Q & A Episode Hobby Quick Hits E231

0:01 Hobby Got Quick Kids delivering that breaking hobby newsreaders. You want to know those Joshott's hard Shop shop. You've got your your host, John new name name. Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hobby Quick Kits number two thirty one to be exact. And we haven't missed any shows, but you know we're every other Monday, and the last three every other Mondays. We did our uh NFL Football Draft breakdown with my friend and Tutorrah and actually that was his audio. I was on his show and he let me have the audio to use for Hobby Quickets. So the last regular Hobby Quick Hits we did was April twentieth, so it's been a couple of months since we did regular Hobby Quick Hits Contact, But we're back on the regular content horse today with our Q and A another Q and A episode. So again I've been saving these questions. These questions come into me and then I answer them right away to the person directly that either dms me or emails me the question itself. But I also ask him, had I love

1:34 the question? Can I use this on a future Hobbyquick Quick Hits Q and A episode? And with permission, I air these sometimes they say, just use my first name, and actually I just use first names just you know, so we don't you know, I don't know, just be I'm careful with using last names of somebody else unless they say it's more than fine. And sometimes they say, hey, I don't really want to be identified. Just say it's an you know, just use the content anonymously, and I respect that as well. So with that being said, by by all means keep the questions coming on you and if you may hear it on the air, with your permission.

2:23 So with that being said, uh, let's let's get this show rolling. 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 announcer, coming to you from the sports Card Shop in beautiful New Buffalo, Michigan. The Gotcher family has built an incredible place here for collectors to buy, sell, and trade cards and memorabilia. Be sure to stop buying let them show you around the Sportscardshop dot com connecting sports athletes, the hobby and collectors around the world.

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4:45 Slash twenty six Tops Chrome Cactus Jack Baseball twenty twenty five Tops Cosmic Chrome Football going to the twenty third now twenty twenty five, twenty six Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Hockey. We've got twenty twenty six Keepsake Michael Jackson Bad World Tour Premiere Mini going to the twenty fourth. Now we have twenty twenty six Top Series two Baseball. We have twenty twenty six Tops Tier one Baseball, twenty twenty five, Slash twenty six Upper Deck sp Authentic Hockey going to the twenty fifth now twenty twenty five. Slash twenty six Tops YUIFA Club Competition's Finest Soccer to d twenty sixth.

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6:35 So that is. Your next two weeks of product releases. Lots of stuff coming out, so choose your product and happy ripping. Let's go round the hobby verse and catch up on this week's hobby news. And find out. All right, it's been a bit since we did a news segment, so I can't catch up on everything. Let's talk about some of the biggest stories since the last time we did a new segment. It's not new new. News, but PSA is pausing their value their value bulk, their value plus and their value max levels. They're saying they're hoping it's only for four months. There's a report that their backlog fourteen million cards. So if you do want to sub still to PSA, the cheapest way you're going to do it is seventy four ninety nine on their regular service, which is a approximate fifty day turnaround.

7:42 So it's going to cost you more money as they try to catch up. Last time this happened was during the COVID crescendo. If you remember that, Bobby Witt Junior has an exclusive deal with Pannini and. Under Armour when it comes to some cards. When you buy cleats, He's got a new pair of cleats called the Dream Pool made by under Armor. So at most of your big sporting good store and every pair of cleats in the box will have a Panini Bobby Junior card, either a Sneaker Spotlight card or a color Blast cards. So you buy a pair of stream Bull cleats and you get a exclusive card produced by Pannini.

8:34 Speaking of Panini, they have a new deal multi year deal with Pathway Sports and Entertainment, who specialize in the NIL to produce athletes in various college sports football, volleyball, soccer, and basketball, and et cetera, featuring you know, Notre Dame, Michigan, the USC, and Texas Tech. So Panini prepares for life after licensing with all these NIL deals. Bruce Buffer, the guy that bring announce there from UFC that trademark his coined his trademark phrase right, it's time I didn't do that.

9:28 I sounded like Liam Cohen trying to do the Duval chant. But you know the one he's opening up an LCS. It's called It's Time Sports Cards. It's in Agora Hills, California, eight thousand square feet of cards. Store, has a lounge, a lot of his artwork is there. They're going to carry off sports and nonsports. So check that place out to pick made it look pretty cool. So you know, we think of police officers as protect and serve, and ninety nine percent of them do that. Well, let's talk about one that didn't do that, and that his name is Brian Casey from Grand Rapperts, mich Michigan, former police officer.

10:25 I might add now, as he was relieved of his duties. He was relieved of his duties because he robbed a Grand Rapperts card store, crashed his truck, found drunk in his truck with the cards that he stole from that Grand Rapperts card store. But then they later. Linked him to another robbery two months earlier in another part of Michigan, not in Grant's effort. He was still active on the force when he robbed that store. He wore the same clothing and both robberies, which made it easier really to attribute him to both cases. So police officer who robbed cards and lost the job. Oh, we're not done with bad crime stories in the hobby. You know that seems like every week, every day. Right, Not a police officer this time, but Paul Randall from Orange, California, Brace yourselves two hundred and seventy million dollars of medicaid fraud.

