around the
national and go to the National why
don't you have a table or Booth either
as a dealer or for your your content
creation it's a great question James I'm
not opposed to it um but you know that
those tables are pricey we all know the
difficulty in getting them so you know I
could I throw my name on the list yes um
you know and get into the lottery um but
getting my stuff there if it's not a
show I can drive to um the other thing
is to set up at the national like I said
it's not cheap you have to have the
inventory to make that worthwhile right
I'm not saying I don't have decent
inventory but I see some of the
inventories uh at the at the show right
and they're they're crazy they're
incredible you've seen them too right
and I don't have that kind of um but uh
you know I if I ever set up at the
national as a dealer I would definitely
have to buy you know a collection or
more stuff maybe grab some stuff on
consignment and that sort of thing the
other thing is I don't like to always at
a week-long show I don't like to be sort
of confined behind the table for that
long right I like to walk around talk to
people and S up as a deal now yeah
people can come to your table you can
have those same convers but you're sort
of locked into one spot for you know
five or six days and that's typically
not my style could I do it for a day or
two sure anything past that I might
start to get a little Stir Crazy content
creation I'd love you know I'm blessed
to be able to do one or two main stages
it seems like at each National which I'm
I'm very honored and to do um but I'd
love to you know I'd love to see and I
don't know if it's possible I've said
this before I'd love to see a kind of a
you know like they have press row at the
Super Bowl media row at the Super Bowl
I'd love to see sort of that at the
national you know a podcast row a
Content creation row where all the
content creators have a little section
together maybe it could split tables
right maybe you know it could be the
sports card ation podcast and hobby News
Daily hobby hotline you know if if space
becomes an issue which it probably would
probably why we don't have that now but
I I hope someday maybe that uh occurs
and I hope I'm around to see it uh if if
it does but again I'm not opposed but I
I don't have a problem just walking
around and promoting the show that way
and talking to people and that sort of
thing and and you know I'm not really
looking the set up as as it tell you to
all right next question comes from uh
Jim uh who says do you still love
podcasting and I do I do I know I've
I've got this show I've got uh sports
car Nation on Fridays which is the
interview show uh you know alternating
every other week with this show is card
menes which I do with my good friend
Danny black from Hobby News Daily uh
that's a blast to do we do that live and
so I I like like what I do I'm enjoying
what I do I'm at a sort of a I'm on
hobby hotline once a month U sometimes
twice but usually once right I I've got
a good balance I'm enjoying it like if
if I did too much maybe the answer to
that question would start heading
towards the no side for sure I love what
I do um I love sharing my experiences
sharing some of the the the knowledge I
do have chatting with people uh and
again I appreciate you out there who
take time out of your day to to listen
to Little me and put you put me on
whatever speaker I'm I'm coming out of
and uh that fact does not get lost on me
for a moment so you know frankly I've
said the minute I don't enjoy doing this
kind of stuff anymore is my cue to not
do this kind of stuff anymore we're not
there yet I don't foresee a time uh
we'll get there and and I hope that uh
Remains the case all right the next
question comes from Michael he says John
I love how you ask certain guests about
their Hobby Magic Wand what they would
change uh in the hobby if they only had
one wish so in case you didn't know
Micha was referring to I don't do what
every sports card Nation but every so
often I'll ask a guest on Sports carard
Nation it's one of the last things I ask
him I I you know it's an imaginary Hobby
Magic Wand you get one wish what do you
wish for right you take something away
you can get something uh but you only
get one right and uh man you know it's
funny I I asked other people I've never
really necessarily asked myself but you
know put myself here in the moment on on
the hot hot seat I think I'd like to see
more hobby positivity uh if I could use
the magic W but but I I want to pre I
want to preempt that by saying I don't
necessarily want to get like listen I
would love to see no more store
burglaries or theft set shows you know
uh that sort of negativity um but and I
you know when I say negativity we still
should be able to give our opinions on
things even if we don't like them so
that negativity I don't you know we got
to rep you know we got to be ourselves
and Report how what our feelings are but
just the train wreck stuff or where
people root against each other or besmer
people or whether it comes from a place
of jealousy and they just they're rude
to people and and name calling and that
sort of personal attacks in the hobby
that stuff I'd love to see go away uh in
entirety along with all the burglaries
robbery steps Breakin and all that stuff
there's no no place uh in the hobby for
but uh so yeah that that kind of
negative stuff personal attacks I'd like
to see that go bye-by all right our next
question and last question for this
episode comes by the way of Chris who
asks John I know Jackie is your guy do
you have a a favorite current player any
sport uh yeah I have I have a couple uh
for sure uh I really like what Bobby Wht
is doing in baseball in Kansas City uh I
think he's the next guy you know I know
we got okani and but you know another 52
guy if you want to give Otani the
national league crowd I'll I'll give the
American League Crown in that category
to to Bobby witch he's fun to watch I
don't get to see him all the time but I
just think he's the next guy that's
going to be you know we talk about Mike
Trout where Mike Trout was before these
injury started piling up and kicking in
I think Mike I think Bobby Wht Jr is
what Mike Trout was you know 10 uh 10 8
10 years ago he's that guy and I I hope
he stays healthy uh unlike Mike and uh
has a Hall of Fame level career and uh
you know see some postseason uh success
which he he has uh this year at the time
of this uh recording uh I'm trying to
think in football uh I'm a you know uh
the Steelers are my team but how can you
not like you know Patrick Mahomes is is
I've said this on on other shows and
stuff he's going he's getting into Brady
air uh little by little here with each
ring and MVP and he's still very young
think about how long Brady played
imagine if momes plays that long and I'm
not saying he will or he won't only he
can knows for sure or maybe he probably
doesn't even know at this point right
got to stay healthy but if he plays as
long as Brady does uh he's going to do
he's already done incredible stuff but
that resume is going to be really insane
I don't think certain people realize how
good he is so big fan of momes on on the
football side Bobby wit Jr I'm not much
of a an NBA guy so I I can't really I
know the NBA but I don't have someone I
really kind of following that sort of
thing and I'm a ranger fan uh Messi is
my my alltime guy uh in the NHL but uh I
don't really you know uh just some of
the young Talent right your Conor
McDavid who's not as young as he was but
he's still young Conor bards it's fun to
watch uh those guys you know what
they're doing and you know kind of be
compared to Gretzky and oet and those
sort of guys of the past and uh so yeah
I would say that would be how I uh that
all right that's going to do it there's
those six questions for this episode uh
I'm always open to Q&A questions most of
the time I will answer them directly and
a lot of times when I answer them
directly I'll ask the person can I use
this for content and nine times out of
10 I get a thumbs up and even a lot of
times when they say Hey you can use it I
I just don't want my name being
mentioned not sure why but okay I'm
respectful of that so ask away and if
you know I'll ask you if we can use it
if you don't want your name mention or
you do let me know that all right thank
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