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Sports Cards Nonsense

Arguing with a Controversial Hobby Figure, More Scandal Talk

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gioseffi is joined by the controversial yet insightful guest, Nick Andrews, also known as the Boston Card Hunter for today's episode of Sports Cards Nonsense. The conversation explores the current state of the market, the impact of auction houses, and the evolving landscape of card grading. Nick shares his candid thoughts on the recent hobby scandals and his strategic decisions in the hobby, offering a unique perspective on navigating the highs and lows of collecting. From Probstein and Snype to liquidity events and the impact of repacks, plus the most dangerous part of the sports card hobby, this episode has it all. Mike also ends with a mailbag covering some new releases and the cause of GOAT card spikes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:00.7

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0:01.5

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18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry terms and conditions apply. Gamblerware.com. Debut sports, man, I cook them many, many times. They scream as loud as they can. They like this car, it's perfect, it's great, and it shows up and it's like a piece of crap.

0:38.7

It's a bad experience.

0:40.1

And I think we lose a ton of new people like that. scream as loud as they can. They're like, this car. It's perfect. It's great. And it shows up,

0:37.6

and it's like a piece of crap. It's a bad experience. And I think we lose a ton of new people like that. All right, guys, solo show. Jesse is still out of town, so I'm going to take this one today. I say solo. I have Nick Andrews, the Boston Card Hunter, joining. I do want to get his perspective. if he's kind of, I guess

0:54.4

Watchdog is not the right term.

0:56.7

I guess he's been a little bit more controversial, though, in the space with his YouTube and TikTok and Instagram Reels and that type of stuff. I do want to get his reaction to the Probstein thing. We've had some more allegations and issues come up with that. So I do want to talk about that. I also want to just get his, he kind of made a statement last week on his socials and he's going to be going after auction houses. And I would like to know what the actual answer is to that. And just kind of some other stuff in general. I do want to press him too. I mean, he's announced on his LinkedIn. He's working for fanatics. I think his content has obviously changed because of that, which is fine. I have no problem with people bending the knee, so to speak, when they get a real job in the space. So I do want to know how that impacts what he's been doing, though. I'm curious if we'll respond to that. I'll have to kind of keep that off the record and cut that out. But I do want to talk some release calendar too. It's been a crazy slow couple of weeks for product for sealed product and then all of a sudden

1:46.4

Tops has come out in December and it's going to be I do want to talk some release calendar too. It's been a crazy slow couple of weeks for product,

1:44.6

for sealed product. And then all of a sudden, Tops has come out in December and it's going to be absolutely loaded. I know there's multiple non-sport releases too, but you're talking like, I think starts the third of December, if I'm not mistaken. It's like archives, Heritage High Number. we've got cosmic baseball, which is a massive release. Tops Chrome update, which is a huge release and it has the debut patches. Then we've also got Tops Chrome basketball toward the middle endish of December. So it is weird. We're going to, I think we're going to have another cycle where it's like, we've been slow the last week or two with releases. We're going to be slow the next week or two, and then all of a sudden stuff's just going to hit and crush, which is going to be pretty busy. So I'm curious how the market's going to respond to that too. And then it's like we have people with holidays and people with their families or spending money on other stuff. So I'm not sure I love the, I don't know. I guess I don't love the choice of, hey, let's release all of these in the month of December. I think it just makes people have to make decisions with their wallet that normally they don't have to think of. Like, hey, I can buy this product or I can buy stuff for the kids and the vacation we're going on, end of the year, crap and taxes, all the other stuff. So I do wonder how that will impact it. But it's definitely shaping up to be the busiest December that I can remember, at least in the last recent few years. And then the other topic I do want to definitely dig in on is, like, where we're at in the hobby. You know, I see people we've talked about on here a little bit, too. I see if people have been speaking about it as well. I just finally started seeing my first round of content guys on YouTube and Instagram mentioning like, hey, these $2,000 stimulus checks, that's going to lead to this massive bump. I don't know if that's actually happening or not. I don't know anything about politics. I never pretend to. But just the thought of, hey, we may have some extra money laying around, is that

3:24.1

going to cause this spike? And we've been talking about it here for a while for months now that

3:29.1

Grails have especially been on the move. We've talked about Kobe and LeBron and Brady and Jordan

3:33.9

and Mahomes. Those things have been moving for sure. And now we're even starting to see that

3:39.6

trickle down a little bit to other areas, maybe

3:42.7

not Grails, retired goats, but some active goat type players and their pricing starting to come back.

3:50.3

And so it is kind of a, it leads to a weird space in the hobby where if you're just in it

3:56.0

because you strictly collect cards and you never want to flip and make a profit and do the buy and sell game, then it doesn't affect your life at all, right? That is the great thing. If this is only a hobby for you, strictly a hobby, then it doesn't matter. Like, you're never selling your PC cards no matter what. Fine. Like, it's great. It makes it a little bit more

4:15.2

different. I guess it does affect it a little bit. You can't buy as much right now because pricing will

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