11:44 He was bilking the California Medicaid with all these prescription orders to be filled and paid two hundred and seventy million dollars. So you're like, John, where's the card relation to this? This sounds like I'm medical and law story. Well, you wouldn't be wrong, but he has over a million dollars in cards that he bought with his fraudulent received money, including multiple Manal Rookies, multiple Jackie Robinson Rookies in pretty decent grade. He also bought a ten bedroom, eight bathroom mansion, numerous Ferraris and Lamborghinis, and he's facing thirty years in prison.

12:31 He's sixty six years old, so it's probably safe to say his life on the outside world is most likely over if he's convicted and a lot of evidence there. Everything he purchased with the stolen fraudulent money will be going up for auction via a government auction, so be on the lookout for that. And some over million dollars worth of cards, including some high grade Robinson and man Or rookies. That's that's gonna be the news. You know, we'll keep it short and sweet. This has actually been quite a quiet news cycle comparably speaking.

13:16 So there you go, and no feature. All right, let's get to the Q and A episode. Let me preface this by saying, keep those questions coming, uh, whether it be via private message, direct message, email, whatever the router delivery is fine. Always know I answer them as fast as I can directly, and then I may ask you, you know, can we use this on a future Q and A episode? These questions I all got permission for. I only use first names. And if someone ever says, hey, I don't want you to use my name at all, but you can use who's it without my name attached, we can do that too. So again, keep any questions you have for myself. They can even be a little off topic if you will. Let's start out with probably the big hot topic in the hobby and a question that comes from junior. Junior asks, you know, what do you think the effects of the PSA pause on the lower levels will have across the grading board.

14:30 I'm paraphrasing, but wanted to know my opinion on how this affects not only PSA but degrading terrain. As a whole. Since Collectors owns three of the Big Four. As they say, I don't think it's good. I understand, you know their reasonings and why they did it. You know, I don't think it's good. It gives people, you know, less options if you will. You know, I see it as a door opening for CGC if they can make some right calls. But I'm pretty sure. I just saw they sort of raise prices too, so you know, it's it's it really, you know, if you want to have one of the Big Four grade your cards, it's gonna be tricky. And I think what will happen is we're gonna see less lesser cards, if you will, And I hate that word lesser, but lesser valued, lesser big you know, you know, cards that move my meters I like to say being sucked, you know, at a lower price.

15:43 Level. You know, you're gonna see more cards being you know graded, that's just at anything lesser price, more people going to buy something if you will. I just did a show where I took sh see cards that did not affect my intake there, and there's a I would even venture to say that I think I got even some more because that's you know, eighteen dollars a card, So I think SGC is going to see an increase. They're turnaround times at about sixty days so to between two and three months. But at eight, you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen dollars, it's still in that lesser you know, cost range.

16:30 So hopefully PSA catches up, we'll see. But right now, that's that's kind of my take on the whole thing. So all right, our next question comes from Allen who says our garbage kids a fat, garbage, pale kids are fad I think he meant to say. Now, I think they're just another niche of the non sports high hobby, right like Pokemon or Magic to Gathering or you know, movie cards or Disney. I think they have their own fandom, And well, I'm not really buying any any new ones like I grew up with garbage pail kids and wacky packages, and so what did we know, right, Trading cards has a nostalgia factor. So I'm sure many people who were fans of them like me when they were younger, maybe got back.

17:33 In, you know, or bought some of the new ones. So and not even just the nostalgia factor, right, even new collectors are like stuff like that. So now I don't I don't think it's a fad that's obviously not going to be on the same level as like a Pokemon. But don't you know, garbage pail kids will have their own niche part of hobby. People collect them, you know, some people, Yeah, I will admit it. It's not a secret. I'm a big Lady Ga got Billy Joe fans, so they did some cards of them, and I bought the singles. So me saying I'm not buying them isn't one hundred per I'm not buying wax or boxes, but I am buying some singles that I like just to have them, not for value or I think they're gonna go up, just being fans of an artist in my case, Lady Gaga in Billy Joe.

18:33 So that's my take there, all right. Next question comes from Chris. He asked, do you see any of the sets from nineteen eighty to two thousand taking off? You know, sometimes called the junk wack era. I don't know if taking off. I think we're too late. You know, people know what they know. But I still there's great sets be in those twenty years that you mentioned right one that I'm particularly fond of the eighty four Flare Update set with all those rookies in it. Now, that could have been a bigger set had you know, things went differently for Dwight Gooden and Daryl Strawberry. But it's still a great set with Pucket again, Clemens is in there. Another another's bad ending story, if you will.

19:25 But Pucket's rookie, Eater's Pete Rose, you know. So it's still an iconic sept because it's it's not a lot of them to go round. I think, you know, see what we've seen sealed eighty nine upper deck sets rise for obvious reasons right to Griffy, And you know, it's funny looking at the eighty nine design even to this day, like it's really it really stands out even all these years later all those, you know, I think we're seeing sort of a rise in some of these small regional and sets, and again not you can't always look at things at dollars and cents, but like you know, Kmart did a hot Rookie set for some rookies and I think eighty nine. You know, you got some of the donors the rookie sets, some of the smaller sets that maybe don't take up a bunch of space where you know, the stars per per population are at a higher rate with a smaller set like a Donorus the rookies. You know, we've seen a lot of like one off sets start to rise and when people figure out there's just not a million of these, like the regular flagship stuff, I think we're seeing a return to popularity and in some cases more than they were when they came out. Some of these sets that have picked up steam now weren't

20:58 super popular when they first came out. Things I used to collect, like the discs sets in the in the eighties and nineties from like beef jerky tins. I think we're seeing an increase in demand for some obscure stuff. So that's if anything, I think from the eighties nineteen eighties to the two thousands. It's going to be some of those smaller obscure sets that they're just you know, didn't you know, print the heck out of And they exist, they're they're out there. So there's my answer there. Okay, a couple more next one from James who says, what are your thoughts on printing plates with autos?

21:46 Yeah, I don't. I don't have a problem with them. I own I own some one that comes to mind I'm looking at right now in my case a joke me and Joe Green. So I have a mean Joe Green one on one printing plate with an auto. You know, I think they have again, they have a place in the hobbies. Like some people may not like them some. You know, I hear. I guess you didn't say in your email, but I'm guessing you mean, like, you know, is there four one on ones? Because of the four colors, it's not a true one to one. I think we'll printing plates. They're in a quiet taste, right so I think that's what they are for me. I'm a big mean Joe Green guy.

22:31 Got a nice deal on a one on one signed printing plate, and I bought. It doesn't bother me that there's three other different colored one on ones. Let's say I, you know, I just wanted that one. You know, player collectors are gonna want those cards. And listen, if you're opening a product, right, uh you, and you pull a one on one printing plate signed, you're probably gonna be ecstatic about it, even if it may be is not the greatest player in the world that that signed it. So you know I don't have it. I don't have an issue with them. And you know, I've pulled a couple in my day and and you know, you still get that adrenaline rush, So uh yeah, I think I think, you know, certain people going to still want them, get them, buy them, purchase them, trade them, so they don't bother me.

23:31 All right. One last question. This one comes from Jesse and it's sort of in line with the one on one printing plate. Auto is leaf ruining celebrity autos by the amount they're producing. No again, it's another niche of the hobby, right, nonsports autos and those. You know, I've seen a lot of ripping of those celebrity products in person at a store I go to, so it is very popular. Are they killing it? I think it's some I can make a counterpoint, right, some of the autographs they have are from celebrities that normally are not big signers. But Leaf is bucking up, you know, I don't there's probably not a lot of hairs and for autos and you know, things like that.

24:23 But gives you an opportunity, right to get an autograph of someone that you probably wouldn't be able to get in person or another way. So it all comes down to the price point, right, what are you willing to pay for an individual card or a wax box or case? Right, So I don't think they're killing their root, you know the word you use, we're ruining celebrity autos. I think it's just another vessel to acquire. And I again, I own some some Leaf autos, not a ton, but I do have. I do have a a couple of people that I like that are you know, non athletes. I think it's a great opportunity, you know, to get non athlete autos. And again it comes down the price point.

25:14 You know, I've seen Harrison Fords bring big money, but for someone who's a huge Harrison Ford fan, not me, but someone might be willing to buck up. You know, I don't believe he signs very much in person, doesn't respond to TTM. So it's a way where if you're maybe you're a Star Wars collector maybe you're just a Harrison Ford super fan, it's a it's a way to honor and still and get the autograph of that person where maybe you wouldn't be before. So actually I think the opposite, you know, maybe you know, maybe you're just not a fan of Leaf and I get that they've they have their warts so like a lot of companies do.

26:00 But I don't think they're ruining celebrity audises, which is how it's worthed. So just another niche if that's a lane you collected. So and again, I have a few of those printing plates, like if you see my PC, it's a little bit of it's pretty eclectic and a little bit of everything. So uh so, there you go. So there's our questions for for this week's Q and A. Again, I'm gonna shameless plug keep those questions coming, whatever they may be, you know, even if you want to know what my favorite food is. Whatever, they can be a little off off topic. We have fun here and I want to have want you to have fun too. So with that being said, we are going to wrap up this segment. Thanks everybody,